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Plumes of smoke were rising from Beaumonde Towers in Worli, Mumbai, but no casualties were reported. The blaze was categorized as Level 3.
A massive fire ripped through the 33rd floor of the high-rise in Worli, Mumbai. About 10 fire tenders, five jumbo tankers, and several ambulances were rushed to the spot.
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According to News 18, state government officials had consulted with the fire department over the use of choppers.
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The fire has escalated from Level II to Level III, reports ANI.
The fire is confined to 32nd and 33rd floors of a duplex in the building.
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CFUL RECEIVES FUNDING FROM VOLUNTEER FLORIDA
ORLANDO, NOVEMBER 11, 2016 - The Central Florida Urban League is proud to announce that it has received $30,000 in AmeriCorps funding from Volunteer Florida in order to properly lay the foundation to bring the My Brother's Keeper initiative to our community.
As one of 36 AmeriCorps programs across the state to be funded, the award will allow the CFUL to play a significant role in increasing student achievement, boosting high school graduation rates, and providing career readiness and teacher training.
"The My Brother's Keeper initiative is directly in line with the core values and mission of the Central Florida Urban League," said Glenton Gilzean Jr., President and CEO. "We are very grateful to be one of only 36 organizations to receive funding this cycle; this money will ensure that we can effectively bring this important initiative to the youth of Central Florida in 2017.
Volunteer Florida will administer the funding, which includes $12,071,622 in federal grants from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and includes matching funds representing our community's local investment in the Central Florida Urban League.
AmeriCorps members dedicate a year of their lives to service, gaining valuable job skills and learning to succeed in the most challenging environments. This funding will eventually allow the CFUL to put AmeriCorps members to work in our community.
AmeriCorps members dedicate a year of their life to service to local organizations such as the CFUL and gain invaluable job skills in preparation to enter the workforce. Many AmeriCorps members attend college in the area in which they serve, providing a direct investment in Florida's colleges and universities.
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CFUL Announces New Small Business Initiative
ORLANDO, NOVEMBER 2, 2016 - The Central Florida Urban League and the African American Chamber of Commerce of Central Florida are coming together to encourage and expand small business development in underserved communities.
"For the first time in the history of our organizations, we are working together for the greater good of all Central Floridians," said Glenton Gilzean Jr., President and C.E.O. of the Central Florida Urban League. "This is a fantastic initiative that will utilize the strengths of both organizations to ensure that those from underserved communities have every opportunity to succeed as entrepreneurs."
Through the African American Chamber of Commerce of Central Florida, entrepreneurs will have access to mentors whom will encourage the proper development of their business. Furthermore, the joint program will offer entrepreneurs the necessary training, both in one-on-one and group settings, to familiarize themselves with the particulars of being a business owner and employer.
"The collaboration of our two well respected, historical Black organizations is significant," said John F. Davis, President of the African American Chamber of Commerce of Central Florida. "We are working together to build stronger families, individuals, businesses, and a more robust community, which is our purpose. Our leadership here at the Chamber is extremely enthusiastic about the many possibilities this partnership will bring."
This initiative is a part of the CFUL's Center for Working Families, which is funded by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunities (DEO).
In addition to small business development, the Center for Working Families provides Central Floridians with Comprehensive Housing Advising, Budget and Credit training, Foreclosure Prevention, Homeownership Preparation classes as well as a number of initiatives to encourage youth employability.
For more information on the Center for Working Families, please visit: www.cful.org/cwf
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Central Florida, Jacksonville, and Pinellas County Urban Leagues Endorse Florida Amendment 1
ORLANDO, OCTOBER 4, 2016 - The Central Florida Urban League, the Jacksonville Urban League, and the Pinellas County Urban League issued the following joint statement:
Breaking down the barriers that keep communities of color from participating in the emerging renewable energy markets as consumers and producers will result in access to affordable energy and an increase in entrepreneurial and career opportunities. The Central Florida Urban League, the Jacksonville Urban League, and the Pinellas County Urban League believe that Florida Amendment 1 provides an effective hammer for breaking down these barriers while providing regulators with the tools to protect low income consumers who still rely entirely on the electric grid from carrying a disproportionate share of the grid's fixed costs.
Florida Amendment 1 provides consumers with the constitutional right to install rooftop solar to provide for their energy needs. Owing largely to its cost, low-income consumers and communities of color are seldom able to use rooftop solar and must rely on the grid for their energy needs. As more affluent consumers deploy rooftop solar, fewer non-solar consumers are left to carry the costs of maintaining the grid. This creates a scenario where the costs for maintain the grid shift to low income consumers and communities of color, leaving disadvantaged ratepayers subsidizing affluent solar panel owners. Amendment 1 provides a guarantee that regulators and elected officials can mitigate the effects of regressive cost shifting.
The Central Florida Urban League, the Jacksonville Urban League, and the Pinellas County Urban League urge our members to vote YES on Florida Amendment 1 on November 8, 2016.
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The CFUL and the Learning Tree at South City in Tallahassee are two organizations what will benefit from the Volunteer Florida and The James Madison Institute's #BringABook service project. Books were donated at the recent JMI's Annual Policy Summit!
Thank you to all who participated in and supported this literacy service project!
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Respecting law officers begins with our youth
Central Florida Urban League President and CEO, Glenton Gilzean Jr., penned a meaningful column in the Orlando Sentinel.
I am proud of the vibrant, diverse and inclusive community that I have called my home since November.
In the most horrific of tragedies, the terrorist attack at Pulse nightclub, the resilience of our community was on display. Citizens from all walks of life rallied together to support the victims, their families and the first responders. Our response reverberated around the world, proving that our community can stand together against a common foe.
Yet, while Americans continuously rally together to oppose terrorism, we still have difficulty coming together to support one another.
A schism has developed pitting proponents of Black Lives Matter against those of All Lives Matter. Yet, we are all fighting the same fight. The Black Lives Matter movement does not diminish the value of other lives. It simply means that specific attention needs to be paid to the injustices experienced by African-Americans, particularly as it relates to law enforcement.
This movement is grounded in facts. According to Mapping Police Violence, in 2015, 37 percent of all unarmed people (102 individuals) killed by police were African-American, despite being only 13 percent of the population. Unarmed African-Americans were killed at five times the rate of unarmed Caucasians last year.
It begs us to ask the question: How could a community trust law enforcement when the system is failing it? Our solution is far from simple, but we believe that it must begin with our youth, ensuring that they have an open relationship with law enforcement.
Simply put: Respect, which goes both ways, must be taught at a young age.
Fortunately, the city of Orlando and Orange County have been beacons of hope for our country. Local law enforcement, led by city of Orlando Police Chief John Mina and Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings, have made it a priority to work hand in hand with the community.
In the past year, we have established joint projects such as Coffee with a Cop, which allows our community to engage in healthy conversation with law enforcement, without any preconditions. This has made law enforcement more approachable and has begun the process of alleviating fears and concerns.
Law enforcement has opened up its doors to our youth through its Teen Academy, and local youth recently honored seven officers — heroes — for being a positive influence on their lives.
Our growing relationship and trust has led to real change. Respect for our law enforcement has increased, and we are working together to find solutions for local injustices. Recently, Mina and the city of Orlando issued a directive to all law enforcement to use the minimal amount of force necessary, and to immediately intervene if officers see a colleague using too much force.
Our community spoke; Mina and the city of Orlando listened.
Now, we must return the favor. Much like our community would not want to be demonized when one goes astray, we cannot vilify an entire group based upon the actions of an extreme few. We must respect these brave men and women who risk their lives daily to protect every member of our community, regardless of race or ethnicity.
Mutual respect will lead to more dialogue and change. In the coming months, the Central Florida Urban League will build upon our strong foundation and bring these conversations to all levels of law enforcement, from Florida's attorney general in Tallahassee to the newest recruit in Orlando.
We have taken great strides in our community to address racial injustices, and I am proud that the Urban League will continue to be at the forefront. I believe that the life of every man, woman and child is equally important.
Eventually, when the social media hashtag fizzles and the cameras move on to their next story, we will need to work together through a foundation of respect and open dialogue to achieve a peaceful solution.
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Lifesavers being 'harassed' by beachgoers defying crowd bans over coronavirus fears
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Beach-goers defy crowd ban despite government closing Bondi Beach down
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Lifesavers at Sydney beaches closed due to coronavirus concerns are being "harassed" by members of the public, according to the head of Surf Life Saving NSW.
Bondi Beach was closed by the NSW Government on Saturday over concerns about large crowds
Manly (south end), Tamarama, Maroubra, Bronte, Coogee, Clovelly, Dee Why, Freshwater, Long Reef and Palm Beach have also now been closed
On Sunday morning, people were still continuing to visit Bondi Beach unperturbed
Despite continuing appeals to avoid beaches, following the closure of Bondi Beach and other Sydney beaches, people are continuing to head to the water.
Surf Life Saving NSW president George Shales said the situation was becoming "quite challenging".
"Our lifesavers are actually starting to be harassed, which is absolutely unacceptable from my position," he said.
"Some of our lifesavers are withdrawing from patrols because of the environment they're being put under.
"The minute that they feel they are at risk, they will remove themselves from that environment."
Surf Life Saving NSW president George Shales said lifeguards are being harassed. (ABC News )
Following Bondi's closure, other councils reported high visitor numbers at other beaches prompting the closure of Manly (south end), Tamarama, Maroubra, Bronte, Coogee, Clovelly, Dee Why, Freshwater, Long Reef and Palm Beach.
The total number of coronavirus cases in NSW has now surpassed 500, with a number of new infections among backpackers in the Bondi area.
On Sunday morning Waverley Council, which has Bondi Beach in its jurisdiction, launched a fresh appeal for people to stop heading to Bondi beach.
Despite tough new measures brought in by the State Government yesterday, dozens of surfers and swimmers took to the waves in Bondi on Sunday morning.
Waverley Council, in a tweet on Sunday morning, pleaded with people to stop heading to the beach and warned police would be present.
"People are still going to our beaches," it said on Twitter.
"If you know someone going to the beach today, tell them not to."
Beachgoers at sunrise on Bondi Beach. (AAP: Joel Carrett)
Waverley Council said Bondi Beach would remain closed on Sunday, even if there were fewer than 500 people at the beach.
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Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said, given measures to encourage social distancing, the crowds at Bondi on Friday were "unacceptable".
Waverley Council has appealed for people to stop going to the beach. (AAP: Joel Carrett )
A spokesperson said lifeguards working with council have the authority to ask anyone on the beach to leave, and if they refuse, police may be asked to step in.
It is understood council rangers and lifeguards will patrol beaches to monitor the ban, but police can also forcibly remove crowds.
Elsewhere, the Sutherland Shire Council Mayor, Carmelo Pesce, said the council would monitor and close the beaches at Cronulla if the community did not follow the rules.
"If you come down and you see more than what is supposed to be on that beach, do not come down, just turn around and go home," he said.
"We're going to hold a hard stance. This is very, very important and the Government are putting all these measures in place for a reason."
What the experts are saying about coronavirus:
Economic recovery committee looks set to push for a gas-fired future
Immunity passports might create a perverse incentive for individuals to seek out infection
The crowds at Bondi Beach on Friday shocked the world. (AAP: John Fotiadis )
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Embracing the Pacific: Dan Cameron and the California-Pacific Triennial
by Gladys-Katherina Hernando
Date Published: May 8, 2013
Embracing the Pacific: Dan Cameron and the California-Pacific Triennial by Gladys-Katherina Hernando
Michael Lin, Sharawadgi, 2013
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Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Chris Bliss.
The first California-Pacific Triennial opened at the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) on June 30. Replacing the museum's long-running California Biennial program, the international triennial marks a new approach, showcasing 32 artists from 15 countries across the Pacific Rim. On the occasion of its debut, we asked curator Dan Cameron a few questions about his curatorial process and some of the ideas that influenced the framework of the new triennial.
What inspired you to think about the Pacific Rim as an extension of California?
I have the Getty's Pacific Standard Time initiative to blame for that. When I arrived on the job [from New Orleans] in the first week of 2012, all the Pacific Standard Time exhibitions were starting to close. My first assignment was a two-week immersion in what these overlapping histories had to offer. When I finished that humbling process, I came to the conclusion that in the area of recent California art, I really had nothing substantive to offer. But PST did get me asking questions about geography and demographics, and that kept my process moving forward.
The California-Pacific Triennial represents an update to OCMA's California Biennial program, expanding its geographic focus and further distinguishing it from the new "Made in L.A." biennial that debuted at the Hammer Museum last year. Thinking about geography, how does this shift away from the regional biennial reflect your own interests as a curator?
All biennials stem from the Biennale di Venezia, which set the standard in the 19th century for the biennial as an international overview exhibition that brings together art from many places. I personally believe that if it isn't an international survey, it doesn't really merit the name "biennial," but that's been a bone of contention of mine for a long time. My own curatorial work, from the Aperto in Venice in 1988—which gave many Europeans their first close-up look at Mike Kelley's work, but also introduced the newest Japanese and Russian artists to a startled audience—to the Istanbul Biennial in 2003, and even Prospect New Orleans in 2008 and 2011, has always emphasized the importance of considering art from the broadest possible geographic perspective. I think that's the world we live in today.
Installation view of "California-Pacific Triennial" at the Orange County Museum of Art, June 30-November 17, 2013. Photo: Chris Bliss.
The exhibition seems to be interested in creating a cross-cultural dialogue rather than an overarching theme. Were there any specific criteria you used to select each artist?
Not really. I began to hunt and gather, as curators do, and making lists of things I was interested in. Once I had kind of exhausted the initial field of possibilities, I began looking at what I had assembled, and trying to figure out how different things related to each other. It's an additive and subtractive process that I try not to overanalyze, because certain hunches just don't play out on paper, they need to be realized on the wall or the floor. I'm generally interested in art that communicates in a language people can understand, so there's not much here that one could label esoteric. On the other hand, I think that setting up certain dynamic visual conversations between objects is partly a matter of taking responsibility for all the different meanings that can come out of a single work. In other words, the shared subjects are more emblematic of the overlapping cultural identities that we all identify, absorb, and borrow from during the course of a typical week.
Many of the artworks reference the world or look critically upon it, rather than following a more modernist (i.e., self-referential) aesthetic tradition. Do you think this is a cultural phenomenon along the Pacific Rim or the repercussions of a larger globalized vision of the world?
I think it's both. Many of the artists in the triennial have had somewhat nomadic lives, where their families left one place to try for a better life elsewhere, or where they themselves have moved between far-flung continents, or maybe possess a peculiarly postmodern form of wanderlust that drives them to have bases on three different continents. It seems to me that the more cosmopolitan one's own life experience, the less likely one would be to embrace a purely modernist mode of making art, because that mode is so overly identified with a European perspective of history—one that, for centuries, did not classify the products of non-Western culture as "art." In other words, the skepticism that arises from this clash of histories is probably a natural outcome to having been considered marginal for so long.
Lin Tianmiao, All the Same, 2011. Colored silk threads, synthetic skeletons, and metal constructions. Dimensions variable. Courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York. Photo: Lin Tianmiao.
Prior to joining OCMA, you were a curator at the New Museum in New York and, in 2007, founded the Prospect biennial series in post-Katrina New Orleans. How has working both inside and outside of the museum context informed your curatorial process in relation to global art practices?
It's an interesting perspective because for so many years I devoted myself to a curatorial practice that was deliberately far-flung: research and projects all around the world. Even during my decade at the New Museum, I was constantly on the move; and I think this is an important investment of time and energy for any curator working today. Having said that, my most recent commitment in New Orleans with Prospect combined the artistic direction of an international biennial with the cultural entrepreneurship that goes along with launching and funding such an operation. As life-transforming as that experience was, working once more within the relative safety and security of an art museum definitely has its advantages!
What do you want the viewer to gain from seeing these works together at OCMA?
Mostly I want to stimulate people's curiosity about the art of our time: Where does it come from? Who makes it? What are its reference points? I also think that an exhibition like this one is a prime opportunity to argue for the pertinence of contemporary art in daily life. There's a lot of material here that people wouldn't necessarily expect to encounter in an art museum; and my principle is always that if you're getting viewers to ask questions, it means you've already accomplished half of your job.
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Gladys-Katherina Hernando is an independent curator based in Los Angeles. She is the co-founder of the web-based art space Light & Wire Gallery and has contributed writing to The Art Book Review and San Francisco Arts Quarterly. She earned her M.A. in Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere from the University of Southern California.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Fire investigators say a southern Indiana house where a 2-year-old boy died in a weekend fire didn't have working smoke detectors.
Riley Harden is a spokesman for the State Fire Marshal's Office. He tells The Herald-Times that investigators could not find smoke alarms inside the charred ruins of the Bloomington house where the boy died.
Harden says the cause of Sunday's fire remains under investigation but foul play isn't suspected.
The toddler who died in the blaze has been tentatively identified as Kenneth Lane Jr. but confirmation is pending DNA test results from Indiana State Police.
The boy's mother, two older brothers and a baby sister survived the fire, as did a live-in baby sitter and her young daughter.
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Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature seeks submissions of Articles, Notes, and essays for our Archives, Innovations, and Academy sections. TSWL focuses on women's literature in all time periods and places, including foreign-language literatures, and in every genre—poetry, prose, drama, essays, diaries, memoirs, journalism, and criticism. While submissions need not be exclusively concerned with female writers, the focus must be on women and writing, explicating the specific links between the woman writer and her work. Tulsa Studies particularly encourages work in feminist critical and literary theory.
• Articles must place the writer and her work in some larger literary, historical, political, or social framework and argue a thesis that encompasses more than a reading of a single text or several texts by a single author. Articles should be 6,000-9,000 words, excluding endnotes. Please also send an abstract of no more than 100-200 words.
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The USMNT has a big set piece problem
Caitlin Murray @caitlinmurr
Jun 7, 2017 at 8:00a ET
Bruce Arena knew where the United States went wrong defensively in last week's friendly vs. Venezuela. After only being asked for his general thoughts on the match, he called out the USMNT's performances on restarts: "We were very poor on a couple of set pieces tonight."
Indeed, the one goal the USMNT conceded on Saturday came off a corner kick – they didn't defend the ball well enough when it was first kicked in, and they were even less organized when the ball was lobbed back into the goal area. Fabian Johnson appeared to lose his mark, and John Brooks, who was near the ball, was caught off guard too (video above).
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That's concerning because the USMNT's most recent breakdown on set pieces looks increasingly like a larger pattern that is leading to goals conceded.
The pattern started with a bang when Rafa Marquez scored a game-winner against the USMNT during a corner kick in November (video above). Jurgen Klinsmann controversially called out John Brooks for it, telling reporters after the match that the young center back lost his mark.
But then the USMNT made a similar mistake vs. Panama in March in another World Cup qualifier. On a long throw-in into the box, both Tim Ream and Michael Bradley failed to clear away the ball right in front of them, allowing it drop for a Panama tap-in.
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In all three international windows of the Hex, the U.S. have conceded from a set piece.
But there's no secret to improving how the USMNT defends set pieces, Arena said after the Venezuela match. It comes down to staying alert.
"You mark a guy and you beat him to the ball," Arena said. "When the ball's cleared and played back in, you've got to stay with your man and beat him to the ball. It's simply individual breakdowns. Players have to do better."
The USMNT is full of athletic, strong, tall players, but it doesn't matter when a player forgets to mark his man.
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There are a lot of other questions the USMNT needs to think about before their next two World Cup qualifiers – and they are important questions. Arena needs to figure out what system the USMNT should play in and which players can best execute. He also needs to think about the tight turnaround from the Trinidad & Tobago match to the Mexico match.
But if the USMNT is incapable of defending on corner kicks, free kicks and throw-ins, it will pretty much negate everything else they are doing right. They can, of course, limit those restarts as much as possible, but consider this: Venezuela only had two corner kicks against the USMNT on Saturday and La Viotinto scored on one of them.
As Arena said from training on Monday: "Saturday's game was good to show some of the issues we have and to correct them and be ready for Thursday."
You can bet that will include working on set pieces.
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Globalism (Part Nine):
Running To and Fro
Forerunner, "Prophecy Watch," March-April 2002
Ezekiel's Hair Prophecies
Gentile Nations
God's Sovereignty over the Nations
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Immigration, Muslim
Israel, Migration of
Israel, Prophecies of
Israel, Regathering of
Israel, Sifting of
Jacob's Trouble
Second Exodus
Israel, Identity of
Scattering and Gathering: Images of History and Prophecy (Part One)
Scattering and Gathering: Images of History and Prophecy (Part Two)
Israel's Immigration Problem
Israel: Future
The Second Exodus (Part Three)
The Second Exodus (Part Two)
Clash of Cultures
'Until Right Now, This Very Day'
Where Did The Original Apostles Go?
The Globalism series:
Globalism (Part One): Founded on Fear and Faithlessness
Globalism (Part Two): The Tents of Shem
Globalism (Part Three): America Runs Over the Wall
Globalism (Part Four): Israel Pushes the Nations
Globalism (Part Five): Globalism's Teeth
Globalism (Part Six): Tide and Countertide
Globalism (Part Seven): The Countertide Rolls In
Globalism (Part Eight): A Force for Conflict
Globalism (Part Nine): Running To and Fro
Globalism (Part Ten): Israel Versus the Beast
Globalism (Part Eleven): The International Criminal Court and Bad Law
Globalism (Part Twelve): It Shall Never Be
Why has our sovereign God directed Israel to "push" the world's nations into a global economic and political system in these last days? To set the stage for an eleventh-hour work, using the infrastructures developed by globalization to facilitate the preaching of the gospel and servicing of God's people? To establish English as a worldwide language in the Millennium? To develop nations with the power and motivations to lead them into the final confrontations? We looked at all three possibilities last month. Each one of them may be a reason God is using Israel to build a "global village" today.
God's work is so vast, dealing as it does with so many different people, that He usually has a large number of reasons for taking any action. His purposes may be to bring about certain changes in nations—as well as in individuals in those nations. His actions may have different purposes—at least different short-term purposes—for different nations or for the various individuals in those nations. This being the case, it is easy to perceive that God is using globalism to bring about a number of consequences.
In this article, we will look a fourth possible reason.
Globalism may serve as the tool God uses to bring about widespread dispersions of peoples just before the Millennium. Remember, market capitalism is one of the two pillars of globalism. Strictly speaking, capitalism does not just mean free, relatively unrestricted movement of goods, but also the easy movement of the workforce that makes those goods, that is, the unencumbered movement of people—migration. The connection of migration and capitalism is an old one. Economists Adam Smith and David Ricardo both believed that "the international movement of goods, services, people, and ideas is welfare enhancing for the world in general. . . ."1 Hence, the globalists speak about worldwide "open borders."
As we will see, their aim has not yet been realized. However, globalization may come to provide the social, legal, and political milieu that will make it possible in "the time of the end" for "many [to] run to and fro" (Daniel 12:4).
In an earlier article, we saw that God frequently uses the metaphors of sheep-scattering and grain-sifting to refer to population dispersion [see "Globalism (Part Six): Tide and Countertide" in the December 2001 issue of Forerunner]. Importantly, the scope of the end-time prophecies using these metaphors is global. For that reason, these prophecies fit well into the context of today's globalization. It is instructive to see the global nature of a few of these prophecies.
Even before the children of Israel entered Canaan, God warned through His prophet Moses that He would scatter them "among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other" (Deuteronomy 28:64), if they refused to "obey the voice of the Lord" (verse 62). The scope of Israel's dislocation is clear: Among all people, from one end of the planet to the other.
Much later, the prophet Ezekiel refers to this same warning:
Also I lifted My hand in an oath to those in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the Gentiles and disperse them throughout the countries, because they had not executed My judgments, but had despised My statutes, profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their fathers' idols. (Ezekiel 20:23-24)
Ezekiel wrote after Assyria had taken Israel captive. His warning words about population dispersion were not for ancient Israelites of the past, those already dispersed, but for the peoples of an Israel yet future—the Israel of today.
The prophet Amos speaks of this scattering through the use of the sifting-of-grain metaphor:
"Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth; yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," says the Lord. "For surely I will command, and will sift the house of Israel among all nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve; yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground." (Amos 9:8-9)
I remember as a boy watching my mother sift flour over pie dough. She made an effort to sprinkle it evenly over the surface of the dough, not missing this section, not piling it up in another section. Sifting connotes even distribution over an entire surface. Verse 9 makes it clear that the range of Israel's dispersion is global, "among all nations."
Prophecies Not Yet Fulfilled
Clearly, these prophecies have not yet been fulfilled. To date, God has not actually scattered Israel among all nations. Historically, He did not use the Assyrians to scatter Israel so much as He used them to resituate Israel to locales south of the Caspian Sea, in what is now northern Iran. In process of time, God further resituated Israel through a number of migrations into rather localized areas of the earth, such as northern Europe, the British Isles (including Ireland), the North American continent, Australia, and New Zealand. Notice that these areas are isolated from the capitals of the Gentile world. The British Isles and New Zealand are islands; Australia is a continent-sized island. North America is separated from other northern hemisphere power centers by two large oceans.
These lands to which God led Israel were generally under-populated before Israel invaded them and displaced the aboriginal—Gentile—populations. These aboriginal peoples did not constitute the bulk of Gentiles. Far from it. The majority of the Gentiles lived, and continue to live, in areas isolated from the lands of national Israel. The Gentiles are concentrated in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, the Asian Subcontinent, and South America, as well as in certain areas of southern and eastern Europe. With the exceptions of the State of Israel and South Africa, Israelite migrations to these Gentile areas have generally not been extensive to date.
So today's world looks like this: The Gentiles are concentrated in certain areas of the world, while Israel is concentrated in other areas of the world. Relatively low numbers of Gentiles live among the Israelites, and, again in relative terms, even fewer Israelites live in Gentile areas, such as Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and Africa. Clearly, those Israelites residing in South Africa make up an exception to the pattern. However, when God scatters Israel to all nations, the exception will be the rule. The present plight of Israelites living in South Africa will become Israel's commonplace plight everywhere.
To this day, God has not yet scattered Israel among the Gentiles en masse, not yet sifted them "among all nations." Today's demographic reality does not look at all like the population distribution of which God speaks in Deuteronomy 28, Ezekiel 20, or Amos 9.
Scattering and Sifting—When?
This level of scattering is yet to come. A number of scriptures appear to connect this vast displacement of Israelites with Israel's fall and the time of "Jacob's Trouble." For example:
One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. (Ezekiel 5:12)
Does the scattering mentioned here occur before Israel's fall or after? As an approach to that question, it may be instructive to compare Matthew 24 with Ezekiel 5. Note, however, that the order in which the terrible events cataloged in them is not the same. Comparing the number of thens in Matthew 24 with the number of thens in Ezekiel 5 suggests another difference. Matthew wins out, with his ten to Ezekiel's two. As Herbert Armstrong so often pointed out, Matthew 24 is sequential—first this, then that, "immediately after" the other.
However, aside from the last clause of Ezekiel 5:12, where it is quite obvious that the sword will follow the third God has scattered "to all the winds," there is no explicit idea of sequence in the Ezekiel passage. Nothing in verse 12 (or in its companion, verse 2) argues for a sequence of events: first pestilence, then famine, then war, then scattering. Even though war is mentioned in this passage after pestilence and famine, the war of which God speaks could cause—and hence, precede—the pestilence and famine. Historically, this is not at all an unusual sequence. War comes first, causing famine.
So, it is possible, even plausible, that some part of the prophesied scattering could take place before the pestilence. It could even take place in a time of relative peace and prosperity.
Of course, none of this denies the fact that the final dissolution of the nations of modern-day Israel will not be accompanied by vast, involuntary migrations. That will certainly be the case. Yet, given the magnitude of the prophesied sifting/scattering, it remains plausible that God may at least begin to scatter Israel before her national destruction, using as His vehicle the widespread "open borders" established by a globalized international community. Such borders would facilitate easy migration from nation to nation (just as between Canada and the United States today).
What circumstances might "kick off" a flight of Israelites from their homeland? A prolonged drought-induced famine could become such a catalyst. The panic caused by some incident of grand terrorism, such as the spreading of a toxic contagion by air or water, could also trigger an exodus. The economic and social chaos resulting from a limited nuclear attack would certainly motivate some to flee. As a result of these types of circumstances, an international arrangement of "open borders" could induce a large number of Israelites to migrate into Gentile areas. In addition, a harried federal government, pressed to resolve severe problems, might strike "treaties" with foreign nations needing educated American laborers. The United States government, under these treaties, would probably "incentivize" Americans to leave by paying travel costs, ensuring adequate housing in the host nation, and the like.
There is certainly scriptural precedent for famine- and drought-induced migrations by Israelites, beyond the classic one of Jacob's journey to Egypt at the invitation of his son, Joseph. Notice just three:
» Genesis 12:10 makes it clear that God uses famine to induce His people to migrate. This is the account of Abram's journey to Egypt, "for the famine was severe in the land."
» Amos 4:8 alludes to circumstances wherein, due to prolonged and severe drought, "Two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water."
» Ruth 1:1-6 tells how Elimelech, Naomi's husband, traveled to Moab because "there was a famine in the land" (verse 1). After his death, Naomi, accompanied by her daughter-in-law Ruth, returned to Jerusalem after "about ten years" (verse 4).2
Remember, the prophet Daniel's comment that "many shall run to and fro" (Daniel 12:4) is highly general. It can refer to strictly voluntary migrations, as well as to migrations induced by weather patterns and, of course, by governmental edict.
The Two-Way Street
Nor, of course, does Daniel indicate that only Israelites "shall run to and fro." Like the free trade of goods in today's globalized trading regime, the free movement of peoples will be a two-way street. Migration in a globalized world will be reciprocal, Gentiles migrating en masse into Israelite nations as readily as Israelites relocating into Gentile ones. (Japheth, under this scenario, will literally come to "dwell in the tents of Shem.")
As the Gentiles move into Israelite territory in their multitudes, the second pillar of globalism, liberal democracy, will become an important factor. Democracy entails the rule of the majority through voting. As tens of millions of Gentiles flow into Israelite nations, they will demand, and eventually obtain, the franchise. Politically, they will gain the upper hand in time.
Who of us today, knowing as we do the power and prevalence of our democratic institution of majority rule, has trouble grasping Deuteronomy 28:43? "The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower."
Folk in the less egalitarian past might have had trouble understanding this verse. After all, historically, it was not at all unusual for a very small minority of elites to establish and maintain a position of dominant leadership for centuries at a time over a subject people who far outnumbered them. The classic example, of course, is the Spain-based rule of South America beginning in the 16th century of this era—the time of the Conquistadors.
But, now, when democracy is the order of the day, it is easy for us to understand how an alien majority, even an economic underclass, could soon gain political ascendancy over their hosts. How many school boards in America's Southwest have been actually (and legally) "taken over" by non-Israelites, simply by virtue of their majority! Thus, in a globalized society, with its pledge to democracy (majority rule) and free immigration policies, host populations could find themselves quickly outnumbered by voting immigrants.
Deuteronomy 28:44 tells of the economic and then the social-political inversion that will take place as resident aliens come to exercise the franchise: The immigrant "shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail."
Is it fantastic to suggest a soon-coming era of high international mobility of people? Consider the historical precedent. Vast migrations characterized the "first age of globalization,"3 spear-headed by Britain in the 19th century.
[T]he greatest era for recorded voluntary mass migration was the century after 1815. Around 60 million people left Europe for the Americas, Oceania, and South and East Africa. An estimated 10 million voluntarily migrated from Russia to Central Asia and Siberia. A million went from Southern Europe to North America. About 12 million Chinese and 6 million Japanese left their homelands and emigrated to eastern and southern Asia. One and a half million left India for Southeast Asia and Southwest Africa.4
Notice the timing of these migrations, which "peaked during the 1890s."5 They started about the time God restored the birthright blessings on modern Israel, generally dated 2,520 years after ancient Israel's fall in about 721 BC (see Leviticus 26:14-39; II Kings 17:5-23; Daniel 4:16, 25). They ended with the First World War, which closed globalization's first era. During that 100 years, about 90 million people migrated,6 usually by walking or sailing. With today's larger, faster ships, coupled with the prevalence of rail and air transportation alternatives, the timeframe required to move that many people could be significantly compressed.
Trouble in Denmark
Today, however, in this second age of globalization, worldwide migration rates are low indeed. For example, in the 1990s, "the United States was the only country in the world with a high immigration rate. . . ."7 This seems ahistorical. Given the extent and scope of current globalism, today's relatively tight immigration controls—"generally far tighter now than they were a hundred years ago"8—do not seem to fit into the pattern. In our globalized world, one would expect to see higher-than-ever migration figures, not only for America, but also for all the member nations of the "global village." Yet, the worldwide figures are low.
In fact, some economists actually blame the apparent failure of globalism to deliver on its promise to redistribute wealth worldwide on the current lack of migration. In the words of one analyst, globalization is failing because "most rich countries have largely excluded the international flow of labor into their markets since the interwar period."9
This economist's answer to today's failing globalism is to foster more globalism: Couple the capitalistic idea of free movement of goods with the capitalistic idea of free movement of labor.
Right now, however, publics are not looking favorably on such proposals. In fact, First-World nations exhibit a great deal of resistance to unrestricted immigration, even in those that claim to be in the van of globalization. Denmark's recent refusal to relinquish her "national currency, the krone, in favor of full participation in the European Monetary Union"10 is an excellent example of the strength of xenophobia—fear of strangers—in Israel today. Analysis of the 53 percent "no" vote leads to only one conclusion: Danes, worried about "preserving Danish identity," voted to disconnect the krone from the euro.11
Denmark's population increased about 7 percent since 1980 through widespread immigration of "guest-workers" from Turkey and Pakistan. The government's assimilation policy failed miserably, as crime and corruption among immigrants increased. Finally, the Danes had enough: Their "rejection of the euro was indeed bound up with apprehensions about the consequences of immigration."12
The suggestion, then, that essentially unrestricted immigration will become a norm in our future appears unsupportable by present European voting trends. If massive, worldwide immigration does become a reality in the next few years, in spite of the present apprehension of the world's publics, we will have witnessed a powerful example of the sovereignty of God, who overrides the will of the masses and vetoes the plans of the policy makers. God has the final say.
God In Charge of Change
If God does overrule current public attitudes toward migration,13 thereby freeing up today's restrictive policies, the world could change quickly for Israelite nations. The prophecies of widespread scattering mentioned in Deuteronomy 28:65, of sifting prophesied in Amos 9:8-9, and of political and social-economic inversion predicted in Deuteronomy 28:43-44—all of these—portray the running-to-and-fro-world we could soon come to inhabit.
Globalism might become the vehicle by which God scatters Israel and at the same time destroys her homeland:
» God may employ global capitalism, where people will be able to migrate in significant numbers, to disperse Israelites widely into Gentile areas in response to famine, drought, terrorist attacks, and like disasters. That migration will be reciprocal, permitting the Gentiles to pour into the lands God gave national Israel.
» As a result of this reciprocal movement of people, God may use globalism's other pillar, the majority rule of democracy, to weaken the hold of Israelites on their "home" territories.
What a perfect setup to accomplish His end-time purposes! In process of time, God will regather Israel "from the ends of the earth . . . from its farthest regions" (Isaiah 41:8-9). Then, setting "His hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His people who are left" (Isaiah 11:11), He "will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth" (verse 12).
With the scattering and sifting of millions of Israelites so broadly around the world, little wonder that people someday will come to remember God's second gathering of His people more than His first gathering, when they were pretty much localized in Lower Egypt.
"Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the Lord, "that it shall no more be said, 'The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,' but, 'The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them.'" (Jeremiah 16:14-15)
There remains yet a fifth possible reason behind God's development of a globalized world. It is a reason of immense significance. God may use globalism to destroy the sovereignty of the nations of Israel. Next month, we will see how globalism has eaten away at the concept of national sovereignty, especially in the United States.
Inset: And, Trouble in California
We do not have to go all the way to Denmark to witness deeply rooted popular resistance to immigration. In California, which is today less than 50 percent white,
whites are scared. The depth of white fear is underestimated and misunderstood by progressive thinkers and the media. Whites dread the unknown and not-so-distant tomorrow when a statistical turning point will be reached that could have very bad consequences for them. . . . They fear losing not only their jobs but their culture. Some feel that California will become a version of South Africa, in which whites will lose power when minorities are the majority.
California whites are fleeing, to "'islands' that are surrounded by vast ethnic or transitional communities, as well as deserts, mountain wilderness, and the ocean, . . . demonstrating what the rest of America might become."
The result of this paranoia was Proposition 187, an anti-immigrant initiative later overturned by the courts. Hysteria spawned this Proposition, not a year-2000 hysteria, but a year-2050 hysteria, when America will be only 53 percent white.
Even staunch globalists have their doubts about immigration. In the pages of Foreign Affairs, certainly one of their leading publications, appears this warning:
It is time to recognize the hazards of unreasonable and uncontrolled immigration. Instead of being a source of strength, upwardly spiraling immigration has begun to create imbalances in education, income distribution, employment levels, and welfare demands. It is creating tensions between immigrants and natives, between immigrant and nonimmigrant states, and among state, local and federal governments.
1 Richard Vedder, The Independent Review, Summer 2000, p. 143. Mr. Vedder's comments appear in his review of George J. Borjas' book, Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).
2 The Midrash, as well as Jerome, connect this incident to I Chronicles 4:22. This passage mentions that certain people of the tribe of Judah migrated to Moab and even came to hold positions of rank there. A number of translations decline to render "Jashubi-Lehem" as a place name, but as a clause "returned to Jerusalem." See, for example, The Amplified Bible: "Now the records are ancient." It may be that Elimelech was among these migrants searching for food in Moab.
3 G. J. Ikenberry, "Don't Panic: How Secure Is Globalization's Future?" Foreign Affairs, May/June 2000, p. 145. Mr. Ikenberry's remarks appear in a review of Robert Gilpin's book, The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the 21st Century, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. See also, Martin Wolf, "Will the Nation-State Survive Globalization?" Foreign Affairs, January/February, 2001, p. 179. Foreign Affairs is the principal organ of the Council on Foreign Relations.
4 Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson, quoted by Martin Wolf, "Will the Nation-State Survive Globalization," Foreign Affairs, January/February, 2001, p. 178 (emphasis added).
5 Martin Wolf, "Will the Nation-State Survive Globalization?" Foreign Affairs, January/February, 2001, p. 178. Mr. Wolf is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times.
6 Above and beyond this figure, of course, is that of the estimated 25 million Africans imported into the New World (and elsewhere) during the period. This was, of course, strictly involuntary migration.
7 Wolf, ibid., p. 181 (emphasis added).
8 Wolf, ibid., p. 184.
9 Bruce R. Scott, "The Great Divide in the Global Village," Foreign Affairs, January/February 2001, p. 160. Scott argues that free migration policies will allow the world's disenfranchised and disadvantaged workers to migrate to other nations in search of better jobs for themselves and better education for their children. The result will be to force corrupt, incompetent, and backward governments worldwide to develop policies and institutions that will promote economic growth. Doing so, he concludes, governments will be able to keep their current workforce and, indeed, attract workers from other, less progressive, nations.
10 Henric Bering, "Denmark, the Euro, and Fear of the Foreign," Policy Review, December 2000/January 2001, p. 63.
11 Bering, ibid. He adds that the Euro "has lost more than 30 percent of its value against the dollar since it was introduced in January 1999."
12 Bering, ibid., p. 72 (emphasis added). It is worthwhile to note the larger results of the Danish vote:
Denmark has shown that it really does want to limit its participation in the European venture. Accordingly, it will become relegated to B-team status. . . . As for the rest of Europe, the Danish referendum result will probably delay Sweden's joining the euro; EU skepticism there mirrors that in Denmark. Britain, where anti-EU sentiment runs even stronger, will also postpone its participation. The result will be a European Union in two speeds, in which core countries move ahead with common projects and others are left behind. (p. 67)
Note that the A-team/B-team cleavage is basically a split between the Gentile and Israelite nations of Europe. The EU is fragmenting. Who will attempt to heal the breach? A charismatic religious leader? Or a military strongman? Or both?
13 There are some interesting proposals flying about. Gary Becker and Richard Vedder "have suggested using markets to allocate immigrant visas." Visas sold at $10,000 each would generate enough money to give each American a two percent tax reduction. See The Independent Review, Summer 2000, p. 146.