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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 3/3/2016 3:39:49 PM
	N. Korea fires missiles after UN imposes tough sanctions By Hwang Sung-Hee, with Carole Landry at the United Nations4 hours ago North Korea's Taepodong-class ballistic missiles have an estimated range of more than 6,000 kilometres (AFP Photo/Ed Jones) View Gallery North Korea fired six short-range projectiles into the sea Thursday in a show of defiance just hours after the United Nations adopted the toughest sanctions to date on Pyongyang over its fourth nuclear test and rocket launch. Related Stories UN approves toughest sanctions on North Korea in 20 years Associated Press UN Security Council to vote Tuesday on N. Korea sanctions AFP UN adopts toughest-ever North Korea sanctions AFP S. Korea's president says North must 'pay price' for nuclear test AFP North Korea fires projectiles after new U.N. sanctions Reuters Limited displays of military firepower have become a routine response by North Korea to international pressure over anything from its nuclear weapons program to its human rights record. South Korea's defence ministry said the six projectiles -- either rockets or guided missiles -- fell into the sea around 100-150 kilometres (60-90 miles) off the North's eastern coast. China's foreign ministry responded by urging all parties to refrain from any actions that might see tensions escalate still further. The launches came after the UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution late Wednesday imposing new sanctions after seven weeks of arduous negotiations between the United States and China, Pyongyang's sole major ally. - Potential loopholes - View gallery The UN Security Council voted to restrict exports of coal, iron and iron ore and other minerals from … All eyes are now on China and Russia to see if they fully enact the sweeping measures. North Korea offered no immediate statement on the sanctions, which break new ground, requiring all countries to inspect cargo destined for and coming from the North, in all airports and sea ports. They also ban or restrict exports of coal, iron and iron ore and other minerals from North Korea, and prohibit the supply of aviation fuel including rocket fuel. But analysts have pointed to several possible loopholes, including interpretations of what constitutes a proper cargo "inspection" and a provision that excludes mineral exports if their revenues are not deemed to be destined for military use. North Korea earns about $1 billion per year in coal exports -- a third of all export revenues -- and about $200 million annually from iron ore sales, US Ambassador Samantha Power told the Security Council. View gallery North Korea's nuclear test and rocket launches sparked a series of protest rallies in Seoul, on … US President Barack Obama welcomed the measures as "a firm, united, and appropriate response" to the January 6 nuclear test and February 7 rocket launch. "The international community, speaking with one voice, has sent Pyongyang a simple message: North Korea must abandon these dangerous programs and choose a better path for its people," Obama said. Banking restrictions will be tightened and governments will be required to ban flights of any plane suspected of carrying contraband destined for North Korea. "These are among the toughest measures we have agreed against any country in the world, certainly the toughest ever against the DPRK," said British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft, referring to North Korea by its official acronym. A total of 16 individuals and 12 entities were added to a UN sanctions blacklist, including North Korea's NADA space agency and its spy agency. View gallery The Korean peninsula remains the world's last Cold War frontier and the two countries remain tec … South Korean President Park Geun-Hye said she hoped the "unprecedentedly tough" sanctions would push Pyongyang into finally abandoning its nuclear weapons program. The resolution sends "a strong message from the international community seeking peace on the Korean peninsula," Park said. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urged Pyongyang to refrain from any fresh provocations, while Tokyo's ambassador to the UN, Motohide Yoshikawa, stressed that "the heart of the matter now is implementation" of the sanctions by China, North Korea's largest trading partner, and other countries. - Making sanctions bite - Power also called for a "robust and unyielding" follow-up to ensure the sanctions bite and singled out Russia and China as key players. View gallery North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (centre) visits the Thaesong machine factory in Nampo city, on March … Chinese Ambassador Liu Jieyi said the resolution should "be a new starting point and a stepping stone" for renewed talks on dismantling North Korea's nuclear program. Russia echoed that view, with Ambassador Vitaly Churkin saying the resolution is designed to "shut down as much as possible the financing" of North Korea's weapons program to push Pyongyang back to the negotiating table. During the weeks of negotiations, China had been reluctant to endorse harsh sanctions out of concern that too much pressure would trigger the collapse of the pariah regime, creating chaos on its border. Andrea Berger, a Korea specialist at the London-based Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, said China's enforcement of the new sanctions was likely to be piecemeal at best. "It is difficult to foresee broad and consistent implementation of the new resolution, especially from players such as China, to create barriers that North Korea cannot find its way around," Berger said. The latest resolution ushered in the fifth set of UN sanctions to hit North Korea since it first tested an atomic device in 2006.
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 3/3/2016 3:58:37 PM
	NASA finds: Mediterranean drought 'worst in 900 years' > 'Israel experiencing unprecedented drought conditions' > Israeli water firms head to California to help combat drought The scientists reconstructed the Mediterranean’s drought history by studying tree rings as part of an effort to understand the region's climate and what shifts water to or from the area. For January 2012, brown shades show the decrease in water storage from the 2002-2015 average in the Mediterranean region. Units in centimeters.. (photo credit:COURTESY NASA/ GODDARD SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION STUDIO) A drought that began in 1998 in the eastern Mediterranean – including Israel and the West Bank, Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey – is likely the worst of the past nine centuries, according to a study from NASA. The research is part of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s work to improve the computer models that simulate climate now and in the future. The results have been accepted for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, a publication of the American Geophysical Union. The scientists reconstructed the Mediterranean’s drought history by studying tree rings as part of an effort to understand the region’s climate and what shifts water to or from the area. Thin rings indicate dry years while thick rings show years when water was plentiful. x In addition to identifying the driest years, the science team discovered patterns in the geographic distribution of droughts that provides a “fingerprint” for identifying the underlying causes. Together, these data show the range of natural variation in Mediterranean drought occurrence that will enable scientists to identify droughts worsened by human-induced global warming. ”The magnitude and significance of human climate change requires us to really understand the full range of natural climate variability,” said Dr. Ben Cook, lead author and climate scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at New York’s Columbia University. “If we look at recent events and we start to see anomalies that are outside this range of natural variability, then we can say with some confidence that it looks like this particular event or this series of events had some kind of human caused climate change contribution,” he said. Cook and his colleagues used the tree-ring record called the Old World Drought Atlas to better understand how frequently and how severe Mediterranean droughts have been in the past. Rings of trees both living and dead were sampled all over the region, from northern Africa, Greece, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Turkey. Combined with existing tree-ring records from Spain, southern France, and Italy, these data were used to reconstruct patterns of drought geographically and through time over the past millennium. Between 1100 and 2012, the team found droughts in the tree-ring record that corresponded to those described in historical documents written at the time. According to Cook, the range of how extreme wet or dry periods were is quite broad, but the recent drought in the Levant region, from 1998 to 2012, stands out as about 50 percent drier than the driest period in the past 500 years, and 10% to 20% drier than the worst drought of the past 900 years. Having such a large area covered allowed the science team not only to see variations in time, but also geographic changes across the region. In other words, when the eastern Mediterranean is in drought, is there also drought in the west? The answer is yes, in most cases, said Dr. Kevin Anchukaitis, climate scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson. “Both for modern society and certainly ancient civilizations, it means that if one region was suffering the consequences of the drought, those conditions are likely to exist throughout the Mediterranean basin,” he said. “It’s not necessarily possible to rely on finding better climate conditions in one region than another, so you have the potential for large-scale disruption of food systems as well as potential conflict over water resources.” The research team also found that when the northern part of the Mediterranean – Greece, Italy and the coasts of France and Spain – tended to be dry when eastern North Africa was wet, and vice versa. These east-west and north-south relationships helped the team understand what ocean and atmospheric conditions lead to dry or wet periods in the first place. The two major circulation patterns that influence when droughts occur in the Mediterranean are the North Atlantic Oscillation and the East Atlantic Pattern. These airflow patterns describe how winds and weather tend to behave depending on ocean conditions. They have periodic phases that tend to steer rainstorms away from the Mediterranean and bring in dryer, warmer air. The resulting lack of rain and higher temperatures, which increase evaporation from soils, lead to droughts. “The Mediterranean is one of the areas that is unanimously projected [in climate models] as going to dry in the future [due to man-made climate change],” said Dr. Yochanan Kushnir, a climate scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who was not involved in the research. “This paper shows that the behavior during this recent drought period is different than what we see in the rest of the record,” he said, which means that the Levant may already be feeling the effects of human-induced warming of the planet. The 900-year record of drought variability across the Mediterranean is an important contribution that will be used to refine computer models that are used to project drought risk for the coming century, Kushnir concluded. (Jerusalem Post)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 3/3/2016 5:03:12 PM
	Repeating fast radio bursts found coming from outside our galaxy By Loren Grush and Rich McCormick on March 2, 2016 11:46 pm (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Multiple short bursts of radio waves have been found coming from a single location far beyond the Milky Way Galaxy, Cornell astronomers have discovered. It's the first time researchers have found these enigmatic "fast radio bursts" to repeat, indicating that the waves are coming from a powerful source located many light years away. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, have long been a mystery for astronomers. Only 17 have ever been found, and they usually appear as isolated events — flashes of radio waves in the sky that only last for milliseconds at a time. Scientists had theorized that the flashes were caused by events as exotic as the smashing together of neutron stars, but Cornell's discovery indicates that whatever produces the burst isn't destroyed in the process. Shami Chatterjee, a senior researcher at Cornell, said that the FRB in question in the paper did not have an explosive origin. "So, either there's an odd coincidence," Chatterjee said, "or maybe there are different types of FRBs. Either way, it seems we've broken this enigmatic phenomenon wide open." FAST RADIO BURSTS DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE AN EXPLOSIVE ORIGIN The detection of FRBs has only occurred fairly recently. The first was spotted in 2007, after digging through data already collected by telescopes on Earth, and it was only last year that scientists caught a burst reaching our planet as it arrived. Astronomers know these bursts are coming from distant places in the Universe, but they've had difficulty pinpointing exactly where FRBs come from. The discovery of the most recent FRB — published in Nature last week — came from a galaxy 1.9 billion parsecs (6 billion light years) away, but the data wasn't detailed enough for scientists to figure out from exactly where it emanated. Now we know that some of the FRBs discovered so far repeat their blasts of radio waves, we can start to work out either exactly what's causing their galaxy-spanning yelps, or classify them into different categories. Cornell professor James Cordes says that the phenomon is not necessarily the result of a huge cosmic explosion, but neutron stars may still be the culprit. "We're detecting these FRBs from very far away, which means that they are intrinsically very bright," Cordes said. "Only a few astrophysical sources can produce bursts like this, and we think they are most likely neutron stars in other galaxies." (theverge.com)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 3/3/2016 5:14:10 PM
	NY nuclear plant 65,000% radiation spike is worse than Fukushima A radioactive flow from the Indian Point nuclear power plant is leaking into groundwater that leads to the Hudson River, raising the possibility that the U.S. may have its very own Fukushima-like disaster only 25 miles from New York City. The Indian Point nuclear plant is located on the Hudson River, and it serves the electrical needs of about two million people. But last month, when workers were preparing a reactor for refueling, they accidentally spilled contaminated water containing the radioactive hydrogen isotope tritium, The Free Thought Project (TFTP) reports. That caused an enormous radiation spike in groundwater monitoring wells, and one well’s radioactivity increased by 65,000 percent. Entergy, the Louisiana company that owns the plant, offered an explanation of the readings that can’t be described as anything other than “Ho-hum,” saying they were “fluctuations that can be expected as the material migrates.” The company further said that the tritium contaminated water spill was contained within the plant, and never made it to the Hudson River or any other water source. “There is no impact to public health or safety,” said Entergy spokeswoman Patricia Kakridas. Maybe so, but this is the ninth leak in just the past year, and four of those were serious enough to shut down the reactors. However, this most recent leak contains a number of radioactive elements such as strontium-90, cesium-137, cobalt-60, and nickel-63, meaning it isn’t limited to tritium contamination, according to the New York Department of State’s Coastal Zone Management Assessment. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo also doesn’t seem convinced, and earlier this month he launched a multi-agency probe into operations at the plant, The New York Daily News reports. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Marc A. Hermann/Wikimedia Commons At that time, samples taken from groundwater monitoring wells showed concentrations of tritium that were 80 percent higher compared to when the leak was first reported in January. Additionally, Cuomo has ordered the state health and environmental conservation commissioners to investigate the accident, and on Wednesday, he ordered a more extensive investigation that also includes the Department of Public Service. Investigators from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission are also scheduled to visit the plant Thursday to look into the accident. “Last week the company reported alarming levels of radioactivity at three monitoring wells, with one well’s radioactivity increasing nearly 65,000 percent,” the governor said. “The trends of unexpected outages and environmental incidents like these are extremely disconcerting.” It’s believed that the leak occurred when a drain overflowed during a maintenance operation as workers were transferring water containing high levels of radioactive contamination. Environmentalists have called for the plant to shut down while the probe continues, and say there have been too many leaks and other problems at the plant over the years. “The news just keeps getting worse,” said Paul Gallay, president of the Riverkeeper, a watchdog group. “Our concerns go beyond the spike in tritium levels. This is about a disturbing recurrence of serious malfunctions — seven over the last eight months.” Jerry Nappi, a spokesman for Entergy said the contaminated water wasn’t going into the Hudson River or into drinking water sources. “Some organizations who are longtime opponents of nuclear power will take opportunities to try and frighten the public,” he said. “The fact is this issue did not and cannot impact human health or any aquatic life in the river.” But TFTP notes that the area around Indian Point is a “cancer cluster,” and the local rate of thyroid cancer registers 66 percent higher than the national average, said Joseph Mangano, Executive Director of the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP). Researchers at RPHP compared cancer data from state and national levels from 1988-1992 with three other five-year periods (1993-1997, 1998-2002, and 2003-2007), RT.com reports. The results were published in 2009, and they show the cancer rates rising from 11 percent below the national average to seven percent above in that time span. What’s worse is that some rates of cancer showed unexpected increases in 19 out of 20 major types of cancer, with thyroid cancer showing the largest increase. Rates for this cancer went from 13 percent below the national average to 51 percent above. However, Entergy says there’s no correlation between the plant’s operation and the increased cancer rates. “There is no relation whatsoever,” Kakridas told RT.com. But everyone who lives near a nuclear power plant is exposed to radiation, Mangano said, and some plants are worse than others. Indian Point, he noted, is an old plant, and since there is a large population living nearby, the danger of radiation exposure is greater. When RPHP’s study was published, more than 20 million people lived within 50 miles of the plant. The first reactor at Indian Point began operating in 1962, but was decommissioned in 1974 when the core cooling system no longer met regulatory requirements, RT.com reports. And the facility’s initial 40-year license expired last December, but the NRC issued Entergy a temporary extension pending final approval. Alongside Riverkeeper, the Sierra Club, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, the Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition, Scenic Hudson, and Physicians for Social Responsibility say they have asked NRC Regulatory Commission Chairman Stephen Burns to order plant operations to be suspended until Indian Point’s safety is thoroughly reviewed by state and federal investigators, Daily Freeman News reports. U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer PR photo However, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY), says the organizations should first demonstrate how to replace the energy produced by the nuclear plant. Indian Point should never have been built because of its proximity to a hugely populated area, Schumer added, but said he doesn’t support shutting it down immediately, because the plant provides 25 percent of the power to the downstate area, making it crucial. “I have told some of the environmental people, if you can show me a plan to figure out a way to replace that electricity, fine, but if you can’t, it’s going to raise electricity rates 30 or 40 percent, which are high enough on average people and that’s not the way to go,” he said. “In the meantime, I have emphasized very strong safety.” But with radiation levels spiking so high, one has to wonder how safe can this possibly be? The Indian Point plant is located about 45 miles south of Kingston City Hall, on the Hudson River’s eastern shore, and about 24 miles north of the boundary of New York City. digitaljournal.com
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 3/3/2016 5:28:06 PM
	If You Don’t Warn The People, Their Blood Could Be On Your Hands By Michael Snyder, on March 2nd, 2016 Why are so few voices warning the people about what is coming? We stand at the door of a period of distress that will be unlike anything that any of us have ever known before. And even though the signs are all around us, very few individuals appear to be willing to stand up and sound the alarm. Instead, there seems to be a large number of people that are quite eager to criticize the watchmen. Earlier today, I was having a conversation with a very prominent voice in the alternative media, and we were reflecting on this. There are so many individuals out there that love to shoot arrows at those that are sounding the alarm, and yet they are doing so little to make a difference themselves. It is easy to sit back on your sofa munching on potato chips as the world around you goes to hell, and it is easy to criticize those that have chosen to have the courage to stand up and warn the people. But it is not easy to stand up and say the hard things that need to be said in a society that does not want to listen. Yes, there are some watchmen out there that are doing a great job of proclaiming the warning message. I have personally met a number of them, and I am proud to be their friends. Unfortunately, they are few and far between. Most people either don’t believe that we are on the precipice of disaster, they don’t care enough to warn others, or they are too busy criticizing those that are trying very hard to warn others. And of course you don’t need a media platform to sound the alarm. We all have family members that need to be warned about what is coming. We all have friends that need to be warned about what is coming. Each one of us is uniquely positioned to reach others that may not be able to be reached any other way. In the end, we all have a choice to make. If we sound the alarm and people choose not to listen, the responsibility for failing to act falls on them. But if we know what is coming and we choose to do nothing to warn others, then we may end up being responsible for their blood. This is a principle that we even seen in the Scriptures. The following is what Ezekiel 33:1-6 says… Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying: ²Son of man, speak to the children of your people and say to them: If I bring a sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them and set him for their watchman, ³and he sees the sword come upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people, ⁴then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, and a sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. ⁵He heard the sound of the trumpet yet did not take warning. His blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning delivers his soul. ⁶But if the watchman sees the sword come and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned and a sword comes and takes a person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity. But his blood I will require from the hand of the watchman. Sadly, the few voices that are proclaiming the warning message in our society are being almost completely drowned out by everyone else. Just look at our political leaders. None of them are warning the American people about what is really coming. Yes, they are warning that some bad things may happen if the wrong candidate gets elected, but all of them are promising that they can get this country completely turned around if they are elected. Unfortunately, all of them are dead wrong. None of them are going to be able to keep America from experiencing the great storm that is directly ahead of us. The mainstream media is even worse. According to the mainstream media, everything is great and things are only going to get even better in the years ahead. Of course the mainstream media is owned and controlled by the global elite, and just six giant media corporations produce more than 90 percent of the news and entertainment that we all consume. Perhaps most disappointing of all are the religious leaders. You would think that if anyone should be “sounding the alarm” it would be them. But instead, ministers all over this country have become absolutely terrified of offending anyone. Church attendance has been declining for years, and most churches are desperate to do whatever they can to keep people coming back and putting money in the offering plate. So many preachers know what is coming, and yet they have willingly chosen to be silent. They know that disaster is coming to America, and yet they have decided not to warn the people. Yes, there are some good churches out there, but in general the church in America has failed. There is very little preaching about sin, repentance or the blood of Jesus anymore. Rather, most of what is coming from the pulpits these days are just feel good messages that sound like they were directly ripped off from the self-help gurus. Sometimes I get frustrated because I wish that I could do a better job of warning the people. My articles are far from perfect, but I work very hard on them. And nobody can accuse me of not trying to sound the alarm. I have written more than a million words on The Economic Collapse Blog, and I have written more than a million words on End Of The American Dream. In addition, soon my wife and I will be doing a television show, and we will be posting the videos up on YouTube for free. I am just an ordinary guy that is trying to warn the people as loudly as I can from my little spot on the wall. When I first started, my readership could have been measured with a microscope, but over time it has grown far beyond what I could have possibly ever imagined. People know that they aren’t getting the truth from the “leaders” of our society, and so they are seeking out alternative sources of information. Thankfully, the Internet has allowed ordinary people like myself and others to get the warning message out. And of course the warning message is only part of my mission. I also carry a message of hope, and that is going to be greatly needed in the days ahead. As things completely fall apart during the years to come, millions are going to give in to depression and despair. Those people are going to need to know that there is hope even in the midst of all the chaos and all the darkness. My wife and I seek to live in a constant state of “shalom” (the Hebrew word for peace), and we believe that the greatest chapters of our lives are still ahead of us. Yes, we are heading for times that are going to be more challenging than most people would ever dare to imagine, but there is no other time in human history that we would have rather been alive for. We boldly look forward to the future, and we plan to bring light to a world that will be drowning in darkness. This optimistic view of the future is going to be a central theme of my new book which should be coming out later this month. The things that I am going to share about Bible prophecy, the book of Revelation and the challenging years ahead of us are going to really shake up a lot of people out there, and it will likely be one of the most controversial Christian books of 2016. But once again, someone needs to stand up and say the hard things that need to be said. I am sure that I will get some criticism for this article, but that is okay. I just hope that I can inspire a few others to come up on the wall and help warn America (and the world) about what is rapidly approaching. It doesn’t matter if your voice is big or small. What matters is whether or not you are faithful with what you have been given. Let us sound the alarm while we still can, because time is quickly running out. (The Economic Collapse)
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