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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

How One Man's Gentle Christian Faith Saved Jewish GIs From Nazi Death Camps - Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS


How One Man's Gentle Christian Faith Saved Jewish GIs From Nazi Death Camps

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me.” Psalms 23:4 (The Israel Bible™)
In a remarkable World War II story that almost went untold, a devoutly Christian US Army sergeant refused to turn over his Jewish soldiers to the Nazis, even after a gun was placed to his head. Now, 30 years after his death, the Jewish people are showing their appreciation for his bravery.
Roddie Edmonds was a humble man and didn’t speak about his experiences in World War II, even when his children inquired. When he passed away over 30 years ago, his widow gave his wartime diaries to their son, Baptist Pastor Chris Edmonds, in Maryville, Tennessee.
Edmonds was a Master Sergeant with the 422nd Infantry Regiment in the US Army. On December 16, 1944, just a few months after arriving in Europe, Edmonds found himself fighting in the disastrous Battle of the Bulge. The last major German offensive campaign of World War II, it caught the Allied Forces by surprise, resulting in 89,000 casualties. On December 19, Edmonds and an estimated 23,000 other American soldiers were taken prisoner by the Germans.A few years ago, one of the pastor’s daughters read through the diaries for a college project and was amazed at what she found. Despite being taken prisoner of war shortly after arriving in Europe, her grandfather was a hero.  He had saved hundreds of Jewish soldiers, motivated only by his Christian belief.

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Deutsche Bank Collapse: The Most Important Bank In Europe Is Facing A Major ‘Liquidity Event’ - Michael Snyder THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG

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Posted: 30 Sep 2016  Michael Snyder  THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG

The largest and most important bank in the largest and most important economy in Europe is imploding right in front of our eyes.  Deutsche Bank is the 11th biggest bank on the entire planet, and due to the enormous exposure to derivatives that it has, it has been called “the world’s most dangerous bank“. 

Over the past year, I have repeatedly warned that Deutsche Bank is heading for disaster and is a likely candidate to be “the next Lehman Brothers”.  If you would like to review, you can do so herehere and here

On September 16th, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Department of Justice wanted 14 billion dollars from Deutsche Bank to settle a case related to the mis-handling of mortgage-backed securities during the last financial crisis.  As a result of that announcement, confidence in the bank has been greatly shaken, the stock price has fallen to record lows, and analysts are warning that Deutsche Bank may be facing a “liquidity event” unlike anything that we have seen since the collapse of Lehman Brothers back in 2008.

At one point on Friday, Deutsche Bank stock fell below the 10 euro mark for the first time ever before bouncing back a bit.  A completely unverified rumor that was spreading on Twitter that claimed that Deutsche Bank would settle with the Department of Justice for only 5.4 billion dollars was the reason for the bounce.

But the size of the fine is not really the issue now.  Shares of Deutsche Bank have fallen by more than half so far in 2016, and this latest episode seems to have been the final straw for the deeply troubled financial institution.  Old sources of liquidity are being cut off, and nobody wants to be the idiot that offers Deutsche Bank a new source of liquidity at this point.

As a result, Deutsche Bank is potentially facing a “liquidity event” on a scale that we have not seen since the financial crisis of 2008.  The following comes from Zero Hedge
It is not solvency, or the lack of capital – a vague, synthetic, and usually quite arbitrary concept, determined by regulators – that kills a bank; it is – as Dick Fuld will tell anyone who bothers to listen – the loss of (access to) liquidity: cold, hard, fungible (something Jon Corzine knew all too well when he commingled and was caught) cash, that pushes a bank into its grave, usually quite rapidly: recall that it took Lehman just a few days for its stock to plunge from the high double digits to zero.
It is also liquidity, or rather concerns about it, that sent Deutsche Bank stock crashing to new all time lows earlier today: after all, the investing world already knew for nearly two weeks that its capitalization is insufficient. As we reported earlier this week, it was a report by Citigroup, among many other, that found how badly undercapitalized the German lender is, noting that DB’s “leverage ratio, at 3.4%, looks even worse relative to the 4.5% company target by 2018″ and calculated that while he only models €2.9bn in litigation charges over 2H16-2017 – far less than the $14 billion settlement figure proposed by the DOJ – and includes a successful disposal of a 70% stake in Postbank at end-2017 for 0.4x book he still only reaches a CET 1 ratio of 11.6% by end-2018, meaning the bank would have a Tier 1 capital €3bn shortfall to the company target of 12.5%, and a leverage ratio of 3.9%, resulting in an €8bn shortfall to the target of 4.5%.
The more the stock price drops, the faster other financial institutions, investors and regular banking clients are going to want to pull their money out of Deutsche Bank.  And every time there is news about people pulling money out of the bank, that is just going to drive the stock price even lower.

In other words, Deutsche Bank may be entering a death spiral that may be impossible to stop without a government bailout, and the German government has already stated that there will be no bailout for Deutsche Bank.

Banking customers have a total of approximately 566 billion euros deposited with the bank, and even if a small fraction of those clients start demanding their money back it is going to cause a major, major crunch.

Deutsche Bank CEO John Cryan attempted to calm nerves on Friday by releasing a memo to employees that blamed “speculators”for the decline in the stock price
Instead of doing what many have correctly suggested he should be doing, namely focusing on ways to raise more capital for the undercapitalized Deutsche Bank in order to stem the slow (at first) liquidity leak, first thing this morning CEO John Cryan issued another morale-boosting note to employees of Deustche Bank who have been watching their stock price crash to another record low, dipping under €10 in early trading for the first time ever. In the memo the embattled CEO worryingly did what Dick Fuld and other chief executives did when they felt the situation slipping out of control, namely blaming evil “rumor-spreading” shorts, saying “our bank has become subject to speculation. Ongoing rumours are causing significant swings in our stock price. … Trust is the foundation of banking. Some forces in the markets are currently trying to damage this trust.
Just as important, Cryan confirms the Bloomberg report that “a few of our hedge fund clients have reduced some activities with us. That is causing unjustified concerns.” As we explained last night, the concerns are very much justified if they spread to the biggest risk-factor for the German bank: its depositors, which collectively hold over €550 billion in liquidity-providing instruments.
If you would like to ready the full memo, you can do so right here.

One of the reasons why Deutsche Bank is considered to be so systemically “dangerous” is because it has 42 trillion euros worth of exposure to derivatives.  That is an amount of money that is 14 times larger than the GDP of the entire nation of Germany.

Some firms that were derivatives clients of the bank have already gotten spooked and have moved their business to other institutions.  It was this report from Bloomberg that really helped drive down the stock price of Deutsche Bank earlier this week…
The funds, a small subset of the more than 800 clients in the bank’s hedge fund business, have shifted part of their listed derivatives holdings to other firms this week, according to an internal bank document seen by Bloomberg News. Among them are Izzy Englander’s $34 billion Millennium Partners, Chris Rokos’s $4 billion Rokos Capital Management, and the $14 billion Capula Investment Management, said a person with knowledge of the situation who declined to be identified talking about confidential client matters.
“The issue here is now one of confidence,” said Chris Wheeler, a financial analyst with Atlantic Equities LLP in London.
So what comes next?

Monday is a banking holiday for Germany, so we may not see anything major happen until Tuesday.

An announcement of a major reduction in the Department of Justice fine may buy Deutsche Bank some time, but any reprieve would likely only be temporary.

What appears to be more likely is the scenario that Jeffrey Gundlach is suggesting
But Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive of DoubleLine Capital, said investors betting that Berlin would not rescue Deutsche could find themselves nursing big losses.
The market is going to push down Deutsche Bank until there is some recognition of support. They will get assistance, if need be,’ said Gundlach, who oversees more than $100 billion at Los Angeles-based DoubleLine.
It will be very interesting to see how desperate things become before the German government finally gives in to the pressure.

The complete and total collapse of Deutsche Bank would be an event many times more significant for the global financial system than the collapse of Lehman Brothers was.  Global leaders simply cannot afford for such a thing to happen, but without serious intervention it appears that is precisely where we are heading.

Personally, I don’t know exactly what will happen next, but it will be fascinating to watch.

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Heidi Mund: Germany Being Destroyed by 'People of Darkness' - CBN News Dale Hurd


Heidi Mund: Germany Being Destroyed by 'People of Darkness'
08-11-2016
CBN News Dale Hurd
FRANKFURT, Germany -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel famously said that Germany can handle millions of refugees.
But after five attacks in two weeks, most with some connection to immigration, and more attacks on the horizon, a lot of Germans are wondering what Merkel and her open-door refugee policy has done to Germany.
Some believe Merkel's political fate was sealed when she threw open Germany's doors to more than a million migrants and told the German people, "We can do it."
Now the approval rating for one of the most popular chancellors in post-war Germany has collapsed. It's less than half of what it was a little more than a year ago, down from 75 percent to 35 percent.
Dark People 'Want to Destroy Us'
Terrorism has now become a part of life in a nation that used to see very little. Almost daily terror attacks across Western Europe have an entire continent on edge. When someone shouted "ISIS" as a joke in Kosovo last week, a stampede injured 40 people.
A lot of Germans warned that Merkel was bringing disaster with her refugee policy, including the woman who awoke a lot of Germans to the threat of Islam, Heidi Mund, also known as the "brave German woman."
The video of Mund interrupting the call to prayer by a Muslim imam in a German cathedral went viral on the Internet. She shouted, "Jesus Christ alone is Lord of Germany. I break this curse."
Now, after a migrant influx, Mund says she believes that some German leaders want to destroy Germany.
"I believe, I am really convinced, there are bad people of darkness who want to destroy us. They are servants of the devil," she told CBN News. "They are sick in their opinion and they don't care if it will cost lives or not, it will be bloody or not. They want to destroy; they want to take over."
A Prophetic Dream Come True
Before the terrorism that hit Germany, before the massive New Years' Eve sex attacks in Cologne and other cities, Mund says God spoke to her about her country's future.
"God gave me a vision two times. I saw a human prayer chain standing around Germany. I spoke out a warning that the young Muslim men would increase the raping rate," she said. "I spoke out a warning, first to my brothers and sisters in Christ, that we need to pray against the raping. I told them we would face danger -- especially our children, our girls, our women."
She sent the warning to her followers on Facebook, and because of that, Mund was investigated by the local prosecutor for hate speech.
Then, what she warned of came true. Germany is now in the grips of what some are calling a rape epidemic. The hate speech charge again Mund has been dropped.
"It was not a lie. It's not hate speech. I don't have hatred in my heart," she said. "I love my people and also those refugees."
Mund says feels she knows Merkel because both grew up under communism in the former East Germany. Merkel was the daughter of a Protestant pastor.
But Mund had harsh words for Germany's chancellor.
"Who is Merkel? Who is she? I'm sorry. I have been a communist. I know who she is. I know who she is," she told CBN News. "For me, she is a wolf."
"And people who think she's a Christian? She would not destroy her country? She would not destroy her people here? She is doing it here, right now," she continued.
When Will It Be Too Late?
Germany is still controlled by a political correctness that casts opponents of immigration as Nazis and racists. But the right-wing party Alternative for Germany is now the third largest.
One of its leaders, Björn Höcke, told CBN News, "Chancellor Angela Merkel is throwing our country into disaster and with us, also Europe."
Höcke says he still considers Germany a Christian nation because of its Christian foundation, and he said Germany cannot integrate millions of Muslims because Islam is a religion that is stuck in the Middle Ages.
But the growing popularity of Alternative for Germany does not mean Germany is close to a turnaround. Merkel has doubled down on her refugee program, attacking opponents.
Mund told CBN News she now believes the future for Germany is chaos and war. But she would not say it is too late.
CBN News asked Mund when it will be too late.
"I will tell you when it is too late," she replied. "It is too late when God has given us up."
Watch report here: Germany report
*Dale Hurd also reported from Stuttgart and Erfurt, Germany, for this report.

Sunday, November 8, 2015

Israel's Security is in God's Hands Alone ✡ "Its Watcher Keeps Vigil In Vain" - ISRAEL365

A song of ascents about Solomon. If the Lord will not build a house, its builders have toiled at it in vain;
if the Lord will not guard a city, its watcher keeps his vigil in vain.

PSALMS (127:1)
 

שִׁיר הַמַּעֲלוֹת לִשְׁלֹמֹה אִם יְ-הֹוָה לֹא יִבְנֶה בַיִת שָׁוְא עָמְלוּ בוֹנָיו בּוֹ אִם יְ-הֹוָה לֹא יִשְׁמָר עִיר שָׁוְא שָׁקַד שׁוֹמֵר

תהילים קכז:א


sheer ha-ma-a-lot li-sh-lo-mo im a-do-nai lo yiv-neva-yeet shav am-lu vo-nav bo im a-do-nai lo yish-mar eer shav sha-kad sho-mayr

Jerusalem Inspiration

In today's verse King David declares his ultimate faith in God as the ultimate provider of safety and protection.  Through the centuries these words have rung true, and reminded the nations of the world from where Israel's ultimate security stems.  Alongside our unwavering faith in God's promise of aid, man must also do his part.  In these trying times, help Israel provide much needed blood for the victims of Arab terror.
 

Jewish Resilience at Murder Site in the Old City of Jerusalem

We are left speechless by the fortitude of the Jewish people in the face of terror. Watch this inspiring video taken at the very site of the murders in the alleyways of the Old City of Jerusalem.

Germans Protecting Israel!

Through an incredibly poignant  twist of circumstances, a German group is building systems to protect Israel from genocidal attacks.

Israel in My Heart RingSaver Pendant

This RingSaver pendant is shaped like a heart with a map of Israel so that Israel is truly in the heart.This RingSaver ® pendant is open-ended so you can easily slip off your ring and hang it on the pendant!

Jerusalem Daily Photo

The Star of David is known in Hebrew as a "Magen David" (Shield of David), a poetic reference to God as the ultimate shield of Israel's military hero, King David. The six pointed star hints at God's rule over all the directions of the universe: north, south, east, west, up and down.

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Thursday, September 10, 2015

Hundreds of Muslims Convert to Christianity Amid Violent Persecution

A Syrian migrant wanders through Europe with his son.
A Syrian migrant wanders through Europe with his son. (Reuters)



Hundreds of Muslims Convert to Christianity Amid Violent Persecution

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Hundreds of Muslims fleeing their home countries are finding their peace in Christianity, according to recent reports.  
In his Berlin church alone, Pastor Gottfried Martens has seen his congregation swell to close to 600 as refugees accept Christ, the Associated Press reports.  
However, the nagging belief remains that the men and women are only in church to claim asylum and not give their hearts to God.  
"I know there are—again and again—people coming here because they have some kind of hope regarding their asylum," Martens tells the AP. "I am inviting them to join us because I know that whoever comes here will not be left unchanged." 
Martens' Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church started as a small community earlier this year, according to a translation of their website.  
Now, it's a congregation full of refugees from Iran, Afghanistan and Syria. CNN reports millions are flocking to Europe amid the violence in their homelands.  
The news site reports France will take in 24,000 in the next two years, and Britain will take in up to 20,000 in the next five years. Meanwhile, the United States will only accept 1,500 each year.  
But Germany appears to be the new choice location for many fleeing persecution. Bloomberg News reports the European nation has accepted more than 200,000 migrants this year alone, and is expected to overtake its record of 438,191 set more than two decades ago.  
For Germans, Bloomberg reports, immigration is not a political issue, but an economic one. Instead of stopping the flow of refugees in their country, "there is a lot of sympathy for 'true' refugees from Syria—that they're fleeing war makes sense—Germans have little time for 'bogus' asylum seekers."  
Many look to German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the reason the refugees make their way to her country.  
The minister's daughter, also known as "Mama Merkel" by those seeking asylum, has been called "Europe's conscience." 
"Angela Merkel shows a lot of understanding for people who flee from war and despair," Stefan Kornelius, author of Angela Merkel: The Authorized Biography, tells Newsweek. "There is no moral questioning of her motives." 
And so her country begins to fill with refugees seeking more than a safe haven, but also searching for peace.  
These Muslims are turning their hearts away from Allah and toward Jesus at a rate which Pastor Martens calls "miraculous."
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Majority of Germans Fed Up With Holocaust Remembrance - ISRAEL TODAY

Majority of Germans Fed Up With Holocaust Remembrance

Wednesday, January 28, 2015 |  Israel Today Staff
Tuesday marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz by the Soviet Red Army. The anniversary has become the International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorating the organized extermination of the Jewish people by the Nazi regime.
However, according to a representative survey conducted by the Bertelsmann Foundation, an overwhelming 81 percent of Germans have grown weary of dedicating so much time and effort to Holocaust remembrance, and want to instead focus on present-day problems.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier disagreed. “It remains the duty of parents to inform their children that there can never be a line drawn under [our history],” he told Germany’s Bild newspaper.
“We can consider ourselves lucky that after the atrocities of the Third Reich, after 70 million dead in the Second World War and 6 million murdered Jews, that we can be accepted back into the international community, even today,” the foreign minister continued.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed similar sentiments at a ceremony at Auschwitz, calling the former death camp a symbol that “concerns us all, today and tomorrow and not only on anniversaries. …We must not forget. We owe that to the many millions of victims.”
Unfortunately, it would seem a majority of Germans simply don’t see eye-to-eye with their leaders on this issue, and much of that has to do with the modern State of Israel.
According to the survey, more than a third of Germans believe that Israel’s policies in dealing with Palestinian terrorism is comparable to what the Nazis did to the Jews. Only 36 percent of Germans said they hold a positive view of Israel.
PHOTO: A young Israeli visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Israeli Air Force Over Auschwitz

Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed in the face of the king of Assyria, for there is a Greater with us than with him. With him is human might, but with us is the Lord, our God, to help us and to fight our wars!

II CHRONICLES (32:7,8)
 

אַל תִּירְאוּ וְאַל תֵּחַתּוּ מִפְּנֵי מֶלֶךְ אַשּׁוּר וּמִלִּפְנֵי כָּל הֶהָמוֹן אֲשֶׁר עִמּוֹ  כִּי עִמָּנוּ רַב מֵעִמּוֹ עִמּוֹ זְרוֹעַ בָּשָׂר וְעִמָּנוּ יְ-הוָה אֱ-לֹהֵינוּ לְעָזְרֵנוּ וּלְהִלָּחֵם מִלְחֲמֹתֵנוּ

דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים ב לב:ז,ח


al teer-U v'AL tay-KHA-tu mip-NAY ME-lekh a-SHUR u-mi-lif-NAY kol he-ha-MON a-SHER i-MO kee i-MA-nu rav may-i-MO i-MO z'RO-a ba-SAR v-i-MA-nu a-do-NAI e-lo-HAY-nu l'az-RAY-nu u-li-hi-la-KHAYM mil-kha-mo-TAY-nu

Jerusalem Inspiration

Righteous King Hezekiah, one of the last kings of Judah during the times of the First Temple, encouraged the nation with the stirring words in today's verse. His faith was well-founded, and the next morning, they looked over the walls to see the once powerful Assyrian army devastated and dispersed, all without a fight (II Kings 19:35). May today's Defenders of Israel, the soldiers of the IDF, be blessed with the Almighty's protection "to help us and to fight our wars!"
 

Israeli Air Force Over Auschwitz

The Israeli Air Force came to Auschwitz in a symbol of strength and determination, reflecting the effect of over 60 years of an independent State of Israel protected by the IDF.
 

Stark Contrast: Christian Life in Mideast, Israel

In recent years, Christians living in countries such as Syria, Egypt, and Iraq have suffered extreme persecution. Israel stands in stark contrast, the only county in the region where Christians have total freedom.
 

IDF Cap

Wear your pride in the Israel Defense Forces! This great cap features the official logo of the Israeli army in yellow stitching.
 

Jerusalem Daily Photo

Nachman Hellman's moving photo of soldiers at the Western Wall.
 

Thank You

Today's Jerusalem Scenes and Inspiration is sponsored by new Bible partner, Denise Mattingly.
 

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