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RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES?

7/3/2013 9:41:20 AM

This is very much alarming condition for human society. The result of Loss of morality from the human is expressing in various ways. It is one of them. I think this will raise from 40% to more higher percentages in near future. That should not be but will.

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Wives Are Cheating 40% More Than They Used to, but Still Half as Much as Men

Zach Schonfeld 13 hours ago

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Wives Are Cheating 40% More Than They Used to, but Still Half as Much as Men
According to recent data from the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey, American wives were nearly 40 percent more likely to be cheating on their spouses in 2010 than in 1990. The number of husbands reporting infidelity, meanwhile, stayed constant at 21 percent. Could women soon be catching up with male indiscretions in the world of infidelity? Yanyi Djamba, director of the AUM Center for Demographic Research, certainly seems to think so, telling Bloomberg that "the gender gap is closing" and explaining that men have been more likely to blame adultery on an unhappy marriage.
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What could be driving the rise of female cheating? Explanations abound, ranging from women's increased economic independence over the past several decades (women "can afford the potential consequences of an affair, with higher incomes and more job prospects," argued one sociologist) to cultural shifts to the Internet (including but not limited to dating and extramarital meetup sites). The user data for one such service, Ashley Madison, more or less confirms the data, at least in terms of age brackets:
The ratio of males to females is greatest among users older than 65, with 14 men for every woman. The ratio is 4-to-1 among users in their 50s, 3-to-1 for spouses in their 40s, and evenly divided among people using Ashley Madison in their 30s.
But there's no word on whether or not the NORC survey contains data on same-sex marriages — which, of course, did not exist in the '80s — and how the patterns may change as more and more gay couples are legally able to <strike>commit adultery</strike> get married. What we do know is that executives and managers are more likely to cheat than any other career, supporting the notion that wealth and power plays a role in encouraging infidelity — but then was that ever really in doubt?

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Hafiz 226 791 Dhaka	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 7/3/2013 9:47:02 AM
	The ongoing condition of Egypt should not be welcomed. The first elected president is in big trouble. There is ultimatum of Military of 48 hours. But today i heard another news that due to strong position of president Mursi and mass gathering of his supporter in various part of Egypt, military has declared that they have no intention to coup. Hope this problem will be solved politically. Quote: What happens if Egypt's military stages a coup? Egyptians have reached the end of their patience. Harold Maass 17 hours agoThe Week Politics Muslim Brotherhood View Gallery President Mohammed Morsi's time is running out The Egyptian military has given President Mohammed Morsi until Wednesday to reach a deal with opposition protesters, and as the deadline fast approaches there is still no solution in sight. Indeed, demonstrators demanding Morsi's ousterlaunched fresh mass rallies on Tuesday, while Morsi's fellow Islamists in the Muslim Brotherhood urged his backers to stand firm against a possible coup. What will happen if the military makes good on its threat to intervene? SEE ALSO: The George Zimmerman trial: A day-by-day recap If Morsi does not come up with a plan to make peace with his rivals, military sources say the generals will begin implementing their own power-sharing roadmap, according to Yasmine Saleh and Asma Alsharif atReuters. The plan, which is still nebulous, calls for suspending the constitution — written and pushed through by Morsi's party — and dissolving the Muslim Brotherhood–dominated parliament, according to Reuters. The army would reportedly install an experienced and predominantly civilian interim council to run the country for the next few months, until an amended constitution can be drawn up. SEE ALSO: The 8 worst job interview fashion mistakes Next would come a new presidential election, followed by the vote for a new parliament — although there was no word on what the military planned to do with Morsi "if he refused to go quietly," Reuters says. Analysts largely agree that the military is not eager to take power itself. The generals seized the reins after Egypt's Arab Spring revolution forced out longtime leader Hosni Mubarak in 2011, and wound up becoming the target of angry crowds. Jeff Martini at Foreign Affairs says that the military is "still licking its wounds" after that experience, and would be better off pulling together a real caretaker government, which means getting at least some Islamist groups on board. SEE ALSO: Meet the woman who might unseat Mitch McConnell An intervention absent Islamist support would risk an Algeria-like scenario, in which the military's overturning of an Islamist electoral victory led to a civil war that embroiled the country throughout the 1990s. To mitigate against the possibility of a violent response, the military could try to coax the Muslim Brotherhood to the bargaining table with the opposition. Failing that, it could try reach out to Islamists from outside the Muslim Brotherhood, such as the Salafists, or breakaway groups, such as the Strong Egypt and Center parties. [Foreign Affairs] However, there's also the very real possibility that a coup could spark another round of protests, this time led by the Muslim Brotherhood. That could push stability further out of reach, says The New York Times: Faced with fuel shortages, dwindling hard currency reserves and worries about its wheat supplies, Egypt urgently needs a government stable and credible enough to manage difficult and disruptive economic reforms. A move by the military to force the Brotherhood from power, despite its electoral victories, could set off an Islamist backlash in the streets that would make stability and economic growth even more elusive. [The New York Times] There is also the uncomfortable fact that the military would be involved in dismantling a democratically elected government. Ariel Ben Solomon at The Jerusalem Post notes that the country may be on the verge of repeating history — and not in a good sense: If Abdel Fattah el-Sisi — defense minister and commander in chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces — decides to take full power, it would not be the first time that Egypt experienced a coup. SEE ALSO: The 10 best TV shows from the first half of 2013 In 1952, Gamal Abdel Nasser, a strong nationalist leader of the Free Officers Movement, overthrew King Farouk and then moved to abolish the constitutional monarchy, leading to a series of dictators that came from the army as well. [Jerusalem Post] View this article on TheWeek.com Get 4 Free Issues of The Week
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RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES?

7/3/2013 9:50:18 AM

Clapper's Third Excuse for Misleading Congress About the NSA Is His Best

Philip Bump 11 hours agoPolitics James R. Clapper National Security Agency

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Clapper's Third Excuse for Misleading Congress About the NSA Is His Best

"Respectfully, Jim." So ends a June 21 letter from James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, to Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, explaining why on March 12 he told a Congressional committee that the NSA doesn't "collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of million of Americans." In his letter, Clapper offers his third version of an excuse: he misunderstood the question. Whichever five-year-old taught our government agencies how to be accountable for their behavior did a hell of a job.

Shortly after the Guardian reported on the existence of the government's collection of phone records and internet trafficthrough the National Security Agency, attention turned to Clapper's comments. After all, the exchange with Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon (at right) was explicit. Clapper himself includes it in his letter. Here'sthe Washington Post's transcription.

Wyden: So what I wanted to see is if you could give me a yes or no answer to the question, does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?
Clapper: No, sir.
Wyden: It does not?
Clapper: Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly.

True. Except for the metadata (which one could argue is a "type of data") that the NSA collects on every phone customer (which may run into the hundreds of millions) in the United States (the residents of which might be referred to as "Americans").

Clapper's letter explains.

I have thought long and hard to re-create what went through my mind at the time. In light of Senator Wyden's reference to "dossiers" and faced with the challenge of trying to give an unclassified answer about our intelligence collection activities, many of which are classified, I simply didn't think of Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Instead, my answer addressed collection of the content of communications. I focused in particular on Section 702 of FISA, because we had just been through a year-long campaign to seek reauthorization of this provision and had had many classified discussions about it, including with Senator Wyden.

This is actually not a terrible answer. There are two tools the NSA uses for its data collection: amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) which allows the NSA to pull a broad swath of data on non-Americans, and the Patriot Act's Section 215 which allows it to pull those phone records. Clapper answered on the first, not the second.

The reason this was such a good answer may be that it was his third go. On June 9, Clapper told NBC News' Andrea Mitchell that his response was "the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner" he could answer. (That response has become somewhat famous.)

But that was only his first public excuse. As the Guardian reported yesterday, Clapper admitted in private to Wyden that his answer was wrong — at the time of the hearing. Wyden "had a staff member contact the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on a secure phone line soon after the March hearing to address the inaccurate statement regarding bulk collection on Americans," the paper reports. He didn't.

By now, then, having had a chance to workshop his response a few times, Clapper lands a winner. But it doesn't exactly make sense either. Right after the NBC News appearance, Wyden pointed out that he'd sent the question to Clapper in advance, making it somewhat hard to believe that Clapper subsequently misunderstood it. And, of course, the protections on Section 702 are loose enough that the NSA collects data on Americans through it anyway. Maybe not millions, though.

To his credit, shortly after the NSA revelations broke Clapper issued a public statement clarifying points about the NSA's data collection and partially declassifying details of the programs. Later the NSA posted a fact sheet on its website detailing how and when the agency used its authority under Section 702 to surveil Americans. Except that this explainer, too, was factually inaccurate as noted by (you guess it) Ron Wyden. The NSA has pulled it down.

The Director of National Intelligence and the NSA explicitly don't want to share details about the programs they use. Every admission has been grudging and each has been tempered with the threat that it weakens domestic security. We've asked in the past if we can ever know the full extent of the intelligence community's surveillance of the American public. If we have to rely on third-times-the-charm explanations of misinformation that occur only after false information is exposed, it seems likely that the answer to that question is "no." A hard, unqualified no.

Clapper concluded his letter by noting that he'd appeared before Congress for two decades. "But mistakes will happen, and when I make one, I correct it," he wrote, leaving off, "eventually, if needed." Respectfully, Jim.

Clapper's letter

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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 7/3/2013 9:55:09 AM
	Study Says Decades of Night Shifts Double Breast Cancer Risk Vonda J. Sines 11 hours agoHealth Canadian researchers studying breast cancer have found that the risk of developing the disease doubles after a woman works night shifts for at least 30 years. Their work expands research confined to the effect of shift work on healthcare workers. Several earlier studies suggested a correlation between shift work and elevated breast cancer risk, according to ScienceDaily. However, some experts questioned the relationship due to the potential failure of the research to properly assess exposure and to include sufficient diversity in patterns of shift work. The National Cancer Institute estimates that 232,340 U.S. women will receive a diagnosis of breast cancer in 2013. Nearly 40,000 will succumb to it the same year. The Canadian scientists selected 1,134 women with breast cancer and 1,179 without the disorder for their study. The women were all the same age and lived in either Vancouver, British Columbia, or Kingston, Ontario. They provided detailed information about shift work over their entire history of employment. Hospital records provided information on the type of tumor each breast cancer subject had. The researchers considered this information important because sensitivity to hormones can alter risk factors for the disease. In particular, alteration in the amount of melatonin has been associated with raising estrogen production and elevating breast cancer risk among individuals who work night shifts. Melatonin, often called a sleep hormone, occurs naturally in the human body, according to MedlinePlus. Some individuals also take melatonin supplements to regulate their internal body clocks. Common uses include treating jet lag and adjusting sleep-wake cycles in individuals with changes in their work schedules. Women who had worked night shifts made up about a third of all subjects. Among those with this schedule for up to 14 years and for those who had worked the night shift for 15 to 29 years, the researchers noted no elevated risk. However, women who had worked the night shift for at least 30 years were twice as likely to have developed breast cancer. Results were similar for women who were healthcare workers and those who had not worked in that field. Women whose tumors were estrogen- and progesterone-sensitive also faced higher risk factors. The researchers, who published their findings in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine, indicate that while melatonin is cited as the cause of a link between breast cancer and shift work, other factors could play a role. Among them are out-of-sync body rhythms, sleep disturbances, vitamin D levels, and lifestyle differences. An important conclusion of the study is that if decades of night shifts double breast cancer risk for some women, there is a need to develop healthy workplace policy. Vonda J. Sines has published thousands of print and online health and medical articles. She specializes in diseases and other conditions that affect the quality of life.
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 7/3/2013 10:06:46 AM
	Bolivian leader's plane rerouted on Snowden fear This June 23, 2013 file photo shows a TV screen shows a news report of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, at a shopping mall in Hong Kong. The saga of Edward Snowden and the NSA makes one thing clear: The United States' central role in developing the Internet and hosting its most powerful players has made it the global leader in the surveillance game . Other countries, from dictatorships to democracies, are also avid snoopers, tapping into the high-capacity fiber optic cables to intercept Internet traffic, scooping their citizens' data off domestic servers, and even launching cyberattacks to win access to foreign networks. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File) PHILIPP-MORITZ JENNE and CARLOS VALDEZ 5 hours agoPolitics Evo Morales David Choquehuanca Russia View Gallery VIENNA (AP) — The plane carrying Bolivian President Evo Morales was rerouted to Austria after various European countries refused to let it cross their airspace because of suspicions that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was on board, Bolivian officials said Tuesday. Officials in both Austria and Bolivia said that Snowden was not on the plane, which was taking Morales home from a summit in Russia, where he had suggested that his government would be willing to consider granting asylum to the American. A furious Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca said France and Portugal would have to explain why they canceled authorization for the plane, claiming that the decision had put the president's life at risk. "We don't know who invented this lie" that Snowden was traveling with Morales, Choquehuanca said in La Paz. "We want to denounce to the international community this injustice with the plane of President Evo Morales." In a midnight press conference, Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia said that not only France and Portugal, but also Italy and Spain were denying the plane permission to fly through their airspace. ." View gallery Supporters of Bolivia's President Evo Morales shout slogans and wave Bolivian flags with a sign that … He described Morales as being "kidnapped by imperialism" in Europe. "The ambassador for Spain in Austria has just informed us that there is no authorization to fly over Spanish territory and that at 9 a.m. Wednesday they would be in contact with us again," said Defense Minister Ruben Saavedra, adding that the Spanish government had put as a condition for passage the "revision of the presidential plane." Earlier, Choquehuanca said that Spain's government allowed Morales' plane to refuel in its territory before flying on to Vienna. French government officials reached overnight said they could not confirm whether Morales' plane was denied permission to fly over France. Officials at Portugal's Foreign Ministry and National Civil Aviation Authority could not be reached to comment. Austrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Schallenberg told The Associated Press that Snowden was not with Morales. ." View gallery Bolivia's Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca speaks during a press conference in La Paz, Bolivia, T … Leaks by Snowden, a former NSA systems analyst, have revealed the NSA's sweeping data collection of U.S. phone records and some Internet traffic, though U.S. intelligence officials have said the programs are aimed at targeting foreigners and terrorist suspects mostly overseas. He is believed to be in a Moscow airport transit area, seeking asylum from one of more than a dozen countries. While Bolivia's foreign minister had earlier said officials did not know who was behind the "lie" that Snowden was on Morales' plane, the country's defense minister later expressed no doubt. "We want to declare very firmly that it was an American story that Edward Snowden was on this flight," said Saavedra at the VIP terminal of Vienna's airport. "This is a plot by the U.S. government to destroy president Morales' image. We say this simply is a lie. And we will confirm this." Morales himself was present during the improvised press conference but chose not to speak to reporters. Morales will remain at the airport until his plane has been cleared for takeoff. ." View gallery Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino gestures after a press conference in Quito, Ecuador, Tuesd … In Washington, the State Department would not comment directly when asked to speak to the matter and referred the AP to statements on Snowden made at the department's daily briefing. Earlier Tuesday, department spokesman Patrick Ventrell would not discuss how the Obama administration might respond if Snowden left the Moscow airport. "We're not there yet," he said. Snowden has applied for asylum in Venezuela, Bolivia and 18 other countries, according to WikiLeaks, a secret spilling website that has been advising him. Many European countries on the list — including Austria, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Switzerland — said he would have to make his request on their soil. One of Snowden's best chances of finding refuge outside the United States may hinge on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who was also in Russia on Tuesday. Maduro told Russian reporters that his country has not received an application for asylum from Snowden and dodged the question of whether he would take him with him when he left. But Maduro also defended the former National Security Agency systems analyst. ." View gallery A view of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, July 2, 2013. Leaker Edw … "Who must protect Snowden? This is the question. This young man of 29 was brave enough to say that we need to protect the world from the American imperial elite, so who should protect him?" Maduro said in response to a question from journalists covering a ceremony to rename a Moscow street after Chavez. "All of mankind, people all over the world must protect him." Maduro was scheduled to spend Wednesday in neighboring Belarus before returning to Venezuela. In Venezuela, Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said that changing the flight's route without checking on how much fuel it had endangered Morales' life. "All the countries that have denied permission for the flight of our brother president, Evo Morales, must be held responsible for his life and his dignity as president." Another possible landing spot for Snowden is Ecuador, where Wikileaks founder and publisher Julian Assange has been seeking asylum. ." View gallery Supporters of Bolivia's President Evo Morales shout and wave Bolivian flags outside France's embassy … "We are willing to analyze Mr. Snowden's request for asylum and this position has not changed," said Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino on Tuesday. "What we have said is that we will be able to analyze the request when Mr. Snowden is in Ecuadorean territory or in an Ecuadorean mission." Patino added that two weeks ago a hidden microphone was found in Ecuador's embassy in London, where Assange is holed up. "We want to find out with precision what the origin of the apparatus is." Snowden, who recently turned 30, withdrew a bid for asylum in Russia when he learned the terms Moscow had set out, according to Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Putin said on Monday that Russia was ready to shelter Snowden as long as he stopped leaking U.S. secrets. At the same time, Putin said he had no plans to turn over Snowden to the United States. Rebuffed by Russia's president, the Obama administration has recently toned down demands Snowden be expelled from the Moscow airport in a sign that the U.S. believes he is not worth scuttling diplomatic relations between the former Cold War enemies. ." View gallery Supporters of Bolivia's President Evo Morales shout and wave Bolivian and indigenous flags outside F … On Monday, WikiLeaks posted a statement attributed to Snowden on its website, in which he slams Obama for "using citizenship as a weapon." "Although I am convicted of nothing, (the United States) has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless person," Snowden says in the statement. "Without any judicial order, the administration now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right. A right that belongs to everybody. The right to seek asylum. "Their purpose is to frighten, not me, but those who would come after me." ____ Associated Press writer George Jahn contributed to this report from Vienna, Austria, and Carlos Valdez from La Paz, Bolivia.
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