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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 5/4/2018 5:18:59 PM
	BRIEFLY Stuff that matters BEACHY KEEN Flickr/sarahracha Hawaii’s coral reefs may be safe from sunscreen — but not climate change. Hawaiians and beach tourists alike could soon say goodbye to 3,500 sunscreen products. Aloha State lawmakers approved a ban on selling sunblock that contains coral-harming chemicals. The ingredients in question — oxybenzone and octinoxate — can kill young coral and contribute to bleaching, according to the bill that now awaits approval from the governor. That’s backed up by some scientific studies, mainly out of Haereticus Environmental Laboratory in Virginia. But the bigger problem here is climate change. Ocean acidification can stunt coral growth, and warmer waters can cause coral bleaching — that’s when coral gets stressed and expels the algae in its tissue that gives it color and nutrients. A recent study found that the warming Great Barrier Reef has experienced widespread bleaching and death of coral. Both the EPA and the Hawaiian government say that climate change poses a big threat to coral. A few years ago, heatwaves caused bleaching inalmost half of Hawaii’s reefs, an event scientists called “unprecedented.” Banning sunscreen may not stop the worst of the damage, but hey — coral reefs need all the help they can get. Greta Jochem20 hours ago (GRIST)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 5/4/2018 6:50:59 PM
	Bill Gates Warns Of Coming Apocalyptic Disease — Pledges $12 Million To Universal Vaccine APRIL 30, 2018 By Aaron Kesel The next deadly disease that will cause a global pandemic is coming, Bill Gates stated at a discussion on epidemics, hosted by the Massachusetts Medical Society and the New England Journal of Medicine, Business Insider reported. “There’s one area though where the world isn’t making much progress,” Gates said, “and that’s pandemic preparedness.” “In the case of biological threats, that sense of urgency is lacking,” he said. “The world needs to prepare for pandemics in the same serious way it prepares for war.” According to Gates, a small non-state actor could build an even deadlier form of smallpox in a lab. Gates presented a simulation by the Institute for Disease Modeling that simulated a new flu like the one that killed 50 million people in the 1918 pandemic. The study found if there was a new flu it would now most likely kill an astounding 30 million people within six months. The single time in history that the military tried a sort of simulated war game against a smallpox pandemic, the final score was “smallpox one, humanity zero,” Gates said. What’s the solution? A universal flu vaccine of course! Gates announced on Friday that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would pledge $12 million in grants to encourage the development of a universal vaccine. Gates believes that “there needs to be better communication between militaries and governments to help coordinate responses.” Gates added that he thinks governments need ways to quickly enlist the help of the “private sector” (black budget military covert world) when it comes to developing technology and help each other to build tools to fight an emerging deadly disease. Gates expressed that malaria was back on the rise again and would continue to claim more lives worldwide unless governments reinvigorated their push to eradicate the disease, Stratis Timesreported. Melinda Gates recently said that the threat of a global pandemic, whether it emerges naturally or is engineered, was perhaps the biggest risk to humanity. “Think of the number of people who leave New York City every day and go all over the world — we’re an interconnected world,” she said. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made it very clear that their aim is to wipe out wild polio from the planet. However, as Activist Post reported, they have done quite the opposite and may be responsible for thousands of children suffering from vaccine-induced polio. The Supreme Court of India conducted an extensive investigation into the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with judges demanding answers from the Foundation and Gates. In 2009, tribal children from the Khammam district in Andhra Pradesh, India were administered with a Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine meant for cervical cancer. Around 16,000 girls between the age of 9-15 years were given three shots of vaccine, (manufactured by Merck) by the state health department. The girls were told that they were being given “well-being” shots. The incident started getting attention when some months later, several girls’ health deteriorated and the following year, five of them died. Two such similar cases of deaths were reported from Vadodara, Gujarat, where 14,000 tribal children were also vaccinated with the HPV vaccine Cervarix, made by Glaxo SmithKline, Dailymailreported. Unrelated but of particular interest GlaxoSmitheKline (GSK), incidentally, was accused of recklessly dumping polio virus into a Belgium river in 2014 in what was deemed an “accident.” Approximately 120 girls reported epileptic seizures, severe stomach cramps, headaches, and mood swings, of those who did not die. Other girls receiving the Gardasil vaccine have experienced infertility. Around the same time when these incidents were reported, young girls were hospitalized in northern Colombia with similar symptoms. Coincidentally, these girls had also been given doses of the HPV vaccine too. Skeletons started tumbling out when an NGO visited Andhra Pradesh. Health activists from the NGO Sama visited Khammam in March 2010 and found out that more than 100 girls were having epileptic seizures, stomach aches, headaches and mood swings. The girls also complained about early menstruation, heavy bleeding, and menstrual cramps. Sama raised the issue that these students were made guinea pigs on the pretext of providing healthcare. The illiterate parents were kept in the dark about the real vaccine, and most of them gave their consent in the form of thumbprints. The American NGO, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) had carried out the studies. They were testing how the cervical cancer vaccine would react on young females. And this unethical test of PATH was being funded by none other than the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Ironically, the study was considered a success by the Foundation. The Foundation also aided PATH in the study of Rotavirus vaccine and pneumococcal vaccine in Africa and Asia. A few days after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared in 2009 that two HPV types cause 70% of cervical cancers, PATH started its five-year project across various parts of the world: Peru, Vietnam, Uganda, and India, Economic Times reported. Japan previously found out that the HPV Gardasil shot caused several serious side effects banning the vaccination from being administered to its women and sold on its markets. Those side effects included seizures, brain damage, blindness, paralysis, speech problems, pancreatitis and short-term memory loss, while another patient even died after taking the vaccine. Earlier this year, a Chinese watchdog group Medwatcher Japan indicted Gardasil, while a former Merck employee called the drug the “greatest medical scandal of all time.” The full extent of the Gardasil scandal needs to be assessed: everyone knew when this vaccine was released on the American market that it would prove to be worthless. Diane Harper, a major opinion leader in the United States, was one of the first to blow the whistle, pointing out the fraud and scam of it all. I predict that Gardasil will become the greatest medical scandal of all time because at some point in time, the evidence will add up to prove that this vaccine, technical and scientific feat that it may be, has absolutely no effect on cervical cancer and that all the very many adverse effects which destroy lives and even kill, serve no other purpose than to generate profit for the manufacturers. Gardasil is useless and costs a fortune! In addition, decision-makers at all levels are aware of it! Cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, paralysis of the lower limbs, vaccine-induced MS and vaccine-induced encephalitis can be found, whatever the vaccine. — Dr. Bernard Dalbergue (former Merck employee) In 1993, Japan also banned the MMR vaccination after 1.8 million children had been given two types of MMR and a record number developed non-viral meningitis and other adverse reactions. The figures included autism, three deaths while other children were left with permanent handicaps ranging from damaged hearing and blindness to loss of control of limbs. This all follows through with Gates’ agenda of depopulation. In 2010, Bill Gates told a TED conference, that vaccines need to be used to reduce world population figures in order to solve global warming and lower CO2 emissions. Stating that the global population was heading towards 9 billion, Gates said, “If we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services (abortion), we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.” Bill Gates has harped on this idea of a super virus for the past several years, including at another TED Talk in 2015 entitled: “The next outbreak? We’re not ready.” Then in 2016 he echoed that warning by stating that the world was “vulnerable” to a deadly epidemic in the next decade. For years Bill Gates has been issuing warnings, but last year he expressed that bio-terrorism — a virus created in a lab — could kill 30 million people or more within just a year. “Whether it occurs by a quirk of nature or at the hand of a terrorist, epidemiologists say a fast-moving airborne pathogen could kill more than 30 million people in less than a year. And they say there is a reasonable probability the world will experience such an outbreak in the next 10 to 15 years,” Gates said last year, at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Forbes reported. Is this writer the only person who will flat out refuse “universal vaccinations” that are backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? Aaron Kesel writes for Activist Post. Support us at Patreon. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Steemit, and***ute. Ready for solutions? Subscribe to our premium newsletter Counter Markets. Image credit (activistpost.com)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 5/5/2018 10:17:05 AM
	WRONG WAY Humans didn’t exist the last time there was this much CO2 in the air By Eric Holthaus on May 3, 2018 The last time atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were this high, millions of years ago, the planet was very different. For one, humans didn’t exist. On Wednesday, scientists at the University of California in San Diego confirmed that April’s monthly average atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration breached 410 parts per million for the first time in our history. We know a lot about how to track these changes. The Earth’s carbon dioxide levels peak around this time every year for a pretty straightforward reason. There’s more landmass in the northern hemisphere, and plants grow in a seasonal cycle. During the summer, they suck down CO2, during the winter, they let it back out. The measurements were made at Mauna Loa, Hawaii — a site chosen for its pristine location far away from the polluting influence of a major city. Increasingly though, pollution from the world’s cities is making its way to Mauna Loa — and everywhere else on Earth. In little more than a century of frenzied fossil-fuel burning, we humans have altered our planet’s atmosphere at a rate dozens of times faster than natural climate change. Carbon dioxide is now more than 100 ppm higher than any direct measurements from Antarctic ice cores over the past 800,000 years, and probably significantly higher than anything the planet has experienced for at least 15 million years. That includes eras when Earth was largely ice-free. Not only are carbon dioxide levels rising each year, they are accelerating. Carbon dioxide is climbing at twice the pace it was 50 years ago. Even the increases are increasing. That’s happening for several reasons, most important of which is that we’re still burning a larger amount of fossil fuels each year. Last year, humanity emitted thehighest level of greenhouse gas emissions in history — even after factoring in the expansion of renewable energy. At the same time, the world’s most important carbon sinks — our forests — are dying, and therefore losing their ability to pull carbon dioxide out of the air and store it safely in the soil. The combination of these effects means we are losing ground, and fast. Without a bold shift in our actions, in 30 years atmospheric carbon dioxide will return back to levels last reached just after the extinction of the dinosaurs, more than 50 million years ago. At that point, it might be too late to prevent permanent, dangerous feedback loops from kicking in. This is the biggest problem humanity has ever faced, and we’ve barely even begun to address it effectively. On our current pace, factoring in current climate policies of every nation on Earth, the best independent analyses show that we are on course for warming of about 3.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, enough to extinguish entire ecosystems and destabilize human civilization. Climate change demands the urgent attention and cooperation of every government around the world. But even though most countries have acknowledged the danger, the ability to limit our emissions eludes us. After 23 years of United Nations summits on climate change, the time has come for radical thinking and radical action — a social movement with the power to demand a better future. Of the two dozen or so official UN scenarios that show humanity curbing global warming to the goals agreed to in the 2015 Paris Accord, not one show success without the equivalent of a technological miracle. It’s easier to imagine outlandish technologies, like carbon capture, geoengineering, or fusion power than self-control. Our failed approach to climate change is mostly a failure of imagination. We are not fated to this path. We can do better. Yes, there are some truly colossal headwinds, but we still control our future. Forgetting that fact is sure to doom us all. (GRIST)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 5/5/2018 10:50:00 AM
	NATO PREPARES FOR WAR WITH RUSSIA WITH SIMULATED NAVAL AND CYBERATTACKS BY CRISTINA MAZA ON 5/4/18 AT 10:27 AM Around 1,000 participants from 30 member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) gathered in the tiny Baltic nation of Estonia late last month to prepare for war with an enemy that looks a lot like Russia, according to reports. The exercises were dystopian and catastrophic, and included simulated cyberattacks, poisoned water supplies, a hacked drone employed to kill NATO soldiers and a faulty power grid. As tensions ratchet up between Moscow and the West, NATO countries, especially those like Estonia that border Russia, are increasingly preparing for the worst. The Locked Shields live-fire cyber exercise is a key part of that preparation. “The exercise required participants to counter high-intensity attacks on a fictitious country’s IT systems and critical infrastructure networks. Teams had to maintain the IT systems while reporting incidents, managing crises, making strategic decisions, solving digital forensics tasks and dealing with other challenges,” according to a report on homeland preparedness. “The exercise involved a total of 4,000 virtualized systems and more than 2,500 attacks.” The attacks were staged as the U.S. and its NATO allies accused Russia of perpetrating a variety of real-life cyberattacks against the critical infrastructure and financial systems of foreign countries. In February, the U.S. and the U.K. both blamed Russia for perpetrating the NotPetya cyberattack, a computer virus that hit companies in Ukraine, Europe and the U.S., causing billions of dollars in damages. Following the attacks, Britain’s Foreign Office declared that the world had entered “a new era of warfare.” Under a month later, in March, the U.S. government announced that it believedRussia had successfully hacked the U.S. power grid, a nightmare scenario experts had been warning about for years. The hackers were allegedly able to gain access to the control systems of at least one power plant. They were discovered before they caused any serious damage. But in 2015, Russia also hacked into Ukraine’s power grid and temporarily cut power to around 200,000 people. It was in that context that Estonia hosted this year's Lock Shields exercises. Participants broke up into teams to see who could best defend the fictitious nation-state that was clearly modeled on a Baltic nation. Teams from France and the Czech Republic came in second and third place in the competition, while a multinational NATO “blue team” won, organizers announced this week. (newsweek)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 5/5/2018 5:52:33 PM
	Earthquakes rattle Hawaii’s Big Island after Kilauea shoots lava, ‘dangerous’ gas into the air By Allyson Chiu and Lindsey Bever May 5 at 7:10 AM The Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupted May 4, spewing fountains of lava in a residential area where people were ordered to evacuate.(Elyse Samuels/The Washington Post) A day after the most active volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii erupted, two major earthquakes rattled the island and fountains of lava gushed out of the ground in a subdivision, forcing residents to flee amid threats of fires and “extremely high levels of dangerous” sulfur dioxide gas. The island shook at regular intervals, but especially so around midday Friday: A 5.6 magnitude quake hit south of the volcano around 11:30 a.m. local time, followed about an hour later by a 6.9 magnitude temblor, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency reported that the threat of a tsunami was low following the earthquakes. Kilauea first erupted Thursday, sending white, billowing clouds of steam and volcanic ash into the sky and prompting emergency officials to order mandatory evacuations. Authorities warned residents to stay out of the area Friday as molten rock shot high into the air from cracks in the ground in Leilani Estates, a subdivision in the Puna district, on the eastern side of the island. The civil defense agency said there was “active volcanic fountaining” in the neighborhood, meaning the lava was springing up from ground fractures; reports indicated it was shooting 80 to 100 feet into the sky. The Geological Survey said at least six fissure vents have opened in the subdivision so far — and that more outbreaks are likely to occur along the rift zone. “No significant lava flows have yet formed,” the Geological Survey said. But at least two homes in the Leilani Estates subdivision caught fire, Hawaii News Now reported. About 1,700 people live in Leilani Estates. As Kilauea roared to life, the deafening sound of grinding rocks echoed in the air, and fiery red-orange lava could be seen spurting from the ground. “It sounded like there were rocks in a dryer that were being tumbled around,” said Jeremiah Osuna, who lives near Leilani Estates. “You could hear the power of it pushing out of the ground.” Emergency officials reported dangerously high levels of sulfur dioxide in the evacuation area and warned: “Elderly, young and people with respiratory issues need to comply with the mandatory evacuation order and leave the area.” Residents were ordered to evacuate to nearby community centers serving as shelters, and the state’s Department of Education announced that several schools would be closed due to “volcanic activity.” A state of emergency was issued by the County of Hawaii’s acting mayor, Wil Okabe, and Gov. David Ige (D) issued an emergency proclamation and activated Hawaii’s National Guard to help with evacuations. “Please be safe,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) wrote on Twitter. Less than an hour after the eruption began Thursday, wailing warning sirens joined the cacophony, Maija Stenback, a resident of Leilani Estates, told The Washington Post. As dramatic as the sights and sounds are, the eruption and lava flow pose little threat to people’s lives, thanks to a monitoring and alert system in place for years. “It’s been handled very well,” Stenback said. “Civil Defense has been saying they can’t predict it, but there’s a good possibility, so they made everybody very aware that this could happen. You know, pack a bag and be ready to leave.” Kilauea is the youngest and most active volcano on Hawaii Island, according to USGS. The eruption from the volcano came hours after a 5.0-magnitude earthquake jolted the island Thursday morning. Since Monday, the area has been rattled by at least 600 smaller quakes generated by magma flow from Kilauea, Janet Babb, a geologist with the Hawaiian Volcanoes Observatory, told The Post. “Earthquakes were happening every 10 minutes, it seems like. That was kind of unsettling,” Osuna told The Post, adding that it was “nerve-racking” not knowing exactly where the eruption would occur. The event has been building for several days, Babb said, and the tremors were a sign that magma could break through the surface any time. Thursday’s strong earthquake, which occurred about 10:30 a.m. local time, caused “rockfalls and possibly additional collapse into the Pu’u Oo crater on Kilauea” and sent a large plume of ash into the air, the USGS reported. The collapse began Monday as magma, which supported the crater, moved out and down the rift zone, triggering the quakes, Babb said. “Eruption was possible, and that’s now what has happened,” she said. “Magma has made its way to the surface, and eruption has commenced.” When Stenback got a call from her son that the volcano had started erupting, it felt “unreal,” she said. It wasn’t until she and her daughter saw lava coming up through the ground that she believed it. “Once you see it, then you know it’s really happening,” said Stenback. She added that she even hesitated to pack because she didn’t think the eruption would occur. But after seeing and filming the lava, Stenback said, she and her daughter rushed back home to prepare to evacuate. “We were trying to figure out what’s the most important thing to grab,” she said. In addition to collecting legal documents and medication, Stenback said, she quickly grabbed sentimental pieces from her jewelry box and stuffed the items into the pockets of her shorts because she didn’t have time to properly pack her suitcase. She said her family will stay with friends in Hilo, about 25 miles away, until it is safe for them to return. Many residents took to social media to share photos and videos of the eruption. On Twitter, one person wrote, “OMG my island is on fire” and included a video of lava gushing from the middle of a road. Others also expressed worry, with a user tweeting, “Friends on the mainland asked me if I am OK. I am, not my island.” Since 1983, Kilauea has erupted frequently, many times forcing nearby communities to evacuate. Geologists said the current seismic activities around Puna most closely resemble the events that precipitated a 1955 eruption, according to Hawaii News Now. That eruption lasted about three months and left almost 4,000 acres of land covered in lava, the news site reported. More recently in 2014, lava again threatened the Puna district, specifically the town of Pahoa and its surrounding area, The Post reported. During that event, lava flowed as quickly as 20 yards per hour, and up to 60 structures were at risk. In comparison, Thursday’s eruption seems more tame, as the USGS reported that lava spatter and gas bursts erupted for about two hours and the lava spread less than 33 feet from the fissure. “At this time, the fissure is not erupting lava and no other fissures have erupted,” according to a statement released from the service shortly after 10 p.m. local time. However, Babb said the inactivity doesn’t mean the event is over, and there is no way to forecast how long the eruption could last. Early Friday morning, Civil Defense also said that the fire department had detected “extremely high levels of dangerous Sulfur Dioxide gas in evac area.” Besides, the USGS noted, “the opening phases of fissure eruptions are dynamic and uncertain. Additional erupting fissures and new lava outbreaks may occur. It is not possible at this time to say when and where new vents may occur.” Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim tweeted that the Civil Defense Agency “is on high alert on a 24-hour basis for possibility of eruption in lower Puna.” The areas bordering the eastern part of the rift zone, Kim said, are “at high risk for eruption.” For now, residents don’t know when it might be safe for them to return to home. “This stuff could go on for a couple days, weeks or months,” Stenback said. “Just the thought of everything now being gone — it’s just not real yet. Maybe the next time we go there the house might be under 30 feet of lava.” (The Washington Post)
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