July 15, 1945: Robert Spencer Shannon Born - I am the Editor and that is my name
July 16, 1945: Trinity Blast Opens Atomic Age- this event happened 

8 hours after my birth
1945: The first atomic bomb is tested successfully at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in a remote section of desert near Los Alamos, New Mexico. The instant the bomb detonated at 5:30 a.m. that Monday, the atomic age was born, and the world changed forever.

The government has your baby's DNA

When Annie Brown's daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked Brown and her husband to sit down because he had some bad news to tell them: Isabel carried a gene that put her at risk for cystic fibrosis. While grateful to have the information -- Isabel received further testing and she doesn't have the disease -- the Mankato, Minnesota, couple wondered how the doctor knew about Isabel's genes in the first place. After all, they'd never consented to genetic testing. It's simple, the pediatrician answered: Newborn babies in the United States are routinely screened for a panel of genetic diseases. Since the testing is mandated by the government, it's often done without the parents' consent, according to Brad Therrell, director of the National Newborn Screening & Genetics Resource Center. In many states, such as Florida, where Isabel was born, babies' DNA is stored indefinitely, according to the resource center. Many parents don't realize their baby's DNA is being stored in a government lab, but sometimes when they find out, as the Browns did, they take action. Parents in Texas, and Minnesota have filed lawsuits, and these parents' concerns are sparking a new debate about whether it's appropriate for a baby's genetic blueprint to be in the government's possession. "We were appalled when we found out," says Brown, who's a registered nurse. "Why do they need to store my baby's DNA indefinitely? Something on there could affect her ability to get a job later on, or get health insurance." According to the state of Minnesota's Web site, samples are kept so that tests can be repeated, if necessary, and in case the DNA is ever need to help parents identify a missing or deceased child. The samples are also used for medical research. Art Caplan, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, says he understands why states don't first ask permission to screen babies for genetic diseases. "It's paternalistic, but the state has an overriding interest in protecting these babies," he says. However, he added that storage of DNA for long periods of time is a different matter. "I don't see any reason to do that kind of storage," Caplan says. "If it's anonymous, then I don't care. I don't have an issue with that. But if you keep names attached to those samples, that makes me nervous." DNA given to outside researchers Genetic testing for newborns started in the 1960s with testing for diseases and conditions that, if undetected, could kill a child or cause severe problems, such as mental retardation. Since then, the screening has helped save countless newborns. Over the years, many other tests were added to the list. Now, states mandate that newborns be tested for anywhere between 28 and 54 different conditions, and the DNA samples are stored in state labs for anywhere from three months to indefinitely, depending on the state. (To find out how long your baby's DNA is stored, see this state-by-state list.) Brad Therrell, who runs the federally funded genetic resource consortium, says parents don't need to worry about the privacy of their babies' DNA. "The states have in place very rigid controls on those specimens," Therrell says. "If my children's DNA were in one of these state labs, I wouldn't be worried a bit." The specimens don't always stay in the state labs. They're often given to outside researchers -- sometimes with the baby's name attached. According to a study done by the state of Minnesota, more than 20 scientific papers have been published in the United States since 2000 using newborn blood samples. The researchers do not have to have parental consent to obtain samples as long as the baby's name is not attached, according to Amy Gaviglio, one of the authors of the Minnesota report. However, she says it's her understanding that if a researcher wants a sample with a baby's name attached, consent first must be obtained from the parent

WASHINGTON. - When you turn on the tap, you expect your water to be safe to drink, but  testimony on Capitol Hill Tuesday revealed there are serious problems, especially in America's small towns and cities."The concentration of chemicals in some places are so high that you can literally light the water on fire," said Senator Frank Lautenber (D-NJ)The Environmental Protection Agency told Congress 96 percent of the problems are in small communities and the agency needs more money to help them. Schools are a big concern as the Associated Press reported one in five schools with their own water supply have violated standards.

While only six percent of violators have been punished, according to the New York Times, the EPA is promising a crackdown beginning in January, though lawmakers said the EPA's new plan must be more than just words on paper. "The vast majority of this committee expects you to take action to protect our children and families. Anything else, we'll consider a stall. We expect action," said California Senator Barbara Boxer, (D-CA).The New York Times estimated nearly 50 million Americans have consumed unsafe water in the past five years and that review found violations in every state.

Russia became the latest country to strike a civil nuclear deal with energy-hungry India on Monday when it agreed to supply reactors to Asia’s third largest economy.
International power companies from Russia, France, the UK, the US and Canada are flocking to India seeking opportunities to help one of the world’s fastest-growing economies meet its energy demands. The contribution of nuclear energy in India is forecast to rise from 4,000MW to as much as 470,000MW over the next 40 years.

Sumatra, Indonesia (-- The land still smolders, tinted with a depressing gray. Twisted hulks of tree trunks take on abnormal shapes. A dark black canal cuts through the wasted landscape.

It looks like a scene from an apocalyptic movie where an unknown force has obliterated all life. But this is the reality of Sumatra, Indonesia's largest island.

The Kampar Peninsula was once virgin rainforest, some of the most biodiverse in the world. The region has now been transformed into a lifeless plain, soon to be replanted with monocultures.

Environmental groups describe the degradation as rampant pillaging -- the work of multibillion dollar paper, pulp and palm oil conglomerates.

Already 85 percent of Sumatra's forests are gone. What is left is vanishing at an alarming rate -- an area the size of 50 football fields disappears every hour, according to Greenpeace and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Lovers of weather statistics keep one eye on the sky and the other on your watches: We're on the cusp of an itty-bitty weather record.If we make it to midnight without a flake this will be the first time in Toronto in more than 160 years we have enjoyed snow-free skies before December"Lack of snow is even more spectacular when you look at the downtown stations with records back to 1847 ... first time even without a flake of snow in October or November," wrote David Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment Canada in an email.

MARTINSVILLE, Ohio — With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children.It has grown so rapidly in places so diverse that it is becoming nearly as ordinary as the groceries it buys. More than 36 million people use inconspicuous plastic cards for staples like milk, bread and cheese, swiping them at counters in blighted cities and in suburbs pocked with foreclosure signs.

Food banks go high-tech to feed the hungry

SEATTLE (AP) - Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry that increasingly supplies their goods.

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HONG KONG (Reuters) - China must be alert to any mutation or changes in the behavior of the H1N1 swine flu virus because the far deadlier H5N1 bird flu virus is endemic in the country, a leading Chinese disease expert said. Zhong Nanshan, director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases in China's southern Guangdong province, said the presence of both viruses in China meant they could mix and become a monstrous hybrid -- a bug packed with strong killing power that can transmit efficiently among people.

WASHINGTON -- The government insurance fund that protects more than $4.5 trillion of U.S. bank deposits slipped into the red at the end of September, after fifty banks collapsed during the third quarter.

The deposit insurance fund dropped by $18.6 billion during the third quarter of 2009 to negative $8.2 billion, as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. set aside $21.7 billion in provisions for additional bank failures. This is the second time in the agency's history that the balance has fallen into negative territory.

The FDIC has already called on the industry to prepay $45 billion in assessments at the end of the year that will be set aside to cover the cost of bank failures in 2010.

Hindu sacrifice of 250,000 animals begins

11-24-2009
The world's biggest animal sacrifice began in Nepal today with the killing of the first of more than 250,000 animals as part of a Hindu festival in the village of Bariyapur, near the border with India.

The event, which happens every five years, began with the decapitation of thousands of buffalo, killed in honour of Gadhimai, a Hindu goddess of power.

With up to a million worshippers on the roads near the festival grounds, this year's fair seems more popular than ever, despite vocal protests from animals rights groups who have called for it to be banned. "It is the traditional way, " explained 45-year old Manoj Shah, a Nepali driver who has been attending the event since he was six, "If we want anything, and we come here with an offering to the goddess, within five years all our dreams will be fulfilled." .

New York (CNN) -- The New York Police Department executed search warrants Tuesday at some offices of The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The New York Post and El Diario newspapers and at a labor union, with authorities saying they were conducting investigations into "business activity."

Local media reports categorized the action as searches of the newspapers' circulation offices in connection with an investigation of the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union of New York.Deputy Police Commissioner Paul J. Browne confirmed the searches to CNN but neither he nor other city officials would elaborate on the investigation or discuss Tuesday's actions.

(IDNs), in one of the most significant steps to making the Internet more accessible around the globe.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has opened the application process, ending the exclusive use of Latin characters for website addresses.

On the first day, "we have already received six applications from around the world for three different scripts," ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom told an Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

He said that while ICANN could not reveal the names of those applying, Egypt -- with .misr, meaning Egypt in Arabic -- and Russia had already made public their applications for country code top level domains in their scripts.

MILLION HIT BY 'PLAGUE WORSE THAN SWINE FLU'

British scientists testing Ukrainian 'super flu' that has killed 189 people

"O Lord...You have stricken them, but they have not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than rock." Jeremiah 5:3
Rare virus poses new threat to troops

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | U.S. military officials sent a medical team to a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan this week to take blood samples from members of an Army unit after a soldier in the unit died from an Ebola-like virus.

Dr. Jim Radike, an expert in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Role 3 Trauma Hospital at Kandahar Air Field, told The Washington Times that Sgt. Robert David Gordon, 22, from River Falls, Ala., died Sept. 16 from what turned out to be Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever after he was bitten by a tick. The virus is transmitted by infected blood and can be carried by ticks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian has learned.

The very existence of the technology, known as a "two-point implosion" device, is officially secret in both the US and Britain, but according to previously unpublished documentation in a dossier compiled by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iranian scientists may have tested high-explosive components of the design. The development was today described by nuclear experts as "breathtaking" and has added urgency to the effort to find a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis.

The sophisticated technology, once mastered, allows for the production of smaller and simpler warheads than older models. It reduces the diameter of a warhead and makes it easier to put a nuclear warhead on a missile.

Documentation referring to experiments testing a two-point detonation design are part of the evidence of nuclear weaponisation gathered by the IAEA and presented to Iran for its response.

The dossier, titled "Possible Military Dimensions of Iran's Nuclear Program", is drawn in part from reports submitted to it by western intelligence agencies.

The agency has in the past treated such reports with scepticism, particularly after the Iraq war. But its director general, Mohamed ElBaradei, has said the evidence of Iranian weaponisation "appears to have been derived from multiple sources over different periods of time, appears to be generally consistent, and is sufficiently comprehensive and detailed that it needs to be addressed by Iran".

“Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. 13I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. 

The giant pattern - thought to represent a traditional Mayan head-dress - appeared next to the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe last week.
Members of the crop circle community believe the mystic symbol is a signal of the end of the 5,126-year Mayan 'Long Count' calendar on December 21, 2012.

Karen Alexander, a crop circle enthusiast, said: "This is one of the most interesting crop circles I have ever seen. It is definitely a Mayan symbol and we are sure it is linked to the Mayan calendar, which ends in 2012.

"It appears to be a warning about the world coming to an end when the calendar does. For the ancient Maya, reaching the end of a cycle was a momentous event, so we are taking this crop circle very seriously as an indicator of a possibly huge event in 2012."

Last month a 400-foot crop circle depicting a phoenix rising from the flames appeared in a barley field in Yatesbury near Devizes, Wiltshire.
Crop circle theorists believe the patterns are created by UFOs during nocturnal visits, or caused by natural phenomena such as unusual forms of lightning striking the earth.

Reports circulating in the Kremlin today are saying that Russian Air Force Commanders have issued warnings to all of their aircraft to exercise “extreme caution” during flights “in and around” an area defined as Latitude 17 North [North Atlantic Ocean] Latitude 3 South [South Atlantic Ocean] to Latitude 8 North [Indian Ocean] Latitude 19 South [Indian Ocean] between the Longitudes of 46 West, 33 West, 46 East and 33 East, and which covers the greater part of the African Tectonic Plate.

The reason for this unprecedented warning, these reports state, are the rapid formations of “geomagnetic storms” emanating from the boundaries of the African Tectonic Plate that due to their intensity have caused the loss of two major passenger aircraft during the past month leaving nearly 300 men, women and children dead.

The first aircraft to be downed by this phenomenon was Air France passenger flight 447, and which these reports say that upon encountering one of these geomagnetic storms, on June 1st, near the western boundary of the African Tectonic Plate close to Brazil’s Fernando de Noronha Islands, was “completely annihilated” causing the deaths of 216 passengers and 12 crew members as their plane plunged in pieces into the Atlantic Ocean.

But Sting is serious in his belief that Obama is the best leader to navigate the world's problems. In an interview on Wednesday, the former Police frontman said that he spent some time with Obama and "found him to be very genuine, very present, clearly super-smart, and exactly what we need in the world

Chicago and Cook County residents aren’t the only ones about to get shocking tax news; the city is debuting a “tax whistle-blower” plan that could turn neighbor against neighbor in Chicago’s business community.The folks at city hall will pay cash bounties to informants who turn in business tax cheats around the city. The reward would amount to some sort of percentage of the tax money that the city recovers.
"It's just another way of bringing people into compliance," Revenue Department spokesman Ed Walsh

No men OR women needed: Scientists create sperm and eggs from stem cells

Human eggs and sperm have been grown in the laboratory in research which could change the face of parenthood. It paves the way for a cure for infertility and could help those left sterile by cancer treatment to have children who are biologically their own.
But it raises a number of moral and ethical concerns. These include the possibility of children being born through entirely artificial means, and men and women being sidelined from the process of making babies. 

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency and empowered his health secretary to suspend federal requirements and speed treatment for thousands of infected people.

The declaration that Obama signed late Friday authorized Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to bypass federal rules so health officials can respond more quickly to the outbreak, which has killed more than 1,000 people in the United States.

The goal is to remove bureaucratic roadblocks and make it easier for sick people to seek treatment and medical providers to provide it immediately. That could mean fewer hurdles involving Medicare, Medicaid or health privacy regulations.

“As a nation, we have prepared at all levels of government, and as individuals and communities, taking unprecedented steps to counter the emerging pandemic,” Obama wrote in the declaration, which the White House announced Saturday.

He said the pandemic keeps evolving, the rates of illness are rising rapidly in many areas and there’s a potential “to overburden health care resources.”

"A nation healed, a world repaired. We are the ones that we've been waiting for." Barrack Obama

President of Europe???
Did I Miss Something?
Tony Blair could be crowned first President of Europe at a special summit of EU leaders next month.

Diplomatic sources say French President Nicolas Sarkozy is pushing for an extraordinary meeting in Brussels to install the former prime minister in the new £275,000-a-year post.Mr Blair was the first European leader to meet Mr Obama after he became President, and was lavished with praise.If he lands the job, Mr Blair can expect 20 staff, a chauffeur and generous entertainment expenses. But he will almost certainly be forced to ditch outside interests said to have earned him £12million since leaving Downing Street.
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"The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to Him, and showed unto His servants things which must shortly come to pass, and signified it. Blessed are they who read and hear the words of this prophecy, and keep the things which are written." The beginning of the book promises blessing to him that reads and hears and keeps, that he who takes pains about the reading may thence learn to do works, and may keep the precepts.

1983 by Bob Shannon on a C64 with Dot Matrix
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Half of GPs refuse swine flu vaccine over testing fears

EritreaThe prolonged drought which is bringing hunger on a vast scale to Ethiopia has also hit its northern neighbour Eritrea with devastating effect. 

MauritaniaIn West Africa, Mauritania is facing severe food shortages after six poor harvests in a row. 

Angola The medical relief organisation Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) estimates that at least 1.5 million people are suffering from acute malnutrition. 

Zambia The Zambian Government has declared the country's food shortage a national disaster. 

Zimbabwe In September, the Southern African Development Community Regional Early Warning Unit said that Zimbabwe needed more food aid than any other country in the region facing famine.
It is estimated that six million people - half the population - are in need of food aid following the combination of poor rains and the adverse effects of the seizure of most white-owned farms.

As U.S. health officials consider rolling out a plan to inoculate the nation against swine flu in the next several months, they are haunted by the events that unfolded the last time the government stepped in to head off a surprise flu outbreak.In the fall of 1976, dozens of Americans died within 48 hours of receiving a swine flu vaccine. To allay the public fears that threatened to unravel the mass inoculation program, President Gerald Ford rolled up his shirtsleeve and received his shot in front of television cameras. More than 40 million others followed his lead. But two months later, the campaign was abruptly stopped: More deaths had followed, and hundreds were reporting serious side effects, including paralysis. Already, medical experts and vaccine watchdog groups are urging the Obama administration to apply the lessons learned 33 years ago. In a public statement last week, former health and human services secretary Mike Leavitt recommended that officials study the federal investigation of the 1976 program. Administration officials said they are keenly aware of the history.

Revenue was 5.3 percent less than was assumed in the $85 billion annual budget during the three months ended Sept. 30. Income tax receipts led the shortfall, as unemploymentreached as high as 12.2 percent in August.

“Revenues more than $1 billion under estimates and recent adverse court rulings are dealing a major blow to a budget that is barely 10-weeks old,” Controller John Chiang said in a statement. “While there are encouraging signs that California’s economy is preparing for a comeback, the recession continues to drag state revenues down.”

The latest figures show that California is facing resurgent fiscal strains brought on by the U.S. recession. Since February, Schwarzenegger and lawmakers have cut $32 billion from spending, raised taxes by $12.5 billion and covered $6 billion more with accounting gimmicks and borrowing.

'I will make a violent wind break out in My wrath ... flooding rain and hailstones ...' (Ezek 13.13)
'The earth will be completely laid waste ... the earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers...'(Isa 24.3,4)
'The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given to it to scorch men with fire. Men were scorched with fierce heat ...' (Rev 16.8,9)

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.
And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.
So what on Earth is going on?

UN calls for new reserve currency...

The demise of the dollar

In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading

In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.

Tsunami kills 111, flattens villages in Samoa
Major quake jolts Indonesia, 21 dead
Typhoon kills more than 300 in southeast Asia

By digging in the muck of Rocky Mountain ponds and lakes, scientists have been able to establish an accurate historic record of how human activities have increased the amount of dust falling on high country snowpack.Using satellite images and analyzing the dust, other researchers have been able to pinpoint specific sources, including off-road vehicle disturbances, livestock grazing and oil and gas development on the Colorado Plateau.

“It's profound,” said researcher Tom Painter, director of the snow optics laboratory at the University of Utah. “Areas that are actively disturbed release 1,000 times more dust,” Painter said, adding that dust layers in 2009 caused the snow pack to melt 45 to 48 days earlier than normal.Areas that haven't been disturbed by human activities release very little dust, Painter said.“This has huge impacts on hydrology and snow cover,” Painter said, explaining that water managers have to account for changes in runoff as they plan the operation of reservoirs and diversions.“For us, the bottom line is, how much water are we going to get, and when do we get it,” said Grand Junction-based Dan Crabtree, water management group chief with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The federal agency manages most of the region's major water projects.

PHOENIX — Bartender Randy Shields was serving British brews and Arizona ambers as usual at Shady's bar in east Phoenix when he saw a customer walk in with a hunting knife strapped to his hip.A disturbing image flashed through his mind — "that knife sliding between my ribs."

The customer willingly turned over the knife while he was in the bar, but Shields still worries about a new Arizona law that goes into effect Wednesday that will allow guns into Arizona bars and restaurants that serve alcohol.Under the law, backed by the National Rifle Association, the 138,350 people with concealed-weapons permits in Arizona will be allowed to bring their guns into bars and restaurants that haven't posted signs banning them.

The new law has Shields and other bar owners and workers wondering: What's going to happen when guns are allowed in an atmosphere filled with booze and people with impaired judgment?"Somebody can pull the trigger, then a bullet comes out, and people get hurt and killed," said Brad Henrich, owner of Shady's, a popular neighborhood bar that sees occasional minor scuffles. "The idea of anyone coming in with guns in a place that serves alcohol just seems ludicrous."

Warming in the Pacific often means fewer Atlantic hurricanes and higher temperatures in the U.S. Northeast during January, February and March, according to the National Weather Service. El Nino occurs every two to five years, on average, and lasts about 12 months, according to the service.Hedge-fund managers and other large speculators increased their net-long positions, or bets prices will rise, in New York heating oil futures in the week ended Sep. 22, according to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data Sept. 25.

“It could be one of the coldest winters, or the coldest, winter of the decade,” Rogers said.U.S. inventories of distillate fuels, which include heating oil, are at their highest since January 1983, the U.S. Energy Department said Sept. 23. Stockpiles of 170.8 million barrels in the week ended Sept. 18 are 28 percent above the five-year average.Heating oil for October delivery rose 1.38 cents, or 0.8 percent, to settle at $1.6909 a gallon on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

A mystery creature’s body found by a group of teenagers, while playing in the town of Cerro Arul north of Panama City CNN reports, 18-September, 2009. The creature with rubber like skin, 150cm length, with weird and ugly features and without any hair on the body was spotted by the group, according to reports kids got scared from that Gollum-like thing in the lake.

Panamanian news service Telemetry reports, that the kids screamed when creature emerged from a cave and started hip hopping over rocks towards them as if intended to attack them, according to that group of teenagers they then stoned the mystery creature to death. Their parents returned to the lake the following day and were surprised to see the phenomenon. Later a team of researchers took out the body from the canal, photographed and was taken for forensic testing and research.

China adds more Web surveillance
     BEIJING – News Web sites in China, complying with secret government orders, are requiring that new users log on under their true identities to post comments, a shift in policy that the country’s Internet users and media have opposed in the past.
   Until recently, users could weigh in on news items on many of the affected sites more anonymously, often without registering at all, though the sites were obligated to screen all posts, and the posts could be traced via Internet protocol addresses.
   But early last month, without notification, news portals such as Sina, Netease, Sohu and scores of other sites began asking unregistered users to sign in under their real names and identification 
   , top editors at two of the major portals affected. A Sina staff member also confirmed the change.
   The editors said the sites   were putting into effect a confidential directive issued in late July by the State Council Information Office, one of the main government bodies responsible for supervising the Internet in China   The new step is not foolproof, the editors acknowledged. It was possible for a reporter to register successfully on several major sites under falsified names and ID and cellphone numbers.
   But the requirement adds a critical new layer of surveillance to mainstream sites in China, which were already heavily policed. 
   And while the authorities called the measure part of a drive to forge greater “social responsibility” and “civility” among users, they moved forward surreptitiously and suppressed reports about it, said the editors and others in the media industry familiar with the measure, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Creation of 'three-parent babies' closer to reality...

Dangerous citrus pest found in Los Angeles...

A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which proceeded out of their mouths.

Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis called for calm on Saturday and said ground forces "will continue their superhuman efforts" until dawn, when air operations and water drops will resume.

Authorities reported 75 fires across the country.

"What I want to emphasize is the sacrifice of all those fighting under extremely difficult circumstances that complicate the task of fighting these fires," he said in a statement.

Artificial life will be created 'within months' as genome experts claim vital breakthrough

Scientists are only months away from  creating artificial life, it was claimed yesterday.

Dr Craig Venter – one of the world’s most famous and controversial biologists – said his U.S. researchers have overcome one of the last big hurdles to making a synthetic organism.

The first artificial lifeform is likely to be a simple man-made bacterium that proves that the technology can work.

S. Korean firm to open dog cloning center...

A warning that the new swine flu jab is linked to a deadly nerve disease has been sent by the Government to senior neurologists in a confidential letter.
The letter from the Health Protection Agency, the official body that oversees public health, has been leaked to The Mail on Sunday, leading to demands to know why the information has not been given to the public before the vaccination of millions of people, including children, begins.
It tells the neurologists that they must be alert for an increase in a brain disorder called Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), which could be triggered by the vaccine.

RUSSIAN SUBS PATROLLING OFF EAST COAST

PAPER: WORLD OIL SUPPLIES 'RUNNING OUT FAST'...

The world is heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple a global economic recovery because most of the major oil fields in the world have passed their peak production, a leading energy economist has warned.

Higher oil prices brought on by a rapid increase in demand and a stagnation, or even decline, in supply could blow any recovery off course, said Dr Fatih Birol, the chief economist at the respected International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris, which is charged with the task of assessing future energy supplies by OECD countries.

New HIV strain discovered in woman from Cameroon

WASHINGTON – A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus recently discovered in wild gorillas, researchers report in Monday's edition of the journal Nature Medicine.

The finding "highlights the continuing need to watch closely for the emergence for new HIV variants, particularly in western central Africa," said the researchers, led by Jean-Christophe Plantier of the University of Rouen, France.

The three previously known HIV strains are related to the simian virus that occurs in chimpanzees.

The most likely explanation for the new find is gorilla-to-human transmission, Plantier's team said. But they added they cannot rule out the possibility that the new strain started in chimpanzees and moved into gorillas and then humans, or moved directly from chimpanzees to both gorillas and humans.

'Leapt to humans from gorillas'...

Chicago: 15 shot in 24 hours

Desperate Arizona may sell Capitol buildings!

Shopaholic died under purchases - found underneath pile of clothing...

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Saturday that Iran will strike Israel's nuclear facilities if the Jewish state attacks Iran, a semi-official news agency reported. "If the Zionist regime attacks Iran, we will surely strike its nuclear facilities with our missile capabilities," said Gen. Mohammed Ali Jaafari, according to the Iranian Labor News Agency, referring to Israel.
"Our missile capability puts all of the Zionist regime within Iran's reach to attack," Jaafari said, according to ILNA. The military chief said criticisms of Iran's nuclear program -- which Tehran maintains is for peaceful purposes -- are part of the "psychological war that the West has launched against Iran." Iran has refused international calls to suspend its production of enriched uranium, which it insists will be used to fuel civilian nuclear power plants.

CITI exec's pay package may spark gov't showdown

ADDICTED TO GAMES

A few years ago, when I was working at Electronic Arts, a coworker of mine had a problem. He spent much of his time playing Sony's massively multiplayer on-line roleplaying game EverQuest, and when he wasn't playing it, he was talking about it, posting to online forums about it, or dreaming about the next time he could log on. He played obsessively, often signing on as soon as he got home from work. Predictably, his behavior had a negative impact on his family and social life, and eventually cost him his job.

Many of us have known people like my coworker. The problems of online gaming addiction date back to the days of text-based MUDs, but in more recent years terms like "Evercrack" and "World of Warcrack" have entered the popular lexicon. Now, Dr. Maressa Hecht Orzack, a clinical psychologist at McLean Hospital in Massachusetts, has come forward to claim that up to 40 percent of World of Warcraft players are addicted to the game.

WHO says H1N1 flu spreading, watching for mutation

Sodomy is defined in scripture by two things, the first being that of where it began: Sodom. In Genesis 13:13 we have the first mention of the men of Sodom, pronouncing that they “were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.” Their saga is continued in chapters 18 and 19 with their sin being so great that not only does God say that it “is very grievous,” but he himself comes down to destroy them with fire, the rubble of which still stands as a warning to us today.

"Lack of snow is even more spectacular when you look at the downtown stations with records back to 1847 ... first time even without a flake of snow in October or November," wrote David Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment Canada in an email.

Swine flu fears prompt run on UK pharmacies

Argentina declares nationwide alert

Spreading rapidly in Japan

Swine flu threat greater than terrorism

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong 

COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF THE ARAL SEA  THIS IS A ONSITE LINK
The fact that the Pishon and the Gihon rivers cannot now be identified means the Deluge itself may well have contributed to eliminating or changing the courses of the Pishon and Gihon Rivers. So the world wide flood of Noah's day destroyed Eden and the tree of life which was in a mountainous area SW of Mount Ararat and a few kilometers S of Lake Van, in the eastern part of Turkey.

The garden of Eden with this tree had this natural barrier of  mountains from which point Adam and Eve made their exit,cherubs are stated to have been stationed only at the E of the garden.

(Genesis 3:24) 24 And so he drove the man out and posted at the east of the garden of E´den the cherubs and the flaming blade of a sword that was turning itself continually to guard the way to the tree of life.

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The racialist ideas that were developing independently in India and Europe fused in esoterica. In The Secret Doctrine (1888), Helena Petrovna Blavatsky saw the "Aryans" as the fifth of her seven "Root Races", dating them to about a million years ago, and tracing them to Atlantis. She considered "Abraham" to be a corruption of a word meaning "No Brahmin", from whom the Semites – "degenerate in spirituality and perfected in materiality" – had descended, and who were one rung down on the Root Race scale. The Jews, according to Blavatsky, were a "tribe descended from the Tchandalas of India, the outcasts".

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Abraham was the tenth generation from Noah and the 20th from Adam . His father was Terah, and his brothers were Nahor and Haran. According to Genesis, Abraham was sent by God from his home in Ur Kasdim and Harran to Canaan, the land promised to his descendants by Yahweh. There Abraham entered into a covenant: in exchange for recognition of YHWH as his God, Abraham will be blessed with innumerable progeny and the land would belong to his descendants.


Swine flu fears close more summer camps...

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“Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.”- James 1:21
FEDS: ALL CHILDREN OVER 6 MONTHS SHOULD GET FLU VACCINES...

CDC STOPS DEATH COUNT...

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WHO watching for mutation...

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Parts of Britain "near an H1N1 epidemic"; 14 dead

LONDON (Reuters) - Fourteen Britons who had contracted H1N1 flu have died and the rapid spread of infection in two areas of the country is close to epidemic level, health officials said on Thursday.The Department of Health said Britain now had 9,718 laboratory-confirmed cases, the third most in the world behind the United States and Mexico.

Britain's Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson said the actual number of cases was likely to be higher.All 14 who have died had underlying health issues and it was not clear in how many cases the patients had died as a direct result of the virus, known as swine flu."In London and the West Midlands we are getting pretty close to epidemic levels. We've seen big surges there," Donaldson tol BBC TV."For the country as a whole, the average is about the level of the flu season but in some parts of the country the levels are getting pretty big."

Pope Calls for 'New World Order'

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict on Tuesday called for a “world political authority” to manage the global economy and for more government regulation of national economies to pull the world out of the current crisis and avoid a repeat.

The pope’s call for a re-think of the way the world economy is run came in new encyclical which touched on a number of social issues but whose main connecting thread was how the current crisis has affected both rich and poor nations.

Called “Charity in Truth,” parts of the encyclical appeared bound to upset conservatives because of its underlying rejection of unbridled capitalism and unregulated market forces, which he said had led to “thoroughly destructive” abuse of the system

Mystery virus strikes wildlife at reserve

ABOUT 50 swans are believed to have died at the Lough in Cork city over recent days, with ducks and fish also dying.The kill has
sparked fears over a pollution virus at the lake, which is a nature reserve and is regarded as one of the city’s most striking natural features.

Animal welfare experts at the scene yesterday were awaiting the results of scientific tests on the dead birds. Lough area resident Annie Hoey said that people began to notice deaths in early June and that the numbers have been increasing ever since.

St. Clair Fishing Dying From Bacteria

Luke 21:11 (New International Version)

¹¹There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.

Tel Aviv 'water war' gets thumbs down from Water Authority

The Physical and Economic Devastation of Gaza

Water problems becoming more widespread

New report highlights climate change effects

Ugandans blame drought and disease on the 'angry gods'...

Swiss vow to block bank handing over data to USA...

Justice Dept. demands UBS comply in tax evasion case...

Military boot camp for Chinese internet addicts

Internet addiction is becoming a problem in China, as more than 250 million Chinese are now connected to the World Wide Web. An estimated four to ten million of these users are addicted.

China’s law kills little babies
The Chinese government imposed a limit on birth in 1979: for the law every family can have up to a child (in the city) or two (in rural areas); in all other cases abortion is required.Every day they abandon just over 1000 girls born. People abandon or kill their children to be not discovered by the chinese government.
There are abortion teams that catch women who refuse to abort and keep them in prison until they decide to do so.
Otherwise, the children “outlaw” won’t have right to medical care, to education or any kind of social assistance.
For this reason, many families sell their children to other couples.

WIRE: Rising debt may be next crisis...

'Cash is king'...

WHO warns swine flu 'unstoppable'

The UN's top health official has opened a forum in Mexico on combating swine flu by saying that the spread of the virus worldwide is now unstoppable.

World Health Organization head Margaret Chan added that the holding of the meeting in Cancun showed confidence in Mexico, which has been hard hit.

'40 a day could die by end of summer in London'...

Amsterdam considering bank help -- for prostitutes...
TV gameshow looks to convert atheists...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health experts are fond of saying any new disease is just a flight away from anywhere, and a report published on Monday shows the new strain of H1N1 flu followed the airline route map as it spread around the globe.

The swine flu virus spread first and quickest in March and April in the United States and Canada -- where 80 percent of airline passengers traveled in March and April of 2008, researchers at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto found.

Dr. Kamram Khan of St. Michael's and colleagues used International Air Transport Association data for their study. They said travel patterns were also similar in 2007 and therefore likely to be similar in 2009.

Deficit forces California to issue IOUs

Published: June 29 2009 19:26 | Last updated: June 29 2009 19:26

California is preparing to issue IOUs to its creditors this week as it grapples with an unprecedented cash crunch and prepares to begin its new fiscal year deep in the red. Once the US’s richest state, California now has the dubious distinction of having the worst credit rating in the country.

NOW HONDURAS ON THE BRINK...

AIR FORCE TEST FIRES MISSILE FROM CA COAST...

Michael

• Genetic condition had ruined his lungs and left him unable to sing
• He became so skeletal, doctors believed he was anorexic
• He had nightmares about being murdered – and wanted to die
• He used swine flu as an excuse to avoid coming to England
• He thought he was agreeing to 10 concerts – it was 50

Whatever  the final autopsy results reveal, it was greed that killed Michael Jackson. Had he not been driven – by a cabal of bankers, agents, doctors and advisers – to commit to the gruelling 50 concerts in London’s O2 Arena, I believe he would still be alive today.

During the last weeks and months of his life, Jackson made desperate attempts to prepare for the concert series scheduled for next month – a series that would have earned millions for the singer and his entourage, but which he could never have completed, not mentally, and not physically. Ailing: Michael Jackson may have worn a mask in public to protect his diseased lungs JUNE 22, 2009  

Numbers on Welfare See Sharp Increase Welfare rolls, which were slow to rise and actually fell in many states early in the recession, now are climbing across the country for the first time since President Bill Clinton signed legislation pledging "to end welfare as we know it" more than a decade ago.Twenty-three of the 30 largest states, which account for more than 88% of the nation's total population, see welfare caseloads above year-ago levels, according to a survey conducted by The Wall Street Journal and the National Conference of State Legislatures. As more people run out of unemployment compensation, many are turning to welfare as a stopgap.

Rift among Iranian leaders widens

NEW YORK (CNN) -- In the midst of the ongoing culture wars, can it be a good idea to put out a comedy about two Stone Age men who wander into the Bible?
"Year One," which he directed, concerns two men -- played by Jack Black and Michael Cera -- who leave their home and, in their travels, meet biblical characters such as Cain, Abel, Abraham and Isaac. Among the locales: ancient Sodom, which "didn't seem worse than Las Vegas to me.

Sodom (Hebrew Name|סְדוֹם|Sədom|Səḏôm, Arabic: سدوم Sadūm, Greek Σόδομα) and Gomorrah (Hebrew Name|עֲמוֹרָה|ʿAmora|Ġəmôrāh / ʿĂmôrāh, {{Arabic: عمورة ʿAmūrah, }} Greek Γόμορρα) were two cities in the Bible which were destroyed by God.

For the sins of their inhabitants Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim were destroyed by "brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven" (Genesis 19:24-25). In Christianity and Islam, their names have become synonymous with impenitent sin, and their fall with a proverbial manifestation of God's wrath (Jude 1:7, Qur'an 

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Swine flu 'could infect up to half the population'

Sunday, 21 June 2009

Primary care trusts are to set up anti-viral drug distribution centres and swine flu testing clinics amid fears that the infection could spread out of control.

The Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, wrote to health authorities last week urging hospitals to test all patients who show signs of flu-like symptoms. He wrote: "Transmission from person to person in this country is increasingly common. There is evidence that sporadic cases are arising with no apparent link either to cases elsewhere in the UK or to travel abroad."

The letter followed an earlier warning from Sir Liam that millions of Britons could fall victim to swine flu in the coming months. Government officials admitted last night that illness rates from the virus could reach 50 per cent.

Treasury to Auction $104 Billion In Debt Next Week, a Record
The Treasury announced Thursday a record $104 billion worth of bond auctions for next week, part of its herculean efforts to finance a rescue of the world's largest economy.The sales will exceed the previous record of $101 billion set in auctions that took place in the last week of April and consist of two-year, five-year and seven-year securities. That record was matched by another $101 billion week in May.

Though next week's total was broadly in line with expectations, worries about supply have weighed on the U.S. government bond market, which will see a mammoth $2 trillion worth of new debt issued this year.

Oregon woman possessed by rabbits arrested again
      TIGARD, Ore. (AP) - Authorities said a woman possessed with rabbits is in trouble again: In violation of probation terms, she was found holed up in a hotel room with more than a dozen rabbits. Officers said they had to break into the room Tuesday and found eight adults and half a dozen baby rabbits, one dead. The police say some were caged, some roaming.  They arrested 47-year-old Miriam Sakewitz.

Libya records 13 cases of bubonic plague
Thirteen cases of bubonic plague have been recorded in eastern Libya, near the border with Egypt, Health Minister Mohamad Hijazi told AFP on Wednesday, stressing the situation was under control.

"Thirteen cases of the plague have been recorded in a village 30 kilometres (20 miles) away from Tobruk. Eleven people have already (been treated and) left hospital," he said, without reporting any deaths.

Ahmadinejad defends vote as 'real and free'...
MORE CROWDS CLASH...
BBC says election broadcasts disrupted...

Carter warns US and Israel on collision course
Israel is headed for a clash with main ally the United States over the issue of Jewish settlements, former US president Jimmy Carter said in an interview on Sunday.

Asked by the liberal Haaretz newspaper whether the Jewish state was looking at a "head-on collision" with the United States if it doesn't comply with Washington's demands, Carter said "Yes."

The former president, who brokered the historic peace treaty between Israel and Egypt in 1979, said Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank were the biggest hurdle in the hobbled Middle East peace process, saying they were "illegal and (an) obstacle to peace

NKorea warns of nuclear war amid rising tensions
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea's communist regime has warned of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula while vowing to step up its atomic bomb-making program in defiance of new U.N. sanctions.

The North's defiance presents a growing diplomatic headache for President Barack Obama as he prepares for talks Tuesday with his South Korean counterpart on the North's missile and nuclear programs.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak told security-related ministers during an unscheduled meeting Sunday to "resolutely and squarely" cope with the North's latest threat, his office said. Lee is to leave for the U.S. on Monday morning.

A commentary Sunday in the North's main state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, claimed the U.S. has 1,000 nuclear weapons in South Korea. Another commentary published Saturday in the state-run Tongil Sinbo weekly claimed the U.S. has been deploying a vast amount of nuclear weapons in South Korea and Japan.

Russian oligarch launches world's biggest private yacht...

...missile-detection system, two helipads, luxury spa, swimming pool, miniature submarine

Riot police clash with Mousavi supporters in Iran

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian riot police on motorcycles beat supporters of presidential challenger Mirhossein Mousavi who were protesting on Saturday against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed election win. A Reuters reporter said she and others were beaten by police with batons as police chased and arrested demonstrators staging a sit-in at Tehran's Vanak Square, one of the capital's busiest intersections.

At least three people were injured in the clash, which broke out after the Interior Ministry announced the hardline incumbent's resounding victory in Friday's vote. Mousavi, a moderate, protested against what he called violations and vote-rigging during the election. Interior Ministry officials rejected the allegations.

He said in a separate statement that members of his election headquarters had been beaten "with batons, wooden sticks and electrical rods." Tehran's deputy police chief, Mohsen Khancharli, said the force would "strongly confront" any gathering or rally held without permission. He said people protesting against the election outcome had damaged cars."Police are not confronting people but only those who are disturbing public order or who make damage to public places," he told the official IRNA news agency. Up to 2,000 Mousavi supporters took part in the sit-in in the middle of the road, chanting: "Mousavi take back our vote!

NKorea says it will 'weaponize' its plutonium... 

Mayur Pahilajani - AHN News Writer

Tehran, Iran (AHN) - Thousands of protesters clashed with riot police in Iran on Saturday after incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared winner in the Islamic Republic's elections.

Police used batons and tear gas on the streets of Tehran to disperse supporters of opposition and presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Moussavi, who said that he will "strongly protest" the election results.

The reports said that the clashes were the worst post-election violence experienced by the country as some expected a run-off in the polls. The number of people injured is not immediately known.

Iran's Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli announced that Ahmadinejad secured 62.6 percent and Mousavi gained 33.75 percent in the nation's 10th presidential election.

The number of invalid votes was at 409,389 or 1.04 percent of the total, the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported.

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, asked the opposition to avoid any provocative and suspicious actions and speech, according to IRNA.

Moussavi, who served as the last Iranian prime minister in the 1980s, is considered to be a strong critic of Ahmadinejad and his policies.

Several analysts expect the re-election of Ahmadinejad to pose a serious challenge to the Obama administration.

Oil price leaps to year's high

Predictions of $250 a barrel on fears for oil reserves, hopes of economic recovery and hedging against weak dollar
Sheikh Ahmad al-Abdullah al-Sabah, put some of the rise down to signs of recovery in Asia but warned that overall demand was still weaker than last year. Opec would not raise supply at current oil prices but did not rule it out "if it reached $100", he said.

Alexei Miller, chairman of the Russian energy group Gazprom, raised the stakes further when he reiterated last year's estimates of $250 a barrel. "This forecast has not become reality yet, given that the [credit] crisis gained momentum and exerted a powerful impact on the global energy market. But does this mean that our forecast was unrealistic? Not at all."

World Health Organization Raises Pandemic Alert Level to Phase 6

Following today’s decision by the World Health Organization (WHO) to raise its H1N1 influenza pandemic alert to Phase 6, its highest level, Marsh, the world's leading insurance broker and risk advisor, is recommending that all organizations continue to focus on potential economic and jurisdictional issues in shaping their response to the current pandemic.

WHO declares global swine flu pandemic and says virus is 'unstoppable'

“The (swine flu) virus is now unstoppable," said Dr Margaret Chan, the WHO chief.
A disease is classed as a pandemic when transmission between humans becomes widespread in at least two regions of the world.
The last global flu pandemic came in 1968 over the so-called “Hong Kong” flu, which killed about 1 million people worldwide.

WASHINGTON — Stephen Tyrone Johns kindly opened a door of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday afternoon, witnesses said, probably thinking that James W. von Brunn was just another elderly visitor needing help to get inside.

Museum Gunman Charged With Murder

Instead, Mr. von Brunn, 88, whose anti-Semitic and white supremacist views were known to federal authorities, strode quickly into the museum lobby, immediately raised a .22-caliber rifle at Mr. Johns and unloaded at least one round of ammunition, striking the guard at close range, law-enforcement officials said at a news conference here on Thursday. Mr. Johns died a few hours later.

Armed security guards fired back, wounding Mr. von Brunn and sending panicked tourists, including groups of schoolchildren, diving for cover.

North Korea would use nuclear weapons in a 'merciless offensive'

Associated Press

North Korea today said it would use nuclear weapons in a "merciless offensive" if provoked — its latest bellicose rhetoric apparently aimed at deterring any international punishment for its recent atomic test blast.

The tensions emanating from Pyongyang are beginning to hit nascent business ties with the South: a Seoul-based fur manufacturer became the first South Korean company to announce Monday it was pulling out of an industrial complex in the North's border town of Kaesong.

The complex, which opened in 2004, is a key symbol of rapprochement between the two Koreas but the goodwill is evaporating quickly in the wake of North Korea's nuclear test on May 25 and subsequent missile tests.

Pyongyang raised tensions a notch by reviving its rhetoric in a commentary in the state-run Minju Joson newspaper today.

"Our nuclear deterrent will be a strong defensive means...as well as a merciless offensive means to deal a just retaliatory strike to those who touch the country's dignity and sovereignty even a bit," said the commentary, carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

Influenza A(H1N1) - update 45

8 June 2009 -- As of 06:00 GMT, 8 June 2009, 73 countries have officially reported 25,288 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection, including 139 deaths.

The breakdown of the number of laboratory-confirmed cases by country is given in the following table and map.

Laboratory-confirmed cases of new influenza A(H1N1) as officially reported to WHO by States Parties to the International Health Regulations (2005)

2008-2009 Influenza Season Week 21 ending May 30, 2009

Synopsis:

During week 21 (May 24 - 30, 2009), influenza activity decreased in the United States, however, there are still higher levels of influenza-like illness than is normal for this time of year.

• Two thousand seventy-four (31.1%) specimens tested by U.S. World Health Organization (WHO) and National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS) collaborating laboratories and reported to CDC/Influenza Division were positive for influenza.
• The proportion of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza (P&I) was below the epidemic threshold.
• Five influenza-associated pediatric deaths were reported.
• The proportion of outpatient visits for influenza-like illness (ILI) was below the national baseline. Three of the 10 surveillance regions reported ILI at or above their region-specific baseline.
• Five states reported geographically widespread influenza activity, 10 states reported regional influenza activity, the District of Columbia and 14 states reported local influenza activity, and 21 states reported sporadic influenza activity.

American capitalism gone with a whimper..
Article from Russias Pravda
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America. These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

It will be conducted in public facilities, including schools, military bases and government offices. Students, soldiers and other civilians will practice how to gather at protected places during an emergency. Officials said the drill will include simulated rockets, air raids and other attacks on infrastructure and essential facilities, and use of weapons on civilians.

Everyone is expected to go to a protected place at the sound of sirens, the defense force said, adding that more instructions will be broadcast on a public channel. "It is of great importance that every civilian, institute and workplace will seriously practice in order to improve our preparedness and national resilience," Maj. Gen. Yair Golan of the Home Front Command said in a news statement.

The move comes amid tension between Israel and Tehran. The Israeli government considers Iran's nuclear program as the dominant threat facing the country. Israel is publicly supportive of President Barack Obama administration's outreach to the Islamic state.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Israeli Army Radio last week that he believes "that the chance the dialogue has of stopping Iran's nuclear efforts is very low." Barak's views are keeping with the majority of his countrymen. An Israeli poll released this month found that 74 percent believe that the U.S. policy of engagement with Iran will fail and 81 percent think Iran will develop a nuclear weapon capability. Israel has conducted emergency drills the past two years, but officials said this is the biggest so far.

ONE DAY
THE TEST...
'ON A PAR WITH HIROSHIMA'...
GAVE USA LESS THAN HOUR'S NOTICE...
Could carry out more...
Fires 3 short-range missiles...
Aggressive...
Condemned...
UN Urgent Meet...
Japan says 'unacceptable'...
Netanyahu defies Obama...

Will build in existing settlements...

POLL: Half of Israelis back immediate strike on Iran...

USA TO LOSE AAA RATING?

Recession Turns Malls Into Ghost Towns...

WHO chief warns H1N1 swine flu likely to worsen
GENEVA, May 22 (Reuters) - The world must be ready for H1N1 swine flu to become more severe and kill more people, World Health Organization chief Dr. Margaret Chan said on Friday.

A genetic analysis of the new virus showed it must have been circulating undetected for some time, in pigs or perhaps in other animals.  The WHO is poised to declare a full pandemic of the virus, which has infected more than 11,000 people in 42 countries and killed 86. And U.S. health officials released $1 billion for companies to get started on a vaccine in case it is needed. The virus must be closely monitored in the southern hemisphere, as it could mix with ordinary seasonal influenza and change in unpredictable ways, Chan told the WHO annual congress in Geneva. [ID:nLM945575]  "In cases where the H1N1 virus is widespread and circulating within the general community, countries must expect to see more cases of severe and fatal infections," she said. "This is a subtle, sneaky virus."

France's First Lady tours recession-hit Paris in
disguise just like aristocrats during Revolution...
For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever
hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.

5 More NYC Schools Close Due to Swine Flu ... 100 Students Sick!

Confirmed swine flu cases in WA State jumps to 236

Obama Says Debt Load 'Unsustainable'; Warns of skyrocketing interest rates...

GM shares drop to lowest level since 1933
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;

Bad economy puts more families on the streets

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- The tears begin and her voice trembles as Ruth Martinez remembers the first few days of her new world.

Heat wave delays tiger relocation in Sariska

New Delhi (PTI) Unrelenting heat wave in Northern India has put a halt on Rajasthan government's plan to relocate a tiger from Rathambore National park to Sariska sanctuary with state officials preferring to wait till monsoon to execute the task.

"There was a proposal to shift second male tiger in the beginning of this month in the park. But it is now not advisable in view of intense heat conditions in the Northern state. The plan has been put on hold for at least next two months till monsoon," National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) member secretary Rajesh Gopal told PTI.

Pointing to the reason behind the move, he said: "Tigers can suffer sunstroke or die if we try to trap them for translocation purpose. We also don't want to disturb its habitat as it can be fatal given the animal has to be darted and tranquilised before it is airlifted. It will also be taxing for our men to do the work successfully in this heat wave condition," he said.

"Last time, we had executed the task during monsoon when the weather was favourable for the animal. We will again wait for rains as the onset of summer this year has witnessed temperatures soaring beyond 43 degrees Celsius," Mr. Gopal added.

At present there are three big cats -- a male and two females -- in the wilds of Sariska as part of the government efforts to revive the population of the endangered species.

A total of five predators, three males and two females, have to be introduced by the end of this year as suggested by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII).

Asian Nations Unveil $120 Billion Trojan Horse Fund

Amid the worst global slump since World War II, many Asian economies are in free fall as demand for their exports -- the region's main growth engine -- evaporates in big Western markets.

The ADB has warned that 61 million people will remain trapped in extreme poverty this year because of the global slump. That figure could increase to nearly 160 million if slow growth continues next year, it said. The bank's president, Haruhiko Kuroda, said the collapse in global trade has "gathered momentum" as export markets contract.

Revelation 13:1
Revelation is largely written in symbols. When used as a metaphor in the Bible, water can represent good or bad realities. Especially in large amounts, it can represent masses of people. Thus in this verse, the Beast is understood to be rising either from a heavily populated area or from the majority of all dwelling on earth. And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

Former King Hussein of Jordan – that ‘the next war in the Middle East will be over water’.
 In many cases, these comments are little more than media hype; in others, statements have been made for political reasons. Yet, regardless ofthe source, or the reason, water is clearly a scarce resource in some regions. Tensions exist over water use, water ownership and water rights – and are likely to increase in the future. The Middle East and Africa provoke perhaps the greatest concern about water shortage: by 2025, 40 countries in the regions are expected to experience water stress or scarcity.

Water scarcity is a function of supply and demand. Demand is increasing at an alarming rate in some regions, through population growth and increasing per capita use. In many water-scarce countries, such as Jordan and Israel, there is no obvious and inexpensive way to increase water supply, and tensions among different water users are likely to result. In other countries, such as Egypt, improvements in water efficiency, moving away from water-intensive crops, or importing water from nearby countries may offer reasonable solutions.

The second crisis is deteriorating water quality. Agriculture is the biggest polluter: increased use of fertilizer and pesticides has contaminated both groundwater and surface water supplies. Domestic and industrial pollution is also increasing, and the problem affects both developed and developing countries.

Finally, the use of water has a geopolitical dimension. Water moves from upstream to downstream users, and withdrawals and type of use in one place may affect the quantity or quality of supplies downstream. There are also historical, cultural, economic and social aspects of water use. To some, water is a gift from God, and should not be priced, while others, such as the World Bank, have pushed for full marginal cost pricing of water.

The lack of a suitable legal framework for resolving international water resource disputes presents another problem. Sovereignty over international rivers generally invokes one of four doctrines: absolute territorial sovereignty, which implies that riparian states may use water resources in any way they please, even to the detriment of other nations; absolute territorial integrity, which suggests that riparian use of a river should not negatively affect downstream riparians; limited territorial sovereignty, which invokes a combination of the two within a framework of equitable use by all parties; and community of co-riparian states, which promotes integrated management of river basins.

HEAT WAVE In Drought Stricken India

Orissa heat wave toll rises to 84
New Delhi: Sweltering summer conditions claimed six more lives in Orissa on Saturday, taking the State’s casualty figures to an alarming 84.Most tracts of north India reeled under a hot sun.Dust haze over the national capital, however, turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as the maximum temperature dipped by about three degrees from Friday’s season’s highest of 44.2 degrees.A blazing sun kept Punjab on the boil, as temperature soared four notches in Patiala to settle at 42.7 degrees.Ludhiana baked under 42.5 degrees and Chandigarh at 41.8 degrees as Ambala topped the temperature chart in Haryana with a scorching 41.6 degrees. 

Heat wave claims 78 lives in eastern India

Severe heat wave conditions prevail in many parts of country

NKorea threatens nuclear, missile tests...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea threatened Wednesday to conduct nuclear and missile tests and start an uranium-enrichment program in addition to its existing plutonium-based one, unless the U.N. apologizes for criticizing its recent rocket launch, dramatically raising its stake in the worsening standoff over its atomic programs.

Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry said in a statement the country "will be compelled to take additional self-defensive measures" unless the U.N. Security Council apologizes immediately. "The measures will include nuclear tests and test-firings of intercontinental ballistic missiles."

HONG KONG, April 29 (Reuters) - Alarmed by the spread of a new swine flu virus, airports around the world have rushed to install temperature scanners to pick out the sick, but the microbe is proving too clever for modern technology.Experts say an infected person can easily pass through these heat sensors without detection as the incubation period for influenza ranges anywhere between one and three days."The scanners won't pick up everyone (with flu), especially if they are too early in the infection ... People who have been infected very, very recently wouldn't show up on the scanner," Mark von Itzstein, director of the Institute for Glycomics at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, told Reuters."You can imagine somebody who is just infected boards the plane in Singapore and heads towards Hong Kong. There would not be enough time for the apparatus to pick it up because he would not have developed significant fever."The new H1N1 swine flu virus, which has killed 159 people in Mexico, has been found in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Britain, Israel and Spain, but there have been no deaths outside Mexico so far.

Swine Flu Case at Orlando/DISNEY...

Confirmed: Indiana...

Cases in NYC rise to 45...

Officials in Mexico City on Tuesday ordered all eateries closed to public...

SNAP ANALYSIS-Flu could boost gov't intervention further
27 Apr 2009 12:13:00 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent

LONDON, April 27 (Reuters) - The spread of a possible flu pandemic could see an increase in already heightened levels of government intervention in economies and financial markets as a result of the global financial crisis. In the short term, it might serve to give governments an easy justification to impose protectionist measures that could further stifle slumping trade flows. Doctors and officials around the world are moving to contain the spread of a swine flu outbreak that has already killed more than 100 people in Mexico and spread to countries around the world, with markets already reacting nervously.

"At the moment, markets are still making the assumption this will not be that serious," said Dresdner Kleinwort emerging foreign exchange strategist Jon Harrison. "But if it were to turn out much worse you would see a rise in government spending and government intervention. This sort of crisis would be too big for anything other than governments." Governments have poured unprecedented amounts of money into capital markets in recent months supporting, and in some cases nationalising, banks to try and stimulate lending as economic output and trade around the world dried up particularly after the demise of Lehman Brothers in December

Revelation

The great day of their 15 wrath has come and who can withstand it?"
  Then I watched while the Lamb broke open the first of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures cry out in a voice like thunder, "Come forward." I looked, and there was a white horse, and its rider had a bow.  He was given a crown, and he rode forth victorious to further his victories. When he broke open the second seal, I heard the second living creature cry out, "Come forward." Another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take peace away from the earth, so that people would slaughter one another. And he was given a huge sword. When he broke open the third seal, I heard the third living creature cry out, "Come forward." I looked, and there was a black horse,  and its rider held a scale in his hand. I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures. It said, "A ration of wheat costs a day's pay, and three rations of barley cost a day's pay. But do not damage the olive oil or the wine."When he broke open the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature cry out, "Come forward."
    I looked, and there was a pale green  horse. Its rider was named Death, and Hades accompanied him. They were given authority over a quarter of the earth, to kill with sword, famine, and plague, and by means of the beasts of the earth.

Mexico says flu could have big economic impact

"This issue can have an important impact on the economy, although the most important impact is the one on human life and human well being," Finance Minister Agustin Carstens told reporters.

"At this stage, without ignoring that this is a very serious matter and that it has a high potential for disruption, I would say that it's early to give a more concrete opinion," he said.

Swine Flu Confirmed in New York Students

NEW YORK -- Tests have confirmed that eight students at a New York Catholic high school have contracted swine flu, after some students at the school had visited Mexico over spring break two weeks ago.

About 100 students at St. Francis Preparatory School had complained of flu-like symptoms, and eight were confirmed with mild cases of the flu, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (I) told reporters today at a news conference.

Swine flu could mutate to 'more dangerous' strain...
It is "quite possible" that the swine flu virus that has killed dozens in Mexico will mutate into a "more dangerous" strain, a senior World Health Organization official said Sunday. 

81 dead in Mexico as flu emergency goes global

Fatal swine flu breaks out in Mexico
MEXICO CITY, April 24 (Reuters) - A deadly swine flu never seen before has broken out in Mexico, killing at least 16 people and raising fears of a possible pandemic.

He put the death toll at 16 confirmed cases and dozens of other suspected deaths. WHO said about 60 people have died in the country.  The Geneva-based U.N. agency said it was in daily contact with U.S., Canadian and Mexican authorities and had activated its Strategic Health Operations Center (SHOC) -- its command and control center for acute public health events.
U.S. health officials said on Thursday that seven people had been diagnosed with a new and unusual H1N1 swine flu virus, different from seasonal flu, but all had recovered.

The following is a list of debilitating diseases for which medical science has no cure. This list is incomplete.

SCIENTISTS AND ETHICISTS UNITE TO ATTACK DOCTOR'S HUMAN CLONE PLAN...
Scientists and medical ethicists yesterday condemned the controversial fertility doctor Panayiotis Zavos for transferring cloned human embryos into the wombs of four women.
Dr Zavos claimed in an interview with The Independent that he had created 14 cloned human embryos and transferred 11 of them into the wombs of the four women, who wanted to give birth to cloned babies, although none of them had become pregnant.

Children tracked by satellite to stop bad behavior
The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority. One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was astonished and followed the beast.Men worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, "Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?"

CA swine flu cases worry officials

ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials alerted doctors Tuesday to a unique type of swine flu diagnosed in two California children, but it's unclear whether many people will be susceptible to the infection.The children were diagnosed last week. One was a 10-year-old boy in San Diego County, and the other a 9-year-old girl in neighboring Imperial County. Both recovered.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said there's no reason for the public to take unusual measures against it.
"CDC is concerned, but that's our job," said CDC spokesman Tom Skinner.

He who has an ear, let him hear.
 1If anyone is to go into captivity,
      into captivity he will go.
   If anyone is to be killed with the sword,
      with the sword he will be killed. This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the saints.

The 21st century has continued the bloodshed, with 1.1 million deaths in Iraq since early 2003.

Current conflicts:

Afghanistan War
Baluchistan War
Burundi Civil War
Central African Republic Army Mutiny
Chad Rebellion
Chechen War
Colombian Civil War
Darfur War
The Ethiopia-Somalia War
India-Bangladesh Border Conflict
Iraq War
Israel-Palestinian War
Israel-Syrian Conflict
Cote de Ivorie (Ivory Coast) Civil War
Korean Conflict
Nepal Civil War
Thai Muslim Rebellion
Waziristan War

World's Fish Supply Running Out, Researchers Warn

An international group of ecologists and economists warned yesterday that the world will run out of seafood by 2048 if steep declines in marine species continue at current rates, based on a four-year study of catch data and the effects of fisheries collapses.

The paper, published in the journal Science, concludes that overfishing, pollution and other environmental factors are wiping out important species around the globe, hampering the ocean's ability to produce seafood, filter nutrients and resist the spread of disease.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Missing vials of a potentially dangerous virus have prompted an Army investigation into the disappearance from a lab in Maryland.

The vials contained samples of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis, a virus that sickens horses and can be spread to humans by mosquitoes. In 97 percent of cases, humans with the virus suffer flu-like symptoms, but it can be deadly in about 1 out of 100 cases, according to Caree Vander Linden, a spokeswoman for the Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. There is an effective vaccine for the disease and there hasn't been an outbreak in the United States since 1971.
Rainforest clash in Panama signals larger debate

KUNA YALA, Panama (CNN) -- Hunched over a campfire in eastern Panama, Embera tribesman Raul Mezua chanted a song his grandfather taught him when he was a boy.

The words are memorized, passed down from an aging generation to a new group of tribal youths.

"The song means a lot to me," Mezua told CNN, the fire's dying embers splashing a red glow across his face. "But I don't know what it means."

It's not just the song but their language and culture that Mezua and his tribe fear losing as deforestation from logging and cattle ranching threatens the rainforest that is part of their identity.

But recent trends could usher in a welcome reversal for Mezua and his tribe. Rural workers are migrating toward cities in search of jobs, and forests are re-emerging where now abandoned farms and cattle ranches once flourished, according to a 2009 report from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.

Such "secondary" forests in the tropics can rapidly grow in areas once cleared for logging and cattle ranching if left alone, said Joseph Wright, senior scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. "After about 20 years (of being left alone) the forest will be about 60 feet tall," he said. Watch Mezua sing a traditional tribal song »

Deforestation and re-growth in Panama may reflect a snapshot of a bigger picture involving rainforests throughout Central America. With more than three-quarters of people across the region now living in urban centers, the United Nations expects rural farming and population growth -- the usual culprits behind deforestation -- to dwindle.

PAPER: 'SLUMDOG' STAR FOR SALE...
THE poverty-stricken father of Slumdog Millionaire child star Rubina Ali plans to become a millionaire himself-by SELLING his nine-year-old daughter. In a bid to escape India's real-life slums, Rafiq Qureshi put angel-faced darling of the Oscars Rubina up for adoption, demanding millions of rupees worth £200,000. As he offered the shocking deal to the News of the World's undercover fake sheik this week, Rafiq declared: "I have to consider what's best for me, my family and Rubina's future."Rafiq tried to blame Hollywood bosses for forcing him to put his daughter up for SALE.

1 Timothy 4
Instructions to Timothy
 ¹The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. ²Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. ³They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth.

F.B.I. and States Vastly Expand DNA Databases
Law enforcement officials are vastly expanding their collection of DNA to include millions more people who have been arrested or detained but not yet convicted. The move, intended to help solve more crimes, is raising concerns about the privacy of petty offenders and people who are presumed innocent.Until now, the federal government genetically tracked only convicts. But starting this month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation will join 15 states that collect DNA samples from those awaiting trial and will collect DNA from detained immigrants — the vanguard of a growing class of genetic registrants.

The F.B.I., with a DNA database of 6.7 million profiles, expects to accelerate its growth rate from 80,000 new entries a year to 1.2 million by 2012 — a 17-fold increase. F.B.I. officials say they expect DNA processing backlogs — which now stand at more than 500,000 cases — to increase.
You ARE Being WATCHED

World’s fisheries in crisis as more boats chase smaller stock
Rev 8: 9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

Nearly half the world’s fishing catch is either thrown back dead or sold without regard to whether the fish stock is endangered, according to a report released today. Every year more than 38 million tonnes of marine life is taken from the sea without having been the intended target of the fishing vessels. As the numbers of the most popular species fall, unwanted fish that used to be discarded before returning to port, traditionally referred to as bycatch, are now being taken to market. Traditional fishery management plans focus only on target species, leaving bycatch species heavily exploited and without any scientific control or monitoring

Zephaniah 1
3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked: and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD. CLICK HERE TO READ OT ZEPHANIAH

(CNN) -- A Maryland man apparently killed his wife and three young children, then shot and killed himself at the foot of the bed where his wife and 2-year-old daughter's bodies lay, authorities said Saturday. Christopher Wood, 34, may have slashed at least some of his family members in the killings in Middletown. Frederick County (Md.) Sheriff Charles Jenkins said some of the victims had "severe lacerations and cut wounds."

"These are horrific incidents," said Jenkins, who said he couldn't remember another homicide in the past 20 years in the small town northwest of Baltimore. "No one should ever have to be exposed to this." Wood's sons were 5 and 4 years old, authorities said. His wife, Francie Billotti Wood, was 33  The boys were found in their beds in a single bedroom, the sheriff said. Authorities did not release the names of the children.

Father Kills Five Children in Third U.S. Multiple Shooting

April 6 (Bloomberg) -- A U.S. father killed his five children and then shot himself after learning his wife was leaving him. The children, ranging in age from 7 to 16, may have been shot dead with a rifle by Washington state man James Harrison early on April 4, said Pierce County Sherriff’s Department spokesman Ed Troyer in a telephone interview. Four of the children were found in their beds in the family’s mobile home near Graham, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of Tacoma. The fifth, a girl, was found in a bathroom, after what appeared to have been a struggle, Troyer said.

US gunman kills 13 at immigrant counselling centre

The small upstate New York town of Binghamton became the latest community to suffer the horror of gun rampage in America when a man yesterday killed 13 people at an immigrant counselling centre where many of his victims were studying to become US citizens.

The carnage at the American Civic Association, a language and help centre for immigrants from all over the world settled in New York state, had all the hallmarks of being premeditated. The gunman, believed to be a Vietnamese immigrant, drove his car to the back of the building and parked it tight against the rear door – preventing those inside from escaping.

PAPER: Israeli military ready to bomb Iran...
Numbers 35:19 (King James Version)
 ¹⁹The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
Jobless Rate Climbs in 46 States...
Revelation 13:17 (King James Version
 ¹⁷And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name
California highest since '76...
..and the poor...poorer

Chavez Gift: Book that Assails USA for Exploiting Latin America


DENVER SNOWSTORM BLAST; UP TO 24 INCHES
Weather Changes

'EXTINCTION FOR THIRD OF ALL PLANT, ANIMAL SPECIES
Global Changes
UN WARNING OF 'UNRECOGNIZABLE' EARTH
It has been told...
NEW LAWS TO PAVE WAY FOR 'CLONED' BABIES
Playing God?

Ruby Ridge
Which is good? Which is Evil?

Earth Is Rapidly Getting Warmer
Weather Changes
Los Angeles Police Plan to Map Muslims
One World Religion?
Millions fleeing devastating cyclone
Weather Changes
Russia sect holes up in cave to await end of world
Nobody Knows When!!!
Atlanta's losing water
..and they are not alone..
POLICE STATE: SCHOOL CAMS FED LIVE TO COPS
Police State or Freedom, Which comes First?

The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist attack on April 19, 1995 aimed at the U.S. government in which the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, an office complex in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was bombed. The attack claimed 168 lives and left over 800 people injured. It was the largest terrorist attack on American soil in history before the September 11 attacks. It remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in American history.

Human race will 'split into two different species'
The world is a mess"
UN WARNS OF RAPID DECAY OF ENVIRONMENT
Why are we not surprised? We are supposed to be Caretakers
'Humanity's very survival' at risk
The world is a mess"
SCIENTIST DECLARES: 'I AM CREATING ARTIFICIAL LIFE'
.....and his number shall be...
IMPACT OF ARCTIC HEATWAVE STUNS CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCHERS
...Changes in weather
 

Sperm donor, 72, to father his own grandchild
..and more will be coming soon...
CLINICS TO GROW HUMAN EGGS
....and his number shall be...
NASA predicted human caused coming 'ice age' in 1971
...Changes in weather
Russia gets set for 'Conception Day'
..and more will be coming soon...
McCain: Chaos and genocide if U.S. withdraws
....and his number shall be...
Now police are told they can use Taser guns on children

SECRET LIFE OF MOTHER TERESA
...and more will be coming soon...
RUSSIA STEPS UP MILITARY EXPANSION
.....and his number shall be...
Poison pyjamas add to China export scares
....very unusual....
Artificial Life Likely in 3 to 10 Years
....very unusual....
Mystery ailment kills hundreds of camels
...and more will be coming soon...
China evacuates 900,000 from eastern coast as it braces for typhoon
...Changes in weather
Clock Ticking on Las Vegas' Water Supply
...Changes in weather

18 people rescued from house without AC
.........Rescued? No Air Conditioning? What?

China threatens 'nuclear option' of dollar sales
.....and his number shall be...

Europe's Summer of Wild, Wild Weather; Fires, Droughts and Floods
..Changes in weather
New Zealand 'Vegansexuals' pledge no sex with meat-eaters
Not kidding...Only in New Zealand?
Heatwave killed 500 in Hungary in past week: official
...Changes in weather
Hezbollah: Rockets Can Reach All Israel
....Changes in weather
Microchip Implants Raise Privacy Concern
...Big Brother is Watching..and His number shall be....
No end in sight to China floods after hundreds die
..Changes in weather
LOOTING, PANIC BUYING - AND A WATER SHORTAGE in England
..Changes in weather
Current nuclear threat worse than during Cold War: U.S. expert
.....and his number shall be...
Eating beef found to be more harmful to Earth than driving
....global changes
Human species in a race for its life...
....overpopulation...

CHINA TO MAKE 'ARTIFICIAL WEATHER
...Changes in weather
Bottle Of Water $55 In NYC!
Why are we not surprised?
Lightning Strikes Reported by iPod Users
.....very unusual....
Historic High Temps Create Havoc
...Changes in weather
FLOODS ARE A JUDGMENT ON MODERN SOCIETY, SAY BISHOPS
Why are we not surprised?
Pakistani Monsoon Victims Riot
...Changes in weather
Flooded-Out Texans Urged to Leave Again
...Changes in weather
NY City May Require Permit For Public Photography...
?What? Civil Liberties? Freedom of expression?
Superbug may strike 5 percent of patients
...and more will be coming soon...
PREDICTION: Cities will sizzle, Mediterranean wilt from global warming...
....global changes
100-foot deep Andes lake disappears
....global changes
Scientists discover new, potentially deadly bacteria
...and more will be coming soon...
'COUNTDOWN' TO ISRAEL'S END
.....and his number shall be...
The secret CCTV bunker that monitors UK
....everything you do is being watched
Ahmadinejad: Jews 'acting like beastly persons'
.....and his number shall be...
Ocean may be losing ability to absorb CO2
....global changes
Big river in Italy drying up
....global changes
Mystery honeybee killer could make dinner bland
......speaks for itself
Is Big Brother in your car?
....everything you do is being watched
SMILE: 1 CAMERA FOR EVERY 14 PEOPLE IN UK
....everything you do is being watched
Making a profit while helping the poor
....Sounds wrong....
MOVE OVER, LONDON; $8 To Enter Manhattan By Car; Congestion Fee
Overpopulation
Brutal attacks on homeless on upswing across country
The poor get poorer...the dumb, dumber.
Mysterious disappearance of bees creating a buzz
It's been written in the Bible....
DISNEY opens Fairy Tale Weddings to gay couples
......speaks for itself
Chocolate Jesus exhibit canceled
Just Stupid
Ex-governor of Arizona says UFOs flew over Phoenix
No Comment
South Florida Hit by Water Restrictions;
Neighbors encouraged to rat each other out
Vanishing Bees Threaten US Crops
......speaks for itself
'Scientists tell us civilization as we know it is over'
 ..weather changes

CHILDREN TO BE FINGERPRINTED IN UK FOR DATABASE
  Bio Identification
Warmest winter on record for Shanghai
..weather changes
Minnesota Public Radio forum on global warming cancelled -- due to blizzard
...weather changes
Global warming blamed for cockroach migration
...weather changes
Tokyo had 1st winter without snow on record
....weather changes
Israel may open 'Jesus tomb' to public
...the work of Satan or archeology
Vanishing Bees; 22 States Report Insects Disappearing In Huge Numbers
......speaks for itself
 

Villages sealed off as H5N1 reaches Moscow
Why?
Blair pleads the case for biometric ID cards
Bio Identification
WOMEN WILL BE PAID TO DONATE EGGS FOR SCIENCE
Will they be "chicken"?
DOW SOARS TO ANOTHER HIGH... while...
CHRYSLER; Eliminates Nearly 13,000 Jobs What is wrong with this picture?
Record snow falls for date in Chicago...
Damned Global Warming
Snow Squalls Bury Upstate New York...
Damned Global Warming
The brain scan that can read people's intentions
Why does this sound scary?
New York may ban iPods while crossing street
....everything you do is being watched...Think about joining the ACLU!
Climate Changes Means Foodless, Waterless Millions
....weather changes
CHINESE MISSILE DESTROYS SATELLITE IN SPACE
How wonderful is that (sarcastically)
Scientists unravel superbug that kills in 24 hours...
...and more will be coming soon...
Military Expands Domestic Surveillance
"They" are watching everywhere
Jan 2, 2007: Cherry Blossoms Bloom In Brooklyn
Changes in Weather
Pat Robertson: God told me of 'mass killing' in 2007
Prophet or Fake
North Europe to ring in New Year with ice-free Baltic Sea
Changes in  the weather
Pope: Worship God not technology
Internet is not our God
Furor in Italy over "gay nativity" in parliament
Not too good of a sign...
Study: 9 of 10 Americans have had premarital sex
Years of interviews show 95 percent of Americans have had sex before marriage, even in supposedly more chaste times.
Being a celebrity is the 'best thing in the world' say children...
Children under 10 think being a celebrity is the "very best thing in the world" but do not think quite as much of God, a survey has revealed.
Arctic may lose all summer ice by 2040
Changes in  the weather
Beijing residents warned to stay indoors as pollution worsens
We are supposed to be caretakers...
Gulf summit opens with warning of regional explosion
Why are we not surprised?
Kirk Douglas Issues Editorial on His 90th Birthday
"The world is a mess"
Hawking: Humans must colonize other planets
Only One God!
Cold set to snap city record
Climate Change
Gaia scientist Lovelock predicts planetary wipeout
It is written.....
California sea lions attack humans
Why?
Humpback whales have 'human' brain cells
Why?
Dutch bask in warmest autumn in three centuries
Climate Change
Netanyahu: Ahmadinejad is preparing another Holocaust...
There ya go....
Your favorite seafood may be in peril
It's been written in the Bible....
Nearly half of Americans uncertain God exists: poll
Speaks for itself...or ourselves depending
Global warming will devastate global economy, report warns
No Surprise here...
Black cloud threatens Egyptians' health
Ominous?!
Dire prediction for world's coral reefs
We are Caretakers!
See a smoker in Omaha? Dial 9-1-1
I'm just sayin....
Humans living far beyond planet's means
Really? Wow what a surprise......NOT!
FDA set to allow cloned meat, milk
No Comment
By 2016, cameras on 'almost every block'
"They" are watching everywhere
“Is God Green?”
Dumb and dumber
High-tech school security is on the rise
Radio Frequency Identification
Young shoppers want to pay with chip in skin
Radio Frequency Identification
Man says he killed family; 4 kids found dead
Why? What morals have we taught?
Third death linked to tainted spinach
Plagues and Scourge
Scientists to create 'frankenbunny' in big research leap
Playing God to save their lives
Court says eavesdropping program can continue
"They" are watching everywhere
Tavern camera mandate proposed
"They" are watching everywhere
Alaskan storm cracks iceberg in Antarctica
Changes in weather
U.S. population to top 300 million this month...
Overpopulation
Teens' T-Shirts Make Educators Squirm
Teen Morals Decline
Thousands Rally Against Pope in Mideast
Religious Wars
Paul Allen's "brain atlas" unlocking mysteries of the ultimate computer
Is it helpful or is it HAL?
NYC Mulls Ban on Trans Fats in Eateries
Are "they" telling us what to eat?
Is Germany Ready for a Gay Chancellor?
Sexual Perversion
Mysterious blob may be killing marine life
Why?
Farm finds four-legged chicken
Why?
Proposed Ordinance asks Each Household to Have a Firearm
People vs people-Divide and Conquer-Disposal of Constitutional Law
Billionaires Only Occupy Forbes 400 List
The Rich get richer, the poor, poorer
Sheep slaughtered in 'satanic' ritual
Whose religion is this?
Is RFID tracking you?
   Radio Frequency Identification
No cash? No card? Just stick in finger
   Bio Identification
Disney's Finger Scan Upgrade Raises Privacy Concerns
  Bio Identification
FBI raids offices of 6 Alaska legislators
  Questionable Dictatorial Politics
In Jesus Words Only
  A book by a NON-Paulist
Opium Harvest at Record Level in Afghanistan
 A War which will Never be Won
Bush Admits Secret CIA Prisons
  Questionable Dictatorial Politics
Wis. farm has third rare white buffalo
...of unknown importance
ARE CHRISTIANS BEING GROOMED TO ACCEPT THE COMING ANTICHRIST?
Radio Frequency Identification
Kissinger warns of possible "war of civilizations"
What many have said.....
Pope's speech stirs Muslim anger
Religious wars
Officials: Cleveland Man, 79, Dies From West Nile
Pestilence
Sean Penn: Bush Caused 'Enormous Damage to Mankind,' May Bring Fascism to U.S.
Actors with voices.
Bush to ask world to support Mideast democracy
Ever thought of asking the Mideast? Spread of one world "religion"
Boeing May Help Catch Illegal Immigrants
Technology to Spy on you too...
At U.N., Chavez Calls Bush 'The Devil'
Not all countries are Democratic
Red Cross Unprepared To Deal With Mentally Ill
...another trampled minority left to die alone..