Wednesday, June 12, 2013

DOUG HAGMANN CATCHES NSA SPYING ON HIM

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

DOUG AND JOE ON PASTOR PAUL BEGLEYS SHOW FOR THE 3 HOURS
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/coming-apocalypse/2013/06/11/coming-apocalypse
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/

DOUG ALSO SAID.HILLARY CLINTON PRACTICES THE OCCULT.WHICH IS NORMAL IN GOVERNMENTS.

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High Profiling Doug Hagmann against NSA

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By Judi McLeod (Bio and Archives)  Wednesday, June 12, 2013
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His name is Doug.  Douglas J. Hagmann.  That’s the name his Mama entered on his American birth certificate.  That’s the name that will someday go on his gravestone.

More than half a million readers learned Doug Hagmann’s name last Friday after he wrote a column trying to warn Americans, “It’s about to get very ugly” and millions more have read his Insider Reports  published on Canada Free Press (CFP).Detractors will swim in like sharks begging to differ,  but Hagmann was among the first, if not the first to spread the truth about Benghazi; that four courageous Americans lost their lives most tragically there not because of an anti-Muslim video but because the American administration they worked for was running guns into Syria through Turkey.Hagmann’s growing appeal to mega readers comes from the 30-plus years he has under his belt working in the field as a seasoned private investigator and the contacts with law-and-order types made and still being made during a career in which he is still active.  People thirsting for the truth in government-issued propaganda in the confusing White Noise of the day are more likely to believe someone with that kind of track record in hard core investigation.Add to Hagmann’s own ability that his articles for the past eight years have been posted on a private, independent news site with a reputation of credibility; that he now has a popular, three-hour weeknight and Sunday Internet radio show, the Hagmann-Hagmann Report with his son Joe, and you can see Hagmann’s plight more clearly.The powers that be in the scandal-ridden government are on an unholy tear to suppress and silence anyone not swallowing the Marxist line, including most shamefully, patriotic, elderly, law-abiding citizens.  The IRS that can make or break you, is making and breaking you.  Rather than being pushed back from power, their bureaucrats will go on to administer Obama’s ominous health care—an IRS-run ObamaCare!
During the ongoing IRS scandal, Americans found out almost overnight that for almost the past 12 years, Big Brother has not just been watching them, but capturing every aspect of their private citizen lives. The Hollywood movie nightmares about someone watching you while you sleep, are now chilling real-life reality.
Hagmann’s “It’s about to get very ugly” piece preceded—by a single day—the ‘NSA is watching you’ revelations of former CIA operative/NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.This is how Snowden described the dangers of massive NSA data mining of the civilian population:“...even if you’re not doing anything wrong you’re being watched and recorded. And the storage capability of these systems increases every year consistently by orders of magnitude to where it’s getting to the point where you don’t have to have done anything wrong. You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody even by a wrong call. And then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you’ve ever made, every friend you’ve ever discussed something with. And attack you on that basis to sort to derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer.” (Fox News, June 11, 2013).That day may already have come for Doug Hagmann, who, because he’s a husband, father, and a proud American citizen, does not have the option of going on the lam.Like many other reporters and whistleblowers Hagmann is much more a sitting duck than a moving target.And he’s been told by a credible security source that an active investigation file has been opened against him by NSA.Hagmann’s CFP colleague,  Whistleblower author Marinka Peschmann has filled out a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request to NSA on Hagmann.
While there are those will say “fat chance” of them ever getting back to her,  rather than just sitting there waiting for the knock on the door from visiting feds, you’ve got to start somewhere. As someone who has been a lifelong journalist, I know that the higher a person’s profile, the safer they usually are, and even though television and radio hosts are not exactly beating down his door to get him airtime, this is why I cling to the faint hope that anyone who picks up on Hagmann’s work will specifically identify him by name.More worried about his family than himself, Hagmann, a God-fearing man, insists his faith will see him through.If CFP readers continue to get his name out there the way they have been doing the last five days, Hagmann may be all the more safe from harm because of the high profile it affords him.That’s why I find myself repeating to myself these turbulent days: “His name is Doug Hagmann”.

Doug Hagmann tells seminar three major crisis events are imminent

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By Marijane Green (Bio and Archives)  Sunday, June 9, 2013
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Raleigh-Durham, NC-Three major crisis events are about to take place, revealed Doug Hagmann, the featured speaker Saturday 8 June 2013, on the second day of the “National Insecurity” seminar held in at the Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church outside of Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.This second day of the three-day seminar also featured Hagmann’s son Joe Hagmann, and Marine Gold Star mother Susan Price, who gave her speech the night before to kick off the seminar.Doug Hagmann was coming off the publication at Canada Free Press, of his latest article, “DHS Insider: It’s about to get very ugly.” This explosive story needs to be read to further understand the context of his speech, which he said would contain details not in the story. For ease of identification, in this story I will refer to Doug and his son Joe Hagmann by their first names for clarity.

The crowd, which was approximately double the size of the 40 or so who attended the night before, many,  who came from across the country, was literally buzzing with anticipation before becoming hushed as Pastor Randy Umberger stepped forward and gave a prayer to start the “National Insecurity” seminar.
Doug Hagmann stepped forward for his segment, which later would included a session with his son Joe Hagmann and a final type of roundtable, which included Gold Star mother Susan Price, as they gave their opinions and observations of various events.Doug began his speech discussing his uncles’ murder. He had been stabbed 36 times, and it took five years before the case was finally solved. Doug told the audience,  “You’re not going to get thanks or recognition for it. You are the leaders of your sphere of influence.”
He went back to the theme of his latest article, “DHS Insider” It’s about to get very ugly,” as he warned, “Things are going to begin to happen soon.”Doug told the audience, “Everyone here will have tremendous impact on their sphere of influence.”“People you meet in our life, you’re prepared for what’s coming,” he said as he continued and described how sources within the Department of Homeland Security, former Department of Justice people he knows and others are opening their eyes.Doug told those in attendance, “What you take away is going to be so important. It’s going to change your life.”“Take it to the Lord. Take it to God,” Doug said, as he told how God is on his mind 24x7.“What we see now is of a spiritual nature” Doug said.“Spying Eyes” was the front page headline on a USA Today Doug held up, saying he got it at his hotel today.Doug reminded the seminar attendees not to trust one certain media source, but said, “Take it to God.”“You’re the small group that will make this happen. You’re going to help others understand what’s going on. There’s a world wide conspiracy going on.”“You’re heard of the Illuminati, the Tri-Lateral Commission?” Doug asked, and joked at the largely positive response and said to quiet laughter, the crowd was an advanced class.“All politics is on a local level. Can’t change Washington without changing the local (political leaders.)”Doug described three major crisis events about to take place and said they are in no particular order.

I. Killing off the United States dollar

The killing off of the United States dollar. Doug said this was an active maneuver.
People in power have been actually killing our economy since 1913, the year of the Federal Reserve. It’s an end game we’re watching, he said. A Cyprus type situation could be expected soon in the U.S., he added.

II. The start of World War Three

The start of World War Three. Doug asked if people heard of Benghazi? It’s not about a video he said, explaining it was part of the “Arab Spring” and was a logistics station for weapons smuggling from Libya to Syria. It’s Obama’s agenda, Valerie Jarrett’s agenda to topple Assad, he explained.Doug described how Putin supports Assad and if he is toppled, it will cause a World War Three to start, and biological, chemical, and even nuclear weapons will be used. Doug explained how during the G.W. Bush administration, they were actively talking at the Pentagon of Biblical prophesy. There currently is talk of something referred to as a “no fly zone” or an air blockade Doug said, adding that it’s likely there would be boots on the ground in Syria.Referring to Gold Star Marine Mom Susan Price, who was sitting on stage, along with Joe, Doug said of Price’s son Aaron Kenefick, who was killed in Afghanistan, “He was executed for his knowledge. He was a CIA asset. He was sent to his death. Doug said he is asked, “Will time be on our side?” His answer: “No.”
Doug thanked Pastor Umberger’s invitation to the event, saying he appreciated the chance, “To worship in church like this.” Doug said he was humbled by Pastor Umberger. Doug noted how he believes in the not so distant future, we will worship in small groups in peoples’ houses-in basements—and discussed some information about Christianity this weekend.

III. War against Christianity

Doug said, “Our government is going to step up the war against Christians. They are going to do it by legal means,” and cited how the 501C IRS delays were not just against the Tea Party. “War against Christianity,” is how Doug described it. Doug described it as a war against people who should take an active role.
Doug explained how the total thrown around about the dead in Syria right now is around 80,000. When World War III starts, there may be one million deaths there. Service members could be exposed to hideous things. Doug described how he wouldn’t want any of his family to be in the service now. “I never thought I’d say that,” he added.One of the things they are doing Doug described, is “To kill off our nation while you watch.”Doug described how he will be making a spiritual turn on his next five Sunday radio shows, including prayer and fasting with a focus on spiritual needs.Doug warned, “We are going to face very difficult times.”
He described how when they kill the dollar, Americans won’t be able to buy bread, milk, and other staples.
The goal: One world government and there is no room for Christianity, Jesus, or “you in it.”The world’s wealthiest and corporate elite, Doug said, are stripping our national identity. We can see it now on the southern border he added.He said with a laugh, 8-9 million illegal immigrants? There’s that many in NY alone. He described a walk down 3 blocks of Queens, “You don’t know what country you are in.” Doug said there are actually more like 22 million illegal aliens already in the United States. Obama wants them to stay, Doug said, and now right and left don’t exist on the global list.Doug suggested for those in attendance to look up when they got home, the “Moriah Conquering Wind,” something I never heard of before. Doing a brief Google search when I returned to my hotel room, I found it was, to my understanding, another name for the elitist groups such as the Illuminati, but I didn’t do further research than a Google search.These elitist groups are genetically connected individuals, many relatives involved, or whole families.Going back to Gold Star Mother Susan Price’s son, Doug said, “He was executed because of his knowledge,” as he described the persecution of Christians in the military, and decried the recent stories about Mickey Weinstein who is in the business of letting Christians in the military know that since they are Christians, they are not wanted.
Doug explained again about Price’s son as he said, when her son was executed, killed, murdered, he went through a box of information Susan gave him which her son kept. It contained information on becoming a free mason, and the opium trade, leading Doug to ask, “What are we doing in Afghanistan? We’re shipping drugs.”Doug described how someone knows everything about Benghazi, and described how before the 9-11-12 attack, seven Red Crescent workers were kidnapped in Benghazi.They had thrown a motor shell through the “consulate”. Doug made the point that this was, “No embassy or consulate.” He said it was, “The biggest CIA headquarters in Africa”.Doug described how he talked to a friend of one killed, and stated, “It was a walled compound, villa. Seven Red Crescent workers were testing the defenses of a CIA compound.” Doug said his source talked to survivors and was “part of an elite team.”Dough asked the crowd, “When Seals or Rangers are in trouble, who do you call?”He answered, “When they get in trouble, they call the Global Response Staff. (GRS).” Doug described this an elite team with only 50-60 people on the planet being members of GRS. If Embassy staff or State Department personnel get in trouble, they respond. They have the authority of a four star general Doug said. All they have to do, Doug said, is give the call sign of a bird and a series of numbers. Doug said, “Once this is set in motion, it can’t be stopped.”
Doug revealed that Glenn Doherty, one of the former Seals killed in Benghazi, made the correct call sign and counted on the U.S. government to send in help. Doug said there was an armed drone, air assets, and aircraft in the area. “They could have been rescued.”“Glenn Doherty: he made the call 9-11-12.”Susan Rice blamed the video.Doug said, “The reason for no response? Obama and Jarrett did not want to reveal the truth.”Doug said the truth was that “Forty million tons of weapons” were being shipped from Libya to Syria, and gave the details of how this was done. He said the “Same people who denied Benghazi help, were responsible for Susan’s son’s death.”Doug explained how people in the media and general public misuse the term “consulate” in relation to the Benghazi compound, “It was a CIA compound, not a consulate”, Doug said. “What we saw in Benghazi was a Saudi operation.”Doug said, “Obama’s network of criminals is now being exposed.” He held up the USA Today weekend edition, with “Spying Eyes” headlined on the front page. Doug went on to discuss Obama’s shady associations with Bill Ayers and others such as Valerie Jarrett, saying   “The USA is a captured operation. Saudi compromised, a Saudi captured operation.”
“Obama, in my view, is a Manchurian Candidate,” Doug said.Doug mentioned Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” and said he believes his influence is responsible for what we’re seeing today.Doug said Obama and others of like mind, “Are following it to a ‘T’”. Doug said that the Administration is “siding with Islam,” and it’s all about oil, energy. “Russia will fall to Islam when Syria falls,” Doug said, and “Obama knows what he is doing.”“When Syria falls,” Doug continued, “It will pull the trigger on the dollar.”Doug described his secret meeting with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) insider in Washington, D.C. and said he was told, “Look, we American citizens have probably until October to get our affairs in order. Things are going to start.”Of the July 3rd and 4th time period, Doug was told by his DHS insider, that “something, some situation will take place in the U.S., some shot across the bow will take place.” Doug said, “I can’t see the dates. But, according to my DHS insider, this will change things.”Doug explained that by October, there will be great turmoil, war in Syria, Damascus, Israel possibly in ruin, and warned, “What you’re seeing is the end times.” He said, “People in power believe they are the anointed ones to issue in the New World Order. They will not leave until global governance is complete,  and to do this they need the dollar collapse and war in Syria. Doug asked, “Who do the Saudis work for?” “Benghazi?” “Susan’s son?”“Obama, Barry Soetoro is working for the Saudis,” Doug said. He continued, “What we’re seeing: End game.”Doug said about seminar attendance,  “The weather is bad, there’s water on the roads, and the church is not overflowing, but I didn’t expect it to be. If there are 2-3 people there, or even 1 or 2, get the word out.”Doug described how, “everyone sitting here is born for this time in history, for a reason.”“When friends or family say the economy is not going to fail; when we talk to spiritual people; we are here for a reason. Go to people. We need to be spiritually prepared for what’s coming. Spiritual. Intelligence.”“Some Christians: we can’t stop what’s coming, but believe we can slow it down,” Doug said.“Read your own mail,” Doug said. “Do what you’re supposed to do, what you need to do.”“God is going to tell you what you need to do. Different for different people. Spread the word. Educate people. Do not do what was meant for others to do.”“We’re together as a small group,” Doug said. “This is our future. That’s all we’re going to have: small groups of people praying to God. Those without spiritual preparation are not going to make it,” Doug said ending his segment. The first part of the seminar’s second day, led by Doug Hagmann left many points to ponder, opened eyes, gave us new information, and made us aware we have much praying to do for the survival of an America we know and love.The seminar continued in the afternoon with Joe Hagmann and Susan Price speaking, and the story will continue in part two with a report on their speeches.

HS insider: It’s about to get very ugly

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By Doug Hagmann (Bio and Archives)  Monday, June 10, 2013
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Originally Published June 7, 2013
Washington, D.C.—Something quite unexpected happened just hours ago, in the dark of night, during a two-day layover in Washington, DC. My son and I are scheduled to take part in a seminar outside of Raleigh, North Carolina this weekend, so we combined our travels to include a side-trip to DC for a business meeting we had previously arranged. It was during this layover that something seemingly ripped from the pages of a spy novel took place.While I was in the middle of a perfectly good and well needed sleep in the very early hours of this morning, I received a message. I cannot disclose how I received this message, at least not now. The discerning reader will understand why, which, by the way, would make a very interesting story alone. The message was extremely clear and precise. I was to meet my high level DHS insider at a very specific location in Washington, DC, at a time when most ‘normal’ people, except third-shift workers are still asleep. And, I was to come alone and make certain that I was not being followed, and I was to leave any cell phone or electronic device behind.Seriously? I thought, as I was still trying to make sense of it all. Is all this really necessary? Is this really happening? I considered waking my son to accompany me, but opted to follow the instructions to the letter. Besides, I thought, he’s not the most affable middle-of-the-night person. I left a hastily written but detailed note in my hotel room before my departure in the event something happened. I looked at the digital clock on my rental car (my personal car would never survive our long distance trip). It was 3:20 a.m.

The meeting

I felt like I was part of a spy movie set in our nation’s capital. A chill rose up my spine as I waited in the dark of a chilly, misty and foggy pre-dawn morning. I was to meet with my DHS insider source at a time when most of the nation is asleep, at a place I could swear was featured in the movie All the President’s Men. No one and I mean no one knows I’m here, I thought, as I could see one of the most recognizable national landmarks in the distance.My source appeared out of nowhere, or so it seemed, and handed me a cup of coffee with the astute observation that I looked like I needed it. So tell me, I asked impatiently, why do we have to meet at this time, at this location, and under such specific circumstances? ‘Because this might be our last meeting,’ he stated.
Maybe it was the lack of sleep, the time, the place, or the chill of the misty rain that caused my sense of foreboding. “Explain,” I asked in an almost demanding tone. So he did, without mincing words.

The details

“If anyone thinks that what’s going on right now with all of this surveillance of American citizens is to fight some sort of foreign enemy, they’re delusional. If people think that this ‘scandal’ can’t get any worse, it will, hour by hour, day by day. This has the ability to bring down our national leadership, the administration and other senior elected officials working in collusion with this administration, both Republican and Democrats. People within the NSA, the Department of Justice, and others, they know who they are, need to come forth with the documentation of ‘policy and practice’ in their possession, disclose what they know, fight what’s going on, and just do their job. I have never seen anything like this, ever. The present administration is going after leakers, media sources, anyone and everyone who is even suspected of ‘betrayal.’ That’s what they call it, ‘betrayal.’ Can you believe the size of their cahones? This administration considers anyone telling the truth about Benghazi, the IRS, hell, you name the issue, ‘betrayal,’” he said.“We know all this already,” I stated. He looked at me, giving me a look like I’ve never seen, and actually pushed his finger into my chest. “You don’t know jack,” he said, “this is bigger than you can imagine, bigger than anyone can imagine. This administration is collecting names of sources, whistle blowers and their families, names of media sources and everybody they talk to and have talked to, and they already have a huge list. If you’re not working for MSNBC or CNN, you’re probably on that list. If you are a website owner with a brisk readership and a conservative bent, you’re on that list. It’s a political dissident list, not an enemy threat list,” he stated.
“What’s that exactly mean, being on that list, that is,” I asked, trying to make sense of it all.“It means that there will be censorship under the color of authority of anyone in the U.S. who is attempting to expose what’s going on in our name. It’s about controlling any damning information from reaching epidemic proportions. It’s damage control to the extreme. It’s about the upcoming censorship of the internet in the name of national security. The plans are already in place. These latest reports about ‘spying eyes’ have turned this administration and others connected to it into something very, very dangerous. They feel cornered and threatened, and I’m hearing about some plans they have to shut down the flow of information that is implicating them of wrongdoing. Time is short,” he stated.“How are they going to do this? How is it even possible” I asked.“First, they intend to use the Justice Department to silence journalists like in the Rosen case, but they won’t stop there. They will use a host of national security policies, laws, letters, whatever to take out the bigger threats,” he stated.Next, they will use some sort of excuse, an external threat, and I believe it will be a combination of the economic collapse and a Mid-East war that will begin in Syria to throttle the information that is accessible on the Internet. And you know what? People will believe it!”
Based on what I’ve seen, most of which I should not have seen, the DHS is co-ordinating efforts with other federal agencies to begin to threaten American citizens with incarceration for non-compliance. You know the old talk of color coded lists? Well, this is what they will be using. People exposing the truth about Benghazi, killing the U.S. Dollar, even those questioning Obama?s legal status and eligibility to be President are the current targets. And they’ve had five long years to get to this point. The ugly truth is that these policies and practices did not start under Obama, but long before. This is about the killing of our Constitutional Republic. The murder of our country and the stripping of our rights. While many have been preoccupied with one issue, few have seen the bigger issue. This is the ‘end game,’ for all the marbles,” he stated.

More to come

“Please,” pleaded my source, “get this information out while you can. Tell people what I’m saying, that we don’t have much time, that after the latest exposure of spying, Obama, Jarrett, Axelrod, and others, including members of Congress, have put their plans into high gear. This is about the Marxist takeover of America. This is about our country being able to survive another July 4th holiday. This is about a world war about to break out that will kill millions of people, all because of the agenda of this administration.”“They are very dangerous and will do anything and everything to stop the onslaught of negative information that’s being reported by the main stream media. But only about one quarter of the real information is being reported. The other three quarters will be the game changer. But first, tell people what I’ve said. Let them know that more will follow but get this information out right now while the internet is still relatively free. Do it today.”My source provided additional information, but I am abiding by his wish to get this much out. I am writing now to let people know that we are in for seriously dangerous times ahead. Deadly times. War, and censorship under the color of authority and under the pretext of of national security. It’s about to get a lot uglier. Stay tuned.

DHS WANTS EQUIPMENT FOR RIOT CONTROL SITUATIONS

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

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University of Washington researchers release white paper on a new type of spy grid that will use wifi signals of track your every movement around the house.



Whole-Home Gesture Recognition Using Wireless Signals (White paper)

What is WiSee? (Home Page)

WiSee is a novel interaction interface that leverages ongoing wireless transmissions in the environment (e.g., WiFi) to enable whole-home sensing and recognition of human gestures. Since wireless signals do not require line-of-sight and can traverse through walls, WiSee can enable whole-home gesture recognition using few wireless sources (e.g., a Wi-Fi router and a few mobile devices in the living room).WiSee is the first wireless system that can identify gestures in line-of-sight, non-line-of-sight, and through-the-wall scenarios. Unlike other gesture recognition systems like Kinect, Leap Motion or MYO, WiSee requires neither an infrastructure of cameras nor user instrumentation of devices. We implement a proof-of-concept prototype of WiSee and evaluate it in both an office environment and a two-bedroom apartment. Our results show that WiSee can identify and classify a set of nine gestures with an average accuracy of 94%.

Wi-Fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout entire home

Forget to turn off the lights before leaving the apartment? No problem. Just raise your hand, finger-swipe the air, and your lights will power down. Want to change the song playing on your music system in the other room? Move your hand to the right and flip through the songs.University of Washington computer scientists have developed gesture-recognition technology that brings this a step closer to reality. Researchers have shown it’s possible to leverage Wi-Fi signals around us to detect specific movements without needing sensors on the human body or cameras.By using an adapted Wi-Fi router and a few wireless devices in the living room, users could control their electronics and household appliances from any room in the home with a simple gesture.“This is repurposing wireless signals that already exist in new ways,” said lead researcher Shyam Gollakota, a UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering. “You can actually use wireless for gesture recognition without needing to deploy more sensors.”The UW research team that includes Shwetak Patel, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering and of electrical engineering and his lab, published their findings online this week. This technology, which they call “WiSee,” is to appear at The 19th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking.The concept is similar to Xbox Kinect – a commercial product that uses cameras to recognize gestures – but the UW technology is simpler, cheaper and doesn’t require users to be in the same room as the device they want to control. That’s because Wi-Fi signals can travel through walls and aren’t bound by line-of-sight or sound restrictions.The UW researchers built a “smart” receiver device that essentially listens to all of the wireless transmissions coming from devices throughout a home, including smartphones, laptops and tablets. A standard Wi-Fi router could be adapted to function as a receiver.When a person moves, there is a slight change in the frequency of the wireless signal. Moving a hand or foot causes the receiver to detect a pattern of changes known as the Doppler frequency shift.These frequency changes are very small – only several hertz – when compared with Wi-Fi signals that have a 20 megahertz bandwidth and operate at 5 gigahertz. Researchers developed an algorithm to detect these slight shifts. The technology also accounts for gaps in wireless signals when devices aren’t transmitting.The technology can identify nine different whole-body gestures, ranging from pushing, pulling and punching to full-body bowling. The researchers tested these gestures with five users in a two-bedroom apartment and an office environment. Out of the 900 gestures performed, WiSee accurately classified 94 percent of them..“This is the first whole-home gesture recognition system that works without either requiring instrumentation of the user with sensors or deploying cameras in every room,” said Qifan Pu, a collaborator and visiting student at the UW.The system requires one receiver with multiple antennas. Intuitively, each antenna tunes into a specific user’s movements, so as many as five people can move simultaneously in the same residence without confusing the receiver.If a person wants to use the WiSee, she would perform a specific repetition gesture sequence to get access to the receiver. This password concept would also keep the system secure and prevent a neighbor – or hacker – from controlling a device in your home.Once the wireless receiver locks onto the user, she can perform normal gestures to interact with the devices and appliances in her home. The receiver would be programmed to understand that a specific gesture corresponds to a specific device.Collaborators Patel and Sidhant Gupta, a doctoral student in computer science and engineering, have worked with Microsoft Research on two similar technologies – SoundWave, which uses sound, and Humantenna, which uses radiation from electrical wires – that both sense whole-body gestures. But WiSee stands apart because it doesn’t require the user to be in the same room as the receiver or the device.In this way, a smart home could become a reality, allowing you to turn off the oven timer with a simple wave of the hand, or turn on the coffeemaker from your bed.The researchers plan to look next at the ability to control multiple devices at once. The initial work was funded by the UW department of computer science and engineering.http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/06/04/wi-fi-signals-enable-gesture-recognition-throughout-entire-home/
 
HOW YOU CAN BE TRACKED ONLINE http://www.abine.com/tracking.php

THE US GOVERNMENT CAN TRACK YOU ANYTIME BY YOUR CELL PHONE
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/08/court-warrant-cellphone-gps-data

DHS Wants Equipment For “Riot Control Situations”

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June 12, 2013

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The Department of Homeland Security is purchasing hundreds of items of protective gear for its fleet of Federal Protective Service officers in order to prepare for “riot control situations,” increasing concerns that the federal agency is readying for domestic unrest.A June 10 solicitation posted on the FedBizOpps website seeks to outfit officers working for the DHS’ Federal Protective Service, which is primarily used to guard government buildings but has also been used to spy on protesters.As we reported last month, FPS officers were used to guard an IRS building in St. Louis during a Tea Party protest against the federal agency’s discrimination targeting conservative groups.As GSN reports, the items the DHS is looking to acquire include the following;- 111 Centurion CPX2500 Soft Shell Riot Control System upper body and shoulder protection, which must “effectively protect the torso and shoulders from blunt force trauma.”- 123 Centurion TPX200 thigh/groin protection systems “designed for blunt trauma protection during riot control situations,” said the solicitation. The gear “protects the thigh area and has an adjustable and removable groin protector.”- 110 Hatch TS70 Centurion hard shell shin guards, which must provide “substantial protection from flying debris. Non-ballistic weapons, and blows to the leg.”- 189 MaxPro-Police riot helmets, which have a “high impact molded half shell helmet with integral visor and neck protector.”The solicitation also includes a request for 116 pairs of tactical gloves and 128 forearm protectors. The contract includes four additional one year option periods. The equipment will be delivered to a Federal Protective Service facility in Alexandria, VA, within 45 days of the award.The reference to “riot control situations” can be found in the “Statement of Work” file at the bottom of the solicitation.Fears that the Department of Homeland Security is preparing for civil unrest have intensified ever since the agency began purchasing large quantities of ammunition. Having already committed to purchasing well over 1.6 billion rounds of bullets over the course of the last year, a DHS “request for information” issued last month quizzed bullet manufacturers on how fast they can supply large quantities of ammo.The request asked ammo companies if they were capable of supplying, “large quantity orders of any training caliber specified with a short turnaround time of 30-60 days.”Last year, the DHS hired hundreds of new FPS guards to protect government buildings across the country.This followed a controversial drill in Florida dubbed “Operation Shield,” during which FPS agents armed with semiautomatic guns were posted outside a Social Security office in Florida. The unannounced exercise centered around “detecting the presence of unauthorized persons and potentially disruptive or dangerous activities.” Residents were forced to show identification papers to the guards during the drill.
Whether the DHS is preparing for riots targeting government buildings remains to be seen, but this will do little to dampen concerns that big government is arming itself to the teeth while Americans are being lectured about relinquishing their second amendment rights.

DHS-Funded Exercise Portrays “Free America Citizens” as Terrorist Cell

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Branding of Tea Party as violent extremists accelerates
Paul Joseph Watson
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June 12, 2013
A Homeland Security-funded training exercise in Boston dubbed “Operation Urban Shield” that was delayed due to April’s marathon bombing revolved around a terrorist cell dubbed “Free America Citizens,” another indication of how the DHS is characterizing liberty-loving Americans as domestic extremists.

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“Months of painstaking planning had gone into the exercise, dubbed “Operation Urban Shield,” meant to train dozens of detectives in the Greater Boston area to work together to thwart a terrorist threat. The hypothetical terrorist group was even given a name: Free America Citizens, a home-grown cadre of militiamen whose logo would be a metal skull wearing an Uncle Sam hat and a furious expression,” reports the Boston Globe.The drill, which was funded with the aid of a $200,000 Department of Homeland Security grant and was set to involve DHS officials along with other federal authorities, centered on the scenario of domestic terrorists leaving explosive-filled backpacks at locations around the city. The exercise was due to take place this weekend but was postponed in response to the Boston bombings and is now expected to go ahead early next year.The exercise, many details of which remain confidential, has been crafted to test the investigative skills of detectives involved who will be tasked with finding out the motivation behind the “Free America” terrorists.The drill was planned before the Boston bombings and officials from a dozen agencies have been meeting for months to plan the scenario. The exercise bore “eerie similarities” to the real attack in that police were tasked with identifying terrorists from street surveillance camera footage.Over the course of the last five years, the DHS has been criticized for its involvement in numerous training exercises and the production of material which demonizes conservatives and libertarians as domestic extremists, putting them in the same league as violent terrorists.In March, Arkansas State Fusion Center Director Richard Davis admitted that the federal agency spies on Americans deemed to be “anti-government,” noting that the DHS concentrates on, “domestic terrorism and certain groups that are anti-government. We want to kind of take a look at that and receive that information,” so-called threats which included people, “putting political stickers in public bathrooms or participating in movements against the death penalty.”Last year, a DHS-funded study produced by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland characterized Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority,” and “reverent of individual liberty” as “extreme right-wing” terrorists.The DHS also stoked controversy in 2011 when it released a series of videos to promote the See Something, Say Something campaign in which almost all of the terrorists portrayed in the PSAs were white Americans.A mock DHS news report which emerged last month depicted gun owning Americans as dangerous terrorists.A DHS-funded exercise in Seattle last month portrayed “angry” parents who homeschooled their children as terrorists.The 2009 MIAC report, published by the Missouri Information Analysis Center and first revealed by Infowars, also framed Ron Paul supporters, libertarians, people who display bumper stickers, people who own gold, or even people who fly a U.S. flag, as potential terrorists.

POLAND ENDORSES PA STATE/NOT NETANYAHU

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

PM Backs Away from Statement w/ Poland Endorsing PA Statehood

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has reportedly backed away from making a prepared joint statement endorsing a Palestinian Authority state.
By Chana Ya'ar-First Publish: 6/12/2013, 3:19 PM-Israelnationalnews

PM Binyamin Netanyahu
PM Binyamin Netanyahu-Flash 90
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has reportedly backed away from making a joint statement with the Polish government that would endorse a Palestinian Authority state.According to the report broadcast Wednesday on Army Radio and Channel 10, Netanyahu disavowed the statement, released earlier in the day by the Prime Minister’s Office. An aide explained to Army Radio the prime minister had not gone over the text, and added, "It was written by junior-level officers in the National Security Council."The official communique was to express strong support for the "two state solution" and was to be announced during Netanyahu’s trip to Poland together with five ministers, where he is meeting with Polish leaders. The prime minister is to inaugurate a memorial site at Block 27 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum during his visit.The statement read in part: "There is an urgent need to promote the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The two governments agree on the urgent need to promote the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through direct negotiations, without preconditions."The prime minister reportedly took issue with a part of the communique that referred to unilateral steps by both sides serving as obstacles to a peace agreement."Unilateral steps by either party are counterproductive to achieving a sustainable lasting peace," reads the statement. "We welcome the U.S. government’s efforts in this regard, particularly those of the U.S. Secretary of State [John Kerry]."Both Netanyahu and his Polish counterpart, Donald Tusk, were to sign the document but no specific time was ever set for that action. Nevertheless, the Israeli prime minister’s perceived aboutface has raised the spectre of a diplomatic faux pas in international circles.Moreover, it has also opened the door to criticism from opposition within Israel’s government. Meretz party chairwoman Zehava Gal-On immediately issued a statement attacking the prime minister, saying, "Netanyahu’s disavowal of the content of the joint statement with the Polish prime minister only serves to expose the true face of the prime minister who continues to mislead the public and prove once again that he has no intention of making peace."


GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael;(FATHER OF THE ARAB/MUSLIMS) because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man,(ISLAM HATES EVERYONE) and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.(LITERAL-THE ARABS LIVE WITH THEIR BRETHERN JEWS)

EZEKIEL 12:25
25  For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass;(LITERALLY) it shall be no more prolonged: will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.(JESUS MAKES PROPHECIES COME TO PASS)

EZEKIEL 28:25-26
25  Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered,(WORLD NATIONS) and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.(ISRAEL)
26  And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them;(ARAB/MUSLUM NATIONS AROUND ISRAEL) and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.

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)

EZEKIEL 35:3-6,11-15
3  And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir,(ARABS) I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
4  I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
5  Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred,(AGAINST ISRAEL) and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
6  Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
11  Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
12  And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13  Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
14  Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.(ARAB,MUSLIMS)
15  As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir,(ARABS) and all Idumea,(ARAB,MUSLIMS) even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11  In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12  Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13  The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14  And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.

JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23  Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24  Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25  How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26  Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27  And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

JEREMIAH 47:1-7
1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN/ARABS) before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
2  Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north,(NORTHERN TSUNAMI POSSIBLY) and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
3  At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses,(ISRAELS ARMY) at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;(ISRAEL POSSIBLY NUKES GAZA)
4  Because of the day that cometh to spoil all the Philistines,(PALESTINIAN FAKE ARABS) and to cut off from Tyrus and Zidon every helper that remaineth: for the LORD will spoil the Philistines, the remnant of the country of Caphtor.
5  Baldness is come upon Gaza;(NUKED POSSIBLY) Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
6  O thou sword of the LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
7  How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? (MEDITTERANEAN SEA) there hath he appointed it.

DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south ( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS-MUSLIMS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them,(BEFORE THE NUKE GOES OFF) and behind them a desolate wilderness;(AFTER THE ATOMIC BOMB GOES OFF) yea, and nothing shall escape them.(EVERYTHING NUKED)
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate,(SIBERIAN DESERT) with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(FOR COMING AGAINST ISRAEL)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

JEREMIAH 8:7
7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;(MIGRATION TIME) and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming;(IN MIGRATION SEASON) but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.(WW3 MIGRATING BIRDS EAT ISRAELS ENEMIES FLESH AND BLOOD) 

Russian protesters march as Putin seeks firmer political footing

By Gabriela Baczynska and Alexei Anishchuk
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thousands of Russians marched through Moscow demanding Vladimir Putin resign on Wednesday, as the president took the helm of a loyalist movement designed to broaden his power base.
With helmeted riot police looking on, some 10,000 protesters chanted "Russia without Putin!" and called for the release of activists who face long jail terms over violence at a protest against his inauguration to a third presidential term last year.Critics accuse Putin, in power since 2000, of clamping down on dissent after he weathered the biggest protests of his rule and returned to the Kremlin following a stint as prime minister.
"We have no democracy here, we have what Putin calls sovereign democracy. That means there is democracy for them, not for us," said protester Andrei Rusakov, 53.Protesters chanted "Putin is a thief" and held pictures of 12 activists who are being tried over clashes with police at a rally the day before he was sworn in.A bridge leading across the Moscow river toward the Kremlin was blocked by police lines, bulldozers and water trucks. Police said they detained nine members of a suspended opposition group.
Shortly after the march, Putin, 60, was chosen to lead the Popular Front at a highly choreographed congress of the group he created in 2011 as a source of support to supplement the ruling United Russia, which many Russians mistrust.In a spectacle that mixed elements of Soviet Communist Party meetings and Western-style political conventions, members chanted Putin's name after a speech full of patriotic rhetoric."We are united by values that are higher than political passions," Putin told the gathering, which included cultural and religious figures, stylish young women and medal-bedecked World War Two veterans.Putin spoke of freedom, human rights and the rule of law in his address but protesters said he has trampled on those values since starting his six-year third term.Putin has signed laws restricting demonstrations and labeling U.S.-funded civic groups "foreign agents". Protest leaders are under investigation or on trial in what they say are trumped up charges.
POPULAR FRONT
Marchers, hoping to revive flagging protests, focused on the plight of 12 lesser-known activists who face up to eight years in jail over clashes with police in what critics call a Stalin-style show trial meant to scare away ordinary Russians."This is a political trial ... it is all clearly falsified," said Natalya Kavkazskaya, whose son Dmitry, 26, is among the defendants and has been in pre-trial detention since last July."Mother Russia is in tears, crying like all mothers over their children in this country," she said at the protest, which took place on a holiday called Russia Day.More than half of Russians polled by the independent Levada Centre last month said the case was meant to intimidate Putin's foes.Some posters targeted Putin's announcement last week that he and his wife Lyudmila were divorcing: "He wants someone else - and so do we."Putin remains Russia's most popular politician by far, but his job approval rating fell to a 12-year low of 62 percent in January, according to Levada Centre."We want the authorities to stop fabricating criminal cases against opposition leaders and activists," Dmitry Gudkov, an opposition lawmaker and protest leader."Those in power are not changing but society is, and if the authorities do not catch up with that the same thing will happen to them as with leaders in some Arab countries," he said.While the protests have waned, they exposed fatigue with Putin an dissatisfaction with the dominance of United Russia, his main source of support and instrument of power.Opposition leaders have dubbed it the "party of swindlers and thieves" and its majority in parliament was cut sharply in the December 2011 election that set off the wave of protests.
(Additional reporting by Maria Tsvetkova and Thomas Grove; Writing by Steve Gutterman; Editing by Alissa de Carbonnel and Jon Boyle)

Turkish police fight protesters, clear square

By Nick Tattersall and Ayla Jean Yackley
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish riot police fought running battles with pockets of protesters overnight, clearing the central Istanbul square that has been the focus of nearly two weeks of protests against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.By dawn, Taksim Square, strewn with wreckage from bulldozed barricades, was largely deserted and taxis crossed it for the first time since the troubles started. Several hundred remained in an encampment of tents in Gezi Park abutting the square.Erdogan, who has repeatedly dismissed the demonstrators as "riff-raff", was expected to meet a grouping of public figures about the protests on Wednesday. In the fighting talk that first endeared him to voters 10 years ago, he said on Tuesday he would not kneel before the protesters and that "this Tayyip Erdogan won't change".The United States, which has held up Erdogan's Turkey in the past as an example of Muslim democracy that could benefit other countries in the Middle East, expressed concern about events in Turkey and urged dialogue between government and protesters.German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Wednesday the Turkish government was sending the wrong signal at home and abroad with its reaction to protests, describing pictures from Taksim square as disturbing."We expect Prime Minister Erdogan to de-escalate the situation, in the spirit of European values, and to seek a constructive exchange and peaceful dialogue," Westerwelle said in a statement.Erdogan, though, has increasingly accused foreign forces, international media and market speculators of stoking conflict and trying to undermine the economy of the only largely Muslim NATO state.
Turkish markets stabilized slightly on Wednesday, gaining 2.2 percent, having been hit by a sharp sell-off sparked by the protests. Stocks have fallen by more than 20 percent since 31 May.Erdogan has also exerted strong pressure on the media, seven newspapers last week carrying the identical headline citing Erdogan as saying he, not the protesters, guaranteed democracy.Turkey's broadcasting authority announced on Wednesday it was fining four television channels over their coverage of the protests on the grounds of inciting violence, media reports said. It was not clear how much they would be fined.
FIERCE CLASHES
The night had brought some of the worst clashes since the troubles began. Police fired tear gas into thousands of people gathered on the square, including people in office clothes who had gathered after work, some with families with children.The crowd scattered into narrow streets around, leaving a hard core of protesters to return, lighting bonfires and stoning water cannon. Police then launched tear gas attacks again, the cycle repeating itself until numbers dwindled."We will continue our measures in an unremitting manner, whether day or night, until marginal elements are cleared and the square is open to the people," Istanbul Governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu declared on television on Tuesday night.Police were less in evidence by the morning and it was not clear if protesters would return in the course of the day, as they have previously.
A fierce crackdown on initial protests against planned redevelopment of Gezi Park, a leafy corner of Taksim, triggered the wider protests, drawing in a broad alliance of secularists, nationalists, professional workers, unionists and students - some of whom would never before have considered sharing a political platform.
Erdogan argues that the broader mass of people are at best the unwitting tools of political extremists and terrorists and points to his 50 percent vote in the last of three successive electoral victories for his political authority.His critics, some of whom who say conservative religious elements have won out over centrist reformers in his AK Party, accuse him an increasingly authoritarian conduct and of inflaming the crisis with unyielding talk.Some charge that his politics are too often shaped by a religious agenda, with the introduction of alcohol restrictions and comments suggesting he favors a traditionalist role for women.For his part, Erdogan has complained of the contempt he feels secularist leaders have shown in the past for religious sentiments, excluding women with head scarves from universities. He has accused protesters of attacking women in headscarves and of desecrating mosques by bringing in beer."There's no room for dialogue when there's ongoing violence," said Mucella Yapici of the Taksim Solidarity Platform, a core group behind the Gezi Park campaign.
ERDOGAN'S RISE
Three people have died in the unrest and Turkey's Medical Association said that, as of late on Monday, almost 5,000 people had been sought hospital treatment since the unrest began.Gezi Park has been turned into a ramshackle settlement of tents by leftists, environmentalists, liberals, students and professionals who see a plan to develop one of the few green spaces in Istanbul as symptomatic of an overbearing government.
Erdogan swept to power in 2002 after forging his AK Party from an alliance of centrist reformers and nationalists as well as remnants of Islamist parties banned in the past by secular authorities. Denying any plans to subvert Turkey's secular order, he set about deep-reaching social reforms.He broke the political power of an army that had toppled four governments over four decades, including Turkey's first Islamist-led government with which he was associated. He also opened talks with the European Union, introduced some social reforms and sought to negotiate an end to a long-running Kurdish rebellion.What is notably absent during this crisis is the speculation of a military coup that has in the past accompanied social unrest - some tribute to Erdogan's reforms. Army power is broken. Nor though does there seem to be any political alternative to Erdogan, who faces a weak opposition in parliament and fragmented groups on the streets.
(Additional reporting by Can Sezer, Ayla Jean Yackley in Istanbul, Parisa Hafezi, Humeyra Pamuk in Ankara and Jeff Mason in Washington; Writing by Ralph Boulton; Editing by Jon Boyle)

Syria rebels kill 60 Shiites; missiles hit Lebanon

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels have attacked a village in the country's east, killing dozens of local Shiites, activists said Wednesday, highlighting the increasingly sectarian nature of Syria's more than two-year-old conflict. A Syrian government official denounced the attack, saying it was a "massacre" of civilians.In another escalation, a Syrian government helicopter on Wednesday fired three missiles on a border town in Lebanon, lightly wounding one person. At least one of the missiles struck the center of Arsal, according to Lebanese security officials and residents.The Arsal attack is the latest incident of Lebanon being pulled into the war next door. Scores of rebels and civilians who fled from the Syrian western town of Qusair last week in the last days of a government military offensive there have taken refuge in Arsal.The town is predominantly Sunni Muslim, and support for the Syrian rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad runs high.Milhem Hojeiri, a resident, said shrapnel from one of the missiles lightly wounded a schoolteacher in Arsal. He said the town's population has almost doubled in the past two years because of refugees and rebels from Syria who have taken shelter there."There is a lot of fear here, the town is fast becoming a casualty of the war in Syria," he said.The Lebanese officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, did not provide more details on the Arsal attack.Meanwhile, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 60 people, mostly Shiite fighters but also ordinary villagers, were killed on Tuesday in the Syrian village of Hatla in the oil-rich province of Deir el-Zour that borders Iraq.It was the latest high casualty incident in Syria's conflict, which has killed more than 80,000 people so far, according to the U.N.Thousands of rebels took part in the attack and at least 10 of them were killed in the fighting, said the Observatory.
In Damascus, a government official said the rebels "carried out a massacre against villagers in which older people and children were killed." The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.The fighting in Deir el-Zour came a week after Syrian troops, backed by Lebanon's militant Shiite Hezbollah group, captured the strategic town of Qusair near the Lebanese border after nearly three weeks of fierce battles that killed dozens of troops, rebels and Hezbollah members.
Hezbollah's involvement in the Qusair battle underlined the group's commitment in support of Assad's regime and edged the civil war in Syria closer to a regional sectarian conflict pitting the Middle East's Iranian-backed Shiite axis against Sunnis.Most of the armed rebels in Syria are from the country's Sunni majority, while Assad has retained core support among the minorities, including his own Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, along with Christians and Shiites.An activist based in Deir el-Zour said the rebel attack was in retaliation for an attack Monday by Shiites from Hatla that killed four rebels.Thaer al-Deiry, who identified himself only by his nickname for fear of government retaliation, said via Skype that rebels gathered and launched a counter attack Tuesday. He said some 150 Shiites from the village fled across the Euphrates River to the government-held village of Jafra."The situation in the village is quiet and the Free Syrian Army is in full control," al-Deiry said, referring to the rebels. He added that the village has been under opposition control for more than a year but some of its Shiite residents recently started collecting arms apparently to fight along government troops.Also Wednesday, the Observatory reported heavy clashes in the central city of Homs, mostly in the neighborhood of Wadi Sayeh. The fighting appeared to be an attempt by government forces to separate two main rebel-held areas in the city, Khaldiyeh and the center of Homs.Building on its victory in Qusair, the Syrian military has shifted its attention to try to clear rebel-held areas in Homs, a linchpin area linking Damascus with regime strongholds on the Mediterranean coast, and the northern city of Aleppo.___Associated Press writer Albert Aji contributed to this report from Damascus, Syria.

06/11/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Pope talks to CLAR about a “gay lobby” and corruption in the Vatican

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The leaders of the Conference of Latin American Religious (CLAR) refer to an audience in which Francis spoke of the existence of a “gay lobby” in the Roman Curia. Lombardi issued no statement on the matter, saying the meeting was of a private nature

ANDREA TORNIELLI vatican city In the Curia…there are holy people,” but there is also "a current of corruption", Pope Francis allegedly told the leadership of the Latin American Conference of Religious (CLAR) in a private audience in the Apostolic Palace library on 6 June. A Chilean website published a partial account of the conversation.According to the Latin American religious, the Pope also talked about a “gay lobby” existing in the Vatican: “The "gay lobby" is mentioned, and it is true, it is there... We need to see what we can do...,” the Pope was quoted saying. The director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi said he had “no statement to make on the proceedings or on the content of the conversation” the content of which was not therefore recorded or transcribed.According to CLAR’s leaders, Francis apparently encouraged the Conference’s members to “keep moving forward” and not be afraid to take risks by approaching the poor and new emerging figures across the continent. “Perhaps even a letter of the Congregation for the Doctrine (of the Faith) will arrive for you, telling you that you said such or such thing... But do not worry. Explain whatever you have to explain, but move forward... Open the doors, do something there where life calls for it. I would rather have a Church that makes mistakes for doing something than one that gets sick for being closed up...,” the Pope was quoted saying.According to CLAR, the Pope also spoke about his election: “I did not lose my peace [of mind - no perdí la paz] at any moment, you know? And this is not from myself, I am of the kind that gets worried, that gets upset... But I did not lose my peace at any moment. This confirms to me that this comes from God...”About his gestures and his decision to live in St. Martha’s House, Francis apparently said: “I do it because I felt this was what the Lord wanted. But these gestures are not mine, there is Someone else here...”“I came [to Rome] only with the necessary clothes, I washed them at night, and suddenly this... And I did not have any chance! In the London betting houses I was in 44th place, look at that, the one who bet on me won a lot, of course...! This does not come from me...”After reiterating that the death of a homeless person does not make headlines as a 10-point drop in the stock markets, he mentioned abortion: It is necessary to go to the causes, to the roots. “Abortion is bad, but that is clear. But behind the approval of this law, what interests are behind it... they are at times the conditions posed by the great organizations to support with money, you know that? It is necessary to go to the causes, we cannot remain only in the symptoms. Do not be afraid to denounce... you will suffer, you will have problems, but do not be afraid to denounce, that is the prophecy of religious life...,” the Pope was quoted saying.According to the transcript of the conversation, Francis then apparently shared two “concerns” with CLAR’s religious. “One is the Pelagian current that there is in the Church at this moment. There are some restorationist groups. I know some, it fell upon me to receive them in Buenos Aires. And one feels as if one goes back 60 years! Before the Council... One feels in 1940...” The Pope is then said to have illustrated this, remarking: “when I was elected, I received a letter from one of these groups, and they said: "Your Holiness, we offer you this spiritual treasure: 3,525 rosaries." Why don't they say, 'we pray for you, we ask...', but this thing of counting...”
 
This reference to the Pelagianism of the more traditionalist currents seems to echo the words which the then cardinal Joseph Ratzinger used during the Spiritual Exercises of 1986 (in the book “Guardare Cristo: esempi di fede, speranza e carità” [Looking at Christ: Examples of faith, hope and charity]; published by Jaka Book): “the other face of the same vice is the Pelagianism of the pious. They do not want forgiveness and in general they do not want any real gift from God either. They just want to be in order. They don’t want hope they just want security. Their aim is to gain the right to salvation through a strict practice of religious exercises, through prayers and action. What they lack is humility which is essential in order to love; the humility to receive gifts not just because we deserve it or because of how we act…”Francis’ second concern was to do with “a Gnostic current.”  “Those Pantheisms... Both are elite currents, but this one is of a more educated elite... I heard of a superior general that prompted the sisters of her congregation to not pray in the morning, but to spiritually bathe in the cosmos, things like that... They concern me because they ignore the incarnation! And the Son of God became our flesh, the Word was made flesh, and in Latin America we have flesh abundantly [de tirar al techo]! What happens to the poor, their pains, this is our flesh...”The Pope alluded to the holiness of a number of Curia members, to the existence of a “stream of corruption” and to the existence of a "gay lobby" in the Vatican – a subject which had been discussed in cardinals’ congregations before the last conclave and could have been included in the Commission of Cardinals’ famous report on the Vatileaks case. Francis also confirmed that “the reform of the Roman Curia is something that almost all Cardinals asked for in the Congregations preceding the Conclave. I also asked for it.”“I cannot promote the reform myself, these matters of administration... I am very disorganized, I have never been good at this. But the cardinals of the Commission (made up of 8 cardinals selected for the task, Ed.) will move it forward. Pray for me... that I make mistakes the least possible...,” the Pope said, according to CLAR.Francis then spoke about the 5th General Conference of the Latin American Episcopate, held in the Marian shrine of Aparecida, Brazil, in 2007 (the Pope is due to visit the shrine when he goes to Brazil for the World Youth Day this summer): “What Aparecida had that was special was that it was not celebrated in a hotel, nor in a retreat house... it was celebrated in a Marian shrine. During the week, we celebrated the Eucharist and there were some 250 people, because it was a regular workday. But on the weekends, it was full....! The people of God joined the Bishops, asking for the Holy Spirit…” The Pope then quoted the Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, Joao Braz de Aviz who was one of Brazil’s bishops at the time: “I saw the Prefect, João who went out with his mitre, and people got close to him, and they brought the children near, and he greeted them, and hugged them like this... This same bishop then voted (on the content of the final document produced during the meeting, Ed.) He could not have voted the same way as if he had been in a hotel!”“Enjoy this moment that we live in the Congregation for Consecrated Life... It is a moment of sunshine... Enjoy. The Prefect [Cardinal Aviz] is good. And the Secretary [Abp. Rodríguez Carballo, OFM], that was "lobbied" by you! No, really, being the president of USG [Union of Superiors General], the logical thing was that it would be him!” the Pope added, referring to Franciscan leader Fr. Jose Rodriguez Carballo, who was recently appointed archbishop and as the dicastery’s number two man.Francis encouraged CLAR’s  religious to converse with bishops, with bishops’ conferences and with CELAM (the Latin American Episcopal Conference). Finally, he expressed his concern about the fact that “there are religious congregations, very, very small groups; a few people, [who tend to be] very old...” which “don’t have vocations, that I know, [whether] the Holy Spirit doesn't want them to continue, maybe they've finished their mission in the church, I don't know.... But there they are, clinging to their buildings, clinging to money.... I don't know why this happens, I don't know how to read it. But I ask you to be worried about these groups... The handling of money... is something that needs to be reflected on.”

German top court 'not interested' in saving euro

Today @ 14:27 JUNE 12,13
"Otherwise the end alone would justify the means," Andreas Vosskuhle, the presiding judge, noted.
In the run-up to the hearing, ECB chief Mario Draghi had called his bank's bond-buying programme "the most successful monetary policy undertaken in recent time."It recently bought some €1.1 billion of troubled bonds, helping Italy and Spain to keep their heads above the water.The plaintiffs - a group which has so far challenged almost every euro-rescue step taken by Germany - also asked the Karlsruhe-based court to look at the ECB's Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) scheme.Under the OMT, the bank is to buy "unlimited" bonds from troubled euro-countries, provided they sign up to strict reforms.In this respect, the programme is different to the other bond-buying scheme, which comes with no strings attached on reform.OMT has never been activated.But it's very announcement in August last year helped calm markets and also lowered borrowing costs in Italy and Spain.The plaintiffs, backed by the Bundesbank - the German central bank - say it would burden the German taxpayer with undemocratic, non-transparent financial risks to the tune of several billion euros and that it is therefore unconstitutional.The plaintiffs also say the scheme is illegal under EU law, because the ECB is not allowed to fund governments directly.The German court has no clear jurisdiction over the ECB, with judges still making up their minds if they can actually rule on this case or not.
Another option is to refer the case to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg or to rule only on those parts of the complaint that affect the German legal system.Judges on Tuesday quizzed ECB board member Joerg Asmussen for over one hour, with questions on: Who is to decide how many bonds are to be bought? What is the "acceptable" price? Would the ECB also lose money on bonds if a country goes through a Greek-type debt restructuring? Asmussen said the exact rules of the OMT scheme are "ready to be published within days."He predicted there would be no other debt restructurings as in Greece.He also said ECB would only buy bonds with a maturity of up to three years, imposing a time limit on the anti-crisis programme."The ECB and its decision-makers are aware of the limits of its monetary policy mandate. Our measures are aimed at ... preventing an unwanted break-up of the euro. It is not allowed to, is not able to and does not want to replace the actions of democratically elected governments," Asmussen noted.
His former university colleague, Jens Weidmann, now head of the Bundesbank, disagreed.Weidmann was the only one to vote against the OMT scheme last year, when the ECB board first announced it."I see considerable problems with the bond-buying programmes and other measures of the euro-system, which blur the line between European monetary policy and financial policies of individual member states," Weidmann told the court.Despite their policy differences, Asmussen and Weidmann sat next to each other in court and the presiding judge even mixed up who is who at one point.The hearing continues on Wednesday, but a verdict is not expected before autumn.

EU to slap ban on online blocking

Today @ 09:37 JUNE 12,13
Speaking with EUobserver on Tuesday (11 June) following an internal debate among commissioners, an EU official indicated that the proposal would include a ban on blocking and throttling. Bandwidth throttling, where a network provider deliberately slows down the service on certain websites, has been identified as the most common restriction to service.However, it is likely that exemptions will be included to differentiation based on speed and volume of online traffic.The proposals, which will form part of an overhaul to the bloc's regulation on the digital telecoms sector, are expected to be published by digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes in late July."What matters is that people aren't stopped from accessing the content they want and that we maximise network investment so that everything works better because of higher speeds," the official said.
The Netherlands and Slovenia are currently the only EU countries with national laws on net neutrality.Net neutrality campaigners argue that Internet service providers and governments should treat data equally and not discriminate against or restrict access to websites and online services.Last week, 20 Internet entrepreneurs signed an open letter calling on EU lawmakers to put in place "safeguards to curb the tendencies of access operators to act as gatekeepers of the Internet."They said the practice is "harmful to the fundamental rights of users, to new and existing companies counting on the global reach of the Internet to launch and grow their businesses and to innovation and the economy in general."Meanwhile, evidence collected in 2012 by Berec, the pan-European group of national Internet service providers, found that around one in five fixed lines and over one in three mobile users had restricted services.For their part, MEPs are likely to support net neutrality rules, having twice adopted non-legislative resolutions calling on the commission to act.Speaking with this website, Marietje Schaake, a Dutch liberal MEP and prominent digital rights campaigner, welcomed the proposed."I'm happy that blocking and throttling will be banned. This practice hurts access to people's information, is anti-competitive and limits an open internet," she said
But she also voiced caution noting that "as ever the the devil will be in the detail", adding that "the gap between relying on transparency and competition as the commission has done in the past and rules that are legally binding is large. I really hope the Commission will take this important step."

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

MEGA FORIDA MOSQUITOS

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

Mega Mosquito ‘Gallinippers’ Now Appearing In Florida

Posted: June 10, 2013
Mega Mosquito ‘Gallinippers’ Now Appearing In Florida
Mega mosquitoes, the so-called gallinippers, have now arrived in central and south Florida. The huge biting insects — up to twenty times the size of regular mosquitoes — earned the alternate nickname of gallinipper because local legend says that they take a gallon of blood when they bite.Ouch. As The Inquisitr previously reported, Florida authorities knew that the big guys were coming. They first appeared in the state in 2012, but after this wet winter, they’re expected to be much worse in 2013.The recent additional rain from Tropical Storm Andrea only made matters worse. Seminole County officials warned that they’ve already spotted the monster mega mosquitoes there.Seminole County Mosquito Control director Kelly Deutsch said that Andrea’s rains will probably cause a spike in all mosquito species, including gallinippers.However, the big gals aren’t all bad. (Only the female mosquitoes bite. You knew that, right?) Their aggression isn’t appreciated when they’re biting through human clothing, but it’s actually helpful when they’re destroying other mosquito species’ larvae.And, unlike some other mosquito species, the mega mosquitoes aren’t known to carry any diseases like West Nile virus that can harm humans.The size of this summer’s gallinipper invasion is still an open question, but you can protect yourself with an effective repellent that contains DEET, as well as wearing clothing that covers the arms and legs.In a colorful warning broadcast in March, a local Florida news station WPBF posted a video report on the gallinipper, including a telling comment from Palm Beach County Mosquito Control spokesman Gary Goode. That cheerful individual joked that the giant biting insect was so huge that when it lands on you, “it really lets you know…it practically breaks your arm.”Ouch. Here in Louisiana, despite all the rain, I haven’t seen much yet, but we’ve got very aggressive mosquito control authorities.Post a comment and tell us all about it if you’ve encountered the gallinipper, south and central Florida’s so-called mega mosquito.[mosquito photo by Henrik Larsson via Shutterstock]

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