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Russia, Turkey and Palestine

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President Vladimir Putin opened Moscow’s new grand mosque on Sept 23rd – Yom Kippur . The new mosque, which can accommodate 10,000 people, is the largest in Europe. Islam is the second largest religion in Russia after Orthodox Christianity, making up around 15 percent of the population.
Putin was joined at the ceremony by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Russia’s Kremlin-backed Council of Muftis said private donations covered the construction of the mosque, including contributions from Kazakhstan and Turkey.

For Abbas the meetings extended his early Kremlin contacts with Putin. Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas had launched his “diplomatic intifada” against Israel with the exit from the Kerry peace initiative back in January. His meetings with President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev marked his breakaway from the US-led peace process with Israel. He then signaled his bid for Russian backing for a Palestinian state.

This gave Putin a chance to widen his influence on three very important Middle East issues. He is actively arming the Syrians and has boots on the ground in Syria while providing their government new fighter jets. He has concluded a $1.5 billion dollar purchase of Iranian oil and other trade deals before sanctions with Iran are officially lifted.

Putin accepted Chairman Abbas request for help and they jointly announced a $1 billion Gas project in Gaza section of the Mediterranean with Gazprom to produce 30 Billion cubic meters of natural gas. Russia’s Technoprom export engineering firm was also considering a small oil development project near the West Bank city of Ramallah, hub of the Palestinian Authority government headed by Abbas.

The Palestinian leader began his conversation with Putin by calling Russia a great power that deserved to play a more prominent role in the volatile Middle East region.

This move confronts Israel with two troubling concerns:
1. Russian interests could potentially encircle Israel’s offshore Mediterranean gas and oil sites and Russian pipelines may block Israel’s export facilities.
2. Under international law, the Palestinian Authority is not recognized as an Independent state and is therefore not empowered to establish Special Economic Zones in the Mediterranean as closed areas for prospecting for oil or gas.

By taking charge of the offshore exploration opposite Gaza, Russia is offering its Palestinian partner implicit Russian recognition of its status as an independent national entity authorized to sign international contracts. This will help the process of creeping Palestinian Statehood without any Israeli participation.

Russia’s desire to liberate the poor oppressed Palestinians and their support in the  UN for those motions have far less to do with poor Palestinians and much more to do with Oil and Gas.

A Middle East Spokesman put it bluntly – Russian tactics for Syria and Iran had proved effective, he said, and there was no reason why Moscow could not perform the same function on the Israeli­Palestinian track.  It was time to end the American monopoly on peace making. 

Soon all of the diplomatic initiatives in the Middle East will be in the hands of Israel’s enemies.

Droughts lead to Fires

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The higher temperatures in the West have led to a dwindling snowpack. This has meant that the forests have become drier and so more susceptible to fires. The drought and now fires have spread from Alaska, who moved its famous Iditarod race due to a lack of snow, through Washington and to southern California.

In the conifer forests of the western United States, earlier snow melts, longer summers and an increase in spring and summer temperatures have increased fire frequency by 400 percent and have increased the amount of land burned by 650 percent since 1970.

Active fires have burnt three times as many acres in Washington state as in California. Fires over 100,000 acres are considered a “megafire” and before 1995 there was only 1 per year in California. This year California has had 5 “megafires.” Reports said more than 5,000 fires had burned six million acres already, and there have been several fatalities.

Washington Record Fires

Tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars have already evaporated. And with no end in sight, there may still be years of suffering — and painful decisions — waiting ahead.
The U.S. Forest Service spent around $200 million a week battling wildfires across the country during the summer of 2015, breaking all-time records, according to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Oregon and Washington were among the hardest hit states, with hundreds of thousands of acres scorched.

Several Western states — California, Montana and Idaho — are also seeing a severe fire season with some 11,600 square miles scorched so far. Authorities have warned that smoke from these fires is creating hazardous air quality and that the choking haze could soon spread north into Canada.
About 1,250 firefighters were battling the fires, which were just 10% contained and threatened over 5,000 homes. The firefighters included about 700 Washington National Guardsmen.

Crews also arrived from New Zealand and Australia, as areas of central and eastern Washington battled 16 large wildfires covering more than 920 square miles.

We should not be ignorant of the ways in which God works. God often withholds rains upon a people who continue to sin against Him. Is the prolonged lack of rain in California just blind coincidence or is God angry with us as a people?

Drought—followed by famine—is one of the consequences for national disobedience. Our national sins do not go unnoticed by God. God makes this clear to Solomon and the same applies today since God has not changed (Malachi 3:6).

Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land (2 Chronicles 7:12-13).

I wonder if we as a nation will seek His face….and more importantly will we turn from our wicked ways.
 

Famines – Earthquakes related?

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There will be wars, famines and earthquakes. But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.” (Matt. 24:4-8) Does famine affect earthquakes? Is there a relationship between Earthquakes and Drought?

Half of the United States is experiencing drought, according to the latest numbers from the U.S. National Drought Monitor. The drought is deepest in California and the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, according to the latest drought map, released May 8.

Today, for the first time this century, the entire state of California is in a severe drought — or worse. The drought in California, the largest US agricultural producer, has exacerbated wild fires burning in the southern part of the state and might force some farmers to abandoned fields as lack of water makes it impossible to grow crops.

The three worst levels of drought are severe, extreme and exceptional: 100% of California is now in one of those three categories: (23.31% severe, 51.92.% extreme and 24.77% exceptional.) The most comparable recent drought was the drought of 1976-77. But the impacts today are more intense because the state’s population has doubled since then while the state’s water supply has remained fixed. The only other California drought similar to todays was during the 1920s. But the state’s population then was 1/10th of what it is now.

Through the first four months of 2014, California and Arizona have experienced the hottest start to any year in records going back to 1895.

As if the drought couldn’t get any worse, geologists now think that changes in groundwater could be destabilizing the infamous San Andreas Fault. The new research presents “a grand unified theory of California problems: water and drought lead to earthquake risk.”   The study published this week in Nature started with asking why the Sierra Nevada’s and Coastal Ranges have risen by 1 to 3 millimeters every year.

University of Nevada, Reno Research Professor Geoff Blewitt told this story in a presentation at the European Geophysical Sciences Union conference in Vienna, Austria on April 28. The annual EGU General Assembly is the largest and most prominent European geosciences event attracting over 11,000 scientists from all over the world.

Over the past 150 years, around 40 trillion gallons of groundwater in California’s Central Valley has been lost through pumping, irrigation and evapotranspiration. That’s roughly equal to all the water in Lake Tahoe, the volume of which can cover the entire state of California in 14 inches of water.

This groundwater is being increasingly depleted by agriculture in the Central Valley. The upper portion of the earth is elastic, and the ground water is weighing it down on it. Removing groundwater is like lifting that weight. The earth’s crust literally flexes up. As it moves up, it pushes up the Sierra Nevada’s and the Coastal Ranges. If the effect of groundwater depletion is big enough to move mountains, then it’s also big enough to affect the San Andreas Fault, where only friction keeps two tectonic plates from slipping. Changes in the balance of forces on these faults result in earthquakes. Long-term depletion of groundwater has led to the continued rise of the Sierra Nevada’s and it could be further destabilizing the San Andreas fault.  The current drought has made it worse.

When Oklahoma actually outpaced California in total quakes during each of the first three months in 2014, researchers said they believed injection wells used to dispose of fracking wastewater were contributing to heightened earthquake activity. To unleash natural gas, fracking requires large volumes of water, sand, and chemicals to be pumped underground. The changes in pressure led to the swarms of quakes.

Seismologists grapple with the connection between oil and gas development and earthquakes. New research being presented at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America showed that wastewater disposal wells—deep holes drilled to hold hundreds of millions of gallons of fluid produced by oil and gas wells—may be changing the stress on existing faults, inducing earthquakes. Those quakes can occur tens of miles away from the wells themselves and can be large as well—researchers have now linked two quakes in 2011 with a magnitude greater than 5.0 to wastewater wells.

So we pump the water out to irrigate the land or we pump water in to extract the oil – nature has reached a tipping point. Earthquakes and famine are not two unrelated ideas. Given the recent wars over oil – Wars, earthquakes and famine are all very related. New wars will be fought over dwindling resources. The Author of these words knew what He was talking about. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.” (Matt. 24:4-8)

 

 

 

Famines

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Mark 13 v 8 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has created the largest natural disaster area in U.S. history. The USDA has declared 1,016 counties in 26 U.S. states to be disaster areas. The USDA declaration basically covered about 61 percent of the entire nation. If it persists into August it could become perhaps the worst drought that America has ever seen…..and that includes the 1930’s dust-bowl. The drought is now threatening California’s drinking supply. The State Water Project, the main municipal water system, said did not have enough water to supplement the local agencies that provide water to an additional 25 million people. It is first time the project has turned off its water in its 54-year history.  The 2008-2011 California drought not end until March 2011. The drought shifted during the Summer of 2011 to affect a large portion of the Southwest and Texas. In 2013 and early 2014, the California drought returned and intensified. The year 2013 set new 150 year low precipitation records everywhere in California. In 2011 intense drought struck much of the Southwest bringing much of the region its worst drought seen since the Dust Bowl years of the 1930’s. Why is California so important?

California produces our food:
99 percent of the artichokes
44 percent of asparagus,
20 percent of cabbage
67 percent of carrots,
50 percent of bell peppers
89 percent of cauliflower
94 percent of broccoli
95 percent of celery.
90 percent of the leaf lettuce
83 percent of fresh spinach
30 percent of fresh tomatoes
95 percent of canned tomatoes.
86 percent of lemons
25 percent of oranges
90 percent of avocados
84 percent of peaches
88 percent of fresh strawberries
97 percent of fresh plums

Cornell University assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences Toby Ault said that the current 13-year dry spell will be of similar magnitude of the mega-droughts found in tree ring records. Data gleaned from tree rings and other sources show that the chance of a decade-long drought in the U.S. would be about 45 percent. Meanwhile the drought spreads worldwide to the countries we rely on when our crops fail. The darker areas on the map represent growing droughts.

In 2013, short-term global drought conditions intensified on all continents with little relief worldwide. In North America, the intensification was seen in the Central and Southern Plains of the U.S. and down into central Mexico. In South America, drought conditions changed little with severe drought conditions remaining in eastern Brazil and along the side of the Southern Andes. In Africa, drought intensified along the equator, especially in the eastern part of the continent and across Madagascar. In Europe, drought intensified across most of the central part of the continent. In Asia, drought continued to intensify in southern China and across Southeast Asia, as well as across southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan and Mongolia. In Australia, drought intensification occurred in many inland areas.

It is now highly likely that an El Niño event will develop by the fall of 2014, according to the Climate Prediction Center and Columbia University’s International Institute for Climate and Society. El Niño events typically develop during the spring and summer, and peak in strength during the late fall and winter. The odds now are 65% for this summer and 80% for October-Jan 2015.  El Niño events are characterized by warmer than average sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, and they add heat to the atmosphere, thereby warming global average temperatures. El Niño events can lead to records being set for the planet’s warmest year.

Drought will lead to famine and the rising cost of food will impact all economies while killing millions by starvation. Wars have interrupted the planting of  critical crops in Sudan and death will follow as night follows day. Water resources are going to be more politically important than oil.  Mark 13 v 8 – Yeshua gave us a description of the events ahead...wars and random earthquakes and  famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.  

Blood Moons and Earthquakes.

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The total eclipse of Tuesday morning, April 15, 2014 was the first in a tetrad of total eclipses. That is four in a row, an uncommon alignment of the astronomical circumstances that cause eclipses to take place. There will be another total eclipse this year on October 8, and also on April 4 and September 28 of 2015. Tetrads are an uncommon astronomical events. The eclipses of this Tetrad also happen to coincide with the Lords Feasts of Passover and Sukkoth (or Tabernacles) followed by a solar eclipse on the Feast of Trumpets. While the last heavenly Tetrads marked Israel’s birth – it also coincided with another trend in the earth.

So while we are awaiting this rare occurrence, nature herself is contracting awaiting the appearance of her King. Her urgency is a steady drumbeat that will soon disrupt life as we know it. She is not speaking in rare “blood moons” but she is stirring the very ground on which we stand, peering into the heavens. When the God made a covenant with Israel, He called heaven and earth as witnesses to the agreement. Deut 32 v 1 Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; hear, you earth, the words of my mouth.   When He called them to account in Judgement He once again called the witnesses present at the original agreement. Isaiah 1:2  Listen, O heavens! Pay attention, earth! This is what the LORD says: “The children I raised and cared for have rebelled against me.

Note the increase in Earthquakes that no longer make our news.  They were  prophesied to intensify (Matthew 24:7) a recent study shows a dramatic increase in earthquakes worldwide, just since the decade of Israel’s rebirth.

• In the 1940’s there were 51 earthquakes above 6.0 on the Richter scale,
• the 1950’s, 475;
• the 1980’s, 1085;
• and the 1990’s, 1514.

The last 30 days have been active. Twenty Two significant earthquakes in 30 days?  Yellowstone should have alarmed us. We have improved our building codes and now a 7 on the Richter scale barely causes damage. With no death and destruction we tune out God’s drumbeat,  and relegate the daily earthquakes to the back page, like the frog in the water.  But are these not almost daily?

God will not leave us without a witness, even if He has to shake the very ground on which we stand.  And Jesus answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many. You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.” (Matt. 24:4-8)

We are told to prepare for a time of sorrow, for blood and the contracting pain of labor will birth a new Era. In that awful Day of God, the very ground now groaning, will shout her answer to  His call.  Rev 6 v 12  I watched as He broke open the sixth seal. There was a powerful earthquake. The sun turned black like black clothes that were made from the hair of a goat. The whole moon turned as red as blood. 13 The stars in the sky fell to earth. They dropped like ripe figs from a tree shaken by a strong wind. 14 The sky rolled back like a scroll. Every mountain and island was moved out of its place.

Anybody want to estimate the magnitude on the Richter Scale of that?

Bee in the Word

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Albert Einstein is quoted as saying, “If the honey bee disappears off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left.”

Beekeepers started reporting the deaths of thousands of honeybee colonies. Bees have been disappearing – So in 2006 they started to call it Colony Collapse Disorder (C.C.D.).

Some facts:

  • 90% of the feral (wild) bee population in the United States has died out.
  • 80 percent of the bees in Netherlands are gone.
  • Wildflowers that depend on pollination have dropped by 70 percent.
  • In the US some beekeepers are losing as much as 80% of their colonies.

The bees pollinate 80 percent of our flowering crops which constitute 1/3 of everything we eat. Losing them could affect not only dietary staples such as apples, broccoli, strawberries, nuts, asparagus, blueberries and cucumbers, but may threaten our beef and dairy industries if alfalfa is not available for feed. Essentially, if honeybees disappear, they could take most of our insect pollinated plants with them, potentially reducing mankind to little more than a water diet.

So what is killing them? Are they joining the birds that fall from the sky and the fish that wash up on shore? Scientists are baffled. They think it may be ……any one or combination of these.  Pathogens One or more pathogens remain scientists’ most likely choice as the cause or partial cause. Parasites A parasite is the other perennial suspect, either by itself or in combination with one or more pathogens. Pesticides There are many classes of pesticides to which honey bees can become exposed. Monoculture Wild honey bees forage on a wide variety of nectar sources. Genetically modified crops   Genetically modified (GM) crops, most commonly Bt corn, have been offered up as the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder. Global climate change Weather changes, such as unusually warm winters, earlier springs, drought, and flooding, can lead to changes in flowering times. Cell phones and cell phone towers
The idea of cell phones causing CCD began with the study in which a cordless home phone, was shown to have some impact on honey bee navigation.

Here is another consideration….

  • What comes first is the natural body  (Natural), then the spiritual body comes later (Spiritual)  1 Corinthians 15 v 46.
  • Amos 8 v 11. “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land–not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

In the Hebrew the two words are from the same root –  devarim  (םיִרָבְדּ, words)  and devorim  = bee (םיִרוֹבְדּ, bees).  So a bee has the same root meaning as a word…Physical bees are symbolic of the Word of God!   Ps 119:103:  How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my  mouth!

I suggest that the disappearance of the bees  (Hebrew – Devorim) and with them most of our fruits and vegetables  is a forerunner of the famine of the word (Hebrew – Devarim). A side note is that grapes and wheat and olives are not pollinated by bees. They are wind pollinated and all three relate to the festivals of the Lord, but that is another discussion…..

Aflockalypse

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Thousands of birds that fell from the sky on Beebe, Arkansas on New Year’s Eve. The following year more birds fell on that same town.  Some 100,000 fish also washed up on the shores of a river 100 miles away. More birds fell from the sky in Louisiana and Kentucky. Two million fish washed up dead in the Chesapeake Bay. 50 birds fell from the sky in Sweden. 100 tons of fish washed ashore in Brazil. 40,000 crabs were found dead in England……..

Something is very wrong.  There are dead fish and dead bird reports at the rate of 1 incident a day.  In the first 120 days of 2012 there were over 90 incidents in 27 countries.  Some examples……

4th May 2012 – 2 TONNES of dead Fish found in a River in Jinzhou China.

30th April 2012 – Hundreds of Bull Red Fish found dead in Alabama.
28th April 2012 – 1200 Pelicans found dead in Peru.
25th April 2012 – 11,000 dead Fish found in River in Kettering, America.
25th April 2012 – 28,000 dead Fish found in River in Strongsville, America.
11th April 2012 – 300 more Dolphins found dead on beaches in Peru.
11th April 2012 – 14,000 Fish dead in Creek in Missouri.
4th April 2012 – 615 Dolphins Found Dead on Beaches in Peru.

The U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) urged more research into baffling deaths — ranging from why whales swim onto beaches to recent unexplained bird deaths. “Science is struggling to explain these things. These are examples of the surprises that nature can still bring,” said Nick Nuttall, spokesman of Nairobi-based UNEP.

“More research is needed”   is an educated way of saying   “We have no idea?”

Yet the scripture is full of verses that mention the fate of the fish and the birds together.  God ties the fate of the birds and the fish to man’s moral behavior and the wickedness of man. As a child suffers when their parent is absent or addicted, so the animals suffer and die under sinful mans government of the earth.  One only has to read a paper to realize we are going to see a lot more “unexplained”   deaths.

The 5th letter,  the letter “H” Hey ” added to Abra”h” am’s name to signify grace. By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth” (Psalm 33:6). In the Talmud, it is said that the “breath of His mouth” refers to the sound of the letter Hey – the out breathing of Spirit. I find it interesting the water and the air or the “water and the spirit”  – both symbols of God’s Grace are now the medium He uses to show His displeasure.

Gen 1 v 20 God said, “Let the 1) waters teem with living creatures, and 2) let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 … 23 And there was evening, and there was morning – the fifth day. 

Hosea 4 v 3   The LORD has a charge to bring against …………because of this the land dries up, and all who live in it waste away; the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea are swept away …”

Zephaniah 1:3  “I will sweep away both men and animals; I will sweep away the birds of the air and the fish of the sea. The wicked will have only heaps of rubble when I cut off man from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.

Palestinian Vote in the U.N.

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Palestinian leaders will ask the United Nations vote by Nov. 29,  2012 on whether to admit Palestine as a non-member state. Palestinian Authority President Abbas said he would submit the bid on Nov. 29 –on the 65th anniversary of the 1947 U.N. vote calling for two states, one Jewish and one Arab, in Palestine.

The Palestinians have more than enough votes to guarantee passage of the membership resolution, with 150 of 193 nations expected to back the proposal.

Once  legally approved, it will mean that Palestine will be formally recognized as a State under occupation. As an observer state, the Palestinian territories—the West Bank and Gaza—could participate in U.N. assembly debates, but could not vote.

The Palestinians could now agree to treaties and join specialized U.N. agencies, such as the International Civil Aviation Organization, the Law of the Sea Treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the International Criminal Court.

The Palestinians goal of the U.N. bid is to gain recognition of a Palestinian State  within the 1967 borders.

They believe this U.N.  bid will protect the two-state solution and give credence to negotiations.

America and Israel have strongly opposed this move. America has no power to veto this decision in the General Assembly. If the U.N. gambit is successful, the U.S. can freeze the  funds designated for the Palestinian Authority, which now receives more than $500 million in American assistance each year. Israeli officials say the Palestinians stand to lose $100 million a month in tax revenue if they go ahead with the Nov. 29 vote.

The risks to Israel are enormous.

The Palestinian could join the Law of the Sea Treaty and effectively end Israel’s blockade.

The Treaty also gives the Palestinians full sovereign  rights over its airspace. The Palestinians could bring claims of violation of its airspace to the International Court of Justice.

The Palestinian authority also could dispute Israel’s claim on a gas field near Gaza at the International Court of Justice.

More troubling for Israel and the U.S. would be the Palestinian territories joining the International Criminal Court.

Abbas Zaki, member of the Fatah Central Committee, said Thursday  that once the status of a Palestinian state is upgraded, the Palestinians would be able to pursue Israel for “war crimes” in the International Criminal Court.  “Once we become a recognized state, we will go to all UN agencies to force the international community to take legal action against Israel,” Zaki told the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper.

He said that the Palestinian Authority would consider itself free of all its commitments under the agreements signed with Israel, including economic and security obligations.

The same U.N. that acted to set up Israel in 1947 is now taking steps dismantle that decision of 65 years ago and to further divide the land.  What Israel and the U.N. do not realize is that it is Gods land.  Israel is the beneficiaries of Gods faithfulness to His friend Abraham.

When the world gathers for their  universal destruction at the valley, will they know  why?  Will they remember the majority vote of 190 nations on November 29th, 2012?

Meanwhile the world forgets while   God says   Joel  3 v 2  I will gather the armies of the world into the valley of Jehoshaphat.  There I will judge them for harming my people, my special possession, for scattering my people Israel, among the nations, and for dividing up my land.

P.I.G.S. and Autocracy

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Twelve years ago, the G20 was established in 1999, in the wake of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, to bring together major advanced and emerging economies to stabilize the global financial market. To tackle the financial and economic crisis that spread across the globe in 2008, the G20 members were called upon to further strengthen international cooperation.

History’s first sovereign default came in the 4th century BC, committed by 10 Greek municipalities. There was one creditor: the temple of Delos, Apollo’s mythical birthplace. Twenty-four centuries later, Greece is at the edge of the biggest sovereign default by a government with 353 billion euros ($483 billion) of debt — five times the size of Argentina’s $95 billion default in 2001

This crisis is affecting the government debt of (P.I.G.S) Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain and the Euro itself is threatened.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde has called for countries to “act now and act together” to keep on the path to economic recovery. “We are by no means strangers, and we are linked by a common destiny,” she said at the meeting of the IMF and the World Bank in Washington.

“And these turbulent times must bind us ever closer together.”

Christine Lagarde, the boss of the International Monetary Fund, warned the chance of escaping a downturn was increasingly narrow. She said: “There are dark clouds over Europe and there is huge uncertainty in the US. And with that we could risk a collapse in global demand. There is growth. The bad news is that it is slow growth. The bad news is there are downside risks on the horizon – and they are piling up.”

Britain’s Chancellor George Osborne has warned that the euro zone has just six weeks to save the euro currency. “I think there is now quite a clear deadline set which is the Cannes summit in six weeks’ time,” he said in Washington DC this afternoon. “The euro zone has six weeks to resolve this political crisis.”

There is no political will in Europe and especially in Germany to sacrifice and pay the bills of Greece. European leaders are convinced that they can survive and “manage” a orderly default by Greece.

Banks in France and Germany scrambled to assure investors that they could survive their exposure to sovereign debt. Nobody knows what the total derivative exposure is, nor who the counter-parties are.

Worse, the debt crisis now engulfs Italy, which suffers from a stagnant economy and a staggering debt load of $2.5 trillion. Borrowing costs have hit painful levels for Rome, which has hastened to come up with an austerity plan to satisfy investors.

Any default by Greece would be completely dwarfed by a similar fate for Italy, whose size would overwhelm attempts by other members of the Euro zone to save it.

Hitler once pointed at the lack of political will of the 30 political parties as proof that a countries economic problems could not be solved by democratic paralysis. The I.M.F. and the U.N. and the G20 are again proving him right. We must accept that the coming economic ruin will give rise to the types as in the 1930’s,  Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Tito, and Franco.

Rev 17 v 12. “The ten horns which you saw are ten governments who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the leader for a short time. Rev 17 v 13. “These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to this leader.

A State of Palestine

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Mahmoud Abbas, who was 12 years old when the U.N. voted in 1947 to partition Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab.  Abbas’ predecessors, the Palestinian leaders of that earlier generation, rejected the partition plan, which envisaged a state on 44 per cent of the land.  So yesterday Friday Sept 23rd, the Palestinian president asked the 66th session of the  U.N.  to bless a Palestinian State on a terrain about half the size.  Its been 44 years since Israel took Palestine,  the West Bank from Jordan and Gaza from Egypt.

The Palestinian people are “long overdue” in their quest for an independent state, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday.   And I support also the statehood of Palestinians; an independent, sovereign state of Palestine. It has been long overdue,” Ban told reporters in Canberra.

There are two routes that Mr. Abbas is considering at the United Nations. His preference is to begin by applying through the 15-member Security Council for full membership.  The United States has vowed to use its veto there.

If that failed, he could then go directly to the 193-member General Assembly, where there is no veto and a pro-Palestinian majority. Around 140 countries are likely to support a Palestinian bid for statehood.  The General Assembly cannot grant United Nations membership to Palestine.  It can only declare it to be an “observer state”. But the key word is “state,” because that would allow it to join a host of international agencies and treaty groups, including the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, Unesco and others.

Once admitted to the U.N.  – a foregone conclusion — Palestine would join all international legal forums.     Palestinians would then be entitled to bring cases against Israeli officials, perhaps for actions related to building West Bank settlements viewed as illegal.  This issue worries the Israelis perhaps most of all,  as 500,000 Israeli’s  could find themselves trespassing.

A Palestinian decision to shift its statehood quest toward international legal and political pressure on Israel, combined with Israeli fear and truculence at a time of regional upheaval, has many predicting disaster. After after the storming of Israel’s Cairo embassy,  and the expulsion of its ambassador from Turkey, the Arab spring is creating political opportunity for Israels enemies.

“Israel is already facing hostility from Egypt, Turkey and Gaza,” a senior Western diplomat said. “It will react to a Palestinian statehood bid with punitive measures in the West Bank.  Congress will probably cut off aid to the Palestinians. The Palestinian Authority could collapse. We’re watching a potential train wreck.”

American diplomats were here last week warning Mr. Abbas of unforeseen consequences from his statehood bid. Palestinians have nothing to lose and they will be heading to the UN in a non-reversible move,”  Abbas said.  There is no good outcome for Israel.  America’s  threat to veto the bid at the Security Council puts it on the side of Israel against the wishes of 140 U.N.  members.

The tactics of making Palestinians the victims, and Israel the villain,  are the same tactics that allowed Britain and France to throw Czechoslovakia under a German bus in September 1938,  in the policy of appeasement.  Again Germany and France and Britain are giving silent approval to this division of land.

Meanwhile the world forgets,  God says   Joel  3 v 2  I will gather the armies of the world into the valley of Jehoshaphat.  There I will judge them for harming my people, my special possession, for scattering my people Israel, among the nations, and for dividing up my land.