IS THE EU READY FOR COMMON FOREIGN POLICY

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.

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.

2 THESSALONIANS 2:3-4
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed,(EU WORLD DICTATOR)the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (NATIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.(SOCIALISM)
13 These have one mind,(SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

REVELATION 6:1-2
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(PEACE) and he that sat on him had a bow;(EU DICTATOR) and a crown was given unto him:(PRESIDENT OF THE EU) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(MILITARY GENIUS)

2 THESSALONIANS 2:9-12
9 Even him,(EU WORLD DICTATOR) whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,(THE FALSE RESURRECTION BY THE WORLD DICTATOR) that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

REVELATION 13:1-10
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(THE EU AND ITS DICTATOR IS GODLESS)
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(DICTATOR COMES FROM NEW AGE OR OCCULT)
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;(MURDERERD) and his deadly wound was healed:(COMES BACK TO LIFE) and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE WORLD THINKS ITS GOD IN THE FLESH, MESSIAH TO ISRAEL)
4 And they worshipped the dragon (SATAN) which gave power unto the beast:(JEWISH EU DICTATOR) and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?(FALSE RESURRECTION,SATAN BRINGS HIM TO LIFE)
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.(GIVEN WORLD CONTROL FOR 3 1/2YRS)
6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God,(HES A GOD HATER) to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.(HES A LIBERAL OR DEMOCRAT,WILL PUT ANYTHING ABOUT GOD DOWN)
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints,(BEHEAD THEM) and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.(WORLD DOMINATION)
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(WORLD DICTATOR)
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.(SAVED CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DIE FOR THEIR FAITH AT THIS TIME,NOW WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE BUT DURING THE 7 YEARS OF HELL ON EARTH, PEOPLE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH (BEHEADINGS) FOR THEIR BELIEF IN GOD (JESUS) OR THE BIBLE.

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come (ROMANS IN AD 70) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMANS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he( EU ROMAN, JEWISH DICTATOR) shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:( 7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,( 3 1/2 YRS) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.


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

We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950

Reding predicts eurozone to become a federal state

Today @ 09:15-FEB 18,14-EUOBSERVER

By Andrew Rettman

BRUSSELS - European Commission vice-president Viviane Reding has predicted that the eurozone will become a federal state, while urging the UK not to leave the Union.The Luxembourg politician in Cambridge University on Monday (17 February) recalled a speech by Britain’s World War II leader, Winston Churchill, in Zurich in 1946.“In my personal view, the eurozone should become the United States of Europe. Like Winston Churchill, I believe that the UK will not be part of this, but it should remain a close ally with the federated eurozone, with which it would continue to share a common market, a common trade policy, and, hopefully, a common security agenda,” she said.Reding noted that euro countries have made an “extraordinary” leap in terms of integration due to the economic crisis.Citing the commission’s new powers to scrutinise national budgets and plans to create a banking union, she said: “a few years ago no one could have imagined member states being prepared to cede this amount of sovereignty.”She added that “if this country [the UK] decides one day to be part of a stronger integration, you know where to find us. The door is open, and there is a seat at the table for you.”Reding also lambasted the quality of British debate ahead of its potential EU in/out referendum in 2017.She noted that Cambridge University itself has a tradition of “rational” discourse, but “the most important questions we are faced with in Europe are debated so very differently in this country … [there are] so many lazy assumptions.”She took aim at calls to curb immigration from fellow EU states.“Simply trying to project all problems on the supposed issue of too many foreigners moving into the country is certainly not the answer,” she said.She noted that British politicians “have even abandoned their policy of pushing for ever more enlargement of the EU.”She also warned that, with the UK “gradually, inexorably, drifting away” from the Union, it risks losing access to the “goldmine” of the single market and being taken less seriously by overseas investors.Churchill in 1946 said: "The structure of the United States of Europe, if well and truly built, will be such as to make the material strength of a single state less important.” He called on the then Soviet Union, the UK, and the US to be “friends” of the project.
The Cambridge speech is Reding’s second high-profile visit to the UK after a debate in London on 10 February in which she also criticised British immigration attitudes.Open Europe, a London-based think tank which criticises deeper integration, at the time asked “Is Viviane Reding Ukip’s most effective recruitment sergeant?” referring to the UK Independence Party, which advocates Britain leaving the Union.Speculation grew last year she wants to be the centre-right’s candidate for the next commission president.But she said in January that she is backing fellow Luxembourger, former PM Jean-Claude Juncker, for the post instead.

Is the EU ready for a common foreign policy?

Today @ 21:58-FEB 18,14-EUOBSERVER

By Audronius Azubalis

VILNIUS - The question - whether the EU is mature enough to have a common foreign policy - needs to be asked in the light of recent comments by Gernot Erler and, indeed, Sergei Lavrov.Erler, who is a member of the Social Democratic Party in Germany and a senior advisor on Russia relations to Chancellor Angela Merkel, said in January that the EU should review its Eastern Partnership (EaP) policy for the sake of better relations with Moscow."We have to ensure there is no tension between the Eastern Partnership and the Russian Customs Union,” he noted.The idea was repeated by Russian foreign minister Lavrov at a press conference on Tuesday (18 February), shortly before an eruption of violence in Kiev, which saw police kill several people and storm the protesters’ “Maidan” camp after a two month siege.“We urge a frank discussion of the Eastern Partnership and energy dialogue, the cornerstone of Russia’s relations with the EU,” Lavrov said.This kind of talk masks the gravity of events in Ukraine and the pressure which Russia is exerting not just here, but also in several other EaP states - Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, and Moldova.
Coming from Erler, a man of no little influence in Berlin, it also speaks volumes on why the EU is still failing to shape an effective foreign policy.The element which unites the 28 member countries is shared values: human rights, rule of law, a free economy.The kind of pragmatism which Erler advocates is an element of discord: each of the 28 countries in the Union has its own interests. If they all pursue realpolitik, there is no chance of a united front.Pragmatism undermines the mutual trust between EU countries and the very foundations of the European Union.If the EU follows Erler’s advice to postpone, or to sacrifice, its support for the democratisation of the EaP region, it is not only the EaP countries that will pay the price, but also our own unity.Meanwhile, it must be understood that when Georgia and Moldova initialed EU association and free trade pacts last November, they were not making pragmatic or economic decisions, but civilizational ones.
The real issue at stake is not trade, but people’s right to self-determination.These countries, and the opposition movement in Ukraine, want to get closer to the EU because they want to live in democratic and law-abiding societies - European societies.The EU has no right to put their fate on its negotiating table with Russia.Realpolitik aside, the prospect of an effective EU foreign policy is also endangered by other factors.
European politics is governed by a short-term electoral cycle, which creates a temptation for leaders to react to events in an ahistoric way.When a new government is elected, we often hear calls to turn over a new leaf, or to reset relations, in this or that domain. But in reality, no important political project can be undertaken without due regard for its historical roots or completed in a single term in office.International relations, and especially European relations with Russia, require a lot of patience. All change is incremental.People, like Erler, who say we should start afresh with Russia in light of the Ukraine crisis, merely show their feeble memory, or deliberate forgetfulness, and risk repeating the mistakes of the past.I choose my words carefully when I say that his proposal to review the EaP is irresponsible.It is a discourse which dates back to the Europe of 1938 and 1939. The EaP has problems not because it is badly designed or because people in EaP countries do not want it. It has problems because Russia is creating them and appeasement will only make matters worse.The more difficulties that Russia makes, the more important it is for us to maintain our principled stance.What we need vis-a-vis Russia is not fine talk, but adequate instruments to counter its aggressive behaviour.And if we want to strengthen our foreign policy in the region, then, ironically, Lavrov’s remark shows us the way to go.“We urge a frank discussion on the … energy dialogue,” he said.The EU in 2009 put into law its “third energy package,” which forces EU companies and foreign firms active in the EU to separate energy production and distribution assets. It has a clear goal - to stop monopolitsic price gouging, not least by Russia’s energy champion, Gazprom.It has caused friction at the highest levels in EU and Russia contacts.But the EU has not backed down. If anything, it has gone further - in 2012 EU officials raided Gazprom offices in several European capitals and launched a legal case which could end in fines.
We should consider EU energy law as a model for EU-Russia relations more broadly.The EU needs a foreign policy with a clear goal and with the legal instruments to implement it. But above all, it needs the political will to see it through, instead of making u-turns or concessions when Russia complains.The writer is a Lithuanian MP and a former Lithuanian foreign minister

EARTH DESTROYED WITH THE EARTH(BECAUSE OF SIN AND GODLESS PEOPLE)

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

Ukraine violence catches EU by surprise

Today @ 18:13-FEB 18,14-EUOBSERVER

By Valentina Pop and Andrew Rettman

Berlin and Brussels - A sudden eruption of violence in Kiev, leaving six protesters and one policeman dead, has taken EU diplomats by surprise.The fighting broke out on Tuesday (18 February) morning when riot police confronted anti-government demonstrators as they tried to march toward the parliament building in the city centre.The march was designed to put pressure on the parliament speaker to introduce a motion on constitutional reform into the order of the day.The fighting escalated in several flashpoints in the government district. Over the next few hours, “at least” six protesters and one policeman were killed, the BBC reports. More than 150 demonstrators and 30 policemen were also injured and the HQ of the ruling Party of the Regions was set on fire.Authorities issued an ultimatum threatening a mass crackdown if protesters did not disperse by 6pm Kiev time.But opposition leaders called on more people to come to their main camp, the Maidan, while pictures on social media showed police squads carrying boxes of molotov cocktails and AK47s into the riot zone.Andrew Wilson, an analyst for the London-based think tank, the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), spoke to EUobserver by phone from the scene.“There are ambulances everywhere. The metro has stopped and shops have closed early … a direct assault on the Maidan is possible, but it would be very costly for all concerned,” he said.The events met with calls for restraint by European diplomats.A member of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso’s cabinet phoned the office of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to deliver the message.German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier also phoned acting Ukrainian foreign minister Leonid Kozhara, saying: "I urge the opposing groups in Ukraine to return urgently to the path of recent days and talk about a political solution."
EU foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton said in a statement: “I condemn all use of violence, including against public or party buildings … Political leaders must now assume their shared responsibility to rebuild trust.”She added in a video clip from Vienna, where she is chairing nuclear talks with Iran: "I am also very concerned about the ultimatum to stop this by force."Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski noted that Tuesday’s events came despite expectations the two sides were nearing a compromise on an interim government and on curbing Yanukovych’s powers. “Ukraine seems poised to snatch defeat from the jaws of negotiated success,” he said on Twitter.A diplomatic source in one EU embassy in Kiev said EU capitals failed to grasp that the opposition movement does not trust Western-backed opposition MPs, such as Arseniy Yatsenyuk, to negotiate on their behalf."The EU was happy because it already saw the light the end of the tunnel. But it seems the people did not endorse compromises which were negotiated between discredited authorities and a corrupt and equally discredited opposition,” the contact said.Yatsenyuk and fellow opposition MP, ex-boxer Vitali Klitschko, who has distanced himself from the talks, visited Berlin on Monday.They met with Chancellor Angela Merkel for one hour, as well as with Steinmeier and with leading MPs. Speaking in the Bundestag at the end of the meetings, they said they were grateful for the show of support by "one of the most influential politicians in the world."But Klitschko's plea for Germany to back sanctions against regime officials remained unanswered.Sources in the German foreign ministry say Berlin would consider sanctions only if violence keeps escalating and there is no chance of a political solution.
But for the ECFR’s Andrew Wilson, Tuesday’s events amount to Yanukovych crossing the red line.Looking back to conclusions by EU foreign ministers last week, he noted: “The key phrase last Monday was that the EU would 'respond quickly' if there is 'deterioration.' Clearly there is deterioration. If we do not regard this as deterioration, we will lose all credibility in what is already a looming disaster for European soft power.”
He said the first step should be triggering anti-money laundering laws in Austria and the UK to go after the illegitimate assets of Yanukovych allies.With Ashton’s communique referring to “violence … including [by protesters] against public or party buildings,” Wilson warned that “one should avoid moral equilateralism” which puts the authorities and the demonstrators on par.

02/18/2014 VATICAN INSIDER

Holy Land: Nazareth Family Center meet ahead of Pope’s visit

Jerusalem

Three days of evangelisation and formation led by President Salvatore Martinez, with the participation of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fouad Twal

vatican insider staff Rome The Vatican Foundation “International Family Centre in Nazareth” – which Benedict XVI set up in order to build a “Pope’s House” in Nazareth for families from all over the world in conjunction with the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Pontifical Council for the Family – is holding a three-day meeting on the family ahead of the Pope’s visit to the Holy Land at the end of May.Starting today, the Foundation’s president, Salvatore Martinez, will go to Bethlehem, Nazareth and Amman with a delegation, for a series of evangelisation and educational meetings open to all families or reserved for couples that are already involved in pastoral initiatives.They are joined by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal and his vicars, Mgr. William Shomali, Mgr. Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo and Mgr. Maroun Elias Lahham, the latter being a Episcopal delegate for the pastoral care of the family in the Holy Land.“Families can act as important social stabilisers and be an efficient antidote to religious fundamentalism. The family is a subject that is close to the hearts of all three monotheist religions that are being challenged by modernity and often find themselves unprepared on an educational level and when it comes to passing on the faith to the new generations,” Martinez said.

02/18/2014 VATICAN INSIDER

Pope and "C8" discuss reform of the IOR and the Church’s mission

(©Ansa) The "C8" at work

On the second day of meetings at which Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin has been present, a meeting was also held with the head of the Commission in charge of studying IOR reform. Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi says the situation of the Vatican’s economic and administrative structures is also important

Iacopo Scaramuzzi vatican city The Pope and the eight cardinal advisors (the so-called “C8”) who are helping him reform the Roman Curia received the Commission for Reference on the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) in an audience this morning. During this meeting, both “problems” and “possible” restructuring “strategies” were discussed, bearing in mind the “Church’s mission” and the “context” of the Vatican’s economic and administrative structure as a whole. This includes the IOR. Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi communicated this, adding that the Vatican Secretary of State was present at both yesterday and today’s meeting.Today’s meeting was the second in a three-day meeting being held between the Pope and his advising Council. Yesterday the “C8” heard the Commission for Reference on the Economic-Administrative Structures of the Holy See (COSEA). Tomorrow afternoon there will be a meeting with the 15 cardinals in charge of studying the organisational and economic problems of the Holy See (Meisner, Rouco Varela, Pengo, Rivera Carera, George, Fox Napier, Cipriani, Scola, Toppo, Pell, Vallini, Urosa Savino, Ricard, Odilo Scherer, Tong Hon).
 
Today the Pope and his advisors received almost all members of the Commission for reference on the IOR (cardinals Farina (president) and Tauran, Mgr. Arrieta (coordinator), Mgr. Wells (secretary): only Professor Glendon who lives in the United States was missing). Lombardi said that the Commission presented “a thorough report” which cardinals showed “significant interest in,” asking “further questions” on it after it was presented. The Vatican spokesman emphasised that the “mission for the IOR” – in other words fitting “the mission of the Church into the world” – was discussed. This debate was not just limited to a close examination of economic efficiency. More specifically, the Commission “reported on the current situation of the Institute, the problems, the interpretations of what caused existing problems or reasons why there may be problems to deal with or resolve” and “some ideas for the renewal or set-up of the Institute.”“No decisions were taken” during the meeting and neither has the commission led by Salesian cardinal Farina finished its job. What emerged from the statement given by the Vatican spokesman, is that the ideas shared by the Pope and his advisors may not separate the fate of the IOR from that of the Vatican’s other economic and administrative structures (APSA, Governorate, etc.) which COSEA is dealing with: “While the two Commissions have been given different tasks, the Pope, assisted by the Council of Cardinals, is certainly trying to see the whole picture, so as to come up with a coherent and solid solution for renewing the organisations and institutions that make up the Curia and the Church government.”During the course of the briefing, Fr. Lombardi also answered some questions about a letter published in today’s press, regarding Cardinal Attilio Nicora’s role. He was President of the Vatican Financial Information Authority (AIF) up until a few weeks ago. The Vatican spokesman said the AIF “is a young and new institution which has evolved over the years, partly as a result of the results of the Moneyval report: I would be surprised if there were no disagreements or different visions or interpretations offered. I think it is perfectly normal that there is a debate surrounding the growth of the AIF.”Questions were asked about the possibility of a married couple being put in charge of the Pontifical Council of the Family, in light of a recent interview with Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, the “C8’s” coordinator.Fr. Lombardi responded by humorously referring to the “many interviews” the Honduran cardinal has given and stressed that the idea is an “interesting” one but that there was no specific proposal being discussed by the Council of Cardinals.The Vatican spokesman called for “prudence” when speaking about a possible end date to the work being done by the Council of Cardinals. The council already met with the Pope last October and December. “The hard work continues and no time is being lost. The Pope intends to arrive” at a conclusion “but I would be cautious in giving an exact time frame for any decisions and conclusions relating to this work,” he said.

02/18/2014 VATICAN INSIDER

Cardinal Re: “Remarried divorcees and a more efficient Synod are the Pope’s priorities”

Cardinal Re holds the Synod needs to be simplified

In an interview with “Vatican Insider” the eldest of the Catholic Church's cardinals says Francis’ pontificate “is bringing the world closer to the faith”

Giacomo Galeazzi vatican city “Francis has had an extraordinary effect on people, winning over their affection and respect.” As the eldest of the cardinal bishops, Giovanni Battista Re headed the Conclave which elected Francis Pope. As the Consistory approaches, the Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Bishops and former head of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America gives Vatican Insider a very positive overview of the first year of Francis’ pontificate and outlines the areas the Pope sees as priorities (“re-launching family pastoral care and making the Synod function more efficiently”).
 
How are the Pope’s reforms going?
“Francis is a determined reformer. His first reform has been setting an example through his sober and simple lifestyle. He has started reforming the Curia but this is a process that will take some time and the reforms will need to be carefully examined, as the Pope is currently doing with the eight cardinal advisors.”
 
How would you sum up Bergoglio’s first year on the Throne of Peter?   　
“Francis is much loved and respected throughout the world. His election came as a surprise to the public and the mass media. Twelve months later the results were clear for everyone to see and they were nothing but positive. Bergoglio has a huge following in the southern hemisphere but his Italian roots as well as his devotion to Mary are evident. The first thing he did when he became Pope was to go to pray in the Roman Basilica of St. Mary Major to ask the Virgin Mary to protect his pontificate.”
 
How important is the pastoral care of the family for Francis? 
“It is fundamental. The Pope is well aware that looking after the family is crucial in improving society and guaranteeing a more certain future. A person’s faith and values are transmitted in the family that is why Bergoglio gives it so much importance.”
 
Will family doctrine be discussed?
“I don’t think it is possible to review the exclusion of remarried divorcees from the sacraments. An objective situation cannot be changed. Francis turns the Church’s pastoral attention towards those who find themselves in this situation and need help in preserving their faith, leading a life of prayer and attending Sunday mass. The Pope is thinking about what can be done to support remarried divorcees and better ways of showing this support are in fact currently being looked into.” 
 
Is it right to make changes to the Synod as well?
“Of course it is. Paul VI set it up as an instrument to foster collegiality but it needs to function more efficiently and the Pope is very right to call for changes. Getting three hundred people to work well together is not easy and the Pope is fully aware that the way the Synod works needs to be simplified.

 

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

26 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-02-18 16:56:29 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)26 earthquakes in map area

1. 2.5 12km SE of Talmage, California 2014-02-18 16:00:55 UTC-05:00 3.4 km
2. 2.6 9km SSW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, Mexico 2014-02-18 15:04:56 UTC-05:00 6.3 km
3. 3.0 19km SSE of Volcano, Hawaii 2014-02-18 15:01:46 UTC-05:00 38.8 km
4. 4.6 71km S of San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic 2014-02-18 11:18:56 107.0 km
5. 5.1 107km S of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea 2014-02-18 11:15:39 UTC-05:00 64.2 km
6. 2.8 12km SSW of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2014-02-18 10:17:18 UTC-05:00 4.8 km
7. 2.7 10km SSE of Medford, Oklahoma 2014-02-18 09:22:01 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
8. 5.0 109km NNE of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea 2014-02-18 09:16:18 05:00 54.7 km
9. 4.6 289km NE of Dili, East Timor 2014-02-18 08:48:01 UTC-05:00 397.8 km
10. 4.8 164km SSW of Lata, Solomon Islands 2014-02-18 07:41:57 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
11. 5.0 60km WNW of Pagsanahan Norte, Philippines 2014-02-18 07:35:55 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
12. 2.8 10km SSW of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2014-02-18 07:29:49 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
13. 3.3 8km SW of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2014-02-18 07:16:43 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
14. 4.3 18km NW of Ashkasham, Afghanistan 2014-02-18 06:58:17 UTC-05:00 171.1 km
15. 3.8 11km S of Guthrie, Oklahoma 2014-02-18 06:53:51 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
16. 2.9 32km NNE of Old Faithful Geyser, Wyoming 2014-02-18 06:08:36 UTC-05:00 6.8 km
17. 5.6 95km ESE of Taron, Papua New Guinea 2014-02-18 05:12:12 UTC-05:00 79.2 km
18. 4.7 South of the Kermadec Islands 2014-02-18 04:59:55 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
19. 6.5 170km NNE of Bathsheba, Barbados 2014-02-18 04:27:13 UTC-05:00 16.9 km
20. 3.1 39km N of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 2014-02-18 04:04:56 UTC-05:00 26.0 km
21. 5.3 South of the Kermadec Islands 2014-02-18 03:14:42 UTC-05:00 29.7 km
22. 2.6 20km SSW of McCord, Oklahoma 2014-02-18 02:15:33 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
23. 2.9 73km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico 2014-02-18 00:23:36 UTC-05:00 23.0 km
24. 5.5 108km NNW of Boroko, Indonesia 2014-02-17 22:34:12 UTC-05:00 35.0 km
25. 2.9 39km SW of Healy, Alaska 2014-02-17 20:34:27 UTC-05:00 124.6 km
26. 2.7 98km SE of Adak, Alaska 2014-02-17 20:06:03 UTC-05:00 169.8 km

HAMAS CLAIMES THEY ENDORSE TWO-STATE DEAL

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.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

ISAIAH 33:8
8  The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

GENESIS 25:20-26
20  And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21  And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22  And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23  And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24  And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25  And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26  And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

Hamas will endorse two-state deal, Fatah leaders assert

West Bank officials returning from Gaza say Islamist rulers will back accord with Israel, despite statements to the contrary

By Elhanan Miller February 17, 2014, 1:58 pm 8-The Times of Israel

Even as a top Hamas official warned Monday against Palestinian acceptance of an American “framework” peace agreement, West Bank leaders were asserting that the Islamist rulers of the Gaza Strip would in fact back a peace deal with Israel based on “national principles.”Hamas’s deputy political bureau chief, Moussa Abu Marzouk, called the anticipated American document “very dangerous,” saying it would decimate the Palestinian cause through the final status issues.“I believe that those who turned to negotiations despite [the objection] of all [Palestinian] factions, the PLO’s Executive Committee and many members of Fatah, will not hesitate to sign an agreement despite all of the above,” Abu Marzouk told Hamas’s Al-Resalah newspaper.

Nevertheless, PA President Mahmoud Abbas expressed confidence during a speech to Israeli students and activists in Ramallah Sunday that Hamas would back an agreement with Israel on a two-state solution.

That position was reiterated by Fatah officials present in the hall during Abbas’s speech. Asked whether Hamas would endorse an agreement with Israel, Azzam Al-Ahmad, Fatah’s chief negotiator with Hamas, was unhesitating.“Of course they’ll join, why wouldn’t they?” he said. “They will be obligated by the decisions of the Palestinian leadership. I am confident of this. In my opinion, the real impediment to peace is not Hamas but [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and the extremist right-wing government in Israel.”

Al-Ahmad pointed out that Hamas’s political leader, Khaled Mashaal, accepted the two-state principle in the reconciliation agreement signed with Fatah in Cairo in 2011.“One of the issues we agreed on was the right of the Palestinian people to a state on the June 4, 1967, borders,” he said. “Mashaal declared this publicly during his speech at the signing ceremony on May 4, 2011.”The acceptance of a two-state outcome, Al-Ahmad continued, was reaffirmed by West Bank Hamas official Hassan Youssef, recently released from an Israeli prison, in an interview with Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia earlier this month.With regard to Fatah-Hamas reconciliation talks, Al-Ahmad was less optimistic. He said that Hamas had agreed to hold elections six months after the formation of a unity government headed by Abbas, but was reluctant to implement the agreement on the ground.“After Hamas’s agreement [to elections within six months] I was told to wait. I called [Hamas Prime Minister Ismail] Haniyeh four times and never heard back from him,” Al-Ahmad told The Times of Israel.Fatah Central Committee member Mohammed Al-Madani, who returned last week from talks with Hamas in Gaza, said attitudes in the Strip have changed dramatically amid political turmoil in Egypt since the ouster of Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi on July 3, 2013.“I think things now are better than they were in the past. There is a positive understanding among the Hamas leadership; their positions have changed on many issues,” Al-Madani told The Times of Israel.

Munib Al-Masri, a Palestinian billionaire and political independent, returned from talks with Hamas’s leadership in Gaza earlier this month confident that the Islamic movement was behind the two-state paradigm based on the “Palestinian principles” of a state on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital.“Not only Ismail Haniyeh told me this, but the entire Hamas leadership,” Al-Masri told The Times of Israel.

US said ready to compile list of Palestinian refugees to return in deal

Israeli officials deny report from Palestinian source, saying issue has never come up, and would be rejected

By Times of Israel staff February 18, 2014, 9:00 am 9-The Times of Israel

The US reportedly has recently offered to compile a list of Palestinian refugees interested in settling in Israel, under the assumption that a small number would be approved to do so by the Israeli government, according to a Palestinian source cited in an Israeli report.The compilation of the list, reported by Israel Radio, would mark a new phase in the US-brokered talks, which are reportedly stuck on security guarantees for Israel in the Jordan Valley, among other issues.Israeli officials denied the report to Army Radio, saying it has never come up, and they would reject it if it did.The return of refugees is seen as one of the more intractable issues, which would only be tackled in a final status agreement. Successive Israeli governments have ruled out a substantial influx of refugees; former prime minister Ehud Olmert said he offered to take in 5,000 Palestinians over five years after a peace deal, on an “individual humanitarian basis.”On Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry is slated to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the talks.

Ramallah has insisted on a right of return for Palestinians who left their homes during Israel’s War of Independence, a demand Israel has rejected as endangering the Jewish character of the state.The Palestinian source quoted by Israel Radio indicated that it is thought that very few Palestinians would choose to live in Israel even if that was an option, because they would have to sing the national anthem, Hatikvah, send their children to schools run by the Israeli educational system, and perhaps in the future have to perform some form of national or army service.Any final list of Palestinians for resettlement would have to be approved by Israel, the report said.The fate of the millions of Palestinian refugees, which include Palestinians who left their homes both in 1948 and 1967 and their descendants, is one of the long-standing final status issues due to be addressed during the current round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.The right of all the Palestinians refugees to return to what is now Israel has traditionally been a “red line” that the Palestinian leadership has been unwilling to give up.Abbas has maintained a hardline stance on the issue, although this week, in a speech to Israeli students, he said that the Palestinians “do not seek, and we will not seek, to flood Israel with millions in order to change its social culture.”The traditional Palestinian position on the “right of return” follows the language of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, which stipulates a “just and agreed upon solution based on UN resolution 194.”

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.

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)

Hamas head sent message to Netanyahu asking for restraint

Intermediary Gershon Baskin confirms he was passed message by contact in room with Ismail Haniyeh, asking Israel to keep from escalating violence

By Avi Issacharoff February 18, 2014, 10:39 am 4-The Times of Israel

Hamas’s prime minister in the Gaza Strip recently relayed a direct message to the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu affirming that the terror organization has no interest in furthering its conflict with Israel and seeking restraint on Israel’s part, Palestinian and Israeli security sources told The Times of Israel.The message, relayed by Ismail Haniyeh through Israeli-American mediator Gershon Baskin, came after an escalation of violence between the sides threatened to spiral out of control two weeks ago.Baskin, who founded the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information and was instrumental in brokering the deal that saw kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit released from Gaza in 2011, confirmed the message had been sent through him.Haniyeh’s message requested Israeli military restraint, after a series of rockets from Gaza hit the Negev and Israeli planes struck back at sites in the Strip in late January and earlier this month.The Prime Minister’s Office declined to comment on the letter.In private conversations last week, senior Palestinian officials claimed Israel is in communication with Hamas leadership, if not with Haniyeh himself.The Islamist organization, which initiated the contacts, has yet to receive a response from Israel, sources said.Baskin keeps regular contact with one of Haniyeh’s advisers, Ghazi Hamad, on a variety of issues, both humanitarian and non-humanitarian. The specific message asking for restraint was passed along two weeks ago.After a volley of rocket fire out of Gaza late last month, the Israel Defense Forces fired upon several targets in the Gaza Strip, hitting, among other targets, a rocket-prevention force in Hamas’s armed wing charged with stymieing attacks from smaller groups in the Strip.As The Times of Israel reported at the time, sources in Gaza said Hamas’s military wing responded by deciding to withdraw most members of the rocket-prevention force, which was first deployed last July. The move essentially gave a green light for smaller terror organizations to fire upon Israel.During a phone conversation between Baskin and Hamad, the latter asked that the plea for restraint be passed along directly to the Prime Minister’s Office.Senior Palestinian officials said the conversation took place with Haniyeh in the same room as Hamad, a claim Baskin confirmed.

At the end of the conversation, Baskin delivered the message to Gil Sheffer, Netanyahu’s bureau chief, in writing.After a few days, Hamas redeployed the rocket prevention force belonging to the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades along the border with Israel.The brigades are considered Hamas’s elite force operating in the Gaza Strip, and Hamas’s decision to deploy them to prevent rocket fire against Israel has been interpreted as a sign of the Islamist terror group’s intention to keep the ceasefire reached with Israel after the November 2012 Operation Pillar of Defense.Hamas has used the “Baskin channel” a number of times in the past in order to forward information to the Israeli leadership. Baskin is well connected with officials at the Defense Ministry and the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories.Communication between Haniyeh and Netanyahu via Baskin is rare, but Israel and Hamas maintain contacts through a number of channels.In recent weeks, Egyptian intelligence officers also functioned as intermediaries between the two sides. According to Palestinian officials, the Qataris as have also recently served as middlemen. On humanitarian issues, such as medical evacuations and the entrance of goods and supplies into Gaza, Palestinian Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh remains the primary mediator between Israel and Hamas.

Ghazi Hamad was unavailable for comment.

Italy’s PM-to-be is tough on Iran, empathetic to Israel

Matteo Renzi supported the 2009 ‘Green Movement’ against the ayatollahs, and has urged ‘more careful consideration of Israel’s stances’

By Raphael Ahren February 17, 2014, 5:11 pm 5-The Times of Israel

The man expected to become Italy’s next prime minister is known to be friendly toward Israel and to take a tough line on Iran.Matteo Renzi, currently the mayor of Florence and the secretary of the Italian center-left Democratic Party, is the top candidate to succeed Prime Minister Enrico Letta, who resigned last week.

“Sometimes Israel exceeds its defense [actions], and we need to say it, but it is time that the left state unequivocally that Israel has a right to live without threats,” Renzi, who has visited the country, has been quoted as saying. “Israel is a country that is surrounded by organizations that wish its destruction, starting with Iran,” he said on a different occasion.A government led by Renzi would probably imply a “few variations to the traditional pattern of Italian foreign policy,” according to Michele Di Donato, an Italian scholar focusing on European left-wing politics. “A slight pro-Atlanticist swing may be expected, as well as a more careful consideration of Israel’s stances in Middle Eastern policy.”Renzi has called Iran the “mother of all challenges” in the Middle East, Di Donato noted, not only because of the regime’s nuclear ambitions but mostly because the 39-year-old politician supported Iran’s opposition “Green Movement” in 2009. “On the same occasion he expressed reservations about the Italian approval of the bid to upgrade Palestine’s UN status on November 2012: a rather isolated position in the center-left, traditionally quite sympathetic to the Palestinian cause,” Di Donate noted.In 2012, Renzi attended a demonstration entitled “For the Truth, for Israel,” during which Israeli and Italian flags were waved.“I don’t really know why, but he has always shown very pro-Israel ideas the few times he talked about foreign policy,” said Nathan Servi, a Jewish native of Florence who has been following Renzi’s political career closely over the years. “It seems we may [get] a European center-left prime minister who doesn’t hate Israel after all.”

NUCLEAR DEAL UNREACHABLE US-IRAN AGREE

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.

02/16/2014 VVATICAN INSIDER

Von Freyberg: «I do not know whether the Pope will close the IOR»

The seat of the IOR

The President of the “Vatican bank” confides to “La Nación” the uncertainty over the future of the Institute

Andrea Tornielli Vatican City
“This is a crucial time, as we await the Pope’s decision. I don’t know what will happen, I cannot speculate on what our Holy Father’s decision will be…” The von Freyberg that emerges from the interview published this morning in “La Nación” by Elisabetta Piqué, seems different to usual.The president of the IOR was appointed a year ago after Benedict XVI announced his resignation but before the end of his papacy. He now clearly says that he does not know what the future of the Institute will be and admits the possibility that it will be definitively closed.As soon as he was appointed, Ernst von Freyberg, 55, assigned a review of the accounts of the “Vatican bank” to Promontory, in accordance with the board – a work which is making slow progress and which has not yet concluded. Von Freyberg had also wanted to enrol the help of an international communications consultancy firm, beginning a media campaign a few weeks into his presidency. He is now awaiting news of decisions from the top.“We have not found any systematic violations of the law (anti-laundering), but we have some black sheep”, he stated in the interview with the Argentinian newspaper on the eve of the final day of work of the IOR investigation commission, presided over by Cardinal Raffaele Farina and of the meeting of the Pope’s 8 councillor cardinals, who from tomorrow will be addressing, amongst other things, the issues of Vatican finances.
“This is a critical moment. The commissions reviewing the IOR will deliver their report in the next few days, as will the commissions for the economical-administrative issues. And then the Pope will make his decision,” said von Freyberg.
The possibilities, which the Pontiff himself spoke of in an interview with journalists during his flight back from Rio de Janeiro, include closure, transformation into an “ethical bank”, or continuing with the current structure but with total transparency and honesty. It is undeniable, in fact, that for decades, and still today – as the judicial investigation on the case of Mr Nunzio Scarano are testament to – the institute has represented a real evangelical counter-testament.
During the interview, von Freyberg talks about Mr. Battista Ricca, interim prelate of the IOR, defining the relationship between the Holy See and the Vatican bank as “very important. While on the Scarano case and on the involvement of the director Paolo Cipriani and his deputy Massimo Tulli in the judicial proceedings – who both stepped down on 1 July last year – the president of the IOR prefers not to comment, given that the proceedings are ongoing.
In recent days, media indiscretions have hypothesised that changes will be made in the leadership of the IOR as a sign of reconciliation with Italy and its financial institutions, with whom relations have been marked by a certain frigidity in the last two years. Nevertheless, it is clear that everything still depends on the decisions to be made on the future of the institute that will be taken in the next few days.

02/15/2014 VATICAN INSIDER

The wind of the Second Vatican blows over the Legionaries

PRIESTS OF THE LEGION OF CHRIST

The influence of Francis has brought the congregation in line with the spirit of the Council. We spoke to the pontifical delegate, De Paolis: no more oligarchy in the Legion

GIACOMO GALEAZZI vatican city  
Francis aligns the Legion with the Second Vatican. A move that is to impress upon the Legion of Christ the changing scenarios of the globalised third millennium. The pivotal moment for the council is the extraordinary general chapter, presided over by the Cardinal and special pontifical delegate Velasio De Paolis, which is to conclude in Rome on 25 February.We need, the cardinal explained to “Vatican Insider”, “a committed path of purification and spiritual renewal” before we can “proceed with the review of the constitutions and the election of a new government of the Legion of Christ”. And it is in this aspect that the influence of Francis has helped adapt the congregation to the spirit of the Council. In fact, during the Chapter, the Vatican stresses, “the constitutions have been radically transformed as the previous administration was clearly pre-conciliar and thus had to be adapted to the new code of canonical rights according to the guidelines indicated by the Second Vatican.” What has changed in particular in the old laws of the congregation is the “excessively oligarchic composition of the organisation” and the “lack of appreciation for community life.”Before the new constitutions that will be enacted on 25 February by Pope Bergoglio, the rules that governed the Legion of Christ were “too many and too confused”. From now on, the charism of the congregation (that is the proclamation to the world of the kingship of Christ) will be regulated by a “more streamlined body, less restricted by regulations”, making way for “a clear interpretation of the new constitutions”.Cardinal De Paolis was appointed by Benedict XVI in June 2012 and confirmed the following June by Francis as pontifical delegate for the Legion of Christ. A decisive move of compulsory administration by the Holy See in the wake of the shameful coming to light of the immoral behaviour that involved the congregation’s founder, father Marcial Maciel Degollado, who was barred from all public office in May 2006; a scandal that greatly harmed the Legion and had serious consequences for the life of the legionaries, prompting reviews of the structure of the organisation. Father Maciel died in 2008.The work of the Chapter will conclude in a few days. Participating in the assembly, in addition to the members of the presidency (the pontifical delegate and two of his personal councillors), there will be around sixty chapter fathers and some consecrated and laic members of the Regnum Christi apostolate movement, which shares the charism of the congregation. The initial phase of the chapter, which began on 8 January and was dedicated to the review of the constitutional text and the election of new heads of the Legion of Christ, is to be followed by a second phase of work which will address various aspects of the life of the congregation. “Above all there was the problem of the constitutions, which we have worked on the most,” explained De Paolis. “The main issue was the review, particularly is some complex areas”. First of all to find a “clearer and more accurate distinction between the jurisdictions of the internal-sacramental court and external-disciplinary court. We needed to reaffirm that the authority is not arbitrary, but that it must operate within the Council”, explained the pontifical delegate. “Therefore we resolved the issue with the creation of constitutions according to the indications of the council, post-council, and the code of canonical rights and it was in this area that we worked the most. We dealt with the problems of the founder, formation, and the Regnum Christi. We also addressed disciplinary issues, including the cases of priests who have been sullied by sins within the Church”.

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)

THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.

Latest storm to bring more snow to East Coast

3 hours ago-FEB 18,14-yahoonews

The National Weather service predicted that many East Coast states will see 3 to 6 inches of snow on Tuesday after a storm moved in overnight from the Great Lakes and through the Mid-Atlantic. Much of the accumulation will complicate morning and late afternoon commutes. Some areas also will get rain, sleet or a snow-rain mixture."We're looking at a relatively short duration event," said the weather service's John Cristantello.Temperatures above freezing on Tuesday should move up to the 40s to mid-50s for the remainder of the week, he said.In New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, snow will fall from daybreak until about early afternoon before heading to the Gulf of Maine.Coastal areas in Maine and Massachusetts saw blizzard-like conditions with more than a foot of snow during a storm on Saturday, and thousands on Cape Cod were left without power. Maine was expected to get another 4 to 8 inches of snow on Tuesday. Boston should get 1 to 3 inches but Worcester, located west of the capital, could get as much as 6 to 8 inches.Pennsylvania was gearing up for 2 to 4 inches in Philadelphia and some southeastern areas of the state and 1 to 3 inches in eastern Pennsylvania. But forecasters said there could be 4 to 6 inches in the Poconos Mountains and 2 to 6 inches of snow in parts of western and central Pennsylvania.On Monday, several inches of snow fell across the Great Lakes, causing Chicago's two airports to cancel more than 1,000 flights.

In Michigan, crashes closed portions of Interstate 96 in Grand Rapids and the Muskegon area saw whiteout conditions.Last Wednesday, the snow, sleet and ice that bombarded the Southeast brought its ferocity into the East Coast a day later. About 1.2 million utility customers lost power as the storm moved from the South through the Northeast. Schools, businesses and government offices closed.The recent storms have been blamed for the deaths of at least 25 people.

US Navy ready to deploy laser for 1st time

By DAVID SHARP 15 hours ago-FEB 18,14-yahoonews

BATH, Maine (AP) — Some of the Navy's futuristic weapons sound like something out of "Star Wars," with lasers designed to shoot down aerial drones and electric guns that fire projectiles at hypersonic speeds.

That future is now.The Navy plans to deploy its first laser on a ship later this year, and it intends to test an electromagnetic rail gun prototype aboard a vessel within two years.For the Navy, it's not so much about the whiz-bang technology as it is about the economics of such armaments. Both costs pennies on the dollar compared with missiles and smart bombs, and the weapons can be fired continuously, unlike missiles and bombs, which eventually run out."It fundamentally changes the way we fight," said Capt. Mike Ziv, program manager for directed energy and electric weapon systems for the Naval Sea Systems Command.The Navy's laser technology has evolved to the point that a prototype to be deployed aboard the USS Ponce this summer can be operated by a single sailor, he said.The solid-state Laser Weapon System is designed to target what the Navy describes as "asymmetrical threats." Those include aerial drones, speed boats and swarm boats, all potential threats to warships in the Persian Gulf, where the Ponce, a floating staging base, is set to be deployed.Rail guns, which have been tested on land in Virginia, fire a projectile at six or seven times the speed of sound — enough velocity to cause severe damage. The Navy sees them as replacing or supplementing old-school guns, firing lethal projectiles from long distances.But both systems have shortcomings.Lasers tend to loser their effectiveness if it's raining, if it's dusty, or if there's turbulence in the atmosphere, and the rail gun requires vast amount of electricity to launch the projectile, said Loren Thompson, defense analyst at the Lexington Institute."The Navy says it's found ways to deal with use of lasers in bad weather, but there's little doubt that the range of the weapon would be reduced by clouds, dust or precipitation," he said.Producing enough energy for a rail gun is another problem.The Navy's new destroyer, the Zumwalt, under construction at Bath Iron Works in Maine, is the only ship with enough electric power to run a rail gun. The stealthy ship's gas turbine-powered generators can produce up to 78 megawatts of power. That's enough electricity for a medium-size city — and more than enough for a rail gun.

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Technology from the three ships in that DDG-1000 series will likely trickle down into future warships, said Capt. James Downey, the program manager.Engineers are also working on a battery system to store enough energy to allow a rail gun to be operated on warships currently in the fleet.Both weapon systems are prized because they serve to "get ahead of the cost curve," Ziv said.In other words, they're cheap.Each interceptor missile aboard a U.S. Navy warship costs at least $1 million apiece, making it cost-prohibitive to defend a ship in some hostile environments in which an enemy is using aircraft, drones, artillery, cruise missiles and artillery, Thompson said.With a laser operating on about 30 kilowatts of electricity — and possibly three times that in the future — the cost amounts to a few dollars per shot, Thompson said.The "Star Wars" analogy isn't a bad one.Just like in the movies, the Navy's laser directs a beam of energy that can burn through a target or fry sensitive electronics. Unlike the movie, the laser beam is invisible to the human eye.

The targeting system locks onto the target, sending a beam of searing heat. "You see the effect on what you are targeting but you don't see the actual beam," Ziv said.Other nations are developing their own lasers, but the Navy is more advanced at this point.Most folks are stunned to learn the technology is ready for deployment, Ziv said."It's fair to say that there are other countries working on this technology. That's safe to say. But I would also say that a lot of what makes this successful came from the way in which we consolidated all of the complexity into something that can be operated by (a single sailor)," he said.___

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CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL 2ND WAVE OF WW3 (200 MILLION MAN ARMY)

REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.(ITS AT THIS TIME I BELIEVE WHEN AMERICA GETS NUKED BY RUSSIA ON THE WAY TO THE MIDEAST)

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(4 WINDS OF THE WORLD-WORLDWIDE WAR)(TURKEY-IRAQ-SYRIA)(EUPHRATES RIVER CONSISTS OF 760 MILES IN TURKEY,440 MILES IN SYRIA AND 660 MILES IN IRAQ)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,(COULD ALSO MEAN THE 4 CORNERS OF THE EARTH OR WORLDWIDE WAR) which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

China pillages Africa like old colonialists says Jane Goodall

By Christophe Beaudufe 6 hours ago-FEB 18,14-yahoonews

Johannesburg (AFP) - China is exploiting Africa's resources just like European colonisers did, with disastrous effects for the environment, acclaimed primatologist Jane Goodall has told AFP.On the eve of her 80th birthday, the fiery British wildlife crusader is whizzing across the world giving a series of lectures on the threats to our planet.And the rising world power's involvement on the continent especially raises alarms when it comes to her beloved chimpanzees and wildlife habitats.During the last decade China has been investing heavily in African natural resources, developing mines, oil wells and running related construction companies.
Activists accuse Chinese firms of paying little attention to the environmental impact of their race for resources."In Africa, China is merely doing what the colonialist did. They want raw materials for their economic growth, just as the colonialists were going into Africa and taking the natural resources, leaving people poorer," she told AFP in an interview in Johannesburg.The stakes for the environment may even be larger this time round, she warns."China is bigger, and the technology has improved... It is a disaster."
Other than massive investment in Africa's mines, China is also a big market for elephant tusks and rhino horn, which has driven poaching of these animals to alarming heights.But Goodall, who rose to fame through her ground-breaking research on chimpanzees in Tanzania, is optimistic."I do believe China is changing," she said, citing as one example Beijing's recent destruction of illegal ivory stockpiles."I think 10 years ago, even with international pressure, we would never have had an ivory crush. But they have," she added."I think 10 years ago the government would never have banned shark fin soup on official occasions. But they have."
- 'Small window of time' -Her organisation Roots and Shoots, founded over two decades ago to instil conservation values in children, has also become involved in China."We work with hundreds of Chinese children, and they are not different from children we work with here. They all love nature, they love animals, they want to help, there's no difference because they're Chinese," she said.Young people's enthusiasm to change the world is a major reason to hope, for this lady with seemingly inexhaustible energy who can still keep an auditorium hanging on her words for more than an hour."These young people will become the next parents, the next teachers, the next lawyers, the next business people and the next politicians, some of them."

"The biggest problem is that people understand but don't know what to do," she said."If you have one thousand, one million or eventually several million people all making the right choice, all thinking about the consequence of their behaviour, then we're going to see big change."Another glimmer of hope is "this amazing resilience of nature," she continued, citing as an example the China's Loess Plateau on the Yellow River bouncing back after massive soil erosion."It was set to be the biggest totally destroyed ecosystem in the world," she said.A $400-million project funded by the Chinese government and international donors introduced better farming methods in the area, which greatly reduced erosion and lifted 2.5 million people out of poverty, according to the World Bank."That took a lot of money, but if you look at it now, it's all green, lush and farmland, and children have come back from the cities. It's even got a whole area for wildlife," said Goodall."We still have a small window of time to change things."

Iran and U.S. agree final nuclear deal may be unreachable

By Parisa Hafezi and Louis Charbonneau 11 hours ago-FEB 17,14-yahoonews

VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States and long-time arch-foe Iran agree on at least one thing ahead of Tuesday's negotiations on a long-term nuclear deal - reaching an agreement will be very difficult, if not impossible.Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the man who has the final say on all matters of state in the Islamic Republic, declared again on Monday that talks between Tehran and six world powers "will not lead anywhere.Hours later a senior U.S. administration official also played down expectations, telling reporters in the Austrian capital that it will be a "complicated, difficult and lengthy process" and "probably as likely that we won't get an agreement as it is that we will.Their remarks came on the eve of the first round of high-level negotiations since an interim deal was struck on November 24 under which Tehran curbed some nuclear activities for six months in return for limited sanctions relief to allow time for a long-term agreement to be hammered out.Despite his skepticism about the chances for a lasting deal with the West, Khamenei made clear Tehran was committed to continuing the negotiations between Iran and Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States."What our officials started will continue. We will not renege. I have no opposition," he told a crowd in the northern city of Tabriz on Monday to chants of "Death to America".If successful, the negotiations could help put an end to years of hostility between Iran and the West, ease the danger of a new war in the Middle East, and open up vast new possibilities for Western businesses.During a decade of on-and-off negotiations with world powers, Iran has rejected allegations by Western countries that it is seeking a nuclear weapons capability. It says its nuclear work is for power generation and medical purposes.Tehran has defied U.N. Security Council demands that it suspend uranium enrichment and other sensitive activities, leading to a crippling web of U.S., EU and U.N. sanctions that has severely damaged the oil-producing nation's economy.Khamenei's decision to pursue negotiations with the six powers in spite of the skepticism he shares with his hard-line supporters, diplomats and analysts say, is a result of Iran's worsening economic conditions.
CURBING URANIUM ENRICHMENT
The goal of the talks for the United States and its European allies is to extend the "breakout time" that Iran would need to produce enough fissile material for a bomb.For that goal to be achieved, experts and diplomats say, Iran would have to restrict enriching uranium to a low fissile concentration, stop most of its centrifuges now used for such work, limit nuclear research, and submit to highly intrusive monitoring by U.N. inspectors.Khamenei and other Iranian officials have repeatedly made clear that such reductions of its nuclear capacities would be unacceptable.Western governments appear to have given up on the idea, enshrined in a series of United Nations Security Council resolutions since 2006, that Iran should halt entirely the most controversial aspects of its program - all activities related to the enrichment of uranium and production of plutonium.Diplomats privately acknowledge that Iran's nuclear work is now too far advanced for Tehran to agree to dismantle it completely.But while Iran may keep a limited enrichment capacity, the West will seek guarantees that mean any attempt to build a nuclear bomb would take long enough for it to be detected and stopped, possibly with military action.The talks in Vienna begin on Tuesday and are expected to last for several days. Senior officials from the six powers will meet with an Iranian delegation led by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his deputy Abbas Araqchi.European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton coordinates the negotiations on behalf of the six powers. The talks will be the first in what is expected to be a series of meetings in the coming months.While cautioning the talks would take time, the U.S. official said Washington does not want them to run beyond a six-month deadline agreed in the November deal. The late July deadline can be extended for another half year by mutual consent.(Additional reporting by Justyna Pawlak and Fredrik Dahl; Editing by Mohammad Zargham)