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.
ISRAELIS THREATENED IN UKRAINE-OBAMA WANTS 3RD TEMPLE REBUILT
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/israelis-threatened-in-ukraine-malik.html
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Settlers call on Likud ministers to end peace talks-Municipal leaders from West Bank communities say terrorism thrives on Israeli ‘diplomatic weakness’-By Stuart Winer April 17, 2014, 5:51 pm 0-The Times of Israel
The leaders of five settler municipal councils, who are all members of the Likud, appealed to their party’s cabinet ministers on Thursday to end negotiations with the Palestinians and instead invest in developing the Jewish presence in the West Bank.In a letter, the council chiefs pleaded with the ministers to rethink Israel’s diplomatic strategy.“For the past few years, we have seen how every dialogue with the PA demands a heavy price from the citizens of Israel and detracts from their security,” the letter said, and recalled a shooting attack Monday that claimed the life of one Israeli, Baruch Mizrahi, and injured his wife and son.“The connection is direct and obvious,” the municipal leaders continued. “Terrorism rears its head every time the state of Israel and the Israeli government show diplomatic weakness.“We, municipal leaders and Likud members, call on you to announce that murderers and terrorists will no longer be set free, and that there will be no dialogue with the PA, which has proved that it is an authority that supports, organizes, and educates to terror,” they wrote.The US-brokered peace talks deteriorated rapidly at the end of March after Israel nixed a planned release of Palestinian prisoners and PA President Mahmoud Abbas applied for Palestinian membership in 15 international treaties, despite a commitment to abstain from taking such a step.The settler leaders called on the government to engage in widespread construction throughout the West Bank.“The power of such a step is to plant in the hearts of our enemies the recognition that our presence in this land is eternal and that we will remain here, and we will settle it, at any price,” they wrote. “At this time, the people of Israel and the whole world need a clear, strong national Zionist statement — the Land of Israel for the people of Israel.”As for the possible backlash from the international community, the petitioners suggested stubborn defiance.“We will not flinch from the nations of the world and threats for the future, security, and resilience of the state of Israel,” they wrote.Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, together with US envoy Martin Indyk, were scheduled to meet on Thursday evening in an effort to revive peace talks.
Israelis, Palestinians to hold separate talks with US envoy-Indyk meets with Erekat in Jericho; Netanyahu reportedly refuses to free, deport Israeli Arab prisoners-By AFP and Times of Israel staff April 18, 2014, 2:19 pm 0
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators were to meet separately Friday with US peace envoy Martin Indyk, a Palestinian source said, a day after five hours of three-way talks failed to bring agreement.Indyk was due to hold talks with chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat in the West Bank city of Jericho from 08:00 GMT, the source said, but he had no details of the US-Israeli meeting and Israeli officials did not respond to requests for information.Thursday’s talks, in a Jerusalem hotel, were “very difficult,” the source said. “The gap… is still wide.”Officials in Jerusalem said Friday that no progress had been made in peace talks that took place between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators the night before, and that the two sides would meet again next week after the Passover holiday.State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said this week that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are striving to reach an agreement to extend their peace talks beyond the April 29 deadline.But commentator Nahum Barnea, writing in the Yedioth Ahronoth daily on Friday, likened the almost nine months of talks, into which Secretary of State John Kerry coaxed the sides, to prolonged “mutual torture.“Kerry keeps them going like a gambler in a casino, who insists on putting his money on the roulette wheel, in the hope that the wheel will stop on his number at some point,” Barnea wrote.“He believed that he would reach a peace agreement; then he limited himself to a framework agreement; he later limited himself even further to an American proposal for a framework; and then just to ideas.“In the end, the entire prestige of the United States is invested in a marginal, questionable deal, which will only prolong the mutual torture.”Washington is pushing for an extension, but the negotiations hit an impasse two weeks ago when Israel refused to release a group of Palestinian prisoners as agreed at last year’s launch of the talks.Under the agreement, Israel had committed to freeing 104 prisoners held since before the 1993 Oslo autonomy accords in four batches, but it cancelled the release of the last group of 26.Among them are 14 Israeli Arabs who the Jewish state is refusing to set free.According to Israel Radio, the Palestinians are adamant in their demand that all 26 prisoners be released, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to concede on the issue of releasing the Israeli Arab terrorists. The head of the Shin Bet security service advised Netanyahu to release the 14 Israeli Arab prisoners in question and deport them to the Gaza Strip or abroad, the report said, but Netanyahu said he would not act in a way that may endanger Israeli citizens.The Palestinians retaliated by seeking accession to several international treaties.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Israeli opposition MPs visiting him in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday that if talks were extended, he would want the first three months “devoted to a serious discussion of borders,” Haaretz newspaper reported.The Palestinians want a state based on the lines that existed before Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Abbas wants next stage of talks to focus on borders of ‘Palestine’-Israeli-Palestinian teams to meet Thursday with US envoy Indyk in latest bid to agree terms for extending negotiations-By Lazar Berman and Times of Israel staff April 17, 2014, 1:49 pm
Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams were scheduled to meet Thursday, after the talks were pushed off from Wednesday. US special envoy Martin Indyk was on his way to Israel in order to meet with the parties.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told a visiting group of Knesset members in Ramallah on Wednesday that if a deal was struck to extend the talks, he would want the next three months of negotiations to focus on defining the borders of a Palestinian state, with detailed discussion over the specifics on maps, and that Israel should freeze all settlement building during that period.If, however, the negotiating deadlock continued, Abbas told the MKs, he would ask Israel to take over responsibility for the territories from the PA — simply to “take the keys,” they quoted him as saying.The MKs, led by Labor’s Hilik Bar, said Abbas was adamant that Israel had to free a fourth and final group of long-term Palestinian prisoners as a condition for the extension of peace talks, and that Israeli-Arabs be included in the group — as, he said, had been agreed at the start of the process. He noted that Israeli Arabs were released by Israel in previous prisoner exchanges, and thus rejected the notion that such releases were unprecedented. He also rejected a reported Shin Bet security agency demand that 10 of the men to go free be exiled from the West Bank to Gaza or overseas.Israel last month cancelled the fourth phase of prisoner releases because of its reluctance to free Israeli Arabs and because Abbas was not committing to extending the talks. Negotiations on a wider prisoner release deal, possibly to include the US freeing American-Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, were then derailed when Abbas filed applications to join 15 international treaties and conventions — a move Israel called a “major breach” of Israeli-Palestinian understandings.State Department spokesman Marie Harf said that both sides wanted to reach an agreement to extend the talks beyond the April 29 deadline.A Palestinian official told AFP the Israeli-Palestinian negotiators’ meeting was pushed off from Wednesday in order to allow US envoy Indyk to arrive in the region and take part in the talks, but an Israeli official said the postponement was due to the West Bank shooting attack on Monday that killed a senior Israeli police officer and injured his wife and son.“The meeting that was planned for tonight between Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams will not be taking place. It’s being postponed,” an Israeli official told AFP on condition of anonymity.Baruch Mizrahi, a father of five, was shot dead by Palestinian terrorists near the West Bank city of Hebron as he drove to celebrate the traditional Passover banquet with his family.The victim was killed when the family’s car was struck by several bullets. Mizrahi’s pregnant wife Hadas was injured in the attack. Mizrahi was laid to rest on Wednesday.An Israeli official said Monday’s terror attack “was the direct result of ongoing incitement and glorification of terrorism that we see in the official Palestinian media and education system.”Despite the attack, Abbas met as scheduled with the group of dovish Knesset members led by Bar, and told them he was willing to maintain security cooperation with Israel even if peace talks are not being held, Israeli media reported. He also condemned the killings of all civilians and reportedly said he was dismayed that Israel was not working with PA security forces to track down the Hebron gunman. However, he reportedly told the MKs he would only publicly condemn the killings once an investigation into the attack had been completed.The US has been taking steps to revive talks that began to deteriorate rapidly at the end of March after Israel nixed the planned release of Palestinian prisoners and Abbas applied for Palestinian membership to the 15 U and other international treaties and conventions, despite a commitment to not take such a step.New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman warned on Wednesday that if US Secretary of State John Kerry stepped back from the peace effort, both sides would be sorry. “The truth is Kerry’s mission is less an act of strategy and more an act of deep friendship. It is America trying to save Israel from trends that will inevitably undermine it as a Jewish and democratic state. But Kerry is the last of an old guard. Those in the Obama administration who think he is on a suicide mission reflect the new US attitude toward the region. And those in Israel who denounce him as a nuisance reflect the new Israel,” Friedman wrote. “Kerry, in my view, is doing the Lord’s work. But the weight of time and all the changes it has wrought on the ground may just be too heavy for such an act of friendship. If he folds his tent, though, Israelis and Palestinians will deeply regret it, and soon.”Last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suspended contact between Israeli and Palestinian officials as part of punitive measures against the PA for the applications to international bodies. However, the ban did not include contact between Defense Ministry officials and their Palestinian counterparts, enabling joint security work in the West Bank to continue. Palestinian Authority Religious Affairs Minister Mahmoud al-Habash told a group of Israeli journalists in Ramallah on Wednesday that one of the conditions the Palestinians have laid down for continuation of the negotiations is that Israel present a map that shows the borders between a future Palestinian state and Israel. The issue of the map and the delineation of state lines are matters that keep coming up again and again between the two sides, Habash said.He added that the PA will not agree to be a ruling body without power and that the current situation will not continue beyond the end of the year. Habash warned that the price of failed peace talks is likely to be painfully heavy and hinted that the PA is likely to fall apart if talks fail.Times of Israel staff and AFP contributed to this report.
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
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)
US calls anti-Semitic Ukraine leaflets ‘grotesque’-It remains unclear who produced fliers calling on Jews to register with authorities or face consequences-By Lazar Berman and AP April 18, 2014, 2:39 am 24-The Times of Israel
The United States on Thursday condemned as “grotesque” the distribution of leaflets demanding that Jews in eastern Ukraine register with a self-proclaimed local authority or face consequences. US officials also denounced other instances of religious intolerance that are inflaming tensions in the crisis in Ukraine and said no such behavior could be tolerated.Speaking in Geneva after top diplomats from the US, European Union, Russia and Ukraine reached agreement on steps to de-escalate the situation, Secretary of State John Kerry denounced the leaflets.“In the year 2014, after all of the miles traveled and all of the journey of history, this is not just intolerable; it’s grotesque,” Kerry told reporters. “It is beyond unacceptable. And any of the people who engage in these kinds of activities, from whatever party or whatever ideology or whatever place they crawl out of, there is no place for that.”Kerry also denounced apparent threats to members of the Russian Orthodox Church from members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. He noted that the agreement signed on Thursday “strongly condemned and rejected all expressions of extremism, racism and religious intolerance, including anti-Semitism.”Also Thursday, the Simon Wiesenthal Center released a statement saying that Geoffrey Pyatt, the US ambassador in Kiev, told Mark Weitzman, SWC’s director of government affairs, that the fliers were “clearly part of a general effort to sow fear among Ukrainian Jews.”Pyatt added that he doesn’t know who was behind the literature.In Washington, US officials said the anti-Semitic leaflets, which recall the days of czarist pogroms and Nazi-era persecution of Jews, have appeared recently in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The State Department said it was looking into who is responsible but said it took the threat seriously, no matter who was behind the leaflets.The leaflets seen by US officials purport to come from the Donetsk People’s Republic, a self-styled, unrecognized breakaway authority that seeks to join Russia. The Donetsk Republic press office denied any involvement in the matter and says the leaflets are fake.
Filipino devotees re-enact crucifixion of Christ
By AARON FAVILA -APR 18,14-YahooNews
SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines (AP) — Devotees in northern Philippine villages had themselves nailed to wooded crosses to re-enact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ as thousands of local and foreign spectators watched the bloody annual rites to mark Good Friday in Asia's largest Roman Catholic nation.Church leaders and health officials have spoken against the practice, which mixes Roman Catholic devotion with folk belief, but the annual rites continue to draw participants and huge crowds, particularly in northern Pampanga province.Sign painter Ruben Enaje, 53, had himself nailed to a cross at a dusty mound in Pampanga's San Pedro Cutud village for the 28th year. He began his yearly rite after surviving a fall from a building. Men dressed as Roman soldiers hammered stainless steel nails into his palms and feet, as a crowd of onlookers stood with cameras ready to capture his and other penitents' agony.Lasse Spang Olsen, a 48-year-old filmmaker from Denmark, also had himself nailed to a cross, joining Enaje and eight other Filipino devotees. He grimaced in pain as nails pierced his hands and feet.Olsen said he made a film two years ago about Enaje's yearly crucifixion and decided to have himself crucified after falling sick twice. He had a small camera attached to his cross while a colleague filmed his experience."It's a personal matter between me and (God)," he said, with his finger pointing up. After being helped down from the cross, he said of his experience: "Fantastic, you should try it."Archbishop Socrates Villegas, head of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, discouraged the crucifixions."If what you do makes you love others more, then it is pleasing to God," he said. "But if you do it for photographs, just to be famous, that is spiritual vanity."The health department also discouraged the practice because of health risks. Health Undersecretary Eric Tayag urged devotees to get anti-tetanus shots.Devotees undergo the crucifixions in the belief that such extreme sacrifices are a way to atone for their sins, attain miracle cures for illnesses or give thanks to God.
04/17/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-Pope washes the feet of twelve disabled women and men on Holy Thursday-Francis washes the feet of 12 disabled people-Francis washed the feet of 8 men and 4 women at a center for disabled people in Rome on Holy Thursday, as he led the celebration commemorating Jesus’ Last Supper-gerard o'connell
Rome-Pope Francis washed the feet of twelve variously disabled men and women, from different nationalities, ethnic groups and religions on Holy Thursday, at the Don Gnocchi center in Rome for people with permanent or temporary disabilities. He did so in commemoration of Jesus’ action in washing the feet of his twelve apostles at the Last Supper in Jerusalem before he was crucified.He arrived early in his blue Ford Focus, and greeted hundreds of people, young and old who had come to see him, before entering the chapel to celebrate the mass commemorating the Last Supper.Some two hundred people including the disabled patients and their relatives, as well as medical and support staff participated at the very prayerful mass, enlivened by music and hymns, at the “Santa Maria alla Providenza” center in the Casal del Marmo district of Rome, not far from the Juvenile Detention Centre where he went last year.After the reading of the Gospel account of the Last Supper, Pope Francis explained the significance of the washing of the feet, in a homily that lasted less than two minutes. He recalled that at the time of Jesus the feet of the guests, that were dirty from walking on the dirt roads, were washed by the slaves or servants of the house. Jesus however did this work of the slave or servant, he said; he washed the feet of his apostles to show them that they were to do likewise, and serve each other. That was “the testimony” that Jesus left us, he said. His followers are called to serve others, he said. “We should ask ourselves how we can better serve others”, he concluded.The Pope then knelt and washed the feet of each of the twelve disabled persons: 8 men and 4 women, aged between 16 and 86. One could see it was a big effort for the 77 year old Argentinean Pope, but he did so happily and when he had washed and dried each person’s foot, he looked up at the person with a loving smile, and on one occasion shook the person’s hand. The twelve were chosen from among the thousands of patients at the 30 Don Gnocchi Foundation healthcare and research centers scattered across Italy. The Foundation, founded by an Italian priest, Don Gnocchi, 60 years ago, embodies what Pope Francis has termed “moving out to the peripheries” in search and support of those people society has forgotten or discarded.Nine were Italian; the others came from Libya, Ethiopia, and Cape Verde. All suffer from physical, neurological and oncological illnesses.Fr Federico Lombardi, the Director of the Holy See Press Office, gave the following brief biographies of those whose feet Pope Francis had washed:Osvaldinho, 16, from Cape Verde, had a diving accident last summer and is now completely paralyzed.Orietta, 51, a woman from Rome who suffers from an illness that has affected her brain.Samuel, 66, has had polio from his youth.Marco, 19, high school student and leader of parish Youth Group was diagnosed with a cerebral palsy last year.Angelica, 86, from Maenza, former president of Catholic Action in Italy, had hip replacement surgery twice.Daria, 39, has suffered with cerebral palsy from her childhood. Pietro, 86, struggles with mobility and muscular deficiency.Gianluca, 36, he has had numerous operations from the age of 14 as a result of meningitis.Stefano, 49,suffers from serious cerebral and motor disorder. Hamed, 75, Muslim man originally from Libya, suffered a traffic accident which caused serious neurological impairment.Giordana, 27, from Ethiopia, she suffers from cerebral palsy and epilepsy.Walter, 59, suffers from Down's Syndrome.Each of these persons has received help and support from the Don Gnocchi Foundation to overcome the difficulties, marginalization and isolation they often face on account of their age or a disability.Before the Pope’s visit, Dr. Furio Grammatica, Chairperson of the Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer (CITT) at the Don Gnocchi Foundation, told Vatican Radio that “one might think that most of them (the twelve) cannot fully catch the meaning of this visit, but this is definitively not true, even for the most critical cases”. He said that after joined the Foundation 10 years ago he had learned that “our guests have all developed a clear “sixth sense” on how much they are loved, and – in a definitively more straight way than us – they fully rely on people closer to them, who represent the fondness they feel. Pope Francis is not only a Pope, but an icon of the tenderness and strength at the same time, so they are really excited about meeting him.”In the past, Popes had led the Holy Thursday celebration and carried out the washing of the feet in St Peter’s Basilica, but Francis, following his practice as archbishop in Buenos Aires, prefers to do so in a situation on the periphery of human existence, as he did last year and again this year.
04/17/2014 - VATICAN INSIDER-Coptic priest joins Francis’ personal secretariat-Lahzi with Benedict XVI (Photo by: www.europe-israel.org)-After Mgr. Xuereb’s promotion to Secretary for the Economy, Francis has now chosen Secretary of State official Yoannis Lahzi Gaid to replace him-Andrea Tornielli
vatican city-Pope Francis has chosen a second personal secretary who will work alongside Argentinean priest Fr. Fabián Pedacchio, after Alfred Xuereb was promoted as the Vatican “finance ministry’s” number two man. The man chosen for the job is Coptic Catholic Yoannis Lahzi Gaid who is currently working in the first section of the Vatican Secretariat of State. Lahzi Gaid is also one of the “translators” who reads out the Gospel and summarises the Pope’s General Audience catecheses in Arabic.Francis’ new secretary has been living in the St. Martha’s House residence for a while now and knows Italy well: He was assistant parish priest of Latina (central Italy); in 2007 he edited a volume of texts from the Code of Canon Law for the Eastern Churches; he was the Vatican’s diplomatic representative in Congo and Gabon and was then made charge d’affaires of the Apostolic Nunciature of Jordan and Iraq before returning to the Vatican. He was previously also editor of the website of the Church in Alexandria, Egypt. In 2011, following the bloody attacks against the Coptic ortodox churches, he wrote, of his own initiative, an open letter to the Imam of Al Azhar University.For the moment, Lahzi Gaid will continue his daily duties in the Secretariat of State, alongside his new role, as Mgr. Pedacchio – who also works for the Congregation for Bishops – does. As is known, for Francis, the ideal personal secretary acts as an invisible figure. He never follows the Pope and almost never accompanies him in public but most importantly, he does not manage the Pope’s agenda for him, deciding who he does and doesn’t meet.The fact that the Bishop of Rome has chosen someone who belongs to a different religious rite – in this case the ancient Coptic rite - as one of his closest collaborators for the first time in modern history, is a fact of great significance and as sign of his support for the Eastern communities.
04/15/2014 - VATICAN INSIDER-After discussing the Vatican's finances, C8 cardinals move onto Curia reform-Francis' eight-member team of advisors-Francis' eight-member team of advisorsFrom 28 to 30 April Francis’ eight cardinal advisors will be discussing the reform of the dicasteries-ANDREA TORNIELLI
vatican city-They are expected in the Vatican at the end of next week, before the ceremony for the canonization of John XXIII and John Paul II, set for Sunday 27 April. Straight after this, on Monday 28, Francis’ team of eight cardinal advisors will reopen the dossier on Curia reform and will begin examining each of the Pontifical Councils, weighing up all the various proposals for mergers and changes.The issue of Curia reform was put on hold in the past few months because last February, the eight-member group of cardinal advisors (the C8) was looking into the Vatican’s finances and economy. It implemented the proposal put forward by one of the referring commissions, involving the establishment of a Secretariat for the Economy, essentially a centralized “ministry of finance” in charge of staff and spending. The Pope chose Australian cardinal George Pell as head of this new structure and Mgr. Alfred Xuereb – who up until a few days ago was Francis’ personal secretary – as number two man.That same month (February), the C8 also dealt with IOR reform, responding to the report issued by the commission for reference headed by Cardinal Raffaele Farina.Now the three-day meeting at the end of April and the four-day meeting this coming July will focus on the proposals regarding the Congregations and Pontifical Councils. These proposals range from the creation of a new figure, the “moderator Curiae” who would coordinate the work of the various dicasteries, to the establishment of a Congregation for the Laity, which would incorporate some of the Pontifical Councils.The C8 will try to sort through the – according to many - excessive number of currently existing offices, with a view to streamline the Curia and cut the red tape. Francis himself said that “the consultation group of eight cardinals, this ‘outsider’ advisory group, is not only my own decision, but it is the result of the will of the cardinals, as it was expressed in the general congregations before the conclave. And I want to see that this is a real, not ceremonial consultation.”The group is made up of cardinals from all continents: Giuseppe Bertello (the C8’s only Italian Curia member), Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa (the group’s only emeritus member), Oswald Gracias, Reinhard Marx (recently nominated coordinator of the Council for the Economy made up of cardinals and lay financial experts), Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Sean Patrick O’Malley, George Pell (recently nominated “minister of the Economy” and Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga. Maradiaga is also the group’s coordinator, while Albano Marcello Semeraro – whom Pope Francis received in audience this morning - is secretary.
1/3RD OF SHIPS DESTROYED
REVELATION 8:8-9
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
Vice principal of South Korea school in ferry disaster commits suicide
By Jungmin Jang and Ju-min Park -APR 18,14
MOKPO/JINDO, South Korea (Reuters) - The vice principal of a South Korean high school who accompanied hundreds of his pupils on what turned out to be a disastrous ferry trip has committed suicide, police said on Friday, as hopes faded of finding any of the 268 missing passengers alive.Kang Min-gyu, 52, had been missing since Thursday. He appeared to have hanged himself with his belt from a tree outside a gym in the port city of Jindo where relatives of the people missing on the ship, mostly children from the school, were gathered.Police said Kang did not leave a suicide note and that they started looking for him after he was reported missing by a fellow-teacher. He was rescued from the ferry after it capsized on Wednesday.Of the 475 passengers and crew on the ferry, 28 people had been officially been declared dead before Kang's suicide and 179 were rescued. The overwhelming majority of the missing are students from the Danwon High School on the outskirts of Seoul, who were on a holiday trip.Divers are fighting strong tides and murky waters to get to the sunken ship but the likelihood of finding any of the missing alive is slim.At the high school in Ansan, an industrial town near Seoul, many friends and family of the missing gathered in somber silence, with occasional sounds of sobbing breaking the quiet."When I first received the call telling me the news, at that time I still had hope," said Cho Kyung-mi, who was waiting for news of her missing 16 year-old nephew at the school."And now it's all gone."In the classrooms of the missing, fellow students have left messages on desks, blackboards and windows, asking for the safe return of their missing friends."If I see you again, I'll tell you I love you, because I haven't said it to you enough," reads one message.Investigations into the sinking, South Korea's worst maritime accident in 21 years based on possible casualties, have centered on possible crew negligence, problems with cargo stowage and structural defects of the vessel, although the ship appears to have passed all of its safety and insurance checks.The 69-year old ship captain has also come under scrutiny after witnesses said he was among the first to escape the sinking vessel that was on a 400-km (300-mile) voyage from the port city of Incheon to the Korean holiday island of Jeju.According to investigators, Captain Lee Joon-seok was not on the bridge at the time the Sewol ferry started to list sharply, with a junior officer at the wheel."I'm not sure where the captain was before the accident. However right after the accident, I saw him rushing back into the steering house ahead of me," said Oh Young-seok, one of the helmsmen on the ship who was off duty and resting at the time."He calmly asked by how much the ship was tilted, and tried to re-balance the ship," said Oh who was speaking from a hospital bed in the city of Mokpo on Friday, where those injured in the incident have been taken.
NORMAL PRACTICE
Handing over the helm is normal practice on the voyage from Incheon to Jeju that usually takes 13.5 hours, according to local shipping crew.Divers gained access to the cargo deck of the ferry on Friday, although that was not close to the passenger quarters, according to a coastguard official.Other coastguard officials said that divers made several attempts to make it to the passenger areas but failed."We cannot even see the ship's white color. Our people are just touching the hull with their hands," Kim Chun-il, a diver from Undine Marine Industries, told relatives of the missing on Friday.The ferry went down in calm conditions and was following a frequently travelled route in familiar waters. Although relatively close to shore, the area was free of rocks and reefs.Lee has not commented on when he left the ship, although he has apologized for the loss of life.He was described as an industry "veteran" by the officials from Chonghaejin Marine Co Ltd, the ship owner, and others who had met him described him as an "expert" who knew the waters he sailed well."I don't know why he abandoned the ship like that," said Ju Hi-chun, a maritime author interviewed the captain in 2006 as one of the experts on the sailing route to Jeju island.But he added: "Koreans don't have the view that they have to stay with their ship until the end. It is a different culture from the West."Some media reports have said the vessel turned sharply, causing cargo to shift and the ship to list before capsizing.Marine investigators and the coastguard have said it was too early to pinpoint a cause for the accident and declined to comment on the possibility of the cargo shifting.The record of the ferry owner was also under investigation and documents were removed from its headquarters in Incheon.Chonghaejin Marine Co Ltd is an unlisted company that operates five ships. It reported an operating loss of 785 million won ($756,000) last year.According to data from South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service, a government body, Chonghaejin is "indirectly" owned by two sons of the owner of a former shipping company called Semo Marine which went bankrupt in 1997. (Additional reporting by Jack Kim, Miyoung Kim, James Pearson, Sohee Kim and Cho Meeyoung; Writing by David Chance; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-21
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
Six CF-18s headed to Europe to bolster NATO forces response to Ukraine-The Canadian PressBy Murray Brewster, The Canadian Press |APR 17,14-YahooNews
OTTAWA - Canada announced Thursday it will contribute six CF-18 jet fighters to a NATO air-policing mission in response to the crisis in Ukraine, just as top diplomats from the troubled east European country, the U.S. and Russia announced steps that could ease tensions.Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the military contribution, which included the dispatch of up to 20 staff officers to bolster the Canadian presence at NATO headquarters.NATO requested Canadian participation, the prime minister said."This is in response to the situation that is developing there and frankly more generally to the concern that we have on what really is expansionism and militarism on the part of Russia under the presidency of Mr. (Vladimir) Putin," Harper said."I believe this to be a long-term, serious threat to global peace and security and we're always prepared to work with our allies in NATO and elsewhere."At the same time, an intense round of diplomacy in Geveva has produced a tentative agreement that puts on hold — at least temporarily — additional economic sanctions the West had prepared to impose on Russia if the talks were fruitless.It's unclear where the fighters will be based.It was earlier reported early Thursday that the jets and their ground support staff will be based in Lask, Poland, where the U.S. is planning a major military exercise later this year. The air base, located southwest of Warsaw, is central and would allow the fighters to participate in a variety of missions.But a senior government official, speaking on background, said the decision on basing was not final and that NATO planning was still underway.The government also did not say whether the CF-18s will join beefed-up patrols over the Baltic Sea, which are meant to reassure countries such as Estonia and Lithuania, or whether they will be flying along Poland's border with Ukraine.It is an important distinction, given the tensions in the region and the sporadic violence that has gripped the Ukraine-Russia border region.Those decisions will be made as military planners in Belgium get further information.The Canadian fighter jets will join warplanes from the United States, Britain, Denmark, Poland, Portugal and Germany, which will deploy in waves between now and the fall.Harper did not say how long the Canadian deployment will last, or whether he will consult Parliament.Although not bound by legislation, the Conservatives have made it a practice to ask for a vote in the House of Commons when military forces are placed in harm's way.The last time CF-18s were sent overseas in response to a NATO request was for the 2011 Libya bombing campaign. The question was put to MPs on that mission and on proposed extensions to the Kandahar campaign in Afghanistan.Harper did not consult Parliament on the recently concluded Afghan training mission, nor the 2013 transport aircraft sent to support French forces battling Islamic insurgents in Mali.Canada's air force has taken part in patrols over the Baltic and Iceland as part of its regular NATO duties and for that reason defence expert Steve Saideman said he doesn't think the prime minister would have to go to Parliament this time. However, MPs should be consulted as the mission evolves, he added.The absence of legislated democratic input is unsettling, especially in this day and age, said Saideman.The British have been much more clear on Parliament's role in overseeing both deployments and continuing operations, something that has helped prevent missions from becoming political circuses, he added."Canada just has a tendency to not confront these challenges for a variety of reasons, but this kind of stuff — they just don't want to face it," he said.
Liberal MP Marc Garneau tweeted that his party supports the government's decision to send jets.
On Wednesday, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO's secretary general, announced what was called a "reassurance package" for jittery east European members of the alliance.Over the next few months additional air, sea and land forces will take up positions in former East Bloc countries.Canada is also slated to take part in July in a long-planned, U.S.-led military exercise in Ukraine, known as Rapid Trident 2014, but the government has not detailed the size and scope of the country's involvement.Another defence expert recently questioned the Canadian military's ability to mount sustained operations in eastern Europe or deploy follow-on forces, given that budget cuts at National Defence have taken a bite out of readiness.Retired colonel George Petrolekas, speaking for the Conference of Defence Associations Institute, told the Commons defence committee that recent "cuts by stealth" have shown the Forces can no longer afford certain things or even maintain some of the things it has."Therefore when we come into issues such as the Ukraine, we now start scrambling for solutions because we just don't have forces that are ready to go," he testified last week.
Ukraine separatists stay put despite diplomatic deal
By Thomas Grove and Aleksandar Vasovic -APR 18,14-YahooNews
SLAVIANSK/DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Armed pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine said on Friday they were not bound by an international deal ordering them to disarm and were looking for more assurances about their security before leaving the public buildings they are holding.The agreement, brokered by the United States, Russia, Ukraine and the European Union in Geneva on Thursday offered the best hope to date of defusing a stand-off in Ukraine that has dragged East-West relations to their lowest level since the Cold War.Ukraine said it was preparing a law to give the separatists amnesty although the drive to root them out would continue.The agreement requires all illegal armed groups to disarm and end occupations of public buildings, streets and squares but with the separatists staying put in the east and Ukrainian nationalist protesters showing no sign of leaving their - unarmed - camps in the capital's Maidan Square, it was not clear which side would be willing to move first.Enacting the agreement on the ground though will be difficult, because of the deep mistrust between the pro-Russian groups and the Western-backed government in Kiev, which this week flared into violent clashes that killed several people.Russian President Vladimir Putin overturned decades of post-Cold War diplomacy last month by declaring Russia had a right to intervene in neighboring countries and by annexing the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea.The move followed the overthrow of Ukraine's pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovich, after months of street protests prompted by his rejection of a trade deal with the EU.The fact any deal was reached at all in Geneva came as a surprise, and it was not clear what had happened behind the scenes to persuade the Kremlin, which had shown little sign of compromise, to join calls on the militias to disarm. It rejects Ukrainian and Western accusations of orchestrating the gunmen.In Slaviansk, a city that has become a flashpoint in the crisis after men with Kalashnikovs took control last weekend, leaders of the pro-Russian groups met inside one of the seized buildings to decide how to respond to the Geneva agreement.Anatoly, one of the armed separatists who have taken over police headquarters, said: "We are not leaving the building, regardless of what statements are made, because we know what is the real situation in the country and we will not leave until our commander tells us to."Two Ukrainian military aircraft circled Slaviansk several times on Friday. In front of the mayor's office, men armed with automatic rifles peered over sandbags which had been piled higher overnight. Separatists remained in control of the city's main streets, searching cars at checkpoints around the city.
NO SURRENDER
The self-declared leader of all the region's separatists said he did not consider his men to be bound by the agreement.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov "did not sign anything for us, he signed on behalf of the Russian Federation," Denis Pushilin, head of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, told journalists in Donetsk, the regional capital.First, he said, the prime minister and acting president who took power in February should quit their offices, as they took them over "illegally".But Alexei, another separatist in Slaviansk acknowledged that the Geneva talks had changed the situation: "It turns out Vova doesn't love us as much as we thought." said Alexei, using a diminutive term for Putin, who is viewed by many of the separatist militias as their champion and protector.In the capital, Kiev, people on the Maidan, the local name given to Independence Square which was the centre of protests that eventually toppled Yanukovich, said the barricades would not come down until after the May 25 presidential election."People will not leave the Maidan. The people gave their word to stay until the presidential elections so that nobody will be able to rig the result. Then after the election we'll go of our own accord," said 56-year-old Viktor Palamaryuk from the western town of Chernivtsi."Nobody will take down our tents and barricades," said 34-year-old Volodymyr Shevchenko from the southern Kherson region. "If the authorities try to do that by force, thousands and thousands of people will come on to the Maidan and stop them."Right Sector, a far-right nationalist group whose violent street tactics in support of the Maidan helped bring down Yanukovich in February, saw the Geneva accord as being directed only at pro-Russian separatists in the east."We don't have any illegal weapons and so the call to disarm will not apply to us," said Right Sector spokesman Artem Skoropadsky. "We, the vanguard of the Ukrainian revolution, should not be compared to outright gangsters."Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk told parliament he was not overly optimistic about the agreement but said Russia had been "forced" to call on the "illegal armed groups" to surrender.
ORDER RESTORED?
President Barack Obama said the meeting in Geneva between Russia, Ukraine and Western powers was promising but that the United States and its allies were prepared to impose more sanctions on Russia if the situation fails to improve."There is the possibility, the prospect, that diplomacy may de-escalate the situation," Obama told reporters."The question now becomes, will in fact they use the influence they've exerted in a disruptive way to restore some order so that Ukrainians can carry out an election and move forward with the decentralization reforms that they've proposed," he said at the White House.Ukraine's government promises to devolve power to regions and protect people's rights, notably in the east, to use the Russian language in public life. But it rejects calls for a federal structure which it says could lead to permanent Russian interference in the east and eventually break up the country.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in Geneva that if by the end of the weekend there were no signs that pro-Russian groups were pulling back, there would be costs for Moscow, a reference to further EU and U.S. sanctions.The Moscow-led South Stream undersea gas pipeline project is still under way and Russia has been discussing its implementation with Europe, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday.He also said that cooperation between Russian companies and international oil and gas majors was continuing despite Western sanctions against Moscow over Ukraine.The Geneva deal contained no mention of Russia's annexation of Crimea peninsula.Asked about the absence of any language in the document condemning Russia's intervention in Crimea, Western diplomats said they remained firm that Russian had acted illegally, and denied they had dropped the issue.The fact the agreement did not address Crimea could put pressure on Ukraine's interim government from its own supporters who are adamant that everything should be done to bring the peninsula back under Kiev's control.The United States and European Union have so far imposed visa bans and asset freezes on a small number of Russians, a response that Moscow has openly mocked. However, the Western states say they are now contemplating measures that could hurt Russia's economy more broadly.But some EU nations at least are reluctant to press ahead with more sanctions, fearing that could provoke Russia further or end up hurting their own economies.
NOT LEAVING
Pro-Russian militants control buildings in about 10 towns in eastern Ukraine after launching their operation on April 6.In Luhansk, a militia member called Andrei said his group had no plans to withdraw: "Everything on the ground is the same as it was yesterday and the day before and the day before that. We're not leaving."Seeking to reassure its eastern allies, NATO announced it was sending warships to the Baltic, while the United States approved more non-lethal military support for Ukraine.Speaking on Russian television before the Geneva agreement Putin accused the authorities in Kiev of plunging the country into an "abyss".Kiev fears he will use any violence as a pretext to launch an invasion of eastern Ukraine by Russian forces."Instead of realizing that there is something wrong with the Ukrainian government and attempting dialogue, they made more threats of force ... This is another very grave crime by Kiev's current leaders," Putin said in his annual televised question-and-answer session with the Russian public.(Additional reporting by Stephanie Nebehay, Tom Miles, Arshad Mohammed and Catherine Koppel in Geneva, and Alexei Anishchuk in Moscow; Writing by Christian Lowe and Richard Balmforth; Editing by Anna Willard and Alastair Macdonald)
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
Rouhani talks peace, outreach at army parade-‘We are not after war,’ Iranian president says, but warns that the Islamic Republic will crush any aggressors-By AP and Times of Israel staff April 18, 2014, 12:28 pm 1
Iran’s president underscored his moderate policies and outreach to the West in a speech Friday during a military parade on the country’s National Army Day.Referring to the ongoing negotiations between Iran and the world powers over Tehran’s controversial nuclear program, President Hassan Rouhani said Iran has shown it has no hostile intentions toward anyone in the world, including the United States, which has long been considered an enemy.“During the talks, we announced to the world and we say so again… we are not after war, we are after logic, we are after talks,” Rouhani said.He touted Iran’s diplomatic outreach and said the backing of the military and the nation was crucial. “Support by the armed forces and support by our brave people have empowered the officials in charge of the talks on the diplomatic front.”The Iranian president made no mention of archfoe Israel, but said Iran “will not invade any country,” although it would “resist any invasion.”The tone in the Iranian state-run media, however, was more aggressive. The semi-official Fars news agency quoted Rouhani as saying that Iran possessed a strong deterrent power against the “greedy eyes of others.“There is no doubt that Iran, with such brave sons, will never allow any aggression against its soil,” he said. Press TV reported Rouhani as saying Iran would “crush any aggression.”Rouhani also assured neighboring countries that Iran seeks better ties with them, saying that “neighbors should know that our army supports peace and stability.”The remarks were a stark contrast to Rouhani’s belligerent predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.Since he was elected last June, Rouhani has pledged to resolve the nuclear dispute with the West and end painful economic sanctions imposed over Tehran’s controversial nuclear program, which the West fears could result in the making of a nuclear weapon.Tehran denies the charge, saying its nuclear activities — mainly those surrounding its uranium enrichment, which is a possible pathway to nuclear arms — are meant for peaceful purposes only, such as power generation and cancer treatment. Iran also asserts it has a right to enrich uranium under international law.Iran and six world powers — the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany — reached an interim deal in November 2013 that put limits on Tehran’s enrichment levels in exchange for an easing of some sanctions.Talks are ongoing for a final deal that would remove all possibilities that the Islamic Republic could use its capabilities to build a nuclear weapon.In Friday’s parade, Iran showcased its air defense systems, including the S-200 Russian-made, medium to high altitude surface-to-air missile system designed primarily to track, target, and destroy aircraft and cruise missiles.Also on display were fighter jets such as the US-made F-4 and F-14, the Russian-made MIG-29 and Sukhoi-24, as well as Iran’s indigenous fighter plane, the Saegheh. The parade also showed off a newer version of the short-range, surface-to-surface Fajr-5, Nazeat and Zelzal missiles.Iran has tried to achieve military self-sufficiency since 1992 and has also produced light submarines and torpedoes. Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari announced Friday that Iran would unveil a new submarine “with high capabilities” — dubbed Fateh — later this year, as well as several new destroyers, Fars reported.
ISRAELIS THREATENED IN UKRAINE-OBAMA WANTS 3RD TEMPLE REBUILT
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/04/israelis-threatened-in-ukraine-malik.html
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Settlers call on Likud ministers to end peace talks-Municipal leaders from West Bank communities say terrorism thrives on Israeli ‘diplomatic weakness’-By Stuart Winer April 17, 2014, 5:51 pm 0-The Times of Israel
The leaders of five settler municipal councils, who are all members of the Likud, appealed to their party’s cabinet ministers on Thursday to end negotiations with the Palestinians and instead invest in developing the Jewish presence in the West Bank.In a letter, the council chiefs pleaded with the ministers to rethink Israel’s diplomatic strategy.“For the past few years, we have seen how every dialogue with the PA demands a heavy price from the citizens of Israel and detracts from their security,” the letter said, and recalled a shooting attack Monday that claimed the life of one Israeli, Baruch Mizrahi, and injured his wife and son.“The connection is direct and obvious,” the municipal leaders continued. “Terrorism rears its head every time the state of Israel and the Israeli government show diplomatic weakness.“We, municipal leaders and Likud members, call on you to announce that murderers and terrorists will no longer be set free, and that there will be no dialogue with the PA, which has proved that it is an authority that supports, organizes, and educates to terror,” they wrote.The US-brokered peace talks deteriorated rapidly at the end of March after Israel nixed a planned release of Palestinian prisoners and PA President Mahmoud Abbas applied for Palestinian membership in 15 international treaties, despite a commitment to abstain from taking such a step.The settler leaders called on the government to engage in widespread construction throughout the West Bank.“The power of such a step is to plant in the hearts of our enemies the recognition that our presence in this land is eternal and that we will remain here, and we will settle it, at any price,” they wrote. “At this time, the people of Israel and the whole world need a clear, strong national Zionist statement — the Land of Israel for the people of Israel.”As for the possible backlash from the international community, the petitioners suggested stubborn defiance.“We will not flinch from the nations of the world and threats for the future, security, and resilience of the state of Israel,” they wrote.Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, together with US envoy Martin Indyk, were scheduled to meet on Thursday evening in an effort to revive peace talks.
Israelis, Palestinians to hold separate talks with US envoy-Indyk meets with Erekat in Jericho; Netanyahu reportedly refuses to free, deport Israeli Arab prisoners-By AFP and Times of Israel staff April 18, 2014, 2:19 pm 0
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators were to meet separately Friday with US peace envoy Martin Indyk, a Palestinian source said, a day after five hours of three-way talks failed to bring agreement.Indyk was due to hold talks with chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat in the West Bank city of Jericho from 08:00 GMT, the source said, but he had no details of the US-Israeli meeting and Israeli officials did not respond to requests for information.Thursday’s talks, in a Jerusalem hotel, were “very difficult,” the source said. “The gap… is still wide.”Officials in Jerusalem said Friday that no progress had been made in peace talks that took place between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators the night before, and that the two sides would meet again next week after the Passover holiday.State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said this week that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are striving to reach an agreement to extend their peace talks beyond the April 29 deadline.But commentator Nahum Barnea, writing in the Yedioth Ahronoth daily on Friday, likened the almost nine months of talks, into which Secretary of State John Kerry coaxed the sides, to prolonged “mutual torture.“Kerry keeps them going like a gambler in a casino, who insists on putting his money on the roulette wheel, in the hope that the wheel will stop on his number at some point,” Barnea wrote.“He believed that he would reach a peace agreement; then he limited himself to a framework agreement; he later limited himself even further to an American proposal for a framework; and then just to ideas.“In the end, the entire prestige of the United States is invested in a marginal, questionable deal, which will only prolong the mutual torture.”Washington is pushing for an extension, but the negotiations hit an impasse two weeks ago when Israel refused to release a group of Palestinian prisoners as agreed at last year’s launch of the talks.Under the agreement, Israel had committed to freeing 104 prisoners held since before the 1993 Oslo autonomy accords in four batches, but it cancelled the release of the last group of 26.Among them are 14 Israeli Arabs who the Jewish state is refusing to set free.According to Israel Radio, the Palestinians are adamant in their demand that all 26 prisoners be released, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to concede on the issue of releasing the Israeli Arab terrorists. The head of the Shin Bet security service advised Netanyahu to release the 14 Israeli Arab prisoners in question and deport them to the Gaza Strip or abroad, the report said, but Netanyahu said he would not act in a way that may endanger Israeli citizens.The Palestinians retaliated by seeking accession to several international treaties.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Israeli opposition MPs visiting him in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday that if talks were extended, he would want the first three months “devoted to a serious discussion of borders,” Haaretz newspaper reported.The Palestinians want a state based on the lines that existed before Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Abbas wants next stage of talks to focus on borders of ‘Palestine’-Israeli-Palestinian teams to meet Thursday with US envoy Indyk in latest bid to agree terms for extending negotiations-By Lazar Berman and Times of Israel staff April 17, 2014, 1:49 pm
Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams were scheduled to meet Thursday, after the talks were pushed off from Wednesday. US special envoy Martin Indyk was on his way to Israel in order to meet with the parties.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told a visiting group of Knesset members in Ramallah on Wednesday that if a deal was struck to extend the talks, he would want the next three months of negotiations to focus on defining the borders of a Palestinian state, with detailed discussion over the specifics on maps, and that Israel should freeze all settlement building during that period.If, however, the negotiating deadlock continued, Abbas told the MKs, he would ask Israel to take over responsibility for the territories from the PA — simply to “take the keys,” they quoted him as saying.The MKs, led by Labor’s Hilik Bar, said Abbas was adamant that Israel had to free a fourth and final group of long-term Palestinian prisoners as a condition for the extension of peace talks, and that Israeli-Arabs be included in the group — as, he said, had been agreed at the start of the process. He noted that Israeli Arabs were released by Israel in previous prisoner exchanges, and thus rejected the notion that such releases were unprecedented. He also rejected a reported Shin Bet security agency demand that 10 of the men to go free be exiled from the West Bank to Gaza or overseas.Israel last month cancelled the fourth phase of prisoner releases because of its reluctance to free Israeli Arabs and because Abbas was not committing to extending the talks. Negotiations on a wider prisoner release deal, possibly to include the US freeing American-Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, were then derailed when Abbas filed applications to join 15 international treaties and conventions — a move Israel called a “major breach” of Israeli-Palestinian understandings.State Department spokesman Marie Harf said that both sides wanted to reach an agreement to extend the talks beyond the April 29 deadline.A Palestinian official told AFP the Israeli-Palestinian negotiators’ meeting was pushed off from Wednesday in order to allow US envoy Indyk to arrive in the region and take part in the talks, but an Israeli official said the postponement was due to the West Bank shooting attack on Monday that killed a senior Israeli police officer and injured his wife and son.“The meeting that was planned for tonight between Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams will not be taking place. It’s being postponed,” an Israeli official told AFP on condition of anonymity.Baruch Mizrahi, a father of five, was shot dead by Palestinian terrorists near the West Bank city of Hebron as he drove to celebrate the traditional Passover banquet with his family.The victim was killed when the family’s car was struck by several bullets. Mizrahi’s pregnant wife Hadas was injured in the attack. Mizrahi was laid to rest on Wednesday.An Israeli official said Monday’s terror attack “was the direct result of ongoing incitement and glorification of terrorism that we see in the official Palestinian media and education system.”Despite the attack, Abbas met as scheduled with the group of dovish Knesset members led by Bar, and told them he was willing to maintain security cooperation with Israel even if peace talks are not being held, Israeli media reported. He also condemned the killings of all civilians and reportedly said he was dismayed that Israel was not working with PA security forces to track down the Hebron gunman. However, he reportedly told the MKs he would only publicly condemn the killings once an investigation into the attack had been completed.The US has been taking steps to revive talks that began to deteriorate rapidly at the end of March after Israel nixed the planned release of Palestinian prisoners and Abbas applied for Palestinian membership to the 15 U and other international treaties and conventions, despite a commitment to not take such a step.New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman warned on Wednesday that if US Secretary of State John Kerry stepped back from the peace effort, both sides would be sorry. “The truth is Kerry’s mission is less an act of strategy and more an act of deep friendship. It is America trying to save Israel from trends that will inevitably undermine it as a Jewish and democratic state. But Kerry is the last of an old guard. Those in the Obama administration who think he is on a suicide mission reflect the new US attitude toward the region. And those in Israel who denounce him as a nuisance reflect the new Israel,” Friedman wrote. “Kerry, in my view, is doing the Lord’s work. But the weight of time and all the changes it has wrought on the ground may just be too heavy for such an act of friendship. If he folds his tent, though, Israelis and Palestinians will deeply regret it, and soon.”Last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suspended contact between Israeli and Palestinian officials as part of punitive measures against the PA for the applications to international bodies. However, the ban did not include contact between Defense Ministry officials and their Palestinian counterparts, enabling joint security work in the West Bank to continue. Palestinian Authority Religious Affairs Minister Mahmoud al-Habash told a group of Israeli journalists in Ramallah on Wednesday that one of the conditions the Palestinians have laid down for continuation of the negotiations is that Israel present a map that shows the borders between a future Palestinian state and Israel. The issue of the map and the delineation of state lines are matters that keep coming up again and again between the two sides, Habash said.He added that the PA will not agree to be a ruling body without power and that the current situation will not continue beyond the end of the year. Habash warned that the price of failed peace talks is likely to be painfully heavy and hinted that the PA is likely to fall apart if talks fail.Times of Israel staff and AFP contributed to this report.
ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST
1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
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)
US calls anti-Semitic Ukraine leaflets ‘grotesque’-It remains unclear who produced fliers calling on Jews to register with authorities or face consequences-By Lazar Berman and AP April 18, 2014, 2:39 am 24-The Times of Israel
The United States on Thursday condemned as “grotesque” the distribution of leaflets demanding that Jews in eastern Ukraine register with a self-proclaimed local authority or face consequences. US officials also denounced other instances of religious intolerance that are inflaming tensions in the crisis in Ukraine and said no such behavior could be tolerated.Speaking in Geneva after top diplomats from the US, European Union, Russia and Ukraine reached agreement on steps to de-escalate the situation, Secretary of State John Kerry denounced the leaflets.“In the year 2014, after all of the miles traveled and all of the journey of history, this is not just intolerable; it’s grotesque,” Kerry told reporters. “It is beyond unacceptable. And any of the people who engage in these kinds of activities, from whatever party or whatever ideology or whatever place they crawl out of, there is no place for that.”Kerry also denounced apparent threats to members of the Russian Orthodox Church from members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. He noted that the agreement signed on Thursday “strongly condemned and rejected all expressions of extremism, racism and religious intolerance, including anti-Semitism.”Also Thursday, the Simon Wiesenthal Center released a statement saying that Geoffrey Pyatt, the US ambassador in Kiev, told Mark Weitzman, SWC’s director of government affairs, that the fliers were “clearly part of a general effort to sow fear among Ukrainian Jews.”Pyatt added that he doesn’t know who was behind the literature.In Washington, US officials said the anti-Semitic leaflets, which recall the days of czarist pogroms and Nazi-era persecution of Jews, have appeared recently in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The State Department said it was looking into who is responsible but said it took the threat seriously, no matter who was behind the leaflets.The leaflets seen by US officials purport to come from the Donetsk People’s Republic, a self-styled, unrecognized breakaway authority that seeks to join Russia. The Donetsk Republic press office denied any involvement in the matter and says the leaflets are fake.
Filipino devotees re-enact crucifixion of Christ
By AARON FAVILA -APR 18,14-YahooNews
SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines (AP) — Devotees in northern Philippine villages had themselves nailed to wooded crosses to re-enact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ as thousands of local and foreign spectators watched the bloody annual rites to mark Good Friday in Asia's largest Roman Catholic nation.Church leaders and health officials have spoken against the practice, which mixes Roman Catholic devotion with folk belief, but the annual rites continue to draw participants and huge crowds, particularly in northern Pampanga province.Sign painter Ruben Enaje, 53, had himself nailed to a cross at a dusty mound in Pampanga's San Pedro Cutud village for the 28th year. He began his yearly rite after surviving a fall from a building. Men dressed as Roman soldiers hammered stainless steel nails into his palms and feet, as a crowd of onlookers stood with cameras ready to capture his and other penitents' agony.Lasse Spang Olsen, a 48-year-old filmmaker from Denmark, also had himself nailed to a cross, joining Enaje and eight other Filipino devotees. He grimaced in pain as nails pierced his hands and feet.Olsen said he made a film two years ago about Enaje's yearly crucifixion and decided to have himself crucified after falling sick twice. He had a small camera attached to his cross while a colleague filmed his experience."It's a personal matter between me and (God)," he said, with his finger pointing up. After being helped down from the cross, he said of his experience: "Fantastic, you should try it."Archbishop Socrates Villegas, head of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, discouraged the crucifixions."If what you do makes you love others more, then it is pleasing to God," he said. "But if you do it for photographs, just to be famous, that is spiritual vanity."The health department also discouraged the practice because of health risks. Health Undersecretary Eric Tayag urged devotees to get anti-tetanus shots.Devotees undergo the crucifixions in the belief that such extreme sacrifices are a way to atone for their sins, attain miracle cures for illnesses or give thanks to God.
04/17/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-Pope washes the feet of twelve disabled women and men on Holy Thursday-Francis washes the feet of 12 disabled people-Francis washed the feet of 8 men and 4 women at a center for disabled people in Rome on Holy Thursday, as he led the celebration commemorating Jesus’ Last Supper-gerard o'connell
Rome-Pope Francis washed the feet of twelve variously disabled men and women, from different nationalities, ethnic groups and religions on Holy Thursday, at the Don Gnocchi center in Rome for people with permanent or temporary disabilities. He did so in commemoration of Jesus’ action in washing the feet of his twelve apostles at the Last Supper in Jerusalem before he was crucified.He arrived early in his blue Ford Focus, and greeted hundreds of people, young and old who had come to see him, before entering the chapel to celebrate the mass commemorating the Last Supper.Some two hundred people including the disabled patients and their relatives, as well as medical and support staff participated at the very prayerful mass, enlivened by music and hymns, at the “Santa Maria alla Providenza” center in the Casal del Marmo district of Rome, not far from the Juvenile Detention Centre where he went last year.After the reading of the Gospel account of the Last Supper, Pope Francis explained the significance of the washing of the feet, in a homily that lasted less than two minutes. He recalled that at the time of Jesus the feet of the guests, that were dirty from walking on the dirt roads, were washed by the slaves or servants of the house. Jesus however did this work of the slave or servant, he said; he washed the feet of his apostles to show them that they were to do likewise, and serve each other. That was “the testimony” that Jesus left us, he said. His followers are called to serve others, he said. “We should ask ourselves how we can better serve others”, he concluded.The Pope then knelt and washed the feet of each of the twelve disabled persons: 8 men and 4 women, aged between 16 and 86. One could see it was a big effort for the 77 year old Argentinean Pope, but he did so happily and when he had washed and dried each person’s foot, he looked up at the person with a loving smile, and on one occasion shook the person’s hand. The twelve were chosen from among the thousands of patients at the 30 Don Gnocchi Foundation healthcare and research centers scattered across Italy. The Foundation, founded by an Italian priest, Don Gnocchi, 60 years ago, embodies what Pope Francis has termed “moving out to the peripheries” in search and support of those people society has forgotten or discarded.Nine were Italian; the others came from Libya, Ethiopia, and Cape Verde. All suffer from physical, neurological and oncological illnesses.Fr Federico Lombardi, the Director of the Holy See Press Office, gave the following brief biographies of those whose feet Pope Francis had washed:Osvaldinho, 16, from Cape Verde, had a diving accident last summer and is now completely paralyzed.Orietta, 51, a woman from Rome who suffers from an illness that has affected her brain.Samuel, 66, has had polio from his youth.Marco, 19, high school student and leader of parish Youth Group was diagnosed with a cerebral palsy last year.Angelica, 86, from Maenza, former president of Catholic Action in Italy, had hip replacement surgery twice.Daria, 39, has suffered with cerebral palsy from her childhood. Pietro, 86, struggles with mobility and muscular deficiency.Gianluca, 36, he has had numerous operations from the age of 14 as a result of meningitis.Stefano, 49,suffers from serious cerebral and motor disorder. Hamed, 75, Muslim man originally from Libya, suffered a traffic accident which caused serious neurological impairment.Giordana, 27, from Ethiopia, she suffers from cerebral palsy and epilepsy.Walter, 59, suffers from Down's Syndrome.Each of these persons has received help and support from the Don Gnocchi Foundation to overcome the difficulties, marginalization and isolation they often face on account of their age or a disability.Before the Pope’s visit, Dr. Furio Grammatica, Chairperson of the Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer (CITT) at the Don Gnocchi Foundation, told Vatican Radio that “one might think that most of them (the twelve) cannot fully catch the meaning of this visit, but this is definitively not true, even for the most critical cases”. He said that after joined the Foundation 10 years ago he had learned that “our guests have all developed a clear “sixth sense” on how much they are loved, and – in a definitively more straight way than us – they fully rely on people closer to them, who represent the fondness they feel. Pope Francis is not only a Pope, but an icon of the tenderness and strength at the same time, so they are really excited about meeting him.”In the past, Popes had led the Holy Thursday celebration and carried out the washing of the feet in St Peter’s Basilica, but Francis, following his practice as archbishop in Buenos Aires, prefers to do so in a situation on the periphery of human existence, as he did last year and again this year.
04/17/2014 - VATICAN INSIDER-Coptic priest joins Francis’ personal secretariat-Lahzi with Benedict XVI (Photo by: www.europe-israel.org)-After Mgr. Xuereb’s promotion to Secretary for the Economy, Francis has now chosen Secretary of State official Yoannis Lahzi Gaid to replace him-Andrea Tornielli
vatican city-Pope Francis has chosen a second personal secretary who will work alongside Argentinean priest Fr. Fabián Pedacchio, after Alfred Xuereb was promoted as the Vatican “finance ministry’s” number two man. The man chosen for the job is Coptic Catholic Yoannis Lahzi Gaid who is currently working in the first section of the Vatican Secretariat of State. Lahzi Gaid is also one of the “translators” who reads out the Gospel and summarises the Pope’s General Audience catecheses in Arabic.Francis’ new secretary has been living in the St. Martha’s House residence for a while now and knows Italy well: He was assistant parish priest of Latina (central Italy); in 2007 he edited a volume of texts from the Code of Canon Law for the Eastern Churches; he was the Vatican’s diplomatic representative in Congo and Gabon and was then made charge d’affaires of the Apostolic Nunciature of Jordan and Iraq before returning to the Vatican. He was previously also editor of the website of the Church in Alexandria, Egypt. In 2011, following the bloody attacks against the Coptic ortodox churches, he wrote, of his own initiative, an open letter to the Imam of Al Azhar University.For the moment, Lahzi Gaid will continue his daily duties in the Secretariat of State, alongside his new role, as Mgr. Pedacchio – who also works for the Congregation for Bishops – does. As is known, for Francis, the ideal personal secretary acts as an invisible figure. He never follows the Pope and almost never accompanies him in public but most importantly, he does not manage the Pope’s agenda for him, deciding who he does and doesn’t meet.The fact that the Bishop of Rome has chosen someone who belongs to a different religious rite – in this case the ancient Coptic rite - as one of his closest collaborators for the first time in modern history, is a fact of great significance and as sign of his support for the Eastern communities.
04/15/2014 - VATICAN INSIDER-After discussing the Vatican's finances, C8 cardinals move onto Curia reform-Francis' eight-member team of advisors-Francis' eight-member team of advisorsFrom 28 to 30 April Francis’ eight cardinal advisors will be discussing the reform of the dicasteries-ANDREA TORNIELLI
vatican city-They are expected in the Vatican at the end of next week, before the ceremony for the canonization of John XXIII and John Paul II, set for Sunday 27 April. Straight after this, on Monday 28, Francis’ team of eight cardinal advisors will reopen the dossier on Curia reform and will begin examining each of the Pontifical Councils, weighing up all the various proposals for mergers and changes.The issue of Curia reform was put on hold in the past few months because last February, the eight-member group of cardinal advisors (the C8) was looking into the Vatican’s finances and economy. It implemented the proposal put forward by one of the referring commissions, involving the establishment of a Secretariat for the Economy, essentially a centralized “ministry of finance” in charge of staff and spending. The Pope chose Australian cardinal George Pell as head of this new structure and Mgr. Alfred Xuereb – who up until a few days ago was Francis’ personal secretary – as number two man.That same month (February), the C8 also dealt with IOR reform, responding to the report issued by the commission for reference headed by Cardinal Raffaele Farina.Now the three-day meeting at the end of April and the four-day meeting this coming July will focus on the proposals regarding the Congregations and Pontifical Councils. These proposals range from the creation of a new figure, the “moderator Curiae” who would coordinate the work of the various dicasteries, to the establishment of a Congregation for the Laity, which would incorporate some of the Pontifical Councils.The C8 will try to sort through the – according to many - excessive number of currently existing offices, with a view to streamline the Curia and cut the red tape. Francis himself said that “the consultation group of eight cardinals, this ‘outsider’ advisory group, is not only my own decision, but it is the result of the will of the cardinals, as it was expressed in the general congregations before the conclave. And I want to see that this is a real, not ceremonial consultation.”The group is made up of cardinals from all continents: Giuseppe Bertello (the C8’s only Italian Curia member), Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa (the group’s only emeritus member), Oswald Gracias, Reinhard Marx (recently nominated coordinator of the Council for the Economy made up of cardinals and lay financial experts), Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Sean Patrick O’Malley, George Pell (recently nominated “minister of the Economy” and Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga. Maradiaga is also the group’s coordinator, while Albano Marcello Semeraro – whom Pope Francis received in audience this morning - is secretary.
1/3RD OF SHIPS DESTROYED
REVELATION 8:8-9
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
Vice principal of South Korea school in ferry disaster commits suicide
By Jungmin Jang and Ju-min Park -APR 18,14
MOKPO/JINDO, South Korea (Reuters) - The vice principal of a South Korean high school who accompanied hundreds of his pupils on what turned out to be a disastrous ferry trip has committed suicide, police said on Friday, as hopes faded of finding any of the 268 missing passengers alive.Kang Min-gyu, 52, had been missing since Thursday. He appeared to have hanged himself with his belt from a tree outside a gym in the port city of Jindo where relatives of the people missing on the ship, mostly children from the school, were gathered.Police said Kang did not leave a suicide note and that they started looking for him after he was reported missing by a fellow-teacher. He was rescued from the ferry after it capsized on Wednesday.Of the 475 passengers and crew on the ferry, 28 people had been officially been declared dead before Kang's suicide and 179 were rescued. The overwhelming majority of the missing are students from the Danwon High School on the outskirts of Seoul, who were on a holiday trip.Divers are fighting strong tides and murky waters to get to the sunken ship but the likelihood of finding any of the missing alive is slim.At the high school in Ansan, an industrial town near Seoul, many friends and family of the missing gathered in somber silence, with occasional sounds of sobbing breaking the quiet."When I first received the call telling me the news, at that time I still had hope," said Cho Kyung-mi, who was waiting for news of her missing 16 year-old nephew at the school."And now it's all gone."In the classrooms of the missing, fellow students have left messages on desks, blackboards and windows, asking for the safe return of their missing friends."If I see you again, I'll tell you I love you, because I haven't said it to you enough," reads one message.Investigations into the sinking, South Korea's worst maritime accident in 21 years based on possible casualties, have centered on possible crew negligence, problems with cargo stowage and structural defects of the vessel, although the ship appears to have passed all of its safety and insurance checks.The 69-year old ship captain has also come under scrutiny after witnesses said he was among the first to escape the sinking vessel that was on a 400-km (300-mile) voyage from the port city of Incheon to the Korean holiday island of Jeju.According to investigators, Captain Lee Joon-seok was not on the bridge at the time the Sewol ferry started to list sharply, with a junior officer at the wheel."I'm not sure where the captain was before the accident. However right after the accident, I saw him rushing back into the steering house ahead of me," said Oh Young-seok, one of the helmsmen on the ship who was off duty and resting at the time."He calmly asked by how much the ship was tilted, and tried to re-balance the ship," said Oh who was speaking from a hospital bed in the city of Mokpo on Friday, where those injured in the incident have been taken.
NORMAL PRACTICE
Handing over the helm is normal practice on the voyage from Incheon to Jeju that usually takes 13.5 hours, according to local shipping crew.Divers gained access to the cargo deck of the ferry on Friday, although that was not close to the passenger quarters, according to a coastguard official.Other coastguard officials said that divers made several attempts to make it to the passenger areas but failed."We cannot even see the ship's white color. Our people are just touching the hull with their hands," Kim Chun-il, a diver from Undine Marine Industries, told relatives of the missing on Friday.The ferry went down in calm conditions and was following a frequently travelled route in familiar waters. Although relatively close to shore, the area was free of rocks and reefs.Lee has not commented on when he left the ship, although he has apologized for the loss of life.He was described as an industry "veteran" by the officials from Chonghaejin Marine Co Ltd, the ship owner, and others who had met him described him as an "expert" who knew the waters he sailed well."I don't know why he abandoned the ship like that," said Ju Hi-chun, a maritime author interviewed the captain in 2006 as one of the experts on the sailing route to Jeju island.But he added: "Koreans don't have the view that they have to stay with their ship until the end. It is a different culture from the West."Some media reports have said the vessel turned sharply, causing cargo to shift and the ship to list before capsizing.Marine investigators and the coastguard have said it was too early to pinpoint a cause for the accident and declined to comment on the possibility of the cargo shifting.The record of the ferry owner was also under investigation and documents were removed from its headquarters in Incheon.Chonghaejin Marine Co Ltd is an unlisted company that operates five ships. It reported an operating loss of 785 million won ($756,000) last year.According to data from South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service, a government body, Chonghaejin is "indirectly" owned by two sons of the owner of a former shipping company called Semo Marine which went bankrupt in 1997. (Additional reporting by Jack Kim, Miyoung Kim, James Pearson, Sohee Kim and Cho Meeyoung; Writing by David Chance; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-21
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
Six CF-18s headed to Europe to bolster NATO forces response to Ukraine-The Canadian PressBy Murray Brewster, The Canadian Press |APR 17,14-YahooNews
OTTAWA - Canada announced Thursday it will contribute six CF-18 jet fighters to a NATO air-policing mission in response to the crisis in Ukraine, just as top diplomats from the troubled east European country, the U.S. and Russia announced steps that could ease tensions.Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the military contribution, which included the dispatch of up to 20 staff officers to bolster the Canadian presence at NATO headquarters.NATO requested Canadian participation, the prime minister said."This is in response to the situation that is developing there and frankly more generally to the concern that we have on what really is expansionism and militarism on the part of Russia under the presidency of Mr. (Vladimir) Putin," Harper said."I believe this to be a long-term, serious threat to global peace and security and we're always prepared to work with our allies in NATO and elsewhere."At the same time, an intense round of diplomacy in Geveva has produced a tentative agreement that puts on hold — at least temporarily — additional economic sanctions the West had prepared to impose on Russia if the talks were fruitless.It's unclear where the fighters will be based.It was earlier reported early Thursday that the jets and their ground support staff will be based in Lask, Poland, where the U.S. is planning a major military exercise later this year. The air base, located southwest of Warsaw, is central and would allow the fighters to participate in a variety of missions.But a senior government official, speaking on background, said the decision on basing was not final and that NATO planning was still underway.The government also did not say whether the CF-18s will join beefed-up patrols over the Baltic Sea, which are meant to reassure countries such as Estonia and Lithuania, or whether they will be flying along Poland's border with Ukraine.It is an important distinction, given the tensions in the region and the sporadic violence that has gripped the Ukraine-Russia border region.Those decisions will be made as military planners in Belgium get further information.The Canadian fighter jets will join warplanes from the United States, Britain, Denmark, Poland, Portugal and Germany, which will deploy in waves between now and the fall.Harper did not say how long the Canadian deployment will last, or whether he will consult Parliament.Although not bound by legislation, the Conservatives have made it a practice to ask for a vote in the House of Commons when military forces are placed in harm's way.The last time CF-18s were sent overseas in response to a NATO request was for the 2011 Libya bombing campaign. The question was put to MPs on that mission and on proposed extensions to the Kandahar campaign in Afghanistan.Harper did not consult Parliament on the recently concluded Afghan training mission, nor the 2013 transport aircraft sent to support French forces battling Islamic insurgents in Mali.Canada's air force has taken part in patrols over the Baltic and Iceland as part of its regular NATO duties and for that reason defence expert Steve Saideman said he doesn't think the prime minister would have to go to Parliament this time. However, MPs should be consulted as the mission evolves, he added.The absence of legislated democratic input is unsettling, especially in this day and age, said Saideman.The British have been much more clear on Parliament's role in overseeing both deployments and continuing operations, something that has helped prevent missions from becoming political circuses, he added."Canada just has a tendency to not confront these challenges for a variety of reasons, but this kind of stuff — they just don't want to face it," he said.
Liberal MP Marc Garneau tweeted that his party supports the government's decision to send jets.
On Wednesday, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO's secretary general, announced what was called a "reassurance package" for jittery east European members of the alliance.Over the next few months additional air, sea and land forces will take up positions in former East Bloc countries.Canada is also slated to take part in July in a long-planned, U.S.-led military exercise in Ukraine, known as Rapid Trident 2014, but the government has not detailed the size and scope of the country's involvement.Another defence expert recently questioned the Canadian military's ability to mount sustained operations in eastern Europe or deploy follow-on forces, given that budget cuts at National Defence have taken a bite out of readiness.Retired colonel George Petrolekas, speaking for the Conference of Defence Associations Institute, told the Commons defence committee that recent "cuts by stealth" have shown the Forces can no longer afford certain things or even maintain some of the things it has."Therefore when we come into issues such as the Ukraine, we now start scrambling for solutions because we just don't have forces that are ready to go," he testified last week.
Ukraine separatists stay put despite diplomatic deal
By Thomas Grove and Aleksandar Vasovic -APR 18,14-YahooNews
SLAVIANSK/DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Armed pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine said on Friday they were not bound by an international deal ordering them to disarm and were looking for more assurances about their security before leaving the public buildings they are holding.The agreement, brokered by the United States, Russia, Ukraine and the European Union in Geneva on Thursday offered the best hope to date of defusing a stand-off in Ukraine that has dragged East-West relations to their lowest level since the Cold War.Ukraine said it was preparing a law to give the separatists amnesty although the drive to root them out would continue.The agreement requires all illegal armed groups to disarm and end occupations of public buildings, streets and squares but with the separatists staying put in the east and Ukrainian nationalist protesters showing no sign of leaving their - unarmed - camps in the capital's Maidan Square, it was not clear which side would be willing to move first.Enacting the agreement on the ground though will be difficult, because of the deep mistrust between the pro-Russian groups and the Western-backed government in Kiev, which this week flared into violent clashes that killed several people.Russian President Vladimir Putin overturned decades of post-Cold War diplomacy last month by declaring Russia had a right to intervene in neighboring countries and by annexing the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea.The move followed the overthrow of Ukraine's pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovich, after months of street protests prompted by his rejection of a trade deal with the EU.The fact any deal was reached at all in Geneva came as a surprise, and it was not clear what had happened behind the scenes to persuade the Kremlin, which had shown little sign of compromise, to join calls on the militias to disarm. It rejects Ukrainian and Western accusations of orchestrating the gunmen.In Slaviansk, a city that has become a flashpoint in the crisis after men with Kalashnikovs took control last weekend, leaders of the pro-Russian groups met inside one of the seized buildings to decide how to respond to the Geneva agreement.Anatoly, one of the armed separatists who have taken over police headquarters, said: "We are not leaving the building, regardless of what statements are made, because we know what is the real situation in the country and we will not leave until our commander tells us to."Two Ukrainian military aircraft circled Slaviansk several times on Friday. In front of the mayor's office, men armed with automatic rifles peered over sandbags which had been piled higher overnight. Separatists remained in control of the city's main streets, searching cars at checkpoints around the city.
NO SURRENDER
The self-declared leader of all the region's separatists said he did not consider his men to be bound by the agreement.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov "did not sign anything for us, he signed on behalf of the Russian Federation," Denis Pushilin, head of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, told journalists in Donetsk, the regional capital.First, he said, the prime minister and acting president who took power in February should quit their offices, as they took them over "illegally".But Alexei, another separatist in Slaviansk acknowledged that the Geneva talks had changed the situation: "It turns out Vova doesn't love us as much as we thought." said Alexei, using a diminutive term for Putin, who is viewed by many of the separatist militias as their champion and protector.In the capital, Kiev, people on the Maidan, the local name given to Independence Square which was the centre of protests that eventually toppled Yanukovich, said the barricades would not come down until after the May 25 presidential election."People will not leave the Maidan. The people gave their word to stay until the presidential elections so that nobody will be able to rig the result. Then after the election we'll go of our own accord," said 56-year-old Viktor Palamaryuk from the western town of Chernivtsi."Nobody will take down our tents and barricades," said 34-year-old Volodymyr Shevchenko from the southern Kherson region. "If the authorities try to do that by force, thousands and thousands of people will come on to the Maidan and stop them."Right Sector, a far-right nationalist group whose violent street tactics in support of the Maidan helped bring down Yanukovich in February, saw the Geneva accord as being directed only at pro-Russian separatists in the east."We don't have any illegal weapons and so the call to disarm will not apply to us," said Right Sector spokesman Artem Skoropadsky. "We, the vanguard of the Ukrainian revolution, should not be compared to outright gangsters."Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk told parliament he was not overly optimistic about the agreement but said Russia had been "forced" to call on the "illegal armed groups" to surrender.
ORDER RESTORED?
President Barack Obama said the meeting in Geneva between Russia, Ukraine and Western powers was promising but that the United States and its allies were prepared to impose more sanctions on Russia if the situation fails to improve."There is the possibility, the prospect, that diplomacy may de-escalate the situation," Obama told reporters."The question now becomes, will in fact they use the influence they've exerted in a disruptive way to restore some order so that Ukrainians can carry out an election and move forward with the decentralization reforms that they've proposed," he said at the White House.Ukraine's government promises to devolve power to regions and protect people's rights, notably in the east, to use the Russian language in public life. But it rejects calls for a federal structure which it says could lead to permanent Russian interference in the east and eventually break up the country.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in Geneva that if by the end of the weekend there were no signs that pro-Russian groups were pulling back, there would be costs for Moscow, a reference to further EU and U.S. sanctions.The Moscow-led South Stream undersea gas pipeline project is still under way and Russia has been discussing its implementation with Europe, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday.He also said that cooperation between Russian companies and international oil and gas majors was continuing despite Western sanctions against Moscow over Ukraine.The Geneva deal contained no mention of Russia's annexation of Crimea peninsula.Asked about the absence of any language in the document condemning Russia's intervention in Crimea, Western diplomats said they remained firm that Russian had acted illegally, and denied they had dropped the issue.The fact the agreement did not address Crimea could put pressure on Ukraine's interim government from its own supporters who are adamant that everything should be done to bring the peninsula back under Kiev's control.The United States and European Union have so far imposed visa bans and asset freezes on a small number of Russians, a response that Moscow has openly mocked. However, the Western states say they are now contemplating measures that could hurt Russia's economy more broadly.But some EU nations at least are reluctant to press ahead with more sanctions, fearing that could provoke Russia further or end up hurting their own economies.
NOT LEAVING
Pro-Russian militants control buildings in about 10 towns in eastern Ukraine after launching their operation on April 6.In Luhansk, a militia member called Andrei said his group had no plans to withdraw: "Everything on the ground is the same as it was yesterday and the day before and the day before that. We're not leaving."Seeking to reassure its eastern allies, NATO announced it was sending warships to the Baltic, while the United States approved more non-lethal military support for Ukraine.Speaking on Russian television before the Geneva agreement Putin accused the authorities in Kiev of plunging the country into an "abyss".Kiev fears he will use any violence as a pretext to launch an invasion of eastern Ukraine by Russian forces."Instead of realizing that there is something wrong with the Ukrainian government and attempting dialogue, they made more threats of force ... This is another very grave crime by Kiev's current leaders," Putin said in his annual televised question-and-answer session with the Russian public.(Additional reporting by Stephanie Nebehay, Tom Miles, Arshad Mohammed and Catherine Koppel in Geneva, and Alexei Anishchuk in Moscow; Writing by Christian Lowe and Richard Balmforth; Editing by Anna Willard and Alastair Macdonald)
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
Rouhani talks peace, outreach at army parade-‘We are not after war,’ Iranian president says, but warns that the Islamic Republic will crush any aggressors-By AP and Times of Israel staff April 18, 2014, 12:28 pm 1
Iran’s president underscored his moderate policies and outreach to the West in a speech Friday during a military parade on the country’s National Army Day.Referring to the ongoing negotiations between Iran and the world powers over Tehran’s controversial nuclear program, President Hassan Rouhani said Iran has shown it has no hostile intentions toward anyone in the world, including the United States, which has long been considered an enemy.“During the talks, we announced to the world and we say so again… we are not after war, we are after logic, we are after talks,” Rouhani said.He touted Iran’s diplomatic outreach and said the backing of the military and the nation was crucial. “Support by the armed forces and support by our brave people have empowered the officials in charge of the talks on the diplomatic front.”The Iranian president made no mention of archfoe Israel, but said Iran “will not invade any country,” although it would “resist any invasion.”The tone in the Iranian state-run media, however, was more aggressive. The semi-official Fars news agency quoted Rouhani as saying that Iran possessed a strong deterrent power against the “greedy eyes of others.“There is no doubt that Iran, with such brave sons, will never allow any aggression against its soil,” he said. Press TV reported Rouhani as saying Iran would “crush any aggression.”Rouhani also assured neighboring countries that Iran seeks better ties with them, saying that “neighbors should know that our army supports peace and stability.”The remarks were a stark contrast to Rouhani’s belligerent predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.Since he was elected last June, Rouhani has pledged to resolve the nuclear dispute with the West and end painful economic sanctions imposed over Tehran’s controversial nuclear program, which the West fears could result in the making of a nuclear weapon.Tehran denies the charge, saying its nuclear activities — mainly those surrounding its uranium enrichment, which is a possible pathway to nuclear arms — are meant for peaceful purposes only, such as power generation and cancer treatment. Iran also asserts it has a right to enrich uranium under international law.Iran and six world powers — the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany — reached an interim deal in November 2013 that put limits on Tehran’s enrichment levels in exchange for an easing of some sanctions.Talks are ongoing for a final deal that would remove all possibilities that the Islamic Republic could use its capabilities to build a nuclear weapon.In Friday’s parade, Iran showcased its air defense systems, including the S-200 Russian-made, medium to high altitude surface-to-air missile system designed primarily to track, target, and destroy aircraft and cruise missiles.Also on display were fighter jets such as the US-made F-4 and F-14, the Russian-made MIG-29 and Sukhoi-24, as well as Iran’s indigenous fighter plane, the Saegheh. The parade also showed off a newer version of the short-range, surface-to-surface Fajr-5, Nazeat and Zelzal missiles.Iran has tried to achieve military self-sufficiency since 1992 and has also produced light submarines and torpedoes. Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari announced Friday that Iran would unveil a new submarine “with high capabilities” — dubbed Fateh — later this year, as well as several new destroyers, Fars reported.
-JACC