A million flu-infected in Ukraine, and one US cat

I wrote a week ago that "Something is happening in the Ukraine." A mystery disease that seems like the flu but maybe isn't, is rampaging across the Russian tundra and scaring the sneakers off everyone. Quite quickly many have become infected with it, and now the news just a week later is that a million have been infected and 155 have died.

A million infected in Ukraine flu epidemic
KIEV — Ukraine's epidemic of flu and acute respiratory disorders has now affected more than a million people, the country's deputy health minister said on Tuesday. Vasyl Lazoryshynets said the death toll from the epidemic had risen to 174, as President Viktor Yushchenko warned the country must brace itself for a second wave of infections. Nearly 53,000 Ukrainians have now been hospitalised, Lazoryshynets said, but the number in intensive care has fallen by nearly a quarter to around 330. A total of 67 cases of swine flu have been reported in Ukraine, he said, 14 of which had been fatal. "Ukraine must prepare properly for a second wave of respiratory infections and flu," including A(H1N1), Yushchenko said Tuesday, according to the Interfax news agency. A World Health Organisation (WHO) team in Ukraine said on Monday the epidemic had slowed, but warned a second wave was likely. On Monday the health ministry's previous bulletin on the epidemic, which began in mid-October, reported 969,000 infections, with 155 deaths and 65 cases of A(H1N1).

More interesting are quotes like these, "There is no question that this is a rapidly involving illness,” said Jukka Pukkila, team leader for the WHO international expert team that arrived this week in Ukraine at the government’s request."

Mutation is common but can be deadly depending on which way the mutation grows. In 1918, the Spanish flu mutated into a second wave and was the more lethal strain. Soldiers close-quartered in WWI who were malnourished, had compromised immune systems and perhaps were also suffering from stress and fatigue provided good targets for the flu bug. Though mutations are common, jumping from animal to human to different animal is not. There are reports this week that a cat has come down with H1N1 and this is very concerning. Combined with the Ukraine statements about the rapid involvement and possible mutation, we should keep a careful watch.

"Implications of the H1N1 Swine Flu Moves Back into Animals"
"H1N1 was originally referred to as the "Swine" flu. This was due to the H1N1 flu strain moving from swine (pigs) into humans. Strains of diseases moving between animals and humans are not new. Diseases have been doing this for decades. This movement can cause strains to mutate. That is why the story about H1N1 moving back into animals is worth a look. A cat in Iowa has contracted the H1N1 "swine" flu. Chicago Tribune reports a "13-year-old tabby came down with H1N1 swine flu, proving that humans ill with the flu virus should take pains not to spread it to cats as well as humans." Having worked in public health, this case is surprising and worth some attention. Public health officials did not expect H1N1 strain to move into cats and dogs."

The article goes on to quote the veterinarian, "...it is not normal for a house cat to contract a human flu virus. Mullen quoted veterinarian doctor Kimberly May as saying, "In general, cats are not considered susceptible to human flu viruses, but this cat got H1N1 flu from his owners. There seems to be no doubt about that, and from our understanding, it seems to be the first time a cat caught flu from a human."

Though Jesus said there will be pestilences (meaning in the Tribulation) but there would also be birth pangs leading up to the Tribulation, there is a larger issue at play here I believe. Sure, dread mutated mystery disease in the Ukraine is definitely an end time sign, but the bigger problem is the plethora of things happening in the world that are "unusual" or "surprising" or "first time." The difficulty sometimes for prophecy watchmen is that it's hard to see this event or that event as a directly God-driven. In hindsight we see markers and can re-construct chronologies. But while we are in the thick of it, it is harder to distinguish.

In 2008 Volcano Chaiten in Chile erupted suddenly for the first time in 9,500 years (say scientists).  Locusts descended on areas in the Horn of Africa for the first time in recorded history. Illinois crops are at their lowest records ever. The earliest ever snow was recorded in Chicago, flu bugs mutating and jumping from animal to human to other animal ... the list goes on of things that are happening for the first time this year. In my opinion, this is one reliable way to verify that God's hand is at work. The number of unusual events, occurring in quick succession, for the first time, in diverse arenas of weather, agriculture, archaeology, geology, economics seems to be the Hand of God.

God is strong and mighty. He is above all the earth and the stars and the cosmos. The bible shows us that the end times signs continue to grow in intensity until the tribulation right and careen right through the seal, trumpet and the bowl judgments. These signs also grow in uniqueness and at a certain point in the Tribulation, they veer toward impossible. The signs and judgments that the world will be experiencing will have no scientific explanation. They will be impossible to describe and man will be unable to explain them. Two Witnesses resurrected in front of astonished eyes worldwide? The sun goes dark?  Demonic locusts fly out of the pit? How can human minds explain this? The answer is it can't.

For now, we who are watching the end times signs are noticing the progression from "unusual" to "first ever" to "weird" know that God is applying increasing pressure on human hearts. Eventually, these things coming upon the earth will be unusual enough so that "Then they will know that I am the LORD; I have not said in vain that I would inflict this disaster on them."'

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Did Obama make a secret deal to stab Israel in the back?

PM heads to U.S. under threat of Palestinian statehood declaration 
The reports indicated that Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has reached a secret understanding with the Obama administration over U.S. recognition of an independent Palestinian state. Such recognition would likely transform any Israeli presence across the Green Line, even in Jerusalem, into an illegal incursion to which the Palestinians would be entitled to engage in measures of self-defense. ... "It's a very dangerous move," said a senior Israeli foreign-policy official.

But let's back up a bit. The Gaza War was a three-week military conflict called Operation Cast Lead. It was a conflict between Israel and Hamas that took place in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel during the winter of 2008–2009. Soon after the war concluded, the Palestinians accused the Israelis of war crimes. The UN formed a task force to investigate these alleged crimes. Called the "United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict," an investigation ensued, and the upshot reported this week is that the UN concluded Israel DID in fact commit war crimes. The report in which these conclusions were made is called the Goldstone Report, after Justice Richard Goldstone, chief investigator of the task force.

The report stated that Israel used excessive force against Palestinians, that they deny Palestinians of their means of subsistence opportunities, that they disrespected the fundamental principle of “distinction” in international humanitarian law by specifically targeting civilians...and more. The reaction from the Sanhedrin regarding this report was instantaneous and firm. It was also biblical:

"Sanhedrin to UN: Goldstone Will Bring Judgment Upon You"
The Sanhedrin has warned the UN General Assembly not to hold a plenum debate this Wednesday on the anti-Israel Goldstone Report. In a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and the UN's member states, the Sanhedrin warns that continued consideration of what it calls the "hostile, fallacious, and malicious" Goldstone document will bring upon the world the catastrophic events described in the Bible's Book of Joel.

This is the section to which the Sanhedrin was referring- Joel 3:1-2 (NASB)

The Nations Will Be Judged
"For behold, in those days and at that time,
When I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,
I will gather all the nations
And bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat
Then I will enter into judgment with them there
On behalf of My people and My inheritance, Israel,
Whom they have scattered among the nations;
And they have divided up My land.

Back in July, EU top diplomat Javier Solana essentially said, let's cut through the red tape, quit the talk, and walk the walk. How about creating a Palestinian State!  "The United Nations Security Council should "proclaim the adoption of the two-state solution. . . . accept the Palestinian state as a full member of the UN and set a calendar for implementation" Solana said. This is the ultimate 'Just do it!' Heretofore the notion of a Palestinian State had always been tied to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. What Solana did was remove the two-state idea from any kind of organized process, float the idea that a solution could simply be forced, and exclude Israel from participation. And the newly released Goldstone report may give the UN grounds to 'punish' Israel for their "war crimes" by rewarding the Palestinians with Israeli land.

Israel lovers were shocked at Solana's proposal, the few who heard about it in the US, no thanks to the American mainstream media who never reports on anything outside the Beltway. But it seemed to sink fast. Until now. It seems that since July Obama may have taken the idea to heart. Reports are leaking today that Obama may have cut a secret deal to create and impose this Palestinian State!

The 'Senior Israeli Policy Official' is right, it is a very dangerous move to create a Palestinian state. Any person or nation who carves up Israel is under threat of severe judgment! God takes it very seriously when humans seek to take away from Him what He rightfully gave to His people. God also said in Genesis 12:3a that "And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse." He promised judgment and judgment will surely come.

The Goldstone Report may become the final catalyst to steal land rightfully set aside by the God of the Universe for His purposes and give it to Esau's people. We do not know if this is the time which Israel endures the ultimate indignity - divided land - but we know it eventually DOES happen. Joel prophesied that God's wrath rains down on the nations who "divided up My land." That promise is prophecy, in other words, future news. But note that the phrase 'divided up' is in the past tense. At some point, Israel does get divided and the jackals grin. Their grins will not last, but for now, pray for the peace of Israel, and keep looking up! Our redemption draws nigh!

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The Mystery of Barack Obama Continues

By Steve Baldwin, Exclusive to Western Center for Journalism

Most Americans don’t realize we have elected a president whom we know very little about.

Pictured: Barack Obama’s Autobiography, Dreams from My Father.

Researchers have discovered that Obama’s autobiographical books are little more than PR stunts, as they have little to do with the actual events of his life. The fact is we know less about President Obama than perhaps any other president in American history and much of this is due to actual efforts to hide his record. This should concern all Americans.

A nation-wide network of researchers has sprung up to attempt to fill in the blanks, but at every opportunity Obama’s high-priced lawyers have built walls around various records or simply made them disappear. It is estimated that Obama’s legal team has now spent well over $1.4 million dollars blocking access to documents every American should have access to. The question is why would he spend so much money to do this?
The president who campaigned for a more “open government” and “full disclosure” will not unseal his medical records, his school records, his birth records or his passport records. He will not release his Harvard records, his Columbia College records, or his Occidental College records—he will not even release his Columbia College thesis. All his legislative records from the Illinois State Senate are missing and he claims his scheduling records during those State Senate years are lost as well. In addition, no one can find his school records for the elite K-12 college prep school, Punahou School, he attended in Hawaii.

What is he hiding? Well, for starters, some of these records will shed light on his citizenship and birth.

Pictured: “Scott & Barry, 3rd grade 1969” Punahou School in Hawaii.

For example, Obama’s application to Punahou School – now mysteriously missing – would likely contain a birth certificate. And, according to attorney Gary Kreep, “his Occidental College records are important as they may show he attended there as a foreign exchange student.” Indeed, Obama used his Indonesian name “Barry Soetoro” while attending Occidental. Kreep has filed lawsuits challenging Obama’s eligibility to be president and as part of his lawsuit he requested Obama’s records from Occidental. However, Obama’s lawyers quickly moved to stop Occidental from honoring this request.

Furthermore, now that at least three document authentication experts have declared the scanned “Certificate of Live Birth” Obama’s campaign team gave to a pro-Obama website to be an obvious phony; we know that he is hiding something here as well.

Over 49 separate law suits have been filed on the eligibility/birth certificate issue alone, with several of the suits making it all the way the United States Supreme Court, only to be denied a full hearing.

Pictured: Saudi Prince Al-Walid bin Talah

What’s more, there are questions about how he paid for his Harvard Law School education since, despite a claim by Michele Obama, no one has produced any evidence that he received student loans. The Obamas will not release any student loan details despite repeated requests from the Chicago Tribune. However, it appears that his Harvard education may have been paid for by a foreign source. Khalid Al-Mansour, an advisor to Saudi prince Al-Walid bin Talah, told Manhattan Borough president, Percy Sutton, that he was raising money for Obama’s Harvard tuition. Incidentally, Prince Tala is the largest donor to CAIR, a Muslim group declared by the U.S. Government in 2007 as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorist financing trial. At least three of CAIR’s leaders have been indicted for terrorist activities. Al-Mansour’s admission opens up speculation as to whether Muslim interests have assisted Obama’s career in the hope he would eventually be in a position someday to promote their interests.

More recently, it was discovered that Obama’s Selective Service card may have been doctored. Federal law requires all American males to register for the Selective Service (the draft) in case a major war broke out.  Blogger Debbie Schlussel has discovered solid evidence that Obama’s Selective Service registration form was submitted not when he was younger as required, but rather in 2008 and then altered to look older. Indeed, the forgers forgot to alter the “Document Location Number” which shows that it is clearly a 2008 form. This is fraud and it’s a felony and Schlussel allegations are backed up by Stephen Coffman, a former high-ranking Federal agent. Moreover, the document shows a September 4th, 1980 date and the location of the transaction as Hawaii, but at that time Obama was thousands of miles away attending Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Pictured: Barack Obama’s 2008 Selective Service Card. “Blogger Debbie Schlussel has discovered solid evidence that Obama’s Selective Service registration form was submitted not when he was younger as required, but rather in 2008 and then altered to look older.”

The real reason why Obama probably did not submit this form as a teenager is that he assumed his Kenyan or Indonesian citizenship exempted him from this requirement. But clearly, as he grew older and entered politics, he saw that any documents revealing a foreign birth – Selective Service registration, birth certificate, school applications, etc – would be problematic if he ran for the presidency. Thus, it is not a coincidence that every document which contains information about his birth or citizenship is either missing, sealed, or has been altered.

Indeed, everywhere one looks into Obama’s background, we find sealed records, scrubbed websites, altered documents, deception and unanswered questions. Can anyone imagine for a second if John McCain or George Bush had blocked access to his school, medical, and birth records?  It would have been headlines but as with everything else concerning Obama, the media has given him a pass on this.

Of all these marvels, the latest mystery and probably most perplexing is that of Obama’s social security number. It appears that Obama has multiple identities in term of possessing numerous social security numbers. Orly Taitz, an attorney who has filed numerous suits against Obama regarding his eligibility to serve as president, appears to be the first to discover this. In her suit, representing a number of military officers who are refusing to serve under an ineligible commander in chief, she hired private investigator Neil Sankey to conduct research on Obama’s prior addresses and Social Society numbers. Using Intelius, Lexis Nexis, Choice Point and other public records, Sankey found around 25 Social Security numbers connected with Obama’s name.

However, it may not be as many as 25, since Sankey also searched using closely related names such as:  “Barak Obama,” “Batock Obama,” “Barok Obama,” and “Barrack Obama.” There may very well be some Kenyans living in America with the same last name and a similar first name. In any case, I will exclude these records for the purpose of this research and focus only on names spelled exactly like his name. Moreover, we can verify many of the Social Security numbers as valid since they’re connected to addresses at which we know Obama resided. Needless to say, there are also a slew of address and social security numbers connected to addresses in states that Obama has no known connection to.

In Obama’s home state, Illinois, Sankey tracked down 16 different addresses for a Barack Obama or a Barack H. Obama, of which all are addresses he was known to have lived at. Two Social Security numbers appear for these addresses, one beginning with 042 and one starting 364.

In California, where Obama attended Occidental College, there are six addresses listed for him, all within easy driving distance of the college. However, there are three Social Security numbers connected to these addresses, 537 and two others, each beginning with 999.

There are no addresses listed in New York where he attended Columbia University, but there is one listed for him in nearby Jackson, NJ, with a Social Security number beginning with 485.

Pictured: 713 Hart Senate Office Building.

In Massachusetts – where Obama attended Harvard Law School – we find three addresses, all using the 042 Social Security number. After Obama was elected to the United States Senate in 2005, he moved into an apartment at 300 Massachusetts Ave NW; the Social Security number attached to that address is the 042 one. Yet, three years later, Obama used a different Social Security number for an address listed as: 713 Hart Senate Office Building. This was the address of his United States Senate office.  This Social Security number began with 282 and was verified by the government in 2008.

This mystery grows even stranger as other addresses and Social Security numbers for Barack Obama appear in a dozen other states not known to be connected to him. Again, I am excluding those records names not spelled exactly like his name.

Tennessee, one address with a Social Security number beginning with 427
Colorado, one address, with a Social Security number beginning with 456.
Utah, two addresses, with two Social Security numbers beginning with 901 and 799.
Missouri has one address and one Social Security number beginning with 999.
Florida has two addresses listed for his him, three if you count one listed as “Barry Obama.” One is connected to a Social Security number beginning with 762.
In Georgia there are three addresses listed for him, all with different Social Security numbers:   579, 420, and 423.
In Texas there are four different addresses listed for him, one is connected to Social Security number 675.
There are two addresses listed for Barack Obama in Oregon and one address listed for him in
the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

All told, there are 49 addresses and 16 different Social Security numbers listed for a person whose name is spelled “Barack Obama.” In some cases, the middle initial “H” is listed. If you were to expand the search to include closely related names such as: “Barac,” “Barak,” and “Barrack” Obama, you would find more than a dozen additional addresses and Social Security numbers.

Finally, the one Social Security number Obama most frequently used, the one beginning with 042, is a number issued in Connecticut sometime during 1976-1977, yet there is no record of Obama ever living or working in Connecticut. Indeed, during this time period Obama would have been 15-16 years old and living in Hawaii at the time.

Pictured: Ann, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham

Nevertheless, all this mystery surrounding Obama appears to be a generational thing.  Researchers have discovered nearly a dozen aliases, at least two different Social Security numbers, and upwards of over 99 separate addresses for Ann Dunham, his mother. We do know she worked for the ultra liberal Ford Foundation but we also know she may have earned some income from pornographic poses, as evidenced by photos recently discovered by some researchers—how embarrassing. The only thing researchers are able to find out about Obama’s mother is the fact she made porn. I’m sure that’s a first for presidential mothers.

But we also know that Obama’s mother and grandparents associated with Communist Party  leaders such as Frank Marshall Davis, a man who, according to Obama’s book, Dreams from my Father, was his main mentor during much of his Hawaiian boyhood (although Obama tried to disguise his identity in his book). During the Cold War, Davis was named by congressional investigators as a key member of a secretive pro-Soviet networked that existed in Hawaii at that time.

Pictured: Communist Party leader, Frank Marshall Davis.

The lack of documents regarding Obama also extends to his mother and to his grandparents. Indeed, researchers have been unable to find marriage licenses for his mother’s two marriages, assuming she was ever legally married. Ditto goes for the marriage license for Ann’s parents. They cannot find birth certificates for her, her parents, or for even for her grandparents. Even more so, despite Obama’s boast of his grandfather’s military service, there’s no record of that either. For reasons no one knows, much of Obama’s life, his mother’s life and his grandparent’s life has been erased from the records as if they never existed.

But why would someone obtain so many Social Security numbers? According to investigators, those who create additional Social Society numbers are typically engaged in criminal activities such as Social Security fraud, tax fraud, real estate fraud, campaign contributions fraud, voter fraud and so on. While the private investigator who compiled this list says multiple social security numbers does not automatically prove there’s criminal activity involved, he states that “having said that, I have personally experienced many, many cases where such information has led to subsequent exposure of fraud, deception, money laundering and other crimes.“What is interesting to note is that Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, was a volunteer at the Oahu Circuit Court probate department and had access to the Social Security numbers of deceased people.

Pictured: Barrack Obama and his Grandmother, Madelyn Dunham. “Madeline Dunham was a volunteer at the Oahu Circuit Court probate department and had access to the Social Security numbers of deceased people.”

It is clear that more research needs to be done on this issue.  The Western Center for Journalism
( http://www.westernjournalism.com) is inviting our readers to join the search for the truth. If you have any information about any of the addresses listed, we would love to hear from you. To find a complete list of all the addresses and Social Security numbers listed in the public record for Obama and family, please go to the Western Center for Journalism.

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Sinners in the hands of an angry God

The Puritans were originally missionaries who left all they knew to travel by cramped and leaky ship to an unknown world full of hostile natives, deathly weather, and dread disease just so they could establish a nation founded on Christian principles. This to me, is amazing. I published earlier of John Winthrop, the Puritan who wrote "A Model of Christian Charity" which contained the use of Jesus' famous metaphor 'city upon a hill.' It is a beautiful piece of writing and gives a good foundational context for the spiritual conditions existing at the birth of our country. It was a golden moment. I am full of admiration for the Puritans.

Christians I know are experiencing complex emotions these days. They are alternately angry, fearful, and mournful of the things coming upon the world. See, we know what is ahead for this last chapter of human experience. Though we have always known the fate of the lost and unsaved, sinking in their sin, but because the prophesies are nearing fulfillment at this time, we are starting to see it. And there is a difference between knowing and seeing. We see the sin piling up, we see sinners sinking, drowning in their anger and pain. Being separated from God they are crying out. We read of corruption and hate and shooting and evil and lying and false religions and it goes on and on. All we can do is stand on the lakeshore and tell the sinking, perishing ones the truth, that there is a helicopter above their head with a lifeline. Grab it! Grab it! we shout. Many won't. It is excruciating to see so many refuse to listen. They will not look up at their redemption drawing nigh and one by one, they strangle and perish. We cry. Why? What we are feeling these days is mourning. We are watching the death of our world as we know it, and we are watching the perishing of many souls. We sink to our knees in grief.

We all started in the pit of sin. We are born in it. However, that helicopter lowers a rope to each one of us. And when we become aware of the lifeline we all must choose either to live in relationship with God and experience life, or live apart from God and end in ruin. Some look up, see the way, and take it. Others, many others, don't.

I am listening to Pastor Steve Hadley preach through the book of Revelation. On his 10/25 message, titled "Jesus, King of Kings" he read a portion of another Puritan preacher, Jonathan Edwards', message titled "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." The portion that spoke to me was the description of the concept of eternity. Our minds can't really wrap around the fact of eternity, either our dwelling with Jesus in New Jerusalem, nor the eternity many will spend (even loved ones and friends) in the Lake of Fire. Jonathan Edwards talked about hell a lot and this sermon was dedicated to the subject. This is excerpted on point four, the part that discusses the length and breadth of time that those who reject Christ will spend in torment, apart from Him, in the everlasting fire. Death is not a cessation, you know. It is but one breath to another, from body to soul, from earth to hell - or heaven. Life continues for both saved sinner and unrepentant sinner. For the unrepentant sinner, the following awaits:

Sinners in the hands of an angry God
Jonathan Edwards
Enfield Connecticut, July 8, 1741

It is everlasting wrath. It would be dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath of Almighty God one moment; but you must suffer it to all eternity. There will be no end to this exquisite horrible misery. When you look forward, you shall see a long for ever, a boundless duration before you, which will swallow up your thoughts, and amaze your soul; and you will absolutely despair of ever having any deliverance, any end, any mitigation, any rest at all. You will know certainly that you must wear out long ages, millions of millions of ages, in wrestling and conflicting with this almighty merciless vengeance; and then when you have so done, when so many ages have actually been spent by you in this manner, you will know that all is but a point to what remains. So that your punishment will indeed be infinite. Oh, who can express what the state of a soul in such circumstances is! All that we can possibly say about it, gives but a very feeble, faint representation of it; it is inexpressible and inconceivable: For "who knows the power of God's anger?"

How awful! How could a loving God do this? you ask. He must not be loving, you conclude. The answer is, He is. This is the God who loved us SO MUCH that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. The God who would send His son to hang tortured, bloody and alone on the cross so that we sinners could live, loves us mightily indeed.

You may say, Bah! How could God send people to hell? The answer is, HE DOESN'T! The Lake of Fire (where hell will be thrown into after the final events) was built for the devil and his angels, not for God's children. And contrary to common belief, it is not our sins that put us there, because our, your, sins have been paid for. It is refusal to accept the Way that paid our sin-debt that sends people there. It truly hurts to watch so many perish when there is a rescue hovering right above their heads.

Edwards wrote "The use of this awful subject may be for awakening unconverted persons in this congregation. This that you have heard is the case of every one of you that are out of Christ. -- That world of misery, that lake of burning brimstone, is extended abroad under you. There is the dreadful pit of the glowing flames of the wrath of God; there is hell's wide gaping mouth open; and you have nothing to stand upon, nor any thing to take hold of; there is nothing between you and hell but the air." Christian Brother or Sister, fear not and boldly witness. "O praise the Lord, His deeds make known, And call upon His Name;" do this for the lost. For the lost, dear ones. They perish. They do not know that there is another lake, the Lake of Fire awaiting. And eternity is a long time.

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The Baguette Incident

A few weeks ago, I wrote an essay outlining the mysterious problems with the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC is a 17-mile long machine that scientists want to use to reproduce the Big Bang, all in search of the Higgs-Boson particle they have nicknamed the God Particle. The Higgs particle is theoretically supposed to have existed at the time of the Big Bang and it allegedly holds the universe together. Experimental detection of the Higgs boson would help explain the origin of mass in the universe. But how to test the theory since the Big Bang is non-reproducible, one-time event. Or is it?

Undeterred by the implications of reproducing the Big Bang, scientists built a huge machine under the Alps, straddling France and Switzerland. Last September they put in subatomic particles, sped them up, and crashed them together, downplaying the potential side effect of this experiment would be to accidentally create a black hole, into which the earth and all known matter would be sucked. I hate when that happens. Aside from that possibility, all proceeded well with LHC and last September the big switch-on commenced. And immediately stopped. The machine, calibrated to the tune of billions of dollars, overheated in a moment and the experiment to find "God" in a collided particle was over before it began. Undaunted, scientists repaired and tested the machine and deeming it in tip-top shape, tried again. It immediately exploded. Or, rather, a chamber exploded, filled with helium and had to be shut down.

The interesting thing is, every time since then that the machine has geared for start-up, something has happened. So many things have happened, inexplicably and perplexingly, that last month they came out with a theory as to why. "A future time traveller is coming back to prevent us from killing our grandfather" or something like that. The other lead scientist simply said "God doesn't want us to do this. He rather hates the God-particle and attempts to avoid it." Cheeky, aren't those guys?

STILL undaunted, the next start-up was due to begin this week. All systems were go. The machines were being cooled down to 1.9 degrees above absolute zero, when one chamber suddenly started overheating. And here is the delightful part.

Though most of the machine is below ground, a cooling unit inside a building that is surrounded by high voltage wires is above ground. So what caused the overheating of one of the units? A baguette. You heard me. A baguette.

"Nobody knows how it got there,” she told The Times. “The best guess is that it was dropped by a bird, either that or it was thrown out of a passing aeroplane. Obviously this was slightly surprising. Within the team there was some amusement once they had relaxed after initial concerns.” The bread was discovered on a busbar - an electrical connection inside one of eight buildings above ground on the 17-mile circuit in the Swiss countryside."

Did you get that? INSIDE. Obviously their theory that the bread had been tossed from a passing airplane (BTW, when was the last time YOU threw something out of an airplane??) or had been dropped by a bird defies known physics. Is no one asking how it got INSIDE the building? A building that is surrounded by high-voltage wires? In the Alps? In the countryside? Guarded?

"A spokeswoman for CERN confirmed that baguette was responsible for the latest hiatus, but she conceded that mystery surrounded the way it got into the vital power installation, which is protected by high security fences." 

Here is another article, and another. But most of the stories I've read (except for The Times) do not mention that the bread was found in a locked building. Here is what a busbar looks like and some facts about it: "Busbars are typically either flat strips or hollow tubes as these shapes allow heat to dissipate more efficiently ...A busbar may either be supported on insulators, or else insulation may completely surround it. Busbars are protected from accidental contact either by a metal enclosure or by elevation out of normal reach. [B]usbars are typically bolted directly onto any metal chassis of their enclosure. Busbars may be enclosed in a metal housing..." and on one of these; locked, protected, insulated, elevated...a baguette was found.

God was gentle and funny last time this happened. When the rebellious ones on the Plains of Shinar ignored God's command to remain rural and agricultural and arrogantly built a tower (likely to the zodiac), it was like spitting in God's eye. Rather than choosing at that time to smite them all, God simply confused their languages and they drifted off from building the city. Imagine that scene for a moment. We are so inured to the fact of the Tower of Babel story, imagine how it was that bricklayers are working away, shouting directions to one another, and suddenly no one understands what anyone else is saying. The key to the intervention of this event is in the phrase 'let us make a name for ourselves.' The tower was a monument to man's defiance, arrogance, and personal endeavors that seek to supplant God. The same is true of the LHC.

The scientists brazenly search for a theoretical dot that they irreverently name the "God Particle." They claim that God was not the initiator of the universe but a bang started it all. They brazenly say that this subatomic theoretical particle is the glue that holds the universe together, not the Word of God. And they make fun of God saying, "He hates this particle and rather attempts to avoid it." Yet again, merciful God chose not to smite them. Instead, He sent a baguette.

John 1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God, all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made." And Colossians 1:17- "He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together."

Ya got that? Now, pass the bread.

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Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead design!

Iran is the the nation that has consistently lied about their nuclear ambitions, stalling and prevaricating at the diplomatic table while secretly continuing their nuke weapon program. This is the nation that has consistently said they plan to wipe Israel off the map.
Gog-Magog
Ezekiel 38-39 describes a war in which a league of nations come against Israel. This alliance includes Iran. We have seen Iran's belligerence in these last months (years) regarding Israel and Iran's continuous denials of her "right to exist."

Merkel decries Iran's denial of Israel's "right to exist"
Iran's denial of Israel's right to exist is unacceptable and Tehran must be prevented from obtaining a nuclear weapon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a speech before the U.S. Congress yesterday.

We also know that Israel will be a burdensome stone that the world hates, tries to move, and turns from. (Zech 12:3). Today, the Guardian Newspaper (UK)  revealed that Iran has been confirmed to have tested a sophisticated nuclear weapon design. This proves beyond doubt (as if there had been doubt by this time) that Iran is intent on pursuing her hellish agenda and creating genocide toward the Jews. That Iran will actually attempt it is also described in Ezekiel. However, God stops this supernaturally. But Iran does pursue this agenda to the end. To wit:

Iran has tested advanced nuclear warhead design
The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian has learned. The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian has learned. The very existence of the technology, known as a "two-point implosion" device, is officially secret in both the US and Britain, but according to previously unpublished documentation in a dossier compiled by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iranian scientists may have tested high-explosive components of the design. The development was today described by nuclear experts as "breathtaking" and has added urgency to the effort to find a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis.

Just yesterday, Israel intercepted a seagoing shipment of arms destined for Iran's proxy-terrorist arm, Hezbollah.

Seized arms evidence of Iran's investment of Israel's borders
The seizure by Israeli forces of an Iranian-commissioned arms smuggling ship on its way to Syria and/or Hizbullah in Lebanon offers a further glimpse into the daily, silent war under way between Israel and the Iranian-led regional bloc. Iran makes use of all its regional assets and allies in its effort to supply arms to Hamas and Hizbullah. These two organizations play a vital role in Iran's strategy for regional hegemony.

Though the fulfillment of the Gog-Magog war has not occurred, the Middle East is a powder keg giving off sparks. And if Iran has anything to say about it, that spark will be a nuke.

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Something is happening in the Ukraine

What it is we're not exactly sure. People are dying in unexpected numbers from an ailment that is similar to, but not, the swine flu. It spreads fast, is highly infectious, and has shut down the country. Ukraine has asked for aid from six nations, the World Health Organization, and its own military. Rumors of pneumonic flu have been surfacing. But let's start at the beginning. Left, Afghan Health Minister Said Mohammad Amin Fatami speaks at a press conference on November 2 about swine flu. He is surrounded by doctors dressed in full protective suits from a Kabul lab designed to diagnose the H1N1 virus.

On Saturday I sent an e-mail to my subscribers (subscribe here) alerting them to the fact that something was happening in the Ukraine. We here in the West first started hearing late last week that "Ukraine had closed schools and banned public meetings including election rallies and restricted travel for a three-week period after confirming its first death from H1N1 flu. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced the measures, saying the virus had reached epidemic levels in three parts of western Ukraine, where there has been an outbreak of respiratory illness since mid-October."

However, the situation rapidly spun out of control as rumors of the illness being the pneumonic flu surfaced on Saturday. Pneumonic flu is serious. You've heard of the bubonic plague in legend and history? People dying in the streets, infection running rampant? Pneumonic flu is worse. Both Pneumonic and Bubonic plagues have the Yersinia pestis at its root, but with bubonic plague the bacteria is introduced in the bloodstream, usually through a flea or rat bite. In Pneumonic, the bacteria is introduced through inhaling air contaminated with it. This makes it extremely passable from human to human.

Pneumonic plague symptoms mimic the flu with fever, overall bodily aches and pains, and also headaches. Then, pneumonia sets in and the patient may begin coughing up blood. Death is imminent, unless antibiotic treatment is offered within about 24 hours of suspected infection. However, since swine flu AND regular flu are making their course around the world, including the Ukraine, and symptoms of the flus are similar, distinguishing Pneumonic Plague within the life-saving time-period is extremely reduced.

The Mayo Clinic's symptom list for Pneumonic plague includes:
Pneumonic plague — which can occur as a complication of another type of plague or by inhaling infectious droplets coughed into the air by a person or animal — is the least common form of plague. But it's also the most rapidly fatal. Early signs and symptoms, which generally occur within a few hours to a few days after inhaling contaminated droplets, include:

* High fever
* Weakness
* Signs of pneumonia, including chest pain, difficulty breathing and a cough with bloody sputum
* Nausea and vomiting

Pneumonic plague progresses rapidly and may cause respiratory failure and shock within two days of infection. If antibiotic treatment isn't initiated within a day after signs and symptoms first appear, the infection is likely to be fatal.

On Saturday the nation confirmed 39 flu deaths. They instituted social distancing methods such as cancellation of sports events and closing schools. By Sunday the Ukraine suspended its draft, and has requested help from outside the country. On Monday help had arrived. The death toll had risen to 67, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) report. Deputy Health Minister Vasyl Lazorysynets said the country has had 255,000 cases of flu and respiratory illness, with 15,000 people hospitalized, AFP reported. By Tuesday, Romania had quarantined its hospitals on their border with Ukraine and Poland requested a meeting of the EU to address the situation. "Poland has asked the Swedish EU presidency to call an emergency session of EU health ministers to discuss help for Ukraine amid an explosive outbreak of flu."

Explosive.

Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko said experts fear the simultaneous existence of three types of flu viruses within the country "may lead to the emergence of an even more aggressive new virus." And Afghanistan got into the swell of panic, as "Swine Flu Fears Spread From Ukraine To Afghanistan".

Solid facts have been hard to come by as to how many are sick and where they are, because of the media blackout. The Ukrainian Health Ministry said yesterday that the number of flu patients in the country has risen to 450,000, although it has not been determined how many of those people are suffering from swine flu. Only two days prior, the ministry had said some 255,000 Ukrainians had registered with public health authorities as suffering from the flu, among them 83,000 children. And the initial rumors of pneumonic plague were quickly squashed though the deaths clearly are from an 'acute respiratory infection' (ARI) with autopsies showing blood soaked lungs.

WHO said: "Work will initially begin in Lviv region, where reported numbers of cases showing severe manifestations of acute respiratory illness have been especially high. Two virologists on the team have started working at the National Influenza Centre and the laboratories of the Central Sanitary and Epidemiological Station in Kyiv to provide diagnostic support."

"The above comments from the WHO update on Ukraine strike a more serious tone than yesterday's quotes from WHO spokespersons playing down the alarming number of hospitalized and fatal cases, as well as media reports spinning political considerations, or politicians claiming only 15 confirmed H1N1 cases.. The more severe manifestation of cases are clearly hemorrhagic disease that fills lungs with blood and produces bleeding at all orifices, which are stark reminders of 1918 pandemic cases which were also linked to a swine H1N1. Samples have arrived at Mill Hill in London, and sequence data should be available shortly," write Gordon Wagner.

"Hemorrhagic pneumonia was also observed in the 1918 pandemic and was thought to be linked to cytokine storm. Consequently, those with robust immune systems (previously health young adults) disproportionately died, which has also been seen in the current outbreak (Mexico, US, and worldwide). However, the cases in Ukraine appear to be clustered, raising concerns that the virus has changed." A mutation toward the same or similar flu as the 1918 Spanish influenza would be disaster, in these days of rapid, global travel.

So that's all we know. Or don't know. There have been deaths and a rapid spread of some kind of disease that is highly fatal. It may be swine flu or it may not, or it may be a deadly swine flu mutation or it may cease without warning as fast as it began. Until lab tests are returned and until the government releases data from same, then all we can do is watch, and pray.

When Jesus answered the disciples' query "when shall these things be and what shall be the sign?" [of the end of the age]  (Matthew 24:4-28) Jesus noted in His discourse that "there will be pestilences." However, that answer was aimed at the events suffered by the world during the Tribulation. We are not in the tribulation now. But He also said that there would be a preamble, that as a woman gets ready to give birth, it all would start with pangs. The world is experiencing the initial pangs and also the emotions surrounding the end of a gestation period, hope, joy, fear, uncertainty, panic. As Jesus methodically takes away our underpinnings and inexorably reveals our ineptitude and selfishness in the face of ever-increasing calamitous events, these emotions will continue and heighten. Pray for our deliverance from the world, and pray for the lost! Can you hear His footsteps?

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