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El Baradei: We’ll Fight Back Against The Zionist Regime If Israel Attacks Gaza

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“Former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei, who had previously announced his intetions to run for the presidency of Egypt, said Monday that ‘if Israel attacked Gaza we would declare war against the Zionist regime.’

In an interview with the Al-Watan newspaper he said: ‘In case of any future Israeli attack on Gaza – as the next president of Egypt – I will open the Rafah border crossing and will consider different ways to implement the joint Arab defense agreement.'”  Read more.

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Muslim Brotherhood Advocates Egyptian Modesty Police

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By DAVID E. MILLER – “Officials of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s leading Islamic group, have called for the establishment of a Saudi-style modesty police to combat ‘immoral’ behavior in public areas in what observers say in another sign of a growing Islamic self-confidence in the post-Mubarak era.

In the political sphere, the Brotherhood led a successful drive to get voters to approve a package of constitutional amendments. On the street level, at least 20 attacks were perpetrated against the tombs of Muslim mystics (suffis), who are the subject of popular veneration but disparaged by Islamic fundamentalists, or salafis. After some initial hesitation, Islamic leaders have publicly praised the revolution.

‘This is incredibly worrying to many Egyptians,’ Maye Kassem, a political scientist at the American University in Cairo (AUC), told The Media Line.” Read more.

 

Categories: Radical Islam

As Floods Recede, Disease Breaks Out in South Asia

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“Illness – mostly from respiratory problems – has struck more than 20,000 residents in flooded provinces in the South. They are seeking or receiving treatment at government clinics, hospitals, or from mobile medical units, Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said yesterday.

Mobile medical units had made 667 visits to 18,378 patients seeking treatment for respiratory problems (60 per cent), foot rashes and diseases (23 per cent), and skin rashes (5 per cent).

Sixty-nine patients needed psychiatric counselling, with seven suffering deep depression due to relatives killed in the flooding and to property damage and losses.

Quoting the latest update yesterday by the Emergency Medical Institute of Thailand, Jurin said 45 people had been killed in the flooding in the South- 19 in the hardest-hit Nakhon Si Thammarat, 10 in Surat Thani, nine in Krabi, three in Phatthalung, two each in Trang and Chumphon.”  Read more.

 

 

Categories: Natural Disasters, Pestilence

NASA: Mysterious Fireball Season Set to Light Up Night Sky

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“Spring has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere, which means that birds are chirping, flowersare blooming — and fireballs are lighting up the sky, NASA says.

For some mysterious reason, the number of fireballs — dramatic meteors that blaze brighter than any planet when they burn up in Earth’s atmosphere — peaks at this time of year.

‘Spring is fireball season,’ said Bill Cooke, of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Center, in a statement. ‘For reasons we don’t fully understand, the rate of bright meteors climbs during the weeks around the vernal equinox.'” Read more.

 

 

Categories: Cosmic Craziness

Radiation in Japan Seas: Risk of Animal Death, Mutation?

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By Christine Dell’Amore – “If radioactive material from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant—disabled by the March 11 Japan earthquake and tsunami—continues to enter the ocean, marine life could be threatened, experts say.

In the past week, seawater samples taken near the nuclear power plant, on Japan’s eastern coast, have shown elevated levels of radioactive isotopes, including cesium 137 and iodine 131, according to the New York Times.

All life on Earth and in the oceans lives with exposure to natural levels of ionizing radiation—high-frequency radiation with enough energy to change DNA. Most such genetic damage heals, but the addition of human-made radiation can make it harder for the body to repair broken genes.” Read more.

 

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Iran Christians Face Blasphemy Trial, Death Sentence Possible

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By BosNewsLife Middle East Service – “Five detained members of one of Iran’s largest house church movements were to face a trial Monday, April 5, on charges of ‘blasphemy’ which carries the death penalty in this strict Islamic nation, a church representative told BosNewsLife.

Pastor Behrouz Sadegh-Khandjani, Mehdi Furutan, Parviz Khalaj, Mohammed Beliad and his wife Nazly Makarian Beliad, of the Church of Iran denomination, are already serving a one-year prison sentence for ‘crimes against the Islamic Order’ at the Revolutionary Court in Shiraz.

Now the other ‘trial of the servants of the Church of Iran has is been set for April 5. They have been accused of blasphemy against Islam,’ said a church representative with close knowledge about the situation.” Read more.

 

Categories: Radical Islam

State Dep’t and U.N. Silent About Latest Anti-Christian Violence in Ethiopia

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By Lambert Mbom – “While the Obama administration cited human rights atrocities in Libya as part of the reason for U.S. and U.N. military intervention there, neither the State Department nor the United Nations have apparently condemned an outbreak of violence in western Ethiopia, led by Muslim radicals. Since early March two Christians have reportedly been killed, more than 3,000 displaced and at least 69 churches destroyed.

Also, leading human rights organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Human Rights First appear not to have publicly condemned the attacks.”  Read more.

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Caterpillar Plague Invades East Java Villages

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By Amir Tejo – “Surabaya. East Java’s deputy governor has ordered officials to prepare for possible evacuations in areas hit by a caterpillar outbreak, a report said on Friday.

Saifullah Yusuf also requested authorities to monitor the situation in Probolinggo district, where villages were swamped by thousands of caterpillars, said Edi Purwinarti, the governor’s assistant on people’s welfare.

‘So far, the condition is not that bad yet,’ Edi said on Friday.

‘The possibility of evacuating residents is [an option] if the conditions become worrying or dangerous,’ Edi was quoted by Detiksurabaya.com as saying.

In the past two weeks, the swarm has spread to five subdistricts in Probolinggo, with the insects crawling into homes and fields, causing skin rashes among residents.

The herbivorous insects have also destroyed more than 8,800 mango trees — the district’s main agricultural product.” Read more.

 

Categories: Pestilence

6.7 Magnitude Quake Strikes Off Coast of Indonesia

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“Hundreds of residents fled an Indonesian port town for higher ground on Monday when an earthquake struck south of Java with a magnitude estimated by US seismologists at 6.7.

The epicentre in the Indian Ocean was 24 kilometres (15 miles) miles deep, the US Geological Survey said, after initially estimating it at 10 kilometres underground, and 277 kilometres south of the Javanese coast.

Indonesian seismologists put the magnitude at 7.1 and issued a tsunami warning, saying the tremor had the potential to cause a killer wave and asking recipients of its public alert SMS to warn others of the danger.”  Read more.

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6.4 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes South of Fiji

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“WELLINGTON — A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck the Fiji region on Monday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was immediately issued.

The undersea quake hit 321 kilometres (200 miles) west of Suva at a depth of 555 kilometres at 2:07 am (1407 GMT), USGS said.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre which monitors the region and issues bulletins in the event of a tsunami being generated had no such warning in force.” Read more.

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Dengue Fever Outbreak Hits Hawaii

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By Charles Simmins – “Hawaii has become the second U.S. state to have discovered an outbreak of locally acquired dengue fever. Florida has been combating its own local outbreak since September 2009. The Hawaii Department of Health reported on March 24 it had discovered two cases and suspected two more. Since then, KGMB reports four confirmed and 12 suspected cases. Florida saw 85 locally acquired cases in 2009 and 2010.

Dengue Fever and its far more serious variant, dengue hemorrhagic fever, are transmitted from patient to patient by the bite of a mosquito. The Asian Tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) and the Yellow Fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) are the two primary vectors for the illness in the United States. Both mosquitoes are highly adapted to living around humans and are day feeders. The Asian Tiger mosquito has even evolved to a slower rate of beating its wings, which reduces the whine or hum typically noticed by people when mosquitoes are near.”  Read more.

 

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Hunger Kills Several in Somalia, Islamists Refuse Aid From Non-Muslims

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Revelation 6:8, “And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”

By Shafi’i Abokar – “At least seven people, mostly children, have recently died from hunger in Somalia as the country endures the worst drought in the past decade. Villagers from Mahaa Saeed, in eastern Shabelle, tell AHN that three adults, two children and two elderly women died of famine.

‘The humanitarian situation here is very precarious, people are dying because of lack of food to eat and water to drink—a humanitarian disaster may take place here if the need assistance is not met on time,’ a village elder who asked for anonymity told AHN by telephone, early Sunday morning.

The old man concealed his name because anti-government militants do not want the Somali people to send relief requests to the international community. The villager called on the terror group al Shabaab to lift a ban it has imposed on aid agencies so that relief workers can reach people in the region. Militants banned aid agencies in 2009, saying they were Western spies and were spreading anti-Islamic ideology.”  Read more.

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