I WRITE NEWS ABOUT AND PUT NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM PERTAINING TO BIBLE PROPHESY HAPPENINGS.JOEL 3:20 But Judah (ISRAEL) shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.(THATS ISRAEL-JERUSALEM WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED AGAIN)-WE CHRISTIANS ARE ALL WAITING PATIENTLY FOR THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE TO OCCUR.SO WE CAN GO TO JESUS AND GET OUR NEVER DYING BODIES.SO WE CAN RULE OVER CITIES OURSELVES.WHILE JESUS RULES FROM DAVIDS THRONE FOREVER IN JERUSALEM.
KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
A 7.5 QUAKE HAS JUST OCCURED IN JAPAN.LOOK DOWN UNDER QUAKES TODAY.
POWER OUTAGE
REVELATION 16:10-11
10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
11 And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
Power outages sweep across Israel
Brief malfunction at power plant results in trapped elevator riders, traffic snarls; power restored shortly thereafter
The Ashkelon power plant in 2009. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
Blackouts rolled across the
country Friday morning after a production malfunction at an Israel
Electric Corporation power plant in Ashkelon.Power
losses were reported in approximately 10% of the homes in Israel,
Israel Radio reported. The electric company said the problem was fixed
and that full power was returned shortly thereafter.Outages were reported in Ashdod, Ashkelon, Beersheba, Rehovot, Netanya, Petah Tikva, Rosh Ha’ayin and Yehud.Firefighters were summoned to buildings across
the country to help people escape from trapped elevators. Knocked-out
traffic lights in Beersheba and Netanya caused massive backups across
the cities.The Electric Corporation reported that the
outages were the result of a production problem at the Rutenberg power
plant in the coastal city of Ashkelon.
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR 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)
New report says Iran can have nuclear bomb in a month
Study
by Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security
claims new and advanced centrifuges have reduced possible ‘breakout’
time frame
Iran can enrich enough
weapons-grade uranium for a single nuclear bomb in about a month,
according to an estimate by a nuclear non-proliferation think tank
released late Wednesday.The
report, by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International
Security, claims Iran has significantly shortened the time needed to
“break out” to a nuclear bomb with the installation of new centrifuges
in the Fordo and Natanz plants, and advanced IR-2 machines at Natanz.According to ISIS, which has tracked Iran’s
nuclear program for several years, Tehran could have enough uranium for a
nuclear bomb in 1–1.6 months by converting all of its 20-percent
enriched stockpile. Using only 3.5% enriched uranium, Iran could have
four nuclear bombs in about two months, the group estimates.Using new IR-2 centrifuges, which are
currently being installed in Natanz, the time could be shortened to just
a week or two, according to the study.
“The shortening breakout times have
implications for any negotiation with Iran. An essential finding is that
they are currently too short and shortening further, based on the
current trend of centrifuge deployments,” the report reads.The news comes amid intensifying talks between
Iran and six world powers over curbing Tehran’s nuclear program in
return for sanctions relief. A new round of talks is planned for early
November, when the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany will
reportedly discuss accepting a proposal to let Iran continue enrichment
to 20 percent, with safeguards in place.Israel has called for the international
community to continue sanctioning the regime in Tehran until it gives up
all enrichment, saying even a small amount would allow Iran to break
out to the bomb.Iran claims its nuclear program is peaceful.Senator Mark Kirk, who sits on a Banking Committee considering hiking sanctions on Iran, told USA Today the US needs to tighten penalties on Iran in light of the report.“The Senate should move forward immediately
with a new round of sanctions to prevent Iran from acquiring an
undetectable breakout capability,” he said.
The ISIS report cautions that times for
weaponizing the uranium could vary significantly depending on how far
along Iran is in building a delivery system for a bomb.“If Iran successfully produced enough
[weapons-grade uranium] for a nuclear weapon, the ensuing weaponization
process might not be detectable until Iran tested its nuclear device
underground or otherwise revealed its acquisition of nuclear weapons,”
it reads.The report calls for negotiators to push for
increased transparency; halting enrichment to 20% and shipping out or
degrading existing stocks; and a series of measures meant to lengthen
the potential breakout to six months or longer, enough time for the
International Atomic Energy Association to detect the move.
On Wednesday, an Iranian lawmaker said Iran
had no more need for 20% enriched uranium and had stopped upgrading to
that level. Hossein Naqvi Hosseini, who serves as a spokesman for the
Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee,
also said the country is prepared to relieve concerns over its stockpile
of enriched uranium.“Tehran is ready to convert its stockpile of
20% enriched uranium to fuel rods and remove concerns over its
non-peaceful use,” he was quoted as saying. He offered no other details
about what steps Iran would take.Iran is also in the midst of negotiations with
the IAEA over expanding access to nuclear watchdogs. Though talks over
the matter have failed to advance in two years, the UN agency on
Wednesday confirmed that Tehran would send Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas
Araghchi, its top nuclear negotiator, to an upcoming meeting.In October 2012 ISIS — which often advises
Congress and other branches of US government on Iran’s nuclear program —
estimated that Iran could make enough uranium for a bomb in two to four
months.The Associated Press contributed to this report.Follow Joshua Davidovich on Twitter
And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.
12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE
New settlement building on the way, official says
Unnamed senior source says Americans and Palestinians already aware of plans, to be announced soon
JERUSALEM — A senior Israeli
official said Thursday that his country will announce new plans for West
Bank settlement construction in the coming months, a day after Israel’s
leader held lengthy talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry.Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Rome for seven hours with Kerry to
discuss Iran’s nuclear program and also recently restarted peace talks.The Palestinians consider settlements a major
obstacle to establishing a state that includes the West Bank and East
Jerusalem, territories Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day
War. Israel has since built dozens of settlements that are now home to
about 550,000 Israelis. The Americans typically criticize any new
settlement construction plans, calling them unhelpful to peace efforts.But the Israeli official, speaking anonymously
because new building plans have yet to be announced publicly, said the
Americans and Palestinians were aware of the Israeli intentions that
were made clear before talks resumed.The official insisted that any new
construction would take place inside the major blocs Israel would
probably keep in any future peace deal. In previous rounds of
negotiations, the Palestinians agreed to swap some West Bank land for
Israeli territory to allow Israel to annex the largest settlement blocs
adjacent to its border.The Palestinians refused to negotiate with
Netanyahu for nearly five years, demanding that he halt construction of
Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. With Netanyahu
refusing to stop the construction, the Palestinians reluctantly returned
to the negotiating table under heavy American pressure, but remain
deeply skeptical about the Israeli leader.Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, rejected the Israeli official’s comments.“We don’t accept any settlement bids and
Israel should stop these acts to give negotiations the opportunity to
succeed,” he said Thursday. “For us, all settlements are illegal and
Israel should top putting obstacles in the way of peace and all its acts
in this regard are illegal and void.”
Satellite spots light show in the middle of the ocean
Those weird lights in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean — what are they? Are
they an unstoppable force of electric underwater creatures swimming,
slowly but steadily, toward the shore where they will flood our cities
and force us all to watch "Finding Nemo" from now until the end of time?
Fortunately, no (for now). The lights, which were spotted using Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi NPP satellite, are actually a large collection of fishermen.NASA explains, "There are no human settlements there, nor fires or gas wells. But there are an awful lot of fishing boats." Yep,
that's right, those lights that could easily be mistaken for a series
of heavily populated islands are actually powerful lights on boats. What exactly are the fishermen looking for? And why are they out blasting their high beams?
From NASA:
The night fishermen are hunting for Illex argentinus, a species of short-finned squid
that forms the second largest squid fishery on the planet. The squid
are found tens to hundreds of kilometers offshore from roughly Rio de
Janeiro to Tierra del Fuego (22 to 54 degrees South latitude). They live
80 to 600 meters (250 to 2,000 feet) below the surface, feeding on
shrimp, crabs, and fish. In turn, Illex are consumed by larger finfish, whales, seals, sea birds, penguins ... and humans.
Fishermen
use the powerful lights, "generating as much as 300 kilowatts of light
per boat," to draw the plankton and fish that the squid eat toward the
surface. The squid then follow the food. Alas, it's the last meal for
many.
Seattle
is known for it’s gray skies and rainy weather, but experts say the
dense fog and temperatures in the 40s or 50s that have blanketed the
city over the past several days is out of the ordinary.Cliff Mass, a University of Washington Meteorologist writes on his blog, “I have forecast here for many decades and I can not remember a situation that is even close.”The
cause, according to Mass, is an odd combination of long-lasting high
pressure, drought, and dense low clouds. In short, the high pressure on
either side of the city is trapping colder air in the middle, close to
the ground. The result? Fog, and lots of it.The current foggy streak is standing at seven days. According to Seattle’s KomoNews.com
that puts the current stretch in a seven-way tie for the fifth longest
run in the city. The No. 1 spot goes to a 13-day streak from December of
1985. But according to local reports the current weather pattern could
make a run at the record with the sun not in the forecast at least for
the next several days.Ironically the only thing that will wipe out the dreary conditions is a low pressure system; in other words a storm.Such
a system is on the way but is not guaranteed to hit the city. The
earliest it will get there, if at all, is sometime next week. Until then
Seattle will continue to see the same gray skies and dense low clouds.Those in and around Seattle are making the best of the extraordinary conditions and sharing on Twitter:For
those who just can't take it anymore the sun isn’t that far away, at
least geographically. Mass notes in his blog that while Seattle may be
under a gray blanket the sun is shining and the air is warm just an hour
outside the city.
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS
1 PET 5:8
8 Be sober,(NOT DRUGED UP OR ALCOHOLICED) be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
REVELATION 18:23
23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (DRUGS) were all nations deceived.
REVELATION 9:21
21 Neither repented they of their murders,(KILLING) nor of their sorceries (DRUG ADDICTS AND DRUG PUSHERS), nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE MARRIAGE OR PROSTITUTION FOR MONEY) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)
New China H7N9 bird flu cases 'signal potential winter epidemic'
By Kate Kelland
50 minutes ago-OCT 24,13-yahoonews
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - Fresh human cases
in eastern China of a deadly new strain of bird flu signal the potential
for "a new epidemic wave" of the disease in coming winter months,
scientists said on Thursday.
The strain, known as H7N9, emerged
for the first time in humans earlier this year and killed around 45 of
the some 135 people it infected before appearing to peter out in China
During the summer.But a new case in October in a 35-year-old man
from China's eastern Zhejiang province shows that the virus "has
re-emerged in winter 2013" and "indicates a possible risk of a larger
outbreak of H7N9 this winter," according to Chinese researchers writing
in the online journal Euro surveillance.Flu experts around the
world have been warning that despite the marked drop off in cases during
the summer months, the threat posed by H7N9 bird flu has not passed.
Ab Osterhaus, a leading virologist based at the Erasmus Medical Center
in the Netherlands who has been tracking the virus, told Reuters earlier
this month: "We're bracing for what's going to happen next."The
first scientific analysis of probable transmission of the new flu from
person to person, published in the British Medical Journal in August,
gave the strongest proof yet that it can jump between people and so
could potentially cause a human pandemic.And another study
published in August identified several other H7 flu viruses circulating
in birds that "may pose threats beyond the current outbreak".In a
detailed analysis of the 35-year-old man's case, scientists from the
Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention said it
differed from previous ones in that it was a severe case in a younger
patient "with no obvious underlying diseases and no obvious recent
direct contact with live poultry".Most laboratory-confirmed
cases in the past had been people over the age of 60, many of whom said
they'd had recent exposure to poultry, generally at live bird markets.
The case of the 35-year-old man, plus another H7N9 infection confirmed
just a day ago, suggest the virus "has apparently continued to circulate
in an animal reservoir during the summer", the researchers said.
The second October case is a 67-year-old man with no underlying disease whose work included transporting and selling poultry.The researchers said that based on China's experience in the spring,
when there were 30 cases in March and 88 in April, the best approach now
would be to maintain enhanced and expanded surveillance in human and
animal populations to make sure any new cases of H7N9 are picked up and
diagnosed swiftly."In particular, enhanced surveillance in
poultry would be helpful if it can identify the H7N9 virus and inform
early control measures before human infections occur," the Chinese
scientists said.
"Hygiene campaigns and closure of live poultry markets can reduce the risk of severe cases and deaths."
(Editing by Philip Barbara)
SIGNS IN THE SUN, MOON AND STARS-CHEMICAL WEAPONS
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences;(BIOLOGICAL/CHEMICAL/NUCLEAR) and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
NASA’s SDO Captures Image Of Mid-level Solar Flare
October 24, 2013
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Image Caption: NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory or SDO, captured
this image on the sun of an M9.4-class solar flare, which peaked at
8:30 pm EDT on Oct. 23, 2013. The image displays light in the wavelength
of 131 Angstroms, which is good for viewing the intense heat of a solar
flare and typically colored teal. Credit: NASA/SDO
NASA
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare
that peaked at 8:30 pm EDT on Oct. 23, 2013. Solar flares are powerful
bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through
Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however —
when intense enough — they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where
GPS and communications signals travel. Such radiation can disrupt radio
signals for as long as the flare is ongoing, anywhere from minutes to
hours.To see how this event may impact Earth, please visit NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center at http://spaceweather.gov, the U.S. government’s official source for space weather forecasts, alerts, watches and warnings.This flare is classified as an M9.4 flare, on a scale from M1 to
M9.9. This rating puts it at the very top of the scale for M class
flares, which are the weakest flares that can cause some space weather
effects near Earth. In the past, they have caused brief radio blackouts
at the poles. The next highest level is X-class, which denotes the most
intense flares.Increased numbers of flares are quite common at the moment, since the sun is near solar maximum. Humans have tracked solar cycles
continuously since they were discovered in 1843, and it is normal for
there to be many flares a day during the sun’s peak activity.—On The Net: NASA
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.
REVELATION 11:11-14
11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12 And they(ELIJSH-MOSES) heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither.(REV 4:1 WE KNOW IS THE RAPTURE FOR SURE) And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.(RAPTURED)
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
REVELATION 16:18-20
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city (JERUSALEM) was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
20 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-10-25 13:23:14 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)20 earthquakes in map area
7.5Off the east coast of Honshu, Japan 2013-10-25 13:10:21 UTC-04:0010.0 km
4.6172km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia 2013-10-25 09:30:25 UTC-04:00
4.536km NNW of Yonakuni, Japan 2013-10-25 07:50:05 UTC-04:0016.3 km
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
24 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-10-25 08:59:54 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)24 earthquakes in map area
4.536km NNW of Yonakuni, Japan 2013-10-25 07:50:05 UTC-04:0016.3 km
4.8266km NNE of Amsterdam Island, 2013-10-25 07:32:02 UTC-04:0015.1 km
3.161km ENE of Beatty, Nevada 2013-10-25 07:29:18 UTC-04:006.6 km
4.560km NW of Labuhankananga, Indonesia 2013-10-25 06:44:14 UTC-04:00292.5 km
4.211km N of Estebania, Dominican Republic 2013-10-25 06:34:56 UTC-04:009.5 km
3.087km NNW of Talkeetna, Alaska 2013-10-25 06:11:02 UTC-04:00100.0 km
4.519km NE of Orcopampa, Peru 2013-10-25 03:02:29 UTC-04:00109.9 km
2.639km NNW of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-10-25 02:14:03 UTC-04:0014.0 km
2.888km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-10-25 00:34:50 UTC-04:0054.0 km
4.565km N of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea 2013-10-24 23:49:44 UTC-04:0032.2 km
4.6116km NW of Anatahan, Northern Mariana Islands 2013-10-24 23:35:41 UTC-04:00km
4.7195km SW of Vaini, Tonga 2013-10-24 23:29:54 UTC-04:0076.1 km
5.081km S of Hihifo, Tonga 2013-10-24 23:21:19 UTC-04:0010.0 km
4.678km NE of Bunobogu, Indonesia 2013-10-24 19:59:19 UTC-04:0055.6 km
4.6Central Mid-Atlantic Ridge 2013-10-24 18:38:56 UTC-04:009.9 km
5.4197km SW of Vaini, Tonga 2013-10-24 16:32:41 UTC-04:00
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
30 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-10-24 18:11:00 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)30 earthquakes in map area
5.4197km SW of Vaini, Tonga 2013-10-24 16:32:41 UTC-04:0089.0 km
6.7East of the South Sandwich Islands 2013-10-24 15:25:12 UTC-04:0026.1 km
5.5295km N of Bamboo Flat, India 2013-10-24 13:57:39 UTC-04:0035.7 km
2.915km N of Anchor Point, Alaska 2013-10-24 13:18:23 UTC-04:0021.8 km
2.756km NNW of Cape Yakataga, Alaska 2013-10-24 13:03:14 UTC-04:003.1 km
2.712km E of Coalinga, California 2013-10-24 12:45:31 UTC-04:0010.9 km
4.3113km E of Copiapo, Chile 2013-10-24 12:08:12 UTC-04:00147.3 km
4.0West of Vancouver Island 2013-10-24 12:02:27 UTC-04:0015.8 km
5.085km W of Pizarro, Colombia 2013-10-24 10:44:34 UTC-04:0034.2 km
3.390km NE of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2013-10-24 07:29:04 UTC-04:0023.0 km
4.47km NNE of Azua de Compostela, Dominican Republic 2013-10-24 07:01:53 UTC-04:00
2.879km SE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 2013-10-24 06:48:17 UTC-04:0055.0 km
2.922km NNE of Arecibo, Puerto Rico 2013-10-24 06:28:08 UTC-04:0026.0 km
4.9263km E of Kuril'sk, Russia 2013-10-24 04:36:45 UTC-04:0052.9 km
4.74km SSW of La Paz, Philippines 2013-10-24 02:36:31 UTC-04:0035.2 km
3.085km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 2013-10-24 01:10:18 UTC-04:005.0 km
4.827km SSW of Jalapa, Mexico 2013-10-24 01:00:20 UTC-04:0043.3 km
3.70km WNW of Tobosi, Costa Rica 2013-10-24 00:10:32 UTC-04:0013.5 km
4.715km N of Mutsu, Japan 2013-10-24 00:04:19 UTC-04:00120.7 km
4.424km NW of Londres, Argentina 2013-10-23 22:19:43 UTC-04:00116.0 km
4.7117km WNW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands 2013-10-23 22:12:25 UTC-04:0027.5 km
5.032km SSE of Ozernovskiy, Russia 2013-10-23 21:37:37 UTC-04:00149.5 km
2.947km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2013-10-23 21:31:34 UTC-04:0064.0 km
2.52km NE of Auberry, California 2013-10-23 21:22:22 UTC-04:006.4 km
2.511km NNE of Coalinga, California 2013-10-23 21:00:46 UTC-04:0027.7 km
4.513km E of Yaguachi, Ecuador 2013-10-23 20:37:19 UTC-04:0096.3 km
5.676km NE of L'Esperance Rock, New Zealand 2013-10-23 20:25:45 UTC-04:0035.0 km
4.756km SW of Ocos, Guatemala 2013-10-23 19:26:42 UTC-04:0035.9 km
3.288km NW of San Antonio, Puerto Rico 2013-10-23 18:55:03 UTC-04:008.0 km
4.6Southern East Pacific Rise 2013-10-23 18:35:55 UTC-04:0010.0 km
KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR 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
IMIGRATION) 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)
ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12
And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the
people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume
away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED) and their eyes shall
consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED) and their tongue shall consume
away in their mouth.(DISOLVED)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS
ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to
pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among
them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour,
and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3
BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oSAPMYTuss
Sheldon Adelson calls on US to nuke Iranian desert
Washington
should then threaten to drop nuclear bomb on Tehran if it fails to
comply with Western demands, powerful casino magnate says
Sheldon
Adelson (right) and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach participate in a New York
panel about Israel and Iran, Tuesday, October 24, 2013 (photo credit:
courtesy)
NEW
YORK — American Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson said the United
States should detonate a nuclear bomb in the Iranian desert to display
toughness, though without hurting a soul, before the next stage of
negotiations with Tehran. It should then threaten that the next bomb
would fall on Tehran, he said.“What are we going to negotiate about?” Adelson told a crowd at New York’s Yeshiva University on Tuesday night.
As filmed by blogger Philip Weiss,
a fierce critic of Israeli policy, Adelson said, “What I would say is,
‘Listen. You see that desert out there, I want to show you something.’
…You pick up your cellphone and you call somewhere in Nebraska and you
say, ‘OK let it go.’ And so there’s an atomic weapon, goes over
ballistic missiles, the middle of the desert, that doesn’t hurt a soul.
Maybe a couple of rattlesnakes, and scorpions, or whatever. And then you
say, ‘See? The next one is in the middle of Tehran.’ So, we mean
business.”Adelson made his comments at a forum on “Iran,
Assimilation and the Threat to Israel and Jewish Survival” moderated by
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the flamboyant Orthodox leader, nicknamed
“America’s Rabbi,” who’s famous for promoting Judaism and Jewish values
through mainstream American media.
“You want to be wiped out?” the mogul
continued, directing his comments at the Iranians. “Go ahead and take a
tough position and continue with your nuclear development. You want to
be peaceful? Just reverse it all, and we will guarantee you that you can
have a nuclear power plant for electricity purposes, energy
purposes.”Over 400 professionals and students packed
Yeshiva University’s Lamport Auditorium to hear the panelists: Pulitzer
Prize-winner Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal, Adelson, and
Yeshiva University president Richard Joel.The panelists agreed Iran
should not be allowed nuclear weapons, with Stephens hitting the main
points eloquently.“Think about this: a regime that is capable of
taking a stone in one hand and stoning a woman to death, a regime that
hangs gay people from cranes in the streets of Tehran, should not under
any circumstances get anywhere near a nuclear bomb,” Stephens said.The
room erupted in applause — not for the first or last time.
US billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson (file photo credit: Flash90/File)
Like Adelson, a staunchly conservative
Republican, Stephens also denigrated liberals in the context of Iran. He
addressed himself to liberals who proclaim, “We need to find peace with
Iran,” even in the wake of the regime’s oppressive practices. “If you
call yourself a liberal under those circumstances, you need to reexamine
what your liberalism is all about,” he said.Stephens also professed
bafflement over the
world’s preoccupation with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and other
Iranian figurehead politicians, when, he said, the real problem was
still Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.“They don’t call you supreme leader if
you’re a semi-supreme leader,” Stephens quipped.Adelson also said
negotiations with Iran were unquestionably a demonstration of weakness
on the part of the United States.Adelson, a casino magnate worth $26.5
billion
according to Forbes, is a veteran political player in both Israeli and
US politics.A long-time supporter of Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, he also threw his considerable financial weight
behind Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign to become president and
reportedly said he was willing to spend up to $100 million to prevent
President Barack Obama’s reelection.Adelson is also the publisher of
Israel’s
widest-read newspaper, the free Israel Hayom daily, which critics say
takes a blatantly pro-Netanyahu line.When it came to Israel, Adelson, a
personal
friend of the prime minister, and Stephens deviated slightly. While
Adelson said Netanyahu “would not live without taking some kind of
action under the threat of harm to the Jewish people or the State of
Israel,” Stephens claimed he is “all hat and no cattle.”Negotiators
from Iran and six world powers, known as the P5+1, are due to meet in
Geneva for a round of talks on November 7-8, the second round of talks
in as many months.Western powers fear Iran’s nuclear program
could be used to build an atomic bomb. Iran says its program is peaceful
and its purpose is to advance medical research and power generation.Last week, Iranian diplomats met in Geneva
with negotiators from the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France
and Germany. Iran hopes to ease the crippling economic and oil sanctions
placed on its government over its contested nuclear program.Among key concessions being demanded by the
West, according to two diplomats who spoke with the Associated Press, is
that Iran stop enriching uranium to 20 percent. The diplomats say Iran
offered to halt 20% enrichment at last week’s Geneva talks. However, the
Iranian government hasn’t publicly commented on the issue.The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Adelson says Obama should fire ‘atomic weapon’ at Iran, not negotiate
Last night in New York, Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire supporter of
Israel, said that the U.S. should fire a nuclear weapon at Iran rather
than negotiate. He said that if Obama fires a weapon into the desert,
killing no one, and then threatens to send the next one to Tehran so
that Iran is “wiped out,” Iran will cease its nuclear program.What are we going to negotiate about? I would say
‘Listen, you see that desert out there, I want to show you something.’
…You pick up your cell phone and you call somewhere in Nebraska and you
say, ‘OK let it go.’ And so there’s an atomic weapon, goes over
ballistic missiles, the middle of the desert, that doesn’t hurt a soul.
Maybe a couple of rattlesnakes, and scorpions, or whatever. Then you
say, ‘See! The next one is in the middle of Tehran. So, we mean
business. You want to be wiped out? Go ahead and take a tough position
and continue with your nuclear development. You want to be peaceful?
Just reverse it all, and we will guarantee you that you can have a
nuclear power plant for electricity purposes, energy purposes.’
The recommendations were met with applause by a Yeshiva University audience.Adelson, an 80-year-old casino mogul and major supporter of Mitt
Romney and other Republican political candidates, made the comments in a
dialogue with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach during a conversation called “Will Jews Exist? Iran, Assimilation and the Threat to Israel and Jewish Survival.”My video above records the exchange. Adelson is in the foreground with his back to the camera. Boteach, a rightwing political figure
close to US ambassador Samantha Power and NJ Senator-elect Cory Booker,
is on his right. Neither Boteach nor the others on the panel– Wall
Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens and Yeshiva University president
Richard Joel — objected to Adelson’s idea.Adelson owns homes in the U.S. and Israel, where he is also a
newspaper publisher. The dialogue began when Boteach, who calls himself “America’s rabbi,” says that Adelson believes that Franklin Roosevelt could have prevented the Holocaust. Adelson says:“He could have prevented the Holocaust… Yes– if not
prevented the Holocaust, he could have at least significantly reduced
the severity of it.”Adelson said that Roosevelt could have convinced the British that it
was “more important to them and to their future” not to sign the White
Paper on Palestine in 1939 that limited Jewish immigration to Palestine.
FDR had “unlimited leverage” because he could promise the British that
the U.S. would enter World War II once the country ceased to be
isolationist.“He really had the leverage, he really had the upper hand,” Adelson said– something he realizes from being in business 68 years.“Given your strong feelings about what the U.S. did not do to prevent
the Holocaust,” Boteach asks, what are your feelings about “Obama
speaking to Iran right now” and having diplomatic relations with Iran,
given its threats against Israel? Not as a political person, the rabbi
says, but as a prominent American.
Adelson:
The worst negotiating tactic I could ever imagine, my entire life.
[Boteach: Why is that?]
Because you can’t get anything. He’s not saying to them, Roll back
your entire program and show that you’re willing to be peaceful. So,
roll it all back… and we’ll roll back the sanctions…. What is that, a
game of chicken, who’s going to blink first?
“It’s very simple, it’s the same thing with the Palestinians,”
Adelson continues. “Sixty-five years, they haven’t taken one millimeter
step toward the Israelis, to accommodate the needs of the Israelis but
more importantly, to show that they truly want peace.”
Adelson moves from Palestine to Iran:
If they truly want peace, it’s very simple to say to all
their henchmen, lay off the terrorism for five years. And they’ll come
to the Jews and say, for five or ten years there will be no terrorism,
there will be no violence or no incitement against– We’ll throw out the
books that teach the three-year-old children that Jews are descended
from swine and apes, and that we’re not going to teach anymore in the
curriculum to kill the Jews, that the Jews are very bad people.
So if you really want peace, it’s very simple to send a message to your opposition. Just be peaceful. Open up all the things.Or– ‘We’ll give you this if you give us something.’ I think it’s the worst negotiating ploy, tactic anybody can imagine.[Boteach: So you would support negotiations with Iran so long as they first cease all enrichment].No. What do you mean support negotiations? What are we going to
negotiate about? What I would say is, ‘Listen, you see that desert out
there, I want to show you something.’ You pick up your cell phone, even
at traveling rates. You pick up your cell phone, and– what are they
called– [Boteach: roaming charges] Roaming charges. You pick up your
cell phone and you call somewhere in Nebraska and you say, ‘OK let it
go.’ So there’s an atomic weapon, goes over ballistic missiles, the
middle of the desert, that doesn’t hurt a soul. Maybe a couple of
rattlesnakes, and scorpions, or whatever.
And then you say, ‘See! The next one is in the middle of Tehran. So,
we mean business. You want to be wiped out? Go ahead and take a tough
position and continue with your nuclear development. [Applause] You want
to be peaceful? Just reverse it all, and we will guarantee you that you
can have a nuclear power plant for electricity purposes, energy
purposes.’
A tremendous demonstration of American strength? Boteach asks.
The only thing they understand.
So you see the current negotiations as a demonstration of weakness?
US could accept Israeli strike on Iran soon, says former IDF intel chief
Amos
Yadlin predicts Washington will be more tolerant of an Israeli attack
late this year or early next if nuclear talks don’t yield results
Amos
Yadlin, former director of military intelligence, and current head of
the Institute of National Security Studies (photo credit: Gideon
Markowicz/Flash90)
In a probing interview with the
New Republic published on Wednesday, former IDF intelligence chief Amos
Yadlin made his assessment clear: the coming year would be the year of
decision for Israel on Iran. The next several months, he said, would
provide the last opportunity for Israel to confidently and effectively
strike the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, if that’s what it chooses
to do.Yadlin,
now the director of the Tel Aviv-based Institute of National Security
Studies, was careful not to advocate for an attack in the interview
entitled “Israel Doesn’t Need America on D-Day,”
and he made clear that Israel also has the option in the coming months
to decide to leave the Iranian issue to the Obama administration, or,
alternatively, Jerusalem could decide to live with a nuclear-capable
Iran.According to Yadlin, the timetable for an
American decision is different, as US capabilities leave the option of a
military strike available for longer. “For the US, because of their
capabilities, it is at least a year post-Israel and will depend on many
operational parameters that should not be public knowledge,” he told the
magazine’s Ben Birnbaum.He assessed, however, that US opposition to an
Israeli strike on Iran may lessen depending on the success of ongoing
negotiations between the West and the Iranian regime.“I think in late 2013 or early 2014,
especially if America sees that Iran is not serious about reaching an
acceptable agreement and only continues to buy time, the US will accept
an Israeli attack because a nuclear Iran is absolutely against American
vital national security interests,” Yadlin said.
The negotiations over the Islamic Republic’s
nuclear program, which resumed last week in Geneva and left P5+1
representatives upbeat about conditions for a possible deal, are a
win-win for Israel, the former military intelligence chief reasoned.If a deal is reached “which is reliable and
contains intrusive inspections and turns the nuclear clock backwards,
it’s better than the dangerous options of the ‘bomb or the bombing.’ And
if negotiations fail, then there will be legitimacy to take preventive
action to stop Iran,” he said.
Yadlin, who helped persuade then-defense
minister Ehud Barak and Netanyahu back in 2010 not to strike Iran, said
that the probability for a successful Israeli attack against Tehran’s
nuclear program would soon diminish. “It can be the last quarter of 2013
or the first, second or even third quarter of 2014. There is not a
certain deadline, but the probability of success will eventually
decrease to a level that may change the decision to launch the attack.”Both Israel and Iran were working on improving their respective options, Yadlin said.“Israel is acquiring capabilities as time
passes. It’s not only losing… But the Iranians are also gaining. They
are hardening their facilities and adding more centrifuges.”Nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1
are scheduled to fully resume on November 7. The sides are expected to
hold lower-level technical talks in the interim.
KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
Abbas: No to Israeli Presence in the Jordan Valley
PA Chairman: Israel will be to blame if peace talks fail over its demand to keep military forces in the Jordan Valley.-By Elad Benari-First Publish: 10/23/2013, 6:16 AM-Israelnationalnews
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas-AFP photo
In his latest attack of Israel, Palestinian
Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas warned on Tuesday that Israel would be
to blame if ongoing peace talks collapsed over its demand to keep
military forces in the Jordan Valley."We will not accept it, and if they (the
talks) collapse, they (Israelis) will be the reason for the collapse,
not us," Abbas was quoted by AFP as having told the Baltic News Service during a visit to Lithuania.
The Israeli daily newspaper Maariv reported last week that the renewed negotiations almost collapsed in September due to conflicting positions on future borders.Israel has long stated that it seeks to
retain a long-term military presence along the Jordan Valley in order to
ensure its continued security. The PA, on the other hand, flatly
objects to any Israeli military on land that could become the eastern
front of a future Palestinian state."They don't have the right to stay in our
territories after we signed a peace treaty," Abbas said Tuesday, while
stressing that he accepts a future demilitarized Palestinian state."We want, according to the Oslo Agreement, a
strong police force. This is exactly what we want, how we understand,
how they understand, how the Americans understand it," he added,
according to AFP.Over the years, PA security forces have proven they cannot be trusted and have been behind numerous murderous terror attacks, thus making the presence of Israeli security forces along the Jordan Valley a necessity.Just recently, the PA's Ambassador to Libya, Mutawakkil Taha, boasted that most terrorist attacks
during the early days of the Second Intifada, also known as the Oslo
War, were carried out by members of the PA's own security forces.
Abbas previously said that he would accept an
international presence like in the Sinai and in Lebanon as part of a
future Palestinian state - so long as “Palestine” is free of Jews, civilians or soldiers.In the interview Tuesday, Abbas also hailed
the European Union's demand on Monday that Israel stop building Jewish
communities in Judea and Samaria.The president of Lithuania, the rotating president of the European Union, on Monday called on Israel
"to end the expansion of settlements in the occupied territories.” She
then insisted that that "the European Union does not recognize
settlements as part of Israel."
Martin
Luther's translation of the Old Testament (German). Print, woodcut and
pigment on paper, leather binding, brass clasps. Wittenberg, Germany,
1525. (photo credit: Hanna Rhymes, Green Collection)
Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum
on Wednesday inaugurated a new traveling exhibition of rare Biblical
texts and artifacts spanning two millennia, from lands as disparate and
distant as Germany and Iraq, and written in at least a half a dozen
languages.The
exhibit, entitled “The Book of Books,” compiles over 200 texts with the
ambitious aim of presenting the history of the Judeo-Christian document
over the course of Western history through its textual heritage. Among
the documents on display are fragments
of the earliest Greek translation of the Bible — the Septuagint — early
New Testament scriptures, vibrant illuminated manuscripts, rare
fragments from the Cairo Geniza and pages from the Gutenberg Bible, the
first set to print.Curators said instead of sticking to
illegible, dusty, leather-bound tomes, they combined curious artifacts
and exotic documents — such as prayer amulets engraved on silver rolls,
1,500-year-old Iraqi incantation bowls and elaborately illustrated
prayer books — to animate the exhibit.Among the gems of the exhibition is the Green
Collection’s Codex Climaci Rescriptus, a 6th to 8th century CE
palimpsest whose Greek and Palestinian Aramaic Gospels were overwritten
with Syriac.The gallery also has a working reproduction of a Gutenberg-era printing press, replete with period-dress printer.The project was “unlike anything we’ve done
before,” said Bible Lands Museum Director Amanda Weiss at the gala
kickoff of the exhibition. “It’s a marriage of two cultures, two faiths”
which incorporates cutting edge technology to present ancient
manuscripts with “a courageous design concept.”
The varied assemblage of scrolls, codices,
papyri and parchment comes from several different sources — a vast
number of which are on loan from the Green Collection, the world’s
largest private collection of biblical texts and artifacts.Steve Green, president of Hobby Lobby and
benefactor of the collection, said that although the 40,000 biblical
antiquities are based far from Jerusalem in Oklahoma, “we hope this
exhibit will bring us together and unite us under a book we all love,
the scriptures.”“It is exciting to be right here in Jerusalem where many of these items come from,” he said.Green, an evangelical Christian, recently revealed he would house what he calls “the world’s oldest Jewish prayer book,” said to date from 840, which he purchased a year ago, in a museum being built to house the collection in Washington D.C.The 400,000 square foot museum, situated two
blocks from the US Capitol building in Washington DC, will also house
the exhibit on display in Jerusalem. It is set to open to the public in
2017.“We’ll be able to tell three different
stories,” Green said, “the history of the Bible, the impact of the
Bible, and the Bible’s story — what does the Bible say.”The Green family was accused of anti-Semitism last month after the Hobby Lobby chain of stores said it would not stock Hanukkah-themed products. The store later agreed to put Jewish holiday bric-a-brac on its shelves.For Green, the Book of Books exhibit is only
the tip of the iceberg. He said his foundation’s long term ambition is
not only the advancement of biblical education through the museum, but
“developing a curriculum that we are looking at going into public
schools in the US as well as places all across the world.”
The Green family’s Christian bent could
potentially have caused friction in Jerusalem, and Weiss said the four
years to conceive, assemble, and curate the project were not without
difficulties.“It’s not an easy thing for a museum in
Jerusalem to take on and exhibition that is a knowingly Christian
initiative and to do it in a way that is appropriate to our entire
audience,” she said, referring to the Green Collection and Scholars
Initiative. “And so we embarked on a journey of learning to understand
each other, to respect each other, and the important issues that had to
be handled in an appropriate way.”“There’s no
other museum dedicated to the history of the Bible, which is why this
exhibition in this museum and at this time is so wonderfully important,”
Weiss said.The exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum runs
through May 2014, at which point it travels to the Vatican and then
Seoul, South Korea.
KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS CHINA MILITARY PARADE(KING OF THE EAST) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqSmLOdRE4c RUSSIA ARMY PARADE(KING OF THE NORTH) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReGqS3TDYRM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWn3T5XIbNk&feature=related EGYPT ARMY PARADE(KING OF THE SOUTH) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt_KT4irRTM&feature=related EUROPEAN UNION MILITARY PARADE(KING OF THE WEST)(NOT THE USA) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3NEyheTDyo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzLjhsRrZYw&feature=fvw ISRAEL MILITARY-GUARENTEED BY EU TO SECURE THEM THE BIBLE SAYS(2 MAIN ENDTIME PLAYERS)(NEXT TO GOD HIMSELF FULFILLING THE PROPHECIES ON EARTH) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04TDlvIRIMY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhdalQdtzfY&feature=related http://euradcom.org/
DANIEL 7:23-25 23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS) 24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(TAKE OVER 3 WORLD REGIONS)
EU leaders should change tone when talking to rest of the world
22.10.13 @ 18:05-EUOBSERVER
By Mai’a Cross and Jan Melissen
BRUSSELS - European Commission
President José Manuel Barroso was right. Had the European Union instead
of the United States fallen into partial government shutdown, the world
would not have hesitated to use this as an opportunity to berate Europe
and its influence as a global leader.The trade in caricatures about the EU is a favourite past time. World
leaders stand ready to offer free advice to European governments and
institutions that they see as having no capacity to lead.Chinese pundits boast publicly that Beijing has a system of selecting
rather than electing capable leaders that is far superior to Western
democracy. Even the likes of President Cristina Kirchner from Argentina
have joined the ranks of those offering lessons in leadership.More than ever, the time is ripe for Europe to take its external
image more seriously. This can be done through a greater emphasis on
public diplomacy and a more positive leadership style in Europe.Damage to Europe’s reputation in other parts of the world goes beyond
critical images of European leaders with no capacity to lead, and
over-burdened bureaucracies suffering from in-group stereotypes.
Emerging powers are starting to challenge Europe in areas of its
traditional soft power, where the EU is still going strong.The ultramodern African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, funded and
built by China, gives a powerful diplomatic signal about a changing
world. Russia’s role in talking down the US over Syria is another
example. Europeans realize that Brazilians, Indonesians, Indians and
others often know too little about what the EU is all about, but they
erroneously think this is merely about a lack of information.They should worry more that ‘Europe’ is still largely lecturing
previous colonies rather than listening to them as rising powers with
their eyes set on the future.No week goes by without European think tanks debating the impact of
the ‘rise of the rest’, but this has not translated into an
understanding on the part of governments that there is an urgent job to
be done when it comes to Europe’s public diplomacy.While the world tries to make sense of Europe’s struggles during
times of crisis, 90 percent of the EU communication budget is still
being spent on outreach to the EU’s own 28 member states. There are good
reasons to ‘sell’ Europe at home, but are the overall priorities right? Worse than foreign misperception, though, is how Europeans judge themselves.
Self-defeating and myopic
There is a strong tendency for political leaders to be too critical
of what they are trying to achieve through European integration. They
publically create a prevailing image of self-doubt. People in other
parts of the world with different political systems are often perplexed
by such self-deprecation. They are not used to this kind of
self-defeating, myopic leadership style.When faced with a crisis – such as disagreement over Iraq in 2003,
the failure of the Constitutional Treaty in 2005, or more recently, the
Eurozone crisis – European leaders often project a lack of resilience
and self-confidence.Sometimes circumstances are exceptional. But European leaders need to
understand the importance of perception, especially during crises. If
this is not understood not only does the EU’s image suffer, but also the
reputation of its component parts. States, regions, and cities may see
their global business interests harmed.One irony of the EU’s early 21st century predicament is that the
international peace associated with integration - Europe’s greatest
source of soft power - is losing its previous appeal, even while
political leaders around the world discretely admire it.
The economic crisis has complicated matters by spawning a cultural
rivalry between leading EU members Germany, Britain, France. ‘Beggar thy
neighbour’ economic competition between the states of Europe is
undermining more enlightened practices of communication with foreign
publics in favour of more simplistic promotional practices meant to
target trade and investment.Rightly or wrongly, this even creates an impression that Europe lacks
progress when it comes to its communication with the rest of the world.
Not everything is bleak
Not everything is bleak. Europe can still pull itself together. With
its highly-active populations, assertive regions, diverse member states,
activist town halls, and attractive cities, Europe remains a mosaic of
collective projection capacity without equal in the world.Future public diplomacy should build on Europe’s evident strengths at
the sub-national level, closer to civil society. European policy-makers
must also wake up to the fact that maintaining the traditional
separation of domestic and external communication spheres is completely
out of touch with the reality of vast information flows that simply
ignore borders.Recurring criticism of EU foreign policy chief Lady Ashton has
compounded difficulties for Europe’s diplomatic service to fight
Europe’s negative image in the world. It is time to start trusting EU
diplomats to develop new public diplomacy traditions that are also in
the interests of states.The EU External Action Service could be instrumental in moving away
from the EU’s greatest shortcoming in public diplomacy: its tendency
towards talking at others. Beyond such one-way ‘infopolitik’, internal
image and external image are of course related.
When others start talking about Europe in a more positive light,
Europeans themselves may even start believing that there is some truth
to what they say.Mai’a Cross and Jan Melissen are senior research fellows at ARENA
Centre for European Studies in Oslo and the Netherlands Institute of
International Relations ‘Clingendael’ in The Hague. They co-authored the
Clingendael Policy Brief ‘Communicating Europe: At Home in the World’,
and they co-edited the forthcoming 'European Public Diplomacy: Soft
Power at Work' (Palgrave Macmillan).
Germany budging on banking union
Today @ 17:47-OCT 23,13-EUOBSERVER
By Valentina Pop
Berlin - After having opposed for
months a so-called resolution mechanism for failing eurozone banks,
Germany is budging on the issue and wants a deal by the end of the year.The European Commission proposal for an authority having the power to
tell banks to shut down or to draw money from shareholders, creditors
and ultimately taxpayers had been flatly rejected by the German
government earlier this year.
But at an EU summit on Thursday-Friday (24-25 October) in Brussels,
Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to have a "constructive" stance on the
matter and seek a deal among member states by the end of the year, a
senior German official said on the eve of the meeting.The German chancellery and the finance ministry are already "working
on solutions" on the most controversial points of the proposal, the
official said.Under a possible compromise, the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM)
would only extend over the 130 largest banks in the eurozone and
national parliaments would have to approve any use of public money in
helping out troubled banks - a constitutional requirement in Germany.Also key to German approval is a clear pecking order of shareholders
and creditors who have to step in when a bank is wound down."The commission has proposed a fund to be set up from the banks' own
contributions, but it will take 10-15 years until it will be available,
the official said.This means that in the next 3-5 years we will not have a sufficiently
funded pot. Instead, we will have again and again the question of using
public money. And the European Commission has not included an answer to
this question in its proposal."Limiting the SRM to the 130 largest banks would be the preferred
German option because it would create a "certain symmetry" to the single
banking supervisor being currently set up within the European Central
Bank (ECB), whose remit is also on these big banks only.On Wednesday, the ECB published its plan on how it will assess the
balance sheets of these banks - a precondition for it to take on the
supervisory role.Key to this exercise is for banks to have eight percent capital - a higher-than expected requirement.If capital shortfalls are identified, banks will be required to make
up for them, the ECB said. Draghi has said a "public backstop" must also
be available for this exercise.A provisional list of banks to be reviewed includes 24 German lenders
- including six of the Landesbanken that were bailed out in 2008.
French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Irish, Portuguese, Cypriot and Greek
banks are also on the list.Shares in eurozone banks fell by 2.5 percent on Wednesday, reflecting
investors' concerns that these tests will pressure banks to tighten
their lending. Spain's Bankia falling by five percent on the markets and
Germany's Commerzbank by three percent.The German financial supervisor Bafin said the country's banks were
"already intensively preparing for the comprehensive assessment."
EU to relaunch membership talks with Turkey
Today @ 09:21-OCT 23,13-EUOBSERVER
By Nikolaj Nielsen
BRUSSELS - The stalled EU membership
talks with Turkey are set for relaunch after member states agreed
accession negotiations would recommence on 5 November.“After more than a three-year break, negotiations are regaining
momentum, and I hope to see steady and speedy progress,” Linas Antanas
Linkevicius, Lithuania’s minister of foreign affairs, said Tuesday (22
October).Linkevicius said the three-year hiatus was due to a lack of agreement among member states.Talks were initially scheduled for June but were postponed following a
violent police crackdown on anti-government protests that kicked off in
Istanbul’s Gezi Park in summer before rapidly spreading to other
cities.Over 3,000 were arrested. Six people died, including one police officer, while thousands of others were injured, some severely.Turkey’s accession negotiations started in 2005, although its EU candidate status was granted back in 1999.Some 35 individual chapters covering different policy aspects must be finalised before full membership.So far, 13 have been opened, but progress has been slowed by member
state objections, largely due to Turkey’s frozen conflict with EU member
state Cyprus.Only one chapter, on science and research, has been provisionally closed.
The stand-off was further complicated when Turkey temporarily froze
relations with the Presidency of the Council of the EU in the second
half of 2012 because Cyprus took the presidency helm.The new thaw in relations means ministers in November will focus on a
chapter dealing with regional policy and structural instruments with
Turkey.A European Commission progress report, released last week, noted that Turkey has moved forward on regional policy.It noted that the government said it wants to step up democratic and political reforms.But major challenges remain when it comes to human rights.The report says outstanding issues remain over “gender equality,
including access to education and the labour market, political
representation, combatting violence against women and early and forced
marriages.”The EU earmarked over €900 million in funds for 2013 alone to help Turkey in its reforms.The two sides exchanged some €123 billion in bilateral trade in 2012.
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.
REVELATION 11:11-14 11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. 12 And they(ELIJSH-MOSES) heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither.(REV 4:1 WE KNOW IS THE RAPTURE FOR SURE) And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.(RAPTURED) 13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. 14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
REVELATION 16:18-20 18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. 19 And the great city (JERUSALEM) was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. 20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
Minor earthquakes strike near Eilat
After
series of northern temblors, two 3.3-magnitude tremors hit, but are
barely felt, near southern Israel’s Red Sea tourism city
A minor earthquake hit the Eilat port area Wednesday afternoon, causing no damage or casualties.Tremors were felt in the Egyptian border city of Taba, but weren’t felt as strongly in the neighboring Israeli city.
The earthquake, measuring 3.3 on the Richter
scale, was preceded by another similar-sized quake in the Red Sea,
according to Israel Radio.The quakes were the first to be felt in the
south of Israel, following a series of five minor quakes in six days —
the last of them on Tuesday — felt in the north.In the midst of that succession of minor earthquakes, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday convened a consultation with key ministers
to discuss national preparedness, and ordered a “refreshing” of
procedures for coping with a major quake. The IDF’s Home Front Command
then reissued instructions for dealing with a major temblor.“Don’t think of an earthquake as unbeatable —
experience accumulated throughout the world proves that appropriate
preparation and proper action in time of earthquake can save lives,”
read the Home Front Command guide. Though it is impossible to predict
when, “there is no question that an earthquake will hit Israel,” the
guide stated.Israel’s last major earthquake shook the
region in 1927 — a 6.2-magnitude quake that killed 500 and injured
another 700. An earthquake in 1837 left as many as 5,000 people dead.
Major earthquakes strike Israel once every 80 years or so, meaning the
country may be due for a serious natural disaster.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
24 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-10-23 17:03:20 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)24 earthquakes in map area
2.523km SE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-10-23 14:38:30 UTC-04:008.2 km
3.223km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-10-23 13:40:03 UTC-04:008.5 km
2.82km NE of Levittown, Puerto Rico 2013-10-23 13:39:49 UTC-04:0095.0 km
3.123km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-10-23 13:24:41 UTC-04:007.5 km
3.323km SSE of Mammoth Lakes, California 2013-10-23 13:19:32 UTC-04:007.7 km
5.0297km SW of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2013-10-23 12:32:38 UTC-04:00564.0 km
4.324km SSE of Fengcheng, China 2013-10-23 12:17:13 UTC-04:0015.0 km
4.55km SSE of Kardamas, Greece 2013-10-23 11:38:33 UTC-04:0045.0 km
4.4209km SSW of Sagres, Portugal 2013-10-23 09:57:27 UTC-04:0038.5 km
4.449km SE of Silifke, Turkey 2013-10-23 08:24:24 UTC-04:0010.0 km
4.4141km ESE of Iquique, Chile 2013-10-23 05:32:38 UTC-04:00100.0 km
5.5285km SW of Vaini, Tonga 2013-10-23 04:23:29 UTC-04:00155.4 km
3.960km S of Cantwell, Alaska 2013-10-23 03:38:21 UTC-04:0065.1 km
2.916km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico 2013-10-23 02:40:06 UTC-04:0077.0 km
2.771km N of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico 2013-10-23 02:15:50 UTC-04:0012.0 km
4.6137km NE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia 2013-10-23 00:19:34 UTC-04:00
3.18km WSW of Alberto Oviedo Mota, Mexico 2013-10-23 00:17:09 UTC-04:0015.0 km
2.56km NW of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico 2013-10-22 22:41:45 UTC-04:0058.0 km
3.0187km SE of Akutan, Alaska 2013-10-22 21:43:09 UTC-04:0046.7 km
3.045km NNW of Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands 2013-10-22 20:08:20 UTC-04:0028.0
2.914km NE of Willow, Alaska 2013-10-22 19:45:55 UTC-04:0018.1 km
3.833km WNW of Healy, Alaska 2013-10-22 18:47:14 UTC-04:00142.4 km
2.824km ENE of Soledad, California 2013-10-22 17:48:49 UTC-04:008.7 km
5.456km W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2013-10-22 17:15:51 UTC-04:0050.0 km
10/22/2013 VATICAN INSIDER
Müller rejects remarriage permitted in the Orthodox Church
Gerhard Ludwig Muller
The guardian of Catholic orthodoxy talks about an issue that will
be discussed at the next Synod, stating that "marriages nowadays are
probably invalid more often than they were previously"
andrea tornielliromeThe Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine
of the Faith, Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller, has written an article
on remarried divorcees and whether they should be allowed to take
communion. The lengthy and thoroughly researched article was published by Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. It is a summary of various documents and the Church’s stance regarding the issue, starting with the Bible.The article deals with one of the issues that will
be discussed at the extraordinary Synod on October 2014 and sends out
two key messages: The first is a confirmed intention to look more
closely at marriage annulment: Benedict XVI and Francis have said on
many occasions that a lack of faith can also make a marriage null.Regarding this, Müller said: “Today’s mentality is
largely opposed to the Christian understanding of marriage, with regard
to its indissolubility and its openness to children. Because many
Christians are influenced by this, marriages nowadays are probably
invalid more often than they were previously, because there is a lack of
desire for marriage in accordance with Catholic teaching, and there is
too little socialization within an environment of faith. Therefore
assessment of the validity of marriage is important and can help to
solve problems.”The second message the article sends out is to do
with the Eastern tradition of blessing second marriages after a period
of penitence. On the flight back from Rio, Francis said: "With reference
to the problem of Communion for people in a second marriage - because
the divorced can take Communion, that's not a problem - but when they're
in a second marriage, they can't. I believe that it's necessary to look
at it within the totality of the pastoral care of marriage. And that's
why it's a problem. But also - in parentheses - the Orthodox have a
different practice. They follow the theology of economy, as they call
it, and give a second chance, they allow it. But I think this problem -
close parentheses - must be studied within the framework of the pastoral
care of marriage … We are on the path towards a deeper pastoral care
for marriage.”Here Pope Francis only refers to the practices of
the Orthodox Church briefly in brackets, as Cardinal Roger Etchegaray
had spoken in detail about this during a Consistory.But Müller’s tone appears negative in the article published in L’Osservatore Romano: “In
the Orthodox Churches today, there are a great many grounds for
divorce, which are mostly justified in terms of oikonomia, or pastoral
leniency in difficult individual cases, and they open the path to a
second or third marriage marked by a penitential character. This
practice cannot be reconciled with God’s will, as expressed
unambiguously in Jesus’ sayings about the indissolubility of marriage.
But it represents an ecumenical problem that is not to be
underestimated.”“In the West, the Gregorian reform countered these
liberalizing tendencies and gave fresh impetus to the original
understanding of Scripture and the Fathers. The Catholic Church
defended the absolute indissolubility of marriage even at the cost of
great sacrifice and suffering. The schism of a “Church of England”
detached from the Successor of Peter came about not because of doctrinal
differences, but because the Pope, out of obedience to the sayings of
Jesus, could not accommodate the demands of King Henry VIII for the
dissolution of his marriage,” The Prefect of the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith went on to say.
10/22/2013 VATICAN INSIDER
Cardinal Dolan passes on the baton
Timothy Dolan
Between 11 and 14 November the US Catholic Bishops’ Conference will elect its next president from a list of ten candidates
Roberta LeoneRomeThe United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
(USCCB) has announced that its members will be voting for their new
president and vice president at their annual autumn General Assembly,
which will run from 11 to 14 November. The USCCB has published a list of
the ten candidates nominated by the bishops. Two of these ten
candidates will be elected president and vice president respectively,
replacing the Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan and the
Archbishop of Louisville, Joseph E. Kurtz.The candidates are: Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond
of New Orleans, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap., of Philadelphia,
Bishop Blase J. Cupich of Spokane, of Washington, Cardinal Daniel N.
DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles ,
Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, Archbishop William
E. Lori of Baltimore, Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr of Cincinnati,
Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit and Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski
of Miami.“USCCB by-laws provide that the election of
the president will take place first from among the list of 10
candidates,” the USCCB press release reads. “Following the election of
the president by a simple majority vote, the vice president is elected
from the remaining nine candidates” The president and vice president are
elected to three-year terms, which will begin at the conclusion of the
Assembly, when Cardinal Dolan and Mgr. Kurtz’s tenures will come to an
end.
“In either election, if a candidate does not
receive more than half of the votes cast on the first ballot, a second
vote is taken. If a third round of voting is necessary, that ballot is a
run-off between the top two vote getters from the second ballot,” the
USCCB press release explains.“At the meeting, the bishops will also vote for
the chairman of the USCCB Committee on Catholic Education, the
chairmen-elect of five other USCCB committees and new board members of
the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc. (CLINIC) and Catholic Relief
Services (CRS).”
Report: IAF Bombs Syrian Missiles
IAF warplanes attacked a shipment of advanced missiles from Syria to Hezbollah, says Kuwaiti newspaper
By Gil Ronen-First Publish: 10/23/2013, 11:20 AM-Israelnationalnews
IAF F-16-IAF Website
IAF warplanes attacked a shipment of advanced missiles that Syria was transferring to Hezbollah, according to Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jareeda. The attack took place on Monday.An official source in Jerusalem reportedly confirmed the attack took place but did not say where. The missiles were reportedly "long range and accurate" ones.In late July, IAF jets bombed trucks carrying Syrian missiles bound for Hezbollah's warehouses in Lebanon, according to Syrian opposition sources.The bombing reportedly targeted a Syrian military base near the town of Quneitra, not far from the Golan Heights cease-fire line.That was the fifth known Israeli attack this year on Syrian weapons
bound for Hezbollah. Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad reportedly wants
to send the weapons to Hezbollah for safekeeping, out of fears they will
fall into the hands of the rebels forces fighting him inside Syria,
whilst the Iranian-backed terrorist group seeks "game changing weapons" –
such as anti-aircraft missiles – in exchange for its costly intervention in the Syrian civil war on behalf of the Syrian regime.
