JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror(ISM), consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
IS THE PEACE PROCESS OVER-ABBAS SENT OUT Q&A
http://nad-plo.org/userfiles/file/fact%20sheets/Q&A%20Accession.pdf
85. Whoso hopes to meet Allah, let him be prepared for it, for Allah’s appointed time is certainly coming-The Muslim Times
[29:6] Whoso hopes to meet Allah, let him be prepared for it, for Allah’s appointed time is certainly coming. And He is the All-Hearing, the All-knowing.
[18:111] Say, ‘I am only a man like yourselves; but I have received the revelation that your God is only One God. So let him who hopes to meet his Lord do good deeds, and let him join no one in the worship of his Lord.’
[32:24] And We did give Moses the Book — be not therefore in doubt as to the meeting with Him — and We made it a guidance for the children of Israel.
[2:224] Your wives are a tilth for you; so approach your tilth when and how you like and send ahead some good for yourselves; and fear Allah and know that you shall meet Him; and give good tidings to those who obey.
Extremism, America is not Excluded.
Follow @aaronrtbass on twitter-APR 3,14-The Muslim Times
When we think of the term "extremist" the average American automatically assumes the discussion is around Islam, or Muslims. After all, extremism is regulated only to the Middle East countries and America is free of this ideology, right? If you think extremism is only a Muslim problem than you have another thing coming. American extremist actions are gaining more ground every day. Pat Dollard a former talent agent turned war correspondent tweets tonight "if 1 more act of Muslim terrorism, its time for Americans to slaughter Muslims in the streets, all of them." If a Muslim says it's time to kill Americans we are ready to go to war but if an American says it's time to kill Muslims we call it free speech? Calling for a blatant genocide over a terrorist act is about as extreme as you can get.What Dollard fails to realize is that extremists exist in every religious sect, heck any sect for that matter have had extremists for thousands of years to deal with. Lest we forget the KKK claimed their actions in the name of Christianity persecuting any religion, creed, or race that was not the same as theirs. I don't recall Americans calling for the death of all Christians if another act of violence was committed by the group. German Nazi's in war torn Europe marched millions of Jew's to their deaths in a real genocide yet Jewish Americans didn't go out and mass murder Germans in the streets of New York. Another Man in Florida burned down his neighbors home tonight because "they are lesbians." Two adults, and 8 children were in the home he ignited all over his "beliefs." I don't see LGBT groups sacrificing straight people in the courtyards tonight over the incident.Dollard and any of his followers who condone these types of actions are no better than the extremists they also condemn. Muslims are bound to have some bad apples, in fact any sizable religion is going to have a few. If you need a reminder of this we can look much closer to home, Timothy Mcveigh. Mcveigh as we all know detonated a fertilizer bomb at the Federal Building in Oklahoma over the government actions in Waco, Texas and general American Policy. Prior to learning that an American committed this horrific act of terror, Ibrahim Ahmad a Jordanian who resided in Oklahoma was the prime suspect, albeit falsely accused out of the media jumping the gun and pure coincidence. America has become so "Islamaphobic" that even the media goes to extremes when reporting suspected terror acts. Glenn Beck is now being sued by Abdulrahman Alharbi for falsely identifying Alharbi as a prime suspect in the Boston Marathon Bombings. Beck accused Alharbi of funding the attacks even after it was proven Alharbi was merely a witness to the attack. Glenn Beck destroyed this mans name over the airwaves even after he was cleared by authorities. There is no accountability in modern media. Speculation reporting is doing more damage to our societal norms all in the name of ratings. What's worse is the speculation fuels a growing fire within our sharply divided country spewing hate to those who do not understand what they are hating. Instead, people are blindly following the speculation as if it were truth encouraging others to hate along with them.John McCain famously corrected a "supporter" whom stated to Senator McCain during the 2008 campaign "I can't trust Obama. I have read about him and he's not, he's not uh — he's an Arab. He's not — " McCain quickly took the microphone back stating "No, ma'am. He's a decent family man [and] citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that's what this campaign's all about. He's not [an Arab]." If you followed the 2008 campaign you would find it easy to see how this supporter gained her facts. Extreme right wing organizations were trying to drive fear toward the Obama campaign almost daily. Birther's were attempting to prove Obama was born in Kenya thus ineligible to take the oath of office, and Fox News was inferring he was a Muslim because his middle name is Hussein and his Father was Muslim. Obama is a Christian.Extremism takes many forms, and no one is safe from extremist people or extremist views. However, extremism only takes shape when those who are being extreme do not, or are unwilling to understand the world outside of their own.
A hard choice faces the Palestinians-APR 3,14-+972 (MUSLIM WRITER)
The Palestinians have “won” the Kerry peace initiative: the Obama administration is blaming both sides for its likely failure, not just the Palestinian side, which is the most they could have expected. The New York Times editorial goes one better: it points the finger pretty squarely at Netanyahu, which is radical for a Times editorial. So the Palestinians, having the clear sympathy of Europe and the rest of the world as the aggrieved party, can go to the UN after the talks run out on April 29 and be able to say: “We are seeking our independence here because Israel refused to give it to us.”At the same time, the BDS movement will almost certainly expand further into the mainstream – including among Jewish liberals. The Netanyahu government has shown itself on a very brightly lit stage to be the Palestinians’ rigid, punitive, mean overlord; it’s screwed itself in international opinion, which was always lousy, but now I think is going to be horrendous.So the Palestinians and their supporters – whose success is Israel’s success, regardless of their intentions – have a great opportunity. Politically, now is the time for the UN, for The Hague, for BDS, for unarmed “popular resistance.” Politically it’s the only option because if the Palestinians continue playing by America’s rules, they will never be free. From a purely selfish point of view, I hope they go for it.But if they do, they’re going to pay a high price in day-to-day suffering. Israel will crack down on them and make their lives even harsher in any number of ways. And America, as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power told Congress on Wednesday, will do everything it can to block their advance in the UN. Congress will certainly cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid. Maybe Europe, the UN and the Muslim states will make up the difference, and maybe they won’t.An Israeli crackdown, in an atmosphere of world disapproval of the Netanyahu government, will hurt Israel politically and bring more support for the Palestinian cause. That would be the dynamic of a Palestinian revolt (so long as it didn’t return to the mass killing of the Second Intifada, which the Israeli army is better equipped now to stop, and which the Palestinians seem to have realized is self-defeating). This is a practiced, successful script for oppressed peoples, and by now the occupation has been going on for so long and Israel has become so haughty that a South African strategy, I think, can work. The world has run out of patience with Israel’s abusive game, and if the Palestinians press the issue on the ground and in the halls of power, backed by more and more international support, I believe this country will fold its hand like every haughty colonial power before it.But this is going to take time. It’s going to take several years. And victory isn’t certain. What’s certain is that millions of Palestinians will have to endure all kinds of hell before Israel cracks.So I don’t know if Abbas and the Palestinian Authority want to do this, to cut the rope after April 29 and take on Israel and the United States. But if they don’t, if they accept the bone of “restrained construction” in the West Bank or whatever other insult Kerry throws at them and agree to go on sitting still under Israel’s rule, the so-called Palestinian “street” will not sit still, not indefinitely, especially not after being conspicuously humiliated again by Israel and the United States.So if Abbas doesn’t leave the talks after their allotted time and go to the UN, he’s going to fall further in the eyes of his people and at some point the 79-year-old leader and his loyalists are going to be made irrelevant. At some point the Palestinians are going to cut the rope, because it’s only getting tighter. And when they do, we who oppose the occupation in safety and comfort will be called by our consciences to take some risks ourselves.
04/ 3/2014 - VATICAN INSIDER -Pope’s meeting with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip was cordial and light hearted-Elizabeth II with Pope Francis-Iacopo Scaramuzzi
vatican city--Today’s meeting between the Pope and the Britain’s 87-year-old monarch - who is also head of the Church of England - was cordial and brief. It only lasted about half an hour and was formal, but with a few typically British jokes thrown in here and there by the Queen’s husband, the 92-year-old Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Upon their arrival in Rome, the couple had lunch with the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano and after their meeting with Pope Francis headed straight back to London. “I’m sorry to have kept you waiting, we had a very pleasant lunch with the President,” Queen Elizabeth said to Pope Francis after arriving late from the lunch she and Prince Philip had had with President Napolitano. “Welcome,” was one of the few words Francis pronounced in English, as there was an interpreter present at today’s meeting, which British protocol described as official but informal. It was not held in the Apostolic Palace or St. Martha’s House where the Pope resides, but in the Paul VI Hall. The Queen was welcomed in the front courtyard by the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary for Relations with States Mgr. Mamberti and the Under-Secretary for Relations with States, Mgr. Camilleri. The Archbishop Emeritus of Westminster Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor was also present at the entrance to the little internal hall,” Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi said. Elizabeth II was the first to walk into the study, the Pope then gestured to the Duke of Edinburgh to enter before him but Philip insisted on the Pope entering first. After the closed door meeting which lasted approximately 20 minutes, gifts were exchanged. The British monarchs gave the Pope a hamper containing honey, apple juice, cider and various other products: “I brought something from each of our estates especially for you,” Elizabeth II said. “This is honey from my garden, I hope you’ve never tried something like it before,” she added. Two more packs sat on the floor waiting to be opened. Prince Philip had bought the Pope two bottles of whisky from the royal estate in Scotland. Bergoglio apparently looked at them, took a couple of steps back – according to the journalists who were present in the room - and a look of surprise erupted on his smiling face. The second royal present to the Pope were two framed photos of the Queen and the Duke – the gift the monarchy traditionally gives on such occasions. “I am afraid I have to give you these photographs,” the Queen explained in English.The Pope, on his part, gave them a lapis lazuli sphere which symbolises the globe, surmounted by a silver St. Edward’s cross, with an iron base. The gift is for Prince George of Cambridge, William and Kate’s eight-month-old son and the Queen’s great grandchild: “It’s for the little boy,” Francis said speaking in Spanish.” Francis' "gift of a cross of St Edward, our great royal saint, inscribed to Prince George, is a mark of his recognition that these values must be transmitted from one generation to the next if we care for the survival and flourishing of our civilisation. It also shows his deep appreciation that The Queen, throughout Her Majesty’s life, has been an exemplar of such values," said Nigel Baker, Britain's Ambassador to the Holy See. Bergoglio also gave the Queen the decree of St. Edward the Confessor , King of England and founder of the structure which later became Westminster Abbey: a facsimile of a document dated 29 May 1679 that extends the cult of St. Edward to the universal Church. “Oh he was canonised!” Philip commented. The Duke received three pontifical medals, one gold, one silver and one bronze medal. “This is the only golden medal I ever won!” Philip joked. The Queen and Pope did not talk politics during the meeting. No mention was therefore made to the Falkland/Malvinas Island dispute between the UK and Argentina. The motorcade arrived at 3:23 pm and departed at 3:53 pm.Today’s meeting was the first between Queen Elizabeth II and Pope Francis. The Duke of Gloucester represented the UK at the mass for the inauguration of Francis’ pontificate on 19 March 2013. The British monarch was received by John Paul II on 17 October 2000 and met Benedict XVI in Britain, during his Apostolic Visit in September 2010. Elizabeth II was also received by John XXIII in 1961.
EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3-7
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
2 THESSALONIANS 2:3-4
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed,(EU WORLD DICTATOR)the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.(SOCIALISM)
13 These have one mind,(SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)
2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-12
9 Even him,(EU WORLD DICTATOR) whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,(THE FALSE RESURRECTION BY THE WORLD DICTATOR) that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
Secret EU lawmaking: the triumph of the trialogue
Today @ 09:29-APR 4,14-EUOBSERVER-By Benjamin Fox
BRUSSELS - The setting could not be less spectacular – one of the more nondescript rooms in the European Parliament's glass towers overlooking Place Luxembourg in Brussels, where a handful of officials gather with armfuls of papers.At intervals, members of the Parliament's catering staff silently walk round the room offering tea and coffee. Unless you were involved, you wouldn't know that the meeting – one of around 1,000 so-called 'trialogue' meetings to take place in 2013 – was actually happening.At this particular gathering to discuss plans to re-write the EU's accounting directive in March 2013, MEPs from the Parliament's legal affairs committee – Klaus Lehne, Arlene McCarthy, Eva Lichtenberger, Alexandra Thein and Saj Karim – made a breakthrough.They secured rules that will shine a light on the payments made to governments by companies working in the controversial extractive industries – rules that should help prevent corruption and dodgy dealing between companies and governments.An Irish government official, whose country has been tasked with leading the talks (because Ireland held the rotating EU presidency at the time), agreed that, without exception, all payments over €100,000 must be publicly disclosed. This will apply to every individual project or contract undertaken by a company.The new reporting requirements will mark a sea-change in how the industry is regulated yet the trialogue meeting where it happened remains a closed process.Search for any mention of trialogues in the EU treaties and you will draw a blank.This is because despite being an accepted part of the lawmaking landscape, in legal terms trialogues don't exist.All trialogue meetings are informal and the timing of the meetings are not known to most MEPs, let alone the ordinary public. There are no formal minutes taken. Some are over within a few minutes. Others can go on all day and well into the night.The last trialogue on the single resolution mechanism (SRM), the final, and arguably most controversial piece of banking union legislation, lasted 16 hours through the night on 19 March as lawmakers sought (successfully) to close a deal in time for the end of the parliamentary term.Despite the sense of intrigue that should surround a lawmaking process that few people are aware is happening, attending the average trialogue meeting would be a perfect cure for insomniacs, as civil servants and politicians drone through a bill line by line, article by article.But they matter. If the EU's bi-monthly leaders' summits are the glamorous (in the loosest sense of the word) side of the EU, the trialogue meetings are the main engine driving the sausage factory that churns out EU laws in Brussels.
The triumph of the trialogue
In terms of numbers, the volume of legislation does not appear to have changed much in the past two legislatures. MEPs and ministers adopted a total of 447 laws in the 2004-9 parliament. By November 2013, politicians had signed off on 395 files and, even with a wild flurry of activity as they seek to conclude as much legislation as possible before May's elections, the total number of files is likely to be around 500.But what has changed is the way the laws are agreed.The formal structure for breaking the impasse between the institutions mentioned in the treaties is the conciliation committee.The conciliation committee, which also features MEPs together with European Commission and EU Council officials, but which is chaired by one of the parliament's vice-presidents, kicks in at the final stage of the lawmaking process – the third reading.But in the post-Lisbon treaty era, in which lawmakers are actively encouraged to go faster in agreeing legislation, the conciliation process has been almost eliminated in recent years. In the 1999-2004 parliament, 89 of the 403 pieces of EU law were completed after conciliation. In the first half of the current parliament term, the figure was down to a mere 4 percent.Around 80 percent of EU laws are now agreed at first reading, with research by the parliament estimating that the average law agreed at first reading takes 14.4 months from start to finish.The trialogue process, which starts as soon as the institutions agree an initial position on a law, is designed to speed the process up.Set up to broker agreements between MEPs and ministers, the number of trialogue attendees varies from file to file but the format remains the same. As a rule the rapporteur, shadow rapporteurs from other political groups and committee chair, comprise the Parliament's negotiating team on a law.Meanwhile, at other seats around the table are officials from the European Commission and either the minister or senior civil servants from the country holding the EU Council presidency.The participants are invariably armed with four-columned documents representing the starting position of the three institutions, with the fourth column left for the compromise text that is meant to emerge.Though they might not say so publicly, most MEPs and their staff, who frequently find themselves at the heart of lawmaking, enjoy the experience. For professional politicos, the novelty of piloting a piece of law through from the commission proposal to the end result adopted by MEPs and ministers takes a while to wear off.
Despite the ostensibly dubious health and social benefits of sitting in a poorly lit room for hours on end haggling with men and women in grey suits over the EU's milk quotas, many enjoy the sense of "being where the action is".Perhaps they have to. The staff of one MEP reveal that their boss attended over 40 trialogues in 2013. On average, around 25 separate trialogue meetings take place each week that the parliament is sitting. Tough work if you get it.
Power games
But some claim that the parliament goes into the average trialogue at an immediate disadvantage. The commission, they say, often sees itself not just as a broker between the two legislative bodies, but depending on which approach suits it best, decides whether it wants to behave like a "political executive" or as an "impartial civil service".French socialist Liem Hoang Ngoc, who locked swords with the commission over plans to increase the independence and transparency of the EU's statistical agency Eurostat, says that the EU executive tried to appoint itself as "judge and jury" on the bill."It used the full extent of its powers, including threatening to withdraw the legislation and requesting a unanimity vote at the council, to prevent the council from signing off on the agreement," he says."The civil servants we have been dealing with over the last few months seem to have some difficulties in grasping the concept of representative democracy."In one sense, the commission has an inbuilt advantage. As the EU's civil service, it is the one of the three institutions with the most permanence. Both MEPs and government ministers have to seek re-election. The rotating council presidencies only last six months.The commission also has two legal trump cards: it can withdraw its proposal, and can insist that legislation can only be adopted with the unanimous support of council.It also has an inbuilt expertise advantage from having more technical staff and experts than the other institutions."The legal affairs committee is criminally understaffed," one parliament official quips. As a result, he says, it was the EU executive which took the lead in the accounting directive negotiations, drafting compromises."It was impossible for the parliament's committee to match them so we asked them to propose possible compromises simply because they had the resources," the official adds.
"Legislation in a black box"
Others complain that democracy and transparency are the losers. The two points at which MEPs vote for laws, in committee before and at the end of the trialogue process, and the final vote among all 751 deputies, are both in public, but this only camouflages the fact that most of the negotiations are held behind closed doors with no public access.For their part, national parliaments complain that the process makes it even tougher for them to influence the process. Back in 2009, a report by the UK parliament's EU committee noted that the use of informal trialogues "makes it harder for national parliaments to conduct effective scrutiny of EU legislation".Meanwhile, a report published by the same committee last month describes them as "something of a 'black box' for those not directly involved in them".During an evidence session with two MEPs, Elizabeth Symons, a member of the British upper house, remarked: "We have gone through this enormously complex edifice and at every point my heart sinks as I recognise the dilution of the relationship between the electors and the decision-takers."And it is not hard to have some sympathy with this stance. Only a handful of committee members are involved in a trialogue process, and the deal that emerges at the end invariably bears little resemblance to the documents agreed by lawmakers in the parliament and council.
Democracy in danger?
For one parliament official, trialogues are "an arrangement that has evolved in a way that isn't favourable to the parliament. It just simply gives way too much power to the council and commission"."The commission is able to go to the [council’s] Coreper working group meetings, the EP is not there, so you clearly have the council and commission on one side and the parliament on the other," he says, adding that "the parliament's answer to this is simply that the council and commission don't sit next to each other in the trialogues". "Members here tend to get institutionalised," he says. "They take pride in building a network, of meeting ministers and commissioners, and so there is this culture of being nice to each other."But this is not a view shared by everybody.In a report on the effects of the Lisbon treaty on the power dynamics between the institutions, Portuguese centre-right MEP Paulo Rangel says that "the commission has, in practice, lost some of its political influences within the EU institutional architecture".Meanwhile, British centre-left MEP Arlene McCarthy, a former chair of the assembly's internal market committee and rapporteur on the bloc's bank bonus legislation, is more positive about the process."The parliament punches its weight much more now than it used to and where it works as a team," she says, "particularly if we go into a negotiation with four or five key priorities and have a clear hierarchy of these and how to get them".
Improving the system
"At the end of the day political decisions in this parliament are not taken by negotiations because they've all got to go back to the political groups," says McCarthy, who puts the burden of responsibility on shadow rapporteurs to make sure that colleagues in their political group know how negotiations are going.McCarthy also has little sympathy for deputies who complain that they have little idea on what they are being asked to vote for."MEPs should know what's going on from their shadow rapporteur," she adds, commenting that "there is no reason why you can't have people informed on the main issues.""It's largely up to the shadows to take a mandate from their group and to get support from their group because at the end they've got to sell it to their group before the final vote."The parliament's internal rules also require that committees are regularly updated on the progress of negotiations. Rule 70, agreed in 2013, states that "documents reflecting the outcome of the last trialogue shall be made available to the committee".McCarthy also questions the idea that MEPs should dot every i and cross every t, arguing that they should focus instead on the main political objectives of a bill."We shouldn't spend so much time on technical detail. Our job is to set a political framework. The political priorities are what we are good at," she argues.
The public interest test
It would be easy to dismiss the trialogue process as secretive and undemocratic, and it is certainly an oddity that the EU treaties contain not a single mention of the mechanism which is now a driving force for the vast majority of the bloc's new laws.Moreover, for institutions which constantly trumpet how transparent they are, it is hard to justify the secrecy that surrounds the trialogue process. It is not as if lobbyists, NGOs and journalists do not get access to the decisions that are made. One commission official comments that it is common practice for parliament officials to leak the outcome of trialogues to sympathetic lobbyists within hours of their conclusion.An old saying, much beloved of political hacks, is that the process of making laws and sausages are things which nobody wants to really know about.Moreover, if trialogue meetings and their minutes were opened up to the public, lawmakers would just find another way of negotiating in secret.In truth, the trialogue meetings themselves are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to secret lawmaking. The papers held by one official working on the accounting directive detail a plethora of meetings with officials and so-called 'non-papers' with offers and counter offers of compromise texts bouncing between the institutions. But that is not to say that improvements to the transparency and accountability of the system could not be made.For his part, Dick Roche, Ireland's former Europe minister, admits to having "a feeling of unease" about the democratic implications of lawmaking by trialogue, but describes the process as "an understandable but pragmatic response to enormous pressure".To McCarthy, what matters most is that parliament, and the other EU institutions, are able to assess whether good law has been made. "We should pay more attention to the transposition of law," she states. "We have to be able to demonstrate that we legislated in the public interest."
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
45 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-04-04 08:47:50 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)45 earthquakes in map area
6.0 28km WSW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands 2014-04-04 06:40:32 UTC-05:00 63.8 km
2.6 19km W of Rincon, Puerto Rico 2014-04-04 05:21:14 UTC-05:00 11.0 km
5.2 70km SW of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-04 04:53:26 UTC-05:00 17.6 km
5.4 63km ENE of Salamanca, Chile 2014-04-04 04:52:09 UTC-05:00 103.4 km
5.1 91km WNW of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-04 04:38:55 UTC-05:00 13.1 km
3.5 21km NNW of Ivins, Utah 2014-04-04 04:38:19 UTC-05:00 -2.5 km
4.7 West Chile Rise 2014-04-04 03:53:56 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.1 110km WNW of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-04 02:57:32 UTC-05:00 15.5 km
3.7 133km SE of Akutan, Alaska 2014-04-04 02:56:08 UTC-05:00 19.7 km
4.1 86km WNW of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-04 02:42:20 UTC-05:00 19.1 km
4.6 84km WSW of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-04 02:10:28 UTC-05:00 17.9 km
4.1 13km ESE of North Vanlaiphai, India 2014-04-04 01:57:44 UTC-05:00 47.7 km
2.8 4km SSE of Langston, Oklahoma 2014-04-04 01:42:34 UTC-05:00 2.9 km
4.5 88km WSW of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-04 01:06:31 UTC-05:00 22.2 km
2.6 3km WSW of Tahoe Vista, California 2014-04-04 00:27:43 UTC-05:00 5.5 km
2.5 2km SE of Rowland Heights, California 2014-04-03 23:48:58 UTC-05:00 3.7 km
4.7 15km SW of Tocopilla, Chile 2014-04-03 23:34:28 UTC-05:00 59.5 km
3.6 9km ENE of Yountville, California 2014-04-03 23:04:54 UTC-05:00 7.6 km
4.7 71km SW of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-03 22:18:38 UTC-05:00 18.6 km
3.2 4km SSE of Langston, Oklahoma 2014-04-03 22:15:41 UTC-05:00 4.2 km
3.5 5km S of Langston, Oklahoma 2014-04-03 21:23:48 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
4.0 2km E of Lixourion, Greece 2014-04-03 20:59:37 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
2.9 27km SSE of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2014-04-03 20:55:09 UTC-05:00 90.9 km
6.1 76km SW of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-03 20:37:51 UTC-05:00 20.0 km
4.4 46km NNE of Jinniu, China 2014-04-03 20:27:25 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.9 56km W of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-03 18:37:51 UTC-05:00 23.5 km
4.1 32km W of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-03 18:13:20 UTC-05:00 30.5 km
4.3 46km WSW of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-03 18:01:42 UTC-05:00 17.4 km
4.9 124km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2014-04-03 17:54:22 UTC-05:00 588.0 km
2.5 72km SW of Anchor Point, Alaska 2014-04-03 16:46:30 UTC-05:00 83.9 km
2.9 18km NE of Helena, Oklahoma 2014-04-03 15:58:40 UTC-05:00 7.6 km
3.1 24km NE of Perry, Oklahoma 2014-04-03 15:33:12 UTC-05:00 4.5 km
5.1 72km WSW of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-03 13:56:12 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
2.9 71km NNW of Talkeetna, Alaska 2014-04-03 13:16:41 UTC-05:00 100.0 km
2.9 34km SSW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2014-04-03 13:02:41 UTC-05:00 19.0 km
2.9 5km NNW of Fontana, California 2014-04-03 12:57:55 UTC-05:00 7.0 km
4.0 97km SW of Atka, Alaska 2014-04-03 12:49:00 UTC-05:00 25.7 km
3.1 13km WNW of Malibu, California 2014-04-03 12:08:01 UTC-05:00 11.7 km
2.6 97km SSE of Homer, Alaska 2014-04-03 11:59:59 UTC-05:00 20.5 km
3.3 6km SSW of Langston, Oklahoma 2014-04-03 11:56:50 UTC-05:00 4.8 km
4.6 38km E of Nobeoka, Japan 2014-04-03 10:46:44 UTC-05:00 40.1 km
3.9 77km SSW of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-03 10:43:52 UTC-05:00 21.0 km
2.9 22km SW of Carlin, Nevada 2014-04-03 10:41:48 UTC-05:00 10.1 km
4.9 90km WSW of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-03 10:08:08 UTC-05:00 8.9 km
5.2 99km WSW of Iquique, Chile 2014-04-03 09:34:05 UTC-05:00 11.7 km
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror(ISM), consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
IS THE PEACE PROCESS OVER-ABBAS SENT OUT Q&A
http://nad-plo.org/userfiles/file/fact%20sheets/Q&A%20Accession.pdf
85. Whoso hopes to meet Allah, let him be prepared for it, for Allah’s appointed time is certainly coming-The Muslim Times
[29:6] Whoso hopes to meet Allah, let him be prepared for it, for Allah’s appointed time is certainly coming. And He is the All-Hearing, the All-knowing.
[18:111] Say, ‘I am only a man like yourselves; but I have received the revelation that your God is only One God. So let him who hopes to meet his Lord do good deeds, and let him join no one in the worship of his Lord.’
[32:24] And We did give Moses the Book — be not therefore in doubt as to the meeting with Him — and We made it a guidance for the children of Israel.
[2:224] Your wives are a tilth for you; so approach your tilth when and how you like and send ahead some good for yourselves; and fear Allah and know that you shall meet Him; and give good tidings to those who obey.
Extremism, America is not Excluded.
Follow @aaronrtbass on twitter-APR 3,14-The Muslim Times
When we think of the term "extremist" the average American automatically assumes the discussion is around Islam, or Muslims. After all, extremism is regulated only to the Middle East countries and America is free of this ideology, right? If you think extremism is only a Muslim problem than you have another thing coming. American extremist actions are gaining more ground every day. Pat Dollard a former talent agent turned war correspondent tweets tonight "if 1 more act of Muslim terrorism, its time for Americans to slaughter Muslims in the streets, all of them." If a Muslim says it's time to kill Americans we are ready to go to war but if an American says it's time to kill Muslims we call it free speech? Calling for a blatant genocide over a terrorist act is about as extreme as you can get.What Dollard fails to realize is that extremists exist in every religious sect, heck any sect for that matter have had extremists for thousands of years to deal with. Lest we forget the KKK claimed their actions in the name of Christianity persecuting any religion, creed, or race that was not the same as theirs. I don't recall Americans calling for the death of all Christians if another act of violence was committed by the group. German Nazi's in war torn Europe marched millions of Jew's to their deaths in a real genocide yet Jewish Americans didn't go out and mass murder Germans in the streets of New York. Another Man in Florida burned down his neighbors home tonight because "they are lesbians." Two adults, and 8 children were in the home he ignited all over his "beliefs." I don't see LGBT groups sacrificing straight people in the courtyards tonight over the incident.Dollard and any of his followers who condone these types of actions are no better than the extremists they also condemn. Muslims are bound to have some bad apples, in fact any sizable religion is going to have a few. If you need a reminder of this we can look much closer to home, Timothy Mcveigh. Mcveigh as we all know detonated a fertilizer bomb at the Federal Building in Oklahoma over the government actions in Waco, Texas and general American Policy. Prior to learning that an American committed this horrific act of terror, Ibrahim Ahmad a Jordanian who resided in Oklahoma was the prime suspect, albeit falsely accused out of the media jumping the gun and pure coincidence. America has become so "Islamaphobic" that even the media goes to extremes when reporting suspected terror acts. Glenn Beck is now being sued by Abdulrahman Alharbi for falsely identifying Alharbi as a prime suspect in the Boston Marathon Bombings. Beck accused Alharbi of funding the attacks even after it was proven Alharbi was merely a witness to the attack. Glenn Beck destroyed this mans name over the airwaves even after he was cleared by authorities. There is no accountability in modern media. Speculation reporting is doing more damage to our societal norms all in the name of ratings. What's worse is the speculation fuels a growing fire within our sharply divided country spewing hate to those who do not understand what they are hating. Instead, people are blindly following the speculation as if it were truth encouraging others to hate along with them.John McCain famously corrected a "supporter" whom stated to Senator McCain during the 2008 campaign "I can't trust Obama. I have read about him and he's not, he's not uh — he's an Arab. He's not — " McCain quickly took the microphone back stating "No, ma'am. He's a decent family man [and] citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that's what this campaign's all about. He's not [an Arab]." If you followed the 2008 campaign you would find it easy to see how this supporter gained her facts. Extreme right wing organizations were trying to drive fear toward the Obama campaign almost daily. Birther's were attempting to prove Obama was born in Kenya thus ineligible to take the oath of office, and Fox News was inferring he was a Muslim because his middle name is Hussein and his Father was Muslim. Obama is a Christian.Extremism takes many forms, and no one is safe from extremist people or extremist views. However, extremism only takes shape when those who are being extreme do not, or are unwilling to understand the world outside of their own.
A hard choice faces the Palestinians-APR 3,14-+972 (MUSLIM WRITER)
The Palestinians have “won” the Kerry peace initiative: the Obama administration is blaming both sides for its likely failure, not just the Palestinian side, which is the most they could have expected. The New York Times editorial goes one better: it points the finger pretty squarely at Netanyahu, which is radical for a Times editorial. So the Palestinians, having the clear sympathy of Europe and the rest of the world as the aggrieved party, can go to the UN after the talks run out on April 29 and be able to say: “We are seeking our independence here because Israel refused to give it to us.”At the same time, the BDS movement will almost certainly expand further into the mainstream – including among Jewish liberals. The Netanyahu government has shown itself on a very brightly lit stage to be the Palestinians’ rigid, punitive, mean overlord; it’s screwed itself in international opinion, which was always lousy, but now I think is going to be horrendous.So the Palestinians and their supporters – whose success is Israel’s success, regardless of their intentions – have a great opportunity. Politically, now is the time for the UN, for The Hague, for BDS, for unarmed “popular resistance.” Politically it’s the only option because if the Palestinians continue playing by America’s rules, they will never be free. From a purely selfish point of view, I hope they go for it.But if they do, they’re going to pay a high price in day-to-day suffering. Israel will crack down on them and make their lives even harsher in any number of ways. And America, as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power told Congress on Wednesday, will do everything it can to block their advance in the UN. Congress will certainly cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid. Maybe Europe, the UN and the Muslim states will make up the difference, and maybe they won’t.An Israeli crackdown, in an atmosphere of world disapproval of the Netanyahu government, will hurt Israel politically and bring more support for the Palestinian cause. That would be the dynamic of a Palestinian revolt (so long as it didn’t return to the mass killing of the Second Intifada, which the Israeli army is better equipped now to stop, and which the Palestinians seem to have realized is self-defeating). This is a practiced, successful script for oppressed peoples, and by now the occupation has been going on for so long and Israel has become so haughty that a South African strategy, I think, can work. The world has run out of patience with Israel’s abusive game, and if the Palestinians press the issue on the ground and in the halls of power, backed by more and more international support, I believe this country will fold its hand like every haughty colonial power before it.But this is going to take time. It’s going to take several years. And victory isn’t certain. What’s certain is that millions of Palestinians will have to endure all kinds of hell before Israel cracks.So I don’t know if Abbas and the Palestinian Authority want to do this, to cut the rope after April 29 and take on Israel and the United States. But if they don’t, if they accept the bone of “restrained construction” in the West Bank or whatever other insult Kerry throws at them and agree to go on sitting still under Israel’s rule, the so-called Palestinian “street” will not sit still, not indefinitely, especially not after being conspicuously humiliated again by Israel and the United States.So if Abbas doesn’t leave the talks after their allotted time and go to the UN, he’s going to fall further in the eyes of his people and at some point the 79-year-old leader and his loyalists are going to be made irrelevant. At some point the Palestinians are going to cut the rope, because it’s only getting tighter. And when they do, we who oppose the occupation in safety and comfort will be called by our consciences to take some risks ourselves.
04/ 3/2014 - VATICAN INSIDER -Pope’s meeting with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip was cordial and light hearted-Elizabeth II with Pope Francis-Iacopo Scaramuzzi
vatican city--Today’s meeting between the Pope and the Britain’s 87-year-old monarch - who is also head of the Church of England - was cordial and brief. It only lasted about half an hour and was formal, but with a few typically British jokes thrown in here and there by the Queen’s husband, the 92-year-old Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Upon their arrival in Rome, the couple had lunch with the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano and after their meeting with Pope Francis headed straight back to London. “I’m sorry to have kept you waiting, we had a very pleasant lunch with the President,” Queen Elizabeth said to Pope Francis after arriving late from the lunch she and Prince Philip had had with President Napolitano. “Welcome,” was one of the few words Francis pronounced in English, as there was an interpreter present at today’s meeting, which British protocol described as official but informal. It was not held in the Apostolic Palace or St. Martha’s House where the Pope resides, but in the Paul VI Hall. The Queen was welcomed in the front courtyard by the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary for Relations with States Mgr. Mamberti and the Under-Secretary for Relations with States, Mgr. Camilleri. The Archbishop Emeritus of Westminster Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor was also present at the entrance to the little internal hall,” Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi said. Elizabeth II was the first to walk into the study, the Pope then gestured to the Duke of Edinburgh to enter before him but Philip insisted on the Pope entering first. After the closed door meeting which lasted approximately 20 minutes, gifts were exchanged. The British monarchs gave the Pope a hamper containing honey, apple juice, cider and various other products: “I brought something from each of our estates especially for you,” Elizabeth II said. “This is honey from my garden, I hope you’ve never tried something like it before,” she added. Two more packs sat on the floor waiting to be opened. Prince Philip had bought the Pope two bottles of whisky from the royal estate in Scotland. Bergoglio apparently looked at them, took a couple of steps back – according to the journalists who were present in the room - and a look of surprise erupted on his smiling face. The second royal present to the Pope were two framed photos of the Queen and the Duke – the gift the monarchy traditionally gives on such occasions. “I am afraid I have to give you these photographs,” the Queen explained in English.The Pope, on his part, gave them a lapis lazuli sphere which symbolises the globe, surmounted by a silver St. Edward’s cross, with an iron base. The gift is for Prince George of Cambridge, William and Kate’s eight-month-old son and the Queen’s great grandchild: “It’s for the little boy,” Francis said speaking in Spanish.” Francis' "gift of a cross of St Edward, our great royal saint, inscribed to Prince George, is a mark of his recognition that these values must be transmitted from one generation to the next if we care for the survival and flourishing of our civilisation. It also shows his deep appreciation that The Queen, throughout Her Majesty’s life, has been an exemplar of such values," said Nigel Baker, Britain's Ambassador to the Holy See. Bergoglio also gave the Queen the decree of St. Edward the Confessor , King of England and founder of the structure which later became Westminster Abbey: a facsimile of a document dated 29 May 1679 that extends the cult of St. Edward to the universal Church. “Oh he was canonised!” Philip commented. The Duke received three pontifical medals, one gold, one silver and one bronze medal. “This is the only golden medal I ever won!” Philip joked. The Queen and Pope did not talk politics during the meeting. No mention was therefore made to the Falkland/Malvinas Island dispute between the UK and Argentina. The motorcade arrived at 3:23 pm and departed at 3:53 pm.Today’s meeting was the first between Queen Elizabeth II and Pope Francis. The Duke of Gloucester represented the UK at the mass for the inauguration of Francis’ pontificate on 19 March 2013. The British monarch was received by John Paul II on 17 October 2000 and met Benedict XVI in Britain, during his Apostolic Visit in September 2010. Elizabeth II was also received by John XXIII in 1961.
EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3-7
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
2 THESSALONIANS 2:3-4
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed,(EU WORLD DICTATOR)the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.(SOCIALISM)
13 These have one mind,(SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)
2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-12
9 Even him,(EU WORLD DICTATOR) whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,(THE FALSE RESURRECTION BY THE WORLD DICTATOR) that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950
Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.
Secret EU lawmaking: the triumph of the trialogue
Today @ 09:29-APR 4,14-EUOBSERVER-By Benjamin Fox
BRUSSELS - The setting could not be less spectacular – one of the more nondescript rooms in the European Parliament's glass towers overlooking Place Luxembourg in Brussels, where a handful of officials gather with armfuls of papers.At intervals, members of the Parliament's catering staff silently walk round the room offering tea and coffee. Unless you were involved, you wouldn't know that the meeting – one of around 1,000 so-called 'trialogue' meetings to take place in 2013 – was actually happening.At this particular gathering to discuss plans to re-write the EU's accounting directive in March 2013, MEPs from the Parliament's legal affairs committee – Klaus Lehne, Arlene McCarthy, Eva Lichtenberger, Alexandra Thein and Saj Karim – made a breakthrough.They secured rules that will shine a light on the payments made to governments by companies working in the controversial extractive industries – rules that should help prevent corruption and dodgy dealing between companies and governments.An Irish government official, whose country has been tasked with leading the talks (because Ireland held the rotating EU presidency at the time), agreed that, without exception, all payments over €100,000 must be publicly disclosed. This will apply to every individual project or contract undertaken by a company.The new reporting requirements will mark a sea-change in how the industry is regulated yet the trialogue meeting where it happened remains a closed process.Search for any mention of trialogues in the EU treaties and you will draw a blank.This is because despite being an accepted part of the lawmaking landscape, in legal terms trialogues don't exist.All trialogue meetings are informal and the timing of the meetings are not known to most MEPs, let alone the ordinary public. There are no formal minutes taken. Some are over within a few minutes. Others can go on all day and well into the night.The last trialogue on the single resolution mechanism (SRM), the final, and arguably most controversial piece of banking union legislation, lasted 16 hours through the night on 19 March as lawmakers sought (successfully) to close a deal in time for the end of the parliamentary term.Despite the sense of intrigue that should surround a lawmaking process that few people are aware is happening, attending the average trialogue meeting would be a perfect cure for insomniacs, as civil servants and politicians drone through a bill line by line, article by article.But they matter. If the EU's bi-monthly leaders' summits are the glamorous (in the loosest sense of the word) side of the EU, the trialogue meetings are the main engine driving the sausage factory that churns out EU laws in Brussels.
The triumph of the trialogue
In terms of numbers, the volume of legislation does not appear to have changed much in the past two legislatures. MEPs and ministers adopted a total of 447 laws in the 2004-9 parliament. By November 2013, politicians had signed off on 395 files and, even with a wild flurry of activity as they seek to conclude as much legislation as possible before May's elections, the total number of files is likely to be around 500.But what has changed is the way the laws are agreed.The formal structure for breaking the impasse between the institutions mentioned in the treaties is the conciliation committee.The conciliation committee, which also features MEPs together with European Commission and EU Council officials, but which is chaired by one of the parliament's vice-presidents, kicks in at the final stage of the lawmaking process – the third reading.But in the post-Lisbon treaty era, in which lawmakers are actively encouraged to go faster in agreeing legislation, the conciliation process has been almost eliminated in recent years. In the 1999-2004 parliament, 89 of the 403 pieces of EU law were completed after conciliation. In the first half of the current parliament term, the figure was down to a mere 4 percent.Around 80 percent of EU laws are now agreed at first reading, with research by the parliament estimating that the average law agreed at first reading takes 14.4 months from start to finish.The trialogue process, which starts as soon as the institutions agree an initial position on a law, is designed to speed the process up.Set up to broker agreements between MEPs and ministers, the number of trialogue attendees varies from file to file but the format remains the same. As a rule the rapporteur, shadow rapporteurs from other political groups and committee chair, comprise the Parliament's negotiating team on a law.Meanwhile, at other seats around the table are officials from the European Commission and either the minister or senior civil servants from the country holding the EU Council presidency.The participants are invariably armed with four-columned documents representing the starting position of the three institutions, with the fourth column left for the compromise text that is meant to emerge.Though they might not say so publicly, most MEPs and their staff, who frequently find themselves at the heart of lawmaking, enjoy the experience. For professional politicos, the novelty of piloting a piece of law through from the commission proposal to the end result adopted by MEPs and ministers takes a while to wear off.
Despite the ostensibly dubious health and social benefits of sitting in a poorly lit room for hours on end haggling with men and women in grey suits over the EU's milk quotas, many enjoy the sense of "being where the action is".Perhaps they have to. The staff of one MEP reveal that their boss attended over 40 trialogues in 2013. On average, around 25 separate trialogue meetings take place each week that the parliament is sitting. Tough work if you get it.
Power games
But some claim that the parliament goes into the average trialogue at an immediate disadvantage. The commission, they say, often sees itself not just as a broker between the two legislative bodies, but depending on which approach suits it best, decides whether it wants to behave like a "political executive" or as an "impartial civil service".French socialist Liem Hoang Ngoc, who locked swords with the commission over plans to increase the independence and transparency of the EU's statistical agency Eurostat, says that the EU executive tried to appoint itself as "judge and jury" on the bill."It used the full extent of its powers, including threatening to withdraw the legislation and requesting a unanimity vote at the council, to prevent the council from signing off on the agreement," he says."The civil servants we have been dealing with over the last few months seem to have some difficulties in grasping the concept of representative democracy."In one sense, the commission has an inbuilt advantage. As the EU's civil service, it is the one of the three institutions with the most permanence. Both MEPs and government ministers have to seek re-election. The rotating council presidencies only last six months.The commission also has two legal trump cards: it can withdraw its proposal, and can insist that legislation can only be adopted with the unanimous support of council.It also has an inbuilt expertise advantage from having more technical staff and experts than the other institutions."The legal affairs committee is criminally understaffed," one parliament official quips. As a result, he says, it was the EU executive which took the lead in the accounting directive negotiations, drafting compromises."It was impossible for the parliament's committee to match them so we asked them to propose possible compromises simply because they had the resources," the official adds.
"Legislation in a black box"
Others complain that democracy and transparency are the losers. The two points at which MEPs vote for laws, in committee before and at the end of the trialogue process, and the final vote among all 751 deputies, are both in public, but this only camouflages the fact that most of the negotiations are held behind closed doors with no public access.For their part, national parliaments complain that the process makes it even tougher for them to influence the process. Back in 2009, a report by the UK parliament's EU committee noted that the use of informal trialogues "makes it harder for national parliaments to conduct effective scrutiny of EU legislation".Meanwhile, a report published by the same committee last month describes them as "something of a 'black box' for those not directly involved in them".During an evidence session with two MEPs, Elizabeth Symons, a member of the British upper house, remarked: "We have gone through this enormously complex edifice and at every point my heart sinks as I recognise the dilution of the relationship between the electors and the decision-takers."And it is not hard to have some sympathy with this stance. Only a handful of committee members are involved in a trialogue process, and the deal that emerges at the end invariably bears little resemblance to the documents agreed by lawmakers in the parliament and council.
Democracy in danger?
For one parliament official, trialogues are "an arrangement that has evolved in a way that isn't favourable to the parliament. It just simply gives way too much power to the council and commission"."The commission is able to go to the [council’s] Coreper working group meetings, the EP is not there, so you clearly have the council and commission on one side and the parliament on the other," he says, adding that "the parliament's answer to this is simply that the council and commission don't sit next to each other in the trialogues". "Members here tend to get institutionalised," he says. "They take pride in building a network, of meeting ministers and commissioners, and so there is this culture of being nice to each other."But this is not a view shared by everybody.In a report on the effects of the Lisbon treaty on the power dynamics between the institutions, Portuguese centre-right MEP Paulo Rangel says that "the commission has, in practice, lost some of its political influences within the EU institutional architecture".Meanwhile, British centre-left MEP Arlene McCarthy, a former chair of the assembly's internal market committee and rapporteur on the bloc's bank bonus legislation, is more positive about the process."The parliament punches its weight much more now than it used to and where it works as a team," she says, "particularly if we go into a negotiation with four or five key priorities and have a clear hierarchy of these and how to get them".
Improving the system
"At the end of the day political decisions in this parliament are not taken by negotiations because they've all got to go back to the political groups," says McCarthy, who puts the burden of responsibility on shadow rapporteurs to make sure that colleagues in their political group know how negotiations are going.McCarthy also has little sympathy for deputies who complain that they have little idea on what they are being asked to vote for."MEPs should know what's going on from their shadow rapporteur," she adds, commenting that "there is no reason why you can't have people informed on the main issues.""It's largely up to the shadows to take a mandate from their group and to get support from their group because at the end they've got to sell it to their group before the final vote."The parliament's internal rules also require that committees are regularly updated on the progress of negotiations. Rule 70, agreed in 2013, states that "documents reflecting the outcome of the last trialogue shall be made available to the committee".McCarthy also questions the idea that MEPs should dot every i and cross every t, arguing that they should focus instead on the main political objectives of a bill."We shouldn't spend so much time on technical detail. Our job is to set a political framework. The political priorities are what we are good at," she argues.
The public interest test
It would be easy to dismiss the trialogue process as secretive and undemocratic, and it is certainly an oddity that the EU treaties contain not a single mention of the mechanism which is now a driving force for the vast majority of the bloc's new laws.Moreover, for institutions which constantly trumpet how transparent they are, it is hard to justify the secrecy that surrounds the trialogue process. It is not as if lobbyists, NGOs and journalists do not get access to the decisions that are made. One commission official comments that it is common practice for parliament officials to leak the outcome of trialogues to sympathetic lobbyists within hours of their conclusion.An old saying, much beloved of political hacks, is that the process of making laws and sausages are things which nobody wants to really know about.Moreover, if trialogue meetings and their minutes were opened up to the public, lawmakers would just find another way of negotiating in secret.In truth, the trialogue meetings themselves are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to secret lawmaking. The papers held by one official working on the accounting directive detail a plethora of meetings with officials and so-called 'non-papers' with offers and counter offers of compromise texts bouncing between the institutions. But that is not to say that improvements to the transparency and accountability of the system could not be made.For his part, Dick Roche, Ireland's former Europe minister, admits to having "a feeling of unease" about the democratic implications of lawmaking by trialogue, but describes the process as "an understandable but pragmatic response to enormous pressure".To McCarthy, what matters most is that parliament, and the other EU institutions, are able to assess whether good law has been made. "We should pay more attention to the transposition of law," she states. "We have to be able to demonstrate that we legislated in the public interest."
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ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
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