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 11:1-9
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
Opinion-EU: 28 countries, one common language-For the first time since the Roman Empire, Europe now has a language a large chunk of its people can use to talk to each other-By Gareth Harding
BRUSSELS, 7. Apr, 09:20-I am a big fan of Jean Quatremer, the Libération reporter who has covered the European Union for almost a quarter of a century, writes the best blog about EU affairs – Les Coulisses de Bruxelles – and has more Twitter followers than any other correspondent in the Belgian capital.Jean is a passionate provocateur and incorrigible trouble-maker who is incapable of writing the sort of leaden stenography that typifies much EU reporting.However, there is one issue where Quatremer allows his national chauvinism and personal prejudices to cloud his usually clear judgment – the demise of French in the EU institutions.Under a finger-wagging picture of Uncle Sam demanding “I Want You To Speak English,” Quatremer’s latest blog post accuses Germany, the EU institutions, English-speaking countries and even French officials of committing “linguistic cleansing” by allowing the language of Moliere to be crushed by that of Shakespeare. Railing against the arrogance of English native speakers, he likens being governed in a language you don’t understand to colonial rule.You can almost picture members of the Académie Française choking on their croissants reading the article. The problem is that wallowing in nostalgia for a French-dominated Europe that existed 25 years ago is about as useful as pretending the fall of the Berlin Wall didn’t take place.
Enforced monolingualism
At the start of the 1990’s French was clearly the most important language in Brussels.It was the only language allowed in the Commission pressroom – strangely enough, not too many French journalists objected to this enforced monolingualism then – most legislation was drafted in French and it was impossible to do business in the city without it.The enlargement of the EU to 16 countries where English is usually the most important second language, has toppled French from its perch.In the space of one generation, English has become the continent’s undisputed lingua franca.According to a Eurobarometer poll in 2012, it is spoken by 38% of Europeans, compared to 12% for French and 11% for German. A quarter can read a newspaper, understand TV news or communicate online in English. About 5% can do so in French. Over two-thirds of respondents said English was one of the two most useful languages, compared to 17% for German and 16% for French.So for the first time since the Roman Empire Europe now has a language a large chunk of its people can converse with each other in. That is something to be celebrated, not scorned. It makes travel smoother, communication quicker and doing business easier. But most of all, it allows Europeans to connect with each other.
Language of the past
I will never forget standing on Charles Bridge a few months before the 1989 Velvet Revolution and trying to talk to a group of disgruntled young Czechs.As I couldn’t speak their language and they couldn’t speak mine we were, quite simply, unable to communicate. When I visit Prague these days, almost everybody speaks English – and quite a few German. That is progress. And that is one of the reasons why 69% of Europeans think we should be able to speak a common language, according to the 2012 poll.In European terms, the harsh truth is that French is the language of the past and English the language of the present and future. Four out of five Europeans believe it is important for their children to learn English, compared to 20% for French – down 13% in the last decade.Most young French people get this, which is why the journalism students I recently taught in Lille – in English – understood the need to speak the language fluently to make it as a reporter.This is not Anglo-Saxon triumphalism, which would be difficult for a proud Welshman. Neither is it schadenfreude – French is, after all, the mother tongue of my children. It is simply the reality of Europe in 2015.
So what does this imply for the European Union?-One official working language-At present, the EU institutions have three working languages – French, German and English - with the interpretation or translation of most meetings and documents into all 24 official languages.The cost of this is over €1 billion a year and will increase as the EU takes in new members. At a time when all European governments are having to make painful budget cuts, EU institutions should do likewise.As a first step, English should become the only official language for internal EU business.This means doing away with interpretation at press conferences, working groups and commissioners’ meetings. Few would miss it and, anyway, it’s hard to see how you can be an effective commissioner, correspondent or diplomat in Brussels without speaking the language most people communicate in.The Commission could also save money - and trees - by reducing the 2.3 million pages it translates every year. Draft proposals and EU legislation should continue to be translated into all official languages, of course. But does every discussion paper, video on Europarl TV, crummy kids’ comic book and Eurobarometer report? Most Europeans think not, with over half agreeing that EU institutions should adopt a common language when communicating with citizens.
Unfair advantage
Quatremer believes using English gives native speakers an unfair advantage.If it did, there would be more British than French officials in the EU institutions and the most popular blogger about EU affairs would have a name like John Fourseas. Neither is bad English the root cause of the tortured texts coming out of the Commission.Native English speakers are quite capable of producing bureaucratic gobbledygook in their own tongue.Finally, there is no evidence that the French language – or any other one - is being destroyed because French people can increasingly speak English. As the German President Joachim Gauck said two years ago, it is perfectly possible to be in favour of multilingualism and English as the EU’s common language. If the German head of state can entertain these thoughts, why can’t a free-thinking French journalist? Gareth Harding is Managing Director of Clear Europe, a communications company. He also runs the Missouri School of Journalism's Brussels Programme. Follow him on Twitter @garethharding.
Polish airport used by CIA obtains millions in EU funds By Nikolaj Nielsen-EUOBSERVER
SZYMANY, Poland, 30. Mar, 09:07-A small airport in north-eastern Poland used by the CIA to fly in kidnapped detainees for torture at a nearby intelligence training camp has received over €30 million in EU funds.The EU money is part of a larger €48.5 million sum to turn the former military airstrip into an international commercial airport known as Szymany.The Brussels-executive has no oversight because the amounts taken from the European regional development fund are too small for it to have a direct stake.It is instead administered and managed by regional authorities who diverted all the funds into a company they set up after obliging a local Polish-Israeli businessman, who had been instrumental in securing the EU grant, to hand over the airport’s lease.The site is still part of a going seven-year criminal investigation that may implicate some of Poland’s high-ranking officials and other political figures.Located in the sparsely populated and economically depressed Warminsko-Mazurskie region, the closest mid-sized city Olsztyn is 60 kilometres away.The dense forest – the area’s biggest tourist attraction - surrounding the airport is a protected nature reserve under the EU’s Natura 2000 pact.In addition to its dark history, the airport is set to be one of the those examples of how-not-to and where-not-to build infrastructure projects with EU money.In 2005 the small airport recorded only one international takeoff and touchdown. Some 151 domestic flights takeoffs and 152 touchdowns were also registered.The airport is supposed to be finished this year. As of February, the extended runway was nearly complete but only ten percent of the new terminal had so far been built.But even if the end 2015 deadline is kept to – there is the question of economic feasibility. Developers say at least 100,000 passengers are expected in the first year of the airport’s operation with numbers to “exceed 1 million” after 2035.In fact, the airport would need one million people a year to travel through it to balance the books.This is seen a wildly optimistic.Mariola Przewlocka, the airport’s former director, was more outspoken about the airport’s commercial potential.“Szymany can balance the books only if one million passengers pass through it. It’s an impossible task,” she said.Przewlocka left her job as airport director after giving evidence of the CIA rendition programme to the European Parliament in 2007. She now spends her days living alone with a large Staffordshire bull terrier at a fenced-in home in the middle of the woods some eight kilometres away from the nearest town, Szczytno.Her former boss Jerzy Kos chaired a managing board for the airport when the Americans were landing Gulfstream jets and Boeing 737s in the middle of the night back in 2003.Around a year later, he was abducted by Iraqi insurgents in Baghdad and then saved in a dramatic rescue by a special US Delta force team.Jacek Krawczyk, the former chairman of the board of directors of LOT Polish National Airlines, said the whole project makes no economic or operational sense.“This is going to be a monument for the local authorities that they have been able to spend European funds,” he told EUobserver.“Why on the earth do you want to insist to build your own airport in a region that has absolutely no capacity to generate any meaningful demand for air transportation, this I cannot comprehend,” he said.Krawczyk, who is also a licensed airline pilot and rapporteur on aviation issues for the European Economic and Social Committee, said the airport in Gdansk further north already has good connectivity to Scandinavia and other parts of western and southern Europe.Some eight kilometres away from the airport is a Szczytno, a 20,000-strong town. It benefits from the same EU regional funds used to co-finance the airport.The money has helped renovate buildings, parks, and the ruins of a castle, with EU contribution signs posted in front of each.The town’s only bus station, composed of a dirt field and a wooden bench, appears to have been overlooked.Despite its direct stake in the project, the mayor declined to respond to questions about the airport’s economic feasibility, projected tourist forecasts, and possible impact on local employment.The town is strategically placed between the airport and the Polish intelligence training centre, Stare Kiejkuty, where the Americans committed their alleged crimes.
EU funds
With €615.7 million in EU support for airports between 2007 and 2013, Poland has received more EU money to build airports than any other member state.The EU’s structural aid rules were recently shaken up to ensure that projects are subjected to a more thorough review process before money is greenlighted. They are also meant to fit in with the EU’s jobs and growth goal for 2029.Yet for this particular airport the amount provided from the European regional fund falls under a threshold for proper oversight.“The project suffered from major delays due to organisational and formal difficulties encountered by the regional authority,” an EU commission spokesperson told this website.Meanwhile, the military airport stands of the cloud of CIA renditions, the secret illegal transfers in 2002-2003 by US intelligence services as part of Washington’s war on terror.The Polish government has always denied that it co-operated with the US on these renditions, where detainees were often subjected to torture. It is also the first EU member state found to be complicit in the US CIA renditions by European Court of Human Rights.
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 11:1-9
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
DANIEL 7:23-25
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast (EU,REVIVED ROME) shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,(7TH WORLD EMPIRE) which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.(TRADING BLOCKS-10 WORLD REGIONS/TRADE BLOCS)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 NATIONS-10 WORLD DIVISION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.(THE EU (EUROPEAN UNION) TAKES OVER IRAQ WHICH HAS SPLIT INTO 3-SUNNI-KURD-SHIA PARTS-AND THE REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE IS BROUGHT BACK TOGETHER-THE TWO LEGS OF DANIEL WESTERN LEG AND THE ISLAMIC LEG COMBINED AS 1)
LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
Opinion-EU: 28 countries, one common language-For the first time since the Roman Empire, Europe now has a language a large chunk of its people can use to talk to each other-By Gareth Harding
BRUSSELS, 7. Apr, 09:20-I am a big fan of Jean Quatremer, the Libération reporter who has covered the European Union for almost a quarter of a century, writes the best blog about EU affairs – Les Coulisses de Bruxelles – and has more Twitter followers than any other correspondent in the Belgian capital.Jean is a passionate provocateur and incorrigible trouble-maker who is incapable of writing the sort of leaden stenography that typifies much EU reporting.However, there is one issue where Quatremer allows his national chauvinism and personal prejudices to cloud his usually clear judgment – the demise of French in the EU institutions.Under a finger-wagging picture of Uncle Sam demanding “I Want You To Speak English,” Quatremer’s latest blog post accuses Germany, the EU institutions, English-speaking countries and even French officials of committing “linguistic cleansing” by allowing the language of Moliere to be crushed by that of Shakespeare. Railing against the arrogance of English native speakers, he likens being governed in a language you don’t understand to colonial rule.You can almost picture members of the Académie Française choking on their croissants reading the article. The problem is that wallowing in nostalgia for a French-dominated Europe that existed 25 years ago is about as useful as pretending the fall of the Berlin Wall didn’t take place.
Enforced monolingualism
At the start of the 1990’s French was clearly the most important language in Brussels.It was the only language allowed in the Commission pressroom – strangely enough, not too many French journalists objected to this enforced monolingualism then – most legislation was drafted in French and it was impossible to do business in the city without it.The enlargement of the EU to 16 countries where English is usually the most important second language, has toppled French from its perch.In the space of one generation, English has become the continent’s undisputed lingua franca.According to a Eurobarometer poll in 2012, it is spoken by 38% of Europeans, compared to 12% for French and 11% for German. A quarter can read a newspaper, understand TV news or communicate online in English. About 5% can do so in French. Over two-thirds of respondents said English was one of the two most useful languages, compared to 17% for German and 16% for French.So for the first time since the Roman Empire Europe now has a language a large chunk of its people can converse with each other in. That is something to be celebrated, not scorned. It makes travel smoother, communication quicker and doing business easier. But most of all, it allows Europeans to connect with each other.
Language of the past
I will never forget standing on Charles Bridge a few months before the 1989 Velvet Revolution and trying to talk to a group of disgruntled young Czechs.As I couldn’t speak their language and they couldn’t speak mine we were, quite simply, unable to communicate. When I visit Prague these days, almost everybody speaks English – and quite a few German. That is progress. And that is one of the reasons why 69% of Europeans think we should be able to speak a common language, according to the 2012 poll.In European terms, the harsh truth is that French is the language of the past and English the language of the present and future. Four out of five Europeans believe it is important for their children to learn English, compared to 20% for French – down 13% in the last decade.Most young French people get this, which is why the journalism students I recently taught in Lille – in English – understood the need to speak the language fluently to make it as a reporter.This is not Anglo-Saxon triumphalism, which would be difficult for a proud Welshman. Neither is it schadenfreude – French is, after all, the mother tongue of my children. It is simply the reality of Europe in 2015.
So what does this imply for the European Union?-One official working language-At present, the EU institutions have three working languages – French, German and English - with the interpretation or translation of most meetings and documents into all 24 official languages.The cost of this is over €1 billion a year and will increase as the EU takes in new members. At a time when all European governments are having to make painful budget cuts, EU institutions should do likewise.As a first step, English should become the only official language for internal EU business.This means doing away with interpretation at press conferences, working groups and commissioners’ meetings. Few would miss it and, anyway, it’s hard to see how you can be an effective commissioner, correspondent or diplomat in Brussels without speaking the language most people communicate in.The Commission could also save money - and trees - by reducing the 2.3 million pages it translates every year. Draft proposals and EU legislation should continue to be translated into all official languages, of course. But does every discussion paper, video on Europarl TV, crummy kids’ comic book and Eurobarometer report? Most Europeans think not, with over half agreeing that EU institutions should adopt a common language when communicating with citizens.
Unfair advantage
Quatremer believes using English gives native speakers an unfair advantage.If it did, there would be more British than French officials in the EU institutions and the most popular blogger about EU affairs would have a name like John Fourseas. Neither is bad English the root cause of the tortured texts coming out of the Commission.Native English speakers are quite capable of producing bureaucratic gobbledygook in their own tongue.Finally, there is no evidence that the French language – or any other one - is being destroyed because French people can increasingly speak English. As the German President Joachim Gauck said two years ago, it is perfectly possible to be in favour of multilingualism and English as the EU’s common language. If the German head of state can entertain these thoughts, why can’t a free-thinking French journalist? Gareth Harding is Managing Director of Clear Europe, a communications company. He also runs the Missouri School of Journalism's Brussels Programme. Follow him on Twitter @garethharding.
Polish airport used by CIA obtains millions in EU funds By Nikolaj Nielsen-EUOBSERVER
SZYMANY, Poland, 30. Mar, 09:07-A small airport in north-eastern Poland used by the CIA to fly in kidnapped detainees for torture at a nearby intelligence training camp has received over €30 million in EU funds.The EU money is part of a larger €48.5 million sum to turn the former military airstrip into an international commercial airport known as Szymany.The Brussels-executive has no oversight because the amounts taken from the European regional development fund are too small for it to have a direct stake.It is instead administered and managed by regional authorities who diverted all the funds into a company they set up after obliging a local Polish-Israeli businessman, who had been instrumental in securing the EU grant, to hand over the airport’s lease.The site is still part of a going seven-year criminal investigation that may implicate some of Poland’s high-ranking officials and other political figures.Located in the sparsely populated and economically depressed Warminsko-Mazurskie region, the closest mid-sized city Olsztyn is 60 kilometres away.The dense forest – the area’s biggest tourist attraction - surrounding the airport is a protected nature reserve under the EU’s Natura 2000 pact.In addition to its dark history, the airport is set to be one of the those examples of how-not-to and where-not-to build infrastructure projects with EU money.In 2005 the small airport recorded only one international takeoff and touchdown. Some 151 domestic flights takeoffs and 152 touchdowns were also registered.The airport is supposed to be finished this year. As of February, the extended runway was nearly complete but only ten percent of the new terminal had so far been built.But even if the end 2015 deadline is kept to – there is the question of economic feasibility. Developers say at least 100,000 passengers are expected in the first year of the airport’s operation with numbers to “exceed 1 million” after 2035.In fact, the airport would need one million people a year to travel through it to balance the books.This is seen a wildly optimistic.Mariola Przewlocka, the airport’s former director, was more outspoken about the airport’s commercial potential.“Szymany can balance the books only if one million passengers pass through it. It’s an impossible task,” she said.Przewlocka left her job as airport director after giving evidence of the CIA rendition programme to the European Parliament in 2007. She now spends her days living alone with a large Staffordshire bull terrier at a fenced-in home in the middle of the woods some eight kilometres away from the nearest town, Szczytno.Her former boss Jerzy Kos chaired a managing board for the airport when the Americans were landing Gulfstream jets and Boeing 737s in the middle of the night back in 2003.Around a year later, he was abducted by Iraqi insurgents in Baghdad and then saved in a dramatic rescue by a special US Delta force team.Jacek Krawczyk, the former chairman of the board of directors of LOT Polish National Airlines, said the whole project makes no economic or operational sense.“This is going to be a monument for the local authorities that they have been able to spend European funds,” he told EUobserver.“Why on the earth do you want to insist to build your own airport in a region that has absolutely no capacity to generate any meaningful demand for air transportation, this I cannot comprehend,” he said.Krawczyk, who is also a licensed airline pilot and rapporteur on aviation issues for the European Economic and Social Committee, said the airport in Gdansk further north already has good connectivity to Scandinavia and other parts of western and southern Europe.Some eight kilometres away from the airport is a Szczytno, a 20,000-strong town. It benefits from the same EU regional funds used to co-finance the airport.The money has helped renovate buildings, parks, and the ruins of a castle, with EU contribution signs posted in front of each.The town’s only bus station, composed of a dirt field and a wooden bench, appears to have been overlooked.Despite its direct stake in the project, the mayor declined to respond to questions about the airport’s economic feasibility, projected tourist forecasts, and possible impact on local employment.The town is strategically placed between the airport and the Polish intelligence training centre, Stare Kiejkuty, where the Americans committed their alleged crimes.
EU funds
With €615.7 million in EU support for airports between 2007 and 2013, Poland has received more EU money to build airports than any other member state.The EU’s structural aid rules were recently shaken up to ensure that projects are subjected to a more thorough review process before money is greenlighted. They are also meant to fit in with the EU’s jobs and growth goal for 2029.Yet for this particular airport the amount provided from the European regional fund falls under a threshold for proper oversight.“The project suffered from major delays due to organisational and formal difficulties encountered by the regional authority,” an EU commission spokesperson told this website.Meanwhile, the military airport stands of the cloud of CIA renditions, the secret illegal transfers in 2002-2003 by US intelligence services as part of Washington’s war on terror.The Polish government has always denied that it co-operated with the US on these renditions, where detainees were often subjected to torture. It is also the first EU member state found to be complicit in the US CIA renditions by European Court of Human Rights.
