“Some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very long time and they’re not always happy with me. They talk about me like a dog. That’s not in my prepared remarks, but it’s true,” he told a crowd largely consisting of union members.

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De basis voor afscheiding wordt gevonden in de natuur en hoedanigheid van God Zelf

De serafs die Jesaja in zijn visioen zag, boezemden groot ontzag in door een bepaald kenmerk van de Heer: “HEILIG, HEILIG, HEILIG is de HEERE der heerscharen!” (Jesaja 6:3). Het Hebreeuwse woord voor “heilig” (Kadesh) en het Griekse woord voor “heilig” (Hagios) hebben belde dezelfde basisbetekenis, namelijk “opzij gezet, afgescheiden”. Het woord “heiligen” is een vertaling van dezelfde Hebreeuwse en Griekse woorden en draagt hetzelfde basisidee. De serafs zelden eigenlijk: “AFGESCHEIDEN, AFGESCHEIDEN, AFGESCHEIDEN is de HEERE der heerscharen!”

I. God is absoluut afgescheiden van alles wat aards of geschapen is. Dit is een heiligheid van God­delijke Majesteit.

Bestudeer Psalm 99:1‑3 en Jesaja 57:15. Vergelijk Jesaja 6:1‑2.

II. God is absoluut afgescheiden van alles wat moreel onrein is. Dit is een heiligheid van Morele Zuiverheid.

Bestudeer Psalm 99:4‑9 en Psalm 24:3‑4. Vergelijk Jesaja 65

Om de leer van afscheiding te bestuderen moeten we dus beginnen bij GOD Zelf, en we moeten altijd het feit voor ogen houden van zijn ontzagwekkende heiligheid en Zijn afgescheidenheid: “Wees heilig, want IK BEN HEILIG’ (1 Petrus 1 ‑ 16).

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Hernandez volgt in het Guinness Book of Records de Chinees Pingping op als kleinste man ter wereld. Pingping overleed op 12 maart en was 4 centimeter groter dan de Zuid-Amerikaan. Pas na de dood van Pingping ‘ontdekten’ de mensen van het Guinness recordboek dat Hernandez nog kleiner is.

Medisch raadsel

Hernandez is niet meer gegroeid sinds zijn tweede levensjaar. “De dokters hebben ons nooit kunnen vertellen waarom Edward zo klein is gebleven”, zeggen zijn ouders. “Toen hij werd geboren, was hij 38 centimeter en woog hij anderhalve kilo. Specialisten aan de universiteit van Bogota onderzochten hem tot hij drie jaar was, maar daarna hadden ze geen belangstelling meer in onze zoon.”

Edward wordt door kennissen beschreven als een vriendelijke jongeman. Het bevalt hem prima om de kleinste man ter wereld te zijn. “Ik ben gelukkig omdat ik uniek ben”, zegt hij. De kleine man heeft ook al een vriendin. Ze heet Fanny, is achttien jaar en anderhalve meter groot.

Concurrent

Waarschijnlijk kan Edward niet lang van zijn plaats in het recordboek genieten. Zodra de Nepalees Khagendra Thapa Maga op 14 oktober 18 jaar wordt, neemt hij wellicht de titel van kleinste man ter wereld over. Hij is op dit moment amper 56 centimeter groot en de kleinste tiener op de aardbol. Als hij niet veel meer groeit voor zijn 18e, wordt hij de nieuwe kleinste man ter wereld.

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Dit koninkrijk binnen een koninkrijk, dit pelgrimsvolk in de wereld maar niet van de wereld, Joh. 17:14 dit uitschot der aarde vormde een indrukwekkend schouwspel voor de toenmalige wereld. Deze minderheidsgroep in een heidens land had de roepstem van Christus gehoord en moest niets hebben van de verering van Caesar. Er was een prijs te betalen en zij hebben die betaald. Sommigen werden voor de
leeuwen geworpen. Anderen werden naar de brandstapel verwezen. Hun brandende lichamen werden letterlijk de vlammende toortsen, die zij in geestelijk opzicht reeds waren geweest. Maar tien golven van vervolgingen konden deze vreemde sekte niet uitroeien. Integendeel, zij nam in kracht en omvang zienderogen toe.

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With nectar now readily available year-round, Israeli bees are increasing their honey production.

Israel may be a desert, going six months of the year without rain, but local bee populations are thriving and honey production rising thanks to a new flowering tree brought over from Australia.

It’s not a good time for honeybee populations worldwide. All over the globe bee numbers are dwindling, as hives are hit by Colony Collapse Disorder – an ailment which an Israeli company, Beeologics, claims to have now developed a vaccination for. Last winter alone, more than 36 percent of the US bee colonies collapsed, affecting honey production, and the one-third of all food production that requires pollination – from fruits and nuts to the dairy and beef cows that feed on alfalfa.

Israel has 450 beekeepers in the country, who manufacture 3,600 tons of honey annually for growing local consumption and for export. Like in many desert countries around the world, Israel’s beekeepers face difficulties because the majority of native plants and flowers blossom only once a year after the winter rains.

“Most of Israel’s trees and shrubs flower in the spring,” David Brand, chief forester and head of the forest department at the Keren Kayemeth Leyisrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF), tells ISRAEL21c. This means that in other seasons, hungry bees have to be fed sugar solutions or transported to parts of the country where flowers are still in bloom – both expensive and messy propositions for apiaries.

Trees that remember their roots

Brand, working with Dr. Dan Aizikovich, a professor at Tel Aviv University, and the Israel Honey Board looked for a solution and came up with the idea of bringing eucalyptus trees from Australia – what they call “mega-producers”, which produce blooms all year round. “They have wonderful flowers, a lot of nectar and pollen,” says Brand. “We thought that since the seasons in the two countries are so opposite, maybe the trees would ‘remember’ their origin and flower at the time they were needed to do so in Israel.”

The KKL-JNF began introducing a variety of the species to Israel 12 years ago. “We started with the seeds and seedlings, and established trial plots all over Israel to investigate which species were suitable” for Israel’s climate, says Brand. “We also tested those trees to see whether or not – although they had wonderful flowers, etc., – the bees would be attracted to them,” Brand adds.

After two years of extensive trial and error testing at KKL-JNF nurseries nationwide, Brand and Aizikovich found the right plant and bees began to pollinate the flowers while collecting nectar to be made into honey.

"Mega-producing" Eucalyptus trees from Australia bloom all year round.

Since then over 100,000 trees have been distributed annually to beekeepers every year – a total of one million trees over the last 10 years. Distributed as seedlings, these trees are still young, but already beekeepers are noticing the difference, with many now leaving their hives near newly planted groves for much of the year instead of following wild flower blossom.

“Honey production in Israel is sure to increase,” predicts Brand. “Since there are more trees with nectar available the output will naturally rise.”

“Now we can offer these beekeepers [a collection of] trees that flower from April to September, different species that flower in different months,” he adds. In addition, “some of these eucalyptus species are very resistant to drought,” allowing them to be planted in semi-arid zones “so farmers in those areas where other crops were hurt by drought can develop another type of agriculture, like beekeeping… In general, a tree will produce the same quantity of nectar from one year to the next and there is therefore less fluctuation compared to wildflowers.”

Seedlings for bees

Among those imported seedlings found to be the most sweetly successful in the effort are a variety of Eucalyptus trees, particularly lemon-flowered mallee, coral gum, hybrid gum and red-capped gum, grown in regional KKL-JNF nurseries.

The trees – which are also a source of high-quality wood – are good shade-providers, which Kandal says is important, since the hives could be left under the trees, whose shade provides the right temperature for optimum honey-production by the bees. This also means that the hives won’t have to be moved periodically, which is currently the case. The availability of the new trees has also brought some former farmers back to agriculture, Kandal reports.

Local species have also been included in the effort, with a type of carob tree found in the Israel’s south that produces many flowers and attracts many bees. “So we propagated this tree and then produced seedlings,” along with other Israeli indigenous bushes like rosemary that were included in the project,” Brand continues.

The project is now attracting interest from nearby Jordan, where one beekeeper received 20,000 samples of the new species two years ago. Interest is likely from other countries too as desertification and drought forces more beekeepers around the world to combat similar problems to those of apiarists in Israel.

They tree have already put a sweet smile on the face of Israeli beekeepers like Yehuda Kandal, who has 250 hives producing five tons of honey a year. He calls the trees a “major contribution” to the important honey-production sector.

“This is a win-win situation,” says Kandal, speaking recently from his field in Kfar Pines, near Hadera in northern Israel. “They give us the seedlings and we do the planting. And it expands our ability to produce honey during more of the year. We only hope that as our grove of trees grows, things will get even better.”  Source

The Hawkes Bay quake was centred in Porangahau

Hawkes Bay and the Wairarapa have been hit by two earthquakes this morning but there have been no reports of damage.

The quakes measured 5.2 and 3.6 on the Richter scale, and have been widely felt throughout the area.

The 3.6 quake hit 40km south of Hastings at 10.03am and had a focal depth of 40km. It had been reported by 70 people on the GNS website less than an hour-and-a-half after it stuck.

The 3.6 quake was followed by the 5.2 at 10.48am further south in the Wairarapa. It had a focal depth of 15km and was widely felt through-out the Hawkes Bay, Wairarapa and Manawatu areas.

Over 370 people reported feeling the quake on the GNS website by 11.30am.

The quake, close to the town of Dannevirke, was described by one resident as a “rock and a roll” but no damage has been reported so far.

“That’s all we need after being soaked and blown and now we’ve been shaken,” the resident told Hawke’s Bay Today.

GNS duty seismologist Brian Ferris said the two earthquakes are in no way related to the powerful 7.1 earthquake which hit Christchurch on Saturday morning.

He said the quakes were on different fault lines.

The latest satellite data establishes that the North Atlantic Current (also called the North Atlantic Drift) no longer exists and along with it the Norway Current. These two warm water currents are actually part of the same system that has several names depending on where in the Atlantic Ocean it is. The entire system is a key part of the planet’s heat regulatory system; it is what keeps Ireland and the United Kingdom mostly ice free and the Scandinavia countries from being too cold; it is what keeps the entire world from another Ice Age. This Thermohaline Circulation System is now dead in places and dying in others.

This ‘river’ of warm water that moves through the Atlantic Ocean is called, in various places, the South Atlantic Current, the North Brazil Current, the Caribbean Current, the Yucatan Current, the Loop Current, the Florida Current, the Gulf Stream, the North Atlantic Current (or North Atlantic Drift) and the Norway Current.

The thermohaline circulation is sometimes called the ocean conveyor belt, the great ocean conveyor, or the global conveyor belt.

It is a university level physics experiment to use a tub of cool water and inject a colored stream of warm water into it. You can see the boundary layers of the warm water stream. If you add oil to the tub it breaks down the boundary layers of the warm water stream and effectively destroys the current vorticity . This is what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Atlantic Ocean.

The entire ‘river of warm water’ that flows from the Caribbean to the edges of Western Europe is dying due to the Corexit that the Obama Administration allowed BP to use to hide the scale of the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster. The approximately two million gallons of Corexit, plus several million gallons of other dispersants, have caused the over two hundred million gallons of crude oil, that has gushed for months from the BP wellhead and nearby sites, to mostly sink to the bottom of the ocean. This has helped to effectively hide much of the oil, with the hopes that BP can seriously reduce the mandated federal fines from the oil disaster. However, there is no current way to effectively ‘clean up’ the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, which is about half covered in crude oil. Additionally, the oil has flowed up the East Coast of America and into the North Atlantic Ocean, and there is no way to effectively clean up this ‘sea bottom oil’. It is likely, based on numerous reports, that the oil is still flowing in massive amounts from multiple places on the seabed floor. This effectively means, that even if we had the technology in place to somehow clean up the free flowing thick crude oil deep in the ocean, it would likely not be enough to reverse the damage to the Thermohaline Circulation System in the Atlantic Ocean.

Dr. Deagle: The evidence has come in from ROV video and other experts such as Matt Simmons, BK Lim, and Lindsay Williams and my own anonymous whistleblowers from inside the closed circle of Cameron Ironworks, Tranocean Marine , Oceaneering International. My source provided very solid info re the ROV analysis by Oceaneering engineers that the BOP Blow Out Preventer was ‘modified’ and never had hydraulics to close the BOP. BP knew that the field had dangerous high levels of methane, hydrogen sulphide, and pressures exceeded any valve technology as the current state of the art. The seeps continue along a fractured fault line from the Macondo well site where evidence presented by BK Lim that the only well of three that reached the abiotic batholith ocean of oil and gas was never capped or stopped and has continued to leak along the ocean floor and inject oil and gas and tar into the rock strata.

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