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1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
DANIEL 7:23-24
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)
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
Opinion-The EU in Limbo By Gareth Harding-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, 9. Mar, 14:00-“They say there’s enough religion in the world to make men hate each other, but not enough to make them love,” says Louis Cyphre, the devilish character played by Robert de Niro in the 1987 thriller Angel Heart.Substitute “religion” with “EU” and you get to the heart of the predicament the European Union faces.The EU interferes just enough in national affairs to make large numbers of Europeans loathe it and not enough to make its supporters love it. So it remains stuck in limbo, trapped in a political no-man’s land between a traditional nation state and a supercharged international organisation.It lacks the power to do most of the things states do – tax its citizens, control its borders, protect its people from attack – but it intervenes enough in its members’ affairs to make it an easy scapegoat for those fearing the erosion of sovereignty.The result is a Union that is failing to meet the goals it sets itself and the expectations most Europeans have of it.Unemployment levels are stratospheric, growth is anaemic and the euro often centimes short of collapsing. Its migration policy is immoral, mean-spirited and shambolic. And it possesses neither the soft power to persuade countries like Turkey to stop its slide towards despotism nor the hard power to confront bullies like Russia.-A glorified think-tank-If the EU had limited aims, like Nafta or the WTO, none of this would matter. But the Union has such lofty ambitions coupled with such puny resources that it is almost predestined for failure.Take growth and jobs. Creating more of both has been the EU’s central goal for most of the last decade. It has failed – not because the prescriptions doled out at every EU summit are wrong, but because it has no way of funding or enforcing them.With a budget of 1% of the total GDP of the 28-member bloc and little control over states’ employment policy, levels of taxation or social security spending, the EU is in danger of becoming little more than a glorified think-tank when it comes to implementing the sort of changes that Europe so desperately needs.So whether Europe grows and creates jobs has little to do with the EU and everything to do with the policies pursued by its member states. Likewise, whether Egypt becomes more democratic or Russia less bellicose has almost nothing to do with what EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini thinks.Far from being “big on big things and small on small things”, as European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker promised at the start of his mandate, the EU is in danger of being the opposite – hyperactive on issues that matter little to people and invisible on those they care most about.-Three options-So what can be done to save the Union? There are basically three options, none of them particularly palatable.Firstly, the EU can muddle on as it is doing now. For all the reasons mentioned above, nobody thinks this is a good idea. Not even the British. "If it’s broke, don’t fix it" is hardly the most mature response to the existential crisis the EU currently finds itself in.The second option is for the EU to evolve into a sort of United States of Europe with a common budget, government, army and tax-raising powers. This seems to be the preferred option among the dwindling army of federalists in Brussels and in the original six founding members of the Union – whose foreign ministers met in Rome last month to discuss ways of intensifying bonds within their club.Further integration is the most logical option. It would save both the euro and Schengen – at least momentarily – and would put an end to the buck-passing of responsibility for Europe’s failures that currently takes place between Brussels and national capitals.The big problem is that many EU states and most European people do not want further integration. They want control of their own borders and economic policies. They don’t want to be told to take more refugees against their will. And they resent the fact that Brussels now decides national budgets not elected politicians in their own countries.So pursuing ever closer union, while attractive, is fraught with risks. It would make the EU more cohesive but almost certainly less popular.It might save the euro but the cost would be a nativist revolt against the loss of sovereignty this requires – a populist rebellion well under way in states from Greece to Slovakia to Finland.Finally, it risks splintering the EU even further into a hard-core of countries willing to embark on a political union – roughly the founding six and a handful of other eurozone stragglers – and a group of northern and central European states that would keep their national currencies but still be part of the free trade area.This would no longer be a European Union but two radically different European clubs with radically different aims and policies.-Less Europe-The third option, which few have advocated because it would entail a massive climbdown for the Union, would be for EU states to confess that the euro has not brought jobs, growth or stability to Europe and that further integration has resulted in greater disillusionment with the EU.Abandoning the euro and allowing states to pursue the social and economic policies voted for by their electorates would free many states from the straitjacket they see imposed on them by Brussels.Likewise, overhauling the EU budget to foster cross-border cooperation rather than prop up farmers or promote pork projects in poorer states and regions would be more in keeping with the original aims of the Union.“Less Europe” might not be a popular cry in the corridors of Brussels. But focusing on the core goals of the Union – removing barriers to trade, stopping cross-border threats like air pollution, terrorism and people-smuggling, and removing transport and energy bottlenecks between borders – might be the best way to retain some Europe.Having more EU is the surest way to no Europe.Gareth Harding is Managing Director of Clear Europe, a communications company. He also runs the Missouri School of Journalism's Brussels Programme. Follow him on Twitter @garethharding.
Tabloid says Queen wants UK to leave EU By Andrew Rettman-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, 9. Mar, 09:25-Britain’s top-selling tabloid has said Queen Elizabeth II wants the UK to leave the EU, in a report denied by her office and by the politician to whom she's said to have spoken.The Sun's front page splash on Wednesday (9 March) ran with the headline Queen Backs Brexit.It said she had made pro-Brexit remarks on two occasions: at a lunch in Windsor Castle with the then deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and at a reception with MPs in Buckingham Palace.She reportedly told Clegg that the EU was “heading in the wrong direction” in remarks that The Sun described as a “stinging reprimand” that went on for “quite a while” and left her lunch guests "stunned".She reportedly told MPs on the second occasion: "“I don’t understand Europe." The Sun said the 89-year old monarch “snapped angrily” and spoke with “venom and emotion”.“We would … not be taking the big step in reporting them [her comments] if they had not come from two different and impeccably placed sources,” The Sun said.Reacting to the story, the Buckingham Palace press office said: “The Queen remains politically neutral as she has for 63 years."The referendum is a matter for the British people to decide."Clegg said on Twitter: “I told the [Sun] journalist this is nonsense. I've no recollection of this happening and it’s not the sort of thing I would forget.”But The Sun said neither response had "expressly denied" the truth of its report.The Sun is the UK’s top selling paper. Its average daily circulation in March last year was 1.9 million, according to UK media monitor the Audit Bureau of Circulation. But its popularity fell 10 percent after it stopped printing pictures of topless models.The UK’s second biggest selling paper, The Daily Mail, on 1.6 million, is also strongly eurosceptic.Their readership is much higher than that of leading broadsheets The Daily Telegraph (480,000), The Times (390,000), the Financial Times (213,000) and The Guardian (170,000).The Telegraph is also eurosceptic. The Times, like The Sun, is owned by Australian tycoon Rupert Murdoch who has made his pro-Brexit views clear on Twitter.Murdoch described UK leader David Cameron’s recent deal on EU reforms as “a nothing”, adding: “How can sensible cabinet colleagues accept this?”The Queen’s influence on public opinion is hard to measure.But her Christmas Day speech last year attracted 7.5 million TV viewers, more than watched popular prime-time shows such as Downton Abbey and Strictly Come Dancing.The UK referendum on EU membership is to take place on 23 June.The Sun noted that the Queen was due to make a big speech in mid-June on the official celebration of her 90th birthday.“Fears are also growing the Queen will come under heavy pressure from No 10 to make a pro-EU intervention … just days before the nationwide vote,” The Sun said.Its story was welcomed by anti-EU British MPs including Jacob Rees Mogg and Steve Baker. Rees Mogg told The Sun that “she [the Queen] is there to protect us from European encroachment”. Baker said: “This is a happy day.”In a survey conducted by British pollster YouGov following Cameron’s EU reform deal in February, those who want to remain in the EU had a slim lead.Some 40 percent said they wanted to stay in the EU, 37 percent wanted to leave, 18 percent did not know and five percent said they did not care.
Trump calls for GOP unity, eyes Ohio and Florida after trouncing rivals in Michigan and Mississippi-By Dylan Stableford-MAR 9,16-YAHOONEWS
On the heels of his sizzling victories in the Mississippi and Michigan primaries and the Hawaii caucuses, Donald Trump is calling for unity in the race for the Republican presidential nomination because the GOP frontrunner believes none of his rivals can catch him.“I would love to see the party come together and unify,” Trump said on CNN’s “New Day” on Wednesday. “I would say at [this] point it’s pretty tough for anybody to do anything.”Not that Trump is planning to shift his strategy of attacking those who attack him.“I am a uniter,” he said. “But I have to finish off the project. You know, I can’t all of a sudden stand there and let people — you know, [Florida Sen.] Marco [Rubio] was very, very nasty to me, I have to tell you. He was very, very nasty to me, and I guess he made a mistake, because I was more nasty to him. You have to finish off what you have to finish off. I can’t say all of a sudden, you know, let them make statements.”But the brash billionaire believes Thursday’s GOP debate won’t be as fiery as most of the others.“I think the debate tomorrow night will be a softer debate,” Trump said. “I really do. I believe it’s going to be a softer debate. I hope it’s going to be a softer debate. I can tell you that I go in much more as a uniter. … I think the wins last night were very, very big ones and very decisive ones.”Although an NBC News/Wall Street Journal national poll had Trump up just three points on Texas Sen. Ted Cruz heading into Tuesday’s GOP contests, he more than tripled that margin in all but one state.The real estate mogul and former “Celebrity Apprentice” star finished 12 points ahead of Cruz in Michigan, 11 points ahead of him in Mississippi and just under 10 points ahead in Hawaii.“If we could embrace this moment as a party, we’re going to win so easily,” Trump said. “We’re going to win Michigan. We’re going to win New York, possibly. We’re going to win areas and states that were never in play before and would never be in play for any of these other candidates. I mean, Ted Cruz cannot win these states.”And according to two new CNN/ORC polls released Wednesday, Trump is leading Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich in their home states. In Florida, Trump has a 16-point advantage (40 percent to 24 percent) over Rubio; in Ohio, Trump’s lead over Kasich (41 percent to 35 percent) is six points, the polls show.“The Democrats can’t beat us,” Trump said. “The only way they’re going to beat us is if we keep fighting so stupidly.”Trump doesn’t think Bernie Sanders’ surprising upset over Hillary Clinton in Michigan is a turning point in the Democratic race.“No, I think she’ll get the nomination, assuming she is allowed to run, which she probably will because the Democrats will make sure nothing happens to her,” he said. “Assuming she is allowed to run legally, I think that, yes, she’ll definitely get the nomination. This is just a bump. But losing Michigan is more than a bump in the general [election], because it says the people don’t want her.”Looking ahead to that general election on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Trump said he would even consider Rubio for his running mate.“Sure,” Trump said. “He’s got a lot of talent. I just don’t want to say that yet.”
Carly Fiorina endorses Ted Cruz for GOP nomination-Michael Walsh-Reporter-March 9, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and GOP candidate Carly Fiorina endorsed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for the Republican presidential nomination Wednesday.The businesswoman-turned-politician spoke out in support of Cruz during a rally at Miami Dade College in Florida. She revealed that she had voted for him last Tuesday in the Virginia primary.“I walked into the ballot box and I looked at the ballot and I saw my own name on the ballot. It was kind of a thrill,” she told the crowd. “But then I checked the box for Ted Cruz, and I’m here to tell you why.”Fiorina praised Cruz as a leader and reformer who would take on the Washington establishment, and she characterized the frontrunners in each party — businessman Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — as beholden to the status quo.“Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are two sides of the same coin,” she said. “They’re not going to reform the system. They are the system.”The former presidential candidate said Clinton has made millions of dollars by selling access and influence from the inside and that Trump has made billions of dollars buying people like her.“We’re going to have to beat Donald Trump at the ballot box, and the only guy who can beat Donald Trump is Ted Cruz,” she said.Fiorina applauded Cruz’s consistency on the issues, saying he’s always been a “constitutional conservative” who didn’t care if he would get “invited to the cocktail parties” in Washington.“Ted Cruz is a fearless fighter for our constitutional rights. He has spent his life protecting Americans’ God-given liberties, and he has always stood by his word,” Fiorina said in a statement. “Unlike the status-quo political class in D.C., Ted Cruz didn’t cower when he got to Washington — he stood unequivocally for the American people. I know Ted, and he’ll do the same as president.”Cruz praised Fiorina as a principled leader and a woman of faith whose voice strengthens his campaign.“Her story embodies the promise that in America anyone can start as a secretary and become a Fortune 50 CEO. Carly speaks the truth with courage, doesn’t back down to the Washington power brokers, and terrifies Hillary and the Democrats,” Cruz said in a statement. “We are blessed to have her support, and together I am confident we will continue to unite conservatives so that every American has the opportunity to achieve the unimaginable.”In early February, Cruz criticized Disney’s ABC and the Republican National Committee for cutting Fiorina from a debate in New Hampshire ahead of the state’s primary. She was the only major candidate still in the race at the time who was not invited to participate, even though she outperformed Ohio Gov. John Kasich and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the Iowa caucuses.The former technology executive thanked Cruz for “standing for the fair debate the American people deserve.”Despite strong debate performances, Fiorina struggled to gain traction for her White House bid in the then-overcrowded GOP field. She suspended her campaign on Feb. 10 after a disappointing finish in New Hampshire.
CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3 (200 MILLION MAN ARMY)
REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THE TURKEY ATATURK DAM ON THE EUPHRATES CAN BE SHUT AND DRIED UP ALREADY BY TURKEY)
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.(ITS AT THIS TIME I BELIEVE WHEN AMERICA GETS NUKED BY RUSSIA ON THE WAY TO THE MIDEAST)
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE-2 billion)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
China, South Korea step up sanctions on North Korea-Reuters By Ju-min Park and Ruby Lian-MAR 9,16-YAHOONEWS
(This version of the story corrects paragraph 20 to data instead of Eikon and adds the dropped word "there")-SEOUL/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has barred a North Korean freighter from one of its ports and South Korea announced a crackdown on individuals and companies linked to Pyongyang's weapons program, stepping up sanctions against the isolated state.North Korean general cargo ship Grand Karo arrived at Rizhao port in northeastern China a few days ago, but the port did not allow the ship to berth, said a person at the Rizhao Maritime Authority, declining to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media.The ship is among 31 vessels blacklisted by China's Ministry of Transport after they were covered by harsher sanctions on North Korea that were approved by the U.N. Security Council last week.At least two other ships on the list of barred freighters are now sailing away after being anchored off Chinese ports, ship tracking data on the Reuters Eikon terminal showed on Tuesday.Another of the vessels has been banned from leaving port in the Philippines until safety deficiencies, found during a security and safety inspection of the vessel, are rectified.The 6,593 deadweight tonne (dwt) Grand Karo is now anchored about 35 km (22 miles) from Rizhao, ship tracking data showed."The vessel operator will have to decide what they can do," the Rizhao maritime official said."If non-sanctioned North Korean ships enter the port, officials will ask senior authorities for instructions on how to deal with them," the official added.In Seoul, the government said on Tuesday it would impose new sanctions against 40 individuals and 30 entities because of suspected links to North Korea's weapons program and would ban vessels that had stopped at North Korean ports in the past 180 days."We will expand financial sanctions related to North Korea, including 38 North Korean individuals and 24 entities responsible for developing weapons of mass destruction, and two individuals and six entities of third countries that have indirectly supported the North," a statement issued jointly by several ministries said.The individuals subject to financial sanctions announced on Tuesday include a Singaporean and a Taiwan national who are heads of a shipping firm and a trading company, the government said.South Korea also blacklisted a Thai shipping firm called Mariner's Shipping & Trading and Taiwan company Royal Team Corporation.South Korea will ban those on the list from engaging in financial transactions with South Korean entities and freeze assets that are held in the country, the government said.-BARRED SHIPS-Officials of Mariner's Shipping & Trading declined comment. One of them referred queries to the Thai foreign ministry and said: "All this has been very bad for us. Very bad for trade."Mariner's Shipping & Trading, with its head office in Bangkok, has operated and financed vessels associated with Ocean Maritime Management Co. Ltd, a North Korean company that has been blacklisted along with the 31 ships it controls.Taiwan's Royal Team Corporation, which is believed to have sold parts that were used in North Korea's long-range rocket launched in 2012, according to a U.N. panel, did not immediately have comment.Nineteen of the 31 ships have their automatic identification systems (AIS), a mandatory vessel tracking safety device, switched off, according to Reuters data. Some have gone silent in the last few days while others have not been online since 2014.One vessel, the 5,686 dwt Hui Chon, is moored at the Russian Far East port of Vostochny. Port officials could not be contacted because it is a public holiday in Russia.Eight vessels are sailing, while there is no record on Reuters and shipping databases of one of the sanctioned ships.The Grand Karo, which was turned away at the Chinese port, is owned by Yuanyao Shipping Ltd and managed by Aoyang Marine Company, two Hong Kong-registered firms, according to Reuters' data and the Equasis shipping database, although there was no telephone number listing for either company.Of the two ships sailing toward North Korea, the 14,379 dwt Dawnlight, now renamed First Gleam, was heading to the port of Wonsan, after being anchored in the outer Yangtze River estuary near Shanghai until early on Tuesday.The 6,901 dwt Ever Bright 88, owned and managed by Hong Kong companies, Pantech Shipping Ltd and Baili Shipping & Trading Ltd, was sailing toward North Korea after being anchored off China.A Shanghai Maritime Bureau official who was only willing to give his surname as Yu confirmed the bureau had received the transport ministry notice but had not dealt with any of the ships.Shanghai Port was unavailable for comment. Maritime safety and port officials in the Chinese ports of Longkou, Yantai and Shandong and Lianyunggang declined to comment.(Additional reporting by Keith Wallis in Singapore, Jack Kim and James Pearson in Seoul, Shanghai Newsroom, Brenda Goh in Shanghai, Amy Lefevre in Bangkok; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)
Amid nuclear spat, US mocks North Korea's 'young dictator'-AFP-MAR 9,16-YAHOONEWS
Washington (AFP) - A US spokesman repeatedly referred to 33-year-old North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's youth Wednesday while warning the "young dictator" against further nuclear provocations.Kim announced Wednesday that his isolated pariah state had successfully miniaturized a thermo-nuclear warhead, an unproven claim but one that will further inflame tensions.Pyongyang carried out a nuclear weapons test in January and a banned missile launch last month, defying threats of tighter international sanctions.State Department spokesman John Kirby issued the now traditional slap down of Kim's "provocative rhetoric" -- but with a new twist, which was mockery of his age."I'd say that the young man needs to pay more attention to the North Korean people and taking care of them than in pursuing these sorts of reckless capabilities," said Kirby.Kirby, a retired admiral who was already commissioned as a US navy officer when Kim was only three years old, could not confirm the claim, but said "we take these comments seriously.""We have to. I mean, this young man has proven that he is perfectly willing and able to flout and to violate his international obligations," he added.Challenged on his repeated use of the term, Kirby said: "Factually, it's true. He's young and he's a man." Then he returned to his theme."But look, clearly, this young dictator continues to violate international obligations and continues to ignore the desperate needs of his own people and continues to increase the tensions of the peninsula rather than work to decrease the tensions," he said.While it may be impossible to know whether the State Department's tactic will succeed in getting under the young leader's skin, North Korea does like to employ its own rhetorical flourishes.Threatening to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike this week, state news agency KCNA warned: "If we push the buttons to annihilate the enemies even right now, all bases of provocations will be reduced to seas of flames and ashes in a moment."
NKorea to "liquidate" SKorea assets, fires missiles into sea-Associated Press By HYUNG-JIN KIM-MAR 9,16-YAHOONEWS
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is responding to Seoul's unilateral sanctions, saying it will "liquidate" all remaining South Korean assets at former cooperative projects in the North.The statement Thursday follows the North's firing of short-range missiles, likely in anger over U.S.-South Korean war games. It also comes a day after the North released photos of leader Kim Jong Un standing beside what appears to be a nuclear warhead mock-up.The North said it will "liquidate" South Korean assets at the closed Kaesong factory park and the scrapped tourism resort at Diamond Mountain.In a continuation of violent rhetoric that has spiked in recent weeks, it said it will take a series of unspecified steps to impose "lethal" military, political and economic blows on the South Korean government to accelerate its "pitiable demise."
North Korea fires two short-range missiles into sea: South Korea-Reuters-MAR 9,16-YAHOONEWS
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast city of Wonsan early on Thursday, flying approximately 500 km (300 miles), South Korea's military said.North Korea has a large stockpile of short-range missiles and is developing long-range and intercontinental missiles.Reports of the missiles being fired coincide with already heightened tension on the Korean peninsula after the North conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and launched a long-range rocket last month, leading to new U.N. Security Council and bilateral U.S. sanctions.The North fired six rockets into the sea last week using a multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) from Wonsan, supervised by leader Kim Jong Un who ordered his military to be prepared to launch pre-emptive attacks against enemies.Kim said on Wednesday his country has miniaturized nuclear warheads to mount on ballistic missiles and ordered improvements in the power and precision of its arsenal in his first direct comment about nuclear warhead miniaturization.State Department spokesman John Kirby declined to comment on Kim's claim to have miniaturized nuclear warheads and accused him of "provocative rhetoric.""I'd say the young man needs to pay more attention to the North Korean people and taking care of them than in pursuing these sorts of reckless capabilities," Kirby said.The Pentagon said this week it had not seen North Korea demonstrate a capability to miniaturize a nuclear warhead. But Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said the department was working on U.S. ballistic missile defenses to be prepared.North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test on Jan. 6 but its claim to have set off a miniaturized hydrogen bomb has been disputed by the U.S. and South Korean governments and many experts.U.S. and South Korean troops began large-scale military drills this week, which the North called "nuclear war moves" and threatened to respond with an all-out offensive.(Reporting by Jack Kim and Ju-min Park in Seoul and David Brunnstrom and David Alexander in Washington; Editing by Grant McCool)
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.
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-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) 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)
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)
Fears grow on alternative migrant routes in Europe By Eszter Zalan-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, 9. Mar, 19:32-Fears are growing that migrants and refugees will try to enter the EU via Albania and the Adriatic Sea after Europe on Wednesday (9 March) closed the Western Balkan corridor.There is no sign yet of a build-up of people on the Albanian-Greek border.But Albania, a Nato member and EU aspirant with a population of less than 3 million, could be a gateway to Italy.“We have to collectively look at all the possible consequences of the envisaged agreement between the EU and Turkey, and prepare for them, including the issue of alternative routes,” a senior EU official told press in Brussels on Wednesday, referring to an EU-Turkey deal to close the Western Balkan path.EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said: “There is always the possibility that this flow could be diverted in other directions if the Balkan route is closed. For the moment it is not the case.”“All countries in the region are well prepared even for this likelihood. But for the moment there is no sign that migratory flows are diverted towards either Albania or other countries in the region,” he said.According to Frontex, the EU’s border agency in Warsaw, just 8,932 people crossed the Greek-Albanian border illegaly last year. Most of them were Albanians.Western Balkan leaders, including from Albania and Bulgaria, were expected to discuss the issue in their weekly video conference.EU home affairs ministers, who are to meet in Brussels on Thursday, are also expected to touch on the question of alternative routes.According to local media, Albanian authorities have already drawn up plans to provide reception centres for 10,000 Syrian refugees in the towns of Korca and Gjirokastra, near the border with Greece.The UN's refugee agency, the UNHCR also said it is working on contingency plans.The UNHCR, the Albanian government and local NGOs are looking at infrastructural needs and possible processing sites in Kakavia and Kapstice, also near Albania’s border with Greece.The EU official said the possibility of novel routes is not a reason to abandon plans to stop the primary “leak” through the Greek border to Macedonia.The EU is closely monitoring migrant flows, the official said.Some migrants have also begun arriving to Europe from Russia in recent months, with EU diplomats suggesting that Russia is facilitating the development.An EU source said that Russian border authorities had previously kept a tight grip on border security.-‘Sultan Erdogan’-Meanwhile, MEPs in Strasbourg on Wednesday criticised the EU-Turkey accord. International human rights organisations have also said it goes against international and EU law.Guy Verhofstadt, the head of the Liberal group in the European Parliament, said it’s “a deal in which we are giving, in fact, the entrance keys, the keys to the gates of Europe, into the hands of Turkey, of the successors of the Ottoman Empire, to Erdogan, I should even say maybe to Sultan Erdogan.”Manfred Weber, the leader of the biggest group, the centre-right European People's Party, said that the EU should not give a "blank cheque" to Turkey.Weber also said Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s seizure of the country’s leading opposition newspaper, Zaman, last week was “unaccpetable.”The Turkey deal was agreed politically by EU leaders and Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu in Brussels on Monday.Home affairs ministers are to discuss details of the plan, which is to be adopted formally by EU leaders at another summit next week.The Greek migration minister will also brief colleagues on new bilateral accords signed by Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras and Davutoglu in Turkey on Tuesday.The bilateral arrangements are designed to make it easier to return migrants to Turkey.Sources said some ministers are concerned by Erdogan’s crackdown on civil liberties and could bring up the Zaman issue in Thursday’s talks.
Greece and Turkey intensify joint work on migrants By Eszter Zalan-MAR 9,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:30-Greece and Turkey have promised to cooperate on a plan to send back migrants from Europe, agreed by EU leaders on Tuesday.The EU deal, which includes €3 billion for Turkey, visa liberalisation for its citizens by the summer, and the opening of accession chapters, is still to be fully endorsed at another summit next week.Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras met his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu in Izmir on Tuesday and signed several agreements to pave the way for the EU-Turkey deal to work.Tsipras told a joint news conference that the EU deal “sends a clear message to migrants coming from third countries, rather than countries at war ... that there is neither the political will nor the ability to cross to Europe”.“This is the reality we ought to sincerely convey to them in order to stop, to reduce, this unbearable flow for our countries."So far this year more than 130,000 migrants and refugees have travelled to the Greek islands from the Turkish coast.As NATO warships started to patrol the Aegean Sea to locate boats carrying migrants, Tsipras also said the two countries would step up efforts to tackle people smugglers.Davutoglu added: "The aim here is to discourage irregular migration and ... to recognise those Syrians in our camps who the EU will accept – though we will not force anyone to go against their will – on legal routes."-'Death blow' to asylum-In the meantime, Slovenia and Croatia said starting from Wednesday they would refuse to allow many migrants to travel through their countries.The Slovenian interior ministry said in a statement that only those who wanted to claim asylum in Slovenia or wanted to enter for humanitarian reasons would be allowed entry.They would be assessed on a case-by-case basis, the ministry said.“The irregular flows of migrants on the Western Balkan route has now come to an end,” Slovenian prime minister Miro Cerar said.Only about 460 of the almost 478,000 migrants who have passed through Slovenia since last October asked for international protection in Slovenia, Reuters reported.Neighbouring Croatia also said it would now allow in only refugees with proper visas.“The border of Europe will be on the Macedonia-Greek frontier,” interior minister Vlaho Orepic said in a television interview.The decisions effectively seal off the Balkan route used by hundreds of thousands of migrants.Serbia's interior ministry responded by saying they would also restrict entry, adding that the country “cannot allow itself to become a collective centre for refugees”.The increasing restrictions on travel have helped to strand some 36,000 people who were trying to cross from Greece into Macedonia.The EU said the deal with Turkey was aimed at discouraging migrants and refugees from undertaking perilous journeys, but it was criticised by the UN and other international organisations.The UN Refugee Agency is concerned that the blanket return of asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey breaches international and EU law.Casting further down on the deal’s legality, human rights group Amnesty International said the plan “dealt a death blow to the right to seek asylum”.The EU Commission said the deal was in line with international obligations.
UN 'deeply concerned' by EU-Turkey plan By Nikolaj Nielsen-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, 8. Mar, 18:39-Plans by the EU and Turkey to expel anyone, including Syrians, who used smugglers to reach Greece is stoking widespread criticism."I am deeply concerned about any arrangement that would involve the blanket return of anyone," the UN High commissioner for refugees Filippo Grandi told MEPs in Strasbourg on Tuesday (8 March) .He said refugee safeguards under international law must be clearly spelled out, posing larger questions over an in-principle deal between the EU and Turkey agreed at a summit in Brussels on Monday.The proposal hinges on designating Turkey as a safe third country of origin.But watchdog groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch accuse Turkey of pushing back Syrians fleeing war back into Syria. It faces even worse accusations on the rights of Kurds.Turkey is also the only country in the world that applies a “geographical limitation” on asylum seekers. Despite having ratified the 1951 Geneva convention, Turkey will only grant full refugee protection status to Europeans.It means the vast majority of Syrians in Turkey are instead given a “temporary protection" status that bars them from long-term integration.Regardless of Turkey's patchwork application of the Geneva convention, the European Commission says the deal will comply with European and international law."You can be sure about that," commission spokesman Alexander Winterstein told reporters on Tuesday.Turkey already hosts some 2.7 million Syrian refugees. The war in Syria will enter its sixth year next week amid a shaky ceasefire but without any durable solution in sight.Renewed fighting in Iraq displaced 3.3 million last year. The country, along with Pakistan, hosts over 2 million Afghan refugees. Afghanistan is also dealing with its own internally displaced people, with 31 out of its 34 provinces locked in conflict.After Syrians, Iraqi and Afghans top the inflow figures into Europe.But both Iraqi and Afghans have been sidelined in the plan to resettle one refugee from Turkey for each one rejected applicant sent back from Europe.Europe's attempt to outsource the problem to Turkey is, in part, seen as a last-ditch solution given the lack of coordination and broad disagreements that has divided EU states for over a year.Grandi also refuted earlier claims by commission vice-president Frans Timmermans that 60 percent of the arrivals were economic migrants."This has been and essentially remains a refugee movement," he said.Around 138,000 people have arrived in southern Europe to seek asylum since the start of the year. The vast majority, over 88 percent, come from the top 10 refugee producing countries.Two-thirds are women and children - a 41 percent increase compared to last year, detailed Grandi on Tuesday, which was by coincidence international women's day.Exposed to violence and sexual abuse by smugglers and others, many are left to fend for themselves as they are forced to sleep in rough in parks, along roadways, and at bus stops and train stations.Around 35,000 people are now stuck in Greece following moves by Austria to clamp down on borders along the Western Balkan route.At the camp at Idomeni, on Greece’s border with Macedonia, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding. Some 14,000 are trapped and living in mud and squalor.Doctors Without Borders is treating thousands, including infants and pregnant women, for related illnesses.The lack of legal routes to Europe for the vast majority of people fleeing war in Syria and elsewhere, has in part, forced large numbers to seek help from smugglers. Some 82 suspected smugglers have been arrested near the Greek islands since the start of the year. Turkey says it arrested 300 more.The risks of exploitation are great. An estimated 10,000 refugee children are missing, with authorities fearing criminal gangs may be exploiting a large number for sex work and slave labour.
Local elections to test Merkel on refugees By Peter Teffer-EUOBSERVER
Offenburg, Germany, 9. Mar, 09:30-Two men in an excavator and a tractor were digging on Tuesday (8 March) at a former tennis club in the south-western German city Offenburg.“Waterworks,” one of them said. The site - the size of six tennis courts - is being prepared to house 500 refugees in container-buildings.A snow-covered umpire chair and some signs are the only reminders of the site's previous function.A stone's throw away - or a decent tennis serve - Willy Verderio was doing his own construction. The retired German, born from an Italian father, was making the shed in his allotment spring-ready.He had a nuanced view on the new function of the site, which is close to a residential area.“We have to be vigilant”, Verderio said. He told this website many residents are afraid, noting that “young men” will be present among the refugees.Just two months ago Germany was shocked by mass harassment of women during New Year's Eve celebrations, especially in Cologne. Some of the suspects were asylum seekers or other migrants.Verderio is not in principle opposed to the refugee container village. In fact, he and his wife organise a weekly event in which they distribute second-hand clothes to refugees.“Let's see how it goes and hope for the best,” he said.He had a similar assessment of chancellor Angela Merkel's refugee policy, which has become known in Europe under the German phrase “Wir schaffen das”, meaning “We can do this.”“She thinks she can do this, but we'll have to see,” said Verderio. He said he won’t be voting for Merkel's centre-right CDU party in Sunday's local election, but rather for the centre-left social-democrats.-Super Sunday-On 13 March, there will be elections in three of Germany's 16 states: Baden-Wuerttemberg (where Offenburg is located), Rhineland-Palatinate, and Saxony-Anhalt.Together, they have 17 million of Germany's 81.5 million inhabitants. But the elections will be scrutinised for signs of a voters' assessment of Merkel's refugee policy.The anti-immigration and anti-euro party Alternative fuer Deutschland (Alternative for Germany; AfD) is expected to score a big win.“The refugee issue is of course a dominating theme,” said Michael Braun, who leads the CDU's election campaign in the Ortenau district of Offenburg.“The actual themes, the state politics of Baden-Wuerttemberg, are somewhat pushed to the background, unfortunately,” he told this website in the CDU's local office, on the other side of town from the tennis court.Offenburg's pride is that Wolfgang Schaeuble, the German finance minister, represents the constituency in the Lower House of the German parliament in Berlin.Last year, he burst on the international scene as the principal antagonist of his Greek counterpart Yanis Varoufakis.During the height of the Greek debt crisis last summer, Schaeuble, a pro-austerity hawk, became more popular than Merkel.But his star power is likely to have faded, Braun said.“Dr Schaeuble is of course a very respected politician, but the refugee issue eclipses all other themes,” Braun told EUobserver.“The refugee policy has also arrived in our state's territory - it is not only a theme in the main cities.”Braun said he still believes in “Wir schaffen das.” But he said that some voters are being lured away “by radical slogans”, referring to Alternative fuer Deutschland.Founded in 2013, the new party passed the electoral threshold for the first time the following year, in the European Parliament elections.Five of its seven MEPs later quit to make another new party, but AfD also scored subsequent electoral successes in state elections in 2015.On Sunday (6 March), it received the largest share of votes yet: 13.2 percent, if initial results for municipal elections in Hesse are confirmed on Thursday. In the state's largest city, Frankfurt, it received 10 percent of the votes.Braun said that those votes are a good indication for the upcoming state elections, but he noted that more than half of the voters were still undecided, and that local and state elections are two different animals.“The AfD will take away the most votes from CDU”, he said.-Crumbling powers-AfD's leader Frauke Petry told German press that the double-digit result last Sunday was a “clear signal”.“The power of established parties is crumbling,” Petry said.In Baden-Wuertemberg the question will be if AfD can secure third place.According to a poll by the Insa Institute, the Green party is ahead with 33.5 percent of the votes, followed by the CDU on 28.5 percent. The social-democrats and AfD both poll at 12.5 percent, with the liberals at 6 percent.It is highly unlikely the AfD will be considered by any of the other parties as a coalition partner. But a good result for AfD might force establishment parties to enter a grand coalition.For his part, Braun said the CDU is unlikely to enter into a coalition with the greens, even if they are the largest party. He instead expected his party to negotiate with the social-democrats and liberals.Elsewhere in Offenburg, Ilse Herberg said she does not expect a landslide for AfD in her state.“They will have a better result than last time, but will not do as well as in Frankfurt. People are more rooted here,” she told this website, while registering clients for Offenburger Tafel, a non-profit organisation that sells food at discount prices to poor members of the community.Once a week those that can prove they have little to spend can buy donated groceries at the Offenburger Tafel for about 15 percent of their normal retail price.A sign tells people what is available that week also notes how much of each products customers are allowed to buy: 10 zucchinis, six yoghurt, four packs of pasta, and one loaf of bread.Herberg said more refugees are lately coming to her charity shop.“I can only speak for Offenburg,” she said. “If every city is as well-organised as Offenburg - schaffen wir es.”
Indian teenager dies after being raped and set on fire-AFP-MAR 9,16-YAHOONEWS
A 16-year-old Indian girl who was raped and then set on fire on the roof of her home has died, police said Wednesday, the latest in a string of horrific sexual crimes in India.The teenager, who sustained more than 90 percent burns in Monday's attack, died in hospital early Wednesday, the investigating officer told AFP."Unfortunately she could not be saved despite the best efforts of the medical staff," said Ashwani Kumar."We have arrested the accused, who is 19 years old and sent him to judicial custody."An investigation is on to find out more about the motive and details of the crime," he said.The accused has been charged with a slew of offences including rape and murder, Kumar said."The body has been sent for postmortem. We are waiting for the report."Media reports quoted the girl's father as saying the suspect lived nearby in their village in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and that he had been harassing his daughter for a year despite several warnings.Women's rights activists accuse police of often overlooking complaints of stalking, which they say only emboldens the perpetrators.The fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in Delhi in 2012 shone a global spotlight on the frightening levels of violence against women in India.Her death from injuries sustained during the brutal assault sparked some of the biggest demonstrations in India's recent history, which intensified after being broken up by heavy-handed police tactics.It triggered deep soul-searching about the treatment of women in a country where rape victims are often stigmatised and frequently pressured by police and relatives to drop allegations.It also led to major reform of India's rape laws, including speeding up of trials and increased penalties for offenders, but high numbers of assaults persist.Last month, police arrested two men for shooting dead a 14-year-old girl who resisted their advances in Uttar Pradesh state.Also in February, a teenage rape victim was sexually assaulted for a second time while in hospital receiving treatment for the initial attack in eastern Jharkhand state.
IS commander 'Omar the Chechen' survived US strike: monitor-AFP-MAR 9,16-YAHOONEWS
Beirut (AFP) - Top Islamic State commander leader Omar al-Shishani, known as Omar the Chechen, was "seriously injured" in a recent US strike in northeastern Syria but not killed, a monitoring group said Wednesday, after a US official said the militant had "likely died" in the assault.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that according to its sources the March 4 strike had indeed targeted the jihadist's convoy, killing his bodyguards, while he himself "was seriously injured"."He's not dead," the Observatory's director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP."He was taken from the province of Hasake to a hospital in Raqa province where he was treated by a jihadist doctor of European origin," he said. Raqa is IS's main stronghold.The United States has stopped short of declaring Shishani dead, but a US official speaking on condition of anonymity said Shishani "likely died" in the assault by waves of US warplanes and drones, along with 12 other IS fighters.The US official branded Shishani "the ISIL equivalent of the secretary of defence," using another acronym for the group.Shishani was one of the IS leaders most wanted by Washington which put a $5 million bounty on his head.The lack of a US presence on the ground makes it difficult to assess the success of operations targeting militants in Syria, and Shishani's death has been falsely reported several times.Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook on Tuesday described Shishani as "a battle-tested leader with experience who had led ISIL (IS) fighters in numerous engagements in Iraq and Syria."The March 4 strikes took place near Al-Shadadi, a town in northeastern Syria that was retaken from IS last month by local anti-IS fighters allied with the US-led coalition.
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)
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
Opinion-The EU in Limbo By Gareth Harding-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, 9. Mar, 14:00-“They say there’s enough religion in the world to make men hate each other, but not enough to make them love,” says Louis Cyphre, the devilish character played by Robert de Niro in the 1987 thriller Angel Heart.Substitute “religion” with “EU” and you get to the heart of the predicament the European Union faces.The EU interferes just enough in national affairs to make large numbers of Europeans loathe it and not enough to make its supporters love it. So it remains stuck in limbo, trapped in a political no-man’s land between a traditional nation state and a supercharged international organisation.It lacks the power to do most of the things states do – tax its citizens, control its borders, protect its people from attack – but it intervenes enough in its members’ affairs to make it an easy scapegoat for those fearing the erosion of sovereignty.The result is a Union that is failing to meet the goals it sets itself and the expectations most Europeans have of it.Unemployment levels are stratospheric, growth is anaemic and the euro often centimes short of collapsing. Its migration policy is immoral, mean-spirited and shambolic. And it possesses neither the soft power to persuade countries like Turkey to stop its slide towards despotism nor the hard power to confront bullies like Russia.-A glorified think-tank-If the EU had limited aims, like Nafta or the WTO, none of this would matter. But the Union has such lofty ambitions coupled with such puny resources that it is almost predestined for failure.Take growth and jobs. Creating more of both has been the EU’s central goal for most of the last decade. It has failed – not because the prescriptions doled out at every EU summit are wrong, but because it has no way of funding or enforcing them.With a budget of 1% of the total GDP of the 28-member bloc and little control over states’ employment policy, levels of taxation or social security spending, the EU is in danger of becoming little more than a glorified think-tank when it comes to implementing the sort of changes that Europe so desperately needs.So whether Europe grows and creates jobs has little to do with the EU and everything to do with the policies pursued by its member states. Likewise, whether Egypt becomes more democratic or Russia less bellicose has almost nothing to do with what EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini thinks.Far from being “big on big things and small on small things”, as European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker promised at the start of his mandate, the EU is in danger of being the opposite – hyperactive on issues that matter little to people and invisible on those they care most about.-Three options-So what can be done to save the Union? There are basically three options, none of them particularly palatable.Firstly, the EU can muddle on as it is doing now. For all the reasons mentioned above, nobody thinks this is a good idea. Not even the British. "If it’s broke, don’t fix it" is hardly the most mature response to the existential crisis the EU currently finds itself in.The second option is for the EU to evolve into a sort of United States of Europe with a common budget, government, army and tax-raising powers. This seems to be the preferred option among the dwindling army of federalists in Brussels and in the original six founding members of the Union – whose foreign ministers met in Rome last month to discuss ways of intensifying bonds within their club.Further integration is the most logical option. It would save both the euro and Schengen – at least momentarily – and would put an end to the buck-passing of responsibility for Europe’s failures that currently takes place between Brussels and national capitals.The big problem is that many EU states and most European people do not want further integration. They want control of their own borders and economic policies. They don’t want to be told to take more refugees against their will. And they resent the fact that Brussels now decides national budgets not elected politicians in their own countries.So pursuing ever closer union, while attractive, is fraught with risks. It would make the EU more cohesive but almost certainly less popular.It might save the euro but the cost would be a nativist revolt against the loss of sovereignty this requires – a populist rebellion well under way in states from Greece to Slovakia to Finland.Finally, it risks splintering the EU even further into a hard-core of countries willing to embark on a political union – roughly the founding six and a handful of other eurozone stragglers – and a group of northern and central European states that would keep their national currencies but still be part of the free trade area.This would no longer be a European Union but two radically different European clubs with radically different aims and policies.-Less Europe-The third option, which few have advocated because it would entail a massive climbdown for the Union, would be for EU states to confess that the euro has not brought jobs, growth or stability to Europe and that further integration has resulted in greater disillusionment with the EU.Abandoning the euro and allowing states to pursue the social and economic policies voted for by their electorates would free many states from the straitjacket they see imposed on them by Brussels.Likewise, overhauling the EU budget to foster cross-border cooperation rather than prop up farmers or promote pork projects in poorer states and regions would be more in keeping with the original aims of the Union.“Less Europe” might not be a popular cry in the corridors of Brussels. But focusing on the core goals of the Union – removing barriers to trade, stopping cross-border threats like air pollution, terrorism and people-smuggling, and removing transport and energy bottlenecks between borders – might be the best way to retain some Europe.Having more EU is the surest way to no Europe.Gareth Harding is Managing Director of Clear Europe, a communications company. He also runs the Missouri School of Journalism's Brussels Programme. Follow him on Twitter @garethharding.
Tabloid says Queen wants UK to leave EU By Andrew Rettman-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, 9. Mar, 09:25-Britain’s top-selling tabloid has said Queen Elizabeth II wants the UK to leave the EU, in a report denied by her office and by the politician to whom she's said to have spoken.The Sun's front page splash on Wednesday (9 March) ran with the headline Queen Backs Brexit.It said she had made pro-Brexit remarks on two occasions: at a lunch in Windsor Castle with the then deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and at a reception with MPs in Buckingham Palace.She reportedly told Clegg that the EU was “heading in the wrong direction” in remarks that The Sun described as a “stinging reprimand” that went on for “quite a while” and left her lunch guests "stunned".She reportedly told MPs on the second occasion: "“I don’t understand Europe." The Sun said the 89-year old monarch “snapped angrily” and spoke with “venom and emotion”.“We would … not be taking the big step in reporting them [her comments] if they had not come from two different and impeccably placed sources,” The Sun said.Reacting to the story, the Buckingham Palace press office said: “The Queen remains politically neutral as she has for 63 years."The referendum is a matter for the British people to decide."Clegg said on Twitter: “I told the [Sun] journalist this is nonsense. I've no recollection of this happening and it’s not the sort of thing I would forget.”But The Sun said neither response had "expressly denied" the truth of its report.The Sun is the UK’s top selling paper. Its average daily circulation in March last year was 1.9 million, according to UK media monitor the Audit Bureau of Circulation. But its popularity fell 10 percent after it stopped printing pictures of topless models.The UK’s second biggest selling paper, The Daily Mail, on 1.6 million, is also strongly eurosceptic.Their readership is much higher than that of leading broadsheets The Daily Telegraph (480,000), The Times (390,000), the Financial Times (213,000) and The Guardian (170,000).The Telegraph is also eurosceptic. The Times, like The Sun, is owned by Australian tycoon Rupert Murdoch who has made his pro-Brexit views clear on Twitter.Murdoch described UK leader David Cameron’s recent deal on EU reforms as “a nothing”, adding: “How can sensible cabinet colleagues accept this?”The Queen’s influence on public opinion is hard to measure.But her Christmas Day speech last year attracted 7.5 million TV viewers, more than watched popular prime-time shows such as Downton Abbey and Strictly Come Dancing.The UK referendum on EU membership is to take place on 23 June.The Sun noted that the Queen was due to make a big speech in mid-June on the official celebration of her 90th birthday.“Fears are also growing the Queen will come under heavy pressure from No 10 to make a pro-EU intervention … just days before the nationwide vote,” The Sun said.Its story was welcomed by anti-EU British MPs including Jacob Rees Mogg and Steve Baker. Rees Mogg told The Sun that “she [the Queen] is there to protect us from European encroachment”. Baker said: “This is a happy day.”In a survey conducted by British pollster YouGov following Cameron’s EU reform deal in February, those who want to remain in the EU had a slim lead.Some 40 percent said they wanted to stay in the EU, 37 percent wanted to leave, 18 percent did not know and five percent said they did not care.
Trump calls for GOP unity, eyes Ohio and Florida after trouncing rivals in Michigan and Mississippi-By Dylan Stableford-MAR 9,16-YAHOONEWS
On the heels of his sizzling victories in the Mississippi and Michigan primaries and the Hawaii caucuses, Donald Trump is calling for unity in the race for the Republican presidential nomination because the GOP frontrunner believes none of his rivals can catch him.“I would love to see the party come together and unify,” Trump said on CNN’s “New Day” on Wednesday. “I would say at [this] point it’s pretty tough for anybody to do anything.”Not that Trump is planning to shift his strategy of attacking those who attack him.“I am a uniter,” he said. “But I have to finish off the project. You know, I can’t all of a sudden stand there and let people — you know, [Florida Sen.] Marco [Rubio] was very, very nasty to me, I have to tell you. He was very, very nasty to me, and I guess he made a mistake, because I was more nasty to him. You have to finish off what you have to finish off. I can’t say all of a sudden, you know, let them make statements.”But the brash billionaire believes Thursday’s GOP debate won’t be as fiery as most of the others.“I think the debate tomorrow night will be a softer debate,” Trump said. “I really do. I believe it’s going to be a softer debate. I hope it’s going to be a softer debate. I can tell you that I go in much more as a uniter. … I think the wins last night were very, very big ones and very decisive ones.”Although an NBC News/Wall Street Journal national poll had Trump up just three points on Texas Sen. Ted Cruz heading into Tuesday’s GOP contests, he more than tripled that margin in all but one state.The real estate mogul and former “Celebrity Apprentice” star finished 12 points ahead of Cruz in Michigan, 11 points ahead of him in Mississippi and just under 10 points ahead in Hawaii.“If we could embrace this moment as a party, we’re going to win so easily,” Trump said. “We’re going to win Michigan. We’re going to win New York, possibly. We’re going to win areas and states that were never in play before and would never be in play for any of these other candidates. I mean, Ted Cruz cannot win these states.”And according to two new CNN/ORC polls released Wednesday, Trump is leading Rubio and Ohio Gov. John Kasich in their home states. In Florida, Trump has a 16-point advantage (40 percent to 24 percent) over Rubio; in Ohio, Trump’s lead over Kasich (41 percent to 35 percent) is six points, the polls show.“The Democrats can’t beat us,” Trump said. “The only way they’re going to beat us is if we keep fighting so stupidly.”Trump doesn’t think Bernie Sanders’ surprising upset over Hillary Clinton in Michigan is a turning point in the Democratic race.“No, I think she’ll get the nomination, assuming she is allowed to run, which she probably will because the Democrats will make sure nothing happens to her,” he said. “Assuming she is allowed to run legally, I think that, yes, she’ll definitely get the nomination. This is just a bump. But losing Michigan is more than a bump in the general [election], because it says the people don’t want her.”Looking ahead to that general election on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Trump said he would even consider Rubio for his running mate.“Sure,” Trump said. “He’s got a lot of talent. I just don’t want to say that yet.”
Carly Fiorina endorses Ted Cruz for GOP nomination-Michael Walsh-Reporter-March 9, 2016-YAHOONEWS
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and GOP candidate Carly Fiorina endorsed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for the Republican presidential nomination Wednesday.The businesswoman-turned-politician spoke out in support of Cruz during a rally at Miami Dade College in Florida. She revealed that she had voted for him last Tuesday in the Virginia primary.“I walked into the ballot box and I looked at the ballot and I saw my own name on the ballot. It was kind of a thrill,” she told the crowd. “But then I checked the box for Ted Cruz, and I’m here to tell you why.”Fiorina praised Cruz as a leader and reformer who would take on the Washington establishment, and she characterized the frontrunners in each party — businessman Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — as beholden to the status quo.“Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are two sides of the same coin,” she said. “They’re not going to reform the system. They are the system.”The former presidential candidate said Clinton has made millions of dollars by selling access and influence from the inside and that Trump has made billions of dollars buying people like her.“We’re going to have to beat Donald Trump at the ballot box, and the only guy who can beat Donald Trump is Ted Cruz,” she said.Fiorina applauded Cruz’s consistency on the issues, saying he’s always been a “constitutional conservative” who didn’t care if he would get “invited to the cocktail parties” in Washington.“Ted Cruz is a fearless fighter for our constitutional rights. He has spent his life protecting Americans’ God-given liberties, and he has always stood by his word,” Fiorina said in a statement. “Unlike the status-quo political class in D.C., Ted Cruz didn’t cower when he got to Washington — he stood unequivocally for the American people. I know Ted, and he’ll do the same as president.”Cruz praised Fiorina as a principled leader and a woman of faith whose voice strengthens his campaign.“Her story embodies the promise that in America anyone can start as a secretary and become a Fortune 50 CEO. Carly speaks the truth with courage, doesn’t back down to the Washington power brokers, and terrifies Hillary and the Democrats,” Cruz said in a statement. “We are blessed to have her support, and together I am confident we will continue to unite conservatives so that every American has the opportunity to achieve the unimaginable.”In early February, Cruz criticized Disney’s ABC and the Republican National Committee for cutting Fiorina from a debate in New Hampshire ahead of the state’s primary. She was the only major candidate still in the race at the time who was not invited to participate, even though she outperformed Ohio Gov. John Kasich and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the Iowa caucuses.The former technology executive thanked Cruz for “standing for the fair debate the American people deserve.”Despite strong debate performances, Fiorina struggled to gain traction for her White House bid in the then-overcrowded GOP field. She suspended her campaign on Feb. 10 after a disappointing finish in New Hampshire.
CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3 (200 MILLION MAN ARMY)
REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THE TURKEY ATATURK DAM ON THE EUPHRATES CAN BE SHUT AND DRIED UP ALREADY BY TURKEY)
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.(ITS AT THIS TIME I BELIEVE WHEN AMERICA GETS NUKED BY RUSSIA ON THE WAY TO THE MIDEAST)
DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE-2 billion)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
China, South Korea step up sanctions on North Korea-Reuters By Ju-min Park and Ruby Lian-MAR 9,16-YAHOONEWS
(This version of the story corrects paragraph 20 to data instead of Eikon and adds the dropped word "there")-SEOUL/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has barred a North Korean freighter from one of its ports and South Korea announced a crackdown on individuals and companies linked to Pyongyang's weapons program, stepping up sanctions against the isolated state.North Korean general cargo ship Grand Karo arrived at Rizhao port in northeastern China a few days ago, but the port did not allow the ship to berth, said a person at the Rizhao Maritime Authority, declining to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media.The ship is among 31 vessels blacklisted by China's Ministry of Transport after they were covered by harsher sanctions on North Korea that were approved by the U.N. Security Council last week.At least two other ships on the list of barred freighters are now sailing away after being anchored off Chinese ports, ship tracking data on the Reuters Eikon terminal showed on Tuesday.Another of the vessels has been banned from leaving port in the Philippines until safety deficiencies, found during a security and safety inspection of the vessel, are rectified.The 6,593 deadweight tonne (dwt) Grand Karo is now anchored about 35 km (22 miles) from Rizhao, ship tracking data showed."The vessel operator will have to decide what they can do," the Rizhao maritime official said."If non-sanctioned North Korean ships enter the port, officials will ask senior authorities for instructions on how to deal with them," the official added.In Seoul, the government said on Tuesday it would impose new sanctions against 40 individuals and 30 entities because of suspected links to North Korea's weapons program and would ban vessels that had stopped at North Korean ports in the past 180 days."We will expand financial sanctions related to North Korea, including 38 North Korean individuals and 24 entities responsible for developing weapons of mass destruction, and two individuals and six entities of third countries that have indirectly supported the North," a statement issued jointly by several ministries said.The individuals subject to financial sanctions announced on Tuesday include a Singaporean and a Taiwan national who are heads of a shipping firm and a trading company, the government said.South Korea also blacklisted a Thai shipping firm called Mariner's Shipping & Trading and Taiwan company Royal Team Corporation.South Korea will ban those on the list from engaging in financial transactions with South Korean entities and freeze assets that are held in the country, the government said.-BARRED SHIPS-Officials of Mariner's Shipping & Trading declined comment. One of them referred queries to the Thai foreign ministry and said: "All this has been very bad for us. Very bad for trade."Mariner's Shipping & Trading, with its head office in Bangkok, has operated and financed vessels associated with Ocean Maritime Management Co. Ltd, a North Korean company that has been blacklisted along with the 31 ships it controls.Taiwan's Royal Team Corporation, which is believed to have sold parts that were used in North Korea's long-range rocket launched in 2012, according to a U.N. panel, did not immediately have comment.Nineteen of the 31 ships have their automatic identification systems (AIS), a mandatory vessel tracking safety device, switched off, according to Reuters data. Some have gone silent in the last few days while others have not been online since 2014.One vessel, the 5,686 dwt Hui Chon, is moored at the Russian Far East port of Vostochny. Port officials could not be contacted because it is a public holiday in Russia.Eight vessels are sailing, while there is no record on Reuters and shipping databases of one of the sanctioned ships.The Grand Karo, which was turned away at the Chinese port, is owned by Yuanyao Shipping Ltd and managed by Aoyang Marine Company, two Hong Kong-registered firms, according to Reuters' data and the Equasis shipping database, although there was no telephone number listing for either company.Of the two ships sailing toward North Korea, the 14,379 dwt Dawnlight, now renamed First Gleam, was heading to the port of Wonsan, after being anchored in the outer Yangtze River estuary near Shanghai until early on Tuesday.The 6,901 dwt Ever Bright 88, owned and managed by Hong Kong companies, Pantech Shipping Ltd and Baili Shipping & Trading Ltd, was sailing toward North Korea after being anchored off China.A Shanghai Maritime Bureau official who was only willing to give his surname as Yu confirmed the bureau had received the transport ministry notice but had not dealt with any of the ships.Shanghai Port was unavailable for comment. Maritime safety and port officials in the Chinese ports of Longkou, Yantai and Shandong and Lianyunggang declined to comment.(Additional reporting by Keith Wallis in Singapore, Jack Kim and James Pearson in Seoul, Shanghai Newsroom, Brenda Goh in Shanghai, Amy Lefevre in Bangkok; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)
Amid nuclear spat, US mocks North Korea's 'young dictator'-AFP-MAR 9,16-YAHOONEWS
Washington (AFP) - A US spokesman repeatedly referred to 33-year-old North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's youth Wednesday while warning the "young dictator" against further nuclear provocations.Kim announced Wednesday that his isolated pariah state had successfully miniaturized a thermo-nuclear warhead, an unproven claim but one that will further inflame tensions.Pyongyang carried out a nuclear weapons test in January and a banned missile launch last month, defying threats of tighter international sanctions.State Department spokesman John Kirby issued the now traditional slap down of Kim's "provocative rhetoric" -- but with a new twist, which was mockery of his age."I'd say that the young man needs to pay more attention to the North Korean people and taking care of them than in pursuing these sorts of reckless capabilities," said Kirby.Kirby, a retired admiral who was already commissioned as a US navy officer when Kim was only three years old, could not confirm the claim, but said "we take these comments seriously.""We have to. I mean, this young man has proven that he is perfectly willing and able to flout and to violate his international obligations," he added.Challenged on his repeated use of the term, Kirby said: "Factually, it's true. He's young and he's a man." Then he returned to his theme."But look, clearly, this young dictator continues to violate international obligations and continues to ignore the desperate needs of his own people and continues to increase the tensions of the peninsula rather than work to decrease the tensions," he said.While it may be impossible to know whether the State Department's tactic will succeed in getting under the young leader's skin, North Korea does like to employ its own rhetorical flourishes.Threatening to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike this week, state news agency KCNA warned: "If we push the buttons to annihilate the enemies even right now, all bases of provocations will be reduced to seas of flames and ashes in a moment."
NKorea to "liquidate" SKorea assets, fires missiles into sea-Associated Press By HYUNG-JIN KIM-MAR 9,16-YAHOONEWS
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea is responding to Seoul's unilateral sanctions, saying it will "liquidate" all remaining South Korean assets at former cooperative projects in the North.The statement Thursday follows the North's firing of short-range missiles, likely in anger over U.S.-South Korean war games. It also comes a day after the North released photos of leader Kim Jong Un standing beside what appears to be a nuclear warhead mock-up.The North said it will "liquidate" South Korean assets at the closed Kaesong factory park and the scrapped tourism resort at Diamond Mountain.In a continuation of violent rhetoric that has spiked in recent weeks, it said it will take a series of unspecified steps to impose "lethal" military, political and economic blows on the South Korean government to accelerate its "pitiable demise."
North Korea fires two short-range missiles into sea: South Korea-Reuters-MAR 9,16-YAHOONEWS
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast city of Wonsan early on Thursday, flying approximately 500 km (300 miles), South Korea's military said.North Korea has a large stockpile of short-range missiles and is developing long-range and intercontinental missiles.Reports of the missiles being fired coincide with already heightened tension on the Korean peninsula after the North conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and launched a long-range rocket last month, leading to new U.N. Security Council and bilateral U.S. sanctions.The North fired six rockets into the sea last week using a multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) from Wonsan, supervised by leader Kim Jong Un who ordered his military to be prepared to launch pre-emptive attacks against enemies.Kim said on Wednesday his country has miniaturized nuclear warheads to mount on ballistic missiles and ordered improvements in the power and precision of its arsenal in his first direct comment about nuclear warhead miniaturization.State Department spokesman John Kirby declined to comment on Kim's claim to have miniaturized nuclear warheads and accused him of "provocative rhetoric.""I'd say the young man needs to pay more attention to the North Korean people and taking care of them than in pursuing these sorts of reckless capabilities," Kirby said.The Pentagon said this week it had not seen North Korea demonstrate a capability to miniaturize a nuclear warhead. But Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said the department was working on U.S. ballistic missile defenses to be prepared.North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test on Jan. 6 but its claim to have set off a miniaturized hydrogen bomb has been disputed by the U.S. and South Korean governments and many experts.U.S. and South Korean troops began large-scale military drills this week, which the North called "nuclear war moves" and threatened to respond with an all-out offensive.(Reporting by Jack Kim and Ju-min Park in Seoul and David Brunnstrom and David Alexander in Washington; Editing by Grant McCool)
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.
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-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) 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)
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)
Fears grow on alternative migrant routes in Europe By Eszter Zalan-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, 9. Mar, 19:32-Fears are growing that migrants and refugees will try to enter the EU via Albania and the Adriatic Sea after Europe on Wednesday (9 March) closed the Western Balkan corridor.There is no sign yet of a build-up of people on the Albanian-Greek border.But Albania, a Nato member and EU aspirant with a population of less than 3 million, could be a gateway to Italy.“We have to collectively look at all the possible consequences of the envisaged agreement between the EU and Turkey, and prepare for them, including the issue of alternative routes,” a senior EU official told press in Brussels on Wednesday, referring to an EU-Turkey deal to close the Western Balkan path.EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said: “There is always the possibility that this flow could be diverted in other directions if the Balkan route is closed. For the moment it is not the case.”“All countries in the region are well prepared even for this likelihood. But for the moment there is no sign that migratory flows are diverted towards either Albania or other countries in the region,” he said.According to Frontex, the EU’s border agency in Warsaw, just 8,932 people crossed the Greek-Albanian border illegaly last year. Most of them were Albanians.Western Balkan leaders, including from Albania and Bulgaria, were expected to discuss the issue in their weekly video conference.EU home affairs ministers, who are to meet in Brussels on Thursday, are also expected to touch on the question of alternative routes.According to local media, Albanian authorities have already drawn up plans to provide reception centres for 10,000 Syrian refugees in the towns of Korca and Gjirokastra, near the border with Greece.The UN's refugee agency, the UNHCR also said it is working on contingency plans.The UNHCR, the Albanian government and local NGOs are looking at infrastructural needs and possible processing sites in Kakavia and Kapstice, also near Albania’s border with Greece.The EU official said the possibility of novel routes is not a reason to abandon plans to stop the primary “leak” through the Greek border to Macedonia.The EU is closely monitoring migrant flows, the official said.Some migrants have also begun arriving to Europe from Russia in recent months, with EU diplomats suggesting that Russia is facilitating the development.An EU source said that Russian border authorities had previously kept a tight grip on border security.-‘Sultan Erdogan’-Meanwhile, MEPs in Strasbourg on Wednesday criticised the EU-Turkey accord. International human rights organisations have also said it goes against international and EU law.Guy Verhofstadt, the head of the Liberal group in the European Parliament, said it’s “a deal in which we are giving, in fact, the entrance keys, the keys to the gates of Europe, into the hands of Turkey, of the successors of the Ottoman Empire, to Erdogan, I should even say maybe to Sultan Erdogan.”Manfred Weber, the leader of the biggest group, the centre-right European People's Party, said that the EU should not give a "blank cheque" to Turkey.Weber also said Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s seizure of the country’s leading opposition newspaper, Zaman, last week was “unaccpetable.”The Turkey deal was agreed politically by EU leaders and Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu in Brussels on Monday.Home affairs ministers are to discuss details of the plan, which is to be adopted formally by EU leaders at another summit next week.The Greek migration minister will also brief colleagues on new bilateral accords signed by Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras and Davutoglu in Turkey on Tuesday.The bilateral arrangements are designed to make it easier to return migrants to Turkey.Sources said some ministers are concerned by Erdogan’s crackdown on civil liberties and could bring up the Zaman issue in Thursday’s talks.
Greece and Turkey intensify joint work on migrants By Eszter Zalan-MAR 9,16-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, Today, 09:30-Greece and Turkey have promised to cooperate on a plan to send back migrants from Europe, agreed by EU leaders on Tuesday.The EU deal, which includes €3 billion for Turkey, visa liberalisation for its citizens by the summer, and the opening of accession chapters, is still to be fully endorsed at another summit next week.Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras met his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu in Izmir on Tuesday and signed several agreements to pave the way for the EU-Turkey deal to work.Tsipras told a joint news conference that the EU deal “sends a clear message to migrants coming from third countries, rather than countries at war ... that there is neither the political will nor the ability to cross to Europe”.“This is the reality we ought to sincerely convey to them in order to stop, to reduce, this unbearable flow for our countries."So far this year more than 130,000 migrants and refugees have travelled to the Greek islands from the Turkish coast.As NATO warships started to patrol the Aegean Sea to locate boats carrying migrants, Tsipras also said the two countries would step up efforts to tackle people smugglers.Davutoglu added: "The aim here is to discourage irregular migration and ... to recognise those Syrians in our camps who the EU will accept – though we will not force anyone to go against their will – on legal routes."-'Death blow' to asylum-In the meantime, Slovenia and Croatia said starting from Wednesday they would refuse to allow many migrants to travel through their countries.The Slovenian interior ministry said in a statement that only those who wanted to claim asylum in Slovenia or wanted to enter for humanitarian reasons would be allowed entry.They would be assessed on a case-by-case basis, the ministry said.“The irregular flows of migrants on the Western Balkan route has now come to an end,” Slovenian prime minister Miro Cerar said.Only about 460 of the almost 478,000 migrants who have passed through Slovenia since last October asked for international protection in Slovenia, Reuters reported.Neighbouring Croatia also said it would now allow in only refugees with proper visas.“The border of Europe will be on the Macedonia-Greek frontier,” interior minister Vlaho Orepic said in a television interview.The decisions effectively seal off the Balkan route used by hundreds of thousands of migrants.Serbia's interior ministry responded by saying they would also restrict entry, adding that the country “cannot allow itself to become a collective centre for refugees”.The increasing restrictions on travel have helped to strand some 36,000 people who were trying to cross from Greece into Macedonia.The EU said the deal with Turkey was aimed at discouraging migrants and refugees from undertaking perilous journeys, but it was criticised by the UN and other international organisations.The UN Refugee Agency is concerned that the blanket return of asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey breaches international and EU law.Casting further down on the deal’s legality, human rights group Amnesty International said the plan “dealt a death blow to the right to seek asylum”.The EU Commission said the deal was in line with international obligations.
UN 'deeply concerned' by EU-Turkey plan By Nikolaj Nielsen-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS, 8. Mar, 18:39-Plans by the EU and Turkey to expel anyone, including Syrians, who used smugglers to reach Greece is stoking widespread criticism."I am deeply concerned about any arrangement that would involve the blanket return of anyone," the UN High commissioner for refugees Filippo Grandi told MEPs in Strasbourg on Tuesday (8 March) .He said refugee safeguards under international law must be clearly spelled out, posing larger questions over an in-principle deal between the EU and Turkey agreed at a summit in Brussels on Monday.The proposal hinges on designating Turkey as a safe third country of origin.But watchdog groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch accuse Turkey of pushing back Syrians fleeing war back into Syria. It faces even worse accusations on the rights of Kurds.Turkey is also the only country in the world that applies a “geographical limitation” on asylum seekers. Despite having ratified the 1951 Geneva convention, Turkey will only grant full refugee protection status to Europeans.It means the vast majority of Syrians in Turkey are instead given a “temporary protection" status that bars them from long-term integration.Regardless of Turkey's patchwork application of the Geneva convention, the European Commission says the deal will comply with European and international law."You can be sure about that," commission spokesman Alexander Winterstein told reporters on Tuesday.Turkey already hosts some 2.7 million Syrian refugees. The war in Syria will enter its sixth year next week amid a shaky ceasefire but without any durable solution in sight.Renewed fighting in Iraq displaced 3.3 million last year. The country, along with Pakistan, hosts over 2 million Afghan refugees. Afghanistan is also dealing with its own internally displaced people, with 31 out of its 34 provinces locked in conflict.After Syrians, Iraqi and Afghans top the inflow figures into Europe.But both Iraqi and Afghans have been sidelined in the plan to resettle one refugee from Turkey for each one rejected applicant sent back from Europe.Europe's attempt to outsource the problem to Turkey is, in part, seen as a last-ditch solution given the lack of coordination and broad disagreements that has divided EU states for over a year.Grandi also refuted earlier claims by commission vice-president Frans Timmermans that 60 percent of the arrivals were economic migrants."This has been and essentially remains a refugee movement," he said.Around 138,000 people have arrived in southern Europe to seek asylum since the start of the year. The vast majority, over 88 percent, come from the top 10 refugee producing countries.Two-thirds are women and children - a 41 percent increase compared to last year, detailed Grandi on Tuesday, which was by coincidence international women's day.Exposed to violence and sexual abuse by smugglers and others, many are left to fend for themselves as they are forced to sleep in rough in parks, along roadways, and at bus stops and train stations.Around 35,000 people are now stuck in Greece following moves by Austria to clamp down on borders along the Western Balkan route.At the camp at Idomeni, on Greece’s border with Macedonia, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding. Some 14,000 are trapped and living in mud and squalor.Doctors Without Borders is treating thousands, including infants and pregnant women, for related illnesses.The lack of legal routes to Europe for the vast majority of people fleeing war in Syria and elsewhere, has in part, forced large numbers to seek help from smugglers. Some 82 suspected smugglers have been arrested near the Greek islands since the start of the year. Turkey says it arrested 300 more.The risks of exploitation are great. An estimated 10,000 refugee children are missing, with authorities fearing criminal gangs may be exploiting a large number for sex work and slave labour.
Local elections to test Merkel on refugees By Peter Teffer-EUOBSERVER
Offenburg, Germany, 9. Mar, 09:30-Two men in an excavator and a tractor were digging on Tuesday (8 March) at a former tennis club in the south-western German city Offenburg.“Waterworks,” one of them said. The site - the size of six tennis courts - is being prepared to house 500 refugees in container-buildings.A snow-covered umpire chair and some signs are the only reminders of the site's previous function.A stone's throw away - or a decent tennis serve - Willy Verderio was doing his own construction. The retired German, born from an Italian father, was making the shed in his allotment spring-ready.He had a nuanced view on the new function of the site, which is close to a residential area.“We have to be vigilant”, Verderio said. He told this website many residents are afraid, noting that “young men” will be present among the refugees.Just two months ago Germany was shocked by mass harassment of women during New Year's Eve celebrations, especially in Cologne. Some of the suspects were asylum seekers or other migrants.Verderio is not in principle opposed to the refugee container village. In fact, he and his wife organise a weekly event in which they distribute second-hand clothes to refugees.“Let's see how it goes and hope for the best,” he said.He had a similar assessment of chancellor Angela Merkel's refugee policy, which has become known in Europe under the German phrase “Wir schaffen das”, meaning “We can do this.”“She thinks she can do this, but we'll have to see,” said Verderio. He said he won’t be voting for Merkel's centre-right CDU party in Sunday's local election, but rather for the centre-left social-democrats.-Super Sunday-On 13 March, there will be elections in three of Germany's 16 states: Baden-Wuerttemberg (where Offenburg is located), Rhineland-Palatinate, and Saxony-Anhalt.Together, they have 17 million of Germany's 81.5 million inhabitants. But the elections will be scrutinised for signs of a voters' assessment of Merkel's refugee policy.The anti-immigration and anti-euro party Alternative fuer Deutschland (Alternative for Germany; AfD) is expected to score a big win.“The refugee issue is of course a dominating theme,” said Michael Braun, who leads the CDU's election campaign in the Ortenau district of Offenburg.“The actual themes, the state politics of Baden-Wuerttemberg, are somewhat pushed to the background, unfortunately,” he told this website in the CDU's local office, on the other side of town from the tennis court.Offenburg's pride is that Wolfgang Schaeuble, the German finance minister, represents the constituency in the Lower House of the German parliament in Berlin.Last year, he burst on the international scene as the principal antagonist of his Greek counterpart Yanis Varoufakis.During the height of the Greek debt crisis last summer, Schaeuble, a pro-austerity hawk, became more popular than Merkel.But his star power is likely to have faded, Braun said.“Dr Schaeuble is of course a very respected politician, but the refugee issue eclipses all other themes,” Braun told EUobserver.“The refugee policy has also arrived in our state's territory - it is not only a theme in the main cities.”Braun said he still believes in “Wir schaffen das.” But he said that some voters are being lured away “by radical slogans”, referring to Alternative fuer Deutschland.Founded in 2013, the new party passed the electoral threshold for the first time the following year, in the European Parliament elections.Five of its seven MEPs later quit to make another new party, but AfD also scored subsequent electoral successes in state elections in 2015.On Sunday (6 March), it received the largest share of votes yet: 13.2 percent, if initial results for municipal elections in Hesse are confirmed on Thursday. In the state's largest city, Frankfurt, it received 10 percent of the votes.Braun said that those votes are a good indication for the upcoming state elections, but he noted that more than half of the voters were still undecided, and that local and state elections are two different animals.“The AfD will take away the most votes from CDU”, he said.-Crumbling powers-AfD's leader Frauke Petry told German press that the double-digit result last Sunday was a “clear signal”.“The power of established parties is crumbling,” Petry said.In Baden-Wuertemberg the question will be if AfD can secure third place.According to a poll by the Insa Institute, the Green party is ahead with 33.5 percent of the votes, followed by the CDU on 28.5 percent. The social-democrats and AfD both poll at 12.5 percent, with the liberals at 6 percent.It is highly unlikely the AfD will be considered by any of the other parties as a coalition partner. But a good result for AfD might force establishment parties to enter a grand coalition.For his part, Braun said the CDU is unlikely to enter into a coalition with the greens, even if they are the largest party. He instead expected his party to negotiate with the social-democrats and liberals.Elsewhere in Offenburg, Ilse Herberg said she does not expect a landslide for AfD in her state.“They will have a better result than last time, but will not do as well as in Frankfurt. People are more rooted here,” she told this website, while registering clients for Offenburger Tafel, a non-profit organisation that sells food at discount prices to poor members of the community.Once a week those that can prove they have little to spend can buy donated groceries at the Offenburger Tafel for about 15 percent of their normal retail price.A sign tells people what is available that week also notes how much of each products customers are allowed to buy: 10 zucchinis, six yoghurt, four packs of pasta, and one loaf of bread.Herberg said more refugees are lately coming to her charity shop.“I can only speak for Offenburg,” she said. “If every city is as well-organised as Offenburg - schaffen wir es.”
Indian teenager dies after being raped and set on fire-AFP-MAR 9,16-YAHOONEWS
A 16-year-old Indian girl who was raped and then set on fire on the roof of her home has died, police said Wednesday, the latest in a string of horrific sexual crimes in India.The teenager, who sustained more than 90 percent burns in Monday's attack, died in hospital early Wednesday, the investigating officer told AFP."Unfortunately she could not be saved despite the best efforts of the medical staff," said Ashwani Kumar."We have arrested the accused, who is 19 years old and sent him to judicial custody."An investigation is on to find out more about the motive and details of the crime," he said.The accused has been charged with a slew of offences including rape and murder, Kumar said."The body has been sent for postmortem. We are waiting for the report."Media reports quoted the girl's father as saying the suspect lived nearby in their village in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh and that he had been harassing his daughter for a year despite several warnings.Women's rights activists accuse police of often overlooking complaints of stalking, which they say only emboldens the perpetrators.The fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in Delhi in 2012 shone a global spotlight on the frightening levels of violence against women in India.Her death from injuries sustained during the brutal assault sparked some of the biggest demonstrations in India's recent history, which intensified after being broken up by heavy-handed police tactics.It triggered deep soul-searching about the treatment of women in a country where rape victims are often stigmatised and frequently pressured by police and relatives to drop allegations.It also led to major reform of India's rape laws, including speeding up of trials and increased penalties for offenders, but high numbers of assaults persist.Last month, police arrested two men for shooting dead a 14-year-old girl who resisted their advances in Uttar Pradesh state.Also in February, a teenage rape victim was sexually assaulted for a second time while in hospital receiving treatment for the initial attack in eastern Jharkhand state.
IS commander 'Omar the Chechen' survived US strike: monitor-AFP-MAR 9,16-YAHOONEWS
Beirut (AFP) - Top Islamic State commander leader Omar al-Shishani, known as Omar the Chechen, was "seriously injured" in a recent US strike in northeastern Syria but not killed, a monitoring group said Wednesday, after a US official said the militant had "likely died" in the assault.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that according to its sources the March 4 strike had indeed targeted the jihadist's convoy, killing his bodyguards, while he himself "was seriously injured"."He's not dead," the Observatory's director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP."He was taken from the province of Hasake to a hospital in Raqa province where he was treated by a jihadist doctor of European origin," he said. Raqa is IS's main stronghold.The United States has stopped short of declaring Shishani dead, but a US official speaking on condition of anonymity said Shishani "likely died" in the assault by waves of US warplanes and drones, along with 12 other IS fighters.The US official branded Shishani "the ISIL equivalent of the secretary of defence," using another acronym for the group.Shishani was one of the IS leaders most wanted by Washington which put a $5 million bounty on his head.The lack of a US presence on the ground makes it difficult to assess the success of operations targeting militants in Syria, and Shishani's death has been falsely reported several times.Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook on Tuesday described Shishani as "a battle-tested leader with experience who had led ISIL (IS) fighters in numerous engagements in Iraq and Syria."The March 4 strikes took place near Al-Shadadi, a town in northeastern Syria that was retaken from IS last month by local anti-IS fighters allied with the US-led coalition.
