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Guatemala was hit hardest, with at least 92 deaths, 54 people missing and 59 injured, emergency officials said. Nearly 112,000 people have been evacuated and more than 29,000 are living in temporary shelters, Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom said in an address to the nation late Sunday.
The devastation has been widespread throughout Guatemala with mudslides destroying homes and buildings and burying some victims. At least nine rivers have dramatically higher levels and 13 bridges have collapsed, the nation's emergency services said.
In the northern part of Guatemala City, the downpour created a giant sinkhole that swallowed up a space larger than the area of a street intersection. Residents told CNN that a three-story building and a house fell into the hole.
Interesting, there is a straight line that runs from Guatemala (one scary hole for the 5th Trumpet), through the Gulf BP oil disaster area (2nd?), to Iceland (1st?).
"I can tell you what it's not: It's not a geological fault, and it's not the product of an earthquake," David Monterroso, a geophysics engineer at Guatemala's National Disaster Management Agency, told the Associated Press. "That's all we know. We're going to have to descend."
Police said right wing activists threatened repeatedly this week to come up to the Temple Mount and conduct ritual slaughter there during the Pessah holiday. They also suspect Federman was planning to slaughter the animal on the Temple Mount proper, and not in the synagogue.
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Police deployed in large forces ahead of the holiday, especially in the Western Wall area, east Jerusalem and malls and public parks.
The Jewish holiday coincides with the Christian Easter, which culminates in the Sabbath of Light celebrated in the Holy Sepulchre next Saturday.
Did the Orthodox Jews secretly renew sacrifices on the Temple Mount? Wouldn't a red heifer have needed to have been sacrificed before any goats, as Mr. Federman was attempting? Did Obama's pressure force Israel to bring renewed sacrifices to an end, by arresting the religious Jews performing them?
Daniel 9:27, KJV:
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Daniel 9:27, Young's Literal:
And he hath strengthened a covenant with many -- one week, and [in] the midst of the week he causeth sacrifice and present to cease, and by the wing of abominations he is making desolate, even till the consummation, and that which is determined is poured on the desolate one.
THE COVENANT WITH MANY?
Genesis 2:1-3:
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation.
Pope Benedict XVI today called for reforming the United Nations and establishing a "true world political authority" with "real teeth" to manage the global economy with God-centered ethics.
In his third encyclical, a major teaching, released as the G-8 summit begins in Italy, the pope says such an authority is urgently needed to end the current worldwide financial crisis.
Russian President showing the new United Future World Currency:
(July 10th, 2009) Obama Wraps G-8 Summit, Meets With Pope:
Obama, "And, the 73rd day, I will rest."
John 5:15-17:
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.
But Jesus answered them, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work."
The work of ruling/mantaining creation, rather the work of creation. Interpreting Obama's comment in light of John 5:17, if he were the Antichrist, then he could have meant that the work of creating his kingdom would be over by July 11, 2009 and henceforth he would reign over it.
Revelation 13:5:
And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
2012, the Movie (Dec. 21, by the way) - Washington D.C. Scene (Tidal wave engulfs black President (Antichrist thrown into abyss as in the Orthodox icon?)):
What the Spill Will Kill: Giant plumes of crude oil mixed with methane are sweeping the ocean depths with devastating consequences. 'I'm not too worried about oil on the surface,' says one scientist. 'It's the things we don't see that worry me the most.' http://services.newsweek.com/id/238620/output/print
Published Jun 4, 2010
From the magazine issue dated Jun 14, 2010
"I'm not too worried about oil on the surface," says chemist Ed Overton of Louisiana State University. "It's going to cause very substantial and noticeable damage—marsh loss and coastal erosion and impact on fisheries, dead birds, dead turtles—but we'll know what that is. It's the things we don't see that worry me the most. What happens if you wipe out all those jellyfish down there? We don't know what their role is in the environment. But Mother Nature put them there for a reason," and many are in the plumes' paths.
Their presence has blown to smithereens the cliché that oil floats on water. That correctly describes what happens when pure crude spills into the sea from a well in shallow water or a tanker at the surface, as happened with the Exxon Valdez. But when a gusher is 5,000 feet down, consists of a mix of crude oil and dissolved methane, and is being disgorged under tremendous pressure and temperature, studies predict that the physical and chemical properties of the spill will undergo an ugly alchemy. "The dispersants are changing the chemistry and physics of the oil," says biological oceanographer Ajit Subramaniam of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "They are creating microlayers of oil that are being carried by the deep currents." Even without dispersants, the crude gets broken into zillions of droplets suspended in the water column and corralled there, prevented from rising to the surface. The result is the undersea plumes that oceanographer Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia and colleagues first detected from the research vessel Pelican three weeks after the blowout. Despite years of research showing that undersea oil might form such plumes, BP's Hayward insists it cannot. "Oil floats!" he repeatedly says.
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After NOAA questioned the finding of deepwater oil plumes (but now has two boats using sonar to look for plumes), the National Science Foundation stepped in with the kind of support that matters: cash. With "rapid response" grants from the foundation, scientists are searching for plumes and trying to assess their impact. As far as scientists can tell, the undersea oil is actually a witch's brew of crude mixed with dissolved methane, stretching 15 miles long, 5 miles wide, and 300 feet thick in the case of one plume detected by the Pelican, and 22 miles long, 6 miles wide, and 3,000 feet thick in the case of a plume found by University of South Florida researchers aboard the WeatherBird II last week. The latter plume reaches all the way to the surface.
The smell of oil hangs heavy in the sea air. Children with plastic shovels scoop up clumps of goo in the waves. Beachcombers collect tarballs as if they were seashells.
The BP catastrophe arrived with the tide on the Florida Panhandle's white sands Friday...
The oil has now reached the shores of four Gulf states - Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida - turning its marshlands into death zones for wildlife and staining its beaches rust and crimson in an affliction that some said brought to mind the plagues and punishments of the Bible.
"In Revelations it says the water will turn to blood," said P.J. Hahn, director of coastal zone management for Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish. "That's what it looks like out here - like the Gulf is bleeding. This is going to choke the life out of everything."
He added: "It makes me want to cry."
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David Lucas of Jonesville, La., and a group of friends abruptly cut their visit short after wading into oily water. "It was sticky brown globs out there," Lucas said after he and the others cleaned their feet and left.
Pope Benedict XVI today called for reforming the United Nations and establishing a "true world political authority" with "real teeth" to manage the global economy with God-centered ethics.
In his third encyclical, a major teaching, released as the G-8 summit begins in Italy, the pope says such an authority is urgently needed to end the current worldwide financial crisis.
Russian President showing the new United Future World Currency:
(July 10th, 2009) Obama Wraps G-8 Summit, Meets With Pope:
The world currency agreed to by July 10th of 2009 didn't remain a theoretical; it is now a reality, that you can buy and sell and exchange with, and has been since September 2009.
The WOCU, short for world currency unit, was actually launched by London-based WDX Organization in September 2009, but only seems to be gaining recognition now. Its value is determined as a derivative of the exchange rates of the world's top 20 currencies, as measured by GDP, in order to reduce the risk associated with exchange rate fluctuations. The new currency is similar to the International Monetary Fund's special drawing rights (SDR), which the IMF uses as a reserve asset to supplement the currency reserves of its member states. Both Russia and China have been pushing for the world to switch to a new currency.
In Biblical terms, the President of the USA during the Cold War would probably have been considered ruler of about 1/3 the Earth, Russia about 1/3, and 1/3 a battleground between the two. Since 1991 the USA would probably be considered overlord of almost every country on earth, with only Russia and China remaining truely sovereign countries and retaining a few client states of their own like North Korea and Iran. With this WOCU has Obama become the first ruler of the world since Nimrod?
Thank you for keeping us updated on these fast-moving developments which are numbing. One can mutely read in horror.
The line through the 3 disasters, maybe a 4th is coming, was quite astonishing to me.
I paid close attention to that world currency display - but was unfamiliar with the background. Glad you supplied more detail.
Tracking this would be key! Wonder how that would fit the "amero" - the currency for a North American union?
Bilderbergers met in Spain from June 3-6, so no doubt some of this was discussed.
Interesting analysis about the division of the world then, and the situation now.
Hope you don't mind if I quote a Roman Catholic Archbishop below, but I thought his was rather a good statement of the disastrous state of affairs.
Just look at the headlines in the secular press for today : "2 [//ugh!//] lesbians have first homosexual marriage in Portugal".
Now Portugal always used to be a special country. It's like an announcement from the Devil that he has taken it over.
Then the forced resignation of Lebanese immigrant and veteran reporter, Helen Thomas, due to perfectly sane and CORRECT statement about Palestine being under occupation and that the Zionists don't belong there. That has stirred up such a hornet's nest that it reveals clearly that no one can stand up and speak a word about any topic perceived as threatening Jewish and Trilateral/Bilderberger control of nearly every facet of public life in this country and Europe. It was appalling to read yahoo comments. Only ONE woman stood up and defended the respected White House correspondent, saying MERELY that she should have a right to express her opinion! The rest of the torrent of enraged epithets thrown at the 89-year old doyenne of correspondents by American public -- not just AIPAC, the Israeli lobby and their tools -- reveals how distorted the minds of Americans have become; they can't even see right from wrong. Neither do they care too, apparently. They do not mind how much a slave to Israel and Israel's supporters has America become.
"Israel First" Sarah Palin slung furious remarks against poor Helen Thomas. The former Alaska gov. never misses a chance to srike one up for Israel, mindful, too, of her evangelical supporters' blind faith in the childish concept that Jesus is reappearing any old day now in Israel.
The coverup of Israel's actions against the Gaza flotilla has been so obvious that it doesn't need comment.
Thank God that angels records every word each person says and thinks. Then He will mete out justice for those who speak right and will punish those who use their vocal chords on behalf of the dark.
Therefore, one can see that Archbishop Gomez was daring to make this all too accurate asessment of how much this country has deteriorated:
6/7/2010
subheading: "The Gospel was being preached in Spanish and Holy Mass was being celebrated by Hispanics before George Washington was born." [C5: I have heard this too, and it makes one wonder how that was so suppressed, and the country got taken over by a small population who have destroyed it from within? The Hispanics would have a much greater claim to shape the attitudes in this country, but they are not politically organized probably.]
The Archbishop says: "Practical atheism" has become the de facto state religion in America. The price of participation in our economic, political, and social life is that we essentially have to agree to conduct ourselves as if God does not exist.
Religion in the U.S. is something we do on Sundays or in our families, but is not allowed to have any influence on what we do the rest of the week."
So, is it any wonder that God is fed up and trying to warn through all these dramatic events, like the descriptions of the damage to sea life, which any person from any walk of life can apprehend and be shocked at?
Now Portugal always used to be a special country. It's like an announcement from the Devil that he has taken it over.
Not following you on the importance of Portugal.
Then the forced resignation of Lebanese immigrant and veteran reporter, Helen Thomas, due to perfectly sane and CORRECT statement about Palestine being under occupation and that the Zionists don't belong there.
The Muslims have no more right to occupy Constantinople and use the EP to create division within Orthodoxy with Calendar innovations, than they have claim over the Holy Land, Syria, Jordan, North Africa, or any other land they stole from Christians.
"Israel First" Sarah Palin slung furious remarks against poor Helen Thomas. The former Alaska gov. never misses a chance to srike one up for Israel, mindful, too, of her evangelical supporters' blind faith in the childish concept that Jesus is reappearing any old day now in Israel.
That is such a completely false summary of Evangelical belief that I won't bother refuting it.
The coverup of Israel's actions against the Gaza flotilla has been so obvious that it doesn't need comment.
I would direct you to 1:30 to 2:18 of the video below:
The Israelis are actually far too soft. The reason the whole world isn't Muslim now is that Orthodoxy, whenever it was healthy and strong, dealt with such Muslim provocation and aggression like this:
These are the people the flotilla wanted to bring aid to, unchecked at that. That anyone gives any type of aid to these people is probably deserving of summary execution in of itself, much less trying to provoke a war that could kill millions.
Muslim kindergarten:
Star Search: 2 year old martyr in training:
Muslim Bugs Bunny, the Terrorist Jew-Eating Rabbit:
Kids shown music video of their mother's suicide bombing:
Muslim Mickey Mouse: "We said before that becoming masters of the world requires..."
Muslim Mickey Mouse killed by "Terrorist Jews":
Muslim Bee character abuses animals as children's lesson:
Arab Men Should Sexually Assault Israeli Women:
subheading: "The Gospel was being preached in Spanish and Holy Mass was being celebrated by Hispanics before George Washington was born." [C5: I have heard this too, and it makes one wonder how that was so suppressed, and the country got taken over by a small population who have destroyed it from within? The Hispanics would have a much greater claim to shape the attitudes in this country, but they are not politically organized probably.]
Roman Catholicism arrived with the Spanish conquistadors in 1492, Washington was born in 1732. Not sure why you think that such 7th/8th grade history is "suppressed"?
