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‘The Place Turned Into Hell’: Suicide Bombing Kills Nearly 100 Soldiers In Yemen

05/21/2012 3 comments

Revelation 6:8a, “And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him …”

 

Sky News – “A suicide bomber has killed at least 96 people and wounded more than 220 in an attack on a battalion of soldiers in the Yemeni capital Sanaa.

The bomber, who was dressed in military uniform, blew himself up in the middle of the battalion as they were rehearsing for a parade the following day.

Yemen’s defence minister and chief of staff were present but neither was hurt. They had arrived just a few minutes earlier to greet the troops.

The parade was to mark the 22nd anniversary of the unification of north and south Yemen and was due to be attended by the country’s president.

The soldiers were rehearsing in Sanaa’s al Sabeen Square where the government often holds large military events, close to the presidential palace.

The attack is the most deadly in Yemen since President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi took power in February with a pledge to fight al Qaeda’s growing presence in the county.

The blast ripped through the area, killing more than 90 soldiers and injuring hundreds more.

Those that survived the blast ran to safety in fear of another attack.

Emergency services rushed to the scene and ferried the injured to seven hospitals in the capital.

‘This is a real massacre,’ said Ahmed Sobhi, one of the soldiers who witnessed the explosion.

‘There are piles of torn body parts, limbs, and heads. This is unbelievable. I am still shaking. The place turned into hell. I thought this only happens in movies.'” Read more.

Former Finance Minister: Greece Crisis Threatens To ‘Open Door To Hell’, Could Cause Bank Run Across Continent

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By Joel Hills, Sky News – “Greece’s former finance minister has told Sky News that if Greece reneges on its bailout deal with the EU and the IMF it will ‘open the door to hell’.

Sky News last interviewed George Papaconstantinou two-and-a-half years ago.

In December 2009 he told how Greece could survive independently and Greece’s creditors had nothing to fear – they would get back every euro they were owed.

A lot has changed since then.

Greece is in the process of borrowing 240bn euros of emergency loans from the EU and the IMF (in return for pledges to raise taxes, cut spending and balance the books) and investors holding Greek debt have been forced write off up to 50% of their money.

Even now Greece remains heavily in debt, deep in recession (now in its fifth year) and without a functioning elected government.

Mr Papaconstantinou lost his position as finance minister last summer, shortly after the second bailout package was agreed.

In the general election, two weeks ago, he also lost his seat as an MP. He was not alone as support for his Pasok party collapsed.

The result of the election was inconclusive and, ultimately, no party was able to form a coalition government. In four weeks’ time Greece will vote again.

The opinion polls suggest that were an election to be held tomorrow the result would, once again be inconclusive, but the Syriza party, which is promising to ‘tear up’ the bailout agreement with the EU and the IMF, continues to attract support…

Interestingly, he admits there are elements of the bailout deal that he would seek to renegotiate but he says if Greece were to do what Syriza’s leader, Alexis Tsipras, is proposing and fail to honour the promises the country has made in return for emergency funding then the results would be disastrous.

‘The extremist parties are lying to the Greek people because they are not telling them that reneging on the agreement means that you have opened the door to hell,’ he said.” Read more.

EU banks fear a Greek exit could cause bank run across continent – “… the continent’s financial system remains vulnerable to the prospect that stampedes of customers could yank their deposits from institutions perceived as shaky. That threat was shoved into the spotlight last week when customers withdrew more than €700 million from Greek banks in a single day… If Greece leaves the eurozone, it will almost certainly restrict bank customers from moving their money out of the country. That could prompt depositors in struggling countries such as Spain and Portugal to … pre-emptively transfer their funds out of their countries to avoid having their savings converted into rapidly devalued Spanish pesetas and Portuguese escudos. ‘That’s what markets are starting to worry about,’ Bodereau said. ‘It takes you to a whole different level of liquidity crisis.'” Read more.

Categories: Man-Made Disasters

World Health Organisation To Declare Global Polio Emergency As Disease Surges In Pakistan, Afghanistan And Nigeria

05/21/2012 1 comment

By Rob Crilly, The Telegraph – “This year has seen a decline in cases but health officials say they have only half the funding they need to wipe out the disease in its last three remaining havens — Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria.

Sona Bari, spokeswoman for the polio eradication programme at the World Health Organisation, said the world faced a ‘now or never’ moment.

Failing to stamp out the disease could mean recent gains are reversed and as many as 200,000 children crippled by polio in the next decade.

‘We are really on a tipping point between success and failure,’ she said.

The first polio vaccine was developed in the 1950s and a second version — given orally — is credited with reducing cases by more than 99 per cent.

However, efforts to eradicate the disease completely have stalled in recent years.

In 2011 a surge in the disease was reported across Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria, with 650 cases around the world.

So far this year, India has been declared polio free and the first four months of the year have seen cases drop substantially in the three endemic countries — offering a real chance that polio could now be wiped out if health officials secure $1bn to meet their target of $2bn for the year ahead.

The issue will be discussed by ministers of health from around the world at a meeting of the World Health Assembly which begins in Geneva on Monday.

They are expected to declare a global health emergency, attracting extra funding and possibly also allowing polio-free countries to vaccinate people arriving at airport terminals from affected countries.

Each of the three countries has its own problems. In Nigeria a fragmented health care system makes it difficult to deliver vaccines, while Afghanistan and Pakistan are struggling with conflicts that put children beyond the reach of health workers.

In Pakistan, hardliners have repeatedly told parents the programmes are part of an American plot to make Muslims infertile.” Read more.

Categories: Pestilence

Hawaii Responds To Arizona’s Obama Birth Records Request

05/21/2012 Leave a comment

Hmmm… I thought that the state of Hawaii already issued Barack Obama’s “official” long-form birth certificate? If this were indeed the case, I would have expected this to be Hawaii’s response to Arizona, but the fact that they’re asking Arizona to prove why they need confirmation of Obama’s Hawaiian birth suggests that the “official” release in 2011 may not have been as “official” as initially suggested …

By Andrew Michalscheck, AZFamily.com – “PHOENIX — The state of Hawaii has responded to Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett’s request for proof that President Barack Obama was in fact born in the Aloha State.

The Hawaii attorney general’s office has reportedly told Bennett that there are steps he needs to take in order to confirm President Obama’s birth records.

Those steps include Bennett proving that he legitimately needs confirmation in order to update the records at his office.

Bennett recently said in an interview with KFYI that he had asked Hawaii to further verify the President’s birth.

Bennett said he would consider removing President Obama’s name from the ballot during this year’s presidential election if Hawaii didn’t fulfill his request.

Bennett stated that he is not a ‘birther,’ and believes that President Obama was born in the United States.

He went on to explain that he had received about 1,200 emails from Arizona voters who are concerned about President Obama’s birth records, and felt it was his duty to follow up.

President Obama released his birth certificate last year after some people questioned whether he was actually born in Hawaii.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been investigating the President’s birth certificate since last August. Arpaio has said that his investigation is still ongoing.” Source – AZFamily.com.

Categories: Anything Else

Iranian Commander Reiterates Need Fully Annihilate The ‘Cancerous Tumor’ Called Israel, ‘The Zionist Regime … Will Be Cut’

05/21/2012 Leave a comment

By Rachel Hirshfeld, INN – “Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Hassan Firouzabadi said that threats and sanctions will not deter the Islamic Republic from ‘its revolutionary causes and ideals,’ and stressed that the regime will remain committed to the full annihilation of the Jewish state, the Fars News Agency (FNA) reported on Monday.

Addressing a defense-related gathering in Tehran on Sunday, General Firouzabadi asserted that nations must confront ‘the threats and dangers posed by the Zionist regime of Israel,’ the news agency reported.

He highlighted the emphasis placed by Iran’s supreme leader on the necessity of supporting ‘the oppressed Palestinian nation and its causes.’

‘The Iranian nation is standing for its cause that is the full annihilation of Israel,’ Firouzabadi said.

FNA noted that, ‘The top military official reminded the gatherers [sic] that the Iranian Supreme Leader considers defending Palestine as a full religion duty and believes that any kind of governance and rule by anyone other than the Palestinians is an instance of usurpation.’

Earlier this year, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei stressed Iran’s direct involvement in the ‘Palestinian’ and Lebanese confrontations with Israel.

‘Wherever Iran interfered, it announces it in a very straightforward manner. For instance, we interfered in confrontations against Israel, which resulted in the (Lebanese) victory in the 330 day war and (Palestinians’ victory in) the 22 day (Gaza) war,’ Khamenei said, addressing a crowd of worshippers at Tehran University in February.

‘In the future too, we will support and help everyone who opposes the Zionist regime,’ he said,

‘The Zionist regime is a real cancerous tumor that should be cut and will be cut, God willing,’ he added.” Source – INN.

Lying Wonders: Baby Boy Born In Nigeria ‘Clutching A Copy Of The Holy Quran’ Hailed A ‘Miracle’ By Imams And Islamic Scholars

05/20/2012 3 comments

2 Thessalonians 2:9-10, “The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.”

For those who may not know, the name of Satan is “heylel” in Hebrew (Isaiah 14:12, “Lucifer”). The Arabic equivalent is the word “hilal”, which means “crescent moon” …

“OLALEKAN OLABULO reports on the baby boy, who at childbirth in Lagos a few days ago was found clutching a copy of [the] Holy Quran.

The most talked about issue in Lagos and Ogun states in the last one week, is the birth of a baby, who was said to be clutching a miniature Quran, in his hand, at the time of his birth.

The birth of the baby, who was later christened Abdul Wahab Iyanda Irawo, has generated serious argument and discussions from Muslims and Christians alike…

The 32, Shonde Street, Ijeshatedo home of the 32-year-old mother of the baby, became a Mecca of sorts. People from different backgrounds stormed the house to catch a glimpse of the new born baby whose fame had spread to the east, west, north and South of Lagos and Ogun states. Residents of the two-storey building were forced to accommodate the large crowd, who daily besieged the house.

The new baby became an instant commercial merchandise as his photo instantly found its way into calendars, soft sell magazines and tabloid. He became a reference point for Islamic scholars during homily. Millions of naira have exchanged hands since the birth of Abdul Wahab Irawo, as people also gave out money as gifts to his mother and other needy people in the spirit of rejoicing on the birth of the boy.

Residents and workers around Ijeshatedo had since the birth of the new baby listened to more Allahu Akbar than they might have done, probably in the last few years. Every new person that visited the new baby kept shouting Allahu Akbar, apparently to glorify God.

The mother of the baby, Kikelomo Ilori, had confessed to have tried to abort the baby, despite several warnings from the church. Kikelomo was until the birth of the baby, a Christian and the young baby was born at a Cherubim and Seraphim church. This has also created serious arguments on religious superiority.

Kikelomo, while speaking on the birth of Abdul Wahab, stated that a friend of hers, Kehinde Ogunlana, took her to the church after the baby refused to come, when the pregnancy was due. It was after she had spent many days at the church that she finally delivered a baby boy, whom many are now describing as a miracle baby…

Imams and Islamic scholars from different Islamic organisations and foreign missions, all paid their respect to what they described as ‘miracle of [Allah].'” Read more.

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‘Sheikdown’ Redux: Egyptian Islamists Threaten Insurgency Should Secularists Win Egyptian Presidential Election

05/20/2012 Leave a comment

Oh, and by the way, not only will Allah’s wrath be upon the people of Egypt if they vote for the wrong candidate, so will the wrath of Allah’s Islamists …

Isaiah 19:2, “And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom.”

By Michael Rubin, Commentary Magazine – “Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, while still mayor of Istanbul, famously quipped, ‘Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.’ Alas, as Martin Kramer has so often warned, it appears that Egypt Islamists are taking the same tact. On May 19, Islamic Jihad Organization member Shaykh Usamah Qasim took to the pages of Al-Misri al-Yawm to warn that Islamists would not tolerate a victory by any of the non-Islamist candidates. According to a translation provided by the Open Source Center:

…The victory of former prime minister Ahmad Shafiq or former Arab League chief Amr Musa in the coming presidential elections would lead some Islamic and non-Islamic groups to respond with “armed action.” “Thus, the fate of any of them who reaches the presidency will be like that of former President Anwar al-Sadat, who was assassinated,” Qasim said.

One-in-three Middle Eastern Arabs live in Egypt. Unfortunately, it looks like the Nile may once again flow with blood.” Source – Commentary Magazine.

Germany: Islamist Calls Upon Muslims To Murder All Members Of Far-Right Anti-Sharia Party

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Revelation 13:15, “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”

Expatica – “A German Islamist is calling for the murder of members of a far-right party that regularly provokes ultra-conservative Muslims using cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, a newspaper reported.

According to an article due to appear Monday in the Tageszeitung daily, an Islamist from Bonn in western Germany has appeared in a video on an Islamic forum in which he encouraged ‘the killing of all activists from the Pro NRW party’.

Members of the small extreme-right political party held a campaign event using anti-Islamic caricatures ahead of an election in Germany’s most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia on May 13.

In his appeal, the Islamist urged the collection of personal information on Pro NRW members, including their home addresses and work schedules, with the goal of attacking them.” Read more.

Flashback: Germany: Hundreds Of Radical Islamists Riot In Bonn, 29 Police Officers Injured, 2 Stabbed – “Clashes erupted in Germany when police tried to separate competing rallies by an ultraconservative Muslim group and a small far-right march, injuring 29 officers, authorities said Sunday. More than 100 Salafist protesters were briefly arrested. The trouble in the western city of Bonn started late Saturday when hundreds of Muslims protested against the rally of about 30 supporters of the local far-right party Pro NRW, which has angered Muslims by showing unfavorable cartoons depicting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. Strict Muslims oppose any depiction of their prophet. About 110 Salafist protesters were arrested after they started attacking security forces with stones and bottles, police said. Two of the injured police officers were hospitalized with serious wounds after being stabbed.” Read more.

Italy: At Least 7 Now Confirmed Dead After Strong 6.0 Earthquake Strikes Near Bologne

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By Barbie Nadeau, For CNN – “Rome (CNN) — Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti is heading home early from the NATO summit in Chicago after a strong earthquake struck near Bologna overnight, his government announced Sunday.

At least seven people died, 50 were hurt and a large number displaced by the magnitude 6.0 quake that struck northern Italy early Sunday. In a statement released earlier, Monti pledged ‘All that is necessary will be done as soon as possible’ to help the survivors.

The prime minister is scheduled to leave the summit Sunday evening Chicago time and would be back in Italy on Monday, government spokesman Carmelo Dragotta said. In a statement carried by the news agency ANSA, Monti said his foreign and defense ministers would remain at the summit.

The quake struck about 4 a.m. Sunday (10 p.m. Saturday ET) and was centered about 4 kilometers (2.4 miles) outside Camposanto, northwest of Bologna, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. In addition to the deaths and injuries, a large but unknown number of people — believed to be in the thousands — have been displaced, said Elisabetta Maffani, a spokeswoman for the civil protection agency.

The fatalities included two people killed in a ceramics factory in Sant’Agostino di Ferrara, about 30 km from the epicenter, Maffani said. Another person died when a work shed collapsed in nearby Ponte Rodoni di Bondeno.” Read more.

Categories: Earthquakes

Worst Nuclear Storm The World Has Seen Is Just An Earthquake Away, Health Consequences ‘Are Beyond Where Science Has Ever Gone Before’

05/20/2012 4 comments

By Andy Johnson, CTVNews.ca – “More than a year after a devastating earthquake and tsunami triggered a massive nuclear disaster, experts are warning that Japan isn’t out of the woods yet and the worst nuclear storm the world has ever seen could be just one earthquake away from reality.

The troubled Reactor 4 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is at the centre of this potential catastrophe.

Reactor 4 — and to a lesser extent Reactor 3 — still hold large quantities of cooling waters surrounding spent nuclear fuel, all bound by a fragile concrete pool located 30 metres above the ground, and exposed to the elements.

A magnitude 7 or 7.5 earthquake would likely fracture that pool, and disaster would ensue, says Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer with Fairewinds Energy Education who has visited the site.

The 1,535 spent fuel rods would become exposed to the air and would likely catch fire, with the most-recently added fuel rods igniting first.

The incredible heat generated from that blaze, Gundersen said, could then ignite the older fuel in the cooling pool, causing a massive oxygen-eating radiological fire that could not be extinguished with water.

‘So the fear is the newest fuel could begin to burn and then we’d have a conflagration of the whole pool because it would become hotter and hotter. The health consequences of that are beyond where science has ever gone before,’ Gundersen told CTVNews.ca in an interview from his home in Vermont…

Highly radioactive cesium and strontium isotopes would likely go airborne and ‘volatilize’ — turning into a vapour that could move with the wind, potentially travelling thousands of kilometres from the source.

The size of those particles would determine whether they remained in Japan, or made their way to the rest of Asia and other continents.

‘And here’s where there’s no science because no one’s ever dared to attempt the experiment,’ Gundersen said. ‘If it flies far enough it goes around the world, if the particles stay a little bigger, they settle in Japan. Either is awful.'” Read more.

Twin quakes rock Japan near Fukushima – “Japan was hit by two shallow earthquakes in the space of just eight minutes on Sunday, one of them measuring a strong 6.2-magnitude, but there were no reports of damage and no tsunami alert. The 6.2-magnitude quake struck at 4:20pm (0720 GMT) off Japan’s northeast Pacific coast, the national meteorological agency said, followed by a tremor with a reading of 5.7 at 4:28pm. The US Geological Survey estimated the magnitude of the first quake at 6.0. The depth of both quakes was about 10 kilometres, the agency said.” Read more.

Categories: Man-Made Disasters

Iranian Authorities Demand Christian Church To Hand Over Names Of All Its Members

05/20/2012 1 comment

As the Spirit of God moves in Iran, so too does the enemy …

1 Peter 5:8, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”

Mohabat News – “In addition to the increased restrictions against Iranian Christian converts, the Ministry of Intelligence has now ordered the leaders of the central AOG church in Tehran to compile a list of the names and National ID numbers of its members and submit it to the security authorities.

According to Iranian Christian news agency, Mohabat News, reports from Tehran indicate that leaders of the central AOG church of Tehran asked their congregation in Sunday May 6 service to voluntarily present them with a list of their names and National ID numbers so that they submit the list to the officials. This reveals the identity of Christian converts and enables security authorities to record detailed information about the Christians.

It is clear that such a decision by the leaders of the AOG church, is a result of pressures the security authorities have been imposing on them. This seems to be a precautionary move by the security organizations to identify Christians and possibly use the information later to arrest Christian converts and watch the activities of the church even more closely, especially to prevent them from receiving new people. Such orders by security authorities make Christians’ relationship with their church riskier than ever.

This security move by Iranian authorities reveals that even after cancelling the Farsi services in some churches, they have not been successful in reducing the number of Christian converts and the trend by other people to attend the church. In recent months, organizers and operational groups of the Ministry of Intelligence ordered the last two churches in Tehran still holding Farsi services, to cancel these services. However, this has not stopped Christians from attending church services and illustrates the failure of all these repressive plans and threats which were designed to deal with spread of Christianity in Iran.” Read more.

Flashback: Iranian Authorities Arrest Two More Christian Converts, One Family Taunted To ‘Ask Jesus Christ To Come’ And Save Daughter – “A number of plain clothes security officers raided the homes of two Christian converts in Tehran simultaneously and arrested them. The mother of one of the detained Christians asked, ‘Where are you taking my daughter?’ But the authorities ironically replied, ‘Ask Jesus Christ to come and release her’ … The security authorities, among whom were plain clothes agents, entered the homes without showing any warrant and arrested the two Christians without providing any explanation. Both Christians were then transferred to an unknown location immediately following their arrest.” Read more.

Flashback: Fearing ‘The Growth of Christianity Like Never Before’ Iranian Authorities Escalate Crackdown on Christians in Ahwaz, Shiraz, Esfahan and Kermanshah – “The Islamic Republic of Iran has intensified its crackdown on Iranian Christians during recent weeks. This has resulted in the arrest of a number of Christians in Ahwaz, Shiraz, Esfahan and Kermanshah… ‘Today, the regime of Iran crackdowns on Christians, especially Christian converts, for it is observing the growth of Christianity like never before. This fact has made them concerned… What this religious regime tries to demonstrate is that there is only one legitimate religion and all other religions are illegitimate… During past years underground or house churches were the main targets of arrests and pressures. However, gradually the Islamic regime’s authorities also included evangelical churches among their targets.’” Read more.

Egyptian ‘Sheikdown’: Voting For ‘Secular’ Candidate Would Be Against Islam, Must Vote For Someone Who Will Implement Sharia And Liberate Jerusalem

05/19/2012 Leave a comment

In other words, this Muslim preacher is telling the Egyptian people to vote for the Muslim Brotherhood candidate. Because he is compelled by the religion-of-no-compulsion to tell them who to vote for. Because democracy is forbidden. And there is no freedom in Islam. So voting has become a religious duty. Because buying votes would be a ‘great sin’. Except for when the Muslim Brotherhood does it. So it is imperative for every Egyptian to freely vote for a pro-Sharia candidate who will take away that forbidden freedom …

Isaiah 19:4, “‘And the Egyptians I will give Into the hand of a cruel master, And a fierce king will rule over them,’ Says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.”

By Al-Masry Al-Youm, Egypt Independent – “Muslim preacher Safwat Hegazy, who has been campaigning for the Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate, Mohamed Morsy, said it is against religion to elect a presidential candidate who wants to establish a state based on liberalism, secularism, communism or socialism.

During Friday prayers in Nagda Mosque in Nagaa Hammadi, Qena, Hegazy called on people not to elect a candidate who participated in the injustice and the corruption of the former regime or who even remained silent watching the injustice and corruption of Hosni Mubarak and his entourage.

Hegazy said voters should choose the candidate who would apply Sharia and ‘who would be living in Cairo, but would tremble in fear [of God] if asked about a hungry person in Nag Hammadi.’

He described the elections as a testimony before God and a great responsibility, and said: ‘If you choose a man who corrupted the country, you will be responsible with him for his corruption and will be held accountable with him [before God]. But if you choose a man who abides by the law of God and establishes justice, you will be rewarded with him. Everyone will be held accountable [by God] if the next president is ill-chosen, and we should not blame but ourselves.’

Hegazy stressed that participating in the elections is a religious duty and that not voting or invalidating one’s vote is against religion. He added that buying votes is a ‘great sin.’

‘We want a president who we can tell, ‘Fear God and His law and judge according to His Book.’ We want a president who will free Palestine and Jerusalem to tell the world that the law of God has returned in Egypt,’ he said.

A large number of Brotherhood members and Morsy supporters were reportedly attending the sermon, passing out campaign flyers.” Source – Egypt Independent.