Thursday, May 07, 2015

EUROPEAN UNION WORLD GOVERNMENT CONTROL IS ON FAST TRACK NOW.

EU DICTATOR (WORLD LEADER)

1 THESSALONIANS 5:3-7
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No one will enter the New World Order... unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation.- David Spangler Director of Planetary Initiative United Nations.

THE WORLD DICTATOR

REVELATION 6:1-2,13:1-3,7-9,16
1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
2 And I saw, and behold a white horse:(EU WORLD DICTATOR) and he that sat on him had a bow;(PEACE) and a crown was given unto him:(WORLD LEADER) and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.(THIS IS THE EU DICTATOR)
1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.(7 HEADS ARE THE 7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY (THE EU) AS WELL AS THE VATICAN WHICH IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS. 10 HORNS ARE 10 KINGS THAT ARISE FROM THE EU, THEN #11 COMES ON THE SCENE BECOMES THE HEAD OF 3 OUNTRIES AND THEN THE EU DICTATOR, COMES FROM 1 OF THE 3 COUNTRIES THAT RULE FOR THIS TERM. I BELIEVE THE 3 COUNTRIES RULING AT THE TIME ARE SPAIN AND 2 OF THE ORIGINAL 6 THAT STARTED THE EU. FROM 1 OF THESE 3 COUNTRIES COME THE FUTURE EU DICTATOR PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION WHO GUARENTEES ISRAELS SECURITY FOR A LAND FOR PEACE 7 YEAR TREATY.
2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.(THE JEWISH EU DICTATOR GETS HIS POWER FROM SATAN,HE COMES FROM THE OCCULT).
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.(THE DICTATOR HAS A FALSE RESURRECTION. JUST LIKE JESUS HAD A LITERAL RESURRECTION THIS DICTATOR GETS MURDERED AT THE 3 1/2 YR MARK OF THR 7 YEAR TREATY AND COMES BACK TO LIFE. THIS IS HOW HE CAN CLAIM TO BE GOD AND GET AWAY WITH IT AND CONTROL THE WHOLE EARTH.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
16 And he causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

DANIEL 11:36-40
36 And the king shall do according to his will;(EU PRESIDENT) and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS A EUROPEAN JEW) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(HES A MILITARY GINIUS) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he (THE EU DICTATOR) do in the most strong holds (CONTROL HEZBOLLAH,AL-QUAIDA MURDERERS ETC) with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south(EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR PROTECTING ISRAELS SECURITY) and the king of the north(RUSSIA) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

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

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

No one will enter the New World Order... unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation.- David Spangler Director of Planetary Initiative United Nations.

The rise of the untransparent 'Eurogroup'-By Honor Mahony-may 6,15-euobserver

BRUSSELS, Today, 09:11-The Eurogroup has emerged as a key body in the EU's evolving economic governance, playing a major role in the current dispute with Greece over further bailout money, yet it is democratically accountable to no one.Legally-speaking the monthly forum for eurozone finance ministers has a narrow remit: It is not an EU institution and it cannot adopt legally binding decisions.But the scale of the economic and financial crisis of the recent years and the resulting swathe of laws to try and ensure such a crisis never happens have turned it into a de facto player in EU's fledgling economic governance system.Its role was enhanced by the so-called six-pack of laws - which strengthens the rules underpinning the euro - and then further by the two-pack - which bolsters economic surveillance in the single currency states. Its meetings see discussions on draft national budgets and bailout programmes and are attended by the euro commissioner and the European Central Bank.The latest manifestation of its power is the ongoing battle between Greece and its lenders over what reforms Athens has to carry out in order to get a much-needed pay-out of bailout money.The money will only be released once the Eurogroup gives the green light.Yet its decisions have no legal effect - something the EU court spelt out recently in response to an attempt to overturn the Cyprus bailout and its conditions, including an unprecedented raiding of savers' accounts.Rene Repasi, a professor at Leiden University, notes the transparency vacuum in which the Eurogroup operates." There is a no legal obligation of the Eurogroup to inform the public or other institutions about its activities. There are no transparency rules for the Eurogroup. There are no minutes of its meetings."Speaking to MEPs in the constitutional affairs committee on Tuesday (5 May), Repasi also pointed out that Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Eurogroup president, is "not obliged" to appear in front of any parliamentary body nor does he have to worry about any "consequences" if the Eurogroup makes a bad decision.Daniela Schwarzer from the German Marshall Fund said the "parliamentary component lags behind" in Eurozone decision-making.She noted that empowering national parliaments is not necessarily the solution, pointing to the fact that the German parliament has become a "de facto veto player" in all substantial decisions following a series of rulings by the country's constitutional court."If you look at it from a trans-European perspective you may ask yourself how legitimate it is to have such veto players in national contexts."Taking a wider look at accountability in eurozone governance, Schwarzer notes that 'democratic legitimacy' can mean different things to different member states.In Greece, it centers on the fact that while the government has changed - a radical left party was elected to power in January - it appears not possible to change policy.But in Germany there is irritation that euro "rules that are there to be applied are not being applied in the way that is anticipated".

How much economic governance?

Meanwhile, economist Daniel Gros, from the CEPS thinktank, raised some fundamental questions about the nature of economic governance.He said economic policy co-ordination "makes sense" when there is a crisis, but questioned how much it is needed if there is no crisis.“Let’s take the famous structural reforms. Very often it is said – ‘Germany, please reform your services so that your productivity in services increases. Then there will be more investment and demand and other countries will benefit'.”But, said Gros, the exact opposite argument could also be made. Services reform could make Germany more competitive and result in it importing less from other countries “so the others could lose”.He said such examples illustrative the “practical problems you face when you think of running an economic policy for the entire area".Gros cautioned against an overly prescriptive economic governance policy outside times of crisis."One should be very careful in not overloading mechanisms for economic governance by trying to achieve too much coordination on things that we, in Brussels, think are perhaps good and useful but for which we cannot really be certain about the strong spillover effects."

What digital barriers do Europeans still face? By Peter Teffer-euobserver

Brussels, 5. May, 12:55-In the 1990s, Europeans still used a telephone-based modem (which made a distinct sound when 'dialling up') to connect to the World Wide Web, the user-friendly part of the Internet. With seemingly infinite possibilities, some may have felt this new digital world – or ‘Cyberspace’ – would forever mean the end of national borders.Indeed, on 8 February 1996, an American named John Perry Barlow wrote a A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. He published it online while attending the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather”, the text said in its preamble.Later on, the author told the world's governments that “Cyberspace does not lie within your borders”.Almost 20 years later, we know Barlow was wrong.Even for internet citizens, or netizens, whose physical bodies live somewhere in the nearly border-free European Union, there are still many barriers in Cyberspace.The European Commission on Wednesday (6 May) will present a strategy paper that will set out which online limitations the EU wants to lift.So what online borders do European netizens still face?
Buy a book, a magazine, a comic book, a record, a CD, a DVD, or any other material carrier of (legal) entertainment or information anywhere in the EU. Except for the physical labour of carrying them, you’ll have no problem taking it to another member state.But cultural works which are acquired online – often referred to as 'content' – are less easily 'transported' across EU borders than you might expect.Those EU citizens that have a subscription to a video or music streaming service, often find that they cannot access all or any of the content while visiting another country.Public broadcasters like the BBC do not allow internet users outside of the UK to watch content on their service iPlayer, citing rights agreements.According to a draft version of the commission strategy paper, seen by this website, less than 4 percent of all video-on-demand content in the EU is available cross-border.Some consumers - including some EU bureaucrats working in Brussels, far from home - use circumventing technologies to trick the content provider into thinking their computer is geographically located in their home country, but they probably would feel more confident using a less covert method.

Not selling to foreigners

When connecting to an internet service, a computer or smartphone usually reveals its location. Based on the location, web-shops or content providers from EU countries sometimes refuse to sell, or offer a different price, depending on your location.The extent of such unjustified geo-blocking is difficult to calculate.But the draft paper notes that almost three-quarters of complaints about “geographical discrimination faced by consumers relate to online cross-border purchases”.As the responsible digital commissioner, Andrus Ansip recently said: “I am ready to pay, but they are not accepting my money.”The issue of geographical discrimination is actually two separate issues: for physical goods and for digital content.With regards to physical goods, shops often say delivery costs are too high. With digital content, copyright is cited. ’Mom! I did something illegal!’When one of Caroline De Cock's children used some music as background to a digital creation and uploaded it on a social medium, she received her first copyright infringement notice. “Mom! I did something illegal!”, De Cock, a Belgian lobbyist, was told by her eight-year old daughter.She told an audience at an event organised by the European Policy Centre, a think tank in Brussels, that it’s more easy to explain the concept of privacy to her daughter than the current copyright framework.“One principle is very clear to children: creators should be rewarded. But copyright puzzles children.”For instance, can you publish altered photos as jokes on social media? Or creating animated video-clips as part of a contribution to internet culture? Can you use online material in class, and distribute it to your students digitally? Data, in the broadest sense of the word, is used on a daily basis by millions of Europeans. But there is great legal uncertainty as to what is allowed. Rules on when it is okay to use copyright-protected material are not uniformly implemented across the EU.Remixing content from the internet is a popular pastime among the generation of Europeans born since John Perry Barlow's declaration, but it is unclear when it is legal and when it is not.

US corporations as custodians of European culture?

A bookseller has a dispute with a book publisher and decides to stop selling two of its titles. Not only that, but the bookseller breaks into the houses of everyone who bought those books, removes them from the respective bookcase or nightstand, and refunds the consumer.One of the books, ironically, is 1984 by the English writer George Orwell, a dystopian novel about totalitarianism and censorship.Such an event is difficult to imagine in the physical world, yet this is exactly what happened in 2009, when Amazon removed all digital copies of Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from e-readers.While many of today's best-known online firms have romantic stories of origin, which take place in student dorms or garages, the most-used internet services are now in the hand of large corporations which hold considerable clout.With companies like Google holding market shares of over 90 percent, the relation between customer and company has become asymmetrical.According to digital activist and author Cory Doctorow, that is because the copyright rules that applied to the physical world, where copying was a physical and laborious act rarely performed by private citizens, were transferred straight to the digital world.“The entertainment industry insisted, and for some reason politicians went along with it, that the industrial rules governing entertainment will henceforth govern the entire information society”, said Doctorow at a recent event in the European Parliament.“If you have to read a contract, in order to read a book, something is wrong”, he added.

One in five Europeans can't read this article

Meanwhile, according to the EU commission, 20 percent of EU citizens have never used the internet.And while the EU average for access to broadband internet with a download speed of 30 megabits per second is 62 percent, that figure is much lower for rural areas. Only 18 percent of rural areas in the EU have 30Mbps broadband.The commission is expected to announce new measures to close this gap, the so-called digital divide.

EU unveils plans for global investor court By Benjamin Fox-may 6,15-euobser

BRUSSELS, Today, 08:58-The EU’s trade chief has unveiled plans to set up a global court to decide on disputes between investors and governments in a bid to defuse one of the main controversies in the ongoing EU-US trade talks.A "concept paper" published on Tuesday (May 5), drafted for trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom, stated that the EU should “pursue the creation of one permanent court,” to rule on so-called investor state dispute settlement (ISDS).The EU executive is keen to make clear that investor protection rules offer no guarantees to businesses that the legal regime in which they invested will remain the same. It also wants to include an article in the transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP) stating that governments are free to pursue public policy objectives without fear of being sued.Meanwhile, it also calls on arbitration panels to be more like the traditional court system, with permanent litigators and tenured judges ruling on cases.The EU proposal is similar to that advocated by Germany’s economy minister Sigmar Gabriel, one of the strongest critics of ISDS.Gabriel has called for a public trade and investment court to replace the current system of private arbitration, and to enable appeals against arbitration rulings.Speaking at a hearing with MEPs in March, Malmstrom commented that, in the future, governments should be expected to nominate “a limited list of trustworthy arbiters who would decide on all TTIP investment cases”.A multilateral court would “be a more efficient use of resources and have more legitimacy,” she added.In a blog post on Tuesday, Malmstrom described the ‘traditional ISDS system’ as being “not fit for purpose in the 21st century”.“Our new approach ensures that a state can never be forced to change legislation, only to pay fair compensation in cases where the investor is deemed to have been treated unfairly,” she added.Malmstrom will present her proposals to MEPs on the International Trade committee on Wednesday and to trade ministers the following day. If approved, they could form the basis of negotiations with the US.ISDS has become one of the most hotly-disputed elements in the EU-US trade talks, which have now completed their ninth round. Critics of the process say that arbitrations are carried out in secret by trade lawyers, and that it allows companies to sue governments that pass social protection legislation that could harm their investments. Campaigners frequently point to a ongoing case brought by tobacco giant Philip Morris against the Australian government over new legislation requiring plain packaging for cigarettes sold in the country. Following rising concern about the regime, the commission opened the three-month online consultation last March and suspended discussions on ISDS with US trade officials.In January, the commission published a 140-page report from the consultation, to which 97 percent of submissions were opposed to the inclusion of ISDS. However, EU governments are parties to around 1,400 of the 3,000 international investment agreements that are currently in force across the world, and the commission is under pressure from the US government to include investor protection in any agreement.

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY
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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)
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(10 DIVSION REGION WORLD GOVERNMENT) that shall arise: and another shall rise after them;(#11 SPAIN) and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.( BE HEAD OF 3 NATIONS)
25 And he (EU PRESIDENT) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.(3 1/2 YRS)

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT-NEW AGE MOVEMENT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(UNITED NATIONS TROOPS) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

EU rescue mission yet to receive extra cash or boats By Nikolaj Nielsen-euobserver

BRUSSELS, 4. May, 18:25-Plans for more money and boats to expand the EU’s surveillance mission Triton in the Mediterranean have yet to be realised as migrants continue to attempt to make the perilous sea journey.EU leaders late last month announced plans at an emergency summit to “rapidly reinforce” Triton and its smaller Poseidon mission after around 1,700 people drowned.The proposal includes tripling Triton’s monthly budget to some €9 million per month so that it can lease extra military vessels and other assets pledged by member states.The money will be siphoned from the EU budget but is currently mired in technocratic procedures.“The commission is hoping to present an amending budget to the European Parliament and the Council by mid-May to get it adopted swiftly thereafter," EU commission spokesperson for migration Natasha Bertaud told reporters in Brussels on Monday (4 May).The statement follows dramatic rescue efforts led by the Italian coastguard over the weekend that saved thousands at sea. Initial figures of 5,800 have now been revised to 6,771 survivors, reports the Associated Press.The Triton mission is currently not mandated to carry out search and rescue operations but can help when it comes across a boat in distress.Flying under the EU mission flag, the French vessel, Commandant Birot, participated in the weekend rescue mission and plucked 217 migrants from three boats.The EU-led mission is technically limited to a 30 nautical mile range along the Italian coast although discussions on expanding its operational scope are taking place between the EU’s border agency, Frontex, which coordinates the sea missions, and Italy, Greece, and Malta.Bertaud said Frontex and Italy are meeting on Thursday “so we would expect for the operational plan to be finalised between them shortly thereafter.”She also dismissed any notion that the EU could imitate Australia’s asylum mission, which includes offshoring people to nearby islands to process their asylum requests.“The Australian model can never be a model for us,” said Bertaud.Mean while, on Tuesday the EU’s foreign policy branch EEAS will present member states with an ideas paper on controversial plans to crack down on smugglers. The plan includes destroying boats used by traffickers to send people across the Mediterranean.An EU official said foreign ministers are then set to meet on 18 May to discuss the paper.Ministers will also be looking at expanding the EU's military operation in Niger to also "cover border control and other efforts to stem illegal migration" noted a contact.The mission has a staff of around 100 people from 11 member states. First launched in 2012, it is set to end next July.

EMPTY SAUDI PLANE LANDS IN ISRAEL

COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL AND THE WEST

EZEKIEL 38:10-19
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLAND,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

Saudi plane lands in Israel… empty-In a first, Airbus leased to Kingdom’s national airline undergoes maintenance at Ben Gurion Airport-By Times of Israel staff May 6, 2015, 5:35 pm 3

In a first, a Saudi Arabian passenger plane landed at Ben Gurion Airport Tuesday night for technical maintenance.The aircraft, an Airbus A330, arrived from Brussels with no passengers on board, according to a report in Ynet news Wednesday.The aircraft is owned by a European company and leased to Saudia — Saudi Arabia’s government-owned national airline.As per the directions of the company, the plane landed in Israel for routine upkeep by Bedek, an Israeli company contracted by Israel Aircraft Industries.An IAI spokesperson confirmed the plane’s arrival and said that the “ongoing and routine maintenance” of the Airbus passenger plane was part of the services Ben Gurion provided to the aircraft manufacturer.Like most Arab countries, Saudi Arabia does not officially recognize Israel, and there are no direct or indirect flights between the two countries.

Report: Netanyahu rejected Kerry visit after election win-By Mark Hensch - 05/03/15 03:28 PM EDT-THEHILL

An Israeli media report on Sunday said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Secretary of State John Kerry’s request for a visit following his reelection last month.Kerry proposed travel to the Jewish nation immediately after Netanyahu’s victory on March 17, according to Israel’s Channel 2.Netanyahu instead suggested Kerry come after he has formed a new coalition government. The reelected Prime Minister is still in the process of negotiating a final alliance with other Israeli lawmakers.Netanyahu’s office did not respond a request for comment from The Jerusalem Post Sunday evening.The rumored slight comes amid simmering tensions between the Israeli leader and President Obama.The two leaders have clashed over Obama’s tentative pact with Iran on its nuclear arms research. Kerry on Sunday tried defusing Israeli concerns over the draft accord.“I say to every Israeli that today we have the ability to stop them if they decided to move quickly to a bomb and I absolutely guarantee that in the future we will have the ability to know what they are doing so that we can still stop them if they decided to move to a bomb,” Kerry said, according to The Associated Press.Obama has argued that such diplomacy is the best method for preventing a Tehran armed with atomic weapons.Netanyahu has countered that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, is untrustworthy and that a nuclear Iran threatens his nation’s existence.Kerry negotiated the framework agreement with Iranian leadership announced on April 2.It would lift economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for greater restrictions on its nuclear energy capabilities.Iran has vowed it will allow more frequent atomic inspections and caps on its centrifuge and uranium stockpiles as part of the deal.The Obama administration additionally criticized Netanyahu last month for his campaign rhetoric refusing the creation of a Palestinian state.The president is a strong supporter of a two-state solution for lasting Middle East peace.

Iran Claims it Chased US Warship in Gulf of Aden-Iranian navy confronted US vessel and several aircraft, causing them to 'rapidly' change direction, off the coast of Yemen.By Ari Soffer-First Publish: 5/6/2015, 2:50 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS

The Iranian navy is claiming to have chased off a US warship and several American aircraft, in the latest aggressive move by the Islamic Republic's military.According to the semi-official Fars News Agency, 2 US reconnaissance planes and US Navy destroyer DDG81 "rapidly changed direction" on Monday, after being confronted by an Iranian fleet in the Gulf of Aden, south of Yemen.The Iranian Destroyer "Alborz", part of Iran's 34th fleet, sent a warning to the US vessels telling them to turn around after the Americans strayed into the "5-mile standard distance" from the Iranian fleet, Fars claimed.Iran has released video footage of the incident:"Checking foreign warships in the international waters and surveilling potential threats to Iran's national interests is our essential responsibility," the commander of the 34th flotilla of warships, Commodore Mostafa Tajeddini, said on Tuesday.The Iranian 34th fleet is conducting an "anti-piracy" patrol off the coast of Yemen, according to Tehran.But the US and others claim Iran is using its military assets in the region to back Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen, and the US Navy has been deployed off the coast of the war-torn country to prevent the transfer of weapons from Iran to the Houthis.However, Iran denies claims its operations in the region have been altered at all by the US deployment."The news report by the foreign media that we have changed our route after the US fleet's arrival is only a media ballyhoo," Tajeddini said.
"We have had communications with many naval units since we entered the Gulf of Aden, but no country has ever dared to warn the Iranian Navy," he added.The incident is just the latest aggressive move by the Iranian navy, which triggered an international crisis after seizing a Martial Islands-flagged ship, the MV Maersk Tigris, last week.Iranian state media reported Wednesday that Iran has now threatened to sell the captured ship, if its owners refuse to pay a hefty fine - despite it having been seized in international waters.
In a recent video, a senior Iranian military commander vowed that Iran's hostility towards the US would continue regardless of any nuclear deal, until America becomes an "Islamic Republic."

Iranian Cleric: Kerry Said he Wishes US Had Leader Like Khamenei-Senior cleric says Kerry told Zarif he 'wished US had leader like Iran's supreme leader,' adding 'US, Israel never were so weak.'By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 5/2/2015, 11:57 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS

A senior Iranian cleric claims that US Secretary of State John Kerry told Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif that he "wished the US had a leader like Iran's supreme leader" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in comments made during the negotiations over Iran's nuclear program.The cleric, Ayatollah Alam al-Hoda who is a senior member of the powerful Assembly of Experts, made the remark during Muslim prayer services last Friday, reports the Farsi-language state-run Asriran news site.A senior US administration official responded to the statement, telling the Washington Free Beacon that the claim is "patently absurd."Al-Hoda didn't stop there however, going on to claim that "both Republicans and Democrats want these negotiations with Iran, but they fight each other for partisan interests. (US President Barack) Obama wants the negotiation to succeed so his party can win the next election and Republicans want to stop him."Turning his attention to how Iran has been seeking regional hegemony via terror proxies, most recently the Shi'ite Houthi militia in Yemen, he added, "today, the resistance crescent has gone beyond Syria and Lebanon and reached to Yemen. Today the resistance front is in control of Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb."His mention of the Bab el-Mandeb strait refers to a waterway of the highest strategic value off the coast of southern Yemen where the Houthis are fighting for control. It would allow control of the key commercial water route into the Red Sea, and ultimately to Israel's southern port of Eilat.The "US and Israel have not been so weak anytime before. All these events are being managed by the hidden Imam," he said, making mention of a messianic religious figure in Shia Islam.As illustrated by the cleric's comments, Iranian dissident Saeed Ghasseminejad of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) told the Washington Free Beacon that the conduct of the Obama administration is garnering Iran's scorn."President Obama thinks that by making more concessions he can gain the trust and respect of Iranian leaders," Ghasseminejad said. "However, Iranian leaders neither trust him nor respect him.""Seeing unprecedented weakness in the US president, Iranian leaders do not fear the United States anymore. Partnership, trust, and alliance between the radical Islamist regime of Tehran and United States cannot and should not exist," he concluded.

Jewish Home wins Justice Ministry, but balks at Likud limitations-Likud negotiators give in to demand from Naftali Bennett that his party receive legal portfolio, but impose restrictions-By Stuart Winer May 6, 2015, 3:56 pm 11-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

The Likud party agreed to appoint MK Ayelet Shaked as justice minister Wednesday in a bid to bring her Jewish Home party into the coalition, but negotiations snagged after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu imposed limitations on her power in the position.The move was meant to pave the way for Netanyahu to garner the 61 seats he needs for his governing coalition, ahead of a midnight deadline to present his government.However, in making the offer Likud also attempted to clip Shaked’s wings, insisting that she not be able to appoint religious court judges and that she also not chair the Israeli Judicial Committee, the body that appoints judges for the law courts, Hebrew-language news sites reported.Instead, a Likud minister would head the religious court judges appointment panel, with Shaked, who is nonreligious, and a representative from the ultra-Orthodox Shas party also having their say. The religious courts handle, among other things, matters of marriage and divorce.Jewish Home indicated, though, that without Shaked retaining leadership of the judicial committee for the law courts, the party will not sign a coalition deal.Further complicating the negotiations, Housing Minister Uri Ariel reportedly demanded from Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett that he be given the Justice Ministry instead, under pain of him and another two MKs leaving the coalition, which would leave Netanyahu shy of his needed majority, Army Radio reported.
Likud had been loath to give Jewish Home the Justice Ministry, fearing it would use the position to push through controversial reforms weakening the Supreme Court and changing the makeup of the panel that chooses new justices.Likud officials told Haaretz that there were two problems with giving the Justice Ministry to Jewish Home.“The first is that the justice minister will soon have to decide on who the next attorney general will be,” one official said. “It’s a very sensitive position, and Netanyahu has no desire to entrust that task to Bennett or Shaked. The second problem is that Shaked is spearheading the battle to change the face of the Supreme Court. Netanyahu has so far avoided going head to head with the court, and he may well not want this headache.”Labor MK Shelly Yachimovich warned that the developments did not bode well for the legal system.“Prepare to see a hard and bitter battle for the welfare and identity of the judicial system and law enforcement,” Yachimovich told the Walla news website.Yachimovich insisted that her criticism of Shaked should not be taken as a comment on Shaked as an individual. “She is capable, but her view of the courts, the judiciary, and the legislature, are the opposite of mine,” she said.Netanyahu has been scrambling to bring Jewish Home and its eight seats aboard before a midnight Wednesday deadline for him to declare a governing coalition.However, the nationalist faction upped its demands over the past days, insisting that Shaked be given the Justice Ministry and party leader Naftali Bennett be given a top portfolio — possibly the Foreign Ministry.As part of the emerging coalition deal both Bennett and Shaked will also likely have seats in the security cabinet, an arrangement the Likud opposes as it will give the Jewish Home party more clout than could be expected for its number of parliamentary seats.If he succeeds in signing Jewish Home up for his coalition, Netanyahu will have the pieces in place for a razor-thin 61-seat majority, enough to maintain power but not enough to do much else, analysts say.On Monday, Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman announced his resignation as foreign minister and said his party would refuse to join the coalition.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

I Don't Care if I Win or Lose - I'm Doing the Right Thing'-Controversial campaigner Pamela Geller tells Arutz Sheva she isn't fazed by the media backlash against her following Texas attack.By Ari Soffer-First Publish: 5/6/2015, 12:08 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
The organizer of the Mohammed cartoon contest attacked by two ISIS terrorists on Sunday has vowed to continue her campaign - even if it turns out to be a losing battle.Pamela Geller - who is the founder and president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) - was at the event in Texas when it was targeted by two Muslim gunmen. Like other event participants she escaped unharmed thanks to police, who shot dead the gunmen almost immediately.But she expressed her frustration in a series of interviews with US media outlets, in which she was accused of having provoked the attack via her actions. Geller in turn accused the press of abandoning the First Amendment and the values of free speech "so as not to offend savages."In interviews with outlets from CNN to Fox News, Geller accused her interviewers of blaming the victim."We have to have this conversation, and the fact that we have to spend upwards of $50,000 dollars in security speaks to how dangerous and how in trouble freedom of speech is in this country," she said. "And then we have to get on these news shows and somehow we - those who are targeted, those who were going to be slaughtered - are the ones who get attacked, speaks to how morally inverted this conversation is."However, Geller told Arutz Sheva that she is unfazed by both the physical and media attacks on her and her campaign - and vowed to carry on regardless."We will continue to defend freedom with various initiatives," the controversial campaigner declared, refuting claims in the media that the AFDI is anti-Muslim."AFDI started to provide an organizational basis for my efforts to defend the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, the equality of rights for all before the law, and individual rights, and its objective is to do exactly that."Her critics counter that her campaign - which has also featured prominent bus ads criticizing Muslim anti-Semitism - focuses on criticizing and ridiculing Islam alone, but Geller insists that is merely because criticism of Islam - and the violent, often murderous response to it - has become the "defining issue" for free speech."It was not I who chose Muhammad cartoons as the defining issue for the freedom of speech; it was the jihadis when they massacred the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists," Geller told Arutz Sheva."They made it clear that they would kill if we expressed our freedom of speech in this way. That made it imperative that we defend the freedom of speech by drawing Muhammad cartoons and thereby showing that we would not capitulate to violent intimidation."And she noted that despite the overwhelmingly hostile reception given to her by the media, there were a few prominent dissenting voices."There have been some supportive responses. Sean Hannity and Megyn Kelly, among others, have understood what is at stake," she said, naming two Fox News presenters who lashed out at pundits - including their own colleagues - who stated that Geller had brought the attack on herself.But when asked if the otherwise overwhelmingly negative response to her campaign by the mainstream media made her feel she was fighting a losing battle, Geller struck a defiant tone."I don't care if I win or lose. I care about doing the right thing, and will continue to do so, come what may," she said.

Wednesday, May 06, 2015

RABBI YAHUDA GLICK WILL BE ALLOWED BACK ON TEMPLE MOUNT AFTER HE WAS ALMOST KILLED BY AN ARAB SHOOTER MONTHS AGO.

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 MAY 06,2015-12:00AM
RABBI YAHUDA GLICK WILL BE ALLOWED BACK ON TEMPLE MOUNT AFTER HE WAS ALMOST KILLED BY AN ARAB SHOOTER MONTHS AGO.

Court Rules Yehuda Glick Can Visit the Temple Mount-Jerusalem court accepts Temple Mount activist's appeal against police ban - but imposes severe restrictions.By Ari Soffer-First Publish: 5/5/2015, 6:34 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS

Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday accepted an appeal by veteran Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick over his indefinite ban on visiting the Temple Mount.However, Glick's latest hard-fought legal victory came with several conditions.For one, the court accepted a petition by police to ban him from bringing a camera or smartphone onto the holy site. In addition, the court ordered police to facilitate just one visit per month for Glick, who is still recovering from an assassination attempt by an Islamist terrorist last year.The date and time of that visit will be determined exclusively by the police, who will notify Glick 24 hours in advance.Glick's appeal was launched in response to a police ban on him visiting the Temple Mount at all until the end of a pending case lodged against him by a Muslim woman who claimed he pushed her while visiting the site. For his part Glick says the woman - who is one of a large number of female Islamist activists who regularly harass Jewish visitors at the site - simply tripped and fell as she was harassing his group, and blamed him without any basis.In his appeal, Glick challenged police claims that he could pose a threat to Muslim worshippers if he visited, saying that if that was the case he would even agree to go up while tied up and pushed along in a wheelchair.In its ruling, the court stated that Glick is prohibited "from possessing a smartphone or camera at the time of his visit, in order to prevent him from provoking the Muslim community as the police claim he did during the incident" in which the Muslim woman fell.The court also explicitly forbade Glick from "reading anything at all aloud" to anyone on the Temple Mount.During the hearing police cited "classified" evidence which they said proved that allowing Glick to visit at all constituted a "danger to the public." But Glick's attorney Yitzhak Bam noted that claim was based on concerns Muslim extremists could riot due to his client's presence on the Mount, and responded by stating that it was the police's duty to preserve law and order in such an eventuality - not to ban his client.Responding to the ruling, Glick praised the court "for accepting my basic claim that the police's duty is to protect the public, and that it is not acceptable that the police should punish the victim of violence because of a threat from the violent perpetrators." However, he also expressed his disappointment in the severe restrictions placed upon his visits."The (court's) decision is far appropriate given that we are talking about permitting one visit per month to a person who is used to visiting 2-3 times a day," said Glick, who until his ban worked as a tour guide at the site.Furthermore, he noted, the rationale for those restrictions was that "Arab violence is the result of the behavior of Jews and not the initiatives of terrorists, as revealed by security sources."Despite being the holiest site in Judaism - and in spite of numerous court rulings for free access to Jewish visitors - police currently maintain severe restrictions on Jewish visits to the Temple Mount, including a blanket ban on prayer or worship of any sort, in order to appease Muslim groups who have threatened violence should Jews or other non-Muslims be allowed to pray.Yehuda Glick has been among the most prominent Jewish campaigners against those police measures - earning him the wrath of both the police and Muslim extremists, the latter of which culminated in his attempted murder last year.

U.S. senator says sees Iran nuclear bill vote as soon as Thursday-Reuters-MAY 5,15-YAHOONEWS

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker said on Tuesday that he sees an "overwhelming" vote to pass the Iran nuclear review bill as soon as Thursday.
Corker, a Republican, told reporters at the U.S. Capitol that leaders were still working out a way to allow the Senate to consider amendments to the bill, which would allow Congress to review an international nuclear agreement with Tehran before most sanctions on Iran could be waived."My sense is that Thursday there's a very good chance that we'll have an overwhelming vote," Corker said.A dispute among Republican senators over amendments last week left Senate leaders scrambling for a way to move forward with the legislation, which was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by a 19-0 vote.All 67 proposed amendments to the bill have been offered by Republicans.(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; additional reporting by Emily Stephenson; editing by Sandra Maler)

Bennett Demands: Justice Ministry or Opposition-Bennett in last minute demand that Shaked be made justice minister; Likud sources say 'lust for portfolios canceling right-wing govt.'By Ido Ben-Porat, Ari Yashar-First Publish: 5/5/2015, 8:22 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS
As coalition talks go down to the wire ahead of a Wednesday deadline, Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett delivered an ultimatum to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, demanding that MK Ayelet Shaked of his party be named justice minister.If the demand is not met, Bennett threatened to go to the Opposition, leaving Likud short of the required 61 MKs needed to create a coalition majority.Bennett made an additional demand according to Channel 2, asking that Shaked be inducted as justice minister as soon as next week out of an apparent concern that the law may be changed to increase the number of ministers beyond the current limitation of 18.Likud had already reportedly agreed to Shaked being named as culture and sport minister as part of a proposed coalition agreement, but Jewish Home is apparently trying to press for additional portfolios.Likud tried throughout the day on Tuesday to contact Bennett after the minister went "under the radar" and switched his cell phone to airplane mode.The reason for Bennett's last minute cutting off of contact is his anger that the haredi parties Shas and United Torah Judaism were given control of the Religious Affairs Ministry and the rabbinical courts in the coalition deals they signed.Regarding the justice ministry, reports have indicated that after Avigdor Liberman announced his Yisrael Beytenu party will not join the coalition, Likud responded to Bennett's demand for the foreign portfolio by offering him to be the justice minister instead of the education minister as had been agreed."Lust for portfolios harming the right-wing"Sources close to Netanyahu voiced their opposition to Bennett's last minute demands."We won't give the justice portfolio," they said. "The right-wing will never forgive Bennett if he knocks over a right-wing government due to a lust for portfolios."The remark refers to appraisals that Netanyahu may form a unity government with the leftist Zionist Union party comprised of Labor and Hatnua if Jewish Home does not sign a coalition deal with it.Netanyahu has until Wednesday night to inform President Reuven Rivlin if he was able to form a coalition or not, and if he was successful, he will have a week to swear in the next coalition government.Bennett's demand comes after Dani Dayan, the former head of the Yesha Council and a candidate on the Jewish Home list who removed his candidacy after getting an unrealistic spot in primaries, urged the party to sign a coalition deal with Likud on Tuesday."In the situation we've encountered today there's nothing to be done but to regain one's composure, to drink a glass of water, and to sign on the coalition agreement," Dayan said of Jewish Home in an interview on Army Radio.Dayan criticized Jewish Home for waiting until the last minute to sign a coalition deal in an attempt to squeeze out additional portfolios for its members."It cannot be that Jewish Home makes the establishment of the government fail," he said.On his Twitter account, Dayan wrote later, "I thank G-d that I wasn't selected there (in Jewish Home primaries - ed.) and I don't have to in these very days stand in the dilemma between my conscience and my faction."

2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.

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

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

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

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

Israel to purchase $310m worth of parts for next gen APCs-IDF to equip new personnel carriers with advanced missile interception system following conclusions from summer war-By Adiv Sterman May 5, 2015, 4:23 pm 1-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

The Defense Ministry this week signed an multi-million dollar agreement with US company GD (General Dynamics) to acquire the mechanical parts needed to assemble state-of-the-art armored personnel carriers.The move was based on conclusions by the security establishment following last summer’s war between Israel and Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas, the ministry said in a statement Tuesday.The parts for the Namer, an APC built on the frame of the Merkava tank, will be delivered over the next six years and are valued at a total of $310 million. GD has already begun supplying the Defense Ministry with Namer engine parts as part of an earlier $250 million contract.According to the ministry, all new Namer APCs will be equipped with the Israeli-developed Armored Shield Protection system, known as the “Windbreaker,” which is considered one of the most advanced countermeasure technological systems in military use. The “Windbreaker” is the product of a ten-year collaborative development project between Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and the Israel Aircraft Industries’ Elta Group, and is specifically designed to intercept and destroy incoming missiles and rockets in real time.While army officials said Namer APCs were highly successful during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, resisting bomb blasts and saving many soldiers’ lives, too few of the vehicles were available to infantry units. “The only issue is funding,” Brig. Gen. Baruch Mazliach, head of the Defense Ministry’s Namer and Merkava department, told Channel 2 News last year. “We can construct dozens of vehicles a year.”The ministry estimated that renewed construction of Namer APCs would benefit up to 10,000 Israeli workers employed in various fields connected with the project. According to the ministry, Israel exports approximately $700 million worth of tank and APC parts annually, adding that for every one dollar spent on the Namer APC, local companies are expected receive four dollars in return.During the summer’s war last year, a group of 30 IDF reserve soldiers notified their commanders that they would refuse to enter the Gaza Strip in M-113 armored personnel carriers, military vehicles designed by the US Army in the 1960s and first used during the Vietnam War. The reservists’ plea came several days after a deadly battle in the Gaza neighborhood of Shejaiya during which Hamas fighters fired a missile at an M-113 carrier, resulting in the deaths of seven IDF soldiers on board.Following the battle in Shejaiya, Maj. Gen. Sami Turgeman, the commander of the IDF Southern Command, said that the army was aware of the M-113’s faults but did not have the means to provide full protection to every soldier entering the Strip.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report

Obama administration has 'designed and deployed the weapon that has the ability to deal with Iran’s nuclear program,' secretary tells Israeli TV-In assuring Israel on Iran, Kerry references upgraded bunker-buster-Newly improved 30,000-pound bomb that can take out nuclear site has not been provided to IDF-By Mitch Ginsburg May 4, 2015, 10:25 pm-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Secretary of State John Kerry raised the specter of using a 30,000-pound (13,600-kg) bunker-buster bomb  against Iran’s nuclear program in an interview aired this week, during an attempt to reassure Israelis that America had its back against Tehran, even if it means preemptive military action.People in Israel should have some confidence in an “administration that designed and deployed the weapon that has the ability to deal with Iran’s nuclear program,” Kerry told Channel 10, adding that his is “an administration, a government, a country that will stand by Israel way into the future.”The weapon he was referring to, the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, or MOP, is a 30,000-pound bomb that was made operational in 2011 and recently redesigned in terms of guidance and penetration. The massive weapon has not been offered to Israel for purchase.The US Department of Defense invested $330 million to develop 20 of the bombs and requested an additional $82 million to enhance their efficacy, the Wall Street Journal reported in 2012.In April the Journal reported that the upgraded bomb was tested in mid-January, when it was dropped from a B-2 bomber that took off from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.The successful test showed a massive bomb that could be guided much like smaller precision weapons and was upgraded with electronic countermeasures that protect it from potential Iranian jamming, which could otherwise be used to steer incoming weaponry off target.The US officials, who were reportedly not involved in the administration’s negotiations with Iran, told the Wall Street Journal that the bombs, if used, would have a devastating effect never before seen by a non-nuclear weapon.The bombs are designed to be released in pairs, with the first burrowing through the layers of rock and steel that protect underground nuclear facilities like the one in Fordo, Iran, and the second to follow immediately on its heels and destroy the target.The Journal reported that Pentagon officials have shared details about the bomb with Israeli counterparts, and have “shown them videos of the weapon hitting a target during testing.”The videos reportedly showed a deep bunker utterly destroyed by a precision-guided bomb.“The Pentagon,” officials told the Journal, “continues to be focused on being able to provide military options for Iran if needed,” and stressed that “if you say all options are on the table, you have to have something on the table that’s credible.”Kerry, in the Israeli television interview, seemed to be indicating that the threat of US military action still hovers over the negotiations and acts as a stick to prevent future Iranian violations of any would-be agreement.Official Israel, which was chastised for its preemptive action against Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor in 1981, and which witnessed the US’s unwillingness to act in order to thwart North Korea and Syria, remains unconvinced that the emerging deal will thwart Iran’s nuclear drive to nuclear weapons, though Kerry said he could “guarantee” this was the case.“Now there are those who say that the Lausanne framework will make Israel safer,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video address to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy on Friday. “As the prime minister of Israel, I can tell you categorically this deal will endanger Israel — big time.”

N. Korea Submarine Missile Allows Covert Nuclear Strike on US-Regime tests nuclear-capable missile from underwater for first time, as officials blame Obama for allowing 'tragedy.'By Ari Yashar-First Publish: 5/5/2015, 5:55 PM-ISRAELNATIONALNEWS

In a worrying step showing North Korea's rapidly expanding nuclear strike capabilities, the Communist regime recently held a test of a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), the first time it has launched a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead from underwater.According to US defense officials cited by the Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday, the test took place on April 22 from an underwater test platform near the coastal city of Sinpo in the southeast of the country, and tested what the US is calling a KN-11 missile.The test appears to have been successful, and is the third KN-11 test showing the high-priority of the nuclear missile program for North Korea. Previous tests in January and last October were from a sea-based platform not underwater and a land-based platform.The KN-11 joins the KN-08 mobile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) as being part of a varied North Korean missile arsenal on platforms that would be hard for the US to detect, and consequently allow a strike that would be difficult to shoot down.Admiral Bill Gortney, Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and US Northern Command, admitted last month that North Korea could hit the continental US with a nuclear strike. That admission accompanied the announcement that NORAD is reopening its nuclear-EMP-proof Cheyenne Mountain bunker, apparently amid renewed concerns of an EMP attack by which a nuclear weapon would be detonated over the US, knocking out all of its electronic devices, and thereby rendering it defenseless to secondary nuclear strikes.The latest launch test also comes after Chinese experts warned the US last month that American estimates are wrong and North Korea actually has 20 nuclear weapons, with that arsenal to double next year thanks to the regime's higher than anticipated advanced enrichment capabilities.Nuclear strikes the US won't see coming-Admiral Cecil D. Haney, commander of the Strategic Command, confirmed the SLBM launch test in comments to the Senate on March 19, reports the Washington Free Beacon. The program is in violation of UN Security Council resolutions.Regarding the UN, it was reported last month that US President Barack Obama hid intel from the UN about North Korea transferring rocket components needed to create a nuclear missile to Iran even during the nuclear talks, to try and prevent the UN from acting on the information with increased sanctions.Former US Defense Intelligence Agency official Bruce Bechtol, Jr. told the paper that North Korea's SLBM program is meant to give it the ability to strike the US, and to not have the strike be detected in advance."With an SLBM they get both," said Bechtol. "The submarine can get the platform to launch the missile within range of the continental United States, Alaska, or Hawaii. Thus, once operational, this immediately brings key nodes in the United States within range of what would likely be a nuclear armed missile."He noted that once the KN-11 and mobile KN-08 "systems go operational, it potentially gives North Korea a dual threat for attacking the United States with nuclear or chemical weapons - a threat generated from difficult to detect mobile platforms on both land and sea."Obama is bringing the US to "tragedy"A number of American officials responded sharply to the KN-11 test, placing the blame squarely on Obama's shoulders."This missile, along with the KN-08, happened on Obama’s watch and nothing has been done," one US intelligence official told the Washington Free Beacon.Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton added his criticism, saying, "by utterly ignoring North Korea’s growing missile threats, Obama has allowed the threat of rogue state proliferators to fall out of the center of the national political debate.""This is a potential tragedy for the country," Bolton warned.Air Force Lt. Gen. (ret.) Thomas McInerney said that the KN-08 and KN-11 programs constitute "threats to the continental United States and have been developed under the Obama administration’s leadership.""  Leading from behind is a failed strategy as evidenced by this very dangerous strategic threat to the continental United States of nuclear attack by a very unstable North Korean government," said McInerney. The general also spoke about Obama's admission that the nuclear deal being formed with Iran will allow it to obtain a nuclear weapon in under 15 years if it doesn't breach conditions and obtain it sooner, noting that the deal "puts the United States in the most dangerous threat of nuclear attack since the height of the Cold War but from multiple threats - North Korea, China, Russia, and Iran."Opponents of the nuclear deal being formulated with Iran ahead of a June 30 deadline have warned it follows in the footsteps of the failed deal sealed by then-President Bill Clinton with North Korea in 1994.Despite the deal, North Korea tested its first nuclear weapon in 2006, just over ten years after the agreement.

Sunday, May 03, 2015

RABBI WARNS ISRAELIS ABOUT BIG QUAKES COMING.AND TO CONVERT ISRAELI SOLDIERS.

JESUS RETURNS TO EARTH BODILY TO RULE AND REIGN FROM DAVIDS THRONE FOREVER AND WE COME BACK WITH HIM ON WHITE HORSES.

ACTS 1:10-11
10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

ZECHARIAH 14:4-QUAKE WHEN JESUS RETURNS TO EARTH AT THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
4 And his (JESUS) feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

REVELATION 11:13-14-MID TRIB QUAKE
13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
14 The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

Trembling before God-Rabbi: Nepal quake a warning to Jews-Ultra-Orthodox leader tells devotees the disaster should inspire them to protest conversions of IDF soldiers to Judaism-By Judah Ari Gross May 3, 2015, 1:34 pm 20-THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
The chief of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox religious court, Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, told followers that last week’s earthquake in Nepal, which killed more than 7,000 people, was meant as a lesson to the Jewish people.“The Holy One, blessed be He, sent us this warning from a distant country in order to remind us that such a punishment exists,” he explained in a class he taught last week, the ultra-Orthodox news site Kikar Hashabat reported Thursday.The reason for that punishment? Improper conversions to Judaism, apparently.“We must protest day and night when myriads are converted in the army and out of the army by government-employed rabbis,” he told devotees.“By law they are completely gentile,” Sternbuch said. “And afterwards the daughters of Israel marry those gentiles, against the strict prohibition on forbidden relationships.”This is not the first time prominent rabbis have roped in natural disasters to promote their religious or political agendas. In 2012, Rabbi Noson Leiter called the superstorm Sandy that rocked New York “divine justice” for the city’s same-sex marriage legislation, alluding to lower Manhattan as one of the nation’s “centers of homosexuality.”And in 2005, the late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, a revered scholar of Jewish law and spiritual leader of the Shas party, blamed Hurricane Katrina on godlessness, saying, “There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, because there isn’t enough Torah study… Black people reside there [New Orleans].Blacks will study the Torah? [God said] let’s bring a tsunami and drown them.”

A life-saving Jewish connection, if new UK princess named Alice-Baby’s great-great-grandmother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, is buried in Jerusalem, and was recognized as a ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ for hiding Jewish family from the Nazis-By Times of Israel staff, JTA and AP May 3, 2015, 8:07 pm 2

Bookmakers Sunday touted Alice and Charlotte as the most likely names for Britain’s newborn princess, the second child of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge, who was born Saturday.
The name Alice has particular resonance for the Jewish people: The newborn’s great-great-grandmother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, is buried in Jerusalem, and was recognized by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial as a “Righteous Among the Nations” and by the British government as a “Hero of the Holocaust.”During the Nazi occupation of Greece, Alice hid a Jewish woman and two of her children from the Nazis.In 1994, the newborn’s great-grandfather, Queen Elizabeth II’s husband Prince Philip, visited Israel for a ceremony to mark his mother’s valor.Born in 1885 as Princess Alice of Battenberg and congenitally deaf, she spent much of her life in Greece after marrying Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (he was simultaneously prince of two different European countries).Alice moved to London in 1967 to live in Buckingham Palace with her son and daughter-in-law, the present queen. After the princess died two years later, her body was interred in a crypt at Windsor Castle.But in 1988, she was transferred to a crypt at the Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene in Gethsemane on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives – honoring a wish she had expressed before her death.In October 1994, on a trip that marked the first time that a member of the British royal family had visited the State of Israel, Philip attended a ceremony honoring his mother at Yad Vashem.Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, met with members of the Cohen family whom his mother hid in her Athens palace for 13 months during the Nazi occupation of Greece.At the ceremony at Yad Vashem, he accepted the Righteous Among the Nations award that was bestowed posthumously upon his late mother.He also planted a maple tree in her memory along the Avenue of the Righteous Among Nations, which commemorates gentiles who saved Jews during the Holocaust.“God brings everything we do to judgment,” the prince wrote in the visitors’ book at Yad Vashem.Prior to the ceremony, Philip visited the crypt in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene on the Mount of Olives, where his mother’s coffin lies.In September of 1943, members of the Cohen family, from the Greek town of Trikala, appealed to Princess Alice for refuge. An acquaintance of theirs, she took them in and hid them until the Nazis withdrew in October 1944.The story was not known until the early 1990s, when Michel Cohen, 78, told officials at Yad Vashem of how he, his mother and sister were saved by the princess.The surviving members of the Cohen family flew to Israel from France to attend the ceremony in 1994.Philip, accompanied by his sister Princess Sophie, was met at Ben-Gurion Airport by the then-education minister Amnon Rubinstein. While the visit was considered a private one, Rubinstein said it reflected Israel’s changed status in light of the then ongoing peace process with the Palestinians. “It is another sign of the much warmer and better relationship between Israel and the United Kingdom,” Rubinstein said.The guessing game over the new princess’s name continued in high gear Sunday.When the baby’s older brother, Prince George, was born in 2013, the royal couple took two days to reveal his name, waiting until after Queen Elizabeth II had met her new great-grandson.Britain’s legal bookmakers have been busy taking in thousands of bets for the baby’s name. For weeks, they have been saying that Alice is the clear favorite. But in recent days Charlotte, the feminine form of Charles, has become the front runner.Other top possibilities included Olivia, Victoria, Elizabeth, Alexandra and Diana, the name of William’s late mother.The newborn may herald a new generation in the monarchy, but it is customary for royals to look to their past for name ideas. The repetition of names in each generation is at least partly an effort to preserve the continuity of one of the world’s oldest institutions.A princess called Charlotte — a name that is French in origin — would be a nod to her grandfather, Prince Charles. In royal history, George IV named his only child Charlotte, but she died in childbirth at 21. George III’s wife was Queen Charlotte, who was born 1744.As for Alice, apart from being the name of Philip’s mother, Queen Victoria named her second daughter Princess Alice.Many think it is likely that William and Kate would use the name Diana — though probably as one of the baby’s middle names to avoid comparisons with her late grandmother. Like most royals, the baby’s brother, Prince George, has more than one middle name (George Alexander Louis), and the same treatment is expected for her.William and Kate introduced the baby princess Saturday evening to the world, just 12 hours after Kate checked into London’s St. Mary’s Hospital to give birth. The baby weighed in at 8 pounds, 3 ounces (3.7 kilograms).The couple issued a statement of thanks Sunday in response to the outpouring of goodwill and international interest in their baby.“The Duke and Duchess are hugely grateful for the messages of congratulations they have received from people all over the world,” their press office said in a statement. “It means a great deal to them that so many people have celebrated the arrival of their new daughter.”The princess is fourth in line to the British throne, after her grandfather Charles, her father William and her older brother George. She will be known formally as Her Royal Highness, Princess (name) of Cambridge.William’s father and stepmother, Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, went to Kensington Palace on Sunday to visit the baby for the first time, joining Kate’s parents Michael and Carole Middleton and her sister Pippa.Prince Harry, who is in Australia, said about his new niece: “She is absolutely beautiful. I can’t wait to meet her.”The royal couple is expected to spend several days at their London home before traveling to their country home on the queen’s sprawling Sandringham estate, 120 miles (190 kilometers) north of London. The family is likely to stay out of the public eye in the coming days.The princess’s birth has mesmerized much of Britain, eclipsing the country’s hard-fought election campaign on the front pages of British newspapers. A number of London landmarks including Tower Bridge were lit in pink overnight to commemorate her birth.

Israel’s military edge at risk as Obama ‘scrambles’ to placate Arab fears on Iran deal-NY Times says US could sell F-35s to UAE three years after Israel gets them, may offer Gulf allies defense pacts, joint training, upgraded status-By Times of Israel staff May 2, 2015, 2:58 am
The Obama administration is said to be “scrambling” to find ways to reassure Arab allies that it is not abandoning them, despite the imminent nuclear deal with Iran. To that end, it is considering a range of options such as weapons sales that might reduce Israel’s hitherto sacrosanct military edge, The New York Times reported Friday, including selling the F-35 fighter jet to the United Arab Emirates.Among the options cited by the paper as being under consideration: A defense pact under which the US would commit “to the defense of Arab allies if they come under attack from outside forces”; joint training missions for American and Arab military forces; designating Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as “major non-NATO allies,” a step that would loosen restrictions on weapons sales and offer “a number of military advantages that are available only to NATO allies”; and approving the sale of its advanced F-35 stealth fighter to the UAE three years after it is delivered to Israel.The administration is hurriedly weighing such options ahead of a Camp David summit set for May 14 for President Barack Obama and Gulf allies, the New York Times said. Countries might reportedly “downgrade” their participation at the summit, intended for foreign ministers, if the president does not come up with a satisfactory offer.There was no immediate Israeli response to the report, which broke after the start of the Jewish sabbath.The Times quoted Defense Secretary Ashton Carter as having asked a group of Middle East experts two weeks ago for their “advice on how the administration could placate Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, all of which fear the nuclear deal.” The secretary reportedly asked them, “How do you make clear to the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) that America isn’t going to hand the house keys of the Persian Gulf over to Iran and then pivot to Asia?”Kenneth M. Pollack, an expert on Middle East political and military affairs at the Brookings Institution, told the paper: “The gulf states are very concerned about this nuclear deal with Iran… Some of them believe this is the start of an Obama administration bid to trade them away.”The report said that at a White House meeting on April 20, the UAE’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan “pressed for a defense pact with the United States,” while Obama “sought support from the Emirates for the Iran nuclear deal,” which is supposed to be finalized by June 30.Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly condemned the emerging deal as a historic mistake. Obama is reportedly refusing to meet with Netanyahu before the June 30 deadline.While a full-fledged security treaty with the Saudis and other Arab allies is deemed unlikely, in part because of the likely opposition from Congress and Israel, “the administration is discussing offering a looser, less-binding defense pact,” the Times report said. Under its possible terms, “American officials would put in writing, but not send to Congress, language agreeing to the defense of Arab allies if they come under attack from outside forces.”Alternatively, Obama could turn Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates into “major non-NATO allies,” easing restrictions on weapons sales to them. Bahrain and Kuwait already enjoy this status.“Increased weapons sales could help, but there is a major roadblock: maintaining Israel’s military edge,” The Times noted. In order to ensure that Israel maintains its military advantage in the threatening Middle East, the United States “has long put restrictions on the types of weapons that American defense firms can sell to Arab nations,” noted The Times. One current example: The administration has barred Lockheed Martin from selling the F-35 fighter jet, which is “considered to be the jewel of America’s future arsenal of weapons,” in the Arab world.But “with the balance of power in the Middle East in flux, that could change,” according to defense analysts cited by the paper. “One possibility would be to wait three years after delivering the F-35 to Israel and then approve it for sale to the United Arab Emirates… which would give Israel a three-year head start.”Israel is set to start receiving the F-35s it has purchased as soon as next year. The Israeli Air Force regards the plane as critical to the country’s military advantage over its adversaries. Meanwhile, a senior Gulf official told Britain’s Guardian Friday that the GCC leaders, in their talks this month with Obama, are “not going to do a Netanyahu” by overtly opposing the Iran deal, since they regard it as a foregone conclusion. “We are not wasting time confronting that agreement. We don’t want to be seen as going against a close ally. It would be bad politics for us,” the official said. “Instead we are bracing ourselves for the post-agreement world.”What the Gulf states will seek from Obama, however, is “a concise and clear agreement on the containment of Iranian influence after the deal,” the Guardian report said. “This agreement would take the form of a memorandum of understanding, and would be accompanied by arms sales and support that would give forces in the Gulf a ‘qualitative advantage’ over Iran, a phrase echoing the guiding philosophy underpinning US military support for Israel.”GCC foreign ministers are to meet next week with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris to prepare for the summit, and the “containment plan” will be debated there, the Guardian report said.

IDF soldiers foil attempted West Bank stabbing-Two men pull knife on troops near Yakir settlement, forces overpower attackers, detain them-By Stuart Winer and Times of Israel staff May 3, 2015, 10:13 pm

Two Palestinians attempted to stab IDF soldiers in the West Bank on Sunday night but were overpowered and detained for questioning.The military said in a statement that the two suspects approached an IDF force near the settlement of Yakir in the northern West Bank.One of the men pulled out a knife and the force “neutralized the assailant.” The other fled the scene but was later caught by IDF forces. Both men were then detained for questioning.There were no reports of injuries to the IDF force and it was not clear if either of the suspects were injured in the clash.The attack came the day after a 16-year-old Palestinian youth tried to stab an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Hebron.In that incident the assailant pulled out a knife and made for the soldier, a military policeman, before being overpowered and arrested. He was taken by security forces for questioning. There were no reported injuries in the incident. Last week, a Palestinian man stabbed an Israeli Border Police officer in Hebron, inflicting moderate injuries. The attacker, aged 20, was shot and wounded, and died of his injuries on the way to a hospital in Jerusalem. Police said the officer, 19, was stabbed multiple times in the head, neck and chest at an army checkpoint near Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs. A second soldier shot the attacker.Palestinian media named the suspected attacker as Assad al-Salayma.That incident was the second of its kind in less than 24 hours. Overnight Friday-Saturday last week, Ali Mohammed Ali Said Abu Ghannam, a 16-year-old Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem, allegedly attempted to stab a Israeli soldier.IDF soldiers shot and killed Abu Ghannam after the teenager attempted to stab a border police officer with a butcher’s knife at a checkpoint on the road between Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, according to security officials.The shootings sparked violent but short-lived protests in the West Bank.

Saturday, May 02, 2015

OCT 20,2015-WILL THE IMF SPECIAL DRAWING RIGHTS BE THE RESERVE CURRENCY AS OF THIS DATE.

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

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

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

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

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

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

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

EU ARMY

DANIEL 8:23-25
23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king (EU DICTATOR) of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences,(FROM THE OCCULT-NEW AGE MOVEMENT) shall stand up.
24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power:(SATANS POWER) and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes;(JESUS) but he shall be broken without hand.

DANIEL 11:36-39
36 And the king (EU DICTATOR) shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
37 Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers,(THIS EU DICTATOR IS JEWISH) nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.(CLAIM TO BE GOD)
38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces:(WAR) and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god,(DESTROY TERROR GROUPS) whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many,(HIS ARMY LEADERS) and shall divide the land for gain.

REVELATION 19:19
19 And I saw the beast,(EU LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(UNITED NATIONS TROOPS) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse,(JESUS) and against his army.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)

EU WORLD ECONOMIC CONTROL-AND WORLD GOVERNMENT CONTROL.

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.

MAYBE THE EUROPEAN UNION WILL BE INVOLVED IN THE RESERVE CURRENCY MIX.THE EURO MIGHT BE THE BEST CURRENCY.AND THEN WHEN THE WORLD COLLAPSE OF THE STOCK MARKETS OCCURS.THE EUROPEAN UNION WILL HAVE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT SYSTEM SET UP AND READY TO GO.AND THE EUROPEAN UNION WILL THEN IMPLIMENT THIS MICROCHIP IMPLANT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD.AND THEY WILL CONTROL THE WHOLE WORLDS ECONOMIES LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS MUST HAPPEN.SOMEHOW THE EU WILL CONTROL ALL 10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS WHICH THE WORLD IS DIVIDED INTO-AND TAKE CONTROL OF ALL THE WORLDS CURRENCIES.

EU FINANCIAL AFFAIRS
http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/world/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/world/other_currencies/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/world/markets/index_en.htm
IMF SDRS
http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/facts/sdr.HTM

The euro in the world

As well as serving as the currency of the euro area, the euro has a strong international presence. Currencies are the means by which wealth is stored, protected and exchanged between countries, organisations and individuals. A global currency, such as the euro, does this on a global scale. Since its introduction in 1999, it has firmly established itself as a major international currency, second only to the US dollar.Within the euro area, the single currency, the euro, is the means by which governments, companies and individuals make and receive payments for goods and services. It is also used to store and create wealth for the future as savings and investments. However, the size, stability and strength of the euro-area economy – the world's second largest after the United States – make the euro increasingly attractive beyond its borders, too. Public and private sectors in third countries acquire and use the euro for many purposes, including for trade or as currency reserves. For this reason, today, the euro is the second most important international currency behind the US dollar. The widespread use of the euro in the international financial and monetary system demonstrates its global presence:

-The euro is increasingly used to issue government and corporate debt worldwide. At the end of 2006, the share of the euro in international debt markets was around one-third, while the US dollar accounted for 44%.
-Global banks make significant loans denominated in euro around the world.
-The euro is the second most actively traded currency in foreign exchange markets; it is a counterpart in around 40% of the daily transactions.
-The euro is extensively used for invoicing and paying in international trade, not only between the euro area and third countries but also, to a lesser extent, between third countries.
-The euro is widely used, alongside the US dollar, as an important reserve currency to hold for monetary emergencies. At the end of 2006, more than one-quarter of the global foreign exchange holdings were being held in euros, compared to 18% in 1999. Developing countries are among those which have increased their reserves in euro the most, from 18% in 1999 to around 30% in 2006.
-Several countries manage their currencies by linking them to the euro, which acts as an anchor or reference currency.

The status of the euro as a global currency, combined with the size and economic weight of the euro area, is leading international economic organisations, such as the IMF and the G8, increasingly to view the euro-area economy as one entity. This gives the European Union a stronger voice in the world.To benefit from this stronger position, and to contribute effectively to international financial stability, the euro area is speaking with one voice more and more in important economic fora. This is done through close coordination between the euro-area Member States, as well as the European Central Bank and the European Commission during international economic meetings.A number of third countries and regions are even more closely linked to the euro. The stable monetary system behind the euro makes it an attractive 'anchor' currency for them, particularly for those that have special institutional arrangements with the EU, such as preferential trade agreements. By linking their currency to the euro they bring more certainty and stability to their national economies.The euro is also widely used in third countries and regions neighbouring the euro area, for example in South-eastern Europe, while some other countries – Andorra, Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican City – use the euro as their official currency by virtue of specific monetary agreements with the EU, and may issue their own euro coins within certain quantitative limits.

Links to other currencies

Several countries and territories outside the European Union have linked their currencies to the euro. This is because the stable monetary system behind the euro makes it an attractive 'anchor' currency for them. In some cases, it is by bilateral agreement with the EU, while in others it is a unilateral decision of the country concerned.Non-euro area Member States link their currencies to the euro through the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM II). This linkage is part of the preparations for entry to the euro area. However, other countries can also link their currencies to the euro by supporting a fixed exchange rate against the euro. This is known as a ‘currency peg’.In some cases, countries with weak economies make this linkage as a safety measure. Linking the value of their national currency to a ‘hard currency’, such as the euro, brings more certainty and stability to their national economies. In other cases, the linkages can be made to promote trade stability by avoiding strong exchange-rate fluctuations. While for some, this linkage is made through a ‘basket’ of currencies that includes the euro – in such cases the link is less direct.

Currencies linked to the euro by bilateral agreements are:

-The CFP franc used in French overseas territories in the Pacific region (French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna Islands). The CFP franc was previously linked to the French franc via a fixed parity and is now pegged to the euro. The euro area has no obligation to support the exchange rate with the CFP franc.
-The two CFA francs used by several countries in two monetary unions in West Africa and Central Africa. These countries have historical relations with France, and the CFA francs were previously pegged to the French franc. They are now pegged to the euro through bilateral agreements with France. The euro area has no obligation to support the exchange rate with the CFA francs.
-The Comorian franc (Comoros Islands) and the Cape Verde escudo (Cape Verde) were previously linked to the French franc and Portuguese escudo, respectively. They are now linked to the euro through bilateral agreements. The euro area has no obligation to support these currency pegs.

Examples of currencies linked unilaterally to the euro

-Several countries link their national currency directly to the euro. This is achieved through supporting an exchange rate against the euro that is only allowed to fluctuate within defined limits. The third countries’ monetary authorities support this exchange-rate peg on their own by intervening in currency markets. The euro area has no agreements or obligations to support these currencies. Such unilateral links with the euro exist, for example, in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia and Tunisia.-A number of EU countries which are not yet part of the euro area – Czech Republic, Croatia, Romania – also manage their currencies in this way. And Hungary even shadows the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM II) by pegging the forint and applying a ±15% fluctuation band.-Bulgaria and Bosnia and Herzegovina maintain euro-based currency boards in charge of supporting the fixed foreign exchange rate, to which the normal objectives of central banks are subordinated.-Other countries link their currencies to the euro through a ‘currency basket’. In this case, the exchange rate of the national currency is linked to a fictitious exchange rate from a ‘basket’ of other currencies, such as the euro, the US dollar, and the Japanese yen. Countries that use such ‘currency baskets’ are Botswana, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Russia, Seychelles, and Vanuatu.

International financial markets

The euro is a key global currency which has an important role in international financial markets. It is used widely by third-country governments and private actors worldwide as a currency of choice for their reserves, their borrowing and for trade.The euro is an attractive currency for the international financial markets because of the size of the euro-area economy, its openness to trade with the world, its commitment to prudent economic management, and the clear mission of the European Central Bank to run a monetary policy that ensures price stability.These factors give international financial markets the confidence to use the euro widely, alongside the US dollar, in a range of financial instruments:

International debt markets

-Third countries wishing to raise large amounts of money can do this by issuing bonds that are repaid with interest at a fixed future date. Large institutional investors, such as pension funds, usually buy such bonds because they are seen as low-risk investments. When a country issues bonds in a foreign currency, they are known as sovereign bonds. Large private corporations can also issue "corporate bonds" in a foreign currency to fund their operations and investments. Such bonds are traded on "international debt markets". At the end of 2006, the share of euro-denominated debt in international debt markets was 31.4%, while the US dollar comprised 44.1%

International loan and deposit markets

-Banks make loans and accept deposits across the world in various currencies which form the international loan and deposit markets. This lending and borrowing involves countries and corporations worldwide, for example a corporation borrowing to fund new investments in a developing country, or a government placing oil revenues on deposit with a bank until needed. The euro is playing an important role in these markets. In December 2006, euro-area bank lending to non-bank institutions outside the euro area was denominated at 36.3% in euro and 44.8% in US dollars.

Foreign exchange markets

-Foreign exchange (forex) markets are those where currencies are traded for others. The euro has become the second most actively traded currency in forex markets. At the beginning of 2007, it was a counterpart in around 37% of the daily transactions, compared to a share of 86.5% for the US dollar, 16.5% for the Japanese yen and 15% for the pound sterling (both sides of transactions are counted so that shares add up to 200%).

International trade

-The euro is increasingly used by euro-area Member States as the currency of settlement and invoicing in international trade. In the first quarter of 2006, in most euro-area countries where data was available the average share of the euro in euro-area exports of goods to countries outside the EU was around 50% - slightly surpassing the US dollar, which is used in around 44% of the transactions in terms of value - whereas in imports of goods the euro's share was around 35%. To a much smaller extent, the euro is beginning to be used as a 'vehicle currency' for trade between third countries, although the US dollar is still dominant in this. As the euro area constitutes the largest trading block and one of the most open economies in the world, the use of the euro in international trade can be expected to grow in the future.

Reserves and anchors

-As a major currency, the euro is used as an "anchor currency" by some third countries to manage their own exchange-rate regimes. For example, Russia uses the euro as part of a basket of currencies for the daily management of the rouble exchange rate. In addition, the euro is increasingly held as a reserve currency by third countries because they have confidence it will maintain its value. The share of the euro in global foreign exchange reserves is over 25% (mid 2007) and close to 29% in developing countries, which have increased their reserves significantly from 18% held in 1999. In comparison, the US dollar accounts for around 65% and the pound sterling for around 4.5% of global currency reserves.

The establishment of the euro area also created the second largest currency area in the world. On international markets, the euro is the second most important international currency after the US dollar. The size and stability of the euro-area economy and the liquidity of its financial markets make holding and using the euro attractive to third countries as an alternative to US dollars - helping reduce the risks of currency fluctuations and contributing to global economic stability. The euro-area Member States also benefit, as trading in euro becomes more widespread. Further, the importance of the euro gives the euro area a stronger voice on the international stage.

Factsheet-Special Drawing Rights (SDRs)-April 9, 2015

The SDR is an international reserve asset, created by the IMF in 1969 to supplement its member countries’ official reserves. Its value is based on a basket of four key international currencies, and SDRs can be exchanged for freely usable currencies. As of March 17, 2015, 204 billion SDRs were created and allocated to members (equivalent to about $280 billion).

The role of the SDR

The SDR was created by the IMF in 1969 to support the Bretton Woods fixed exchange rate system. A country participating in this system needed official reserves—government or central bank holdings of gold and widely accepted foreign currencies—that could be used to purchase the domestic currency in foreign exchange markets, as required to maintain its exchange rate. But the international supply of two key reserve assets—gold and the U.S. dollar—proved inadequate for supporting the expansion of world trade and financial development that was taking place. Therefore, the international community decided to create a new international reserve asset under the auspices of the IMF.

Only a few years after the creation of SDRs, the Bretton Woods system collapsed and the major currencies shifted to a floating exchange rate regime. In addition, the growth in international capital markets facilitated borrowing by creditworthy governments. Both of these developments lessened the need for SDRs. However, more recently, the 2009 SDR allocations totaling SDR 182.6 billion have played a critical role in providing liquidity to the global economic system and supplementing member countries’ official reserves amid the global financial crisis.

The SDR is neither a currency, nor a claim on the IMF. Rather, it is a potential claim on the freely usable currencies of IMF members. Holders of SDRs can obtain these currencies in exchange for their SDRs in two ways: first, through the arrangement of voluntary exchanges between members; and second, by the IMF designating members with strong external positions to purchase SDRs from members with weak external positions. In addition to its role as a supplementary reserve asset, the SDR serves as the unit of account of the IMF and some other international organizations.

Basket of currencies determines the value of the SDR

The value of the SDR was initially defined as equivalent to 0.888671 grams of fine gold—which, at the time, was also equivalent to one U.S. dollar. After the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1973, the SDR was redefined as a basket of currencies. Today the SDR basket consists of the euro, Japanese yen, pound sterling, and U.S. dollar. The value of the SDR in terms of the U.S. dollar is determined daily and posted on the IMF’s website. It is calculated as the sum of specific amounts of the four basket currencies valued in U.S. dollars, on the basis of exchange rates quoted at noon each day in the London market.

The basket composition is reviewed every five years by the Executive Board, or earlier if the IMF finds changed circumstances warrant an earlier review, to ensure that it reflects the relative importance of currencies in the world’s trading and financial systems. In the most recent review (in November 2010), the weights of the currencies in the SDR basket were revised based on the value of the exports of goods and services, and the amount of reserves denominated in the respective currencies that were held by other members of the IMF. These changes became effective on January 1, 2011. In October 2011, the IMF Executive Board discussed possible options for broadening the SDR currency basket. Most directors held the view that the current criteria for SDR basket selection remained appropriate. The next review is currently scheduled to take place by the end of 2015.

The SDR interest rate

The SDR interest rate provides the basis for calculating the interest charged to borrowing members, and the interest paid to members for the use of their resources for regular (non-concessional) IMF loans. It is also the interest paid to members on their SDR holdings and charged on their SDR allocation. The SDR interest rate is determined weekly and is based on a weighted average of representative interest rates on short-term debt instruments in the money markets of the SDR basket currencies.

SDR allocations to IMF members

Under its Articles of Agreement (Article XV, Section 1, and Article XVIII), the IMF may allocate SDRs to member countries in proportion to their IMF quotas. Such an allocation provides each member with a costless, unconditional international reserve asset. The SDR mechanism is self-financing and levies charges on allocations which are then used to pay interest on SDR holdings. If a member does not use any of its allocated SDR holdings, the charges are equal to the interest received. However, if a member's SDR holdings rise above its allocation, it effectively earns interest on the excess. Conversely, if it holds fewer SDRs than allocated, it pays interest on the shortfall. The Articles of Agreement also allow for cancellations of SDRs, but this provision has never been used. The IMF cannot allocate SDRs to itself or to other prescribed holders.

General allocations of SDRs have to be based on a long-term global need to supplement existing reserve assets. Decisions on general allocations are made for successive basic periods of up to five years, although general SDR allocations have been made only three times. The first allocation was for a total amount of SDR 9.3 billion, distributed in 1970-72, the second—for SDR 12.1 billion—distributed in 1979-81, and the third—for SDR 161.2 billion—was made on August 28, 2009.

Separately, the Fourth Amendment to the Articles of Agreement became effective August 10, 2009 and provided for a special one-time allocation of SDR 21.5 billion. The purpose of the Fourth Amendment was to enable all members of the IMF to participate in the SDR system on an equitable basis and rectify the fact that countries that joined the IMF after 1981—more than one fifth of the current IMF membership—never received an SDR allocation until 2009.

The 2009 general and special SDR allocations together raised total cumulative SDR allocations to SDR 204 billion.

Buying and selling SDRs

IMF members often need to buy SDRs to discharge obligations to the IMF, or they may wish to sell SDRs in order to adjust the composition of their reserves. The IMF may act as an intermediary between members and prescribed holders to ensure that SDRs can be exchanged for freely usable currencies. For more than two decades, the SDR market has functioned through voluntary trading arrangements. Under these arrangements a number of members and one prescribed holder have volunteered to buy or sell SDRs within limits defined by their respective arrangements. Following the 2009 SDR allocations, the number and size of the voluntary arrangements has been expanded to ensure continued liquidity of the voluntary SDR market. The number of voluntary SDR trading arrangements now stands at 32, including 19 new arrangements since the 2009 SDR allocations.

In the event that there is insufficient capacity under the voluntary trading arrangements, the IMF can activate the designation mechanism. Under this mechanism, members with sufficiently strong external positions are designated by the IMF to buy SDRs with freely usable currencies up to certain amounts from members with weak external positions. This arrangement serves as a backstop to guarantee the liquidity and the reserve asset character of the SDR.

China-IMF talks underway to endorse yuan as global reserve currency-March 12, 2015, 12:12 pm

Including the yuan in the SDR basket would aid China’s attempts to diminish the dollar’s dominance in global trade and finance [Xinhua]-China is pushing for the International Monetary Fund to endorse the Chinese yuan as a global reserve currency alongside the dollar and euro.A senior Chinese central bank official said Thursday that the country is “actively communicating” with the IMF on the possibility of including the yuan, or RMB, in the basket of the Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).Including the yuan in the SDR system would allow the IMF to recognize the ascent of the world’s second-biggest economy while aiding China’s attempts to diminish the dollar’s dominance in global trade and finance.“We hope the IMF can fully take into account the progress of RMB internationalization, to include RMB into the basket underlining the SDR in foreseeable, near future,” said Yi Gang, vice governor of the People’s Bank of China.However, China will be patient until conditions are ripe, Yi said at a press conference on the sidelines of the ongoing annual parliamentary session.In late 2015, the IMF will conduct its next twice-a-decade review of the basket of currencies its members can count toward their official reserves.SDRs are international foreign exchange reserve assets. Allocated to nations by the IMF, an SDR represents a claim to foreign currencies for which it may be exchanged in times of need.Although denominated in US dollars, the nominal value of an SDR is derived from a basket of currencies, with, specifically, a fixed amount of Japanese yen, US dollars, British pounds and euros, without RMB.China would need to satisfy the Washington-based lender’s economic benchmarks and get the support of most of the other 187 member countries.To become a currency included in the SDR basket, the trade volume of goods and services behind that currency will be evaluated, the Chinese Central Bank official explained on Thursday, stressing that RMB has no problem in this regard. But he said views are divided on whether the RMB is a freely usable currency.“No matter whether and when the RMB will be included in the SDR basket, China will push on with its financial sector reform and opening-up,” Yi said.The yuan became the world’s No. 2 currency for trade finance globally in 2013, and overtook the Canadian and Australian dollars to enter the top five world payment currencies in 2014, according to global transaction services organization SWIFT.China said the yuan has also been used as a reserve currency in some countries and regions.

Yuan seen taking 12.5% of global reserves by 2030: HSBC survey-Reuters Apr 13, 2015, 11.35AM IST

(The survey was carried out…)-HONG KONG: China's yuan is expected to take a 12.5 percent market share of global reserves by 2030, an HSBC survey of global reserve managers showed, suggesting that Beijing's stepped up efforts to open its markets to foreign investments will have some pay off.The survey was carried out in March and drew on responses from 72 central banks which manages $5.9 trillion in reserves, or 48 percent of global reserves.The yuan's rise will be a gradual one, accounting for 2.9 percent of global reserves by the end of 2015, 6.9 percent by 2020, 10.4 percent by 2025 and 12.5 percent by 2030, the survey revealed.Thirty-five central banks, or 53 percent of respondents, said they were either investing or considering investing in yuan assets now, but channels to China's domestic markets were limited for them."Investment opportunities are still limited as regards liquidity of markets and diversification within the market mainly due to credit risk considerations," said a European reserve manager.Foreign central banks have been buying Chinese assets in the onshore interbank bond market as well as in the offshore dim sum market. Their purchases are usually biased toward high-quality investment-grade bonds issued by central governments or policy banks.China sent a strong message to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in March urging that the yuan be included in its special drawing rights (SDR) basket, promising it would strive for further reforms and aim for full convertibility this year.Beijing has also taken steps to open up its markets to foreign capital and has been pushing for the increased use of the yuan for trade and investment with a broader goal of eventually putting its currency on par with the U.S. dollar.So far, more than 50 foreign central banks have started to use the yuan or keep it as part of their foreign reserves, according to industry estimate.
China has signed currency swaps with 31 countries worth 3,120 billion yuan to encourage bilateral trade and investment.Although central banks already started to have exposure to the renminbi, how fast it becomes a large reserve currency will depend on growth and stability of the economy, pace of the internationalisation and deepening of China's financial markets, said a surveyed reserve manager.