Khaleel Mohammed states in an interview in FrontPage Magazine:

So the simple fact is then, from a faith-based point of view: If God has “written” Israel for the people of Moses, who can change this?

The Qur’an refers to the exiles, but leaves it open for return…saying to the Jews that if they keep their promise to God, then God will keep the divine promise to them. WE may argue that the present state of Israel was not created in the most peaceful means, and that many were displaced–for me, this is not the issue. The issue is that when the Muslims entered that land in the seventh century, they were well aware of its rightful owners, and when they failed to act according to divine mandate (at least as perceived by followers of all Abrahamic faiths), they aided and abetted in a crime. And the present situation shows the fruits of that action–wherein innocent Palestinians and Israelis are being killed on a daily basis.

I also draw your attention to the fact that the medieval exegetes of Qur’an–without any exception known to me–recognized Israel as belonging to the Jews, their birthright given to them. Indeed, two of Islam’s most famous exegetes explained “written” from Quran 5:21 thus:

Ibn Kathir (d. 774/1373) said: “That which God has written for you” i.e. That which God has promised to you by the words of your father Israel that it is the inheritance of those among you who believe” . Muhammad al-Shawkani (d. 1250/1834) interprets Kataba to mean “that which God has allotted and predestined for you in His primordial knowledge, deeming it as a place of residence for you” (1992, 2:41).

The Post & Email – What most people know is that the Associated Press (AP) is one of the largest, internationally recognized, syndicated news services. What most people don’t know that is in 2004, the AP was a “birther” news organization.

How so? Because in a syndicated report, published Sunday, June 27, 2004, by the Kenyan Standard Times, and which was, as of this report, available at
http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm

The AP reporter stated the following:

Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.

This report explains the context of the oft cited debate, between Obama and Keyes in the following Fall, in which Keyes faulted Obama for not being a “natural born citizen”, and in which Obama, by his quick retort, “So what? I am running for Illinois Senator, not the presidency”, self-admitted that he was not eligible for the office. Seeing that an AP reporter is too professional to submit a story which was not based on confirmed sources (ostensibly the Obama campaign in this case), the inference seems inescapable: Obama himself was putting out in 2004, that he was born in Kenya.

The difficulty in finding this gem of a story is hampered by Google, which is running flak for Obama: because if you search for “Kenyan-born US Senate” you wont find it, but if you search for the phrase without quotes you will find links which talk about it.

For those who believe what they see, here is the screen capture of the page from the Kenyan Sunday Standard, electronic edition, of June 27, 2004 — Just in case that page is scrubbed from the Web Archive:

AP declared Obama “Kenyan-Born”

The Covenant: God’s relationship with Jews, Israelites and Gentiles
Art Braidic (a minister of the Sabbath keeping Church of God) and I have enjoyed a biblical discussion about whether or not God’s covenant with Judah is still active. I trust others may glean something profitable from our fellowship.

Mormon Book of the Dead
The Book of Mormon, a false gospel and spurious scripture, amounts to a mishmash of stories, like a confused child or schizophrenic person would tell, mixing truth with error; The Book of Mormon is a spoof from Satan – a demonic comedy – an abomination.

Apostate Christians
Despite warnings about another Jesus, different gospels and spirits, the rise of a counterfeit Christianity has deceived the whole world

A Nation of Drunks and Whores
We’ve been living a lie and have loved to indulge in deception. “Don’t confuse me with the facts” has been our shameful attitude, and truth has been treated like some social outcast. Therefore, God threatens to use Europe to wake us up…

Rome rules the world – not NYC!
The Israelite United States is not Babylon! New York City is not Babylon! Yes, we are in spiritual Babylon (as is the whole world, Catholics and Protestants); yes, we are in economic Babylon (as is the whole world enslaved by globalist banksters), but the biblical Babylon yet to fall has been clearly identified by Alexander Hislop in The Two Babylons as ROME and the ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.

The Watchmen
"I have set Watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem"
God has called us to do a Work! Anyone can and should do good works in private, but God has called us collectively to COME OUT OF THE CLOSET and deliver His Message! We’re to help save individuals and nations from the coming Holocaust!

Worldwide Church Of God All Over Again?
Let’s see to it that Philadelphia Church of God (Judah) doesn’t go the way of the Worldwide Church of God (Israel). These biblical principles still apply: don’t put undue trust in men; work out your own salvation, it’s not a group affair; beware the scholarly approach that demands you rely on men – not God’s Spirit or personal Bible study.

Jesus GAVE His Life To Give Us LIFE!
The passionate anti-Semites/anti-Zionists would do well to note Jesus’ words of life and forgiveness: "FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, for they know not what they do…". Who are puny men to continue a blood libel against every Jew for the actions of a relative few?

Plea to Diehard Catholics & Protestants to Repent
Having clearly seen how the practice of homosexuality is a sin (as I testify in God and the Gays), I can now see clearly how SPIRITUAL HOMOSEXUALS, the bloody Roman Catholic whore and her Protestant prostitute daughters (Rev. 17:5), prefer tradition over truth.

The Plain Truth About Ron Weinland
Ron Weinland is drunk on his delusions…
Ron Weinland is a FALSE PROPHET and illegitimately claims to be one of the Two Witnesses.

The Suffering Servant
"For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honorable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee (individuals), and people (nations) for thy life" (Isaiah 43:3-4). And, again, "For I am with thee, says the LORD, to save thee: though I will make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee…" (Jeremiah 30:11).

Yeshua is the Suffering Servant
He is despised and rejected by men, A Man (not a nation, a man) of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we (collective Israel, especially Judah) hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He (one man) was despised, and we (Israel/Judah) did not esteem Him.

The Plain Truth About Race And Responsibility
Why leave others with distorted views of what the Bible says? Why not present our God-given understanding of cause and effect for today’s increasing racial divides? Precisely because it is a BOMBSHELL to those who have been lulled to sleep, drugged by PC poison and who, once awakened would be enraged and shoot the messenger!

The Passover Memorial
When did God decree that Jesus could declare "it is finished" and die on the stake? Why at the very same time that THE JEWS were sacrificing their Passover lambs at the Temple! The Jews had always killed the Passover lambs during the final hours of the 14th. It was towards the end of the 14th, not at the beginning of the 14th, that the Passover lambs were killed.

Passover and Pentecost Differences Settled!
The correct dates to observe God’s holy days should not be a Church of God issue, having been settled by God thousands of years ago and preserved throughout the ages by faithful Jews.

The Oracles of God
God’s empowered the Jews – despite themselves – to preserve His Word. They are the only people on Earth that God has blessed and ordained to fulfill such a calling! God will not retract His Word or renege on this gift and responsibility that He’s graciously bestowed upon Judah.

Don’t Fall for the Rapture!
We meet the returning Christ in the air and RETURN TO EARTH – to the Mount of Olives – and reign with but under Him, composing the Kingdom of God: just like the Bible clearly says once we remove traditional blinders.

Politics in the Church of God Hinders Progress
Gerald Flurry refused to go forward with Beyond Babylon and fell backwards, treading old ground and is now going in circles, business as usual, as Europe rises and Judah and Israel have yet to be warned.

Unclean Christianity vs. Peter’s Vision
Unclean traditional Christianity teaches the religious lie that Jesus "did away with" the dietary laws, sinning against both God and man (1 John 2:4; Matt 5:17-20).

Synagogue of Satan?
"And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive; I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, but thou art rich and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan." (Rev. 2:8-9)

God Doesn’t Ordain Women Preachers!
I just read an abominable article written by a proud and stubborn woman attempting to justify rebellious women doing what only God has ordained men to do: preach from the pulpit as ordained ministers.

Did Jesus Call Jews the Children of the Devil?
Jesus acknowledged that Abraham is the father of the Jews physically, but not always spiritually (John 8:37, 39, 42, 44). The same can be said and is true about all Twelve Tribes of Israel. In fact, the commission of the Two Witnesses – in the spirit of Elijah – is to restore our relationship with our Fathers (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) and thereby through their true religion reconcile us to our Heavenly Father (Malachi 4:6; Isa. 49:5-6).

Brokeback Mountain Blues
I wanted to see it, but I didn’t want to see it. I’m talking about the "gay cowboy" movie called Brokeback Mountain (even though I read Jake Gyllenhaal, one of the two major actors – "Jack Twist," wants it to mean much more than that to its audience).

Race Matters
It seems evident that the resurrected Noah will head a vast project of the relocation of the races and nations, within the boundaries God has set, for their own best good, happiness and richest blessings. This will be a tremendous operation. It will require great and vast organization, reinforced with power to move whole nations and races. This time, peoples and nations will move where God has planned for them, and no defiance will be tolerated.

The Pharisees
Who isn’t aware of the sins of the Pharisees? Especially the Accuser of the Brethren? But does that mean the truths they teach, even if they don’t live them, are no longer true?

Don’t Give Up!
If you begin to cry out to God for help, even if it’s only a whimper because you’re so weak, He’ll see and hear and respond. "The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saves such as be of a contrite spirit… none of them that trust in Him shall be desolate" (Ps. 34:18, 22).

The REAL JESUS Can’t Return Until…
Prophecy clearly reveals that the REAL JESUS CHRIST will not return to Earth from Heaven (in full view of all mankind — not from some secret EU or Vatican chamber or desert cave) until after Jerusalem has suffered under a Gentile EU occupation for three and one half years

Scarlet Letter: A Christian With AIDS
The following is a actual letter I sent to a close Christian friend in 1999, immediately after I was diagnosed with HIV. Since then the HIV has progressed on into AIDS.

Does God Heal Today?
When I was first diagnosed with the HIV virus, I read innumerable articles on it and later suffered from an information overload and depressing confusion. One article would speak in favor of taking the highly toxic HIV/AIDS medicines, and then I’d read another one that spoke against it with just as convincing of an argument.

Onward Christian Soldiers!
Why did ancient Israel have an army? Was it because they didn’t have faith? Did they believe in themselves instead of trusting God? Did they insist on fighting their own battles, rather than let God wage war for them?

Separation of Church and State? Says Who?
God calls upon our Israelite family of nations to RESTORE HIS LAW AND ORDER, and we’ll receive blessing to the degree we love and obey and He will bless our NATIONAL EFFORTS that reflect national repentance, learning to go by God’s Word as LAW, trusting in His wisdom, rather than leaning to our own understanding with all our different political parties of men.

God’s One Government Has Two Branches!
The Sabbath-keeping Church of God (that remains faithful to the plain truth of the Bible that Herbert W. Armstrong taught) has heard a lot about government, but many seem to have forgotten that God’s ONE government has TWO branches: Church (Priest) and State (King).

Should Christians Judge?
All judgment must be tempered with mercy. Jesus clearly taught that we can see others imperfections (the "mote" in their eye) and help to remove it once we have first gotten the "beam" out of our own eye. The purpose is to help and not hurt: constructive criticism, not self-righteousness or sinister motivations.

Christmas is About Giving – Says Who?
Going into debt certainly isn’t biblical, so why not break free from the trance? The "Christmas" rush is a "drug" pushed by commercial pimps prostituting a supposedly Christian holiday for their ungodly profits! They hold hands around the cash register and sing, "What a friend we have in Jesus."

C.H. Spurgeon on Christmas and Roman Catholicism
First, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be sung in Latin or in English. Secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and consequently, its observance is a superstition

Is the Plain Truth Too Strong?
"Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression [the Church and Synagogue], And the house of Jacob [the family of Israelite nations - all Twelve Tribes of Israel] their sins. 2 Yet they seek Me daily, And delight to know My ways, As a nation that did righteousness, And did not forsake the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; They take delight in approaching God" (Isaiah 58).

When Caesar Plays God: When the State Oversteps its Bounds
I read the Book of Acts, making it much more meaningful and relevant, during my detention in Jerusalem’s Russian Compound jail. If you examine the evidence surrounding Paul’s frequent arrests and imprisonments, you’ll see a pattern of trumped up charges, misunderstandings and misguided zeal against him. It’s a miracle that Paul didn’t say "enough is enough" and quit.

Jesus Upheld the Biblical Dietary Laws
Unclean traditional Christianity has misled many with their lack of understanding of the Bible as a whole. They often take Scriptures out of context and totally twist their meanings, like they do when it comes to abusing Matthew 15 and slaughtering it to teach we can now eat anything.

Do You Prefer TRADITION Over Truth?
If anybody is honestly interested in knowing whether or not this or that doctrine is actually biblical or merely traditional, all they have to do is objectively search the Scriptures like the noble Bereans did in Acts 17:11, after hearing Paul out, to see whether what he taught was true…

Remember the Sabbath
Did you ever stop to think why Christians keep Sunday? Did they get it from the Bible? Is there a clear-cut command that says, "Thou shalt keep Sunday?" Why did Jesus worship on Saturday? Was it only because He was a good Jew? Or does it go beyond that?

The Plain Truth About Easter
Has it ever occurred to those stuffing their faces with Easter ham that Jesus would puke at the thought? Neither Jesus or Peter, James or John ever ate forbidden foods. They wouldn’t feel too comfortable at plenty of people’s dinner tables.

Yom Kippur at Sdot Yam
Tradition – even empty, hollow, shallow – has assisted Jewry to preserve this Day, however imperfectly; yet I also couldn’t help but think of God & Kahane who might dismiss such "worship" as vain and such "devotions" as void. Liberal, Hellenist, humanists who have nothing to do with God and are ignorant of or deny His Word as a general rule, as hypocritical & unacceptable as professing Christianity on the pagan days of Christmas and Easter…

The Rapture or Place of Safety?
We know those who are accounted worthy to escape WWIII, those with a prayerful attitude and watchful spirit, growing and overcoming and sensitive to the lead of the Holy Spirit (Luke 21:34-36), will be more than provided for in "Her Place," as our gracious Lord of Hosts has promised (Revelation 12:14).

Will the Church of God Welcome the Two Witnesses?
Church of God minister Arlen Berkey, in "The Work of God in the Laodicean Era," makes a statement nobody in God’s Church would disagree with: "The whole world will soon know about the two witnesses. They will not be welcome by this world."

David Pack & the Restored Church of God
When David Pack said something to the effect that the Global Church of God was not for me, I asked him why he invited me then and he then acknowledged he only invited me along with the others because he felt they were good candidates for membership. In other words, he was being deceitful.

Israel Work History (Worldwide Church of God)
Ilan Itzhayek wrote a full length article that was published in the entire Galilee region. It was about my former drug addiction, wandering in different religions looking for the truth, and how by a series of miracles God brought me into the Worldwide Church of God, mentioning some of our beliefs about Europe, and how we considered Herbert W. Armstrong in the spirit of Elijah.

Princess Diana, a Dream, and King David’s Dynasty
"If you send us a copy of the information on King David and his relationship to the English Royal Family, plus a verification that such information has been validated and by whom, we will see to it that it gets to Buckingham Palace and that your name will accompany it." Immediately I wondered what to send to satisfy the newspaper. The chart seemed obvious, but I still sought counsel from my minister. He advised writing a Church official at our Headquarter’s in Pasadena, California who is English and involved with our Media Coordinator. The Church official replied: "I believe the most prudent course of action would be to send the chart ‘The Heritage of the Anglo-Saxon Race’ to the newspaper for their further action."

Mama Evans
Erma Evans, a widow in the Church of God, served as a perfect example of what the apostle Paul called for from our senior women (Titus 2:3). She touched the lives of many and was affectionately called "Mama Evans"

The Two Witnesses of Revelation 11
The Two Witnesses of Revelation 11. Who are these two prophets? What do they have to say? Why are they called the two witnesses? How will their message be proclaimed? And is there any special significance to the fact that they’re headquartered in Jerusalem?

Why I No Longer Celebrate Christmas
I was blessed to grow up in Risingsun, Ohio next door to my Grandma and Grandpa Hoover on their farm that embraced where we lived, surrounding us with its loving arms on both sides (until the age of 11) and behind, with our woods over yonder a bit, that I loved to walk through as a boy, always looking for my "brother" hawk, circling overhead, to greet me…

The Church of God Must Warn the World!
We know that certain prophecies were not to be fulfilled until these "last days." Therefore their sealed messages weren’t to break their silence until the appointed time (Dan. 12:9). With the advent of the nuclear age, we’ve been living, for the first time in history, with the weapons of mass destruction that can erase all life from off planet Earth! (Matt. 24:21-22).

PCG: Carrying on "Business as Usual"
If you truly saw what is coming on this Earth, and had a vision of tomorrow, you would know that the Gathering Storm darkens as you sip champagne and boast that you’re rich and in need of nothing, woefully ignorant that the Two Witnesses will soon be wearing sackcloth and fasting, not wining and dining at black tie dinners!

Will God Curse Our Countries for Christmas?
Abominable Christians, those who have the perverted religious preference of tradition over truth, are just like every other sinner unwilling to confess and forsake their sins and seek to whitewash or justify them. The difference is such professing Christians often pretend to be better or more righteous than those physical idolaters and immoral folks (who also refuse to repent) while they engage in spiritual idolatry (putting tradition over truth) and spiritual immorality (whoring around with other gods and foreign ways) bringing divine judgment upon our nations.

The Work of God Must Go Forward!
The Work of God must go forward. The only work that’s left to do now is focus on the NATIONAL LEVEL. We must get out God’s ultimatum and fast! Europe is on the rise and Jerusalem is getting international attention (Zech. 14:2). Soon God’s two witnesses will rise and shine in a world of darkness (Isa. 60:1-2). God’s about to restore His lamp to the Middle East! (Rev. 11:3; 1 Kgs. 11:36; Amos 9:11; Zech. 12:8).

Philadelphia Church of God Leads the Laodicean Era (Part 1)
When Gerald Flurry wasn’t anything in his own sight or mind God used him and now, unfortunately, it appears to have gone to his head, all the new revelation (simply a deeper understanding of some things), and he forgets that all truth is from and belongs to GOD and that God can use a donkey to deliver it (1 Cor. 4:7). Gerald Flurry has become so swollen in his own imagination that he fails to see that he is the leader of LAODICEA! He knows what warning God is giving the Laodiceans, of which he is chief! He had better heed his own words…

Philadelphia Church of God Leads Laodicean Era (Conclusion)
"It’s certainly not my place to determine if what you believe God has shown you is true or not, but would you mind presenting Mr. Flurry with an abbreviated version of what you feel is inspired… as I highly doubt that he would have time to read your whole book."

Stephen Flurry and The Philadelphia Church of God
Stephen Flurry, son of Gerald Flurry, pastor general of the Philadelphia Church of God (based in Edmond, Oklahoma), has published a book that Amazon sells, Raising the Ruins: The Fight to Revive the Legacy of Herbert W. Armstrong.

Scarlet Letter: A Christian With AIDS
The following is a actual letter I sent to a close Christian friend in 1999, immediately after I was diagnosed with HIV. Since then the HIV has progressed on into AIDS.

Does God Heal Today?
When I was first diagnosed with the HIV virus, I read innumerable articles on it and later suffered from an information overload and depressing confusion. One article would speak in favor of taking the highly toxic HIV/AIDS medicines, and then I’d read another one that spoke against it with just as convincing of an argument.

Europe agrees to recognize Palestinian state

Resolution to be voted on next week calls for full division of Jerusalem, approves of unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence more»
 
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Divide and conquer. The German-Jesuit EU will occupy Jerusalem and brutally betray and slaughter both Arabs and Jews.

Europe’s New Crusade
Warning Jews
Pope’s Evil Eye on Jerusalem!
Christian-Zionist Response to Shimon Peres’ AIPAC speech

Europe

Michel Barnier: “The Commission is the EU’s Prime Minister”

Michel Barnier, the incoming Single Market Commissioner, yesterday said that fears in the City of London over a surge in new financial regulations once he stepped into office were “very exaggerated”. Last week French President Nicolas Sarkozy claimed that Barnier’s appointment to the key job in the European Commission was a sign that “French ideas for regulation are triumphing in Europe” and that “the English are the big losers” in Europe’s new commission, but yesterday Barnier tried to play this down, saying: “I know the importance of the City (of London)…I know the importance of this financial centre for growth in the UK and for the economy of Europe as a whole, not just the UK.” However, he also added that “we need a capitalism for entrepreneurs and investors, more than for speculators”.

The Independent reports that Barnier’s comments failed to soothe nerves in the City, and quotes David Buik of BGC Partners saying: “This country will rue the day that it has allowed the EU to regulate the UK’s banking sector. The culture and ethos of Europe’s banking sector is totally different from the UK’s. Barnier’s appointment could be catastrophic for the City.”

A headline in Le Figaro quotes Michel Barnier saying “The Commission is the EU’s Prime Minister”.  The paper notes that Barnier said the European Commission “is a bit like the Prime Minister of Europe, a collective Prime Minister bringing together 27 countries which are united in their destiny.”  Of the new EU President Herman Van Rompuy he said: “he is a man of authority, who is going to surprise you. He will be perfect for this role”.

Meanwhile, Euractiv has a round-up of reactions in Eastern Europe to the new Commission appointments.  It notes that the Romanian media widely quoted Western publications which said that Dacian Cioloş, the new EU Agriculture Commissioner, was in fact “the second French commissioner,” as he had studied and lived in France for a long time and was backed by France for the job. President Traian Basescu declared that the nomination “is an extremely important thing for Romania, as the Common Agricultural Policy is one of the pillars of the EU.”

Telegraph Independent FT Euractiv

Javier Solana: “it is a fantasy to think any EU country can do anything alone”

The Telegraph reports that the newly appointed EU President Herman Van Rompuy officially took office today, as the Lisbon Treaty came into force. Baroness Catherine Ashton at the same time became the EU’s Foreign Minister. PA notes that the occasion is being marked by celebrations in Lisbon, where European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso will join the new EU President for ceremonies including music, speeches and fireworks.

The IHT and the FT look at the EU’s former foreign policy chief Javier Solana’s handover to Cathy Ashton. In an interview with the FT, Solana said that EU member states must realise it is a “fantasy” to believe they can pursue foreign and security policies separately. He said, “I hope very much that people are sensible, and realise that it is a fantasy to think any EU country can do anything alone.”

He agreed EU relations with Russia were “difficult, but not that difficult”. Adding, “I don’t think we should exaggerate. We are divided, but also united…I think the possibilities that existed [for better relations between Russia and Nato] could have been developed much further. They were not. We have some responsibility for not being sufficiently bold.”

An article in Die Welt by Alan Posener argues that: “Through the Treaty, Europe will neither become more effective nor more democratic, neither more transparent nor more open”.  The article continues: “If European citizens want a better Europe, they are going to have to force the politicians to make it better”. Handelsblatt quotes German Green MEP Reinhard Bütikofer warning that with the loss of veto powers under Lisbon, “other member states can push through their national agendas and seriously harm the German economy.”

Meanwhile, UKIP has used the date to launch a national campaign for a referendum on EU membership.

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Cameron pledges to tackle ‘national neurosis’ over health and safety laws

In a speech at Policy Exchange today, David Cameron will pledge to tackle the ‘national neurosis’ caused by a surge in health and safety rules under Labour. He will say, “For every piece of health and safety legislation, we need to ask whether it fulfils a useful purpose – and if not, it must go.” He will also say that the UK had spent £35 billion complying with EU employment, health and safety law. But Cameron will insist the biggest cause of the UK’s health and safety culture is the “perception” that “behind every accident there is someone who is personally culpable, someone who must pay”, PA reports.  He will announce that Lord Young, Margaret Thatcher’s former trade secretary who was credited with slashing back unnecessary red tape in the 1980s, is to lead a review of health and safety laws, litigation and the insurance industry.

Guardian Mail Conservative Home Express Open Europe research Open Europe research2

EU ministers agree principles for more harmonised asylum and immigration policy

EU Ministers yesterday agreed to the part of the so-called Stockholm Programme which proposes more EU harmonisation of immigration and asylum policy. The Programme doesn’t contain any detailed proposals yet. The task of working out the details of the text will fall on the EU’s new ‘Home Affairs’ Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom, Svenska Dagbladet reports.

Svenska Dagbladet

EU ministers agree to extend paternity leave

Europolitics reports that EU ministers yesterday agreed on a new ‘framework agreement’ on EU-wide rules on paternal leave.  It lays down minimum requirements on parental leave (to be taken during the first six years of a child’s life) and extends the leave from three to four months for each parent, of which at least one month would be strictly non-transferable. Other new elements clarify that fixed-term, part-time and temporary agency workers are also covered. The Coulisses de Bruxelles blog notes that the new rules will oblige Britain to extend its paternity leave.

Europolitics reports that further legislation on maternity leave is in the pipeline, with the European Parliament’s rapporteur proposing to extend maternity leave to up to 20 weeks and to include paternity leave (for the period directly after a child’s birth). The proposed revision to the EU’s existing rules says that women should receive their full salary for the 18-week maternity leave period, although member states can introduce a different ceiling on payments.  

Europolitics Coulisses de Bruxelles

Germany expresses a resounding “nein” to extending EU discrimination legislation

Dutch Daily Reformatorisch Dagblad reports that Sweden has failed to obtain agreement on the planned EU discrimination directive. Germany opposed the proposal saying that the EU does not need to legislate in such matters, a position that the new German coalition mentions in their coalition agreement. Green MEP Sargentini is quoted saying that Germany has expressed a “categorical nein”.

Reformatorisch Dagblad

EU wants to set up its own version of Google Books

De Telegraaf notes that the EU has its own plans to create a European platform for the digitalisation and archiving of books. It reports that French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand has said that a commission has been set up to create the platform. According to Mitterand, the digitalisation of books shouldn’t be left to the private sector, but should involve governments. The EU has in 2008 already started a similar platform, called Europeana, which has been plagued by many technical problems.

Telegraaf

Patience Wheatcroft: EU should follow path of member states and tighten its budget

Writing in the WSJ, Patience Wheatcroft argues as governments across Europe are being forced to pursue austerity measures in order to rein in budget deficits, the EU must follow suit. She writes, “Ironically, it is only the government of Europe itself that determinedly eschews the new mood. The European Parliament has decided that every area of its budget needs to be increased, so it has set the draft budget for 2010 at €141 billion, against the current year’s €136.8 billion.” She adds, “There will be few hands raised against the increased spending commitments. The majority of those inside the European Parliament want the EU to be bigger and more powerful rather than less.”

She notes that “the EU will be doing its bit to combat poverty among its own armies of staff, since a salary increase of 3.7% is being proposed for them – a figure well ahead of inflation numbers in most member states.”

In conclusion, Wheatcroft writes, “The European Central Bank has been wagging its finger at member states, demanding they take a scythe to their spending and restore their economies to a semblance of health. The European Parliament might make similar demands of itself and the commission.”

WSJ: Wheatcroft

Guardian: Is Greece the new Iceland?

The Guardian reports that the likelihood of Greece becoming the next Iceland and plunging into bankruptcy looms over a meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels today. It notes that after years of profligacy, hosting the costliest Olympic Games ever in 2004 and failing to rein in its spiralling public debt, the country was on the brink of defaulting on loans. Le Figaro reports that the Greek Chancellor said that the situation has become a national emergency.
Guardian Le Figaro

Slovakian paper Pluska cites Open Europe’s “50 new examples of EU waste”.

Pluska Open Europe research

EUobserver notes that EU justice ministers have approved a provisional bank data transfer deal with the United States, allowing American anti-terrorist investigators to access European financial transaction data for another nine months.

EUobserver European Voice Open Europe research

Le Figaro reports that the new team of EU Commissioners will appear in front of the European Parliament between 11 and 19 January for a 3-hour hearing each.

Le Figaro

The WSJ reports that Chinese and EU representatives appeared to make little headway on currency, climate and market access in a round of high-level talks that ended yesterday.

WSJ Le Figaro

The Times reports that EU naval force spokesman John Harbour has warned that solving the Somali piracy problem cannot be achieved by anti-piracy patrols alone. He said, “We can’t solve piracy at sea. The piracy problem will have to be solved on land by stabilising the government.”

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Le Figaro reports that the French and German governments have determined to reduce their levels of national debt.  At a meeting in Berlin, they agreed that by “working together …and exchanging experts”, they are aiming to reduce the level of debt to under 3% by 2013 / 2014.

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Citizens of Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro are now able to travel throughout the Schengen area of the EU without a visa, after a decision by justice and home affairs ministers yesterday.

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A ComRes poll conducted for the Independent suggests the UK is on course for a hung parliament, with the Conservatives on 37 percent, Labour on 27 percent, the Liberal Democrats on 20 percent and other parties on 16 percent. The figures would leave the Conservatives six seats away from an overall majority if repeated at the election.

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On many political and religious forums I post and participate on (just google David Ben-Ariel and see for yourself!), there are a rotten few, stooges, who foolishly aid and abet the Nazi-Muslim occupation of Judaism’s holiest site, the Temple Mount, and the Bolsheviks who enable them to flout Israeli law against religious discrimination daily as they trample the rights of Christians and Jews in Jerusalem. They are disinformation queens that I dethrone. This is typical of their hateful modus operandi:

And you’re still a terrorist, an international criminal

Exhibit A of the old “shoot the messenger” syndrome! A terrorist? What a drama queen! The plain truth continues to terrorize those living a lie, who always make wild accusations, hysterical charges, never offering any documentation to back up what they say (because they don’t have any whatsoever), shamefully engaging in disinformation, but always presenting me with an opportunity to shed light on the subject, exposing their darkness and desperation:

and banned for life from ever entering Israel again as long as you live

O ye of little faith! What proof do you have for such hysterical charges? For such wild accusations? NONE! We see right through you and your world of darkness. Won’t you let the truth set you free? My unjust deportation from Israel was due to highlighting the plight of the Temple Mount suffering under Nazi Muslim occupation in an article published in Jerusalem (and now read around the world), even though the Israeli authorities lied and said it was about an “expired visa.” Regardless, the Israeli authorities informed Senator Mike DeWine (R – Ohio) that I would be “eligible” to return in 2005 on a tourist visa. So much for your hateful nonsense!

Israel sets date for 2005

Due to personal business, family, friends and extensive travels in the United States of America the Beautiful, I haven’t returned to Israel yet to visit the 8 kibbutzim I’ve served on as a volunteer (due to my God-given love of the Jews), to visit the grave of my holocaust-survivor/kibbutz mother Miriam Weiss, to see the Holy Land of Israel God knows I love so much, and especially the most holy site on Earth: the Temple Mount. In God’s good time I shall return, as we’re assured by the words of the Prophet: Zion shall be redeemed with justice.

Thank you for being a useful idiot and providing me this opportunity to again set the record straight. I know you’ve proven you don’t care to be “confused” with the facts, but honest and objective folks will see what you refuse to see, blinded by your murderous and unwarranted hatred of those who love God, the Bible and Israel. Shame on you!

Still At Large!

Exposing the German-Vatican Plot to Occupy Jerusalem

Blow up the mosques or an expired visa?

A briefing schedule has been announced by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a case alleging Congress failed in its constitutional duties by refusing to investigate the eligibility of Barack Obama to be president, according to an attorney handling the challenge.
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