:: 3-1-12 The Post-Standard Syracuse, NY (Page A13)  :: UPDATE :: :: ::  ::  ::  ::  ::  ::  ::

Storms damage country music resort town, kill 9

By Jim Salter (AP)

Branson, MO. - A powerful storm system that produced multiple reports of tornadoes lashed the Midwest early Wednesday, roughing up the entertainment resort town of Branson and laying waste two small towns in Illinois and Kansas. At least nine people were killed. etc.. etc.. The tornadoes were spawned by a powerful storm system that blew down from the Rockies on Tuesday and was headed across the Ohio and Tennessee river valleys toward the Mid-Atlantic region. Carey Mead, lead forecaster at the U.S. Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said a broad cold front was slamming into warm, humid air over much of the eastern half of the nation. From Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, at least 16 tornados sightings were reported from Nebraska and Kansas across southern Missouri to Illinois and Kentucky, according to the storm center etc.. and the news story continues....

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Latest from AP: 38 dead in 5 states

6:34 PM, Mar. 3, 2012

WEST LIBERTY, Ky. (AP) — Across the South and Midwest, survivors emerged Saturday to find blue sky and splinters where homes once stood, cars flung into buildings and communications crippled after dozens of tornadoes chainsawed through a region of millions, leveling small towns along the way. At least 38 people were killed in five states, etc.. etc.. The spate of storms was the second in little more than 48 hours, after an earlier round killed 13 people in the Midwest and South, and the latest in a string of severe-weather episodes that have ravaged the American heartland in the past year. Friday's violent storms touched down in at least a dozen states from Georgia to Illinois, killing 19 people in Kentucky, 14 in Indiana, three in Ohio, and one each in Alabama and Georgia. etc.. and the news story continues...

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Magnitude 6.6 - SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS

2012 March 03 12:19:55 UTC

Earthquake Details This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.

Magnitude 6.6

Date-Time Saturday, March 03, 2012 at 12:19:55 UTC

Region SOUTHEAST OF THE LOYALTY ISLANDS

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MARCH 5 2012 13:29h

6.1-magnitude earthquake hits Argentina

SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO, Argentina, March 5 (UPI) -- A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck at a depth of 341 miles near Santiago del Estero, Argentina, Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. etc.. and the news story continues....

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Seconds-apart quakes shake Californians awake

By Miranda Leitsinger, msnbc.com

Back-to-back earthquakes rattled northern California Monday morning, triggering an early start to the work week for some in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. The stronger quake -- at a 4.0 magnitude -- was centered one mile north of El Cerrito in the East Bay and 10 miles north-northwest of Oakland. It struck at a depth of 5.7 miles at 5:33 a.m. PT, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It came about seven seconds after a 3.5 temblor -- known as the foreshock -- hit in nearly the same location at a depth of five miles. "There were two earthquakes … and since then there have been a lot of little aftershocks, which is totally to be expected, down in the magnitude 2.0 range,” Don Blakeman, a geophysicist at the USGS' National Earthquake Information Center in Colorado etc.. and the news story continues...

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etc.. You have seen Russia and the things that are going on there, you have seen China and the things that are going on there, etc..

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China boosts defence budget by 11.2% to $106.4 billion

AFP Mar 4, 2012, 11.45AM IST

BEIJING: China on Sunday announced a double-digit hike in military spending in 2012, in a move likely to fuel concerns about Beijing's rapid military build-up and increase regional tensions. The defence budget will rise 11.2 per cent to 670.27 billion yuan ($106.41 billion), said Li Zhaoxing, a spokesman for China's national parliament, citing a budget report submitted to the country's rubber-stamp legislature. etc.. and the news story continues...

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etc.. The storms will be far greater than the storms you have seen before, more hurricanes, more tornadoes, more typhoons, more cyclones, more tidal waves, more earthquakes, more flooding, more mudslides, etc.. etc.

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More than 13,000 flee east Australia floods

Floods across eastern Australia forced more than 13,000 people to evacuate their homes on Tuesday after record-high summer rains drenched three states over the past week, swelling rivers and forcing dams to overflow.  In the worst-hit state of New South Wales, authorities ordered 8,000 people to leave their homes in the inland city of Wagga Wagga, where flood waters were expected to breach an 11-meter levee and swamp houses and the main business district. Etc.. and the news story continues..

Friday, 09 Mar 2012 08:44 AM

Read more on Newsmax.com: Banks Foreclosing on US Churches in Record Numbers

Banks are foreclosing on America's churches in record numbers as lenders increasingly lose patience with religious facilities that have defaulted on their mortgages, according to new data. The surge in church foreclosures represents a new wave of distressed property seizures triggered by the 2008 financial crash, analysts say, with many banks no longer willing to grant struggling religious organizations forbearance. Since 2010, 270 churches have been sold after defaulting on their loans, with 90 percent of those sales coming after a lender-triggered foreclosure, according to the real estate information company CoStar Group. In 2011, 138 churches were sold by banks, an annual record, with no sign that these religious foreclosures are abating, according to CoStar. etc.. and the news story continues..

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etc.. Have I not kept my covenant with you, have I ever, ever failed to keep my covenant with you? You have not kept your covenant with me, you have turned your back upon me, you have turned your back upon your Messiah, you have turned your back upon all who have tried to help you and they have been unable to help you because you have closed your ears and become a stiff-necked people again, more stiffed-necked than anytime. You think that man can help you, you think that man can deliver you, you put your trust into the country that you think is the strongest in the world, and yet it is crumbling, it is crumbling before your eyes, for they have also turned their back upon me. etc..

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America’s most biblically hostile US president

By DAVID BARTON (The Blaze)

When one observes President Obama’s unwillingness to accommodate America’s four-century long religious conscience protection through his attempts to require Catholics to go against their own doctrines and beliefs, etc.. Listed below in chronological order are (1) numerous records of his attacks on biblical persons or organizations; (2) examples of the hostility toward Biblical faith that have become evident in the past three years in the Obama-led military; (3) a listing of his open attacks on biblical values; and finally (4) a listing of numerous incidents of his preferential deference for Islam’s activities and positions, including letting his Islamic advisors guide and influence his hostility toward people of biblical faith.

1. Acts of hostility toward people of biblical faith:

April 2008 – Obama speaks disrespectfully of Christians, saying they “cling to guns or religion” and have an “antipathy to people who aren’t like them.”

February 2009 – Obama announces plans to revoke conscience protection for health workers who refuse to participate in medical activities that go against their beliefs, and fully implements the plan in February 2011.

April 2009 – When speaking at Georgetown University, Obama orders that a monogram symbolizing Jesus’ name be covered when he is making his speech.

May 2009 – Obama declines to host services for the National Prayer Day (a day established by federal law) at the White House.

April 2009 – In a deliberate act of disrespect, Obama nominated three pro-abortion ambassadors to the Vatican; of course, the pro-life Vatican rejected all three.

October 19, 2010 – Obama begins deliberately omitting the phrase about “the Creator” when quoting the Declaration of Independence – an omission he has made on no less than seven occasions.

November 2010 – Obama misquotes the National Motto, saying it is “E pluribus unum” rather than “In God We Trust” as established by federal law.

January 2011 – After a federal law was passed to transfer a WWI Memorial in the Mojave Desert to private ownership, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the cross in the memorial could continue to stand, but the Obama administration refused to allow the land to be transferred as required by law, and refused to allow the cross to be re-erected as ordered by the Court.

February 2011 – Although he filled posts in the State Department, for more than two years Obama did not fill the post of religious freedom ambassador, an official that works against religious persecution across the world; he filled it only after heavy pressure from the public and from Congress.

April 2011 – For the first time in American history, Obama urges passage of a non-discrimination law that does not contain hiring protections for religious groups, forcing religious organizations to hire according to federal mandates without regard to the dictates of their own faith, thus eliminating conscience protection in hiring.

August 2011 – The Obama administration releases its new health care rules that override religious conscience protections for medical workers in the areas of abortion and contraception.

November 2011 – Obama opposes inclusion of President Franklin Roosevelt’s famous D-Day Prayer in the WWII Memorial.

November 2011 – Unlike previous presidents, Obama studiously avoids any religious references in his Thanksgiving speech.

December 2011 – The Obama administration denigrates other countries’ religious beliefs as an obstacle to radical homosexual rights.

January 2012 – The Obama administration argues that the First Amendment provides no protection for churches and synagogues in hiring their pastors and rabbis.

February 2012 – The Obama administration forgives student loans in exchange for public service, but announces it will no longer forgive student loans if the public service is related to religion.

2. Acts of hostility from the Obama-led military toward people of biblical faith:

June 2011 – The Department of Veterans Affairs forbids references to God and Jesus during burial ceremonies at Houston National Cemetery.

August 2011 – The Air Force stops teaching the Just War theory to officers in California because the course is taught by chaplains and is based on a philosophy introduced by St. Augustine in the third century – a theory long taught by civilized nations across the world (except America).

September 2011 – Air Force Chief of Staff prohibits commanders from notifying airmen of programs and services available to them from chaplains.

September 2011 – The Army issues guidelines for Walter Reed Medical Center stipulating that “No religious items (i.e. Bibles, reading materials and/or facts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit.”

November 2011 – The Air Force Academy rescinds support for Operation Christmas Child, a program to send holiday gifts to impoverished children across the world, because the program is run by a Christian charity.

November 2011 – The Air Force Academy pays $80,000 to add a Stonehenge-like worship center for pagans, druids, witches and Wiccans.

February 2012 – The US Military Academy at West Point disinvites three star Army general and decorated war hero Lieutenant General William G. (“Jerry”) Boykin (retired) from speaking at an event because he is an outspoken Christian.

February 2012 – The Air Force removes “God” from the patch of Rapid Capabilities Office (the word on the patch was in Latin: Dei).

February 2012 – The Army orders Catholic chaplains not to read a letter to parishioners that their archbishop asked them to read.

3. Acts of hostility toward biblical values:

January 2009 – Obama lifts restrictions on U.S. government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, forcing taxpayers to fund pro-abortion groups that either promote or perform abortions in other nations.

January 2009 – President Obama’s nominee for deputy secretary of state asserts that American taxpayers are required to pay for abortions and that limits on abortion funding are unconstitutional.

March 2009 – The Obama administration shut out pro-life groups from attending a White House-sponsored health care summit.

March 2009 – Obama orders taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research.

March 2009 – Obama gave $50 million for the UNFPA, the UN population agency that promotes abortion and works closely with Chinese population control officials who use forced abortions and involuntary sterilizations.

May 2009 – The White House budget eliminates all funding for abstinence-only education and replaces it with “comprehensive” sexual education, repeatedly proven to increase teen pregnancies and abortions. He continues the deletion in subsequent budgets.

May 2009 – Obama officials assemble a terrorism dictionary calling pro-life advocates violent and charging that they use racism in their “criminal” activities.

July 2009 – The Obama administration illegally extends federal benefits to same-sex partners of Foreign Service and Executive Branch employees, in direction violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

September 16, 2009 – The Obama administration appoints as EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum, who asserts that society should “not tolerate” any “private beliefs,” including religious beliefs, if they may negatively affect homosexual “equality.”

July 2010 – The Obama administration uses federal funds in violation of federal law to get Kenya to change its constitution to include abortion.

August 2010 – The Obama administration Cuts funding for 176 abstinence education programs.

September 2010 – The Obama administration tells researchers to ignore a judge’s decision striking down federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

February 2011 – Obama directs the Justice Department to stop defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

March 2011 – The Obama administration refuses to investigate videos showing Planned Parenthood helping alleged sex traffickers get abortions for victimized underage girls.

July 2011 – Obama allows homosexuals to serve openly in the military, reversing a policy originally instituted by George Washington in March 1778.

September 2011 – The Pentagon directs that military chaplains may perform same-sex marriages at military facilities in violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

October 2011 – The Obama administration eliminates federal grants to the US Conference of Catholic Bishops for their extensive programs that aid victims of human trafficking because the Catholic Church is anti-abortion.

4. Acts of preferentialism for Islam:

May 2009 – While Obama does not host any National Day of Prayer event at the White House, he does host White House Iftar dinners in honor of Ramadan.

April 2010 – Christian leader Franklin Graham is disinvited from the Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer Event because of complaints from the Muslim community.

April 2010 – The Obama administration requires rewriting of government documents and a change in administration vocabulary to remove terms that are deemed offensive to Muslims, including jihad, jihadists, terrorists, radical Islamic, etc.

August 2010 – Obama speaks with great praise of Islam and condescendingly of Christianity.

August 2010 – Obama went to great lengths to speak out on multiple occasions on behalf of building an Islamic mosque at Ground Zero, while at the same time he was silent about a Christian church being denied permission to rebuild at that location.

2010 – While every White House traditionally issues hundreds of official proclamations and statements on numerous occasions, this White House avoids traditional biblical holidays and events but regularly recognizes major Muslim holidays, as evidenced by its 2010 statements on Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid al-Adha.

October 2011 – Obama’s Muslim advisers block Middle Eastern Christians’ access to the White House.

February 2012 – The Obama administration makes effulgent apologies for Korans being burned by the U. S. military, but when Bibles were burned by the military, numerous reasons were offered why it was the right thing to do.

Many of these actions are literally unprecedented – this is the first time they have happened in four centuries of American history. The hostility of President Obama toward biblical faith and values is without equal from any previous American president.

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etc.. But it is not an exciting time for the lukewarm or the ungodly, it shall be a terrible time, a time of a dictator, a dictator government that dictates, that takes away your rights, that takes away your freedoms, that takes away the things that you have, the things that you never expected that they would control, they shall control.  Oh, what an hour is just ahead. etc.. 

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Constitutional analyst: Detention now legal

Controversial federal provision gives president undefined authority

By Bob Unruh

A retired attorney who has taught constitutional law and now is an author and radio host says America is duplicating with the new National Defense Authorization Act its mistakes that landed hundreds of thousands of Japanese-Americans in Wyoming and Colorado internment camps during World War II. That issue has been making headlines for several weeks because of the interpretation held by many critics that the law allows Barack Obama as the president to determine when someone, even an American citizen, would be taken into custody and held under the law of war – that is, without trial, hearing, charges or due process. etc.. Commentator Chuck Baldwin, who himself has been the target of smears by the Department of Homeland Security-related apparatus, explained the law, “for all intents and purposes, completely nullifies a good portion of the Bill of Rights, turns the United States into a war zone, and places U.S. citizens under military rule.” “When signing the NDAA into law, Obama issued a signing statement that in essence said, ‘I have the power to detain Americans … but I won’t,” Baldwin wrote. Baldwin was vilified by an anti-terror campaign in Missouri several years ago when authorities there described suspicious characters as those who might have supported him or other third-party candidates during a presidential election. A state agency, and later the Department of Homeland Security, offered warnings that returning veterans, those who oppose abortion and others who advocate conservative issues could pose a danger to the nation. etc.. and the news article continues..

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Syracuse sets another record high at 68

Spring seems to be getting a head start in Syracuse, with another record-setting day Monday. The temperature hit 68 degrees at 1:10 p.m, etc.. and the news story continues...

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Rains soak, flood southern Louisiana

By the CNN Wire Staff updated 8:21 AM EDT, Tue March 13, 2012

(CNN) -- Record floodwaters inundated parts of southern Louisiana early Tuesday after intense rains caused flash flooding and prompted hundreds of rescues. Estimates by the National Weather Service put total rainfall at 12 to 18 inches across the region, with possible amounts of 20 or more inches in some areas. A flood warning has been issued until late Tuesday. etc.. and the news story continues...

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Strong quakes shake Japan, but no apparent damage

By MARI YAMAGUCHI | Associated Press – 28 mins ago

TOKYO (AP) — A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeastern Japan on Wednesday evening but caused no apparent damage or injury in the same region hit by last year's devastating tsunami. A magnitude-6.8 earthquake first struck the southern coast of the island of Hokkaido, causing a small tsunami. etc.. and the news story continues...

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Iran lauds Egypt house vote to expel Israel envoy

By Oren Kessler 03/13/2012 21:52

Islamist-dominated lower parliament says Cairo will "never be a friend, partner or ally of the Zionist entity."

Iran on Tuesday applauded the Egyptian parliament’s demand a day earlier that Cairo expel its Israeli ambassador over air strikes in the Gaza Strip. “Egypt will never be the friend, partner or ally of the Zionist entity which we consider as the first enemy of Egypt and the Arab nation,” said the statement from Egypt’s lower house of parliament, which called on the Egyptian government to “revise all its relations and agreements with that enemy.” The text called for supporting Palestinian “resistance... in all its kind and forms” in the face of the Jewish state’s “aggressive policies,” Egypt’s official MENA news agency reported. The statement – approved unanimously in the Islamist-dominated chamber – also called for pulling Egypt’s ambassador from Tel Aviv and for an immediate end to natural gas exports to Israel. Parliament Speaker Mohamed Saad el- Katatni – representing the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party – asked a parliamentary committee to “follow the government’s implementation of parliament’s demands,” MENA reported. News of the statement was welcomed in Tehran, whose Shi’ite theocracy has enjoyed warming ties with Egypt since its former president Hosni Mubarak was ousted in a popular uprising over a year ago. etc.. and the news story continues...

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etc.. They talk about the economy going up and yet it is not going up, they have a fake front that they put out there, that they choose to tell you whether it is good or whether it is bad. They claim that jobs are being formed, are you seeing them, are they pounding on your door to hire you because things are so good? What about the winter weather, where is your snow, are you aware of global warming that is taking place, etc..

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Dismal summer prospects for teens

By Tami Luhby March 15, 2012: 9:23 AM ET

The job market might be getting better...but not for teens

Their unemployment rate remains above 20% for the 40th month in a row, the first time this has happened since the government started keeping records in 1948. etc.. Some 31 states and the District of Columbia have teen unemployment rates above 20%. Washington D.C. ranks the worst with an unemployment rate of 48%, while California comes in in second place at 35.2%. etc.. and the news story continues...

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Possible Tornadoes, Severe Weather in Michgan

by Matt Sampson, weather.com

Breaking News:

Updates from Washtenaw Co., Michigan EMA where damage has been reported:
- Possible 200 people have been displaced. etc.. etc.. Severe Weather Expert Dr. Greg Forbes says a tornado was reported near Dexter, Michigan this afternoon, Northwest of Ann Arbor. The tornado was a possible EF-3. Thunderstorms have also produced softball size hail near Flint, Michigan. Marc Breckenridge with the Washtenaw Co., Michigan EMA tells The Weather Channel that Several Skywarn spotters have confirmed funnel clouds on the ground in the area. "Downed trees, power lines, structural damage, but we don't have any information yet on injuries." etc.. and the news story continues...

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Syracuse marches into weather record books

Staff reports

More than 1,200 record high temptures were set across the United States between March 8 and Wednesday, and Syracuse was among the communities that helped rewrite the record books. etc.. The March mildness capped a warm winter across the country. AccuWeather said 5,618 record highs were set between Jan.1 and March 12, compared with 2,800 record highs in the first three months of 2011. etc.. and the news story continues...

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6.4 quake strikes Papua New Guinea: USGS

Agence France-Presse
Sydney, March 15, 2012

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea on Thursday, the US Geological Survey reported, but a tsunami warning was not issued and seismologists said "no major human impact is expected". etc.. and the news story continues....

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Arizona cities buried in rare snowstorm as much of U.S. enjoys balmy weather

By the CNN Wire Staff updated 5:20 AM EDT, Mon March 19, 2012

(CNN) -- Parts of Arizona will remain buried under snow Monday as a surprising late-winter onslaught paralyzed travel and closed schools. Yet much of the eastern two-thirds of the country will continue to enjoy unseasonably warm temperatures, a day before spring officially starts. etc.. Meanwhile, officials in southwestern Nebraska, will try to assess Monday the damage left by a pair of suspected tornadoes Sunday night. Daniel H. Guenthner, emergency management director in Lincoln County, said he received reports of structures destroyed and 15 Union Pacific rail cars overturned at local rail yards after the two suspected twisters struck North Platte, Nebraska, at the same time. etc.. and the news story continues..

April 4 2012 at 09:49am By Sapa-AFP

Babahoyo- Thousands of poor Ecuadorian farmers are watching their livelihoods being washed away, hit by the worst rainfall in 14 years which has cost 24 lives. etc.. and the news story continues...

etc.. Keep your eyes on Israel, for the great attack is on, the pressure is on, she is your fig tree, are you watching her, do you know the things that are taking place? etc..

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Published April 09, 2012 | NewsCore

TABERNACLE, N.J. – A brush fire spread to 1,000 acres Monday and threatened homes in a rural area of New Jersey. etc.. and the news story continues..

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etc.. you are seeing the enemies preparing for war, you are seeing North Korea as she is preparing to send forth her new missile that will crash off the shores of America proving that she can reach here, for I have told you these things. etc..

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etc.. Your prayers have been heard and some things, some things will be slowed down just a mite, but watch, for you shall see openly in the news the things that I have spoken unto you concerning. You shall see many, many, many things that shall take place, and throughout the remainder of this month because of your prayers, you will see other things that take place and they will not all bunch in at one time, but they shall be spread out just a little. Watch, be in prayer concerning these things, be not shocked, be not moved, but expect to see and then to watch and listen to the news. Read your newspaper if you get one, look on the internet and you shall see, etc..

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North Korean rocket installed on launch pad

By North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy, wires Updated April 09, 2012 14:18:28

North Korea has shown off its long-range rocket to foreign journalists as it prepares to send what it claims is a satellite into orbit, which its neighbors believe is a ballistic missile test.

In a rare move, the regime allowed the rocket to be viewed on the launch pad in the country's north-west. The launch could take place any time between Thursday and next Monday. Pyongyang says the rocket will send a satellite into orbit to observe the Earth and will be used for weather observation and to collect data on natural resources. But the United States, South Korea and Japan say the launch is a ballistic missile test, and both Tokyo and Seoul have vowed to shoot the rocket down if it comes near their airspace. North Korea says it will respond with merciless punishment if the rocket is brought down. "To say this is a missile test is really nonsense," Jang Myong-Jin, head of the Tongchang-ri space centre, said. "This launch was planned long ago, on the occasion of the 100th birthday of (late) president Kim Il-sung. "We are not doing it for provocative purposes." etc.. and the news story continues...

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etc.. are you aware of how they are removing the Bible, are you aware of how they are fighting Christians, etc..

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Atheist "Jesus is a myth" banner placed in Illinois town's public park

Hugh Kramer

LA Atheism Examiner

On April 4th, just before the Easter holiday weekend, an atheist banner has been raised in Streator IL's City Park. The 8 foot by 3 foot banner, which reads "Nobody died for our sins. Jesus Christ is a myth" was placed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation in the public park with the permission of city officials. etc.. and the news story continues...

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etc. You shall see many, many, many things that shall take place, and throughout the remainder of this month because of your prayers, you will see other things that take place and they will not all bunch in at one time, but they shall be spread out just a little. Watch, be in prayer concerning these things, be not shocked, be not moved, but expect to see and then to watch and listen to the news. Read your newspaper if you get one, look on the internet and you shall see, but don’t guess, don’t try to figure it out, listen to what I have said, listen carefully, for each day shall become even more important. etc.

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Indonesia, India downgrade tsunami warnings after massive earthquake 

Southeast Asian nations on high tsunami alert

By Nurdin Hasan, Agence France-Presse April 11, 2012

JAKARTA - Indonesia lifted a tsunami warning which was issued following a massive 8.6-magnitude earthquake off Sumatra island Wednesday. etc.. The 8.6-magnitude quake struck 431 kilometres (268 miles) off the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh, the U.S. Geological Survey said, and was followed by a major 8.2-magnitude aftershock. etc.. The latest tremor was felt as far afield as Thailand, where skyscrapers in the capital Bangkok swayed. India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Myanmar all issued alerts or evacuation orders. etc.. and the news story continues...

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Philippines, China commit to diplomacy in standoff

2012-04-11 23:29

MANILA (AP) -- The Philippine government said Wednesday it agreed with China to diplomatically resolve a tense standoff involving a Philippine warship and two Chinese surveillance vessels in the disputed South China Sea, the most dangerous confrontation between the sides in recent years. Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert Del Rosario said he met with Chinese Ambassador Ma Keqing and both reaffirmed their governments‘ positions that the Scarborough Shoal where the ships are facing off was part of their own country’s territory and neither was ready to stand down. Del Rosario said that despite the impasse, "we resolved to seek a diplomatic solution to the issue." The Philippine government said the standoff began when its navy tried to detain Chinese boats fishing in its waters but was stopped by two Chinese surveillance craft. The Chinese Embassy accused the Philippine warship of harassing the fishermen and called for it to leave Chinese territory. etc.. and the news story continues...

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7.0-magnitude quake strikes western Mexico

By the CNN Wire Staff updated 7:42 PM EDT, Wed April 11, 2012

Mexico City (CNN) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 struck near Mexico's western coast on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter of the quake was 32 miles (51 kilometers) southwest of La Mira, Michoacan, USGS said. etc.. and the news story continues...

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4 feet of hail? Massive hail storm hits Texas panhandle

4 feet of hail: Snow plows were brought out to clear muddy piles of hail that were up to 4 feet high on Route 287 in Texas. More hail is forecast for this weekend.

By Linda Stewart, Associated Press / April 13, 2012

Dallas - Maintenance crews worked Thursday to clear roads after a storm dumped several inches of hail on parts of the Texas Panhandle, trapping motorists in muddy drifts that were waist-to-shoulder high. The storm left so much hail in its wake that workers had to use snow plows to clear the piles from the road. "It was crazy," National Weather Service Meteorologist Justyn Jackson said about the strange storm, which hit Wednesday afternoon. The hail was "real small" but there was a lot of it in a concentrated area, accumulating 2- to 4-feet deep, he said. The rural area where the storm struck was mainly ranch land, about 25 miles north of Amerillo and south of Dumas. Rainwater gushed across the parched land, washing dirt and then mud into the hail, pushing it all onto U.S. 287, Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas said. etc.. and the news story continues...

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Drought expands throughout USA

By Doyle Rice, USA TODAY

The USA hasn't been this dry in five years.

Still reeling from devastating drought that led to at least $10 billion in agricultural losses across Texas and the South in 2011, the nation is enduring more unusually parched weather. A mostly dry, mild winter has put nearly 61% of the lower 48 states in "abnormally dry" or drought conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, a weekly federal tracking of drought. etc.. Only two states — Ohio and Alaska — are entirely free of abnormally dry or drought conditions, according to the Drought Monitor. The drought is expanding into some areas where dryness is rare, such as New England. "Conditions are starting to worry us now," said Keith Eggleston , a climatologist with the Northeast Regional Climate Center in Ithaca, N.Y. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, stream flow levels are at record or near-record lows in much of New England. The Drought Monitor lists all of Vermont as "abnormally dry," just six months after the state's wettest August on record that stemmed mainly from disastrous flooding by the remnants of Hurricane Irene. So far this year, Connecticut has endured its driest January-March period ever, Weather Channel meteorologist Jonathan Erdman reports. This followed the state's wettest year on record. The drought is mainly an agricultural concern in the Northeast at this point, says Eggleston. etc.. and the news story continues...

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Arab Spring is winter for Christians in Middle East

By Dow Marmur (thestar.com)

Though early Christians suffered persecution and many died as martyrs, when Christianity became dominant it was Christians who treated first Jews and later also Muslims as inferiors, often humiliating and sometimes executing them. Nowadays it’s Muslims who tend to persecute adherents of other faiths. As a result, Jews had to leave the countries where they had lived from time immemorial and settle elsewhere, mainly in Israel. Christians who have remained under Muslim rule are often exposed to state-sponsored discrimination and worse. In recent years, their plight has reached dramatic proportions. Raymond Ibrahim, a specialist in the field, last December published a lengthy survey of how “the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ continues to transition into a ‘Christian Winter.’ ” He listed discrimination, persecution and killings of Christians by Muslims in Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, Kashmir, Kenya, Nigeria, Turkey and Pakistan. Since it’s almost impossible to fathom the plight of masses, we tend to concentrate on stories of individuals. That’s why lately the media have focused on Yousef Nadarkhani, a Christian pastor who was sentenced to death in 2010 by the Iranian regime because of his religion. So far, Teheran hasn’t heeded appeals by President Barack Obama and other western leaders to release him. Michael Curtis, distinguished professor emeritus of political science at Rutgers University, has written persuasively about the plight of Palestinian Christians. Though it’s fashionable to blame Israel for their suffering, in fact, writes Curtis, “two-thirds of Christian Arabs left the areas between 1949 and 1967, the period when Jordan occupied and annexed the West Bank, and Egypt controlled Gaza, years before Israel controlled those areas.” In the 15 years or so since Israel ceded control of Bethlehem to the Palestinian Authority, the share of the town’s Christian population has dropped dramatically from two-thirds to one-fifth. etc.. and the news story continues...

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Mexican town celebrates Easter with ‘burning of the Jews’

By the CNN Wire Staff  April 15, 2012 -- Updated 1745 GMT (0145 HKT)

Mexico City - Yesterday, at my favorite taco stand, a woman who cleans houses in the neighborhood struck up a conversation with the vendor. "I keep thinking I am dizzy, that the earth is shaking," she said. He nodded in agreement. "Ah, that earthquake," he said. etc.. etc.. In fact, just four hours after the woman, munching on a taco of hard boiled egg and rice, complained of her imagined dizzy spells the earth shook again. Yesterday, a 6.4 magnitude quake struck western Mexico, and caused Mexico City, 200 miles away, to rattle. It is the fourth earthquake or aftershock of a magnitude over 6.0 to impact the city in four months. (Separately a 6.9 quake hit the waters of northern Mexico last night at 12:15 a.m.) etc.. and the news story continues...

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My ways are not the ways of man, and yet man tries to make my ways his ways. Man walks in his own wisdom and his own knowledge and he seeks not my wisdom nor my knowledge, he seeks not my ability, he has not learned how to rest in me that I can finish within him the things that I have begun, that I can open doors before him, closed doors, that I can lead him, that I can guide him. He has not made me the shepherd of their life, he forgets the twenty third psalm, he forgets the twenty first and the twenty second psalm. He forgets the things that I have done for him, how I delivered them, how I set them free, how I brought them out of the bondage of Egypt and yet they continually look back. They put their trust and their confidence in the strength of their own weapons and their weapons shall fail them. They put their trust and their confidence in a great country that has departed from me and they will receive no help there. etc..

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Israel: Obama’s secret dealings with Iran conflict with US-Israeli understandings
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report April 16, 2012, 3:07 PM (GMT+02:00)

The fundamental rift on Iran between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu burst into the open Monday, April 16 when high-ranking Israeli officials close to Netanyahu directly accused the president of reneging on the US-Israeli understandings reached ahead of the Istanbul talks between the six powers and Iran on April 14. etc.. etc.. As disclosed by debkafile on April 9, American and Israeli officials preceded the Istanbul talks with an understanding for the US to put before Iran agreed demands/concessions: Iran would be allowed to keep 1,000 centrifuges for the low-level enrichment of uranium up to 3.5 percent purity, the first time Israel had accepted the principle of Iran enriching uranium at any grade at all. It was also agreed between Washington and Jerusalem that Iran would not be permitted to keep 20 percent enriched uranium, which is a short step before weapons-grade, in any quantity. These understandings, known as the “1,000 principle,” were meant to represent the final upshot of the formal negotiations with Iran, a consensus to which US diplomats would aspire in as short a time possible. In the event, the US delegation did not present any of the agreed demands – or any other - to the Iranians attending the first round of talks in Turkey. The belated sense of being misled prompted the prime minister’s exceptionally sharp reaction. etc.. and the news story continues..