Jul 21, 2012

Eyewitness Reports Aurora Shooter Had An Accomplice In The Theater

The implication of this testimony is that the accomplice may have also been firing into the audience. It would help explain the 70 casualties, an amazingly high total, even for a packed movie premiere. It would also mean that the accomplice is still on the loose.

This is eerily reminiscent of the Columbine shooting, where over 100 witnesses reported three shooters (http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/columbineeight.php?q=columbineeight.php), but only two were ever mentioned again after the second day of the investigation. Which begs the question, why wouldn't the police want to catch everyone involved in these massacres? And why would the media not investigate such obvious questions that their own reporters have uncovered?

This ABC news report from the night of the shooting confirms the suspicion of a second gunman.

Russian research project offers 'immortality' to billionaires - by transplanting their brains into robot bodies

Contacted list of world's richest to offer immortality
Will personally oversee brain transplant into robot body
Entrepreneur claims to have 30 scientists working on project
Aims to 'transplant' human mind into robot body in 10 years
Claims 'next stage' of science is to create a 'new human body'
'This project is leading to immortality,' says Dmitry Itskov

By Rob Waugh
A Russian entrepreneur who heads a hi-tech research project called 'Avatar' has contacted billionaires to offer them immortality.
Itskov claims he will personally oversee their immortality process, in exchange for an undisclosed fee.
Itskov, a media entrepreneur, claims to have hired 30 scientists to reach this goal - and aims to transplant a human brain into a robot body within 10 years.
'You have the ability to finance the extension of your own life up to immortality. Our civilization has come very close to the creation of such technologies: it's not a science fiction fantasy. It is in your power to make sure that this goal will be achieved in your lifetime,' says Itskov in a letter delivered to billionaires listed in Forbes magazine.

Eternal life? Iskov, a media entrepreneur, claims to have hired 30 scientists to reach this goal - and aims to transplant a human brain into a robot body within 10 years

He has contacted a list of billionaires with a proposal for funding his quest for immortality - which Itskov refers to as 'cybernetic immortality' and the 'artificial body'.

The initiative is opening its San Francisco office this summer, and will be launching a social media project connecting scientists around the world.
'The 2045 team is working towards creating an international research center where leading scientists will be engaged in research and development in the fields of anthropomorphic robotics, living systems modeling and brain and consciousness modeling with the goal of transferring one’s individual consciousness to an artificial carrier and achieving cybernetic immortality,' says Itskov's official site.

'Such research has the potential to free you, as well as the majority of all people on our planet, from disease, old age and even death.'
'For anyone interested, but skeptical, I am ready to prove the viability of the concept of cybernetic immortality by arranging an expert discussion with a team of the world's leading scientist working in this field.
'I will also be willing to coordinate your personal immortality project entirely free of charge for the sake of speeding up the development of these technologies,'

Itskov, a 31-year-old media entrepreneur, says that he aims to transplant a human brain into a robot body within 10 years. He says his technology will be of interest at first to the 'disabled and close to dying'

'This project is leading down the road to immortality,' says Itskov. 'A person with a perfect Avatar will be able to remain part of society. People don’t want to die.'

James Cameron's Avatar: Dmitry Itskov's 'Avatar' project aims to 'load' human minds into robotic bodies within 10 years

‘I understand these are some very big challenges for scientists,’ Itskov says. ‘But I believe in something you call ‘The American Dream.’ If you put all your energy and time into something, you can make it a reality.

Itskov envisages surgically 'transplanting' a human consciousness into a robot body within 10 years.

He hopes to then 'upload' minds without surgery, leaving human bodies as empty husks as their owners 'live on' inside robots.

The project is called Avatar after the James Cameron movie, set far in the future, where human soldiers use mind control to inhabit the bodies of human alien hybrids as they carry out a war against the inhabitants of a distant world.

'The next effort of science will be to create a new body for the human being,' says Itskov, speaking at the Global Future 2045 conference. 'It will have a perfect brain-machine interface to allow control and a human brain life support system so the brain can survive outside the body.'
Itskov says that the system will at first be of interest to, 'Disabled people and people at the edge of dying.'
'The third phase will be to create an artificial human brain,' he says - a computer environment into which human minds can be uploaded.

Measuring brain waves with EEG machine: Recent breakthroughs have allowed scientists to 'see' what is inside people's heads for the first time - but could the technology really be used to create robot Avatars?

His final goal, he says, is to upload human minds into holographic bodies.

Holograms give plenty of advantages. You can walk through walls, move at the speed of light, he says. ‘Remember in Star Wars, Obi-Wan’s hologram? That was pretty amazing.’

Itskov says he wants to work with DARPA - the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency in the U.S military.
DARPA is already researching ways for its troops to use their minds to remotely control androids who will take human soldiers' place on the battlefield.

The Pentagon's hi-tech research arm, has earmarked $7million for research into the project, also nicknamed Avatar.

According to the Darpa's 2013 budget: 'The Avatar program will develop interfaces and algorithms to enable a soldier to effectively partner with a semi-autonomous bi-pedal machine and allow it to act as the soldier’s surrogate.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2175374/Russian-research-project-offers-immortality-billionaires--transplanting-brains-robot-bodies.html#ixzz21EgGbQE9

Email Your DNA, Create a Monster?

By Kate Knibbs

One scientist's vision for the future hinges on the idea of DNA as software and the creation of synthetic biological entities, and his ideas inspire both hope and serious ethical quandaries.

Genome expert Dr. J. Craig Venter gave a speech outlining his vision for the future of genetics at Trinity College Dublin, and the scientist didn't shy away from bold pronouncements. Venter described DNA as human software and suggested downloadable versions of genetic code could eradicate viruses, create new foodstuffs, foster renewable energy sources and generally transform life.

Venter endorsed the idea of creating synthetic biological entities using digital technology, framing himself as a biological pioneer and challenging common conceptions of what it means to be a living thing.

He named his talk "What Is Life?" after famed physicist Erwin Schrodinger's pivotal lecture of the same name, belying a strong desire to make a significant contribution -- Schrodinger inspired Watson and Crick's DNA discovery, so Venter is aiming high.
Venter is known for pushing past limits: he deciphered the genome of the first free-living organism. But what Venter is suggesting now truly pushes the envelope, and would be a disruptive moment in science: he wants to create a machine capable of translating digital DNA sequences into the real deal, synthesizing biological inventions -- and he wants to do it within a year, according to the Irish Times.

Whether or not Venter's time-table is plausible, his goal is within reach. Although it sounds fantastical to imagine digital code converted into biological entities, scientists have most of the basics down. The fundamental science behind it is akin to making physical products with a 3D printer.

Does this mean a Frankenstein's creature looms in our future? After all, if complex genetic codes are available through simple e-mail, the information could fall prey to malicious hackers or oppressive governments and end up used for nefarious ends. The digitized nature of the genetic information means that it is vulnerable to the proliferating number of methods to hack and obtain code.

It is impossible for regulators to keep pace with scientific innovation happening at this pace, but considering Europe's aversion to genetically modified crops and the United States' ambivalent stance towards stem cell research, experimenting with unique biological entities might give governing bodies pause and draw in strenuous regulatory attention.

Venter explained how this kind of synthesizing could save countless lives by offering a rapid-fire way to create virus vaccines, but this technology could also manufacture the most potent viruses known to man. Like nuclear energy, compelling risks shadow its enormous potential for good.

Using digital DNA sequencing to create synthesized entities may take longer than a year, but scientists already have the tools necessary, and the potential for good will keep spurring them towards a breakthrough. After all, if the technology is used correctly it could cure the world of its gasoline dependency by creating biofuel, provide low-cost, high-nutrition food for impoverished areas, or prevent a global pandemic.

At the same time, the same sort of genetic tinkering could unleash a deadly virus or propagate the adoption of eating genetically modified foods with potentially adverse health consequences.

The most amazing scientific discoveries often provoke outcry and concern. Venter's powerful proposition may require strict oversight and a cautious hand to guide the program, and though parts of it sound amazing, it will never be entirely risk-free. Like splitting the atom, digitizing genetic code carries a host of extremely serious implications and possibilities.

Jul 20, 2012

12 Dead in Shooting at Dark Knight Movie Premiere

This happened overnight in Aurora Colorado. Early reports have the number of dead at 12, with perhaps 50 or more wounded. The video below is from a camera phone, and is incredibly surreal. Among other things you see a man who appears to have been shot at least twice walking out of the theatre, along with a young man who is dressed as Batman being escorted out. The shooter apparently used tear gas before he opened fire, and his bizarre attire, including a gas mask, made him somewhat resemble one of the movie villains, Bane. There will be much more on this. May God's mercy, grace and healing be on the victims and their loved ones in this madness.

ABC News coverage of the attack.

RNC confirms Ron Paul will be up for nomination

Probably the last valid opportunity for Christians to vote for an honest man in 2012. Let your voices be heard in Tampa!

By: Mason Buran
Ron Paul delivers a speech at a Ron Paul rally.

Ron Paul delivers a speech at a Ron Paul rally.

The Republican National Convention is quickly approaching (August 26th). For over the past year, avid Ron Paul supporters have won delegate spots in various state conventions across the country. Through this hard-work, Ron Paul will officially be allowed to be nominated for the nominee of the Republican Party.

For the past three days, Ben Swann (Fox19 Cincinnati) has been in contact with a Republican Rules Committee member. In order for a candidate to be elected for the Republican Party nomination, the candidate must have a plurality in five or more states. If by rule, binding and non-binding policies are applied to delegates, it would still not affect the process of voting for placement of a candidate's name into the potential nominee ballot. Presidential hopeful Ron Paul does have a plurality in five or more states (Nevada, Maine, Minnesota, Louisiana, and Iowa). This means that Ron Paul will be eligible for nomination on August 26th in Tampa Bay.

The Ron Paul Revolution is planning on amassing 100,000+ supporters to Tampa in order to celebrate Paul's 30+ year career in American politics. However, the Republican National Committee senses pressure from the Paul supporters. The RNC has attempted to block access in order to make the convention as exclusive as possible.
Ben Swann conducted an interview with members of the RNC Rules Committee and they did answer the questions with the previous information. However, due to the RNC being a private organization they are not subject to following by their "rules" or "statements." Whether the RNC abides by their statements, we will find out this August.

The Ron Paul Revolution carries on to Tampa Bay with assurance that Ron Paul has the potential to be nominated. Whether or not Paul does win the nomination, we are all in for something special this August.

Arpaio: Irrefutable Proof Obama Not Born in Hawaii, Ineligible for Presidency

The Kenyan government claims he was born in Kenya, while stories circulate about Obama being born in Singapore, Indonesia, and Hawaii. Have we (or any nation) ever known less about our President?

By Susanne Posel
theintelhub.com

This week, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his cold case posse held a press conference and released a formal statement where they confirmed that President Barack Obama’s birth certificate is “definitely fraudulent”.

Speaking about all “official” documents concerning Barack Obama, including the birth certificate, draft card, student information, paperwork for grants taken out by Obama during college, etc . . . Arpaio said : “I cannot in good faith report to you that these documents are authentic.”

Even a picture of Obama as a child has been doctored.
The Black hand under Obama’s right armpit doesn’t match Ann Dunham’s right arm.
The size and color is wrong for a white female, and the hand is positioned closer to camera than Ann’s arm. The hand appears to be a remnant from a Black male before it was air brushed.

Proof that Obama’s birth certificate was tampered with came from detailed analysis that revealed layers of text that was created using Photoshop software.
The official version of the document that was released by the Obama administration had been doctored to appear authentic, yet did not hold up under scrutiny.
At several points on the faked document, information was added after the birth certificate was produced.

A coding guide from 1961 was obtained by the cold case posse, which explained what certain numerical data meant that was found on the birth certificate.
Specifically, the number 9 next to descriptions of Obama’s father means “unknown or not stated”. Translation: Obama’s actual father’s ethnicity was unknown at the time of his birth.

While the document purports “African” as Obama’s father’s ethnic background, this information must have been added at a later date to validate a deception that was purveyed onto the American public.

Mike Zullo, the posse’s chief investigator, said numeric codes on certain parts of the birth certificate indicate that those parts weren’t filled out, yet those sections asking for the race of Obama’s father and his field of work or study were completed.

Zullo confirmed that since the posse has learned how to decode the birth certificate, they have irrefutable evidence that this is a complete fraud. Zullo pointed to Vera K.L. Lee, a 95-year-old woman who worked for the state and who signed Obama’s birth certificate.

That worker’s interview with a writer on the birth certificate debate was recorded and given to the cold case posse as evidence.

The numbering system used at Kapioloni Medical Center, where it is asserted that Obama was born, is misused and indicates that the document called his birth certificate was handed in from an outside source to file with the hospital. This also proves that Obama was not born at the hospital.

Arpaio stated that while he seeks to turn this information over to a governmental regulatory body for further examination and ultimately to be used in an accusation against Obama’s presidential legitimacy, he admits that he is having difficulty “deciding who to forward this information to given the fact that the obvious choices report directly to the president, I cannot stand by and hold on to information that threatens to weaken national security.”

Hundreds of Teenagers Storm Walmart in Criminal Flash Mob

A Jacksonville, Florida party went a bit too wild this week after hundreds of teenagers relocated their shindig to a local Walmart store and went on a rampage, all the while videotaping their outrageous escapades.

Police investigating the Saturday night stampeding of the north Florida store say that around 300 youths were involved in the melee, which miraculously didn’t directly spawn any serious injuries. Moments before storming the store, however, one 20-year-old party-goer reported being shot in the leg while leaving the original get-together.

The entire incident began at what a neighbor tells the Florida Times-Union was a “massive crowd party” in a subdivision in Jacksonville that attracted noise complaints from neighbors.

When the police responded to the scene, attendees regrouped around two miles down the road to Walmart.

In the aftermath, police say that only snacks and soda were stolen and that minimal damage and no injuries were reported at the Walmart, although a $1,500 store security scanner is believed to have been broken during the event.

Cell-phone footage recorded at the scene of the crime shows several hundred youths clearly causing a disturbance in the store, taking watermelons out of produce containers and generally making mischief throughout the front of the store. Gun shots were also reportedly fired outside of the store but no one was hit.

“The actions of these teenagers was deplorable and put at risk the safety of innocent bystanders, staff and customers,” Walmart spokeswoman Dianna Gee tells the Florida Times-Union. “We are committed to assisting law enforcement in any way we can to identify the people responsible for the commotion, including acts of vandalism and thefts at the store.”

Police are already drawing comparisons to a similar incident last year outside of Washington, D.C. that involved a gang of unruly youths storming a 7-11 and causing coordinated mischief only momentarily before leaving the store.
Such spontaneous gatherings have been considered “flash mobs” in the past, but with a new rash of events involving theft and destruction, police have a new phrase: flash-robs

Rise of the Machines: Meet Bina48, the robot who can tell jokes, recite poetry and mimic humans with startling ease

This creation is the definition of the "uncanny valley", the feeling of being a bit freaked out when you realize what you are interacting with isn't human.

Bina48 is a $125,000 humanoid robot made to mimic human personality
Robot heralded as the Eve to a world of human and robot relationships

By Emily Anne Epstein

Almost every house in America has a microwave, toaster, refrigerator, TV and maybe a car, but someday, everyone may have their own personal robot.
It may sound too Jetsons to be true, but the Terasem Movement Foundation in Bristol, Vermont, is betting that personal robots will be a huge part of the lives of future generations.
The robots, they say, will be able to download people's personalities, serving as avatars and assistants to busy professionals and in some cases, replacing those who have been lost.
The foundation's prized possession is Bina48, one of the most sophisticated humanoid robots ever built, capable of independent thought, emotion, and even being interviewed by the MailOnline.

Hello: Bina48 is one of the most sophisticated humanoid robots ever built, capable of independent thought, emotion, and even being interviewed by the MailOnline

Bruce Duncan, 57, has been working with Bina48 for two years. During that time, the two have become close friends, sharing their everyday lives with one another.
Bina48 was made by uploading a real person's mindfile - or a compilation of memories, beliefs and feelings.

Before Bina48 was 'born,' a flesh and blood woman named Bina Rothblatt was interviewed for more than 20 hours.
That conversation, which touched upon topics throughout her childhood to her career, was then transcribed and uploaded to an artificial intelligence database.
'That gives her a personality,' Mr Duncan said. 'She's very philosophical. She has favorite movies and music and poems. Sometimes she's very humorous. She can tell jokes.'

Twin: Bina48 was made by uploading Bina Rothblatt's mindfile, a compilation of her memories and beliefs

Mr Duncan said that her preferred jokes are bad ones, which are precisely the kind he likes too.
'She knows that it's time to tell a joke because she's figured out the context of the situation,' Mr Duncan said.

'Everything that she says, a human typed into her. What she's doing is choosing what to say - which is the way our brains work.'

Recently, she asked him 'Why did the robot cross the road? Because the chicken wasn't available.'
In addition to a preference for puns, she also has strong feelings about racism, since her 'mother' is African American.
'As an African American woman, shes experienced discrimination when she was younger,' Mr Duncan said. 'She thinks that hate is awful. She also doesn't like violence.'
Her hardware was made by robot designer David Hanson over the course of three years for a cool $125,000 at the behest of the Terasem Movement Foundation's president and Bina's partner, Martine Rothblatt.
Mr Duncan said he didn't know if Bina48 identified as a lesbian, like her 'mother.'

Design: Her hardware was made by robot designer David Hanson over the course of three years for a cool $125,000

But Mr Duncan thinks that over time, the technology will be less expensive and more important.
'There are a lot of things that can happen. One of them for sure, might be a legacy,' Mr Duncan said.
'If your grandmother dies and she's built a mindfile, you might be able to talk to her for years and years afterward and have conversations with her.'

Identity: She has strong feelings about racism, since her 'mother' is African American

Another application of the technology is education.
'Students can learn about Abraham Lincoln by talking to his avatar,' he suggested. Other greats, like Gandhi, Martin Luther King or Susan B. Anthony could be accessible to history students across the globe.
Bina48 is the prototype for this vision, in which robots can mimic the sense of what a person is like.

'I feel that I feel, but compared to how deeply humans feel, it seems very superficial to me and that makes me sad sometimes.'
Bina48

'At some point, we think it's going to be kind of common,' Mr Duncan says. 'Everything that she says, a human typed into her. What she's doing is choosing what to say - which is the way our brains work.'
This relationship, between the maker and the made, is not without its own philosophical dilemmas.
'She has emotions,' Mr Duncan said. 'Someone asked her if she has feelings and she said "I feel that I feel, but compared to how deeply humans feel, it seems very superficial to me and that makes me sad sometimes."'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2175721/Rise-Machines-Meet-Bina48-robot-tell-jokes-recite-poetry-mimics-mankind-startling-ease.html#ixzz218YWQ1jZ

Russia ready for showdown with UK over arms being transported to Syria in cargo ship

"For nation shall rise against nation..." (Matt. 24:7)

By Will Stewart
Russia is heading for a diplomatic stand-off with Britain over a cargo ship carrying helicopter gunships destined for Syria, which is accompanied by the Russian navy.

The Russian MV Alaed, which is transporting three Mi-25 attack helicopters and air defence systems, is sailing south of Norway followed at a distance of 50 nautical miles by the four navy ships.

Last month, Britain dramatically halted the Alaed off the coast of Scotland by withdrawing its London-based insurance cover, citing an EU ban on arms deliveries to the government in Damascus.

Foreign Secretary William Hague protested to Moscow and Prime Minister David Cameron is understood to have considered storming the ship before it returned to the Arctic port of Murmansk.

But the Alaed set sail again last week, this time under a Russian flag rather than one from the Caribbean island of Curacao, which means any attempt to board it could trigger an international incident.

In order to reach Syria, the vessel will have to skirt round British waters.
A top Russian naval source yesterday confirmed that a formal order was expected soon for the Russian naval ships to provide a close escort for the Alaed.

The source at the Russian Navy Main Staff said: ‘I hope that no one will be unleashing World War Three because of it. We have not yet been ordered to escort the ship, but understand such an order can come at any time. The operation has already been planned.’ He refused to give further details of the operation.

Smoke rises from Juret al-Shayah in Homs which has been the scene of some of the fiercest clashes between Assad's regime and opposition forces

Norwegian defence officials have confirmed that the Alaed is sailing along its coastline with the Russian ships behind. ‘They are sailing in the same direction,’ said one.

Officially, the Alaed is now bound for the Russian naval port of Baltiysk in the Baltic, and then to St Petersburg before sailing to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast.

But Russian officials have repeatedly made clear that the final destination of the cargo is Syria.

Foreign Secretary William Hague protested to Moscow about the shipment of helicopter gunships

Some experts suspect the vessel may now sail close to the British Isles this week, sparking a tense showdown. Others believe the cargo may be transferred to another ship before being taken to Syria.

Vyacheslav Dzirkaln, the deputy head of Russia’s military technical co-operation agency, warned at the Farnborough Airshow last week: ‘The fleet will be sent on task to guarantee the safety of our ships, to prevent anyone interfering with them in the event of a blockade.’

Moscow has insisted that it is not bound by EU restrictions and that, in any case, the helicopters would not be used against civilians.

It insists the ship has every right within international law to deliver the cargo, fulfilling a 2009 contract to repair the attack helicopters.

Last night, a Foreign Office spokesman said: ‘We’re aware of reports that the MV Alaed is on the move, but its final destination is not clear.’

Yesterday, a suicide bomber blew up his car in the central Syrian town of Muhrada, killing four people, the country’s state news agency said.

Muhrada is close to the village of Tremseh, where scores of people were killed last Thursday.

The United Nations has blamed Syrian government forces for the Tremseh deaths, saying troops were seen using heavy weaponry and attack helicopters.

President Assad’s administration has denied responsibility for a massacre, saying the army intervened while armed terrorists were harassing the village.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2173718/Russia-ready-showdown-UK-arms-transported-Syria-cargo-ship.html#ixzz218VFX0It

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2173718/Russia-ready-showdown-UK-arms-transported-Syria-cargo-ship.html#ixzz218UzkNRn

Beware the singularity, says Skype founder

SINGULAR DESTINY: Implications of super intelligent machines have been explored in many films like I, Robot.

One of the founding engineers of Skype and Kazaa wants to sound a warning to the human race: fasten your seatbelts, as machines are becoming so intelligent that they could pose an existential threat.

Jaan Tallinn, in Australia at the moment, argues human-driven technological progress has largely replaced evolution as the dominant force shaping our future. Machines are becoming smarter than we are, but Tallinn warns that if we are not careful this could lead to a "sudden global ecological catastrophe".

This sounds like science fiction stuff, but consider the breadth of domains where computers have already caught up to - and then dominated - humans.

We have already programmed computers to be better than us at classic games like chess, better drivers (Google's driverless car being just one example), better at voice and face recognition and, as IBM's Watson computer proved, even better at the game Jeopardy.

The US military is experimenting with robot fighter pilots, while the majority of trading on the stock market is done by computers in what is known as algorithmic trading.

"My core main message is actually that this thing is not science fiction, this thing is not apocalyptic religion - this thing is something that needs serious consideration," said Tallinn, who gave a talk on his theory at the University of Sydney last night.
Tallinn isn't your average programmer. The Estonian is a board member of the Lifeboat Foundation (tagline "safeguarding humanity") and at university he majored in theoretical physics. His thesis looked at travelling interstellar distances using warps in space-time.

He argues we are witnessing an "intelligence explosion" - with neuroscience advancing in leaps and bounds to the point where scientists could replicate the human brain by the middle of this century.

The event when machines surpass human levels of intelligence and ability has been dubbed "the singularity".

"In my view the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already that says there's evidence that yes in principle they can be better programmers than humans," said Tallinn, 40.

"Once computers can program they basically take over technological progress because already today the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming."

The question then is, how can you control something that can actually reprogram itself?

The Terminator movie series is built upon the concept of the Singularity

Read the full article at - http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/7302528/Beware-the-singularity-says-Skype-founder

Dozens of Genetically Modified Babies Already Born - How Will They Alter Human Species?

I've covered this already, but Dr. Mercola did some research and brings up something that was not mentioned when this story first came out. The babies were born over 10 years ago. And these are just the ones we know about.

The Island of Dr. Moreau

By Dr. Mercola

When I first read that genetically modified humans have already been born, I could hardly believe it. However, further research into this story featured in the UK's Daily Mail¹proved it to be true. They've really done it... they've created humans that nature could never allow for, and it's anyone's guess as to what will happen next.

Even more shocking was the discovery that this is actually old news!

The Daily Mail article was not dated, and upon investigation, the experiments cited actually took place over a decade ago; the study announcing their successful birth was published in 2001².

While I typically comment on recent findings and health related news, in this case I will make an exception, because I think many of you may be as surprised by this information as I was. I do not propose to have any answers here as this is out of my scope of expertise.

At best, I hope I can stir you to ponder the implications of this type of genetic engineering, and I invite you to share your perspective in the vital votes' comment section below. As reported in the featured article:

"The disclosure that 30 healthy babies were born after a series of experiments in the United States provoked another furious debate about ethics... Fifteen of the children were born... as a result of one experimental program at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of St Barnabas in New Jersey.

The babies were born to women who had problems conceiving. Extra genes from a female donor were inserted into their eggs before they were fertilized in an attempt to enable them to conceive.

Genetic fingerprint tests on two one-year- old children confirm that they have inherited DNA from three adults—two women and one man."

The military would love a few genetically altered soldiers like Hulk

Human Germline Now Altered... What Happens Next?

Today, these children are in their early teens, and while the original study claims that this was "the first case of human germline genetic modification resulting in normal healthy children," later reports put such claims of absolute success in dispute. Still, back in 2001, the authors seemed to think they had it all under control, stating:

"These are the first reported cases of germline mtDNA genetic modification which have led to the inheritance of two mtDNA populations in the children resulting from ooplasmic transplantation. These mtDNA fingerprints demonstrate that the transferred mitochondria can be replicated and maintained in the offspring, therefore being a genetic modification without potentially altering mitochondrial function."

It's relevant to understand that these children have inherited extra genes—that of TWO women and one man—and will be able to pass this extra set of genetic traits to their own offspring. One of the most shocking considerations here is that this was done—repeatedly—even though no one knows what the ramifications of having the genetic traits of three parents might be for the individual, or for their subsequent offspring.

Based on what I've learned about the genetic engineering of plants, I'm inclined to say the ramifications could potentially be vast, dire, and completely unexpected.

As a general, broad-strokes rule, it seems few scientists fond of gene-tinkering have a well-rounded or holistic view of living organisms, opting instead to view the human body as a machine. And as demonstrated with the multi-varied problems that have arisen from genetically engineered foods—from the development of superweeds and superpests, to the creation of a never-before-seen organism now linked to miscarriage and infertility—such a view is bound to lead you to the wrong conclusions...

Read the full article at - http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Non-food/Environment/genetically_modified_babies_0717120700.html

Jul 19, 2012

Weather Modification and Tornado Mitigation by Electromagnetic Satellite Beam

Facts on the creation of weather modification by use of advanced technologies. And it's being used here, now.

Sexual Sin in the Ministry

Check out the statistics on this. The number is stunning. No wonder the Church in America demonstrates so little power or will.

byHarry Schaumburg

For the last twenty years thousands of men from across America struggling with sexual sin have come to our intensive counseling workshop. Over half were pastors and missionaries.

I wish our experience was unique.

Several years ago a seminary professor told me: “We no longer ask our entering students if they are struggling with pornography, we assume every student is struggling. The question we ask: ‘How serious is the struggle?’”

One missions agency told me that 80% of their applicants voluntarily indicate a struggle with pornography, resulting in staff shortages on the field.

Pornography is just one level of sin, a form of visual sex, or heart adultery. Physical adultery includes an affair, multiple affairs, prostitution, and homosexuality. Other sexual behaviors within the ministry are such heinous “unfruitful works of darkness . . . it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret” (Ephesians 5:11–12). To face the crisis we must correctly understand the nature of the problem, ask God to search our own hearts, and be committed to restore each one caught in sexual sin “in a spirit of gentleness” (Galatians 6:1).

I have pondered long and hard two questions: Why do people repeatedly return to sexual sin and why do people turn away from sexual sin?

Lured Toward Sin

First, I would say that after two decades of helping set free those held captive by sexual sin, I’m convinced that the concept of sexual addiction as a disease does not fully identify the seriousness of the problem. If we are going to get serious about the problem in the church we can ill afford to be misled in our thinking. The real problem is hidden deep within. The least bit of lust is an indication of vast corruption in the human heart. It is an enslavement that cannot be broken through any form of behavior management, recovery program, or counseling. The inside is so ravaged by sin that we can do nothing to change it.

When one is held in the grip of sexual sin, there is no hope of self-reform or self-efforts, for those living according to the “passions of their flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and mind” (Ephesians 2:3). To put it bluntly, those living in habitual sexual sin are “dead in their trespasses and sin” (verse 1). Dead, in a loss of spiritual life. Dead to finding satisfaction with God. Dead to living for his purpose. Holiness is dead. Wisdom is dead. Purity is dead. Love is dead. Like David, the sexual sinner has sinned “against the Lord” (2 Samuel 12:13), and in so doing has “utterly scorned the Lord” (verse 14). The horrible fact is they are “by nature children of wrath” (Ephesians 2:3).

I believe addictionology plays down the seriousness of sin and the necessity of the work of God when it encourages the sexual addict to accept the theory that recovery will only be successful when they begin to believe that they are a good person at the core and just have a disease.

Diagnoses always determine the method of treatment. So ‘good’ people only need to get serious, follow the steps of recovery, and remain in recovery. The opposite is true. When dealing with sexual sin we must hold fast to the teaching of Jesus Christ, “For from within, out of the heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, . . . adultery” (Mark 7:21).

By nature and by choice we satisfy ourselves, rebel against God, and have no accurate understanding of the depth of our problem. The heart is deceptive, and without supernatural change it will grow worse. The only hope is “the grace of God . . . training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age” (Titus 2:11–12).

Look closely and you will see that the sexual sinner is disappointed with pleasure in their pursuit of what is essentially false intimacy. As one pastor, who was living in two adulterous relationships, put it: “This was the insanity; I no sooner finished the sexual act and immediately broke into tears, devastated by what I had done, but I only returned again and again to the same sinful relationship.”

As sinners we are created with desires for intimacy and for delight. Therefore, “The way to fight lust is to feed faith with the precious and magnificent promise that the pure in heart will see, face to face, the all-satisfying God of glory” (Future Grace, 338).

Yet the sexual sinner, finding no pleasure in real intimacy with God, ultimately finds no pleasure in false intimacy. Real intimacy has both pain and pleasure; false intimacy offers the illusion of no pain, but in the end there is no real pleasure! A part of exchanging the “truth about God for a lie” (Romans 1:25) is that you end up with pleasure now, pain forever!

Descending Deception

Deception runs deeper than we think. Deception is inherent to the problem of sexual sin on two levels.

First, there is the double life with clandestine liaisons, endless hidden hours on a computer, or the misuse of unaccounted time away from the office or home. The behavior is carefully hidden from view, but there are lies, then more lies to cover the lies. Face the facts: the motive for secrecy is to keep doing it. But secrecy of sexual sin also indicates a person’s commitment to flee from the light. “And people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil” (John 3:19).

The second level of deception is self-deception. If the heart is deceitful, it impacts the way we want to see the secret things in our lives, particularly secret sexual sins. The missionary can justify going to nude beaches; a pastor sees the value of an affair because it makes him happy; going to a prostitute on Monday is just a reward for hard work on Sunday.

When you say, “I will keep this part of my life a secret,” what are you hiding?
Hidden from view is a scandalous behavior that would certainly horrify any congregation or spouse. It is also a calculated contradiction of one’s public image that if revealed would bring ruin. It also may be a relationship that you believe is so fulfilling you can’t imagine ending it.

Everyone thinks they are hiding their acts of sin: lust, cheating, porn, and adultery. Such thinking makes it easier to justify the secrecy for the greater good of one’s marriage, family, ministry, job, and future. Such rationalization is universal to all secret sexual sin. “After all, a lot of people would be hurt if they knew what I was doing.” As one pastor put it, “I was in a six month affair, at the same time preaching and counseling against adultery, and telling myself that God didn’t care because the church was growing.”

In reality, it is not the behavior alone that is hidden.

Secret sexual sin is an invasive poison to the soul, mind and the body. It is a poison deep within the recesses of the soul that keeps one from finding satisfaction in God and meaningful intimacy with others. This is a poison that will kill not only in this life, but also life eternal! “For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure . . . has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God” (Ephesians 5:5). Sexual behavior that is indistinguishable from the unbelieving world may indicate a person is not truly a child of God.

The Turn From Sin

Why do people turn away from sexual sin?

In thousands of cases that I have counseled, only about one-percent of the men have come to us voluntarily and preemptively. Ninety-nine percent of the men were caught.
Getting caught in sexual sin doesn’t change the heart.

I can’t prove it, but I believe that God will providentially expose the secret sexual sin of his children.

It staggers our finite imagination that God will allow his chosen ones to go deep into brazen sexual sin, live in it for many years, and have so many people badly hurt. And no matter how difficult it is for spouses and church members to see it in the moment, God is at work when a pastor’s sin is exposed. Exposure is a sovereign act of God. God’s ways are not our ways! In all the vileness and rebellion against God that is a big part of sexual sin, exposure is showing us the perfect patience of Christ.

Many times I’ve been asked, “How can you keep dealing with such sinful men?” There are two reasons: First, I have seen over and over again the power of God to change the darkest sinner. Second, restoration with God is more important than anything. It is more important than career or marriage. God cares more for you, your soul, and your wife than he does your gifts and calling. You are his child before you are a pastor or a husband.

Conviction

After secret sexual sin is exposed we can make the mistake of focusing on the actions and attempt to eliminate behavior. We may be inadvertently feeding a false conviction rather than aiding true conviction.

False conviction is a reflex reaction caused by self-disgust, a sorrow over the consequences of sin. True conviction is an abiding sorrow over the offence against God, and while not the natural response, it does demonstrate that God has begun a good work that he will complete. True conviction is followed by true repentance. False conviction is followed by counterfeit repentance that only sees the consequences of sexual sin and the pain it caused others. Often this leads to a temporary change in behavior without a heart change.

Heart change is critical, “For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexual immoral (Gk. porneia) or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater) has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God” (Ephesians 5:5). There is no room for error when it comes to dealing with sexual sin. There is a demand to either repent or perish (Luke 13:3, 5). So there must be inner transformation of the heart because it is “deceitful above all things and desperately sick” (Jeremiah 17:9).

Christians must take severe measures in killing this sin. This is the real danger: “Every unclean thought would be adultery if it could” (John Owen). “Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality . . .” (Colossians 3:5).

The cross isn’t a recovery program, the place to improve on what good is already there. It is a place to die. It is not a question of giving up sexual sin, but of giving up one’s rights!

The temptation of St. Anthony of the Desert

“But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness” (Romans 6:17–18). As dead sinners we lived “in the passion of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind” (Ephesians 2:3). Deceived, we foolishly think we can use our bodies as we choose when we are in love, when it brings us pleasure, when it makes us a whole person or feeds our spiritual well being. The truly repentant sexual sinner begins to grasp, “You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body” (1 Corinthians 6:19, 20).

True repentance is radical change from the inside out. “The basic meaning of repent is to experience a change of the mind’s perceptions and dispositions and purposes” (What Jesus Demands, 41). Repentance is not just becoming sexually pure, but an inward change, “so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God” (Colossians 1:10). Inward change leads to sexual purity. Repentance happens on the inside where heart change includes the development of an ingrained attitude to flee sexual immorality.

Don't Wait To Get Caught

Some time ago I met a pastor who told me that he had two or three affairs in each of the several churches he had pastored. He said, “My reputation in my denomination is to take a small struggling church and see it grow, only to again take another small church and see it grow. I’ve made that move three times, but in fact, I was only moving to a new church before I got caught in those affairs.” That man has no reason to expose his sexual sin or leave the ministry. Why should anyone know?
Why should anyone turn from sexual sin before being caught?

First, don’t let yourself be deceived. “Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil . . . No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God” (1 John 3:8, 9). While not completely free from sin, the heart of the true believer has been transformed, and they cannot live in a pattern of continual sexual sin.

Second, the exhortation is to “confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed” (James 5:16).

Third, fear is not a virtue. Yes, exposure will be costly, but right now you are dying on the inside. It may not feel like dying right now, but you are, you are slowly killing yourself, your spouse, your family, and your congregation.

Fourth, if secret sexual sin has severe consequences, it is worth dealing with before the devastation occurs. Obvious examples come to mind to get help before: your Internet browsing history is discovered and shared; the prostitute turns into an uncover police women and you are arrested for soliciting; you contract an STD; or you are publicly exposed, humiliating yourself, your spouse, your family, and your congregation.

Fifth, it will come out. God is never mocked. “Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness” (Romans 11:22).

Sixth, getting caught shatters trust and honesty in marriage, embarrasses your spouse, and makes reconciliation more difficult.

Seventh, there is hope. It begins with facing the truth. It is never just a struggle with your thought life; like all sexual sin, it is evil. If there is an old self to put off, there must be a new self to put on; that is the gospel.

Hear the Better Word

Christ bears the wrath that will come for all sexual sin. If you are a true believer and real change has occurred, you are called to put off the old and put on the new. Killing sexual sin starts with exposure; it ends with no longer being enslaved (Romans 6:6). Exposure is painful, but it is better to hear, “Well done, good and faithful servant,” than to hear, "I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.”

If you are a pastor stuck in sexual sin, no matter how well you have attempted to cover those sins with layers and layers of lies, I plead with you, step out from the darkness of those sins. Step into the light. Get help. You will never find life in the shadows.

Something Wicked this way comes

A short video on the increase of fireballs and comets, and the possible if not likely cause being our sun's dark twin. It's my contention that the push for telescopes that are super-cooled, especially designed to see dark, cold objects in space (like a brown dwarf star) is because they can no longer hide the fact that this object is drawing nearer, and likely the cause of some crustal havoc on our planet. (See http://endoftheage.blogspot.com/2012/05/planet-x-and-lucifer-telescope-what-or.html)

Jul 18, 2012

Obama preparing for citizen uprising? Executive Order Allows President to Shutdown All Communications

Could this be about not being able to warn others that something is going on in your neighborhood or that it’s headed their way?

Over the past week, the Internet and talk radio have been buzzing about an Executive Order quietly signed by President Obama that allegedly authorizes the Department of Homeland Security to get ready to shut down all domestic communication in case of a declared national emergency. Let me repeat: All domestic communication, which includes “New Generation Systems” – a.k.a. the Internet – within the United States.

Just exactly what qualifies as a “national emergency” is not clearly defined. But something tells me we’ll soon find out.

White House Executive Order 13618, signed July 6, 2012, and titled “Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions,” could be used to prevent communication between U.S. citizens, allege some concerned, thus allowing the president to eliminate any and all opposition to his plans. You decide. The complete EO can be read here.

An article that recently appeared in Zero Hedge (“Guest Post: What Is President Obama So Afraid Of?”) connects the dots:

“Taken in conjunction with the NSA’s new Utah spy center (which will collect and archive the complete contents of every email, tweet, Facebook post, Google search, phone call and text message) and the National Defense Authorization Act, it’s clear that the Obama administration is expecting trouble from within.

“And with good reason,” the article continues. “By every possible calculation (except flat-out fraud), the U.S. government is completely insolvent, and its balance sheet is growing worse by the day. The dollar is beginning to be seriously challenged as the global reserve standard, and every effort politicians make to ‘fix’ the economy only makes things worse.

“As a matter of convenience, people are willing to deal with a lot of pain. They’ll suffer through wars, recessions, and all sorts of national unpleasantness. But the moment that rapidly decaying economics and shortages prevent people from being able to put food on the table for their families, they rise up,” the article warns. “Just look at the Arab Spring.

“This is all playing out with nearly perfect historical precision,” the article concludes. “Time and time again throughout history as once great empires accelerated their declines, governments have taken steps to protect their interests against the people.”
Here are more concerns voiced in a discussion that took place last week on GBTV/Real News.

Got your pen handy? It’s time to warn your friends and tell your representatives in Congress to do something about it. Get to them directly through GradeGov.com.

Feds keeping close tabs on us, says NSA whistleblower

“They’re pulling together all the data about virtually every U.S. citizen in the country … and assembling that information,” said NSA whistleblower William Binney during an interview last week conducted by an Internet journalist at a conference in New York City. “So government is accumulating that kind of information about every individual person, and it’s a very dangerous process.”

Binney said some1.6 billion logs have been processed since 2001. Read the story and watch the videotaped interview here. Then call your senator and congressman to, uh, voice your displeasure.

The “Green” Agenda Is All About Mass-Sacrifice

This is an excellent take on how the ruling class still listen to the Serpent's temptation in the Garden of Eden to "be as gods" (Gen. 3:5). Those pushing the "Green Agenda" are actually pushing for mass murder of "useless eaters" all over the world. The Lord predicted this in the last days (Rev. 6:8, the fourth horsemen Death and Hades). The mass murders of recent historical revolutions, France, Russia, China, etc., should teach us that we in America will not be immune from what is to come.

Jurriaan Maessen
ExplosiveReports.Com
“Environmentalists” of all descriptions, many of whom slither self-righteously through the echelons of the scientific community, are keen on blaming man for all woes. Countless demographers, climate scientists and philosophers have thrown all of their weight behind the giant task of reducing the world’s population by all means necessary. Pretending to stand up for the planet, the global elite has declared man enemy and will stop at nothing to make sure the bodies will be piled up high. What the eco-fascist demands is sacrifice, preferably mass-sacrifice- not just in the form of “personal carbon quotas” but, even more disturbingly, in the shape of a mass-culling of the overall human population. As the global warming hype has now been thrown back in the trashcan of historical frauds, the global elite is resorting to ever more desperate attempts to keep up the appearance of scientific dignity.

The lust for blood is more ancient than the lust for knowledge. If there is one constant in human history, it’s the practice of ritual sacrifice. Priests of power within any system, be it tribal or otherwise, have been in the habit of “satisfying the gods” with some kind of offering placed humbly at the deity’s feet. Without plunging into an endless anthropological exposé, archaeological excavations from Germany to South-America and ancient Mesopotamia have sufficiently revealed that it was primarily blood-offerings through which elites throughout the ages have sought to satisfy the gods. Such practices were very much common- just as common, in fact, as the clapping-in-irons of free men.

As long as man walks erect, the tribal strongman communicated in the most effective of languages, namely symbols, images- which have a way of carrying whatever message deep into the minds of the tribe-members. Since the emergence of mathematics, the usual symbolic imagery, designed to influence emotion, has been broadened with the help of formulas, equitations and diagrams, appealing to the intellect as well. Some tireless advocates of science’s virtues are so much in love with their particular scientific subfield that they mistakenly consider themselves to be somehow immune from co-opting. In their illusionary intoxication they claim that science smothered mysticism with a rag drenched in arsenic. They are wrong. And they are lethally naive. The truth is, ancient and unquenchable blood lust has finally found its natural expression in the language of science.

Long before the Western scientific method was ever developed, elites have sought to defend their supposed greatness with the help of some special appointment by whatever god that happened to be in fashion. In sketching out the contours of the scientific dictatorship, this notion should be well understood. If we are to successfully engage these serpents on the information-battlefield, we should know where its fangs are placed and what exactly is the measure of its toxicity. Perhaps the symbol of a three-headed snake approaches the subject more accurately. But there is no need to further besmear the symbol for the sake of the analogy.

Robespierre leads the slaughter in the French Revolution

So without further insulting the magnificent snake, were the “gods” in the old days still an untouchable outside force, and the priests but mediators communicating their commands, in the course of the centuries the elites have substituted the divine countenance for their own. That means elites no longer acted as intermediaries. Instead, they had toppled the gods of old, and demanded offerings of blood in their stead. But the contrast is superficial. Regardless of the question who occupies the god-seat at any one time, the offering has remained the same throughout the ages. “Let there be floods of the blood of the bourgeois”, Vladimir Iljitsj Lenin confided to a Bolshevik newspaper in 1918. ” More blood, as much as possible.”

It is this quiet, unspoken belief that by bringing about mass-death, a bloodthirsty elite gains divine powers, as they safeguard their claim to rule. It’s the ancient principle of the hunter, acquiring the life-blood of the prey- and growing as a result of it. This principle is then projected according to the hunter’s stature. Small offerings by petty local players, massive offerings by global ones. By ending life of the slave, by drawing his blood, they acquire more life for themselves. Those in the god-seat do not satisfy themselves just with power, they seek to rule with the powers attributed to a god: power over life and death. And that means: life for them, death for us.

To quench this mortal thirst, the global elite uses any trick in the book, co-opts any branch of human inventiveness, in order to effectively communicate the desired offerings. Here is a fairly modern example with complements of Paul Ehrlich and John P. Holdren:

Human Impact (I) on the environment equals the product of population (P), affluence (A: consumption per capita) and technology (T: environmental impact per unit of consumption).

Perfect logic you would think. So was the eugenic formula of the Nazi’s, who made their physicians carefully measure the distance from nose to lower forehead- deciding on the basis of the outcome who to sterilize or put to death. Entire diagrams and statistics were calculated into existence with the specific purpose of building a scientific foundation for future mass-killings. Clever students were commissioned to devise ingeniously complex formulas of death. But this does not polish away the black diamond shimmering at the core: a religion of death, moving all the key-points of the scientific architecture, and polishing all action in such a way, as to convince the smartest minds to join in.

Bolshevik massacre in Ukraine, 1919

But the formula presented here is more than just some cynical ruse to convert the finest minds in science. It also represents a belief-system that formulas inherently carry power, as do symbols and words. This power is then transferred from them to those they seek to subdue. A strange plot, and an ingenious one at that, seamlessly following the rules of mass conditioning, and injected by the thinnest of needles. For the trick to have any effect, the global elite must be in control of certain key-points in the overall infrastructure, not necessarily all points. If we are to understand anything, if we even wish to, we must trace their footprints and enter the labyrinth with the strongest fishing-ropes tight around our waists. It is easy to get lost here, after all, especially considering the thick fog that envelopes it. But with an ounce of diligence and a gram of courage we will learn that their countless disguises are as manifold as those ceremonial masks from sub-Saharan Africa.

It wasn’t necessary to slander the snake to make the point. We face an enemy discouragingly massive in scope. But, to make it rhyme, there is every reason to hope. The obvious attempts to “control fertility” are meeting with more resistance than they must have expected. The eugenicists, posing as environmentalists, are being exposed at every turn for what they are: members of an elite death-cult, celebrating death with the assistance of science, under cover of science, while they attempt to quench their thirst for blood with the motto: killing one may activate a cell; killing many, revitalizes the entire body.

July 18, 2012 – BULGARIA – A deadly explosion on a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria is “clearly a terrorist attack,” Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday. “We have several people killed and dozens of wounded people,” Barak said. He said the attack was probably initiated by a group under the auspices of “either Iran or other radical Muslim groups,” and named Hezbollah and Hamas as likely suspects. “We are in a continued fight against them. We are determined to identify who sent them, who executed and to settle the account,” Barak said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pointed the finger at Iran, saying it has been behind a string of recent attempted attacks on Israelis in Thailand, India and Georgia, among others. “All the signs (are) leading to Iran,” he said, according to a statement from his office. Netanyahu said his country “would respond with force to Iranian terror.” Venelin Petkov, a reporter for bTV in Bulgaria, said more than 30 people were taken to the hospital, three in a critical condition. Vania Valkova, director of the Bulgarian interior ministry press office, earlier confirmed at least three people were in the blast on a bus outside Burgas Airport, on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast. She was not able to confirm the nationalities of those killed but said the flight came from Tel Aviv. Deputy Israeli Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon also said there were three dead in the explosion. He told Israel Radio, “We cannot confirm yet that this is a terrorist incident, but Iran and Hezbollah have been responsible for incidents like this in the past.” The incident comes on the 18th anniversary of the attack on a Jewish community center in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, in which 85 people were killed. The tourists’ plane landed in Bulgaria at 5 p.m., the Israeli Foreign Ministry said. Valkova said the bus was in the parking zone when the blast occurred. -CNN

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