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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 10/31/2017 4:42:28 PM
	Pastor arrested after being accused of trafficking girls through Christian-run orphanage A PASTOR has been arrested after being accused of trafficking girls through a Christian-run orphanage. PUBLISHED: 00:00, Mon, Oct 30, 2017 \| UPDATED: 12:22, Mon, Oct 30, 2017 YOUTUBE Pastor Gideon Jacob has been charged under trafficking and juvenile justice laws Police in the Tamil Nadu state in southern India said they arrested Pastor Gideon Jacob on Saturday after he arrived from Germany and he has been charged under trafficking and juvenile justice laws. Denying the allegations, Jacob's lawyer told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that his client had voluntarily appeared before the police and was cooperating with the investigation. The Moses Ministries home in Tiruchy, run by Germany-based Christian Initiative for India that was founded by Jacob in 1989, housed 89 children, all said to have been rescued from female infanticide from Usilampatti in neighbouring Madurai. However, the home had no proper records of the children, all of whom are now aged 18 years and above. We have been counselling the girls, who have known no other life since they were babies Kuppanna Gounder Rajamani - Tiruchy district head In December 2015, the home was taken over by authorities during an investigation into the unregistered children's home. A wave of claims by people saying they were the children's parents prompted a local court to rule that all the children should undergo DNA testing to establish their real families. In 2016, DNA results showed at least 32 matches. GETTY More than 40 per cent of trafficking cases in India involved children None of the girls, however, have yet been reunited with their families. Tiruchy district head Kuppanna Gounder Rajamani said: "We have been counselling the girls, who have known no other life since they were babies. "We have also identified the parents willing to take back their daughters and, following Saturday's arrest, things will move faster and we are hoping to reunite the girls soon." Tricked explores the dark world of sex trafficking More than 40 per cent of human trafficking cases in India in 2015 involved children being bought, sold and exploited as modern-day slaves, according to government crime data. There has been a recent spate of reports of the trafficking of infants and children for adoption and raising funds through charity-run child homes and private hospitals. In Tamil Nadu, state authorities closed 500 homes between 2011 and 2016, citing mismanagement, a lack of registration and misconduct. (express.co.uk)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 10/31/2017 5:46:26 PM
	Climate change fueling disasters, disease in ‘potentially irreversible’ ways, report warns Water vapor rises from the coal-fired power plant run by the energy company LEAG in Boxberg, Germany. (Singer/Epa-Efe/Rex/Shutterstock) By Ben Guarino and Brady Dennis October 30 at 7:47 PM Climate change significantly imperils public health globally, according to a new report that chronicles the many hazards and symptoms already being seen. The authors describe its manifestations as “unequivocal and potentially irreversible.” Heat waves are striking more people, disease-carrying mosquitoes are spreading and weather disasters are becoming more common, the authors note in the report published Monday by the British medical journal the Lancet. Climate change is a “threat multiplier,” they write, and its blows hit hardest in the most vulnerable communities, where people are suffering from poverty, water scarcity, inadequate housing or other crises. “We’ve been quite shocked and surprised by some of the results,” said Nick Watts, a fellow at University College London’s Institute for Global Health and executive director of the Lancet Countdown, a project aimed at examining the links between climate change and public health. The effort involved 63 researchers from two dozen institutions worldwide, including climate scientists as well as ecologists, geographers, economists, engineers, mathematicians, political scientists and experts who study food, transportation and energy. The amount of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere in 2016 hit a record level, the United Nations said on Oct. 30. (Reuters) It is the latest in several Lancet reports to focus on climate change. In 2009, a Lancet commission described climate change as “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.” In 2015, a second commission recognized that the innovations required to match this threat represented “the greatestglobal health opportunity of the 21st century.” The Countdown, as its ticking-clock title suggests, outlines the way humans are adapting — or not — to a rapidly evolving climate. It was announced last year during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Morocco. The project, a synthesis of scientific literature and media reports, tracks 40 indicators of human health, including migration, nutrition and air pollution. Given the profound health dangers posed by a warming climate, the study’s authors focused on a key question: How well is the world responding? “The answer is, most of our indicators are headed in the wrong direction,” Watts said. “Broadly, the world has not responded to climate change, and that lack of response has put lives at risk . . . The impacts we’re experiencing today are already pretty bad. The things we’re talking about in the future are potentially catastrophic.” Hotter global temperatures are exacting a human toll. Although the increase since 2000 may seem slight — about 0.75 degrees Fahrenheit — the planet is not a uniform oven. Local spikes can be dramatic and dangerous. Heat waves, defined as extreme temperatures that persist for at least three days, are on the rise. Between 2000 and 2016, the number of people exposed to heat waves climbed by 125 million vulnerable adults, according to the report. During 2015, the worst year on record, 175 million people suffered through sweltering temperatures. Watts also cited the rising number of deaths from floods, storms and other weather disasters. Each year between 2007 and 2016, the world saw an average of 300 weather disasters — a 46 percent increase from the decade between 1990 and 1999. In the 25 years since 1990, these disasters claimed more than 500,000 lives. The number of potentially infectious bites from the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads viruses such as dengue fever and Zika, is up 9 percent over 1950s levels. And in recent years, the ranks of climate change migrants have grown. Just in the United States, more than 3,500 Alaskans have fled coastal erosion and permafrost melts. Twenty-five homes have been abandoned on Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles, which is being overtaken by the Gulf of Mexico. In 2016, its former residents became the first to receive federal funds for a climate change retreat. “If governments and the global health community do not learn from the past experiences of HIV/AIDS and the recent outbreaks of Ebola and Zika viruses,” the authors warn in the paper, “another slow response will result in an irreversible and unacceptable cost to human health.” But Monday’s report also finds “glimmers of hope,” Watts said. For example, many countries are moving away from coal-fired power plants, which are a source both of carbon emissions that fuel global warming and pollution that can cause immediate health problems in nearby communities. After President Trump’s announcement in June that the United States would pull out of the Paris climate accord, the global response to climate change has been heartening, the authors write, “affirming clear political will and ambition to reach the treaty’s targets.” Nicaragua, previously a holdout because it said the treaty was not stringent enough, is set to join the Paris agreement, leaving only Syria and the United States opposed. Watts and his co-authors note the ways people are trying to cope with the effects of climate change — spending less time outdoors, for example — even as they warn that the world cannot rely on adaptation alone. “If anybody says we can adapt our way out of this, the answer is, of course you can’t,” he said. “Some of the changes we’re talking about are so enormous, you can’t adapt your way out.” (The Washington Post)
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10/31/2017 6:34:22 PM

Black Death 'global outbreak' warning: Plague spreads to NINE countries amid experts fears

HEALTH chiefs are scrambling to contain a Black Death outbreak after plague warnings were issued for nine countries across south-east Africa.

By SIMON OSBORNE

PUBLISHED: 06:54, Tue, Oct 31, 2017 | UPDATED: 07:48, Tue, Oct 31, 2017

Experts warn the deadly disease is caused by the same bacteria that wiped out 25 million people in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries.

The latest outbreak is believed to have started on the island of Madagascar off the East African coast where at least 124 people have died and 1,300 more have been infected.

The World Health Organisation said plague - a terrifying bacterial infection transmitted by fleas - is nothing new in Madagascar, where about 600 cases are reported annually.

But concerned officials claim there is “something different” about this outbreak and “health officials couldn’t explain it”.

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Cleaners disinfect public areas in Madagascar

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Doctors carry out screening to prevent the spread of Black Death on the Indian Ocean island

Both humans and diseases are constantly changing, so it’s a bit like trying to hit a moving target from a moving car
Dr Jemma Geoghegan

Dr Arthur Rakotonjanabelo said: “Plague is a disease of poverty, because it thrives in places with poor sanitary conditions and health services.”

But he said the disease has now spread to parts of Madagascar which had not seen the plague since at least 1950.

Scientists are now working round the clock to predict the next outbreak and prevent it becoming a global epidemic and putting millions of life at risk.

Doctors on the Global Virome Project are trying to find all viruses in birds and mammals that could spill over to humans in the next decade.

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At least 124 people have died and 1,300 more have been infected

And the US Agency for International Development has spent the past eight years cataloguing threats, identifying 1,000 new viruses.

But Australian researchers have warned it is impossible to predict a global outbreak because there are too many variables.

Jemma Geoghegan from Macquarie University and Edward Holmes from the University of Sydney said efforts will fail because the enormous number of unknown viruses could evolve and appear in humans at any time.

Dr Geoghegan said: “The Global Virome Project will be great for understanding more about viruses and their evolution, but I don’t see how it’ll help us work out what’s going to infect us.

“We’re only just coming to terms with the vastness of the virosphere.

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Health chiefs are working round the clock to contain the outbreak

“Once a virus achieves human-to-human transmission, it’s really just a matter of luck as to how severe and contagious it is, and whether or not it can be treated quickly.

“Both humans and diseases are constantly changing, so it’s a bit like trying to hit a moving target from a moving car.

“We’re trying to predict really, really rare events from not much information, which I think is going to fail.”

She pointed out that scientists discovered the Zika virus in Uganda in 1947 yet there was an outbreak on the other side of the world, in Brazil, two years ago.

The disease is spread by mosquitoes and can cause severe birth defects in babies if the mother is bitten while pregnant.

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There is currently an outbreak of both pneumonic and bubonic plague in Madagascar

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Workers cleaning and disinfecting the tents where patients sleep at the health center Plague Triage and Treatment Center, in Toamasina

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Workers cleaning and disinfecting the tents where patients sleep at the health center Plague Triage and Treatment Center, in Toamasina

Similarly, the Ebola virus was discovered in 1976 in South Sudan, but it claimed a reported 11,315 lives in west Africa three years ago.

It is highly infectious and spreads through transmission of bodily fluids, causing a gruesome death as the whole body haemorrhages.

Other diseases can emerge out of the blue like the SARS virus — a severe form of pneumonia — which broke out in China after a researcher accidentally caught it in a lab in 2002.

HIV, a sexually transmitted virus which attacks the body’s immune system, has claimed an estimated 35 million lives in the past 40 years.

And the most famous of all outbreaks was the Spanish Influenza pandemic, which killed up to 100 million people — five per cent of the world’s population — in 1918.

(express.co.uk)

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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 10/31/2017 11:18:21 PM
	JUST IN: White House Staff Calls For Special Counsel As Hillary’s Deal EXPOSED Posted by Mark Megahan \| Oct 31, 2017 \| Breaking News “The American people have an absolute right to know these things,” Kelly insists. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly urged Jeff Sessions and the Department of Justice to quickly nominate “someone who is very, very objective” who can get to the bottom of the recently exposed Uranium One deal and Fusion GPS scandals all centered around Hillary Clinton, her campaign, and the Clinton Foundation. Laura Ingraham asked the featured guest on her new Fox show, “The Ingraham Angle,” which aired for the first time Monday night, if he thought we need a special counsel “appointed to investigate all of these narratives coming out.” The ones in question are “with the DNC and the Clinton campaign actually funding research that was in part compiled by Kremlin associates.” Kelly got right to the point. “The American people have an absolute right to know these things,” Kelly insists. “We need to find someone who is very, very objective who can get to the bottom of these accusations, I think it’s important. I think it’s doubly important that when these kinds of accusations are made that they should be investigated.” All the liberal news outlets have been treating solid evidence that Hillary was the real culprit in Russian collusion as toxically radioactive. The media refuse to report on it because they know how bad the fallout is going to be. Mueller seems rather preoccupied. Ingraham mentioned President Trump’s furious tweets calling out the media for bias. “I think the president has made it clear what he thinks about the Uranium One story and the Fusion GPS Story,” Ingraham quipped.” “There is so much GUILT by Democrats/Clinton, and now the facts are pouring out. DO SOMETHING!” Trump tapped out on Sunday. The President then followed it up on Monday with “Why aren’t Crooked Hillary & the Dems the focus?????” Roger Stone told reporters last week that “Trump should direct the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate whether Mueller, as FBI director, oversaw a ‘cover-up.'” Bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States. It recently came to light that Marc Elias, a lawyer for Clinton at the firm Perkins Coie, funneled Clinton campaign cash to mudslinging ex-CNN reporters at Fusion GPS who dig up political dirt for a living. Fusion GPS, in turn, sent “former British spy” Christopher Steele off to Russia to bring back something good. Russian officials made a game of passing him more and more outrageous misdirection just to see what they could get away with. Steele didn’t care, his job was to write it down, not believe it or check it. He got paid just to bring it back to Clinton and the DNC. Ingraham also wanted to know if Kelly thought Mueller should recuse himself as witch smeller into Trump-Russia collusion “due to him being FBI director when the Obama-era uranium deal transpired,” to which Kelly agreed that “Mueller seems rather preoccupied.” Last week, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley launched an investigation into the shady Obama era Uranium One scheme, greased by $145 million dollars deposited into the Clinton Foundation. Starting in 2009 the FBI, led by Robert Mueller, “gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States.” Meuller chose not to tell anybody. In order to keep the involvement quiet, all the FBI had to do was continue the investigation. Until there were charges to be filed, nobody outside the probe needed to know anything. It should wrap up soon. It would seem that they’re toward the end of the witness pile. I don’t know how much longer it can possibly go on. While the investigation stayed tightly under wraps, the nine-agency Committee on Foreign Investment, which listed both Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder as members, signed off on a deal to allow Russia to buy Uranium One, a Canadian company. Hillary Clinton’s State Department also approved the deal transferring 20 percent of U.S. uranium supplies to Russia but not until the check to the Clinton Foundation cleared. As former Whitehouse Press Secretary Ari Fleisher Tweeted, “If this isn’t collusion/conspiracy with an enemy… what is?” Since the media are unable to report on the Uranium One or fake dossier stories because they can’t poke holes in them, they are going crazy with wall to wall coverage of the fact the witch smeller finally found some victims to burn at the stake. Pressured by Democrats to produce something, anything to justify the investigation, now that it has been shown to be based almost entirely on allegations sourced in the debunked dossier, Muller announced indictments against three individuals. The move was hyped to the max. Starting with an exclusive leak on Friday to CNN, the media spent all weekend salivating with speculation as to who would be the first to go up in flames. When Monday rolled around, Paul Manafort and his aide Rick Gates were hit with indictments and turned themselves in. Low-level flunky, George Papadopoulos, already pleaded guilty on October 5, after he got enough to sink Manafort and Gates by wearing a wire for Mueller. Despite all the media celebration, none of this is a big deal or even a surprise. All along, Manafort was expected to be charged eventually with “financial crimes dating as far back as 2006.” Russian officials made a game of passing him more and more outrageous misdirection just to see what they could get away with. Kelly brushed off the indictments, saying they “stemmed from activities that took place from before the campaign.” He didn’t bother to mention the charges against Papadopoulos, who “was an unpaid volunteer who attended only one meeting ever and was long separated from Trump’s campaign,” according to press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Kelly is confident the witch hunt will soon be over. “It should wrap up soon. It would seem that they’re toward the end of the witness pile. I don’t know how much longer it can possibly go on.” Kelly insists that “there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.” Kelly says most American’s don’t care about it. “If you look at the rates of acceptance among the U.S. population, the U.S. Congress, the media is all way down in the single digits or the teens. Most people in America look at Washington with amusement, but not with an awful lot of respect or interest.” (conservativedailypost.com)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 10/31/2017 11:42:43 PM
	Teen Uses Twitter to Attack Detectives She Says Raped Her, a Rare and New Move in a Sexual Assault Case Josh Saul NewsweekOctober 31, 2017 Right after two New York City detectives were arrested and walked into court Monday to plead not guilty to charges they raped a handcuffed teenager in their police van, the 18-year-old who accused them posted the latest salvo in her outspoken Twitter campaign about the attack. “YOU ARE GUILTY. STOP WITH THE BULL***,” wrote the woman, who uses the name Anna Chambers online. After news broke last month that authorities were investigating the alleged rape, Chambers retweeted news stories on September 29 and said, “SHARE THIS, yes its about me.” Since then, she has kept up a steady stream of tweets about the case, in what victim advocates and lawyers describe as a rare move and new trend in how women decide to publicize their own alleged rapes or sexual assaults. “She wanted to get her voice out to let people know that it’s true,” said her lawyer, Michael David. Chambers made the decision to speak out about her case on social media in part because she didn’t think authorities were seriously investigating the September 15 incident, which she reported immediately. When Chambers saw that police sources told reporters the sex was consensual, she was so infuriated at what she viewed as a brazen lie that she started tweeting, said David. “I think we’re going to see a lot more of this. This is the future.” Lawyers and advocates who work with victims of sexual assault said it’s rare for a woman to publicly discuss her case on social media as Chambers is doing. In the past, victims of sexual assault almost never identified themselves or spoke publicly, and news organizations were very careful to avoid printing their real names or photographs without permission. “It is unusual because of the culture of shame,” says Carrie Goldberg, a New York City attorney who represents sexual assault victims. “Few victims do feel empowered after an injury that’s all about their loss of power. It’s not a typical inclination to publicize it.” A New York Police van is pictured in front of the United Nations headquarters in the Manhattan borough of New York, September 22. Reuters 1_11_NYPD Chambers’ tweets came at a time when sexual assault and harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein were in the headlines, though Chambers first identified herself more than a week earlier. The news about Weinstein, which was quickly followed by accusations against a long list of other powerful men, created a new sense of power among victims and increased the number of people telling their stories. In the past, sexual assault victims who made public accusations were usually treated as if they were lying or crazy—but that appears to be changing. “This is an important cultural stride because it’s essential that the shame be shifted from the victim to the offender,” Goldberg says. Sexual assault victims who report being attacked still face the kind of serious stigma and shame that can discourage many of them from being open on social media in the way that Chambers has been, says Christopher Bromson, executive director of the Crime Victims Treatment Center, a nonprofit that helps survivors of sexual and domestic violence. While tweets like the ones Chamber posts are uncommon, Bromson said, the atmosphere is changing. “ With everything that’s happening now, with survivors being believed in the media, it makes sense that somebody would react this way and be more comfortable being vocal and voicing their anger about what happened.” According to prosecutors and the indictment, NYPD detectives Edward Martins, 37, and Richard Hall, 33, stopped Chambers on September 15 for having marijuana in her car, then handcuffed her in their police van and told her they were “freaks” before sexually assaulting her. Among other crimes, Martins has been charged with rape, while Hall has been charged with forcing oral sex. Both men have pleaded not guilty and were released on bail. Defense attorneys for the two detectives earlier this month tried to use Chambers’ tweets to undermine her credibility and avoid the indictment of their clients—criticizing a “provocative selfie” she posted on Instagram and arguing her behavior was “unprecedented for a depressed victim of a serious rape,” the New York Post* reported. After tweeting a story about the attorneys’ letter with a headline about her “Provocative Selfies,” Chambers crafted an undercutting response that shows how she has taken control of her own story in a way that women have very rarely done in the past. Under a photo of herself in a burgundy tracksuit, she wrote, “Is this provocative also.” (Yahoo)
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Pastor arrested after being accused of trafficking girls through Christian-run orphanage

A PASTOR has been arrested after being accused of trafficking girls through a Christian-run orphanage.

Black Death 'global outbreak' warning: Plague spreads to NINE countries amid experts fears

HEALTH chiefs are scrambling to contain a Black Death outbreak after plague warnings were issued for nine countries across south-east Africa.

Plague outbreak, latest photos from Madagascar

There is currently an outbreak of both pneumonic and bubonic plague in Madagascar

JUST IN: White House Staff Calls For Special Counsel As Hillary’s Deal EXPOSED

Teen Uses Twitter to Attack Detectives She Says Raped Her, a Rare and New Move in a Sexual Assault Case

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