THE DOW WAS UP 112 POINTS WEDNESDAY-YESTERDAY.

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)

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

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.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.

1 KINGS 10:13-14
13  And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
14  Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

GENESIS 49:16-17
16  Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17  Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

The Shemitah is coming true.Do people not get it? There is a economic crash every 7 years.
1980: Recession
1987: Stock market crash
1994: Bond market crash
2001: 9/11, dot com, recession
2008: Housing crash
2015: See if something will happen-The central banks will be the death of us. Get ready and embrace yourself for the economic collapse.

BANK RELATED INFORMATION
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/09/bank-related-links.html 
CURRENCIES
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/currencies
COMMODITIES
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities 

UPDATE-APRIL 07,2016-12:00AM

DOW MARKET THURSDAY-APR 07,2016
09:30AM-93.61-
10:00AM-119.08-
10:30AM-158.25-
11:00AM-144.21-
11:30AM-157.82-
12:00PM-165.25-
12:30PM-167.66-
01:00PM-144.70-
01:30PM-114.44-
02:00PM-178.50-
02:30PM-208.16-
03:00PM-232.34-
03:30PM-195.61-
04:00PM-174.09- 17,541.96 - S&P -24.75 2041.91 - NASDAQ -72.35 4848.37
HIGH -80 LOW -233
TSX -81.02 13,266.44 - GOLD $+15.01 $1,238.01 - OIL $-0.77 $37.35

EARTHQUAKES

EZEKIEL 37:7,11-14
7  So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.(POSSIBLE QUAKE BRINGS ISRAEL BACK TO LIFE-SO NOISE AND SHAKING-QUAKES WILL ALSO DESTROY ISRAELS ENEMIES)
11  Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12  Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13  And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14  And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

UPDATE-APRIL 07 2016-06:03AM

THERES SOMETHING WEIRD HAPPENING IN VANUATU.THERE HAS BEEN 2-6.9 QUAKES PLUS TODAYS 6.7 QUAKE.THATS 3 GIGANTIC QUAKES IN LESS THEN A WEEK THERE.IS THE U.S OR SOME OTHER COUNTRY TESTING NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS THERE.THIS COULD BE THE ONLY EXPLANATION WHY 3 6.7+ QUAKES HAVE OCCURED IN VANUATA SINCE LAST SUNDAY.WITH 3 QUAKES THAT SIZE IN A 5 DAY PERIOD.THERE SHOULD BE PEOPLE KILLED.AND I HEARD NOTHING OF DEATHS.SO TO ME THESE ARE NUCLEAR TESTS GOING ON BY THE U.S OR SOMEBODY GETTING READY FOR WORLD WAR 3. IS MY GUESS.SINCE THE BIBLE SAYS AT LEAST 2 BILLION DIE FROM ATOMIC WEAPONS DURING THE FUTURE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.WHILE WORLD WAR IS OCCURING.

Third quake in a week hits Vanuatu-Thursday 7 Apr 2016 4:16 p.m.

Another strong earthquake has struck the Pacific nation of Vanuatu but there was no threat of a tsunami and no immediate reports of damage or injuries.The magnitude 6.9 quake struck on Thursday 109 kilometres west of the village of Sola and 453 kilometres northwest of the capital, Port Vila.It is the third strong earthquake to strike Vanuatu this week, although none have caused problems.Vanuatu National Disaster Management Office Director Shadrack Welegtabit said he didn't feel the quake in the capital and hasn't received any reports that it has caused damage.Vanuatu sits on the Ring of Fire, the arc of seismic faults around the Pacific Ocean where earthquakes are common.AP-http://www.newshub.co.nz/ 

ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire,(NUKES) and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:(GOD/ISRAEL HATE AND BRAKING OF HIS COMMANDMENTS) the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die - 3 BILLION). 

REVELATION 9:14-15,18
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 PEOPLE)
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)

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)

Reuters-PIC-BOOM: A mushroom cloud forms over the South Pacific atoll of Mururoa during one of numerous atmospheric tests France conducted in the region between 1966-1974.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/8872214/Mururoa-fallout-worse-than-first-thought 

Europe, Global Analysis, South Pacific/Oceania, Territorial and Law of the Sea Disputes
Flashpoint: South Pacific – Vanuatu and New Caledonia
http://cimsec.org/south-pacific/9356 - picture from site


How ni-Vanuatu activist escaped being bombed-By Len Garae-Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour after bombing reportedly by French secret service agents-Posted: Sunday, May 31, 2015 12:00 am

On this night of July 10, 1985, the Vanuatu Government representative Charles Rara is spending the night with Baldwin Lonsdale (current Head of State) at his home at St. John’s Anglican College in Auckland where he is doing his theological studies, while Captain Pete Willcox and some of his crew are already asleep on the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior.Rara’s roommate Fernando Pereira (photographer), a Portuguese and a few others are still chatting around the mess-room, sharing between them the last two bottles of beer.Suddenly, the lights go out. There’s the sharp crack of breaking glass. Then, a sudden roar of water. The crew’s first thought: We’ve been hit, possibly by a tug (boat).Then, there’s a second explosion. One of the two bombs has torn a gaping hole to the room which Rara and Pereira share.The eight sentences above report the historical bombing of the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior, after its passage through Port Vila Harbour where Rara boarded the vessel, as it set sail for Murorua Atoll in French Polynesia, to protest against France’s nuclear testing on the atoll.The banner calling for a total ban of nuclear testing towards a ‘Nuclear Free Pacific’ was drawn up in Port Vila following a regional meeting by Governments and NGOs from round the Pacific that was held in Port Vila.The following is a first hand; first ever report of the suspense and trauma the Rara Family experienced in their quiet village at La Bwaru in North Pentecost. Their only connection to the outside world at the time was Radio Vanuatu. This is how Charles’ younger brother, Patrick Rara tells it:“The moment we heard on the radio that the Rainbow Warrior was bombed and sunk by French secret agents in Auckland Harbour, silence fell over our home. Nothing was said of the fate of my brother or the crew.“Our mother and Charles’ wife from Isabel in the Solomons were the only two crying.“I was the second last born in the family.“We all kept our ears close to the radio to hear the next news. It was hard to take; it was too far away to understand what life was like over there. Why would somebody want to bomb a ship, let alone the Rainbow Warrior? “International politics and military sabotage were strange to our ears in our village but not to my brother. Charles understood such extreme behaviour, especially if it were in connection to France.“The French at the time did not see eye to eye with Vanuatu because people protested in Port Vila against Paris for its nuclear testing at Tahiti.“They argued that if the testing were safe then French nuclear scientists should test their nuclear bomb in mainland France and not on a faraway Pacific atoll.“When the Rainbow Warrior dropped anchor in Auckland Harbour, my brother was overjoyed that someone knew him in the strange city.“It was Baldwin Lonsdale who went to school with him in the Solomons. Baldwin took him to his house where they stayed and chatted and had lunch and continued until supper.“After supper Charles said their stories became “so sweet” he had to stay the night. Charles said God was good to keep him from the ship or he would have been bombed to death in his room.“Charles returned to the wharf in the morning and it was teeming with security. He did not understand a thing and forced his way through the throng of people but could not see the glorious Rainbow Warrior where it was anchored.“Someone whispered to him the most frightening news that it was bombed and was sunk to the bottom of the harbour. Nobody could understand it then that the French had ordered its sabotage.“But for Charles, he told us that his immediate guess at the time and he blurted it out was that it was the work of the French, that French men would go to that extreme to commit such a terrorist act in peaceful Auckland.“As a first time arrival in Auckland, he asked where his colleagues were and he was taken to them at a hotel. He said, ‘When they saw me, they burst out crying knowing that it was the end of the journey because there was no Rainbow Warrior to take us to challenge the French Navy blockade at the nuclear testing site’.“Charles said they had been fully briefed by the American captain of the Rainbow Warrior to follow his instructions, and not make any mistake because they were going to evade the French navy blockade, to enter the restricted zone.“But for my brother, it was just the start of his trauma because Auckland police caught up with him and arrested him for what he said, on suspicion that he might have known of the bombing thus his spending the night ashore with his friend.“Police interrogated him at the police station for a whole day until he convinced them that he grew up in Vanuatu and he knew the French attitude towards ni-Vanuatu regarding their nuclear testing activities. He reminded them that he had lived with the French all his life and the French (and British) had controlled Vanuatu for 74 years until Vanuatu became politically independent on July 30 of 1980. Satisfied, the police took him back to the hotel.“The crew lost everything including their travel documents so they were provided with clothes and shoes by the Red Cross and finally they were flown back to their respective countries. You see the Rainbow Warrior had an international crew from round the world.“Once he returned safely to Vanuatu, Charles said he was appointed by the Walter Lini’s Vanua’aku Pati Government to represent Vanuatu’s young, nationalistic call for a Nuclear Free Pacific on the ship. He said he was issued with a “Red Passport”, a diplomatic passport to prove that he was not an ordinary man and that if anything should happen to him then those who found his passport would know who he was”.Charles has 5 children, three boys and two girls. He has since passed away leaving behind his wife and children who are now back in her native Solomon Islands.Patrick, who is now 53 years old, says his brother was a man with unique, silent qualities that allowed his actions to speak for him. Charles was close to Father Walter Lini. He heard Father Lini’s famous utterance that Vanuatu would not be fully free until all colonised countries in the Pacific were all free of colonial rule.Asked his brother if Charles was acknowledged for his brave stand to the might of super power arrogance, he shook his head without saying anything.Finally the French ended their nuclear testing at Moruroa Atoll.

[****PNEWS CONFERENCES****]-From: Mark Burch FRENCH BOMB THREAT SENDS RIPPLES ACROSS THE PACIFIC-by Mark Burch

After the end of the Cold War, it seemed reasonable that the nuclear insanity of the world would have subsided.  But, after being in office about a month, newly elected French President Jacques Chirac announced his decision to resume nuclear testing at the South Pacific atoll called Mururoa.  This decision has been condemned by leaders around the world,and has provoked negative reactions throughout the South Pacific community of nations.Former French President Francois Miterrand imposed a moratorium on nuclear testing in 1992.  Chirac's decision to resume testing is widely viewed as a cynical betrayal of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which planned to conclude negotiations on a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996.  France and other nations promised to exercise the "utmost restraint" in nuclear testing until then.  The French have reneged on that promise and plan to carry out eight nuclear explosions at Mururoa beginning in September this year.  This plan has been greeted by expressions of outrage by Pacific leaders.  The following information was taken from four different news bulletins:  Pacific News Bulletin, The Washington Pacific Report, Pacnews, and Pacific Report.Australia.   The Australian government has urged that citizens consider boycotting French goods.  Protests were held outside French embassies in Canberra and Sydney.  A group known as the Pacific Popular Front has claimed responsibility for a fire which destroyed the French consulate in Perth.  Australian leader John Howard said "... most Australians regard the idea of nuclear testing ...as grotesque, and the idea that it should take place in our backyard, far away from metropolitan France is an act of great arrogance and great insensitivity..."New Zealand.  Don McKinnon, NZ Foreign Minister referred to Chirac's decision as "Napoleonic arrogance."  Back in 1975, NZ took France to the World Court and succeeded in forcing them to conduct nuclear tests underground instead of in the air.Fiji.  In Suva, the Pacific Concerns Resource Center  (PCRC) has called for a boycott of the South Pacific games, scheduled to be held in Tahiti in August, in protest of the French nuclear testing.  The PCRC is the international secretariat for a network of nations which support a Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP).Solomon Islands.  Government leader Mr. Tausinga said France should know-that the South Pacific is not an empty ocean, but is inhabited by people whose lives depend on a clean environment and non-poisonous marine products.Western Samoa.  Western Samoa is the first country to officially announce-that it is pulling out of the South Pacific Games.Vanuatu.  The Vanuatu government is alone in not condemning the nuclear testing.  It has placed a ban on broadcasts on Radio Vanuatu that mention anything in connection with the French nuclear testing.

AND WITH THESE BIG SO CALLED QUAKES THERE SHOULD BE LOTS OF AFTER SHOCKS.BUT THERES NOT. ANOTHER BIG HINT THESE ARE NUKE TESTS AND NOT REAL QUAKES IN VANUATU.THE LAST 2 DAYS. SUNDAYS QUAKE THERE WAS LOTS OF AFTER SHOCKS.BUT NOT TODAYS OR YESTERDAYS 6.7 AND 6.9 QUAKES IN VANUATU. 

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
37 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2016-04-07 23:59:52 UTCShowing event times using UTC37 earthquakes in map area

    2.5 1km ENE of Luther, Oklahoma 2016-04-07 23:59:53 UTC 5.0 km
    4.0 3km NNE of Luther, Oklahoma 2016-04-07 22:27:30 UTC 5.0 km
    3.0 47km N of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska 2016-04-07 21:46:38 UTC 83.7 km
    4.5 247km ESE of Lambasa, Fiji 2016-04-07 21:38:51 UTC 331.9 km
    4.0 27km SSW of Hukumati Azrow, Afghanistan 2016-04-07 21:24:41 UTC 35.0 km
    3.6 26km WSW of Perry, Oklahoma 2016-04-07 21:06:25 UTC 5.0 km
    2.7 36km SSW of Ferndale, California 2016-04-07 20:54:12 UTC 19.5 km
    2.8 64km WSW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, B.C., MX 2016-04-07 20:19:35 UTC 5.7 km
    2.7 17km SE of Helena, Oklahoma 2016-04-07 18:51:26 UTC 5.0 km
    4.1 98km E of Namie, Japan 2016-04-07 18:26:33 UTC 35.0 km
    4.8 110km WSW of Sola, Vanuatu 2016-04-07 17:52:32 UTC 33.8 km
    4.8 Off the coast of South Africa 2016-04-07 17:06:02 UTC 10.0 km
    4.9 Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge 2016-04-07 16:13:45 UTC 14.8 km
    4.6 101km SSW of Paracas, Peru 2016-04-07 15:26:28 UTC 10.0 km
    4.4 45km SW of Ashkasham, Afghanistan 2016-04-07 15:15:58 UTC 107.9 km
    2.6 19km ENE of Anchor Point, Alaska 2016-04-07 15:00:48 UTC 46.5 km
    5.0 67km NNE of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2016-04-07 13:40:45 UTC 616.3 km
    5.2 5km SSW of Irapa, Venezuela 2016-04-07 12:22:21 UTC 83.7 km
    4.9 95km NE of San Pedro de Atacama, Chile 2016-04-07 11:54:20 UTC 159.7 km
    4.8 57km WSW of Tugu Hilir, Indonesia 2016-04-07 10:39:46 UTC 49.8 km
    2.7 16km N of Snyder, Texas 2016-04-07 10:12:17 UTC 3.3 km
    2.7 110km NW of Talkeetna, Alaska 2016-04-07 10:00:10 UTC 1.5 km
    3.4 18km SE of Helena, Oklahoma 2016-04-07 08:29:32 UTC 7.3 km
    2.9 9km SSE of Chester, California 2016-04-07 08:27:59 UTC -2.0 km
    4.9 97km W of Sola, Vanuatu 2016-04-07 08:01:48 UTC 19.8 km
    2.8 28km SSE of Bunkerville, Nevada 2016-04-07 07:42:28 UTC 4.6 km
    3.1 3km NNW of Luther, Oklahoma 2016-04-07 07:37:54 UTC 7.6 km
    2.7 1km NE of Luther, Oklahoma 2016-04-07 07:36:24 UTC 5.9 km
    4.9 143km E of Iquique, Chile 2016-04-07 07:03:06 UTC 108.6 km
    3.4 1km ENE of Luther, Oklahoma 2016-04-07 05:58:56 UTC 6.4 km
    3.2 11km NE of San Simeon, California 2016-04-07 05:38:28 UTC 5.7 km
    5.0 141km SW of Dadali, Solomon Islands 2016-04-07 04:34:00 UTC 10.0 km
    2.6 7km WNW of Humboldt Hill, California 2016-04-07 04:22:16 UTC 18.9 km
    6.7 106km W of Sola, Vanuatu 2016-04-07 03:32:53 UTC 26.8 km
    3.9 102km NNE of Chignik Lake, Alaska 2016-04-07 02:31:37 UTC 10.3 km
    2.6 23km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2016-04-07 00:49:10 UTC 5.3 km
    4.4 98km SSW of Atocha, Bolivia 2016-04-07 00:31:09 UTC 214.0 km
    3.7 26km WSW of Perry, Oklahoma 2016-04-06 23:24:57 UTC 2.5 km

STOCK MARKET AND EARTHQUAKE NEWS

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/04/the-dow-was-down-133-points-tuesday.html 

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/04/the-dow-was-down-55-points-monday.html 

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/04/the-dow-was-up-107-points-friday-new.html 

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/04/weekend-quake-results-for-apr-02-032016.html 

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/04/the-dow-was-down-31-points-thursday.html 

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/03/the-dow-was-up-83-points-wesnesday.html 

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/03/the-dow-was-up-97-points-tuesday.html

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/03/the-dow-was-up-19-points-monday.html 

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/03/the-dow-was-up-13-points-last-thursday.html 

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/03/weekend-quake-results-for-mar-25-272016.html 

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/03/the-dow-was-down-79-points-wednesday.html 

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/03/the-dow-was-down-41-points-tuesday.html 

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/03/the-dow-was-up-21-points-monday.html 

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/03/the-dow-was-up-120-points-friday-new.html 

http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2016/03/weekend-quake-results-for-mar-19-202016.html

THE DOW WAS DOWN 133 POINTS TUESDAY-YESTERDAY

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)

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

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.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.

1 KINGS 10:13-14
13  And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
14  Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

GENESIS 49:16-17
16  Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17  Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

The Shemitah is coming true.Do people not get it? There is a economic crash every 7 years.
1980: Recession
1987: Stock market crash
1994: Bond market crash
2001: 9/11, dot com, recession
2008: Housing crash
2015: See if something will happen-The central banks will be the death of us. Get ready and embrace yourself for the economic collapse.

BANK RELATED INFORMATION
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UPDATE-APRIL 06,2016-12:00AM

DOW MARKET WEDNESDAY-APR 06,2016
09:30AM-9.18
10:00AM-30.61-
10:30AM-39.30-
11:00AM-18.59
11:30AM-53.74
12:00PM-81.52
12:30PM-67.94
01:00PM-70.70
01:30PM-85.95
02:00PM-79.52
02:30PM-60.25
03:00PM-87.05
03:30PM-88.69
04:00PM-112.73+ 17,716.05 - S&P +21.49 2066.66 - NASDAQ +76.78 4920.72
HIGH +113 LOW -54
TSX +42.57  13,347.46 - GOLD $-10.43 $1,220.89 - OIL $+1.79 $37.68

EARTHQUAKES

EZEKIEL 37:7,11-14
7  So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.(POSSIBLE QUAKE BRINGS ISRAEL BACK TO LIFE-SO NOISE AND SHAKING-QUAKES WILL ALSO DESTROY ISRAELS ENEMIES)
11  Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12  Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13  And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14  And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

UPDATE-APRIL 06 2016-11:55PM

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
28 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2016-04-06 23:59:25 UTCShowing event times using UTC28 earthquakes in map area

    3.7 26km WSW of Perry, Oklahoma 2016-04-06 23:24:57 UTC 2.5 km
    2.8 18km E of Perry, Oklahoma 2016-04-06 23:02:04 UTC 3.1 km
    4.8 103km WSW of Sola, Vanuatu 2016-04-06 22:59:14 UTC 39.8 km
    2.7 2km ENE of Luther, Oklahoma 2016-04-06 22:55:55 UTC 5.1 km
    5.0 195km SE of Sarangani, Philippines 2016-04-06 22:19:19 UTC 10.0 km
    3.4 101km NNE of Chignik Lake, Alaska 2016-04-06 21:43:56 UTC 1.6 km
    5.7 232km NNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia 2016-04-06 20:35:15 UTC 127.3 km
    3.7 128km NNE of Cold Bay, Alaska 2016-04-06 19:29:05 UTC 206.7 km
    5.1 65km WNW of Illapel, Chile 2016-04-06 17:35:38 UTC 27.9 km
    6.0 68km SSW of Bunisari, Indonesia 2016-04-06 14:45:30 UTC 35.4 km
    3.0 2km ESE of Cidra, Puerto Rico 2016-04-06 14:41:28 UTC 81.0 km
    4.5 133km N of Bereeda, Somalia 2016-04-06 12:51:12 UTC 10.0 km
    4.9 88km W of Sola, Vanuatu 2016-04-06 12:22:13 UTC 35.0 km
    3.2 12km NNW of Adelanto, CA 2016-04-06 11:58:41 UTC 7.0 km
    3.5 12km WSW of Port Hueneme, CA 2016-04-06 11:44:19 UTC 1.1 km
    4.8 143km WNW of Neiafu, Tonga 2016-04-06 10:27:06 UTC 219.8 km
    4.6 119km SSW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia 2016-04-06 09:58:02 UTC 51.6 km
    2.6 22km ESE of Hawthorne, Nevada 2016-04-06 09:28:42 UTC 3.1 km
    4.9 100km W of Sola, Vanuatu 2016-04-06 09:04:00 UTC 35.0 km
    5.5 101km NNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu 2016-04-06 07:57:38 UTC 35.0 km
    5.5 101km NNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu 2016-04-06 07:57:38 UTC 35.0 km
    6.9 109km WSW of Sola, Vanuatu 2016-04-06 06:58:50 UTC 33.7 km
    5.3 106km NNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu 2016-04-06 06:54:54 UTC 35.0 km
    3.2 24km SSE of Waimea, Hawaii 2016-04-06 05:55:58 UTC 20.2 km
    3.1 67km W of Marigot, Saint Martin 2016-04-06 05:28:50 UTC 23.0 km
    3.3 74km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2016-04-06 05:20:31 UTC 19.0 km
    2.7 22km NNE of Healy, Alaska 2016-04-06 05:12:51 UTC 10.1 km
    4.1 35km WNW of Jahanian Shah, Pakistan 2016-04-06 02:06:07 UTC 26.3 km
    4.7 269km WNW of Abepura, Indonesia 2016-04-06 02:03:00 UTC 32.5 km
    3.4 99km NNE of Chignik Lake, Alaska 2016-04-06 01:59:17 UTC 12.6 km
    4.7 60km NNW of Aasiaat, Greenland 2016-04-06 01:34:18 UTC 10.0 km
    2.5 63km NW of Talkeetna, Alaska 2016-04-06 01:19:59 UTC 87.6 km
    4.2 166km SSE of Atka, Alaska 2016-04-05 23:32:09 UTC 10.0 km
    4.7 68km SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2016-04-05 23:27:57 UTC 578.4 km

STOCK MARKET AND EARTHQUAKE NEWS

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JEWS POSE AS MUSLIMS TO PRAY ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT.

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)

LUKE 21:28-29
28 And when these things begin to come to pass,(ALL THE PROPHECY SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE) then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption (RAPTURE) draweth nigh.
29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree,(ISRAEL) and all the trees;(ALL INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES)
30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.(ISRAEL LITERALLY BECAME AND INDEPENDENT COUNTRY JUST BEFORE SUMMER IN MAY 14,1948.)

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE

THE ISRAELIS ARE SMART-PULLING A MUSLIM TRICK-DISQUISE THEMSELVES AS MUSLIM TO ACTUALLY GET TO PRAY TO JESUS ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT.

Jews pose as Muslims to enter Temple Mount, are stopped-Police detain 2 Israelis claiming to be Palestinian worshipers at entrance to flashpoint Jerusalem holy site-By Times of Israel staff April 5, 2016, 6:25 pm

Police on Tuesday detained two Jewish men who attempted to enter Jerusalem’s contentious Temple Mount compound in the guise of Muslim worshipers.The two, both aged 21, approached one of the gates to the holy site wearing traditional religious Muslim garb. After they raised the suspicions of nearby police, an officer approached the pair and asked them for identification.Despite claiming they were Muslim Palestinians, a statement from police said the on-duty officers soon determined the pair were in fact Israeli Jews.A statement from police did not indicate if they belonged to Jewish activist groups barred from the site. It was not clear why the two felt the need to disguise themselves.Under an agreement between the Israeli government and Islamic authorities at the site, Jews are allowed to visit but not pray at the site, which is revered as the location of both ancient Jewish temples.The site is so holy that Jews have traditionally refrained from praying on the hilltop, congregating instead at the adjacent Western Wall, a retaining wall of the ancient temple complex, which has become the top holy spot for Jewish prayer.Jewish visitors suspected of violating the Temple Mount prayer ban are routinely arrested by police.Clashes between Palestinian youths and Israeli security forces erupted at the compound in September amid fears among Muslims that Israel was planning to change rules governing the site.Muslims regard the compound — which today houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, known in Arabic as the Holy Sanctuary — as the third-holiest site in Islam.Israel has repeatedly denied there are any such plans.The clashes preceded a wave of Palestinian terrorism and violence, including stabbing, shooting and vehicular ramming attacks that have killed 29 Israelis, two Americans, an Eritrean and a Sudanese since October 1 last year. Some 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli security forces in this period, most of them while carrying out attacks, according to Israeli officials.Israel captured the Temple Mount, site of the biblical temples, from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War and later annexed the area, but it left Jordanian religious authorities in charge of the Muslim holy sites there. While Israel controls access to the holy site, Jews are barred from praying there.Israel and Jordan recently agreed to install video cameras throughout the compound in a bid to ease tensions.Though US Secretary of State John Kerry announced the video surveillance plan during a visit to Amman last year, disputes between Israel and Jordan over who controls the footage and what the cameras may or may not film are reportedly holding up the project.AP contributed to this report.

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

GENESIS 12:1-3
1  Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2  And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3  And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

ISAIAH 41:11
11  Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

Kerry on Iran nuclear deal: If they’re cheating, we’ll know it-Secretary of state defends pact with Tehran ahead of expected grilling by angry Republicans in Congress-By Richard Lardner April 5, 2016, 6:26 pm-the times of israel

WASHINGTON (AP) — US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday defended the landmark nuclear deal the United States made with Iran ahead of a congressional hearing where Senate Republicans are expected to hammer the Obama administration for considering the easing of financial restrictions against Tehran.Kerry acknowledged the harsh criticism of the arrangement, which is designed to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, telling MSNBC there’s a furious debate even in Iran over whether Tehran should choose missiles over dialogue.“I think what you’re seeing there is tension” between moderates and hard-liners over Iran’s future course, Kerry said.Kerry’s remarks came just hours ahead of a scheduled hearing by the GOP-led Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the implementation of the nuclear accord. Thomas Shannon, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, will testify.The committee’s hearing comes amid reports that the administration may relax the prohibition that prevents US dollars from being used in transactions with Iran. Angry lawmakers, who contend the US was taken advantage of in the deal, have countered that Tehran would be getting more than it deserves from the international nuclear pact reached last year.While no final decision has been made, officials told The Associated Press the Treasury Department has prepared a general license permitting offshore financial institutions to access dollars for foreign currency trades in support of legitimate business with Iran, a practice that is currently illegal.Several restrictions would apply, but the change could prove significant for Iran’s sanctions-battered economy. It also would be highly contentious in the United States, where Republican and several Democratic lawmakers say the administration promised to maintain a strict ban on dollars along with other non-nuclear penalties on Iran after last July’s seven-nation nuclear agreement.The nuclear pact provided Iran with billions of dollars in sanctions relief for curtailing programs that could lead to nuclear weapons. But the Iranians say they haven’t benefited to the extent envisioned under the deal because of other US measures linked to human rights, terrorism and missile development concerns.Kerry told MSNBC that Iran “needs to make some clear decisions about the role that it intends to play in the region and the world.”Kerry added, “if they’re cheating, we will know it.”Members of the committee also may press Shannon on the need for stricter sanctions against Iran for what Republicans have called repeated violations of a UN ballistic missile test ban.A group of Republican senators last month unveiled legislation that requires the administration to sanction every sector of Iran’s economy that supports the country’s ballistic missile program. The bill, introduced by Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, is a reflection of longstanding exasperation among GOP lawmakers who’ve complained that President Barack Obama has failed to properly punish Tehran for test-firing ballistic missiles.Iran’s Revolutionary Guard test-fired two ballistic missiles on March 9 and US officials said the launches were in defiance of the UN resolution, which calls for Tehran not to launch any ballistic missiles capable of delivering a nuclear weapon.The administration in January announced sanctions against Tehran for missile firings in late 2015, but Republicans called those measures tepid and weak.

US designates Paris attacks suspect a ‘global terrorist’-‘Belgian-born French citizen Salah Abdeslam is an operative for the Islamic State,’ State Department says-By AFP April 5, 2016, 7:17 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

WASHINGTON — The United States on Tuesday designated a leading suspect in last year’s jihadist attacks on Paris, Salah Abdeslam, as a “global terrorist” under US law.The order, announced by the State Department, freezes any assets held by Abdeslam in US jurisdictions and forbids Americans from doing business with him.“Belgian-born French citizen Salah Abdeslam is an operative for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,” it said, using a former name of the Islamic State group.The US Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control separately confirmed that Abdeslam’s name has been added to its list of specially designated foreign nationals.The 26-year-old was arrested on March 18 in a police raid on a hideout in the Brussels district of Molenbeek and is due to be extradited to France.He is accused of being the sole surviving member of a gang that launched a series of attacks on civilian targets in Paris on November 13 last year that left 130 dead.“Witnesses identified Abdeslam as the driver of a car full of gunmen that killed patrons at numerous restaurants in Paris,” the US statement said.“Authorities found his DNA both on a discarded suicide belt and along with traces of explosives in a Brussels apartment,” it added.“Abdeslam stated after his arrest that he planned on conducting a suicide bombing outside of the Paris soccer stadium, but had ‘backed out.'”Four days after he was arrested, the Belgian capital was struck by coordinated Islamic State suicide bombings at an airport and a metro station.The suspects in these attacks are alleged to have links to Abdeslam and the Paris attacks cell.Khalid El Bakraoui, who blew himself up at the metro, rented a flat in Brussels where Abdeslam’s fingerprints were found.And one of the two airport bombers, Najim Laachraoui, drove to Hungary with Abdeslam in September.

Scientists a step closer to pig hearts for humans-5 baboons, primate cousins of humans, live a record 2.5 years after transplant of pig hearts, American and German scientists report-By Mariëtte Le Roux April 5, 2016, 7:03 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

AFP — One day, cardiac patients may enjoy a new lease on life with pig hearts beating in their chests, said researchers reporting a major advance Tuesday in cross-species organ transplantation.Given the dire shortage of organ donors, the use of animal hearts, lungs or livers to save human lives has long been a holy grail of medical science.But organ rejection has stood stubbornly in the way.On Tuesday, scientists from the United States and Germany said they had succeeded in keeping transplanted pig hearts alive in baboons, primate cousins of humans, for a record 2.5 years.Their method uses a combination of gene modification and targeted immune-suppressing drugs.“It is very significant because it brings us one step closer to using these organs in humans,” said study co-author Muhammad Mohiuddin of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Maryland.“Xenotransplants — organ transplants between different species — could potentially save thousands of lives each year that are lost due to a shortage of human organs for transplantation,” he told AFP by email.In experiments with five baboons, the hearts survived for up to 945 days, breaking previous records held by the same group of researchers.The hearts did not replace those of the monkeys, but were connected to the circulatory system via two large blood vessels in the baboon abdomen.The transplanted heart beat like a normal heart, but the baboon’s own heart continued the function of pumping blood — a known method in studying organ rejection.Donor organs are often rejected by a recipient’s immune system, which can recognize it as foreign, and thus a threat.In this trial, the donor organs came from pigs which had been genetically modified to have high tolerance to immune response, basically making them invisible to the recipient’s natural defense system.The scientists also added a human genetic signature to the pigs that help prevent blood clotting.The recipient baboons were given a drug that suppresses immune response.-Safe for humans? Scientists have been experimenting with the transplantation of primate kidneys, hearts and livers into humans since the 1960s. None survived beyond a few months.Given their genetic proximity to humans, primates were initially thought to be the best donor candidates. But there is no large source of captive-bred apes — which take long to grow and mature, and some like chimpanzees are endangered.Their genetic closeness also poses a higher danger of inter-species disease transmission, as well as ethical questions.Pigs have since emerged as better donors. Their hearts are anatomically similar to ours, they pose less of a disease transmission risk, they grow up fast and are already widely farmed.In these xenotransplant trials, baboons serve as human models.The next big test will be full pig-to-baboon heart transplants, said Mohiuddin, adding that porcine hearts could make their way into human chests “in the foreseeable future.”“In our opinion, this regimen appears potentially safe for human application for patients suffering from end-stage organ failure who might be candidates for initial trials of xenotransplantation,” wrote the study authors.The work was published in the journal Nature Communications.

Virus killing one of world’s most farmed fish, Israeli study finds-Tilapia a global food source worth $7.5 billion each year, annual yields from Israel down 85 percent-By AFP April 5, 2016, 7:57 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

International scientists said Tuesday they have identified a new virus that is killing both wild and farmed tilapia fish, an important global food source worth $7.5 billion each year.The culprit is related to a family of influenza viruses, and appears to kill fish by causing brain swelling in tilapia in Israel and liver disease in the fish in Ecuador, said the findings in the journal mBio.The newly identified pathogen, named tilapia lake virus (TiLV), affects tilapia, the world’s second most farmed fish.“Tilapia is one of the most important fish industries worldwide,” said co-author Eran Bacharach, a molecular virologist at Tel Aviv University.“Moreover, because they eat algae, they are ecological gatekeepers for freshwater and they are an inexpensive, important source of protein in poorer countries.”Scientists still know little about the virus’ biology, where it originated, or how it made its way into Israel in 2009 and two years later, to commercial ponds in Ecuador. A future research paper will describe its effects in Colombia as well, the authors said.In Israel, the virus affected both wild tilapia species in the Sea of Galilee, and fish in commercial ponds.Annual yields from Israel have dropped as much as 85 percent.Knowing more about the virus could speed efforts to craft a vaccine.“We are shifting our focus now to implementing diagnostic tests for containment of infection and to developing vaccines to prevent disease,” said co-author Avi Eldar of the Kimron Veterinary Institute in Bet Dagan, Israel.According to researcher Ian Lipkin of Columbia University, “building a vaccine would save billions of dollars and preserve an industry that ensures employment in the developing world and food security.”

2,200-year-old bronze artifacts found at biblical site-Incense shovel, jug from Second Temple era unearthed at Magdala, on Sea of Galilee, during recent excavations-By Ilan Ben Zion April 5, 2016, 5:04 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

An ornate Second Temple era bronze incense shovel and bronze jug were recently unearthed at the biblical site of Magdala, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Tuesday.The 2,200-year-old artifacts were found during excavations being carried out at the archaeological site on the western shore of the Kinneret. The town is known traditionally by Christians as the birthplace of Mary Magdalene, one of Jesus’s followers mentioned in the New Testament who witnessed his crucifixion and resurrection.They were resting one on top of the another on a stone floor in a storeroom near the fishing village’s pier and likely belonged to a local Jewish family, archaeologists said.Ritual shovels were used in Jewish cultic practice for burning incense in the Temple in Jerusalem. They are depicted in contemporary Jewish iconography as one of the articles associated with the Temple.Dina Avshalom Gorni, the IAA archaeologist heading the dig, said that the incense shovel was one of just a handful from the land of Israel during that period.“At the beginning of the study we assumed that the shovel was used only as a cultic object for treating coals and incense used in ritual ceremonies,” Gorni said in a statement. “Over the years, after incense shovels were found with no cultic context, it would appear that the incense shovel was also used as a tool of daily use.”Last year a Hebrew University excavation at Khirbet el-Eika found a duck-headed incense shovel from a pagan context.The IAA began extensive excavations at Magdala after construction of a new hotel brought to light ancient remains in 2009. In partnership with Dr. Marcela Zapata-Meza of Anahuac University in Mexico, the digs have uncovered the remains of a synagogue, ritual baths, streets, factories and a marketplace from the Second Temple-era town. Since then volunteers from around the world have taken part in the excavations.“The volunteers were absolutely thrilled,” Eyad Bisharat, an IAA archaeologist supervising the site, said. “Even we veteran excavators were extremely excited because it’s not every day that one uncovers such rare artifacts as these, and in such a fine state of preservation.”

Lawmaker backs segregated Jewish, Arab maternity wards-Bezalel Smotrich says he doesn’t ‘enjoy’ Arabs’ company because they’re ‘enemies’; Bennett: They’re ‘created in God’s image’-By Daniel Douek April 5, 2016, 4:57 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich took to Twitter Tuesday to support the separation of Arab and Jewish mothers in maternity wards in Israeli hospitals.“My wife is truly no racist, but after giving birth she wants to rest rather than have a hafla” — a mass feast often accompanied by music and dancing — “like the Arabs have after their births.”The tweet followed a report on Israeli Radio saying that hospitals have been separating between Arab and Jewish mothers in maternity wards when the mothers request it.After his tweet received negative replies, Smotrich went a step further, writing: “It’s natural that my wife wouldn’t want to lie down [in a bed] next to a woman who just gave birth to a baby who might want to murder her baby twenty years from now.”He then added that “Arabs are my enemies and that’s why I don’t enjoy being next to them.”His wife, Revital, later told Channel 10 that she had “kicked an Arab obstetrician out of the [delivery] room. I want Jewish hands to touch my baby, and I wasn’t comfortable lying in the same room with an Arab woman.”“I refuse to have an Arab midwife, because for me giving birth is a Jewish and pure moment,” she said.Lawmakers attacked Smotrich’s comments, including MK Abd al-Hakim Hajj Yahya of the Joint (Arab) List, who sent a letter to Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein imploring him to immediately suspend Smotrich.“This kind of racist incitement affects an entire population, and as such cannot be ignored,” Yahya wrote in his official letter. “This man’s remarks directly harm the status of the Knesset. For this reason the Knesset speaker is asked to immediately relieve the transgressing MK from duty.”Yoel Hasson of the Zionist Union also came out swinging against Smotrich.“Some of our best friends are Jews who celebrate with particularly pleasant haflas,” Hasson tweeted at him. “I suggest you erase [your] racist tweet.”Haim Jelin (Yesh Atid) also slammed Smotrich. “As far as you know, God created all beings equally human, not racist,” he said.Ahmad Tibi tweeted cynically that “Smotrich’s spirit hovers over maternity wards throughout the country.”Aida Touma-Sliman (Joint List) linked Smotrich’s comments to racism against the Mizrahi, or Sephardic, Jewish community in Israel.“Beyond the overt justification for a racial segregation policy clearly similar to that which existed in the southern United States in the last century, Smotrich reveals something deeper here,” she wrote in a Facebook post. “This dangerous racist trend is not limited to the Arab culture, but extends to Sephardic Jews, Ethiopians, Russians, non-religious Jews and anyone who differs from the [political] right’s view.”The leader of Smotrich’s Jewish Home party, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, also expressed his dissatisfaction, implying the comments were racist. He quoted a passage from the Mishnah, the first major written redaction of the Jewish oral traditions, stating that “every human created in God’s image is favored,” and stressing in his own words that the text speaks of “every human, Jewish or Arab.”He linked his tweet to a post of his from 2015, where he wrote of a Shabbat he spent alongside his father’s hospital bed.“In a hospital there is no significance to race, religion, skin color, sexual orientation or political views,” he had written in that earlier post, naming “Khaled from Umm el-Fahm,” who lay in the bed adjacent to his father’s, as an example. “Everyone is human, and every human was born in God’s image.”Minneapolis-based American public radio PRI published an article February 2016 underlining the drastic fall in deliveries at Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus Hadassah Hospital as an indicator of the detrimental effect the Israeli-Palestinian violence has had on coexistence.The hospital’s dedication to coexistence, which earned it a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, has always been a principle of the highest value, according to the article.Following the rise in violence since October 2015, the report said, both Jewish and Arab women have been reluctant to give birth in the mixed Arab-Jewish ward out of fear, and often opt instead to give birth in a more homogeneous environment.All the hospitals cited in Tuesday’s Israel Radio report denied separating between Jews and Arabs in maternity wards, though some admitted that if they are asked to do so by a patient, they accommodate the request.The Health Ministry also denied the existence of a segregation policy, saying that “no separation on a discriminatory basis is allowed in hospitals. Health Ministry guidelines state that no separation by population is to be made — not by race, ethnicity, country of origin or any other factor.”Smotrich has a history of controversial statements. In August 2015 an Israeli NGO filed a complaint to the Knesset Ethics Committee against him over an interview in which he said gays control the Israeli media and the public agenda.A month before, in an interview to the Knesset Channel, he offered to serve as an executioner should Israel pass a death sentence for Palestinian terrorists.Five months earlier, during a discussion panel at a Ramat Gan high school, Smotrich boasted about being a “proud homophobe,” saying that gay people are welcome to be “abnormal” in their own homes, but shouldn’t “make demands of the state.”Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

If Auschwitz was the capital of crimes against Jews, Ravensbrück was the capital of crimes against women-UK author exposes the oft-forgotten horrors of a Nazi death camp for women-In ‘If This Is a Woman,’ Sarah Helm goes inside Germany’s Ravensbrück, where up to 90,000 women perished during the Holocaust-By JP O’ Malley April 5, 2016, 4:06 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

LONDON — Lying 50 miles north of Berlin, Ravensbrück was the only concentration camp the Nazis built with the sole intention to house female political prisoners. Opening up its gates in May 1939, just four months before the outbreak of World War II, it was liberated by the Russians six years later.Over 130,00 women passed through its gates. During its busiest period, towards the end of the war, the camp had a population of 45,000. Estimates of the final death toll are debatable, ranging from 30,000 to 90,000.Why, therefore, is so little known about a camp that eliminated tens of thousands of women on German soil? The wholesale destruction of evidence partially explains for this historical vacuum. In Ravensbrück’s final days, before the liberation by the Soviet Red Army, most prisoner’s files were burned by the Nazis and then thrown in the lake beside the camp.If Auschwitz was the capital of crimes against Jews, under the Third Reich, Ravensbrück, it seems, was the capital of crimes against women.At least that’s the argument British freelance journalist and author Sarah Helm makes with compelling conviction in her latest book, “If This Is a Woman — Inside Ravensbrück: Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women.”Backed up by a vast undertaking of research and interviews — including historical sources that were once locked behind the Iron Curtain — Helm’s book shows how one dedicated writer really can rescue history from the dustbin.Paradoxically, though, says Helm, when we begin chatting, the emergence of the Holocaust as a proper cultural global discussion, during the 1960s, was a contributing factor that ensured Ravensbrück became sidelined as a subject in the dominant historical discourse around Nazi Germany and its heinous crimes.“Obviously people had known about the Holocaust before [the 1960s],” says Helm. “But the consciousness had not taken a proper hold until after the Eichmann trial in 1961.”Understandably, then, says Helm, the sheer scale and horror of the Jewish Holocaust totally took over the narrative.“And so the story of the non-Jewish groups [that were exterminated] were treated as secondary.”Moreover, because these prisoners in Ravensbrück were all women, this important epoch of Nazi history was neatly dusted aside for decades hence, Helm explains. “Most mainstream historians at the time were men, so inevitably this subject was neglected.”‘Most mainstream historians at the time were men, so inevitably this subject was neglected’-It really wasn’t until the mid-1990s that female historians began to explore the stories of Ravensbrück with proper analysis. Before that, most women who passed through the camp were lucky if they got even a paragraph in the main history of the Holocaust, says Helm.Especially the German “asocials”: the homeless, the prostitutes, and the down and outs.“These women were sent off to gas chambers and were of no real interest to historians,” says Helm.Perhaps what’s most fascinating about the history of Ravensbrück is the way it transformed, over time, from an institution that housed political prisoners only, to eventually become the cruelest of Nazi death camps.“In the beginning Ravensbrück was very small,” says Helm. “It consisted largely of German women, who were either asocials or political prisoners. Basically anyone who openly opposed Hitler.”Many women in that particular group were Jewish says Helm. Although it appears they hadn’t at this early stage been placed there because of their racial status, but simply because of their political activity.By autumn 1944, Ravensbrück had become overcrowded. The vast numbers coming into the camp were the result of the enormous evacuation process in the East, where the Russians had begun liberating numerous camps, such as Auschwitz.Consequently, Hitler took the rather bizarre decision to take all the survivors out of these camps, and march them back to Germany.“Essentially, hundreds of thousands of destitute prisoners were being marched westwards,” Helm explains.The Hungarian exodus impacted massively on Ravensbrück too, especially the Jews of Hungary, many of whom were sent to Auschwitz. By October 1944 the Horthy government in Budapest had fallen, and Allied bombs had destroyed train lines.Thus transportation of people across Eastern Europe had become a major problem. Still, Hitler insisted that every last Jew be removed from Hungary before the Red Army arrived.Auschwitz was no longer operating after November 1944, so many [prisoners] began to be marched towards Germany,” Helm explains.“In this climate, [the Nazis] began taking the view that the only way to solve this problem was to kill more people.”Crucially, though, Helm makes clear, the killing that began at Ravensbrück during this time meant gassing ceased to be an ideological process of extermination. Instead, in the view of warped Nazi ideology at any rate, it became a practical way of controlling population numbers in horrifically overcrowded work camps.“The killing had to go up by 2,000 a month at Ravensbrück during this time,” says Helm. A way had to be found to speed up the killing process too. So a gas chamber was set up.“Parts of that gas chamber were said to have been brought directly from Auschwitz, which at that time had been dismantled,” says Helm.The title of Helm’s book may give the impression that the concentration camps in Nazi Germany were entirely Hitler’s brainchild, but almost every aspect of the camps were managed and planned with extraordinary detail by Heinrich Himmler.In her book Helm writes: “Adolf Hitler showed little interest in the concentration camps, but they lay at the center of Himmler’s empire; whatever went on behind their walls was signed off by his pen.”“Himmler was also behind the original idea of setting up the women’s camps too,” Helm insists.Although Himmler wasn’t the only person involved in the plans for the Final Solution, Helm claims that he did help oversee much of the process of setting up the camps in the East, which would eventually lead to the death of millions of Jews.Himmler was also a regular visitor to the camp in Ravensbrück too, says Helm. “He visited the camps because he wanted them to be as self-sufficient as far as possible.”Nor was Himmler’s decision to put the camps next to areas of natural beauty, such as lakes and trees, merely coincidental. Indeed, German forests played a central role in the mythology of the Heimat, or German soil. Take Buchhenwald, for example, one of the more famous Nazi concentration camps: its literal translation means Beech Forest.“Many of the camps were [purposely] located in places of great natural beauty,” says Helm.“Ravensbrück, for example, was located beside a lake. Other camps were similarly located in beautiful wooded areas. Himmler had read the literature on these historic sites. His idea was that nature would purify the German gene, and that the SS, and the Germans, would grow up pure and strong, like the trees in the woods.”“Himmler believed that the blood would be pure if the seed was planted near these very pure sites of nature,” adds Helm.‘Himmler believed that the blood would be pure if the seed was planted near these very pure sites of nature’In the epilogue of this meticulously detailed book — which runs to over 700 pages in length — Helm spends considerable time and ink dissecting at length why those in positions of authority involved in these horrendous atrocities at Ravensbrück were never brought to justice.The reasons are complicated. But one thing is certain: by 1948 the Allies had lost their appetite for punishing Nazis. Primarily because the Cold War had become the dominant theme on the intentional-political agenda.And, from 1949 onwards, the main responsibility for investigating Nazi crimes was handed back to German courts, many of whom, presumably, had been Nazis just a few years previously.Most notable among these perpetrators let off the hook were German industrialists. Especially, Helm argues, since their profits were needed to fight the Cold War.Siemens, the German electrical manufacturer, which had a factory located just at the edge of Ravensbrück, from 1942 onwards, is one company that notoriously got off scott free for its complicity in knowledge of war crimes. It has never publicly admitted it knew of the exterminations happening at the camp.“The gassing in Ravensbrück at this time was being kept secret,” says Helm. “But even still, Siemens continued to operate its factory.”The idea that the killing was being hidden from the Siemens management and guards is laughable, Helm believes. Moreover, the evidence clearly displays that prisoners knew perfectly well that Ravensbrück had become a death camp.“Siemens knew their own workers were prisoners, who at any given moment could be sent to their deaths,” says Helm.“And yet, not a single management figure, or director, from Siemens has ever been brought to account for what happened in Ravensbrück.”‘Siemens knew their own workers were prisoners, who at any given moment could be sent to their deaths’-Years later, though, as the extent of the Holocaust, and atrocities became clearer, there were strong moves — particularly with Jewish survivors based in Israel and international Jewish movements — for compensation to be paid out.However, the figures are paltry, Helm believes, “especially given the extent to which Siemens was complicit in these crimes, and the way it sided and collaborated with the Nazis.”The fact that the compensation only applied to Jewish victims too means the compensation paid out is not a true reflection of the crimes themselves either, Helm believes, especially since many of the victims were not Jews.“It’s unbelievable that Siemens is unable to come out in the open and confront the crimes it was deeply complicit in,” says Helm.Helm’s narrative concludes on a rather open-ended note. The story of Ravensbrück may have finally come out into the public domain after many years lying dormant, but this particular chapter of Nazi history, it appears, is not entirely complete.Of the estimated 3,500 women guards who passed through Ravensbrück, only a fraction have ever come under investigation in the German courts, mainly because Germany still doesn’t keep a proper record of the numbers they have charged, says Helm.“The system did not want to confront this subject. So very few of the guards from Ravensbrück were ever confronted or held to account for their actions,” says Helm.

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Pope Francis to visit Lesbos island-By EUOBSERVER-APR 5,16

Today, 18:25-Officials from the Greek Orthodox church have said Pope Francis is to visit the Greek island of Lesbos for a “symbolic and humanitarian visit" that is to last just a few hours. The date has not been confirmed. More than 88,000 migrants arrived in Lesbos this year.

Fighting ends in mini-war on Europe’s fringe By Andrew Rettman-APR 5,16-EUOBSERVER

BRUSSELS, Today, 18:38-Azerbaijan and Armenia on Tuesday (5 April) agreed to stop firing at each other after a four-day war that highlighted the fragility of Europe’s Caucasus region.Azerbaijan’s defence ministry said: “On 5 April at 12:00 [9AM CET], on the basis of a mutual agreement, military actions on the contact line between the armed forces of Armenia and Azerbaijan are halted."The Armenian defence ministry made a similar statement to Russia’s state-owned Tass news agency.Artak Beglaryan, a spokesman for the Armenian-backed government in Nagorno-Karabakh, told the Reuters news agency in Stepanakert, its main town, that: “There is zero fire from both sides.” But he added that “at this moment, there is no written agreement.”Nagorno-Karabakh is a mountainous region that broke away from Azerbaijan in an ugly ethnic conflict in the early 1990s.The latest flare-up in fighting began on Friday but there are different accounts of who started it.Azerbaijan said Armenian forces began firing heavy-calibre weapons across the contact line. But Armenia said Azerbaijan tried to capture territory in a tank assault with air support.The reported death toll also varied from over 100 on each side to between 15 and 30 on each side.The facts are hard to verify because there are few international staff on the ground.The OSCE, a Vienna-based intergovernmental body, is in charge of mediation via its so called Minsk Group - a club of French, Russian and US diplomats. But the group has just six unarmed monitors in the region, who tend to arrive on the scene a few days after each round of fighting ends.France, Germany, Russia, the US and the EU external action service had all appealed for calm ahead of Tuesday’s truce.EU foreign relations chief Federica Mogherini spoke by phone with Armenia and Azerbaijan's foreign ministers, urging "immediate de-escalation of violence."The OSCE also held a snap meeting in Vienna shortly after the ceasefire accord.Russia is the leading power in the region. It has a military base in Armenia and a treaty obligation to defend its internationally recognised borders. But it also sells weapons to Azerbaijan, an oil and gas-rich dictatorship.The recent fighting was the worst since full-scale hostilities ended in 1994.If the conflict reignites it could also draw in Turkey, which is Azerbaijan’s strategic ally and which hails from the same ethnic and linguistic group.Amid EU appeals to Baku and Yerevan for restraint, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday: “We pray our Azerbaijani brothers will prevail in these clashes.”David K. Babayan, another Nagorno-Karabakh spokesman, told press at the time that Baku would not have launched its raid without Ankara’s say-so. “Azerbaijan could not have taken this decision on its own,” he said.The South Caucasus region is a gateway for oil and gas pipelines to the EU bypassing Russia.It is also host to a frozen conflict between Russia and Georgia over Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions.

France to put Panama on tax-havens blacklist-By EUOBSERVER-APR 5,16

Today, 15:53-France will put Panama on its blacklist of tax havens, finance minister Michel Sapin told MPs, after the revelation of tax avoidance practices in the country. France removed Panama in 2012. It is listed by eight EU countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia.

Panama lawyers should testify at EU Parliament, says EPP-By EUOBSERVER-APR 5,16

Today, 12:34-Centre-right MEPs have called for the law firm Mossack Fonseca and the Panama government to testify in parliament's special committee on tax rulings over leaked documents showing widespread use of offshore firms. The Panama Papers revealed "organised, large-scale parasitism", said Burkhard Balz of the European People's Party (EPP) group.

Iceland PM steps down in offshore affair-By EUOBSERVER-APR 5,16

Today, 18:08-Iceland's prime minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson has resigned following the Panama Papers revelation that he had an offshore company. His Progressive Party has proposed minister of agriculture and fisheries, Sigurdur Ingi Johannsson, to become new PM. Gunnlaugsson remains the leader of the party.

Iceland president rejects PM's call for snap election-By EUOBSERVER-APR 5,16

Today, 17:22-Iceland's president Olafur Ragnar Grimsson refused to dissolve parliament and called for an election because prime minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson "could not confirm" his coalition supported the move, Grimsson said Tuesday. Gunnlaugsson is facing street demonstrations and calls to resign after the Panama Papers revealed he had a offshore company.

Europol: Europeans spend €24bn on illicit drugs each year-By EUOBSERVER-APR 5,16

Today, 15:49-Europeans spend €24 billion on illicit drugs each year, mainly cannabis and heroin, Europol said in a report. Drug trafficking, which has links with other forms of crime and terrorism, is "a key threat to the internal security of the EU", said EU police agency chief Rob Wainwright.

Sanders has edge over Clinton in fast-moving race in Wisconsin-Hunter Walker and Liz Goodwin-April 5, 2016-YAHOONEWS

Wisconsin has been a fast and furious fight for the Democratic presidential candidates. Both Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., set up operations in the crucial state, which votes Tuesday, only in the last few weeks.Most polls show Sanders with a single-digit lead in the race for Wisconsin’s 86 delegates. The Midwestern state, could now serve as a springboard for Sanders, building on a three-week hot streak since March 15, during which he has won five states and lost only one.But the Badger State might not be the answer to the senator’s prayers. Clinton’s current delegate lead means Sanders would need a huge win in the state — and in several more going forward — to threaten the frontrunner. But the favorable poll numbers have Sanders’ campaign aides hoping to build on the recent momentum as they seek to keep Clinton from clinching the nomination.Clinton’s campaign is keeping expectations low for the state. On Monday, her team sent a fundraising email with the subject line “We could lose Wisconsin.” Clinton’s presidential campaign manager Robby Mook sent out a memo outlining her “path forward.” The memo cited Clinton’s current delegate lead and noted Sanders cannot defeat her without winning “roughly 60 percent of the vote” in “the four remaining delegate-rich primaries — New York, Pennsylvania, California, and New Jersey.” Mook didn’t mention Wisconsin.Sanders has performed well in the Midwest, but so far those victories have not been enough for him to catch up to the lead Clinton built in the South and with minority voters. And Tuesday’s contest doesn’t look to be a blowout win for the Vermont senator.Wisconsin’s progressives have been drawn to Sanders, particularly in liberal Madison, the second largest city in the state.“He does well in Madison, he obviously does really well,” Jessie Opoien, a reporter who covers state government and politics for the Madison-based Cap Times, said. “He also does really well in the western part of the state, which is sort of that more traditional, progressive grassroots, kind of populist sensibility.”While Wisconsin’s electorate may favor Sanders, local leaders are largely backing Clinton.“I think people expect Bernie to pull it out … but there’s also a sense that, either one, it wouldn’t be a huge surprise,” Opoien said. “She’s got the establishment support. There’s no question of that.”Sanders’ recent wins made Wisconsin an unexpectedly important race, leading both campaigns to set up shop in a state they had largely overlooked. Joe Zepecki, a Democratic operative who is a veteran of many campaigns in the state, including President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election bid, said the fight for Wisconsin was “certainly not a months-long campaign.” Zepecki, who is not working for either of the current Democratic campaigns, said Clinton’s team set up shop “a couple of days” after Sanders’ did.Sanders’ Wisconsin director Robert Dempsey, who ran the show for the campaign in Minnesota as well, said the staff campaign effort in the state started about a month ago, and has focused on "very aggressive direct voter contact” through door-to-door canvassing and phone calls.“We are reaching out to Wisconsinites across the spectrum,” Dempsey said, including members of the state’s Native American population, who are “very important for our overall strategy.”He adds that although the campaign has only been in Wisconsin for a month, there was “a pretty aggressive volunteer base operation” in place for months before his arrival.Opoien agrees, noting that grassroots Sanders supporters have been mobilizing in Wisconsin for months now. She recalled seeing groups of Sanders supporters last September at “Fighting Bob Fest,” an annual progressive activist gathering in the state.“There were three or four different Bernie Sanders groups with tables there,” Opoien said of the festival.Clinton’s campaign would not comment directly on its strategy, but Clinton’s Wisconsin spokesman, Yianni Varonis, said her team has offices in seven cities across the state. Varonis said in a statement that Clinton has “a nearly insurmountable lead in pledged delegates” in the race overall but remains “committed” to Wisconsin.Clinton’s team includes operatives with deep experience in the state.The Clinton campaign in Wisconsin is run by Jake Hajdu, who was the executive director of the state’s Democratic party until last year and has extensive experience getting out the vote for Democrats in Wisconsin. Hajdu returned to Wisconsin after working for Clinton in Iowa and Maine.“Having him come back here made sense for them obviously to get stuff rolling quickly,” Opoien said, adding, “She’s got a couple of other folks working for her that have been involved in party politics here.”One possible wild-card factor is Wisconsin’s open-primary rules, which allow people from outside the party to vote in the race.“We’re an open state,” Zepecki says. “There’s no registration by party. You don’t even pick a different ballot up. Both races are listed on the same ballot.”But voters have to choose which primary they will vote in. In states that have voted so far, Sanders has done well with independents and in open primaries. Zepecki said Wisconsin may be decided by how many independents choose to vote on the Democratic side of the ballot. It could spell trouble for Sanders if the chance to vote for — or against — Donald Trump lures independents to vote in the Republican primary instead.“The only way I could envision a surprise, and that’s how I would characterize Clinton winning here, is if the independents go over to the Republican side,” Zepecki said.Another Wisconsin law that could impact the Democratic primary is a voter ID law that passed in the state in 2011 and has not yet been in place during a presidential race. Zepecki said the law could affect a key Sanders’ base — college kids.“If there is confusion and people … are disenfranchised I think it’s likely to be on college campuses,” Zepecki said. But “I think the order of magnitude is likely to be pretty small,” he added. “I think the universities have done all they can to educate folks and help them get what they need, but it has been a little confusing.”Sanders’ campaign has also tried to educate Wisconsinites on the new voter ID law, explaining to them that they must show up with a photo ID with their current address on it or some other proof of their residency. Sanders has called the law “voter suppression,” and Clinton has also denounced it.Dane County and its major city, the college town of Madison, is the main base of support for Sanders, but Dempsey said they have worked to drum up support across the state to win as many delegates as possible. Delegates will be awarded in each of Wisconsin’s eight congressional tickets rather than simply based on the total number of votes.“If we were running a governor’s race we’d look to jack up turnout in Madison and then we go home. That’s not how this works,” Dempsey said.But the delegate math could prove problematic for Sanders unless he performs far better than his promising poll numbers. Zepecki pointed to 2008 where President Barack Obama won just ten more delegates than Clinton in the state, despite beating her by a statewide margin of 18 percent. So, while Zepecki said a “five or six point victory” for Sanders is “expected,” he doubted it would change the daunting delegate math for him.“A horse-race win has always been nice in terms of momentum, but I’m not sure that the way the state sets up he’s going to be able to get a big delegate haul,” Zepecki said.

Obama trashes Trump plan to force Mexico to pay for wall-[AFP]-Jérôme Cartillier-April 5, 2016-YAHOONEWS

Washington (AFP) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday dismissed as "half-baked" a reported plan by Donald Trump to force Mexico to pay for a giant wall along the southern US border.The Republican frontrunner's promise to build the wall, in an effort to stop illegal immigration, and force Mexico to foot the estimated $8 billion bill is a cornerstone of his under-fire campaign to win the US presidency.In a memo that The Washington Post said the flamboyant New York tycoon handed over, the candidate said he would force Mexico's hand by threatening to cut off billions of dollars sent home by Mexican immigrants."This is another example of something that's not thought through and put forward for political consumption," Obama told a news conference in response."The notion that we're going to track every Western Union bit of money that's been sent to Mexico: good luck with that," he said.Remittances are one of the most important sources of income for Mexico along with oil and tourism.In 2014, more than $24 billion was wired into Mexico from overseas, including payments from immigrants not just in the United States but in other countries such as Britain and Canada, according to the World Bank.The outgoing Democrat president said ending remittances, many of which come from legal immigrants sending money to their families, would be "impractical."The policy was ill conceived, he said, warning that if the Mexican economy collapsed as a result, more immigrants would flock to the United States to look for work.People expect the US president and other elected officials to address serious problems with "policies that have been examined, analyzed, that are effective," he said. "They don't expect half-baked notions coming out of the White House."- Intimidation tactics -In the memo, Trump threatened to change a rule under the anti-terrorism Patriot Act that would cut off a portion of the funds sent to Mexico through money transfers, the Post reported.The paper said the feasibility of Trump's plan was unclear both legally and politically, and that the idea could decimate the Mexican economy and set up an unprecedented showdown between the United States and a key diplomatic ally.Trump's memo said the threat would be withdrawn if Mexico made "a one-time payment of $5-10 billion" to pay for the wall, the newspaper added."It's an easy decision for Mexico," it quoted Trump as saying in the memo, which the Post said was written on campaign stationery.Called "Compelling Mexico to Pay for the Wall," the document included other potential intimidation tactics such as increased trade tariffs, cancelling visas, and higher fees for border-crossing cards, the Post said.The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request to comment.Obama said Tuesday that foreign leaders were expressing concern about "some of the wackier suggestions" being made both by Trump and his closest Republican rival, evangelical conservative Ted Cruz."In some ways they are just as draconian when it comes to immigration," he said.The Texas senator is leading Trump in the Republican contest for Tuesday's Wisconsin primary where a win for Cruz could bolster his chances of snatching the Republican nomination from the real estate mogul.Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has made clear "there is no scenario" in which his country would pay for a wall. He has compared Trump's rhetoric to the rise of European dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.