‘This One Seems Unclassified’: Mystery Fever Scare Rises in Ludhiana, India

06/29/2011 Leave a comment

By Shivani Mehra – “LUDHIANA: There’s a mystery fever that has gripped the city of Ludhiana and with even doctors failing to pinpoint the cause or type of the illness, residents have begun panicking. Those complaining of the baffling fever are also more by the day as doctors say the cases pouring in have increased by 60%. The symptoms include high fever, stomach pain and low platelet count.

While the patients and their families have failed to understand the cause of this fever, doctors too are not clear about what is causing it. From next to no case till a few months ago, as many as seven people are daily being now diagnosed with this fever these days.

A doctor is Apollo Hospital’s medicine department, Gautam Aggarwal, said, ‘I am treating as many as eight such patients every day. Monsoons have brought some viral and bacterial infections and this one seems unclassified.'” Read more.

Categories: Pestilence

Iran Secretly Tests ‘Nuclear-Capable Missiles’, Plans to Triple Capacity to Produce Enriched Uranium

06/29/2011 Leave a comment

Don’t worry, diplomacy will stop them in their tracks.  Obama has said it, so it must be true.  Besides, it’s all for peaceful purposes.  Ahmadinejad has said it, so it must be true …

“LONDON — Iran has carried out secret tests of ballistic missiles capable of delivering a nuclear payload in breach of UN resolutions, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Wednesday.

Hague’s comments came a day after Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said they had fired 14 missiles in an exercise, one of them a medium-range weapon capable of striking Israel or US targets in the Gulf.

In a statement to lawmakers, Hague said: ‘Iran has also been carrying out covert ballistic missile tests and rocket launches, including testing missiles capable of delivering a nuclear payload in contravention of UN resolution 1929.’

He said Iran had also announced plans to triple its capacity to produce 20 percent enriched uranium, adding: “These are enrichment levels far greater than is needed for peaceful nuclear energy.

‘We will maintain and continue to increase pressure on Iran to negotiate an agreement on their nuclear programme,’ including sanctions, he said.

There was no immediate reaction from Tehran, which denies Western claims that it is pursuing nuclear weapons under the guise of its civil atomic programme.

On Tuesday Iranian state media said the Revolutionary Guards fired nine Zelzal missiles, two Shahab-1s, two Shahab-2s and a single medium-range Ghadr on the second day of their Great Prophet-6 exercise.” Read more.

‘The U.S. is in the line of fire’, warns Iran’s elite military commander as deadly missiles are fired in the desert – “A senior Iranian military commander sent panic through the world today after making a chilling claim today that his country has the ability to produce even longer range missiles than those currently in its arsenal. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Guard’s Aerospace Force, said that the U.S. and it’s ‘Zionist regime’ was in the line of fire.” Read more.

Death Seekers United: As Many As 6 Death-Loving Suicide Bombers and Gunmen Attack Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan

06/28/2011 Leave a comment

Revelation 6:8, “Then I saw a pale green horse. Its rider was named Death, and Death’s Kingdom followed behind. They were given power over one fourth of the earth, and they could kill its people …” (CEV)

Haven’t they read their Qur’an lately?  Doesn’t it say there is ‘no compulsion in religion’ (Sura 2:256)?  Oh, that has been abrogated, too?

“In one of the most significant attacks in Afghanistan in the past few years, insurgents have hit a landmark Kabul hotel where Afghan officials had gathered for a conference with as many as 6 suicide bombers and gunmen, according to police.

At least one suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to the Intercontinental Hotel, and the attack is still ongoing. At least four explosions have been heard and gunfire continues. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack.

A police official says there are at least 3 attackers, but the number could be double that. An Afghan news agency is reporting that at least 10 people have died, but that figure has not been independently confirmed.

Afghan officials, including provincial governors, were staying at the Intercontinental because of a conference on transition that begins tomorrow. Afghan forces are scheduled to take charge of security in some areas of the country starting in July.

According to a State Dept. official, no American officials have been affected by the attack. It’s not yet known if any other Americans have been killed or injured.” Read more.

U.S., NATO Forces Join Gunbattles With Attackers Targeting Afghanistan Hotel – “The popular Intercontinental hotel in Kabul has come under attack by suicide bombers and gunmen Tuesday, a U.S. official told Fox News. U.S. forces have been called in to assist in ongoing gunbattles with assailants in the hotel, while NATO says its helicopters have already killed three of the attackers. Afghanistan news agency TOLOnews is reporting at least 10 people have been killed. That number has yet to be independently confirmed.” Read more.

Greece: Sliding Down the Slippery Slope of Economic Ruin, Bankruptcy and Anarchy

06/28/2011 10 comments

By Alexia KEFALAS – “Reuters – Greek police clashed with groups of hooded youths in central Athens on Tuesday at the start of two days of strikes and protests against cuts demanded by international lenders as the price for more financial aid.

As Greece teeters on the edge of bankruptcy, parliament is due to vote this week on a package of spending cuts, tax increases and privatisations agreed as part of a massive bailout aimed at averting the euro zone’s first default.

Labour unions have called a 48-hour strike to protest against the measures and more than 5,000 police were deployed to the centre of the capital to deal with expected trouble as a crowd officials estimated at some 20,000 rallied in Syntagma Square, in front of the parliament building.” Read more.

Why France’s Rescue Plan for Greece Won’t Work Either – “France’s new plan to rescue Greece and forestall the looming global financial crisis has one important thing in common with all the previous efforts: It won’t work. Hearing the clamor for a 21st century version of the “Brady Bonds,” which helped save Latin America in the late 1980s, France has proposed allowing Greece to stretch out the maturity of its debt to 30 years, presumably with a more manageable payment schedule. The idea is that it would give Greece time to work out its problems while assuring that the foreign banks holding the 340 billion euros of outstanding debt would still get paid. A few problems:” Read more.

If Greece defaults, many will get hurt – “Many people think this is just a problem for Greece or the Eurozone and really doesn’t matter to the rest of us. But is that really the case? If so, savers all over the world, including U.S. retirees, would likely be impacted… Any way you look at it, this is not just a little problem in Greece. It affects all of us and you need to understand the implications of it for your investments.” Read more.



Categories: Man-Made Disasters

Historic Drought Causes $3 Billion Loss in Texas

06/28/2011 Leave a comment

By Don Teague – “(CBS News) CRAWFORD, Texas – It looks like harvest time in Texas, but for fourth-generation farmer Bert Gohlke it’s actually a financial disaster.

‘It hurts, it hurts bad, it hurts real bad,’ Gohlke tells CBS News correspondent Don Teague.

This could have been a great year for Gohlke – corn prices are near record highs. But instead of harvesting his 1,500 acres of corn, Gohlke is chopping it up into a feed called silage – the only salvageable use for a crop destroyed by drought.

‘We should be dealing with 7-and-a-half foot corn right now,’ Gohlke says. But that’s not the case.

His potential losses? More than a quarter of a million dollars – but that’s just a fraction of the $3 billion the historic drought will cost Texas farmers and ranchers.

Two hundred and fifty miles south, Rosalee Coleman is hurting too. A 70-year-old widow, she’s running a cattle ranch on more than a thousand acres by herself.

‘Other than raising three wonderful children, I feel like my greatest achievement has been to hold on to this land,’ Coleman says.

She needs every acre. With no real rain in nine months, she’s been forced to move her cattle from pasture to pasture – just to find grass to sustain them.” Read more.

Taliban Issues Chilling Threats Against TEN Targets in UK, U.S. and France to Avenge Bin Laden

06/28/2011 Leave a comment

“The Taliban has issued a chilling threat to carry out a series of attacks against 10 targets in Britain, American and France to avenge the death of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

‘Soon you will see attacks against America and Nato countries, and our first priorities in Europe will be France and Britain,’ deputy Pakistani Taliban leader Wali-ur-Rehman said in a videotape aired on Al Arabiya over the weekend.

The Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP), or Taliban Movement of Pakistan, which swears allegiance to Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, is blamed for many of the suicide bombings across the country and remains highly dangerous despite a series of army offensives against its strongholds in the north-west of the country, on the Afghan border.

It has not demonstrated an ability to stage sophisticated attacks in the West, however, and the TTP’s one apparent bid to inflict carnage in the U.S. failed.

The group claimed responsibility for the botched car bomb attack in New York’s Times Square last year.

But American intelligence agencies take it seriously. It was later added to the country’s list of foreign terrorist organisations.” Read more.

Report: Turkey Tells West it Might Launch Offensive Against Syria to Overthrow Assad Regime

06/28/2011 Leave a comment

“Turkish officials have told Western countries that Turkey might launch a military operation in Syria’s north to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Monday.

‘Turkey informed Britain, France, Italy, Germany and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) leadership of the possibility that it would launch an offensive in … Aleppo, Homs, Hama and Latakia,’ As-Seyassah daily quoted an unnamed British officials as saying, according to the Lebanese news website nowlebanon.com.

The report comes amid fears of undesired confrontation between the Turkish and Syrian armies along the border. About 12,000 Syrians have fled their homes in northern towns and have taken refuge on the Turkish side of the border. The Syrian army is reportedly reinforcing troops near the Turkish border to prevent further inflows of refugees towards Turkey. The Turkish military is also reportedly considering reinforcing border troops. Senior Turkish commanders have recently traveled to the border province of Hatay to inspect the border area.” Read more.

‘With Turkey Flexing its Muscles, We May Soon Face a Revived Ottoman Empire’ – “… And yet we need to look more closely at Erdogan. For there is good reason to suspect he dreams of transforming Turkey in ways Suleiman the Magnificent would have admired. In his early career as mayor of Istanbul, Erdogan was imprisoned for publicly reciting these lines by an early-20th-century Pan-Turkish poet: ‘The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets, and the faithful our soldiers.’ His ambition, it seems clear, is to return to the pre-Atatürk era, when Turkey was not only militantly Muslim but also a regional superpower. This explains his sustained campaign to alter the Turkish Constitution in ways that would likely increase his own power at the expense of the judiciary and the press as well as the military, all bastions of secularism.” Read more.

Downpour Leaves 18-Metre Sinkhole in Ontario Highway

06/28/2011 Leave a comment

By ZEV SINGER – “A section of Highway 148 near Luskville, Ont., is now a canyon 18 metres deep, a victim of Friday’s heavy rains.

Remarkably, the family living next to the giant gap owns a construction company with expertise in exactly the type of work that will be needed to fix the road.

Not only does James Nugent, of R.H. Nugent Construction, have 35 years of experience in the field, he has the heavy machinery parked only a few hundred meters from the caved-in road.

‘We were called in right off the bat,’ he said. ‘There’s nothing signed, but we probably will be proceeding with the work under an emergency situation. They want a company that can start right away.’

Nugent said the large pipe that ran under that stretch of the highway seems to have been blocked at the intake. The torrents of water late last week stressed the situation causing the pipe to buckle and the ground above the pipe became waterlogged and gave way.

Since the initial cave-in, the canyon has grown wider, with landslides from the edge happening several times. He said it will likely happen again and people should stay clear of the edge by 10 meters on either side.

‘It could let go any time,’ he said.” Read more.

Categories: Natural Disasters

‘You Picked a Fine Time to Lead Us, Barack’

06/27/2011 Leave a comment

Not sure how I missed this one.  There is actually a lot of truth to the lyrics in this parody.  Well done!

Video Description: “For the comment behind the line ‘bowl like a retard’ see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBEejvKGhl0 ;

For the comment about Obama’s brother in the Kenyan mudshack, see here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/259061…

This is a parody of ‘You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille’ by Kenny Rogers. Written and sung by Jonathan McWhite. Guitar accompaniment by David McWhite.”

Categories: Anything Else

Halal, The New Stealth Jihad – Are You Eating Food Sacrificed to Idols?

06/27/2011 9 comments

Revelation 2:19-20, “‘I know your deeds, and your love and faith and service and perseverance, and that your deeds of late are greater than at first. But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.”

By Vin Ienco – “In April 2008, FrontpageMag.com published an article by renowned author and Christian Evangelist, Dr. Peter Hammond. Dr. Hammond has created and chaired many groups concerning the plight of persecuted Christians in Africa. He has authored over a dozen books and in the course of his 3 decades of evangelizing, he has been stabbed, beaten, shot and imprisoned.

A much circulated excerpt from his book, Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat is an article entitled, What Islam isn’t, or more commonly known as the Islamic Saturation Index. This articlelooks at the various stages of Islamic conquest by Muslims in their host countries, dependent upon what percentage of the population they hold.

He states, ‘from 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. They will push for the introduction of Halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves, along with threats for failure to comply.’” Read more.

Halal McNuggets a Hit in Detroit – “In September 2000, a McDonald’s restaurant in Dearborn, Michigan began offering a halal version of its chicken nuggets, in response to requests from area customers. Over the following year, sales of the unique item were so good that they expanded the idea to a second Dearborn location.” Read more.

A Canadian line of Campbell’s soups has activists stewing over Islamic connection – “Campbell Soup Co., the Camden, N.J., food giant, has been fighting a grass-roots boycott of its products after its Canadian subsidiary rolled out a line of soups certified as halal, meaning they’re prepared according to Islamic dietary laws.” Read more.

Fast food chain KFC converts eight London restaurants to halal-only menu – “Fast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken is to launch a halal-only menu in eight of its London stores in a move which could be extended to other areas of the UK. The menu, which will form part of a trial, will see the stores selling chicken products which have been fully approved by the Halal Food Authority for the first time.” Read more.

Are you eating food sacrificed to idols? – “When you bite into a delicious pizza, succulent sandwich or luscious lamb chops, are you possibly eating food that has been sacrificed to idols? An outspoken American pastor says yes, and he’s sounding the alarm for Christians to be aware of the Islamic influence he calls ‘backdoor Shariah’ now nibbling its way across the fruited plain. At issue, says Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries in Bonney Lake, Wash., is eating food that’s ‘halal,’ in other words ‘lawful’ or ‘permitted’ for the Muslim diet. Muslims join many Jews and some Christians in avoiding the consumption of certain animals such as pigs and birds of prey, but those of the Islamic faith also have their meat blessed in the name of their god, Allah. ‘From the Christian standpoint, Allah would be an idol,’ Biltz told WND.” Read more.

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Egypt’s Pro-Democracy Activists Feel Their Grip Slipping

06/27/2011 Leave a comment

Isaiah 19:4, “‘I will hand the Egyptians over to the power of a cruel master, and a fierce king will rule over them,’ declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.”

By Jeffrey Fleishman – “Reporting from Cairo— Sensing the revolution that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak is slipping from their grasp, activists and opposition groups are pressuring the ruling military council to postpone Egypt’s elections in September amid fears that Islamists and members of the former regime will gain too much power.

The attempt by fledgling political parties to win more time to organize coincides with a renewed push to draft a new constitution before the parliamentary elections so that no political bloc, especially the Muslim Brotherhood, will have unchecked influence to set the laws of the land.

The pressing concern among independents and secularists is that the Brotherhood, the nation’s largest and best-organized party, may win about 25% of the seats in parliament and control even more through a coalition. This could give the organization the power to infuse the new constitution with conservative Islamic ideals to limit rights for women and non-Muslims.

‘The Brotherhood is tyrannical in its opinions and views, and I think they will take the side of the Islamist businessmen who fund it and have strict Islamic ideologies,’ said Khalid Sayed, a member of the Jan. 25 Youth Coalition. ‘Whatever constitution they might form would not fulfill the demands of Egyptians for civil rights and democracy.'” Read more.

Categories: Radical Islam

Egyptian Shaykh: Democracy and Freedom is a ‘Bad, Backwards, and Retarded Idea’

06/27/2011 Leave a comment

“In a video clip posted to YouTube on 17 June, Egyptian Shaykh Sa’id ‘Abd-al-‘Azim explains that “democracy is a bad, backwards, and retarded idea,” which he condemns for the freedoms it contains, which includes “the freedom to disbelieve in the Creator of Heaven and Earth.” He also compared those who advocate democracy to the wicked people of Sodom. This clip was taken from an interview conducted on the Islamic satellite station al-Hafez on 4 June. Subtitled video is above, transcript is below:

Shaykh ‘Abd-al-‘Azim: I want to say that democracy is a bad idea. We should not feel ashamed to say it. It is a bad, backward, and retarded idea, which is taken from Greece. Democracy is spoken of like it’s a modern discovery, but it’s not–(interrupted)

Host: You described this beautifully in this book, saying that the people who believe in democracy are like the people of Lot, who believed in the majority. Lot’s people numbered about 100,000, while the majority was only Lot and his two daughters. Wherefore the minority was better than the majority, thus everyone who believes in this democracy–(interrupted)

Shaykh ‘Abd-al-‘Azim: That’s right. Even the freedoms–what are they? Among the freedoms inherent in the democratic system are freedom for women, freedom of ownership, freedom of homosexuality, personal freedom, freedom of conscience and expression, freedom to disbelieve in the Creator of Heaven and Earth. There’s mixing (of men and women), usury–all of this is in democracy, which is why I condemn it.” Source.

Categories: Radical Islam