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)
DISEASES-ANIMAL TO HUMAN
REVELATION 6:7-8 (500 MILLION DEAD EACH FROM THE 4 JUDGEMENTS)(2 BILLION TOT DEAD HERE)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 billion) of (8 billion) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS)(500 million) and with hunger,(FAMINE)(500 million) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES)(500 million) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE)(500 million).
THE COVID-19 TOTALS.
WORLD OVER ALL CASES 127,874,693 DEAD 2,797,699 AS OF MON MAR 29,21
DR ZELENKO ON COVID-19 RECOVERY-TAMAR YONAH
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DR VLADMIR ZE'EV ZELENKOS MIXTURE FOR RECOVERY OF COVID-19
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THE USELESS LAME BRAIN RACE BAIT DEMOLIBNUTJOBS MEDIA ALL CLAIM. ITS A CONSPIRACY THEORY TO SAY CHINA MADE COVID 19 IN A LAB. WELL THEN THE EX CDC BOSS IS ONE OF US CONSPIRACY THEORISTS WHO BELIEVE IT HAPPENED THAT WAY. GOOD LUCK RACIST RACE BAITING LEFT WING NUTJOB MEDIA.
Ex-CDC Director Robert Redfield floats ‘cover-up’ in China COVID-19 response-By Yaron Steinbuch-March 29, 2021 | 7:55am |in Wuhan was from a laboratory, you know, escaped.Ex-CDC director says he believes coronavirus originated in Wuhan lab
The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention slammed China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic — admitting that he could use the word “cover-up” to describe the country’s response to the virus, which has now killed more than 2.7 million people globally.“A year after this pathogen started, we’re now having a critical analysis of where it came from by scientists,” Dr. Robert Redfield told CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta on Sunday in a special report called “COVID WAR: The Pandemic Doctors Speak Out.”“It seems to me that some of the information is people are not being transparent about it. I could use the word ‘cover-up,’ but I don’t know that so I’m not going to speculate that.”China has repeatedly denied any cover-up.The former CDC chief also said he offered to send CDC workers to the country to assist with the outbreak of the deadly bug in January 2020, but the offer was never accepted.He said President Donald Trump even called President Xi Jinping, and that Alex Azar, the Health and Human Services secretary, made requests to China’s minister of health, both to no avail.“I think we could have learned very quickly that we’re dealing with a different beast than the one that everyone had sold us,” Redfield said.Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, waves to residents who are quarantined at home amid COVID-19.Chinese President Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, waves to residents quarantined at home amid COVID-19.The respected virologist also repeated his belief that the pandemic leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China — a controversial theory he cited without evidence — but added that he didn’t think it was intentional.“I still think the most likely etiology of this pathogen in Wuhan was from a laboratory — you know, escaped. Other people don’t believe that. That’s fine,” he told Gupta.“Science will eventually figure it out. It’s not unusual for respiratory pathogens that are being worked on in a laboratory to infect a laboratory worker.”Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, has disputed Redfield’s claims that SARS-CoV-2 was created in a Chinese lab, saying Redfield was merely expressing an “opinion.”However, Fauci did admit he was “always” skeptical about the COVID-19 data being reported out of China.“I always had skepticism about it because of what we went through with SARS,” he told CNN’s Gupta.“China was saying, ‘Oh it’s flu, it’s flu,’ and then the next thing you know, SARS was all over the world — in Canada, in Australia, all over the place. They were not very transparent in the past. It wasn’t outright lying. They just didn’t give you all the information.”Meanwhile, a joint World Health Organization-China study on the origins of the disease says that transmission of the bug from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is “extremely unlikely,” according to a draft copy obtained by the Associated Press.The report’s release has been delayed repeatedly, raising questions about whether Beijing was trying to skew the conclusions to prevent blame for the pandemic falling on China.But the AP received a copy Monday from a Geneva-based diplomat from a WHO-member country.It was unclear, however, whether the report might still be changed prior to the official release, though the diplomat said it was the final version.Another diplomat confirmed also getting the report. Both refused to be identified because they were not authorized to release it ahead of publication.The researchers listed four scenarios in order of likelihood for the emergence of the deadly virus.Topping the list was transmission from bats through another animal, which they said was likely to very likely. They evaluated direct spread from bats to humans as likely, and said that spread through “cold-chain” food products was possible but not likely.
WHO report to say animals probable COVID source, lab leak ‘extremely unlikely’Joint WHO-Chinese team probing coronavirus outbreak to conclude disease was probably passed from bats to another animal then humans, also to recommend further study-By Agencies-MAR 29,21-Today, 9:53 am
BEIJING — A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is “extremely unlikely,” according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press.The findings were largely as expected and left many questions unanswered. The team proposed further research in every area except the lab leak hypothesis.The report’s release has been repeatedly delayed, raising questions about whether the Chinese side was trying to skew the conclusions to prevent blame for the pandemic falling on China. A World Health Organization official said late last week that he expected it would be ready for release “in the next few days.”The AP received what appeared to be a near-final version on Monday from a Geneva-based diplomat from a WHO-member country. It wasn’t clear whether the report might still be changed prior to its release. The diplomat did not want to be identified because they were not authorized to release it ahead of publication.The researchers listed four scenarios in order of likelihood. They concluded that transmission through a second animal was likely to very likely. They evaluated direct spread from bats to humans as likely, and said that spread through “cold-chain” food products was possible but not likely.The closest relative of the virus that causes COVID-19 has been found in bats, which are known to carry coronaviruses. However, the report says that “the evolutionary distance between these bat viruses and SARS-CoV-2 is estimated to be several decades, suggesting a missing link.”It said that highly similar viruses have been found in pangolins, but also noted that mink and cats are susceptible to the COVID virus, which suggests they could be carriers.The report is based largely on a visit by a WHO team of international experts to Wuhan, the Chinese city where COVID-19 was first detected, from mid-January to mid-February.The idea of a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology is a hypothesis that was also promoted by former US president Donald Trump’s administration. Beijing has favored the theory that COVID-19 transmission came through frozen meat imported in frozen food packages.Peter Ben Embarek, the WHO expert who led the Wuhan mission, said Friday that the report had been finalized and was being fact-checked and translated.“I expect that in the next few days, that whole process will be completed and we will be able to release it publicly,” he said.The coronavirus pandemic has engulfed the planet, killing more than 2.6 million people and shredding the global economy since the first cases emerged in Wuhan in December 2019.It was only in January 2021 that a team of international experts assembled by the World Health Organization finally visited Wuhan to start a month-long investigation on the ground.The WHO mission was aimed at finding clues as to how the virus originally jumped from animals into humans.
Palestinians get Chinese-donated COVID-19 vaccines-Government-organised visit to the production line of COVID-19 vaccine by Beijing Institute of Biological Products of Sinopharm's CNBG-Mon, March 29, 2021, 11:12 AM
RAMALLAH, West Bank/GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinians on Monday received 100,000 doses of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine donated by China to help broaden an initial campaign to vaccinate medical staff, the elderly and the chronically ill.Palestinian health authorities have been mounting a limited vaccination drive among the 5.2 million people living in the Israel-occupied West Bank and Gaza, using vaccines provided by Israel, Russia, the United Arab Emirates and the global COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative.So far, more than 69,000 Palestinians have received their first dose of the vaccine, and around 7,600 people have had both shots, according to a health ministry statement.Israel has come under international criticism for not doing more to enable Palestinians living in areas it occupies to be inoculated, while its national vaccination drive has been one of the fastest and most efficient in the world.It says it has vaccinated more than 100,000 Palestinian workers with permits to enter the country or Jewish settlements in the West Bank but that the Palestinian Authority bears overall responsibility for inoculations in self-rule areas.After the arrival of the Chinese shipment, Palestinian Health minister Mai Al-Kaila said in the West Bank city of Ramallah that recent restrictions such as curfews and weekend lockdowns had helped to relieve pressure on crowded hospitals."We will continue (vaccinating) our medical staff in the clinics for the public sector and the private sector, dentists and pharmacists, (and) for other categories that have immediate contact with the population," Kaila told Reuters.The Palestinian Authority (PA) plans to cover 20% of Palestinians through the COVAX mechanism. PA officials hope to procure additional vaccines to achieve 60% coverage across the West Bank and in Gaza, which is run by the Hamas Islamist group.Health officials have reported 227,808 coronavirus cases and 2,511 deaths since the pandemic began.(Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi and Zainah El-Haroun; Editing by Jeffrey Heller and Raissa Kasolowsky)
Biden’s Passover Message: No Mention of God, Erases Jerusalem, Recommends Desecrating the Holiday-by Video Manager | Mar 26, 2021
In their holiday greetings, President Joe Biden and the First Lady praised the Passover holiday as a time to reflect on the adversity of the COVID pandemic and overcoming racism and prejudice. After praising the holiday in terms that neglected to mention God or the Jews, the president said that Jews would be observing the Biblical commandment of the Seder ritual “on a screen rather than side-by-side.” It should be noted that as per their religious mandates, it is forbidden for Jews to use electricity on the holy day, and doing so is a desecration. Jill Biden’s claim that Passover is “Jewish but its message is universal” borders on cultural appropriation and replacement theology. In his two-minute speech, Biden did not mention ‘God’, the Jewish people, or the Exodus from slavery in Egypt. He did explain that “Next year in Jerusalem”, the perennial declaration by the Jews that they will return to their eternal capital in Israel, should be “adapted” to be a COVID motto of “Next year in person.”The address by the Vice President, accompanied by her Jewish-from-birth husband, was no better. Kamala Harris explained that the Passover holiday was about the “resilience of the human spirit in the face of injustice.” She repeated the presidential motto of “Next year in Jerusalem; next year in person.”The “First Gentleman” hosted the White House Seder on Thursday night, two days before the actual holiday.
The Telegraph-New satellite images show North Korea may be preparing to launch ballistic missile submarine-Julian Ryall-Mon, March 29, 2021, 4:46 AM·3 min read
North Korea appears to be preparing to launch a new submarine capable of firing nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, with US and South Korean intelligence “thoroughly monitoring” developments at the North’s Sinpo shipyard.New satellite images of the shipyard, on the east coast of the peninsula, show that a floating dry dock has been positioned alongside the launch quay for the vast construction hall where the submarine is being completed.Analysis of the images by experts from The Stimson Center think tank and posted on the 38 North web site suggest the new vessel “may be nearing completion or is ready to be rolled out and launched in the near future”.The news came as European members of the Security Council requested an urgent meeting on Tuesday to discuss the North’s recent ballistic missile launches, which are in contravention of previous Security Council resolutions, with the possibility of additional sanctions on Pyongyang.Recent events suggest that Pyongyang is returning to the “fire-and-fury” diplomatic strategies of the past.Last week, North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles from its east coast, the first such launches in nearly a year and widely interpreted as Pyongyang’s first challenge to the new administration of US President Joe Biden.Under the terms of United Nations resolutions, North Korea is banned from firing ballistic missiles.On Monday, North Korea accused the United Nations Security Council of “double standards” for criticism of its recent missile launches.In a statement issued through the North’s KCNA news agency, a senior foreign ministry official defended the launches, saying, “Many other countries across the globe are firing all kinds of projectiles."Work to refurbish the Shinpo construction hall was completed in late 2016 and it is believed that assembly of the submarine began shortly afterwards.There are additional signs that the vessel may be ready to launch, the analysts said, including an official visit to the site in July 2019 by Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, during which images of the submarine were released by state media.Storage areas at the site that were as recently as last summer full of components for the craft are also now empty.“We are thoroughly monitoring the situation, with close coordination between the South Korean and US intelligence authorities,” a spokesman for the South Korean Defence Ministry told a press conference on Monday.The North has already conducted a series of tests, from submerged barges, to simulate the firing of a submarine-launched ballistic missile.The 2,720-tonne vessel that it is constructing is believed to be designed to carry three ballistic missiles and would theoretically be capable of sailing into the Pacific to threaten US military facilities in Hawaii or even the mainland of the continental US.The US military has warned that the North deploying such a weapons system would be a significant increase in its offensive capabilities and a new cause for concern, but analysts have told The Telegraph that the threat is more limited as US and Japanese underwater monitoring technology will allow the submarine to be closely tracked.
Rare coin rediscovered during conservation project of Jerusalem museum tower-Tower of David Museum’s team begins to treat structural crack in citadel’s highest viewpoint; conservationists find rare ‘Tyre shekel’ thought to be used for Temple upkeep tax-By Nurit Chinn-MAR 29,21-Today, 1:47 pm
A box of artifacts was rediscovered during a major conservation project to restore the stones of the “Phasael” tower of the Jerusalem citadel’s $40 million renewal project, the Tower of David Museum said Monday.Additionally, the team discovered a box of artifacts, originally excavated in the 1980s. Within it, they uncovered a rare silver coin from the Second Temple period — a “Tyre shekel.”Two images are imprinted on either side of the coin: On one face is Melqart, the chief god of the Phoenician city of Tyre, and on the other, an eagle.The coins were struck at some point between 125 BCE and the outbreak of the Great Revolt in 66 CE, when they were used to pay a half-shekel tax. Talmudic sources suggest that the Tyrian shekel was likely the only means of paying the head tax at the Temple for its upkeep.Although well-known in ancient and biblical sources, these coins are rare — only a few have been found. The coin will be displayed as part of the museum’s new permanent exhibition next year.During the planning stages of the project, conservationists discovered a large, structural crack running from the top to the bottom of the tower, which soon became the project’s central focus, according to the museum.As part of the team’s renewal project, conservationists cleaned and treated the stones of the tower — dating back more than 2,000 years — with temporary glue to maintain stability.A pipe system was then threaded within the tower, and liquid lime-based mortar injected into the cracks. This process helps the team ascertain how large the cracks are, by examining how far up the mortar rises.“The Tower of David is one of the most important structures in Israel, both in terms of its history and location. The last conservation project at the Tower of David was carried out in the 1980s. Since then, the citadel has been in desperate need of conservation,” said engineering manager Yotam Carmel.The final stage of conservation will be inserting metal anchors into the stones, which will be hidden from sight.The conservation team reported that a new monitoring system is being installed, which will detect movements in the tower’s structure.“In conservation of this kind, traditional materials such as lime plaster and traditional techniques such as stone carving are used in conjunction with high-tech solutions,” Carmel explained.The Phasael Tower is the only tower in the citadel which rises to substantial height, offering striking, panoramic views of Jerusalem. One of three large towers within King Herod’s ancient royal compound, it was the Phasael tower that was first dubbed the “Tower of David.”“Jerusalem touches millions of people throughout the world and I am aware of the huge responsibility in looking after one of its national heritage sites,” said Eilat Lieber, director and chief curator of the Tower of David Museum.“At this holiday time, we are grateful for this unique opportunity to physically preserve the walls and towers of this ancient site – that stood during the time of the Second Temple thousands of years ago, helping to preserve and conserve the site so that it continues to be a beacon in Jerusalem for future generations to come,” said Lieber.The Tower of David Museum chronicles the long, lively history of the city of Jerusalem and launched a massive renovation project when visitor numbers plummeted due to the pandemic.Next year, the museum will reopen to the public — in accordance with future health guidelines — with permanent and temporary exhibitions, archeological tours, and multi-sensory experiences.
US chip giant Nvidia to recruit 600 engineers in Israel to boost AI prowess-The US firm, which completed acquisition of Israel’s Mellanox Technologies in 2020, already employs over 2,400 workers in seven R&D centers including in Yokneam, Tel Aviv, Raanana-By Shoshanna Solomon-MAR 29,21-Today, 12:17 pm
US gaming and computer graphics giant Nvidia, which completed the acquisition of Israel’s Mellanox Technologies Ltd. last year for a massive $7 billion, said it will be employing some 600 hardware and software engineers and chip designers at a variety of levels in Israel to work on its AI-based technologies.The US firm, founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem as a graphics chip company, inventing the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), is today a leader in the field of artificial intelligence.Since its acquisition of Mellanox, a maker of high-speed servers and storage switching solutions used in supercomputers globally, the firm now employs over 2,400 workers in Israel in seven R&D centers, from Yokneam, the HQ of Mellanox, to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Ra’anana and Beer Sheva in the south.Its R&D activities in Israel are the largest by the firm outside of the US.Gideon Rosenberg, the head of HR at Nvidia Israel, said the firm continues to grow around the world. “We will be happy to recruit workers who have lost their jobs because of the coronavirus crisis or those who are looking for their next big challenge,” he said in a statement. “In the past year not only have we not furloughed or fired any workers, because of corona crisis, but we have continued to recruit hundreds of workers.”Nvidia, with a market cap of $318 billion on the Nasdaq compared to $264 billion for competitor Intel Corp., has replaced the latter as the largest US chip maker, and the second largest in the world, after Taiwan’s TSMC.Both Nvidia and Intel have R&D centers in Israel and compete for the same pool of talent. This competition is set to become even stiffer, as Google enters the fray. The US search engine giant said earlier this month that it is setting up a chip-making team led by a former Intel Israel executive.Nvidia has been active in Israel for the past decade, both selling its processors locally, buying stakes in startups like Zebra Medical, Deep Instinct, and Rocketrick, and setting up its R&D units.In 2016, the US firm set up its first R&D center in Israel and in 2018 set up a center dedicated to artificial intelligence and deep learning technologies, led by Prof. Gal Chechik, a former senior official at Google’s AI division, which focuses on human-machine interaction.
Christians mark Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, Bethlehem as COVID constraints eased-Masked worshipers parade from Mount of Olives to Holy City, in a happier and more populous celebration than last year; Christians attend services in the West Bank-By TOI staff and Agencies-MAR 29,21-Today, 12:07 pm
Hundreds of Christians were able to celebrate the start of Holy Week on Sunday together in Jerusalem and Bethlehem this year, a year after restrictions prevented in-person gatherings and celebrations.Although the Palm Sunday gatherings were still relatively small and abided by social distancing measures, small congregations of Christians gathered in churches and at religious sites.The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem was open to the public and welcomed Roman Catholics to honor the day. Recognized as the place where Jesus was crucified, buried, and resurrected, the Jerusalem church is one of the holiest Christian sites in the world.Later, worshipers marched in procession from the Mount of Olives to the Old City, following Jesus’ traditional route from 2,000 years ago. Among them was Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.“Last year was a terrible Easter, without people, closed doors. This year is much better, the door is open. We don’t have a lot of people, but we feel more hopeful that things will become better,” Pizzaballa told Reuters news agency.“The message of Easter is life and love, despite all the signs of death, corona, pandemic, whatever, we believe in the power of love and life,” he said.Additionally, Christians gathered for Mass in the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus.Palestinian Christians clutched olive branches in accordance with Palm Sunday tradition, and sang through their masks.Palm Sunday commemorates the day Jesus traditionally rode into Jerusalem, where he was greeted by cheering crowds bearing palm fronds, according to the New Testament. The day marks the start of Holy Week, which ends next Sunday with Easter.Orthodox Christians mark Palm Sunday next week.A year ago, Palm Sunday fell during Israel’s first lock-down, and celebrations were cancelled altogether, due to COVID-19 restrictions.Although thousands of worshipers usually attend, only a handful of Franciscan monks and Roman Catholic faithful were able to celebrate. They took to the streets of Jerusalem’s Christian Quarter in the Old City to distribute olive branches, travelling door to door and throwing the branches to Christians looking on from their balconies.Last week, the Health Ministry reported Israel’s lowest positive test rate in nearly a year, despite the lifting of restrictions. These improvements are accredited to the country’s vaccination campaign, which saw over half of Israel’s population fully immunized against COVID-19 so far.On the same day, Israel reported the low positivity rate, six Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations filed a petition with the High Court of Justice to demand Israel act to ensure the vaccination of Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, including by handing over surplus supplies of its own vaccine stocks.The statement said research has shown that there are 27 deaths every day from COVID-19 in the West Bank and Gaza, where the positive test rate for infections stands at some 20 percent.
Thousands at Western Wall for traditional Passover priestly blessing ceremony-In stark contrast to last year, when only a symbolic 10 people were permitted to participate, rolled back virus restrictions allow masses to reach Old City site-By TOI staff-MAR 29,21-Today, 11:04 am
For the first time in a year and a half, thousands of people were able to attend the traditional priestly blessing event at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on Monday, made possible by the rolling back of coronavirus restrictions ahead of the Passover festival.Traditionally, tens of thousands of Jewish pilgrims make their way twice a year to the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, on the intermediate days of the Passover and Sukkot festivals, with crowds of men and women spilling out from the Wall’s plaza to surrounding areas.As the COVID-19 pandemic reached Israel and the virus spread, mass public events were canceled, and last year, just a symbolic 10 people were permitted to gather at the Western Wall to perform the ceremony, part of the special holiday prayers.During Sukkot, last October, the priestly blessing was held, but with a greatly reduced number of participants due to still high numbers of virus infections — and Israel’s general population under a restrictive lockdown.This year, the Health Ministry permitted the ceremony to go ahead as usual, albeit with congregants divided into pods by clear plastic barriers and on the condition that hygiene rules were maintained.In addition, the blessing event was to be held on two days rather than the customary one, to enable large numbers of participants while limiting crowding.The ceremony, which sees male descendants of the Kohanim priestly caste gather to bestow a benediction, involves the raising of hands to perform the blessing, with those conducting the blessing wrapped in prayer shawls.The Western Wall is the closest spot to the Temple Mount where Jews can pray. Though they may visit the Mount, where the two ancient Jewish Temples stood, Jews are not allowed to pray at the holy site, which is overseen by a Jordanian custodian.Thousands of police and Border Police were deployed in the Old City to secure access routes to the event and the many visitors were expected to the Old City during the day.Vehicle entry to the area and along some surrounding roads was stopped to further enable movement of those arriving at the site, Israel Police said.Police asked the public to avoid driving to the area and instead use public transport.Israel has gradually eased many of the restrictions applied to curb the virus spread. Infection rates plummeted following a third lockdown that lasted over a month and a world-beating inoculation program that already last week reached the milestone of immunizing over half of the population.The government is aiming to vaccinate the entire over-16 population by the end of April.
Oil prices drop with partial refloating of megaship blocking Suez Canal-Both main oil contracts tumble more than 1% after salvage teams free cargo vessel; Asian markets follow Wall Street record as part of strong global rebound-By AFP-MAR 29,21-Today, 11:55 am
HONG KONG, China — Asian markets mostly rose Monday, extending last week’s positive finish and tracking a record-breaking lead from Wall Street, as investors focus on the economic recovery, while oil prices dropped on news that a cargo ship blocking the Suez Canal had been refloated.A below-forecast reading on US prices on Friday provided support as it eased fears that inflation caused by an expected strong global rebound will force central banks to wind back their ultra-loose monetary policies or hike interest rates.The week ahead will provide plenty for traders to get their teeth into including the release of key US jobs data for March and figures on manufacturing activity around the world.US President Joe Biden is also tipped to soon unveil the next leg of his economic recovery plan targeting infrastructure, which some suggest could come in around $3 trillion. That comes just as his recently passed $1.9 trillion stimulus begins to kick in.Still, that is causing some concern as the bill for this will likely be paid for by higher taxes, while there is also a worry that it will add to upward pressure on prices. US Treasury bond yields — a guide to future interest rates — are already sitting around one-year highs.Still, John Bilton, at JP Morgan Asset Management, said: “Inflation remains a persistent concern for investors. We expect headline inflation to be volatile in the second and third quarters, with the potential for some sticker shock as annualized base effects generate optically elevated year-on-year readings.“However, we believe that many of the secular disinflationary forces — globalization, technology adoption, etcetera — continue to anchor core inflation so that even allowing for huge policy stimulus, inflation rates should remain contained in 2021.”‘Double-edged sword’ Wall Street’s three main indexes finished Friday on a strong note, with the Dow and S&P 500 ending at all-time highs.And Asia built on the rally, with Tokyo, Taipei, and Jakarta all up more than one percent, while Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, Manila, Bangkok, and Wellington all enjoyed healthy gains. Sydney dipped, however, as Australian investors were spooked by news that Brisbane had been put into a three-day lockdown.Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a vial of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine during a visit to a vaccination center at the Health and Well-being Centre in Orpington, south-east London, February 15, 2021. (Jeremy Selwyn/Pool Photo via AP)-Optimism was also being supported by the success of vaccine rollouts in the United States and Britain, where infection rates are slowing and officials move to ease some lockdown measures.Even European markets were buoyant, despite the continent’s stuttering inoculation drive and rising infections, thanks to some forecast-beating economic data.But Axi strategist Stephen Innes said this week’s data releases would be crucial to driving further gains.“Given there is so much optimism in the economic reopening narrative baked into the price, it’s hugely important this week’s financial data, at minimum, meets expectations to maintain this ship on an even keel,” he said in a note.“But this could be a double-edged sword for pockets of the market as the combination of stimulus and robust data support equity prices. However, tech faces some challenges if the ‘risk-on’ signal manifests into higher real yields.”Both main oil contracts tumbled more than one percent after salvage teams were said to have finally freed a megaship which has blocked the Suez Canal for almost a week.Maritime services provider Inchcape’s tweet that the Ever Given had been refloated in the early morning means one of the most important routes for global trade and crude shipments can reopen.
Massive container ship blocking Suez Canal freed, partially afloat-Maritime traffic tracking sites say stern of the boat has moved away from the canal’s western bank; unclear when channel will reopen-By Isabel Debre and Samy Magdy-MAR 29,21-Today, 7:44 am
SUEZ, Egypt (AP) — Engineers on Monday “partially refloated” the colossal container ship that continues to block traffic through the Suez Canal, a canal services firm said, without providing further details about when the vessel would be fully set free.Satellite data from MarineTraffic.com showed that the ship’s bulbous bow, once firmly lodged in the canal’s eastern bank, had been wrested partially from the shore — although it remained stuck at the canal’s edge.The ship’s stern had swung around and was now in the the middle of the waterway, the tracking data showed. Although the movement represented the most significant progress yet, the salvage crew urged caution as obstacles loomed.Nearly a week ago, the skyscraper-sized Ever Given got stuck sideways in the crucial waterway, creating a massive traffic jam. The obstruction has held up $9 billion each day in global trade and strained supply chains already burdened by the coronavirus pandemic.At least 367 vessels, carrying everything from crude oil to cattle, were still waiting to pass through the canal, while dozens were taking the alternate route around the Cape of Good Hope at Africa’s southern tip, adding some two weeks to journeys and threatening delivery delays.The partial freeing of the vessel came after intensive efforts to push and pull the vessel with 10 tugboats when the full moon brought spring tide, Leth Agencies said, raising the canal’s water level and hopes for a breakthrough. Videos shared widely on social media appeared to show tugboats in the canal sounding their horns in celebration of the Ever Given being partly wrenched from the shore.However, the rescue team said the ship’s bow remained stuck in the sandy clay at the canal’s edge.“Don’t cheer too soon,” Peter Berdowski, CEO of Boskalis, the salvage firm hired to extract the Ever Given, told Dutch NPO Radio 1. “The good news is that the stern is free but we saw that as the simplest part of the job.”The toughest challenge remained at the front of the ship, he added, noting that workers would struggle to haul the fully laden 220,000-ton vessel over the clay of the canal bank.On Monday morning, an Associated Press journalist could see that the ship’s position had changed — where previously only the ship’s stern was visible, the ship’s side could now be seen.Lt. Gen. Osama Rabei, the head of the Suez Canal Authority, confirmed that the vessel had been partially refloated after responding successfully to “pull-and-push maneuvers.” He said that workers had straightened the vessel’s position by 80% and that the stern had moved 102 meters (334 feet) from the canal bank.The price of international benchmark Brent crude dropped some 2% on the news to just over $63.When high tide returns at 11:30 a.m. local time on Monday, salvage crews will resume their attempts to pull the ship into the middle of the waterway and toward the Great Bitter Lake, a wide stretch of water halfway between the north and south end of the canal, where it will undergo technical examination, he said.Overnight, several dredgers had toiled to vacuum up 27,000 cubic meters of sand and mud around the ship. Another powerful tugboat, Carlo Magno, arrived at the scene to join the work Monday, and the tugs would focus their efforts on the front of the ship, said Berdowski.Although the vessel is vulnerable to damage in its current position, Shoei Kisen Kaisha Ltd., the company that owns the Ever Given, dismissed concerns on Monday, saying that the ship’s engine was functional and it could pursue its trip normally when freed. It wasn’t clear whether the Panama-flagged, Japanese-owned ship, hauling goods from Asia to Europe, would head to its original destination of Rotterdam or if it will need to enter another port for repairs.The ship owners and operators did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the partial refloating of the vessel Monday.Ship operators did not offer a timeline for the reopening of the crucial canal, which carries over 10% of global trade, including 7% of the world’s oil. Over 19,000 ships passed through last year, according to canal authorities. Millions of barrels of oil and liquified natural gas flow through the artery from the Persian Gulf to Europe and North America. Goods made in China — furniture, clothes, supermarket basics — bound for Europe also must go through the canal, or else take a circuitous 5,000 kilometer (3,100 mile) detour around the southern tip of Africa.The unprecedented shutdown has threatened to disrupt oil and gas shipments to Europe from the Middle East and raised fears of extended delays, good shortages and rising costs for consumers.Canal authorities have desperately tried to free the vessel by relying on tugs and dredgers alone, even as analysts warned that 400-meter-long ship, may be too heavy for such an operation. As a window for a breakthrough narrows with high tide receding this week, fears have grown that authorities would be forced to lighten the vessel by removing the ship’s 20,000 containers — a complex operation, requiring specialized equipment not found in Egypt, that could take days or weeks.The salvage team’s next step is dredging beneath the vessel’s bow with high pressure water jets to wrench the ship from the clay, said Berdowski.“If that doesn’t work, then in the end you will have to remove weight and that can only happen by removing containers from the front,” he added. “But that is a process that will take time.”
Israel pleads the fifth: What the press is saying after another indecisive vote-As ballots are counted, pundits are laying out various scenarios based on math that will likely change and may not matter anyway, with many already gearing up for round 5-By Joshua Davidovich-24 March 2021, 3:52 pm
1. The after-math: Had Israel gone through four nearly consecutive elections but learned a valuable lesson about the unreliability of opinion surveys and exit polls, it may have been worth it. Alas, memory is a cruel mistress, so it was as voting drew to a close Tuesday night that TV channels started pumping up viewers for “dramatic” results (Channel 13) and a “tense” vote count ahead (Channel 12).In the end, it appears that the pollsters ahead of the election totally missed out on robust support for Blue and White, which had been written off for months, and then totally dropped the ball on the Ra’am party in exit polls, with all three channels showing the Islamist slate drawing nowhere near enough votes for four seats, let alone the five it is projected to be getting as of this writing.And so it was that Israel went to sleep with Yamina’s Naftali Bennett as kingmaker, based on an analysis of the premature numbers, and woke up with Mansour Abbas holding the key to the castle, or jail cell, depending on how you feel about the never-ending parade of democracy the county has been subjected to.“Compromises on the right or fifth elections,” reads the top headline on Israel Hayom’s print edition, out of date in its attempt to pressure potential Likud partners into lining up behind Benjamin Netanyahu before it even hit the newsstands.Haaretz went as far as devoting its lead editorial to urging Bennett to stay away from Netanyahu.“Bennett, his Yamina colleagues and all the rightists in the ‘anyone but Bibi camp’ have a responsibility to stop Netanyahu, who won’t hesitate to use any means to escape justice. They must prevent the governing coalition of his dreams, which would be the most extremist, nationalist and benighted in Israel’s history.”But by Wednesday morning, Bennett has essentially been unceremoniously shunted into the Netanyahu camp by much of the media, since he doesn’t matter much anymore anyway. Instead Ra’am’s leap over the threshold with most votes counted is the new difference-maker, as news outlets busy themselves with watching the votes trickle in and calculating the seat totals for each party, and the blocs they assume each will fall into. “Netanyahu has no majority with Bennett,” reads the top headline on Channel 12’s news site.“With nearly 90 percent of votes counted, Netanyahu lacks clear path to majority,” reads the top headline on Haaretz’s website. 2. Married to the Mansour: Well the path is there, but some compromises may have to be forged, and some strange bedfellows made. “If I understand correctly, the coalition of Bibi, [Itamar] Ben-Gvir, [Bezalel] Smotrich and a few more known Arab lovers depends on the support of a party that came out of the Muslim Brotherhood,” tweets ToI contributor Avi Issacharoff. “Enjoy.”Ra’am leader Mansour Abbas tells Kan that “we won’t be in anyone’s pocket, we want to be part of the government, but we won’t sit with those who will put us down.” Ynet points out that Netanyahu made clear in a visit to the studio a week ago that he would never agree to lead a government dependent on Ra’am’s support, as if anything a politician says before an election has any currency the minute the vote ends, as if they were somehow bound by their comments.Channel 12 reports that “Abbas is tearing Likud apart,” after party member Tzachi Hanegbi tells the channel it can reluctantly work with Ra’am, leading Likud colleague Shlomo Karhi to go on the air and declare that such an opinion “is unacceptable. This is a man who has no place in a right-wing government — he throws all Likud’s values into the trash.”“Who is Shlomo Karhi?” responds Hanegbi. “When I leave the studio, I’ll google his name.”Israel Hayom reports that after the Likud rhubarb, party officials have been prohibited from giving interviews.Likud whip Miki Zohar tells Channel 13 that the party needs to explore “all, but all options… to avoid fifth elections.”On Channel 12, Aviv Bushinsky says a fifth election is a near-certainty, since nobody will defect from their camp to join Netanyahu. But writing for the same outlet, fellow strategist Moshe Klughaft sounds an optimistic tone: “In order to prevent a fifth election, someone will have to break a promise. And everyone vowed to avoid a fifth election.” 3. Will you be my friend? In that vein, Likud appears to be gearing up to find anyone who will join it. “Sa’ar come home,” reads the headline on a column in Israel Hayom by Netanyahu groupie Jacob Bardugo, referring to New Hope’s Gideon Sa’ar.Minister Eli Cohen tells Army Radio that the party is “taking Benny Gantz into account. It could actually be a stable government — he could be defense minister, interim prime minister,” he says, apparently in seriousness.But even Likud’s faithful partners may be having second thoughts. “We’re saying ‘Netanyahu,’ but we’re going with the right-wing, the traditional approach. We’re not saying ‘Netanyahu and nobody else,’” UTJ’s Uri Makleb tells Army Radio.Haaretz’s Nir Hasson notes that Netanyahu’s victory speech didn’t seem very victorious. “Netanyahu worked hard to convey a victorious air on election night during Israel’s last three elections. This time, his speech was cautious. He referenced the looming threat of a fifth round of elections again and again, seemingly to pressure the Knesset members he will need to enlist to his cause in the coming days.”“Netanyahu’s best hope given Tuesday’s exit poll results is to establish that 61-seat coalition just to prove that he can, and then fish around among opposition lawmakers for defectors who might be willing to cross over to Likud, thereby growing and stabilizing his narrow coalition. It’s a reasonable strategy, but it depends on two things coming true: He must beat the exit polls and win 61 seats, and he must find willing defectors,” writes ToI’s Haviv Rettig Gur.“Last time, Netanyahu managed to peel none other than his great nemesis Benny Gantz away from the center-left camp in exchange for a rotation deal he never intended to carry out. A year later, that trick won’t work again. His treatment of Gantz makes his search for defectors this time around much more difficult.” 4. A for effort: As for Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, nobody gives him much of a chance to make any headway, with the options basically seen to be Netanyahu as prime minister or a fifth election.In Haaretz, Uri Misgav praises the anti-Netanyahu bloc’s ability to fight the right to a tie as a “near heroic achievement.”He calls Lapid “a leader and a gentleman, who once again demonstrated responsibility and maturity by lifting his foot from the accelerator that threatened to run down Meretz and Labor…. Lapid’s nobility and sensibility kept his own Yesh Atid party from crossing the 20-Knesset seat barrier that it deserved, in favor of preserving the possibility of preventing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Itamar Ben-Gvir from forming a nightmarish government.”Zman Yisrael’s Shalom Yerushalmi writes, though, that “a government of Bennett, Lapid, Benny Gantz, Avigdor Liberman, Gideon Sa’ar and Merav Michaeli, supported by Ra’am and the Joint List is one big shaky structure. There’s no natural political linkage, and no necessary minimum of shared ideology.”Walla points out that if there are 61 anti-Netanyahu MKs, they can get together without forming a government and push out Netanyahu anyway by appointing a new Knesset speaker who will forge ahead with a law banning a prime minister under indictment.The one thing everyone can agree on is that until all the votes are counted, we won’t know anything. According to Channel 12, the double envelope votes won’t be done being checked until Friday morning.Or, perhaps we can skip the wait and find whatever oracle Ra’am’s pollsters are using. On Twitter, Globes employee Salam Sharkiaa publishes a chart showing internal Ra’am polling from a week earlier projecting it getting 155,342 votes. As of this writing, the party has 155,279 votes.
Yesh Atid leader reportedly set to meet with Joint List-Lapid and Abbas hold talks on forming government, say will continue discussions-Ra’am leader said to demand voting freedom on LGBT matters, freeze on nation-state and Kaminitz laws, Bedouin village recognition, plan to eradicate crime in Arab communities-By TOI staff-28 March 2021, 1:08 pmUpdated at 1:40 pm
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid met Sunday with Mansour Abbas, whose Islamist Ra’am party has emerged as a potential kingmaker after the fourth inconclusive elections in two years.The meeting took place at Lapid’s home in Tel Aviv and according to the Kan public broadcaster, was facilitated by Taibe mayor Shuaa Masarwa Mansour, who is close to both party leaders.Lapid and Abbas “discussed the possibility of forming a new government. At the end of the meeting, the two sides agreed to continue talks between them in the coming days,” Ra’am said in a statement.According to the Ynet news site, the Islamist party chief presented a number of demands for potential support, including voting freedom on LGBT matters, a freeze on the controversial Jewish nation-state law and the Kaminitz Law (legislation seen as targeting Arab illegal building), as well as recognition of unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev.Abbas also said there would also need to be a concrete plan to work to eradicate crime in Arab communities, the report said.Ra’am later denied reports on its demands to Lapid, calling them “rumors.”The meeting came a day after Ayoub Kara, a lawmaker from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, met with Abbas. Kara told Army Radio he received requests from within Likud to visit Abbas, but didn’t specify from who.Abbas told Nas Radio on Sunday that his party was “not inclined more to either [the pro- or anti-Netanyahu] camp. We are the third camp, and are closer to our Arab community and its interests… especially of our people in the Negev, in the unrecognized villages.” He highlighted the surging “violence and crime in the Arab sector,” and the community’s “social and economic difficulties.”Netanyahu repeatedly ruled out relying on Ra’am to form a government in the run-up to the March 23 elections, calling the party anti-Zionist. However, some Likud lawmakers have entertained partnering with Ra’am following last week’s elections, which saw the premier and his right-wing religious allies again fall short of a majority.Ra’am’s backing could grant Netanyahu’s Likud-led bloc a majority if the right-wing Yamina faction also supports it.However, the seemingly improbable possibility of the Islamist party doing so appeared to shrink further after both Ra’am and members of the far-right Religious Zionism party ruled out joining forces. An unsourced Channel 13 report on Saturday said Netanyahu will work in the coming days to try to get Religious Zionism head Bezalel Smotrich and his far-right faction partner Itamar Ben Gvir to soften their stance toward Ra’am.The meeting between Lapid and Abbas came as the so-called “change bloc” in the incoming Knesset was holding intensive discussions as it attempts to create a blueprint for an alternative government to one led by Netanyahu — but such efforts were marred by fighting over who should lead the bloc, as well as radically differing ideologies and political red lines that could doom any such effort from the onset.According to Hebrew-language media reports on Sunday, Lapid has reached out to the Arab-majority Joint List and is expected to hold meetings with the faction in the coming days.On Friday, Lapid met with Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman for the first time since Tuesday’s election to discuss ways to cooperate. The two agreed to remain in touch and meet again soon, a spokesperson for Yesh Atid said.Meanwhile, in a statement Friday, Yamina leader Naftali Bennett said he’d spoken over the past two days with the heads of all non-Arab parties from the right and the left, wished them a happy Passover, and “stressed the need to take responsible, principled action in order to release Israel from chaos and allow it to return to functioning properly as soon as possible.”According to a report by Channel 12 news Friday night, one proposal on the table was for Lapid and Bennett to lead a “national government of healing” for a limited period of time, possibly a year, during which time the two would rotate the premiership between them.The report said such a coalition would be a minority in the Knesset, composed of the 52 seats of Yesh Atid, Blue and White, Yamina, Labor, New Hope and Yisrael Beytenu, supported from the outside — or at least not opposed — by Meretz and the majority-Arab parties.This government would ensure the passage of a state budget for the first time since 2018 and aim to stabilize the country and the economy in the wake of the political chaos and coronavirus pandemic, before a new election is called.The proposal also suggests that once such a government is formed, it will seek to bring in the ultra-Orthodox parties who currently remain resolutely in Netanyahu’s camp — apparently assuming Haredi lawmakers’ loyalty to the premier will be tested once he and they are no longer running the government.However, the report noted that such a plan requires parties to jump through many hoops, some of them potentially insurmountable — chiefly the need for right-wing parties Yamina and New Hope to agree to form a government with the tacit support of the Arab, non-Zionist parties, a move that could be political suicide for those parties’ leaders among their right-wing base.New Hope leader Gideon Sa’ar and Yamina’s Bennett met at the latter’s home to discuss potential cooperation, Channel 12 reported. Sa’ar has vowed not to join a Netanyahu-led government, while Bennett has not done so but is widely seen as preferring not to ally with the prime minister.The report said Sa’ar made it clear to Bennett that he would not fight him for leadership of the “change bloc.”Associates of Bennett told Channel 13 on Friday that there was no chance he’d abandon Netanyahu’s bloc unless he is prime minister first in the new government, and not Lapid. But the network also said Lapid is currently seeking to get a majority of votes from party leaders when they head to give President Reuven Rivlin their recommendations on April 5, and to be the first to be given a crack at forming a government.Meanwhile, the network said Netanyahu, despite winning only 59 seats for his bloc of supporters (if Bennett’s Yamina party is included in the count), is making great efforts to woo former Likud MK Sa’ar over to his side and clinch a majority. Through emissaries, the premier offered his longtime rival a deal by which he will resign after one more year in power and hand the premiership to him.Sa’ar, noting the similarity to Netanyahu’s 2020 power-sharing deal with Blue and White’s Benny Gantz, one Netanyahu avoided honoring, was said to respond wryly: “Tell him only on the condition that Deri is a guarantor.”Minister of the Interior Aryeh Deri, head of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, was famously reported to have vowed to Gantz that he’d ensure Netanyahu honored their coalition deal, only to eventually renege on that promise.
13 Thou shalt not kill.(Murder)(THAT INCLUDES ABORTION)
MATTHEW 18:6
6 But whoso shall offend (HURT) one of these little ones (CHILDREN) which believe in me,(JESUS) it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY FOLKS)
EXODUS 21:12
12 He that smiteth (MURDER)a man,(OR BABY) so that he die, shall be surely put to death.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY PEOPLE)
REVELATION 9:20-21
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,(OCCULT) and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,(DRUG ADDICTIONS) nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)
U.S. Supreme Court takes up bid to revive defense of Kentucky abortion law-Lawrence Hurley-Mon, March 29, 2021, 10:00 AM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a bid by Kentucky's Republican attorney general to defend a restrictive state law, struck down by lower courts, that abortion rights advocates have said would effectively ban the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy.Attorney General Daniel Cameron has asked the justices to let him intervene in defense of the Republican-backed law after Democratic Governor Andy Beshear's administration dropped the case.The Supreme Court is being asked to decide only that narrow issue, and not whether the law violates Supreme Court precedents holding that women have a right to obtain an abortion. Abortion opponents are hopeful that the Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, will curb abortion rights.Abortion rights advocates have said the 2018 law would effectively ban an abortion method called dilation and evacuation - the most common form of abortion performed during the second trimester of a pregnancy.The law was passed by Kentucky's legislature and signed by a Republican governor, but Beshear subsequently was elected and decided not to continue to defend the measure after the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck it down in June 2020. The 6th Circuit later that month declined to allow Cameron to intervene to defend the law.The 6th Circuit ruling came just five days before the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision struck down a Louisiana law that imposed restrictions on doctors who perform abortions. Cameron wants to be able to ask the 6th Circuit to reconsider its ruling against the Kentucky law in light of language contained in the Louisiana decision.The Kentucky law was one of a growing number passed by Republican legislators at the state level imposing a variety of restrictions on abortion. The state's previous governor, Republican Matt Bevin, had defended the law.(Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Will Dunham)2
