Last Days - Roelof's News Reports #4

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Britain became the first country to halt arms exports to Israel in response to its Gaza offensive, rescinding five export licences for parts used on warships which were deployed in the conflict.

An Israeli official said that Britain had reviewed 182 licenses before deciding to revoke the five in connection with the Saar 4.5 class corvette. The British Embassy in Tel Aviv confirmed the move but said that it did not constitute an embargo on Israel.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6699852.ece

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The number of unemployed workers in the US is nearly double the population of New York city, how sad - Roelof

NEW YORK (Reuters) - With U.S. unemployment at a 20-year high, some Americans are working for free while looking for a job, but experts are split over whether it is a sign of dedication or desperation.

Unpaid job seekers can keep their resumes fresh by boosting their experience and learning new skills, experts say, but others warn businesses may take advantage of the jobless and that it is illegal for commercial companies not to pay workers.

Dana Lin, 22, is one of the 14.7 million unemployed workers in the United States.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domes...56C0T120090713

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Biography matters
During the campaign, Obama told American voters that his election, as the first black president of goatherd ancestry and foreign upbringing, could itself change geopolitical dynamics.

If it's good for the South Side, it's good for the world
Nothing has been so central to the president's foreign policy approach than the theoretical lessons he learned as a community organizer in Chicago

Pragmatism should often trump idealism
Compared with the relatively Panglossian vision of George W. Bush, who sought to remake whole parts of the world under the banner of American moral authority, Obama brings a more conservative, cynical view to the question of when nations should act on idealistic impulses.

America is one of many nations
The United States continues to boast the largest, most powerful military in the world, and a Gross Domestic Product nearly twice as large as the next biggest national economy, China. But Obama has made a point, stop after stop, of noting that America's fate is tied to the fate of developing nations.

Young people matter
As president, Obama has adopted the mantle of chief youth inspirer. At almost every stop, Obama makes an appeal to young people, often addressing them directly through television cameras.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...910057,00.html

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You shall not kill. (Exo 20:13)

One shouldn't have to go to Switzerland to die with dignity.

Forget medical tourism, rehab tourism and sex tourism (for which Cape Town apparently has quite a reputation). Switzerland has beaten us on the front of death tourism.

It's not the kind of business for which you can build up a clientéle, as it sells the kind of journey from which no one ever returns. No return tickets for sale. In short, it's assisted suicide.

http://www.health24.com/news/Columns/1-4411,51704.asp

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The swine flu pandemic has grown "unstoppable" and all nations will need access to vaccines, a WHO official said Monday, as seven new deaths were reported and a study raised fresh concerns.

Britain, Thailand and the Philippines all reported deaths on Monday, while Saudi Arabia shut an international school after 20 students were diagnosed with the A(H1N1) virus.

As the death toll increased, the World Health Organisation official said a swine flu vaccine should be available as early as September and all countries would need to be able to protect themselves.

http://www.health24.com/news/Flu_Inf...-912,51707.asp

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OBAMA AND THE NEW AGE

In “One On One: Regulating the Pursuit of Self” (Jerusalem Post, February 4, 2009), Amitai Etzioni states: “There is no philosophy that better describes Obama’s position than Communitarianism,” which Etzioni defines as a term “that would speak for community and the common good.”

As I’ve mentioned numerous times before, the Power Elite (PE) uses crises to move us toward its ultimate goal of a World Socialist Government.

I referred to 2012 as the year New Agers believe the Piscean (Christian) Age will end and the Age of Aquarius will begin.

Then compare it to McLaughlin’s and Gordon Davidson’s 2008 article, “The Spiritual Dimensions of Obama’s Leadership.” This work begins with the New Age authors contending that “in this moment of historical crisis, another great leader, uniquely qualified to meet the needs of our nation and the world, has come forth, overlighted by Spirit…. He is a catalyst dropped into a supersaturated solution…

And in “New Age America Is Entranced By Obama’s Electoral Aura” (The Guardian, July 3, 2008),

Please open link for more information - Roelof

http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis151.htm

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When I was a liberal I loved mocking the Bible. I'd get giddy arguing with conservatives over Bible stories that to me were ludicrous. One example is the biblical account of Moses parting the Red Sea to help the Israelites escape Pharaoh’s pursuing army. Boy did I scoff at that one! I categorized Christians who bought into the miraculous signs and wonders in the Bible as “unenlightened twits.”

As I mentioned earlier (part one) liberals prefer the term “progressive Christian” (PC) but a horse by any other name is still a horse. Most PCs don’t believe the Bible’s miracles are true. To them the Bible’s simply an ancient book of historical writings and moral precepts. The biblical accounts are largely legends, myths and fables. On the other hand, orthodox Christianity holds that God speaks to us through Scripture, hence it is the infallible, inerrant Word of God and is objective (absolute) truth.

PCs reject the notion that the Bible is infallible and inerrant but accept that it has some truth sprinkled throughout. When a PC comes to accept the orthodox view of Christianity, his or her worldview crumbles. (Mine did.)

Here’s cold hard fact: most PCs align themselves with the popular culture’s view of morality, social issues, psychology, politics, and whatnot. They do not cotton to a God who’s inflexible, nor do they accept that in the future He will judge all mankind and that those who reject Jesus Christ will spend eternity in Hell. No way, they say! All of mankind will ultimately be saved through Jesus even if they reject Him as their Savior in this life.

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http://www.newswithviews.com/West/marsha184.htm


Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by Me. (Joh 14:6)

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HEAVENLY SIGNS AND 2014/15

And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to divide between the day and the night. And let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years. (Gen 1:14)

Shmita (Hebrew: שמיטה, literally "release"), also called the Sabbatical Year, is the seventh year of the seven-year agricultural cycle mandated by the Torah for the Land of Israel. It is the year the land must rest.

And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in the middle. (Luk 23:45)
And crying with a loud voice, Jesus said, Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit. And when He had said this, He breathed out the spirit. (Luk 23:46)

Total solar eclipse






Total lunar eclipse (blood moon)




The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of Jehovah. (Joe 2:31)

Behold, the day of Jehovah comes, cruel and with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land waste; and He shall destroy its sinners out of it. (Isa 13:9)
For the stars of the heavens and their constellations shall not give light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not reflect its light. (Isa 13:10)

2014/15
The Sabbatical year Sep. 2014 – Sep. 2015 will have 2 solar eclipses and 4 lunar eclipses. This will happen on Biblical or Jewish holidays. The four lunar eclipses will occur on: Passover, 15 April 2014; The Feast of Tabernacles, 8 October 2014; Passover, 4 April 2015 and The Feast of Tabernacles, 28 September 2015. It will not happen again for hundreds of years. Two solar eclipses will occur on: Adar 29/Nisan 1, 20 March 2015; The Feast of Trumpets, 13 September 2015. Nisan 1 marks the beginning of the religious festival cycle. On Tishri 1, the Jews observe Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of Trumpets. This day is highly prophetic, because it is said to be the anniversary of the Creation of Adam. It is Adam’s birthday.

“What is God telling Israel through the upcoming lunar eclipses?” Is it possible that these are fulfilling biblical prophecies? I don’t know when the Second Coming of Christ will be. We must WATCH and be ready.

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STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - The European Parliament elected ex-Polish Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek as its president on Tuesday, making him the first leader from a former Soviet bloc country to hold one of the top European Union posts.

http://www.reuters.com/article/world...56D2XY20090714

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At $1.95 trillion, China's international reserves are more than enough to fund America's entire budget deficit next year, which the U.S. Treasury estimates will reach $1.3 trillion because of the government's massive stimulus spending. There is no direct correlation between these two numbers, but they highlight a reversal of fortune. China now has the cash to cherry-pick the world's best assets, while America has no choice but to pawn its future to finance today's needs. As it is, China already own $763.5 billion worth of U.S. Treasury bills, 24% of the total, and has become the Federal Government's largest single creditor.

It's all causing angst and hostility, and not only in the U.S., where congressmen shot down an $18 billion bid by Beijing-backed oil company CNOOC for Unocal in 2005. In Australia last month, aluminum maker Chinalco's $19.5 billion purchase of miner Rio Tinto collapsed in part because of political opposition. In Germany last year, there were murmurings against China Development Bank's $13.5 billion purchase of Dresdner Bank, which eventually faltered.

These high-profile failures notwithstanding, the Chinese are actually notching up notable success in overseas-asset purchases. Data compiled by the Heritage Foundation show a dramatic increase in the volume of the country's completed megadeals, worth $100 million or more, over the past three-and-a-half years. From $8.7 billion in 2005, these large acquisitions rose to $20 billion in 2006, $36.2 billion in 2007 and $54 billion in 2008.

The new rules may further boost investment in U.S. property. According to the U.S. National Association of Realtors, mainland Chinese were the fourth-largest group of foreign buyers in the 12 months to May 2008, picking up posh homes mainly in California and Florida at a median price of $450,000, the highest paid by foreign purchasers.

Beijing is also getting antsy about keeping the bulk of its money in U.S.

http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...910319,00.html

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Back in early January, when Obama was still President-elect, two of his chief economic advisers, and leading proponents of a stimulus bill, predicted that the passage of a large economic-aid package would boost the economy and keep the unemployment rate below 8%. It hasn't quite worked out that way. Last month, the jobless rate in America hit 9.5%, the highest level it has reached since 1983.

The two advisers who wrote the paper, Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein, went on to land key jobs in Obama's Administration. Romer is the head of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, Bernstein is the chief economist and economic-policy adviser to Vice President Biden.

A little over a month ago, the Administration said the stimulus bill had created or saved 150,000 jobs. That's a far cry from the 3 million to 4 million jobs that Romer and Bernstein foresaw back in January.

http://www.time.com/time/business/ar...910208,00.html

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Two Sa'ar-5 class Navy ships reportedly crossed through the Suez Canal from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea on Tuesday to beef up Israel's naval presence in the Red Sea.

The passage of the ships comes several weeks after a Dolphin-class Navy submarine passed through the waterway for the first time. One of the ships, the Hanit, already crossed the canal both ways in June, in what an Egyptian source said was the first case of a large Israeli warship using the strategic waterway, AFP reported.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...cle%2FShowFull

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I pray that the Holy Spirit will prevent people from comitting suicide - Roelof

The death of a leading British conductor and his wife at a Swiss suicide clinic has raised fears that couples will be encouraged to die together even when one of them is not terminally ill.

Sir Edward Downes travelled to the Dignitas clinic with his wife Joan, 74, last week, after she was told that she had terminal cancer. They were accompanied by their son and daughter, Caractacus and Boudicca. Sir Edward, 85, was frail but not dying. Police are investigating and will pass a file of evidence to prosecutors.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6711273.ece

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California is continuing to slide into economic bankruptcy. It is still under the judgment of the Lord for liberal gay and abortion laws - Roelof

He sets rivers to a wilderness and water-springs to thirsty ground; (Psa 107:33)
a fruitful land to a salty desert, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it. (Psa 107:34)

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers were set to resume talks on Tuesday to arrive at a state budget agreement, the Hollywood icon turned politician hit the airwaves with a television commercial underscoring he is no mood to compromise.
Whether dispirited Californians will respond, however, is uncertain, analysts said.

The Republican governor said in the 60-second spot that he would not sign a budget that plugs a $26.3 billion deficit if it includes higher taxes and excludes changes in state government he has said will prevent welfare fraud.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domes...56D6DT20090715

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel rejects charges by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and U.N. agencies that its January invasion of the Gaza Strip inflicted civilian death and destruction on an unjustifiable scale.
Now, some of the Israeli soldiers who took part say they were urged by commanders to shoot first and worry later about sorting out civilians from combatants. Accordingly, they say, the force went into Gaza with guns blazing.

In print and video testimony published on Wednesday by the activist group Breaking the Silence, the 30 soldiers say the Israeli army's imperative was to minimize its own casualties to ensure Israeli public support for the operation.

http://www.reuters.com/article/world...56E0PU20090715