JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER.
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)
EARTH WORSHIP
DEUTERONOMY 17:3-4
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
DEUTORONOMY 4:15-19
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
2 KINGS 23:5
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
190 NATIONS HAVE SIGNED ONTO THIS CLIMATE CHANGE SCAM.NOW THIS WILL PROBABLY LET ALL 190 NATIONS CHARGE CARBON TAXES AND RIP OFF ALL THE WORLDS CITIZENS. UNDER THE GUISE OF FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH.AND THE GOOD OF THE CHILREN. THEY SAY ITS A WARTERED DOWN TEXT.BUT NOT WATERED DOWN ENOUGH THAT ALL 190 COUNTRIES WHO SIGNED ON WILL NOT CHARGE WORLD CARBON TAXES VERY SHORTLY I PREDICT.IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME BY NEXT JUNE.ALL 190 COUNTRIES WOLD BE CHARGING CARBON TAXES ON EVERYTHING. UNDER THE GUISE CLIMATE CHANGE.
Climate compromise salvaged during talks in Peru-By KARL RITTER, Associated Press-Posted: 12/14/2014 07:25:26 AM EST-THE EVENING SUN
LIMA, Peru - Climate negotiators salvaged a compromise deal in Lima early Sunday that sets the stage for a global pact in Paris next year, but rejected a rigorous review of the greenhouse gas emissions limits they plan.More than 30 hours behind schedule, delegates from more than 190 countries agreed on what information should go into the pledges that countries submit for the expected Paris pact.They argued all day Saturday over the wording of the decision, with developing nations worried that the text blurred the distinction between what rich and poor countries can be expected to do.The final draft alleviated those concerns with language saying countries have "common but differentiated responsibilities" to deal with global warming."As a text it's not perfect, but it includes the positions of the parties," said Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, who was the conference chairman and had spent most of the day meeting separately with delegations.The momentum from last month's joint U.S.-China deal on emissions targets faded quickly in Lima as rifts reopened over who should do what to fight global warming. The goal of the talks is to shape a global agreement in Paris that puts the world on a path to reduce the heat-trapping gases that scientists say are warming the planet.Many developing countries, the most vulnerable to climate change's impacts, accuse rich nations of shirking their responsibilities to curb climate change and pay for the damage it inflicts.In presenting a new, fourth draft just before midnight, Peru's environment minister gave a sharply reduced body of delegates an hour to review it. Many delegates had already quit the makeshift conference center on the grounds of Peru's army headquarters.It also restored language demanded by small island states at risk of being flooded by rising seas, mentioning a "loss and damage" mechanism agreed upon in last year's talks in Poland that recognizes that nations hardest hit by climate change will require financial and technical help."We need a permanent arrangement to help the poorest of the world," Ian Fry, negotiator for the Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu, said at a midday session.However, the approved draft weakened language on the content of the pledges, saying they "may" instead of "shall" include quantifiable information showing how countries intend to meet their emissions targets.Also, top carbon polluter China and other major developing countries opposed plans for a review process that would allow the pledges to be compared against one another before Paris.The new draft mentioned only that all pledges would be reviewed a month ahead Paris to assess their combined effect on climate change."I think it's definitely watered down from what we expected," said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.Sam Smith, chief of climate policy for the environmental group WWF, said: "The text went from weak to weaker to weakest and it's very weak indeed."Chief U.S. negotiator Todd Stern acknowledged that negotiations had been contentious but said the outcome was "quite good in the end." He had warned Saturday that failing to leave Lima with an accord would be "seen as a serious breakdown" that could put the Paris agreement and the entire U.N. process at risk.Though negotiating tactics always play a role, virtually all disputes in the U.N. talks reflect a wider issue of how to divide the burden of fixing the planetary warming that scientists say results from human activity, primarily the burning of oil, coal and natural gas.Historically, Western nations are the biggest emitters. Currently, most CO2 emissions are coming from developing countries led by China and India as they grow their economies and lift millions of people out of poverty.
During a brief stop in Lima on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said fixing the problem is "everyone's responsibility, because it's the net amount of carbon that matters, not each country's share." According to the U.N.'s scientific panel on climate change, the world can pump out no more than about 1 trillion tons of carbon to have a likely chance of avoiding dangerous levels of warming -defined in the U.N. talks as exceeding 2 degrees centigrade (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above 19th-century averages.It already has spent more than half of that carbon budget as emissions continue to rise, driven by growth in China and other emerging economies.Scientific reports say climate impacts are already happening and include rising sea levels, intensifying heat waves and shifts in weather patterns causing floods in some areas and droughts in others.The U.N. weather agency said last week that 2014 could become the hottest year on record.
Latin American nations struggle to reconcile growth, climate action-Reuters-By Santiago Ortega December 10, 2014 5:42 PM-yahoonews
LIMA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At the U.N. climate talks this week, a group of Latin American and Caribbean countries are pushing a bold goal: A world with zero net emissions by 2050.But achieving that even within their own borders will be a challenge as the region struggles to harmonize often competing ambitions for economic growth and climate action, Peruvian and Colombian experts said.At Lima, the Association of Independent Latin America and Caribbean states, or AILAC, has called for a legally binding new climate agreement in which every country in the world has emissions reduction goals.The group, which includes Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Chile, Guatemala and Peru, also wants strong action to help countries adapt to inevitable climate change impacts.But the countries may find it difficult to comply at home with what they are asking abroad as a result of policies that put the need for poverty alleviation and economic growth ahead of environmental goals, the experts said.That is particularly true because the main economic sectors in the region – agriculture, energy and extractive industries – have considerable impacts on emissions and land.Peru, the host nation of this year’s climate negotiations, represents just one example of how difficult it may be to harmonize economic growth and climate change action.“There is a sort of internal conflict about the direction the country should take regarding development,” said Pedro Solano, the executive director of the Peruvian Society of Environmental Law.Earlier this year, Peru suffered an environmental setback when Law 30230 (known as “El Paquetazo”) was signed in order to boost economic growth.The law reduces the time allowed for environmental consultations, limits budgets for environmental oversight, and cuts the decision power of the Ministry of the Environment.According to a report from the Center of the International Forestry Research, this law “weakens the environmental institutions and endangers land ownership in Peru”.However, Peru has also taken key steps to act on climate change and environmental protection. In 2014, the Peruvian government created the Institute of Glaciers and Mountains, signed the first law on environmental compensation and consolidated national strategies on climate change and biodiversity.“ I think is good that these contractions arise regarding climate change,” Solano said. “Climate change will force the institutions to work (together) in a more functional way.”
COLOMBIA AND RENEWABLES?
For the world to reach zero net emissions by 2050, adopting renewable energy will be crucial, experts say, and in some ways Latin American nations are well positioned to make the switch.Colombia, for instance, has abundant water resources and mountain ranges – the perfect ingredients for hydropower. Even today, almost 70 percent of the country’s electricity comes from hydropower, with the remaining 30 percent from fossil fuels.However, this large hydropower dependency also makes the country very vulnerable to droughts, especially those caused by El Nino, experts say.To deal with that threat, Colombia has focused on ensuring reliability. Large power projects in Colombia are required to compete in an auction in order to supply energy to the grid. The cheapest and more reliable projects win tenders.So far, projects under 20 megawatts have not been required enter the auction and can be built freely – and this is where non-conventional renewables have gained a foothold.The scheme has worked very well for the last 20 years, and no drought-related blackouts have occurred in that time, experts say.But as part of efforts to ensure even greater reliability, new regulations have been proposed that would require all energy projects to compete in the auction system.If the new rules pass, they would erase the efforts an ambitious Renewable Energy Law passed by the Colombian Congress last March, said Pablo Corredor, the former manager of XM, the company that runs the electricity market in Colombia.“(This proposal) goes against the spirit of the efficient use of energy resources” Corredor said, and will send a signal that any energy expansion should be done using fossil fuels or large hydropower plants, leaving solar, wind and other renewables on the side.(Reporting Santiago Ortega; editing by Laurie Goering)
Scrapping of environmental plans 'alarming'-12.12.14 @ 09:26-By Peter Teffer-EUOBSERVER
Brussels - A group of 10 environmental NGOs are “deeply concerned” by draft European Commission plans to scrap proposals aimed at improving air quality and reducing waste.The commission is due to present its so-called working programme next week, but a draft of the 2015 legislative programme was leaked on Thursday (11 December).The same day, the regional director of BirdLife Europe wrote an open letter on behalf of 10 environmental groups to commission vice-president Frans Timmermans, who is in charge of “better regulation”.“It is alarming that, despite all the public reassurances of President Juncker and yourself … you seem to have immediately singled out key proposals for environment and health protection as your prime target”, the letter said.The letter, dated 11 December, was signed by groups such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and WWF.According to the draft plans, a bill aimed at reducing pollutants will be “modified as part of the legislative follow-up to the 2030 Energy and Climate package”, a legislative framework which was agreed by EU leaders in October.A plan to update EU rules on reducing waste, known as the circular economy package, will be scrapped because there is “no foreseeable agreement”.“By withdrawing the air quality proposal the European Commission would miss the opportunity to prevent as many as 58,000 premature deaths per year that result from air pollution, when the current toll is 400,000 premature deaths per year”, the NGOs' letter states.Withdrawal of the circular economy package would lead to a missed opportunity “to create as many as 180,000 new jobs”.The environmentalists say that the proposed binning of the rules show the commission holds business interests above “the health and quality of life of its citizens”, and points to opinion polls showing support from EU citizens for rules protecting the environment and combating air pollution.“This will have the effect of alienating precisely those citizens who have been among the EU’s strongest supporters.”Another NGO, not one of the 10 signatories, told this website that the scrapping of the air quality plan “makes absolutely no sense”.Alan Andrews of Client Earth believes that making the proposal part of the 2030 package will delay its implementation.“Whoever decides to scrap this proposal will have that on their conscience”, Andrews said.The original proposal “would probably have been agreed in 2016 or 2017 and come into force in 2018”, Andrews said, but including it in the 2030 package “is a cynical attempt to kick this into the long grass”.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)
ALBA countries gather in Cuba on 10th anniversary-Associated Press-By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ-dec 14,14-yahoonews
HAVANA (AP) — The left-leaning regional economic and diplomatic bloc known as ALBA marked its 10th anniversary Sunday amid pressures made by tumbling oil prices on petroleum-producing countries such as top ALBA member Venezuela.Presidents Nicolas Maduro, of Venezuela; Daniel Ortega, of Nicaragua; and Evo Morales, of Bolivia joined Raul Castro, of Cuba for the festivities in Havana, where the group was founded. Foreign ministers from other bloc-member countries also attended the gathering.The meeting wrapped up in the afternoon with a 40-point general declaration about some of the top issues in the region, such as ways to help landlocked Bolivia's access to the ocean, and the peace process aimed at ending the decades-old conflict in Colombia.The summit was held against a backdrop of falling oil prices that worry petroleum exporters like Venezuela. The South American country in recent years has provided fuel on preferential terms to Cuba and some other ALBA members through a related regional grouping called Petrocaribe. Tumbling fuel prices, or their possible effect on ALBA agreements, were not discussed during the summit's public session.Arturo Lopez-Levy, a Cuban economist and researcher at the University of Denver, said the drop in petroleum prices "could have severe costs for Venezuela's international commitments with ALBA and the countries benefiting from preferential energy agreements."The Boliviarian Alliance known as ALBA pulls together center-left countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, and places much of its focus on social programs dealing with such issues as health and education.ALBA was created in 2004 by the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has since retired. ALBA aims to counter US influence in the region and Raul Castro on Sunday called ALBA "a real alternative to the economic and social model" of many developed countries, especially the United States.___Andrea Rodriguez is on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/ARodriguezAP
EU's 2015 to-do list: Tax, economic integration, GMOs-11.12.14 @ 15:10-EUOBSERVER
By Honor Mahony and Valentina Pop
BRUSSELS - The European Commission intends to combat tax evasion, deepen economic integration, review its legislation on GMOs, and set up a mandatory lobbyist register, according to its draft legislative programme for 2015.Next year's to-do list, seen by EUobserver, contains 23 measures covering the economy, migration, climate, and industry.In at the top are proposals designed to boost the EU economy, including commission president Jean-Claude Juncker's flagship European Fund for Strategic Investments, meant to unleash €315 billion of investments over the coming years.There are also to be more measures to help young people into work. The digital market is to be boosted by an overhaul of copyright rules. Meanwhile, Juncker's promised action on tax will take the form of a law on the automatic exchange of information on member state tax rulings (sweetheart deals which facilitate tax avoidance), as well as an attempt to revive a law on a common corporate tax base (stuck in the legislative pipelines since 2011).There will also be a "follow-up" to the EU's far-reaching stable of economic governance laws."The commission is ... developing proposals on further steps towards pooled sovereignty in economic government," says the mission statement accompanying the draft programme.This will include "incentives" for structural reforms - one of the commission's biggest headaches is getting large member states such as France and Italy to undertake structural changes.There will also be measures to address the "external representation" of the economic and monetary union, currently represented by several commissioners as well as the head of the eurozone finance ministers.Noting that "citizens expect improvements in what the EU is doing and how we do it", the commission is planning on getting an agreement between itself, the European Parliament, and the EU Council (representing member states) to set up a "mandatory transparency register".This will ensure that "all European institutions are open about who is influencing the decision-making process".It is also going to open a political can of worms by reviewing its system of approving GMOs - genetically modified organisms - in Europe.
GMOs, labour mobility
GMOs is a highly sensitive topic in several member states, made even more so by the fact that, under the current system, the commission can approve the authorisation of genetically modified products even if a majority of EU governments is opposed.The recent highly publicised debate on the alleged abuse of national welfare systems by migrants has also made it on the commission's programme.The draft text refers to "support [for] labour mobility", but also to "tackling abuse by means of better co-ordination of social security systems".In other areas, the Juncker commission is planning for the EU to accede to the European Court of Human Rights, to make steps toward an "energy union "(high on the political agenda as the EU seeks to reduce its dependence on Russia) and to review its trade policies.As a backdrop, it plans more efficient law-making, amid criticism that the EU regulates where it does not need to, or proposes laws that are unlikely to see the light of day.
Binning some laws
As part of this, the commission, led by anti-red-tape tsar Frans Timmermans, has suggested 80 pieces of law that should be binned.These include several obsolete (often made redundant by other laws) pieces of legislation such as rules on past multi-year budgets or laws relating to farm aid.Some are being scrapped because there is "no foreseeable agreement". The list covers: labelling of organic goods; a proposal on an EU-wide system for registering radioactive materials; a law on loans to nuclear power stations; and one on harmonisation of excise duty on alcohol.Others still are being abandoned because their final negotiated state is very different from what the commission had originally proposed, as with taxation of energy products, or because the parliament asked for a law to be withdrawn (such as one on the marketing of plant reproductive material).Some of decisions are set to be controversial, including the binning of legislation on air quality (to be modified as part of forthcoming climate legislation) and packaging waste ("no foreseeable agreement").The work programme is to be debated by the European Parliament next week.
Juncker: Greece should avoid 'wrong outcome' in elections-11.12.14 @ 21:24-By Valentina Pop-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS - EU commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has warned Greece against electing "extreme forces" into power and said he would prefer "known faces" - so far the strongest intervention of the EU top brass in the Greek campaign."I think that the Greeks - who have a very difficult life - know very well what a wrong election result would mean for Greece and the eurozone," Juncker said during an Austrian public tv debate with EUobserver and several other Brussels-based journalists.He steered clear of explicit political advice ahead of presidential elections in Greece next week but said: "I wouldn't like extreme forces to come to power."The presidential elections - to be held in the Greek parliament on 17 December - could trigger early parliamentary elections, if there are three failed attempts to elect a president.The far-left Syriza, which wants Greece's debt erased and an end to austerity measures, is topping the polls. Markets are already jittery at the prospect of Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras coming to power.Asked if Syriza and Tsipras qualify as "extreme forces", Juncker replied: "I would like Greece to be ruled by people who have an eye and a heart for the many little people in Greece and who also understand the necessity of European processes.""Each party who stands for election has to live up to these standards and I won't comment on the chances of one or the other party, but I would prefer if known faces show up," he added, in an apparent reference to Greece's former EU commissioner, Stavros Dimas, who is standing for election on behalf of the ruling coalition.
In a showcase example of being the more "political" entity that Juncker promised, the EU commission has all but endorsed Dimas.“The decision can help remove uncertainties around markets, it is a strong signal to Europe that prime minister Samaras put forward his candidate Stavros Dimas, a former commissioner and a convinced European,” said EU commission spokesperson Annika Breidthardt on Wednesday.Breidthardt denied taking sides in the election, but said that "at this point we feel like we want to make a statement about the Greek forthcoming elections".
France and LuxLeaks
Juncker also admitted that the decision to give Italy and France three extra months to fix their national budgets was "political" and a proof that his commission is not a "machinery run by bureaucrats who are blind to national matters.""We would have been massively criticised if we had applied the pact simply like that. We would have a totally different discussion now," he said.He conceded that his reputation has been dented by the LuxLeaks scandal (revealing tax avoidance schemes for multinationals in Luxembourg while he was PM), but insisted that he did nothing illegal at the time."I had contact with those firms [Skype, Amazon] when we tried to diversify the structure of Luxembourg's economy. But I never got involved in the tax rulings, because that is not allowed for a Luxembourg finance minister, the law prohibits that he uses his influence on specific tax files," he said.Asked what he talked to Amazon about, if not about a favourable tax regime, he said: "We spoke about infrastructure, pipelines, what kind of qualified staff we can provide, how we can train them. But we didn't talk about the precise tax questions, because it is not something for the government, it is for the tax administration.""I am responsible for everything that happened in Luxembourg during my time as prime minister, I've said it and I repeat it. I am constantly forced to defend myself as Luxembourg prime minister, but if I did that, people would remind me that I am no longer PM, I am now EU commission president," Juncker said.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Palestinians push UN bid as Kerry begins European talks-AFP-By Jo Biddle-dec 15,14-yahoo news
Rome (AFP) - The Palestinian leadership on Sunday said it planned to submit a resolution to the UN Security Council setting a two-year deadline for Israel to end its occupation, as US Secretary of State John Kerry launched a flurry of European meetings to revive the stalled peace process.Washington's diplomatic manoeuvring comes amid a European-led drive towards a recognition of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations.In the past, the US has consistently used its power of veto at the UN to block moves it sees as anti-Israel, but US officials said Kerry was now seeking to learn more about the European position.Seizing the momentum, a senior Palestinian official said they would present a draft UN resolution in coming days on ending the Israeli occupation by late 2016."The Palestinian leadership took a decision to go to the Security Council next Wednesday to vote on their project to end the occupation," senior Palestine Liberation Organisation member Wassel Abu Yussef told AFP after a meeting in Ramallah.The Israeli foreign ministry declined to comment ahead of Monday's meeting in Rome between Kerry and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Kerry kicked off his trip with three hours of talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Rome late Sunday which "focused primarily on recent developments in the Middle East, including about possible action at the UN Security Council," a senior State Department official said."I believe the Middle East issue is crucial for making sure that we don't allow the situation to degrade further," Lavrov said as he met with Kerry in the US ambassador's residence in Rome.Since the collapse of Kerry's peace bid in April and the 50-day war in the Gaza Strip in the summer, there has been growing international concern about rising Israeli-Palestinian tensions amid a slew of attacks.After Netanyahu called snap elections in March, some Europeans have pointed to a narrow window of opportunity to push a Palestinian resolution at the UN Security Council.Washington has long opposed unilateral Palestinian moves to win recognition for a state of Palestine at the UN, but US officials said they drew a distinction between a unilateral step, and an effort to draw up a multilateral resolution at the Security Council, which would have the backing of many nations.There is a growing US recognition too of European impatience with the current status quo, as several European parliaments in recent weeks have called on their governments to recognise a state of Palestine." Our overall goal here is to hear from and engage with other stakeholders... to hear their views and to the best of our ability work towards a common path forward," a State Department official said."We all want to keep open the hope of a two-state solution and we all want to prevent ... an escalation of the violence on the ground."
- Competing resolutions -
In a hastily-arranged pre-Christmas diplomatic whirlwind, the top US diplomat will also meet for a few hours late Monday in Paris with French, German and British foreign ministers and the new EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.He will then fly to London to meet with the chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat and the secretary general of the Arab League on Tuesday.Jordan last month circulated a draft Palestinian text setting November 2016 as a deadline for the end of the Israeli occupation.But the text ran into opposition from the United States because it set a two-year timetable for the withdrawal of the Israeli army from the West Bank."That's not the way I think that we would look at handling a very complicated security negotiation by mandating a deadline of two years," the State Department official said, asking not to be identified. Netanyahu on Sunday rejected all talk of withdrawing from east Jerusalem and the West Bank within two years.Pulling out now would bring "Islamic extremists to the suburbs of Tel Aviv and to the heart of Jerusalem," Netanyahu said.France stepped in last month to try to cobble together along with Britain and Germany a resolution that would win consensus at the 15-member council.The new text would call for a return to negotiations with a view to achieving a two-state solution by which Israel and a Palestinian state would co-exist.But the US official said there did not yet appear to be any European agreement on a draft resolution."There's a draft, a paper, that the French floated around, but it by no means represents a consensus European position," the official said.
Netanyahu to tell Kerry that Israel will rebuff U.N. moves towards Palestinian state-Reuters-By Jeffrey Heller-dec 14,14-yahoonews
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would tell U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that Israel will rebuff any moves at the United Nations to set a timeframe for a withdrawal from territory Palestinians seek for state.The State Department has said the two men will meet in Rome on Monday to discuss various proposals for a Palestinian state that are circulating at the United Nations.Kerry will then meet Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat and a delegation of Arab foreign ministers in London on Tuesday, who will urge for the United States not to use its U.N. Security Council veto to block the proposals, Palestinian officials said.U.S.-brokered peace negotiations with Israel, led by Kerry, collapsed in April. Since then, Palestinians have made unilateral efforts at the U.N. to form their own state in the occupied West Bank and in the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital.Jordan circulated a Palestinian-drafted resolution to the 15-member Security Council last month calling for Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, captured in a 1967 war, to end by November 2016.France, Britain and Germany are in efforts to draft a resolution of their own that could draw wider consensus.Netanyahu, who is in the middle of campaigning for a March election, will also meet Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi along with Kerry.
"I will tell both of them that Israel stands, to a great extent, as a solitary island against the waves of Islamic extremism washing over the entire Middle East," Netanyahu said on Sunday in public remarks to his cabinet.He said Israel now faced a possible diplomatic offensive "to force upon us" such a withdrawal within two years."This will bring the radical Islamic elements to the suburbs of Tel Aviv and to the heart of Jerusalem. We will not allow this. We will rebuff this forcefully and responsibly. Let there be no doubt, this will be rejected."Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, speaking on Army Radio, said it appeared the United States "is not eager to use its veto" on the Palestinian statehood issue but was seeking "maximum coordination" with Netanyahu.Netanyahu and Washington have clashed frequently over Israeli settlement in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, leading to Israeli media speculation that a frustrated U.S. could soften its opposition to unilateral statehood steps.But Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz told reporters: "I assume an anti-Israeli proposal will draw a U.S. veto. That's how it's always been, and that's what we hope will happen."Netanyahu has said rocket fire from the Gaza Strip during a 50-day war with Hamas militants in July and August highlighted the risks Israel could face in handing over more Palestinian territory.In Jerusalem, violence has surged in recent weeks because of a dispute over access to a holy site in an Israeli-annexed part of the city. Eleven Israelis and twelve Palestinians have been killed.(Additional reporting by Ali Sawafta in Ramallah; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
EARTH WORSHIP
DEUTERONOMY 17:3-4
3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
DEUTORONOMY 4:15-19
15 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
2 KINGS 23:5
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
190 NATIONS HAVE SIGNED ONTO THIS CLIMATE CHANGE SCAM.NOW THIS WILL PROBABLY LET ALL 190 NATIONS CHARGE CARBON TAXES AND RIP OFF ALL THE WORLDS CITIZENS. UNDER THE GUISE OF FOR THE GOOD OF THE EARTH.AND THE GOOD OF THE CHILREN. THEY SAY ITS A WARTERED DOWN TEXT.BUT NOT WATERED DOWN ENOUGH THAT ALL 190 COUNTRIES WHO SIGNED ON WILL NOT CHARGE WORLD CARBON TAXES VERY SHORTLY I PREDICT.IT WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME BY NEXT JUNE.ALL 190 COUNTRIES WOLD BE CHARGING CARBON TAXES ON EVERYTHING. UNDER THE GUISE CLIMATE CHANGE.
Climate compromise salvaged during talks in Peru-By KARL RITTER, Associated Press-Posted: 12/14/2014 07:25:26 AM EST-THE EVENING SUN
LIMA, Peru - Climate negotiators salvaged a compromise deal in Lima early Sunday that sets the stage for a global pact in Paris next year, but rejected a rigorous review of the greenhouse gas emissions limits they plan.More than 30 hours behind schedule, delegates from more than 190 countries agreed on what information should go into the pledges that countries submit for the expected Paris pact.They argued all day Saturday over the wording of the decision, with developing nations worried that the text blurred the distinction between what rich and poor countries can be expected to do.The final draft alleviated those concerns with language saying countries have "common but differentiated responsibilities" to deal with global warming."As a text it's not perfect, but it includes the positions of the parties," said Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, who was the conference chairman and had spent most of the day meeting separately with delegations.The momentum from last month's joint U.S.-China deal on emissions targets faded quickly in Lima as rifts reopened over who should do what to fight global warming. The goal of the talks is to shape a global agreement in Paris that puts the world on a path to reduce the heat-trapping gases that scientists say are warming the planet.Many developing countries, the most vulnerable to climate change's impacts, accuse rich nations of shirking their responsibilities to curb climate change and pay for the damage it inflicts.In presenting a new, fourth draft just before midnight, Peru's environment minister gave a sharply reduced body of delegates an hour to review it. Many delegates had already quit the makeshift conference center on the grounds of Peru's army headquarters.It also restored language demanded by small island states at risk of being flooded by rising seas, mentioning a "loss and damage" mechanism agreed upon in last year's talks in Poland that recognizes that nations hardest hit by climate change will require financial and technical help."We need a permanent arrangement to help the poorest of the world," Ian Fry, negotiator for the Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu, said at a midday session.However, the approved draft weakened language on the content of the pledges, saying they "may" instead of "shall" include quantifiable information showing how countries intend to meet their emissions targets.Also, top carbon polluter China and other major developing countries opposed plans for a review process that would allow the pledges to be compared against one another before Paris.The new draft mentioned only that all pledges would be reviewed a month ahead Paris to assess their combined effect on climate change."I think it's definitely watered down from what we expected," said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.Sam Smith, chief of climate policy for the environmental group WWF, said: "The text went from weak to weaker to weakest and it's very weak indeed."Chief U.S. negotiator Todd Stern acknowledged that negotiations had been contentious but said the outcome was "quite good in the end." He had warned Saturday that failing to leave Lima with an accord would be "seen as a serious breakdown" that could put the Paris agreement and the entire U.N. process at risk.Though negotiating tactics always play a role, virtually all disputes in the U.N. talks reflect a wider issue of how to divide the burden of fixing the planetary warming that scientists say results from human activity, primarily the burning of oil, coal and natural gas.Historically, Western nations are the biggest emitters. Currently, most CO2 emissions are coming from developing countries led by China and India as they grow their economies and lift millions of people out of poverty.
During a brief stop in Lima on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said fixing the problem is "everyone's responsibility, because it's the net amount of carbon that matters, not each country's share." According to the U.N.'s scientific panel on climate change, the world can pump out no more than about 1 trillion tons of carbon to have a likely chance of avoiding dangerous levels of warming -defined in the U.N. talks as exceeding 2 degrees centigrade (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above 19th-century averages.It already has spent more than half of that carbon budget as emissions continue to rise, driven by growth in China and other emerging economies.Scientific reports say climate impacts are already happening and include rising sea levels, intensifying heat waves and shifts in weather patterns causing floods in some areas and droughts in others.The U.N. weather agency said last week that 2014 could become the hottest year on record.
Latin American nations struggle to reconcile growth, climate action-Reuters-By Santiago Ortega December 10, 2014 5:42 PM-yahoonews
LIMA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - At the U.N. climate talks this week, a group of Latin American and Caribbean countries are pushing a bold goal: A world with zero net emissions by 2050.But achieving that even within their own borders will be a challenge as the region struggles to harmonize often competing ambitions for economic growth and climate action, Peruvian and Colombian experts said.At Lima, the Association of Independent Latin America and Caribbean states, or AILAC, has called for a legally binding new climate agreement in which every country in the world has emissions reduction goals.The group, which includes Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Chile, Guatemala and Peru, also wants strong action to help countries adapt to inevitable climate change impacts.But the countries may find it difficult to comply at home with what they are asking abroad as a result of policies that put the need for poverty alleviation and economic growth ahead of environmental goals, the experts said.That is particularly true because the main economic sectors in the region – agriculture, energy and extractive industries – have considerable impacts on emissions and land.Peru, the host nation of this year’s climate negotiations, represents just one example of how difficult it may be to harmonize economic growth and climate change action.“There is a sort of internal conflict about the direction the country should take regarding development,” said Pedro Solano, the executive director of the Peruvian Society of Environmental Law.Earlier this year, Peru suffered an environmental setback when Law 30230 (known as “El Paquetazo”) was signed in order to boost economic growth.The law reduces the time allowed for environmental consultations, limits budgets for environmental oversight, and cuts the decision power of the Ministry of the Environment.According to a report from the Center of the International Forestry Research, this law “weakens the environmental institutions and endangers land ownership in Peru”.However, Peru has also taken key steps to act on climate change and environmental protection. In 2014, the Peruvian government created the Institute of Glaciers and Mountains, signed the first law on environmental compensation and consolidated national strategies on climate change and biodiversity.“ I think is good that these contractions arise regarding climate change,” Solano said. “Climate change will force the institutions to work (together) in a more functional way.”
COLOMBIA AND RENEWABLES?
For the world to reach zero net emissions by 2050, adopting renewable energy will be crucial, experts say, and in some ways Latin American nations are well positioned to make the switch.Colombia, for instance, has abundant water resources and mountain ranges – the perfect ingredients for hydropower. Even today, almost 70 percent of the country’s electricity comes from hydropower, with the remaining 30 percent from fossil fuels.However, this large hydropower dependency also makes the country very vulnerable to droughts, especially those caused by El Nino, experts say.To deal with that threat, Colombia has focused on ensuring reliability. Large power projects in Colombia are required to compete in an auction in order to supply energy to the grid. The cheapest and more reliable projects win tenders.So far, projects under 20 megawatts have not been required enter the auction and can be built freely – and this is where non-conventional renewables have gained a foothold.The scheme has worked very well for the last 20 years, and no drought-related blackouts have occurred in that time, experts say.But as part of efforts to ensure even greater reliability, new regulations have been proposed that would require all energy projects to compete in the auction system.If the new rules pass, they would erase the efforts an ambitious Renewable Energy Law passed by the Colombian Congress last March, said Pablo Corredor, the former manager of XM, the company that runs the electricity market in Colombia.“(This proposal) goes against the spirit of the efficient use of energy resources” Corredor said, and will send a signal that any energy expansion should be done using fossil fuels or large hydropower plants, leaving solar, wind and other renewables on the side.(Reporting Santiago Ortega; editing by Laurie Goering)
Scrapping of environmental plans 'alarming'-12.12.14 @ 09:26-By Peter Teffer-EUOBSERVER
Brussels - A group of 10 environmental NGOs are “deeply concerned” by draft European Commission plans to scrap proposals aimed at improving air quality and reducing waste.The commission is due to present its so-called working programme next week, but a draft of the 2015 legislative programme was leaked on Thursday (11 December).The same day, the regional director of BirdLife Europe wrote an open letter on behalf of 10 environmental groups to commission vice-president Frans Timmermans, who is in charge of “better regulation”.“It is alarming that, despite all the public reassurances of President Juncker and yourself … you seem to have immediately singled out key proposals for environment and health protection as your prime target”, the letter said.The letter, dated 11 December, was signed by groups such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and WWF.According to the draft plans, a bill aimed at reducing pollutants will be “modified as part of the legislative follow-up to the 2030 Energy and Climate package”, a legislative framework which was agreed by EU leaders in October.A plan to update EU rules on reducing waste, known as the circular economy package, will be scrapped because there is “no foreseeable agreement”.“By withdrawing the air quality proposal the European Commission would miss the opportunity to prevent as many as 58,000 premature deaths per year that result from air pollution, when the current toll is 400,000 premature deaths per year”, the NGOs' letter states.Withdrawal of the circular economy package would lead to a missed opportunity “to create as many as 180,000 new jobs”.The environmentalists say that the proposed binning of the rules show the commission holds business interests above “the health and quality of life of its citizens”, and points to opinion polls showing support from EU citizens for rules protecting the environment and combating air pollution.“This will have the effect of alienating precisely those citizens who have been among the EU’s strongest supporters.”Another NGO, not one of the 10 signatories, told this website that the scrapping of the air quality plan “makes absolutely no sense”.Alan Andrews of Client Earth believes that making the proposal part of the 2030 package will delay its implementation.“Whoever decides to scrap this proposal will have that on their conscience”, Andrews said.The original proposal “would probably have been agreed in 2016 or 2017 and come into force in 2018”, Andrews said, but including it in the 2030 package “is a cynical attempt to kick this into the long grass”.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)
ALBA countries gather in Cuba on 10th anniversary-Associated Press-By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ-dec 14,14-yahoonews
HAVANA (AP) — The left-leaning regional economic and diplomatic bloc known as ALBA marked its 10th anniversary Sunday amid pressures made by tumbling oil prices on petroleum-producing countries such as top ALBA member Venezuela.Presidents Nicolas Maduro, of Venezuela; Daniel Ortega, of Nicaragua; and Evo Morales, of Bolivia joined Raul Castro, of Cuba for the festivities in Havana, where the group was founded. Foreign ministers from other bloc-member countries also attended the gathering.The meeting wrapped up in the afternoon with a 40-point general declaration about some of the top issues in the region, such as ways to help landlocked Bolivia's access to the ocean, and the peace process aimed at ending the decades-old conflict in Colombia.The summit was held against a backdrop of falling oil prices that worry petroleum exporters like Venezuela. The South American country in recent years has provided fuel on preferential terms to Cuba and some other ALBA members through a related regional grouping called Petrocaribe. Tumbling fuel prices, or their possible effect on ALBA agreements, were not discussed during the summit's public session.Arturo Lopez-Levy, a Cuban economist and researcher at the University of Denver, said the drop in petroleum prices "could have severe costs for Venezuela's international commitments with ALBA and the countries benefiting from preferential energy agreements."The Boliviarian Alliance known as ALBA pulls together center-left countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, and places much of its focus on social programs dealing with such issues as health and education.ALBA was created in 2004 by the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has since retired. ALBA aims to counter US influence in the region and Raul Castro on Sunday called ALBA "a real alternative to the economic and social model" of many developed countries, especially the United States.___Andrea Rodriguez is on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/ARodriguezAP
EU's 2015 to-do list: Tax, economic integration, GMOs-11.12.14 @ 15:10-EUOBSERVER
By Honor Mahony and Valentina Pop
BRUSSELS - The European Commission intends to combat tax evasion, deepen economic integration, review its legislation on GMOs, and set up a mandatory lobbyist register, according to its draft legislative programme for 2015.Next year's to-do list, seen by EUobserver, contains 23 measures covering the economy, migration, climate, and industry.In at the top are proposals designed to boost the EU economy, including commission president Jean-Claude Juncker's flagship European Fund for Strategic Investments, meant to unleash €315 billion of investments over the coming years.There are also to be more measures to help young people into work. The digital market is to be boosted by an overhaul of copyright rules. Meanwhile, Juncker's promised action on tax will take the form of a law on the automatic exchange of information on member state tax rulings (sweetheart deals which facilitate tax avoidance), as well as an attempt to revive a law on a common corporate tax base (stuck in the legislative pipelines since 2011).There will also be a "follow-up" to the EU's far-reaching stable of economic governance laws."The commission is ... developing proposals on further steps towards pooled sovereignty in economic government," says the mission statement accompanying the draft programme.This will include "incentives" for structural reforms - one of the commission's biggest headaches is getting large member states such as France and Italy to undertake structural changes.There will also be measures to address the "external representation" of the economic and monetary union, currently represented by several commissioners as well as the head of the eurozone finance ministers.Noting that "citizens expect improvements in what the EU is doing and how we do it", the commission is planning on getting an agreement between itself, the European Parliament, and the EU Council (representing member states) to set up a "mandatory transparency register".This will ensure that "all European institutions are open about who is influencing the decision-making process".It is also going to open a political can of worms by reviewing its system of approving GMOs - genetically modified organisms - in Europe.
GMOs, labour mobility
GMOs is a highly sensitive topic in several member states, made even more so by the fact that, under the current system, the commission can approve the authorisation of genetically modified products even if a majority of EU governments is opposed.The recent highly publicised debate on the alleged abuse of national welfare systems by migrants has also made it on the commission's programme.The draft text refers to "support [for] labour mobility", but also to "tackling abuse by means of better co-ordination of social security systems".In other areas, the Juncker commission is planning for the EU to accede to the European Court of Human Rights, to make steps toward an "energy union "(high on the political agenda as the EU seeks to reduce its dependence on Russia) and to review its trade policies.As a backdrop, it plans more efficient law-making, amid criticism that the EU regulates where it does not need to, or proposes laws that are unlikely to see the light of day.
Binning some laws
As part of this, the commission, led by anti-red-tape tsar Frans Timmermans, has suggested 80 pieces of law that should be binned.These include several obsolete (often made redundant by other laws) pieces of legislation such as rules on past multi-year budgets or laws relating to farm aid.Some are being scrapped because there is "no foreseeable agreement". The list covers: labelling of organic goods; a proposal on an EU-wide system for registering radioactive materials; a law on loans to nuclear power stations; and one on harmonisation of excise duty on alcohol.Others still are being abandoned because their final negotiated state is very different from what the commission had originally proposed, as with taxation of energy products, or because the parliament asked for a law to be withdrawn (such as one on the marketing of plant reproductive material).Some of decisions are set to be controversial, including the binning of legislation on air quality (to be modified as part of forthcoming climate legislation) and packaging waste ("no foreseeable agreement").The work programme is to be debated by the European Parliament next week.
Juncker: Greece should avoid 'wrong outcome' in elections-11.12.14 @ 21:24-By Valentina Pop-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS - EU commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has warned Greece against electing "extreme forces" into power and said he would prefer "known faces" - so far the strongest intervention of the EU top brass in the Greek campaign."I think that the Greeks - who have a very difficult life - know very well what a wrong election result would mean for Greece and the eurozone," Juncker said during an Austrian public tv debate with EUobserver and several other Brussels-based journalists.He steered clear of explicit political advice ahead of presidential elections in Greece next week but said: "I wouldn't like extreme forces to come to power."The presidential elections - to be held in the Greek parliament on 17 December - could trigger early parliamentary elections, if there are three failed attempts to elect a president.The far-left Syriza, which wants Greece's debt erased and an end to austerity measures, is topping the polls. Markets are already jittery at the prospect of Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras coming to power.Asked if Syriza and Tsipras qualify as "extreme forces", Juncker replied: "I would like Greece to be ruled by people who have an eye and a heart for the many little people in Greece and who also understand the necessity of European processes.""Each party who stands for election has to live up to these standards and I won't comment on the chances of one or the other party, but I would prefer if known faces show up," he added, in an apparent reference to Greece's former EU commissioner, Stavros Dimas, who is standing for election on behalf of the ruling coalition.
In a showcase example of being the more "political" entity that Juncker promised, the EU commission has all but endorsed Dimas.“The decision can help remove uncertainties around markets, it is a strong signal to Europe that prime minister Samaras put forward his candidate Stavros Dimas, a former commissioner and a convinced European,” said EU commission spokesperson Annika Breidthardt on Wednesday.Breidthardt denied taking sides in the election, but said that "at this point we feel like we want to make a statement about the Greek forthcoming elections".
France and LuxLeaks
Juncker also admitted that the decision to give Italy and France three extra months to fix their national budgets was "political" and a proof that his commission is not a "machinery run by bureaucrats who are blind to national matters.""We would have been massively criticised if we had applied the pact simply like that. We would have a totally different discussion now," he said.He conceded that his reputation has been dented by the LuxLeaks scandal (revealing tax avoidance schemes for multinationals in Luxembourg while he was PM), but insisted that he did nothing illegal at the time."I had contact with those firms [Skype, Amazon] when we tried to diversify the structure of Luxembourg's economy. But I never got involved in the tax rulings, because that is not allowed for a Luxembourg finance minister, the law prohibits that he uses his influence on specific tax files," he said.Asked what he talked to Amazon about, if not about a favourable tax regime, he said: "We spoke about infrastructure, pipelines, what kind of qualified staff we can provide, how we can train them. But we didn't talk about the precise tax questions, because it is not something for the government, it is for the tax administration.""I am responsible for everything that happened in Luxembourg during my time as prime minister, I've said it and I repeat it. I am constantly forced to defend myself as Luxembourg prime minister, but if I did that, people would remind me that I am no longer PM, I am now EU commission president," Juncker said.
DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Palestinians push UN bid as Kerry begins European talks-AFP-By Jo Biddle-dec 15,14-yahoo news
Rome (AFP) - The Palestinian leadership on Sunday said it planned to submit a resolution to the UN Security Council setting a two-year deadline for Israel to end its occupation, as US Secretary of State John Kerry launched a flurry of European meetings to revive the stalled peace process.Washington's diplomatic manoeuvring comes amid a European-led drive towards a recognition of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations.In the past, the US has consistently used its power of veto at the UN to block moves it sees as anti-Israel, but US officials said Kerry was now seeking to learn more about the European position.Seizing the momentum, a senior Palestinian official said they would present a draft UN resolution in coming days on ending the Israeli occupation by late 2016."The Palestinian leadership took a decision to go to the Security Council next Wednesday to vote on their project to end the occupation," senior Palestine Liberation Organisation member Wassel Abu Yussef told AFP after a meeting in Ramallah.The Israeli foreign ministry declined to comment ahead of Monday's meeting in Rome between Kerry and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Kerry kicked off his trip with three hours of talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Rome late Sunday which "focused primarily on recent developments in the Middle East, including about possible action at the UN Security Council," a senior State Department official said."I believe the Middle East issue is crucial for making sure that we don't allow the situation to degrade further," Lavrov said as he met with Kerry in the US ambassador's residence in Rome.Since the collapse of Kerry's peace bid in April and the 50-day war in the Gaza Strip in the summer, there has been growing international concern about rising Israeli-Palestinian tensions amid a slew of attacks.After Netanyahu called snap elections in March, some Europeans have pointed to a narrow window of opportunity to push a Palestinian resolution at the UN Security Council.Washington has long opposed unilateral Palestinian moves to win recognition for a state of Palestine at the UN, but US officials said they drew a distinction between a unilateral step, and an effort to draw up a multilateral resolution at the Security Council, which would have the backing of many nations.There is a growing US recognition too of European impatience with the current status quo, as several European parliaments in recent weeks have called on their governments to recognise a state of Palestine." Our overall goal here is to hear from and engage with other stakeholders... to hear their views and to the best of our ability work towards a common path forward," a State Department official said."We all want to keep open the hope of a two-state solution and we all want to prevent ... an escalation of the violence on the ground."
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In a hastily-arranged pre-Christmas diplomatic whirlwind, the top US diplomat will also meet for a few hours late Monday in Paris with French, German and British foreign ministers and the new EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.He will then fly to London to meet with the chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat and the secretary general of the Arab League on Tuesday.Jordan last month circulated a draft Palestinian text setting November 2016 as a deadline for the end of the Israeli occupation.But the text ran into opposition from the United States because it set a two-year timetable for the withdrawal of the Israeli army from the West Bank."That's not the way I think that we would look at handling a very complicated security negotiation by mandating a deadline of two years," the State Department official said, asking not to be identified. Netanyahu on Sunday rejected all talk of withdrawing from east Jerusalem and the West Bank within two years.Pulling out now would bring "Islamic extremists to the suburbs of Tel Aviv and to the heart of Jerusalem," Netanyahu said.France stepped in last month to try to cobble together along with Britain and Germany a resolution that would win consensus at the 15-member council.The new text would call for a return to negotiations with a view to achieving a two-state solution by which Israel and a Palestinian state would co-exist.But the US official said there did not yet appear to be any European agreement on a draft resolution."There's a draft, a paper, that the French floated around, but it by no means represents a consensus European position," the official said.
Netanyahu to tell Kerry that Israel will rebuff U.N. moves towards Palestinian state-Reuters-By Jeffrey Heller-dec 14,14-yahoonews
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would tell U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that Israel will rebuff any moves at the United Nations to set a timeframe for a withdrawal from territory Palestinians seek for state.The State Department has said the two men will meet in Rome on Monday to discuss various proposals for a Palestinian state that are circulating at the United Nations.Kerry will then meet Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat and a delegation of Arab foreign ministers in London on Tuesday, who will urge for the United States not to use its U.N. Security Council veto to block the proposals, Palestinian officials said.U.S.-brokered peace negotiations with Israel, led by Kerry, collapsed in April. Since then, Palestinians have made unilateral efforts at the U.N. to form their own state in the occupied West Bank and in the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital.Jordan circulated a Palestinian-drafted resolution to the 15-member Security Council last month calling for Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, captured in a 1967 war, to end by November 2016.France, Britain and Germany are in efforts to draft a resolution of their own that could draw wider consensus.Netanyahu, who is in the middle of campaigning for a March election, will also meet Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi along with Kerry.
"I will tell both of them that Israel stands, to a great extent, as a solitary island against the waves of Islamic extremism washing over the entire Middle East," Netanyahu said on Sunday in public remarks to his cabinet.He said Israel now faced a possible diplomatic offensive "to force upon us" such a withdrawal within two years."This will bring the radical Islamic elements to the suburbs of Tel Aviv and to the heart of Jerusalem. We will not allow this. We will rebuff this forcefully and responsibly. Let there be no doubt, this will be rejected."Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, speaking on Army Radio, said it appeared the United States "is not eager to use its veto" on the Palestinian statehood issue but was seeking "maximum coordination" with Netanyahu.Netanyahu and Washington have clashed frequently over Israeli settlement in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, leading to Israeli media speculation that a frustrated U.S. could soften its opposition to unilateral statehood steps.But Israel's Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz told reporters: "I assume an anti-Israeli proposal will draw a U.S. veto. That's how it's always been, and that's what we hope will happen."Netanyahu has said rocket fire from the Gaza Strip during a 50-day war with Hamas militants in July and August highlighted the risks Israel could face in handing over more Palestinian territory.In Jerusalem, violence has surged in recent weeks because of a dispute over access to a holy site in an Israeli-annexed part of the city. Eleven Israelis and twelve Palestinians have been killed.(Additional reporting by Ali Sawafta in Ramallah; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
