Monday, December 16, 2013

THEY CLAIM BUDDAH TEMPLE IN INDIA COULD BE ZONE OF PEACE

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

MATTHEW 24:4-5,11,24-25
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many (MILLIONS) shall come in my name,(JESUS-I AM) saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.(MILLIONS)(THIS IS DEFINATELY THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT)
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.(CALIFORNIA THE NEW AGE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD-SO NO WONDER SAN FRANSICO IS THE SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS CAPITAL OF THE EARTH ALSO).

1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits,(NEW AGE MOVEMENT) and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;(NEW AGERS BELIEVE SATANS LIES OF NO SIN,POSSITIVE THINKING,PEACE,LOVE,JOY,UTOPIA)

MARK 13:22-23
22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.

2 TIMOTHY 3:13
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

DEUTORONOMY 18:10-12
10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire,(OCCULT SACRIFICES) or that useth divination,(NEW AGER AND CRYSTALS ETC) divination n. The art or act of foretelling future events or revealing occult knowledge by means of augury or an alleged supernatural agency.) or an observer of times,(Meaning of observer. ... for sketching it. horoscope - Comes from Greek hora, hour, time, and skopos, observer.) or an enchanter,(The word enchant is derived from the Latin word incantare which refers to uttering an incantation or casting a spell). or a witch,(WITCH. Definition: [noun] a female sorcerer (SORCERY IN THE BIBLE IS DRUGS OR OCCULT ACTIVITY) or magician.)
11 Or a charmer,(charmer means a dealer in spells, especially one who, by binding certain knots, was supposed thereby to bind a curse or a blessing on its object.) or a consulter with familiar spirits,(function as mediums or psychics) or a wizard,(MALE WITCH-influence; a magical spell WITH WANDS) or a necromancer.(one seeking unto the dead.)
12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

OH NO-I CAN HEAR THE NEXT CONSPIRACY THEORY ALREADY.THIS MANDELA STATUE THEY WILL CLAIM IS THE STATE FROM DANIEL CHAPTERS 2 AND 7.THEY WILL CLAIM WHEN THE 3RD TEMPLE IS BUILT IN JERUSALEM ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT.THIS STATUE WILL BE PUT IN THE 3RD TEMPLE AT THE MIDPOINT OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.AND THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS WILL CLAIM THAT THIS IS THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION SET UP IN THE 3RD TEMPLE.THAT DEFILES AND POLLUTES THE 3RD TEMPLE.AND TO GO WITH THE BUDDAH-PEACE TEMPLE.THESE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS WILL HAVE A HAY DAY DREAMING UP THEIR IMAGINATIONS AND SCHEMING UP NEW CONSPIRACY THEORIES.ALREADY THEIR SAYING MANDELA DIED BACK IN JUNE ALREADY.AND JUST UNFROZE HIS BODY FOR THE OFFICIAL BURRIAL YESTERDAY.WHICH THEY CLAIMED TODAY.THE OCCULT TEMPLE SERVICE WOULD BE DONE AT NOON.MEANWHILE HE WAS BURRIED YESTERDAY AND THE NEWSPAPER PROOF I GAVE USE EVEN SAID THE 12 NOON BURRIAL DEADLINE WAS MISSED BECAUSE THE SERVICE WENT TO LONG. 

Mandela statue unveiled in South Africa capital

Associated Press

South Africa President Jacob Zuma, second left, shakes hands to pose for the media with Mandla Mandela the oldest grandson of former South Africa President Nelson Mandela after unveiling a 9 metre bronze statue of Nelson Mandela outside Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday, Dec. 16, 2013. The statue was unveiled as part of the Day of Reconciliation Celebrations which occur annually on Dec. 16 at the Union Buildings, which this year fall on the structure's centenary. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa has unveiled a gigantic statue of anti-apartheid fighter Nelson Mandela to cheers and singing at the Union Buildings in its capital.The mood was joyous Monday in Pretoria as a military band played and fighter jets flew overhead to honor Mandela after 10 days of mourning over his death ended Sunday with his burial.President Jacob Zuma presided over the unveiling, which preceded a party in celebration of the Day of Reconciliation, a national holiday.The statue stands on the grounds of the Union Buildings, where Mandela delivered his inaugural speech after becoming South Africa's first black president in 1994.The buildings had been a hated symbol of the apartheid regime to many South Africans.Mandela was buried Sunday at his ancestral home in the village of Qunu.

Buddha's birthplace brings light to Nepal

ALJAZEERA-DEC 16,13

Discovery of earliest Buddhist temple in Nepal could transform the country into a 'zone of peace'.

Last updated: 12 Dec 2013 07:03
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Buddha's birthplace, believed to be in Nepal, marks the origin of Buddhism [Getty Images]
The discovery of the world's earliest Buddhist temple, marking the birthplace of the Buddha south of the Himalayas in Nepal, could give a powerful push in the drive to lift nearby villagers out of  crushing poverty.
Visits by some of the world's 500 million Buddhists to this holy site near Nepal's border with India could help the region create a framework for sustainable development linked to these pilgrimages, said scholars involved in the discovery.Archaeologists recently revealed they had uncovered a wooden structure, surrounded by an open-air courtyard, that dated from 2,550 years ago and was situated directly beneath a brick temple built three centuries later to venerate the birth of the Buddha.  The uncovering of the long-buried shrine and courtyard, believed to have hosted the tree under which the Buddha was born, provides the clearest evidence ever of when Prince Siddhartha Gautama walked the Earth and began outlining his pathway toward enlightenment and Nirvana. The earliest Buddhist chronicles all record that Queen Maya Devi gave birth to the Buddha in the mystical Lumbini Garden, but none provides a clear-cut date for the event.British archaeologist Robin Coningham, who led the international team that excavated the structure, said in an interview that there is a good reason for conflicting chronologies of the Buddha's birth and life: "Writing in South Asia didn't really spread until about 300 BC." That means details of the Buddha's life and teachings were passed down orally for centuries before being written down.
British archaeologist Robin Coningham [National Geographic] 
That led to present-day estimates on the Buddha's birth that have varied between 800 BC and 400 BC, he said.
But now, the discovery of the earliest shrine at Lumbini, and the use of leading-edge dating technologies to calculate its age, have led Coningham and his team to determine the temple was built around 550 BC. 
"Ritual activity [at the shrine] could have commenced either during or shortly after the life of the Buddha," Coningham and nine other scholars state in an article published in the December issue of the British journal Antiquity.  
Remarkable find
Unveiling evidence confirming key details of the Buddha's nativity narrative and timing might ultimately be rated as one of the century's most remarkable archaeological finds.Barbara Moffet, a spokesperson at the National Geographic Society, which helped support the excavation of what could be the world's very first Buddhist shrine, said, "It's not every day that we discover something that opens a window on the birth of a major world religion." 
The Washington, DC-based group filmed key discoveries made during the unearthing of the shrine, and will broadcast a documentary, "Buried Secrets of the Buddha" in February on National Geographic Channel.
Coningham, a professor at Durham University in the United Kingdom, said as archaeologists from Britain and Nepal set out to explore the ancient shrine at the center of Lumbini's Sacred Garden, an unending stream of Buddhist monks and nuns from around the world circumambulated the site, chanting prayers over the emerging temple.He spent three years excavating the Lumbini shrine, which had been buried beneath an entire sequence of later temples, working alongside some of Nepal's leading archaeologists, headed by Kosh Prasad Acharya, former Director General of the Department of Archaeology in Nepal.Finding new pieces in the puzzle of the origins of Buddhism 25 centuries ago via this simple wooden temple marks "a really important finding in the study of Buddhist archaeology," said archaeologist Keir Strickland, who co-authored the study, "The earliest Buddhist shrine: excavating the birthplace of the Buddha, Lumbini (Nepal)."In Lumbini, you can already see monasteries that have been built by Japan, China, Myanmar, and Cambodia ... The government of Nepal wants to develop Lumbini as a centre of peace.
- Ram Prasad Subedi, Embassy of Nepal in Beijing

Professor Coningham said he hopes the reemergence of this temple will benefit not only Buddhist scholars and followers across the globe, but also the present-day compatriots of the Buddha – villagers who toil the fields amid the amazing topography of Nepal and the punishing poverty born of living in such a remote location."In the area around Lumbini," he said, "more than half the population lives on less than one and one-half dollars per day." 
The International Monetary Fund estimated Nepal's per capita GDP at US$522 in 2010, and only 9 percent of its 30 million citizens are now plugged into the Internet, according to the Internet World Stats website.
Sacred sites
Painting new details on the mosaic of the Buddha's origins could give momentum to a UNESCO plan, being financed by the Japanese government, to simultaneously promote further archaeological explorations around Lumbini, conserve sacred sites that are being uncovered, and liberate nearby villagers from the shackles of impoverishment."It should be possible to balance sustainable pilgrimage with sustainable conservation" as part of a master plan that benefits the region as a whole, Coningham explained. Hundreds of thousands of Buddhist monks, nuns, and tourists now make the pilgrimage to Lumbini's mandala-like matrix of sacred sites every year, and that figure could rise rapidly over the next decade as the area raises its global profile.To pave the way for the rise of the Buddha's birthplace in the world atlas of Buddhist pilgrimage sites, the Asian Development Bank has provided nearly $90 million in funding to expand Lumbini's roadways and airport.  "This is a positive move," Coningham said, for the people of Nepal, which is landlocked between the giants China and India.Govinda Gewali, who is monitoring the project from the ADB office in Nepal, said the runway at Lumbini's Gautam Buddha Airport will be extended to accommodate international flights, which will allow more of the world's half-billion Buddhists to tour the site.This expansion is slated for completion in June of 2017, when the airport will be able to handle 1 million international passengers per year, said Kenichi Yokoyama, the ADB's country director in Nepal.
Buddha hub
Meanwhile, Counsellor Ram Prasad Subedi at the Embassy of Nepal in Beijing said the discovery of the ancient temple at the centre of the Sacred Garden where the Buddha was born "will definitely boost Lumbini's significance and attraction as a holy place".
A Buddhist monk deep in meditation [National Geographic] 
Nepal's government now aims to boost the number of international tourists who visit the Himalayan nation to 2 million annually by 2020, compared with 800,000 who arrived in 2012.  Part of the drive to attract more visitors is aimed at the global Buddhist community."In Lumbini, you can already see monasteries that have been built by Japan, China, Myanmar, and Cambodia, and so many countries support the master plan for Lumbini's development," said Subedi. "The government of Nepal wants to develop Lumbini as a centre of peace."
Lumbini's expanding glow as a pilgrimage site and as a symbol of cross-cultural understanding "is a great thing for Buddhists and people who believe in peace all over the world," he added.UNESCO is now perfecting a blueprint to reach out to potential donors across the planet who are willing to help protect one of the world's most important religious regions while benefitting local inhabitants, said Axel Plathe, UNESCO Representative to Nepal.
The current excavations and archaeological discoveries made at Lumbini, Plathe added, "were the result of a UNESCO project that was funded by the government of Japan."Inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1997, the group described Lumbini in glowing terms: "As the birthplace of the Lord Buddha - the apostle of peace and the light of Asia - the sacred area of Lumbini is one of the holiest places of one of the world's great religions, and its remains contain important evidence about the nature of Buddhist pilgrimage centers from a very early period."UNESCO's envoy to Nepal, who has been closely involved in overseeing the archaeological exploration of the region, said that the temple and monastery now being brought to light after being hidden for more than 2000 years are transforming age-old legends of the Buddha into modern-day facts.
Zone of peace
In a UNESCO description of the Lumbini site, Plathe said its Buddhist groves and waterways form a dreamlike sanctuary: "Sacred trees, beautiful flowers, celestial splendor, eternal tranquility - these are the elements that constitute the place where Siddhartha, the Lord Buddha, was born."
Buddhists number about 500 million [National Geographic]
UNESCO and its partners, Plathe said, aim to guide Lumbini's development into an expanding zone of peace, featuring modern schools and hospitals, that fosters an ongoing dialogue involving the world's diverse cultures and peoples.The envoy said he hopes the new global spotlight on the site of the Buddha's birth will spark more patrons of culture and conservation around the world to help plan and finance Lumbini's future.
Coningham added that the Sacred Garden, nearby monastic zone, and outlying pilgrim's village have been attracting explorers from virtually every point on the planet.This confluence of cultures swirls around the ancient pilgrimage site.  "The Sacred Garden is still used by local Hindus, who also go there to celebrate," he added.Coningham, who has become over the past weeks perhaps the world's best-known archaeologist, said the team leading the exploration of the ancient temple and nearby sites is scheduled to release a comprehensive book on its findings, titled "Excavations at Lumbini," in 2014.

EU ADITORS REPORT-A FINANCIAL SCANDAL

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)

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.

Trans-Pacific Partnership: Bigger and More Dangerous Than ObamaCare (Video)

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William F. Jasper
thenewamerican.com
December 15, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHYlZb65gVY
We all remember Representative Nancy Pelosi’s infamous statement that we have to pass the ObamaCare legislation so that we can find out what’s in it. That was in 2010 and Mrs. Pelosi was then speaker of the House of Representatives.Well, Congress followed her advice and passed ObamaCare, formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Three years later, in October of 2013, tens of millions of Americans began finding out what was really in the bill, as they began receiving health insurance cancellations and/or massive premium hikes. They also began to learn that under ObamaCare the IRS has been given new powers to go after them, their businesses, and their bank accounts. And that is only the beginning. As with all legislation, the devil is in the details, and lots of devils keep popping out of the constantly evolving details, as dozens of federal agencies continue churning out thousands of pages of regulations to implement the misbegotten, misnamed Affordable Care Act.There are many important lessons from ObamaCare that we should apply to another huge project that could have a similarly devastating impact on our nation. In November 2009, President Obama announced his intention to have the United States participate in a so-called trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I say so-called trade agreement because 80 percent of the proposed agreement deals with a great many issues besides trade.The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, as it is called, is an all-out assault on our national sovereignty. It would unconstitutionally transfer legislative powers from the U.S. Congress, our state legislatures, and our city and county governments to multi-national corporations and unaccountable international bureaucrats at the World Trade Organization, or WTO. Incredibly, it also would transfer judicial powers from our federal and state courts — which are bad enough — to globalist TPP judges at regional tribunals and the WTO. It would also confer huge advantages on foreign businesses and large multinationals, while at the same time putting companies that operate here in America — especially small and medium-sized enterprises — at a competitive disadvantage. American businesses would remain shackled by the regulations of EPA, FDA, OSHA, etc. while their foreign competitors could operate here unimpeded by those same strictures.Like the infamous NAFTA trade agreement passed in the ’90s, the TPP would usher in another wave of outsourcing, as the remaining manufacturing and technology bases would be given incentives to move to Pacific Rim countries, resulting in millions more American job losses.With TPP negotiations on track to be completed by the end of 2013, President Obama will likely ask Congress to approve this trade agreement in early 2014. Contact your senators and representative and urge them to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and see the many additional articles listed below the video that we’ve published detailing the dangers of the TPP.

Mandatory lobby register requires EU treaty change

14.12.13 @ 08:08-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS - A treaty change or a unanimous decision from member states is needed to make the EU-joint transparency register mandatory.“To get a legal base, we need a treaty change,” German centre-right MEP Rainer Wieland, told this website on Friday (13 December).“And we expect the commission to come up with a proposal for a legal base,” added Wieland, who heads the parliament’s working group on the joint transparency register.A review of the register on Thursday recommends the European Commission come forward with a proposal to adapt the EU Treaty to make it compulsory.The idea still has to get screened and approved by the parliament’s constitutional affairs committee before a formal proposal is put forward to the commission.Should the treaty change idea fall apart then the commission needs to put together another proposal by 2016, which would require unanimity among EU member states.Wieland said this is the least favourable of the two options because it would exclude the parliament from having any influence.“It is also possible the commission does not want to come with a proposal because it is out of any reach to get a decision of the council,” he said.If no decision is made, then the transparency register will come up for review again in 2017.Parliament sources say European commissioner for inter-institutional affairs Maros Sefcovic wants to keep the register voluntary in order to attract more entries.The commission’s official line is that making the register mandatory would be too difficult.“It would raise a great number of complex legal issues, in particular with regard to the scope of the register, and compliance with other articles of the treaties,” it said in a statement.The two sides came together to review the register and instead put forward some 30 recommendations to improve it.One idea is to expand the scope to include all lobbying activities no matter where they take place geographically.Another is to make a distinction between for profit and non-profit agencies.Both the MEPs and the commission agree incentives need to be put in place to encourage more people to register.The working group wants to shut out the exceptions to a rule that requires registration to access parliament buildings.“These incentives include facilitating access to EP premises, the possibility to be consulted by the commission as experts or by heard at EP committee hearings,” notes the working group.
But Olivier Hoedeman at the Brussels-base Corporate Europe Observatory described the recommendations as “incredibly vague.”He noted the commission meets with major corporations that are not in the registry like US investment bank Goldman Sachs.The commission, for its part, estimates up to 75 percent of all relevant business-related entities and around 60 percent of NGOs operating in Brussels have registered.Nearly 6,000 organisations are currently in the register, although pro-transparency groups say numerous entries are either out of date and contain errors.Registrants are required to update the data once a year and on issues they lobbied on in the previous year.

EU data retention law said to breach privacy rights

13.12.13 @ 09:20-EUOBSERVER
BRUSSELS - The EU data retention directive breaches the charter of fundamental rights, an EU advocate general has said.“The directive constitutes a serious interference with the fundamental right of citizens to privacy,” said Pedro Cruz Villalon, an advocate general at the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice, in an opinion out on Thursday (12 December).The 2006 directive has generated considerable controversy over the years because it allows governments and intelligence agencies to track and store data on the movements, meetings, phone and Internet use of every EU citizen.Operators are required to retain details of emails and telephone calls for up to two years in a database specifically designed for police access.
“The directive treats everyone as a suspect, it monitors everyone, it puts everyone under surveillance,” said TJ McIntyre of Digital Rights Ireland, who took the case to the court almost seven years ago.Villalon’s opinion is not binding but is still seen as a major victory by pro-rights advocates because the court’s judges often come to the same conclusion.A final court verdict is expected sometime in the first half of next year.
“It bodes very well for the final judgement, it is a very measured, a very balanced opinion, and I think it is one the court’s will find very influential,” said McIntyre.Villalon says the European commission has to come up with better reasons to justify the directive.The Spanish advocate says safeguards need to be set up to limit access because the retained data is at risk of being used in unlawful, fraudulent, and malicious ways.He suggests using courts or independent bodies to screen access requests instead of just allowing a loose interpretation of a ‘serious crime’ to justify police probes.“It should have required a case-by-case examination of requests for access in order to limit the data provided to what is strictly necessary,” notes the opinion.Principles should have been set up, it says, so that authorities authorised to access the data are required to erase them once no longer useful.Authorities should also have to notify people their data was accessed, at least retrospectively, if they are innocent or if the notification presents no risk to criminal investigations.The opinion casts some doubt on fines levied against member states, which did not fully transpose the directive into national law on time.Sweden over the summer was fined a lump sum of €3 million because of the delay.Germany is also under the commission’s scrutiny.Last year, the Brussels executive took Berlin to the court after it refused to transpose it. Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court annulled the directive in 2010.The commission wants Germany to pay a daily penalty payment of €315,036.54 for each day after the Court ruling until the country ceases to be in breach of EU law.The German case is still on-going.“You can’t say there is an obligation to implement the directive, while at the same time the advocate general has said the directive should be regarded as invalid. At a minimum, the case should be put on hold,” says McIntyre.A contact at the Court said it would be difficult for a member state to be in breach of a directive that no longer exists, should it be annulled.“There are some very special cases where EU law can be deemed to be non-existant, which basically means it had never been valid, ever, and anything that it has caused to happen should be reversed,” he said.The European Commission, for its part, says they are working on improving the directive but must take into account existing EU data protection laws like the e-privacy directive.“It doesn’t really make sense to review or make a change of the data retention directive if these other elements are not in place,” said European Commission spokesperson for home affairs, Michele Cercone.

Op-Ed: The EU Auditors Report: A PA-EU Financial Scandal

Published: Sunday, December 15, 2013 6:48 PM-Israelnationalnews
European taxpayers are supporting a massive fraud.


The European Union (EU) has become embroiled in a financial scandal of massive proportions in relation to the financial assistance given by it to the Palestinian Authority (PA) since 1994.This appears very clear from the comprehensive European Court of Auditors Report dated 22 October 2013 which was only made public this week.
The Report reveals the following:
1. During the period 1994–2006, more than 2.7 bil­lion euro was allocated to the Palestinian Authority from the EU’s general budget.
2. Between 2007 and 2012 some 2.9 billion euro was committed from the EU general budget. The main focus of EU assistance involved direct financial support (DFS) - which accounted for 47.4 % of the overall assistance in the period 2007–12.
3. DFS was the EU’s response to the political, fis­cal and humanitarian crisis that followed the temporary suspension of most aid to the PA following Hamas’ January 2006 election victory. A ‘temporary international mechanism’ (TIM) was established which aimed to ensure the direct delivery of assistance to the Palestinian population while bypassing a Hamas‑led government.
4. TIM - initially set up for 3 months - operated between June 2006 and February 2008 - until replaced by the current mechanism – PEGASE - which is largely based on TIM.
5. PEGASE DFS has had the broad objective of helping the PA continue to function until the overall political objective of a two state solution is achieved.
6. The main objective of PEGASE DFS is to help the PA to meet its obligations towards civil service employees and pensioners (CSP) and maintain the functioning of the administration and the provision of essential public services to the population;
7. Support for civil servants and pensioners comprised 72.5 % of total funding.
8. Since the launch of PEGASE DFS in February 2008, few substantial changes have been made to the CSP component. This is in spite of changes in the operational environment, including the increasing number of beneficiaries, the rise in the number of civil servants not attending work after public sector strikes in Gaza in August–September 2008 and the growing need for civil service reform.
9, The EU has not developed a clear strategy on how to reduce the PA’s dependency on PEGASE DFS support over time.
10. From 2008 to 2012, the average number of civil servants and pensioners that regularly had part of their salary paid by contributions from the CSP component rose from 75 502 to 84 320. This represents approximately half of the PA’s 170 000 civil servants and pensioners.
11. The PA has made little progress on civil service and pension reforms to reduce the fiscal impact of the increasing numbers of staff and pensioners, for example, by reducing the number of PA staff or amending the rules regulating entitlements.
The audit found indications that in Gaza a considerable number of civil servants were receiving salaries - partly funded by PEGASE DFS - because they were eligible for support by virtue of being on the PA payroll but who were not going to work due to the political situation in Gaza. Some civil servants were dismissed after the Hamas takeover because they supported the PA, while others were demoted or locked out following the PA trade union strikes of August– September 2008.
12.Out of 10 Gaza beneficiaries selected by the audit for interviews, three stated that they were not working, while one was absent. The audit also found that the State Audit and Administra­tive Control Bureau was obliged, in accordance with PA regulations, to pay salaries for its 90 staff members in Gaza, all of whom are unable to work.
These findings are consistent with estimates based on data from interviews provided in a 2010 evaluation of PEGASE contracted by the EU which indicated that 22 % and 24 % respectively of the staff employed by the PA Ministries of Health and Education in Gaza were not working at the time.
13. The EU, while aware of this problem, has not taken adequate steps to address it and was unable to provide clear information on the extent of this practice. Given the amount of money which the EU is providing through PEGASE DFS, it would have been ex­pected that they could obtain such information from the PA.
14. Despite the importance of this issue, there was no transparent reference to PEGASE DFS being used to pay non‑performing workers in any of the EU’s financing documentation for the annual programs.
15.While PEGASE is intended to support public services for the benefit of the Palestinian Arab population, the payment of non‑performing civil servants does not serve this objective
Spending hundreds of millions of dollars supposedly supporting the salaries of public servants that no longer occupy those positions and doing nothing to arrest this expenditure - although knowing it was happening - indicates an appalling standard of financial irresponsibility for which the EU has become famous.
This financial gravy train seems set to continue while:
1.  Hamas and the PLO refuse to reconcile their differences
2.  The PLO rejects any kind of settlement with Israel that entails Israel obtaining sovereignty in any part of the 'West Bank'.
The European Union is on a treadmill from which it must now extricate itself.
The obvious solution is to make sure EU money gets to the most needy  – not phantom employees who have been having a financial feast at European taxpayers expense.

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

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

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.

ISAIAH 31:5
5 As birds flying,(PLANES) so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;(WITH PLANES) defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.(NUKE OR BOMB ISRAELS ENEMIES)

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)

ISAIAH 14:12-15
12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(SATAN HAS PROUD I PROBLEMS)
15  Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

Op-Ed: Annex the Land Before the "End of Jewish History"

Published: Sunday, December 15, 2013 7:14 PM-Israelnationalnews
The "End of Jewish History" is not as farfetched as Fukiyama's predictions for the world. Nor is a repetition of the fate of the Ten Tribes.



Everybody knows that it is either going to be “settlements” or a “Palestinian State”. Both cannot cohexist side by side.
The fate of Jewish life in Judea and Samaria is the most important single defining issue for the future of the Jewish people.After Yasser Arafat convinced the Israelis that "delivering" Arabs to the Jews is something his people couldn’t tolerate, Israel has convinced herself that she can deliver many Jews to the Arabs.This is the real meaning of John Kerry’s “security promises”.Declaring partial sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, the alternative suggested by those Israelis who made a religion out of security, will not ease the tremendous pressure on the State of Israel and the Jews. Partial sovereignty will lead to the point where the security situation will be even worse, and Israel might fatally decide to abandon every inch of the Biblical heartland.However - exactly as there is no solution to the Old City of Jerusalem, where separation is impossible unless Israel relinquishes the Jewish Quarter and the Western Wall, the State of Israel in Judea and Samaria has now only two alternatives: annexing all the land (at least Area C where all the Israelis live) in the name of Jewish rights, or facing a new catastrophe, a new cataclysm, a new diaspora, a new cycle of exile, or at worst, a new Holocaust, whether violent or not.Everybody knows that it is either going to be “settlements” or a “Palestinian State”. Both cannot cohexist side by side.And a “Palestinian State” means the deportation of at least 100,000 Jews - or up to many times that number - and the annihilation of an entire Jewish civilization in Judea and Samaria.And it might mean something even worse: it might mean the end of Jewish history. Why is that? Two exiles, in 586 B.C. and in 70 A.D., created the conditions for a dispersion and isolation. Only a miracle made it possible for the Jewish people to survive under forced conversions and gas chambers. What if the third Jewish commonwealth, which is based in Tel Aviv, Naharya and Hevron, meets the fate of the first two? No people could survive it, again. Not even the Jews.Yes, Jewish leftist coteries will continue to exist in New York and hareidi ghettos might be seen in Antwerp. But destroying Jewish life in Judea and Samaria and exposing the Jewish life on the coast to an inexorable calamity, means delivering the Jewish people in its entirety to the fate of the Ten Tribes.They were Jews who melted away into history. Disappeared. Forever.Muslims prefer the sword rather than the UN resolutions to determine boundaries. The 1947 boundaries have already been washed away by the blood of 6,500 Israelis who gave birth to the State of Israel with their lives.Do we want the post-1967 boundaries to be washed away by blood of millions of Jews? Because we all know that the only real goal of all Palestinian Arabs, both “moderate” and "radical", is the Blue Line. That of the Mediterranean.

EARTHQUAKES

ISAIAH 42:15
15  I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

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

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

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

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide

38 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-12-15 14:30:31 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)38 earthquakes in map area
  1. 2.8 49km WNW of Talkeetna, Alaska 2013-12-15 14:03:20 UTC-05:00 96.9 km
  2. 4.7 124km WNW of Tofino, Canada 2013-12-15 13:11:49 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
  3. 2.7 10km S of Morovis, Puerto Rico 2013-12-15 12:50:44 UTC-05:00 12.0 km
  4. 4.8 48km ENE of Kushiro, Japan 2013-12-15 12:17:42 UTC-05:00 83.1 km
  5. 3.5 133km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-12-15 11:42:51 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
  6. 3.6 89km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-12-15 10:43:18 UTC-05:00 57.0 km
  7. 4.7 110km ESE of Kitaibaraki, Japan 2013-12-15 10:35:15 UTC-05:00 43.8 km
  8. 2.8 62km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-12-15 10:30:05 UTC-05:00 58.0 km
  9. 2.8 66km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-12-15 09:28:55 UTC-05:00 47.0 km
  10. 4.3 79km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina 2013-12-15 09:27:42 UTC-.5 km
  11. 2.6 46km NNE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-12-15 08:50:01 UTC-05:00 41.0 km
  12. 5.2 8km E of Huicungo, Peru 2013-12-15 07:55:16 UTC-05:00 63.1 km
  13. 2.6 45km SSW of Keokea, Hawaii 2013-12-15 07:36:55 UTC-05:00 7.0 km
  14. 4.5 104km SSE of Shizunai, Japan 2013-12-15 06:43:29 UTC-05:00 40.9 km
  15. 2.8 66km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-12-15 04:56:17 UTC-05:00 52.0 km
  16. 2.8 73km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-12-15 04:55:30 UTC-05:00 18.0 km
  17. 2.7 43km SE of Esperanza, Puerto Rico 2013-12-15 04:50:13 UTC-05:00 39.0 km
  18. 2.8 9km WNW of Greenville, California 2013-12-15 04:24:34 UTC-05:00 0.0 km
  19. 3.0 3km W of San Juan Bautista, California 2013-12-15 04:22:44 UTC-05:00 5.9 km
  20. 2.9 3km W of San Juan Bautista, California 2013-12-15 03:44:36 UTC-05:00 5.8 km
  21. 4.5 37km SSE of Amukta Island, Alaska 2013-12-15 03:34:48 UTC-05:00 43.7 km
  22. 3.0 76km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-12-15 03:31:03 UTC-05:00 27.0 km
  23. 4.7 28km SSW of Ovalle, Chile 2013-12-15 03:01:02 UTC-05:00 47.0 km
  24. 4.4 3km N of Anatahan, Northern Mariana Islands 2013-12-15 01:45:18 UTC-05:00 1.0 km
  25. 4.4 122km SE of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2013-12-15 01:30:18 UTC-05:00 395.6 km
  26. 2.5 64km SSW of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska 2013-12-15 01:19:26 UTC-05:00 129.8 km
  27. 4.5 102km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines 2013-12-15 00:42:34 UTC-05:00 103.8 km
  28. 2.8 2km SSW of Springtown, Texas 2013-12-14 23:54:16 UTC-05:00 4.8 km
  29. 4.3 30km N of Piru, Indonesia 2013-12-14 22:47:17 UTC-05:00 46.7 km
  30. 5.0 156km NE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia 2013-12-14 22:07:09 UTC-7 km
  31. 2.5 6km WSW of Avenal, California 2013-12-14 21:33:04 UTC-05:00 11.4 km
  32. 4.6 251km S of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2013-12-14 20:14:22 UTC-05:00 550.1 km
  33. 2.5 81km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-12-14 19:08:17 UTC-05:00 54.0 km
  34. 4.1 4km SE of Tuxpan, Mexico 2013-12-14 17:33:44 UTC-05:00 105.9 km
  35. 2.9 3km W of San Juan Bautista, California 2013-12-14 16:41:08 UTC-05:00 5.3 km
  36. 3.3 52km NW of Atka, Alaska 2013-12-14 15:58:02 UTC-05:00 198.7 km
  37. 2.5 123km SSE of Old Iliamna, Alaska 2013-12-14 15:30:26 UTC-05:00 4.3 km
  38. 2.5 11km SSE of Cherokee, Oklahoma 2013-12-14 14:45:15 UTC-05:00 0

Sunday, December 15, 2013

TORAH PORTION FROM DEC 15-21,13

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

TORAH PORTION FROM DEC 15-21,2013
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2010/12/parshah-shemot-exodus-11-61.html 

POPES CRACKDOWN WORRIES TRADITIONAL CATHOLICS

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN

REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he (FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER) exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

Pope's crackdown on order alarms traditionalists

Associated Press
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis may have been named Time magazine's Person of the Year, but he has come under scathing criticism from a growing number of traditionalist Catholics for cracking down on a religious order that celebrates the old Latin Mass. The case has become a flashpoint in the ideological tug-of-war going on in the Catholic Church over Francis' revolutionary agenda, which has thrilled progressives and alarmed some conservatives.The matter concerns the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, a small but growing order of several hundred priests, seminarians and nuns that was founded in Italy in 1990 as an offshoot of the larger Franciscan order of the pope's namesake, St. Francis of Assisi.Then-Pope Benedict XVI launched an investigation into the congregation after five of its priests complained that the order was taking on an overly traditionalist bent, with the old Latin Mass being celebrated more and more at the expense of the liturgy in the vernacular.Benedict, a great admirer of the pre-Vatican II Mass, had relaxed restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass in 2007.While the order was in turmoil over this liturgical issue, the dispute at its core comes down to differing interpretations of the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council, which include the use of local languages in Mass that some considered a break with the church's tradition.The Vatican in July named the Rev. Fidenzio Volpi, a Franciscan Capuchin friar, as a special commissioner to run the order with a mandate to quell the dissent that had erupted over the liturgy, improve unity within its ranks and get a handle on its finances. In the same decree appointing Volpi, Francis forbade the friars from celebrating the old Latin Mass unless they got special permission, a clear rollback from Benedict's 2007 decision.In the weeks that followed, traditionalists voiced outrage: four tradition-minded Italian intellectuals wrote to the Vatican accusing it of violating Benedict's 2007 edict by restricting the Latin Mass for the friars, saying the Holy See was imposing "unjust discrimination" against those who celebrate the ancient rite.Volpi though was undeterred: He sent their founder, the Rev. Stefano Maria Manelli, to live in a religious home while he set about turning the order around.And on Dec. 8, he took action, issuing a series of sanctions in the name of the pope that have stunned observers for their seeming severity: He closed the friars' seminary and sent its students to other religious universities in Rome. He suspended the activities of the friars' lay movement. He suspended ordinations of new priests for a year and required future priests to formally accept the teachings of the Second Vatican Council and its new liturgy or be kicked out. And he decreed that current priests must commit themselves in writing to following the existing mission of the order.In a letter detailing the new measures, Volpi accused friars loyal to Manelli of seeking to undermine him and accused some of embezzlement. He denounced a cult of personality that had grown around Manelli, saying it "reveals a great spiritual poverty and psychological dependence that is incompatible with" the life in a religious community.The sanctions seem harsh when compared to recent actions taken by the Vatican against other much larger religious orders or groups found to have doctrinal or other problems, such as the Holy See's crackdown on social justice-minded American nuns or the Vatican's reform efforts of the disgraced Legion of Christ. In both cases, a papal envoy was named to rewrite constitutions or statutes and oversee reforms, but Volpi's actions with the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate would appear to go much further.
Traditionalists have charged that a double standard is at play, with a conservative, tradition-minded order being targeted for particular sanction on ideological grounds by a pope with a progressive bent."I hope that I am not being intemperate in describing this as rather harsh," the Rev. Timothy Finigan, a British priest whose "The Hermeneutic of Continuity" blog is much-read in traditionalist circles, wrote last week of the sanctions.
Francis has called Benedict's 2007 decree allowing wider use of the Latin Mass "prudent," but has warned that it risks being exploited on ideological grounds by factions in the church; Francis has made clear his disdain for traditionalist Catholics, saying they are self-absorbed retrogrades who aren't helping the church's mission to evangelize.For some, the issue is purely ideological. Christopher Ferrara, a columnist for The Remant, a traditionalist biweekly newspaper in the United States, said Volpi's aim was to make the order conform to the more progressive ideology of other religious orders like Volpi's own Capuchins, which he noted are dwindling in numbers while more conservative, tradition-minded orders like the Franciscan Friars are growing."Traditionalism isn't an ideology, it's holding fast to everything that has been handed down," Ferrara said in a telephone interview.A group of tradition-minded lay Catholics has launched an online petition seeking Volpi's ouster, but it's not clear how many signatories have signed on; an email seeking figures wasn't returned Saturday.The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, defended Volpi as a sage, esteemed and experienced administrator and dismissed calls for his removal."He knows religious life well, was for many years head of the Italian conference of religious superiors and I think his nomination was a wise choice," Lombardi said in an email to The Associated Press. "While the situation seems difficult and painful, it appears the letter is yet another demonstration that the naming of a commissioner was necessary and that he knows what to do with the powers he has."I don't have any reason to doubt it," Lombardi concluded.The Rev. Robert Gahl, a moral theologian at the Opus Dei-run Pontifical Holy Cross University, said he was certain that the pope wasn't opposed to the old Latin Mass and was not aiming to combat it by restricting its celebration with the Friars. He said Francis appeared to be taking the measures to quell the internal conflicts that arose over its celebration, and then took other measures after financial irregularities occurred."Liturgy is always a surprisingly sensitive topic," he said. "It can be extremely controversial and can upset communities even when the substance of the disagreement is minuscule. So, I think Francis is pushing for community peace and unity which may entail a temporary reduction in some use" of the old Latin Mass.
"I'm certain that Francis wants unity in Christ and to put a stop to the back-biting between ideological groups in the church, also by those who ideologize the liturgy," he said.___Follow Nicole Winfield at www.twitter.com/nwinfield

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

After ‘storm of the century,’ crippled Jerusalem plows on

Three days of heavy snowfall leave the capital’s sidewalks unnavigable and its streets littered with broken tree limbs

December 15, 2013, 2:32 am 9-The times of Israel
A view of the the snow-covered walls of Jerusalem's Old City, Saturday, December 14, 2013 (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
A view of the the snow-covered walls of Jerusalem's Old City, Saturday, December 14, 2013 (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
In the wake of three consecutive days of snow, Jerusalem’s streets are a tangled mess of broken boughs, snow drifts, slush and half-buried cars. An estimated 19 inches fell on a decidedly unprepared capital, stranding vehicles, knocking power out across the city, and bringing businesses and transportation to a halt.
The center of the city was uncharacteristically empty for a Saturday night, as most residents huddled indoors against the cold. The Ben Yehuda Street pedestrian mall, typically mobbed by teens after the departure of the Sabbath, was empty of people and covered in several inches of packed powder. Major roads were clear, but side streets remained blanketed in wet, heavily packed snow among ruts coated in black ice. The light rail’s tracks along Jaffa Road were encrusted in ice, and much of the rail line was covered in snow.
Accustomed as I am to inclement weather (having been born in Syracuse, NY, lived many years in New England and studied in Toronto), it came as a shock that the much-touted snow plows and salt trucks that served as props in a photo op for Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat were nowhere to be seen on Thursday or Friday. Only on this, the third day of the storm, did backhoes, plows, even the Israel Defense Forces’ armored personnel carriers, take to the roads to clear the accumulated and frozen solid precipitation. They will undoubtedly work through the night to keep the city’s thoroughfares navigable.City Hall scrambled on Saturday to clear Jerusalem’s main roads and highways of snow, but the sidewalks remained a treacherous mess of compacted ice several inches thick. (This reporter’s sore bottom will attest to the slickness of ice-coated Jerusalem stone pavement.) After another night with near-freezing temperatures, residents navigating the city’s streets on Sunday for the first time since Wednesday will face the perils of uncleared and unsafe sidewalks.On Thursday night, the night air echoed with the sound of tree limbs snapping like matchsticks beneath the weight of the snow. Two nights later, central Jerusalem reverberated with the sound of chainsaws, wielded by tree crews hired by the municipality to clear away those fallen branches. According to Barkat, “almost every tree” in the city was damaged by the storm.Around midnight I asked one of the laborers how much work he had cut out for him. He gave a sheepish shrug and mumbled something to the effect of “a lot.” And he could give no estimate of how long the cleanup project would take.
Jerusalem's Shatz Street pedestrian mall covered in snow and downed tree limbs, Saturday night, December 14, 2013 (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel)
Jerusalem’s Shatz Street pedestrian mall covered in snow and downed tree limbs, Saturday night, December 14, 2013 (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel)
Scars of the brutal December storm will mark the city’s trees for years to come, but for the time being the pressing issue for thousands of Jerusalemites is the lack of electricity. As of Saturday night, thousands of residents were still without power — a consequence of tree limbs tearing down electrical wires across the city.Though the Israel Electric Corporation’s employees worked “around the clock,” according to one worker who spoke to Channel 2, to get the grid back online, darkness still swathed many homes in the city. In defense of the IEC’s failure to get power fully restored in Jerusalem after two days, CEO Eli Glickman said that despite its preparations, it was impossible to predict such a disaster.“Compared to other countries in the world — let’s take [cue air quotes] ‘developed countries,’ the United States, New York, New Jersey — just in the last year there were power outages of a month and a month-and-a-half. Here we’re talking about citizens suffering badly for a few hours, and our hearts are with them, but let’s compare it to the United States,” he said.In Glickman’s defense, preparations were made and the storm was a “once-in-a-century” event, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put it. At the same time, comparing a relatively mild snowstorm (by international standards) to Superstorm Sandy is out of line and belittles the magnitude of that colossal disaster.It’s likely some Israelis won’t have power come morning. It’s more likely that some businesses and public offices won’t be up and running, even once public transportation returns to regular service. Although disaster was averted, as Netanyahu proclaimed on Saturday after the last flakes fell, City Hall’s preparations proved woefully inadequate, and recovery will take several days longer than it should have. For once, MK Miri Regev (Likud) was the voice of reason when she said that the capital should not have been snowbound as long as it was.But let’s take stock: Jerusalem is not underwater like the Gaza Strip; its residents were temporarily beleaguered, but not in a chaotic war zone like those of Homs; and they have roofs over their heads, unlike many Syrian refugees in Lebanon.

After storm and heavy flooding, Gaza receives fuel

First fuel shipment in 45 days funded by Qatar; 40,000 strip residents forced from their homes due to flooding

December 15, 2013, 12:47 pm 1-The times of Israel
Palestinian rescue members evacuate a cat following heavy rains in Gaza City, on Saturday, December 14, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Palestinian rescue members evacuate a cat following heavy rains in Gaza City, on Saturday, December 14, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A Palestinian official says the Gaza Strip has received its first industrial fuel shipment in 45 days, bringing much-needed relief to the storm-battered coastal territory.A lack of fuel has hampered the rescue efforts in Gaza, where flooding from heavy rains has forced about 40,000 residents from their homes. The territory suffers from frequent power outages.While the rival Palestinian government in the West Bank can ship fuel to Gaza through Israel, Gaza’s Hamas rulers have refused to accept the shipments, saying they cannot afford a new tax.Palestinian border official Raed Fattouh said Sunday’s fuel shipment was paid for by Qatar.The storm has also left thousands of Israelis without power. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was postponing a regularly scheduled Cabinet meeting until Sunday afternoon over it.

MANDELA BURRIED IN HOME TOWN ON DEC 15,13

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

MANDELA CONSPIRACY THEORIES
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2013/12/the-latest-mandela-dictator-conspiracy.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2013/12/mandela-con-theory-start-2-days-ago.html

WHAT IS DONE IN A BURRIAL OF A XHOSA CHIEF
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25355245

Combination photo showing member of military speaking before burial of former South African President Mandela, and military personnel saluting after burial in Mandela's ancestral village of Qunu
REUTERS PICTURE AT 11:34AM - FINAL BURIAL OF MANDELA-I WONDER WHEN THE OCCULT TEMPLE WORSHIP OCCURED THAT THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS SAID WOULD OCCUR.THEY SAID IT OCCURS ON DEC 16,13.BUT HE WAS BURRIED TODAY.
Funeral overruns by 105 minutes, meaning the tribal tradition that members are buried at noon was missed

Nelson Mandela laid to rest in childhood village


AFP






The funeral procession carrying the coffin of South African President Nelson Mandela moves inside his compound in the village of Qunu on December 15, 2013
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Qunu (South Africa) (AFP) - South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela received a tearful state funeral at his childhood village of Qunu on Sunday, followed by a traditional burial attended by family and friends.A 21-gun salute and full military honour guard escorted Mandela's coffin to a marquee where 4,500 mourners said their final goodbyes.His flag-draped casket was placed on cow skins, surrounded by 95 candles -- each signifying a year of his extraordinary life."The person who lies here is South Africa's greatest son," said ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa in an opening address.Mandela's widow, Graca Machel, who was seldom far from his bedside during his final months, looked on disconsolate, along with his former wife Winnie Madikizela–Mandela.The frail and ageing leaders of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle also attended: George Bizos, Desmond Tutu and Ahmed Kathrada, whose voice broke with emotion as he delivered a eulogy for his old friend.
"I first met him 67 years ago," said Kathrada, who along with Mandela was sentenced to life in prison in 1963.He recalled his fellow inmate as a powerful amateur boxer who could cope far better than others with the physical challenge of hard labour."What I saw in hospital was a man helpless and reduced to a shadow of himself," he said struggling not to break down."We can salute you as a fighter for freedom. Farewell my dear brother, my mentor, my leader."Now I've lost a brother my life is in a void and I don't know who turn to."
His words left many in tears among the invited guests, whose ranks included foreign dignitaries and celebrities ranging from Britain's Prince Charles to US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey.Private burial for a public icon.Mandela will be buried with traditional Xhosa rites in a graveyard that sits on the sprawling family estate Mandela built in Qunu after his release from prison in 1990."It was in that village that I spent some of the happiest years of my boyhood and whence I trace my earliest memories," he wrote in his autobiography.
Overseen by male members of his clan, the burial will include the slaughter of an ox -- a ritual performed through various milestones of a person's life under the clan's traditions.During the ceremony, Mandela will be referred to as Dalibhunga, the name given to him at the age of 16 after undergoing the initiation to adulthood
Mourners will wear traditional Xhosa regalia, with blue and white beaded headgear and necklaces.Xhosa speakers are divided into several groups, including the Thembu people, of which Mandela is a member.
Global outpouring
The funeral closes the final chapter on a towering public figure whose courage and moral fortitude turned him into a global symbol of freedom and hope.During 10 days of mourning, hundreds of thousands of South Africans had turned out across the country to bid the founding father of their "Rainbow Nation" farewell.
They braved a rain-sodden memorial in Soweto and for three days queued to see his remains as they lay in state at Pretoria's Union Buildings.Lines of mourners enveloped a city that was once the bastion of white rule.For 50 million compatriots, Mandela was not just a president, but a moral guide who led them away from internecine racial conflict.For the rest of the world he was a charismatic leader of the anti-apartheid struggle -- in turn a poet, saint and scholar."Ever since he passed away, I wanted to walk the journey with him," said Pascal Moloi, 52, who made the trip from Johannesburg to Qunu to attend a public viewing.
While Mandela had been critically ill for months, the announcement of his death on December 5 still sent a spasm through a country struggling to carry forward his vision of a harmonious multi-racial democracy of shared prosperity.During the funeral South African President Jacob Zuma told the country it was incumbent on them to carry on his legacy."One thing we can assure you of today Tata (father), as you take your final steps, is that South Africa will continue to rise."South Africa will continue to rise because we dare not fail you," Zuma said.For the rest of the world, Mandela's death marked the loss of that rarest of world leaders: those who are viewed with near universal respect and admiration.Gushing tributes poured in from every corner of the globe, although Mandela himself had always stressed he was part of a communal leadership and resisted any move towards his public canonisation -- posthumous or otherwise. 

SINCE THESE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS LOVE ISON AND WORSHIP IT SO MUCH.I THOUGHT I BETTER PUT A ISON STORY WITH THE MENDELA BURRIAL.MAYBE FOR THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS.ISON WILL BRING MANDELA BACK TO LIFE.AND MANDELA WILL BOMBARD THE EARTH WITH ROCKS AND KILL MOST PEOPLE AND POISON ALL THE WATERS WITH WORMWOOD.SINCE THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS BELIEVE ANYTHING.

Comet ISON a dud? Not for one scientist

TORONTO – “Comet of the century!”“To be seen in the daytime sky!”These were only a few claims hyped by media upon the discovery of Comet ISON in September 2012 by Russian astronomers Vitali Nevski and Artyom Novichonok (a comet is usually named after its discoverer, but this one was named after the project that discovered it, the International Scientific Optical Network, ISON).Of course, none of those claims were true. But for scientists, it didn’t matter: ISON was a chance to peer back at the very beginning of our solar system.Karl Battams, astrophysicist at the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC, and the voice of ISON throughout the comet’s close pass, was happy with what was accomplished. Battams led the Comet ISON Observing Campaign.Battams stressed that scientists never claimed ISON would put on the show some believed would happen.“Before us scientists even got to put our word in, there were stories about the thing being brighter than the full moon and ‘comet of the century,’ so that made life difficult for us because what we…had to convey was that this was a really, really exciting object, just not for the reasons that you’ve been reading about.”And that reason was this: ISON was born out of the Oort cloud — a cloud that extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto — trillions of kilometres away from the sun and which was born 4.5 billion years ago. And the fact that this comet was a sun-grazer — a comet that would pass very close to the sun — made it even more exciting. Scientists would be able to see how this ancient piece of rock interacted with solar radiation, learning about its composition and characteristics.This was ISON’s first pass, which meant that it had never been bombarded by the sun’s radiation. Scientists wondered if the comet would survive such a close pass — 1.2 million kilometres — above the sun’s surface. The sun is blazing hot at this distance, so hot that it vaporizes almost everything.“The very hardest rock you can imagine. If the comet was coated in diamonds, the diamonds would instantly boil away and vaporize,” Battams said.
All that heat and radiation was too much for the new comet.Battam said that it may have been nicer to have had something in the sky for people to see for themselves, but that doesn’t diminish how important a role the comet played for scientists.“We’ve gotten to watch this thing for such a long period of time now, and we’ve recorded the largest and certainly the broadest data set about a comet in history…One of the key parts of studying a comet is how were they put together. I think as any kid will tell you, the best way to find out how a toy is put together is to rip it apart,” Battams said, laughing.“And as sad as it may seem, the sun ripped apart our little Christmas present to see how it was put together, and that’s what we’ve got to try to learn from.”Astronomers will be analyzing the comet for months to come. And they have plenty of data to use.
“Scientifically, it’s just been absolutely incredible,” he said. “I think for me what I loved the most about this whole experience is that we’ve pulled together not only professional observers from big ground-based facilities, but we’ve got 13 different spacecraft involved…Even stuff from Mars. And to top it all off, the amateur community has just been completely crucial to this whole process. We’ve got an army of eyes around the world.”Various NASA observing campaigns. (NASA)-Though Hubble is scheduled to image where ISON should be, Battam doubts that there will be anything to see. Two other telescopes, Chandra — an X-ray telescope — and Spitzer — an infrared telescope — will also take a look.It’s good to do this, Battam said, just to confirm that ISON is indeed gone.Though ISON may be gone, Battams pointed out that there’s still a comet gracing our skies, Comet Lovejoy, that people can enjoy.Comet ISON may be gone, but Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) is still grazing the pre-dawn sky. (Courtesy of Bill Longo)


The NRL has received many calls from people who bought telescopes in the hope of catching ISON. Now that it’s gone, they wonder if there’s anything else to see.“The sky is full of wonders. And the next bright comet is just around the corner,” Battams said.Where to find Comet Lovejoy around 5 a.m. from a latitude of 43 degrees. (Stellarium)Next year will be chock-full of even more exciting comets. There will be Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring), which will pass incredibly close to Mars at about 110,000 km above the planet’s surface (there had been talk about it colliding with Mars, but calculations have shown that this will not happen). There is also the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission which will release a lander on the comet 67 P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.“And,” Battams said, “Who knows what will turn up in the meantime.”Battams’s busy schedule is just settling down. He’s spent months observing and analyzing ISON.
So, when asked what the next thing he’s excited about, Battams laughed and said, “A rest.”

Saturday, December 14, 2013

SASKATOON ISLAMIC SHARIA LAW CAB DRIVERS DENY DOGS WITH BLIND IN THEM

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

THIS CAB COMPANY MUST BE INFILTRATED WITH ISLAMIC WORKERS OR THIS GUY WOULD NOT HAVE HAD AT LEAST BEEN REFUSED DRIVES 4 TIMES OR MORE.THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ISLAM GETS A FOOTHOLD IN A WESTERN COUNTRIES HOUSE.SUCH AS A CAB COMPANY OR SUCH.THEN THEY GO BY SHARIA LAW AND JUST IGNORE CANADIAN LAW.SASKATOON SHOULD BE IN AN OUTRAGE OVER THIS ISLAMIC SHARIA LAW INFILTRATING SASKATOONS RIGHTS.

Canada: Muslim Cabbies Refuse Blind With Dogs

Muslim taxi cab drivers claim they can't drive blind people with dogs because in Islam dogs are considered 'unclean.'-By Dalit Halevi, Ari Yashar-First Publish: 12/13/2013, 12:14 AM-Israelnationalnews

Guide dog
Guide dog-Flash 90
In Saskatoon, Canada, Muslim taxi drivers are refusing to give rides to blind people with seeing-eye dogs. The drivers have been citing religious grounds, saying dogs are considered "unclean" animals in Islam.
Mike Simmonds, who has been blind for close to 10 years, requires a guide dog with him at all times. He reported to the Sun newspaper that he is bitterly disappointed after taxi drivers at the station by his home have repeatedly refused to give him a ride.Simmonds turned to the taxi company's management, and was told that the company has no guidelines forbidding discrimination against dog owners. After he was refused by taxis 3 times, Simmonds submitted a complaint to the Saskatchewan Committee of Human Rights.
Muslim antagonism towards dogs is not a new thing in Canada. In 2012, Toronto police arrested a Jew after he shoved back a Muslim who had punched him for not moving his “unclean” dog further away from Muslim women during an anti-Israel rally.Canine cruelty in the Muslim world was highlighted during the Muslim Brotherhood protests in Egypt, as in late October protesters were found to be using "puppy bombs" by dipping dogs in gasoline and setting them on fire

Human rights complaint filed against cab company over guide dog

Saskatoon man files human rights complaint; says cab drivers are turning away his guide dog due to their religious beliefs.
Saskatoon man files human rights complaint; says cab drivers are turning away his guide dog due to their religious beliefs.
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SASKATOON – A man who says he and his guide dog have been having trouble with a Saskatoon cab company has filed a complaint with the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission.Mike Simmonds says the problem started two months ago when a dispatcher for Comfort Cabs told him he would need a pet-friendly taxi.He says he’s been told twice since then that drivers weren’t comfortable with his seeing-eye dog because of their religious beliefs.He called the manager to complain and received an apology.Simmonds says the manager suggested there must have been a misunderstanding.The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code prohibits discrimination against people with service animals.“It baffles me that in this century people have such problems with guide dogs,” Simmonds said Friday.“If you’re driving a taxi in this country, you have got to know that you’re open to service dogs.”Cliff Kowbel, operations manager at Comfort Cabs, said that the company continually informs its drivers that working dogs are not pets. He said the company has a policy that the dogs are not to be refused.Simmonds said he was on his way to the airport two weeks ago when he was turned away by a driver who said a larger cab was needed.“I said, ‘Here, the suitcase goes in the back or in the trunk and he’s designed to go under my feet. We’ve got to get to the airport.”‘Simmonds said he could tell the driver was obviously uncomfortable, so he asked him if he had a problem with dogs. The driver replied that associating with dogs was against his religious beliefs.It was the third time Simmonds was refused a ride that pushed him to file the human rights complaint.He had called ahead for a taxi to pick him and his dog, Graham, up at a bus stop. When the cab didn’t show up, he called the dispatcher again.He said she told him she was having a hard time finding a cab for him because of the drivers’ religious beliefs. Simmonds had to wait an additional 20 minutes outside for a taxi to come from across the city.“That’s where I said, ‘Enough is enough. Three strikes, you’re out,’ and I’ll make my pitch.”Simmonds said he has never filed a human rights complaint before, but feels he needs to this time to make sure guide dogs are welcome.“I find great offence in people not wanting to let him – and therefore me – into their business. That’s wrong.”The issue of service dog owners being refused taxi rides came up recently in Regina. Kelly Scherr, the city’s director of construction and compliance, says the city is making changes to its taxi bylaw.“We’re told that there are some challenges with people being refused trips when they have a service animal with them,” Scherr said. “Although there is provincial legislation … we are bringing our bylaw into line with the provincial legislation just to provide some additional support.”The proposed bylaw amendments are to come before Regina council in February.

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