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Thursday, October 03, 2013

A Global Slaughter of Christians

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come (2 Tim 3:1)


If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also (John 15:18-25)

Help is NOT on the way: Christian Egyptians still under attack
Violence specifically targeting Christians in Egypt has reached a level not seen for many centuries, says Todd Daniels with International Christian Concern. “There continues to be issues of attacks on property owned by Christians,” says Daniels, and now reports of kidnappings of children are coming from the country. 

20 Obama Quotes About Islam Contrasted With 20 Obama Quotes About Christianity
You are about to read some of the most shocking quotes that Barack Obama has ever uttered in public. A few of these have been widely circulated, but most of them are very obscure. Even though he claims to be a Christian, throughout his political career Obama has repeatedly attacked traditional Biblical Christianity and he has a very long history of anti-Christian actions.  

A Global Slaughter of Christians, but America’s Churches Stay Silent
Christians in the Middle East and Africa are being slaughtered, tortured, raped, kidnapped, beheaded, and forced to flee the birthplace of Christianity. One would think this horror might be consuming the pulpits and pews of American churches. Not so. The silence has been nearly deafening.  


A days ration of food for a days wages (Rev 6:5-6)...

U.S. deadlock hits dollar, weakens shares
World stock markets began to shake on Wednesday in response to a U.S. government shutdown that shows no signs of ending soon, also sending the dollar to a one-month low against the yen. 

US shutdown: Barack Obama warns of default danger
US President Barack Obama has warned that Wall Street should be concerned that a conservative faction of Republicans is willing to allow the country to default on its debt.

How Long Do We Have Before Seeing Hyperinflation? One Expert’s Answer May Frighten You
That layering, he said, or the “recipe” for hyperinflation, is: 1) Economic Implosion 2) Collapse in tax revenues 3) Raise taxes 4) Lenders unwilling 5) Austerity or print Beck seemed shocked by the list, saying all five have occurred.  


And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath... (Acts 2:19)

It's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's a shelf cloud
Unless you were in a windowless room, it was nearly impossible to miss the low, ominous, gray cloud gliding slowly over Bozeman Monday morning. Known as a shelf cloud, the formation is not unusual, National Weather Service meteorologist Nick Langlieb said. However, it is unusual for a shelf cloud to float so low to the ground. “It looked more ominous because it wasn't a couple thousand feet in the air,” he added.

Bizarre, Giant Tubular Cloud Rolling Across the Sea
Winds from the storm "roll" the cloud parallel to the horizon, creating an effect that looks much like a horizontal tornado. Unlike shelf clouds, rolls clouds are completely detached from the bulk of the storm.  

CME IMPACT, GEOMAGNETIC STORM
The storm has subsided now, but it could flare up again. NOAA forecasters estimate a 50% chance of more polar geomagnetic storms as Earth passes through the wake of the CME on Oct. 3rd.  

Strange cloud formation grabs Houston's attention as storms roll in
Weather machines aren't affected by the shutdown. Already pictures of menacing looking clouds are making the rounds on social media. The National Weather Service warns the storm could bring 2-3 inches of rain and has just released a flood advisories for the area. The wet weather should stick around until early afternoon.


And great earthquakes shall be in divers places... (Luke 21:11)

Very strong earthquake M 6.7 off shore Kamchatka
A very strong and deep earthquake M 6.7 hit off shore Kamchatka (Sea of Okhotsk) on October 1, 2013 at 03:38 UTC. Both USGS and EMSC report same magnitude at depth of about 570 km.  

A new submarine eruption started on September 28, 2013 NW of the island Jebel Zubair in the Red Sea. The ongoing eruption is SW of the 2011-12 eruption which created a new volcanic island there

Oklahoma Earthquake Today 2013 Strikes Near Edmond
An Oklahoma earthquake today 2013 has struck near Edmond. The Oklahoma earthquake today October 1, 2013 struck outside Oklahoma City. Damage assessment is pending.  

Weak rocks may raise quake risk in New Madrid zone
Although its been a little more than 200 years since the last big one hit, the New Madrid Seismic Zone is still a hot spot for earthquakes. New research conducted by U.S. Geological Survey scientists shows why the zone is unique and may continue to pose a higher earthquake risk than adjacent areas in the central United States.

Ecuador Earthquake Today 2013: 5.2 Terremoto Strikes Off Coast
An Ecuador earthquake today 2013 has just struck off the coast of the country. A 5.2 Ecuador earthquake today October 1, 2013 began south of Costa Rica, Mexico and Panama. Damage assessment is pending. Officials tell news that a 5.2 magnitude Ecuador earthquake today struck just after 6:57 PM local time. The quake had a nominal depth. USGS indicates to news that the quake started only four miles below sea level. As a result the quake could be felt to the east on land. 

Very strong earthquake M 6.7 off shore Kamchatka
very strong and deep earthquake M 6.7 hit off shore Kamchatka (Sea of Okhotsk) on October 1, 2013 at 03:38 UTC. Both USGS and EMSC report same magnitude at depth of about 570 km. Epicenter was located at sea, 316 km (196 miles) NW of Ozernovskiy and 394 km (245 miles) W of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia. There are no people living within 100 km radius. 

Intense earthquake swarm offshore North Iceland - 1 000 quakes in 6 days
An intense earthquake swarm has been going on offshore North Iceland, 10 km NW of Gjögurtá, since September 25, 2013. This morning, 2 earthquakes reaching magnitude 3 and 3.2 occurred at 06:14 and 07:41 UTC. Roughly 1 000 earthquakes have been recorded by Icelandic Meteorological Office in last 6 days (IMO). 

Earthquake hits Sikkim again, tremor felt in Darjeeling
Earthquake measuring 5.0 on Richter Scale hit Sikkim on Thursday, Oct 3. Tremors also were felt in Darjeeling, West Bengal. All schools and colleges have been closed for precaution. The quake hit the hill-state around 11:45 am. Locals from Gangtok, capital of Sikkim, informed that some buildings had developed cracks. People came out of their houses,  


even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased (Daniel 12:4)

Seeing light in a new light - Harvard-MIT researchers created new form of matter
Challenging the conventional wisdom about light researchers bind photons together to form molecules. As a result, a never before seen form of matter, one that was only theorized about, was created.


I will be like the most high... (Isaiah 14:13-14) {Satan seeks to be like God including Omniscience and Omnipresence}

NSA: Surveillance court says no upper limit on phone records collection
A U.S. surveillance court has given the National Security Agency no limit on the number of U.S. telephone records it collects in the name of fighting terrorism, the NSA director said Thursday. The NSA intends to collect all U.S. telephone records and put them in a searchable “lock box” in the interest of national security, General Keith Alexander, the NSA’s director, told U.S. senators. 

Qaeda Plot Leak Has Undermined U.S. Intelligence
As the nation’s spy agencies assess the fallout from disclosures about their surveillance programs, some government analysts and senior officials have made a startling finding: the impact of a leaked terrorist plot by Al Qaeda in August has caused more immediate damage to American counterterrorism efforts than the thousands of classified documents disclosed by Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor

Va. starting to develop a master identity database
Using Department of Motor Vehicles records as its core, the state government is quietly developing a master identity database of Virginia residents for use by state agencies. The state enterprise record - the master electronic ID database - would help agencies ferret out fraud and help residents do business electronically with the state more easily, officials said.  

'The system is down': Obamacare glitches go public, reasons unclear
Blank boxes where security questions are supposed to appear. Pleas to "be patient." Error messages galore. Notices that "the system is busy right now." Web pages timing out before they load. Garbled lines of text riddled with stray question marks. Technology experts and government officials were stumped about the reasons for the computer glitches plaguing the Obama administration's launch of new health insurance exchanges.  

'Virtual borders' scheme to track every non-EU citizen
The European Commission wants to fingerprint anyone who enters the EU under its "smart borders" proposal, but critics say it is too costly, disproportionate, and risks violating numerous privacy rights. The commission says the system is necessary to update border control checks, reduce waiting times, and help border guards...by pooling the personal details of any non-EU citizen over the age of 12 into a database.


and the third part of the sea became blood; And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died (Rev 8:8-9; Zeph 1:3; Ezekiel 38:20; Hosea 4:1-3)

Another Radioactive Spill Reported At Fukushima Nuclear Plant
The latest setbacks include another four tons of radioactive water being spilled into the soil on Tuesday, by workers, high levels of radiation just above the ground near other tanks, three units for injecting nitrogen into the damaged reactors shut down due to a worker mishandling the equipment, TEPCO 'finds crack' in Fukushima’s water tank after huge sea leak, and another leaking tank at Fukushima. 

Water 6,700 times more radioactive than legal limit spills from Fukushima
Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, said the water which spilled from the storage tanks had radiation readings as high as 200,000 becquerels per liter -- almost 6,700 times higher than the legal limit of 30 becquerels. 


Violence as in the days of Noah (Matthew 24:37-38; Gen. 6:11-12)

Torture 'widespread' in Libyan jails - UN report
Torture and ill-treatment, sometimes resulting in death, is "widespread" in Libyan jails, a new UN report says. The report says torture is most frequent used "immediately after arrest and during the first days of interrogation". The UN estimates about 8,000 people are still being held in relation to the 2011 conflict which ended in the overthrow of Col Gaddafi.

UN: Nearly 1,000 Iraqis Killed in September
The U.N. mission in Iraq said Tuesday that 979 people died in September, most civilians caught up in the violence by insurgents led by al-Qaida in Iraq who appear determined to rekindle the tensions between Sunnis and Shiites that nearly pushed the country to the brink of civil war in 2006-2007.

Iranian cyber warfare commander shot dead in suspected assassination
The head of Iran’s cyber warfare programme has been shot dead, triggering further accusations that outside powers are carrying out targeted assassinations of key figures in the country’s security apparatus.


And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness (2Thess 2:11-12)

Russian military: 'Space troops not yet ready to fight aliens’
In a surprising move, an apparently serious journalist raised this question of extraterrestrial security during a media conference at the Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control Center near Moscow, Russia’s main satellite control center. “So far we are not capable of that. We are unfortunately not ready to fight extraterrestrial civilizations,” the center’s deputy chief Sergey Berezhnoy explained.  


Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes And clever in their own sight! (Isaiah 5:20-21)

Nathan, born Nancy, Verhelst, 44, was given legal euthanasia, most likely by lethal injection, on the grounds of "unbearable psychological suffering" on Monday afternoon. Wim Distelmans, a cancer specialist who carried out the euthanasia, is the same doctor who late last year gave lethal injections to congenitally deaf twins who were frightened they were also going blind. 

Campus cop stops student from handing out Constitutions … ON CONSTITUTION DAY
A police officer at Modesto Junior College in California told a patriotic libertarian student that it was against college rules for him to hand out copies of the U.S. Constitution on campus.


Mystery Babylon, the religion that rides the beast (Rev 17:3-18)

Pope Francis to 'rip up and rewrite' Vatican constitution
"Cardinal Maradiaga is hinting that the Pope is asking the fundamental question: What can be decided in Rome and what at local level? How can the Roman Curia serve bishops instead of being an office of censure and control?” 

Pope Francis stirs debate yet again with interview with an atheist Italian journalist
Pope Francis cranked up his charm offensive on the world outside the Vatican on Tuesday, saying in the second widely shared media interview in two weeks that each person “must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them” and calling efforts to convert people to Christianity “solemn nonsense.” 

Pope says focus on morality can obscure Gospel message
In a lengthy and wide-ranging interview with one of his Jesuit confreres, Pope Francis spoke with characteristic frankness about the perils of overemphasizing Catholic teaching on sexual and medical ethics; the reasons for his deliberate and consultative governing style; and his highest priority for the Church today. 


Pope Francis assures atheists: You don’t have to believe in God to go to heaven
In comments likely to enhance his progressive reputation, Pope Francis has written a long, open letter to the founder of La Repubblica newspaper, Eugenio Scalfari, stating that non-believers would be forgiven by God if they followed their consciences. Responding to a list of questions published in the paper by Mr Scalfari, who is not a Roman Catholic, Francis wrote: “You ask me if the God of the Christians forgives those who don’t believe and who don’t seek the faith. I start by saying – and this is the fundamental thing – that God’s mercy has no limits if you go to him with a sincere and contrite heart. The issue for those who do not believe in God is to obey their conscience. 


Pope needs to read Bible: 
Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14;6

that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.  For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame."  For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. For "whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved." Romans 10:9-13

Pope will be held accountable:  
“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea."  Mark 9:42 


Building vocabulary 

Controlled Opposition:  A controlled opposition is a protest movement that is actually being led by government agents. Nearly all governments in history have employed this technique to trick and subdue their adversaries. Notably Vladimir Lenin who said ''The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves."


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Hate what is evil, cling to what is good.
Romans 12:9

Why Are Millions Of Fish Suddenly Dying In Mass Death Events All Over The Planet?

Millions upon millions of fish are suddenly dying in mass death events all over the world, and nobody seems to know why it is happening.  In many of the news reports that are linked to below, locals are quoted as saying that they have never seen anything like this before.  So is there a connection between all of the fish deaths that are now occurring all over the planet?  If there is a connection, is there anything that we can do to stop the fish die-off?  Sadly, because the big mainstream news networks in the United States have been virtually silent about this phenomenon, most Americans have absolutely no idea that it is happening.  Millions of fish are dying in mass death events every single month and most of the public is totally clueless.
Please share the list posted below with as many people as you can.  This list was originally started by Frank DiMora, but I have edited it and expanded it.  If there were just three or four items on this list, you could dismiss these news stories as coincidences, but taken together this list really is quite startling…
-July 18, 2013: 20 acres of fish ponds full of dead fish in Shandong, China
-July 18, 2013: Hundreds of dead Stingrays wash ashore in Veracruz, Mexico
-July 18, 2013: 10,000 lbs of dead fish found in a lake in Nanjing, China
-July 18, 2013: Thousands of fish dead from “lack of rain” in Sugar Lake, Missouri
-July 18, 2013: Large numbers of fish washing up on the shores of Lake Michigan
-July 19, 2013: 2,000 dead fish found in a lake in Vollsmose, Denmark
-July 19, 2013: Hundreds of fish turning up dead in Holter Lake, Montana
-July 19, 2013: THOUSANDS OF TONS of fish have died in Lake Tondano, Indonesia
-July 20, 2013: 3,000 fish found dead in a creek in Madison County, Ohio
-July 21, 2013: Hundreds of fish found dead in a creek in Laille, France
-July 22, 2013: Hundreds of dead fish found in Lake George, Massachusetts
-July 22, 2013: Large fish kill at Grand Lake in St. Marys, Ohio
-July 23, 2013: Hundreds of dead fish in a park pond in Youngstown, Ohio
-July 24, 2013: Massive fish kill washes up in a lagoon in Venice, Italy
-July 24, 2013: Thousands of dead fish in Lake Bulwell causes shock in Nottingham, England
-July 24, 2013: 30,000 fish dying PER DAY in fish farms in Ratchaburi Province, Thailand
-July 24, 2013: Masses of dead fish found in River Lea in England
-July 24, 2013: Hundreds of dead fish found in Provo River, Utah
-July 25, 2013: Hundreds of fish found dead in a park pond in Birmingham, England
-July 26, 2013: Hundreds of thousands of fish dying from “red tide” in South Korea
-July 26, 2013: Thousands of dead fish found floating in River Dender, Ath, Belgium
-July 26, 2013: Mass fish die-off in a river in Moscow, Russia
-July 26, 2013: 25,000 dead fish “is a mystery” in Pittville Lake in Gloucestershire, England
-July 26, 2013: 20,000 fish die along a 5 mile stretch of river in Jiangshan, China
-July 27, 2013: 10,000 dead fish found in Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania
-July 27, 2013: Mass death of fish “is a mystery” in a river in Skane, Sweden
-July 27, 2013: Large fish kill in the Bahlui river, “cause unknown” in Romania
-July 28, 2013: 1100 King Salmon found dead in a river in Petersburg, Alaska
-July 29, 2013: Hundreds of dead fish wash ashore “due to pollution” on beach in Veracruz, Mexico
-July 29, 2013: 7 TONS of dead fish recovered from the Keelung river in Taiwan
-July 29, 2013: Thousands of fish die “due to heat and storms” in Handsworth Park, Birmingham, England
-July 31, 2013: 3 TONS of fish die due to “lack of oxygen” in a river in Pilsen, Czech Republic
-August 2, 2013: Thousands of fish dying all over Alaska
-August 6, 2013: Up to 1000 lbs of dead fish washed ashore in Ylane, Finland
-August 6, 2013: 840 dead Salmon found in a creek in Port Coquitlam, Canada
-August 6, 2013: Hundreds of dead fish lining the shore of a pond in Toronto, Canada
-August 6, 2013: 100,000 fish die in the Arkansas River
-August 7, 2013: Thousands of dead fish found floating in a river in Hangzhou, China
-August 8, 2013: Tons of fish washed up on the shores of Karachi, Pakistan
-August 8, 2013: Tens of thousands of fish dying in lakes and rivers all over the U.K.
And remember, the list compiled above represents less than a one month period.  The truth is that we have been seeing massive fish die-offs all over the globe month after month.


Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Antibiotic Resistance

CDC Report

As shown in this chart provided by the Centers for Disease Control, antibiotic resistance does not develop through the evolution of new kinds of organisms; rather it is through the selective survival of microbes that already possess the “work-around” that enables them to survive assault by antibiotics to which they are exposed. This process illustrates natural selection, not molecules-to-man type evolution. Image: Centers for Disease Control, www.cdc.gov


Does Deadly Antibiotic Resistance Mean Evolution Wins?
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2013/09/23/antibiotic-resistance-mean-evolution-wins?utm_source=answers-weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=main-question&utm_campaign=aw09282013

Monday, September 30, 2013

Capturing the next generation

The Coming Common Core Disaster
The new national education standards adopted by 45 States and the District of Columbia and now slipping into America’s schools are a collectivist’s dream. Called Common Core, it is an attempt to create a Federally controlled education system designed to turn children into mind-numbed drones devoid of imagination and inculcated with a progressive culture of redistributionist economics, social justice, the mainstreaming of perverted lifestyles, secular humanism and radical environmentalism. 

‘A Little 1940s Germany’: Parents Livid After Middle Schoolers Watch Video of Celebrities Who ‘Pledge’ Support for Obama — and Ask Viewers to Do Likewise
The district wouldn’t disclose whose idea it was to show the “I Pledge” video to students, KMSP reports, but people on the streets weren’t thrilled by offering the video’s message to middle schoolers. “It looks a little 1940s Germany,” says one interviewee, who agrees that its essentially propaganda. Another adds, “It doesn’t seem right.”


Propoganda 

NBC Set To Spend The Week As Obama’s Personal Propaganda Machine
If you tune in to NBC News this week, prepare to be dazzled by wall-to-wall Obamacare gush coverage. The network announced Friday that it has scheduled a special series of programs and reports to begin this week to “help Americans get the most out of the Affordable Care Act.” 

Saturday Night Live 'Mocks' Obamacare in Hilarious Skit
Saturday Night Live turned the tables on President Barack Obama and devoted an entire skit last night aimed at mocking his signature healthcare law. The roughly seven-minute skit depicted an actor playing the president delivering a speech dedicated to showcasing the supposed benefits of the healthcare law. However, as individuals were called up one-by-one to testify in favor of Obamacare, they instead delivered some surprising news. 

Might seem great on surface, but is part of propaganda week by mainstream media.   Follows the pattern of getting people to make a joke out of criticism of a serious matter.  Follows same pattern of getting people to accept homosexuality by first mocking it and making jokes about it.

US govt shutdown likely over Obamacare
The US government is on the brink of shutting down after the House of Representatives approved a Republican bill seeking to delay President Barack Obama's health care law. Congress now has less than 48 hours to strike a deal that keeps the government open, but the ping-ponging of legislation is making that unlikely.  

House delays Obamacare as shutdown nears
House Republicans forced through a short-term government funding bill that delays Obamacare and permanently repeals a tax on medical devices, setting up their most dramatic face-off ever with President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats. The vote to delay Obamacare was 231-192, with two Republicans voting against the bill, while two Democrats supported it.

Governments stealing from bank accounts
The questionable practice of “bail-ins” begun by Cyprus a year ago to keep banks solvent is beginning to spread to other nations, and holders of large deposits are starting to see their balances plunge literally overnight. 

Shutdown hype is just part of the propaganda machine.  Eventually some 'compromise' will be heralded as a win by the controlled opposition on both 'sides'.



A days ration of food for a days wages (Rev 6:5-6)...

US sending bankrupt Detroit $300 million. Think 'stimulus,' not 'bailout.'
The Obama administration is pledging nearly $300 million in federal dollars to Detroit to help shore up basic infrastructure priorities, such as improving public transit and police and eradicating blight. Just don’t call it a bailout – a term that's still toxic on Capitol Hill, on both sides of the aisle.  

Gold Climbs Higher as U.S. Government Nears Shutdown
On Friday, gold (NYSEARCA:GLD) futures for December — the most active contract — increased $15.10 to close at $1,339.20 per ounce, while silver (NYSEARCA:SLV) futures edged 7 cents higher to finish at $21.83.

FHA needs $1.7 billion taxpayer subsidy
The Federal Housing Administration plans to tap $1.7 billion in taxpayer money at the end of the month to cover its losses — a first for an agency that has been self-sustaining since its 1934 creation. The FHA has played a pivotal role in propping up the housing market by backing low- down-payment loans for borrowers after the mortgage market unraveled and other lending sources dried up. It accounts for nearly 20 percent of all home-purchase mortgages. 


Violence as in the days of Noah

Nearly two mass shootings per month since 2009, study finds
There have been almost two mass shootings per month in the U.S. for five consecutive years -- yet such cases account for only a tiny fraction of firearm killings, according to a report by a coalition of mayors eager to stave off gun violence in the country.


Louisiana Pastor shot, killed during church service
A pastor was shot and killed during a church service on Friday night in Calcasieu, Louisiana. According to Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Kim Myers, it happened around 8:20 p.m. at the Tabernacle of Praise Worship Center at 307 Deshotel Lane in Lake Charles. Myers said Pastor Ronald J. Harris Sr. was shot "as he was preaching."  


Pakistan's Christians fear for their lives
..."Christian children in government schools are not treated well. They call them sweepers and tell them they can't eat with them or drink with them..."Many of our people were once low caste [Hindus] so they're treated as nothing at all. There is a psychological problem with the Christians, they become so timid and scared. They're supposed to be very brave. But we are refugees in our own country ... like flies on the wall."

Islamic militants slaughter 50 sleeping college students in Nigeria
Suspected Islamic extremists attacked an agricultural college in the dead of night, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in dormitories and torching classrooms, the school's provost said, reporting the latest violence in northeastern Nigeria's ongoing Islamic uprising.


Signs in the heavens

Two large fireballs spotted over the skies of Ohio, USA
Two very bright fireballs were spotted and recorded over the skies of Ohio, USA, in just two days. They quickly became 2nd and 3rd most reported events of all time on the American Meteor Society (AMS) website. 


MAGNIFICENT ERUPTION
Breaking the quiet in spectacular fashion, a magnetic filament erupted from the sun's northern hemisphere during the late hours of Sept. 29th: movie. The explosion hurled a magnificent CME into space, and it might have an Earth-directed component. Stay tuned for updates as more data from this event are analyzed.  

Large magnetic filament erupted during the late hours of September 29
A large magnetic filament erupted on Sun's northern hemisphere during the late hours (UTC) of September 29, 2013. The explosion hurled a magnificent Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) into space and it does look like it has an Earth-directed component.

Bizarre, Giant Tubular Cloud Rolling Across the Sea
Winds from the storm "roll" the cloud parallel to the horizon, creating an effect that looks much like a horizontal tornado. Unlike shelf clouds, rolls clouds are completely detached from the bulk of the storm. 

At least 22 dead as powerful new earthquake hits Pakistan
A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit southwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 22 people in a region already devastated by a tremor which left more than 300 people dead this week, local officials said. The new quake struck the remote district of Awaran, at a depth of 14 kilometres at 12:34 pm (0734 GMT) according to the US Geological Survey.  


This weeks term:

Cognitive Dissonance: "The Fox and the Grapes"

A classic illustration of cognitive dissonance is expressed in the fable "The Fox and the Grapes" by Aesop(ca. 620–564 BCE). 

In the story, a fox sees some high-hanging grapes and wishes to eat them. When the fox is unable to think of a way to reach them, he decides that the grapes are probably not worth eating, with the justification the grapes probably are not ripe or that they are sour (hence the common phrase "sour grapes").

This example follows a pattern: one desires something, finds it unattainable, and reduces one's dissonance by criticizing it. Jon Elster calls this pattern "adaptive preference formation



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Hate what is evil, cling to what is good.
Romans 12:9

Cognitive Dissonance: "The Fox and the Grapes"

A classic illustration of cognitive dissonance is expressed in the fable "The Fox and the Grapes" by Aesop(ca. 620–564 BCE). 

In the story, a fox sees some high-hanging grapes and wishes to eat them. When the fox is unable to think of a way to reach them, he decides that the grapes are probably not worth eating, with the justification the grapes probably are not ripe or that they are sour (hence the common phrase "sour grapes").

This example follows a pattern: one desires something, finds it unattainable, and reduces one's dissonance by criticizing it. Jon Elster calls this pattern "adaptive preference formation


In psychology, cognitive dissonance is the discomfort experienced when simultaneously holding two or more conflicting cognitions: ideas, beliefs, values or emotional reactions. In a state of dissonance, people may sometimes feel "disequilibrium": frustration, hunger, dread, guilt, anger, embarrassment, anxiety, etc. The phrase was coined by Leon Festinger in his 1956 book When Prophecy Fails, which chronicled the followers of a UFO cult as reality clashed with their fervent belief in an impending apocalypse. Festinger subsequently (1957) published a book called A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance in which he outlines the theory. Cognitive dissonance is one of the most influential and extensively studied theories in social psychology.

The theory of cognitive dissonance in social psychology proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by altering existing cognitions, adding new ones to create a consistent belief system, or alternatively by reducing the importance of any one of the dissonant elements.  Cognitive dissonance is the distressing mental state that people feel when they "find themselves doing things that don't fit with what they know, or having opinions that do not fit with other opinions they hold."  A key assumption is that people want their expectations to meet reality, creating a sense of equilibrium.  Likewise, another assumption is that a person will avoid situations or information sources that give rise to feelings of uneasiness, or dissonance.

Cognitive dissonance theory explains human behavior by positing that people have a bias to seek consonance between their expectations and reality. According to Festinger, people engage in a process he termed "dissonance reduction," which can be achieved in one of three ways: lowering the importance of one of the discordant factors, adding consonant elements, or changing one of the dissonant factors. This bias sheds light on otherwise puzzling, irrational, and even destructive behavior.

Nearly two mass shootings per month since 2009, study finds
There have been almost two mass shootings per month in the U.S. for five consecutive years -- yet such cases account for only a tiny fraction of firearm killings, according to a report by a coalition of mayors eager to stave off gun violence in the country.
Pastor shot, killed during church service
A pastor was shot and killed during a church service on Friday night in Calcasieu. According to Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Kim Myers, it happened around 8:20 p.m. at the Tabernacle of Praise Worship Center at 307 Deshotel Lane in Lake Charles. Myers said Pastor Ronald J. Harris Sr. was shot "as he was preaching."  


Pakistan's Christians fear for their lives
..."Christian children in government schools are not treated well. They call them sweepers and tell them they can't eat with them or drink with them..."Many of our people were once low caste [Hindus] so they're treated as nothing at all. There is a psychological problem with the Christians, they become so timid and scared. They're supposed to be very brave. But we are refugees in our own country ... like flies on the wall."

Islamic militants slaughter 50 sleeping college students in Nigeria
Suspected Islamic extremists attacked an agricultural college in the dead of night, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in dormitories and torching classrooms, the school's provost said, reporting the latest violence in northeastern Nigeria's ongoing Islamic uprising. 
Governments stealing from bank accounts
The questionable practice of “bail-ins” begun by Cyprus a year ago to keep banks solvent is beginning to spread to other nations, and holders of large deposits are starting to see their balances plunge literally overnight. 


US sending bankrupt Detroit $300 million. Think 'stimulus,' not 'bailout.'
The Obama administration is pledging nearly $300 million in federal dollars to Detroit to help shore up basic infrastructure priorities, such as improving public transit and police and eradicating blight. Just don’t call it a bailout – a term that's still toxic on Capitol Hill, on both sides of the aisle.  

Gold Climbs Higher as U.S. Government Nears Shutdown
On Friday, gold (NYSEARCA:GLD) futures for December — the most active contract — increased $15.10 to close at $1,339.20 per ounce, while silver (NYSEARCA:SLV) futures edged 7 cents higher to finish at $21.83.

FHA needs $1.7 billion taxpayer subsidy
The Federal Housing Administration plans to tap $1.7 billion in taxpayer money at the end of the month to cover its losses — a first for an agency that has been self-sustaining since its 1934 creation. The FHA has played a pivotal role in propping up the housing market by backing low- down-payment loans for borrowers after the mortgage market unraveled and other lending sources dried up. It accounts for nearly 20 percent of all home-purchase mortgages. 
NBC Set To Spend The Week As Obama’s Personal Propaganda Machine
If you tune in to NBC News this week, prepare to be dazzled by wall-to-wall Obamacare gush coverage. The network announced Friday that it has scheduled a special series of programs and reports to begin this week to “help Americans get the most out of the Affordable Care Act.” 

US govt shutdown likely over Obamacare
The US government is on the brink of shutting down after the House of Representatives approved a Republican bill seeking to delay President Barack Obama's health care law. Congress now has less than 48 hours to strike a deal that keeps the government open, but the ping-ponging of legislation is making that unlikely.  

House delays Obamacare as shutdown nears
House Republicans forced through a short-term government funding bill that delays Obamacare and permanently repeals a tax on medical devices, setting up their most dramatic face-off ever with President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats. The vote to delay Obamacare was 231-192, with two Republicans voting against the bill, while two Democrats supported it.

Saturday Night Live Mocks Obamacare in Hilarious Skit
Saturday Night Live turned the tables on President Barack Obama and devoted an entire skit last night aimed at mocking his signature healthcare law. The roughly seven-minute skit depicted an actor playing the president delivering a speech dedicated to showcasing the supposed benefits of the healthcare law. However, as individuals were called up one-by-one to testify in favor of Obamacare, they instead delivered some surprising news. 
The Coming Common Core Disaster
The new national education standards adopted by 45 States and the District of Columbia and now slipping into America’s schools are a collectivist’s dream. Called Common Core, it is an attempt to create a Federally controlled education system designed to turn children into mind-numbed drones devoid of imagination and inculcated with a progressive culture of redistributionist economics, social justice, the mainstreaming of perverted lifestyles, secular humanism and radical environmentalism. 

‘A Little 1940s Germany’: Parents Livid After Middle Schoolers Watch Video of Celebrities Who ‘Pledge’ Support for Obama — and Ask Viewers to Do Likewise
The district wouldn’t disclose whose idea it was to show the “I Pledge” video to students, KMSP reports, but people on the streets weren’t thrilled by offering the video’s message to middle schoolers. “It looks a little 1940s Germany,” says one interviewee, who agrees that its essentially propaganda. Another adds, “It doesn’t seem right.”


Two large fireballs spotted over the skies of Ohio, USA
Two very bright fireballs were spotted and recorded over the skies of Ohio, USA, in just two days. They quickly became 2nd and 3rd most reported events of all time on the American Meteor Society (AMS) website. 


MAGNIFICENT ERUPTION
Breaking the quiet in spectacular fashion, a magnetic filament erupted from the sun's northern hemisphere during the late hours of Sept. 29th: movie. The explosion hurled a magnificent CME into space, and it might have an Earth-directed component. Stay tuned for updates as more data from this event are analyzed.  

Large magnetic filament erupted during the late hours of September 29
A large magnetic filament erupted on Sun's northern hemisphere during the late hours (UTC) of September 29, 2013. The explosion hurled a magnificent Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) into space and it does look like it has an Earth-directed component.

Bizarre, Giant Tubular Cloud Rolling Across the Sea
Winds from the storm "roll" the cloud parallel to the horizon, creating an effect that looks much like a horizontal tornado. Unlike shelf clouds, rolls clouds are completely detached from the bulk of the storm. 

At least 22 dead as powerful new earthquake hits Pakistan
A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit southwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 22 people in a region already devastated by a tremor which left more than 300 people dead this week, local officials said. The new quake struck the remote district of Awaran, at a depth of 14 kilometres at 12:34 pm (0734 GMT) according to the US Geological Survey.  
Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the 'pathetic' American media
Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an outsider. It doesn't take much to fire up Hersh, the investigative journalist who has been the nemesis of US presidents since the 1960s and who was once described by the Republican party as "the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist".  
Top MIT scientist: Newest UN climate report is ‘hilariously’ flawed
A top climate scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology lambasted a new report by the UN’s climate bureaucracy... “I think that the latest IPCC report has truly sunk to level of hilarious incoherence,” Dr. Richard Lindzen told Climate Depot, a global warming skeptic news site. “They are proclaiming increased confidence in their models as the discrepancies between their models and observations increase.” 

NOAA Pushes Humberto To Hurricane Status Without Proof To Fulfill Global Warming Agenda
Hurricane Humberto, or so they say, has formed out in the Eastern Atlantic. TheWeatherSpace.com will not recognize this as a Hurricane due to the methods used by NOAA to upgrade it. A scale called the Dvorak Scale was used, which measures satellite patterns to determine the strength of the system. On the day of the record break for no Hurricanes, NOAA ruined this without hard evidence. The method is basically downright ludicrous being that it only measures structure and intensity on infrared. It does not have hard evidence from boats, buoys, or recon data to support any decision to upgrade this from a Tropical Storm to an 80 mph Hurricane. 
Report: NSA maps out a person's social connections
For almost three years the National Security Agency has been tapping the data it collects to map out some Americans' social connections, allowing the government to identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, The New York Times reported. 

N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens
Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information, according to newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials.  

NSA maps some Americans’ social connections, says report
National Security Agency dips into its database of phone and e-mail info to create complex "social graphs" for foreign intelligence purposes, says a report. Some American citizens get swept up in the effort. 

Notice the use of the word "some" in this news article...  This leads people to think "well, it probably isn't me they are targeting, so it is really ok".  The thing is, while you may not think you are actively engaged in questionable activities, you are linked to someone who is linked to someone who is... making you a person of interest...

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Raising Children to be animals

http://leeduigon.com/2013/09/28/raising-children-to-be-animals/

School teaches kids to serve Obama with ‘I pledge’ video  http://t.co/i4CLPF3W7u

Watch: Rand Paul Demands That OBAMA Sign Up for Obamacare

http://t.co/ToPcCv1j5W

Friday, September 27, 2013

Parent arrested at forum after protesting use of common core


Robert Small said he wanted to express his dismay over the introduction of a new school curriculum at a public forum Thursday night in Towson, but instead the Ellicott City parent was pulled out of the meeting, arrested and charged with second-degree assault of a police officer.


http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-09-20/news/bs-md-co-common-core-arrest-20130920_1_police-officer-common-core-new-curriculum


http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-09-23/news/bs-md-arrest-small-20130923_1_common-core-standards-police-officer-new-standards

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Extreme Space Weather Storms Spark Satellite Failures, Study Suggests
Most of the glitches, from 1996 to 2012, coincided with high-energy electron activity during declining phases of the solar cycle, the study found. Over an extended mission, the researchers warn that this phenomenon could also cause the satellites' backup amplifiers to fail. 
Obama waives ban on arming terrorists to allow aid to Syrian opposition
President Obama waived a provision of federal law designed to prevent the supply of arms to terrorist groups to clear the way for the U.S. to provide military assistance to "vetted" opposition groups fighting Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. Some elements of the Syrian opposition are associated with radical Islamic terrorist groups, including al Qaeda...Assad's regime is backed by Iran and Hezbollah.
Senate Panel Votes For State Run Media
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the so-called media shield bill with a vote of 13-5 and sent it to the Senate floor. ... this bill protects the government shills in the mainstream media, but not the people doing the real reporting, the people who have dragged the mainstream media kicking and screaming into reporting the truth about issues such as Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the brutality of the Obama backed Syrian rebels. It won't protect the very people that pushed back against the puppet media to stop Barack Obama from starting World War 3. 
AP Reported Navy Attack Day Before It Happened!
The Associated Press, as shown in this screenshot of an ABC story, reported the DC Navy Yard shooting on September 15th, a day before it actually happened. Nearly identical to an incident that happened at Sandy Hook, is there any explanation for this? Notice the headline; then notice the date right below it. The commenters on this story picked this right up as shown in the 2nd screenshot down below. Conspiracy theory forums are having a blast with this one….what’s going on? Is this still more proof of another false flag unfolding before our eyes?  
W. Va. teen allegedly killed by "friends"
Skylar Neese, a 16-year-old honors student, vanished July 6, 2012 after slipping out of the bedroom of her Star City, W. Va. home, but few believed she'd run away. The truth emerged on Jan. 3, 2013 when one of Neese's friends admitted plotting with another teenage girl to kill her, a revelation that shocked even police. Two girls that Skylar considered among her best friends, had carried out a plot to stab her to death then bury her in the Pennsylvania woods some 30 miles away.