Forums

This forum is not active, and new posts may not be made in it.

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/28/2016 12:14:09 AM
	Coroner: 32 bullets used to kill 8 in Ohio massacre. One victim shot 9 times. Washington Post April 27, 2016 This aerial photo shows one of the locations being investigated in Pike County, Ohio, as part of an ongoing homicide investigation on Friday, April 22, 2016. (Lisa Marie Miller/The Columbus Dispatch via AP) Shocking details are emerging about the four crime scenes where eight members of an Ohio family were found shot dead. Six days after the Rhoden family was massacred, execution-style, while sleeping in their beds, Ohio law enforcement officials have not yet made any arrests or hinted at what could have motivated someone to commit such a heinous crime. In addition to news that evidence of commercial marijuana grow operations and cockfighting roosters were uncovered at several of the crime scenes, officials have now released preliminary autopsy results for all eight of the victims, who range in age from 16 to 44. Combined, the victims were shot a total of 32 times, reports the Cincinnati Enquirer. The most gunshot wounds any single victim had was nine; two victims were shot five times, one was shot four times, two were shot three times, one had two gunshot wounds and the final victim was shot once. Some of the victims were also bruised, according to the Enquirer, confirming claims by a 911 caller that two of the men looked like someone had “beat the hell out of them.” Most of the victims appeared to be sleeping when they were shot overnight April 22 across four locations in rural Pike County. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine called the killings “sophisticated” and “pre-planned.” More than 215 law enforcement officials have contributed to the investigation, which DeWine said he predicts will be lengthy and time-consuming. Since Friday, more than 300 tips have flooded the Pike County Sheriff’s Office and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation,according to a news release from the Attorney General’s Office. In addition to the 18 “high priority” pieces of evidence already submitted to the BCI crime lab, 61 more items were sent off Tuesday, the release said. Search warrants were served Monday, but the number of warrants and the relevant locations were not released. The victims were previously identified as 40-year-old Christopher Rhoden Sr.; his 16-year-old son, Christopher Rhoden Jr.; 44-year-old Kenneth Rhoden; 38-year-old Gary Rhoden; 37-year-old Dana Rhoden; 20-year-old Clarence “Frankie” Rhoden; 20-year-old Hannah Gilley; and 19-year-old Hanna Rhoden. Rhoden family tree (Ohio attorney general) In an exclusive interview with the Enquirer, Leonard Manley, a relative of several of the victims, said he first heard of the marijuana allegations from news reports. He was fiercely defensive of his daughter, Dana Rhoden, who died along with her ex-husband and three children. “They are trying to drag my daughter through the mud and I don’t appreciate that,’’ Manley, 64, told the Enquirer. Manley’s youngest daughter, Bobby Manley, discovered the first two bodies on Union Hill Road. When Bobby Manley called 911, she told the dispatcher that she had come to the house to feed the dogs and chickens and instead found the blood and the bodies. Six more victims were found after that. What Leonard Manley can’t comprehend, he told the Enquirer, is why the killer or killers didn’t attack the family’s dogs. “Why wouldn’t they do that?” Leonard Manley said. “Somebody had to know them dogs.” In a radio interview with personality Bill Cunningham Monday, DeWine wouldn’t confirm any theories that the killers were motivated by a drug turf war or that they may have known the family intimately, but he did emphasize that it was clear the victims were ambushed in their sleep in a calculated and careful way. DeWine also confirmed that a member of the family received a threatening Facebook message leading up to the executions. CBS News reported that the threat specifically mentioned Christopher Rhoden Jr., the 16-year-old high school student and the massacre’s youngest victim. The Pike County sheriff’s office asks anyone with information to call 1-855-BCI-OHIO or 740-947-2111.
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
	+1

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/28/2016 11:08:59 AM
	Deadly airstrikes hit MSF-supported hospital in Syrian city Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press Associated Press April 28, 2016 FILE -- In this Sunday, April 24, 2016, file photo made from video posted online by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, a man helps an injured man as others stand in rubble after airstrikes and shelling hit Aleppo, Syria. A military buildup in northern Syria coupled with heavy fighting and mounting civilian casualties spells the end of a cease-fire that for two months brought much needed relief to war-stricken Syrians, ushering in what could be an even more ruinous chapter in the country's five-year-old conflict. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP video, File) BEIRUT (AP) -- A wave of nighttime airstrikes hit a hospital in Syria supported by Doctors Without Borders and nearby buildings in the rebel-held part of the contested city of Aleppo, killing at least 27 people as the U.N. envoy for Syria appealed early Thursday on the U.S. and Russia to help revive the peace talks and a cease-fire, which he said "hangs by a thread." Six hospital staff and three children were also among the casualties. The strikes, shortly before midnight Wednesday, hit the well-known al-Quds field hospital in the rebel-held district of Sukkari in Aleppo, according to opposition activists and rescue workers. The chief Syrian opposition negotiator Mohammed Alloush blamed the government of President Bashar Assad for the deadly airstrikes. He told The Associated Press that the latest violence by government forces shows "the environment is not conducive to any political action." The Civil Defense, a volunteer first-responders agency whose members went to the scene of the attack, put the death toll at 30 and said the dead included six hospital staff. Among those slain was one of the last pediatricians remaining in opposition-held areas of the contested city and a dentist. The agency, also known as the White Helmets, said the al-Quds hospital and adjacent buildings were struck in four consecutive airstrikes. It said there were still victims buried under the rubble and that the rescue work continued. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 27 were killed, including three children. Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French acronym MSF, said in a series of tweets also emailed to the AP that at least 14 patients and staff were among those killed, with the toll expected to rise. "Destroyed MSF-supported hospital in Aleppo was well known locally and hit by direct airstrike on Wednesday," it said. A video posted online by the White Helmets showed a number of lifeless bodies, including those of children, being pulled out from a building and loaded into ambulances amid screaming and wailing. It also showed distraught rescue workers trying to keep onlookers away from the scene, apparently fearing more airstrikes. Alloush, who was one of the leading negotiators of the opposition in the Geneva talks, described the airstrikes as one of the latest "war crimes" of Assad's government. "Whoever carries out these massacres needs a war tribunal and a court of justice to be tried for his crimes. He does not need a negotiating table," Alloush told the AP in a telephone interview. "Now, the environment is not conducive for any political action." The February 27 cease-fire has been fraying in the past weeks as casualty figures from violence mount, particularly in Aleppo and across northern Syria. Airstrikes earlier this week also targeted a training center for the Syrian Civil Defense, leaving five of its team dead in rural Aleppo. Since April 19, nearly 200 people have died, including at least 44 in an airstrike on a market place in rebel-held area in northern Idlib province, as well as dozens of civilians in government-held areas from rebel shelling. The U.N. envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, briefed the U.N. Security Council via videoconference about the largely stalled indirect talks between the Western- and Saudi-backed opposition and envoys from Assad's government, which has the backing of Moscow. He said that after 60 days, the cessation of hostilities agreed to by both sides "hangs by a thread." "I really fear that the erosion of the cessation is unraveling the fragile consensus around a political solution, carefully built over the last year," de Mistura said in his council briefing obtained by The Associated Press. "Now I see parties reverting to the language of a military solution or military option. We must ensure that they do not see that as a solution or an option." The talks foundered last week after the main opposition group, called the High Negotiating Committee, suspended its formal participation in the indirect talks with Assad's envoys to protest alleged government cease-fire violations, a drop in humanitarian aid deliveries and no progress in winning the release of detainees in Syria. (Yahoo News)
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
	+1

Luis Miguel

1162

61587

Lima

RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES?

4/28/2016 1:53:24 PM

IN HOT WATER

Coral bleaching has swept 93 percent of the Great Barrier Reef

By Brian Kahn on Apr 23, 2016

Cross-posted from Climate Central

We knew coral bleaching was a serious issue in the Great Barrier Reef, but the scope of just how widespread it was has been unclear — until now.

Extensive aerial surveys and dives have revealed that 93 percent of the world’s largest reef has been devastated by coral bleaching. The culprit has been record-warm water driven by El Niño and climate change that has cooked the life out of corals.

The unprecedented destruction brought leading reef scientist Terry Hughes, who runs the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, to tears.

Terry Hughes ‎@ProfTerryHughes

I showed the results of aerial surveys of #bleaching on the#GreatBarrierReef to my students, And then we wept.

2:48 PM - 19 Apr 2016

“We’ve never seen anything like this scale of bleaching before. In the northern Great Barrier Reef, it’s like 10 cyclones have come ashore all at once,” Hughes said in a press release.

(GRIST)

"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/28/2016 2:25:13 PM
	BIG SHOTS CHERNOBYL AT 30: PERILOUS STILL BY ALEXANDER NAZARYAN ON 4/26/16 AT 10:37 AM In some parts of the Exclusion Zone around Chernobyl, the radioactivity is hardly above normal. In others, your Geiger counter goes wild. ALEXANDER NAZARYAN FOR NEWSWEEK Exactly 30 years ago, there was an explosion in the Ukrainian countryside north of Kiev. In the nearby town of Pripyat, about 49,000 people slept. They lived here, in the thick forest on the Belarusian border, because they had been lured by jobs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Most people believed that working and living near a nuclear reactor was safe. Soviet officials had assured them that nothing could go wrong at Chernobyl. It was all a simple matter of smashing atoms and boiling water. We now know otherwise. In the 30 years since the meltdown of Reactor No. 4, Chernobyl has become a symbol of hubris and its toxic discontents. The partial meltdown at Three Mile Island seven years earlier never became a catastrophe on the level of Chernobyl. Fukushima, crippled by a tsunami in 2011, was arguably the worst nuclear disaster of all. And yet Chernobyl remains the one-word cautionary tale uttered by those convinced that nuclear power is an inherent danger. I visited the site two years ago and found a strange mix of ruin, nature and industry (a slideshow of photographs is above). The Exclusion Zone is almost entirely abandoned, which has curiously turned the nuclear wasteland into a natural refuge. At the same time, hundreds of workers are toiling to create a new enclosure for the ruined reactor, a multibillion-dollar project imperiled by Ukraine’s conflict with Russia. The 30th anniversary of Chernobyl comes as the world’s most powerful nations acknowledge, however reluctantly, that they must curb their use of fossil fuels. One way to do so is to build more nuclear plants, which provide cheap, clean electricity. Yet most nations, including the United States, are reluctant to invest in the expansion of nuclear fission plants. The reasons are many, but they eventually distill to a single word: Chernobyl. (Newsweek)
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
	+1

Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 4/28/2016 2:39:16 PM
	AL-QAEDA CLAIMS KILLING OF LGBT EDITOR AND FRIEND IN BANGLADESH BY JACK MOORE ON 4/26/16 AT 12:24 PM Bangladeshi journalists and onlookers gather April 25 in front of an apartment in Dhaka where a leading gay rights activist was hacked to death. Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility. MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES An affiliate of the Al-Qaeda jihadi group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the killing of a gay-rights activist and his friend in the capital, Dhaka, a day earlier. A Twitter account claiming to be that of the Ansar Al Islam group said that its militants hacked Xulhaz Mannan and Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy to death, saying that the pair were “pioneers of practicing and promoting homosexuality in Bangladesh.” The claim could not be independently verified and the group have made similar claims in the past about attacks in the country. Ansar Al Islam is part of the jihadi group’s Indian Subcontinent branch. Mannan was also a worker for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the editor of Bangladesh’s only gay-rights magazine, named Roopbaan. The magazine called itself a “platform and publication promoting human rights and freedom to love in Bangladesh.” USAID administrator Gayle Smith issued a statement on Monday that read: “Today, USAID lost one of our own. He was the kind of person willing to fight for what he believed in, someone ready to stand up for his own rights and the rights of others.” The attack occurred when at least five men posed as couriers at the entrance to a flat where Mannan and Tonoy were present. The attackers entered the second-floor apartment and hacked the pair to death with machetes. Mannan’s mother and a maid were in the apartment and both are still alive. The murder came a day after Bangladeshi police arrested a student for hacking to death an English teacher, 58-year-old Rezaul Karim Siddique, from the Rajshahi University, in the city of the same name in the country’s northwest. The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack and said he was killed “for calling to atheism.” Bangladesh has been mired in recent years by a wave of deadly attacks against bloggers and journalists who are critical of extremist thought within the country, particularly within Islam. Islamist militants in Bangladesh have also published a list threatening secular bloggers and writers outside of the country. The hit list, published in September 2015, contains nine U.K.-based bloggers, seven in Germany, two in the U.S., one in Canada and one in Sweden. (Newsweek)
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
	+1