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Sep 8, 2012
2 tornadoes strike in NYC; no injuries reported
KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press
This photo provided by Joey Mure, shows a storm cloud over the Breezy Point area of Queens section of New York, on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. A Fire Department spokesman said there were power lines down and possibly other damage in the Point Breeze section of the Rockaway peninsula in Queens. The general manager of the Breezy Point Surf Club tells the Associated Press the storm ripped up cabanas and even picked up industrial-sized metal trash bins. The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Queens and Brooklyn as a line of strong thunderstorms moved through the city. The service said radar detected a "strong rotation" in the storm, but there was no immediate confirmation that a twister actually formed. Photo: Joey Mure / AP
Nicaragua’s San Cristóbal volcano erupts with 4 km ash plume
September 8, 2012 – NICARAGUA – Nicaragua’s tallest volcano belched an ash plume up to 2 1/2 miles (4 km) into the atmosphere on Saturday, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of nearby residents who heard eruptions emanating from its crater. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, authorities said. The 5,725-foot (1,745-meter) San Cristóbal volcano, located about 95 miles (150 km) north of the capital Managua in the country’s volcano-dotted northwest, has been active in recent years, and stirred in mid-2008, when it expelled gas and rumbled with a series of small eruptions. The government expects to evacuate about 3,000 people from around San Cristobal, though numerous families already have done so on their own, said Guillermo Gonzalez, who heads Sinapred, a government emergency and disaster relief agency. “We already have nearly the entire apparatus underway,” Gonzalez said. “A response plan exists for volcanic eruptions and every community has clearly defined places for people to go to once they are evacuated,” he said. A gas and ash plume stretched between 2 and 2 1/2 miles (3.5 and 4 km) into the atmosphere, Gonzalez said. The Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies, which monitors the country’s volcanoes, said in a preliminary report that “more gas emissions and sporadic explosions” could be expected from San Cristobal. The volcano is one of the most active along Nicaragua’s Pacific coast, according to the institute, and often averages nearly 100 daily seismic movements. Government spokeswoman Rosario Murillo earlier said authorities were still assessing the strength of the volcanic activity. As many as 20,000 people could ultimately be affected, she said. –Euro News
6.1 magnitude earthquake hits Papua, Indonesia: one more sign ‘day of reckoning’ fast approaching
Major earthquakes in and around Indonesia over the last 90 days are indication stresses in the region are intensifying
September 8, 2012 – INDONESIA - A moderately strong earthquake has hit eastern Indonesia, causing panic among residents, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. No tsunami warning was issued. The U.S. Geological Survey says the 6.1-magnitude quake struck off the eastern province of Papua. It says it was fairly shallow, just 20 kilometers beneath the sea, which often causes more shaking than deeper quakes. Witnesses said shocked residents and hotel guests in Nabire town ran outside screaming. Indonesia’s meteorology and geophysics agency said there was no danger of a tsunami. Indonesia has frequent earthquakes because of its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin. –The Australian
Indonesia: Increasing seismicity, growing volcanic unrest, and the largest intra-plate strike-slip earthquakes ever recorded (April 11), are all indications seismic unrest and agitation along tectonic plates is intensifying around Indonesia. The day of reckoning is approaching. The country is home to more than 136 active volcanoes, including about 76 of which are said to have erupted during the Holocene period. The turbulent geology both in and around Indonesia, has placed the region in the cross-hairs of the geologic dynamism and change stirring across the planet. The chances of another VEI 7 Tambora-type eruption occurring in the near future, from a volcano somewhere in the Indonesian archipelago volcanic chain, are also high. Such a large-scale volcanic eruption today would have devastating and almost incalculable consequences on most of the world. –The Extinction Protocol
Sep 7, 2012
The Memra (The Word)
by Bro. Mark
In his Gospel, the Apostle John tells us that, in the beginning, the Word was with God and the Word was God. Christians understand that John was speaking about Jesus. A new convert may be taught that this is correct, but would he understand why? Do you understand why the Word is Christ?
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When the Jews (the houses of Judah and Benjamin) returned to Jerusalem from Babylonian and Persian captivity, they began to read the law. Ezra, the scribe, (ספר, saphar) and several other scribes began to teach the people the law. They set the text in order so that it could be read and understood and make sense to the people. Those scribes are named in Nehemiah 8:6-7, “And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground. {7} Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.” These scribes, or sopherim, (ספרים-sapharym, the plural of saphar) preferred, out reverence for His Ineffable Name, not to express the Name of God, Yehovah (יהוה). They preferred not to speak it, or write it. Therefore they substituted Adonai (אדני), or LORD in many instances where the word Yehovah occurred. My source for this information is Dr. E.W. Bullinger. He wrote,
“Out of extreme (but mistaken) reverence for the Ineffable Name “Jehovah”, the ancient custodians of the Sacred Text substituted in many places “Adonai” (see Ap. 4. viii. 2). These, in the A.V. and R.V., are all printed “Lord”. In all these places we have printed it “LORD*”, marking the word with an asterisk in addition to the note in the margin, to inform the reader of the fact.”
According to Bullinger, there were 134 substitutions:
“The official list given in the Massorah (§§ 107-15, Ginsburg’s edition) contains the 134.”
They also changed the word God ( אלהים, elohim) into Adonai in several places where it was obvious that the text was speaking of Yehovah.
For the very same reason, that God’s Holy name was unspeakable, the Targums, which are the Aramaic translations of the Old Testament, changed all instances (according to Karol Joseph, at Jews for Jesus) where God appeared in person to man. They changed the word Yehovah or Yehovah Elohim, in those cases, to the ‘Word’ or the memra. (The Aramaic for ‘word’ is memra, which we will learn about in this study.)
View the Bibliography, if you wish.
Definitions:
Memer, or ma’amar מאמר, Strong’s 3982 and 3983, an Aramaic word meaning: word, command, appointment.
It comes from the Aramaic, אמר, Strong’s 565, ‘imrah, or ‘emrah (em’-raw). It means commandment, speech, or word. It is the equivalent of logos (λογος), Strong’s 3056, in the Greek.
It is clear from the Scriptures that no human can see God face to face and survive. Here are some examples:
Gen 32:30 “And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
Exo 33:20 “And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.”
Judg 6:22-23 “And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face. {23} And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.”
Isa 6:5 “Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.”
(Alas is an expression usually uttered at death or impending death)
But there are many places in the Bible where men did see the LORD and live. For example, Jacob wrestled with God and did not die. The LORD appeared to Abraham at the trees of Mamre. There He made a covenant with Abraham. It was also there that Abraham pleaded with the LORD for Lot who resided in Sodom. Abraham did not die. Appearances of God to men are called Theophanies. There are many Theophanies in the Bible. The Lord appeared face to face to Adam, Eve, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Gideon, Manoah and his wife, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and others. Sometimes it is an appearance of the LORD Almighty on His throne in glorified form (such as in Isaiah and Ezekiel) and other times He appears as the Angel of the LORD and yet other times He appears as a man. But He did appear to many men and women in the Bible.
Theophanies were a problem for the Israelites (which are Jews in this context–the return from captivity). They did not want to make God to seem human. The Sopherim were the scribes who set the text of the Hebrew Bible in order after the return from Babylonian captivity. Because of their exceptional reverence for the inexpressible Name of Yehovah they substituted the name Adonai (LORD) in the place of Yehovah. Every place in the KJV and several other versions that you see the word ‘LORD’ (some versions, LORD) in all caps, that is where the Sopherim substituted Adonai for Yehovah. That is why the King James Version uses the word LORD in the place of most uses of the name Yehovah (more commonly, Jehovah). That is also why many Jews will write the words LORD and God thus: L_ _D and G_d. This same reverence for the Name of God can be seen as reverence of His Person as well.
In those cases mentioned above, the memra, or Word, shared the nature of God and at the same time was a messenger from God. Hence the phrase, the Angel of the LORD, because an angel is a messenger of God. The Angel of the LORD is a theophany or a manifestation of God to man, that is, God coming face to face with man. A good example is the Garden of Eden:
Since the Jews did not like Theophanies, they also substituted another word for God when He appeared to men. In the Targums, which are the Aramic versions of the Old Testament, the word memra is used in every instance of an appearance of God to men or God speaking to a man. This use of the memra rationalized every appearance of God to man. For example, in Genesis 3:8, “And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden”, the Targums replace the phrase “the LORD God” (יהוה אלהים-yehovah elohim) with מימרא (memra, spelled mymra or mimra).
Masoretic: וישׁמעו את־קול יהוה אלהים, wayisme-u et-qol yhwy elohim, “So heard they the voice of Yehovah Elohim.” In the Hebrew here, Yehovah Elohim is underscored.Targummim: ושׁמעו ית קל מימרא, usme-u it qol mimra, “So heard they the voice of memra“, or “They heard the voice of the Word.” In the Hebrew here, memra is underscored. (This information is from The Targummim of the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project. See Bibliography.)
Memra is the Aramaic for “word”, which, in the Greek, is Logos. The concept of the memra is derived from Psalm 33:6: “By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.” The root Hebrew for ‘word’ here is dabar. In the text, the inflected word is bidabar-”by the word”. This verse accurately correlates with John 1:3, “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”
Examples:
Psa 147:15 “He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.”
Isa 55:10-11 “For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: {11} So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”
In the passage from the Psalms, the Word is shown as running like a man. And in Isaiah the Word goes out and accomplishes the will of God.
According to the Jews for Jesus site, the Targums are filled with the memra, the Word of God, but the Talmud is silent on the issue. That is because the Talmud was written after the advent of Christ and the rabbis suppressed it in reaction to Christianity. They did not wish to connect Jesus of Nazareth with the memra. That would have been an admission that Jesus was indeed God with us, for the Word or memra is a Theophany. Jesus the Christ was the ultimate Theophany.
Let me quote from the Jewish Encyclopedia:
“In the ancient Church liturgy, adopted from the Synagogue, it is especially interesting to notice how often the term Logos, (this is the Greek word for the memra) in the sense of ‘the Word by which God made the world, or made His Law or Himself known to man,’ was changed into ‘Christ.’ Possibly on account of the Christian dogma, rabbinic theology, outside of the Targum literature, made little use of the term ‘Memra.’”The Jewish Encyclopedia, New York and London, 1904, p. 465.
And from the Catholic Encyclopedia:
“In Palestinian Rabbinism the Word (memra) is very often mentioned, at least in the Targums: it is the memra of Jahveh which lives, speaks, and acts, but, if one endeavour to determine precisely the meaning of the expression, it appears very often to be only a paraphrase substituted by the Targumist for the name of Jahveh. The memra resembles the Logos of Philo as little as the workings of the rabbinical mind in Palestine resembled the speculations of Alexandria: the rabbis are chiefiy concerned about ritual and observances; from religious scruples they dare not attribute to Jahveh actions such as the Sacred Books attribute to Him; it is enough for them to veil the Divine Majesty under an abstract paraphrase, the Word, the Glory, the Abode, and others. Philo’s problem was of the philosophic order; God and man are infinitely distant from each other, and it is necessary to establish between them relations of action and of prayer; the Logos is here the intermediary.”The Catholic Encyclopedia Copyright © 1907-1914 by Robert Appleton Company Online Edition Copyright © 1999 by Kevin Knight.
We can see that the Divine Logos was a concept fully accepted by the Jews at the time of Christ. When John wrote his Gospel, he was fully aware of the use of the word memra as an appearance of God to men. It was common usage during his day. When he penned these words, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” and “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” (John 1:1 and 14), he was using the exact theme as the writers of the Targums did when they translated the text into Aramaic. In fact, if he had written in Aramaic, he would have actually used the word, memra. By doing so he was portraying Christ as sharing the nature of God (that is being God) and also as a messenger from God (This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him-Matthew17:5).
Jewish theologians of John’s era have ascribed six attributes to the memra. John assigned every attribute to Jesus in the first chapter of his gospel. The attributes are:
- The memra is individual and yet the same as God (John 1:1-”and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”).
- The memra was the instrument of creation (John 1:3-”All things were made by Him” and John 1:10-”the world was made by him”).
- The memra was the instrument of salvation (John 1:12-”But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name”).
- The memra was the visible presence of God or Theophany (John 1:14-”And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us”).
- The memra was the covenant maker (John 1:17-”For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ”).
- The memra was the revealer of God (John 1:18-”No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him”).
John 1:1-18 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. {2} The same was in the beginning with God. {3} All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. {4} In him was life; and the life was the light of men. {5} And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. {6} There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. {7} The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. {8} He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. {9} That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. {10} He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. {11} He came unto his own, and his own received him not. {12} But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: {13} Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. {14} And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. {15} John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. {16} And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. {17} For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. {18} No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.”
These attributes are proof positive that John was following the Jewish model and he was showing that Jesus was indeed the Messiah.
One other point. Philo of Alexandra (AKA Philo Judaeus) was a Jewish philosopher of the early first century. He is known as the Greatest Jewish Philosopher. He was also a Greek philosopher. Philo tried to explain the Theophanies as the Word of God to the Greeks. When he did so, he used the Aramaic word memra. Modern Jewish apologists will try to tell you that because Philo used the concept, the Divine Word of God was appropriated from the pagan religions of the Hellenistic world at the time. They want to belittle Christianity as a man made religion derived from paganism. The fact is that in the Targums, the word memra is extant even today. The writers of the Targums were fully aware of this concept. Therefore, when you hear the Philo argument, it is a false argument. Just remind the person trying to tell you this that the Word of God was a Jewish concept and not a pagan concept. Remind him of the Targums. Tell him about this study.
Bibliography.
Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius Lexicon, Public Domain
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Copyright © 1907-1914 by Robert Appleton Company, Online Edition © 1999 by Kevin Knight.
The Companion Bible, King James Version, 1990, Kregel Publications, Appendices 30-33.
The Complete Word Study Dictionary, © 1992 By AMG International, Inc. Chattanooga, TN 37422, U.S.A., Revised edition, 1993
Correspondence About The Trinity, by Karol Joseph, © 2001, Jews For Jesus, Inc.
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (BDAG), Third Edition, © 2000 by The University of Chicago Press
The Hebrew & Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (HALOT), © 1994 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. All rights reserved
The Jewish Encyclopedia, © 1904, New York and London
John, the Pharisees, and Memra, © 2000, Carl J. Stevens
Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, © 1990, Thomas Nelson Publishers
The Targumim, Dr. Stephen Kaufman, © 2003 by the Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, 3101 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220
2012 Obama vs Romney: the illusion of choice
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Come November, the American people will be faced with two distinct options; reelect President Barack Obama or vote for Mitt Romney. The liberal Democrat and the Republican conservative seem to stand in stark contrast. They come from different backgrounds and have different views on most social issues like same-sex marriage, abortion, immigration. On the surface, Romney and Obama appear to be conflicting in ideas and ideals on all fronts. The popular perception is that Romney and Obama represent polices that are polar opposites of each other. |
But this perception is absolutely false.
In reality, when it comes to the most critical issues effecting America today, like national debt, bank and corporate bailouts, monetary policy, foreign policy, military, civil liberties, Constitution, etc., the range of difference in their policies spans from non-existent to marginal.
The media wants you to think that this election is about abortion and gay marriage. It is not.
As important as those issues are, clearly, the top three priorities for American people right now are the financial crisis, the unending wars and the erosion of our Constitution.
The future of America will be determined by the policies affecting these three crucial topics. Consequently, the focus of this election should be centered on Obama’s and Romney’s proposed policies dealing with this threefold crisis.
1. Financial Crisis
Our national debt, rising deficit and broken monetary system are pushing the country towards an economic collapse. Bailouts, stimulus packages and quantitative easing aimed at improving the economy are instead setting up America for an even bigger financial meltdown. The systematic debasement of U.S. dollar by the Federal Reserve is fueling inflation and rising prices. As the unemployment rate continues to gain pace, the working middle class is being pushed down into poverty. Incredibly, over 100 million Americans are now dependent on some form of government aid.
2. Unending Wars
America’s interventionist foreign policy has led the United States into multiple unsustainable wars and is threatening to entangle our nation into more unnecessary conflicts around the globe. Peace has become something of a dirty word in Washington foreign-policy circles. But the American people are rightly weary of overseas nation building and war profiteering under the guise of spreading democracy. The previous administration was caught manufacturing false claims of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The same tricks are being used now to involve America in the conflict in Syria and start a fresh war with Iran at the cost of more American lives.
3. Erosion of our Constitution
Since the year 2000 Americans have watched in silence and disbelief as the executive branch declared itself to be above the law, its powers absolute, surpassing even the authority of our Constitution. With each new piece of legislation authorizing brazen violations of Constitutionally protected civil rights such as NDAA, we are steadily morphing into the society depicted in Orwell’s 1984. The Patriot Act, warrant-less wire taps, nude scanners, cell tracking, air drone spying, TSA groping, overaggressive law enforcement, indefinite detention, suspension of the 2nd and 4th amendments, assassinations of American citizens, etc., draws fierce criticism from the American public, alarmed at the government’s new trend of flagrant disregard for the Constitution.
These three topics are of utmost importance and will have the biggest impact on all Americans in the coming four year term.
Exactly how the next president of the United States plans to handle these pressing issues should determine the course of this election.
So, how would Romney stack up against Obama in this regard? Does Obama have better proposals to deal with these issues than Romney? Which one of them would be most effective in fixing the economy, ending wars and restoring the Constitution?
At the end of the day, the answer to this question should be the deciding factor for your vote.
Mainstream media’s election coverage does little to help answer this question. Meaningless points and useless information is regurgitated ad nauseam. False claims and counter claims by both candidates just leave the public more misinformed and confused.
But if you disregard the hype in the media and take the time to conduct a serious analysis of Obama’s and Romney’s policies on these issues, you will come away with a startling conclusion. It turns out, in matters of critical importance, the real distinction between Obama and Romney is style rather than substance. Ironically, Obama and Romney support and oppose the same exact policies, making them virtually indistinguishable on these top three points.
Here’s a short and incomplete breakdown:
Both Obama and Romney Support:
- Bailouts, the “too big to fail” concept, stimulus packages, quantitative easing and deficit spending
- Sending our troops to protect others borders and sending our money to foreign dictators
- Interventionist foreign policy from the Bush era
- Federal restrictions on gun ownership
- Patriot Act
- Spying on American citizens without warrants
- Indefinite detention of American citizens without charge, trial or lawyer
- Assassinations of American citizens without due process!
- Balancing the budget in less than 30 years
- Paying down the national debt
- States rights to make their own laws
- A Government that consistently obeys the Constitution!
If you were not aware of this until today, it’s only because the purpose of the mainstream press is to shape your opinion rather than to give you an accurate assessment of each candidate’s position on the most critical issues. Instead, they will focus your attention on same-sex marriage, abortion and birth control. The arguments, debates, smear campaigns and distortions in the media are there to give you an illusion of freedom of choice. If you’re pro-life and you can’t stand Obama, you get to vote for the Right, and if you’re for gay marriage and you hate Romney, you can pick the Left. But the truth is both the Left and the Right option lead to the same destination: more wars, more debt and more lies.
Read the full article at - http://www.crisishq.com/why-prepare/the-illusion-of-choice/
The river that DID run red: Residents of Chinese city left baffled after Yangtze turns scarlet
By Daily Mail Reporter
It is the last thing the residents of Chongqing would have expected to see.
But the Yangtze river, which runs through the city in south-western China, turned a bright shade of orange-red yesterday.
The waterway where the Yangtze met the Jialin River provided a fascinating contrast as the red started to filter into the other river.
Others were so amazed that they collected samples in water bottles.
Although the cause is yet to be determined, this is not the first time a river has turned red in China.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199800/The-river-DID-run-red-Residents-Chinese-city-left-baffled-Yangtze-turns-scarlet.html#ixzz25pJrN2NC
It is the last thing the residents of Chongqing would have expected to see.
But the Yangtze river, which runs through the city in south-western China, turned a bright shade of orange-red yesterday.
The waterway where the Yangtze met the Jialin River provided a fascinating contrast as the red started to filter into the other river.
Meeting point: A ship sails across the junction of the polluted Yangtze River (left) and the Jialin River in Chongqing, China, yesterday
Shock: The Yangtze river, which runs through the city in south-western China, turned a bright shade of orange-red yesterday
Dirty/clean: A ship sails across the junction of the Yangtze River and the Jialin River at the exact spot where the dyed river starts to bleed into the Jialin
In the thick of it: A fisherman goes about his daily business
While officials investigate the cause of the colouring, one fisherman went about his daily business as if nothing had happened.Others were so amazed that they collected samples in water bottles.
Although the cause is yet to be determined, this is not the first time a river has turned red in China.
Last December, the Jian River in the city of Luoyang, in the north Henan province, turned red after becoming polluted by a powerful dye.
The dye was being dumped into the city's storm drain network by two illegal dye workshops.
Officials raided the factories to shut them down, and then disassembled their machinery.
According to chapter 16, verse 4 of the Bible's book of Revelations, one of the signs that Armageddon is near will be an angel pouring a bowl into the rivers, turning them into blood.
The dye was being dumped into the city's storm drain network by two illegal dye workshops.
Officials raided the factories to shut them down, and then disassembled their machinery.
According to chapter 16, verse 4 of the Bible's book of Revelations, one of the signs that Armageddon is near will be an angel pouring a bowl into the rivers, turning them into blood.
Bizarre: The red river gave Chongqing an apocalyptic appearance yesterday
Check it out! Some residents were so amazed that they collected samples in water bottles
Close-up: Whatever it was that dyed the river was almost orange in colour
Irregular occurrence: A couple make the most of the rare opportunity to get up close to a red river
Thick dye: The Yangtze river washes up on and stains a tiled floor
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199800/The-river-DID-run-red-Residents-Chinese-city-left-baffled-Yangtze-turns-scarlet.html#ixzz25pJrN2NC
The Message From Both Parties Is That Americans Are Disposable
Paul Craig RobertsInfowars.com
If political conventions are ranked on a one to ten scale for intelligence, I give the Republican Convention zero and the Democrats one.
How can the United States be a superpower when both political parties are unaware of everything that is happening at home and abroad?
The Republicans are relying for victory on four years of anti-Obama propaganda and their propriety programed electronic voting machines. For nearly four years Republican operatives have flooded the Internet with portraits of Obama as a non-US citizen, as a Muslim (even while Obama was murdering Muslims in seven countries), and as a Marxist (put in power by the Israel Lobby, Wall Street, and the military/security complex).
Most Republican voters will vote against Obama based on these charges despite the curious fact that no committee in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives held a hearing to determine if Obama is a citizen. If Obama were not a citizen, why would the very aggressive House Republicans not capitalize on it. It would be easy for a Congressional committee to determine if Obama were a citizen. Despite the propaganda, the Republicans in office have shown no interest in the propaganda charges spread by Republican operatives over the Internet.
Either Republicans have no confidence in the charges and do not want to end up proving with Congressional hearings that Obama is a citizen, or the Republicans, having destroyed every other aspect of the US Constitution, reducing it to “a scrap of paper,” feel that making an issue of the last remaining Constitutional provision other than the Second Amendment would be the height of hypocrisy and don’t want to risk opening the constitutional issues that Republicans have run roughshod over.
If the Republicans can destroy habeas corpus, due process, violate both US statutory and international law, ignore the separation of powers, and create a Caesar, why can’t the Democrats run a non-citizen?
Why didn’t the Republican convention raise the issue about the Obama regime’s claim that the executive branch has the power to assassinate US citizens without due process of law? No such power exists in the US Constitution or in US statutory law. This gestapo police state claim exists only as an assertion. Republicans ignored this most important of all issues, because they support it.
Read the full article at - http://www.infowars.com/the-message-from-both-parties-is-that-americans-are-disposable/
If political conventions are ranked on a one to ten scale for intelligence, I give the Republican Convention zero and the Democrats one.
The Republicans are relying for victory on four years of anti-Obama propaganda and their propriety programed electronic voting machines. For nearly four years Republican operatives have flooded the Internet with portraits of Obama as a non-US citizen, as a Muslim (even while Obama was murdering Muslims in seven countries), and as a Marxist (put in power by the Israel Lobby, Wall Street, and the military/security complex).
Most Republican voters will vote against Obama based on these charges despite the curious fact that no committee in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives held a hearing to determine if Obama is a citizen. If Obama were not a citizen, why would the very aggressive House Republicans not capitalize on it. It would be easy for a Congressional committee to determine if Obama were a citizen. Despite the propaganda, the Republicans in office have shown no interest in the propaganda charges spread by Republican operatives over the Internet.
Either Republicans have no confidence in the charges and do not want to end up proving with Congressional hearings that Obama is a citizen, or the Republicans, having destroyed every other aspect of the US Constitution, reducing it to “a scrap of paper,” feel that making an issue of the last remaining Constitutional provision other than the Second Amendment would be the height of hypocrisy and don’t want to risk opening the constitutional issues that Republicans have run roughshod over.
If the Republicans can destroy habeas corpus, due process, violate both US statutory and international law, ignore the separation of powers, and create a Caesar, why can’t the Democrats run a non-citizen?
Why didn’t the Republican convention raise the issue about the Obama regime’s claim that the executive branch has the power to assassinate US citizens without due process of law? No such power exists in the US Constitution or in US statutory law. This gestapo police state claim exists only as an assertion. Republicans ignored this most important of all issues, because they support it.
Read the full article at - http://www.infowars.com/the-message-from-both-parties-is-that-americans-are-disposable/
China earthquakes damage 20,000 homes: leaves 64 dead, 715 injured
September 7, 2012 – CHINA - A series of earthquakes collapsed houses and triggered landslides in a remote mountainous part of southwestern China on Friday, killing at least 64 people with the toll expected to rise. Damage was preventing rescuers from reaching some outlying areas, and communications were disrupted. The quakes started with a 5.6-magnitude shock before 11:30 a.m. along the borders of Guizhou and Yunnan provinces, and another equally big quake struck shortly after noon followed by more than 60 aftershocks, Chinese and U.S. government seismologists said. Though of moderate strength, the quakes were shallow, which often causes more damage. Hardest hit was Yiliang County, where 49 of the 50 deaths occurred, said Yunnan province government agencies and state media. Another 715 people in the county were injured, said Zhang Junwei, a spokesman for the provincial seismology bureau. China Central Television showed roads littered with rocks and boulders, and pillars of dust rising over hillcrests — signs of landslides. Footage showed a couple hundred people crowding into what looked like a school athletic field in Yiliang’s county seat, a sizeable city spread along a river in a valley bottom. With some roads impassable, rescuers had yet to reach some outlying villages and towns, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Though quakes in the area occur frequently, buildings in rural areas and China’s fast-growing smaller cities and towns are often constructed poorly. In 2008, a magnitude-7.9 quake that hit Sichuan province, just north of Yunnan, killed nearly 90,000 people, with many of the deaths blamed on poorly built structures, including schools. Xinhua said Friday’s quakes destroyed or damaged 20,000 homes. The Yunnan seismology bureau said and more than 100,000 people were evacuated from their homes. All told, Xinhua said, 700,000 people had their lives disrupted by the quake. In Luozehe, a town in Yiliang near a zinc mine, residents and state media said boulders hurtled off hillsides and houses collapsed. “It is scary. My brother was killed by falling rocks. The aftershocks struck again and again. We are so afraid,” Xinhua quoted miner Peng Zhuwen as saying. A government official in Jiaokui town said a large number of houses had collapsed. “The casualty number is still being compiled. I don’t know what was like for the other towns, but my town got hit badly,” he said. Like many Chinese officials he refused to give his name. Mobile phone services were down and regular phone lines disrupted. Phones were cut off to clinics in four villages in Qiaoshan, another town in Yiliang, which has about half a million people. Xinhua said thousands of tents, blankets and coats were being shipped to the area. It said that so far no casualties had been reported in neighboring Guizhou, but that homes had been damaged or destroyed there. Friday’s quakes were relatively shallow, about 6 miles or 10 kilometers deep, creating an intense shaking even at a lower magnitude. -CSM
Israeli attack on Iran will cause 'apocalypse' in region: Turkish PM
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says there is a "very null probability” that Israel will launch a full-scale attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, warning that such a strike could cause an “apocalypse” in the entire region.
"I do not believe Israel will attack Iran…It's a very null probability. Otherwise would have caused an apocalypse in the entire region," Erdogan said in an interview with CNN when asked about an Israeli possible attack on Iran over its nuclear energy program.
"But I'm sure that I don't want to see anything like that happening in the region because in this day and age, that region needs peace and prosperity and stability," he added.
Israel has repeatedly threatened to attack Iran's nuclear facilities based on unsubstantiated claims that the nuclear activities of the Islamic Republic have been diverted to the acquisition of military nuclear capability.
Iran rejects the allegations, arguing that as a committed signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it has the right to use the nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
The Tel Aviv regime has recently stepped up its aggressive rhetoric against Iran with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah and Minister for Military Affairs Ehud Barak spearheading the belligerent campaign despite warnings by former and current Israeli security and intelligence officials against such a military action.
Iranian officials have promised a crushing response to any military strike against the country, warning that any such measure could result in a war that would spread beyond the Middle East.
Story from - http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/09/06/260118/israel-attack-on-iran-apocalypse-turkey/
Japan not ready for Mt Fuji eruption
Pressure under Japan’s Mt. Fuji volcano rising: eruption would be nightmare for Japan
September 7, 2012 – JAPAN - Pressure in the magma chamber of Japan’s Mount Fuji is now higher than it was the last time the volcano erupted more than 300 years ago, scientists say, according to a report Thursday. Tectonic shifts triggered by last year’s huge 9.0 magnitude undersea quake have left the chamber under 16 times the minimum pressure at which an eruption can occur, researchers said. Researchers at the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention studied the tectonic movements caused by the tsunami-triggering quake on March 11, 2011 and a magnitude 6.4 quake that rocked central Japan four days later, Kyodo News reported. They estimated that 1.6 megapascals of pressure, equivalent to atmospheric pressure of some 15.8 kilograms per square centimeter (226 pounds per square inch), was being exerted on the magma chamber. Volcanic eruptions can be triggered by as little as 0.1 megapascals of pressure, and the reading of 1.6 megapascals is “not a small figure,” said senior researcher Eisuke Fujita, according to Kyodo. Mount Fuji, an almost perfectly cone-shaped mountain that stands as one of Japan’s national symbols, last erupted in 1707, after an earthquake struck and boosted the pressure on its magma chamber, the report said, citing researchers. Scientists say an eruption some time over the coming years is a possibility, but add that heightened pressure is not the only variable. They say so far no signs of activity have been seen at Mount Fuji, possibly because the amount of magma that has accumulated is not substantial enough, Kyodo said. If Mount Fuji erupts, it could cause up to 2.5 trillion yen ($32 billion) of damage, according to a government report in 2004, Kyodo said. In May a team of researchers warned that the mountain may collapse if a newly-discovered fault line underneath it shifts. The huge quake of March 2011 and tsunami that it generated devastated a large area of the country’s northeast, killing around 19,000 people and generating a nuclear emergency at Fukushima. –Physics
Scientists baffled as thousands of dead fish and birds wash up on shore of Lake Erie
By Phil Vinter
Tens of thousands of fish and seagulls have washed up dead on the shores of one of the world's biggest lakes and scientists are at a loss to explain why.
The lifeless bodies of the freshwater fish and seagulls were discovered spread along a 25-mile stretch of Canadian shoreline by Lake Eerie which stretches between Canada and the U.S.
The rotting corpses gave off a stench which locals described as unbearable at times.
Experts from the Ontario Ministries of the Environment in Canada are now conducting tests to try and identify the cause of the mass kill-off.
Samples of the fish carcasses were sent to labs for analysis where scientists are looking for pH levels changes and any evidence of algae saturation.
It is not yet clear whether the birds died as a result of eating the dead fish, or whether there was some other cause.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199471/Scientists-baffled-thousands-dead-fish-wash-shore-Lake-Erie.html#ixzz25kqvDiVl
Tens of thousands of fish and seagulls have washed up dead on the shores of one of the world's biggest lakes and scientists are at a loss to explain why.
The lifeless bodies of the freshwater fish and seagulls were discovered spread along a 25-mile stretch of Canadian shoreline by Lake Eerie which stretches between Canada and the U.S.
The rotting corpses gave off a stench which locals described as unbearable at times.
Tens of thousands of fish and seagulls have washed up dead on the shores of one of the world's biggest lakes and scientists are at a loss to explain why (file pic)
Samples of the fish carcasses were sent to labs for analysis where scientists are looking for pH levels changes and any evidence of algae saturation.
It is not yet clear whether the birds died as a result of eating the dead fish, or whether there was some other cause.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199471/Scientists-baffled-thousands-dead-fish-wash-shore-Lake-Erie.html#ixzz25kqvDiVl
Astonishing 'whip' half a million miles long spotted on solar surface (and scientists say radiation from it is heading for earth)
- Radiation from the eruption set to hit earth within hours, creating a 'moderate geomagnetic storm'
- Incredible phenomenon could give new insight into how solar eruptions affect electricity supplied on earth
Nasa today released stunning video showing a 500,000 mile long 'solar whip' on the surface of the sun - and say radiation from it is headed for eath.
Captured by from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), it shows a very long, whip-like solar filament extending over half a million miles in a long arc above the sun’s surface.
This incredible image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a very long, whip-like solar filament in the centre of the image, extending over half a million miles in a long arc above the sun's surface
WHAT IS A 'SOLAR WHIP'?
A 'solar whip' or filament is caused when a red glowing loop of plasma erupts, releasing the plasma out in huge loops hundreds of thousands of miles into space.
The filaments are anchored to the Sun's surface in the photosphere, and extend outwards into the Sun's hot outer atmosphere, called the corona.
The filaments are anchored to the Sun's surface in the photosphere, and extend outwards into the Sun's hot outer atmosphere, called the corona.
The image and video (below), which covers August 6 to 8, 2012 show the filament as a darker strand that has been in view for several days.
'Towards the end of the video part of the filament seems to break away, but its basic length and shape seem to have remained mostly intact,' says Nasa.
The video, which condenses three hours of activity, also reveals the action in dramatic detail in extreme ultraviolet light.
Today it emerged the eruption was so large it will reach earth.
The NOAA spaceweather prediction center estimates that a cloud of radiation from the eruption will reach Earth today.
The radiation cloud will create a minor to moderate geomagnetic storm, bringing the northern lights to parts of North America.
The video also reveals what the filament looks like closer to the surface of the sun
This is a large, bright feature extending outward from the Sun's surface.
Prominences are anchored to the Sun's surface in the photosphere, and extend outwards into the Sun's hot outer atmosphere, called the corona.
A prominence forms over timescales of about a day, and stable prominences may persist in the corona for several months, looping hundreds of thousands of miles into space.
However, scientists are still researching how and why prominences are formed.
The red-glowing looped material is plasma, a hot gas comprised of electrically charged hydrogen and helium.
The prominence plasma flows along a tangled and twisted structure of magnetic fields generated by the sun’s internal dynamo.
An erupting prominence occurs when such a structure becomes unstable and bursts outward, releasing the plasma
This image of a previous solar filament of the sun's surface shows the scale of eruptions.
The video (below) shows all the action in dramatic detail in extreme ultraviolet light. Here, the whip can be seen in the lower left of the image
The flare can be seen growing in the video before erupting in a 'whip'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2197675/Here-comes-sun-Astonishing-solar-whip-half-million-miles-long-spotted-solar-surface.html#ixzz25kpVQxK5
Sep 6, 2012
Fragments of foreign DNA and other substances from vaccinations found in sick, disabled and dying children
Among other things, strands of pig DNA is included in some of the vaccines that are given to children under one year of age. Pig DNA. And the FDA has no problem with this. Who do you trust?
by Christina England
This week an important paper by Leslie Carol Botha hit the Internet by storm. This revolutionary paper titled Unveiling the Culprit - Is Foreign DNA Contamination the Autistic Villain behind Biologic Vaccine Injuries, is one of the first papers to discuss various foreign DNA fragments being discovered in sick, disabled and dying children after they have received various childhood vaccinations.
Over the past six years, Ms Botha has been heavily involved and dedicated to using her print and broadcast experience to share information with the public about the potential dangers of the HPV vaccines. She is a member of TruthAboutGardasil and is one of six women who, in March 2010, presented research and data to the FDA on the alarming statistics of Gardasil and Cervarix deaths, injuries and harm in comparison to other vaccines. She was also a founding member and the former Vice President of Public Relations for S.A.N.E. Vax, Inc organization dedicated to educating the public about the safety and efficacy of vaccinations. In March of 2010, Botha was an invited speaker at the British Society for Ecological Medicine Conference in London where she presented science-based information and research on the dangers of the HPV vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix. Ms Botha is currently the Women's Health Freedom Coalition Coordinator for the Natural Solutions Foundation.
Botha claims that foreign DNA is a term of which most medical consumers are unaware. She believes that it is common sense for professionals to question the safety of foreign DNA – otherwise known as recombinant DNA, stating that:
"Even the American Biologic Safety Association (ABSA) has classified recombinant DNA a biohazard and has outlined specific directives on the handling of such contaminants".
Botha says that according to a supporting document written by the Coalition of Vaccine Safety, the presence of dormant and relict viral sequences in the human and other animal genomes has been known for at least 20 years. These include human retroviral sequences that have been identified in live viral vaccines grown in human cells.
She says the document reports that:.
"Rotarix, an orally administered rotavirus vaccine, contained nucleic acids from porcine circovirus-1 (PCV1), virus.1 Since this report, a second rotavirus vaccine (RotaTeq) has been shown to contain nucleic acids from both PCV1 and PCV2, a pathogen in pigs that is associated with wasting and immunodeficiency."
Both of these vaccinations are given to infants to protect them from the rotavirus, a virus that causes gastroenteritis in very young children. The rotavirus vaccine is a vaccination given to infants aged 2, 4 and 6 months.
Botha's research is clearly stating that DNA from pigs is being found in rotavirus vaccine with the potential to cause wasting and immunodeficiency. Yet when evidence of this discovery was presented to the FDA back in 2010 the FDA announced that it was no problem!
Read the full article at - http://www.weeklyblitz.net/2530/fragments-of-foreign-dna-and-other-substances
by Christina England
This week an important paper by Leslie Carol Botha hit the Internet by storm. This revolutionary paper titled Unveiling the Culprit - Is Foreign DNA Contamination the Autistic Villain behind Biologic Vaccine Injuries, is one of the first papers to discuss various foreign DNA fragments being discovered in sick, disabled and dying children after they have received various childhood vaccinations.
Over the past six years, Ms Botha has been heavily involved and dedicated to using her print and broadcast experience to share information with the public about the potential dangers of the HPV vaccines. She is a member of TruthAboutGardasil and is one of six women who, in March 2010, presented research and data to the FDA on the alarming statistics of Gardasil and Cervarix deaths, injuries and harm in comparison to other vaccines. She was also a founding member and the former Vice President of Public Relations for S.A.N.E. Vax, Inc organization dedicated to educating the public about the safety and efficacy of vaccinations. In March of 2010, Botha was an invited speaker at the British Society for Ecological Medicine Conference in London where she presented science-based information and research on the dangers of the HPV vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix. Ms Botha is currently the Women's Health Freedom Coalition Coordinator for the Natural Solutions Foundation.
Botha claims that foreign DNA is a term of which most medical consumers are unaware. She believes that it is common sense for professionals to question the safety of foreign DNA – otherwise known as recombinant DNA, stating that:
"Even the American Biologic Safety Association (ABSA) has classified recombinant DNA a biohazard and has outlined specific directives on the handling of such contaminants".
Botha says that according to a supporting document written by the Coalition of Vaccine Safety, the presence of dormant and relict viral sequences in the human and other animal genomes has been known for at least 20 years. These include human retroviral sequences that have been identified in live viral vaccines grown in human cells.
She says the document reports that:.
"Rotarix, an orally administered rotavirus vaccine, contained nucleic acids from porcine circovirus-1 (PCV1), virus.1 Since this report, a second rotavirus vaccine (RotaTeq) has been shown to contain nucleic acids from both PCV1 and PCV2, a pathogen in pigs that is associated with wasting and immunodeficiency."
Both of these vaccinations are given to infants to protect them from the rotavirus, a virus that causes gastroenteritis in very young children. The rotavirus vaccine is a vaccination given to infants aged 2, 4 and 6 months.
Botha's research is clearly stating that DNA from pigs is being found in rotavirus vaccine with the potential to cause wasting and immunodeficiency. Yet when evidence of this discovery was presented to the FDA back in 2010 the FDA announced that it was no problem!
Read the full article at - http://www.weeklyblitz.net/2530/fragments-of-foreign-dna-and-other-substances
The Beast Befriends the Nephilim (Audio)
By Douglas Hamp
Satan’s DNA may already be implanted in his seed the Antichrist. Some believe this coming charismatic world leader may be a human hybrid containing superhuman genetic codes. And, in a recent poll conducted by Dr. David Reagan of Lamb and Lion Ministries 91% of today’s top Bible Prophecy experts believe this beastly character could be alive today!i
In this edition of the Prophecy Update radio program Bill Salus sits down with author / researcher Doug Hamp, the author of the top – selling book called “Corrupting the Seed, Angels, aliens, and the Antichrist Revealed”. Together they explore the potential deeper meaning of the “Days of Noah,” prophecy issued by Jesus Christ in Matthew 24:37-38, and Luke 21:26-27.
Did Jesus superficially warn that the end times would be characterized by carefree living, or was the Messiah preparing the final generation for the return of the Nephilim of Noah’s time? Genesis 6:4 says, “There were GIANTS (Nephilim) on the earth in those days, (of Noah) and also afterward, when the sons of God (fallen angels) came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
The ancient world was destroyed by a flood, was it because of carefree living or was it because Satan had corrupted the seed of the woman by instructing his fallen angelic cohorts to inseminate hybrid DNA code into the human race? Genesis 3:15 alerted Satan to the fact that the Messiah would come through the seed of the woman, and scholars like Doug Hamp believe that Satan promptly launched a devilish campaign of corrupting the seed of the woman to prevent the coming of Jesus Christ.
Catch the full audio here - http://www.douglashamp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/doug-hamp-08-17-12-Bill-salhus.mp3
Satan’s DNA may already be implanted in his seed the Antichrist. Some believe this coming charismatic world leader may be a human hybrid containing superhuman genetic codes. And, in a recent poll conducted by Dr. David Reagan of Lamb and Lion Ministries 91% of today’s top Bible Prophecy experts believe this beastly character could be alive today!i
In this edition of the Prophecy Update radio program Bill Salus sits down with author / researcher Doug Hamp, the author of the top – selling book called “Corrupting the Seed, Angels, aliens, and the Antichrist Revealed”. Together they explore the potential deeper meaning of the “Days of Noah,” prophecy issued by Jesus Christ in Matthew 24:37-38, and Luke 21:26-27.
Did Jesus superficially warn that the end times would be characterized by carefree living, or was the Messiah preparing the final generation for the return of the Nephilim of Noah’s time? Genesis 6:4 says, “There were GIANTS (Nephilim) on the earth in those days, (of Noah) and also afterward, when the sons of God (fallen angels) came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
The ancient world was destroyed by a flood, was it because of carefree living or was it because Satan had corrupted the seed of the woman by instructing his fallen angelic cohorts to inseminate hybrid DNA code into the human race? Genesis 3:15 alerted Satan to the fact that the Messiah would come through the seed of the woman, and scholars like Doug Hamp believe that Satan promptly launched a devilish campaign of corrupting the seed of the woman to prevent the coming of Jesus Christ.
Catch the full audio here - http://www.douglashamp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/doug-hamp-08-17-12-Bill-salhus.mp3
Ebola Virus: The Global Elite’s Bio-Weapon Scheme for 90 Percent Depopulation
The Ebola virus mysteriously appeared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 1976 and has sporadically reappeared in the area without explanation ever since. Mainstream medical professional believe that eating monkeys who are infected with Ebola is the initial mode of transmission. However this is accepted speculation because the scientific community agrees that the natural reservoir of the virus is unknown and therefore knowledge of transmission is only hypothesized.
In July of this year, a sudden outbreak of the Ebola virus surfaced, killing 14 people. The World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Uganda’s Ministry of Health came together to control the unexpected eruption.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni made a formal statement warning his citizens: “I therefore appeal to you to be vigilant. Avoid shaking of hands; do not take on burying somebody that has died from symptoms which look like Ebola. Instead, call the health workers to be the ones to do it. And avoid promiscuity because these sicknesses can also go through sex.”
Dr. Paul Roddy, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), a French charity, asserts that the outbreak of the Ebola virus in Uganda has been stabilized, however an additional outbreak could erupt in another location. Roddy believes that natives eating bush-meat were the catalyst for spread. He assumes that monkeys who have eaten infected bats, that were then consumed by Ugandans was the chain of infection.
Eight days later, in the DRC, a new strain of the Ebola virus has surfaced according to medical volunteers from MSF. It is not the same strain as was discovered in Uganda.
Strange hum keeping West Seattle awake
by JIM FORMAN /KING 5 News
NWCN.com
Julie Schickling stood out on her porch in West Seattle just after midnight because she couldn't explain what she was hearing. So she recorded the sound (listen here on West Seattle Blog).
Some of her neighbors report being shaken out of bed by the low rumble, also described as a growl. In fact, as many people you talk with is about how many different words you heard to describe it.
"It is kind of creepy," Kay Kirkpatrick, the West Seattle resident said of the sound. "It creeps you out a little bit."
The neighboring large industries say they aren't to blame.
Then what is? Something the City of Seattle is looking into.
Some long time residents say they've heard this sound before over the years. Others say it's the first encounter they've had with the eerie noise.
"We want to know," Kirkpatrick said. "Tell us what it is."
7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of Costa Rica: tsunami warnings issued, 2 dead
September 5, 2012 – COSTA RICA - A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake rocked Costa Rica on Wednesday, rattling buildings and cutting power in some areas of the capital. Residents of San Jose said phones went down, electricity poles rattled and water flowed out of pools during the quake. “It was terrible. I was on the third floor, I had never felt anything like it,” said Stephanie Gonzalez, a 25-year-old masters student. The quake’s epicenter was in western Costa Rica about 87 miles from San Jose, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, and it was felt as far away as Managua, the capital of neighboring Nicaragua. “It was very strong, everyone is getting out because of the tsunami alert,” said a worker at the Samara Tree House Inn on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a warning for Pacific coastlines of Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama. It had earlier warned of tsunamis for as far away as Mexico and Chile. It was the biggest earthquake in Costa Rica, since a 7.6 quake in 1991 left 47 dead. More recently, 40 died in a 6.1 magnitude quake in January 2009. –Reuters
Virgin Islands and Caribbean region joins growing list of seismically-tense hotspots
September 5, 2012 – VIRGIN ISLANDS - The VIDN say on August 30, 2012: “The V.I. Territorial Emergency Management Agency said that V.I. Alert subscribers who have noticed a recent increase in earthquake notifications from the service should not be alarmed. Between 3 a.m. Monday and continuing throughout the day Wednesday, more than 50 very minor to moderate earthquakes were recorded near Latitude 19 degrees north, north of the Virgin Islands, according to a statement VITEMA issued Wednesday. Those tremors included a 5.2-, 4.6- and 4.7-magnitude earthquake between 3 and 5 p.m. Wednesday. Victor Huerfano, director of the Puerto Rico Seismic Network, confirmed that the increase in earthquake activity is a swarm of tremors, a phenomenon that occurs four or five times a year in different parts of the Caribbean region, according to VITEMA. A swarm is defined as three or more earthquakes occurring within an hour, and the Puerto Rico Seismic Network has been recording these instances since Saturday. “It is normal but we cannot say what it means,” Huerfano said. “It is more important that we make sure we are calm and prepared, and that emergency systems are in place in case a major earthquake happens.” The Virgin Islands is located in a seismically active region, which has a potential for a major earthquakes to occur at any time, according to VITEMA’s statement.” –VIDN
That was August 30, 2012 and the earthquake swarm in the Virgin Islands has since only intensified, with back-to-back 4.2 and 5.2 magnitude earthquakes striking along the tectonic plate boundary within the span of an hour. There are now five regions of the world where seismic tension is registering higher than normal: California, the Virgin Islands of the Caribbean plate, Alaska, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Any of these regions are primed for the eruption of large-scale seismic events. People in high-risk seismic zones should remain alert for the possible occurence of potentially hazardous seismic or volcanic episodes. -The Extinction Protocol
Flights on alert as volcano erupts in central America
September 5, 2012 – GUATEMALA - The Fuego volcano in central Guatemala is continuing to erupt, shooting lava and columns of ash into the air, and causing concerns of a possible ash cloud that could halt flights in the area. The volcano overlooks the tourist city of Antigua and is one of central America’s most active volcanoes. Lava flows of around 1000m are being spewed out down the west and east sides of the volcano. No evacuations have been ordered, but aviation authorities have been alerted about a potential ash cloud, and air traffic is expected to be hindered. –AOL News
New “Geo Fence” Technology Lets DHS, FBI and Apple Command Your Phone’s Camera and Microphone
Two noteworthy pieces of information were made available over the weekend which further prove that our government and high technology firms are working together in an effort to expand the scope of the domestic police state.First, Apple has been granted a new patent that allows the company to command its devices to shut down camera and microphone functionality on any iPhone or iPad based on its specific geographic location.
The technology makes it possible for the firm, at the behest of government officials, to create a “geo fence” around any venue or event which is identified as a security priority or sensitive area.
To put it bluntly, the powers that be could control what you can and cannot document on your wireless devices according to their own whims.Second, and quite possibly even more disturbing than Apple’s ability to directly access key recording features on our wireless devices, is the revelation that hackers breached an FBI Regional Cyber Action Team laptop computer and gained access to highly sensitive files that were later released on the internet. In those files were the unique device identifiers, user names, address books, and other personal details belonging to over 12 million Apple subscribers.
Given that the major technology companies are set to make wireless connectivity a major feature of the latest cameras, this development does not bode well for photographers and citizen journalists who are already experiencing a major crackdown on their first and fourth amendment rights.
This suggests one of two possibilities. Either the FBI illegally hacked Apple’s subscriber database to acquire this information, or Apple willingly turned this information over to them.
Let’s be real here folks — 12 million UDIDs (unique device identifiers) is a hell of lot of them. Are you willing to believe that there was no “official transfer” from “somewhere” to the FBI of that data?Occam’s razor leads us to the conclusion that the FBI and DHS are actively working with technology companies like Apple to create a database of subscribers in order to broaden an already flourishing control grid. With access to personal device details law enforcement agencies could then interface with telecommunications firms to rapidly locate any wirelessly connected digital device – and with Apple’s new “geozone” enforcement technology, could effectively shut down the recording capabilities of any phone, tablet or PC on demand.
Soon, as Steve Watson of Infowars notes, the free flow of information that has made it possible for video to be instantly distributed to millions of people around the world could simply be shut off with the click of a button.
With direct access to subscriber lists and Apple’s new technology government officials and law enforcement agencies could simply remove the ability of citizen journalists and private individuals to document events like protesters being doused with pepper spray as they sit motionless, police brutality and injustice, DHS harassment, and political persecution.
All dissent must be silenced.