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Monday, December 2, 2013
Sunday, December 1, 2013
MOVIE : A MAN SCORNED BY VICTOR O'FRANK.
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Ukraine opposition calls for NATIONWIDE STRIKES after president rejects EU pact.
About 10,000 anti-government demonstrators angry about Ukraine’s refusal to sign a pro-European Union agreement converged Saturday on a square outside a monastery where protesters driven away in a pre-dawn clash with police were taking shelter.
Opposition leaders called for nationwide strikes and for Ukrainians to mobilize en masse. Another big demonstration was called for Sunday.
The demonstrators outside the St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery were shouting “shame” and “resign.” Some vowed to spend the night on the square, as temperatures hovered only slightly above freezing.
“Each of you have to come out and express your own position on what kind of country you want to live in — a totalitarian, police-controlled country where your children will be beaten up or in a European country,” said Vitaly Klitschko, a world boxing champion and leader of the opposition Udar party.
Klitschko’s call encapsulated the two issues agitating the demonstrators: President Viktor Yanukovych’s refusal to sign an association agreement with the EU and the violent dispersal of protests denouncing that decision.
Yanukovych said in an address Saturday evening that he condemned “the actions that led to the forceful confrontation and the suffering of people.” He called for an investigation and for those responsible to be punished.
“I confirm that we are united in our choice of a common European future,” Yanukovych said.
Yanukovych has said he still hopes that Ukraine will one day sign the agreement with the EU, but that the country was too fragile economically and could not afford to sacrifice trade with Russia.
Moscow regards Ukraine as historically part of its orbit and has tried to block the deal with the EU by banning some of Ukraine’s imports and threatening more trade sanctions. A 2009 dispute between Kyiv and Moscow on gas prices resulted in a three-week cutoff of gas to Ukraine.
The association agreement would have established free trade and deepened political co-operation between Ukraine and the EU, but stopped short of membership in the regional bloc.
In the city of Lviv in western Ukraine, where sentiment for European integration is especially strong, 10,000 demonstrators protested the failure to sign on Saturday.
Meanwhile, another prominent protest figure, parliament deputy Arseniy Yatsenyuk, is calling for Yanukovych to be impeached and on his government to resign. Yatsenyuk said opposition leaders were working to organize nationwide strikes.
Early Saturday, officers in riot gear moved against several hundred protesters at Independence Square in the Kyiv city centre, beating some with truncheons. Some protesters then went to the monastery about 500 metres away to take shelter in its cathedral.
In the early morning action, police took 35 demonstrators into custody. Some protesters were bleeding from their heads and arms after the clash.
“It was horrible. We were holding a peaceful demonstration and they attacked us,” protester Lada Tromada said. “They threw us away like garbage.”
Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said in a statement that “the information from different sides which I have at the moment does not allow firm conclusions about who is responsible for this provocation,” but said it would be fully investigated.
Kyiv police chief Valery Koryak laid the responsibility on the protesters, saying the police were provoked into taking action, the Interfax news agency reported.
The European Union and the U.S. State Department condemned the violence against the protesters.
“We urge Ukraine’s leaders to respect their people’s right to freedom of expression and assembly,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement.
“The European Union strongly condemns the excessive use of force last night by the police in Kyiv to disperse peaceful protesters, who over the last days in a strong and unprecedented manner have expressed their support for Ukraine’s political association and economic integration with the EU,” the EU statement said.
About 10,000 people had rallied on the square Friday evening to protest Yanukovych’s backing off from the pact, which had been eagerly anticipated by Ukrainians who want their country of 45 million people to break out of Moscow’s orbit and tilt to the West. Opinion surveys in recent months showed about 45 per cent of Ukrainians supporting closer integration with the EU and a third or less favouring closer ties with Russia.
Protests had been held in Kyiv over the past week since Yanukovych backed away from the EU agreement. It was to have been signed Friday at an EU summit in the capital of Lithuania, and the passing of that date sparked an especially large turnout of protesters.
Saturday’s harsh action was in contrast to the mass protests of the 2004 Orange Revolution, when tens of thousands came to the square nightly for weeks and set up a vast tent camp on the main street leading to the square. Police had a mostly low-profile presence during those demonstrations.
Those protests forced the annulment of a fraud-tainted presidential election in which Yanukovych was shown with the most votes. A rerun of the election was ordered and Yanukovych lost to Western-leaning reformist Viktor Yushchenko.
Yanukovych was elected president five years later, narrowly defeating then-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the leading figure of the Orange Revolution.
Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in 2011 for abuse of office, a case that the West has widely criticized as political revenge. The EU had set Tymoshenko’s release, or at least her freedom to go to Germany for treatment of a severe back problem, as a key criterion for signing the association pact with Ukraine.
The prospect of freeing his archenemy was deeply unattractive to Yanukovych.
Tymoshenko’s daughter, Eugenia, read a statement from her mother to the crowd outside the monastery calling on Ukrainians to demonstrate “against the dictatorship and violence of Yanukovych.”
Source - theglobeandmail.com/
ALWAYS WONDERED WHY PEOPLE SLEEP IN CHURCH!
This is a question that is yet to be answered. WHY DO PEOPLE SLEEP IN CHURCH? People claim to go to church every Sunday fully dressed and with their bibles clutched to their side. Some even accuse those that are sitting at home of been the devil himself, then they get to the church and open their mouths wide and heads facing upwards or down as d position might best be suitable.
To find these sets of people, you will get them in the middle seat or the back seat. You hardly find them in front as it would be embarrassing for them to sleep off while the pastor is preaching and he calls out their names (if he knows them) like saying “help me tap Brother Segun to wake up.”
A lot of factors could be responsible for this: poor sermon; heavy clubbing on Saturday night; excessive alcohol through out the night; lack of zeal for the word of God or sleepless night caused by whatever they could find themselves doing through the night.
A pastor of a small church was greatly annoyed by one of his elderly members who fell asleep during his sermons every Sunday. After the service one day, the pastor said to the old man’s grandson who always sat with his grandfather, “If you can keep the old man awake, I’ll pay you a dollar a week.” Well, this worked for a couple of weeks; the aged man was very alert and listened to the sermons attentively. On the third Sunday, however, there he was, up to his old tricks again, sound asleep in the pew.
After the service the pastor called the boy over and said, “I’m disappointed in you. Didn’t I promise you a dollar a week to keep your grandfather awake?”
“Yes,” replied the boy, “but Grandpa gives me five dollars not to disturb him.”
Sleeping in Church goes all the way back to the birth of the Church. If you have your Bible this morning, turn to Acts 20:7-12
“On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight. There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting.
Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead. Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “He’s alive!” Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate. After talking until daylight, he left. The people took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted.”
I really feel sorry for Eutychus. It was bad enough for this boy to fall asleep in church while Paul was preaching; he even fell out the window to his death three stories below! But then, of all things, Dr. Luke included the incident for all of the world to read down through the centuries.
If the same thing happened to sleepers today, every church would have to build a morgue in the basement. There isn’t an experienced preacher who hasn’t faced the most incredible (sometimes hilarious) slumbering saints in the pew. I’ve seen them nearly bump their heads on the back of the chair in front of them, snore out loud, stay seated when everyone else stood up, drool, and even drop their Bible and then jump when it hit the floor.
Obviously, we’re not surprised when children fall asleep. But I’ve watched couples nod off together. College students and 3rd shifters are notorious for falling asleep in church. Every now and then you’ll get a snorer or wheezer. So on Sunday morning, if you find yourself getting a bit sleepy, watch out! Eutychus, “being dead, yet speaketh.”
For the records, yours truly had fallen asleep on a few occasions but you hardly noticed because I did it with style. Working to ensure that such act occupies the hidden chapters of the history books as I have consciously avoided the things that make Saturday night overtly exciting and Sunday morning taking the fall for it. Besides you can’t be under the ministration of Pastor Sam Adeyemi and fall asleep during service.
Joseph Adams.
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