Friday, March 07, 2014

ABBAS STILL WILL NOT RECOGNIZE ISRAEL AS A JEWISH STATE

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)

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)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the Middle East countries.I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of Georgia - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor - full of blood. I saw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; Nuclear weapons used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from everywhere. Sudden destruction - men destroying one another.

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

Abbas: No recognition of Israel as Jewish state

Associated Press
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said there is "no way" he will recognize Israel as a Jewish state and accept a Palestinian capital in just a portion of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, rebuffing what Palestinians fear will be key elements of a U.S. peace proposal.Abbas' comments signaled that the gaps between him and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remain wide after seven months of mediation efforts by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.Abbas, whose remarks were published on Friday by the Palestinian news agency WAFA, said he withstood international pressure in the past, when he sought U.N. recognition of a state of Palestine over Washington's objections.Speaking to youth activists of his Fatah party, he suggested he would stand firm again, particularly over the demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state."They are pressing and saying, 'no peace without the Jewish state'," he said, though not spelling out who is applying the pressure. "There is no way. We will not accept."Netanyahu has said such recognition is required as proof that the Palestinians are serious about peace. Abbas has noted that the Palestine Liberation Organization recognized the state of Israel in 1993 and said this is sufficient.
Palestinians fear the demand is an Israel attempt to restrict possible return options of Palestinian refugees and the rights of Israel's large Arab minority.Kerry is expected to present his ideas for the contours of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal soon, but it appears increasingly unlikely he can get Abbas and Netanyahu to accept such a framework by an April 29 deadline.Abbas is meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House on March 17, as part of U.S. efforts to press both sides. Netanyahu met with Obama earlier this week.The current round of talks began in late July, but was plagued from the start by disagreement between Abbas and Netanyahu on the ground rules. The Palestinians want a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, lands Israel captured in 1967, and said talks about that state should use the 1967 lines as a starting point, a position backed by the U.S. but rejected by Netanyahu.In previous negotiations with Netanyahu's predecessors, the Palestinians have said that they are willing to accept minor land swaps to enable Israel to keep some of the dozens of Jewish settlements built on occupied land since 1967. Most of the international community deems those settlements illegal under international law.Netanyahu never presented a detailed border proposal, but said that Israel wants to keep east Jerusalem, maintain a long-term military presence in the West Bank's Jordan Valley and annex unspecified "settlement blocs."Netanyahu accelerated settlement construction during the talks, with housing starts in settlements more than doubling in 2013, compared to the year before.He also said the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state, a demand that appears to have U.S. support, based on recent speeches by Kerry and Obama.Abbas said in his speech late Thursday that he would not compromise on a demand for a Palestinian capital in east Jerusalem.Earlier Thursday, Abbas' aide Mohammed Ishtayeh said he believes the Kerry proposal will only refer to such a capital "in Jerusalem," raising fears the Palestinians will be asked to make do with a small part of the eastern sector.Abbas did not refer to the possibility of extending the talks.His aides have said he does not want to be blamed for a collapse of the Kerry mission or accept what the Palestinians would consider a bad framework. In such a situation, accepting an extension might be seen as the lesser evil by the Palestinians.Abbas reiterated that the Palestinians have options if the negotiations don't lead to a deal. He said he would resume their quest for wider U.N. recognition, a step Israel and the U.S. adamantly oppose and that was suspended for nine months of the negotiations. Abbas said the Palestinians could also continue to resist occupation with demonstrations.He said he does not want to negotiate for the sake of talking."I accept a valuable chance (for an agreement) if there really is a valuable chance, not just talk," he said.

Kerry makes unannounced stop in Jordan to talk peace

Top US diplomat to meet King Abdullah in Red Sea port of Aqaba as Israeli-Palestinian negotiations appear stalled

March 7, 2014, 1:49 pm 9-The Times of Israel
AQABA – US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Jordan on Friday for talks with King Abdullah II on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, a US spokeswoman travelling with him said.The short stop in the Red Sea port of Aqaba, where he was to meet the king, had not been previously announced.Kerry, who arrived from Rome from where he also brought back his Jordanian counterpart Nasser Judeh, will discuss the Middle East peace process with the monarch, spokesperson Marie Harf said.“We are arriving in Aqaba, Jordan, with Foreign Minister Judeh today to see King Abdullah to talk about the peace process,” Harf said.
Jordan is one of only two Arab states to have signed a peace treaty with Israel, and King Abdullah holds a special position because the 1994 accord recognizes his country’s “historic” role in caring for Muslim holy sites in east Jerusalem.Israel and the Palestinians remained deadlocked in ongoing peace talks that Kerry helped to launch last July.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday urged Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and to “abandon the fantasy” of flooding Israel with returning Palestinian refugees.His remarks sparked a furious reaction from the Palestinians, who denounced his demand.The spat threw a harsh spotlight on the divide between the two sides and the Herculean task faced by Kerry, who is trying to get them to agree on a framework for extending direct peace talks beyond an April 29 deadline.

Abbas aide: Extension of Mideast talks unlikely

Mohammed Ishtayeh warns ‘gap is growing’ in negotiations, says PA cannot recognize Israel as a Jewish state

March 6, 2014, 9:41 pm 10-The Times of Israel
RAMALLAH — Gaps between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators only have widened in seven months and an extension of talks appears unlikely after what is bound to be a missed April 29 deadline for a framework deal, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday.Abbas is meeting with US President Barack Obama on March 17 as the US tries to press both sides to agree on a framework, or the ground rules for future negotiations. Obama held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House earlier this week.The Abbas aide, Mohammed Ishtayeh, on Thursday laid out the Israeli and Palestinian negotiating positions and the expected US proposal for a framework deal.“What we have seen in the talks is that the gap is growing, rather than narrowing,” Ishtayeh told foreign diplomats and representatives of international organizations. Ishtayeh resigned as a negotiator in November to protest accelerated Israeli settlement building.For the Palestinians, the biggest obstacle is a new demand — introduced only in this round of negotiations — that they accept Israel as a Jewish state, Ishtayeh said. The PLO recognized the state of Israel when peace efforts began two decades ago and Abbas has argued this is sufficient.Abbas cannot “under any circumstances” recognize Israel as a Jewish state because this would restrict the return options of Palestinian refugees and potentially pave the way for a gradual expulsion of Israel’s large Arab minority, Ishtayeh said.Israel argues that such recognition would provide proof that the Palestinians are serious about peace.Israel’s land demands pose another serious obstacle, Ishtayeh said.
The Palestinians want a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, lands Israel captured in 1967, but are ready to accept minor modification to accommodate some of the dozens of settlements Israel has built on occupied lands.Israel wants to annex these so-called “settlement blocs,” but never has presented a detailed border proposal. The Palestinians have calculated that these blocs would translate into about 12 percent of the West Bank, Ishtayeh said. Israel also wants a long-term military presence in the Jordan Valley, which makes up 28 percent of the West Bank, he said.Israeli officials have declined to discuss the content of the negotiations.With US Secretary of State John Kerry apparently unable to bridge the gaps, there is some expectation that the US will seek an extension of the talks until the end of the year.Ishtayeh said he believes it would be pointless to do so because there is no common ground. “We don’t have terms of reference … which means we and the Israelis are reading from different books,” he said.An Abbas aide, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the issue with reporters, suggested the Palestinian leader might agree to an extension with the right enticements. Ideas such a settlement freeze and a release of additional Palestinian prisoners by Israel have been floated. Since late July, Israel has released 78 veteran prisoners in three groups and the fourth is to be freed at the end of March.However, a full settlement freeze is unlikely since Netanyahu rejected such a demand in the past. A partial freeze would be problematic for Abbas because it would imply he indirectly sanctions some settlement construction.

ISRAEL-PALES BUSINESS LEADERS URHE PEACE

Foreign Ministry Strike May Postpone Pope

Intensifying strike threatens to make British PM Cameron's visit next week 'impossible,' as well as pope's first visit in May.-By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 3/7/2014, 12:43 PM-Israelnationalnews

Pope Francis
Pope Francis-Reuters
An ongoing partial strike of the Foreign Ministry may make Pope Francis's first visit to Israel in May "impossible," according to Yigal Palmor, a spokesman of the ministry."Imminent planned visits by foreign leaders, including (British Prime Minister) David Cameron next week or the pope in May, will be complicated, and perhaps impossible," Palmor told AFP on Friday. The strike stepped up a notch on Tuesday, potentially shutting off the state to diplomatic visits.Palmor, speaking as an employee and not representing the ministry as spokesman, noted "the leaders could come as tourists, but diplomats will not take care of logistics, protocol or the political dimension of these visits."The pope announced his visit in January. In response to the strike the Vatican has clarified it has no plans to cancel the trip. Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi noted the strike "is likely to cause complications in preparing for the trip. There's nothing more to it."In February, Rabbi Sergio Bergman, a member of the Argentinian parliament and close friend of Pope Francis, reported that the pope intends to define himself as the "Che Guevera of the Palestinians" and support their "struggle and rights" during his visit, turning it into a propaganda tour.As for Cameron, a delay next week would add insult to injury given that the British prime minister already delayed his planned Israel visit in mid-February to deal with massive flooding in England.Cameron was scheduled to speak at the Knesset next Wednesday, in what would have been his first visit to the Jewish state since taking office in 2010.


ANGELS OF THE CONTINENTS TO DR DOCTORIAN-WHATS COMING ON THE EARTH

FIRST ANGEL TO DR DOCTORIAN
The first angel said: I have a message for all of Asia. When he said that, in a split few seconds, I could see all of China, India, the Asian countries like Vietnam, Laos - I've never been to those countries. I saw the Philippines, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. And then the angel showed me all of Papua New Guinea, Irian Jaya and down to Australia and New Zealand.I am the angel of Asia, he said. And in his hand I saw a tremendous trumpet that he is going to blow all over Asia. Whatever the angel said, it's going to happen with the trumpet of the Lord all over Asia. Millions are going to hear the mighty voice of the Lord. Then the angel said, There shall be disaster, starvation - many will die from hunger. Strong winds will be looked like has never happened before. A great part shall be shaken and destroyed. Earthquakes will take place all over Asia and the sea will cover the earth.I saw this on June 20. Today is August 16. A few weeks ago I heard the news of villages completely wiped out and washed into the sea in Papua New Guinea. Thousand of lives in great jeopardy. That happened a few weeks ago, and the angel told me it is going to happen all over Asia. The earth will fall into the sea, I heard the angel say, part of  Australia will be shaken. Australia will be divided, and a great part will go under the ocean. This was frightening - I wondered whether I was hearing right. But the angel said,Millions will die in China and in India. Nation will be against nation, brother against brother. Asians will fight each other. Nuclear weapons shall be used, killing millions. Twice I heard the words,  Catastrophic! Catastrophic! then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.I was trembling while the angel was speaking. Then he looked at me and smiled and said, There shall be the greatest spiritual awakening - bondage will be broken. Barriers will be removed. And all over Asia - China - India - people will turn to Christ. In Australia there shall be tremendous revival. I heard the angel of Asia say, It is the last harvest.Then as if the Lord were speaking, he said, I shall prepare My church for the return of Christ. I was happy with such good news after the message of judgment. All the time the five angels were in my room I could feel their presence - it was tremendous.

SECOND ANGEL TO DR DOCTORIAN
Then I saw that the second angel had a sickle in his hand, such as is used in harvesting. The second angel said, Harvest time has come in Israel and the countries all the way to Iran. I saw those countries in a few split seconds. All of Turkey and those [inaudible;] countries that have refused me and refused my message of love shall hate each other and kill one another. I saw the angel raise the sickle and come down on all the Middle East countries.I saw Iran, Persia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, all of Georgia - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, all of Asia Minor - full of blood. I saw blood all over these countries. And I saw fire; Nuclear weapons used in many of those countries. Smoke rising from everywhere. Sudden destruction - men destroying one another.I heard these words, Israel, Oh Israel, the great judgment has come.The angel said, The chosen, the church, the remnant, shall be purified. The Spirit of God shall prepare the children of God. I saw fires rising to heaven. The angel said, This is the final judgment. My church shall be purified, protected and ready for the final day. Men will die from thirst. Water shall be scarce all over the Middle East. Rivers shall dry up, and men will fight for water in those countries.The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.

THIRD ANGEL TO DR DOCTORIAN
Then one of the angels with wings showed me Europe from one end to the other - from the north all the way down to Spain and Portugal. In his hand he had a scale of measurement. I saw him fly over Europe, and I heard the words, I am grieved. I am grieved. Unrighteousness, uncleanness, ungodliness - all over Europe. The sin has risen to heaven. The Holy Spirit is grieved. I saw the rivers of Europe flooding and covering millions of houses. Millions drown. After seeing this, I read the news a few weeks ago. Czechoslovakia had the worst flooding ever. I also heard that the big river in China is in tremendous danger of thousands of houses being destroyed in flooding. I didn't know all this news until after I had seen the vision and heard what the angels told me.Suddenly I heard earthquakes all over Europe.  Countries that have had no earthquakes shall be shaken, said the angel. And suddenly, in my spirit, I saw the Eiffel Tower in Paris crumbling falling down. A great part of Germany destroyed. The great city of London - destruction everywhere. I saw floods all over Scandinavia. I looked to the south and saw Spain and Portugal passing through hunger and great destruction.Many will die from hunger all over Spain and Portugal. I was disturbed by all this news, and I said, Lord, what about your children? The angel said, I shall prepare them. They shall be looking for the appearing of the Lord. Many will cry to me in those days and I will save them. I shall perform mighty miracles for them and show them My power. So in the midst of great destruction, there will be the grace of God in those countries. I was happy that God has His protection over His children.

FOURTH ANGEL TO DR DOCTORIAN
Now we go to Africa. I saw the fourth angel with wings fly over Africa, and I could see from Capetown in the south all the way to the north of Cairo - I saw all the countries there, more than fifty of them. The angel of Africa had a sword in his hand - a tremendous, sharp sword. Suddenly I heard him say, Innocent blood has been shed. Divisions amongst the people generations far from the Lord - they have killed one another, thousands of people. I have seen my faithful children in Africa, and I shall reward all the faithful in the continent of Africa. I shall bless them abundantly. I shall control the weather - scorching and burning of the sun in some parts. Great rivers shall dry up, and millions will die from starvation. In other parts, flooding. Foundations shall be shaken. My sword shall judge the unrighteous and the bloodthirsty. So many earthquakes shall happen that rivers shall flow different directions in the continent, flooding many villages. I saw great pieces falling from the sky over different parts of Africa .There shall be trembling of the earth like has not been seen since the creation. None shall escape the sword of the Lord. I saw the River Nile drying up. It is the god of Egypt. Fishes dead and stinking all over Egypt. A great part of the middle of Africa will be covered with water - millions dying. Lord, I said, It is all bad news. All destruction. Any good news? The Lord said, The final day has come. Judgment day is here. My love has been refused now, and the end has come. I was shaking and trembling. I thought I cannot bear it.

FIFTH ANGEL TO DR DOCTORIAN
Then I saw the last angel flying over North and South America - all the way from the North Pole down to Argentina. From the east of the U.S.A. to California. I saw in his hand a bowl. The angel said he would pour out over these countries the judgments that were in the bowl. Then I heard the angel say, No justice anymore. No righteousness. No holiness. Idolatry. Materialism. Drunkenness. Bondage of sin. Shedding of innocent blood - millions of babies being killed before they are born. Families are broken. An adulterous generation. Sodom and Gomorrah is here. The days of Noah are here. False preachers. False prophets. Refusing of my love. Many of them have the imitation of religion, but denying the real power.When I heard all that, I begged the angel, Can you not wait for a little while? Don't pour it. Give a chance for repentance.The angel said, Many times God has spared and has spoken, but they have not listened. His patience has come to an end. Beware, the time has come. They have loved money and pleasure more than they have loved Me. As the angel began to pour from the bowl in his hand, I saw tremendous icebergs melting. When that happened I saw floods all over Canada and North America - all the rivers flood; destruction everywhere. I heard the world market collapsing with mighty earthquakes, and New York skyscrapers were tumbling - millions dying.I saw ships in the ocean sinking. I heard explosions all over the north country. I saw the angel pouring over Mexico and two oceans joining together- the Atlantic and the Pacific. A great part of north Brazil covered with water, the Amazon River turning into a great sea. Forests destroyed and flooded. Major cities in Brazil destroyed; earthquakes in many places. As the angel poured, great destruction took place in Chile and Argentina as never before. The whole world was shaking. Then I heard the angel say, This will happen in a very short time.I said, Can't you postpone? Don't pour these things out all over the globe. And suddenly I saw the five angels standing around the globe lifting up their hands and their wings towards heaven and saying, All glory to the Lord of heaven and earth. Now the time has come and He will glorify His Son. The earth shall be burned and destroyed. All things shall pass away. The new Heaven and New Earth shall come. God shall destroy the works of the devil forever. I shall show My power - how I will protect My children in the midst of all this destruction. 

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

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

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

Here comes El Nino; good news for US weather woes

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Relief may be on the way for a weather-weary United States with the predicted warming of the central Pacific Ocean brewing this year that will likely change weather worldwide. But it won't be for the better everywhere.The warming, called an El Nino, is expected to lead to fewer Atlantic hurricanes and more rain next winter for drought-stricken California and southern states, and even a milder winter for the nation's frigid northern tier next year, meteorologists say.While it could be good news to lessen the southwestern U.S. drought and shrink heating bills next winter in the far north, "worldwide it can be quite a different story," said North Carolina State University atmospheric sciences professor Ken Kunkel. "Some areas benefit. Some don't."Globally, it can mean an even hotter year coming up and billions of dollars in losses for food crops.The National Oceanic Atmospheric and Administration issued an official El Nino watch Thursday. An El Nino is a warming of the central Pacific once every few years, from a combination of wind and waves in the tropics. It shakes up climate around the world, changing rain and temperature patterns.
Mike Halpert, acting director of NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, says the El Nino warming should develop by this summer, but that there are no guarantees. Although early signs are appearing already a few hundred feet below the ocean surface, meteorologists say an El Nino started to brew in 2012 and then shut down suddenly and unexpectedly.The flip side of El Nino is called a La Nina, which has a general cooling effect. It has been much more frequent than El Ninos lately, with five La Ninas and two small-to-moderate El Ninos in the past nine years. The last big El Nino was 1997-1998. Neither has appeared since mid-2012. El Ninos are usually strongest from December to April.Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, who wasn't part of NOAA's forecast, agreed that an El Nino is brewing.
"This could be a substantial event and I think we're due," Trenberth said. "And I think it could have major consequences."Halpert said it is too early to say how strong this El Nino will be. The last four have been weak or moderate and those have fewer effects on weather.Scientific studies have tied El Ninos to farming and fishing problems and to upticks in insect-born disease, such as malaria. Commodity traders even track El Nino cycles. A study by Texas A&M University economics professor Bruce McCarl found the last big El Nino of 1997-1998 cost about $3 billion in agricultural damage.Trenberth said this El Nino may even push the globe out of a decade-long slowdown in temperature increase, "so suddenly global warming kicks into a whole new level."Kunkel said if this El Nino is a strong one, global temperatures, probably in 2015, could "be in near record breaking territory."Halpert, however, says El Ninos can be beneficial, and that the one being forecast is "a perfect case."After years of dryness and low reservoirs, an El Nino's wet weather would be welcome in places like California, Halpert said."If they get too much rain, I think they'd rather have that situation rather than another year of drought," Halpert said. "Sometimes you have to pick your poison."
Australia and South Africa should be dry while parts of South America become dry and parts become wet in an El Nino. Peru suffers the most, getting floods and poorer fishing.The climate event got the name El Nino, meaning the boy in Spanish, when it was first noticed off the coast of Peru and Ecuador around Christmas time and was named after Christ child, according to Trenberth.___Online:
NOAA's Climate Prediction Center El Nino page: http://1.usa.gov/1jSaUB3 __
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Scorcher summers predicted for Europe

AFP
Paris (AFP) - Europe is headed for scorching summers with temperatures well over 40 degrees Celsius (104 deg Fahrenheit) and droughts in the south within the next 40 years, climate scientists said Friday.Europe is expected to witness some of the most dramatic climatic changes due to global warming, according to research published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.As well as hotter summers, Europe's north should see considerably milder winters -- some 5 C to 8 C warmer in Scandinavia and Russia."Most of Europe will experience higher warming than the global average" of 2 C, said the team.UN negotiators are aiming to keep global warming at only 2 C above pre-Industrial Revolution surface temperatures, saying that it threatens rising sea levels, more droughts and floods, and an increasing spread of disease.If only "moderate actions" are taken to curb Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions, the 2 C warming will already have been reached by mid-century, the team said, and even sooner if current trends continue."Even the achievement of the 2 C goal will be accompanied by a significantly changed climate from today, and will necessitate adaptation," they wrote.A global increase of 2 C will mean particularly large increases in Europe, except for the UK which will have lower relative warming.In summer, daily maximum temperatures could be 3-4 C higher over southeast Europe and the Iberian Peninsula "and rise well above 40 C in regions that already experience some of the highest temperatures in Europe, such as Spain, Portugal and France," said the statement."Such higher temperatures will increase evaporation and drought", and increase heat stroke risk.
In winter, maximum daily temperatures could be 2-3 C higher in central and southern Europe, and 5-8 C in Scandinavia and Russia."The higher winter warming in Northern Europe will have a mix of positive as well as negative effects, including reduced winter heating" and a drop in cold-related deaths, said the study.It would negatively impact winter tourism and ecosystems.Rainfall may decline by up to 10 percent in southern Europe on average, and increase by the same margin in the north, said the study."Most of the continent will experience an increase in instances of extreme precipitation, increasing the flood risks which are already having significant economic consequences," such as in England at the moment.The team used climate models to simulate changes under a warming scenario of rapid economic growth and moderate greenhouse gas emissions.The average global temperature has already increased by 0.8 C on pre-industrial levels.According to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it could rise an added 2.6 to 4.8 C by the end of this century, on a high-emissions scenario.

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

25 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-03-07 08:42:29 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)25 earthquakes in map area
  1. 4.4 108km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia 2014-03-07 06:26:45 UTC-05:00 47.7 km
  2. 2.7 36km SW of Ferndale, California 2014-03-07 06:25:53 UTC-05:00 21.2 km
  3. 4.6 273km WNW of Saumlaki, Indonesia 2014-03-07 06:07:27 UTC-05:00 186.5 km
  4. 5.5 169km NE of Raoul Island, New Zealand 2014-03-07 05:04:52 UTC-05:00 18.1 km
  5. 4.3 92km NE of Tobelo, Indonesia 2014-03-07 03:45:09 UTC-05:00 236.5 km
  6. 4.8 86km WNW of Nagqu, China 2014-03-07 03:41:56 UTC-05:00 11.0 km
  7. 4.9 Carlsberg Ridge 2014-03-07 02:40:39 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
  8. 2.6 19km WSW of Delta, Mexico 2014-03-07 01:48:22 UTC-05:00 23.9 km
  9. 3.9 79km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2014-03-07 01:16:21 UTC-05:00 30.0 km
  10. 4.9 163km SSE of Sigave, Wallis and Futuna 2014-03-07 00:57:50 UTC-05:00 12.1 km
  11. 4.9 Izu Islands, Japan region 2014-03-07 00:28:04 UTC-05:00 21.3 km
  12. 5.1 123km SE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea 2014-03-07 00:17:27 UTC-05:00 19.0 km
  13. 2.6 13km NNW of Circle Hot Springs Station, Alaska 2014-03-07 00:07:33 UTC-05:00 6.9 km
  14. 2.7 108km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2014-03-06 23:54:07 UTC-05:00 34.0 km
  15. 2.7 113km NNE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2014-03-06 23:51:19 UTC-05:00 34.0 km
  16. 2.5 27km WNW of Anchorage, Alaska 2014-03-06 22:14:00 UTC-05:00 46.5 km
  17. 2.8 27km E of Pine Valley, California 2014-03-06 19:58:35 UTC-05:00 2.4 km
  18. 4.9 198km S of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands 2014-03-06 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
  19. 4.8 119km SE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea 2014-03-06 18:24:52 UTC-05:00 34.6 km
  20. 4.6 83km NE of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 2014-03-06 16:56:45 UTC-05:00 52.0 km
  21. 2.5 77km NW of Middleton Island, Alaska 2014-03-06 14:05:34 UTC-05:00 80.3 km
  22. 2.8 80km N of Isabela, Puerto Rico 2014-03-06 12:14:07 UTC-05:00 27.0 km
  23. 4.5 86km SSW of Avsallar, Turkey 2014-03-06 10:15:21 UTC-05:00 51.6 km
  24. 4.9 94km SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji 2014-03-06 09:31:46 UTC-05:00 575.1 km
  25. 3.9 67km S of Holy Cross, Alaska 2014-03-06 08:51:40 UTC-05:00 47.5 km

Thursday, March 06, 2014

EU LEADS DIPLOMACY ON UKRAINE-CRIMEA WANTS A REFERENDEM

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.

HERE ARE THE COUNTRIES TO WATCH THAT WILL BE OPPOSING THIS RUSSIA INVASION OF THE UKRAINE BY THE BIBLE.

EZEKIEL 38:10-13
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,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,(ISRAEL)
12 To take a 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.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND-EUROPEAN UNION) with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND, ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? (SEE THAT LITTLE WORD AT THE END OF SPOIL-THIS UKRAINE SITUATION IS BECAUSE OF RUSSIAS OIL CONTROL IN THE UKRAINE JUST AS IT WILL BE BECAUSE OF OIL THAT RUSSIAN AND HOARDS MARCH TO ISRAEL)(SO WE SEE OIL WILL BE A MAJOR EVENT IN THIS UKRAINE AND FUTURE ISRAEL ATTACKS)

COUNTRIES ON RUSSIAS SIDE WILL BE-CHINA-EAST COUNTRIES AND THESE

EZEKIEL 38:5-8
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.
NOTE-We can see why the Bible says Germany will side with Russia.Because most of the trading by Germany is with Russia.So Germany will be sucked in to support Russia in this Ukraine situation because of all the influence Russia has over Germany.

THE RUSSIA - UKRAINE SITUATION AT 07:00AM THU MAR 06,14

THE DIPLOMACY BATTLE WILL BE HOT AND HEAVY IN BRUSSELS-AT THE 28 MEMBERS MEETING.AT NATO HEADQUARTERS AND AT THE OSCE HEADQUARTERS.ITS THE EUROPEAN UNION THAT HAS EVERYTHING TO LOSE IN THIS SANCTIONS-DIPLOMACY BATTLE.WILL THE EUROPEAN UNION WANT TO SANCTION RUSSIA HARD AND TAKE THE CHANCE OF RUSSIA INSTANTLY CUTTING ALL THE GAS LINES TO THE UKRAINE WHICH WILL KILL THE 20% OR MORE OF THE GAS SUPPLY TO THE EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES.OR WILL THE EU SEND  TROOPS IN THE UKRAINE-BUT NOT UNDER THE NATO OR UNITED NATIONS BANNER.ONLY UNDER THE BANNER OF THE EUROPEAN UNION ARMY.BECAUSE THATS EXACTLY WHAT PUTIN IS DOING.PUTING GOT HIS ARMIES IN THE CRIMEA AREA UNDER THE GUISE OF RUSSIAN TROOPS JUST PEACE KEEPING TO HELP WATCH OVER THE RUSSIAN SUPPORTED CRIMEA.THAT IN FACT WANTS A REFERENDUM TO SEE IF A VOTE WILL PASS TO LET RUSSIA BE A HAND IN GLOVE WITH CRIMEA.

WELL IF ONE SINGLE NATION RUSSIA CAN PUT TROOPS IN CRIMEA UNDER THE GUISE OF PEACE KEEPING AND NOT AN INVASION.THEN WHY CAN THE EUROPEAN UNION NOT DO THE SAME BY PUTTING EUROPEAN UNION TROOPS IN KIEV TO PROTECT IT.SINCE KIEV IS A EUROPEAN UNION AND AMERICAN SUPPORTED CAPITAL.AND THE EUROPEAN UNION ARMY-NOT NATO OR UNITED NATIONS TROOPS.BUT A EUROPEAN UNION SINGLE ARMY CAN WATCH AND OCCUPY KIEV JUST LIKE RUSSIA IS DOING THE SAME IN CRIMEA.

THEN THE DIPLOMACY COULD BE UNDERTAKEN BY THE EUROPEAN UNION AND RUSSIA. AND LEAVE OBAMA AND AMERICA RIGHT OUT OF THE PICTURE.SINCE EVERY TIME THAT EMPTY SUIT OBAMA SPEAKS-RUSSIA LAUGHS AND SCOFFS AND SAYS TO ITSELF.THAT EMPTY SUIT OBAMA CAN JUST KEEP ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL TO PROMOTE HIS DEATH PANELS AND SKY ROCKETING HEALTHCARE COSTS AS A RESULT OF OBAMACARE.BECAUSE NO EMPTY SUITE WILL TRY TO THREATEN ME-PUTIN WITH SANCTIONS THAT KILL MY OIL AND GAS MONEY AND CAN GET AWAY WITH IT.SO WE SHALL SEE WHAT TODAY BRINGS.BUT FROM HERE ON IN -I PREDICT THE EUROPEAN UNION WILL START TAKING ITS ROLE AS THE WORLD DIPLOMATIC SOLVER-NOT AMERICA AND OBAMA.  


THE RUSSIA - UKRAINE SITUATION AT 10:00AM THU MAR 06,14

OBAMA HAS JUST SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER WITHOUT GOING THREW CONGRESS THAT WILL SANCTION RUSSIA FOR BEING IN THE UKRAINE.AND ALSO THE UKRAINIAN PRIME MINISTER MADE A STATEMENT FROM THE COUNCIL IN EUROPE.THAT RUSSIA MUST GET THEIR TROOPS OUT OF CRIMEA.CRIMEA IS NOT AN ELECTED GOVERNMENT IT HAS NO POWER SAY THE PM.THE CRIMEAN GOVERNMENT SAID IT WILL JOIN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.AND WE WILL HAVE A REFERENDUM TO FINALIZE THE RUSSIAN AGREEMENT THAT SAYS CRIMEA WILL BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.THE PM ALSO THANKED AMERICA FOR THE BILLION DOLLAR FUNNEL TO THEM AND THE 15 BILLION DALLAR FUNNEL FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION.BUT WE STILL NEED AT LEAST ANOTHER FUNNEL OF 19 BILLION DALLARS FROM THE IMF TO US TO SURVIVE OUR DEBTS.AS WE URGENTLY NEED TO STABALIZE THE SITUATION.(MY STANS COMMENTS HERE(WE THE UKRAINUANS ARE WILLING TO SIGN AWAY OUR COUNTRY TO THE IMF FOR THE 19 BILLION DOLLARS.AND THE IMF CAN HAVE UKRAINE AS COLLATERAL IF WE GO BANKRUPT-THANK YOU IMF-UKRAINE LOVES YOU).NOW BACK TO THE PM COMMENTS-WE UKRAINIANS WANT TO JOIN THE EU AND WILL DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO DO IT.
http://www.european-council.europa.eu/council-meetings?meeting=2ee114fa-d018-4273-a8ca-fa690f31f297&tab=News&lang=en

RUSSIA IS ALSO ACCUSED OF TRAPPING UKRAINIAN WARSHIPS.A REPORT SAYS THE EU WANTS TO START NEGOTIATING FOR UKRAINE EU MEMBERSHIP AFTER THE MAY 25,14 ELECTIONS.THE UKRAINE PM SAYS WE AND THE EU ARE NOW READY TO SIGN AN ASSOCIATE AGREEMENT.

THE RUSSIA - UKRAINE SITUATION AT 11:30AM THU MAR 06,14

I LIKE WHAT THE PM OF UKRAINE LEADER SAID ABOUT RUSSIA NUKES AND A REVAMP OF THE SECURITY SYSTEM.FIRST HE SAYS UKRAINE WILL USE MILITARY FORCE AGAINST RUSSIA IF RUSSIA COMES ANY WERE NEAR KIEV AS WITH THE UKRAINE CONSTITUTION.WE ARE READY TO PROTECT OUR COUNTRY.A REPORTER ASKED A QUESTION ABOUT RUSSIA AND UKRAINES MILITARY.THE PM SAID. THERES NO COMPARISON BETWEEN RUSSIAS AND OUR MILITARY.RUSSIA HAS NUKES.WE DON'T.THE PM SAYS WE DON'T HAVE THE BOMBS... BUT WE SURE HAVE THE SPIRIT.THIS IS THE SPIRIT OF UKRAINIAN REVOLUTION AND FREEDOM.I WONDER WHAT THATS SUPPOSE TO MEAN.WE HAVE THE SPIRIT.I GUESS IT MEANS UKRAINIANS WILL FIGHT TO THE DEATH FOR UKRAINE EVEN IF THE RUSSIANS USE NUKES ON THEM.THEN HE GOES ON TO SAY.371 MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT VOTED ME IN-I AM THE LEGIT PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE HE SAYS.SUPPORTED BY THE HOUSE AND THE CITIZENS.HE SAYS RUSSIA IS DANGEROUS-RUSSIA IS NOT A FRIENDLY COUNTRY.ANY RUSSIAN TANKS OR TROOPS ON OUR UKRAINIAN GROUND ARE UNACCEPTABLE.SO WHATS UP WITH THE GLOBAL SECURITY.ARE WE GOING CRAZY.THAT IN THE 21ST CENTURY WITH NO LEGAL GROUNDS-WITH NO REASON.ONE COUNTRY WITH A NUKE CAN INVADE ANOTHER.SO PROBABLY WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING WITH THE GLOBAL SECURITY SYSTEM.OVER HALL THE ENTIRE SYSTEM.THATS WHY WE ASK RUSSIA- WERE ARE THE LIMITS AND BOUNDERIES. THE PM SAID HE PHONED MEDVEDEV AND ASKED HIM- WHY ARE TWO FRIENDLY COUNTRIES AT WAR.WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT ECONOMICAL AGREEMENTS.NOT ABOUT STOPPING OUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBOUR FROM INVADING OUR COUNTRY WITH MILITARY FORCE.SO RUSSIA JUST STEP BACK AND STOP HE SAYS TO MEDVEDEV ON THE PHONE.YOU RUSSIANS WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS.WE WILL NOT DO ANYTHING TO JEOPORDIZE UKRAINE SAYS THE PM.AND WE WILL STICK TO OUR VALUES EVEN IF RUSSIA USES MILITARY FORCE ON US.HE SAYS WE MADE IT PERFECTLY CLEAR WE ARE READY TO TALK WITH RUSSIA ABOUT THE SITUATION. WE CONSIDER RUSSIAS TROOPS IN CRIMEA AS AN EXTENSIVE INVASION.BUT WE ARE HAVING PATIENCE WITH RUSSIA BEFORE WE ACT WITH OUR MILITARY.HE SAID THIS AFTER TALKING WITH THE PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND ITS COUNCIL. 


THE RUSSIA - UKRAINE SITUATION AT 01:00PM THU MAR 06,14
THE CRIMEA PARLIAMANT PASSED THE VOTE TO JOIN RUSSIA TODAY.AND THE VOTE 78-8  FOR THE REFERENDUM WILL BE MARCH 16,14 IN 10 DAYS.CANADA SAYS THERES NO WAY THAT WAS A LEGAL PASS.AND CANADA WILL NOT ACCEPT THAT REFERENDUM ON MARCH 16,14 AS LEGITIMATE.CANADA ADAMENTLY REJECTS THE CRIMEA PARLIAMANT VOTE.AND THE CRIMEA HAS ITS OWN ARMY.SO WILL THESE TROOPS BE RUSSIAN TROOPS OR WILL THEY FLEE TO KIEV AND BECOME THE KIEV PARLIAMANT TROOPS AFTER MARCH 16 REFERENDUM IS PASSED.AND JOINS RUSSIA.THIS TELLS ME THAT THE UKRAINE WILL BE SEPARATED IN 2 PARTS.THE KIEV PART.AND THE CRIMEA PART.RUSSIA WILL HAVE TROOPS SMOOTHERED THE CRIMEA PART AND IN THE REST OF UKRAINE-THE EUROPEAN UNION WILL SMOOTHER WITH ITS OWN TROOPS-NOT NATO OR UNITED NATIONS TROOPS.AT THE EUROPEAN UNION MEETINGS IN BRUSSELS TODAY THE EUROPEAN UNION WARNED OF CONSEQUENCES TO RUSSIA IF THEY DON'T WITHDRAW THEIR TROOPS FROM THE CRIMEA AND GET BACK TO RUSSIA WITH THEM WERE THEY BETTER STAY AND BELONG. 


THE RUSSIA - UKRAINE SITUATION AT 03:30PM THU MAR 06,14

IT SEEMS RUSSIA SANK ONE ITS OWN SHIPS IN THE CRIMEA TO STOP 7 OTHER KIEV SHIPS FROM MOVING FROM THE AREA.JOHN BAIRD OF CANADA IS ABOUT TO SPEAK ABOUT THE UKRAINE SITUATION.HE SAYS THE CRIMEA GOVERNMENT IS NOT LEGITIMIT.YOU CAN NOT HAVE A REFERENDUM IN 10 DAYS AND EXPECT IT TO BE REAL.HE SAYS THERE IS ANTISEMITES AND THUGS IN UKRAINE IN SOME AREAS.CANADA WILL SUPPORT THE KIEV PART OF UKRAINE BUT NOT THE FRAUDS FROM THE RUSSIA SUCKUP CRIMEA FAKE GOVERNMENT.CANADA WILL STICK UP FOR UKRAINE SOVEREIGNTY.CANADA SAYS THERE MIGHT JUST BE A G-7 IF THE RUSSIA INVADER OF SOVERIGN UKRAINE DOES NOT GET THEIR RED ARM BANNED TERRITORY STEALING MINI DICTATOR ARMY OUT OF CRIMEA AND ALL OF UKRAINE.PARAPHRASED IN MY WORDS.

 06 Mar. 2014-NATO RESPONSE 3:20PM
Secretary General assures Ukrainian Prime Minister that NATO stands by Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arsenii Yatseniuk on Thursday (6 March 2014) that “in these difficult moments, NATO stands by Ukraine. NATO stands by the right of every nation to decide its own future. NATO stands by Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and by the fundamental principles of international law”.The Secretary General and the Prime Minister discussed the grave developments in Ukraine and how NATO and Ukraine can strengthen their partnership. The Secretary General said the crisis in Ukraine “presents serious implications for the security and stability of the Euro-Atlantic area as a whole.” He added that the crisis is the gravest threat to European security since the end of the Cold War.Mr. Fogh Rasmussen stressed that the Alliance intends to step up its partnership cooperation through the NATO-Ukraine Commission to support democratic reforms.  This will include bolstering ties with Ukraine’s political and military leadership, strengthening efforts to build the capacity of the Ukrainian military and more joint training and exercises. NATO will also do more to include Ukraine in its multinational projects to develop capabilities. The NATO Secretary General commended the people of Ukraine for their determination and courage and for the restraint shown by the Ukraine armed forces, and reiterated that a political solution is the only way out of the crisis.“Above all, we call on Russia to honour its international commitments and halt the military escalation in Crimea. We call on Russia to withdraw its forces to their bases, and to refrain from any interference elsewhere in Ukraine. There should be no attempt to draw new lines on the map of Europe in the 21st century”, Mr. Fogh Rasmussen concluded. 

Extraordinary meeting of EU Heads of State or Government on Ukraine
06/03/2014-Brussels-Media accreditation

The President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy convened an extraordinary meeting of EU Heads of State or Government on Thursday 6 March 2014 to discuss the situation in Ukraine.The summit is expected to finish with a press conference around 15h. The EU Heads of State or Government will discuss the latest developments in Ukraine and how to facilitate the necessary de-escalation of the situation.

March 06, 2014, 07:54 am
Obama orders sanctions over Ukraine, citing threat to US-By Justin Sink


The White House on Thursday moved to impose economic sanctions and visa restrictions on those responsible for or supporting the Russian incursion into Ukraine.White House press secretary Jay Carney said the State Department was moving to put in place visa restrictions on “a number of officials and individuals” responsible for or complicit in actions that threatened the sovereignty of the former Soviet republic.President Obama has also signed an executive order authorizing sanctions against those who have threatened “the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine.”Under the executive order, the U.S. would freeze assets, block property under U.S. jurisdiction, and prevent American companies from doing business with any individual or entity identified by the administration.Carney called the order a “flexible tool” that would allow the U.S. to target those directly responsible for the incursion, but warned further sanctions were possible if the situation deteriorated.“We call on Russia to take the opportunity before it to resolve this crisis through direct and immediate dialogue with the Government of Ukraine, the immediate pull-back of Russia’s military forces to their bases, the restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, and support for the urgent deployment of international observers and human rights monitors who can assure that the rights of all Ukrainians are protected, including ethnic Russians, and who can support the Ukrainian government’s efforts to hold a free and fair election on May 25,” Carney said.The White House announcement follows a number of steps taken in the immediate aftermath of the Russian move into Crimea designed to ratchet up pressure on Moscow to withdraw. The Obama administration suspended bilateral discussions with Russia on trade and investment, put on hold joint military exercises, and suspended planning for a planned G8 meeting in Sochi.The move also builds on travel restrictions announced last month targeting members of the former Ukrainian government responsible for "undermining democratic institutions" within the country.In his executive order, Obama described the crisis in Ukraine as an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the national security of the United States.While the president’s move responds to domestic political pressure to stand up to Putin, its unclear what actual impact the targeted sanctions will have. Trade between the U.S. and Russia is relatively limited, and European leaders have been reluctant to follow suit. Russia is Europe’s third-largest trading partner, and countries like Germany and France are heavily dependent on Russian gas and oil."Whether (sanctions) will come into force depends also on how the diplomatic process progresses," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday, according to the Associated Press.

Obama’s move comes as lawmakers on Capitol Hill are working on sanctions legislation. Senate Foreign Relations panel Chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said his committee was developing language, and planned to meet with administration witnesses on Thursday.“We are also consulting with the administration on possible sanctions actions against individual Russians and Ukrainians that range from visa bans and asset freezes, to the suspension of military cooperation and sales, as well as economic sanctions,” he said.House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has also said that he’s asked his committee chairmen to work on legislation to “put pressure on Russia.” The House Foreign Relations Committee is slated to mark up a resolution urging sanctions on Thursday.The resolution “calls on the Administration to work with our European allies and other countries to impose visa, financial, trade, and other sanctions on senior Russian Federation officials, majority state-owned banks and commercial organizations, and other state agencies, as appropriate.” --This report was updated at 8:23 a.m.

05 Mar. 2014 by the NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the Press Conference held following the meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at NATO HQ, Brussels
Good evening.

The situation in Ukraine presents serious implications for the security and stability of the Euro-Atlantic area.And Russia continues to violate Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and its own international commitments.So NATO decided today to take a number of immediate steps.We have suspended the planning for our first NATO-Russia joint mission. The maritime escort for the U.S. ship Cape Ray, which will neutralise Syria’s chemical weapons. Let me stress, this will not affect the destruction of chemical weapons, but Russia will not be involved in the escort of the US vessel.We have also decided that no staff-level civilian or military meetings with Russia will take place for now.We have put the entire range of NATO-Russia cooperation under review. NATO Foreign Ministers will take decisions on this in early April.These steps send a clear message: Russia’s actions have consequences.At the same time, we do want to keep the door open for political dialogue. So we are ready to maintain meetings of ambassadors in the NATO-Russia Council, as we have done today.I have just chaired a frank and important meeting of the NATO-Russia Council to discuss the situation in Ukraine.The NATO-Russia Council is a forum for discussions on all issues. Where we agree, and where we disagree.As Chairman of the NATO-Russia Council, it is my duty to uphold the principles on which our relationship is founded.Those fundamental principles are now at stake. Our joint pledge to observe in good faith our obligations under international law. And our commitment to refrain from the threat or use of force against each other, or any other state.So I asked the Russian Ambassador to convey NATO’s firm message to Moscow.At the same time we have decided to intensify our partnership with Ukraine, and strengthen our cooperation to support democratic reforms.We will step up our engagement with the Ukrainian civilian and military leadership.We will strengthen our efforts to build the capacity of the Ukrainian military, including with more joint training and exercises.And we will do more to include Ukraine in our multinational projects to develop capabilities.This will complement the international efforts to support the people of Ukraine as they shape their future. And tomorrow, I will meet the Prime Minister of Ukraine to make clear NATO’s support.

And with that, I am ready to take your questions.

OANA LUNGESCU (NATO Spokesperson): Al Jazeera.-Q: This is Erin, from CNN. With the entire range of the cooperation now under review, what are the next steps? Do you believe diplomacy alone can resolve this crisis? ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN: I really do hope that diplomacy will pave the way for a long-term, sustainable political solution to this crisis in Crimea. But I also believe that steps as the one... as the steps we have taken today, as well as steps taken by other actors will facilitate diplomatic and political solutions. So I think some pressure on our Russian partners will pave the way for political and diplomatic solutions. That's what I hope.

OANA LUNGESCU: Al Jazeera.-Q: Simon McGregor-Wood with Al Jazeera. Secretary General, when you meet with the new Ukrainian prime minister tomorrow, would it be a good time to discuss the possibility of offering Ukraine NATO membership? ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN:It's for the Ukrainians to decide their future relationship with NATO. As you will recall, NATO made a decision back in 2008 at the NATO Summit in Bucharest that Ukraine and by the way also Georgia will become members of NATO, provided of course they so wish and provided they fulfilled the necessary criteria. This decision stands.But, in the meantime, Ukraine has decided to pursue a non-bloc... or non-alliance policy. We fully respect that. We have an excellent partnership with Ukraine within the NATO-Ukraine Commission. We're ready to continue and further develop that partnership. And it's for Ukraine to decide if they want to further develop that relationship.

OANA LUNGESCU: NPR.Q: Teri Shultz with NPR and CBS. These are relatively modest steps what you're doing today. Why did Allies decide not to go further in downgrading the relationship as was done when Russia invaded Georgia? Do you think this is going to be enough to really make Mr. Putin reconsider his moves in Crimea? Thanks.ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN: Actually, I think this sends a very clear message to Russia. And by balancing our steps in such a way that we, on the one hand, suspend daily practical cooperation; but on the other hand also keep a channel open for political dialogue we hope that we can contribute to finding a political and diplomatic solution.NATO is not the only actor here. You should see our steps in connection with steps taken and to be taken by other international organizations and individual nations. And I think all together this will send a very clear message to Russia that they must de-escalate tensions.

OANA LUNGESCU: ANSA.-Q: Marco Aldi (?), ANSA, do you think that economic sanctions can help to send that strong message that you want to send to Moscow; the economic sanctions that EU can take; USA can take; eventually reviewing the position of Russia in WTO? ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN: As NATO Secretary General, I'm not going to interfere with EU decisions or decisions by individual nations as regards economic sanctions.OANA LUNGESCU: Thank you very much, that's all we have time for. Thank you.

EU not expected to impose tough sanctions on Russia

Today @ 09:40-MAR 6,14-EUOBSERVER
By Andrew Rettman
BRUSSELS - EU countries are not expected to impose tough sanctions on Russia when leaders meet for an emergency summit in Brussels on Thursday (6 March).
  • EU diplomat: 'at least there is a freeze in the escalation' (Photo: Christiaan Triebert)
The event comes after EU foreign ministers said on Monday the Union will “consider … targeted measures,” such as visa bans and asset freezes on Russian officials, unless Moscow pulls back troops from Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.Nato on Wednesday did suspend co-operation with Russia.“We have suspended the planning for our first Nato-Russia joint mission. The maritime escort for the US ship Cape Ray, which will neutralise Syria’s chemical weapons … We have also decided that no staff-level civilian or military meetings with Russia will take place for now [and] we have put the entire range of Nato-Russia co-operation under review,” Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.Ukraine has also called on the EU to take firm steps.
“I call upon the strong, resolute and consolidated response of the European Union … against the atmosphere of impunity in which our strategic partner threatens the overall system of international law,” its EU ambassador, Kostiantyn Yelisieiev, wrote in a letter, seen by EUobserver, to EU states this week.For his part, US secretary of state John Kerry, told press that a meeting with his British, Ukrainian, and Russian counterparts in Paris on Wednesday was better than no talks at all, but did not lead to a breakthrough.
“This is hard, tough stuff and a very serious moment, but I’d rather be where we are today than where we were yesterday,” he said.He added that Germany, France, and the UK, remain “very serious” about the threat of punitive measures: “There’s been no movement away from the possibility.”But EU diplomats say Germany and Italy are opposed to taking strong action in order not to aggravate the situation, while France is giving credence to some positive statements by Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in Paris.“France some saw positive things in the Paris talks: Lavrov appeared to accept the idea of creating a contact group [on the crisis], even though it is not yet clear with whom or when. And while there is no de-escalation, at least there is a freeze in the escalation,” one EU contact said.“The situation is complicated. Some countries think sanctions are not the way to encourage talks. Even Poland is wary of freezing the visa-free dialogue,” the source added.Another EU diplomat noted that Sweden and Baltic states are among the most hawkish.
But Greece, a traditional Russian ally, has said openly it is opposed to taking action, which requires a consensus of all 28 EU members. “Sanctions are unfortunately always double-edged, with repercussions for those who suffer them, but also for those who impose them … We don’t want sanctions,” Greek foreign minister Evangelos Venizelos told press on Wednesday.The EU on Thursday morning imposed an asset freeze on 18 former Ukrainian regime members, however.The list includes: Ukraine’s former president Viktor Yanukovych and his two sons; the former PM and his son; the president’s former chief of staff and his brother; the former prosecutor general and his son; the former interior minister; and the former head of Ukraine’s intelligence service.The EU had previously promised to impose visa bans and asset freezes on people guilty of human rights abuses and violence.But Thursday’s list targets the so-called Yanukovych “familia” for "involvement in crimes in connection with the embezzlement of Ukrainian state funds and their illegal transfer outside Ukraine" - money thought to be worth several billions of euros, but also thought to have been sent to exotic jurisdictions by now.Meanwhile, the EU’s Ukraine diplomacy more broadly was put under a question mark on Wednesday by an interception of internal EU talks.An audio clip, purportedly obtained by former Ukrainian intelligence officers and posted on YouTube, shows Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet in a phone call to EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton giving credence to theories that someone in the EU-backed interim government ordered snipers to shoot people at the height of the crisis.
“What was disturbing is that the same snipers ... killed people on both sides. She showed me some photos. She said that as a medical doctor she could tell it was the same handwriting, the same type of bullets, and it's really disturbing that now the new coalition, they don't want to investigate what exactly happened,” Paet tells Ashton, referring to Olga Bohomolets, a senior medical officer at the protest camp.“There is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers it was not Yanukovych. It was somebody from the new coalition,” he adds.The Estonian foreign ministry has confirmed the authenticity of the recording, made on 25 February.But Bohomolets told the British daily, The Telegraph, that her views only expressed a hypothesis and should not be used to assert that members of Ukraine’s new government are guilty of the killings.
"I think you can only say something like this on the basis of fact … It's not correct and it's not good to do this. It should be based on fact,” she said.

Crimea 'votes' to join Russia as EU leaders meet

Today @ 12:55-MAR 6,14-EUOBSERVER
By Andrew Rettman BRUSSELS - MPs in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimea region said it should become part of Russia as EU leaders arrived for an emergency summit in Brussels on Thursday (6 March).The decree by the devolved parliament said the territory and its people should “enter into the Russian Federation with the rights of a subject of the Russian Federation.”Its first deputy prime minister, Rustam Temirgaliev, also told Russian media that a referendum on the move will take place in 10 days’ time, on 16 March, instead of at the end of the month.He said the two questions will be: “Are you in favour of Crimea becoming a constituent territory of the Russian Federation? … [and] Are you in favour of restoring Crimea’s 1992 constitution? [on semi-autonomy inside Ukraine].”The vote took place after pro-Russian gunmen occupied the Crimean assembly last week, while the Russian military seized control of tactical assets on the peninsula.The new authorities in Kiev and the EU ambassador in Ukraine immediately said the Crimea decree is not valid.
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt, who is currently touring Ukraine, added that the move ignores an ultimatum by EU foreign ministers on Monday by Russia to calm the situation or face EU sanctions. “Crimea vote today in occupied parliament obviously escalates the crisis. EU appeal on Monday for de-escalation steps wasn't heard,” he said on Twitter.For her part, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, warned that unless the EU reacts strongly, Russian leader Vladimir Putin will target other neighbours in future.
"Russia today is trying to rewrite the borders of Europe after World War II, that is what's going on … After Ukraine, it will be Moldova, and after Moldova it will be other countries,” she told press while arriving at the snap meeting in the EU capital.Noting that Russia has also held an unannounced military drill in its Western District, simulating an assault on the EU and Nato’s Baltic states and Poland, she added: "This is not only about Ukraine, it is also about the Baltic region.”Nato has reacted to developments by increasing its “air-police” activity in the Baltic zone and by freezing co-operation with Russia.But a number of EU leaders indicated the bloc will not impose what it calls “targeted measures” - visa bans and asset freezes on Kremlin officials - at this stage.Germany’s Angela Merkel said in Brussels on Thursday: "We will … talk about sanctions of different kind and form, whether they will enter into force or not we will decide based on how far diplomatic efforts proceed.”French President Francois Hollande said the EU must first and foremost lower tensions in Ukraine instead of tackling bigger questions on Russia’s behaviour: “What are we trying to do? We don't want to escalate yet again I don't know what tension. On the contrary, we want to open the door to dialogue.”Britain’s David Cameron, whose country is a signatory to a 1994 treaty guaranteeing Ukraine’s territorial integrity, said he wants the bloc to adopt lower-level sanctions for now, such as freezing EU-Russia talks on visa-free travel or on a new bilateral treaty, while keeping the harsher measures in reserve.“We’ve got to send a message to Russia that what’s happened is unacceptable and should have consequences and were further action to be taken, that would be even more unacceptable and should have even more consequences,” he said.His position was echoed by the Belgian, Dutch, Finnish, and Greek leaders.“It’s not because we consider possible sanctions that we must implement them immediately,” Belgium’s PM, Elio Di Rupo, said.The Netherland’s Mark Rutte noted: “My position is that we should do everything to give de-escalation a chance. If we come to a conclusion today or the next 24-48-72 hours that de-esclation is not an option then obviously sanctions are back on the table.”Finland’s Jyrki Katainen indicated: “In the first phase, we can use political and diplomatic sanctions, which the foreign ministers have already talked about [on Monday]. Let’s hope this is enough.”The Greek leader, Antonis Samaras, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, said the bloc should play “a moderating role”.

EUROPEAN LAW OBSERVERS
http://www.europeanlawinstitute.eu/membership/institutional-observers/
ORGANIZATION FOR SECURITY AND CO-OPERATION IN EUROPE
http://www.osce.org/
NATO
http://www.nato.int/
EUROPEAN UNION
http://europa.eu/index_en.htm
http://europa.eu/about-eu/institutions-bodies/index_en.htm
http://europa.eu/about-eu/basic-information/eu-presidents/index_en.htm
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
http://europa.eu/about-eu/institutions-bodies/european-commission/index_en.htm
EUROPEAN PARLIAMANT
http://europa.eu/about-eu/institutions-bodies/european-parliament/index_en.htm
http://europa.eu/about-eu/institutions-bodies/ecb/index_en.htm
http://europa.eu/about-eu/basic-information/eu-elections-2014/index_en.htm


OTHER RUSSIA-UKRAINE NEWS I DONE
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/03/putin-pulls-back-from-brink-of-world.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/03/russias-stock-market-fell-11-and-lost.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/03/watch-stock-markets-oil-today-from-this.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/03/russian-troops-surround-ukraines-army.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/03/russia-unanamously-approves-troops-in.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/02/russia-troops-copters-in-crimea-and-kiev.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/02/watch-for-afghanistan-to-have-next-arab.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2014/02/is-this-ukraine-situation-beggining-of.html  
 

ISRAEL-SHIPMENT OF WEAPONS CAME FROM IRAN

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.

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)

Centre-right leaders to pick top EU commission candidate

Today @ 09:27-MAR 6,14-EUOBSERVER
By Valentina Pop
Dublin - European centre right leaders are gathering in Dublin on Thursday and Friday (6-7 March) to select their top candidate for the post of European Commission President.With the Ukraine crisis taking over the EU agenda and an EU emergency summit on the issue taking place on Thursday in Brussels, the Dublin congress of the European People's Party (EPP) is only due to start later this evening (6 March).Ukrainian opposition leaders Yulia Tymoshenko and Vitali Klitschko, as well as the newly elected Prime Minister, Arsenyi Yatsenuk, are also expected to attend and speak at the EPP congress – a sign of support and recognition from Europe's largest political family.Turning to the EU elections on Friday, EPP leaders are set to pick the lead candidate for the EPP – a politician who will appear in televised debates with the top candidates of other political families and possibly have a chance to become the next EU commission president.According to the Lisbon Treaty that came into force in 2009, government leaders must "take into account" the result of the EU elections when deciding on the Commission President.This novelty was aimed at making the European Parliament election campaign more engaging and stop the continuously declining turnout trend.But German Chancellor Angela Merkel – seen as the most powerful leader in the EPP group – has already indicated she sees "no automaticity" between the election result and the person to succeed Jose Manuel Barroso at the helm of the EU commission.And the EPP is indeed the last political family to nominate its candidate.It has two candidates to choose from: ex-Eurogroup chief and former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker and internal market commissioner Michel Barnier. A third, the so-called Baltic candidate, former Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis, withdrew his candidacy on Wednesday evening. (5 March).Juncker, who will turn 60 this year, is tipped as frontrunner. He was the longest-serving Prime Minister in the EU until his resignation last year over failure to control the domestic intelligence service which allegedly was engaged in illegal wiretapping, corruption and stolen cars.The Luxembourg politician is from the same political generation as former Commission President Jacques Delors and former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, both key figures in the 1980s and 1990s. He has openly admitted that he favours "secret, dark debates" rather than too much transparency.As former Eurogroup chief and member of the EU council, Juncker was instrumental in the way eurozone leaders and finance ministers managed the euro-crisis – notably the bailouts of Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain and the accompanying austerity measures.
Another 'veteran' in EU politics is Barnier – a former MEP, commissioner for regional policy, French agriculture, foreign and Europe minister, and currently commissioner for internal market and financial services.Barnier, who is 63, would be a surprise winner because his country, France, has a Social-Democrat government and no prominent politicians to support him within the EPP.

Angela Merkel is the only woman leader in the centre-right EPP family (Photo: European People's Party)

Far-left surge to outnumber Liberals in EU elections, suggests poll

05.03.14 @ 18:19-EUOBSERVER
By Benjamin Fox
BRUSSELS - Europe's far-left are set to outnumber the Liberals in the next European Parliament, according to a pan-EU opinion poll published on Wednesday (5 March).In the second of a series of fortnightly forecasts in the three months before Europe's 400 million voters go to the ballot booths from 22-25 May, Pollwatch Europe forecasts that the Parliament's leftist GUE group would see its number of MEPs swell to 67 seats and become the third largest group in the assembly.For their part, the Liberals would be reduced to 61 seats, well down on the 85 seats they secured five years ago.The poll, which is based on national surveys from all 28 EU countries, is the latest indication that the Liberals will lose their status as the Parliament's 'kingmakers'.Studies of Parliament votes since 2009 have revealed that the centrist group has been on the winning side on 85 percent of votes, more than any other party group.Europe's establishment parties are widely expected to suffer their worst performance since direct elections were introduced for the Parliament in 1979, with the EPP also anticipated to suffer heavy losses.The EPP, Liberal and Socialist groups would account for 63 percent of the votes, according to the poll, down from 73 percent in 2009, as record numbers of voters back populist parties on the right and left following the eurozone crisis.Alexis Tsipras, who is the left's candidate for the presidency of the European Commission, and his Syriza party are on course to top the poll in Greece in May's elections, while strong performances are also likely for the Portuguese Left Bloc and the recently launched Italian Tsipras List.Meanwhile, the new poll also predicts that German neo-Nazi party, the National Democrats, will be among several minor parties to win seats in the European Parliament for the first time in May.In Karlsruhe last week, the German constitutional court scrapped the 3 percent threshold needed for parties to win parliamentary seats. The ruling is set to open the door to several other parties, including the anti-copyright Pirate party and Free Voters party, with Professor Simon Hix of the London School of Economics, and chairman of Pollwatch, estimating that around 270,000 total votes will be enough for a seat in Germany.The anti-euro Alternative for Germany(AfD) is also expected to benefit from the court ruling.The poll has the centre-right European People's party narrowing the gap on the rival Socialists to a near dead-heat, winning 209 and 202 of the Parliament's 751 seats respectively, on near identical vote shares of 28 percent and 27 percent respectively.The previous Pollwatch survey two weeks ago had put the Socialists 19 seats ahead.

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

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

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

Seized arms ship to dock in Eilat Saturday

IDF general says there is ‘clear and unequivocal’ evidence that shipment came from Iran

March 6, 2014, 1:16 pm 0-The Times of Israel
JERUSALEM — A ship allegedly carrying advanced rockets from Iran to Gaza that was intercepted by the Israeli navy will reach the port of Eilat on Saturday evening, the military said.“This ship, which was transporting dozens of M302-type rockets with a range of 150 to 200 kilometers (more than 100 miles) is currently north of Port Sudan and will arrive in Eilat on Saturday evening,” Brigadier General Motti Almoz told military radio Thursday.“The ship may be carrying other weapons as well but we can only know this when it reaches Eilat,” he said, referring to the resort city at the southernmost tip of Israel.“There is clear and unequivocal information that this (shipment) came from Iran,” he said, without giving further details.Major General Aviv Kochavi, head of military intelligence, was to give a news conference on the ship later Thursday. The military has said it was carrying rockets “capable of striking anywhere in Israel.”Israel intercepted the “Klos-C” in the Red Sea between Eritrea and Sudan on Wednesday, claiming that Syrian-made weapons aboard had been shipped overland to Iran then onward by sea, with the aim of reaching militants in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.Speaking in California, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the discovery revealed “the true face of Iran” in a rebuke aimed at world powers who are negotiating with Tehran over its nuclear program.Israel has long accused Iran and Syria of providing military aid to Hezbollah and to Palestinian terrorist groups.But an Iranian military official denied the allegations regarding Wednesday’s shipment, saying they were “totally without foundation,” according to a report by Iran’s Arabic-language Al-Alam television channel.The announcement about the ship was made just hours after Israel said its troops had fired at two Hezbollah fighters in Syria as they tried to plant a bomb close to the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights.On February 24, Israeli warplanes reportedly bombed a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon near the Syrian border, in what would be the first air strikes against the Shiite militant group in Lebanon since the 2006 war.Hezbollah blamed the air strikes on Israel and vowed to retaliate. 

The true face of the press

Toadies and parrots inhabit Hebrew papers Thursday, as giddiness over the capture of an Iranian arms shipment runs rampant

March 6, 2014, 1:48 pm 0-The Times of Israel
The capture of an Iranian arms shipment to Gaza in the Red Sea by Israeli commandos Wednesday holds the fascination of the Hebrew print press Thursday, which is in turns fawning and coolly detached.If you are into slobbering over Israel’s military might, look no further than Yedioth Ahronoth and Israel Hayom, which, along with the IDF, are giddy as schoolgirls over the capture of the ship, at least judging by their lead headlines. “Naval Commando raid in the high seas,” screams out the meaningless Yedioth Ahronoth headline, while Israel Hayom goes with the more subtle “Our forces at their best.”And as if that weren’t enough adulation, the paper’s front page is also adorned with a series of pictures of political and military leaders during the raid, strangely numbered in a seeming bid to give the (false) impression that the army didn’t step into action before getting a call from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in LA.Haaretz and Maariv, however, skip the toadying and hop straight to the real heart of the matter, Israel’s attempt to use the shipment to discredit Iran as part of an ongoing PR battle. (For a fun game, try counting how many times the phrase “true face of Iran” is used in the press. It’s like counting the stars in the sky.)Both papers lead with the fact that stopping the missiles was just icing on the cake compared to what the revelation will do to Iran’s reputation. Haaretz, in fact, skips the whole drama on the high seas in its headline, instead reporting that Israel will up its efforts to push the West on ramping up pressure on Tehran. The paper unhelpfully declines to include actual information backing that claim in its story though, instead just reporting that Israeli leaders hope the shipment will help in their battle against Iran in the high conference tables of Geneva, which is not the same thing.The paper’s Amos Harel parrots the IDF line, that stopping the missiles prevented a “game-changer,” and never mind the fact that Gaza already showed it can hit Tel Aviv last year.“The trickle of smuggled weapons from Iran and, more important, developments in local weapons manufacture, especially in the past year, have given Hamas and Islamic Jihad limited capability to hit greater Tel Aviv. Had the Klos-C reached its destination, that capability would have greatly increased. That would have forced Israel to rethink its deterrence strategy and to think twice before taking military action in the Gaza Strip,” he writes.In Maariv, Amir Rapaport notes that exposing Iran was important enough to risk the dangerous sea operation, instead of just hitting the shipment from the sky and doing away with the missiles that way.“The fact that the navy planned a complicated operation, 1,500 kilometers from home, that could have gone awry, that took months of planning, instead of a less dangerous airstrike, can be explained by the fact that in the current situation, it’s preferable to catch the weapons and discredit Iran over destroying the arms. Thus the military operation in Africa was part of a diplomatic effort against Iran, and the PR efforts will expand even before the ship reaches Eilat.”Just how dangerous was the naval adventure? Former Navy commander Eliezer Marom writes in Yedioth that there were many chances for things to go wrong.“The operation itself was planned for very far away – more than 1,000 kilometers from Israel – and demanded exact preparation and long and secret deployment of a large force to the contact point with the ship. The duration of the operation, its distance from Israel and the need to remain hidden and secret entailed many risks, which the forces overcame, and the operation proves the high level of operational capability among the fighters and commanders.”In Israel Hayom eternal optimist Yoav Limor notes that though the operation exposed, yes, the true face of Iran, the world will continue to refuse to see, yes, the true of face of Iran.“As of yesterday the threat was prevented. And still, the past shows us that Iran will learn lessons from this, and try to find new smuggling routes to fronts in the north and the south. And given the fact that the world refuses to get excited over the smoking gun that was caught yesterday, Israel will be expected to stand alone with this threat again in the future.”Speaking of other fronts, Yedioth marks International day of the Woman by reporting that the war for gender equality in the workplace is not going so well. The paper reports, based on new figures released by the state, that women make less money than men and get passed over for promotions despite being better educated.Activist Galia Willoch writes in the paper that the problem is both in the workplace and at home. “There’s no doubt that women, who enter the market in the masses yet continue to be the primary caregiver for their children, are more exposed to the daily work-parenting conflict. That is exactly the reason that what’s being done for mothers in the workplace is not enough. The time has come to address the division of labor in the home and in the family.”In Haaretz, Ari Shavit tackles Netanyahu’s appearance at AIPAC two days earlier, with the decidedly non-American writer opining that the Israeli leader is out of touch of the conversation happening in America:“When Netanyahu is getting high on the sweeping support of the American Jewish establishment, he is disconnected from reality. He has no idea where the new America stands, and he has no idea where young Jews stand. He doesn’t understand what’s happening at the universities where he himself studied. The first Israeli prime minister to speak perfect English speaks 1970s- and 1980s-era American.”

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.

In UN complaint, Syria says Israel fired on mosque, school

President Assad claims Israel is coordinating with opposition, planning to build fence along Golan border

March 6, 2014, 2:05 pm 0-The times of Israel
Damascus on Thursday filed a complaint with the United Nations Security Council over Israeli fire into Syrian territory a day earlier.In a letter to the president of the council and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Syria claimed Israel fired at a mosque and a school near the demilitarized zone separating the two countries, injuring seven soldiers and four civilians.According to Israel Radio, the Syrian Army warned the IDF against attempts to test its capabilities.Syrian President Bashar Assad on Thursday accused Israel of cooperating with Syrian rebel factions to tip the balance of power in the demilitarized zone.“The situation in Syria is under control. The danger is elsewhere,” Assad said in an interview. “It lies in the Israeli plan to set up [a fence] near or close to the occupied Golan Heights. They plan for this fence to be under the control of terrorists, in a similar set-up to the one in southern Lebanon by Israeli occupation.”According to Assad, rebel factions have struck Syrian forces on Israel’s instruction and have been coordinating with Israel in taking positions in the demilitarized zone along the Golan Heights border in order to remove Syrian army forces.“There’s nothing new in cooperation between the armed groups and Israel,” he said. “Not only in the mutual goals of the outcome of the war, but also in specific operations like fighting against sectors of the Syrian Arab army prepared to confront the Israelis, and also the attacks on air defense sites, occurred through Israeli instructions.”“Insurgents are flowing in unprecedented numbers from Jordanian territory to Hamma, a demilitarized zone, according to the separation of forces agreement between Syria and Israel,” he said. “An area where forces of Syria or Israel shouldn’t be. But the terrorists have been rounded up in that area for training by request of the occupation, and therefore they represent an extension of [the occupation].”
While Israel has not officially taken sides in the Syrian civil war, Assad’s accusations are not the first from the Syrian government that Israel is involved in the conflict.In a television interview with a Hezbollah-linked channel late Monday, Syrian presidential adviser Buthaina Shaaban claimed IDF officers were physically present in Syria to monitor the fighting and call in troops to assist the opposition.Shaaban also called on Jordan to control rebel traffic into Syria.There have also been a number of incidents where Israel has retaliated against fire from Syrian territory as well as several recent confrontations between Israel and Hezbollah in connection with the Lebanese terror organization’s relationship with Syria and role in the conflict.On Wednesday, IDF forces spotted and killed two terrorists who belonged to an organization affiliated with Hezbollah trying to plant explosives on the Israel-Syria border in the northern Golan Heights early Wednesday morning, according to the IDF Spokesperson’s office.Israel has been bracing for a possible Hezbollah attack since the Lebanese Shiite terror group said last Wednesday that it had been hit by Israeli planes near the Syrian border earlier in the week.Jerusalem has not confirmed involvement in the reported strike, though a high-ranking official told Time magazine that the Israel Defense Forces was behind the attack.Lebanese sources said that Hezbollah was responsible for firing two Katyusha rockets that struck the Golan Heights on Saturday. The rockets, which hit open areas in northern Israel overnight, were said to be retribution for the strike attributed to Israel near the Lebanon-Syria border last Monday.Last week, Israel put its own troops on the northern border with Lebanon on high alert, shortly after Hezbollah threatened retaliation.Hezbollah has acknowledged it was attacked by Israel and warned that it would strike back when and where it deemed appropriate.The organization’s chief, Hassan Nasrallah, warned key military personnel of the possibility of war with the Jewish state, a Lebanese journalist with close ties to Hezbollah said last week.The Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
 
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.

ISAIAH 30:26-27
26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold,(7X OR 7-DEGREES HOTTER) as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people,(ISRAEL) and healeth the stroke of their wound.
27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

REVELATION 16:7-9
7 And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
8 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

NASA plots daring flight to Jupiter's watery moon


Associated Press

FILE - This image released by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. on Nov. 12, 1996 …
WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA is plotting a daring robotic mission to Jupiter's watery moon Europa, a place where astronomers speculate there might be some form of life.The space agency set aside $15 million in its 2015 budget proposal to start planning some kind of mission to Europa. No details have been decided yet, but NASA chief financial officer Elizabeth Robinson said Tuesday that it would be launched in the mid-2020s.Robinson said the high radiation environment around Jupiter and distance from Earth would be a challenge. When NASA sent Galileo to Jupiter in 1989, it took the spacecraft six years to get to the fifth planet from the sun.Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute astronomer Laurie Leshin said it could be "a daring mission to an extremely compelling object in our solar system."Past NASA probes have flown by Europa, especially Galileo, but none have concentrated on the moon, one of dozens orbiting Jupiter. Astronomers have long lobbied for a mission to Europa, but proposals would have cost billions of dollars.Last year, scientists discovered liquid plumes of water shooting up through Europa's ice. Flying through those watery jets could make Europa cheaper to explore than just circling it or landing on the ice, said NASA Europa scientist Robert Pappalardo.NASA will look at many competing ideas for a Europa mission, so the agency doesn't know how big or how much it will cost, Robinson said. She said a major mission goal would be searching for life in the strange liquid water under the ice-covered surface.Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb said going to Europa would be more exciting than exploring dry Mars: "There might be fish under the ice."
___Online:NASA's Europa website: http://1.usa.gov/1lxcQCd___Seth Borenstein can be followed at http://twitter.com/borenbears

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: 2014-03-06 07:14:14 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)24 earthquakes in map area
  1. 5.1 84km N of Utan, Indonesia 2014-03-06 05:23:59 UTC-05:00 293.4 km
  2. 2.9 120km WSW of Old Crow, Canada 2014-03-06 05:20:22 UTC-05:00 0.7 km
  3. 5.4 23km SSW of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands 2014-03-06 00:42:37 5:00 208.9 km
  4. 5.3 31km S of Villa Alemana, Chile 2014-03-05 23:37:06 UTC-05:00 58.9 km
  5. 5.0 67km SSE of Buldir Island, Alaska 2014-03-05 22:24:20 UTC-05:00 48.3 km
  6. 2.8 15km WNW of Yorktown, Texas 2014-03-05 21:40:01 UTC-05:00 5.0 km
  7. 3.1 13km ENE of San Simeon, California 2014-03-05 19:55:55 UTC-05:00 9.8 km
  8. 4.3 52km SW of Tocopilla, Chile 2014-03-05 19:26:33 UTC-05:00 47.5 km
  9. 5.0 61km SSW of Bilungala, Indonesia 2014-03-05 19:23:19 UTC-05:00 135.4 km
  10. 5.5 175km WNW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 2014-03-05 17:27:07 UTC-05:00 33.0 km
  11. 2.6 22km NNE of Searles Valley, California 2014-03-05 16:58:02 UTC-05:00 5.2 km
  12. 2.9 22km NNE of Searles Valley, California 2014-03-05 16:29:58 UTC-05:00 7.3 km
  13. 4.7 13km ENE of Nicoya, Costa Rica 2014-03-05 16:15:53 UTC-05:00 34.3 km
  14. 2.8 31km S of Old Iliamna, Alaska 2014-03-05 15:56:21 UTC-05:00 14.7 km
  15. 2.6 68km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico 2014-03-05 13:32:10 UTC-05:00 24.0 km
  16. 5.2 34km NE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu 2014-03-05 12:34:20 UTC-05:00 114.2 km
  17. 2.7 7km N of Spencer, Oklahoma 2014-03-05 10:49:20 UTC-05:00 6.2 km
  18. 4.6 18km SW of Lixourion, Greece 2014-03-05 10:08:44 UTC-05:00 16.5 km
  19. 4.7 243km SW of Hachijo-jima, Japan 2014-03-05 10:02:45 UTC-05:00 383.3 km
  20. 4.3 6km WSW of China, Mexico 2014-03-05 09:40:35 UTC-05:00 36.6 km
  21. 3.9 9km E of Edmond, Oklahoma 2014-03-05 09:17:06 UTC-05:00 6.8 km
  22. 2.7 27km WSW of Ferron, Utah 2014-03-05 08:57:22 UTC-05:00 3.9 km
  23. 4.8 22km W of Lixourion, Greece 2014-03-05 07:49:21 UTC-05:00 10.1 km
  24. 2.8 53km NW of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico 2014-03-05 07:28:26 UTC-05:00 7.0 km 
FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN

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

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

03/ 5/2014 VATICAN INSIDER

Pope figures among candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize

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Faithful at the Pope's audience
(©Ansa) Faithful at the Pope's audience

Francis’ name appears in the list along with Putin and Snowden’s

vatican insider staff Rome Pope Francis has been nominated for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, along with such figures as Vladimir Putin. The Russian president appears in the long list of candidates despite his involvement in the Ukrainian crisis. The Nobel Institute's director, Geir Lundestad, announced the 278 names.

A part from the Pope and the Kremlin leader, other names on the list include ex-NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden and Malafa Yousafzai, the young Pakistani woman who was attacked by the Taleban for her efforts in support of education for women. 47 of the 278 candidates are organisations.Although the commission will not reveal the identity of the nominees yet, sponsors can choose to publish their names, as is the case with Putin, whose name is being put forward by Russian representatives for the role he played in preventing an armed attack against Damascus. They are also backing him for his efforts to ensure Bashar al-Assad’s chemical arsenal was placed under international control.

Pope very popular in United States, but no 'Francis effect': poll


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(Reuters) - One year after his election, Pope Francis is "immensely popular among American Catholics," a survey said on Thursday, but there is no sign of a "Francis effect" inspiring more to attend Mass or do volunteer work.The Washington-based Pew Research Center said 85 percent of Catholics in the United States viewed the Argentine-born pontiff favorably, with 51 percent reporting a "very favourable" view of him, while only 4 percent expressed a negative opinion.Among Catholics, 68 percent thought he represented "a major change for the better," a view shared by 51 percent of the non-Catholics responding to the poll in telephone interviews of 1,340 Americans from February 14 to 23.But the poll also found the rock-star status of the pope, whose simple style has attracted record crowds to the Vatican and won Time magazine's Man of the Year title for 2013, has not clearly translated into greater lay participation in the church since his surprise election on March 13, 2013."There has been no measurable rise in the percentage of Americans who identify as Catholic," the survey said. "Nor has there been a statistically significant change in how often Catholics say they go to Mass."Forty percent of Catholics said they were now praying more often and 26 percent were "more excited" about their faith, but their frequency of going to confession or volunteering at church has not changed.
RISING EXPECTATIONS
"If there has been a 'Francis effect', it has been most pronounced among Catholics who already were highly committed to the practice of their faith," the survey concluded.Francis's 85 percent favourable rating lags behind the 93 percent the late Pope John Paul scored in 1990 and 1996. Pope Emeritus Benedict's rating reached 83 percent in 2008, just after his only visit to the United States, but it was mostly in the 70s.
The survey said women were slight more favourable to Francis than men and Catholics aged 40 and older were more likely to have a very favourable view than younger believers who came of age under the more dogmatic popes John Paul and Benedict.Pope Francis's openness to reforming some Church doctrines seems to have raised U.S. Catholics' expectations of fundamental changes in coming decades, judging by responses to the poll.The biggest jump concerned allowing the now celibate clergy to marry. Some 51 percent thought priests would be able to marry by 2050, compared to 39 percent who thought that a year ago.Some 56 percent expect artificial birth control to be allowed by 2050, a slight rise from 53 percent last year, and 42 percent expected to see women priests, up from 37 percent."Regardless of their expectations about what the Church will do, large majorities of Catholics say the Church should allow Catholics to use birth control (77 percent), allow priests to get married (72 percent) and ordain women as priests (68 percent)," the survey wrote."Half of Catholics say the Church should recognise the marriages of gay and lesbian couples," it added.
SOME DISAPPOINTMENT
These responses were roughly in line with results reported in Germany and several other European countries last month to a Vatican survey on sexual morality being taken for a major synod of world bishops on family policy due in October.Most national bishops conferences have not published their results for the Vatican survey, but the few reports released in Europe indicated a wide gap between Church teaching on sex and the views that many Catholics actually hold.Some disappointment rang through in comments on how Francis is doing his job. In his lowest rating, only 54 percent said he was addressing the clerical sexual abuse scandal well.U.S. Catholics rated the abuse scandal the most important issue for the new pope in a Pew survey in March 2013.By contrast, 81 percent thought he was spreading the faith well and standing up for traditional moral values. Some 76 percent credited him with addressing the needs of the poor.The survey said 22 percent of Americans identify as Catholics and 40 percent of them reported they attended Mass weekly or more often. Another 42 percent of self-identified Catholics went to church only occasionally and 18 percent never.(Reporting by Tom Heneghan; Editing by Grant McCool)

03/ 5/2014 VATICAN INSIDER

Francis: the Pope is “a normal person”, not Superman

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(©Ansa) Pope Francis

In an interview with Italy’s Corriere della Sera, Pope Francis says he is a normal person, not superman, and speaks about the family, child abuse, foreign trips, relations with the Orthodox, China, and how he governs the Church

Gerard O’Connell Rome  
“The Pope is a man who laughs, cries, sleeps peacefully, and has friends like everyone else. A normal person”, Francis said in an interview with the chief-editor of Italy’s leading daily, Corriere della Sera, Ferruccio de Bortoli, published today.  “I like to be among people, to be with the one who is suffering, to go into the parishes”, he stated. But he denied that he has gone out at night to feed the down and outs near the Vatican. He made clear however that he detests being depicted as a kind of superman or star: “Sigmund Freud said that in every idealization there is an aggression. To depict the Pope as a kind of superman or a star seems to me offensive”.In this interview,  which was published simultaneously in La Nacion, the Argentine counterpart of the Italian daily,  the Jesuit Pope touches on a wide range of topics: the family, women, the Orthodox, relations with China, globalization. The human side of Francis emerges once again in his answers, as does his keen desire to find new ways for the Church to show God’s love for people, and to proclaim the Gospel to all nations. “I would like to visit my sister who is ill; she is the last of the five of us.  I would like to see her, but this does not justify a trip to Argentina: I call her by phone and this is enough”, he said. But he confirmed that he does not plan to visit Argentina until 2016 because he has already been to Latin America for the World Youth Day in Rio. “Now I must go to the Holy Land, and to Asia and then to Africa”, he stated.Asked whether his visit to the Holy Land in May could lead to an agreement on intercommunion with the Orthodox, Francis responded, “We are all impatient to obtain ‘closed’ results, but the road to unity with the Orthodox means above all to walk and work together”. Orthodox theology is “very rich”, they have “great theologians” today, and “their vision of Church and of synodality is marvelous”, he said.In this third conversation with an Italian daily, Francis revealed his great desire to develop friendly relations with China: “We are close to China. I sent a letter to President Xi Jingping when he was elected, three days after me. And he replied to me.  Relations exist. They are a great people. I love them”.He reaffirmed that he doesn’t take offense when some in the USA, and elsewhere, accuse him of Marxism.  “I have never shared the Marxist ideology because it is not true, but I have known many courageous people who profess Marxism”, he said.Speaking about his relationship with Benedict XVI, Pope Francis said regards him as a wise grandfather, whose counsel he sometimes seeks.  He recalled that before the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) the idea of an emeritus bishop didn’t exist but now, he notes, we also have an emeritus Pope. “Benedict is the first and perhaps there will be others. We do not know”, he said, not excluding the possibility that he could follow suit.
 
Asked if he is a lonely man in relation to the way he governs, Francis said: “the Pope is not alone in his work, because he is accompanied and advised by many people.  He would be a solitary person if he decided without hearing, or pretending to hear”, but then the moment comes to decide “and he is alone with his sense of responsibility”.After his election, he said, “I began to govern by trying to put into practice (implement) that which had emerged in the debate among the cardinals in the various congregations (before the conclave)” and “in my way of acting I wait for the Lord to give me inspiration”.He affirmed once again that tenderness and mercy are the essence of the Gospel: “it is the center of the Gospel. Otherwise one does not understand Jesus Christ, the tenderness of the Father whom he sends to listen to us, to heal us, to save us”.Speaking about the horrific abuse of children by priests, Francis said “the cases of abuse are terrible because they leave very deep wounds”.  Benedict XVI “was very courageous and opened a road, and the Church has done a lot on this route, perhaps more than all others”, he stated. He noted that the statistics reveal the tremendous violence against children, but also that the vast majority of abuse takes place in the milieu of the family and those close to them.  The Church is the only public institution to have moved “with transparency and responsibility”, he said; no one else has done as much as it, “but the Church is the only one to be attacked”.Questioned about his position on wealth, Francis insisted that “the Gospel condemns the cult of wellbeing”, and emphasized that at the Final Judgment “our closeness to poverty” is what will count. “Poverty keeps idolatry far away, and opens the door to Providence.”Commenting on globalization, Francis observed that “while it is true that globalization has saved many persons from poverty, it has also condemned many others to die of hunger, because with this economic system it becomes selective”.   He argued that the present kind of economic and financial globalization puts money, not the human person, at the center. This is the problem.In response to a question about the family and the synod, Francis said the family “is going through a very serious crisis”, the young marry less, many families break-up and the children suffer.  “We must give a response.  But to do so, we must reflect much in depth”, he said. That’s what happened at the recent consistory and it will happen again at the forthcoming synods in 2014 and 2015. “It’s only in the light of a profound reflection that one can seriously face the particular situations, also those of the divorced, with pastoral depth”.
 
Pope Francis praised Cardinal Walter Kasper’s keynote talk on the family to the assembly of cardinals (the Consistory) on 20-21 February which the interviewer said had sparked divisions among them. “It was a most beautiful and profound presentation, which will soon be published in German.  It dealt with five points, the fifth of which was the question of second marriages”, Francis commented. He said he would have been “worried” if there had not been “intense discussion” and, moreover, the cardinals knew they could speak freely. Indeed, “the fraternal and open confrontations make the theological and pastoral theology develop.  I do not fear this; on the contrary I seek it.”Asked why he doesn’t speak about the so-called “non-negotiable values”, particularly in the field of bioethics and sexual morality, Pope Francis stumped the interviewer by telling him, “I have never understood the expression ‘non-negotiable values’.  Values are values. Full stop! I cannot say that among the fingers of a hand there is one more useful than another. So I do not understand in what sense there can be negotiable values”. He recalled that he had said what he wished to say on the theme of life in his Apostolic Exhortation, “The Joy of the Gospel” (Evangelii Gaudium).On the question of marriage and civil unions, the Pope reaffirmed that “marriage is between a man and a woman”.  States seek to justify civil unions “to regularize different situations of living together”, pushed by the need to regularize the economic aspects between people, such as, for example, to ensure health care, he said.  “We have to look at the different cases and evaluate them in their variety”.When asked whether the Church would again revisit the question of birth control, some 50 years after Humanae Vitae, Francis recalled that, at the end, Paul VI “recommended that confessors should be very merciful, and be attentive to the concrete situations”.  Francis praised his predecessor for being “prophetic” and for “having the courage to go against the majority, to defend the moral discipline, to exercise a cultural brake, and to oppose present and future Neo- Malthusianism.”   But, he said, it is not a question of changing doctrine, rather “it is a matter of going into the issue in depth and bringing it about that the pastoral practice takes account of situations and of what is possible for persons”.  This will be discussed at the synod, he added.Responding to a question on how the role of women can be promoted in the Church, Francis said that while it is true that women “can and must be present in decision-making places in the Church”, this is only “a promotion of a functional type” and will not take us far down the road.   It’s necessary to think that the Church “is feminine from its origins” because “the Marian principle guided the Church alongside the Petrine one.  The Virgin Mary was more important than any bishop or any apostle”. Therefore, it is necessary to deepen the theology, and this is being done with the Council of the Laity, with the contribution of women with expertise in different fields.

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