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DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)
New trio of EU leaders has chance to make a difference-03.12.14 @ 09:06-By Marc Pierini-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS - Donald Tusk took office as president of the European Council on 1 December, completing the new EU leadership team.On the foreign policy front, Tusk, together with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and EU high representative Federica Mogherini, will become the second generation of EU leaders after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, which was supposed to give the EU new visibility on the world stage.An old rule says that "the EU only makes progress by way of an external shock."If true, this new trio stands a bigger chance for success than their predecessors as the EU faces multiple crises in its neighbourhoods. From Ukraine to relations with Russia, and from Syria and Iraq to battling ISIS, these crises represent many opportunities for the Tusk-Juncker-Mogherini trio.They have many cards in their hands, but will also need a little support.The biggest strength of the new trio is its political legitimacy. Juncker comes from the centre-right party that won the most seats in the May 2014 European Parliament elections.Wisely, he designated the most politically experienced commission that Brussels has ever seen, including five former prime ministers, 19 former ministers, three former EU commissioners, and just one "rookie commissioner".Former Polish PM Tusk was then appointed president of the European Council.Ten years after the accession of most Central European states to the EU, his appointment gives recognition to the region's fundamental importance in the union and, indeed, recognition of Poland's crucial role in the EU's relationships with Ukraine and Russia.Tusk's presence at the helm of EU summitry therefore carries an enormous political significance.Finally, appointing Mogherini, a true "rookie foreign minister" in Italy, acknowledges the political weight that Matteo Renzi's Partito Democratico carries after the May European elections, especially as so many other parties in power suffered at the hands of eurosceptics.Mogherini's appointment also signifies the return of Italy to front-stage EU politics.The three new leaders have strong intellectual credentials and communication skills.In addition, the synergies between the European External Action Service, the diplomatic corps headed by Mogherini, and the EU commission, headed by Juncker - where Mogherini also holds a vice president seat - have been reconstructed.This gives the hope that foreign policy will now work hand-in-hand with the “technical" instruments under the commission's control, including trade policy, financial sanctions, development co-operation, humanitarian assistance, visa policy and migration.The trio will hopefully put to rest a lacklustre five year inception period of the Lisbon Treaty.While the "big three" - France, Germany, and the United Kingdom - thought they would inspire and implement EU foreign policy during this period, they proved largely ineffectual, be it on Libya, Syria, or Ukraine.As a result, other EU member states developed a real frustration that now stands to be corrected.The deep crisis in Ukraine and the related rampant confrontation with Russia, as well as the Syrian-Iraq-ISIS conundrum, provide ample opportunities for the new EU leaders to prove that the proper combination of national and EU foreign policy tools can achieve lasting influence when implemented within smart policies proposed by the relevant EU institutions.This is, of course, more easily said than done.The Tusk-Juncker-Mogherini trio will need to fulfill two major conditions. First, they will need, as they proclaimed, to work together in a seamless fashion and avoid disastrous incidents seen recently, where a commissioner and the high representative followed each other on Maidan Square in Kiev without much co-ordination or consistency.They will have to operate their many tools in a co-ordinated fashion, instead of being guided by the incomprehensible rules dividing their portfolios or their inter-institutional relations.They will also have to communicate efficiently to the public: faced with such major foreign policy crises, European citizens want to understand where their leaders take them.Yet political clout, institutional tools, and smart brains will not be enough.The trio will also need to be given a genuine chance by the "big three" member states, instead of being either bypassed or ostensibly left out of the decision-making room.Tusk, Juncker, and Mogherini will also have to earn the trust of the United States, which remains by a long shot the most influential Western actor in areas of strategic interest to the EU.Can the new trio put the EU on the world map? Only time will tell, probably sooner than later.Marc Pierini is an analyst at Carnegie Europe, a Brussels-based think tank, and a former EU ambassador to Turkey
A United Eurasia from Lisbon to Vladivostok?-05.12.14 @ 10:26-By Audronius Azubalis-EUOBSERVER
Vilnius - As I listened, earlier this year, to the final speech by Stefan Fuele, the former commissioner for neighbourhood policy, in which he mentioned the necessity of building a free-trade zone from Vancouver to Vladivostok, I thought to myself: “These must be merely personal considerations by an outgoing commissioner”.However, at this week’s meetings in Brussels of members of the European Parliament and national parliaments with Federica Mogherini, the high representative for foreign policy, and with Johannes Hahn, Fuele’s successor, I saw that this idea really does haunt the corridors of Brussels.Based on the increasingly popular theory, we have to give Russia a European free-trade zone from Lisbon to Vladivostok and a visa-free regime, in return for it ceasing to interfere in the internal affairs of Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and other post-Soviet countries.I would only smile at such unrealistic suggestions, if the naivety of their proponents was not so dangerous.Led by the same kind of naivety, the West in recent years engaged Russia in the G8 club and helped it to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO).In return we got: Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and Georgia; open violation of WTO principles; and artificial escalation of military tension on the borders of Western countries.The fact that we are still unable to learn a lesson from these precedents only proves that Russia’s tactics are working.The invader takes a bite of territory, then it asks for various undeserved concessions to let go its teeth, but it swallows the morsel before anything else is done.
Competing economic units
Today, as we discuss the need to integrate the European Union and Russia’s Eurasian Economic Union, we must understand that they are not just competing economic blocs.They are, first and foremost, two opposite value and political systems.By ignoring this and granting free trade privileges to Russia, we will not eliminate the dividing lines.Instead, we will only mislead our Eastern Partners by creating the impression that their best way to Europe is through Moscow and with Moscow.Is this what we want? If No, then the European Union must not stall the Europeanisation of post-Soviet countries in the name of a trade pact with Moscow.On the contrary, it has to encourage and speed up the reforms without denying EU membership perspectives to any of these six states.Otherwise, we will leave a geopolitical vacuum to be soon filled by a system which is fundamentally hostile to the European project.We will bring the emerging Eurasian regime closer to our borders, giving Moscow on a silver platter what it is trying to do by military force in Ukraine.
The price of soft politics
At the moment, Russia does not have the capacity to occupy Ukraine.But, by means of its hybrid aggression, it is managing to keep the Western democratic community in a state of constant tension.It is forcing Nato and EU capitals to wonder what Russian leader Vladimir Putin - deluded, but in control of a nuclear aresenal - will come up with next.Western fear, confusion are the main goals of Russia’s provocations.Repeated invasions followed by retreats on the territory of Ukraine; ambiguous remarks about its nuclear capabilities; 1960s and 1970s-era military aircraft taking to the air for risky manouevres on the edge of Nato or EU airspace; the abduction of a Lithuanian fishing boat, of an Estonian intelligence officer: Putin is trying to wear us out.Its a campaign which has cowed a Western alliance which has overwhelming superiority in military and economic terms, but which lacks backbone.Betting on our softness, Putin will continue to escalate the conflict until he reaches a moment of direct confrontation with the Western powers.If he’s betting right, the powers will shy away from military action.They will invite Putin back to the negotiating table and give him concessions in return for putting his fangs back in his mouth.
EU strategy for Russia relations
The idea of awarding Russia visa-free travel and free trade amounts to an attempt to stop him by appeasement, by almost any price to avoid war in Europe.It was recently acknowledged by Mogherini at a meeting with members of the European Parliament and national parliaments, where she repeatedly said the European Union needs a new strategy for better relations with Russia.I am convinced the problem lies not in the strategy.We already have a strategy, but there are too many EU members which don’t to follow it.Let’s face it: based on the core principles of the EU, the possibilities for a political dialogue in the face of war have already been exhausted.The only means to force the Kremlin to wake up is strong and united pressure through sanctions valid until the very moment when the invader packs his bags and leaves Ukraine.Audronius Azubalis is a member of Lithuanian Parliament and a former minister of foreign affairs.
EARTH WORSHIP
DEUTERONOMY 17:3-4
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
DEUTORONOMY 4:15-19
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
2 KINGS 23:5
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Germany to step up emissions reductions-04.12.14 @ 09:24-By Peter Teffer-EUOBSERVER
Brussels - Germany announced on Wednesday (3 December) it is stepping up its efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2020.Berlin's plan includes tax incentives to improve energy efficiency in buildings while electricity producers will also be pushed to reduce their emissions further.Germany wants to achieve a 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, compared to levels of 1990.“Without the [new] programme, Germany would have missed the goal by 5 to 8 percentage points, according to current projections”, the government said in a statement.The European Union's common goal for emissions reduction by that year is 20 percent. In October, it set a 40 percent reduction goal for 2030.Germany has in recent decades pushed for more use of renewable energy, quintupling its electricity generation from renewable sources between 1995 and 2012.However, it is also phasing out its nuclear power plants meaning it has had to replace phased-out nuclear energy with carbon emitting coal plants.The plan was presented by energy and economy minister Sigmar Gabriel and environment minister Barbara Hendricks.Hendricks is going to Lima next week for the UN climate talks - of the 28 EU member states, 23 of them are sending a minister or secretary of state to the Peruvian capital.In total 119 countries are sending a minister, fifteen fewer than during the previous climate change conference of this size, last year in Warsaw.The World Meteorological Organisation announced in Lima that the year 2014 is “on track to be one of the hottest, if not the hottest, on record”.Global average air temperature for January to October was about 0.57 degrees Celsius above the average of those months in the period 1961-1990. It was also 0.09 degrees higher above the average of the past 10 years.Another announcement that came from Lima on Wednesday was that the UN's Green Climate Fund will begin funding projects to reduce emissions in six months from now.The almost $10 billion that has been pledged to the fund will start being spent on projects in June 2015.A group of NGOs and other civil society organisations on Wednesday called for clear rules on how the money may be spent, after it emerged that Japan used climate money to fund the production of coal plants.
11/30/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-“In the mosque I prayed to the Lord for these wars to stop!”-The Pope on the return flight from Turkey-In the interview Pope Francis gave on the return flight to Rome, he spoke about interreligious dialogue, asking political leaders, scholars and Muslim religious figures to speak out against fundamentalist terrorism. Regarding unity between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, he said that “uniatism” is not the way forward. “I want to go to Iraq“ and “I would like to meet the Patriarch of Moscow”-ANDREA TORNIELLI
correspondent on the flight from Istanbul to Rome-Pope Francis wants to go to Iraq and has not given up on his plan. He also wants to meet the Patriarch of Moscow. In the interview with journalists on board the return flight from Turkey to Rome, the Pope talked about yesterday’s events in Istanbul’s Blue Mosque.
Islamophobia
“It is true that there has been a reaction to these terrorist acts not just in this region but in Africa as well. “f this is Islam it makes me angry!” So many Muslims feel offended, they say: “But that is not what we are, the Quran is a prophetic book of peace, this (terrorism) is not Islamism. I can understand this. And I sincerely believe that we cannot say all Muslims are terrorists, just as we cannot say that all Christians are fundamentalists – we also have fundamentalists among us, all religions have these little groups. I told President Erdogan that it would be good to issue a clear condemnation against these kinds of groups. All religious leaders, scholars, clerics, intellectuals and politicians should do this. This way they would hear it from their leader’s mouth. There needs to be an international condemnation from Muslims across the world. It needs to say, “no, this is not what the Quran is about!”. There should also always be a distinction between what a religion proposes and the concrete use of that proposal by a concrete government. The way you govern your country may not be Islamic or Jewish or Christian. The name is often used but the reality does not reflect what the religion says.”
Christianophobia
“I’m going to speak frankly: (we) Christians are being chased from the Middle East. In some cases, as we have seen in Iraq, in the Mosul area, they have to leave or pay a tax that may be unnecessary. Soemtimes they chase us away kindly.”
Interreligious dialogue
“I had what was probably the most wonderful conversation regarding this with the president for Religious Affairs and his team. When the new Turkish ambassador to the Holy See came to deliver his letters of credence, I saw an exceptional man before me, a man of profound piousness. They said: Now it seems like interreligious dialogue has come to an end.” We need to raise the bar. We need to bring about a dialogue between religious figures of different faiths and this is a beautiful thing: men and women who meet other men and women and share experiences: it’s not theology we are talking about but experience.”
Prayer in the Mosque
“I went to Turkey as a pilgrim, not as a tourist. And I went especially for today’s feast celebrated by Patriarch Bartholomew . When I entered the mosque, I could not say: now I’m a tourist! I saw that marvellous place; the Mufti explained things very well to me, showing great meekness; he quoted the Quran when he spoke about Mary and John the Baptist. At that moment I felt the need to pray. So I asked him: Shall we pray a little? To which he responded: “Yes, yes”. I prayed for Turkey, for peace, for the Mufti, for everyone and for myself ... I said: Lord, let’s put an end to these wars! It was a moment of sincere prayer.”
On ecumenism
“Last month, the Metropolitan Hilarion attended the Synod as a delegate and he spoke to me not as a Synod delegate but as the President of the commission for Orthodox-Catholic dialogue. We spoke for a while. I believe we are moving forward in our relations with Orthodoxy, they have the sacraments and apostolic succession, we are moving forward. If we wait for theologians to reach an agreement, that day will never come! I am sceptical: theologians work well but Athenagoras said: “Let us put theologians on an island to discuss among themselves and we’ll just get on with things!” Unity is a journey we need to go on together, it is spiritual ecumenism, praying together, working together. Then there is ecumenism of the blood: when they kill Christians, bloods mix. Our martyrs are crying out: we are one. This is what ecumenism of the blood is. We must follow this path courageously and carry on moving forward. Perhaps some are not able to understand this. The Eastern catholic Churches have a right to exist, but uniatism is a dated word, another solution needs to be found.”
I want to meet the Patriarch of Moscow
“I told Patriarch Kiril, we can meet wherever you want, you call me and I’ll come. But he has a lot on his plate at the moment what with the war in Ukraine. Both of us want to meet and move forward. Hilarion suggested the commission hold a study meeting on the primacy issue. We have to continue along the footsteps of John Paul II: help me to find a solution to the primacy issue that is also acceptable to the Orthodox Churches.”The origin of divisions between Churches.“The thing I feel most deeply about on this path toward unity, I mentioned in yesterday’s homily on the Holy Spirit: the path of the Holy Spirit is the only right path, he is full of surprises, he is creative. The problem – and I as I said in the general congregations before the Conclave this may be self-criticism – is that the Church has the bad and sinful habit of being too inward-looking, as if it believes it shines of its own light. The Church does not have its own light, it needs to look at Jesus christ. Divisions exist because teh Church has been focusing on itself too much. At table today, Bartholomew and I were talking about the moment when a cardinal went to communicate the Pope’s excommunication to the Patriarch: the Church was focusing on itself too much at that moment. When one focuses on oneself, one becomes self-referential.”
Primacy in the Church
“The Orthodox accept the primacy: in today’s litanies they prayed for their pastor and primate, “he who leads the way”. They said this in my presence today. We have to look back at the first millennium to find an acceptable solution. I am not saying the Church did everything wrong (in the second millennium), no, no! It paved its historic path. But now the way forward is to follow John Paul II’s request.
On the ultraconservatives who look suspiciously at open approaches
“Allow me to say that this problem is not only ours. This is also a problem they face, the Orthodox, some monks and some monasteries. For example, ver since the days when the Blessed Paul VI was Pope, there has been an ongoing discussion regarding the date of Easter and we still haven’t reached an agreement. At this rate, our great grandchildren risk celebrating it in August. The Blessed Paul VI had suggested a set date, a Sunday in April. Bartholomew was courageous: in Finland, where there is a small Orthodox community, he said they could celebrate on the same day as the Lutherans. Once, I was in Via della Scrofa, Easter rpeparations were underway and I heard a member o the Eastern Church say: my Christ will rise from the dead in a month’s time. My Christ, your Christ. Problems do exist. But we must be respectful and not tire of engaging in dialogue, without insulting others, without dirtying ourselves, without gossiping. If someone does not want dialogue, well ... But, patience, meekness and dialogue.”
I want to go to Iraq
“I wanted to go to a refugee camp, but it would have meant staying one more day and it was not possible for many reasons, not just personal. So I asked to meet the young refugees that are being looked after by the Salesians. I would like to take the opportunity to thank the Turkish government for its generosity. It is generous with refugees. Do you know what it takes to have to provide healthcare, food, a bed and a home for one million refugees? I do want to go to Iraq. I have spoken with Patriarch Sako. For now, it is not possible. If I went right now, it would be a problem for the authorities, for security.”I did not discuss the EU with Erdogan.“No, we didn’t talk about that. It’s strange, we talked about so many things but nit that.”
The third world war and nuclear weapons
“I am convinced that we are experiencing a fragmented third world war, a war in chapters, everywhere. There are rivalries, political problems and economic problems behind this, to save this system where the god called money is at the centre instead of the human person. There are also commercial interests behind this: arms trafficking is terrible; it is one of the most powerful businesses right now. In September last year, there was talk of Syria possessing chemical weapons: I do not believe Syria is in a position to produce chemical weapons. Who sold them these? Some of those who accused them of having them in the first place perhaps? There is a great mystery surrounding this weapons business. Humanity has not learnt its lesson on nuclear power. God gave us creation so that we could create culture out of this lack of culture. Humans did this and discovered nuclear energy which has many positive uses but they also used it to destroy humanity. This lack of culture manifests itself in another way too: I don’t want to talk about the end of the world, but it is a culture which I call “terminal” culture; then you have to start from scratch again, just as the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima did.”
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
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 (DONKEY-JACKASS) 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)
Thirteen killed in failed U.S. hostage rescue bid in Yemen-Reuters-By Mohammed Ghobari and Mohammed Mukhashaf-DEC 07,14-YAHOONEWS
SANAA/ADEN (Reuters) - A woman, a 10-year-old boy and a local al Qaeda leader were among at least 11 people killed alongside two Western hostages when U.S.-led forces fought Islamist militants in a failed rescue mission in Yemen, residents said on Sunday.U.S. special forces raided the village of Dafaar in Shabwa province, a militant stronghold in southern Yemen, shortly after midnight on Saturday, killing several members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).American journalist Luke Somers, 33, and South African teacher Pierre Korkie, 56, were shot and killed by their captors during the raid intended to free them, U.S. officials said.AQAP, formed in 2006 by the merger of the Yemeni and Saudi branches of the network, has for years been seen by Washington as one of the movement's most dangerous branches.Western governments fear advances by Shi'ite Muslim Houthi fighters with links to Iran have bolstered support among Yemeni Sunnis for AQAP, which has established itself in parts of Yemen, including Shabwa where the raid took place.However, since Islamic State in Syria and Iraq began distributing films of its militants beheading Western hostages, the focus on AQAP, which has traditionally used hostage-taking as a way to raise funds, had diminished until now.At least two more hostages are being held by the group.The Yemen-based group, loyal to the wider al Qaeda organization founded by Osama bin Laden, has denounced Islamic State, but Western and Gulf sources say there may be operational connections between the two."AQAP and Daesh (Islamic State) are essentially the same organization but have different methods of execution and tactics," a senior Yemeni intelligence official said.
FREEDOM ATTEMPT
South Africa does not want to assign blame for Korkie's death, government spokesman Nelson Kgwete said on local television, when asked if Pretoria blamed the United States.Korkie's wife, Yolande, who was released in January after being held with her husband, spoke of forgiveness."So today we choose to forgive. We choose to love. We choose to rejoice in the memories of Pierre and keep him alive in our hearts," she said in a statement.No ransom was paid for Korkie as his kidnappers eventually relented on an earlier demand for $3 million, Gift of the Givers, the relief group that had tried to secure his release, said. The group had expected Korkie to be freed on Sunday.The South African government said Korkie's body was expected in South Africa on Monday.Apart from the woman and the boy, reports on social media feeds of known militants said an AQAP commander and two members of the group were killed. Six other members of the same tribe also died, the reports said, although they could not be immediately verified.The commander, identified as Jamal Mubarak al-Hard al-Daghari al-Awlaki, appeared to be the same person as Mubarak al-Harad, named by the Yemen Defence Ministry on Saturday as the leader of an AQAP group.Several of those said by militants to have died were from the Daghari and Awlaki families, important tribes in Shabwa province. Yemen's government said on Saturday the hostages were being held in the house of a man named Saeed al-Daghari.As special forces battled al Qaeda militants in the house, kidnappers in another building nearby shot the two hostages, a local man who identified himself as Jamal said.U.S. officials have said the raid was carried out by U.S. forces alone, but Yemen's government and local residents said Yemeni forces also participated."Before the gunshots were heard, very strong floodlights turned the night into daylight, and then we heard loud explosions," Jamal told Reuters. "The soldiers were calling on the house's inhabitants to surrender and the speaker was clearly a Yemeni soldier," he added.Another witness, named Abdullah, said the Yemeni army had blocked access to the area before the raid began."When the forces withdrew, we found lots of bloodstains, but did not know if those were of the soldiers or the hostages," Abdullah said.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the operation, the second attempt to free Somers in 10 days, had only been approved because of information that the American's life was in imminent danger.Abdel-Razaq al-Jamal, a Yemeni journalist who specializes in covering Islamist militants, said AQAP may have originally intended to ransom Somers as well, but appeared to have been angered by the earlier rescue attempt on Nov. 25."I don't think this marks a change in position by al Qaeda," Jamal told Reuters.(Additional reporting by Yara Bayoumy in Manama and Stella Mapenzauswa in Johannesburg; Writing by Sami Aboudi; Editing by Angus McDowall and Giles Elgood)
Mexico says evidence proves missing students were burned up-Reuters-DEC 07,14-YAHOONEWS
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities on Sunday said that mounting evidence and initial DNA tests confirmed that 43 trainee teachers who were abducted by corrupt police 10 weeks ago were incinerated at a garbage dump by drug gang members.Attorney General Jesus Murillo told reporters that one of the students had been identified by experts in Austria from a bone fragment in a bag of ash and bits of burned tire found in a river where drug gang members said they tossed the students remains."This scientific proof confirms that the remains found at the scene coincide with the evidence of the investigation," Murillo said. "We will continue with the probe until all the guilty have been arrested."President Enrique Pena Nieto is facing his deepest crisis over his government's handling of the probe. The case laid bare Mexico's deep problem of impunity and corruption and it has overshadowed Pena Nieto's efforts to focus on economic reforms.One month ago, Murillo said that drug gang members had confessed to murdering the students and burning their bodies in a pyre of tires at an isolated dump.But parents of the missing students have refused to accept the government's version and at a demonstration in Mexico City on Saturday night they said they would continue to demand more answers even after they had heard word of the DNA test results.The apparent massacre has spurred widespread and sometimes violent protests throughout Mexico. Federal authorities waited 10 days after the students disappearance to intervene in the case, insisting it was a local matter.Murillo said that 80 people have been detained in the probe, including the mayor of Iguala and his wife who are accused of ordering the police to get rid of the students from a radical left-wing college after they staged a demonstration in his town. Murillo promised more arrests, including 16 fugitive policemen. During the search for the students in the state of Guerrero, dozens more bodies were discovered in mass graves. More than 100,000 people have been killed in Mexico in gang-related violence since 2007."There is a lot of rage, but it is not just this case," said political science student Jimena Rodriguez at the Saturday night march. "There are so many missing, and they do not have the least interest in really investigating."(Reporting by Michael O'Boyle; Editing by Chris Reese)
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
Typhoon-hammered Philippines in 'fight for our survival': TRFN-Reuters-By Imelda Abano-DEC 07,14-YAHOONEWS
LIMA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Philippines has long experience coping with flooding and typhoons, including building warning and evacuation systems - but those measures may not be enough to cope with the worsening impacts of climate change, the country’s climate chief warned.As powerful Typhoon Hagupit hammered the Philippines this weekend – the second year in a row the country has been battered by a major storm during the U.N. climate negotiations – the country’s negotiators called for a work plan to establish a “loss and damage” mechanism to help vulnerable countries deal with growing unavoidable losses.Mary Ann Lucille Sering, secretary of the Philippines climate change commission, urged world leaders to respond to the increasingly costly and damaging impacts of global warming."Every year since 2008, typhoons have become the backdrop of the climate change conference,” Sering said. That worsening weather means that a way of dealing with growing losses and damage must be part of a climate deal expected to be reached in 2015 in Paris, she said.Typhoon Hagupit made its first landfall in Dolores town in eastern Samar on Saturday, following almost the same path taken by last year's Typhoon Haiyan. The storm brought heavy rains, storm surges, flooding and landslides in densely populated areas of the country.The Philippine government had already evacuated millions of people to higher ground.
‘BEYOND OUR CAPACITY ALREADY’
Sering said such heavy annual storms mean “the impacts of climate change are beyond our capacity already”.“Our country’s experience makes our work here (in Lima) so much more meaningful, as this is no longer just a job for us but a fight for our survival and the future of our nation," she said."We hope that the Philippine experience, no matter how difficult, can help unite all nations to take more concrete actions on climate change,” Sering said.“Loss and damage”, which became a prominent theme during the 2013 Warsaw climate change summit, refers to those impacts of climate change which cannot be avoided or adapted to, and therefore result in loss of life, livelihoods, ecosystems, cultures or potentially whole nations in the case of low lying island nations threatened by rising sea levels.A proposed mechanism to deal with it would commit richer countries who have contributed most to climate-changing emissions to giving financial assistance to poorer nations as well as sharing knowledge and technology.At last year’s climate summit, Philippines climate commissioner Naderev “Yeb” Sano made an emotional appeal to governments to speed up action on climate change as Typhoon Haiyan wreaked havoc in the country, killing more than 6,000 people and leaving millions homeless.Sano, whose hometown of Tacloban was among those most strongly affected by the storm, carried out a two-week-long hunger strike during the negotiations in solidarity with families suffering at home.
NEW TEST
According to Vicky-Tauli Corpuz, a special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, the new typhoon ravaging many parts of the Philippines will be a further test of the capacity of the Philippine government and the Filipino people to respond effectively to worsening climate change and natural disasters.“It will show whether we learned from the past typhoons, especially from Typhoon Haiyan last year,” Corpuz said.“For indigenous peoples who are directly affected by Typhoon Hagupit, I hope the government will ensure that relief and rehabilitation will reach them and that their struggle to have their land rights recognized will be hastened so they will have a better chance of adapting to disasters,” she said.Voltaire Alferez, national coordinator of Aksyon Klima, a coalition of 40 Phillippines civil society groups working on climate issues, said that the mechanism for dealing with loss and damage must be clear and incorporated into the 2015 climate deal.“We are not here to call for sympathy, much less pity. We are calling for solidarity, action from all governments,” he said.“We are not debating anymore at the Lima climate summit on whether the impacts of climate change are real. We should be taking action now,” Alferez said.(Reporting by Imelda Abano; editing by Laurie Goering)
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
36 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-12-07 19:42:13 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)36 earthquakes in map area
4.3 South of the Fiji Islands 2014-12-07 19:00:25 UTC-05:00 511.8 km
4.7 57km SSW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala 2014-12-07 17:23:13 UTC-05:00 41.1 km
3.8 7km SSW of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2014-12-07 17:13:08 UTC-05:00 11.1 km
5.8 53km SSW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala 2014-12-07 16:16:37 UTC-05:00 32.9 km
4.8 5km NW of Marasheshty, Romania 2014-12-07 16:04:04 UTC-05:00 38.7 km
4.9 171km E of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands 2014-12-07 14:06:24 UTC-05:00 29.1 km
5.1 157km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-07 12:55:35 UTC-05:00 54.9 km
4.4 52km SSW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala 2014-12-07 11:05:04 UTC-05:00 35.0 km
4.6 South of the Fiji Islands 2014-12-07 10:51:38 UTC-05:00 507.8 km
5.0 61km E of Micoud, Saint Lucia 2014-12-07 10:35:45 UTC-05:00 36.6 km
4.5 115km S of Akureyri, Iceland 2014-12-07 10:10:44 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
5.1 129km ESE of Kuril'sk, Russia 2014-12-07 09:51:59 UTC-05:00 58.5 km
5.0 115km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-07 09:19:29 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.5 52km SSW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala 2014-12-07 09:09:22 UTC-05:00 35.0 km
2.9 107km ENE of Atka, Alaska 2014-12-07 08:29:09 UTC-05:00 211.7 km
2.8 40km NNW of Inyokern, California 2014-12-07 08:08:39 UTC-05:00 3.3 km
3.1 40km NNW of Inyokern, California 2014-12-07 07:59:05 UTC-05:00 4.0 km
5.6 50km SSW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala 2014-12-07 07:11:33 UTC-05:00 43.2 km
3.3 45km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2014-12-07 06:08:41 UTC-05:00 133.0 km
4.6 108km WNW of Hofn, Iceland 2014-12-07 05:38:18 UTC-05:00 8.7 km
2.8 109km W of Larsen Bay, Alaska 2014-12-07 05:15:58 UTC-05:00 1.5 km
4.6 16km W of Weiyuan, China 2014-12-07 04:23:06 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
5.2 129km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-07 03:18:08 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.7 134km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-07 02:37:43 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
2.6 15km S of Conway Springs, Kansas 2014-12-07 02:24:57 UTC-05:00 6.2 km
2.6 83km NW of Yakutat, Alaska 2014-12-07 01:24:56 UTC-05:00 0.1 km
2.6 62km NW of Ester, Alaska 2014-12-07 01:16:45 UTC-05:00 20.1 km
4.9 208km NW of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands 2014-UTC-05:00 27.0 km
4.9 146km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-06 23:44:40 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
2.6 22km SSE of Kettleman City, California 2014-12-06 23:13:20 UTC-05:00 6.0 km
5.7 139km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-06 22:30:02 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
3.4 25km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2014-12-06 21:42:44 UTC-05:00 45.0 km
5.0 140km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-06 21:24:33 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
3.0 22km SSE of Kettleman City, California 2014-12-06 21:08:48 UTC-05:00 4.6 km
5.2 126km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-06 20:40:05 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
6.8 116km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-06 20:22:00 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)
New trio of EU leaders has chance to make a difference-03.12.14 @ 09:06-By Marc Pierini-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS - Donald Tusk took office as president of the European Council on 1 December, completing the new EU leadership team.On the foreign policy front, Tusk, together with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and EU high representative Federica Mogherini, will become the second generation of EU leaders after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, which was supposed to give the EU new visibility on the world stage.An old rule says that "the EU only makes progress by way of an external shock."If true, this new trio stands a bigger chance for success than their predecessors as the EU faces multiple crises in its neighbourhoods. From Ukraine to relations with Russia, and from Syria and Iraq to battling ISIS, these crises represent many opportunities for the Tusk-Juncker-Mogherini trio.They have many cards in their hands, but will also need a little support.The biggest strength of the new trio is its political legitimacy. Juncker comes from the centre-right party that won the most seats in the May 2014 European Parliament elections.Wisely, he designated the most politically experienced commission that Brussels has ever seen, including five former prime ministers, 19 former ministers, three former EU commissioners, and just one "rookie commissioner".Former Polish PM Tusk was then appointed president of the European Council.Ten years after the accession of most Central European states to the EU, his appointment gives recognition to the region's fundamental importance in the union and, indeed, recognition of Poland's crucial role in the EU's relationships with Ukraine and Russia.Tusk's presence at the helm of EU summitry therefore carries an enormous political significance.Finally, appointing Mogherini, a true "rookie foreign minister" in Italy, acknowledges the political weight that Matteo Renzi's Partito Democratico carries after the May European elections, especially as so many other parties in power suffered at the hands of eurosceptics.Mogherini's appointment also signifies the return of Italy to front-stage EU politics.The three new leaders have strong intellectual credentials and communication skills.In addition, the synergies between the European External Action Service, the diplomatic corps headed by Mogherini, and the EU commission, headed by Juncker - where Mogherini also holds a vice president seat - have been reconstructed.This gives the hope that foreign policy will now work hand-in-hand with the “technical" instruments under the commission's control, including trade policy, financial sanctions, development co-operation, humanitarian assistance, visa policy and migration.The trio will hopefully put to rest a lacklustre five year inception period of the Lisbon Treaty.While the "big three" - France, Germany, and the United Kingdom - thought they would inspire and implement EU foreign policy during this period, they proved largely ineffectual, be it on Libya, Syria, or Ukraine.As a result, other EU member states developed a real frustration that now stands to be corrected.The deep crisis in Ukraine and the related rampant confrontation with Russia, as well as the Syrian-Iraq-ISIS conundrum, provide ample opportunities for the new EU leaders to prove that the proper combination of national and EU foreign policy tools can achieve lasting influence when implemented within smart policies proposed by the relevant EU institutions.This is, of course, more easily said than done.The Tusk-Juncker-Mogherini trio will need to fulfill two major conditions. First, they will need, as they proclaimed, to work together in a seamless fashion and avoid disastrous incidents seen recently, where a commissioner and the high representative followed each other on Maidan Square in Kiev without much co-ordination or consistency.They will have to operate their many tools in a co-ordinated fashion, instead of being guided by the incomprehensible rules dividing their portfolios or their inter-institutional relations.They will also have to communicate efficiently to the public: faced with such major foreign policy crises, European citizens want to understand where their leaders take them.Yet political clout, institutional tools, and smart brains will not be enough.The trio will also need to be given a genuine chance by the "big three" member states, instead of being either bypassed or ostensibly left out of the decision-making room.Tusk, Juncker, and Mogherini will also have to earn the trust of the United States, which remains by a long shot the most influential Western actor in areas of strategic interest to the EU.Can the new trio put the EU on the world map? Only time will tell, probably sooner than later.Marc Pierini is an analyst at Carnegie Europe, a Brussels-based think tank, and a former EU ambassador to Turkey
A United Eurasia from Lisbon to Vladivostok?-05.12.14 @ 10:26-By Audronius Azubalis-EUOBSERVER
Vilnius - As I listened, earlier this year, to the final speech by Stefan Fuele, the former commissioner for neighbourhood policy, in which he mentioned the necessity of building a free-trade zone from Vancouver to Vladivostok, I thought to myself: “These must be merely personal considerations by an outgoing commissioner”.However, at this week’s meetings in Brussels of members of the European Parliament and national parliaments with Federica Mogherini, the high representative for foreign policy, and with Johannes Hahn, Fuele’s successor, I saw that this idea really does haunt the corridors of Brussels.Based on the increasingly popular theory, we have to give Russia a European free-trade zone from Lisbon to Vladivostok and a visa-free regime, in return for it ceasing to interfere in the internal affairs of Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and other post-Soviet countries.I would only smile at such unrealistic suggestions, if the naivety of their proponents was not so dangerous.Led by the same kind of naivety, the West in recent years engaged Russia in the G8 club and helped it to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO).In return we got: Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and Georgia; open violation of WTO principles; and artificial escalation of military tension on the borders of Western countries.The fact that we are still unable to learn a lesson from these precedents only proves that Russia’s tactics are working.The invader takes a bite of territory, then it asks for various undeserved concessions to let go its teeth, but it swallows the morsel before anything else is done.
Competing economic units
Today, as we discuss the need to integrate the European Union and Russia’s Eurasian Economic Union, we must understand that they are not just competing economic blocs.They are, first and foremost, two opposite value and political systems.By ignoring this and granting free trade privileges to Russia, we will not eliminate the dividing lines.Instead, we will only mislead our Eastern Partners by creating the impression that their best way to Europe is through Moscow and with Moscow.Is this what we want? If No, then the European Union must not stall the Europeanisation of post-Soviet countries in the name of a trade pact with Moscow.On the contrary, it has to encourage and speed up the reforms without denying EU membership perspectives to any of these six states.Otherwise, we will leave a geopolitical vacuum to be soon filled by a system which is fundamentally hostile to the European project.We will bring the emerging Eurasian regime closer to our borders, giving Moscow on a silver platter what it is trying to do by military force in Ukraine.
The price of soft politics
At the moment, Russia does not have the capacity to occupy Ukraine.But, by means of its hybrid aggression, it is managing to keep the Western democratic community in a state of constant tension.It is forcing Nato and EU capitals to wonder what Russian leader Vladimir Putin - deluded, but in control of a nuclear aresenal - will come up with next.Western fear, confusion are the main goals of Russia’s provocations.Repeated invasions followed by retreats on the territory of Ukraine; ambiguous remarks about its nuclear capabilities; 1960s and 1970s-era military aircraft taking to the air for risky manouevres on the edge of Nato or EU airspace; the abduction of a Lithuanian fishing boat, of an Estonian intelligence officer: Putin is trying to wear us out.Its a campaign which has cowed a Western alliance which has overwhelming superiority in military and economic terms, but which lacks backbone.Betting on our softness, Putin will continue to escalate the conflict until he reaches a moment of direct confrontation with the Western powers.If he’s betting right, the powers will shy away from military action.They will invite Putin back to the negotiating table and give him concessions in return for putting his fangs back in his mouth.
EU strategy for Russia relations
The idea of awarding Russia visa-free travel and free trade amounts to an attempt to stop him by appeasement, by almost any price to avoid war in Europe.It was recently acknowledged by Mogherini at a meeting with members of the European Parliament and national parliaments, where she repeatedly said the European Union needs a new strategy for better relations with Russia.I am convinced the problem lies not in the strategy.We already have a strategy, but there are too many EU members which don’t to follow it.Let’s face it: based on the core principles of the EU, the possibilities for a political dialogue in the face of war have already been exhausted.The only means to force the Kremlin to wake up is strong and united pressure through sanctions valid until the very moment when the invader packs his bags and leaves Ukraine.Audronius Azubalis is a member of Lithuanian Parliament and a former minister of foreign affairs.
EARTH WORSHIP
DEUTERONOMY 17:3-4
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
DEUTORONOMY 4:15-19
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
2 KINGS 23:5
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
OZONE DEPLETION JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH DUE TO SIN
ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
MATTHEW 24:21-22,29
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake (ISRAELS SAKE) those days shall be shortened (Daylight hours shortened)
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Germany to step up emissions reductions-04.12.14 @ 09:24-By Peter Teffer-EUOBSERVER
Brussels - Germany announced on Wednesday (3 December) it is stepping up its efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2020.Berlin's plan includes tax incentives to improve energy efficiency in buildings while electricity producers will also be pushed to reduce their emissions further.Germany wants to achieve a 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, compared to levels of 1990.“Without the [new] programme, Germany would have missed the goal by 5 to 8 percentage points, according to current projections”, the government said in a statement.The European Union's common goal for emissions reduction by that year is 20 percent. In October, it set a 40 percent reduction goal for 2030.Germany has in recent decades pushed for more use of renewable energy, quintupling its electricity generation from renewable sources between 1995 and 2012.However, it is also phasing out its nuclear power plants meaning it has had to replace phased-out nuclear energy with carbon emitting coal plants.The plan was presented by energy and economy minister Sigmar Gabriel and environment minister Barbara Hendricks.Hendricks is going to Lima next week for the UN climate talks - of the 28 EU member states, 23 of them are sending a minister or secretary of state to the Peruvian capital.In total 119 countries are sending a minister, fifteen fewer than during the previous climate change conference of this size, last year in Warsaw.The World Meteorological Organisation announced in Lima that the year 2014 is “on track to be one of the hottest, if not the hottest, on record”.Global average air temperature for January to October was about 0.57 degrees Celsius above the average of those months in the period 1961-1990. It was also 0.09 degrees higher above the average of the past 10 years.Another announcement that came from Lima on Wednesday was that the UN's Green Climate Fund will begin funding projects to reduce emissions in six months from now.The almost $10 billion that has been pledged to the fund will start being spent on projects in June 2015.A group of NGOs and other civil society organisations on Wednesday called for clear rules on how the money may be spent, after it emerged that Japan used climate money to fund the production of coal plants.
11/30/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-“In the mosque I prayed to the Lord for these wars to stop!”-The Pope on the return flight from Turkey-In the interview Pope Francis gave on the return flight to Rome, he spoke about interreligious dialogue, asking political leaders, scholars and Muslim religious figures to speak out against fundamentalist terrorism. Regarding unity between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, he said that “uniatism” is not the way forward. “I want to go to Iraq“ and “I would like to meet the Patriarch of Moscow”-ANDREA TORNIELLI
correspondent on the flight from Istanbul to Rome-Pope Francis wants to go to Iraq and has not given up on his plan. He also wants to meet the Patriarch of Moscow. In the interview with journalists on board the return flight from Turkey to Rome, the Pope talked about yesterday’s events in Istanbul’s Blue Mosque.
Islamophobia
“It is true that there has been a reaction to these terrorist acts not just in this region but in Africa as well. “f this is Islam it makes me angry!” So many Muslims feel offended, they say: “But that is not what we are, the Quran is a prophetic book of peace, this (terrorism) is not Islamism. I can understand this. And I sincerely believe that we cannot say all Muslims are terrorists, just as we cannot say that all Christians are fundamentalists – we also have fundamentalists among us, all religions have these little groups. I told President Erdogan that it would be good to issue a clear condemnation against these kinds of groups. All religious leaders, scholars, clerics, intellectuals and politicians should do this. This way they would hear it from their leader’s mouth. There needs to be an international condemnation from Muslims across the world. It needs to say, “no, this is not what the Quran is about!”. There should also always be a distinction between what a religion proposes and the concrete use of that proposal by a concrete government. The way you govern your country may not be Islamic or Jewish or Christian. The name is often used but the reality does not reflect what the religion says.”
Christianophobia
“I’m going to speak frankly: (we) Christians are being chased from the Middle East. In some cases, as we have seen in Iraq, in the Mosul area, they have to leave or pay a tax that may be unnecessary. Soemtimes they chase us away kindly.”
Interreligious dialogue
“I had what was probably the most wonderful conversation regarding this with the president for Religious Affairs and his team. When the new Turkish ambassador to the Holy See came to deliver his letters of credence, I saw an exceptional man before me, a man of profound piousness. They said: Now it seems like interreligious dialogue has come to an end.” We need to raise the bar. We need to bring about a dialogue between religious figures of different faiths and this is a beautiful thing: men and women who meet other men and women and share experiences: it’s not theology we are talking about but experience.”
Prayer in the Mosque
“I went to Turkey as a pilgrim, not as a tourist. And I went especially for today’s feast celebrated by Patriarch Bartholomew . When I entered the mosque, I could not say: now I’m a tourist! I saw that marvellous place; the Mufti explained things very well to me, showing great meekness; he quoted the Quran when he spoke about Mary and John the Baptist. At that moment I felt the need to pray. So I asked him: Shall we pray a little? To which he responded: “Yes, yes”. I prayed for Turkey, for peace, for the Mufti, for everyone and for myself ... I said: Lord, let’s put an end to these wars! It was a moment of sincere prayer.”
On ecumenism
“Last month, the Metropolitan Hilarion attended the Synod as a delegate and he spoke to me not as a Synod delegate but as the President of the commission for Orthodox-Catholic dialogue. We spoke for a while. I believe we are moving forward in our relations with Orthodoxy, they have the sacraments and apostolic succession, we are moving forward. If we wait for theologians to reach an agreement, that day will never come! I am sceptical: theologians work well but Athenagoras said: “Let us put theologians on an island to discuss among themselves and we’ll just get on with things!” Unity is a journey we need to go on together, it is spiritual ecumenism, praying together, working together. Then there is ecumenism of the blood: when they kill Christians, bloods mix. Our martyrs are crying out: we are one. This is what ecumenism of the blood is. We must follow this path courageously and carry on moving forward. Perhaps some are not able to understand this. The Eastern catholic Churches have a right to exist, but uniatism is a dated word, another solution needs to be found.”
I want to meet the Patriarch of Moscow
“I told Patriarch Kiril, we can meet wherever you want, you call me and I’ll come. But he has a lot on his plate at the moment what with the war in Ukraine. Both of us want to meet and move forward. Hilarion suggested the commission hold a study meeting on the primacy issue. We have to continue along the footsteps of John Paul II: help me to find a solution to the primacy issue that is also acceptable to the Orthodox Churches.”The origin of divisions between Churches.“The thing I feel most deeply about on this path toward unity, I mentioned in yesterday’s homily on the Holy Spirit: the path of the Holy Spirit is the only right path, he is full of surprises, he is creative. The problem – and I as I said in the general congregations before the Conclave this may be self-criticism – is that the Church has the bad and sinful habit of being too inward-looking, as if it believes it shines of its own light. The Church does not have its own light, it needs to look at Jesus christ. Divisions exist because teh Church has been focusing on itself too much. At table today, Bartholomew and I were talking about the moment when a cardinal went to communicate the Pope’s excommunication to the Patriarch: the Church was focusing on itself too much at that moment. When one focuses on oneself, one becomes self-referential.”
Primacy in the Church
“The Orthodox accept the primacy: in today’s litanies they prayed for their pastor and primate, “he who leads the way”. They said this in my presence today. We have to look back at the first millennium to find an acceptable solution. I am not saying the Church did everything wrong (in the second millennium), no, no! It paved its historic path. But now the way forward is to follow John Paul II’s request.
On the ultraconservatives who look suspiciously at open approaches
“Allow me to say that this problem is not only ours. This is also a problem they face, the Orthodox, some monks and some monasteries. For example, ver since the days when the Blessed Paul VI was Pope, there has been an ongoing discussion regarding the date of Easter and we still haven’t reached an agreement. At this rate, our great grandchildren risk celebrating it in August. The Blessed Paul VI had suggested a set date, a Sunday in April. Bartholomew was courageous: in Finland, where there is a small Orthodox community, he said they could celebrate on the same day as the Lutherans. Once, I was in Via della Scrofa, Easter rpeparations were underway and I heard a member o the Eastern Church say: my Christ will rise from the dead in a month’s time. My Christ, your Christ. Problems do exist. But we must be respectful and not tire of engaging in dialogue, without insulting others, without dirtying ourselves, without gossiping. If someone does not want dialogue, well ... But, patience, meekness and dialogue.”
I want to go to Iraq
“I wanted to go to a refugee camp, but it would have meant staying one more day and it was not possible for many reasons, not just personal. So I asked to meet the young refugees that are being looked after by the Salesians. I would like to take the opportunity to thank the Turkish government for its generosity. It is generous with refugees. Do you know what it takes to have to provide healthcare, food, a bed and a home for one million refugees? I do want to go to Iraq. I have spoken with Patriarch Sako. For now, it is not possible. If I went right now, it would be a problem for the authorities, for security.”I did not discuss the EU with Erdogan.“No, we didn’t talk about that. It’s strange, we talked about so many things but nit that.”
The third world war and nuclear weapons
“I am convinced that we are experiencing a fragmented third world war, a war in chapters, everywhere. There are rivalries, political problems and economic problems behind this, to save this system where the god called money is at the centre instead of the human person. There are also commercial interests behind this: arms trafficking is terrible; it is one of the most powerful businesses right now. In September last year, there was talk of Syria possessing chemical weapons: I do not believe Syria is in a position to produce chemical weapons. Who sold them these? Some of those who accused them of having them in the first place perhaps? There is a great mystery surrounding this weapons business. Humanity has not learnt its lesson on nuclear power. God gave us creation so that we could create culture out of this lack of culture. Humans did this and discovered nuclear energy which has many positive uses but they also used it to destroy humanity. This lack of culture manifests itself in another way too: I don’t want to talk about the end of the world, but it is a culture which I call “terminal” culture; then you have to start from scratch again, just as the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima did.”
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
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 (DONKEY-JACKASS) 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)
Thirteen killed in failed U.S. hostage rescue bid in Yemen-Reuters-By Mohammed Ghobari and Mohammed Mukhashaf-DEC 07,14-YAHOONEWS
SANAA/ADEN (Reuters) - A woman, a 10-year-old boy and a local al Qaeda leader were among at least 11 people killed alongside two Western hostages when U.S.-led forces fought Islamist militants in a failed rescue mission in Yemen, residents said on Sunday.U.S. special forces raided the village of Dafaar in Shabwa province, a militant stronghold in southern Yemen, shortly after midnight on Saturday, killing several members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).American journalist Luke Somers, 33, and South African teacher Pierre Korkie, 56, were shot and killed by their captors during the raid intended to free them, U.S. officials said.AQAP, formed in 2006 by the merger of the Yemeni and Saudi branches of the network, has for years been seen by Washington as one of the movement's most dangerous branches.Western governments fear advances by Shi'ite Muslim Houthi fighters with links to Iran have bolstered support among Yemeni Sunnis for AQAP, which has established itself in parts of Yemen, including Shabwa where the raid took place.However, since Islamic State in Syria and Iraq began distributing films of its militants beheading Western hostages, the focus on AQAP, which has traditionally used hostage-taking as a way to raise funds, had diminished until now.At least two more hostages are being held by the group.The Yemen-based group, loyal to the wider al Qaeda organization founded by Osama bin Laden, has denounced Islamic State, but Western and Gulf sources say there may be operational connections between the two."AQAP and Daesh (Islamic State) are essentially the same organization but have different methods of execution and tactics," a senior Yemeni intelligence official said.
FREEDOM ATTEMPT
South Africa does not want to assign blame for Korkie's death, government spokesman Nelson Kgwete said on local television, when asked if Pretoria blamed the United States.Korkie's wife, Yolande, who was released in January after being held with her husband, spoke of forgiveness."So today we choose to forgive. We choose to love. We choose to rejoice in the memories of Pierre and keep him alive in our hearts," she said in a statement.No ransom was paid for Korkie as his kidnappers eventually relented on an earlier demand for $3 million, Gift of the Givers, the relief group that had tried to secure his release, said. The group had expected Korkie to be freed on Sunday.The South African government said Korkie's body was expected in South Africa on Monday.Apart from the woman and the boy, reports on social media feeds of known militants said an AQAP commander and two members of the group were killed. Six other members of the same tribe also died, the reports said, although they could not be immediately verified.The commander, identified as Jamal Mubarak al-Hard al-Daghari al-Awlaki, appeared to be the same person as Mubarak al-Harad, named by the Yemen Defence Ministry on Saturday as the leader of an AQAP group.Several of those said by militants to have died were from the Daghari and Awlaki families, important tribes in Shabwa province. Yemen's government said on Saturday the hostages were being held in the house of a man named Saeed al-Daghari.As special forces battled al Qaeda militants in the house, kidnappers in another building nearby shot the two hostages, a local man who identified himself as Jamal said.U.S. officials have said the raid was carried out by U.S. forces alone, but Yemen's government and local residents said Yemeni forces also participated."Before the gunshots were heard, very strong floodlights turned the night into daylight, and then we heard loud explosions," Jamal told Reuters. "The soldiers were calling on the house's inhabitants to surrender and the speaker was clearly a Yemeni soldier," he added.Another witness, named Abdullah, said the Yemeni army had blocked access to the area before the raid began."When the forces withdrew, we found lots of bloodstains, but did not know if those were of the soldiers or the hostages," Abdullah said.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the operation, the second attempt to free Somers in 10 days, had only been approved because of information that the American's life was in imminent danger.Abdel-Razaq al-Jamal, a Yemeni journalist who specializes in covering Islamist militants, said AQAP may have originally intended to ransom Somers as well, but appeared to have been angered by the earlier rescue attempt on Nov. 25."I don't think this marks a change in position by al Qaeda," Jamal told Reuters.(Additional reporting by Yara Bayoumy in Manama and Stella Mapenzauswa in Johannesburg; Writing by Sami Aboudi; Editing by Angus McDowall and Giles Elgood)
Mexico says evidence proves missing students were burned up-Reuters-DEC 07,14-YAHOONEWS
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities on Sunday said that mounting evidence and initial DNA tests confirmed that 43 trainee teachers who were abducted by corrupt police 10 weeks ago were incinerated at a garbage dump by drug gang members.Attorney General Jesus Murillo told reporters that one of the students had been identified by experts in Austria from a bone fragment in a bag of ash and bits of burned tire found in a river where drug gang members said they tossed the students remains."This scientific proof confirms that the remains found at the scene coincide with the evidence of the investigation," Murillo said. "We will continue with the probe until all the guilty have been arrested."President Enrique Pena Nieto is facing his deepest crisis over his government's handling of the probe. The case laid bare Mexico's deep problem of impunity and corruption and it has overshadowed Pena Nieto's efforts to focus on economic reforms.One month ago, Murillo said that drug gang members had confessed to murdering the students and burning their bodies in a pyre of tires at an isolated dump.But parents of the missing students have refused to accept the government's version and at a demonstration in Mexico City on Saturday night they said they would continue to demand more answers even after they had heard word of the DNA test results.The apparent massacre has spurred widespread and sometimes violent protests throughout Mexico. Federal authorities waited 10 days after the students disappearance to intervene in the case, insisting it was a local matter.Murillo said that 80 people have been detained in the probe, including the mayor of Iguala and his wife who are accused of ordering the police to get rid of the students from a radical left-wing college after they staged a demonstration in his town. Murillo promised more arrests, including 16 fugitive policemen. During the search for the students in the state of Guerrero, dozens more bodies were discovered in mass graves. More than 100,000 people have been killed in Mexico in gang-related violence since 2007."There is a lot of rage, but it is not just this case," said political science student Jimena Rodriguez at the Saturday night march. "There are so many missing, and they do not have the least interest in really investigating."(Reporting by Michael O'Boyle; Editing by Chris Reese)
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
Typhoon-hammered Philippines in 'fight for our survival': TRFN-Reuters-By Imelda Abano-DEC 07,14-YAHOONEWS
LIMA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Philippines has long experience coping with flooding and typhoons, including building warning and evacuation systems - but those measures may not be enough to cope with the worsening impacts of climate change, the country’s climate chief warned.As powerful Typhoon Hagupit hammered the Philippines this weekend – the second year in a row the country has been battered by a major storm during the U.N. climate negotiations – the country’s negotiators called for a work plan to establish a “loss and damage” mechanism to help vulnerable countries deal with growing unavoidable losses.Mary Ann Lucille Sering, secretary of the Philippines climate change commission, urged world leaders to respond to the increasingly costly and damaging impacts of global warming."Every year since 2008, typhoons have become the backdrop of the climate change conference,” Sering said. That worsening weather means that a way of dealing with growing losses and damage must be part of a climate deal expected to be reached in 2015 in Paris, she said.Typhoon Hagupit made its first landfall in Dolores town in eastern Samar on Saturday, following almost the same path taken by last year's Typhoon Haiyan. The storm brought heavy rains, storm surges, flooding and landslides in densely populated areas of the country.The Philippine government had already evacuated millions of people to higher ground.
‘BEYOND OUR CAPACITY ALREADY’
Sering said such heavy annual storms mean “the impacts of climate change are beyond our capacity already”.“Our country’s experience makes our work here (in Lima) so much more meaningful, as this is no longer just a job for us but a fight for our survival and the future of our nation," she said."We hope that the Philippine experience, no matter how difficult, can help unite all nations to take more concrete actions on climate change,” Sering said.“Loss and damage”, which became a prominent theme during the 2013 Warsaw climate change summit, refers to those impacts of climate change which cannot be avoided or adapted to, and therefore result in loss of life, livelihoods, ecosystems, cultures or potentially whole nations in the case of low lying island nations threatened by rising sea levels.A proposed mechanism to deal with it would commit richer countries who have contributed most to climate-changing emissions to giving financial assistance to poorer nations as well as sharing knowledge and technology.At last year’s climate summit, Philippines climate commissioner Naderev “Yeb” Sano made an emotional appeal to governments to speed up action on climate change as Typhoon Haiyan wreaked havoc in the country, killing more than 6,000 people and leaving millions homeless.Sano, whose hometown of Tacloban was among those most strongly affected by the storm, carried out a two-week-long hunger strike during the negotiations in solidarity with families suffering at home.
NEW TEST
According to Vicky-Tauli Corpuz, a special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, the new typhoon ravaging many parts of the Philippines will be a further test of the capacity of the Philippine government and the Filipino people to respond effectively to worsening climate change and natural disasters.“It will show whether we learned from the past typhoons, especially from Typhoon Haiyan last year,” Corpuz said.“For indigenous peoples who are directly affected by Typhoon Hagupit, I hope the government will ensure that relief and rehabilitation will reach them and that their struggle to have their land rights recognized will be hastened so they will have a better chance of adapting to disasters,” she said.Voltaire Alferez, national coordinator of Aksyon Klima, a coalition of 40 Phillippines civil society groups working on climate issues, said that the mechanism for dealing with loss and damage must be clear and incorporated into the 2015 climate deal.“We are not here to call for sympathy, much less pity. We are calling for solidarity, action from all governments,” he said.“We are not debating anymore at the Lima climate summit on whether the impacts of climate change are real. We should be taking action now,” Alferez said.(Reporting by Imelda Abano; editing by Laurie Goering)
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
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4.3 South of the Fiji Islands 2014-12-07 19:00:25 UTC-05:00 511.8 km
4.7 57km SSW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala 2014-12-07 17:23:13 UTC-05:00 41.1 km
3.8 7km SSW of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2014-12-07 17:13:08 UTC-05:00 11.1 km
5.8 53km SSW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala 2014-12-07 16:16:37 UTC-05:00 32.9 km
4.8 5km NW of Marasheshty, Romania 2014-12-07 16:04:04 UTC-05:00 38.7 km
4.9 171km E of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands 2014-12-07 14:06:24 UTC-05:00 29.1 km
5.1 157km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-07 12:55:35 UTC-05:00 54.9 km
4.4 52km SSW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala 2014-12-07 11:05:04 UTC-05:00 35.0 km
4.6 South of the Fiji Islands 2014-12-07 10:51:38 UTC-05:00 507.8 km
5.0 61km E of Micoud, Saint Lucia 2014-12-07 10:35:45 UTC-05:00 36.6 km
4.5 115km S of Akureyri, Iceland 2014-12-07 10:10:44 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
5.1 129km ESE of Kuril'sk, Russia 2014-12-07 09:51:59 UTC-05:00 58.5 km
5.0 115km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-07 09:19:29 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.5 52km SSW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala 2014-12-07 09:09:22 UTC-05:00 35.0 km
2.9 107km ENE of Atka, Alaska 2014-12-07 08:29:09 UTC-05:00 211.7 km
2.8 40km NNW of Inyokern, California 2014-12-07 08:08:39 UTC-05:00 3.3 km
3.1 40km NNW of Inyokern, California 2014-12-07 07:59:05 UTC-05:00 4.0 km
5.6 50km SSW of Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala 2014-12-07 07:11:33 UTC-05:00 43.2 km
3.3 45km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2014-12-07 06:08:41 UTC-05:00 133.0 km
4.6 108km WNW of Hofn, Iceland 2014-12-07 05:38:18 UTC-05:00 8.7 km
2.8 109km W of Larsen Bay, Alaska 2014-12-07 05:15:58 UTC-05:00 1.5 km
4.6 16km W of Weiyuan, China 2014-12-07 04:23:06 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
5.2 129km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-07 03:18:08 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.7 134km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-07 02:37:43 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
2.6 15km S of Conway Springs, Kansas 2014-12-07 02:24:57 UTC-05:00 6.2 km
2.6 83km NW of Yakutat, Alaska 2014-12-07 01:24:56 UTC-05:00 0.1 km
2.6 62km NW of Ester, Alaska 2014-12-07 01:16:45 UTC-05:00 20.1 km
4.9 208km NW of Farallon de Pajaros, Northern Mariana Islands 2014-UTC-05:00 27.0 km
4.9 146km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-06 23:44:40 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
2.6 22km SSE of Kettleman City, California 2014-12-06 23:13:20 UTC-05:00 6.0 km
5.7 139km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-06 22:30:02 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
3.4 25km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2014-12-06 21:42:44 UTC-05:00 45.0 km
5.0 140km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-06 21:24:33 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
3.0 22km SSE of Kettleman City, California 2014-12-06 21:08:48 UTC-05:00 4.6 km
5.2 126km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-06 20:40:05 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
6.8 116km WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-12-06 20:22:00 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
