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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 10/14/2017 10:40:57 AM
	'Just ash and bones': California wildfire survivors mourn loved ones George Powell, 74, lost his wife of 33 years; the Shepherd family lost their teenage son. They were among dozens of deaths in the state’s deadliest week of wildfires Julia Carrie Wongin San Francisco,Erin McCormick in Santa Rosa and agencies Friday 13 October 2017 \| 23.12 BST The Shepherd family: Sara and Jon Shepherd and their children, Kressa and Kai. Photograph: Irma Muniz/AP Lynne Anderson Powell had a 15-minute head start on her husband, George, when the couple fled the wildfire tearing through the Mayacamas mountains in Sonoma County around 1am Monday. Powell, 72, grabbed her laptop and her border collie Jemma and drove off in a blue Prius while her husband searched for their other three dogs. “I wasn’t going to leave without my dogs,” George Powell, 74, said by phone Friday. “By the time I got on the road, this huge wall of fire was coming. Between the fire and the smoke, you couldn’t see anything.” He drove through burning trees until he reached a safe parking lot, where he waited for his wife. She never arrived, and he spent three days searching shelters and hospitals. The couple had met on a blind date when George was working as a photojournalist with the Los Angeles Times, and he followed her back to Albuquerque, where she was a principal flutist for the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra before her retirement. “We took one look at each other and that was it,” he recalled. On Wednesday, George got a call from a detective: authorities believe his wife of 33 years drove off the side of the winding canyon road and had died after leaving her car. They asked for the name of her dentist to identify the remains. “I went by her,” he said, recalling his harrowing escape. “If I could have gotten out of the car, I would have gone back and died with her.” A temporary respite from the weather has allowed firefighters in northernCalifornia to make progress in containing the region’s deadly wildfires – and search and rescue teams to embark on the grim task of finding and identifying the dead. Thirty-five fatalities have been recorded so far, making this the deadliest week in California wildfire history. But that number could rise as search-and-rescue teams are deployed to sift through the remains of 3,500 burned buildings. Search and rescue personnel look for human remains in the Journey’s End Mobile Home park following the damage caused by the Tubbs fire. Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images “We have found bodies almost completely intact, and we have found bodies that were nothing more than ash and bones,” the Sonoma County sheriff, Robert Giordano, said Thursday. With as many as 25,000 having evacuated their homes, anxious relatives began posting photographs of missing loved ones on Facebook on Monday morning. “Has anyone seen my mom?” Cathie Merkel, a Sebastopol resident, wrote in a Facebook post with photographs of 79-year-old Sharon Robinson. “Salt and pepper hair, 79 years old. She could be at a shelter in Sonoma County.” And though hundreds of missing persons reports have been resolved, stories continue to emerge of people who did not make it out alive. On Tuesday, Merkel shared a photograph of a pile of rubble where her mother’s house once stood. “Her car is in the garage so she either walked out, got a ride out, or is still there,” she wrote. On Thursday came a final update: “We received the news today that she did not make it out of her home night of the fire … We know she found peace in her passing.” On Friday, in Santa Rosa, dozens of search and rescue personnel were on site at Journey’s End mobile home park, where authorities believe there may be two or three more bodies. The mobile home park catered to senior citizens, and most of the deceased who have been identified so far have been elderly. Among the first to be identified were Charles and Sara Rippey, aged 100 and 98, who had been married for 75 years and died in their home in Napa. Another elderly couple, 95-year-old Arthur Tasman Grant and 75-year-old Suiko Grant, “were not able to to escape the fires” in their neighborhood of Santa Rosa, their daughter Trina wrote on Facebook. “Dad I know you’re back flying a corsair again,” Grant wrote of her navy veteran father. “Mom, you’ll always be the most beautiful woman in the world to me.” Carmen and Armando Berriz, aged 75 and 76, sheltered in the swimming pool of the Santa Rosa house they had rented for a wine country vacation as flames engulfed the neighborhood, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Armando burned his hands holding on to the brick sides of the pool while his wife clung to her husband of 55 years. Around daybreak, as the fire began to abate, Carmen died. Armando survived, though he was badly burned, and managed to hike to safety. A few younger victims have been identified. Christina Hanson, 27, was born with a spinal defect and used a wheelchair, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. She died in her apartment in Santa Rosa. “Our minds are swirling,” said Mindi Ramos, Sara’s sister. “We’ve lost our nephew. Everyone is in critical care right now … We don’t know if they know that Kai is gone.”Kai Logan Shepherd, 14, died when the car his family was escaping in caught fire and the four Shepherds attempted to flee on foot, according to a family member. Sara Shepherd, 40, and her daughter Kressa, 17, were found by a neighbor lying on the ground near their Montecito county home, more than half their bodies burned. The neighbor, Paul Hanssen, found eighth-grader Kai’s body further down the road. Jon Shepherd, 44, was discovered by emergency workers, also badly burned. For survivors, the path ahead will be difficult. Lynne Powell had been treated for mouth cancer in recent years, and the couple had discussed what would happen if she predeceased George Powell. She created a “doomsday file to support me in the event of her demise”, George said, with important files, contacts, and financial information that he would need. But the file is gone, burned along with the house they had retired to. “I have no idea if I have the will to keep living,” he said. “She was the absolute love of my life.” (theguardian.com)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 10/14/2017 11:16:15 AM
	Nearly 40,000 penguin chicks starved to death in Antarctica this year Only two Adélie penguin chicks out of a colony of 40,000 in Antarctica survived what researchers are calling a "catastrophic breeding event." (MARK RALSTON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES) BY ARIEL SCOTTI NEW YORK DAILY NEWS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2017, 12:53 PM Only two Adélie penguin chicks out of a colony of 40,000 in Antarctica survived what researchers are calling a "catastrophic breeding event." For the second time in four years, the Adélie penguins of Antarctica have suffered a devastating blow to their population. French researchers found the two surviving chicks on Petrels Island, Antarctica, and about 18,000 adult penguin pairs with their thousands of unhatched eggs and starved-to-death offspring. Scientists are expected to call for a marine protected area in East Antarctica, where the birds live, to be established at the European Union and Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources meeting of 24 countries next week, the Guardian reported. The deaths of the penguin chicks are being attributed to a large amount of sea ice — a phenomenon on the island during a time when sea ice is not always easy to come by, thanks to climate change. The ice forces the penguins to travel great distances to try and forage for food. "For the moment, sea ice is increasing and this is a problem for this species as it pushes the feeding place — the sea ice edge — farther away from their nesting place," French National Center for Scientific Research scientist Yan Ropert-Coudert told the Guardian. "If it shrinks it would help but if it shrinks too much then the food chain they rely on may be impacted. Basically, as a creature of the sea ice they need an optimum sea-ice cover to thrive." The Adélie penguin population is already in a dire situation. Some researchers have suggested that they may become extinct along the Antarctic Peninsula because of climate change, but other human-related dangers pose a threat as well. "An MPA (marine protected area) will not remedy these changes but it could prevent further impacts that direct anthropogenic pressures, such as tourism and proposed fisheries, could bring," Ropert-Coudert said. He and others are hopeful for the conservation possibilities that could come out of next week's E.U. and CCAMLR meeting. Last year, members agreed to create the world's largest marine protected area in Antarctica's Ross Sea and an effort to save East Antarctica's Adélie penguins could be next. "Adélie penguins are one of the hardiest and most amazing animals on our planet," World Wildlife Fund's head of polar programs, Rod Downie, told the Guardian. "This devastating event contrasts with the image that many people might have of penguins. It's more like 'Tarantino does Happy Feet,' with dead penguin chicks strewn across a beach in Adélie Land." (nydailynews.com)
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 10/14/2017 4:51:15 PM
	Las Vegas Shooting Victim: “There Was 100% More Than One Shooter,” Gates To Concert Were Locked Shortly Before Attack OCTOBER 13, 2017 By Alex Thomas Las Vegas mass shooting victim Rocky Palermo was shot in the pelvis during the horrific attack and is now speaking out about what he saw and believes happened, including the presence of multiple shooters as well as locked concert gates and police telling frantic civilians to go in the other direction. Palermo, who has done various interviews since the attack, appeared on “The Blast” with a series of shocking comments that correlate with various other reports indicating that multiple shooters carried out the attack and that the FBI is actively covering this up. “I definitely do believe that there was 100% more than one shooter, every other person that I’ve talked to that did unfortunately get hit as well, have all said the same things,” Palermo detailed. The man then goes on to explain that after being shot he ran “about 200 yards” to hide behind a car, all the while hearing bullets fly past him at what he believes was ground level. “I’m waiting and all of a sudden we hear a little whizzing going by us, all of a sudden bullets are just flying by,” he continued. “When something is coming up and down or at least from a different angle they are either going to hit the ground or… a lot of different things are going to happen. When someone is shooting form a horizontal line its just going to keep shooting,” Palermo attempted to explain. Take note that what he means here is that people were being shot at from ground level rather than the 32nd floor of the hotel. Palermo then specifically heard the gun shots get “closer and closer” before quickly deciding it was once again time to run. Shockingly, he then goes on to detail the fact that at the end of the concert the previous two nights everyone had exited a specific way, but on the night of the shooting this route was locked down shortly before the attack. “Every other night at the concert, everybody kinda exited right off Las Vegas Blvd, that was standard, that was routine, you get out of the concert and you go down to the next casino,” he continued. “At 10pm they closed every exit on Las Vegas Blvd, every single one. They gated them all closed with chain-link fences, 10:08 the shooting started and we were pigs sitting in a corral. We only had one exit to go out of…..everyone was just kinda following the sheep.” Palermo makes it clear hat this confused concert goers who had used the normal exits in the past. “The same exits we had came in and left Friday and Saturday night were definitely closed. There were people that went over there and tried to leave and there were cops that were telling them no, you can’t go out here, you have to go the other way,” he shockingly concluded. This stunning testimony is obviously a huge bombshell in the ongoing investigation of the Las Vegas mass shooting and is sure to continue to add credence to the growing belief that we are not being told what actually happened that fateful night. Image Credit (activistpost.com)
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 10/14/2017 5:12:57 PM
	Syrian War – How America Shot Itself In The Foot OCTOBER 12, 2017 By Chris Kanthan Total fiasco. That’s a quick way to characterize the US adventure in Syria in the last six years. The proxy war not only failed to accomplish its goal – removal of Assad – it tremendously weakened the US in the Middle East, strengthened its adversaries, and soured its relations with many allies. If it were a movie, America’s recent Mideast policy would be called, How to Lose a Region in 6 Years; and if it were a book, it would be titled, How to Win Enemies and Lose Influence. To make things worse, globalists have refused to acknowledge their mistakes and are now doubling down on their failed policies. Let’s start with the claims of all the great pundits, military experts and politicians who have been consistently wrong since 2011. Assad must go; Assad will be gone soon Syrians will rise up against Assad Soldiers from the Syrian Army will desert in masses and overthrow Assad Ok, Syrians couldn’t do it, but surely Al Qaeda will bring down Assad Al Qaeda couldn’t do it, but ISIS will definitely finish the job The (good) terrorists will win if they just got more guns and anti-tank missiles Let’s spend a few more billions of dollars on training and arming the rebels. Victory is near! Russia will never intervene! Russia will lose Crimea and access to the Black Sea! Russia’s economy is about to collapse because of our sanctions and low oil prices (which we might have rigged)! Syria will become Russia’s Afghanistan! Humiliating Defeat in Syria Every one of their predictions and tactics failed. How about their eventual goals behind the Syrian war? Break up Syria into ethnic regions – including an extremist Sunni region controlled by Saudi Arabia, build a Qatar oil/gas pipeline thru Syria to Europe, let Israel drill oil in Golan Heights, and kick Russia’s naval base out of Syria. All those geopolitical goals were blown to smithereens. Not only did they fail in everything, they made things worse. Syria used to be quite pro-West. Before the war, Assad would visit France and the UK, and U.S. leaders such as Nancy Pelosi and Jimmy Carter have visited Syria. But, from now on, Syria will treat the U.S. as public enemy #1 for the foreseeable future. Russia had only mild influence in Syria before. However, now, Russia’s missile defense systems and military/naval bases have been firmly established in Syria. Basically, the war gave Russians what they could only dream of before. Iran & Hezbollah Similarly, their strategy to contain Iran worked precisely the other way. In their paranoia, Saudi Arabia and Israel thought they could preemptively stop the so-called Shiite Crescent – contiguous areas of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Instead, Iran’s para-military forces and Hezbollah’s fierce fighters saved Syria from ISIS and Al Qaeda. Thus, Iran and Hezbollah are now adored as heroes in Syria. Regarding Iran, the US policy has also been schizophrenic. Obama’s lifting of sanctions and the nuclear deal have been followed by intense animosity and saber rattling. Even though Iran has been sticking to its promises, Neocons and the pro-Israeli crowd in Washington are still itching for a war with Iran. Iraq If you thought, “Okay, at least they didn’t screw up Iraq,” you’d be too optimistic. After the Al Qaeda-ISIS plan failed, Israel is now supporting the formation of Kurdistan – essentially the breakup of Iraq. In fact, the Kurds’ eventual goal is to form a large Kurdistan that would encompass lands from Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. Thus, thanks to Israel, Iraq is aligning itself with Iran and Turkey, and moving away from the US. Iraqi leaders are also flying to Moscow and forging deals with Putin. Turkey One of the most important Islamic countries in that region is Turkey. It’s also a NATO member that hosts a strategic NATO military base. For five years it colluded with America and other allies in the proxy war against Syria. Then, in 2016, the CIA pulled a fast one and attempted a military coup to overthrow Erdogan. Embarrassingly, the coup failed. Hence it’s no surprise that Erdogan flipped 180 degrees and has been warming up to Russia. Erdogan has quickly signed many deals with Putin, including Russian pipelines through Black Sea, a Russian nuclear power plant in Turkey, and Russia’s famous S-400 missile defense systems. (Unlike the American systems, the S-400 will shoot down US missiles and planes). Erdogan has visited Tehran(Iran’s capital) and received Putin in Turkey in the last year, and has made it quite clear that he’s not firmly in the US sphere of influence anymore. To make things worse, the Turkey-US relations are deteriorating every day. Just this week, Turkey arrested an employee at the US consulate in Istanbul, after accusing him of being a spy who participated in the coup last year. This has led to both countries suspending visa services in their consulates. Turkey is also working out military and economic deals with Iran. Those two have even agreed to forego the US dollar and conduct their trades in local currencies. As I explain in my book, Syria – War of Deception, the US needs Turkey for numerous geopolitical reasons, including gaining influence in Central Asia to slow down China’s rising power. Qatar and Saudi Arabia Not content with this chaos, globalists have also managed to engineer a conflict between Saudi Arabia and Qatar, both hosts of large US military bases. Having your friends fight against each other weakens your alliance – this is Geopolitics 101. Right after Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia, the Saudis initiated a land/air blockade of Qatar. Guess who’s been providing food and other essentials to Qatar for the last few months? Iran and Turkey. Qatar has also been bonding with Russia and China. It bought 16% of Russia’s oil giant (Rosneft) and then sold it to China. Qatar is also conducting a lot of business with China in Yuan, foregoing the almighty US dollar. Thus you can add Qatar to another US ally who has learned to share their loyalty with the enemies of the US. If all of that sound bad, Saudi Arabia’s King made a historic visit to Russia in October and signed several deals with Putin to stabilize oil price and purchase Russia’s missile defense system. This is amazing for many reasons. Saudi Arabia and Russia have been bitter enemies for decades. The Saudis funded the Mujahideen in Afghanistan that defeated the USSR; then they funded Islamic terrorists in Chechnya that caused enormous problems and humiliation for Russia in the 1990s; and the Saudis funded Al Qaeda and ISIS in Syria. Saudi Arabia is also an American vassal state that plays a key role in the maintenance of petrodollar. If Saudi Arabia decides to sell oil in other currencies or gold, the US dollar would be decimated. Given all that and Russia’s alliance with Iran (Saudi’s nemesis), one can see how monumental the new Saudi-Russia partnership is. Conclusion The US foreign policy worked well in the era of Cold War when alliances were binary and US allies had nowhere to go. However, the Syrian war revealed that the US is not the only sheriff in town – Russia and China are playing lead roles in global geopolitics. The US needs to learn the art of diplomacy. Instead of spending a lot of time constantly demonizing and threatening other countries, the US foreign policy must focus on quietly working out deals behind the scenes. Finally, the US must accept a multipolar world where other nations are treated as partners and not as vassal states. Chris Kanthan is the author of a new book, Syria – War of Deception. It’s available in a condensed as well as a longer version. Chris lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, has traveled to 35 countries, and writes about world affairs, politics, economy and health. His other book is Deconstructing Monsanto. (activistpost.com)
	"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 10/14/2017 5:46:16 PM
	'Ring of Fire' volcanos remind Asia of seismic peril By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Oct 12, 2017, 5:35 AM ET WATCHIndonesian Volcano Erupts The horseshoe-shaped string of active volcanos bounding the Pacific Ocean has lived up to its "Ring of Fire" name in the past month, sparking mass evacuations in Indonesia andVanuatu and now setting parts of southwestern Japan on edge. The 450 or so volcanos that make up the "Ring of Fire" are an outline of where the massive Pacific Plate is grinding against other plates that form the Earth's crust, creating a 40,000-kilometer (25,000-mile) -long zone prone to frequent earthquakes and eruptions. ——— JAPAN The Shinmoedake volcano in southwestern Japan started erupting Wednesday for the first time in about six years. According to Japanese broadcaster TBS, an ash plume rose 1,700 meters (5,580 feet) from the crater Thursday and ash fell on cities and towns in Miyazaki prefecture. Videos showed students wearing helmets and masks on their way to an elementary school at the foot of Shinmoedake. The Japan Meteorological Agency is warning that hot ash and gas clouds known as pyroclastic flows could reach 2 kilometers (1 mile) from the crater. It raised the volcanic alert level from 2 to 3 on a scale of 5. Level 3 warns people to not approach the volcano. ——— BALI More than 140,000 people fled Mount Agung on the Indonesian island of Bali after its alert status was raised to the highest level on Sept. 22. Hundreds of tremors daily from the mountain indicate magma is rising inside it, prompting authorities to warn a powerful eruption is possible. The volcano spewed lava and deadly fast-moving clouds of boiling hot ash, gas and rocks when it last erupted in 1963, killing more than 1,100 people. A new eruption is likely to kill fewer people because officials have imposed a large no-go zone around the crater but it could paralyze tourism, which many Balinese rely on for their livelihoods. Indonesia has more than one tenth of the world's active volcanos and another two are currently erupting. Sinabung in northern Sumatra is shooting plumes of ash high into the atmosphere nearly daily and Dukono in the Maluku island chain is also periodically erupting. ——— VANUATU The entire population of a Pacific island was evacuated in the space of a few days in late September and early October to escape the belching Manaro volcano. The 11,000 residents of Ambae island were moved by every boat available to other islands in Vanuatu, a Pacific archipelago nation, where they're living in schools, churches and tents. Officials have since downgraded the volcano's danger level but say the population must wait at least two more weeks to return. The island's water supply and crops have been affected by volcanic ash andacid rain but most villages were spared major damage. Previous eruptions of the volcano have lasted a month to six weeks. (abcNEWS)
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