Scientists to add spider genes to human genome to create bulletproof skin

Scientists are now discussing the possibility of adding silk-producing spider genes into the human genome to produce ‘bulletproof’ skin. The news comes after testing was done on bioengineered human skin that was grown in a laboratory and mixed with ‘milk’ created from a genetically engineered ‘spider goat‘. This is a goat that has been genetically tweaked to produce the same protein found in spider silk. Spider goats are transgenic creations that have two key spider genes embedded into their genetic code that enable them to weave extremely strong silk.

Spider silk is much stronger than Kevlar (the material used in traditional bulletproof vests), and scientists are now saying that it could actually be used to create an internal bulletproof skin vest. The silk is actually 5 times stronger than steel, and is one of the strongest fibers known to man. While the fibers involved with the creation of the bulletproof skin are not as strong, they are still extremely powerful. It sounds like something out of a science fiction novel, but Dutch scientist Jalila Essaidi says it will soon be a reality. While she performed tests involving the silk-embedded bulletproof skin vest created in the lab, she discussed the very real possibility of actually replacing human skin proteins with that of a spider. She said:

“Why bother with a vest: imagine replacing keratin, the protein responsible for the toughness of the human skin, with this spidersilk protein. This is possible by adding the silk producing genes of a spider to the gnome of a human: creating a bulletproof human.”

The lab-grown skin fused with the ‘silk’ is currently capable of withstanding a direct impact from a bullet fired below full speed. Researchers say that the ‘transhumanistic’ idea of the silk vest could make science fiction a reality.


Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/scientists-to-add-spider-genes-to-human-genome-to-create-bulletproof-skin/#ixzz1lxTcwTVt

Going Rogue: Giant Wave Damages Cargo Ship, Is Electromagnetic Experimentation To Blame?

Tony MugaOn the afternoon of Tuesday, February 7th 2012 the ‘Dry Beam’, a 26,000 ton cargo ship headed from Longview, Washington to Japan, was rocked by what is now commonly known as a ‘rogue wave’, sending the vessel to port at Ogden Point for repairs. The crew of 23 was uninjured.

According to insurance investigator Captain Jostein Hoddevik, a rogue wave, some 10 to 15 meters high, impacted the port side of the Dry Beam, bending its support structure and scattering a load of timber around like toothpicks.

Although the incident occurred in an area of the Pacific known for rough waters, there has been an increase in rogue waves within recent years.

Is this a natural phenomena or something caused by man? According to the website itwillpass.com ‘dangerous earth anomalies have appeared since the start of Russian and U.S. E.L.F. [Extremely Low Frequency] Transmissions’ after 1980.

Let’s have a look at some of the possible Earth bound effects of electromagnetic experimentation via H.A.A.R.P. and Russian ‘Woodpecker’ technologies:

1. The 12/13/84 issue of the Washington Post reported that not long after U.S. And Soviet ‘through the Earth transmissions’ were initiated, the Earth experienced a ‘sudden unexpected slowdown in rotation’. The effect was so great that the U.S. Naval Observatory did not need to make the normal yearly adjustment to their atomic clocks. (Could this account for the sun rising in Greenland two days early?)

2. The 12/11/86 Chicago Tribune reported that ‘Giant whirlpools, some nearly 60 miles wide, have been detected moving along Norway’s coasts’ and went on to say that these were not heard of before ELF testing began in 1980. (Could this explain the two giant whirlpools in the Atlantic now?)
3. A 4/19/88 issue of the New York Times stated that British scientists have learned that waves in the Atlantic have ‘increased more than 20 percent since the 1960′s’. (Rogue wave vs. ship encounters are at an all-time high.)

4. Itwillpass.com reports that ‘the earth is now much more vulnerable to outside astronomical influences. Today, powerful transmitters are interfering with, overriding and blanking out Earth’s natural magnetic field. For the first time in human history, an ever increasing number of artificial ELF and VLF vibrations are disrupting earth’s natural internal and external electromagnetic systems’. (Could this explain the increase in meteors being seen around the world? )
5. According to T.E. Bearden, author of ‘FER-DE-LANCE’ (a book about Woodpecker, H.A.A.R.P., ELF and GWEN tower systems), the Earth, Moon and Sun form a resonant system which produces stability on our planet. Bearden states that ‘…if too much or sharp stimulation [ELF,VHF, H.A.A.R.P or Woodpecker technology] occurs on Earth, the coupled resonant response from the sun could be disastrous…’. (Could this explain NASA’s claim that we are entering an unusually high, out-of-cycle period of solar activity?)

6. Bearden continues: ‘Note the abnormal influence of the moon on tides – tides of both the (Earth’s) tectonic plates and the oceans…If the Earth-Moon resonant system were over-stimulated, one might expect violent earthquakes of extraordinary magnitude, and tremendous tidal waves hundreds of feet in heights’ and further ‘…if an electro gravitational pulse discharge happens to tickle the Sun’s and Moon’s (natural scalar electromagnetic) feedback loops the wrong way, you’ll get convulsions on the Earth, and a violent increase in the interior heat of the Earth’s molten core, with a concomitant eruption of that core right up through the Earth’s mantle’. (Could this explain the increase in volcano and earthquake activity? )

7. And finally, in Lowell Ponte’s book ‘The Cooling’ we are reminded that starting in the late ’60s, U.S. and Soviet scientists began a project that would warm the Arctic in an attempt to melt the polar caps. At the 1974 Vladivostok Summit, U.S. and Soviet leaders finalized the deal and by 1976 the Soviet Woodpecker system began weather engineering on top of the world. By the late 1970s, the U.S. was producing its own ELF signals and was contributing to the effort.(Could this explain the melting ice caps and loss of polar bear habitat?)

In light of the fact that the U.S. and other governments are so secretive, even to the point of lying when the truth will do, and due to the non-smoking-gun-nature of electromagnetic manipulation, it will be very difficult to prove a direct link between these types of experiments and the adverse meteorological effects we seem to be experiencing globally.

However, considering the current ‘global warming’ stance of the UN and G20 nations, and their need to create carbon taxes in response to it, would it not be logical to turn off all ionospheric heaters, electromagnetic amplifiers and ELF devices planet-wide before assuming the peasants are to blame?

Russia is squaring up for a fight with America over Syria

This author correctly points out that any new regime put in place in Syria will likely be a radical islamic one.  As we have seen in Libya and Egypt, this is simply preparing the way for wars on a scale this generation has never seen.

 

By Con Coughlin 

Syrian government supporters welcome Sergei Lavrov in Damascus (Photo: AFP)

Confirmation that the U.S. and its allies are studying their military options for helping the anti-Assad rebels in Syria is a worrying development on a number of levels, not least of which is the prospect of the West becoming embroiled in a direct confrontation with the Russians
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As I have argued before, I think the West – and that includes Britain – needs to proceed with great caution before it gets too closely involved in the Syrian crisis. As with the Libya situation last year, we still have no clear idea who the rebels are in Syria, or what their ultimate objective might be.

Homs, the centre of the anti-Assad rebellion, is a known centre for Islamist extremists, and if all Western intervention achieves is the replacement of the Assad regime with an Iranian-style Islamist dictatorship,  then we will have scored a monumental own goal.
Of deeper concern, though, is the possibility that the U.S. could find itself involved in a direct military confrontation with Russia over the future of Syria's destiny. We have been here before, of course, during the 1980s when, at the height of the Cold War, Moscow and Washington  fought a proxy war over the fate of neighbouring Lebanon.

Even though U.S. President Ronald Reagan deployed thousands of U.S. Marines to Beirut, the Americans were eventually sent packing. During that conflict Russia backed the Syrians, who in turn used the Iranian-backed Hizbollah militia to carry out a series of devastating terrorist attacks against the Americans, ultimately forcing them to withdraw their forces from Lebanon.

The Cold War might be consigned to the history books, but a similar confrontation could easily arise if Washington decides to become engaged militarily in Syria to protect anti-government rebels.

This week's visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to Damascus has highlighted Syria's importance to Moscow. The Syrian port of Tartus is Russia's only military base outside the old Soviet Union and, at a time when the West is strengthening its ties throughout the Arab world, the Russians regard Syria as a vital strategic asset. Consequently any attempt by the Western powers to meddle in Syria's internal affairs is likely to prompt a robust response from Moscow.

One of the reasons the Lebanese civil war dragged on for fifteen years was that the conflict ended up being caught in a turf war between Washington and Moscow. I fear a similar fate could soon befall Syria.

The missing eruption of 1259 A.D. - Can the eruption of the American volcano chain be next?

Recently, geologists admitted that volcanoes in Death Valley California might erupt at any time.  With video evidence of recent steam venting in California (see dutchsinse on youtube) and the eruption of mexican and central American volcanoes, how long will it be unti the U.S. chain becomes active?

So, where do you hide an eruption that might have been 8 times larger than the 1883 eruption of Krakatau in Indonesia?

Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen a number of high-profile studies come out looking at global climate that refer to a mystery. According to ice core and sediment core records from many places on the globe, there was a very large volcanic eruption in 1258 A.D. — so big that it injected somewhere between 190-270 megatonnes into the atmosphere (to put in another way, it produced between 300 and 600 megatonnes of sulfuric acid). This would make the 1258 eruption ~8 times larger than Krakatau in 1883 and two times larger than Tambora in 1815 (when comparing their sulfate injection mass; Emile-Geay et al., 2008). So, how does the geologic community (or historical community for that matter) not have any record of such an massive eruption that happened less than 800 years ago?

First, I should discuss a little bit of the evidence for the 1258 A.D. eruption. As mentioned above, there is a record of increased sulfur and ash particles in ice cores from both the North and South Poles, along with other places such as sediment from Lake Malawi (Emile-Geay et al., 2008). Now, many of these ice cores and sediment records have been dated, so we can correlate them across the globe (within error). The combined data points towards an eruption that occurred in 1258 (or possibly 1259) – in fact, based on some of the weather records from Europe, the date could be constrained to between January and mid-May 1258 (Stothers 2000). The fact that the record of the eruption is found in both poles in the same year (based on the ice chronology) means that the eruption was likely in the tropics as well. So, based on these proxy records (i.e., indirect evidence for the eruption), we can safely say that the tropical eruption was likely during 1258 A.D. – and the missing eruption produced pronounced global temperature anomaly associated with it (see below).

The global temperature anomalies from 1200-2000 A.D., showing the dips associated with volcanic events, including the missing 1258 eruption. Part of Figure 2 from Mann et al. (2012)

Stothers (2000) does an excellent job listing all of the possible climatic effects from the 1258 eruption.. These include “dry fogs” (sulfur) over Europe during 1258 through possibly 1262 that reduced the optical depth of the atmosphere dramatically. In fact, based on historical records, the optical depth might have been as bad in Europe in 1258-1262 from this mystery tropical eruption was it was during the much-closer Laki eruption in 1783. There were also records of very cold winters and wet summers across Europe during this time period and based on modern tropical eruptions, the pattern of maximum cooling a few years after the eruption was also seen. Related to these climate fluctuations as the human consequences, such as famine and disease – Stothers (2000) mentions a number of famines and pestilence outbreaks across Europe and the Middle East during the window of the 1258 eruption. However, these events are mitigated by regional conflicts that might have also lead to famine and the spread of disease. Interestingly, Stothers (2000) and Emile-Geay et al. (2008) both discuss how the climatic effect of the 1258 eruption was less than expected for an eruption the size that the ice core record implies – they suggest that the climate effects might have been dampened by an El Niño in 1258 as well.
So, the evidence is there for an eruption in 1258 – but what are the potential options?
A few volcanoes have been implicated but not convicted for the source of the 1258 signal:

An oblique aerial view of the aftermath from the 1982 eruption of El Chichón, Mexico, one of the potential candidates for the missing 1258 eruption.

• El Chichón, Mexico: The Mexican volcano, famous for its eruption in 1982, had two significant eruptions in the general vicinity of 1258. The first was a VEI 4 in 1190 ± 150 years, the other was a VEI 5 in 1360 ± 100 years. Interestingly, Stothers (2000) mention that the ash found in the ice cores is a close match to ash collected near El Chichón, but he cautions “the match is not perfect and … glass chemistry is not a highly discriminatory diagnostic for volcanic eruptions“.
• Quilotoa, Ecuador: Another favorite suspect, Quilotoa had a VEI 6 eruption around 1280 A.D., although the date is not well-constrained. If you look at the compiled temperature curve from Mann et al. (2012), there are some dips after 1258 that could be the 1280 eruption of Quilotoa, so there is no compelling evidence to make this eruption ~20 years younger.
• Harrat Rahat and Harra es-Sawâd, Saudi Arabia: Somewhat dark horse candidates, these two volcanoes in the Saudi Arabian peninsula had eruptions in 1256 and 1250 ± 50 years, respectively. However, both were relatively small – VEI 3 – but if they were sufficiently sulfur-rich eruptions like Laki (Harrat Rahat was a basaltic fissure vent) you could produce significant aerosols. What works against these eruption is the idea is the size of the eruptions as it is difficult to envision getting the material high enough into the atmosphere to disperse, unlike larger plinian or ultraplinian eruptions.

What are some other options?

• The unknown volcano or unknown eruption of a known volcano: This might be something like a submarine caldera in the South Pacific that has not been identified or a remote Andean caldera in the high Andes. Hard to prove and is the volcanologic equivalent to a “needle in a haystack” if you haystack spanned the globe.
• Multiple, closely spaced events in each hemisphere: Again, hard to prove, but if two smaller eruptions occurred in each hemisphere in 1258, could this account for the anomaly? Most likely this isn’t feasible if the ash is similar on both poles (note: I’m not sure if it is or isn’t) or if the sulfur load estimated on both poles is the same (again, not sure about this).
• Known eruption with a bad age and/or bad VEI estimate: Here we might look at eruptions around 1258 that were potentially significant (> VEI 4). Some candidate include Cayambe in Ecuador (VEI 4 around 1280), Fentale in Ethiopia (1250 ± 50 years with unknown VEI), Pico de Orizaba in Mexico (VEI 3 in 1260 ± 50 years). Possibly some were closer to 1258 and larger in size.

(One interesting sidenote: although the evidence that the eruption was tropical appears to be compelling from the ice/sediment core record, we did have multiple VEI 4-5 eruptions from Katla in Iceland in 1245 and 1262. Not sure what to make of this information, but interesting to note.)
Right now, it doesn’t seem as if there is an obvious answer to the missing eruption of 1258 A.D. This isn’t even the only missing large eruption in the ice/sediment core record. If you can believe it, there might have been a significant, possibly Pinatubo-scale eruption in 1809 that has not been identified. A quick look at the eruption record might finger VEI 4-5 eruptions at St. Helens in Washington, Soufriere St. Vincent in the West Indies and Awu in Indonesia but none seem to live up to the billing. It just shows how even for geologically recent eruptions, it can be difficult to pinpoint the source if all you have is the remote dusting of ash and aerosols that get trapped in ice possibly a hemisphere away from its source.

Revival: Time Is Running Out

The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off
the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. 
--Romans 13:12

The absence of spiritual devotion today is an omen and a portent.
The modern church is all but contemptuous of the sober virtues--
meekness, modesty, humility, quietness, obedience, self effacement,
patience. To be accepted now, religion must be in the popular mood.
Consequently, much religious activity reeks with pride, display,
self-assertion, self-promotion, love of gain and devotion to trivial
pleasures.

It behooves us to take all this seriously. Time is running out for
all of us. What is done must be done quickly. We have no right to lie
idly by and let things take their course. A farmer who neglects his
farm will soon lose it; a shepherd who fails to look after his flock
will find the wolves looking after it for him. A misbegotten charity
that allows the wolves to destroy the flock is not charity at all but
indifference, rather, and should be known for what it is and dealt
with accordingly.

It is time for Bible-believing Christians to begin to cultivate the
sober graces and to live among men like sons of God and heirs of the
ages. And this will take more than a bit of doing, for the whole
world and a large part of the church is set to prevent it. But if God
be for us, who can be against us?  We Travel an Appointed Way, 50-51.

Bill Gates Exposed for Funding Research, Promotion of Spraying Geo-Engineered ‘Chemtrails’ Across Globe

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(NaturalNews) The latest scam to enter the debate about so-called "global warming" involves spending billions of dollars to spray the atmosphere with tiny particulate matter for the alleged purpose of reflecting sunlight back into space, and thus cooling the planet. But research into this controversial practice of "chemtrailing," which has actually already been going on for quite some time now, is largely funded directly by Mr. Vaccine himself, the infamous Bill Gates.

The U.K.'s Guardian paper reports that Gates, who is a huge advocate of global intervention programs that forcibly affect large people groups whether they like it or not, has been spending untold millions of dollars from his own personal fortune to fund research into geo-engineering programs. These funds are being used to study things like how much it will cost every year to blast the skies with tiny particles of sulfur dioxide, a toxic industrial byproduct linked to serious respiratory illnesses like asthma (http://www.epa.gov/air/sulfurdioxide/).

Gates and his small cadre of allies, which include co-founder of Skype Niklas Zennstrom and owner of the Virgin Group Sir Richard Branson, reportedly spend exorbitant amounts of cash every year trying to push geo-engineering initiative across the globe. They claim that if nations like the U.S. will not cut greenhouse gas emissions by tremendous amounts, the spraying of toxic poisons into the atmosphere will be necessary to thwart impending disaster.

The entire concept of geo-engineering to save the planet is utter hogwash, of course. This is true not only because "global warming" itself has proven to be a man-made scam, but also because literally blocking sunlight for the stated purpose of reflecting the warmth of its rays back into space makes no logical or scientific sense.

Geo-engineering does, however, give unprecedented control over the world's weather patterns to a select few, allowing them to manipulate the environment for their own gain in the name of saving the planet. And blocking the sun's rays with tiny particles also serves much more sinister purposes like preventing humans from absorbing much-needed ultraviolet B (UVB) rays from the sun, which are responsible for producing vitamin D in the body (http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/).

But while chemtrail advocates like Bill Gates act as though these poison plumes are a potential future intervention, evidence already points to the fact that chemtrails have already been in use for many years now. Be sure to check out the film What in the World are They Spraying? for more shocking information about chemtrails:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf0khstYDLA



Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/034906_Bill_Gates_geo-engineering_chemtrails.html#ixzz1lrLP24vC

Tsunami waves over Panama City

A tidal wave of cotton filling? Some ghostly aerodynamics? A photo of mysterious cloud formations in Panama City Beach, Florida, has the weather world buzzing.
Pilot JR Hott of Panhandle Helicopters snapped the spectacular shot, which shows low-lying clouds streaming ominously over high-rise buildings standing sentinel against the Gulf of Mexico.

The retired Navy diver, who has owned Panhandle for three and a half years, said he had no idea when he snapped the photo it would demand worldwide attention from the likes of CNN.

"I took and I thought it was really cool, so I put it on Facebook," Hott said, attributing the phenomenon to orographic lift -- something usually seen with fog on mountains. "We see it a few times a year, and it can happen in a minute."

According to the Weather Channel's Dr. Greg Forbes, it's just a matter of, well, weather.
"The relative humidity must have been very high just offshore, almost ready for fog to form anyway," said Dr. Forbes. "Because the clouds form so low down, and then they really get thick, almost obscuring the high-rises.

"The other thing that's happening is with friction, the air slows down as it just begins to move onshore. That gives it a little extra convergence and an upward forcing of the air to rise. But it must be that relative humidity needing to be just right that...explains why we don't see this kind of a picture every day."

New DHS Report: If You Love "Individual Liberty" Or If You "Believe In Conspiracy Theories" You Are A Potential Terrorist

 

Do you love America?  Are you against a one world economy and a one world government?  Do you deeply love individual liberty?  Do you believe in conspiracy theories?  If you answered any of those questions affirmatively, then you are a potential terrorist according to a brand new Department of Homeland Security report that was just released in January 2012. The report is entitled "Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States, 1970 to 2008", and it was produced by the "National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism" for the Department of Homeland Security.  As you will see detailed later on in this article, the most shocking part of this report is when it discusses the "ideological motivations" of potential terrorists.  The report shamelessly attempts to portray red-blooded Americans that love liberty and that love their country as the enemy.  Once upon a time, deeply patriotic Americans were considered to be the backbone of America, but today they are considered to be potential terrorists.
And this report is yet another example of how the definition of "terrorism" has changed.  A decade ago, the entire focus of the "war on terror" was on radical Muslims and we were told that we had to send our boys and girls to the other side of the world to defeat them.

Well, in this new report there is barely any mention of Islam at all.  Instead, the report identifies patriots, conspiracy theorists, evangelical Christians, anti-abortion activists, survivalists and those that are against globalism as the real threats.
The focus of the "war on terror" has fundamentally shifted.  The "enemy" is now those that love freedom and those that love America.

According to the new DHS report, the following are some of the beliefs and ideologies of American terrorists....

-"fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)"
-"anti-global"
-"suspicious of centralized federal authority"
-"reverent of individual liberty"
-"believe in conspiracy theories"
-"a belief that one’s personal and/or national “way of life” is under attack"
-"a belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism"
-"impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)"
-"insert religion into the political sphere"
-"those who seek to politicize religion"
-"supported political movements for autonomy"
-"anti-abortion"
-"anti-Catholic"
-"anti-nuclear"

All of the above are direct quotes from the report.

Do any of those beliefs apply to you?

Does your own government now believe that you are a potential terrorist?
There seems to be a concerted effort to demonize certain groups of people in this country.  In the past, those that loved America, those that loved God, and those that loved freedom were considered to be role models.  Now they are considered to be dangers.

The funny thing is that according to the report, terrorism in the United States has actually been declining over the past several decades.  On page 13 of the new DHS report, you will find a chart that shows that the number of "terrorist attacks" in the United States has decreased steadily since 1970.

And on page 18 of the report, we find that "extreme left-wing" groups such as radical communists were responsible for 5 times more terror attacks in the U.S. between 1970 and 2008 than all "extreme right-wing" groups and religious groups combined.
The truth is that the vast majority of Americans that are patriotic, religious or that believe in conspiracy theories are very peaceful and only want the best for this country.
But the mainstream media is making it seem like there is an epidemic of "anti-government extremists" that needs to be dealt with.

For example, the following comes from a recent USA Today article entitled "FBI: More locals seek help with anti-government extremists"....

The FBI is being inundated with calls from local government officials asking for assistance in dealing with anti-government extremists, officials said.

And as I wrote about the other day, the FBI has broadened the definition of "suspicious activity" so much that literally anyone could fall under it.
In 2012, the following activities are considered to be "suspicious" by the FBI....

-shielding your computer screen from others
-paying with cash
-acting "nervous"
-using multiple cell phones
-requesting a specific room at a hotel
-traveling with a large amount of luggage
-refusing maid service at a hotel
-staying in your room for too long
-changing your appearance

In fact, if you see any of these things you are supposed to contact the feds right away.
Was the federal government ever this paranoid during the days of McCarthyism?
If America is going to have any kind of a future, we are going to need people who deeply love liberty and who deeply love this country.

Unfortunately, there are many in the federal government that hate the beliefs that this nation was founded upon.

Our founding fathers were fiercely nationalistic, suspicious of centralized authority and were reverent of individual liberty.  So according to the Department of Homeland Security, they would very clearly fit the definition of potential terrorists.
How did America ever get so far off track?

If nobody challenges this kind of propaganda, we will go down the dark road of totalitarianism that so many other societies have gone down in the past.

It is a good thing to love your country.
It is a good thing to love individual liberty.
It is a good thing to question the government.

Unfortunately, what the federal government wants today is blind faith and blind obedience.  If the federal government tells us that patriotism, religion and nationalism are bad, we are just supposed to go along with it.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, the ideal American would be someone that embraces centralized authority, someone that is "universal and international in orientation", someone that believes in the idea of a one world government, someone that is anti-religion, someone that is pro-genocide, someone that believes that nobody should ever question leadership, and someone that has disdain for individual liberty.

Where could we ever find someone like that?
Wait, I've got it!
Cobra Commander, the ideal American for the 21st century....

Phivolcs records an astounding 900 aftershocks in first 24 hours after 6.9 magnitude earthquake

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February 7, 2012 – PHILIPPINES – The local seismology monitors recorded as much as 900 mild aftershocks as of noontime today after the 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit Central Visayas on Feb. 6. According to the local Philippine Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), through Engineer Nolan Evangelista, aftershocks are just ordinary incidents after a major earth movement. Evangelista also shared that the most noticeable aftershocks reached intensity 3 that was recorded at around 6:10 p.m. yesterday and another one at 7:32 p.m., which reached intensity 2. “There have been numerous aftershocks but most of them were so mild, Boholanos did not seem to notice them. Since these are aftershocks, these are never stronger than the major earthquake, unless another movement is caused by another or a similar fault,” Evangelista added. He also explained that the Phivolcs has earlier issued intensity reference charts. These charts help ordinary people measure the intensity of the earthquake while looking at the objects shaken by the tremor.

On the other hand, a magnitude scale usually issued by the Phivolcs uses the equipment recorded data which are available in their office. It means that a magnitude scale reading is a more accurate measurement of the tremor than an intensity scale which can be subjective of one’s personal experience, he said. Surviving with reports of very mild damages in cracked buildings, Bohol has also shuddered at the tremors that came after. Over this, school authorities have suspended classes in kindergarten to secondary levels so building officials and Department of Education (DepEd) authorities can inspect the integrity of school structures. Dr. Lorna Rances, schools division superintendent, urged local and school officials to help assess the damages in school buildings in their areas of responsibility and subsequently issue certifications of safe occupancy of school buildings to DepEd so that classes can resume. Yesterday, some residents felt worried when text messages about an impending tsunami circulated, after a Phivolcs-issued tsunami warning number 2. Engineer Evangelista explained that Phivolcs tsunami alert 2 means that there is a certainty that meter high waves do come and that residents in coastal areas are advised to move away from the 20-meter zones from the sea levels for their safety. It means there is a real possibility that water may rise a meter high, but in yesterday’s case, it should have come to Bohol an hour after the major quake, he said. –PIA.gov

Congress green lights domestic deployment of surveillance drones- 30,000 could haunt skies by 2020

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February 8, 2012 – WASHINGTON – Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nope, it’s an unmanned drone! Congress today approved a bill that allows unmanned aircraft to fly in the same airspace as commercial airliners, private planes, and cargo jets. The legislation allocates $63.4 billion over the next three and a half years to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), $11 billion of which will be used to update air traffic control systems at 35 U.S. airports to handle the remote-controlled aircrafts. The deadline for the systems update is June 2015. The change to flight regulations will allow military, commercial, and private drones to fly over U.S. territory. Currently, drones are only allowed over certain military airspace, along U.S. borders for surveillance purposes, and to about 300 public agencies, according to the Associated Press. The FAA must submit its plan for how to safely allow wide-spread drone flight within nine months of the bill’s passage. According to the Washington Post, the agency projects 30,000 could be roaming U.S. airways by 2020. In addition to the bit about drones — which we find both awesome and horrifying — the FAA will also update to a more precise GPS system, known as Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, or ADS-B. Once ADS-B is in place, aircraft fitted with the new tech will have their locations updated every second, as opposed to the six to 12 second intervals allowed by the current system. This will allow planes to come into runways at a steeper decent, fly closer together, and land and take off more quickly. The addition of ADS-B is part of a massive FAA endeavor known as NextGen. According to the FAA, the roll out of NexGen will allow for fewer delays, fewer accidents, a lower environmental impact, and stronger national security, among a slew of other benefits. –Yahoo News 

Mt. Cameroon volcano erupts in Cameroon

 

 

Posted by Extinction ProtocolFebruary 8, 2012 – CAMEROON – Mt. Cameroon volcano in Cameroon seems to have started a new eruption. According to local news, mild tremors and explosions were noted at the volcano during the past week, intensifying last Friday. A group of tourists is reported to have fled the volcano after they heard loud explosions, followed by earthquakes. “We heard a heavy explosion followed by some earth vibrations. It lasted about 7 seconds. There were flames and sulphuric acid coming out of a spot where we found ash and we decided to go back down,” Peter Linonge Buma, a guide accompanying the tourists is quoted in a news article. The explosions seem to be strong enough to rattle doors and windows in nearby villages where most residents are preparing to evacuate. The last eruptions of Mt. Cameroon volcano were in March 1999 and May 2000. –Volcano Discovery

Massive blast at Russian Power station lights up night sky

Posted by The Extinction Protocol

February 9, 2012 – RUSSIA – An accident at power station in Russia lights up the sky above a busy highway and knocks out electricity in south St Petersburg. A video recorded on the dashboard camera of a car has captured at the moment an apocalyptic flash of light filled the Moscow sky. Cars are seen hitting the brakes on Vitebsk Avenue as the dazzling light fills the horizon and knocks out street lights. The blast, which happened at 9am on Monday, was also captured on CCTV in the area. According to the Russian news website Fontanka.ru, the explosion was caused by an equipment failure at a power station. The local fire brigade was called to the area by residents and is still battling to put out a fire caused by the blast. Lenenergo, the Russian electricity firm, said their technicians are working to restore power to the area. –Telegraph

Large blasts mark eruption of Mt. Etna

   

February 9, 2012 – ITALY -Tremor continues to rise (now at 13), from the webcam image, it seems a lava flow is starting to issue from the SE fracture. All indicators point towards we are having the 2nd paroxysm in 2012 during the next hours! The volcanic tremor is now steeply rising (at 8) and vigorous strombolian activity can be seen on the various webcams, possibly a lava flow has started as well. While strombolian activity continues from the New SE crater of Etna volcano, volcanic tremor has started to rise, suggesting a new paroxysm could be in the making in the next hours, although it is still early to be certain. The photo (left) from Boris Behncke was taken during the night of 7-8 February 2012, when the continuing strombolian activity of the New Southeast Crater on Etna was finally widely visible, after about one week of essentially bad weather. Some explosions threw incandescent lava bombs outside the crater, although most were rather weak and all material fell back into the crater. This is a view of one of the stronger explosions observed on the late evening of 7 February 2012, taken from Trecastagni village on the southeast flank of Etna. The activity continued, sometimes vigorously, sometimes more subdued, through the night and morning of 8 February. –Volcano Discovery

Psalm 2 is coming true, right before our eyes

"Why do the people rage, and the heathen imagine a vain thing?  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against His anointed saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us."  Psalm 2:1-3

This prophetic psalm describes the situation in the last days when the people, heathen, kings and rulers bind themselves together with the express purpose of setting themselves free from their Creator.  Setting aside the madness of such lofty imaginations, we see the actual events falling neatly into place.  The good news?  Jesus Christ is coming soon.  The bad news?  His people will suffer greatly in the interim.  Children of God prepare yourselves, for the night is coming. 

By Paul McGuireNewsWithViews.com

The destruction of the American economy and the dollar did not happen by accident. It was a planned event, like the demise of the euro and other currencies around the world. There is no energy crisis: there are alternative sources of energy and there are vast oil reserves in the United States and around the world. There is no real food shortage, only the manipulation of crops through genetically altered terminator seeds and artificial shortages, for the purpose of population control. Everything we see around us is manufactured crisis that is created to bring about a one world government. In 1917, the Bolshevik or Russian Revolution was financed by the international bankers like the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Schiffs, Warburgs, Harrimans and Milers. Many of these same banking families secretly financed Hitler and continue to finance both sides of conflicts in order to establish their world government and profit from it in the process.

Winston Churchill seemed to be aware of the real roots of the Communist Revolution before he was ever Prime Minister of Great Britain. He wrote in the February 18th, 1920 issue of the London Illustrated Sunday Herald, that "From the days of Spartacus (Spartacus was the code name of the Illuminati founder and leader Adam Weishaupt ) to those of Karl Marx, to those of Trotsky, Bella Kuhn, Rose Luxembourg, and Emma Goldman, this world-wide conspiracy has been steadily growing." He affirmed, "It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century; and now at last, this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically undisputed masters of that enormous empire."

Every major political, economic and social crisis for over the last century has been planned and implemented by an international banking elite, guided by occult forces through Luciferian groups like the Illuminati. I realize that by writing these words, I risk alienating some people by proposing what they believe to be a fairytale-like conspiracy theory. I make no apologies for what I write, for it is based on over 30 years of research, interviews and facts. Inevitably, the majority of the people who doubt this analysis have spent practically zero time researching the subject. They are like the zombies from Director George Romero’s black and white classic, “Night of the Living Dead,” or the alien possessed people in Director Philip Kaufman’s, “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”

The whole Rothschild show

A key part in understanding this master play for global government starts by understanding that the primary driving force behind the new world order today is the Rothschild family, international banking and the Illuminati. In addition, you cannot understand Rothschild or the Illuminati, without understanding the Luciferian and occult religions which go all the way back to Babylon where mankind made its first attempt to counterfeit the Kingdom of God, at the Tower of Babel. The Tower of Babel was the first global government and God destroyed it because He knew that at the heart of it, man wanted to be God. This was the seduction of the serpent in the Garden of Eden towards Adam and Eve. The serpent (or Lucifer) told them they would be like God. This was also Lucifer or Satan’s desire, which culminated in a Luciferian rebellion where he attempted to seize the throne of God along with one third of the angels.

This revolution in a parallel universe or invisible realm is being played out in our world in countless ways. The plan for one world government is Lucifer’s plan and he uses men and women to accomplish his agenda through secret occult societies like the Rosicrucians, Illuminati, Order of the Golden Dawn, Satanic cults, Skull and Bones and the Bohemian Grove. Not all of those who participate in these groups are aware of the full extent of the plan.

The United Nations, whose stated goal is world government, was founded by Rothschild, Rockefeller and Illuminati sources. Its key leaders are being guided by occult sources such as the teachings of the Russian occult teacher Madame Blavatsky and her disciple Alice Bailey. Alice Bailey actually founded Lucifer Publishing on the grounds of the United Nations, until public outcry forced her to rename it Lucis Publishing and she had to relocate off of United Nations property. The United Nations operates numerouos programs designed to create a Luciferian New World Order. One of these programs is called Agenda 21, which is an allegedly environmental and energy plan that will completely change the world as we know it.

U.N. Meditation Room, replete with replica of the Kaaba of Mecca

In an article entitled, “The UN Plan for Global Control,” by Berit Kjos, she writes about, “The Habitat II Agenda,” Bicycles instead of cars? Dense apartment clusters instead of single homes? Community rituals instead of churches? "Human rights" instead of religious freedom? The UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) which met June 3-14 in Istanbul painted an alarming picture of the 21st century community. The American ways of free speech, individualism, travel, and Christianity are out. A new set of economic, environmental, and social guidelines are in. Citizenship, democracy, and education have been redefined. Here in the United States these goals are being legally enforced right before our very eyes and yet, the majority of Americans go along with it because they are being scientifcally brainwashed or too stressed to pay attention. Kjos notes the similarity between the game plan of the Communist Revolution and Agenda 21.

“History has shown the emptiness of these promises. Long ago the Communist Manifesto announced a proletarian revolution which would empower the poor by redistributing wealth. Everyone would be equal. Men and women alike would join the socialist workforce, and children would be trained by the state.

It happened! All but the leaders became equally poor, and all the children were indoctrinated with an anti-Christian socialist philosophy. Morally and economically, the masses sank to the level of the lowest common denominator.

The similarities between the Communist Manifesto and the UN agenda (outlined in the Beijing Declaration and incorporated into the Habitat Agenda) should be a call to action. Both revolutions--

• Use psychology and sociology to establish the victimhood, blame and anger needed to fuel the revolution.
• Use education to conform minds to the new ideology.
• Use synthesis (blending opposing views into compromise beliefs that match new goals) to produce group consensus.
• Promise economic equality to seduce the masses.
• Spread hatred toward "extremists" who refuse to compromise.

The Communist Manifesto led to religious, moral and economic bankruptcy. Yet UN-led activists and their US partners are determined to fulfill their utopian visions.”

Good defeats evil (or evil defeats good?) at the U.N.

Essentially, Agenda 21 and the United Nations are using Communist techniques. But Communism has always been a tool used by the international bankers, Rothschilds and the Illuminati. The Communist Manifesto, written by a Satanist, Karl Marx, around 1848, is basically a copy of The Illuminati Manifesto written in the late 1700s. Thus an occult organization formulated the supposedly atheistic Communist Manifesto. Communism and Nazism were both invented and financed by the international bankers. Communism is the means of acquiring total control of a people, nation and government. That is why in the more candid publications the New World Order is referred to as a World Communist Government.

In a March 24, 2011 article in Foreign Policy Journal, Dr. K.R. Bolton writes, “Is this World State global warming agenda warned of by Lord Monckton, et al, merely speculation, subjective interpretation, a paranoid conspiracy theory? Or is there very specific evidence as to the oligarchic agenda? Indeed, in 2008, Simon Linnett wrote a policy document on the issue, published by The Social Market Foundation. Linnett is Executive Vice Chairman of N M Rothschild, London. In the Linnett manifesto, he defines “greenhouse emissions” as the new form of “social market;” a speculative new global currency. Linnett states that while it must be market forces and free trade that operate in defining the value of the carbon emission exchange, what is required is a world government. Market forces plus an “international institution” with a constitution equals a World State under oligarchic control.” He writes that “Such a market has to be established on a world basis coordinated by an international institution with a constitution to match.”

Linnett proposes a “world government,” that he calls the World Environmental Authority. The idea would be to have this located in a “world city.” Since the Rothschild Empire is located in a city inside of a city called “The City of London,” which is a sovereign entity inside of London, like Vatican City. This capital of the World State could be in this Rothschild controlled “City of London,” the center of international banking. Wherever the capital of this world state will be, it will be controlled by the Luciferian Illuminati.

Pardon the language - the truth is needful

What makes this interesting, is that over 2,000 years ago John the Apostle had a vision on the isle of Patmos which is described in the Book of Revelation. In his vision, John described a one world government and a one world economic system based on a cashless society. The world government would be ruled by a powerful charismatic leader who is called the First Beast. John also describes the Second Beast, who is the leader of a coming one world religion.

Total control of the citizenry of this one world government, would be through receiving the mark of the beast, which would be a biochip or microchip implant. In order to buy or sell, a person must take the mark of the beast.

I find it more than coincidental that a Luciferian and occult organization, the Illuminati, seems to be in control of the world economic system and the push for a one world government. When you look at the world today the Illuminati motto, “Order Out of Chaos” or the Communist term “manufactured crisis” appears to be at work behind many of the world events today. Unfortunately, most people believe these things are largely due to random political, ecological, economic and social forces. World leaders for the past century have warned us repeatedly that nothing material occurs by accident; virtually all of it is controlled and planned by very wealthy and powerful elites behind the scenes. We would do well to pay attention, since they have been in positions to know what they are talking about.

© 2012 Paul McGuire - All Rights Reserved

Revival: The Fire Falls

And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, "These things says He
who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: 'I know your
works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.'" 
--Revelation 3:1-2

For a long time I have believed that truth, to be understood, must be
lived; that Bible doctrine is wholly ineffective until it has been
digested and assimilated by the total life....

We must be willing to obey if we would know the true inner meaning
of the teachings of Christ and the apostles. I believe this view
prevailed in every revival that ever came to the church during her
long history. Indeed a revived church may be distinguished from a
dead one by the attitude of its members toward the truth. The dead
church holds to the shell of truth without surrendering the will to
it, while the church that wills to do God's will is immediately
blessed with a visitation of spiritual powers.

Theological facts are like the altar of Elijah on Carmel before the
fire came, correct, properly laid out, but altogether cold. When the
heart makes the ultimate surrender, the fire falls and true facts
are transmuted into spiritual truth that transforms, enlightens,
sanctifies. The church or the individual that is Bible taught
without being Spirit taught (and there are many of them) has simply
failed to see that truth lies deeper than the theological statement
of it.  That Incredible Christian, 92-94.

"Lord, send the fire today. Amen."

Madonna’s Superbowl Halftime Show: A Celebration of the Grand Priestess of the Music Industry

This article is from the site http://vigilantcitizen.com/.  They do an excellent job of exposing occult symbolism in the music and entertainment industry.  Most probably would not need much help to have seen the symbolism in the Super Bowl halftime show, but this article exposes some of the layers of occult expression that took place in the performance.

By VC 

When I learned that Madonna – aka the Grand Priestess of the music industry – would be performing at the Superbowl halftime show, I thought: “This should be interesting”. And it was. While most were amazed by a woman in her fifties dancing around with LMFAO and others were annoyed at her lipsynching, I was amazed by something else: the flurry of symbolism flashed to billions of worldwide viewers. While most saw Madonna’s performance as an entertaining interlude to the most important football game of the year, those with symbol-literacy will probably agree: Madonna’s halftime show was a big celebration of the Illuminati industry and of its Grand Priestess, Madonna.
A week before the Superbowl, Madonna described on Anderson Cooper the spiritual importance she attributed to her Half-Time show:

“The Superbowl is kind of like the Holy of Holies in America. I’ll come at halfway of the “church experience” and I’m gonna have to deliver a sermon. It’ll have to be very impactful.”

It is rather appropriate that this Kaballah-intiate referred to the Superbowl as the “Holy of Holies” as it was the name of the most sacred place in Solomon’s Temple. No one was ever permitted the Holy of Holies but the High Priest and only on the Day of Atonement – to offer the blood of sacrifice and incense before the mercy seat. Madonna’s analogy was therefore rather telling of the mindset behind her performance. Let’s look at the main parts of her show.

Vogue or Entrance of the Priestess

Madonna entrance is an elaborate procession fit for a High Priestess or even a goddess.

Pushed by hundreds of Roman soldiers and welcomed by hundreds of women, Madonna's glorious entrance is a reflection of her status in the entertainment world.

Her first performance is highly influenced by ancient Egypt-Sumeria-Babylon and Madonna’s costume recalls an ancient Babylonian goddess.

The decor of Madonna's first performance combines elements from ancient Egypt, Sumeria and Babylon. Madonna herself is dressed in a way that highly resembles an Ancient Sumerian/Babylonian goddess, Inanna-Ishtar.

Ishtar with her foot on a roaring lion and wearing a distinctive headdress thatresembles the one worn by Madonna. Ishtar is often depicted with wings, a feature that is recalled on Madonna's "carriage".

Ishtar was a powerful and assertive goddess whose areas of control and influence included warfare, love, sexuality, prosperity, fertility and prostitution. She sought the same existence as men, enjoying the glory of battle and seeking sexual experiences. Madonna’s as Ishtar is therefore quite interesting as one can argue that the pop singer has embodied, throughout her career, the same assertive yet highly sexual qualities of Ishtar, even achieving a state of power in the music industry that is usually reserved to men. On an esoteric level, Ishtar is associated with the planet Venus, known as the Morning Star or the Evening Star – a name also attributed to Lucifer in occult schools.
So in this mythologically-charged setting Madonna performed Vogue. During the performance, we saw dancers on the covers of Vogue, a magazine that is at the forefront of Illuminati symbolism in fashion (as seen in the series of articles Symbolic Pics of the Month).
Vogue ends with a symbol that is consistent with the Egyptian-Babylonian theme of the performance. It is also highest importance in occult Secret Societies such as Freemasons, the Rosicrucians and the Illuminati: the Winged Sun-Disk.

The song ends with the displaying of the symbol of the Winged Sun-Disk.

Egyptian mystics used the winged sun for ritualistic magic and invocations:

“‘Emblematic of the element of air, this consists of a circle or solar-type disk enclosed by a pair of wings. In ritual magic it is suspended over the alter in an easterly direction and used when invoking the protection and co-operation of the sylphs.”
-Hope, Murry, Practical Egyptian Magic

The winged sun is still being used today by groups like the Freemasons, the Theosophists and the Rosicrucians.

“The Winged Globe is pre-eminently a Rosicrucian symbol, although the Illuminati may lay claim to it, and it may be admitted that it is of Egyptian origin. The Winged Globe is the symbol of the perfected soul making its flight back to the source of its creation in the Elysian fields beyond.”
-Swinburne, Clymer, The Rosicrucians Their Teachings

The symbol of the winged-sun inside a Masonic lodge.

The display of this symbol, although apparently trivial and aesthetic, emphasizes on the occult spiritual dimension underlying Madonna’s entire performance.

Give Me All Your Luvin’ or Madonna’s Sex Kittens

Later in the show, Madonna performed her new single Give Me All Your Luvin’. The song features two new industry favorites: Nikki Minaj and M.I.A. In the song’s music video and during the Superbowl performance, the featuring of these two female rappers is portrayed in a specific way:  Instead of being presented as full-fledged artists contributing to Madonna’s song, the roles they are given makes them almost Madonna’s “minions” who are cheering for the industry’s High Priestess. This “relationship” where Madonna is in power – and therefore the handler – is drenched in Mind Control symbolism, specifically Beta Programming also know Sex Kitten Programming.

In the video for Give me Your Luvin', Madonna, Nikki Minaj and M.I.A. are dressed as Marilyn Monroe, the ultimate prototype of Sex Kitten Programming.

Another symbol associated with Sex Kitten programming is feline prints clothing and textiles. The entire half-time show was an animal-print extravaganza.

Like a Prayer or the Final Sermon

Madonna closed the Halftime show with one of her biggest hits: Like a Prayer. The video of this song was always controversial due to its mixing of religious themes with sexuality. When the song starts, the show takes on a very solemn and spiritual tone as Madonna and Cee-Lo Green enter to give the final sermon. Religious figures are usually dressed in white to represent purity and godliness. The two singers where dressed in black robes and black robes are usually used in…black masses.

As the song begins, a huge eye pupil is displayed, hinting of the Illuminati-influence in this spiritual performance.

Madonna’s Half-Time show also ends in a rather symbolic matter:

At the end of her performance, the floor opens underneath Madonna's feet and she disappears.

As Madonna is swept in what appears to be the “Underworld”, Madonna sings “I hear you call my name, And it feels like home”. This is another inversion of conventional religious symbolism as “home” should be in the heavens. In Madonna’s case, she obviously didn’t go in that direction.

The show ends with a message no one can disagree with.

The words "World Peace" appear on the stage, a PR-friendly slogan used by those pushing for a New World Order, one that is lead by a one world government.

In Conclusion

When taken individually, the symbols described above can be simply considered as “cool-looking” and most Superbowl viewers did not attribute much attention to them. The packing all of these signs and symbols in one comprehensive 13 minute performance cannot be dismissed as “random images”. Quite to the contrary, they all point towards a specific underlying Agenda, one that is consistent across the entire music industry. Madonna’s embrace of the Illuminati symbolism discussed on this site coincides with her signing with Interscope Records, one of the main purveyors of Illuminati symbolism in the music industry. Her Half-Time show performance can therefore be considered as the “launching” of her three-album (and 40 million dollars) relationship with the prominent label. Madonna’s Superbowl performance has shown that, despite the fact that she is an industry icon, she still needs to fit the mold and embrace the same symbolism rookie pop stars.

Laced with profound imagery, Madonna’s Half-time performance was, in fact, a massive Illuminati ritual, one that was witnessed by billions of viewers. On this Superbowl “Day of Atonement”, Madonna, the High Priestess of the Illuminati industry, entered the Holy of Holies of America delivered a 13 minutes sermon that was heard by all and understood by few.

Is New York’s mysterious ‘twitching’ neurological condition spreading?

The prevailing theory has been either environmental contamination from a chemical spill nearly 40 years ago, or mass halucination.  Contamination makes no sense because of the sudden onset of the disease symptoms, plus the fact that only girls have reported getting this.  As for mass halucination, while that may sound good to a psychiatrist, no case of mass halucination has ever been documented.  So lets leave the fairy tales behind and look at the most likely factors.

Vaccinations that only the girls would have received (HPV) seem the most likely culprit.  Vaccines have a long history of being contaminated with nasty things that should not be in them.  The other possible factor is the release of some gene specific organism that has never been seen before.  One that is targeting only young girls in this area of New York.  Okay, I'm sticking with the vaccines for now.  Hopefully time will tell, and someone will get these girls some help.

February 5, 2012 – LE ROY, New York (Reuters) – State health officials have added three more names to a growing list of students in this working-class town who are experiencing mysterious tics and twitching, while authorities on Saturday sought to assure parents the community’s high school is safe. Although the symptoms are typically associated with Tourette Syndrome, that has been ruled out in all but one case, causing fear and confusion among many residents of Le Roy, N.Y., about 50 miles east of Buffalo. “The building is safe for the community,” District Superintendent Kim Cox told several hundred residents gathered in the auditorium of Le Roy Junior-Senior High School on Saturday. The Le Roy Central School District scrambled to conduct environmental testing for air quality and mold when an initial 12 students developed tics and impulsive verbal outbursts last fall. But state health investigators ruled out environmental factors, latent side-effects from drugs or vaccines like Gardasil, trauma or genetic factors. Instead, doctors say conversion disorder – once called mass hysteria – is to blame among an expanding list of patients. Three more unconfirmed cases have been added to the original list of students exhibiting the symptoms, and others are being examined. Air quality and mold surveys at the school have all come back negative, according to district officials and representatives of Leader Professional Services Inc., a company hired to conduct environmental testing at the school after the symptoms first surfaced. Senior Industrial Hygienist Mary Ellen Holvey on Saturday said air and water tests turned up nothing, and recommended follow-up testing of air inside the school. –Chicago Tribune