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The ‘Arab Spring’ is Frightening Christians in the Middle East, ‘There Is a Risk of the Christian Community Becoming Extinct’
Matthew 24:22, “And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.”
Colossians 3:12, “Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering …”
Acts 14:22b, “… we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.”
To understand the spiritual underpinnings that may explain what is happening right now throughout the Muslim world, consider these two articles here and here …
“First, the Maronite Patriarch, Béchara Raï, in Lebanon, and now, the Chaldean Archbishop in Kirkuk, Louis Sako, in Iraq. The development of the Arab spring are causing concern to leaders of Eastern Christian communities, who have by now started to openly express their fears with regard to an rise in Islamic radicalism in the New Middle East. ‘The Arab Spring has created more Muslim militants,’ the Iraqi Archbishop, Sako complained, pointing out the risk of the thousand year old Middle Eastern culture of pluralism, crumbling. But the West too has made a mistake: ‘Instead of trying to impose the western model of democracy, they need to invest in youngsters’ education,’ Kirkuk’s Chaldean spiritual leader commented.
Archbishop Sako has, already, on several occasions, made lively appeals to the International community, asking it to protect Christians in Iraq who ‘risk extinction’. Indeed, ‘in Iraq, the number of Christians continues to drop. They could disappear altogether as a result of continuous persecution, threats and violence.’ Between America’s invasion of Iraq in 2003 and today, there have been attacks on about sixty Churches; one bishop and three priests have been kidnapped and killed; approximately a thousand innocent Christians have been killed and hundreds of thousands forced to abandon their homes in search of safety. This is why, ‘in Iraq and in other Countries, there is a risk of the Christian community becoming extinct.’
What is worrying the prelate the most is ‘the lack of a plan’, when Christians in Iraq and the Middle East have two options: ‘They can either emigrate or accept life as second rate citizens amidst numerous difficulties and fears.’ Hence the appeal: ‘We are in need of stronger support from everyone, with a clear political vision and clearly set out plans, not just to protect and encourage Christians to stay in their country, but also to promote reconciliation among the Iraqis, and human rights,’ as well as to ‘ensure governments respect the rules.’ According to Monsignor Sako, ‘the international community needs to assume responsibility’ and ‘come to a mutual agreement with local authorities’ in order to guarantee equal protection and equality between all citizens. The international community must also ‘help emigrants to return’ or, if this is not possible, they should help them remain settled wherever they have found shelter.” Read more.
Abbas to Seek Full UN Recognition September 23rd Despite Western Pressure, Maybe
By Natasha Mozgovaya and Barak Ravidu – “NEW YORK – Despite heavy pressure from the West, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas remains determined to formally apply for UN recognition of a Palestinian state today.
U.S. President Barack Obama met with Abbas last night in an effort to convince him not to seek Security Council recognition, warning that the U.S. would use its veto power to block it. Lower-level American officials also met with Abbas several times, but to no avail.
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, reiterated yesterday that Abbas’ statehood bid will not contribute to the peace process and will merely delay the start of negotiations – which, she added, are the only way the Palestinians can actually achieve independence.
American officials also continued their effort to mobilize enough Security Council votes to defeat the statehood bid without a U.S. veto. Germany has already announced it won’t vote yes, and Rice said she is convinced other countries will do the same. America, she said, is not the only country to realize that the UN gambit is unproductive.” Read more.
Day before Abbas speech, still unclear where PA is headed – “Fierce US resistance, as well as even some European opposition, may force Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to jettison plans to bring his statehood bid either to the UN Security Council or the General Assembly anytime soon, Israeli diplomatic officials said on Thursday. The comments came some 24 hours before Abbas was finally expected to reveal his hand during a much-anticipated speech to the General Assembly. During that speech he is expected to say whether he is going forward with a request to the Security Council for full UN membership, as he has said he would do; whether he would be satisfied with an upgrade for ‘Palestine’ from observer to nonmember-state observer in the General Assembly; or whether he will pursue both initiatives.” Read more.
Magnitude 3.6 Earthquake Jostles Southeastern Missouri
Richter Magnitude 3.6 – SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 06:32:09 PM
36.799°N, 90.781°W
Depth: 16.5 km (10.3 miles)
WARP Speed Ahead: Have CERN Scientists Managed to Exceed the Speed of Light?
“An international team of scientists has recorded neutrino particles travelling faster than the speed of light, a spokesman for the researchers said on Thursday — in what could be a challenge to one of the fundamental rules of physics.
Antonio Ereditato, who works at the CERN particle physics center on the Franco-Swiss border, told Reuters that measurements over three years showed the neutrinos moving 60 nanoseconds quicker than light over a distance of 730 km between Geneva and Gran Sasso, Italy.
‘We have high confidence in our results. But we need other colleagues to do their tests and confirm them,’ he said.
Dr. Ereditato conducted the research with his colleagues by preparing beams of just one type, muon neutrinos, sending them from Cern to an underground laboratory at Gran Sasso in Italy. They then checked how many of the beams showed up as tau neutrinos, the BBC reported.
While conducting experiment, the researchers noticed that the particles showed up 60 billionths of a second sooner than light would have over the same distance, the BBC report said.
The team then measured the travel times of neutrino bunches roughly 15,000 times, reportedly reaching a level of statistical significance that in scientific circles would be considered a formal discovery.
If confirmed, the discovery would overturn a key part of Albert Einstein’s 1905 theory of special relativity, which says that nothing in the universe can travel faster than light.” Source.
The Universe Confirms the Bible – “In this chapter, we will explore some passages of Scripture which touch upon the topics of astronomy and astrophysics. It is interesting that many of the Bible’s statements about astronomy went against the generally accepted teachings of the time. Undoubtedly, many of these verses would have seemed counterintuitive, and may have been difficult to believe when they were first written. However, modern science has confirmed what the Bible has taught. As in all things, the Bible is absolutely correct when it teaches about the universe.” Read more.
Distant Starlight and the Speed of Light – “The stars created on the fourth day were created for man – as ‘signs and seasons.’ There is no reason to believe that Adam and Eve had to wait four years for the first stars to ‘switch on’ (the nearest star is about four light-years away). Similarly, we do not see new stars ‘blinking on,’ as if their light had finally reached the earth. The model mentioned earlier by Dr. Humphreys may give us a way of better understanding how light was originally created ‘on its way’ and yet not have this problem of ‘built-in information.’ In a sense, it may also effectively involve a change in (apparent) c (since as the stars recede rapidly, the lightbeam remains intact), though it would not predict that this would be detectable in historical measurements. We hope that sufficient discussion has already taken place to enable the reader to see that the apparent problem of having young age and great size of the universe has a number of possible solutions. Did light speed change?” Read more.
Palestinian Authority to Give UNSC ‘Some Time’ to Mull Statehood Bid Before Heading to the General Assembly
No word on how long ‘some time’ might be. A few days? Weeks? A month? … or maybe just a few minutes …
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH AND REUTERS – “The Palestinians will give the UN Security Council ‘some time’ to study their application for full membership in the United Nations, a senior Palestinian official said on Wednesday.
‘We will give some time to the Security Council to consider first our full membership request before heading to the General Assembly,’ Nabil Shaath, a senior official in Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party, told reporters on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
At the same time, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday evening before a meeting with US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton in New York that negotiations with the Palestinians are needed in order to reach a peace agreement.
When asked about the settlements in a joint press conference, Netanyahu said ‘I did something that no previous Israeli government did. I actually froze any construction for ten months, waited nine months and one week.’ He went on to say that ‘the Palestinians finally came and said, well, keep on freezing.’
The prime minister said that Israel concluded with the United States that the real issues must be addressed in order to get peace. ‘We have to negotiate the issues to resolve them. We can’t just negotiate about the negotiations,’ he added.
Earlier on Wednesday, Obama told the UN General Assembly that there could be ‘no shortcuts’ to peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, and that negotiations between the two parties would be the only means to achieving a true and lasting peace.
In his 20-minute speech before the international body, Obama devoted significant time to discussing the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
Obama alluded to his remarks before the General Assembly in 2010. In that speech, he had expressed his hope that there would be a Palestinian state requesting membership in 2011 – remarks that could be seen as prescient in light of Abbas’s plans to petition the Security Council to recognize Palestine as a state.
However, Obama distinguished between what he had said last year and the situation before the international body today.” Read more.
In UN, PA Maps Erase All of Israel – “Palestinian Authority representatives in the United Nations are handing out maps of ‘Palestine’ that show it in place of all of Israel, including Tel Aviv, reports David Bedein of the Israel Resource Review. Bedein, who is currently in the United States, told Arutz Sheva: ‘They do not want a Palestinian state, but all of Palestine. The maps they hand out in their offices include all of ‘Palestine.’ They erase Israel completely in their maps.'” Read more.
Arkansas: Wildlife Officials Discover Thousands of Dead Fish Along Arkansas River in Little Rock
By Suzi Parker – “(Reuters) – Wildlife officials have discovered thousands of dead fish along the Arkansas River in Little Rock and were still counting carcasses on Tuesday, a day after an angler reported seeing dozens of dead white bass.
‘We are on the river trying to determine the extent of the fish kill,’ said Keith Stephens, public information coordinator for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.
Wildlife investigators said the dead fish were mainly white bass, which are common in the river, and were between 5 and 8 inches long. Most were found near the foot of the Two Rivers Bridge, an 80-foot pedestrian bridge that opened in July.
An Arkansas Department of Pollution Control and Ecology official said toxins had not been eliminated as a potential cause and that oxygen levels had tested normal so far. Other test results for disease and parasites could take a month to conclude.” Read more.
California: Hundreds of Dead Squid Wash Up at Blacks Beach
There have been reports in the past of large oarfish and even whales beaching themselves just days before a large earthquake. Could squid now be doing the same thing? …
“SAN DIEGO — Hundreds of Humboldt squid washed up on Black’s Beach over the weekend.
San Diego lifeguard Sgt. Ben Lewis said the squid rode the tide in on Saturday afternoon.
‘It was quite a scene to see with the beach strewn with hundreds of dead and dying squid,’ said Lewis.
Lewis said the squid were each about a foot long and appeared to weigh a few pounds. He added that it was much more than just a sight.
‘Of course, as you might imagine, there were some odors associated with that,’ he said. ‘The only thing left on the beach right now is the scent of dead squid and seagull footprints.’
The squid, which are native to South America and can grow to be six feet, appeared on the beach Saturday afternoon until early Sunday morning, when high tide washed away all but 50 of the squid.
Lewis said seagulls flocked to feast on the remaining dead squid.” Read more.
At Least 4 Dead as Typhoon ‘Roke’ Smashes Into Japan, Heads for Fukushima Nuclear Plant
By Chana Ya’ar – “At least four people are dead and two more are missing in a typhoon that smashed into Japan from the Pacific Ocean.
Workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are bracing for the worst as the storm heads their way.
‘We have taken every possible measure against the typhoon,’ Naoko Tsunoda, a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Company, operator of the plant, told reporters.
‘We have tied down cables and hoses while fixing equipment so that radioactive materials will not spread [in the violent winds].’ All ground and sea operations have been suspended, he added.
Winds were raging at up to 130 miles per hour at the center of the storm, with heavy rains pouring down.
Four people were found dead in central and western Japan. A young boy disappeared on his way home from elementary school, and another person has disappeared as well in the central prefecture of Gifu.
The storm, dubbed Typhoon Roke by Japan’s Meteorological Agency, made landfall near Hamamatsu in central Japan at about 2:00 p.m. local time Wednesday, and was on course to move northeast across the island of Honshu.” Read more.
China: Genetically Linked Polio Strain From Pakistan Makes Its Way To Chinese Mainland
By Jaime FlorCruz and Haolan Hong – “Beijing (CNN) — An outbreak of polio has been confirmed in China for the first time since 1999, leaving one person dead and hospitalizing another nine, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The disease, a contagious viral illness that in its most severe form causes paralysis, difficulty breathing and sometimes death, broke out in the prefectures of Hotan and Bazhou in the country’s western Xinjiang province.
Among the ten cases confirmed, six are in children under three years old and four are young adults.
The WHO said evidence indicates the virus is genetically linked to polio cases currently circulating in Pakistan, which borders Xinjiang. Pakistan has been affected by the nationwide transmission of the same WPV1 strain.
It also warned the virus could spread beyond the current affected area.
‘Although other areas in China or other countries are not immediately at risk due to the geographic distance to the affected province, the polio virus can travel great distances and find susceptible populations, no matter where they live,’ Helen Yu, from the WHO’s Beijing office told CNN.” Read more.
Sun Unleashes 6 ‘Rapid-Fire’ Solar Bursts in 18 Hours
“Between 7pm ET on September 18 and 1pm ET on September 19, six large solar plasma explosions were recorded by the SOHO satellite. One of these coronal mass ejections may create some geomagnetic fireworks viewable on Earth on September 21.” Source.
Solar Megastorm Could Cripple Satellites for a Decade – Earth-orbiting satellites are designed to withstand the sun’s explosions—but they may not be strong enough to ride out a solar ‘megastorm,’ a new study says. If hit by a powerful onslaught of solar energy and particles, Earth’s atmosphere would be flooded with high-energy electrons accelerated to nearly the speed of light, according to a new computer model. This would hinder operations of low-Earth orbiting, or LEO, satellites. The satellites wouldn’t immediately start falling out of the sky following a megastorm, but they would malfunction much faster than previous models suggested.” Read more.
Solar flare could unleash nuclear holocaust across planet Earth, forcing hundreds of nuclear power plants into total meltdowns – “Forget about the 2012 Mayan calendar, comet Elenin or the Rapture. The real threat to human civilization is far more mundane, and it’s right in front of our noses. If Fukushima has taught us anything, it’s that just one runaway meltdown of fissionable nuclear material can have wide-ranging and potentially devastating consequences for life on Earth. To date, Fukushima has already released 168 times the total radiation released from the Hiroshima nuclear bomb detonated in 1945 … What if a global tidal wave could destroy the power generating capacities of all the world’s power plants, all at once? Such a scenario is not merely possible, but factually inevitable. And the global tidal wave threatening all the nuclear power plants of the world isn’t made of water but solar emissions.” Read more.
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Turkey Still Receives Cordial Treatment From Obama Administration Even While Declaring It Is Now ‘Too Late’ For Mediation With Israel
Elsewhere in the article below, one brief sentence speaks volumes in terms of where this may all be leading when even a senior State Department official “rejected suggestions that Washington should make it clear to Turkey that the U.S. would side with Israel in the event of a confrontation.” With all that is happening right now, the nation of Israel is definitely feeling that the world is gathering against her. Yet, in the midst of the chaos, regardless of what revelations transpire on a daily basis throughout the Middle East and the Islamic world, our Redeemer remains in full control …
Daniel 2:21, 4:17b, “He changes times and seasons; he sets up kings and deposes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning … the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone he wishes and sets over them the lowliest of men.”
By Patrick Goodenough – “(CNSNews.com) – As Turkey’s leaders intensify efforts to isolate Israel internationally, the cordial treatment they are receiving from the Obama administration this week will add to concerns some Americans have about the strength of its support for Israel.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described as ‘excellent’ her talks in New York City on Monday with her Turkish counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu. President Obama is scheduled to meet with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan there on Tuesday. All are in the city for this week’s U.N. General Assembly sessions.
The Clinton-Davutoglu meeting came a day after the Turkish foreign minister announced that his government had blocked an Israeli attempt to open a liaison office at NATO headquarters in Brussels – the latest in a string of moves aimed at punishing Israel over a deadly commando raid on a Turkish ship carrying pro-Palestinian activists to the Gaza Strip in May 2010.
Erdogan’s Islamist-leaning government earlier this month angrily rejected a U.N. report on the incident that called the Israeli raid ‘excessive and unreasonable’ but also described the attempt to breach Israel’s blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory as ‘reckless’ and concluded that the blockade was a ‘legitimate security measure.’
While Israeli leaders have expressed a desire to heal the rift between the one-time allies, Turkey imposed sanctions on Jerusalem and declared its intention to use all international forums to make its views on Israel known.
Erdogan used a high-profile tour of Egypt, Tunisia and Libya last week to repeatedly condemn Israel and throw his weight behind the Palestinian U.N. recognition bid. And Turkish media reported that a government minister, Egemen Bagis, staged a symbolic walkout of an international conference in Ukraine on Friday when Israeli President Shimon Peres was about to deliver a speech.
In a fresh development, Davutoglu told CNN’s Turkish channel on Sunday that Turkey had threatened to veto an Israeli application this month to open an office at NATO headquarters.
‘We said we would veto this attempt and the issue was not even put on the agenda,’ Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper quoted him as telling the news channel. It said Davutoglu also denied that Israel would benefit in any way from a recent decision to house a NATO missile defense radar on Turkish soil.” Read more.
France: ‘A Wild Horde’ of Pro-Palestinian Activists Chanting ‘Death to Jews’ Terrorize and Threaten Passengers Waiting to Board Israeli Airline
“’About 30 pro-Palestinean activists invaded the embark lobby of the Israeli airline El-Al at Roissy, crying ‘Death to Israel’ ‘Death to the jews’ and preventing the checkin of passengers.’”
According to witnesses on the spot ‘a wild horde terrorized, threatened, intimidated passengers.’ They were responding to a call from the extremist organization EuroPalestine. Some wore t-shirts calling for a boycott of Israel.
The National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism (BNVCA) condemned ‘the attack’ and appealed to the Prefect of Seine Saint Denis ‘to stop this aggression and discrimination that those responsible are arrested and brought to justice for disturbing the public order and incitement to hatred’.
The police and security service from the airport intervened and asked the reinforcements to disperse the demonstrators.” Source.
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