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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 10/12/2017 9:50:31 AM
	SOUTH KOREA 'BLACKOUT BOMBS' CAN TAKE DOWN PYONGYANG WITHOUT FIRING A SHOT BY SOFIA LOTTO PERSIO ON 10/9/17 AT 6:25 AM The South Korean military is developing a new weapon to fight North Korea’s growing nuclear capabilities. Seoul’s Agency for Defense Development (ADD) has acquired the technology to build graphite bombs, non-lethal weapons that can take down North Korea’s power system in case of a war, according to military sources who spoke to South Korea’snews agency Yonhap on Sunday. “All technologies for the development of a graphite bomb led by the ADD have been secured," a military official said. "It is in the stage where we can build the bombs anytime." Known as “blackout bombs,” the warheads can be dropped by a plane over power stations. A form of cluster bombs, they split into several canister-like “sub-munitions,” which in turn release carbon graphite filaments that short-circuit the electricity supplies. The bombs were first used by the U.S. Navy in 1991 to black out power supply in Iraq during the first Gulf War. They were later also deployed against Serbia during the Balkan conflict in 1999. After their use in Kosovo, NATO spokesperson Jamie Shea said that the bomb’s impact is mostly psychological, as the targeted country feels literally and figuratively powerless. “We can turn the power off whenever we need to and whenever we want to," Shea told the BBC at the time. South Korea is adding the weapons to its arsenal as part of one of its recently-developed military programs, the so-called “Kill Chain,” which aims to detect an imminent missile attack from the North and react with a pre-emptive strike. As reported by the Korea Times in 2016, the arms build-up also includes the Korea Air and Missile Defense Program, tasked with tracking and shooting down nuclear missiles heading for South Korea, and an initiative known as the Korean Massive Punishment and Retaliation system, which would first strike back against a North Korean attack. Originally due for completion in the mid-2020s, South Korea has sped up the program’s timeline to face North Korea’s rapidly advancing nuclear weapons development program. Monitoring groups such as the Nuclear Threat Initiative recorded Pyongyang conducting 19 missile tests this year alone, including two intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the U.S. mainland. North Korea also tested a hydrogen bomb in its sixth—and most powerful—nuclear test to date. The South Korean military says there are no signs of an imminent threat. "We have yet to detect any signs of immediate provocations from North Korea," a South Korean military source said on Monday, quoted in Yonhap, adding: "We are maintaining an upgraded monitoring effort to guard against any developments." (Newsweek)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 10/12/2017 10:06:52 AM
	‘Armageddon’: Apocalyptic images show the devastation caused by deadly wine-country fires By Mary Hui and J. Freedom du Lac October 11 at 7:51 PM Multiple fires burned more than 73,000 acres in Northern California, nearly all of those in Sonoma and Napa counties. (Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post) Fast-moving wildfires have caused widespread destruction across Northern California’s wine country as flames engulfed multiple counties and raged across more than 170,000 acres, forcing mandatory evacuations and prompting California’s governor to declare a state of emergency. “We’re not out of the woods, and we’re not going to be out of the woods for a number of days to come,” Cal Fire Chief Ken Pimlott said at a news conference Wednesday. “We’re literally looking at explosive vegetation. These fires are burning actively during the day and at night.” A burned-out McDonald’s restaurant in Santa Rosa. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images) Efforts to contain the fires have been made more difficult by high winds, low humidity, and parched lands. Downed power lines and falling trees are also restricting access and mobility for fire crews. Jonathan Cox, Battalion Chief of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, called the fires “unprecedented” in how quickly they spread. A hill silhouetted by flames during in Kenwood, Calif. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) After first igniting late Sunday, the fires — at least 22 in all — remained largely uncontained, and may continue spreading as dangerous winds whip back up. A firefighter monitors flames as a house burns near Napa. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images) At least 21 people have been killed in the fires, including an elderly couple who had just celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary. Mike Rippey walks away from the burned-out remains of his parents’ home at the Silverado Resort in Napa. Charles Rippey, 100, and his wife Sara, 98, died when flames swept through the area Sunday night. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP) Scores of others have been injured or reported missing, and more than 3,500 homes and businesses have been destroyed — including at least one fire station. “We’re not out of the woods, and we’re not going to be out of the woods for a number of days to come,” Cal Fire Chief Ken Pimlott said at a news conference Wednesday. “We’re literally looking at explosive vegetation. These fires are burning actively during the day and at night.” This aerial image shows homes destroyed by a wildfire in Santa Rosa. (Nick Giblin/DroneBase via AP) Fire burns from an open gas valve near the pool area at the Journey’s End trailer park in Santa Rosa. (Ben Margot/AP) Firefighter Chris Roberts rests in front of Fire Station 5 in Santa Rosa. (Paul Kitagaki Jr./The Sacramento Bee via AP) Much of the damage has been concentrated in Sonoma and Napa counties, the heart of wine country. Fire is seen from Gundlach Bundschu winery in Sonoma, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) The counties boast world-class vineyards and opulent wineries set against a backdrop of undulating hills and rolling fields; but the scene now resembles what one resident described as “Armageddon.” The fire-ravaged Signorello Estate winery is seen through a window. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP) Burned out bottles sit on a rack at Signarello Estate. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Burned out wine bottles sit on a rack at the fire-damaged Signorello Estate winery in Napa. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Burned wine barrels are seen at a fire-ravaged Paradise Ridge Winery in Santa Rosa. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images) One witness described the scenes as something out of a war zone: “It looks like a bombing run,” Joe Nielsen, the winemaker at Donelan Family Wines in Sonoma County, told SFGate. “Just chimneys and burned-out cars and cooked trees.” Burned cars are seen in Glen Ellen, Calif. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) A firefighter walks near a pool as a neighboring home burns near Napa. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images) Smoke rises from a home that was destroyed by wildfire in the hills east of Napa. (Michael Short/San Francisco Chronicle via AP) In Santa Rosa, the largest city in Sonoma County, the situation appeared dire. Eleven deaths were reported across the county by Tuesday night, and countless structures were decimated by fires — a Hilton hotel among them. Smoke rises from the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country in Santa Rosa. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Across the highway, a Kmart store was also destroyed. A man walks past the front of a Kmart store destroyed by a fire in Santa Rosa. (Jeff Chiu/AP) Flames rise from the remains of a house that burned down in Santa Rosa. (Jeff Chiu/AP) Thousands of firefighters are fighting at least 17 blazes across nine counties. Despite the massive deployment, crews have struggled to contain the fires. A firefighter sprays water onto a damaged structure in Santa Rosa. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) The sun rises as flames burn east of Napa. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP) Among the more than 25,000 residents who have been forced to evacuate include patients at threatened hospitals. In this image made from a KGO-TV video, Kaiser Permanente Hospital employees are seen evacuating a patient. (KGO-TV/ABC7 News via AP) As the infernos continued to rage, concerns spread that the vineyards of Napa and Sonoma could suffer significant damage. Grape vines burning at Paras Vinyards in the Mount Veeder area of Napa. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images) A small flame is seen at the edge of the Robert Sinskey Vineyard in Napa. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP) The entrance sign to Nicholson Ranch vineyards, which was consumed by fires in Sonoma, California, USA. (JOHN G. MABANGLO/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock ) And for vineyards that have not been completely scorched, there is the worry of “smoke taint,” when grapes take on a strong flavor after being exposed to smoke for extended periods of time. Fire glows on a hillside in Napa. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images) As residents returned to their homes to survey the damage, many are finding not much more than charred heaps of rubble and debris. Homeowner Phil Rush looks at the remains of his home destroyed by wildfire in Santa Rosa, California, on October 11. (ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images) Ben Pederson find’s a school yearbook in the remains of his bedroom after his family’s home was destroyed by wildfire in Santa Rosa, California, October 11. (ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images) A Mother Mary statue remains standing and nearly unscorched in a forest that burned in the Atlas Fire on October 11 near Napa, California. (David McNew/Getty Images) An aerial view of homes that were destroyed by the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (The Washington Post)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 10/12/2017 4:55:31 PM
	Newly Passed Law Will Jail Parents If Their Kids Are Caught Bullying OCTOBER 9, 2017 By Matt Agorist North Tonawanda, NY — As Americans continue to become more and more dependent upon the State to manage their daily lives, a new law that was just approved in New York epitomizes this irresponsible and outright complacent practice. On Oct 1, a new law went into effect that will jail parents if their child is found bullying other minors. According to WBNG: Members of the North Tonawanda Common Council hope the new law will put a stop to bullying by holding parents accountable for their children’s actions. Parents could be fined $250 and sentenced to 15 days in jail if twice in a 90-day period their child under 18 violates the city’s curfew or any other city law, including bullying. North Tonawanda officials say the law is geared toward minors who repeatedly bully other children in public places. This law comes after four teens were reportedly kicked out of North Tonawanda Middle School for alleged bullying. On the surface, the idea of fining and jailing parents for their bully kids may seem like an effective strategy to curtail bullying. However, all it does is open Pandora’s box into horrid nature of the police state and it provides no real solution. We’ve already seen what happens when police get involved in matters that should not involve them, like childhood quarrels on playgrounds. Just last week, TFTP reported on a horrifying video that showed a police officer pick up a tiny black child and slam him down face-first onto the concrete for being involved in a scuffle with another student. The presence of police in that situation only made it more dangerous. Now, with the enactment of this new law, the parents of both of those students in the video mentioned above could also face potentially brutal police action. Yes, parents are ultimately responsible for the behavior of their younger children. However, politicizing and criminalizing normal, yet often cruel, childhood behavior is not the answer. Also, there is simply no data to support its effectiveness. We can have all the laws we want holding parents responsible for their children’s actions, writes Anita Kulick from ecparenting.org, but do they really make a difference? “Very little research has been done to determine the effectiveness of laws that hold parents criminally liable”, says Eve Brank, an associate professor of law and psychology at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. “It’s often just a way for politicians to look hard on juvenile delinquency,” she says. Often times, fining the parents of a bully could make the situation worse. Bullies, as multiple studies have shown, often have abusive parents who would probably not be too happy if their child happened to get them fined or thrown in prison. Also, this law assumes that the bully will be correctly identified in the situation. Studies on the subject tell us that the opposite will often happen. School staff often have no idea that a child is being bullied. The same goes for the parents. It is also important to note that many times, what parents and officials refer to as bullying is not at all seen as bullying by the child. The real issue, Danah Boyd, who actually studies social interactions online among young people, suggests, is not that “bullying,” is a problem. It’s a lack of empathy. And, of course, that goes way beyond kids. As she notes, “just ask any marital therapist who’s trying to help a couple work through their relationship.” From there, as Tech Dirt notes, she points out that these interactions really aren’t all that different from adult interactions: When I look at how teens hurt each other, I can’t help but also see how they’re developing training wheels for future relationships and reflecting normative behaviors that they see around them. I hear teens’ dramas reflected in their stories about how their parents fight — with each other, with their friends and family and colleagues, and with them. What teens are doing is more coarse, more direct, and more explicit. But they’re witnessing adult dramas all around them and what they tend to see isn’t pretty. Parents talking smack about work colleagues or bosses. Parents fighting with each other or ostracizing their family members over disagreements. While Boyd admits that she doesn’t have the perfect solution to preventing future bullying, looking at the situation through a different lens that isn’t so black and white is a much better start. All this law does is use the State’s only tools to attempt to solve a problem — revenue collection backed with the threat of violence — ironically, they’re employing one of the tools of bullies. Instead of simply making something illegal and claiming that it fixes the problem, perhaps it’s time we apply common sense to these scenarios and make it part of everyday life. Instead of teaching children how to be victims and call the police if they think they are being bullied, perhaps — with the right training wheels — we can teach them how to avoid being bullied altogether. Or, we can focus on teaching children empathy, so a bully thinks how they may feel before resorting to their abusive tactics. As Mike Masnick writes: There’s a great quote, apparently by Ian Percy that “we judge others by their behavior, while we judge ourselves by our intentions.” It’s really accurate, and highlights the difficulty of having empathy in such situations. People never think that they are in the wrong — and since they can’t readily understand or know the thought process and intentions of others, it often leads to them thinking the worst. If there were better ways to get people to at least recognize that others might also have good intentions, it could at least limit the negative impact of some interactions. Such fights and misunderstandings will never go away. It’s probably wishful thinking to even imagine they can be decreased even slightly. But calling them “cyberbullying” and outlawing jerky behavior or doing silly costumed song-and-dances isn’t going to help matters at all. Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project, where this article first appeared. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter, Steemit, and now onFacebook. (activistpost.com)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 10/12/2017 5:55:49 PM
	40 killed, 22 missing after heavy rain, floods and landslides hit Vietnam Posted by TW on October 12, 2017 At least 40 people have been killed and 22 remain missing after Tropical Depression 23W dumped heavy rain and triggered floods and landslides across central and northern Vietnam. The death toll is currently one of the highest ever recorded in Vietnam caused by flooding, Vietnam's disaster prevention agency said. Head of the office of the People's Committee in Hoa Binh, the hardest hit province, confirmed Thursday that rescuers have so far recovered 6 bodies from a landslide in Khanh Village, Tan Lac District. According to initial reports, the landslide occurred at around 01:00 local time Thursday, October 12, crushing 4 houses and burying 18 people. At least 11 people have died and 21 went missing in the province. "It's impossible to fight against this water, it's the strongest in years," Ngo Thi Su, a resident in Hoa Binh, told state-run Vietnam Television. In Yen Bai Province's Nghia Lo town, flooding inundated 24 neighborhoods and villages, washing away 11 homes in the process. Among the missing people is a Vietnam News Agency journalist reporting on the floods, who was swept away after the Thia Bridge he and at least 4 other people were crossing collapsed at about 12:00 local time Wednesday, October 11. Eyewitnesses said the incident occurred when the reporters were filming on the bridge, crossing the Thia River in Nghĩa Lộ Town to show the floods that caused the river to rise. In total, 217 houses were swept away by floodwaters, 1 059 were severely damaged by strong winds and water and 16 740 buildings sustained minor and moderate damage in 6 central and northern provinces as of October 12. Over a three-day period, some parts of central and northern Vietnam recorded up to 500 mm (19.7 inches) of rain. Featured image: Floods in Vietnam, October 2017. Credit: watchers.newsPhobos (The Watchers)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 10/12/2017 6:32:16 PM
	River in Ghana turns blood red overnight and nobody knows why (video and pictures) By Strange Sounds - Oct 11, 2017 Residents of Koforidua in Ghana were left baffled when they woke up and discovered the waters of the Nsukwao River had turned blood-red on October 7, 2017. The cause of the strange phenomenon remains unknown. The waters of the Nsukwao River in Koforidua – eastern Region of Ghana – have curiously changed color on October 7, 2017 to become blood red. According to witnesses, the colorless water was running normally until at 5am when it suddenly turned blood red within minutes. River in Ghana turns blood red overnight. via Twitter The mysterious phenomenon baffled local residents and drew a crowd of curious people to experience this absolutely incredible event with their own eyes. River in Ghana turns blood red overnight on October 7 2017. via Twitter The waters of the Nsukwao River in the municipality of New Juaben were previously colorless. Local residents believe butchers have poured a large quantity of blood from animals slaughtered in the river. The regional police however believes the blood red color of the river is due to pollution – but there are no factories in the area – or to a mystery. What about this mystery being algae? Nobody knows why the water turned blood red in Ghana. via Twitter Meanwhile officials are investigating the cause behind the red dyeing of the Nsukwao River. (strangesounds.org)
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