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.
REUTERS PICTURE AT 11:34AM - FINAL BURIAL OF MANDELA-I WONDER WHEN THE OCCULT TEMPLE WORSHIP OCCURED THAT THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS SAID WOULD OCCUR.THEY SAID IT OCCURS ON DEC 16,13.BUT HE WAS BURRIED TODAY. Funeral overruns by 105 minutes, meaning the tribal tradition that members are buried at noon was missed
By Sibongile Khumalo
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Qunu (South Africa) (AFP) - South Africa's first black
president Nelson Mandela received a tearful state funeral at his
childhood village of Qunu on Sunday, followed by a traditional burial
attended by family and friends.A
21-gun salute and full military honour guard escorted Mandela's coffin
to a marquee where 4,500 mourners said their final goodbyes.His flag-draped casket was placed on cow skins, surrounded by 95 candles -- each signifying a year of his extraordinary life."The person who lies here is South Africa's greatest son," said ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa in an opening address.Mandela's
widow, Graca Machel, who was seldom far from his bedside during his
final months, looked on disconsolate, along with his former wife Winnie
Madikizela–Mandela.The frail and ageing leaders of South Africa's
anti-apartheid struggle also attended: George Bizos, Desmond Tutu and
Ahmed Kathrada, whose voice broke with emotion as he delivered a eulogy
for his old friend.
The coffin of South African former president Nelson Mandela leaves for a traditional burial in Qunu …
"I first met him 67 years ago," said Kathrada, who along with Mandela was sentenced to life in prison in 1963.He
recalled his fellow inmate as a powerful amateur boxer who could cope
far better than others with the physical challenge of hard labour."What I saw in hospital was a man helpless and reduced to a shadow of himself," he said struggling not to break down."We can salute you as a fighter for freedom. Farewell my dear brother, my mentor, my leader."Now I've lost a brother my life is in a void and I don't know who turn to."
His words left many in tears among the invited guests, whose
ranks included foreign dignitaries and celebrities ranging from
Britain's Prince Charles to US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey.Private burial for a public icon.Mandela
will be buried with traditional Xhosa rites in a graveyard that sits on
the sprawling family estate Mandela built in Qunu after his release
from prison in 1990."It was in that village that I spent some of
the happiest years of my boyhood and whence I trace my earliest
memories," he wrote in his autobiography.
Overseen by male members
of his clan, the burial will include the slaughter of an ox -- a ritual
performed through various milestones of a person's life under the
clan's traditions.During the ceremony, Mandela will be referred to as Dalibhunga,
the name given to him at the age of 16 after undergoing the initiation
to adulthood
Mourners will wear traditional Xhosa regalia, with blue and white beaded headgear and necklaces.Xhosa speakers are divided into several groups, including the Thembu people, of which Mandela is a member.
Global outpouring
The
funeral closes the final chapter on a towering public figure whose
courage and moral fortitude turned him into a global symbol of freedom
and hope.During 10 days of mourning, hundreds of thousands of South
Africans had turned out across the country to bid the founding father of
their "Rainbow Nation" farewell.
They braved a rain-sodden
memorial in Soweto and for three days queued to see his remains as they
lay in state at Pretoria's Union Buildings.Lines of mourners enveloped a city that was once the bastion of white rule.For
50 million compatriots, Mandela was not just a president, but a moral
guide who led them away from internecine racial conflict.For the rest of the world he was a charismatic leader of the anti-apartheid struggle -- in turn a poet, saint and scholar."Ever
since he passed away, I wanted to walk the journey with him," said
Pascal Moloi, 52, who made the trip from Johannesburg to Qunu to attend a
public viewing.
While Mandela had been critically ill for
months, the announcement of his death on December 5 still sent a spasm
through a country struggling to carry forward his vision of a harmonious
multi-racial democracy of shared prosperity.During the funeral South African President Jacob Zuma told the country it was incumbent on them to carry on his legacy."One thing we can assure you of today Tata (father), as you take your final steps, is that South Africa will continue to rise."South Africa will continue to rise because we dare not fail you," Zuma said.For
the rest of the world, Mandela's death marked the loss of that rarest
of world leaders: those who are viewed with near universal respect and
admiration.Gushing tributes
poured in from every corner of the globe, although Mandela himself had
always stressed he was part of a communal leadership and resisted any
move towards his public canonisation -- posthumous or otherwise.
SINCE THESE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS LOVE ISON AND WORSHIP IT SO MUCH.I THOUGHT I BETTER PUT A ISON STORY WITH THE MENDELA BURRIAL.MAYBE FOR THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS.ISON WILL BRING MANDELA BACK TO LIFE.AND MANDELA WILL BOMBARD THE EARTH WITH ROCKS AND KILL MOST PEOPLE AND POISON ALL THE WATERS WITH WORMWOOD.SINCE THE CONSPIRACY THEORISTS BELIEVE ANYTHING.
TORONTO – “Comet of the century!”“To be seen in the daytime sky!”These
were only a few claims hyped by media upon the discovery of Comet ISON
in September 2012 by Russian astronomers Vitali Nevski and Artyom
Novichonok (a comet is usually named after its discoverer, but this one
was named after the project that discovered it, the International
Scientific Optical Network, ISON).Of course, none of those claims were true. But for scientists, it didn’t matter: ISON was a chance to peer back at the very beginning of our solar system.Karl Battams, astrophysicist at the United States Naval Research Laboratory
(NRL) in Washington, DC, and the voice of ISON throughout the comet’s
close pass, was happy with what was accomplished. Battams led the Comet ISON Observing Campaign.Battams stressed that scientists never claimed ISON would put on the show some believed would happen.“Before us scientists even got to put our word in, there were
stories about the thing being brighter than the full moon and ‘comet of
the century,’ so that made life difficult for us because what we…had to
convey was that this was a really, really exciting object, just not for
the reasons that you’ve been reading about.”And
that reason was this: ISON was born out of the Oort cloud — a cloud
that extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto — trillions of kilometres
away from the sun and which was born 4.5 billion years ago. And the fact
that this comet was a sun-grazer — a comet that would pass very close
to the sun — made it even more exciting. Scientists would be able to see
how this ancient piece of rock interacted with solar radiation,
learning about its composition and characteristics.This was
ISON’s first pass, which meant that it had never been bombarded by the
sun’s radiation. Scientists wondered if the comet would survive such a
close pass — 1.2 million kilometres — above the sun’s surface. The sun
is blazing hot at this distance, so hot that it vaporizes almost
everything.“The very hardest rock you can imagine. If
the comet was coated in diamonds, the diamonds would instantly boil
away and vaporize,” Battams said.
All that heat and radiation was too much for the new comet.Battam
said that it may have been nicer to have had something in the sky for
people to see for themselves, but that doesn’t diminish how important a
role the comet played for scientists.“We’ve gotten to watch this
thing for such a long period of time now, and we’ve recorded the largest
and certainly the broadest data set about a comet in history…One of the
key parts of studying a comet is how were they put together. I think as
any kid will tell you, the best way to find out how a toy is put
together is to rip it apart,” Battams said, laughing.“And
as sad as it may seem, the sun ripped apart our little Christmas
present to see how it was put together, and that’s what we’ve got to try
to learn from.”Astronomers will be analyzing the comet for months to come. And they have plenty of data to use.
“Scientifically,
it’s just been absolutely incredible,” he said. “I think for me what I
loved the most about this whole experience is that we’ve pulled together
not only professional observers from big ground-based facilities, but
we’ve got 13 different spacecraft involved…Even stuff from Mars. And to
top it all off, the amateur community has just been completely crucial
to this whole process. We’ve got an army of eyes around the world.”Various NASA observing campaigns. (NASA)-Though Hubble is scheduled to image where ISON should be, Battam doubts that there will be anything to see. Two other telescopes, Chandra — an X-ray telescope — and Spitzer — an infrared telescope — will also take a look.It’s good to do this, Battam said, just to confirm that ISON is indeed gone.Though ISON may be gone, Battams pointed out that there’s still a comet gracing our skies, Comet Lovejoy, that people can enjoy.Comet ISON may be gone, but Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) is still grazing the pre-dawn sky. (Courtesy of Bill Longo)
The NRL has received many calls from people who bought telescopes in
the hope of catching ISON. Now that it’s gone, they wonder if there’s
anything else to see.“The sky is full of wonders. And the next bright comet is just around the corner,” Battams said.Where to find Comet Lovejoy around 5 a.m. from a latitude of 43 degrees. (Stellarium)Next year will be chock-full of even more exciting comets. There
will be Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring), which will pass incredibly
close to Mars at about 110,000 km above the planet’s surface (there had
been talk about it colliding with Mars, but calculations have shown that
this will not happen). There is also the European Space Agency’s
Rosetta mission which will release a lander on the comet 67
P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.“And,” Battams said, “Who knows what will turn up in the meantime.”Battams’s busy schedule is just settling down. He’s spent months observing and analyzing ISON.
So, when asked what the next thing he’s excited about, Battams laughed and said, “A rest.”
