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1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram,(CHANGED TO ABRAHAM LATER) Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:(PALESTINE,ISRAEL)
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
White House: Boehner invite to Netanyahu breach of protocol-Associated Press-By DARLENE SUPERVILLE-JAN 21,15-YAHOONEWS
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — The White House says Republican House of Representaives Speaker John Boehner's invitation for Israel's prime minister to come to Washington is a breach of normal diplomatic protocol.President Barack Obama's press secretary, Josh Earnest, says the White House has not heard from Israelis about whether Benjamin Netanyahu plans to speak to Congress Feb. 11. Earnest says they are reserving judgment about the invitation until they've had a chance to speak to the Israelis about what Netanyahu might say.Earnest says typical protocol is that a country's leader would contact the White House before planning to visit the United States. But Earnest says they didn't hear about Boehner's invitation until Wednesday morning, shortly before the speaker announced it.Earnest was speaking to reporters traveling aboard Air Force One to Idaho Wednesday.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
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http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/liberals-and-new-democrates-in.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/godless-liberal-justin-trudeau-says.html
Merkel: ECB should not send wrong signals with QE-By EUOBSERVER-Today, 15:57-JAN 21,15
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the ECB shouldn't send the wrong signal with its likely decision on quantitative easing on Thursday. "All signals have to be avoided that could be perceived as weakening the necessity for structural changes and closer economic-political cooperation in eurozone countries," she said Wednesday.
EP divided over start date for carbon market mechanism-By EUOBSERVER-Today, 09:22-JAN 21,15
No clear majority is expected in a European Parliament committee vote on Thursday on the start date of a market stability reserve for the EU's emissions trading scheme. Bloomberg reported Monday the conservative EPP and ECR support a 2021 kick-off, while a mostly left-wing coalition prefers 2017.
Thousands of Poles hit by Swiss franc decision By Paulina Pacula-Warsaw, 20. Jan, 09:02-EUOBSERVER
Last week’s decision by the Swiss Central Bank to scrap its currency cap has had major repercussions in the EU’s largest eastern member state, Poland.The move saw the Swiss franc jump to 4.32 zlotys from 3.53, a rise of more than 21 percent and the most significant in comparison to other European currencies.For a while it even reached 5.14 zlotys, but Monday (21 January) it was around 4.30. This was a dramatic turn for the almost 600,000 Poles who have mortgages denominated in Swiss francs – particularly as most of them took their loans when the Swiss franc cost 2.50 zlotys.“It was a very surprising decision by SNB which caused panic on the financial markets. This move couldn’t have been predicted especially since only one month ago the Swiss National Bank was claiming that it would keep the Swiss franc/euro rate stable,” Bartosz Sawicki, a financial analyst, told EUobserver.The overall value of credit in Swiss francs, which constitute around 40 percent of all mortgages in Poland, jumped from 131bn zlotys up to 157bn, according to The Polish Bank Association.For a household, it means that the average monthly installment, which was around 2,000 zlotys in October 2014, suddenly jumped by a fifth.If the Swiss Franc reaches 5 zlotys it will cause a monthly installment hike of one third.That is too much for an average household to deal with.“This may lead to a sudden increase in the number of consumer bankruptcy. We had 21,000 endangered loans last year,” says Sawicki.
Threat to banks
This could also be a threat to some Polish banks, such as Millennium Bank and Getin Noble, which had a large portfolio of Swiss-denominated mortgages.Poland’s financial markets regulator, KNF, issued a statement saying that even if the Swiss franc reaches the 5 zloty level there is no systemic risk for the bank sector as it can absorb the difference.But Sawicki, an independent professional, is a bit more sceptical.“The road to stabilising the exchange rate is going to be rough especially since we have such important events, like the Greek parliamentary election (on 25 January) which may again shake the markets,” he notes.He added that a “very optimistic scenario” would see the Swiss franc at 3.8 zlotys at the end of this year.
Consumers pay
The sudden appreciation of the Swiss franc has been seized by the opposition parties, with Poland set for presidential and parliamentary elections later this year.Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the biggest opposition party Peace and Justice, argues the problem should be solved using a Hungarian model – a currency conversion on a strict exchange rate for all credits in Swiss francs.This was done in Hungary in November last year to ease the financial burden for 600,000 Hungarians in a country of 10 million people.
No need to freeze the rate
However Polish finance minister Mateusz Szczurek Tuesday said there is no need to freeze the Swiss Franc exchange rate."This is the normal risk related to foreign currency loans. The burden lies both on the banks and the borrowers. While taking such credit the client agrees to take the risk of the exchange rate's changes while the bank agrees to bare the costs of the interest rate's changes. This is a fair deal"The Swiss manuoeuvre is also causing headaches for thousands of borrowers in Romania, Croatia and Austria. Meanwhile a new Polish Facebook group for class action against banks giving mortgages in Swiss francs got more than 2,500 likes.“People are feeling cheated by huge financial institutions which were the first to earn profits from credits in Swiss francs. If somebody is giving loans which are so vulnerable to accidental and external factors, it is speculation which is forbidden by law,” said Witold Modzelewski, an economist, in an interview given over the weekend.“That leads us to class actions against banks which we will see coming soon,” he added.
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)
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)
ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD KILLED IN OVERNIGHT RAID) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
AMOS 1:5
5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.(I belive ISIS-DAMASCUS GET NUKED BY ISRAEL)
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Russia has 9,000 troops in Ukraine, Poroshenko tells Davos forum-Reuters-By Dmitry Zhdannikov and Noah Barkin-JAN 21,15-YAHOONEWS
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia on Wednesday of sending 9,000 troops to back separatist rebels in the east of his country, and the IMF chief said she backed extra financial help for Kiev as the conflict inflicts severe economic damage.Moscow challenged Poroshenko to present facts to prove his allegations. However, he won support from NATO, which said the amount of heavy military equipment used by Russian troops in eastern Ukraine had increased, and the alliance repeated its call for the forces to withdraw.Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Poroshenko made one of Kiev's boldest assertions yet that Russia's military is directly involved in a conflict in which more than 4,800 people have died since last April.Russian troops were backed by a range of heavy weapons, including tanks, heavy artillery and armored vehicles, he said, adding: "If this is not aggression, what is aggression?"Poroshenko also called on Moscow to comply with a peace plan agreed in Minsk, Belarus, last September between Ukraine, Russia and pro-Russian separatist leaders to end the conflict."The solution is very simple -- stop supplying weapons ... withdraw the troops and close the border," he said. "If you want to discuss something different, it means you are not for peace, you are for war."The Minsk plan provides for a ceasefire and the withdrawal of foreign fighters and military equipment from Ukraine. But the ceasefire has been very shaky from the start and hundreds of people have died since September in clashes Kiev says have involved regular Russian troops.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov tried to fend off the accusations, saying he hoped for progress at talks on the conflict on Wednesday despite the renewed fighting."If you allege this so confidently, present the facts. But nobody can present the facts, or doesn't want to," Lavrov told a news conference before heading to the peace talks in Berlin with the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Germany and France.German Chancellor Angela Merkel, however, warned against expecting too much from the talks. "I don't want to get hopes up too much," she said. "It is clear that the ceasefire is getting more and more fragile."In Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told a news briefing that the Western alliance had monitored Russian troops in Ukraine for several months and seen an increase lately in numbers of tanks, artillery pieces and other heavy equipment.
CLOSE TO BANKRUPTCY
Ukraine's economy has been pushed close to bankruptcy by the war with the rebels, and economists have warned of debt writedowns if an existing IMF loan program is not beefed up to plug a estimated $15 billion funding gap.Poroshenko told IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde at a meeting in Davos that his government had appealed for more funding. "President Poroshenko informed me today that the Ukrainian authorities have requested a multi-year arrangement with the Fund ... to replace the existing Stand-By Arrangement," she said in a statement.Lagarde said the IMF board would discuss the request, and made clear that Ukraine would have to make broad and deep economic reforms in return for any deal. However, she told reporters: "I will submit it to the board which will convene as soon as possible. I will propose to support it."Also in Davos, Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko told Reuters she was hopeful that a deal with the International Monetary Fund would be reached in the very near future.Asked if $15 billion would be enough to pull Ukraine out of economic crisis, Yaresko emphasized the urgent need for an IMF decision. "The main thing is that we need a decision. And front-loading is very important. Any number, if it is dribbled out over a long period of time, might not be sufficient," she said.The existing IMF package, agreed in April last year, is worth $17 billion and has so far paid out $4.6 billion in two installments.The collapse in Ukraine's hard currency reserves to enough to cover only five weeks of imports is threatening to force Ukraine into extending debt maturities or even writing down government debts, but Yaresko said: "It is our intention to meet our obligations."(Additional reporting by Alessandra Prentice,; Alastair Macdonald, Gabriela Baczynska, Stephen Brown and Sabine Siebold; Writing By Richard Balmforth, Paul Tyalor and David Stamp; Editing by Gareth Jones and Giles Elgood)
NATO calls on Russia to pull troops from Ukraine-Reuters-JAN 21,15-YAHOONEWS
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO said on Wednesday it had seen an increase in the numbers of tanks, artillery pieces and other heavy military equipment being used by Russian troops in eastern Ukraine and renewed a call for Moscow to withdraw.Jens Stoltenberg, the Western alliance's secretary-general, told a news briefing that NATO had monitored Russian troops in Ukraine for several months and an increase lately in the amount of equipment. He declined comment on specific numbers of troops. Russia denies Ukrainian accusations that its forces are present.(Reporting by Alastair Macdonald)
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror(ISM), consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Attack me if you dare, Boko Haram chief taunts 'African kings'-AFP-By Reinnier Kaze-JAN 21,15-YAHOONEWS
Yaoundé (AFP) - The head of Boko Haram -- the enigmatic Abubakar Shekau -- has openly taunted the countries being menaced by the armed Islamist group as they call for a united effort to crush it.
In a video claiming responsibility for the bloody attack on the Nigerian town of Baga in early January, Shekau poured contempt on the presidents of Chad, Cameroon and Niger, goading Chad's Idriss Deby Itno with the message: "African kings... I challenge you to attack me now. I am ready."The Baga attack on January 3 in which hundreds are feared to have been killed has been called a crime against humanity by Washington and Paris.In the video that has just emerged on YouTube, Shekau also accused Cameroon President Paul Biya of being too afraid to ask for help in the face of the group's ever-increasing belligerence.Cameroon has also seen repeated recent attacks, including the kidnapping of dozens of people, mostly women and children, during a deadly attack on Sunday.To Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou, whom Shekau noted had commiserated with France after the recent Islamist attacks in Paris, he said: "Muhammad Yusuf (Mahamadou Issoufou), is that your job? Ah, ah, ah! Muhammad Yusuf, you will see. President of Niger, you will see," he said.Shekau's provocative video came as a regional summit opened in Nigeria on Tuesday aimed at stopping Boko Haram, whose insurgency has left 13,000 dead and forced 1.5 million from their homes since 2009.Leaders from Ghana and Chad have called for a unified effort in confronting the Islamist militants.Chad sent a convoy of troops and 400 military vehicles on Saturday into neighbouring Cameroon to fight Boko Haram, as Nigeria's neighbours appeared to be losing patience with the Nigerian army's passivity.
- 'We will not stop' -
Little is known of "Shekau", with some experts and Nigerian security officials insisting that he is in fact a composite character whose role is taken by a rotating cast of different militant fighters.According to security services, the original Abubakar Shekau was the son of poor farmers who was radicalised while attending theological schools and took over Boko Haram in 2010.The Nigerian military said last September that a man posing as Shekau in videos posted online had in fact been killed after fighting with troops in the far northeast.The United States and other experts, however, have questioned the credibility of that claim while Shekau outright rejected it in a video obtained by AFP last October."Here I am, alive. I will only die the day Allah takes my breath," he said in that video.The insurgent leader, sanctioned by the UN Security Council and declared a "global terrorist" by the United States, issued a similarly boastful denial in 2013 after the military claimed he may have died from a gunshot wound.Boko Haram's claim of responsibility for the Baga attack -- in which large parts of the town were burnt to the ground and at least 16 surrounding settlements razed -- was not unexpected given the testimony of survivors."We killed the people of Baga. We indeed killed them, as our Lord instructed us in His Book," Shekau said in the 35-minute message.He added: "We will not stop. This is not much. You'll see."
Man arrested over alleged chemical threat in Canada capital-AFP-JAN 21,15-YAHOONEWS
Ottawa (AFP) - Police arrested an American biochemistry professor at an Ottawa hotel Wednesday over an alleged chemical threat that prompted authorities to evacuate the building, police and media reported."We apprehended a male at the Chimo hotel without incident," a police spokeswoman told AFP."He is being held on a Canada-wide warrant issued relating to charges in Nova Scotia province."Earlier, police evacuated the hotel and brought in hazmat and tactical squads, after reportedly receiving a tip from the man's wife that he had travelled from Halifax to Ottawa in a van packed with dangerous chemicals.The man's vehicle has also been located, police confirmed.Local media identified the suspect as American national Christopher Phillips, and said he is a professor at a university in Halifax where he lives with his family.They also said he was once a biochemical weapons expert for the US military.Ottawa police Constable Chuck Benoit told reporters a police negotiator contacted the suspect at the hotel at around 9 am local time.He exited his sixth floor room and was arrested on an outstanding warrant. It was "a very simple arrest," Benoit said.Federal police in Halifax, meanwhile, cordoned off sections of the port city, which is home to the Canadian navy's Atlantic fleet, after discovering what an RCMP officer described as a "large quantity of chemicals" inside a cottage."The chemicals are of a nature that we need to employ a chemist to help us identify what type of chemicals that they are," said RCMP Corporal Greg Church.A call about a suspicious package late Monday at another location subsequently secured by police in Halifax kicked off the investigation, he said.Ottawa police Staff Sergeant John McGetrick at a briefing in the capital, said the chemicals are believed to be a "very dangerous substance."He would not confirm if any had been found in Ottawa, but a hazmat team remained at the hotel throughout the day.He said it is not clear what the suspect intended to do with the chemicals, but added there was "no information received at this point that there was any terrorist intentions."Formal charges were expected to be laid and announced later.
Yemen leader ready to accept demands of Houthis after his guards defeated-Reuters-By Yara Bayoumy and Mohammed Ghobari-JAN 21,15-YAHOONEWS
SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi expressed readiness on Wednesday to accept demands for constitutional change and power sharing with Houthi rebels who took up positions outside his home after defeating his guards in two days of battle.Gulf neighbors denounced what they described as a coup in Yemen, although both the Houthis and some of the president's allies denied that he had been overthrown.A source close to the president said Hadi had met an official of the Shi'ite Muslim rebel group, and denied the president was under house arrest inside the residence, surrounded since early morning by Houthi fighters.In a statement issued in the mid-evening, Hadi said the Shi'ite Muslim group had a right to be appointed to posts in all state institutions, and a draft constitution that has been a source of disagreement between him and the Houthis was open to amendment.He said the Houthis agreed to withdraw fighters from areas overlooking his palace, his home and the official residence of the prime minister, and had promised to free immediately his chief of staff, whom they have held captive for several days.After clashes at the president's office and home on Tuesday, the Houthis' leader threatened in a speech overnight to take further "measures" unless Hadi bowed to his demand for constitutional changes that would increase Houthi power.The Houthis, friendly to Iran, swept into the capital four months ago and have emerged as the dominant force in the country. For now at least they appear to have decided to stop short of overthrowing Hadi, possibly preferring to exert control over a weakened leader rather than take on the burden of power.Their defeat of the presidential guards in gunbattles and artillery duels in recent days adds to disarray in a country where the United States is also carrying out drone strikes against one of the most powerful branches of al Qaeda.The guards' defeat was made possible because the army did not fight, a reflection that Hadi, a former general, secured little lasting power during his military service while the Houthis have penetrated key institutions since September.By early morning on Wednesday, Houthi fighters, accompanied by an armored vehicle, had replaced the guards at the president's residence. Presidential guard sentry posts were initially empty, however a few guards later appeared and were permitted to take up positions." President Hadi is still in his home. There is no problem, he can leave," Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthi politburo, told Reuters.Prime Minister Khaled Bahah quit his official residence, which had also been surrounded by Houthi fighters, for "a safe place after three days of siege", one of his aides told Reuters.
SOUTHERN PROTEST
Yemeni military sources said the Houthis also seized the military aviation college close to Hadi's home, and the main missile base in Sanaa, without a fight.In the south of the country, Hadi's home region, local officials denounced what they called a coup against him. They shut the air and sea ports of the south's main city, Aden, and closed land entry routes.Gulf Arab states, which support Hadi and oppose Iranian influence in the region, denounced what they called terrorist acts by the Houthis and their allies. They demanded state bodies be returned to government control and Hadi's chief of staff, detained by the Houthis last week, be released. Yemen, an impoverished nation of 25 million, has been plagued by Islamist insurgency, separatist conflict, sectarian strife and economic crisis for years. An "Arab Spring" popular uprising in 2011 led to the downfall of long-ruling President Ali Abdullah Saleh, bringing more chaos.The Houthis, rebels from the north drawn from a large Shi'ite minority that ruled a 1,000-year kingdom in Yemen until 1962, stormed into the capital in September but had mostly held back from directly challenging Hadi until last week.They accuse the president of seeking to bypass a power-sharing deal signed when they seized Sanaa in September, and say they are also working to protect state institutions from corrupt civil servants and officers trying to plunder state property.Houthi fighters battled guards at Hadi's home and entered the presidential palace on Tuesday. In his televised speech that followed, the group's leader Abdel-Malek al-Houthi warned Hadi that he had to implement the power-sharing deal.
REGIONAL POWER
The accord gives the group, which takes its name from the family of its leader, a role in all military and civil state bodies. The Houthis, who say the accord has not been implemented fast enough, also demand changes to the divisions of regional power in a draft constitution.Their decision to stop short of toppling Hadi, an ally of the West and supporter of U.S. drone strikes, may be intended to keep regional Sunni Muslim states and the United States from rallying against them.Abdel-Malek's speech left little doubt however that his movement was now in effective control of the country. Al Masdar newspaper referred to him as "the president's president".The emergence of the Houthis as Yemen's de facto top power in September has scrambled alliances across Yemen's political spectrum, raising fears of deeper instability in a country that shares a border with top oil exporter Saudi Arabia and has one of al Qaeda's most active branches.The Houthi action this week is likely to deepen a regional struggle for influence between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and may complicate the region's counter-terrorism challenge. Angered by the takeover in September, and suspecting Iranian complicity, Riyadh cut most of its financial aid to Yemen.For its part, al Qaeda has launched repeated attacks on Houthi targets, including bombings in Sanaa that have killed civilians and raised fears of widespread sectarian violence.(Additional reporting by Mohammed Mokhashaf in Aden, Parisa Hafezi in Ankara; Writing by William Maclean and Sami Aboudi; Editing by Peter Graff)
FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN
ISAIAH 23:15-17
15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.(COULD THIS BE 70 YEARS AFTER ISRAEL BECAME A NATION IN 1948)(IF SO THIS SATANIC ONE WORLD WHORE CHURCH WILL MINGLE TOGETHER BY 2018)(AND NOW ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY AND ALL RELIGIONS ARE MINGLING AS ONE PEACE-LOVE-JOY-GET ALONG RELIGION LEAD BY THE VATICAN RIGHT NOW 4 YEARS FROM THE 70 YEAR TIME WHEN ISRAEL BECAME A NATION).AND IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM.
REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he (FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER) exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen,(1-ASSYRIA,2-EGYPT,3-BABYLON,4-MEDO-PERSIA,5-GREECE) and one is,(IN POWER IN JOHNS AND JESUS DAY-6-ROME) and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.(7TH-REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE OR THE EUROPEAN UNION TODAY AND THE SHORT SPACE IS-THE EUROPEAN UNION WILL HAVE WORLD CONTROL FOR THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS.BUT WILL HAVE ITS MIGHTY WORLD POWER FOR THE FULL 7 YEARS OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.AND THE WORLD DICTATOR WILL BE THE BEAST FROM THE EU.AND THE VATICAN POPE WILL BE THE WHORE THAT RIDES THE EUROPEAN UNION TO POWER.AND THE 2 EUROPEAN UNION POWER FREAKS WILL CONTROL AND DECIEVE THE WHOLE EARTH INTO THEIR DESTRUCTION.IF YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.YOU WILL BE DECIEVED BY THESE TWO.THE WORLD POLITICIAN-THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR.AND THE FALSE PROPHET THAT DEFECTS CHRISTIANITY-THE FALSE VATICAN POPE.
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.(BOMB OR NUKE THE VATICAN)
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city,(VATICAN) which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
Pope rows back from 'rabbits' comments, praises large families-AFP-By Angus MacKinnon-JAN 21,15-YAHOONEWS
Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis on Wednesday described large families as a "gift from God", just days after he said Catholics did not need to "breed like rabbits".In an apparent row back from comments he made on his way back from the Philippines, the Argentinian pontiff argued that an unfair economic system is the primary cause of poverty, rather than overpopulation."The meetings with families and young people in Manila were stand-out moments during the visit to the Philippines," Francis told a crowd of around 7,000 gathered in St Peter's square for his weekly audience."Healthy families are essential to the life of society. It provides us with consolation and hope to see so many large families who welcome children as a gift from God," he said."These families know that each child is a blessing."Francis surprised reporters on the papal plane on Sunday by recounting an anecdote about how he had once asked a mother who had seven children by caesarian section and was pregnant with her eighth if she wanted to "leave behind seven young orphans"."She said, 'I trust in God.' But God gave us the means to be responsible," Francis said. "Some think -- and excuse the term -- that to be good Catholics, they must be like rabbits."Following the Church's teachings did not mean "Christians should have children one after the other", he added in comments that made headlines worldwide.Catholic teaching prohibits the use of artificial contraception but allows the use of the so-called rhythm method, where couples avoid unwanted pregnancy by planning sex on days during the woman's menstrual cycle on which she is less likely to conceive.
- Poverty link -
Francis's comments had particular resonance in the Philippines, where large families are seen by some as perpetuating and exacerbating poverty levels which act as a restraint on development.The Church claims more than 80 percent of the country's 100 million as its followers and it waged a 15-year battle to block a family planning law. The law was finally introduced last year, allowing the state to distribute free contraceptives.The Church's opposition to contraception was formalised by former pope Paul VI in 1968, as the birth control pill was beginning to be widely used in the developed world.On Sunday, the current pontiff described his predecessor as a "prophet" who had been rightly concerned about ideas advocating restrictions on the poor having children.At the same time, Francis appeared to approvingly cite population experts who say three children per family is an ideal number.Whatever his exact thinking on the subject, the emphasis was different on Wednesday."I hear some people saying that families with many children and the birth of many babies are among the causes of poverty," the pope said."That seems to me to be a simplistic opinion. I can say, we all can say, that the principal cause of poverty is an economic system that has removed man from its centre and replaced him with the God of money."
- A pithy Pope -
Francis's "rabbit" comments came shortly after he made waves by suggesting, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, that anyone who mocked someone else's faith could expect a violent response."If a good friend speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched," he said.The comment, which was widely criticised in liberal circles, reflected the 78-year-old's tendency to express his ideas on complex issues of theology and religious practise in pithy soundbites.These have included "a poor Church, for the poor," which he coined at the start of a papacy marked by efforts to reach out to the world's downtrodden while simultaneously slimming down and shaking up the Vatican's once spendthrift bureaucracy."Who am I to judge," encapsulated the more compassionate approach he wants the Church to adopt on homosexuality. Such comments have helped make Francis a global superstar and bring lapsed Catholics back to the Church in huge numbers but both the "rabbits" and Charlie Hebdo comments have shown his communications touch is not infallible.
01/19/2015 - VATICAN INSIDER-Francis: “I’ll tell you about a time they tried to bribe me”-Francis speaks to journalists on the papal flight-In his interview with journalists on the return flight from Manila Francis talked about an experience he had in Buenos Aires, when officials asked for a bribe in exchange for funds for the poor. He mentioned gender as an example of the “colonisation of peoples”, recalling dictatorships’ attempts at indoctrination. He announced forthcoming trips to Africa and Latin America and repeated the example of the punch. While talking about falling birth rates he also pointed out that being Catholic does not mean breeding “like rabbits”. He said he was touched by the gestures of the Filipinos. He recommended Benson’s “Lord of the World” as a book worth reading-ANDREA TORNIELLI
on the flight from Manila to Rome-Francis had tears in his eyes as he described the striking gestures of Filipinos during his visit. When asked what he meant by the phrase “ideological colonisation” of the family, he responded with a concrete example of a first hand experience he had in Argentina when the condition for receiving funding for schools was linked to the introduction of textbooks on the gender theory. In his interview with journalists on the return flight from Manila to Rome Francis returned to the issues of freedom of expression and provocation, reiterating that violence is unjustified but calling on people to exercise the human virtue of prudence. Speaking about corruption, he recalled an incident he experienced first hand. He announced that he would be visiting Latin America and Africa in the coming months. He talked about contraception and responsible parenthood denouncing the neo-Malthusian theory in favour of birth control. But regarding child birth he also said: “Some think that being a good Catholic means breeding like rabbits.” At the end of the press conference which lasted over an hour, Francis wished the dean of the Vatican press corps, Televisa’s Mexican journalist Valentina Alazraki, happy birthday. He presented her with a gift and offered her and all journalists on board a cake to celebrate.
What the Filipinos taught me
“I was moved by their gestures, they were not formal gestures that followed protocol, they were genuine gestures that came from the heart (the Pope said this with tears welling up in his eyes, Ed.). Faith, love, family, the future, in that gesture fathers made of lifting their children up so the Pope could bless them. They lifted their children up, a gesture you don’t see in other parts of the world. It was as if they were saying: this here is my treasure, this is my future, this is what makes working and suffering worth it. A unique gesture that came from the heart. The second thing that struck me a great deal was their genuine enthusiasm, their joy, their happiness, their ability to celebrate. Even in the rain… Mothers who brought their sick children… So many disabled children, disabilities you really notice, they didn’t hide their children, they brought them with them so they could be blessed: this is my child, it’s like this but it’s mine. All mothers do this but it was the way in which it was done that struck me… A maternal and paternal gesture. A people who know how to suffer and are able to get back on their feet and get on with life.”
Poverty in Manila and Colombo
“The poor are the victims of this culture of waste. Today people are cast aside, the caste system comes to mind… In my diocese, the diocese of Buenos Aires there was a new area called Portomadero and not far from there were the villas miserias. In the first part there were 36 luxury restaurants, in the other part there was hunger. Both were right next to each other. We apparently tend to get used to this… This is us and that is where the oucasts are. This is what poverty is and the Church needs to increasingly lead the way in rejecting all kinds of worldliness. For us, the consecrated, bishops, priests, nuns and lay people, worldliness is the gravest sin. It is an ugly thing to see a consecrated person, a person of the Church, a nun adopt a wordly attitude. This is not the way of Jesus, of Jesus’ Church. It is an NGO that calls itself a Church, it is something else. The Church is Christ who died and was resurrected for our salvation and the testimony of Christians who follow Christ. Sometimes we priests and lay people cause a scandal, the way of Jesus is difficult. It is true that the Church needs to strip itself bare. I didn’t think about state terrorism, what you said made me think that this kind of waste can also be seen as a form of state terrorism. There really are no caresses: it is like saying: ‘no, not you, get out…’. Here in Rome there was a homeless person who had stomach ache. When he went to the hospital, they gave him an aspirin. He went to a priest who took one look at him and was moved. ‘I’ll take you to the hospital’ he said, ‘but when I explain what you have you pretend you’re fainting’. This is what he did, like an artist, he pulled it off well… It was peritonitis. Had he gone alone he would have been sent away and left to die. That parish priest was clever and gave him the right help, his gesture was worlds away from being worldly. Can this be considered a form of terrorism? It can be…”
The ideological colonisation of the family
“I will only give the example of an experience I had. Twenty years ago, in 1995, a minister of public education asked for a big loan to build schools for the poor (in rural zones, Ed.). They granted the loan on one condition: that schools used a good textbook to teach children. A quality educational school text book on gender theory. This woman needed the money and this was the condition… She was smart; she agreed and she had another book prepared (the second text book taught a different theory and the two books were issued together, Ed.). This is what ideological colonisation is: ideologies enter a population when they have no relevance to that population or they enter groups within that population but they are not with the people and they colonise them with an idea that aims to change a certain mentality or system. During the Synod, African bishops complained that certain loans are only given under specific conditions. The needs of a population are seen as an opportunity to move in and take advantage of children. But this is nothing new. Last century dictatorships did just this, they went in with their doctrine: think of the Hitler Youth… People must not lose their freedom, all peoples have their cultures, their history. When ideas are imposed by colonising empires, the aim is to take away a peoples’ identity… All peoples need to protect their own identity and not succumb to ideological colonisation. There is a book that was written in London in 1903, called “Lord of the World”, by Benson: I recommend it to you. If you read it you’ll really understand what I’m talking about.”
Openness to life
Openness to life is a condition for the sacrament of marriage. Paul VI studied this, he looked at what could be done to help, so many cases, so many problems… important problems that affect family love. But there was something else. Paul VI’s rejection (he rejected contraception in the Humanae Vitae encyclical, Ed.) was not just in reference to individual cases: he told confessors to be understanding and merciful. He was looking at a universal neo-Malthusianism which was calling on world powers to control birth rates: births in Italy dropped to less than 1% and the same in Spain. This does not mean Christians must have one child after the other. I scolded a woman who was on her eighth pregnancy and had had seven cesarians. ‘Do you want your children to become orphans?’ You must not push it with God… What I wanted to say was that Paul VI was a prophet.”
More on contraception
“I believe that three children per family, from what the experts say, is the key number for sustaining the population. The key word here is responsible parenthood and each person works out how to exercise this with the help of their pastor… Sorry, some people think that in order to be good Catholics we have to breed like rabbits, right? Responsible parenthood: this is why there are marriage support groups in the Church with people who are experts on such issues; and there are pastors and I know that there are many acceptable solutions that have helped with this. And another thing: for poor people children are a treasure, prudence is needed here too, it is true. Responsible parenthood is important but also recognising the generosity of that father or mother who see their child as a treasure.”
Freedom of expression and reacting to insults
“In theory we can say that a violent reaction to an offence, to a provocation, is not acceptable, it is not good. We can do what the Gospel says, which is to turn the other cheek. In theory we can say that we understand what freedom of expression is. In theory we all agree. But we are human and there is prudence which is a virtue of human coexistence. I cannot provoke and insult a person continuously because I run the risk of making them angry, I risk receiving an unjust reaction. But it is human. What I am saying is, is that freedom of expression needs to take human nature into account and this means it must be prudent, which is another way of saying it must be polite. Prudence is the human virtue that regulates our relationships. A violent reaction is always bad. But let us hold our horses; because we are human, we risk provoking others. This is why freedom must go hand in hand with prudence.”
Upcoming visits to Africa, Latin America and the US
“Africa: the plan is to go to the Central African Republic and Uganda. I think i twill be toward the end of the year. This visit comes a bit late because of the Ebola problem. Holding big meetings is a big responsibility because of the risk of contagion. But this isn’t a problem in these two countries. US: the three cities are Philadelphia for the meeting of families, New York for the visit to the UN and Washington. I would like to go to California for the canonization of JunÃpero Serra but I think there is an issue with time, I would need two more days. I think I will do the canonisation in Washington, he is a figure of national importance. Entering the US from the Mexican border would be a great gesture of fraternity but going to Mexico without visiting Our Lady (of Guadalupe, Ed.), that is a tragedy… I think those are the only three US cities I will be visitng. The Latin American countries I am scheduled to visit this year are: Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay. Next year, God willing, I will go to Chile, Argentina and Uruguay.”
Political corruption
“Corruption is very common in today’s world and corrupt attitudes easily worm their way into the institutions because there are many roles within these, many bosses, many deputies… Corruption means taking away from the people. A corrupt person who does corrupt business or governs in a corrupt manner or gets together with others to do corrupt business, steals from the people. The victims are those who live in poverty… Corruption is not closed within itself: it goes out and kills. Now corruption is a global problem. In 2001 I asked the head of the president’s cabinet at the time the following question: ‘tell me, how much of the aid you send inside the country – both the containers, food aid and clothes - reaches its destination?’ The clean man immediately answered: ‘35%’. That was in 2001, in my country.”
Corruption in the Church: they tried to bribe me
“When I speak about the Church I like to speak about the baptised, the faithful and all of us are sinners. But when we speak about corruption, we speak about corrupt people or institutions of the Church that become corrupt. And cases like this do exist. I remember one time in 1994, I had just been appointed auxiliary bishop in the Flores district when two ministry officials came up to me. They said to me: “You are really in need with these poor people… if you want we can help by giving you 400 thousand pesos (400 thousand dollars at the time)… I listened carefully because when you’re offered such a large sum it’s enough to make even a saint think twice. Then they said to me: ‘To make this donation, we will pay a deposit and then you give us half of the money’. At that moment I thought: do I insult them and kick them where the sun don’t shine or do I act dumb? I acted dumb. I said to them: ‘you know… those of us who work in the vicariates don’t have access to the account, you have to pay a deposit to the archbishopric with a receipt.’They left. I thought to myself: if these two landed without asking for a runway (a Spanish expression which roughly translates as “came uninvited” Ed.) – this is a horrible thought – that’s because someone else said yes… Let us remember this: sinners, yes; but corrupt, never! We must ask for forgiveness for those Catholics, those Christians who cause a scandal because of their corruption. There are, however, many saints and saints who are sinners but not corrupt. Let us look at the holy Church.”
China and the audience the Dalai Lama was denied
“According to Secretariat of State protocol, heads of state or leaders of that level are not usually received when they are attending an international meeting in Rome. During the FAO meeting I did not receive anyone. It is not true that I did not receive the Dalai Lama because of fear of China. He requested an audience, we have ties but the reason was not a rejection of him as a person or fear of China. We are open and we want peace with everyone. What is the state of relations? The Chinese government is civil, we are also civil, we do things step by step. We don’t know yet. They know I am willing to receive them or to go there. They know it."
Powerful moments that marked the papal visit
“The most powerful moment was the mass in Tacloban: seeing all of God’s people there, praying after the catastrophe, thinking of my sins and of those people was an intense feeling. It was a very intense moment. I felt very humbled during the mass there. I almost lost my voice. I don’t know what happened to me, perhaps it was the emotion. The gestures were powerful too, the gratitude of the fathers who lifted their children up for a blessing, that was enough for them… And I thought about all the expectations I have; that I want this and I want that. About the massive presence of faithful: I felt humbled, it was the people of God, the Lord was there, God says to us: remember you serve these people eh… they are the protagonists.”
Women in the Church
“When I say it is important for women to have a more prominent role in the Church, it is not just to give them a role, secretary of a dicastery…no, it is so that they can tell us how they perceive and see reality, because women look at reality with a different, a greater richness.”
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
24 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2015-01-21 15:58:06 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)24 earthquakes in map area
5.7 74km SE of Madang, Papua New Guinea 2015-01-21 15:08:33 UTC-05:00 54.0 km
5.1 81km SE of Madang, Papua New Guinea 2015-01-21 14:52:57 UTC-05:00 69.6 km
2.5 50km SSE of Calexico, California 2015-01-21 14:01:05 UTC-05:00 29.6 km
4.3 109km SSE of Hirara, Japan 2015-01-21 13:05:12 UTC-05:00 34.9 km
4.6 61km S of Kushiro, Japan 2015-01-21 12:35:31 UTC-05:00 66.3 km
4.6 291km WSW of Saumlaki, Indonesia 2015-01-21 12:21:26 UTC-05:00 56.4 km
2.7 80km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2015-01-21 08:58:38 UTC-05:00 24.0 km
4.5 14km NNE of Bahcesaray, Turkey 2015-01-21 08:58:03 UTC-05:00 4.0 km
2.9 70km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2015-01-21 08:56:22 UTC-05:00 37.0 km
4.1 128km SE of Atka, Alaska 2015-01-21 05:51:15 UTC-05:00 43.2 km
3.0 97km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-01-21 05:31:49 UTC-05:00 15.0 km
2.6 6km WNW of Hawi, Hawaii 2015-01-21 03:34:15 UTC-05:00 39.1 km
5.3 104km E of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands 2015-01-21 01:51:14 UTC-05:00 77.9 km
3.7 50km W of Rincon, Puerto Rico 2015-01-21 00:49:57 UTC-05:00 123.0 km
3.5 46km ENE of Noatak, Alaska 2015-01-21 00:25:36 UTC-05:00 13.7 km
5.2 9km WNW of Kalbay, Philippines 2015-01-21 00:20:28 UTC-05:00 82.7 km
4.0 50km SW of Jaguey Grande, Cuba 2015-01-20 23:07:15 UTC-05:00 16.5 km
4.5 Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge 2015-01-20 20:35:10 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.4 6km WNW of Dubovo, Kosovo 2015-01-20 20:30:07 UTC-05:00 7.5 km
4.5 119km N of Kendari, Indonesia 2015-01-20 19:02:55 UTC-05:00 45.6 km
3.7 57km NNE of Dillingham, Alaska 2015-01-20 17:09:56 UTC-05:00 215.3 km
4.4 9km WNW of La Romana, Dominican Republic 2015-01-20 16:52:07 UTC-05:00 86.1 km
3.5 67km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon 2015-01-20 16:42:33 UTC-05:00 10.4 km
3.0 71km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon 2015-01-20 16:21:12 UTC-05:00 10.7 km
GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram,(CHANGED TO ABRAHAM LATER) Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:(PALESTINE,ISRAEL)
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
White House: Boehner invite to Netanyahu breach of protocol-Associated Press-By DARLENE SUPERVILLE-JAN 21,15-YAHOONEWS
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — The White House says Republican House of Representaives Speaker John Boehner's invitation for Israel's prime minister to come to Washington is a breach of normal diplomatic protocol.President Barack Obama's press secretary, Josh Earnest, says the White House has not heard from Israelis about whether Benjamin Netanyahu plans to speak to Congress Feb. 11. Earnest says they are reserving judgment about the invitation until they've had a chance to speak to the Israelis about what Netanyahu might say.Earnest says typical protocol is that a country's leader would contact the White House before planning to visit the United States. But Earnest says they didn't hear about Boehner's invitation until Wednesday morning, shortly before the speaker announced it.Earnest was speaking to reporters traveling aboard Air Force One to Idaho Wednesday.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
OTHER
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/liberals-and-new-democrates-in.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/01/godless-liberal-justin-trudeau-says.html
Merkel: ECB should not send wrong signals with QE-By EUOBSERVER-Today, 15:57-JAN 21,15
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the ECB shouldn't send the wrong signal with its likely decision on quantitative easing on Thursday. "All signals have to be avoided that could be perceived as weakening the necessity for structural changes and closer economic-political cooperation in eurozone countries," she said Wednesday.
EP divided over start date for carbon market mechanism-By EUOBSERVER-Today, 09:22-JAN 21,15
No clear majority is expected in a European Parliament committee vote on Thursday on the start date of a market stability reserve for the EU's emissions trading scheme. Bloomberg reported Monday the conservative EPP and ECR support a 2021 kick-off, while a mostly left-wing coalition prefers 2017.
Thousands of Poles hit by Swiss franc decision By Paulina Pacula-Warsaw, 20. Jan, 09:02-EUOBSERVER
Last week’s decision by the Swiss Central Bank to scrap its currency cap has had major repercussions in the EU’s largest eastern member state, Poland.The move saw the Swiss franc jump to 4.32 zlotys from 3.53, a rise of more than 21 percent and the most significant in comparison to other European currencies.For a while it even reached 5.14 zlotys, but Monday (21 January) it was around 4.30. This was a dramatic turn for the almost 600,000 Poles who have mortgages denominated in Swiss francs – particularly as most of them took their loans when the Swiss franc cost 2.50 zlotys.“It was a very surprising decision by SNB which caused panic on the financial markets. This move couldn’t have been predicted especially since only one month ago the Swiss National Bank was claiming that it would keep the Swiss franc/euro rate stable,” Bartosz Sawicki, a financial analyst, told EUobserver.The overall value of credit in Swiss francs, which constitute around 40 percent of all mortgages in Poland, jumped from 131bn zlotys up to 157bn, according to The Polish Bank Association.For a household, it means that the average monthly installment, which was around 2,000 zlotys in October 2014, suddenly jumped by a fifth.If the Swiss Franc reaches 5 zlotys it will cause a monthly installment hike of one third.That is too much for an average household to deal with.“This may lead to a sudden increase in the number of consumer bankruptcy. We had 21,000 endangered loans last year,” says Sawicki.
Threat to banks
This could also be a threat to some Polish banks, such as Millennium Bank and Getin Noble, which had a large portfolio of Swiss-denominated mortgages.Poland’s financial markets regulator, KNF, issued a statement saying that even if the Swiss franc reaches the 5 zloty level there is no systemic risk for the bank sector as it can absorb the difference.But Sawicki, an independent professional, is a bit more sceptical.“The road to stabilising the exchange rate is going to be rough especially since we have such important events, like the Greek parliamentary election (on 25 January) which may again shake the markets,” he notes.He added that a “very optimistic scenario” would see the Swiss franc at 3.8 zlotys at the end of this year.
Consumers pay
The sudden appreciation of the Swiss franc has been seized by the opposition parties, with Poland set for presidential and parliamentary elections later this year.Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the biggest opposition party Peace and Justice, argues the problem should be solved using a Hungarian model – a currency conversion on a strict exchange rate for all credits in Swiss francs.This was done in Hungary in November last year to ease the financial burden for 600,000 Hungarians in a country of 10 million people.
No need to freeze the rate
However Polish finance minister Mateusz Szczurek Tuesday said there is no need to freeze the Swiss Franc exchange rate."This is the normal risk related to foreign currency loans. The burden lies both on the banks and the borrowers. While taking such credit the client agrees to take the risk of the exchange rate's changes while the bank agrees to bare the costs of the interest rate's changes. This is a fair deal"The Swiss manuoeuvre is also causing headaches for thousands of borrowers in Romania, Croatia and Austria. Meanwhile a new Polish Facebook group for class action against banks giving mortgages in Swiss francs got more than 2,500 likes.“People are feeling cheated by huge financial institutions which were the first to earn profits from credits in Swiss francs. If somebody is giving loans which are so vulnerable to accidental and external factors, it is speculation which is forbidden by law,” said Witold Modzelewski, an economist, in an interview given over the weekend.“That leads us to class actions against banks which we will see coming soon,” he added.
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)
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)
ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD KILLED IN OVERNIGHT RAID) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
AMOS 1:5
5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.(I belive ISIS-DAMASCUS GET NUKED BY ISRAEL)
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
Russia has 9,000 troops in Ukraine, Poroshenko tells Davos forum-Reuters-By Dmitry Zhdannikov and Noah Barkin-JAN 21,15-YAHOONEWS
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia on Wednesday of sending 9,000 troops to back separatist rebels in the east of his country, and the IMF chief said she backed extra financial help for Kiev as the conflict inflicts severe economic damage.Moscow challenged Poroshenko to present facts to prove his allegations. However, he won support from NATO, which said the amount of heavy military equipment used by Russian troops in eastern Ukraine had increased, and the alliance repeated its call for the forces to withdraw.Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Poroshenko made one of Kiev's boldest assertions yet that Russia's military is directly involved in a conflict in which more than 4,800 people have died since last April.Russian troops were backed by a range of heavy weapons, including tanks, heavy artillery and armored vehicles, he said, adding: "If this is not aggression, what is aggression?"Poroshenko also called on Moscow to comply with a peace plan agreed in Minsk, Belarus, last September between Ukraine, Russia and pro-Russian separatist leaders to end the conflict."The solution is very simple -- stop supplying weapons ... withdraw the troops and close the border," he said. "If you want to discuss something different, it means you are not for peace, you are for war."The Minsk plan provides for a ceasefire and the withdrawal of foreign fighters and military equipment from Ukraine. But the ceasefire has been very shaky from the start and hundreds of people have died since September in clashes Kiev says have involved regular Russian troops.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov tried to fend off the accusations, saying he hoped for progress at talks on the conflict on Wednesday despite the renewed fighting."If you allege this so confidently, present the facts. But nobody can present the facts, or doesn't want to," Lavrov told a news conference before heading to the peace talks in Berlin with the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Germany and France.German Chancellor Angela Merkel, however, warned against expecting too much from the talks. "I don't want to get hopes up too much," she said. "It is clear that the ceasefire is getting more and more fragile."In Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told a news briefing that the Western alliance had monitored Russian troops in Ukraine for several months and seen an increase lately in numbers of tanks, artillery pieces and other heavy equipment.
CLOSE TO BANKRUPTCY
Ukraine's economy has been pushed close to bankruptcy by the war with the rebels, and economists have warned of debt writedowns if an existing IMF loan program is not beefed up to plug a estimated $15 billion funding gap.Poroshenko told IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde at a meeting in Davos that his government had appealed for more funding. "President Poroshenko informed me today that the Ukrainian authorities have requested a multi-year arrangement with the Fund ... to replace the existing Stand-By Arrangement," she said in a statement.Lagarde said the IMF board would discuss the request, and made clear that Ukraine would have to make broad and deep economic reforms in return for any deal. However, she told reporters: "I will submit it to the board which will convene as soon as possible. I will propose to support it."Also in Davos, Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalia Yaresko told Reuters she was hopeful that a deal with the International Monetary Fund would be reached in the very near future.Asked if $15 billion would be enough to pull Ukraine out of economic crisis, Yaresko emphasized the urgent need for an IMF decision. "The main thing is that we need a decision. And front-loading is very important. Any number, if it is dribbled out over a long period of time, might not be sufficient," she said.The existing IMF package, agreed in April last year, is worth $17 billion and has so far paid out $4.6 billion in two installments.The collapse in Ukraine's hard currency reserves to enough to cover only five weeks of imports is threatening to force Ukraine into extending debt maturities or even writing down government debts, but Yaresko said: "It is our intention to meet our obligations."(Additional reporting by Alessandra Prentice,; Alastair Macdonald, Gabriela Baczynska, Stephen Brown and Sabine Siebold; Writing By Richard Balmforth, Paul Tyalor and David Stamp; Editing by Gareth Jones and Giles Elgood)
NATO calls on Russia to pull troops from Ukraine-Reuters-JAN 21,15-YAHOONEWS
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO said on Wednesday it had seen an increase in the numbers of tanks, artillery pieces and other heavy military equipment being used by Russian troops in eastern Ukraine and renewed a call for Moscow to withdraw.Jens Stoltenberg, the Western alliance's secretary-general, told a news briefing that NATO had monitored Russian troops in Ukraine for several months and an increase lately in the amount of equipment. He declined comment on specific numbers of troops. Russia denies Ukrainian accusations that its forces are present.(Reporting by Alastair Macdonald)
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)
EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18
WORLD TERRORISM
GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror(ISM), consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)
ISAIAH 14:12-14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)
ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)
Attack me if you dare, Boko Haram chief taunts 'African kings'-AFP-By Reinnier Kaze-JAN 21,15-YAHOONEWS
Yaoundé (AFP) - The head of Boko Haram -- the enigmatic Abubakar Shekau -- has openly taunted the countries being menaced by the armed Islamist group as they call for a united effort to crush it.
In a video claiming responsibility for the bloody attack on the Nigerian town of Baga in early January, Shekau poured contempt on the presidents of Chad, Cameroon and Niger, goading Chad's Idriss Deby Itno with the message: "African kings... I challenge you to attack me now. I am ready."The Baga attack on January 3 in which hundreds are feared to have been killed has been called a crime against humanity by Washington and Paris.In the video that has just emerged on YouTube, Shekau also accused Cameroon President Paul Biya of being too afraid to ask for help in the face of the group's ever-increasing belligerence.Cameroon has also seen repeated recent attacks, including the kidnapping of dozens of people, mostly women and children, during a deadly attack on Sunday.To Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou, whom Shekau noted had commiserated with France after the recent Islamist attacks in Paris, he said: "Muhammad Yusuf (Mahamadou Issoufou), is that your job? Ah, ah, ah! Muhammad Yusuf, you will see. President of Niger, you will see," he said.Shekau's provocative video came as a regional summit opened in Nigeria on Tuesday aimed at stopping Boko Haram, whose insurgency has left 13,000 dead and forced 1.5 million from their homes since 2009.Leaders from Ghana and Chad have called for a unified effort in confronting the Islamist militants.Chad sent a convoy of troops and 400 military vehicles on Saturday into neighbouring Cameroon to fight Boko Haram, as Nigeria's neighbours appeared to be losing patience with the Nigerian army's passivity.
- 'We will not stop' -
Little is known of "Shekau", with some experts and Nigerian security officials insisting that he is in fact a composite character whose role is taken by a rotating cast of different militant fighters.According to security services, the original Abubakar Shekau was the son of poor farmers who was radicalised while attending theological schools and took over Boko Haram in 2010.The Nigerian military said last September that a man posing as Shekau in videos posted online had in fact been killed after fighting with troops in the far northeast.The United States and other experts, however, have questioned the credibility of that claim while Shekau outright rejected it in a video obtained by AFP last October."Here I am, alive. I will only die the day Allah takes my breath," he said in that video.The insurgent leader, sanctioned by the UN Security Council and declared a "global terrorist" by the United States, issued a similarly boastful denial in 2013 after the military claimed he may have died from a gunshot wound.Boko Haram's claim of responsibility for the Baga attack -- in which large parts of the town were burnt to the ground and at least 16 surrounding settlements razed -- was not unexpected given the testimony of survivors."We killed the people of Baga. We indeed killed them, as our Lord instructed us in His Book," Shekau said in the 35-minute message.He added: "We will not stop. This is not much. You'll see."
Man arrested over alleged chemical threat in Canada capital-AFP-JAN 21,15-YAHOONEWS
Ottawa (AFP) - Police arrested an American biochemistry professor at an Ottawa hotel Wednesday over an alleged chemical threat that prompted authorities to evacuate the building, police and media reported."We apprehended a male at the Chimo hotel without incident," a police spokeswoman told AFP."He is being held on a Canada-wide warrant issued relating to charges in Nova Scotia province."Earlier, police evacuated the hotel and brought in hazmat and tactical squads, after reportedly receiving a tip from the man's wife that he had travelled from Halifax to Ottawa in a van packed with dangerous chemicals.The man's vehicle has also been located, police confirmed.Local media identified the suspect as American national Christopher Phillips, and said he is a professor at a university in Halifax where he lives with his family.They also said he was once a biochemical weapons expert for the US military.Ottawa police Constable Chuck Benoit told reporters a police negotiator contacted the suspect at the hotel at around 9 am local time.He exited his sixth floor room and was arrested on an outstanding warrant. It was "a very simple arrest," Benoit said.Federal police in Halifax, meanwhile, cordoned off sections of the port city, which is home to the Canadian navy's Atlantic fleet, after discovering what an RCMP officer described as a "large quantity of chemicals" inside a cottage."The chemicals are of a nature that we need to employ a chemist to help us identify what type of chemicals that they are," said RCMP Corporal Greg Church.A call about a suspicious package late Monday at another location subsequently secured by police in Halifax kicked off the investigation, he said.Ottawa police Staff Sergeant John McGetrick at a briefing in the capital, said the chemicals are believed to be a "very dangerous substance."He would not confirm if any had been found in Ottawa, but a hazmat team remained at the hotel throughout the day.He said it is not clear what the suspect intended to do with the chemicals, but added there was "no information received at this point that there was any terrorist intentions."Formal charges were expected to be laid and announced later.
Yemen leader ready to accept demands of Houthis after his guards defeated-Reuters-By Yara Bayoumy and Mohammed Ghobari-JAN 21,15-YAHOONEWS
SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi expressed readiness on Wednesday to accept demands for constitutional change and power sharing with Houthi rebels who took up positions outside his home after defeating his guards in two days of battle.Gulf neighbors denounced what they described as a coup in Yemen, although both the Houthis and some of the president's allies denied that he had been overthrown.A source close to the president said Hadi had met an official of the Shi'ite Muslim rebel group, and denied the president was under house arrest inside the residence, surrounded since early morning by Houthi fighters.In a statement issued in the mid-evening, Hadi said the Shi'ite Muslim group had a right to be appointed to posts in all state institutions, and a draft constitution that has been a source of disagreement between him and the Houthis was open to amendment.He said the Houthis agreed to withdraw fighters from areas overlooking his palace, his home and the official residence of the prime minister, and had promised to free immediately his chief of staff, whom they have held captive for several days.After clashes at the president's office and home on Tuesday, the Houthis' leader threatened in a speech overnight to take further "measures" unless Hadi bowed to his demand for constitutional changes that would increase Houthi power.The Houthis, friendly to Iran, swept into the capital four months ago and have emerged as the dominant force in the country. For now at least they appear to have decided to stop short of overthrowing Hadi, possibly preferring to exert control over a weakened leader rather than take on the burden of power.Their defeat of the presidential guards in gunbattles and artillery duels in recent days adds to disarray in a country where the United States is also carrying out drone strikes against one of the most powerful branches of al Qaeda.The guards' defeat was made possible because the army did not fight, a reflection that Hadi, a former general, secured little lasting power during his military service while the Houthis have penetrated key institutions since September.By early morning on Wednesday, Houthi fighters, accompanied by an armored vehicle, had replaced the guards at the president's residence. Presidential guard sentry posts were initially empty, however a few guards later appeared and were permitted to take up positions." President Hadi is still in his home. There is no problem, he can leave," Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthi politburo, told Reuters.Prime Minister Khaled Bahah quit his official residence, which had also been surrounded by Houthi fighters, for "a safe place after three days of siege", one of his aides told Reuters.
SOUTHERN PROTEST
Yemeni military sources said the Houthis also seized the military aviation college close to Hadi's home, and the main missile base in Sanaa, without a fight.In the south of the country, Hadi's home region, local officials denounced what they called a coup against him. They shut the air and sea ports of the south's main city, Aden, and closed land entry routes.Gulf Arab states, which support Hadi and oppose Iranian influence in the region, denounced what they called terrorist acts by the Houthis and their allies. They demanded state bodies be returned to government control and Hadi's chief of staff, detained by the Houthis last week, be released. Yemen, an impoverished nation of 25 million, has been plagued by Islamist insurgency, separatist conflict, sectarian strife and economic crisis for years. An "Arab Spring" popular uprising in 2011 led to the downfall of long-ruling President Ali Abdullah Saleh, bringing more chaos.The Houthis, rebels from the north drawn from a large Shi'ite minority that ruled a 1,000-year kingdom in Yemen until 1962, stormed into the capital in September but had mostly held back from directly challenging Hadi until last week.They accuse the president of seeking to bypass a power-sharing deal signed when they seized Sanaa in September, and say they are also working to protect state institutions from corrupt civil servants and officers trying to plunder state property.Houthi fighters battled guards at Hadi's home and entered the presidential palace on Tuesday. In his televised speech that followed, the group's leader Abdel-Malek al-Houthi warned Hadi that he had to implement the power-sharing deal.
REGIONAL POWER
The accord gives the group, which takes its name from the family of its leader, a role in all military and civil state bodies. The Houthis, who say the accord has not been implemented fast enough, also demand changes to the divisions of regional power in a draft constitution.Their decision to stop short of toppling Hadi, an ally of the West and supporter of U.S. drone strikes, may be intended to keep regional Sunni Muslim states and the United States from rallying against them.Abdel-Malek's speech left little doubt however that his movement was now in effective control of the country. Al Masdar newspaper referred to him as "the president's president".The emergence of the Houthis as Yemen's de facto top power in September has scrambled alliances across Yemen's political spectrum, raising fears of deeper instability in a country that shares a border with top oil exporter Saudi Arabia and has one of al Qaeda's most active branches.The Houthi action this week is likely to deepen a regional struggle for influence between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and may complicate the region's counter-terrorism challenge. Angered by the takeover in September, and suspecting Iranian complicity, Riyadh cut most of its financial aid to Yemen.For its part, al Qaeda has launched repeated attacks on Houthi targets, including bombings in Sanaa that have killed civilians and raised fears of widespread sectarian violence.(Additional reporting by Mohammed Mokhashaf in Aden, Parisa Hafezi in Ankara; Writing by William Maclean and Sami Aboudi; Editing by Peter Graff)
FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN
ISAIAH 23:15-17
15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.(COULD THIS BE 70 YEARS AFTER ISRAEL BECAME A NATION IN 1948)(IF SO THIS SATANIC ONE WORLD WHORE CHURCH WILL MINGLE TOGETHER BY 2018)(AND NOW ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY AND ALL RELIGIONS ARE MINGLING AS ONE PEACE-LOVE-JOY-GET ALONG RELIGION LEAD BY THE VATICAN RIGHT NOW 4 YEARS FROM THE 70 YEAR TIME WHEN ISRAEL BECAME A NATION).AND IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM.
REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he (FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER) exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen,(1-ASSYRIA,2-EGYPT,3-BABYLON,4-MEDO-PERSIA,5-GREECE) and one is,(IN POWER IN JOHNS AND JESUS DAY-6-ROME) and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.(7TH-REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE OR THE EUROPEAN UNION TODAY AND THE SHORT SPACE IS-THE EUROPEAN UNION WILL HAVE WORLD CONTROL FOR THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS.BUT WILL HAVE ITS MIGHTY WORLD POWER FOR THE FULL 7 YEARS OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.AND THE WORLD DICTATOR WILL BE THE BEAST FROM THE EU.AND THE VATICAN POPE WILL BE THE WHORE THAT RIDES THE EUROPEAN UNION TO POWER.AND THE 2 EUROPEAN UNION POWER FREAKS WILL CONTROL AND DECIEVE THE WHOLE EARTH INTO THEIR DESTRUCTION.IF YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.YOU WILL BE DECIEVED BY THESE TWO.THE WORLD POLITICIAN-THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR.AND THE FALSE PROPHET THAT DEFECTS CHRISTIANITY-THE FALSE VATICAN POPE.
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.(BOMB OR NUKE THE VATICAN)
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city,(VATICAN) which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
Pope rows back from 'rabbits' comments, praises large families-AFP-By Angus MacKinnon-JAN 21,15-YAHOONEWS
Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis on Wednesday described large families as a "gift from God", just days after he said Catholics did not need to "breed like rabbits".In an apparent row back from comments he made on his way back from the Philippines, the Argentinian pontiff argued that an unfair economic system is the primary cause of poverty, rather than overpopulation."The meetings with families and young people in Manila were stand-out moments during the visit to the Philippines," Francis told a crowd of around 7,000 gathered in St Peter's square for his weekly audience."Healthy families are essential to the life of society. It provides us with consolation and hope to see so many large families who welcome children as a gift from God," he said."These families know that each child is a blessing."Francis surprised reporters on the papal plane on Sunday by recounting an anecdote about how he had once asked a mother who had seven children by caesarian section and was pregnant with her eighth if she wanted to "leave behind seven young orphans"."She said, 'I trust in God.' But God gave us the means to be responsible," Francis said. "Some think -- and excuse the term -- that to be good Catholics, they must be like rabbits."Following the Church's teachings did not mean "Christians should have children one after the other", he added in comments that made headlines worldwide.Catholic teaching prohibits the use of artificial contraception but allows the use of the so-called rhythm method, where couples avoid unwanted pregnancy by planning sex on days during the woman's menstrual cycle on which she is less likely to conceive.
- Poverty link -
Francis's comments had particular resonance in the Philippines, where large families are seen by some as perpetuating and exacerbating poverty levels which act as a restraint on development.The Church claims more than 80 percent of the country's 100 million as its followers and it waged a 15-year battle to block a family planning law. The law was finally introduced last year, allowing the state to distribute free contraceptives.The Church's opposition to contraception was formalised by former pope Paul VI in 1968, as the birth control pill was beginning to be widely used in the developed world.On Sunday, the current pontiff described his predecessor as a "prophet" who had been rightly concerned about ideas advocating restrictions on the poor having children.At the same time, Francis appeared to approvingly cite population experts who say three children per family is an ideal number.Whatever his exact thinking on the subject, the emphasis was different on Wednesday."I hear some people saying that families with many children and the birth of many babies are among the causes of poverty," the pope said."That seems to me to be a simplistic opinion. I can say, we all can say, that the principal cause of poverty is an economic system that has removed man from its centre and replaced him with the God of money."
- A pithy Pope -
Francis's "rabbit" comments came shortly after he made waves by suggesting, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, that anyone who mocked someone else's faith could expect a violent response."If a good friend speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched," he said.The comment, which was widely criticised in liberal circles, reflected the 78-year-old's tendency to express his ideas on complex issues of theology and religious practise in pithy soundbites.These have included "a poor Church, for the poor," which he coined at the start of a papacy marked by efforts to reach out to the world's downtrodden while simultaneously slimming down and shaking up the Vatican's once spendthrift bureaucracy."Who am I to judge," encapsulated the more compassionate approach he wants the Church to adopt on homosexuality. Such comments have helped make Francis a global superstar and bring lapsed Catholics back to the Church in huge numbers but both the "rabbits" and Charlie Hebdo comments have shown his communications touch is not infallible.
01/19/2015 - VATICAN INSIDER-Francis: “I’ll tell you about a time they tried to bribe me”-Francis speaks to journalists on the papal flight-In his interview with journalists on the return flight from Manila Francis talked about an experience he had in Buenos Aires, when officials asked for a bribe in exchange for funds for the poor. He mentioned gender as an example of the “colonisation of peoples”, recalling dictatorships’ attempts at indoctrination. He announced forthcoming trips to Africa and Latin America and repeated the example of the punch. While talking about falling birth rates he also pointed out that being Catholic does not mean breeding “like rabbits”. He said he was touched by the gestures of the Filipinos. He recommended Benson’s “Lord of the World” as a book worth reading-ANDREA TORNIELLI
on the flight from Manila to Rome-Francis had tears in his eyes as he described the striking gestures of Filipinos during his visit. When asked what he meant by the phrase “ideological colonisation” of the family, he responded with a concrete example of a first hand experience he had in Argentina when the condition for receiving funding for schools was linked to the introduction of textbooks on the gender theory. In his interview with journalists on the return flight from Manila to Rome Francis returned to the issues of freedom of expression and provocation, reiterating that violence is unjustified but calling on people to exercise the human virtue of prudence. Speaking about corruption, he recalled an incident he experienced first hand. He announced that he would be visiting Latin America and Africa in the coming months. He talked about contraception and responsible parenthood denouncing the neo-Malthusian theory in favour of birth control. But regarding child birth he also said: “Some think that being a good Catholic means breeding like rabbits.” At the end of the press conference which lasted over an hour, Francis wished the dean of the Vatican press corps, Televisa’s Mexican journalist Valentina Alazraki, happy birthday. He presented her with a gift and offered her and all journalists on board a cake to celebrate.
What the Filipinos taught me
“I was moved by their gestures, they were not formal gestures that followed protocol, they were genuine gestures that came from the heart (the Pope said this with tears welling up in his eyes, Ed.). Faith, love, family, the future, in that gesture fathers made of lifting their children up so the Pope could bless them. They lifted their children up, a gesture you don’t see in other parts of the world. It was as if they were saying: this here is my treasure, this is my future, this is what makes working and suffering worth it. A unique gesture that came from the heart. The second thing that struck me a great deal was their genuine enthusiasm, their joy, their happiness, their ability to celebrate. Even in the rain… Mothers who brought their sick children… So many disabled children, disabilities you really notice, they didn’t hide their children, they brought them with them so they could be blessed: this is my child, it’s like this but it’s mine. All mothers do this but it was the way in which it was done that struck me… A maternal and paternal gesture. A people who know how to suffer and are able to get back on their feet and get on with life.”
Poverty in Manila and Colombo
“The poor are the victims of this culture of waste. Today people are cast aside, the caste system comes to mind… In my diocese, the diocese of Buenos Aires there was a new area called Portomadero and not far from there were the villas miserias. In the first part there were 36 luxury restaurants, in the other part there was hunger. Both were right next to each other. We apparently tend to get used to this… This is us and that is where the oucasts are. This is what poverty is and the Church needs to increasingly lead the way in rejecting all kinds of worldliness. For us, the consecrated, bishops, priests, nuns and lay people, worldliness is the gravest sin. It is an ugly thing to see a consecrated person, a person of the Church, a nun adopt a wordly attitude. This is not the way of Jesus, of Jesus’ Church. It is an NGO that calls itself a Church, it is something else. The Church is Christ who died and was resurrected for our salvation and the testimony of Christians who follow Christ. Sometimes we priests and lay people cause a scandal, the way of Jesus is difficult. It is true that the Church needs to strip itself bare. I didn’t think about state terrorism, what you said made me think that this kind of waste can also be seen as a form of state terrorism. There really are no caresses: it is like saying: ‘no, not you, get out…’. Here in Rome there was a homeless person who had stomach ache. When he went to the hospital, they gave him an aspirin. He went to a priest who took one look at him and was moved. ‘I’ll take you to the hospital’ he said, ‘but when I explain what you have you pretend you’re fainting’. This is what he did, like an artist, he pulled it off well… It was peritonitis. Had he gone alone he would have been sent away and left to die. That parish priest was clever and gave him the right help, his gesture was worlds away from being worldly. Can this be considered a form of terrorism? It can be…”
The ideological colonisation of the family
“I will only give the example of an experience I had. Twenty years ago, in 1995, a minister of public education asked for a big loan to build schools for the poor (in rural zones, Ed.). They granted the loan on one condition: that schools used a good textbook to teach children. A quality educational school text book on gender theory. This woman needed the money and this was the condition… She was smart; she agreed and she had another book prepared (the second text book taught a different theory and the two books were issued together, Ed.). This is what ideological colonisation is: ideologies enter a population when they have no relevance to that population or they enter groups within that population but they are not with the people and they colonise them with an idea that aims to change a certain mentality or system. During the Synod, African bishops complained that certain loans are only given under specific conditions. The needs of a population are seen as an opportunity to move in and take advantage of children. But this is nothing new. Last century dictatorships did just this, they went in with their doctrine: think of the Hitler Youth… People must not lose their freedom, all peoples have their cultures, their history. When ideas are imposed by colonising empires, the aim is to take away a peoples’ identity… All peoples need to protect their own identity and not succumb to ideological colonisation. There is a book that was written in London in 1903, called “Lord of the World”, by Benson: I recommend it to you. If you read it you’ll really understand what I’m talking about.”
Openness to life
Openness to life is a condition for the sacrament of marriage. Paul VI studied this, he looked at what could be done to help, so many cases, so many problems… important problems that affect family love. But there was something else. Paul VI’s rejection (he rejected contraception in the Humanae Vitae encyclical, Ed.) was not just in reference to individual cases: he told confessors to be understanding and merciful. He was looking at a universal neo-Malthusianism which was calling on world powers to control birth rates: births in Italy dropped to less than 1% and the same in Spain. This does not mean Christians must have one child after the other. I scolded a woman who was on her eighth pregnancy and had had seven cesarians. ‘Do you want your children to become orphans?’ You must not push it with God… What I wanted to say was that Paul VI was a prophet.”
More on contraception
“I believe that three children per family, from what the experts say, is the key number for sustaining the population. The key word here is responsible parenthood and each person works out how to exercise this with the help of their pastor… Sorry, some people think that in order to be good Catholics we have to breed like rabbits, right? Responsible parenthood: this is why there are marriage support groups in the Church with people who are experts on such issues; and there are pastors and I know that there are many acceptable solutions that have helped with this. And another thing: for poor people children are a treasure, prudence is needed here too, it is true. Responsible parenthood is important but also recognising the generosity of that father or mother who see their child as a treasure.”
Freedom of expression and reacting to insults
“In theory we can say that a violent reaction to an offence, to a provocation, is not acceptable, it is not good. We can do what the Gospel says, which is to turn the other cheek. In theory we can say that we understand what freedom of expression is. In theory we all agree. But we are human and there is prudence which is a virtue of human coexistence. I cannot provoke and insult a person continuously because I run the risk of making them angry, I risk receiving an unjust reaction. But it is human. What I am saying is, is that freedom of expression needs to take human nature into account and this means it must be prudent, which is another way of saying it must be polite. Prudence is the human virtue that regulates our relationships. A violent reaction is always bad. But let us hold our horses; because we are human, we risk provoking others. This is why freedom must go hand in hand with prudence.”
Upcoming visits to Africa, Latin America and the US
“Africa: the plan is to go to the Central African Republic and Uganda. I think i twill be toward the end of the year. This visit comes a bit late because of the Ebola problem. Holding big meetings is a big responsibility because of the risk of contagion. But this isn’t a problem in these two countries. US: the three cities are Philadelphia for the meeting of families, New York for the visit to the UN and Washington. I would like to go to California for the canonization of JunÃpero Serra but I think there is an issue with time, I would need two more days. I think I will do the canonisation in Washington, he is a figure of national importance. Entering the US from the Mexican border would be a great gesture of fraternity but going to Mexico without visiting Our Lady (of Guadalupe, Ed.), that is a tragedy… I think those are the only three US cities I will be visitng. The Latin American countries I am scheduled to visit this year are: Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay. Next year, God willing, I will go to Chile, Argentina and Uruguay.”
Political corruption
“Corruption is very common in today’s world and corrupt attitudes easily worm their way into the institutions because there are many roles within these, many bosses, many deputies… Corruption means taking away from the people. A corrupt person who does corrupt business or governs in a corrupt manner or gets together with others to do corrupt business, steals from the people. The victims are those who live in poverty… Corruption is not closed within itself: it goes out and kills. Now corruption is a global problem. In 2001 I asked the head of the president’s cabinet at the time the following question: ‘tell me, how much of the aid you send inside the country – both the containers, food aid and clothes - reaches its destination?’ The clean man immediately answered: ‘35%’. That was in 2001, in my country.”
Corruption in the Church: they tried to bribe me
“When I speak about the Church I like to speak about the baptised, the faithful and all of us are sinners. But when we speak about corruption, we speak about corrupt people or institutions of the Church that become corrupt. And cases like this do exist. I remember one time in 1994, I had just been appointed auxiliary bishop in the Flores district when two ministry officials came up to me. They said to me: “You are really in need with these poor people… if you want we can help by giving you 400 thousand pesos (400 thousand dollars at the time)… I listened carefully because when you’re offered such a large sum it’s enough to make even a saint think twice. Then they said to me: ‘To make this donation, we will pay a deposit and then you give us half of the money’. At that moment I thought: do I insult them and kick them where the sun don’t shine or do I act dumb? I acted dumb. I said to them: ‘you know… those of us who work in the vicariates don’t have access to the account, you have to pay a deposit to the archbishopric with a receipt.’They left. I thought to myself: if these two landed without asking for a runway (a Spanish expression which roughly translates as “came uninvited” Ed.) – this is a horrible thought – that’s because someone else said yes… Let us remember this: sinners, yes; but corrupt, never! We must ask for forgiveness for those Catholics, those Christians who cause a scandal because of their corruption. There are, however, many saints and saints who are sinners but not corrupt. Let us look at the holy Church.”
China and the audience the Dalai Lama was denied
“According to Secretariat of State protocol, heads of state or leaders of that level are not usually received when they are attending an international meeting in Rome. During the FAO meeting I did not receive anyone. It is not true that I did not receive the Dalai Lama because of fear of China. He requested an audience, we have ties but the reason was not a rejection of him as a person or fear of China. We are open and we want peace with everyone. What is the state of relations? The Chinese government is civil, we are also civil, we do things step by step. We don’t know yet. They know I am willing to receive them or to go there. They know it."
Powerful moments that marked the papal visit
“The most powerful moment was the mass in Tacloban: seeing all of God’s people there, praying after the catastrophe, thinking of my sins and of those people was an intense feeling. It was a very intense moment. I felt very humbled during the mass there. I almost lost my voice. I don’t know what happened to me, perhaps it was the emotion. The gestures were powerful too, the gratitude of the fathers who lifted their children up for a blessing, that was enough for them… And I thought about all the expectations I have; that I want this and I want that. About the massive presence of faithful: I felt humbled, it was the people of God, the Lord was there, God says to us: remember you serve these people eh… they are the protagonists.”
Women in the Church
“When I say it is important for women to have a more prominent role in the Church, it is not just to give them a role, secretary of a dicastery…no, it is so that they can tell us how they perceive and see reality, because women look at reality with a different, a greater richness.”
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
24 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2015-01-21 15:58:06 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)24 earthquakes in map area
5.7 74km SE of Madang, Papua New Guinea 2015-01-21 15:08:33 UTC-05:00 54.0 km
5.1 81km SE of Madang, Papua New Guinea 2015-01-21 14:52:57 UTC-05:00 69.6 km
2.5 50km SSE of Calexico, California 2015-01-21 14:01:05 UTC-05:00 29.6 km
4.3 109km SSE of Hirara, Japan 2015-01-21 13:05:12 UTC-05:00 34.9 km
4.6 61km S of Kushiro, Japan 2015-01-21 12:35:31 UTC-05:00 66.3 km
4.6 291km WSW of Saumlaki, Indonesia 2015-01-21 12:21:26 UTC-05:00 56.4 km
2.7 80km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2015-01-21 08:58:38 UTC-05:00 24.0 km
4.5 14km NNE of Bahcesaray, Turkey 2015-01-21 08:58:03 UTC-05:00 4.0 km
2.9 70km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2015-01-21 08:56:22 UTC-05:00 37.0 km
4.1 128km SE of Atka, Alaska 2015-01-21 05:51:15 UTC-05:00 43.2 km
3.0 97km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2015-01-21 05:31:49 UTC-05:00 15.0 km
2.6 6km WNW of Hawi, Hawaii 2015-01-21 03:34:15 UTC-05:00 39.1 km
5.3 104km E of Pagan, Northern Mariana Islands 2015-01-21 01:51:14 UTC-05:00 77.9 km
3.7 50km W of Rincon, Puerto Rico 2015-01-21 00:49:57 UTC-05:00 123.0 km
3.5 46km ENE of Noatak, Alaska 2015-01-21 00:25:36 UTC-05:00 13.7 km
5.2 9km WNW of Kalbay, Philippines 2015-01-21 00:20:28 UTC-05:00 82.7 km
4.0 50km SW of Jaguey Grande, Cuba 2015-01-20 23:07:15 UTC-05:00 16.5 km
4.5 Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge 2015-01-20 20:35:10 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
4.4 6km WNW of Dubovo, Kosovo 2015-01-20 20:30:07 UTC-05:00 7.5 km
4.5 119km N of Kendari, Indonesia 2015-01-20 19:02:55 UTC-05:00 45.6 km
3.7 57km NNE of Dillingham, Alaska 2015-01-20 17:09:56 UTC-05:00 215.3 km
4.4 9km WNW of La Romana, Dominican Republic 2015-01-20 16:52:07 UTC-05:00 86.1 km
3.5 67km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon 2015-01-20 16:42:33 UTC-05:00 10.4 km
3.0 71km ESE of Lakeview, Oregon 2015-01-20 16:21:12 UTC-05:00 10.7 km
