I WRITE NEWS ABOUT AND PUT NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT ISRAEL AND JERUSALEM PERTAINING TO BIBLE PROPHESY HAPPENINGS.JOEL 3:20 But Judah (ISRAEL) shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.(THATS ISRAEL-JERUSALEM WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED AGAIN)-WE CHRISTIANS ARE ALL WAITING PATIENTLY FOR THE PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE TO OCCUR.SO WE CAN GO TO JESUS AND GET OUR NEVER DYING BODIES.SO WE CAN RULE OVER CITIES OURSELVES.WHILE JESUS RULES FROM DAVIDS THRONE FOREVER IN JERUSALEM.
KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
MUSLIM NATIONS (SLAUGHTERED BY NUKES FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-18
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
Israel PM accuses Iran president of hypocrisy
1 hour ago-sept 25,13-yahoonews
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister on Tuesday voiced
deep skepticism about the new Iranian president's outreach to the West,
saying the world "should not be fooled" and must keep up the pressure on
Tehran's suspect nuclear program.Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu issued his warning in response to Iranian President Hasan
Rouhani's address to the General Assembly. In his speech, the Iranian
leader said his nation is ready to restart stalled negotiations over its
nuclear program. He also called for moderation and rejected violence.Israeli
officials believe Iran is trying to develop a nuclear bomb and fear
that Rouhani's gestures to the West will lead to an easing of
international pressure. Netanyahu's statements, issued both before and
after Rouhani's speech, were meant as a counterweight to the growing
enthusiasm in the West over a series of moderate overtures by Rouhani.
He also said Rouhani offered no plans to halt his nuclear program.In
comments likely to play into Israel's fears, President Barack Obama
told the U.N. on Tuesday that he had instructed Secretary of State John
Kerry to explore contacts with Iran."Israel would welcome a
genuine diplomatic solution that truly dismantles Iran's capacity to
develop nuclear weapons," Netanyahu said in a videotaped statement ahead
of Rouhani's speech. "But we will not be fooled by half-measures that
merely provide a smokescreen for Iran's continual pursuit of nuclear
weapons. And the world should not be fooled either."After
Rouhani's speech, Netanyahu showed no signs of softening his position.
He said the address was filled with "hypocrisy," saying that while
Rouhani was talking of peace, Iranian forces were participating in the
large-scale slaughter of civilians in Syria, a close ally. He also
accused Iran of using terrorism in "dozens" of countries, developing
long-range missiles, denying the Holocaust, calling for Israel's
destruction and pushing forward with its nuclear program."It is
no coincidence that the speech lacked both any practical proposal to
stop Iran's military nuclear program and any commitment to fulfill U.N.
Security decisions," he said."This is exactly Iran's strategy —
to talk and play for time in order to advance its ability to achieve
nuclear weapons," he added. "The international community must test Iran
not by its words, but by its actions."Netanyahu said he would
discuss the matter with Obama at a White House meeting next week, and
welcomed Obama's pledge that Iranian words be matched with "transparent
and verifiable" action.
Iran denies accusations by Israel and
Western countries that it is seeking nuclear weapons, saying its nuclear
program is for peaceful purposes only.Israel considers a
nuclear-armed Iran to be a threat to its very existence, citing Iran's
repeated calls for Israel's destruction, its sophisticated arsenal of
weapons and its support for Israel's bitterest Arab enemies. Hezbollah
in Lebanon, to Israel's north, and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, on Israel's
southern flank, possess tens of thousands of rockets and missiles
provided by Iran.
Netanyahu has issued four demands for halting
Iran's nuclear program. He says Iran must stop enriching uranium, a key
step in developing a nuclear weapon; ship its stockpile of enriched
uranium out of the country; close a heavily fortified underground
enrichment facility; and not make plutonium, another possible path to
nuclear weapons. He also says any diplomatic activity must be
accompanied by a "credible" military threat.
In the current
diplomatic environment, it seems unlikely the West will insist on such
conditions. Israel has repeatedly threatened to attack Iran,
unilaterally if necessary, if it concludes diplomacy has failed.Netanyahu
instructed Israel's U.N. delegation to boycott Rouhani's speech and
walk out of the General Assembly. Israel has strongly objected to
efforts by its enemies to boycott it in international bodies, as well as
attempts by pro-Palestinian activists to boycott Israeli businesses and
products."As the prime minister of Israel, the state of the
Jewish people, I could not allow the Israeli delegation to be part of a
cynical public relations ploy by a regime that denies the Holocaust and
calls for our destruction," he said.After Rouhani's speech,
Israeli Cabinet minister Yuval Steinitz, who is responsible for
monitoring the Iranian nuclear program, met with U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon
and urged the international community to avoid the same mistakes that
enabled North Korea to develop nuclear weapons. In a statement, Steinitz
said North Korea developed its weapon despite two signed agreements
that were enthusiastically welcomed around the world. He said that as a
South Korean citizen, Ban had a special understanding of the danger.
DEAD ANIMALS
HOSEA 4:1-3
1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land,(EARTH) because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3
2 I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
By David Beasley
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Wild pigs have descended on a suburban Atlanta
neighborhood where they are scaring children, making a general nuisance
of themselves, and acting as they if they own the place.
One large specimen was sighted on Monday morning rummaging through
garbage it had strewn across Taneisha Danner's front yard in Lithonia,
an area about 19 miles east of downtown Atlanta.It then trotted into the backyard, taking a nap before returning
with three other pigs from a patch of nearby woods, Danner told Reuters
on Tuesday."This is their home," Danner joked. "We're just visiting."She said the animals were no laughing matter for neighborhood
children, however, noting that some were now afraid to leave the safety
of their homes."My children are even afraid to be downstairs, worried that he (the pig) could come through the door," Danner said.Descendents of wild boar, the feral pigs are a particular pest in
rural Georgia and notorious for damaging farmer's crops, said Charlie
Killmaster, a deer and feral hog biologist with the Georgia Department
of Natural Resources.There are so many hogs that hunting season has been flung wide open
for wild pigs on private land, he said, adding that it was still fairly
rare for them to show up in suburban neighborhoods.The population of one of the most invasive and destructive wild
animals in the United States has grown rapidly in recent years, however.
What was once a largely rural problem has blighted suburban areas in
other states as well.The hogs can be dangerous to humans if they are cornered or if their young are threatened, Killmaster said."There is some level of danger associated with them," he added. "But
in nearly all cases, steering clear of them is all you need to do."Danner said she had complained to local authorities about the hogs
and was told they were trying to find a private trapper to remove them.(Editing by Tom Brown and Andrew Hay)
REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
EU wants answers on NSA bank spying allegations
24.09.13 @ 18:37
By Nikolaj Nielsen
BRUSSELS - The EU does not rule out
suspending the terrorist financial tracking programme (TFTP) with the
Americans following press reports that the US intelligence agency has
direct access to Swift, the global interbank transfer network database.European Commissioner for home affairs Cecilia Malmstrom told a
European Parliament civil liberties committee on Tuesday (24 September)
that any suspension of the international agreement would first require
an “objective and comprehensive assessment and consultations.”
When pressed by euro-deputies, she noted that if the press reports
are true, then it could “constitute a breach of the agreement and a
breach of the agreement can certainly lead to a suspension.”The agreement was negotiated with Washington to track terrorists. It
sets out rules on access, and data protection safeguards. A suspension
would require a qualified majority vote among member states.But Malmstrom’s statement was brushed off later on by high-ranking
commission officials who refused to respond to MEP questions on whether
the agreement should be suspended if allegations were proven true.Commission home affairs director Reinhard Priebe, who co-chairs the
EU-US working group on data protection, would only say that further
consultations are required.Malmstrom wrote a letter to US Treasury Under Secretary David Cohen
on 12 September to ask for clarification on the allegations.She requested in the letter to hold consultations, a formal step in
case of a dispute, to determine if the US is holding up its side of the
agreement.Cohen replied a few days later but Malmstrom told the euro-deputies that she was not satisfied by the responses.“We need more detailed information in order to credibly access
reality and to be in a position to judge whether obligations on the US
side under agreement have been breached,” she said.
She noted the consultation with the Americans would start soon.Set up in 1973, Swift is a Belgian-based private company used by some
10,000 financial institutions in over 200 countries to facilitate the
exchange of financial messages.“Security is still, 40 years later, key to our mission and a core to
our business,” said Blanche Petre, general counsel of Swift.Petre said the company has found no evidence to back the allegations first made by Globo TV, a Brazilian television network.“I can tell you today and I can assure you today that we have no
evidence to suggest there have been any unauthorised access to our
network or data,” she said.She told the committee that their production environment has no
Internet access and that Swift messages undergo multiple encryption
layers.Swift is overseen by the G-10 central banks tasked to ensure adequate safeguards are in place to protect customer data.
Eurozone bank fund needs credit line, Draghi says
Today @ 09:28-sept 25,13
By Benjamin Fox
BRUSSELS - A eurozone bank resolution
fund should have its own credit line allowing it to cover the costs of
bank failure, European Central Bank (ECB) chief Mario Draghi said
Monday.Speaking on Monday (23 September) at a hearing of the European
Parliament's Economic committee, Draghi told MEPs that although national
authorities will still be responsible for bearing the costs of bank
resolution in the short-term, a permanent fund would need a "backstop."The ECB will be conducting stress-tests of banks across the eurozone
in the coming months, as it prepares to become the bloc’s single bank
supervisor next year.
“We’ll have to have national backstops in place,” said Draghi, adding
that “the role for the national backstops is there and it’s realistic.”Draghi, who is a supporter of the plan, played down suggestions that
the ESM, the eurozone's €500 billion bailout fund, could be a source of
funding.“I am not sure that this is possible within the existing treaty,” he said.EU financial services commissioner, Michel Barnier, unveiled his proposal for an singe resolution mechanism (SRM) in July.The commission proposal would create a single system for the
winding-up of failing banks and a common eurozone fund to cover the
costs. However, Barnier's plan would see the SRM start in January 2015,
with the resolution fund being gradually built up over 10 years through a
levy on banks worth around 1 percent of deposits, leading critics to
comment that a lack of money would reduce the fund to a "paper tiger."Senior MEPs are also expected to include provisions for a backstop in
a draft report expected to be published later this week. Other options
could include using the EU budget as collateral.Negotiations on a single resolution mechanism for the eurozone, the
second key part of a banking union, have stalled since the summer, in
large part because of the German elections.
Wolfgang Schaueble, Germany's finance minister, is a staunch critic
of the plan, but seems unlikely to retain his position in a new
coalition government.The timeline is also tight as policy makers edge closer to next May's European elections.MEPs on the economic affairs committee are set to adopt their
position on the text in November in a bid to maintain the pressure on
ministers.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
Colorado flood towns may come back less diverse
HANNAH DREIER
9 hours ago-sept 24,13-yahoonews
LYONS, Colo. (AP) — The storms that raged through the Rocky
Mountain foothills instantly remade the landscape and disrupted
thousands of lives. They may have also changed the character of the
funky mountain hamlets that dot the Front Range.The disaster hit rich and poor alike, but some residents will be able to afford to wait and rebuild, while others will not.In
Lyons, 20 minutes north of Boulder, two low-lying mobile home parks
bore the brunt of the damage. Residents say their landlords have told
them they will not rebuild, in part because a river now flows through a
portion of the property."I don't think we'll ever be able to go
back," said Holly Robb, a Lyons native whose grandfather was mayor and
who lived with her husband and two young children in the River Bend
Mobile Home park, which dates to the 1960s."The people who've lived there, who've gone to school there, can't go back," she said.The
flood has accelerated a process that was already underway in the
region's towns. Young, affluent families from places like Boulder and
Denver have flocked here, attracted to the slower pace of life, bohemian
flavor and pristine natural beauty.In Lyons, a quarry town
turned tourist haven, the number of renters fell by half between 2000
and 2010, while the portion paying more than $1,500 a month quadrupled.
The median price of a home rose by 71 percent to $340,000, according to
the U.S. Census.Newcomers have historically moved into the hills
above Main Street, while the lower income residents lived in the flood
plain below. When the storm came, it swept away mobile homes, but left
the new cafes, sushi shop, and revamped high school intact.A
website for the town's mayor, Julie Van Domelen, a consultant for the
World Bank, says she moved to Lyons four years ago. She did not respond
to calls and emails from The Associated Press, but told the Denver Post
she intends to build the town into something better than it was before.Some resident fear there will be no place for the manual laborers, retirees and artists that have given Lyons its character.Carmel
Ross, 66, an artist and caretaker for the elderly, thought about the
town's future amid the splintered trailers that now surround the mobile
home she rents for $430 a month."Who rebuilds a trailer park?"
she asked, laughing through tears. "Lyons is going to become a different
story now. It's a loss of a way of life. The things could always be
bought again, but there will no longer be any low-income housing in this
town."Former Mayor Tim Combs said the new Lyons might look more
like Aspen, a tony, celebrity refuge that began as a working class
hamlet."It's going to upgrade the town. We're going to see nicer
houses replace a house that wasn't so nice," he said. "Lyons is
surrounded by protected open space, so there will be no place for the
poor people to go."Up
the hill from the mobile home parks, beautiful homes sit essentially
untouched, their soggy lawns the only evidence of the disaster that's
crippled the region and re-routed its waterways. Some residents are
planning to stay in these homes until the roads reopen.Among them
is David Tiller, a bluegrass musician who believes the home he owns
will be condemned. He said he feels lucky to have a sturdy support
system, and friends with guest rooms, especially when he thinks of his
neighbors taking refuge in churches."We have so many friends that are offering us places. We have an amazing community — it's almost overwhelming," he said.Lyons
residents were told at a town meeting Thursday that it might take
officials six months to restore drinking water and working sewage.Robb,
a caterer, and her husband, who installs wood floods, said that even if
they could find a new rental in Lyons, they cannot afford to crash
around for that long. For Robb, the realization that she could not go
home dawned slowly in the hectic days after the flood."It's really a second blow to a lot of people that live there," she said.Residents of the even more remote community of Jamestown have been told it could be a year before they can return.When
helicopter rescuers took Jamestown resident Meagan Harrington and her
husband to a makeshift shelter in Boulder with no running water, they
did not have to follow their neighbors inside and look for a bed.Instead,
the couple sat in front of the school waiting for their ride. A college
friend of Harrington's in Boulder had offered them a guest room."We've got it made compared to other people in Jamestown," said Harrington, an industrial hygienist.Ross,
who spent the days after the flood dragging out her muddy carpet
singlehandedly while other flooded residents called private cleaning
services, is unsure where she will go after the shelters close. Her
friends do not have extra rooms for her to stay in, and she has no
family in the region.Combs, the ex-mayor, said he feels for
people like her, but believes that part of the town was already on the
path to getting washed out."Nobody wants to see those McMansions
built that people live in only three weeks of the year," he said. "But
it's the way this country works — the poor people are always getting
pushed out, without or without a flood."___Hannah Dreier can be reached at http://twitter.com/hannahdreier
09/23/2013 VATICAN INSIDER
The Christian reaction to the Peshawar bloodbath
Christians protest against Sunday's suicide bombing
Yesterday’s attack has led to demonstrations across Pakistan and
condemnations from the country’s Episcopal Conference and Muslim
religious leade
“I never covered up child sex abuse cases”, Ratzinger tells religion critic
Benedict XVI writes to Odifreddi
Benedict XVI gives prominent mathematician Piergiorgio Odifreddi a
slap on the wrist in a letter published by Italian newspaper “La
Repubblica”
Marco TosattiRomeAfter Francis’ letter to Eugenio Scalfari, the founder of La Repubblica
newspaper, it’s now Benedict XVI’s turn to send one. Ratzinger has
written a letter to mathematician, media buff and religion critic,
Piergiorgio Odifreddi. Odifreddi, who is particularly critical of the
Catholic faith, wrote the book “Caro Papa ti scrivo” (“A word to you dear Pope”) in response to Ratzinger’s work “Introduction to Christianity”. Now Benedict XVI has replied to him. His letter was too long for La Repubblica
newspaper to publish in full but will feature in a new book by
Odifreddi, who must be pretty happy to be publishing what he defined as
“a one-off in the history of the Church: a dialogue between a theologian
Pope and an atheist mathematician.”“Church, do not keep silent about evils but let
faith leave a trail of light.” This phrase sums up Ratzinger’s rich and
profound theological thinking.Odifreddi intended “Caro papa ti scrivo” as
a “satanic introduction to atheism”. The mathematician, who has appared
on numerous television talk shows sais he was surprised to receive a
reply from Benedict XVI, in which he “expressed gratitude for my
faithful treatment of his book. This is all one could have hoped for and
more in a world where we are used to expecting the bare minimum.”In the Pope Emeritus’ 11-page-long letter he
says he “found some parts [of Odifreddi’s book] enjoyable and useful.
But I was shocked by how aggressive and thoughtless some of the
arguments are”. First of all, Ratzinger rebutted Odifreddi’s claim that
theology is science fiction. “Science fiction is present in many
sciences,” Benedict XVI said, giving some examples: “The great Jacques
Monod used certain phrases in his work which he must have added, purely
as science fiction. “Tetrapod vertebrates exist… because a primitive
fish “chose” to explore the earth but was only able to move around by
hopping around clumsily, thus modifying its behaviour. It was this
selective pressure that apparently gave tetrapods such robust limbs. The
running speeds of certain descendants of this bold explorer, this
Magellan of evolution, can exceed 70 Km per hour.”Benedict XVI reacted strongly to Odifreddi’s
comments regarding child sex abuse in the Church. “I have never tried to
cover these things up. The fact that evil is able to penetrate so
deeply into the interior world of faith, is a cause of great suffering
to us. On the one hand we must bear this suffering but on the other we
need to do all that we can to prevent such incidents from occurring
again. It of no comfort to hear from sociologists that the percentage of
priests guilty of such crimes is no higher than the figures registered
in other similar professions. But this deviant behaviour should not be
ostensibly presented as a filthy crime that only exists in the Catholic
Church. Most importantly, although it is right to expose evil in the
Church, one must not turn a blind eye to “the shining ray of goodness
and purity that the Christian faith has brought light to the world over
the centuries … It is as true today as it was yesterday that faith
inspires unselfish love, service to others, sincerity and justice.”But what Odifreddi got a real slap on the wrist
for, was his comments regarding history. “The remarks you make about
Jesus are not worthy of your scientific standing. Presenting Jesus as if
we knew nothing about Him and as though nothing certain could be said
about his status as a historical figure, I can only advise you and
strongly so, to be a little bit more thorough in your historical
research. I especially recommend you to read the four volume work
co-written by Martin Hengel (an exegete of the Faculty of Protestant
theology at Tübingen university) and Maria Schwemer: it is an excellent
example of historical precision and extensive historical information. In
comparison to this, your comments about Jesus appear rash and should
not be repeated.” Although Ratzinger admitted that the critical
interpretation was lacking in parts, he firmly rejected Odifreddi’s
accusation that he (Ratzinger) had apparently presented the historical
and critical exegesis as an instrument of the antichrist. “By talking
about Jesus’ temptations I was merely referring to Soloviev’s theory,
according to which historical and critical interpretation can also be
used by the antichrist – this is an indisputable fact.” Ratzinger ends his letter by asking some questions
rather than answering them. “If you want to replace God with “Nature”,
the question remains as to who or what this nature is. At no point do
you provide a definition of it. This makes it seem like some irrational
divinity which does not explain anything.” “I would like to
point out, however, that in your religion of mathematics, there are
three elements of human existence which you do not discuss: freedom,
love and evil. I am amazed to see that you have completely left freedom
out, when it is a core value of our modern age.” There is no mention of
love or evil in Odifreddi’s book either. “No matter what neurobiology
may or may not say about freedom, it plays a determining role in the
real drama of human history and must be taken into consideration. But
your mathematical religion offers no information about evil. Any
religion that ignores these fundamental questions is empty.”This is the second time Benedict XVI has made an
intervention since retiring from the public scene. He has otherwise kept
his promise to stay out of the spotlight, living out a quiet retirement
in a Vatican monastery.
EARTHQUAKES
ISAIAH 42:15
15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Did Pakistan's massive earthquake just create a new island?
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Pakistanis react to a 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Baluchistan.
On Tuesday, after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked western
Pakistan, a "crowd of bewildered people" gathered to stare at an island
rising 60 feet out of the Arabian Sea, according to Reuters.Witnesses claim that the mountainous island, located 600 yards off the country's Gwadar coastline, is brand-new.The earthquake could reportedly be felt in Karachi, hundreds of miles
away from its epicenter in Baluchistan, which borders Iran and
Afghanistan. So far, 45 people have died as a result of the temblor,
with more feared trapped in the rubble.As rescue workers continue to stream into the area, scientists are
trying to figure out what caused the new land mass to appear. It's not
rare for a big earthquake to create an island — just not the kind of
earthquake that hit Pakistan today.Islands normally form after thrust earthquakes, like the 9.1-magnitude monster that caused the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004."You have one piece of crust being pushed underneath another piece of
crust," explained John Bellini, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological
Survey (USGS). "They lock for awhile, and when the earthquake occurs,
the lock is broken, and part of the crust thrusts upwards."The Indian Ocean earthquake pushed several low-lying areas above the
surface of the ocean near the Andaman Islands, although none of them
were big enough to warrant a name.However, the earthquake that hit Baluchistan today "is very different,"
Bellini said. The fault there is slightly tilted, as opposed to
vertical. Called an oblique strike-slip fault, it is similar to the San
Andreas fault that runs up California."Imagine you had two blocks of wood and you slid them past each other," said Bellini.
As for how it could have created a new island, he said, "I don't know how it would have done that."
Still, the existence of the island was confirmed by Zahid Rafi,
principal seismologist for Pakistan's National Seismic Monitoring
Center, according to CNN. Officials there are still investigating how the island might have formed and whether it was related to the earthquake.New islands, overall, aren't a rare phenomenon. Erosion, glacial retreat, and volcanoes create them all the time. One of the latest to make headlines
was a 2,000-foot-wide island that popped up off the coast of Yemen in
late December 2011 after a volcano erupted under the Red Sea.
1 Day, Magnitude 2.5+ Worldwide
45 earthquakes - DownloadUpdated: 2013-09-24 21:22:01 UTC-04:00Showing event times using Local System Time (UTC-04:00)45 earthquakes in map area
2.89km S of Kapaau, Hawaii 2013-09-24 20:49:42 UTC-04:0025.5 km
4.094km NNE of Awaran, Pakistan 2013-09-24 19:41:51 UTC-04:0026.2 km
2.99km S of Kapaau, Hawaii 2013-09-24 19:41:30 UTC-04:0024.5 km
5.5South of Tonga 2013-09-24 19:38:26 UTC-04:0033.2 km
4.268km NNE of Awaran, Pakistan 2013-09-24 19:22:12 UTC-04:0025.2 km
4.9271km N of Tobelo, Indonesia 2013-09-24 19:07:26 UTC-04:0060.1 km
4.8100km NNE of Awaran, Pakistan 2013-09-24 18:38:17 UTC-04:0023.0 km
4.991km WSW of Khuzdar, Pakistan 2013-09-24 17:59:04 UTC-04:0024.0 km
3.821km WSW of Hayfork, California 2013-09-24 17:36:34 UTC-04:0034.5 km
3.246km SSW of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 2013-09-24 16:52:56 UTC-04:0082.0 km
4.798km WSW of Khuzdar, Pakistan 2013-09-24 15:54:07 UTC-04:0025.7 km
2.517km N of Fritz Creek, Alaska 2013-09-24 14:57:59 UTC-04:0056.4 km
4.481km NNE of Awaran, Pakistan 2013-09-24 14:57:47 UTC-04:0025.0 km
4.387km NE of Awaran, Pakistan 2013-09-24 14:12:47 UTC-04:0024.4 km
3.216km S of Estacion Coahuila, Mexico 2013-09-24 14:09:53 UTC-04:0028.0 km
5.585km NNE of Awaran, Pakistan 2013-09-24 13:20:15 UTC-04:0023.6 km
2.9110km NW of Chirikof Island, Alaska 2013-09-24 13:08:26 UTC-04:006.3 km
4.310km N of Coquimbo, Chile 2013-09-24 13:08:09 UTC-04:0050.5 km
2.8Mining_explosion 14km WSW of Cordova, Alabama 2013-09-24 11:39:46 UTC-04:000.0 km
5.0128km SW of Druzhina, Russia 2013-09-24 11:39:30 UTC-04:0015.0 km
3.024km NNW of Leavenworth, Washington 2013-09-24 11:15:06 UTC-04:009.8 km
4.981km NNE of Awaran, Pakistan 2013-09-24 11:12:24 UTC-04:0027.8 km
4.831km WSW of La Ligua, Chile 2013-09-24 10:36:44 UTC-04:0039.7 km
3.016km SSW of Smith Valley, Nevada 2013-09-24 10:13:30 UTC-04:0010.4 km
5.294km WSW of Khuzdar, Pakistan 2013-09-24 10:08:33 UTC-04:0027.1 km
