Sunday, March 02, 2014

RUSSIAN TROOPS SURROUND UKRAINES ARMY BASES IN ALL UKRAINE

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.

NOW GASPROM AND PUTIN ARE POURING THE PRESSURE ON UKRAINE AS A RESULT OF ALL THE COMPLAINTS AGAINST THEM BY THE WEST.GASPROM WANTS TO UP THE PRICE OF GAS TO UKRAINE.UKRAINE GOT A DEBATE AS A RESULT OF LETTING PUTIN CONTROL THE GAS LINES IN THE UKRAINE.BUT NOW SINCE THERES A NEW GOVERNMENT  IN UKRAINE.AND THEY WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA.SO RUSSIA WANTS TO HIKE GAS PRICES AS A RESULT.SO THEY CAN RECOUP SOME OF THE BILLIONS IN DEBATES THEY GAVE TO THE UKRAINE.SO IN AFFECT PUTIN IS PUTING SANCTIONS ON UKRAINE BEFORE THE WEST SANCTIONS THEM FIRST.PUTIN IS KEEPING AHEAD OF THE WEST OR OBAMA IN HIS 90 MINUTE PHONE CALL WITH PUTIN YESTERDAY TIPPED HIM OFF WHAT SANCTIONS PUTIN WOULD BE GETTING AGAINST HIM BY THE WEST.IF THE WEST SANCTIONS GAS OR OIL MONEY AGAINST RUSSIA.WE WILL KNOW OBAMA TIPPED PUTIN OFF YESTERDAY AND RUSSIA THEN SANCTIONED UKRAINE WITH GAS HIKES.THIS 2 FACED OBAMA WOULD NOT SURPRISE ME ONE BIT IF HE TIPPED PUTIN OFF WITH THE SANCTIONS AGAINST HIM. IT 2:25PM SUN MAR 2,14.OH AND CANADA WANTS RUSSIA'S CANADIAN AMBASSADOR TO GO TALK WITH PUTIN AND TELL HIM TO LAY OFF AND GET OUTTA THE UKRAINE WITH YOUR ARMIES. 

ITS 4PM MAR 2,14 AND I JUST HEARD ON CNN THE CONGRESS LEADER LADY MUL SOMETHING SAID THAT NATO SHOULD PUT FORCES IN THE UKRAINE.BUT WHAT I FOUND INTERESTUNG IS THAT SHE JUST WANTS COUNTRIES THAT ARE IN NATO AND ALSO HAVE UKRAINIANS IN THEIR COUNTRIES TO PUT THE TROOPS IN THE UKRAINE TO GUAARD THEM.SO THIS RAPID REACTION FORCE WOULD BE MADE UP OF THE COUNTRIES WERE UKRAINIANS HAVE CONNECTIONS.SUCH AS US HERE IN CANADA AND THE USA.ETC.YOU CAN LOOK BELOW OF THE COUNTRIES I HAD THEM ON MY SITE FOR 3 HOURS AT LEAST AGO.THIS IS GETTING INTERESTING-I MUST ADMIT NOW.

KERRY AND CANADA WANT RUSSIA BOOTED OUT OF THE G-8-TO PUT IT BLUNTLY ALSO. RUSSIA HAS JUST CUT POWER TO SOME ARMY BASES IN CRIMEA.RUSSIA IS BEING A DICTATOR CONTROL FREAK TO CONTROL CRIMEA AND THEN ALL OF UKRAINE OVIOUSLY BY PUTIN.I CAN SEE WHY THERE NO DEMONSTRATIONS IN CRIMEA.PUTIN WOULD KILL OR ARREST THE DEMONSTRATORS INSTANTLY.RUSSIA IS EXPECTED TO ATTACK THE ARMY BASES WERE THEY JUST SHUT THE POWER OFF ON.THIS WILL BE ESCULATING IF RUSSIA OVER TAKES THESE ARMY BASES IN CRIMEA TONIGHT.THERE WERE WARNING SHOTS BY RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ALSO AT THESE ARMY BASES.


3:25PM MAR 2,14
02 Mar. 2014

North Atlantic Council statement on the situation in Ukraine

The North Atlantic Council condemns the Russian Federation’s military escalation in Crimea and expresses its grave concern regarding the authorisation by the Russian Parliament to use the armed forces of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine.Military action against Ukraine by forces of the Russian Federation is a breach of international law and contravenes the principles of the NATO-Russia Council and the Partnership for Peace. Russia must respect its obligations under the United Nations Charter and the spirit and principles of the OSCE, on which peace and stability in Europe rest. We call on Russia to de-escalate tensions.We call upon the Russian Federation to honor its international commitments, including those set out in the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, the Treaty on Friendship and Cooperation between Russia and Ukraine of 1997, and the legal framework regulating the presence of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, to withdraw its forces to its bases, and to refrain from any interference elsewhere in Ukraine. We urge both parties to immediately seek a peaceful resolution through bilateral dialogue, with international facilitation, as appropriate, and through the dispatch of international observers under the auspices of the United Nations Security Council or the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).Ukraine is a valued partner for NATO and a founding member of the Partnership for Peace. NATO Allies will continue to support Ukrainian sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity, and the right of the Ukrainian people to determine their own future, without outside interference.We emphasise the importance of an inclusive political process based on democratic values, respect for human rights, minorities and the rule of law, which fulfils the democratic aspirations of the entire Ukrainian people.We met today, at Ukraine’s request, to consult in the NATO-Ukraine Commission.  We intend to engage with Russia in the NATO-Russia Council.

02 Mar. 2014

Doorstep statement

by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen before the meetings of the North Atlantic Council and the NATO-Ukraine Commission

I have convened the North Atlantic Council today because of Russia’s military action in Ukraine. And because of President Putin’s threats against this sovereign nation.What Russia is doing now in Ukraine violates the principles of the United Nations Charter. It threatens peace and security in Europe. Russia must stop its military activities and its threats.Today we will discuss their implications, for European peace and security, and for NATO's relationship with Russia.Afterwards, we will meet in the NATO-Ukraine Commission.We support Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. We support the right of the people of Ukraine to determine their own future without outside interference. And we  emphasise the need for Ukraine to continue to uphold the democratic rights of all people and ensure that minority rights are protected.
Ukraine is our neighbour, and Ukraine is a valued partner for NATO.We urge all parties to urgently continue all efforts to move away from this dangerous situation. In particular, I call on Russia to de-escalate tensions.
http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/opinions_107663.htm

OTHER RUSSIA-UKRAINE NEWS I DONE
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

RUSSIA WANTS UKRAINE FIGHT

IT IS REPORTED THAT 3 UKRAINE MILITARY BASES ARE SURROUNDED BY RUSSIAN TROOPS.ITS REPORTED CLASHES WERE GOING ON BETWEEN PUTIN AND UKRAINE SUPPORTERS.RED ARM BANNED SOLDIERS ARE BELIEVED TO BE THE RUSSIAN SOLDIERS.THE SOLDIERS IN ALL GREEN CAMOFLAGE SEEM TO BE THE PEACE KEEPERS REPORTS ARE SAID.AND THERE SEEMS TO BE BLUE ARMED BANNED SOLDIERS ALSO.ITS 6:15am SUN MAR 02,14 AND WE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS TODAY IN THE UKRAINE-RUSSIAN INVASION OF KEEPING THE OLD SOLVIET EMPIRE TOGETHER.

AND ITS REPORTED ALSO THAT THE NEW UKRAINE LEADER HAS TROOPS ALL OVER THE UKRAINE ON STANDBY.EVEN THOUGH RUSSIA COULD JUST SQUASH THE UKRAINE TROOPS IF CONFRONTED.RUSSIA HAS ALL THE FLEET RIGHT THERE AND THE REPORTED 150,000 TROOPS JUST ON THE UKRAINE BORDER.I HEARD THERE EVEN TALKING ABOUT KICKING RUSSIA OUT OF THE G-8 AS A RESULT OF THIS RUSSIAN INVASION IN THE UKRAINE.NATO WILL BE MEETINNG IN BRUSSELS TODAY.AND CANADA IS RECALLING ITS RUSSIAN AMBASSADORE.THE U.S IS ACCUSING RUSSIA OF BREAKING INTERNATIONAL LAWS.UKRAINE PRIME MINISTER -THIS RUSSIAN INVASION IS A DECLARATION OF WAR.


Russian army hat colour represents
http://www.undertheredstar.com/army.htm 
http://www.thirdreichdepot.com/armbands.html 
http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/irrc_853_pfanner.pdf

WE KNOW 6,000 RUSSIAN TROOPS FOR SURE ARE IN THE CRIMEA AREA OF UKRAINE.THE RUSSIAN FAVOURED AREA IN THE UKRAINE.CRIMEA IS A MUSLIM DOMINATED AREA.IN SIMFEROPOL,UKRAINE THERE CHANTING-PUTIN THANKS FOR PROTECTING US.AS THE RUSSIAN FLAGS FLY EXCITEDLY.PUTIN WANTS THE UKRAINE AS PART OF RUSSIAS URASIAN UNION.

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)

CANADA NEXT TO THE UKRAINE AND RUSSIA HAS THE MOST UKRAINIANS ON EARTH.

Regions with significant populations-Ukraine 37,541,693[3]
Russia     1,927,988[4]
Canada     1,251,170[nb 2][5]
United States     939,759[nb 2][6]
Brazil     500,000[nb 2][7]
Moldova     375,000[nb 2][8]
Kazakhstan     313,698 (2012)[9]
Poland     51,000 (2011)[10]
Argentina     300,000[nb 2][11]
Italy     200.730[12]
Belarus     159,000[13]
Uzbekistan     104,720 – 128,100[nb 2][14][15]
Czech Republic     126,613[nb 2][16]
Portugal     52,293[17]
Romania     51,703[18]
Latvia     45,699[19]

MUSLIMS IN THE UKRAINE
http://gazeta.arraid.org/1/eng/index.html

Muslim populations by country: how big will each Muslim population be by 2030?
Muslim populations around the world - and their size in 2030 - have been calculated by a respected US thinktank.

Order-Country-2010 MUSLIM EST POP--% MUSLIMS-2030 MUS POP-% IN 2030
183----Ukraine-----------393,000---------------------0.9---------------408,000---------------1
175----Russia-----------16,379,000-----------------11.7-------------18,556,000-----------14.4
180----Spain-------------1,021,000-------------------2.3---------------    1,859,000-----------3.7
198----Canada----------940,000----------------------2.8---------------    2,661,000-----------6.6
235----United Sta-----2,595,000--------------------0.8---------------    6,216,000-----------1.7
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/jan/28/muslim-population-country-projection-2030

UKRAINE BY RELIGIONS
Irreligious, atheist or unaffiliated – 62.5%
Religious or affiliated – 37.5%
Of the religious
Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kiev Patriarchate) – 38.9%
Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) – 29.4%
Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church – 2.9%
Greek Catholic – 14.7%
Roman Catholic – 1.7%
Protestant – 2.4%
Other religion – 2.9%
Do not know – 7.0%
67,000 JEWS IN UKRAINE AS OF 2012 

Ukraine mobilizes after Putin's 'declaration of war'


Reuters
KIEV/BALACLAVA, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine mobilized for war on Sunday and Washington threatened to isolate Russia economically, after President Vladimir Putin declared he had the right to invade his neighbor, creating Moscow's biggest confrontation with the West since the Cold War."This is not a threat: this is actually the declaration of war to my country," Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk, head of a pro-Western government that took power when Russian ally Viktor Yanukovich fled last week, said in English.Putin obtained permission from his parliament on Saturday to use military force to protect Russian citizens in Ukraine, spurning Western pleas not to intervene.Russian forces have already bloodlessly seized Crimea - an isolated Black Sea peninsula where Moscow has a naval base. On Sunday they surrounded several small Ukrainian military outposts there and demanded the Ukrainian troops disarm. Some refused, leading to standoffs, although no shots were fired.Russia has staged war games with 150,000 troops along the land border, but so far they have not crossed. However, pro-Russian demonstrators have marched in the east of the country and have raised Russian flags over government buildings in several cities, in what Kiev says is a move orchestrated by Moscow to justify a wider invasion.Ukraine's security council ordered the general staff to immediately put all armed forces on highest alert.The Defense Ministry was ordered to stage a call-up of reserves - theoretically all men up to 40 in a country with universal male conscription, though Ukraine would struggle to find extra guns or uniforms for significant numbers of them.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry condemned Russia for what he called an "incredible act of aggression" and threatened "very serious repercussions"."You don't just, in the 21st century, behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped-up pretext," Kerry told CBS program Face the Nation.Kerry said Moscow still had a "right set of choices" to defuse the crisis. Otherwise, G8 countries and other nations were prepared to "to go to the hilt to isolate Russia"."They are prepared to isolate Russia economically. The rouble is already going down. Russia has major economic challenges," he said. He mentioned visa bans, asset freezes and trade isolation as possible steps. A Kremlin spokesman declined to comment after Kerry's remarks.
THREAT TO EASTERN UKRAINE
At Kiev's Independence Square, where anti-Yanukovich protesters had camped out for months, thousands demonstrated against Russian military action. Speakers delivered rousing orations and placards read: "Putin, hands off Ukraine!""If there is a need to protect the nation, we will go and defend the nation," said Oleh, an advertising executive cooking over an open fire at the square where he has been camped for three months. "If Putin wants to take Ukraine for himself, he will fail. We want to live freely and we will live freely."Of potentially even greater concern than Russia's seizure of majority ethnic Russian Crimea are eastern swathes of Ukraine, where most ethnic Ukrainians speak Russian as a native language.Those areas saw more demonstrations on Sunday after violent protests on Saturday, and for a second day pro-Moscow demonstrators hoisted flags at government buildings and called for Russia to defend them. Kiev said Russia had sent hundreds of its citizens across the border to stage the protests.U.S. President Barack Obama spoke to Putin for 90 minutes by telephone on Saturday after the Russian leader declared he had the right to intervene and quickly secured a unanimous yes vote from his parliament.According to the Kremlin's account, Putin told Obama Russian speakers were under threat from Ukraine's new leaders, who took over after Yanukovich's security forces fired on huge protests against his rejection of a European trade deal in favor of closer ties with Moscow.Ukraine, which says it has no intention of threatening Russian speakers, has appealed for help to NATO, and directly to Britain and the United States, as co-signatories with Moscow to a 1994 accord guaranteeing Ukraine's security.NATO ambassadors met in Brussels to discuss next steps. Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen accused Russia of threatening peace and security in Europe.
SYMBOLIC RESPONSE
Washington has proposed sending monitors to Ukraine under the flags of the United Nations or Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, bodies where Moscow would have a veto.So far, the Western response has been largely symbolic. Obama and others suspended preparations for a G8 summit in Sochi, where Putin has just finished staging his $50 billion winter Olympic games. Some countries recalled ambassadors.Ukraine's tiny armed forces would be no match for the might of its superpower neighbor. Britain's International Institute of Strategic Studies estimates Kiev has fewer than 130,000 troops under arms, with planes barely ready to fly and few spare parts for a single submarine.Russia, by contrast, has spent billions under Putin to upgrade and modernize the capabilities of forces that were dilapidated after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Moscow's special units are now seen as equals of the best in the world.
In Crimea, Ukraine's tiny contingent made no attempt to oppose the Russians, who bore no insignia on their uniforms but drove vehicles with Russian plates and seized government buildings, airports and other locations in the past three days.Kiev said its troops were encircled in at least three places. It pulled its coast guard vessels out of Crimean ports. Ukraine said its naval fleet's 10 ships were still in Sevastopol and remained loyal to Kiev.Scores of Russian troops with no insignia were camped outside a base of Ukrainian troops at Perevalnoye, on a road from Crimea's capital Simferopol towards the coast.A representative of the base commander said troops on both sides had reached agreement so no blood would be shed."We are ready to protect the grounds and our military equipment," Valery Boiko told Reuters television. "We hope for a compromise to be reached, a decision, and as the commander has said, there will be no war."Igor Mamchev, a Ukrainian navy colonel at another small base outside Simferopol, told Ukraine's Channel 5 TV that a truckload of Russian troops had arrived at his checkpoint and told his forces to lay down their arms."I replied that, as I am a member of the armed forces of Ukraine, under orders of the Ukrainian navy, there could be no discussion of disarmament. In case of any attempt to enter the military base, we will use all means, up to lethal force."We are military people, who have given our oath to the people of Ukraine and will carry out our duty until the end."A unit of Ukrainian marines was also holed up in a base in the Crimean port of Feodosia, where they refused to disarm.Elsewhere on the occupied peninsula, the Russian troops assumed a lower profile on Sunday after the pro-Moscow Crimean leader said overnight that the situation was now "normalized".Putin's justification - the need to protect Russian citizens - was the same as he used to launch a 2008 invasion of Georgia, where Russian forces seized two breakaway regions.In Russia, state controlled media portray Yanukovich's removal as a coup by dangerous extremists funded by the West and there has been little sign of dissent with that line.
PROTESTS IN EAST
So far there has been no sign of Russian military action outside Crimea, but Kiev officials accused Moscow of being behind the pattern of violent protests in eastern cities.Pro-Moscow demonstrators flew Russian flags on Saturday and Sunday at government buildings in cities including Kharkiv, Donetsk, Odessa and Dnipropetrovsk. In places they clashed with anti-Russian protesters and guards defending the buildings.
Ukrainian parliamentarian Hrygory Nemyriya, a spokesman to foreign journalists for the new authorities, said the pro-Moscow marchers were sent from Russia.The worst violence took place in Kharkiv, where scores of people were hurt on Saturday when thousands of pro-Russian activists, some brandishing axe handles and chains, stormed the regional government and fought pitched battles with a smaller number of supporters of Ukraine's new authorities.In Donetsk, Yanukovich's home city, the local government building was flying the Russian flag for the second day on Sunday. The local authorities have called for a referendum on the region's status, a move Kiev says is illegal. A pro-Russian "self-defense" unit held a second day of mass protests, attracting about 1,000 demonstrators carrying Russian flags.Ludmila Petrova, 35, described the new authorities in Kiev as "slaves of the European Union" and said she favored Putin's declaration of the right to intervene."Maybe this will stop the hotheads in Kiev from bringing war to the Don basin and the Crimea. Maybe now they will think there is someone willing to defend these people."(Additional reporting by Peter Graff, Sabina Zawadzki, Pavel Polityuk, Timothy Heritage and Stephen Grey in Kiev, Lina Kushch in Donetsk, Peter Apps in London, Steve Holland and Phil Stewart in Washington and Lou Charbonneau at the United Nations; Writing by Peter Graff; editing by Philippa Fletcher)

Canada threatens to withdraw from G8 summit in Russia


AFP
Ottawa (AFP) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper threatened Saturday he may join Washington in snubbing June's G8 summit in Russia over the country's military incursion into Ukraine, and recalled his ambassador to Moscow.The Russian parliament's decision to give Putin the green light to send troops into neighboring Ukraine triggered international outcry."We join our allies in condemning in the strongest terms President Putin's military intervention in Ukraine," Harper said in a statement."These actions are a clear violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. They are also in violation of Russia's obligations under international law."US officials have warned that President Barack Obama and other European leaders were unlikely to show up at the G8 summit in the showcase Black Sea resort of Sochi if the Ukraine crisis was not resolved.Harper's statement came after Obama spoke separately by telephone with him and French President Francois Hollande, leaders of Atlantic nations that along with Britain form the backbone of post-war Western resistance to the Soviet Union.The prime minister also convened a meeting of his cabinet ministers to discuss the crisis."Canada recognizes the legitimacy of the government of Ukraine. Ukraine's sovereign territory must be respected and the Ukrainian people must be free to determine their own future," Harper added."We call on President Putin to immediately withdraw his forces to their bases and refrain from further provocative and dangerous actions."He said "Canada has suspended its engagement in preparations for the G8 summit, currently planned for Sochi, and the Canadian ambassador in Moscow is being recalled for consultations."Ottawa also backed US calls for international monitors from the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to be immediately deployed to Ukraine, Harper said.
Canada has joined other allies in seeking a financial aid package for cash-strapped Ukraine.

In Ukraine, the US and Europe have limited options

Past American efforts to punish Moscow have been complicated by Washington’s need for Russian cooperation on Syria and Iran


March 2, 2014, 2:11 am 10-The Times of Israel
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite blunt warnings about costs and consequences, US President Barack Obama and European leaders have limited options for retaliating against Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine, the former Soviet republic now at the center of an emerging conflict between East and West.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has so far dismissed the few specific threats from the United States, which include scrapping plans for Obama to attend an international summit in Russia this summer and cutting off trade talks sought by Moscow. Because Ukraine does not have full-member status in NATO, the US and Europe have no obligation to come to its defense. And broader international action through the United Nations seems all but impossible, given Russia’s veto power as a member of the Security Council.“There have been strong words from the US and other counties and NATO,” said Keir Giles, a Russian military analyst at the Chatham House think tank in London. “But these are empty threats. There is really not a great deal that can be done to influence the situation.”As if to underscore that point, Putin on Saturday requested and was granted permission to use Russia’s military not just in the pro-Russian region of Crimea, but also throughout Ukraine. Putin’s request came one day after Obama warned that any violation of Ukraine’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity would be deeply destabilizing.”Saturday’s developments follow three months of political upheaval in Ukraine following president Viktor Yanukovych’s rejection of a partnership agreement with the European Union in favor of historical ties with Moscow. Yanukovych fled Kiev, Ukraine’s capital, last week and now is in Russia.Putin’s moves are sure to deepen tensions in his already troubled relationship with Obama, who has struggled to find a formula for getting the Russian leader to change his calculus on a myriad of issues. The White House said the two leaders spoke for 90 minutes Saturday, with Obama warning Putin that Russia’s “continued violation of international law will lead to greater political and economic isolation.”American efforts to punish Russia on Ukraine and other matters have been complicated by the White House’s need for Russian cooperation on stopping Syria’s civil war, negotiating a nuclear accord with Iran, and transporting American troops and equipment out of Afghanistan through Russian supply routes.“We face a difficult choice of punishing Russia by effectively punishing ourselves,” said Andrew Kuchins, the director of the Russia program at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.Obama has tried to use his travel plans to Russia as a bargaining chip before, in the hopes that Putin might bend under the threat of a diplomatic embarrassment. Last summer, the White House dangled the prospect of canceling a bilateral summit between Obama and Putin as it pressed Russia to return National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden to the United States.When Russia instead granted Snowden temporary asylum, Obama canceled his one-on-one meeting with Putin, but still attended an international meeting in St. Petersburg.US officials say they are in discussions now with European officials about Obama and other leaders possibly skipping the Group of Eight economic summit scheduled for June in Sochi, the site of the just-concluded Winter Olympics. Obama’s top advisers gathered at the White House Saturday to discuss other options.The White House appears to be giving no serious consideration to American military involvement in Ukraine. In his carefully worded statement Friday, Obama avoided saying that a destabilized Ukraine would be a national security concern for the US. Instead, he said only that it was “not in the interest of Ukraine, Russia or Europe.”In Europe, officials expressed concern about the Russian military escalation, but offered few specific options for stopping or punishing Putin. The European Union, dealing with its own internal problems, has appeared reluctant to fully embrace troubled Ukraine or risk the economic consequences of confronting Russia, one of its largest trading partners.“The world is on the verge of a conflict the outcome of which cannot be perceived yet,” said Polish Prime Minster Donald Tusk, whose country shares a border with Ukraine. Tusk appealed for Europe to send a “very clear signal” that it will not tolerate acts of aggression, but he did not outline specific steps.Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek said Russia’s attempts to “escalate the situation in Ukraine” reminded him of the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, which crushed liberal reforms and ended an era known as the Prague Spring.“We don’t solve and can’t solve disagreements in Europe by force,” Zaoralek said.The UN Security Council met for a second straight day to discuss the growing crisis in Ukraine, which has asked four permanent council members — the US, Britain, France and China — for help in stopping Russia’s “aggression.” But Russia, as the fifth permanent member, holds veto power, meaning there would be virtually no chance of getting even a resolution condemning Russian intervention.

Hundreds of gunmen surround Ukraine military base


Associated Press
PEREVALNE, Ukraine (AP) — As hundreds of armed men surrounded a Ukrainian military base in Crimea on Sunday, world leaders and Ukraine's new prime minister urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to pull back his military.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Russia's military incursion into Ukraine "an incredible act of aggression" — comments that came a day after Russian forces took over the strategic Black Sea peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine without firing a shot.In Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said there was no reason for Russia to invade Ukraine and warned that "we are on the brink of disaster."But so far, his new government and other countries have been powerless to react to Russian military tactics. Armed men in uniforms without insignia have moved freely about the peninsula, occupying airports, smashing equipment at an air base and besieging a Ukrainian infantry base.Putin has defied calls from the West to pull back his troops, insisting that Russia has a right to protect its interests and those of Russian-speakers in Crimea and elsewhere in Ukraine.Russia has long wanted to reclaim the lush Crimean Peninsula, which was part of Russia until 1954. It's Black Sea Fleet is stationed there and nearly 60 percent of Crimea's residents identify themselves as Russian.Ukraine's population of 46 million has divided loyalties between Russia and Europe, with much of western Ukraine advocating closer ties with the EU, while eastern and southern regions like Crimea look to Russia for support.Unidentified troops pulled up to the Ukrainian military base at Perevalne on the Crimean Peninsula in a convoy that included at least 13 trucks and four armored vehicles with mounted machine guns. The trucks carried 30 soldiers each and had Russian license plates.A dozen Ukrainian soldiers, some with clips in their rifles, placed a tank at the base's gate, leaving the two sides in a tense standoff.Ukraine's acting president, Oleksandr Turchynov, announced late Saturday that he had ordered Ukraine's armed forces to be at full readiness because of the threat of "potential aggression." He also said he had ordered stepped-up security at nuclear power plants, airports and other strategic infrastructure.But the U.S. and other Western governments have few options to counter Russia's military moves.In Brussels, NATO's secretary general said Russia had violated the U.N. charter with its military action in Ukraine, and he urged Moscow to "de-escalate the tensions." NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen spoke before a meeting Sunday of the alliance's political decision-making body to discuss the crisis.Ukraine is not a NATO member, meaning the U.S. and Europe are not obligated to come to its defense. But Ukraine has taken part in some alliance military exercises and contributed troops to its response force.Kerry, interviewed on Sunday news shows in the U.S., raised the possibility of boycotting the G-8 summit, which is to be held in June in Sochi, the Russia resort that just hosted the Winter Olympics. He also discussed visa bans, asset freezes, and trade and investment penalties. Kerry said he spoke with foreign ministers for G-8 and other nations on Saturday, and says everyone is prepared 'to go to the hilt" to isolate Russia.President Barack Obama spoke with Putin by telephone for 90 minutes Saturday and expressed his "deep concern" about "Russia's clear violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity," the White House said. Obama warned that Russia's "continued violation of international law will lead to greater political and economic isolation."In Moscow, thousands marched Sunday in a pro-invasion rally one day after Russia's parliament gave Putin a green light to use military force in Ukraine. At least 10,000 people bearing Russian flags marched freely through the city, while dozens of people demonstrating on Red Square against an invasion of Ukraine were quickly detained by Russian riot police.The new Ukrainian government came to power last week following months of pro-democracy protests against a pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, and his decision to turn Ukraine toward Russia instead of the European Union. Yanukovych fled to Russia after more than 80 people died, most of them demonstrators killed by police. He insists he's still president.Since then, tensions have risen sharply between the two capitals.The Interfax news agency reported the speaker of Crimea's legislature, Vladimir Konstantinov, as saying the local authorities did not recognize the government in Kiev. He said a planned referendum on March 30 would ask voters about the region's future status.The White House said the U.S. will suspend participation in preparatory meetings for the Group of Eight economic summit planned.French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Europe 1 radio that planning for the summit should be put on hold. France "condemns the Russian military escalation" in Ukraine, and Moscow must "realize that decisions have costs," he said Sunday."We are on a very dangerous track of increasing tensions," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in a statement. "(But) "it is still possible to turn around. A new division of Europe can still be prevented."
_____McHugh reported from Kiev, Ukraine. AP correspondent Greg Keller contributed from Paris.

JAPAN TO GIVE 200 MILLION DALLARS TO BALLESTINIANS

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

DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

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

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

JERUSALEM DIVIDED

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

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

Embarking for US, Netanyahu says Israel will reject pressures

Prime minister sets out to discuss Iran with Washington, but Obama said to be focusing efforts on peace talks

March 2, 2014, 1:46 pm 0
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left for Washington Sunday for talks about the US-led peace process with the Palestinians and nuclear negotiations between world powers and Iran.Before departing from Ben-Gurion International Airport for his “important trip to the United States,” Netanyahu took a hard line on his Monday meeting with President Barack Obama, saying he would resist “pressures” and “stand steadfast on the State of Israel’s vital interests.”“In recent years the State of Israel has been under various pressures. We have rejected them in the face of the unprecedented storm and unrest in the region and are maintaining stability and security,” he said, referring to the three-year-old Arab Spring. “This is what has been and what will be.”Although Netanyahu would like the talks with Obama on Monday to focus on Iran, the White House appears to have a different agenda.“Obama will press him to agree to a framework for a conclusive round of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations that is being drafted by Secretary of State John Kerry,” The New York Times quoted senior US officials as saying this week.Direct peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, which began last July with the goal of reaching a deal within nine months, have made no visible progress.
Kerry is now focused on getting the two sides to agree on a framework proposal which would extend the deadline until the year’s end.Although the document has not yet been made public, it is understood to be a non-binding proposal laying out guidelines for negotiating the central issues of the conflict, such as borders, security, Jerusalem, Israeli settlements and the right of return for Palestinian refugees.The proposal, or its outline, is likely to be presented to Netanyahu next week and to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on March 17 when he meets Obama at the White House.Both Kerry and Netanyahu are scheduled to address the annual AIPAC conference in Washington this week.

Japan pledges $200 million in aid for Palestinians

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Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, right, talks with his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida …
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Japan pledged more than $200 million in aid Saturday to help the Palestinian Authority, as representatives from 22 nations reiterated their support of the Palestinians' quest for their own state.The pledge was announced by Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida at the second Conference on Cooperation among East Asian Countries for Palestinian Development, held in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.Kishida said the first disbursement of the aid — about $62 million — was expected later this month.
Ministers and high-ranking officials from 22 countries and five international organizations participated in the one-day conference, which was jointly chaired by Indonesia, the Palestinian Authority and Japan.The conference agreed to expand the number of participants and encourage greater engagement of civil societies in East Asia to assist the Palestinians.Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono expressed hope that "universal recognition of Palestine as an independent and sovereign state and as a full member state of the United Nations" would eventually be achieved."We can make this happen if we redouble our effort to support them in nation and state building," Yudhoyono said.A joint statement issued at the conclusion the conference said the participants agreed to encourage greater engagement of civil society and nongovernment organizations in East Asian countries.The statement also said participant countries and international organizations had pledged $210 million to the Palestinians since last year's conference, held in Tokyo.
The United Nations voted overwhelmingly last year to recognize a Palestinian state, but the Palestinians still face limitations in controlling their borders and airspace and in trade, and have no unified army or police.

Netanyahu’s US visit ‘crucial’ to future of peace talks

As 29 April deadline looms, PM heads to Washington, where Obama will likely press him on framework for negotiations

March 1, 2014, 4:33 am 4-The Times of Israel
AFP — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s talks with US President Barack Obama next week are likely to prove crucial for determining whether peace negotiations with the Palestinians have a future beyond April.
The premier leaves Sunday for a series of meetings in Washington squarely focused on two key issues: the fate of the US-led peace process in light of an April 29 deadline, and nuclear talks between world powers and Iran.Although Netanyahu would like his talks with Obama on Monday to deal predominantly with Iran, the White House appears to have a different agenda.“Obama will press him to agree to a framework for a conclusive round of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations that is being drafted by Secretary of State John Kerry,” the New York Times said this week, quoting senior US officials.Direct peace talks, which began in July 2013 with the goal of reaching a deal within nine months, have made no apparent progress, with Kerry now focused on getting them to agree a framework proposal which would extend the deadline until the year’s end.Although the document has not yet been made public, it is understood to be a non-binding proposal laying out guidelines for negotiating the central issues of the conflict, including such as borders, security, Jerusalem, the settlements and the right of return for Palestinian refugees.The proposal, or its outline, is likely to be presented to Netanyahu next week and to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on March 17 when he meets Obama at the White House.While Kerry faces an uphill battle to win over a Palestinian leadership which has steadfastly refused any extension, following months of relentless Israeli settlement expansion, pundits said the prime minister was likely to agree, albeit with reservations.“This is a crucial meeting with Obama, which is going to determine the shape of the framework for further negotiations,” said Eytan Gilboa, an expert on US-Israeli relations at Bar Ilan University.“What both Kerry and Obama are hoping to get is some kind of approval from Netanyahu for the document,” he told AFP, saying the Israeli leader was likely to accept the framework rather than risk being portrayed as the party who brought about the collapse of the talks.The aim is reportedly to secure an agreement before the end of March when Israel is due to release a fourth and final batch of 26 veteran Palestinian security prisoners in line with commitments to the US.“Israel won’t be the one who derails the talks to achieve an American framework paper,” Eli Bardenstein wrote in the Israeli Ma’ariv daily.However, there may be a price to pay. Army Radio suggested last week that Washington was to demand a partial freeze on construction in isolated settlements outside the major West Bank blocs that Israel hopes to retain in any peace deal.Freezing settlement construction is a central demand of the Palestinians, but Israel has so far resisted persistent pressure to renew a one-time, 10-month partial freeze on new West Bank building.The freeze expired in late 2010, contributing to the collapse of the last round of peace talks.Hardliners in Netanyahu’s fractious coalition have cautioned the premier against any such move, warning it could cost him dearly.Netanyahu’s main message is that Israel has so far demonstrated flexibility, and the time has come to demand the same of the Palestinians.“We want the process with Kerry to succeed but obviously it’s not just dependent on us,” a senior Israeli official told AFP, on condition of anonymity.“Ultimately this process will only work if the Palestinians too are open to be creative and flexible,” he said.Last week, the Palestinians said Kerry’s ideas for a framework “cannot be accepted,” denouncing a clause stipulating recognition of Israel as the Jewish state, and the fact that the framework glossed over their demand for a capital in east Jerusalem.Nimrod Goren, chairman of the Israeli think-tank Mitvim, said a key aspect of the Washington talks would be what could done to keep the Palestinians at the table.“Much of the discussion behind the scenes will be about what Abbas should get in terms of being able to accept the document, which now does not seem very favourable towards him.”On Tuesday, Netanyahu will be able to focus his attention fully on Iran when he addresses the annual conference of the powerful pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC.“Israel is worried about the post-interim agreement which ends on July 20 and would like to know what the United States is going to do,” said Gilboa of the initial six-month deal to partially roll back Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for limited sanctions relief.With Israel at odds with Washington over the shape of a final deal, Netanyahu would seek to strengthen domestic US support for Israel.“Netanyahu will perhaps want to strengthen AIPAC on the Iranian issue… to keep up the pressure on the Obama administration,” said Goren.

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox head for Jerusalem ahead of massive protest

Organizers expecting hundreds of thousands at demonstration against draft bill; Route 1 and central bus station to close

March 2, 2014, 2:59 am Updated: March 2, 2014, 1:53 pm 17
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox boarded buses and headed toward Jerusalem Sunday as the city geared for a massive protest against plans to introduce compulsory military service to the Haredi community.Some 3,500 police and other personnel were set to secure a massive demonstration against a Knesset bill that would dramatically increase IDF service among the ultra-Orthodox communities.Organizers, who have billed the event as a “million-man protest” and a prayer rally, were expecting hundreds of thousands of attendees.
The Magen David Adom rescue service said it had upped its readiness level to prepare for the crush of demonstrators at the event near the entrance to the capital.Police said the demonstration would snarl traffic, close roads and shut down public transportation around the entrance to the city and the Knesset.The authorities said that Route 1, the main road between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, would be closed after 2 p.m. Sunday from the Latrun area to the capital, and the Jerusalem Central Bus Station would also be shut down in the afternoon.Buses and light rail service near the entrance to the city will cease Sunday afternoon, and public schools near the entrance to Jerusalem closed at 1 p.m.“We have no intention of the large demonstration turning into a riot,” police official Yossi Frianti told Ynet. “We have coordinated with the protesters that there won’t be riots and we hope they stand by it.”Shas party chairman Aryeh Deri, one of the most vocal leaders of the protest against the emerging draft bill, on Saturday night called on the ultra-Orthodox public to refrain from engaging in violence against police. “I beseech the young people,” he said. “Please, I beg of you, heaven forbid there should be any desecration of God’s name… There may be provocations… be careful.”In the past, ultra-Orthodox protests over the draft issue have turned violent. Earlier this month in Ashdod, a protest that drew several hundred led to over a dozen arrests for rioting.
A major proponent of the Haredi draft, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, came out against the demonstration on Saturday night, asserting that “military service is not a ‘decree’” – as some ultra-Orthodox leaders have been referring to it – “but rather a big mitzvah.”He instructed members of his Jewish Home party to refrain from attending the demonstration, an apparent nod to MK Moti Yogev, who said he was thinking of going.Jerusalem’s Deputy Mayor Yisrael Kellerman, one of the organizers of the event, said he hoped attendance would be in the hundreds of thousands. “We wanted to bring the Haredi community from the entire country,” he told the ultra-Orthodox news site Kikar Shabbat. “There were some difficulties because within a few short days we had to bring everyone — we have to bring thousands of buses.”The latest version of the draft bill has faced scathing criticism from ultra-Orthodox leaders over its inclusion of individual criminal sanctions against draft-dodgers that would kick in if the community as a whole failed to meet rising quotas for the draft. But it has also faced criticism from proponents of an equal draft for delaying such criminal sanctions until mid-2017, after the next election.

03/ 1/2014 VATICAN INSIDER

Nine new Qumran scrolls discovered

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The Qumran grottoes on the Dead Sea
The Qumran grottoes on the Dead Sea

They were hidden inside some phylacteries discovered during some excavations sixty years ago but never opened. The news was announced at a conference at the Faculty of Theology in Lugano

Giorgio Bernardelli They lay inside the desert grottoes for centuries and remained hidden for another sixty years inside what were catalogued as tefillin, the phylacteries worn by observant Jews during prayer. This is the background to the sensational discovery of nine new Qumran scrolls. The Dead Sea area of the Qumran is the site where hundreds of fragments of texts from the Torah and Jewish literary pieces dating back to two thousand years ago were discovered in the mid Twentieth century. The scrolls remained in tact thanks to the microclimate of a complex of desert grottoes and have become a key reference point in biblical science studies. These grottoes were inhabited by a community about which many theories have emerged.
 
So there are now nine Qumran scrolls to keep experts busy. The discovery was made very recently and was announced a few days ago at the international research seminar “The history fo the Qumran grottoes” organised by the Faculty of Theology in Lugano and coordinated by Professor Marcello Fidanzio. The news was announced by the archaeologist Yonatan Adler of Israel’s Ariel University which found the scrolls inside the tefillin that were being kept at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, in the Qumran artifact section. The material comes from grottoes 4 and 5, where most of the manuscripts were found during the 1952 excavations led by Dominican French archaeologist Roland de Vaux. The three tefillin in question were examined by the Israel Antiquities Authority using a special photography technique which showed that there were three scrolls inside each phylactery. The material is extremely fragile so much care will need to be taken when removing them from the recipients and the process will take some time. There will undoubtedly be those who will snatch at the opportunity to stress the arguments contained in the literature on this subject, which claim that the Qumran holds the key to certain mysteries that will rewrite the history of early Christianity. But any such surprises are unlikely, at least as far as the tefillin are concerned. These should contain traditional Torah texts, probably some verses from Deuteronomy. But from a biblical archaeological point of view, this is precisely why said material is so valuable.“The new discovery shows that the research being carried out on the Qumran is not complete yet. There are a thousand reasons, especially political ones, why the material unearthed is still being studied and why the the findings have not yet been published. What is causing the greatest suspense now is the wait to find out the precise contents of the new scrolls. But another important aspect is the fact that great progress has been made in the more than sixty years since the excavations were carried out in the grottoes, thanks to technologies used. This may help us gain a better understanding through these new scrolls.”

03/ 1/2014 VATICAN INSIDER

Francis is feeling better and has met with Romanian PM

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Bergoglio has recovered from his fever
Bergoglio has recovered from his fever

Pope Francis is feeling better after yesterday’s temperature and even received Romania’s Prime Minister Victor Ponta for a 20 minute meeting

vatican insider staff Rome The Pope has recovered from the slight temperature he had yesterday afternoon which prevented him from visiting Rome’s Major Seminary and has gone back to his normal routine. This morning he met Romania’s Prime Minister, Victor Ponta. The private meeting lasted twenty minutes and there was no interpreter present.“You speak Italian,” Francis noted when he welcomed his guest who arrived with his wife and entourage. When the delegation was presented to the Pope, he commented on how young its members were: “a young team”.The meeting was cordial and dealt with the family, education, religious freedom and the safeguarding of common values in the spirit of fruitful cooperation between the Holy See and Romania at the bilateral level and within the international community, a Vatican statement says.The statement also mentions “the potential of the Catholic Church to contribute toward the common good in society” and adds that “certain issues of interest to the Catholic community in Romania were also discussed.”When it came to the moment of exchanging gifts, the president gave the Pope a basket with organic produce from Romania, a football jersey with Gheorghe Hagi’s name and an icon commissioned by the Orthodox Patriarch of Romania.“This is Romania’s Pelé, or should I say Maradona,” the prime minister said when he presented the football jersey to Francis. The Pope reciprocated with some medals and rosaries given to each member of the delegation. The customary photo session followed: “I hope to do my best and work hard to achieve what we have talked about,” the Romanian prime minister said before exiting the papal library.

03/ 1/2014 VATICAN INSIDER

Kasper proposes appointing women as heads of pontifical councils

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(©Reuters) Young women attend church

In his interview with Italian Catholic newspaper “Avvenire”, Cardinal Walter Kasper suggests putting women at the helm of the pontifical councils. According to the cardinal who is against careerism in the Curia and believes in time limits for mandates, “there are too many bishops in the Curia”

ANDREA TORNIELLI vatican city “Women’s role in the Church should be rethought and integrated into the Pope’s ideas for greater synodal dynamism and a missionary conversion”: women should be offered leadership roles within the pontifical councils and in the future Congregation for the Laity given how many bishops the Curia has. Temporary mandates should be introduced in the Curia to prevent careerism, calling priests who already have some pastoral experience. This was the crux of what Cardinal Walter Kasper said in a long interview with Stefania Falasca published in today’s issue of Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire.“Up until now, women have generally only attended the synod as auditors, holding roles of little significance,” Kasper said.  “There are always two or three female auditors who speak at the end of the meetings when everyone has already spoken. I ask myself how it is possible to prepare two synods on the family without giving a role of primary importance to women? A family cannot exist without women. It makes no sense to speak about the family without listening to what they have to say. I think they need to be called and listen as of right now, as we enter the preparatory phase.”The German cardinal who gave the opening speech at the recent Consistory on the family went on to say the following: “I think that women need to be present at every level and even given positions of full responsibility. The intuition which the female mind has to offer is a vital resource. A Church without women is a mutilated Church. There are so many of them actively involved in Church bodies. Can we imagine community, charity and cultural centres today with no women? Without them, parishes would close down tomorrow. Women are already ahead and out there in a Church like Francis’ that is “going out”.

 In his interview with Avvenire, Kasper recalled Francis’ words about the authority of  consecrated ministers is not to dominate but to serve the people of God and comes from the power of administering the sacrament of the Eucharist. Therefore, seeing the exercise of authority within the ordained ministry in terms of power is tantamount to clericalism. The reluctance of many presbyters – priests and bishops – to hand over positions of responsibility that do not require a person to be ordained, to lay people, is evidence of this. “In the Evangelii Gaudium, the Pope asks whether it is necessary for a priest to always be the leader. This actually leads to clerical immobility which sometimes shows a fear to give room to women and give them the voice they are entitled to in areas that require important decisions to be taken.”The cardinal then dealt with the key issue of giving women a stringer presence in decision-making environments bearing in mind that “some roles in the Church require the exercise of jurisdictional power attached to the ordained ministry.” But not all government or administrative roles in the Church “imply jurisdictional power. Said roles could be entrusted to lay people and therefore to women as well. If this does not happen, there is no way to justify the exclusion of women from decision-making processes in the Church.”Women “can have roles of responsibility – high level roles as well - in bodies,  that do not necessarily imply the exercise of the power of jurisdiction that comes with the ordained ministry: the pontifical councils for example. The councils for the family, the laity (let us not forget that half of the laity are women), culture, social communications, and for the promotion of the new evangelisation, to name but a few. There are currently no women in any of these that hold a role of any importance. This is absurd. In the councils and in other Vatican bodies, women could be given positions of authority even at higher levels, with full responsibility.” Women’s presence could be invaluable in offices that deal with administrative and economic matters and in the courts. These are areas in which women are renowned for their professional skills but they are not given due consideration here.”As far as the Congregations are concerned, the cardinal said: “Although the boundaries of authority remain clear, a woman can still be present in decision-making processes and can easily carry out the role of under-secretary. I am convinced, therefore, that even under the current canon laws, some things can be done in the Congregations, looking at possibilities individually.” The cardinal specifically mentioned the Congregation for Catholic education to illustrate how invaluable women’s talent in the field of education.  Women’s contribution would also be invaluable in the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.  “I exclude the possibility of giving roles of responsibility to women in the Congregations for bishops and the clergy. But in the Congregation for the doctrine of the Faith, for example, there is an assembly of theologians that prepares its sessions and where female presence is still nil. And yet we have so many female theologians who teach in the pontifical universities. Their contribution would be beneficial. This is even truer in the case of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life: 80% of consecrated people are women.”The criterion for choosing the candidates “should be competence and spirit of service. Naturally, women can also be driven by the desire to build career for themselves, just as men are. Some do show this problem but many others don’t. So it’s about choosing carefully and selecting the right people.” The cardinal mentioned Mary Ann Glendon, a Harvard professor as an example. The Holy See has given her an important role as its representative at UN conferences and “she has done an excellent job that is recognised by everyone.” “I believe that a certain number of women like this could help rid the Curia of clericalism and careerism which is a terrible vice,” the cardinal said.Speaking about careerism in the Curia, Kasper said “fixed-term roles could be a solution to this. People with pastoral experience with experience in dioceses and parishes could be employed and give fixed-term, five-year roles for example. After this, some could stay but all others would go back to the dioceses taking their experience to the local Churches. This could eliminate the problem posed by people who act in such a way as to move up the career ladder.”Finally, Kasper asked himself whether it was necessary for “all secretaries of Vatican dicasteries to be bishops.” “There is a high concentration of bishops in the Curia today,” the cardinal noted. “Many are bureaucrats and this is not good. Bishops are pastors. Episcopal consecration is not an honorary title, it is a sacrament; it is to do with the Church’s sacramental structure. So why must a bishop carry out bureaucratic tasks? This is where the sacraments risk being violated in my opinion.”

33 DEAD IN CHINA MASS MURDER STABBINGS-SAID TO BE TERRORIST ATTACK

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.

MURDER

JEREMIAH 1:5
5  Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee;(GOD ORDAINED OR LIVES BEFORE WE WERE EVEN CREATED IN A WOMANS BODY)(GOD NEVER CREATED ANYONE HOMOSEXUAL)(AND THIS TELLS US ABORTION IS MURDER) and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

GENESIS 4:8-11 (THE FIRST MURDER)
8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

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

JOHN 8:44
44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

EXODUS 20:13
13 Thou shalt not kill.(Murder)(THAT INCLUDES ABORTION)

MATTHEW 18:6
6  But whoso shall offend (HURT) one of these little ones (CHILDREN) which believe in me,(JESUS) it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY FOLKS)

EXODUS 21:12
12 He that smiteth (MURDER)a man,(OR BABY) so that he die, shall be surely put to death.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY PEOPLE)

REVELATION 9:20-21
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,(OCCULT) and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,(DRUG ADDICTIONS) nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)

China blames separatists for knife attack; 33 dead

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KUNMING, China (AP) — More than 10 assailants slashed scores of people with knives at a train station in southern China in what officials said Sunday was a terrorist assault by ethnic separatists from the far west. Twenty-nine slash victims and four attackers were killed and 143 people wounded.Police fatally shot four of the assailants, captured one and were searching for the others following the attack late Saturday at the Kunming train station in Yunnan province, the official Xinhua News Agency said. State broadcaster CCTV said at least two of the attackers were women — one of the slain and the one who was captured and later brought to a hospital for treatment.Witnesses described assailants dressed in black storming the train station and slashing people indiscriminately with large knives and machetes.Student Qiao Yunao, 16, was waiting to catch a train at the station when people started crying out and running, and then saw a man cut another man's neck, drawing blood."I was freaking out, and ran to a fast food store, and many people were running in there to take refuge," she told The Associated Press via Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblog. "I saw two attackers, both men, one with a watermelon knife and the other with a fruit knife. They were running and chopping whoever they could."The attackers' identities have not been confirmed, but evidence at the scene showed that it was "a terrorist attack carried out by Xinjiang separatist forces," Xinhua quoted the municipal government as saying.Xinhua said that in addition to the four attackers who died, 29 civilians were killed and 143 wounded.A heavy contingent of armed police patrolled in and around the railway station Sunday afternoon, but its ticket window was back in operation and cleanup crews disinfected the area with spray. A local woman laid a bunch of yellow lilies and other flowers near a bull statue in front of the station."This is to express our condolences for the victims and to show we have no fear in the face of violence," said the woman, who gave her name only as Guo.The far western region of Xinjiang is home to a simmering rebellion against Chinese rule by some members of the Muslim Uighur (pronounced WEE'-gur) population, and the government has responded with heavy-handed security.Most attacks blamed on Uighur separatists take place in Xinjiang, where clashes between ethnic Uighurs and members of China's ethnic Han majority are frequent, but Saturday's assault happened more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) to the southeast in Yunnan, which has not had a history of such unrest.However, a suicide car attack blamed on three ethnic Uighurs that killed five people, including the attackers, at Beijing's Tiananmen Gate in October raised alarms that militants could be changing tactics and aiming to strike at soft targets elsewhere in China.Sean Roberts, a cultural anthropologist at George Washington University who has studied Uighurs and China for two decades, said the Kunming violence would be a new kind of attack for ethnic Uighurs — premeditated and outside Xinjiang — but still rudimentary in weaponry."If it is true that it was carried out by Uighurs, it's much different than anything we've seen to date," Roberts said by phone.But he added that it is still unclear whether there is any organized Uighur militant group, and that attacks so far do not appear linked to any "global terrorist network, because we're not seeing things like sophisticated explosives or essentially sophisticated tactics."In an indication of how seriously authorities viewed the attack — one of China's deadliest in recent years — the country's top police official, Politburo member Meng Jianzhu, arrived in Kunming on Sunday and went straight to the hospital to visit the wounded, Xinhua reported.The violence in Kunming came at a sensitive time, with political leaders in Beijing preparing for Wednesday's opening of the annual legislature, where the government of President Xi Jinping will deliver its first one-year work report.Xi called for "all-out efforts" to bring the culprits to justice. In a statement, the Security Management Bureau under the Ministry of Public Security said that police will "crack down the crimes in accordance with the law without any tolerance."Willy Lam, a political observer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said the attack coming so close to the annual National People's Congress dented Xi's message of a "Chinese Dream" coalescing under his rule."Pockets of dissatisfaction, groups of people with grievances, appear to be increasing. After 1 1/2 years of more heavy-handed control (in Xinjiang), the report card does not look good," Lam said.The attack was the deadliest violence attributed to Uighur-Han conflicts since riots in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi in 2009, in which Uighurs stormed the streets of the city, targeting Han people in seemingly random violence that included killing women and children. A few days later, Han vigilante mobs armed with sticks and bats attacked Uighurs in the same city. Nearly 200 people died.___Associated Press writers Ian Mader, Gillian Wong and Louise Watt and video producer Aritz Parra in Beijing, and researcher Fu Ting in Shanghai, contributed to this report.

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2  (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3  And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

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

The failure is complete: One-time Bitcoin king Mt. Gox is bankrupt

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Who would thought that a former online Magic Card market wouldn’t be a safe place to invest your money? The Wall Street Journal reports that Mt. Gox, which until last week had been the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, has filed for bankruptcy. Mt. Gox admitted on Friday that it had lost around 750,000 of its customers’ Bitcoins along with 100,000 of its own Bitcoins, which the Journal estimates all have a combined worth of $473 million.Mt. Gox, which is an acronym for “Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange,” halted all transactions earlier this month after it apparently discovered that someone had been slowly robbing it of Bitcoins for years. Apparently a hacker figured out a way to withdraw Bitcoins from Mt. Gox and then send a message to the exchange letting it know that the transaction had not been processed. As a result, Mt. Gox would send the hacker another Bitcoin, which meant that the exchange’s reserves were being bled to death coin by coin.“There was some weakness in the system, and the Bitcoins have disappeared,” Mt. Gox owner Mark Karpelès told the press on Friday. “I apologize for causing trouble.”
Mt. Gox’s bankruptcy announcement came just after some within the Bitcoin community had pondered raising cash to bail out the troubled exchange. As Forbes contributor Jasper Hamill reported on Thursday, some Bitcoin true believers had started talking about the possibility of injecting cash into Mt. Gox much just as the federal government had done back in 2008 with similarly collapsing financial institutions as part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).However, this never-to-be-hatched bailout plan was apparently met with stiff resistance from some of the more libertarian-minded Bitcoiners out there who said that Bitcoin would rise again from the ashes even after its biggest exchange had crumbled into ashes.“If anybody dares to bailout Mt. Gox, they shall be excommunicated from crypto forever,” wrote one Bitcoin devotee flagged by Hamill.More from BGR: Apple has the size, Google has the momentum, but the smart money has been on BlackBerry in 2014

FAMINE

EZEKIEL 5:16
16  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

REVELATION 6:5-6
5 And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.(A DAYS WAGES FOR A LOAF OF BREAD)

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: 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, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

California soaked but little drought help, damage

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AZUSA, Calif. (AP) — A storm that brought some of the highest rainfall totals to the Los Angeles area in years, including eight inches on some mountains, was just the beginning of what the region needs to pull out of a major drought.Although the storm was expected to remain strong Saturday, forecasters said such systems would have to become common for the state to make serious inroads against the drought."We need several large storms and we just don't see that on the horizon," National Weather Service meteorologist Eric Boldt said Friday. "This is a rogue storm. We will dry out next week."Forecasters expected the storm to last through Saturday in California before trundling east into similarly rain-starved neighboring states. Phoenix was expecting its first noticeable precipitation in two months. The storm was projected to head east across the Rockies before petering out in the Northeast in several days.Southern California has so far been spared major damage from the powerful Pacific storm, but forecasters warn that intense rain will occur even as it begins to move east.A burst of heavy showers before dawn Saturday impacted wildfire-scarred mountainsides above foothill suburbs east of Los Angeles, causing another round of mud and debris flows in the city of Glendora.The National Weather Service says the center of the system located off the coast will move across Southern California to exit the region, but bands of intense rain will still occur.The system has been so volatile that the weather service issued a 3:30 a.m. tornado warning for east-central Los Angeles County when radar showed the rotation signature of a tornado and severe thunderstorms.In Azusa and neighboring foothill communities about 25 miles east of Los Angeles that sit beneath nearly 2,000 acres of steep mountain slopes that just weeks ago were menaced by a wildfire, about 1,200 homes were under evacuation orders Friday over mudflow fears but were so-far spared.In particular danger were about a dozen homes in Azusa that were backed up against a steep fire-denuded hillside several hundred feet high that authorities feared could collapse.Muddy water swept down the hillside earlier in the day, spreading about two feet of ooze above one backyard, although fencing walls and an orchard of about 5,000 avocado trees behind the development stopped most serious debris.Despite the urging of police and fire officials who cleared reporters and others out of the neighborhood as the hill grew more saturated, at least a few residents decided to stay on.Dennis Sanderson, 50, said his reaction to the evacuation order was "we'll ride it out," but by nightfall he was undecided and keeping an eye on the weather because of forecasts for more rainfall. About 13 homes were evacuated Friday night in Palmdale in northern Los Angeles County, where a mudslide closed a major road.Thunder echoed and hard rain fell late Friday night on Hollywood, which was abuzz with preparations for Sunday evening's Academy Awards and hopes the rain will have moved on by then as expected.Rainfall totals in parts of California were impressive, especially in areas that typically don't receive much, but not nearly enough to offer long-term relief from a long-running drought.Three inches fell on Bel Air and Pasadena, and an urban flash-flood warning that was sent to cell phones was called late Friday night for central Los Angeles County.For the first time in nearly three years, downtown Los Angeles received more than 2 inches — doubling its total for the rainy season that began in July, the National Weather Service said. Yet the city remained 7 inches below the normal 11 inches.Meanwhile to the east in San Bernardino County, a levee failed and put eight houses in danger of serious flooding, but county fire crews were working to protect them and no evacuations were ordered.Forecasters expected the storm to last through Saturday in California before trundling east into similarly rain-starved neighboring states. Phoenix was expecting its first noticeable precipitation in two months. The storm was projected to head east across the Rockies before petering out in the Northeast in several days.Rain also fell along the central coast, the San Francisco Bay area and Central Valley.Winter storm warnings were in effect in the Sierra Nevada. About 15 inches of new snow had fallen by mid-day Friday at the University of California, Berkeley's Central Sierra Snow Lab located at 6,900 feet elevation.A tornado warning was issued for Sacramento, Yolo and Sutter counties Friday night but was canceled soon after.Farmer Ray Gene Veldhuis, who grows almonds, walnuts and pistachios and runs a 2,300-cow dairy in the Central Valley's Merced County, welcomed the wet weather but knew it would not rescue California from drought."Hopefully, they keep coming," Veldhuis said of the storms. "If not, we'll deal with the hand we're dealt."Numerous traffic accidents occurred on slick or flooded roads across California, including one about 60 miles east of Los Angeles involving a big rig whose driver died after falling from a freeway overpass.Power outages hit about 32,000 customers, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and Southern California Edison said.The storm was good news for other Californians who didn't have to worry about mudslides.Kite-surfer Chris Strong braved pelting rain to take advantage of strong winds that gave him about an hour of fun over the pounding surf in Huntington Beach.
"I don't get to kite here in these conditions very often — only a handful of times — but you put them in the memory bank," he said.___Contact Justin Pritchard at https://twitter.com/lalanewsman-___Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Sue Manning, Alicia Chang and John Antczak in Los Angeles, Martha Mendoza in Santa Cruz, Sudhin Thanawala in San Francisco, Fenit Nirappil and Don Thompson in Sacramento, Scott Smith in Fresno, Gillian Flaccus in Huntington Beach and Julie Watson in San Diego. Pritchard reported from Los Angeles.

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide

24 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2014-03-02 06:57:32 UTC-05:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-05:00)24 earthquakes in map area
  1. 5.3 296km W of Puerto Chacabuco, Chile 2014-03-02 06:14:39 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
  2. 4.9 57km NW of Pangai, Tonga 2014-03-02 05:42:25 UTC-05:00 11.4 km
  3. 4.3 34km SW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua 2014-03-02 05:29:17 UTC-05:00 75.3 km
  4. 5.2 280km W of Puerto Chacabuco, Chile 2014-03-02 05:12:21 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
  5. 6.2 23km WSW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua 2014-03-02 04:37:56 UTC-05:00 72.6 km
  6. 3.3 132km SSW of King Salmon, Alaska 2014-03-02 04:25:16 UTC-05:00 99.5 km
  7. 4.9 West Chile Rise 2014-03-02 03:52:15 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
  8. 5.0 133km WSW of Kota Ternate, Indonesia 2014-03-02 03:50:04 UTC-05:00 40.0 km
  9. 2.6 3km NNW of Aromas, California 2014-03-02 03:20:56 UTC-05:00 10.3 km
  10. 2.6 34km NNW of Tierras Nuevas Poniente, Puerto Rico 2014-03-02 UTC-05:00 37.0 km
  11. 4.4 172km NNW of Hirara, Japan 2014-03-02 00:27:15 UTC-05:00 204.8 km
  12. 4.3 8km WNW of Karatas, Turkey 2014-03-01 23:26:00 UTC-05:00 10.0 km
  13. 3.2 12km ESE of Luther, Oklahoma 2014-03-01 23:21:46 UTC-05:00 8.0 km
  14. 2.7 65km N of Arecibo, Puerto Rico 2014-03-01 22:57:39 UTC-05:00 42.0 km
  15. 3.1 33km SSW of Ferndale, California 2014-03-01 22:01:25 UTC-05:00 7.1 km
  16. 2.7 33km SSW of Ferndale, California 2014-03-01 21:56:37 UTC-05:00 6.5 km
  17. 3.1 23km W of Anchor Point, Alaska 2014-03-01 19:29:09 UTC-05:00 61.7 km
  18. 2.7 101km NNE of Arctic Village, Alaska 2014-03-01 13:56:51 UTC-05:00 18.1 km
  19. 2.9 20km ENE of West Yellowstone, Montana 2014-03-01 13:44:39 UTC-05:00 1.1 km
  20. 2.6 89km E of Akutan, Alaska 2014-03-01 13:10:18 UTC-05:00 77.6 km
  21. 4.3 71km E of Miyako, Japan 2014-03-01 09:57:58 UTC-05:00 92.5 km
  22. 2.8 59km S of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico 2014-03-01 09:07:27 UTC-05:00 28.0 km
  23. 2.7 52km N of Road Town, British Virgin Islands 2014-03-01 08:19:09 UTC-05:00 32.0 km
  24. 4.3 82km NE of Amahai, Indonesia 2014-03-01 07:55:29 UTC-05:00 42.4 km

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