SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS OR GAYS OR HOMOSEXUALS ARE STILL SEEN AS MENTALLY ILL DISEASED IN THEIR MINDS IN PARTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION.I CALL IT AN ABOMINATION AND REBELLION AGAINST GODS WORD.

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.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

DANIEL 7:23-24
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)

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

Diversity: EU commission 'doesn't look like Europe' By Peter Teffer-MAR 16,16-EUOBSERVER

Strasbourg, Today, 09:11-Kristalina Georgieva still has quite a road to travel to meet her boss's required target on gender equality.But the European commissioner in charge of human resources said the commission has made “very good progress” towards Jean-Claude Juncker's goal of achieving a 40 percent share of female representation in the institution's senior management.When the current commission started its work in November 2014, there were six female directors-general in the EU's administration. As of Wednesday (16 March), there will be eight. Women will then represent 22 percent of the directors-general, the level of management below commissioner.“Most importantly”, there will now be 12 female deputy directors-general - 29 percent, the commissioner told EUobserver in an interview in her office in Strasbourg during the last European Parliament plenary session.“I'm very proud that we have quadrupled this number from three to 12,” said Georgieva, adding that the deputies may become directors-general in the future.“It was not so difficult to do, because there are so many wonderful, talented, competent women in the commission at the level of directors, and at the level of heads of units.”The progress however cannot mask the fact that there is still a great gender imbalance in EU institutions.In the EU Council, which represents national governments, 24 percent of its senior management is female - already an improvement compared with 2006, when that figure was at 16 percent.The European Parliament increased its share of political members slightly, from 35.8 percent to 37 percent in the 2014 elections, but at the management level the female representation is smaller.A third of the directors-general in the European Parliament are female, and only 29.2 percent of the directors, which is below a 2009 target set by parliament 10 years ago.At the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), only one in four senior managers are female.That is not because women are not interested in working in Brussels. On the contrary, at the EESC 62.5 percent of the staff are women.One of the reasons is that women need more encouragement to apply for managerial positions, said Georgieva, who under the previous commission (2010-2014) held the post of humanitarian aid commissioner.“Say you have a job in which there are six criteria, and you have two candidates. One is a man, one is a woman. They both meet three of the criteria,” she said.“The man says: hey, I meet half of the criteria, plus I bring my wonderful self to this job. The woman says: well, I only meet three criteria, maybe this is not the job for me.”The commissioner added that a woman would not receive a promotion for just being female.“If you had a situation in which we have two candidates, a man and a woman, and the man is the better candidate, of course we would give the man the job,” she said.“But if they are equal, all other things equal, at this point of time we would give preference to the woman.”-Good economics-However, the Bulgarian politician stressed that diversity was “not about percentages”.“It is about making organisations more productive, more effective,” she said.“The evidence is unquestionable: countries, companies, organisations that are more diverse and where women play their fair share across the ranks, are more effective, more productive. Gender is good economics.”The commissioner, who also has the EU budget and budgetary control in her portfolio, added that a more equal gender balance also improves the commission's ability to take decisions.“You have different perspectives. They are equally valuable, but of course you enhance your decision-making process,” she noted.Georgieva added when she first presented the 40 percent mandatory target, many male directors-general said discussions in a more gender-balanced room were "more inclusive" and "more sensitive to different points of view".-Setting the example-There is another reason why Georgieva believes the top management of the EU's executive body should have a more balanced gender composition.“We have a responsibility in the commission to lead in Europe,” she said.“We promote gender equality among member states. We have to set an example.”The current college of 28 EU commissioners is still a largely male affair. It consists of nine women and 19 men - 32 percent of the commissioners are female.The commission itself cannot be blamed for that - commissioners are put forward by member states, and a majority of them ignored the 2014 call from commissioner president Jean-Claude Juncker to send women to Brussels.But what the commissioners can influence themselves, is the composition of their cabinets. Georgieva pointed out that 42 percent of heads of cabinet and their deputies are now women - Georgieva herself has a female head of cabinet.Despite her argument that more gender balance is good for the decision-making process, Georgieva told this website she could not think of a moment in the college of commissioner's weekly meeting where she had wished for a larger share of female voices.“I'm running through my brain yesterday's discussion, yesterday's college, and there were more women that took the floor than men,” said Georgieva at Wednesday's (9 March) interview.“That doesn't mean that this is how it is every time, but we certainly have very active women.”-'We don't look like London'-And what about role models in other areas of diversity? Georgieva could not think of one commissioner, in the current administration or the previous one, who was openly gay. That would make Peter Mandelson (2004-2008) not only the first, but so far the only openly gay EU commissioner.And while the college of commissioners is now 32 percent female, it is still 100 percent white.“Indeed, not only the college: you walk the corridors of the commission: we don't look like Amsterdam, or London, or The Hague, or Paris,” said Georgieva.“For fairness, we have some of our member states where diversity is much more limited, especially the new member states, in terms of ethnic diversity, or even religious diversity. But … we don't look like Europe. This is something we have to actively address.”However, she added promoting diversity was “not easy” because the commission was currently a “shrinking organisation” - by the end of 2017 it has to have cut staff by five percent.

The DNA Results for Knife Found Buried on OJ Simpson's Estate Are in-Mic By Chris Riotta-March 15, 2016 12:20 PM-YAHOONEWS

Another break came for O.J. Simpson after a knife found buried in the backyard of his former estate and reportedly containing DNA fragments was turned over to police earlier this month. Test results indicate no information or DNA evidence could be derived from the handle or blade of the knife as soil in the ground where the knife was originally discovered depleted any trace of human contact, TMZ reported Tuesday.The LAPD opened an investigation into the newly discovered knife after a retired cop who was off-duty when a construction worker near Simpson’s yard handed him the knife. The officer originally planned on keeping the weapon after his January retirement from the force, and had kept it in his house possibly since 1998. What’s more, TMZ suggested Tuesday no other leads could be found in the Los Angeles Police Department’s investigation into the knife, including any possible hair samples. The LAPD released a statement reporting the lead investigator has yet to receive such information from the lab, though TMZ originally broke the story of the five inch blade being discovered before the police force commented on the matter, as Mic previously reported. Though the tests might have been inconclusive in finding any DNA samples, the knife is the first discovery of possible new evidence in the O.J. Simpson trial since the case ended in 1995. It comes right as FX’s critically successful The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story is airing.

Obama sanctions NKorea for nuclear, missile tests-Associated Press-MAR 16,16-YAHOONEWS

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is imposing new sanctions against North Korea in response to recent "illicit" nuclear and ballistic missile tests.White House press secretary Josh Earnest announced the president's decision on Wednesday.Earnest says the new unilateral sanctions will allow the U.S. to implement sanctions unanimously agreed to by the U.N. Security Council.North Korea said it tested a hydrogen bomb in January. It followed that with the launch of a ballistic missile last month.Earnest says the new sanctions are consistent with a longstanding commitment by the U.S. to keep pressure on North Korea. He says the U.S. and its allies will continue to impose costs on North Korea until it meets its international obligations.

North Korea sentences US tourist to 15 years in prISON-Associated Press By JON CHOL JIN and ERIC TALMADGE-MAR 16,16-YAHOONEWS

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea's highest court sentenced an American tourist to 15 years in prison with hard labor for subversion on Wednesday, weeks after authorities presented him to media and he tearfully confessed that he had tried to steal a propaganda banner.Otto Warmbier, 21, a University of Virginia undergraduate, was convicted and sentenced in a one-hour trial in North Korea's Supreme Court.The U.S. government condemned the sentence and accused North Korea of using such American detainees as political pawns.The court held that Warmbier had committed a crime "pursuant to the U.S. government's hostile policy toward (the North), in a bid to impair the unity of its people after entering it as a tourist."North Korea regularly accuses Washington and Seoul of sending spies to overthrow its government to enable the U.S.-backed South Korean government to take control of the Korean Peninsula.Tensions are particularly high following North Korea's recent nuclear test and rocket launch, and massive joint military exercises now underway between the U.S. and South Korea that the North sees as a dress rehearsal for invasion.President Barack Obama on Wednesday imposed new U.S. sanctions on North Korea in response to what the White House called "illicit" nuclear and ballistic missile tests.U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Warmbier's sentence was "unduly harsh" and urged North Korea to pardon him and release him on humanitarian grounds."Despite official claims that U.S. citizens arrested in the DPRK are not used for political purposes, it's increasingly clear from its very public treatment of these cases that the DPRK does exactly that," Toner told reporters, referring to the North by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.Warmbier's family in Wyoming, Ohio, could not be reached for comment. Susanna Max, a spokeswoman for Wyoming City Schools, said last month that the district, where Otto Warmbier attended school, had been in touch with the family. She said Wednesday that the district continues "to respect their privacy" and declines to comment. The University of Virginia also declined to comment.Before the trial, Warmbier had said he tried to steal a propaganda banner as a trophy for an acquaintance who wanted to hang it in her church. That would be grounds in North Korea for a subversion charge. He identified the church as Friendship United Methodist Church. Meshach Kanyion, pastor of the church in Wyoming, declined to comment Wednesday.Ohio Gov. and Republican presidential hopeful John Kasich said in a statement that Warmbier's was detention "completely unjustified" and that the sentence was "an affront to concepts of justice."Bill Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said he had met with North Korean diplomats to the U.N. in New York on Tuesday to request Warmbier's release after the student's parents and Kasich asked him to intervene. Richardson said he was neither encouraged nor discouraged by the meeting with the diplomats, who told him they would relay his request to Pyongyang.Richardson said based on past experience, North Korea could release Warmbier after sentencing, but current U.S.-North Korean tensions could hurt those prospects."My concern now is that the U.S.-North Korean relationship is in a very low, negative ebb, and I hope that does not affect a humanitarian negotiation for the release of Otto," Richardson told The Associated Press.Trials for foreigners facing similar charges in North Korea are generally short and punishments severe. Warmbier was arrested as he tried to leave the country in early January. He was in North Korea with a New Year's tour group.U.S. tourism to North Korea is legal. Arrests of tourists are rare but the State Department strongly advises against such travel.Further complicating matters, Washington and Pyongyang do not have diplomatic relations. The Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang acts as a go-between in consular issues when U.S. citizens run afoul of North Korean authorities.North Korea announced Warmbier's arrest in late January, saying he committed an anti-state crime with "the tacit connivance of the U.S. government and under its manipulation." It remains unclear how the U.S. government was allegedly connected to Warmbier's actions.Warmbier had been staying at the Yanggakdo International Hotel. It is common for sections of tourist hotels to be reserved for North Korean staff and off-limits to foreigners.In a tearful statement made before his trial, Warmbier told a gathering of reporters in Pyongyang he was offered a used car worth $10,000 if he could get a propaganda banner and was also told that if he was detained and didn't return, $200,000 would be paid to his mother in the form of a charitable donation.Warmbier said he accepted the offer because his family was "suffering from very severe financial difficulties."Warmbier also said he had been encouraged by the university's "Z Society," which he said he was trying to join. The magazine of the university's alumni association describes the Z Society as a "semi-secret ring society" founded in 1892 that conducts philanthropy, puts on honorary dinners and grants academic awards.In previous cases, people who have been detained in North Korea and made a public confession often recant those statements after their release.In the past, North Korea has held out until senior U.S. officials or statesmen came to personally bail out detainees, all the way up to former President Bill Clinton, whose visit in 2009 secured the freedom of American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling.In November 2014, U.S. spy chief James Clapper went to Pyongyang to bring home Matthew Miller, who had ripped up his visa when entering the country and was serving a six-year sentence on an espionage charge, and Korean-American missionary Kenneth Bae, who had been sentenced to 15 years for alleged anti-government activities.Jeffrey Fowle, another U.S. tourist from Ohio detained for six months at about the same time as Miller, was released just before that and sent home on a U.S. government plane. Fowle left a Bible in a local club hoping a North Korean would find it, which is considered a criminal offense in North Korea.___Eric Talmadge, the AP's Pyongyang bureau chief, contributed to this report from Tokyo. AP writers Lisa Cornwell in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Sarah Brumfield and Matthew Pennington in Washington, D.C., also contributed to this story.

HOMOSEXUALS.(SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS)

LEVITICUS 20:13
13  If a man also lie with mankind,(ANOTHER MAN) as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

LEVITICUS 18:22
22  Thou shalt not lie with mankind,(ANOTHER MAN) as with womankind: it is abomination.

2 TIMOTHY 3:3
3 Without natural affection,(HOMOSEXUALS) trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

1 CORINTHIANS 6:9,
9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate,(HARDENED SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERRS) nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

PSALMS 14:1
1  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

ROMANS 1:18-32
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:(HOMOSEXUALITY,AND ALL SEX SINS)
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:(LESBIENS)
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly,(SODOMITES) and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.(AIDS ETC)
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

GOD CREATED THEM MALE AND FEMALE IN MARRIAGE

GENESIS 1:27-28
27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply,(HAVE LOTS OF CHILDREN) and replenish the earth,(HOMOSEXUALS CAN NOT REPLENISH THE EARTH WITH CHILDREN)(BY HAVING SEX WITH EACH OTHER) and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

GENESIS 2:21-24
21  And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22  And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23  And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24  Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

MATTHEW 19:4-6
4  And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
5  And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6  Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Homosexuality still seen as a disease in parts of EU-By Andrew Rettman-MAR 16,16-EUOBSERVER

BRUSSELS, Today, 19:05-Homosexuality is seen as a form of disease by many healthcare workers in central Europe whose job it is to help gay people, according to a new survey.The Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), an EU office in Vienna, said in a report on Wednesday (16 March) that the problem is at its worst in Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.“We consider that these illnesses are generated by the fact that these people had an unhappy incident during childhood,” a Romanian nurse said in one example given by the FRA study.She said most staff in hospitals see gay people as being “plague-stricken.”Large numbers of medical staff intereviewed by the FRA in the countries listed spoke of people “catching” homosexuality and of it being a “disorder.”In Romania, half of the professionals interviewed viewed homosexuality as a mental disorder even though the World Health Organisation said authoritatively in 1992 that it isn’t.“Several Bulgarian healthcare professionals reported that LGB [lesbian, gay, and bisexual] patients were regularly mocked and verbally abused,” the FRA report said.“A few respondents used negative language during the interview - for example, the Bulgarian word педераст [meaning ‘faggot’].”Transgender people encountered the worst prejudice. One transgender woman who wanted to undergo castration was rejected by every hospital in Slovakia.“In Nitra [a town in western Slovakia] they first admitted her and later discharged her on the grounds of the following argument: ‘We shall not support paedophiles’,” a Slovak doctor said.-Replicated-The FRA interviewed more than 1,000 healthcare professionals, civil servants responsible for justice and equality issues, police officers, and teaching staff in 19 EU states.The prejudice seen in the healthcare sector in central Europe and in Italy was often replicated in other institutions.“An official in Bulgaria laughed out loud when asked about a national action plan on LGBT non-discrimination,” the FRA survey said.Another Bulgarian official said Sofia’s plan is to “pull the wool over the international community’s eyes” in terms of implementing EU anti-discrimination laws.A Romanian civil servant denigrated the idea of same-sex marriage, saying it’s “bizarre … Maternal love is something else, even though in a relationship between two gay persons one is passive and the other is active.”A Slovak official said same-sex marriage rights are “number 10,000” on the country’s list of priorities.A Slovak police officer said: “I have encountered LGBT police officers during my visit of French police offices. In Slovakia, I cannot imagine that. If it was a man, it would very likely threaten his career.”An Italian policeman said: “I admit that I find sex between two men repulsive, which probably originates from my cultural background, characterised by a strong religious influence.”“In spite of that, I know I have to behave in a suitable way when dealing with LGBT persons. But I need to work on it: maybe unconsciously my repulsion causes me to consider some claims less seriously.”-Religion-Some respondents linked the situation to the authority of the Roman Catholic and Christian Orthodox church in the region.“As long as the Orthodox Church has this very strong position, it is hard for me to imagine that the European Union will deeply influence the issue,” a Romanian civil servant said.But people in Ireland, Malta and Poland said that the Catholic Church makes efforts to promote "better understanding" of gay people.Officials in France and the Netherlands said that some interpretations of Islam have had a negative impact.The FRA found that “EU legal and policy developments (including EU-funded initiatives) were important in encouraging member states to undertake additional steps” in terms of taking better care of gay people.Ilga-Europe, a gay rights NGO based in Brussels said the survey should encourage EU intsitutions to do more.“If EU-driven legislation is helping at national level, why stop now? Unblock the Equal Treatment Directive. Fill the gap that currently exists in European hate crime legislation by extending it to people on the grounds of their sexual orientation and gender identity,” the NGO said in a statement on Wednesday.

OBAMA WANTS TO NOMINATE A LONE WOLF EXTREMIST-ANTI CHRISTIAN JUDGE TO THE SUPREME COURT BY THE NAME OF MERRICK GARLAND.

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.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

SUNNI-ARAB-MUSLIM OBAMA NOMINATES JUDGE MERRICK GARLAND TO THE SUPREME COURT FOR THE 9TH JUSTICE TO REPLACE SCALIA WHO DIED.OBAMA WILL USE THIS NOMINATION TO BLAME THE REPUBLICANS FOR NOT OBEYING THE CONSTITUTION.AND PUTTING HIS ELECTED JUDGE ON THE SUPREME COURT.-stripes.com-OBAMA IS THE ONE WITH THE MEDIA THAT HAS BEEN RACE BAITING AMERICANS AGAINST EACH OTHER.BUT IN HIS SPEECH TODAY HE SAID GARLAND WILL BRING AMERICANS TOGETHER AGAIN.

JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA HERE DIED RECENTLY.AND OBAMA NOMINATED GARLAND TO BE HIS SUCCESSOR.-abcnews.go.com

WHITEHOUSE OBAMA-GARLAND NOMINEE SPEECH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UYE-KPK2hY

UPDATE-MARCH 16,2016-11:50AM
OBAMA HAS JUST NIMINATED MERRICK GARLAND FOR THE NEXT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE TO REPLACE ANTONIN SCALIA WHO JUST DIED. BUT THIS NOMINEE IS JUST A POLITICAL PLOY BY OBAMA TO TRY TO GET THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS TO VOTE FOR HITLER CLINTON IN THE ELECTIONS-INSTEAD OF TRUMP. SO HITLER AND SANDERS CAN SAY THE REPUBLICANS WILL NOT VOTE FOR THE COURT JUSTICE OBAMA NOMINATED. LIKE THE CONSTITUTION SAYS. BUT THE REPUBLICANS SAID RIGHT AFTER SCALIAS DEATH-THAT THERES NO WAY ANY NOMINEE WILL GET A VOTE. IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE NEXT PRESIDENT ELECTED TO PUT THE NOMINEE IN. NOT OBAMA THE LAME-BRAIN-LAME DUCK PRESIDENT OR OUT GOING ARAB-MUSLIM FROM THE PRESIDENCY.  THERES NO DOUBT THIS JUDGE HAS THE CREDENTIALS. BUT IF YOU HEARD CLOSELY TO OBAMA AND GARLAND. THEY NEVER TALKED ABOUT 9-11. AND 911 WAS THE TERRORIST ATTACK BY MUSLIMS ON AMERICA. NO-OBAMA AND GARLAND TALKED ABOUT THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING INSTEAD WHICH WAS DONE BY LONE WOLF TERRORISTS. AS THE MEDIA-LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT NUTJOBS PUT IT. SO GARLAND IS NOT WORRIED ABOUT MUSLIMS KILLING AMERICANS AS IN NEW YORK. NO-OBAMA-GARLAND ARE WORRIED ABOUT LONE WOLF CHRISTIANS OR JEWS COMMITTING CRIMES SUCH AS ACKNOWLEDGING JESUS AS THE ONLY WAY TO BE SAVED-NO OTHER WAY. ABOUT LONE WOLF EXTREMISTS CHRISTIANS WANTING THE MURDER OF BABIES STOPPED BY STOPPING ABORTIONS. OR NOT ALLOWING SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPERS TO MARRY LIKE GOD SAID A MAN AND A WOMAN ONLY IS TO BE MARRIED. NOT NO ADAM AND STEVE BENT OVER THE TABLE MARRIAGE THAT IS ONLY A LUSTFUL GRATIFICATION OF THE CARNAL FLESH. AND CAN NOT PRODUCE CHILDREN IF A MAN AND A MAN OR A WOMAN AND A WOMAN HAS LUSTFUL SELFISH-CARNAL GRATIFICATION-SEX. BUT ONLY A MAN AND A WOMAN IN A COMMITTED RELATIONSHIP CAN PRODUCE CHILDREN LIKE GOD SAID TO FILL THE EARTH WITH. AND BESIDES IF YOU COULD ONLY DATE YOUR OWN SEX-THERE WOULD NEVER BE CHILDREN AND ALL HUMANS WOULD DIE OFF. SO WE KNOW FOR SURE WHAT KIND OF JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT GARLAND WILL BE LIKE. HE WILL BE A LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT THAT SUCK HOLES UP TO MUSLIMS LIKE THE SUNNI ARAB MUSLIM OBAMA DOES. AND HE WILL BE AGAINST CHRISTIANS RIGHTS IN COURT. AND WILL QUITE OVIOUSLY BE FOR TAKING THE GUNS FROM THE AMERICANS. SO THOSE CRAZY CHRISTIANS CAN NOT BECOME LONE WOLF EXTREMISTS-AND PROTECT THEMSELVES WITH GUNS. AND ALSO GARLAND WILL BE A COMPLETE MUSLIM SUCK UP AND A BLACK SUCKUP WHO WILL VOTE AGAINST POLICE OFFICERS IN THE SUPREME COURT. IF USE COULD NOT TELL THIS BY OBAMA AND GARLANDS SPEECH THIS MORNING. THEN YOU WERE NOT LISTENING CLOSELY WHAT THEY WERE SAYING. AND OVIOUSLY GARLAND WOULD BE BANNING CHRISTIANS FREE SPEECH TO TALK OUT AGAINST MUSLIMS AND GAYS AND ANY SINS. ALL I GOTTA SAY IS THESE REPUBLICANS BETTER NOT EVER ALLOW THIS JUDGE TO BE ELECTED TO THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE. FOR THE GOOD OF CHRISTIANS AND THEIR FREE SPEECH AND IF THEY DO NOT WANNA LOSE THEIR GUNS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES.

Obama nominates Merrick Garland for Supreme Court-Dylan Stableford-Senior editor-March 16, 2016-YAHOONEWS

President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday that he has chosen Merrick Garland, chief justice for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, as his Supreme Court nominee to fill the vacant seat left by the death of Antonin Scalia.Obama introduced Garland as his nominee in an announcement from the White House Rose Garden Wednesday morning.“I’ve selected a nominee who is recognized not only as one of America’s sharpest legal minds, but someone who brings to his work a spirit of decency, honesty, integrity, even-handedness and excellence,” Obama said. “I said I would take this process seriously and I did. I chose a serious man and exemplary judge.”Garland, 63, was a clerk for the late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan and served in the Justice Department in several leadership roles, first as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division and later as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General.After graduating from Harvard Law School, the Illinois-born Garland worked for several years in private practice with a focus on litigation and pro-bono representation of disadvantaged Americans.Obama also highlighted Garland’s work overseeing the federal response to the Oklahoma City bombings.Garland reportedly edged out two other top candidates considered by the president: Sri Srinivasan, a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; and Paul Watford, a judge in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.“This is the greatest honor of my life,” an emotional Garland said, outside of his wife “agreeing to marry me 28 years ago.”“It’s also the greatest gift I’ve ever received except for — another caveat — the birth of our two daughters,” he said. “I know my mother is watching this on television and crying her eyes out.”“I am grateful beyond words for the honor you have bestowed upon me,” Garland told Obama.Following Scalia’s death, Republicans in the Senate had urged President Obama to allow the next president to nominate a replacement and threatened to not consider his pick. But Obama said it is the Senate’s job to do so.“To suggest that someone as qualified and respected as Merrick Garland doesn’t even deserve a hearing let alone an up or down vote, to join an institution as important as our Supreme Court when two-thirds of Americans believe otherwise, that would be unprecedented."I simply ask Republicans in the Senate to give him a fair hearing and then an up or down vote,” Obama continued. “I have fulfilled my constitutional duty. Now it’s time for the Senate to do theirs.”At least one Republican senator is on the record in support of Garland.”[Obama] could easily name Merrick Garland, who is a fine man,“ Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch told the conservative website Newsmax earlier this week. ”[But] probably won’t do that because this appointment is about the election. So I’m pretty sure he’ll name someone the [liberal Democratic base] wants.“In 2010, as the Senate was confirming a successor to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Hatch called Garland as “a consensus nominee.”And while GOP leaders have vowed not to commence confirmation hearings before the November election, there might be room for the Senate to confirm a nominee in the lame-duck period between  between Election Day and the Jan. 20, 2017, inauguration.In a statement released ahead of Obama’s announcement, the president said he had “consulted with legal experts and people across the political spectrum, both inside and outside government” and “reached out to every member of the Senate, who each have a responsibility to do their job and take this nomination just as seriously.”“This is a responsibility I do not take lightly,” the president said in his statement, outlining three principles that “reflect the role the Supreme Court plays in our democracy.“— With Yahoo News chief White House correspondent Olivier Knox contributing reporting. 

THE DOW WAS UP 22 POINTS TUESDAY-YESTERDAY.

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.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

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.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
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.

1 KINGS 10:13-14
13  And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
14  Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

GENESIS 49:16-17
16  Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
17  Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

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)

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

The Shemitah is coming true.Do people not get it? There is a economic crash every 7 years.
1980: Recession
1987: Stock market crash
1994: Bond market crash
2001: 9/11, dot com, recession
2008: Housing crash
2015: See if something will happen-The central banks will be the death of us. Get ready and embrace yourself for the economic collapse.

BANK RELATED INFORMATION
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2015/09/bank-related-links.html 
CURRENCIES
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/currencies
COMMODITIES
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/commodities 

UPDATE-MARCH 16,2016-12:00AM

DOW MARKET WEDNESDAY-MAR 16,2016
09:30AM-13.70-
10:00AM-6.43-
10:30AM-11.10-
11:00AM-12.08
11:30AM-16.16
12:00PM-7.22
12:30PM-6.33
01:00PM-22.91-
01:30PM-37.74-
02:00PM-35.44-
02:30PM-77.33
03:00PM-94.09
03:30PM-78.07
04:00PM-74.23+ 17,325.76 - S&P +11.29 2027.22 - NASDAQ +35.30 4763.97
HIGH +127 LOW -40
TSX +77.82 13,478.13 - GOLD $+18.12 $1,253.52 - OIL $+2.18 $38.52

EARTHQUAKES

EZEKIEL 37:7,11-14
7  So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.(POSSIBLE QUAKE BRINGS ISRAEL BACK TO LIFE-SO NOISE AND SHAKING-QUAKES WILL ALSO DESTROY ISRAELS ENEMIES)
11  Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
12  Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13  And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14  And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

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.

UPDATE-MARCH 16, 2016-11:55PM

1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
28 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2016-03-16 23:59:38 UTCShowing event times using UTC28 earthquakes in map area

    2.7 9km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma 2016-03-16 23:01:09 UTC 6.6 km
    4.7 5km WSW of Maloma, Philippines 2016-03-16 22:46:29 UTC 10.0 km
    3.3 27km E of Honaunau-Napoopoo, Hawaii 2016-03-16 21:57:19 UTC 2.7 km
    4.5 160km NNW of Kuril'sk, Russia 2016-03-16 19:01:32 UTC 281.2 km
    2.9 73km W of Anchor Point, Alaska 2016-03-16 18:57:18 UTC 108.9 km
    4.7 109km WNW of Tobelo, Indonesia 2016-03-16 17:32:20 UTC 35.0 km
    3.0 23km WNW of Medford, Oklahoma 2016-03-16 16:02:17 UTC 5.0 km
    3.1 57km W of Amatignak Island, Alaska 2016-03-16 15:17:31 UTC 35.9 km
    3.7 60km ESE of Healy, Alaska 2016-03-16 13:54:00 UTC 8.1 km
    4.9 257km SSW of Kahale, Indonesia 2016-03-16 13:11:27 UTC 10.0 km
    5.6 93km SSW of Sarangani, Philippines 2016-03-16 13:09:52 UTC 10.0 km
    5.1 92km SSW of Sarangani, Philippines 2016-03-16 12:04:57 UTC 41.1 km
    4.9 Central East Pacific Rise 2016-03-16 11:27:48 UTC 10.0 km
    4.7 228km SE of Lambasa, Fiji 2016-03-16 09:35:40 UTC 511.8 km
    5.0 173km E of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands 2016-03-16 09:24:23 UTC 10.0 km
    5.0 West of Macquarie Island 2016-03-16 09:13:36 UTC 10.0 km
    2.6 1km NW of Potala Pastillo, Puerto Rico 2016-03-16 08:51:58 UTC 14.0 km
    3.0 10km NE of Cherokee, Oklahoma 2016-03-16 05:31:28 UTC 6.6 km
    2.9 61km N of Hatillo, Puerto Rico 2016-03-16 04:46:54 UTC 27.0 km
    5.2 65km NW of Illapel, Chile 2016-03-16 03:49:33 UTC 22.4 km
    2.6 76km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska 2016-03-16 02:53:48 UTC 96.2 km
    4.9 109km E of Miyako, Japan 2016-03-16 00:24:53 UTC 23.0 km
    3.5 75km N of Chirikof Island, Alaska 2016-03-15 23:51:49 UTC 32.9 km

STOCK MARKET AND EARTHQUAKE NEWS

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RUSSIA ANNOUNCES SURPRISE WITHDRAWL FROM SYRIA.

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.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37  For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)

ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11  In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12  Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13  The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14  And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD KILLED IN OVERNIGHT RAID) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.

AMOS 1:5
5  I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.(I belive ISIS-DAMASCUS GET NUKED BY ISRAEL)

JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23  Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24  Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25  How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27  And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

Russia's Lavrov says agrees to try to resume flights with Egypt in shortest time-[Reuters]-March 16, 2016-YAHOONEWS

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday at talks with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry that they had agreed to make efforts on resuming direct flights between Russia and Egypt in the shortest possible period of time.Lavrov added at a news conference that flights would be resumed if the highest level of security was provided.(Reporting by Dmitry Solovyov; Writing by Alexander Winning)

Russia announces surprise withdrawal from Syria By Eszter Zalan-EUOBSERVER

BRUSSELS, 15. Mar, 09:27-Russian forces are preparing to leave Syria five and a half months after they began to bomb targets in what they called an anti-terror operation, but what Western governments condemned as a mission to help prop up President Bashar al-Assad.Western officials cautiously welcomed the move by the Kremlin, which came after a telephone conversation between President Vladimir Putin and Assad on Monday (14 March)."The leaders noted that the actions of the Russian air force had allowed them to radically change the situation in the fight against terrorism, to disorganise the fighters' infrastructure and inflict significant damage on them," the Kremlin said in a statement.Russia’s bombing campaign started on 30 September last year. It helped Assad's troops to recapture territory from rebels.Russian aircraft flew more than 9,000 sorties, with media reports claiming their attacks caused civilian casualties and often targeted rebel-held areas despite the stated aim of anti-terrorism.-Deadlock on Assad-No details were given on how many planes and troops would be withdrawn or the deadline for completing the withdrawal.It is also not clear how many troops Russia has in the Middle Eastern country, US estimates put the number of personnel between 3,000 and 6,000.Russia however will continue to operate its air base in Latakia province in Syria, and its naval base at Tartus.Meanwhile peace talks continue in Geneva, but hopes of a breakthrough are thin as all sides are in a deadlock over the future of Assad.German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Russia’s withdrawal would increase pressure on Assad to negotiate.-Sanctions issue unresolved-Meanwhile on Monday EU foreign ministers discussed relations with Russia for the first time in a year.EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said they had unanimity among the 28 on five broad principles.These include Moscow fully respecting and implementing the Minsk ceasefire accords in Ukraine.They reiterated that the EU would not recognise Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, which the union regards as illegal.The ministers also agreed to boost ties with nations in the former Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and strengthen resilience in areas like energy security.EU countries should engage with Russia on foreign policy issues only where there is a clear EU interest, the ministers said, and the bloc promised to boost contacts with Russian civil society.Although there is agreement on these wide principles, there is reportedly no consensus over whether to renew economic sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine conflict.Hungary and Greece have both said they want to remove the sanctions, which expire at the end of July.They say the measures have failed to change Russian policy and are damaging European economies.

Investigation-Soviet uranium legacy blights eastern EU By Adrian Mogos and Michael Bird-EUOBSERVER

ROMANIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, GERMANY, 15. Mar, 11:49-The Soviet Union mined uranium across its empire for decades, leaving a legacy of environmental damage, social breakdown and widespread health issues. In the first of a two-part investigation, we reveal how the devastating effects are still being felt in Germany, Romania and the Czech Republic.“We live here, with radon [radioactive gas] across the road and with chalk dust from down in the valley – God damn it – it will kill us all,” says 53-year-old Vasile Mocanu, a former miner.He is describing how his life has been trapped between two sources of pollution – a uranium mine and a chalk mine. Baita Plai, an ex-Communist workers’ colony built by the Soviets in the 1950s, lies on the edge of the Transylvanian countryside, 500km north-west of Bucharest.The Soviets exploited uranium at this site – one of the richest reserves in the world – as reparations after World War II, during which the Romanians fought against the USSR. The uranium was first extracted from two surface pits, before the mine moved underground.“For us it was dangerous work,” says another former miner, 74-year-old Florian Covaci. “We travelled an hour to the pit on a bus, then by train underground for 8 km. We were working wet to the skin to make holes in the rock with water. It was like in a labour camp.”Beginning in 2000, the mine slowly declined. The workers left, either voluntarily or were pensioned off. Today most of the apartments in the four blocks in Baita Plai are empty. Just 100 people live there now, but only four are former miners. Nobody wants to live near to slag heaps and noxious mines.In this area, 4.6 million litres of radioactive waste has been deposited. Romania’s track record of cleaning up its uranium legacy is a history of decay, abandonment and ignorance. (There will be more about the multiple failures of public authorities to deal with the issues in the second part of this investigation.)-'Most died younger than 50'-One of the major threats to human health – the risk of cancer from radiation – has not been analysed by Romanian officials so the casualties of cancer due to uranium mining and its legacy in the country are unknown.Vasile Mocanu, who likes to be known as Doru, worked in the uranium mine in Baita Plai for many years, then stayed on as a security guard for a private firm that supervises the mine and deposits of radioactive material.Doru says his body has become used to radioactivity and he hopes “with all his soul” that he will reach a pensionable age, because many of his former colleagues died early.“Many died before they reached 50,” says Doru. “A former colleague recently died at 57. These diseases put many young people in the ground.”Experts agree that radiation causes cancer, and Romania’s ministry of health admits that the main route of radioactive exposure for uranium miners is through inhaling radon, a radioactive gas that has been classified by International Agency for Research on Cancer as carcinogenic to humans.Radon is second only to smoking as a cause of lung cancer, and recent studies have investigated a possible relationship between radon and leukaemia.A study carried out in Baita Plai by researchers from the University of Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca and the University of Cantabria in Santander argued that between 1,000 and 3,000 deaths each year in Romania could be caused by radon.Although those who worked in the mines were at greatest risk, locals in Baita Plai who never set foot in the tunnels are still exposed to radon even while they are in their homes because, as the local mayor explains, Romania allowed materials from uranium mines to be used for buildings in Baita Plai.During the 1960s and 1970s, stones from the mine dumps were used for building foundations, walls, road kerbs and even animal shelters. The waste was also used to build roads in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.However, miners elsewhere in Romania have other theories to explain the early deaths of former miners.-'Those who leave, die'-The Soviet-built former workers’ colony at Ciudanovita in south-west Romania once boasted its own football team - and the stadium is still visible near the entrance to the mine, which is closed with concrete.Now, the population numbers about 300. The school, once filled with children, has only a handful of pupils. Former miners come to the run-down post office to pick up their pensions because the town does not have any ATMs.Behind a housing block, a woman is sleeping next to some crates of beer. A man on a balcony talks to us about radiation. He believes poison from the mine is a fairytale.“I worked in the mine and I have 11 kids. If there had been radiation, I wouldn’t have been making so many,” he says.There is a legend that people who leave the zone become sick and die, while those that stay remain healthy. Two old men, also former miners, drinking beer on a bench say those who left the town died from lung disease. Others, who could not accustom themselves to a life in another place, returned to the town.-Deep contamination-In the Czech Republic, similar to Romania, there is no national strategy for monitoring the health of former miners or locals.“Hundreds of miners died as a consequence of having worked in the uranium mines and the impact on the landscape is among the worst environmental disasters in the Czech Republic,” says a spokesperson for campaign group Association for the Preservation of the Environment (Calla).In Straz pod Ralskem, 100km north of Prague, uranium was extracted between 1967 and 1993 using a process called in-situ leaching (ISL). This involved digging more than 7,000 wells and pumping more than four million tonnes of sulphuric and nitric acid and ammonium into the mine through metal tubes. Uranium was then extracted in solution.But these chemicals leaked from the production area into the nearby river for more than a decade, contaminating millions of litres of underground water close to drinking-water reservoirs.Meanwhile, dozens of hectares of tailings ponds – pools of water designed to hold waste material from the mines – have been left freely accessible to the public. Only a small sign hidden behind some trees warns visitors this is an area exposed to radiation.The estimated cost for repairing the environmental damage – a process known as remediation – is almost €2 billion, with an expected completion date of 2037. In many cases the European Union covers up to 85 percent of the costs of remediation.A local official of Diamo – the state-owned firm responsible for the mines – said that up to September 2015 almost €1 billion had been invested in the region for remediation and liquidation of the former treatment plant.“All the scrap is being verified in terms of radioactive contamination,” explained the official.Josef Jadrny, deputy governor of the Regional Authority of Liberec, said contaminated material was being disposed of in tailings ponds at a rate of 100,000 litres a day.“The contamination in this region is reaching as far as 300m in depth,” he said.-Nature returns-Some 66 sites have been exploited for uranium mining in the Czech Republic, leaving behind 6.33 sq km of tailings ponds. Except Straz pod Ralskem, the only mining production continues at Dolni Rozinka, south-east of Prague, which produces 224 tonnes of uranium per year.Public trains pass daily beneath the Dolni Rozinka plant’s conveyor belts. Beyond a layer of trees many unprotected tailings ponds lie hidden. The plant is due to close in 2017, and nature has already started to take back the land.Agriculture is taking place just metres from sites that were used for decades to dump contaminated waste including concrete, scrap, oil and tyres. A flock of wild ducks is nesting in a tailings pond connected to pipes from which yellow chemicals are pumped.But the Czech authorities now want to build the largest deposit of radioactive waste just a few kilometres away.Diamo also intends to reopen an old mine in Brzkov about 50km west. The town’s mine, which was closed in 2004, boasts good quality uranium.But Brzkov mayor Ales Boril is critical of the move. He describes Dolni Rozinka as a "sad place" and wants to avoid sharing its fate."I am interested in the future of this place and we want to protect the environment, not destroy it," he says.He accuses Diamo of putting pressure on politicians to support their plans.Josef Jadrny, the deputy governor of the Regional Authority of Liberec, says politicians argue that reopening the mines will provide jobs, but they pay no heed to the environment.“It is a political reason why this company survives, not the interests of the people. It’s a Russian system: mine, mine and mine with no care about the environment and health.”Diamo failed to put forward any senior official to reply to these allegations, despite repeated attempts to arrange an interview.-Waste dumps to sand traps-Eastern Germany is often viewed as the best example of remediation following intensive uranium mining. Land from the vast network of Soviet-era mines has been transformed into a spa, golf-course and horticultural exhibition.However, there are still problems.The total amount of uranium mined in East Germany is only surpassed by production in the USSR, the US and Canada. Wismut, a Communist-era institution, ran mines across the Erzebirge mountains and the Vogtland mountains.After German reunification, uranium production was stopped and Wismut passed from Soviet control into the hands of the German state. In the 1990s, Wismut changed its role from a mining company to a business dealing with decommissioning, cleaning up, and rehabilitating uranium mines and processing sites.However, the mining legacy included 48 mine dumps, 311 billion litres of waste rock, 160 billion litres of radioactive sludge, known as tailings, and 15 sq km of waste dumps. Much of this was in or around densely populated areas.The expected cost for cleaning up the mines was estimated at €7.1 billion, of which around €6 billion has already been spent – compared with €20 million so far spent on rehabilitation in Romania.The town of Schlema, once the site of a dump, has been restored as a spa town with a golf course over six sq km of waste dump. Wismut prides itself on having the biggest mining rehabilitation project in the world.However, 3,700 cases of lung cancer among miners in eastern Germnay have been recognised as “occupationally caused” since 1991. A report by Central German Broadcasting (MDR) in 2012 claimed that 100 workers had contracted cancer of the larynx and 2,800 workers suffered from pneumoconiosis, a lung disease often caused by exposure to dust in mines.This indicates that a connection can be made between uranium mining and occupational diseases – a link that has not been explored properly in the Czech Republic, Slovakia or Romania.Nevertheless, there are still issues, says uranium expert Peter Diehl.“In spite of all the planning and expertise applied, there have occurred odd failures, such as slumping slope covers and excessive radon releases from drying waste pile covers,” says Diehl, referring to inadequate attempts to cover radioactive waste.“In the waste rock pile covers of Schlema, there has been rising radon emissions from Wismut's reclaimed waste rock piles.”He said these radon emissions had led to public doses above 1 millisievert a year – a measure of the health effect of low levels of ionising radiation on the human body.The International Commission on Radiological Protection recommends that public doses should not exceed 1 millisievert a year, not including medical and occupational exposures.Critics have suggested that Wismut is failing to act on this because the 1 millisievert limit is only a recommendation and will not become law until an EU directive is enacted in national legislation in 2018.Wismut officials refused to be interviewed for this article.This article was developed with support by Journalismfund.eu

WORLD POWERS IN THE LAST DAYS (END OF AGE OF GRACE NOT THE WORLD)

EUROPEAN UNION-KING OF WEST-DAN 9:26-27,DAN 7:23-24,DAN 11:40,REV 13:1-10
EGYPT-KING OF THE SOUTH-DAN 11:40
RUSSIA-KING OF THE NORTH-EZEK 38:1-2,EZEK 39:1-3
CHINA-KING OF THE EAST-DAN 11:44,REV 9:16,18
VATICAN-RELIGIOUS LEADER-REV 13:11-18,REV 17:4-5,9,18

WORLD TERRORISM

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

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her,(HAGAR) Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he (ISHMAEL-FATHER OF THE ARAB-MUSLIMS) will be a wild (DONKEY-JACKASS) man;(ISLAM IS A FAKE AND DANGEROUS SEX FOR MURDER CULT) his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him;(PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM BEING BEHEADED) and he (ISHMAEL ARAB/MUSLIM) shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)

ISAIAH 14:12-14
12  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,(SATAN) son of the morning!(HEBREW-CRECENT MOON-ISLAM) how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13  For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14  I (SATAN HAS EYE TROUBLES) will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.(AND 1/3RD OF THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN FELL WITH SATAN AND BECAME DEMONS)

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.(ISLAM MURDERS IN THE NAME OF MOON GOD ALLAH OF ISLAM)

UN outlines legal concerns on EU-Turkey deal By Nikolaj Nielsen-MAR 16,15-EUOBSERVER

BRUSSELS, Today, 09:22-The EU insists any deal with Turkey on returning migrants will be legally sound.But issues remain over how people kicked out of Greece and returned to Turkey may be treated if Ankara refuses to fully apply the 1951 Refugee Convention.The issue has raised concerns from the UN agency for refugees (UNHCR), which, in a four-page note on the deal, says the blanket return of rejected migrants "without key protection safeguards in place, would be at variance with international and European standards".The UNHCR document, dated 10 March, comes ahead of a summit in Brussels this week between EU leaders and Turkey's prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu.European Council president Donald Tusk in Ankara on Tuesday (15 March) said the deal hinges on making it stand up to EU and international law."This is not an easy task, and we have to get it right," he said.Sharing burden, not shifting-The European Commission on Tuesday made similar comments, noting that it has been working with the UNHCR on how to make it work in practice."The commission has made a legal analysis of what is possible in order make the agreed deal in principle operational," a commission spokesperson told reporters.The EU plan is to arrange speedy returns to Turkey from Greece and to stop irregular migrants from using smugglers to reach Greece via Turkey. Almost 800,000 made the trip last year.But the UNHCR paper said that each person was entitled to an individual assessment in Greece before being returned to Turkey.Greece can only also issue the return if key legal safeguards are guaranteed in Turkey.The UNHCR also said that any deal that involves the transfer of asylum seekers from one state to another should be "aimed at enhancing the sharing, rather the shifting, of burdens and responsibilities".With 45,000 people now stuck in Greece and some 14,000 living in dire conditions at the Idomeni camp near the Macedonia border, the sense of "sharing" among EU states appears to be lacking.EU states had agreed last year to relocate tens of thousands from Greece but have so far only managed just a few hundred.-Financing issues-On Tuesday (15 March) thousands of migrants were forced back into Greece from Macedonia, with Austria now promising to help Skopje guard the border by offering equipment, according to German newspaper Die Welt."The defence ministry is currently checking whether we can help with technical gear, such as night vision goggles," Austria's defence minister Hans Peter Doskozi told the daily.The UN's refugee chief Filippo Grandi last week also said asylum seekers returned to Turkey should have full access to education, work, healthcare and social assistance.Turkey hosts some 2.7 million Syrian refugees. Roughly 10 percent live in 23 camps, with the rest spread out across the country. An additional 121,000 Iraqis and almost 98,000 Afghan refugees are also in Turkey.The EU is supposed to help finance projects such as education and health for refugees inside Turkey.But so far less than €100 million out of a promised €3 billion has been earmarked for projects.The initial roll-out earlier this month is aimed at helping Syrian schoolchildren in Turkey and enrolling others in a UN-backed food voucher programme.

Cyprus and Spain cast doubt on EU-Turkey migrant deal By Eric Maurice-EUOBSERVER

BRUSSELS, 15. Mar, 09:30-Two days before the start of the next summit, the lines on which EU leaders will agree to make a deal with Turkey on a plan to stop migration are still unclear, amid doubt and opposition from several member states.Spain has said the blanket return of refugees to Turkey from Greece was not acceptable, while Cyprus is blocking the opening of some chapters in the Turkey accession negotiations.A first draft of the summit conclusions circulated on Monday refers only to "the context of the joint action plan with Turkey and its possible expansion" but does not explicitly say what was agreed in principle with the Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu on 7 March.So far, the conclusions mainly repeat what EU leaders have said in previous summits about the need to "make all hotspots fully operational and to increase reception capacities" in order to register asylum seekers and identify economic migrants.The draft also asks EU countries to take part in the "emergency support to be provided to help Greece cope with the humanitarian situation" and to "swiftly offer more places" to relocate asylum seekers from Greece.Reflecting worries arising form the closure of the Western Balkan route last week, the draft "emphasises the need to be extremely vigilant as regards possible new routes for irregular migrants".Measures to be agreed with Turkey are referred to in just one sentence, when EU leaders call for "the use of all means to support the capacity of Greece for the return of irregular migrants to Turkey".-'No reason to move'-The statement outlining the definitive EU-Turkey plan, which will be published after the meeting between EU leaders and Davutoglu on Friday, has not been drafted yet.At a meeting last Friday, EU ambassadors did not discuss the main issues of the plan, an EU source told EUobserver.-Turkey's demands in exchange for taking back refugees from Greece - the acceleration of visa-free travel for Turkish nationals, the opening of new chapters in the accession talks and further EU financial help for refugees in Turkey - were left for two further ambassadors’ meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday."We will see what we have in the text on Wednesday. For now, [European Council president] Tusk is doing consultations," the source said.Tusk is on Tuesday making a last-minute trip to Nicosia to meet Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades to try to get his backing for the plan.Last week, Anastasiades told the Financial Times that he would never give his consent to the plan if it included the opening of five specific accession chapters.Turkey asked for the reopening of chapters 15 (energy), 23 (judiciary and fundamental rights), 24 (justice, freedom and security), 26 (education and culture) and 31 (foreign, security and defence policy).These chapters, as well as a sixth one, were frozen by Cyprus in 2009 after Turkey refused to apply the EU-Turkey customs union to Cyprus and added a protocol refusing to recognise the Republic of Cyprus."We are talking of an issue of vital importance" for Cyprus, a Cypriot official told EUobserver, adding that other EU countries had an "understanding" of its position."We do not block accession talks as a whole," the official said."These chapters were frozen for a particular reason and if nothing happens, there is no reason to move on the issue.”Cyprus could lift its veto on the chapters if Turkey scrapped the protocol and opened its ports to Cypriot ships.Another solution could be that Turkey accepts to open different accession chapters to the five it has asked for.In both cases, an agreement would depend on "whether Turkey wants a deal or not" and how far Turkey was willing to go in its demands, the EU source said.On Tuesday morning, just before Tusk was due to meet Anastasiades, his spokesman announced he would also go to Ankara to meet Davutoglu in the afternoon.-'No legal loophole'-Spain has also expressed concern on the EU-Turkey deal.On Monday, foreign affairs minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said that the so-called one-to-one plan - resettling one Syrian refugee from Turkey for every migrant returned from Greece - “seemed unacceptable to [Spain] from the very beginning”.Echoing criticism by NGOs and bodies such as the UN refugee agency and the Council of Europe, he said the plan had to be “compatible with international laws and respectful of human rights”."Anyone arriving on European territory must have the right to individualised attention, to filing an asylum request that will be taken into consideration, and to appeal if the request is denied,” Margallo said in Brussels.“Throughout this process, any possibility of expulsion is suspended.”A Spanish official told EUobserver the details of the plan still had to be discussed, declining to say if Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy would block an agreement."The prime minister agrees with the principles,” the official said, but "it is very important that there is no legal loophole".

Turkey supports Syria's unity, unilateral federation moves invalid: official-[Reuters]-March 16, 2016-YAHOONEWS

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey supports Syria's national unity and unilateral moves such as declaring a federation cannot be valid, a foreign ministry official told Reuters, amid expectations that Syrian Kurds will announce a federal system in northern Syria on Wednesday.The Turkish official said the form of government and administrative structure of Syria will be decided by all sections of the Syrian people with a new constitution.Idris Nassan, an official from Kobani, one of three autonomous areas set up by Kurdish groups two years ago, said earlier that Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria were expected to declare a federal system on Wednesday.(Reporting by Tulay Karadeniz; Writing by Daren Butler; Editing by Nick Tattersall)

Canada faces ‘tough fight’ in bid for UN seat, experts say-[Canada Politics]-Terri Coles-March 15, 2016-YAHOONEWS

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce Wednesday that Canada will seek a temporary seat on the United Nations Security Council. But some experts say while the country’s return to the council is possible, it won’t be easy.“It’s a tough fight but I think it’s doable,” University of Ottawa law professor Errol Mendes tells Yahoo Canada News. “We’ve really got to pick our areas where we can show not just good leadership, but extraordinary leadership.”Canada last held a seat in 1999-2000 and lost its last bid for a seat in 2010, ending a string of six consecutive decades on the 15-seat council. The federal government withdrew its candidacy then after two rounds of voting made it clear Canada could not beat Portugal for a rotating two-year council seat.Several UN diplomats told CBC News that the earliest Canada could mount a successful campaign would be 2020, for a term that would begin the next year. The United States, China, France, Great Britain and Russia occupy the five permanent and veto-wielding seats on the council, and the other 10 are distributed on a regional basis.However, while there are no uncontested seats open in the Western Europe and Other Group (WEOG) before 2020, Canada, which falls under this regional UN group, could take the unconventional approach of launching a campaign earlier. There are votes for two-year seats every year, with the next coming up in June. Running before 2020 would give Canada less time to garner enough votes, but would capitalize on the recent positive attention the country and Trudeau have received internationally, says Colin Robertson, vice-president of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, a non-profit research organization focused on international aid and policy.“It is possible that Mr. Trudeau would want to take advantage of the ‘honeymoon period’ and run sooner,” he says. “It would mean upsetting a little bit of the balance within the WEOG, but we’re not part of the European Union bloc anyway. It’s not impossible that we may decide to run sooner than 2020.”Stiff competition-Even if Canada waits until 2020 to run, the country would still face an election, Robertson says — in the WEOG, Ireland, Norway and San Marino have all expressed intentions to run that year, and there are often more interested countries than available slots in a particular bloc.And though Canada’s previous terms on the council were successful, even if we wait until 2020 the country will face tough competition from both Norway and Ireland, Mendes says. “Norway is probably the biggest competition because they’ve got a good reputation worldwide,” says Mendes, who is also president of the International Commission of Jurists, Canadian Section. The country particularly distinguished itself by taking the lead on the Oslo Process against cluster munitions, he says. Ireland also presents still competition for Canada, Mendes says, after it joined Norway in taking up the challenge of fighting against the use of cluster munitions. Canada lost an opportunity to lead on that, he says, after our respected work under then-prime minister Jean Chrétien on the Ottawa Treaty to ban land mines.“What I think Canada has to do between now and 2020 is regain that leadership in different areas to get the bloc votes from Asia, Africa and other areas,” Mendes says. Robertson agrees that broad support is important for Canada’s campaign, because all UN countries vote on security council seats. While EU members tend to vote for each other, he said, Canada could garner support from fellow countries in the Commonwealth or the International Organisation of La Francophonie.Campaigning for a seat on the council is a usually a years-long process. Canada’s chances are improved somewhat by the way Trudeau has managed to both receive international notice so quickly after his election, Mendes says, and how the prime minister has used that opportunity to signal a change from the country’s time under Stephen Harper, whose government was less focused on the kind of multilateralism that involves working with the UN.For that reason, Canada’s relationship with the UN under the past government isn’t necessarily an indication of how the country will fare in any upcoming votes for a council seat.“It’s a different scenario,” Robertson says. “You can’t look to the last election and say, “Oh well, we’re going to lose.’ I think we’ve got a government that is actively committed to internationalism and multilateralism and the UN system.”-Points in Canada’s favour -Trudeau will be in New York on Wednesday for meetings with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. When the two met in Ottawa last month, the prime minister said then that Canada would seek a two-year council term.Trudeau plans to focus on gender equality and parity during his trip, and that’s one area where Canada can really distinguish itself as the country campaigns to return to the council, Mendes says.“Canada does have a reputation in particular for promoting gender equality of the girl-child,” Mendes says. Equality for girls around the world has been a focus of not just past Liberal governments but also Conservative ones, he says, calling former prime minister Brian Mulroney an “unspoken champion” of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.And right now is a particularly important time to focus on the rights of girls, Mendes says, given threats like sexual slavery of teenaged girls under ISIS, the violence faced by children in Syria, the use of child soldiers and the “weaponization” of rape in countries like South Sudan.“Maybe Canada can take on that and be the leading organization in the world to try and get a major international consensus,” Mendes says, “that this is an evil that has to be stopped, and has to have the entire security council behind it.”Canada’s chances of returning to the council are also improved by the Trudeau government’s stated commitment to refocusing its international efforts towards peace operations, Robertson says. For example, by changing its role in the anti-ISIS mission.As well, the country’s commitment to bringing in 25,000 Syrian refugees is another tangible example of how Canada’s international contributions have changed, he says.“Already, we’re building up a record, and a platform on which we can run,” he says.However, in order to truly stand out on the global stage and return to the security council, Mendes says, Trudeau’s administration needs to continue to back up talk with action. That includes putting money back into areas that the previous government moved away from, including aid to Africa, he says.It also means focusing on positive initiatives of the past government — improving maternal health, for example — but doing it in a way that removes them from ideology or potential commercial benefits for Canada.“Let’s focus on what we can do well,” Mendes says, “and do it really, really well.”

Trump tightens grip on Republican nomination with big wins-[The Canadian Press]-Alexander Panetta, The Canadian Press-March 15, 2016-YAHOONEWS

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's much-discussed fingers have tightened their grip on the Republican presidential nomination, strengthened by a dominant performance Tuesday as the primaries entered their second half.Key primary wins brought Trump closer to the magic 50-per-cent pace he'd need to secure a first-ballot victory and avoid a challenge at the Republican party's summer convention.He entered the evening with about 40 per cent of the delegates pledged so far, and appeared likely to end it hovering somewhere around the 45-per-cent mark which still leaves him short of that coveted clip.Trump was poised to win as many as four of the five states voting. He easily won the greatest prize, Florida; held a solid lead in early results in Illinois; and held smaller advantages in North Carolina and Missouri."Nobody in the history of politics has received the kind of negative advertising that I have. Record, record, record. Mostly false — I wouldn't say 100 per cent, but about 90 per cent," Trump told a jubilant rally in Florida."You explain it to me — because I can't. My numbers went up."His biggest triumph was knocking out the great-right-hope of party brass Marco Rubio — Trump beat the young senator in his home state of Florida, forcing him to withdraw from the race.It was sweet revenge: Rubio had worked an old gag into his stump speech about the size of Trump's fingers, and used it to make unflattering insinuations about other parts of his anatomy.Trump got the last laugh. He obliterated him by nearly 20 percentage points on his own turf — prompting Rubio's immediate resignation, to the delight of Democrats who'd feared the youthful lawmaker.Trump picked up big blocs of delegates, who will actually pick the Republican nominee at the July convention. As the nomination race officially passed its halfway point Tuesday, it held its first winner-take-all contests Tuesday.Until now winners in each state had to split delegates proportionally. But delegates are now being awarded in bulk to the No. 1 finisher in some states, with Trump winning most.Trump appeared likely to end the evening with about 650 delegates; Texas Sen. Ted Cruz with about 400; Rubio with less than 175; and Ohio Gov. John Kasich with less than 150.Winning the nomination will require 1,237 delegates on the convention floor in Cleveland in July. The brash billionaire still needs to accelerate his pace of delegate-gathering to reach the 50-per-cent mark, otherwise he'll remain vulnerable to a co-ordinated takedown effort in July.The party establishment has already hinted at a plan to take him down on the second ballot — by rallying around an anti-Trump figure on the convention floor in what could be the first contested convention in decades.Kasich promoted that approach. He won his home state Tuesday, delivering Trump's sole defeat. He promised he would remain in the race until the confrontation four months from now in Cleveland."We are going to go all the way to Cleveland and secure the Republican nomination," said Kasich, in a cheerful victory speech in tune with a campaign message more upbeat than that of other Republicans.Rubio and Kasich had essentially reached an arrangement, as part of an effort to suppress Trump's delegate totals: the Florida senator endorsed Kasich in Ohio and the Ohio governor did the same for Rubio in Florida.The ruse worked in Ohio, not in Florida.Rubio's resignation will thrill Democrats who saw him as their biggest threat. Unlike any other Republican with the exception of Kasich, he consistently beat Hillary Clinton in hypothetical head-to-head matchups.The rival closest to Trump is not participating in the pre-convention machinations. No. 2 delegate-holder Cruz warned it would cause chaos if party brass tried hand-picking a favourite.Cruz said over the weekend: "That would be a disaster. The people would revolt. The only way to beat Donald Trump is beat him at the ballot box."A famous Republican strategist agreed there are no simple options, whether the party picks Trump or tries to block him. Karl Rove told Fox News over the weekend: "The party is likely to be bitterly divided almost no matter what the outcome."Allan Lichtman, a well-known electoral forecaster, said it would be nuts to try wresting the nomination from Trump, if he arrives at the Cleveland convention close to 50 per cent."I think that's a fool's errand," said Lichtman, a history professor at American University."It's going to rip the party apart and it may even lead to Donald Trump running a third-party campaign."As for the Democrats, Clinton extended her lead with big wins in Florida, Ohio and North Carolina, and held a smaller lead in Illinois. She was losing to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in Missouri.

Australia: Debris on French island unlikely to be from MH370-[The Canadian Press]-Kristen Gelineau, The Associated Press-March 16, 2016-YAHOONEWS

SYDNEY - A piece of debris recently found on an Indian Ocean island where a wing fragment from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 had previously washed ashore is unlikely to be from the missing plane, Australian officials said Wednesday.The piece in question was discovered earlier this month on French-governed Reunion Island by Johnny Begue, the same man who found a wing fragment on Reunion last year that investigators confirmed was part of the vanished jet.French authorities examining Begue's most recent find told the Australian agency directing the search for the plane off Australia's west coast that it is unlikely to be from Flight 370, said Dan O'Malley, spokesman for the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.Begue previously told The Associated Press that he found the latest piece of debris in nearly the same spot as the wing fragment, which is known as a flaperon.The flaperon remains the only confirmed debris from the Malaysian plane, which disappeared during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board. Two other pieces of debris recently discovered in Mozambique will be sent to Australia for examination by an international investigation team.Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai has cautioned against speculation that any of the recently found parts came from the missing plane, though he has suggested that one of the parts found in Mozambique looks promising. That part was discovered by an American man earlier this month.A U.S. official said photos of that piece appear to show that it is the fixed leading edge of the right-hand tail section of a Boeing 777; Flight 370 is the only missing 777. Liow also confirmed that the part appears to have come from the missing plane, tweeting that there is a "high possibility" it belongs to a 777.

REVELATION 16:3-7
3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.(enviromentalists won't like this result)
4 And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
5 And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
6 For they(False World Church and Dictator) have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

On world water day, 650 million people can't get a safe drink-[Reuters]-March 16, 2016-YAHOONEWS

LONDON (Reuters) - Some 650 million people, or one in 10 of the world's population, do not have access to safe water, putting them at risk of infectious diseases and premature death.Dirty water and poor sanitation can cause severe diarrhoeal diseases in children, killing 900 under-fives a day across the world, according to United Nations estimates - or one child every two minutes.Among newborn babies, the World Health Organization says infections caused by a lack of safe water and an unclean environment cause one death every minute somewhere in the world.For photo essay on World Water Day, click:https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/thirst-for-clean-water-The U.N. says access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation services is vital to human health. It is also important for other reasons - ranging from easily identifiable and quantifiable benefits such as cost and time savings, to more intangible factors like convenience, well-being, dignity, privacy and safety.The WHO estimates that every $1 invested in improving water supply and sanitation services yields gains of $4 to $12, depending on the type of intervention.This year's United Nations World Water Day, marked on March 22, is focused on water and jobs and designed to highlight how water can create paid and decent work and contribute to a greener economy and sustainable development.(Reporting by Kate Kelland; editing by Ralph Boulton)

WHOS GONNA WIN SUPER TUESDAY 3'S BIG DELEGATES.MY PREDICTIONS.

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.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

UPDATE-MARCH 15,2016-12:07AM

WELL TODAYS A BIG DAY FOR DELEGATES FOR DONALD TRUMP WHO I PREDICT WILL PICK UP AT LEAST 200 OF THE 367 REPUBLICAN DELEGATES UP FOR GRABS. TED CRUZ WILL COME IN 2ND DELEGATE WISE. RUBIO WILL COME IN 3RD AND KASICH WILL SQUEEK OUT A FEW. BUT I PRESDICT THE NEW WORLD ORDER ELITES WILL SAY TO RUBIO AND KASICH. USE ARE STAYING IN ALL THE WAY, I COULD CARE LESS IF USE GET 20 DELEGATES OR LESS. IT WILL STOP TRUMP FROM GETTING HIS 1,237 DELEGATES. WE ELITE MENTAL CASES WILL PAY YOUR WAYS. AND ON THE LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT LUNATIC SIDE. CLINTON WILL GET THE BLACK KLU KLUX KLAN THUG-DRUG DEALING WHITE AND WHITE POLICE HATERS. AND MUSLIMS THAT WANNA KILL AMERICANS AS WELL AS THE SODOMITE RAINBOW GROUPER CROWD OF ABOMINATIONS FROM THE PITS OF HELL. AND SANDERS WILL GET THE SOCIALIST BUY ME ANYTHING OBAMA CROWD. ANYTHING FREE INCLUDING A MICROCHIP IN OUR RIGHT HANDS OR FORHEADS. THESE LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT CROWD INCLUDING HITLER 2ND CLINTON AND SANDERS AND ALL THEIR GODLESS VOTERS. ALL NEED TO BE SAVED AND CALL ON JESUS. THEIR ALLAH-POT BELLY BUDDAH-NEW AGE HINDU SIHK GURUS-SORRY TO TELL USE LIBERALS-DEMOCRATES, DON'T GET USE TO HEAVEN. AND THE LIBERAL-DEMOCRAT HYPOCRITICAL BELIEF OF STOP THE DEATH PENALTY BUT MURDER BABIES BY ABORTING THEM. IS THEIR CRY. LETS SAVE THE EARTH-FOR THE GOOD OF THE CHILDREN OF COURSE. BUT THEY LOVE MURDERING GODS CREATED BABIES. FOR THE GOOD OF WOMENS RIGHTS.

MY PREDICTION OF WINNERS BY STATES.

FLORIDA
REPUBLICANS - DONALD TRUMP ALL THE WAY.
DEMONUTS-BERNIE SANDERS WILL GET THE PEACE-LOVE-JOY NEW AGE NUTCASE YOUNG CROWD.

ILLINOIS
REPUBLICANS-DONALD TRUMP/TED CRUZ SPLIT.
DEMONUTS-HITLER 2ND CLINTON WILL GET THE BLACK RACIST WHITE-POLICE HATERS.THUGS-GANSTERS-DRUG DEALERS AND MUSLIMS.

MISSOURI
REPUBLICANS-TED CRUZ-FOLLOWED BY DONALD TRUMP.
DEMONUTS-HITLER 2ND CLINTON WILL GET THE BLACK RACIST WHITE-POLICE HATERS.THUGS-GANSTERS-DRUG DEALERS AND MUSLIMS.

NORTH CAROLINA
REPUBLICANS-DONALD TRUMP FOLLOWED BY TED CRUZ.
DEMONUTS-BERNIE SANDERS AND HIS SOCIALIST DECIEVED SCHOOL KIDS.

NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS (REP ONLY)
TED CRUZ ALL THE WAY.

OHIO
REPUBLICANS-DONALD TRUMP FOLLOWED BY NWO PUPPET JOHN KASICH AND TED CRUZ ALSO UP THEIR FOR THIRD.
DEMONUTS-BERNIE SOCIALIST COMMUNIST SANDERS SQUEEKS OUT OVER HITLER 2ND ROTTEN LIAR CLINTON.

-DONALD TRUMP I PREDICT TONIGHT WILL GIVE A KARATE CHOP TO THE TWO NEW WORLD ORDER PUPPETS OF THE LOBBYISTS AND ELITES.RUBIO AND KASICH.DONALD TRUMP WILL SAY TO THEM AS HE CHOPS THE WOOD. TWO CAN CHEW AND TWO CAN GO HOME AND WHINE TO THEIR FAMILIES NOW.THEIR PAYERS LOST AND THE PEOPLE WON WITH THEIR DEMOCRATIC VOTES.AND DONALD WILL BE ON HIS WAY TO THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE.-huffingtonpost.com

-BERNIE SOCIALIST-COMMUNIST SANDERS SAYS TO THE VOTERS THAT HELPED HIM GET MORE DELEGATES THAN HITLER 2ND TONIGHT. BE VERRY-VERRY QUIET. I WANNA OVERTAKE CLINTON IN THE DELEGATES.AND IF NOT I WILL GO CHASE AFTER BUGS BUNNY WITH MY SHOT GUN-BECAUSE I WILL NEED TO EAT SOME RABBIT STEW WITH PORK CHOPS AND PIG TAILS TO DROWN MY SORROWS IN. I'M TO OLD TO GET DRUNK. OR I COULD NEVER STAY AWAKE AT MY SO CALLED RALLIES OR HANDS EVERYWHERE TALKS.-thisiscommonsense.com 

THE BLACK LIVES MATTER KLU-KLUX-KLAN RACIST WHITE HATERS.AND THE MOVE ON.ORG PAID GEORGE SOROS PROTESTERS WILL ALL BE CRYING IN THEIR TRUMP HATE AFTER TONIGHT. WHEN TRUMP GOES WELL ON HIS WAY TO BECOMING THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE AGAINST HITLER 2ND ROTTEN LIAR CLINTON FOR 2016 PRESIDENT OF AMERICA.