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)
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
EZEKIEL 39:1-4
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
Russian, Iranian, Syrian Partnership Has Great Messianic Implications, New Bible Code Reveals-By Rivkah Lambert Adler September 20, 2015 , 11:30 am-breakingisraelnews.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duRU39GI9vI
“The harsh prophecy concerning Damascus; Behold Damascus shall be removed from [being] a city, and it shall be depth of ruins.” (Isaiah 17:1)-With Russia and Iran now undisputedly backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by sending troops and weapons into Syria, a newly-released Bible Codes video reveals that the partnership has Messianic implications for the Jewish people.International Bible Codes expert Rabbi Mattiyahu Glazerson explains that the recent cooperation among Russia, Iran and Syria to boost the standing of Assad is one step in the final redemptive process.In the Bible Codes table, which comes from the Book of Deuteronomy, Glazerson points out codes embedded in the Biblical text that describe the current situation, such as Rusiya (Russia) and b’Suria (in Syria), Iran and the Hebrew letters tav, shin, ayin and vav (תשעו), which have the numerical value of 776. This is a reference to 5776, the current Hebrew year.Glazerson points out that the end of Deuteronomy 6:14 and Deuteronomy 6:15, which appear in the table, tells exactly what plans Iran has in store for Israel:…of the peoples that are around you. For the Lord, your God, is a zealous God among you, lest the wrath of the Lord, your God, be kindled against you, and destroy you off the face of the earth.”For Israel, Iran is “of the peoples that are around you.” Iranian leaders have repeatedly stated that their goal is to wipe Israel off the map, with the most recent public comments being made by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who vowed that Israel will cease to exist within 25 years.Are there hidden messages from God in the Bible? Concluding his explanation regarding Iran, Glazerson points out the words aish (fire) and Iran, a reference to the weapons of Iran, as well as several places in the Bible Codes table where the words geula (redemption) and moshiach (Messiah) are found. Turning his attention to the center of the table, Glazerson reveals the word teshuva (repentance). As he has in previous Bible Codes videos, the expert connects the two themes of the Middle East upheaval and redemption. Glazerson says the threats of surrounding countries are a means to propell the Jewish people to repent, lest they be subject to the powers of their enemies.“If you will follow most of my tables with Mashiach (Messiah),” Rabbi Glazerson told Breaking Israel News, “according to what our Rabbis say in the Talmud (Judaism’s most important compendium of rabbinic wisdom), [if] Jews not do teshuva (repent) willingly, God will appoint on them a cruel leader, like Haman in Persia (modern day Iran) and he will threaten to destroy them.”Glazerson also explained to Breaking Israel News that the numerical value of the Talmudic phrase “hamelech hakashe k’haman” (A king hard like Haman) is 620 and the numerical value of the Hebrew spellings of Barack Obama Iran is also 620.Just as God clearly states the punishment to befall the Jewish nation, he also clearly gives the remedy in the Bible Codes. “They will have to do teshuvah to be saved,” Glazerson stated. “Therefore in a table which shows that a great threat is on Israel, which we hope will bring them to do repentance, we have the two sides.”
KNOWLEGE INCREASED AND WORLD TRAVEL (IMMIGRATION) INCREASED
DANIEL 12:4
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION FROM FLEEING WARS) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS MICROCHIPS ETC)
Refugee crisis prompts snap EU summit By Eric Maurice-euobserver
BRUSSELS, 17. Sep, 18:24-EU leaders will hold an emergency summit on the migrant crisis on Wednesday (23 September), amid crackdowns on EU borders and disagreement on how to share 120,000 refugees.The "extraordinary, informal meeting” will discuss how to deal with the refugee crisis", EU Council president Donald Tusk said.The summit will come one day after a special meeting of EU interior ministers on migrant relocation.The ministers failed to agree, this week, on a European Commission proposal on redistributing another 120,000 refugees.But they did agree to an earlier Commission plan to share 40,000 people seeking protection.Tusk’s summit announcement, on Thursday (17 September), came the same day Slovenia introduced controls on its border with Hungary.It’s move is the latest in a series of crackdowns by members of the passport-free Schengen area, including Austria, Germany, Slovakia, and the Netherlands.Bulgaria, also on Thursday, said it would send up to 1,000 soldiers to its Turkish border.In Croatia, about 7,000 migrants arrived in less than 24 hours, some of whom clashed with police while trying to cross from Serbia.The clashes follow similar incidents at the Hungarian-Serbian border.Opposition-The situation in the Western Balkans and Hungary will be one of the main issues discussed by EU leaders on 23 September.The Commission proposal on relocating 120,000 people will also lead the agenda.Austria and Germany had already called for an EU summit earlier in the week.German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that creating a mandatory and permanent relocation mechanism is “the responsibility of the entire European Union”. Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico had also called for a summit, but saying that EU institutions shouldn’t “dictate" to EU capitals how many refugees to take.Slovakia, along with the Czech Republic, and Hungary oppose the Commission relocation scheme, while Poland has flip-flopped on the issue.But a bigger coalition of EU states could outvote them in the EU Council.Even the plan’s fiercest opponent, Hungarian Viktor Orban, has conceded, in German media, that “in this case [the decision to apply refugee quotas] would be a law and we would have to accept it”.But he warned that outvoting Hungary "would be ill-advised, unfair and I am sure that there would be a high price to pay later".-Parliament vote-For its part, the European Parliament, also on Thursday, used a fast-track legal procedure and voted in favour of the Commission's relocation scheme.MEPs approved it by 370 votes against 134, with 52 abstentions.The European Commission denied reports it’s ready to water down its proposal into a voluntary one."Our proposal remains on the table as we have proposed it”, Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva said on Thursday.She added, however: “If there are any changes during the legislative process, then we can discuss the changes".The Commission’s chief spokesman, Margaritis Schinas, noted that opponents of the plan haven’t offered alternatives."The only thing at work is our proposal”, he said. "What are the other proposals? Looking around, we don't see anything”.
Refugee crisis to test EU at summit of divided leaders-Reuters By Julia Fioretti and Gernot Heller-SEPT 20,15-YAHOONEWS
BRUSSELS/ LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) - Bitterly-divided European leaders will seek to find a credible response to the continent's worst migration crisis since World War Two at an emergency summit next week.German chancellor Angela Merkel called on her peers on Sunday to accept joint responsibility." Germany is willing to help. But it is not just a German challenge, but one for all of Europe," Merkel told a gathering of trade unionists. "Europe must act together and take on responsibility. Germany can't shoulder this task alone."Striking a more skeptical tone on migration than in previous weeks, Merkel also warned that Germany could not shelter those who were moving for economic reasons rather than to flee war or persecution."We are a big country. We are a strong country. But to make out as if we alone can solve all the social problems of the world would not be realistic," she told a gathering of the Verdi trade union. European Council President Donald Tusk, who chairs European Union summits, said on Twitter on Sunday following a weekend visit to Jordan and Egypt that the EU needed to help Syrian refugees find a better life closer at home.That will be one of the topics of discussion for Wednesday's summit in Brussels as hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants brave the seas and trek across the impoverished Balkan peninsula to reach more affluent countries in northern Europe.The 28-member bloc has struggled to find a unified response to the crisis, which has tested many of its newer members in the East that are unaccustomed to large-scale immigration.On Sunday Hungary erected a steel gate and fence posts at a border crossing with Croatia, the EU's newest member state. Overwhelmed by an influx of some 25,000 migrants this week, Croatia has been sending them north by bus and train to Hungary, which has waved them on to Austria. Around 10,700 migrants walked into Austria from Hungary on Sunday, some 200 more than on Saturday.The influx of migrants, most of them fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, has led to bitter recriminations between European governments while the temporary closure of national borders has undermined one of the most tangible achievements of the Union."If you don’t cope with this crisis, then I think the EU will fall apart," said a senior EU official.The official said European leaders would discuss longer-term strategies for dealing with the crisis, particularly increasing cooperation with Turkey and the countries bordering Syria to keep the millions of refugees at home. Tusk said more aid to the World Food Program and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees would also be on the agenda. Beefing up the EU's asylum agency, Frontex, into a full border and coastguard agency, and working on hotspots and a list of "safe countries" whose citizens would not normally qualify for asylum, would also be up for discussion, the official said.CEMENTING PEACE-On Saturday, German Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said the EU needed to provide 1.5 billion euros ($1.70 billion) to the two agencies to address funding shortfalls.The EU prides itself on cementing peace among countries that until World War Two fought bloody battles and fostering prosperity by removing internal barriers among its member states through the so-called Schengen agreement.But the more than 500,000 people crossing the Mediterranean into Europe this year alone and Hungary's use of water cannon and razor wire on its border with Serbia have seen the EU's ambitions to act as one fall short.The picture of a dead toddler washed up on a beach in Turkey sent shockwaves around the continent. On Sunday 13 migrants, including six children, were killed as their boat was wrecked in Turkish waters."The (Schengen) agreements are now part of our daily lives and it is unthinkable that the facilities enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of travelers and cross-border workers in Europe are challenged by nationalist and reactionary thoughts and political actions," said Jean Asselborn, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs for Luxembourg.As the holder of the rotating presidency of the EU, Luxembourg is working to broker a compromise that can break the deadlock between member states on sharing the burden of the crisis.EU interior ministers, meeting on Tuesday, are expected to agree on a voluntary relocation scheme to redistribute 160,000 refugees from frontline states across the EU, a fraction of the total entering Europe.EU ambassadors met on Sunday to try to hammer out compromises ahead of Tuesday's meeting but several issues still needed to be solved and work would continue until then, said a spokeswoman for the EU presidency.Germany's Gabriel warned that the country could be overwhelmed by the 800,000 refugees and asylum seekers it expects to receive this year. Most of the migrants hope to reach prosperous Germany or Sweden."At some point, it will become too much for Germany. And that is why we are discussing a distribution of the migrants in Europe ... Germany is helping. But now Germany needs to be helped," he told German broadcaster ARD.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday the United States would take in 15,000 more refugees from around the world next year, increasing the current level to 85,000, and to 100,000 in 2017.(Additional reporting by Alastair Macdonald, Paul Taylor, Francois Murphy in Vienna; Lesley Wroughton in Berlin and John O'Donnell in Frankfurt; Editing by Andrew Roche)
Ben Carson says a Muslim shouldn't be president. Who agrees?-Polls suggest that 38 percent of voters would not support a Muslim candidate, but that, overall, Americans are becoming more accepting.Christian Science Monitor By Molly Jackson-SEPT 20,15-YAHOONEWS
Asked by Mr. Todd whether a candidate’s faith should matter, Dr. Carson, a Seventh Day Adventist who enjoys an 87 percent approval among white Evangelicals, replied that a president’s beliefs should not be “inconsistent with the values and principles of America,” or with the Constitution. When Todd then asked if Carson considered Islam “consistent with the Constitution,” Carson said no, without providing further explanation.The “Meet the Press” conversation comes in the wake of candidate Donald Trump’s latest controversy surrounding race and religion, after he declined to correct a New Hampshire supporter on Thursday who claimed, “We have a problem in this country. It’s called Muslims. We know our current president is one. You know he’s not even an American.” Recommended: Six reasons so many Republicans are running for president-The exchange quickly drew criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike, reflecting a GOP increasingly concerned with Trump’s often-contentious rhetoric. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, for instance, told the “Today” show, “I wouldn’t have permitted that,” calling President Obama’s American roots and Christian faith “self-evident.”Obama was born in Hawaii and is Christian. But according to recent polls, many Americans believe otherwise: CNN/ORC found that only 71 percent of conservatives think Obama was born in the US, while nearly half suspect he is Muslim.Carson is far from alone in preferring a non-Muslim president. For decades, Gallup has surveyed Americans about their support for hypothetical candidates with particular characteristics, asking “If your party nominated a generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be ____, would you vote for that person?” Results from 2015 reveal that 27 percent of Democrats, and 55 percent of Republicans, would not elect a Muslim. When the poll began in 1937, voters were only asked whether they would support a female, Catholic, or Jewish candidate, to which 33 percent, 60 percent, and 46 percent said “Yes,” respectively. Changes to the survey itself reveal the country’s shifting demographics, and advancing laws: respondents were first asked about black and atheist candidates in 1958, Mormons in 1967, gay candidates in 1978, Hispanics not until 2007, and Muslims in 2012.Although a Muslim candidate would evidently face an uphill battle, the steepest challenge awaits atheist and socialist politicians. Support for an atheist candidate has doubled since the 1950s, but is still low, at 60 percent. But support for socialists is still rarer, making it the least-popular characteristic, with a full half of respondents saying a socialist could not win their vote. Over the decades, support for most categories has risen: today, as a diverse array of candidates wrestles for the 2016 nominations, more than 90 percent of Americans say they would vote for a Catholic, female, black, Hispanic, or Jewish president.Would a Muslim candidate today fare better than 2012? It’s hard to say. Among Democrats, support for a hypothetical Muslim president has inched up, from 69 percent to 73 percent, but Republicans’ approval has actually fallen, down to 45 percent from 2012’s 47 percent. Long-term, the increased-acceptance trend may continue, thanks to generational outlooks: Gallup notes that “at least two-thirds of adults younger than 30 say they are willing to vote for a candidate with any of the characteristics included in the survey,” and support for a Muslim candidate is highest among the age 18-to-29 set, at 76 percent, a full 32 percentage points higher than among voters over 65.Vox’s Max Fisher has hypothesized that Obama’s attempt “to defray the tide of American Islamophobia” in reaction to ISIS may fuel some Americans’ stubborn insistence that he is a Muslim, in spite of his numerous mentions, and displays, of his Christian faith. The same fear of radical Islam, framed as a war of civilizations, likely hampers any Muslim candidate’s chances.For now, though, the candidate most likely affected by these numbers is none other than Senator Bernie Sanders: as of 2007, 57 percent said they would not vote for a candidate over age 72, adding to his challenges as a 74-year-old nonobservant Jewish socialist.
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
EZEKIEL 39:1-4
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
Russian, Iranian, Syrian Partnership Has Great Messianic Implications, New Bible Code Reveals-By Rivkah Lambert Adler September 20, 2015 , 11:30 am-breakingisraelnews.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duRU39GI9vI
“The harsh prophecy concerning Damascus; Behold Damascus shall be removed from [being] a city, and it shall be depth of ruins.” (Isaiah 17:1)-With Russia and Iran now undisputedly backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by sending troops and weapons into Syria, a newly-released Bible Codes video reveals that the partnership has Messianic implications for the Jewish people.International Bible Codes expert Rabbi Mattiyahu Glazerson explains that the recent cooperation among Russia, Iran and Syria to boost the standing of Assad is one step in the final redemptive process.In the Bible Codes table, which comes from the Book of Deuteronomy, Glazerson points out codes embedded in the Biblical text that describe the current situation, such as Rusiya (Russia) and b’Suria (in Syria), Iran and the Hebrew letters tav, shin, ayin and vav (תשעו), which have the numerical value of 776. This is a reference to 5776, the current Hebrew year.Glazerson points out that the end of Deuteronomy 6:14 and Deuteronomy 6:15, which appear in the table, tells exactly what plans Iran has in store for Israel:…of the peoples that are around you. For the Lord, your God, is a zealous God among you, lest the wrath of the Lord, your God, be kindled against you, and destroy you off the face of the earth.”For Israel, Iran is “of the peoples that are around you.” Iranian leaders have repeatedly stated that their goal is to wipe Israel off the map, with the most recent public comments being made by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who vowed that Israel will cease to exist within 25 years.Are there hidden messages from God in the Bible? Concluding his explanation regarding Iran, Glazerson points out the words aish (fire) and Iran, a reference to the weapons of Iran, as well as several places in the Bible Codes table where the words geula (redemption) and moshiach (Messiah) are found. Turning his attention to the center of the table, Glazerson reveals the word teshuva (repentance). As he has in previous Bible Codes videos, the expert connects the two themes of the Middle East upheaval and redemption. Glazerson says the threats of surrounding countries are a means to propell the Jewish people to repent, lest they be subject to the powers of their enemies.“If you will follow most of my tables with Mashiach (Messiah),” Rabbi Glazerson told Breaking Israel News, “according to what our Rabbis say in the Talmud (Judaism’s most important compendium of rabbinic wisdom), [if] Jews not do teshuva (repent) willingly, God will appoint on them a cruel leader, like Haman in Persia (modern day Iran) and he will threaten to destroy them.”Glazerson also explained to Breaking Israel News that the numerical value of the Talmudic phrase “hamelech hakashe k’haman” (A king hard like Haman) is 620 and the numerical value of the Hebrew spellings of Barack Obama Iran is also 620.Just as God clearly states the punishment to befall the Jewish nation, he also clearly gives the remedy in the Bible Codes. “They will have to do teshuvah to be saved,” Glazerson stated. “Therefore in a table which shows that a great threat is on Israel, which we hope will bring them to do repentance, we have the two sides.”
KNOWLEGE INCREASED AND WORLD TRAVEL (IMMIGRATION) INCREASED
DANIEL 12:4
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION FROM FLEEING WARS) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS MICROCHIPS ETC)
Refugee crisis prompts snap EU summit By Eric Maurice-euobserver
BRUSSELS, 17. Sep, 18:24-EU leaders will hold an emergency summit on the migrant crisis on Wednesday (23 September), amid crackdowns on EU borders and disagreement on how to share 120,000 refugees.The "extraordinary, informal meeting” will discuss how to deal with the refugee crisis", EU Council president Donald Tusk said.The summit will come one day after a special meeting of EU interior ministers on migrant relocation.The ministers failed to agree, this week, on a European Commission proposal on redistributing another 120,000 refugees.But they did agree to an earlier Commission plan to share 40,000 people seeking protection.Tusk’s summit announcement, on Thursday (17 September), came the same day Slovenia introduced controls on its border with Hungary.It’s move is the latest in a series of crackdowns by members of the passport-free Schengen area, including Austria, Germany, Slovakia, and the Netherlands.Bulgaria, also on Thursday, said it would send up to 1,000 soldiers to its Turkish border.In Croatia, about 7,000 migrants arrived in less than 24 hours, some of whom clashed with police while trying to cross from Serbia.The clashes follow similar incidents at the Hungarian-Serbian border.Opposition-The situation in the Western Balkans and Hungary will be one of the main issues discussed by EU leaders on 23 September.The Commission proposal on relocating 120,000 people will also lead the agenda.Austria and Germany had already called for an EU summit earlier in the week.German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that creating a mandatory and permanent relocation mechanism is “the responsibility of the entire European Union”. Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico had also called for a summit, but saying that EU institutions shouldn’t “dictate" to EU capitals how many refugees to take.Slovakia, along with the Czech Republic, and Hungary oppose the Commission relocation scheme, while Poland has flip-flopped on the issue.But a bigger coalition of EU states could outvote them in the EU Council.Even the plan’s fiercest opponent, Hungarian Viktor Orban, has conceded, in German media, that “in this case [the decision to apply refugee quotas] would be a law and we would have to accept it”.But he warned that outvoting Hungary "would be ill-advised, unfair and I am sure that there would be a high price to pay later".-Parliament vote-For its part, the European Parliament, also on Thursday, used a fast-track legal procedure and voted in favour of the Commission's relocation scheme.MEPs approved it by 370 votes against 134, with 52 abstentions.The European Commission denied reports it’s ready to water down its proposal into a voluntary one."Our proposal remains on the table as we have proposed it”, Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva said on Thursday.She added, however: “If there are any changes during the legislative process, then we can discuss the changes".The Commission’s chief spokesman, Margaritis Schinas, noted that opponents of the plan haven’t offered alternatives."The only thing at work is our proposal”, he said. "What are the other proposals? Looking around, we don't see anything”.
Refugee crisis to test EU at summit of divided leaders-Reuters By Julia Fioretti and Gernot Heller-SEPT 20,15-YAHOONEWS
BRUSSELS/ LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) - Bitterly-divided European leaders will seek to find a credible response to the continent's worst migration crisis since World War Two at an emergency summit next week.German chancellor Angela Merkel called on her peers on Sunday to accept joint responsibility." Germany is willing to help. But it is not just a German challenge, but one for all of Europe," Merkel told a gathering of trade unionists. "Europe must act together and take on responsibility. Germany can't shoulder this task alone."Striking a more skeptical tone on migration than in previous weeks, Merkel also warned that Germany could not shelter those who were moving for economic reasons rather than to flee war or persecution."We are a big country. We are a strong country. But to make out as if we alone can solve all the social problems of the world would not be realistic," she told a gathering of the Verdi trade union. European Council President Donald Tusk, who chairs European Union summits, said on Twitter on Sunday following a weekend visit to Jordan and Egypt that the EU needed to help Syrian refugees find a better life closer at home.That will be one of the topics of discussion for Wednesday's summit in Brussels as hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants brave the seas and trek across the impoverished Balkan peninsula to reach more affluent countries in northern Europe.The 28-member bloc has struggled to find a unified response to the crisis, which has tested many of its newer members in the East that are unaccustomed to large-scale immigration.On Sunday Hungary erected a steel gate and fence posts at a border crossing with Croatia, the EU's newest member state. Overwhelmed by an influx of some 25,000 migrants this week, Croatia has been sending them north by bus and train to Hungary, which has waved them on to Austria. Around 10,700 migrants walked into Austria from Hungary on Sunday, some 200 more than on Saturday.The influx of migrants, most of them fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, has led to bitter recriminations between European governments while the temporary closure of national borders has undermined one of the most tangible achievements of the Union."If you don’t cope with this crisis, then I think the EU will fall apart," said a senior EU official.The official said European leaders would discuss longer-term strategies for dealing with the crisis, particularly increasing cooperation with Turkey and the countries bordering Syria to keep the millions of refugees at home. Tusk said more aid to the World Food Program and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees would also be on the agenda. Beefing up the EU's asylum agency, Frontex, into a full border and coastguard agency, and working on hotspots and a list of "safe countries" whose citizens would not normally qualify for asylum, would also be up for discussion, the official said.CEMENTING PEACE-On Saturday, German Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said the EU needed to provide 1.5 billion euros ($1.70 billion) to the two agencies to address funding shortfalls.The EU prides itself on cementing peace among countries that until World War Two fought bloody battles and fostering prosperity by removing internal barriers among its member states through the so-called Schengen agreement.But the more than 500,000 people crossing the Mediterranean into Europe this year alone and Hungary's use of water cannon and razor wire on its border with Serbia have seen the EU's ambitions to act as one fall short.The picture of a dead toddler washed up on a beach in Turkey sent shockwaves around the continent. On Sunday 13 migrants, including six children, were killed as their boat was wrecked in Turkish waters."The (Schengen) agreements are now part of our daily lives and it is unthinkable that the facilities enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of travelers and cross-border workers in Europe are challenged by nationalist and reactionary thoughts and political actions," said Jean Asselborn, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs for Luxembourg.As the holder of the rotating presidency of the EU, Luxembourg is working to broker a compromise that can break the deadlock between member states on sharing the burden of the crisis.EU interior ministers, meeting on Tuesday, are expected to agree on a voluntary relocation scheme to redistribute 160,000 refugees from frontline states across the EU, a fraction of the total entering Europe.EU ambassadors met on Sunday to try to hammer out compromises ahead of Tuesday's meeting but several issues still needed to be solved and work would continue until then, said a spokeswoman for the EU presidency.Germany's Gabriel warned that the country could be overwhelmed by the 800,000 refugees and asylum seekers it expects to receive this year. Most of the migrants hope to reach prosperous Germany or Sweden."At some point, it will become too much for Germany. And that is why we are discussing a distribution of the migrants in Europe ... Germany is helping. But now Germany needs to be helped," he told German broadcaster ARD.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday the United States would take in 15,000 more refugees from around the world next year, increasing the current level to 85,000, and to 100,000 in 2017.(Additional reporting by Alastair Macdonald, Paul Taylor, Francois Murphy in Vienna; Lesley Wroughton in Berlin and John O'Donnell in Frankfurt; Editing by Andrew Roche)
Ben Carson says a Muslim shouldn't be president. Who agrees?-Polls suggest that 38 percent of voters would not support a Muslim candidate, but that, overall, Americans are becoming more accepting.Christian Science Monitor By Molly Jackson-SEPT 20,15-YAHOONEWS
Asked by Mr. Todd whether a candidate’s faith should matter, Dr. Carson, a Seventh Day Adventist who enjoys an 87 percent approval among white Evangelicals, replied that a president’s beliefs should not be “inconsistent with the values and principles of America,” or with the Constitution. When Todd then asked if Carson considered Islam “consistent with the Constitution,” Carson said no, without providing further explanation.The “Meet the Press” conversation comes in the wake of candidate Donald Trump’s latest controversy surrounding race and religion, after he declined to correct a New Hampshire supporter on Thursday who claimed, “We have a problem in this country. It’s called Muslims. We know our current president is one. You know he’s not even an American.” Recommended: Six reasons so many Republicans are running for president-The exchange quickly drew criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike, reflecting a GOP increasingly concerned with Trump’s often-contentious rhetoric. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, for instance, told the “Today” show, “I wouldn’t have permitted that,” calling President Obama’s American roots and Christian faith “self-evident.”Obama was born in Hawaii and is Christian. But according to recent polls, many Americans believe otherwise: CNN/ORC found that only 71 percent of conservatives think Obama was born in the US, while nearly half suspect he is Muslim.Carson is far from alone in preferring a non-Muslim president. For decades, Gallup has surveyed Americans about their support for hypothetical candidates with particular characteristics, asking “If your party nominated a generally well-qualified person for president who happened to be ____, would you vote for that person?” Results from 2015 reveal that 27 percent of Democrats, and 55 percent of Republicans, would not elect a Muslim. When the poll began in 1937, voters were only asked whether they would support a female, Catholic, or Jewish candidate, to which 33 percent, 60 percent, and 46 percent said “Yes,” respectively. Changes to the survey itself reveal the country’s shifting demographics, and advancing laws: respondents were first asked about black and atheist candidates in 1958, Mormons in 1967, gay candidates in 1978, Hispanics not until 2007, and Muslims in 2012.Although a Muslim candidate would evidently face an uphill battle, the steepest challenge awaits atheist and socialist politicians. Support for an atheist candidate has doubled since the 1950s, but is still low, at 60 percent. But support for socialists is still rarer, making it the least-popular characteristic, with a full half of respondents saying a socialist could not win their vote. Over the decades, support for most categories has risen: today, as a diverse array of candidates wrestles for the 2016 nominations, more than 90 percent of Americans say they would vote for a Catholic, female, black, Hispanic, or Jewish president.Would a Muslim candidate today fare better than 2012? It’s hard to say. Among Democrats, support for a hypothetical Muslim president has inched up, from 69 percent to 73 percent, but Republicans’ approval has actually fallen, down to 45 percent from 2012’s 47 percent. Long-term, the increased-acceptance trend may continue, thanks to generational outlooks: Gallup notes that “at least two-thirds of adults younger than 30 say they are willing to vote for a candidate with any of the characteristics included in the survey,” and support for a Muslim candidate is highest among the age 18-to-29 set, at 76 percent, a full 32 percentage points higher than among voters over 65.Vox’s Max Fisher has hypothesized that Obama’s attempt “to defray the tide of American Islamophobia” in reaction to ISIS may fuel some Americans’ stubborn insistence that he is a Muslim, in spite of his numerous mentions, and displays, of his Christian faith. The same fear of radical Islam, framed as a war of civilizations, likely hampers any Muslim candidate’s chances.For now, though, the candidate most likely affected by these numbers is none other than Senator Bernie Sanders: as of 2007, 57 percent said they would not vote for a candidate over age 72, adding to his challenges as a 74-year-old nonobservant Jewish socialist.
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