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Sept. 24,,2012 - Sept. 30,,2012
News In Review
Vol 7, Issue 31
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The News In Review newsletter is a service
provided
by Understand The Times that
is a compilation of the news articles
previously posted
on our site . Understand The Times does not
endorse these events but rather is
showing the church the current events.
The
purpose of posting these articles is to warn the church of deception from a
Biblical perspective.
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September 20 - Niger hit by worst flooding in 80 years: Oxfam
Article: Signs Of The Last Times
The
international aid group
Oxfam says
half a million people have been displaced in
Niger as the country reels from the worst flooding in 80 years.
The United Nations
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
estimates
that more than 80 people were killed in the floods.
The
landlocked West African country of Niger
has been pummeled by back-to-back droughts in 2005, 2010 and the first part
of 2012 causing an acute hunger crisis.
Samuel Braimah,
country director
for Oxfam, says the rains were needed, but
the excessive rainwater has now destroyed 17,000 acres (7,000 hectares) of
crops, making it even more difficult for families strained by drought to
rebound.
Of the 1 million
children facing life-threatening malnutrition this year in the Sahel, UNICEF
says that one-third live in Niger.
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September 24 - New SARS-like virus detected in Middle East
Article: Signs Of The Last Times
Global health
officials are closely monitoring a new
respiratory virus related to SARS that is believed to have killed at least
one person in
Saudi Arabia and left a Qatari citizen in critical condition in
London.
The germ is a coronavirus, from a family of viruses that
cause the common cold as well as SARS, the severe acute respiratory syndrome
that killed some 800 people, mostly in Asia, in a 2003 epidemic.
In the
latest case, British officials alerted the
World Health
Organization on Saturday of the new
virus in a man who transferred from Qatar to be treated in London. He had
recently traveled to Saudi Arabia and is now being treated in an
intensive care
unit after suffering kidney failure.
WHO said
virus samples from the patient are almost identical to those of a
60-year-old Saudi national who died earlier this year. The agency isn't
currently recommending travel restrictions and said
the source of infection remains unknown. Still, the
situation has raised concerns ahead of next month's annual
Hajj pilgrimage,
which brings millions of people to Saudi Arabia from around the world.
Health
officials don't know yet whether the virus
could spread as rapidly as SARS did or if it might kill as many people. SARS,
which first jumped to humans from civet cats in
China, hit
more than 30 countries worldwide after spreading from
Hong Kong.
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September 23 - World on track for record food prices 'within a year' due to US drought
Article: Signs Of The Last Times
Brace yourself for some painful "agflation". That is the
shorthand for agricultural commodity inflation, otherwise known as
rising food prices.
They are being driven upwards by the climb in
grain and oilseed prices as US crops weather the country's worst
drought since 1936, while the farming belts of Russia and South
America suffer through similar water shortages.
What we are seeing represents the third major rally in global grain
and oilseed prices in just half a decade.
Worse is to come, new research warns. World
food prices look set to hit an all-time high in the first quarter of
next year - and then keep rising, according to
the analysis from Rabobank, a specialist in agricultural
commodities. By June 2013, the
basket of food prices tracked by the United Nations could climb 15pc
from current levels, according to the bank's
analysts.
"The coming year will see the world economy
re-enter a period of agflation as grain and oilseed stocks decline
to critically low levels, pushing the FAO [Food and Agricultural
Organisation] Food Price Index above record nominal highs set in
February 2011," they say.
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September 24 - Bill Nye Warns Americans Believing in Creationism Are Stifling Innovation
Article: Creation/Evolution - Misc.
Scientist Bill Nye,
responding to criticism from creationist
organizations of his opinion that children should only be taught
evolution in schools, has said he also believes that the
innovative process of America is threatened by a belief in
creation.
"If
we raise a generation of students who don't believe in the
process of science, who think everything that we've come to know
about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few
sentences translated into English from some ancient text, you're
not going to continue to innovate," Nye said
in a recent interview with The Associated Press.
"The Science Guy," which Nye is
better known as due to his 90s TV show, shared his views on Aug.
23 video titled "Bill Nye:
Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children," in which he
defends the scientific theory of evolution as opposed to the
belief of some Christians, who hold a literal interpretation of
the Bible, that the Earth is only a few thousand years old. This
led to some Christian groups, such as Answers in Genesis, to
claim that Nye is misguided and that the world was created
exactly the way it is described in the Bible.
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September 24 - 19 Signs That America Is Being Systematically Transformed Into A Giant Surveillance Grid
Article: One World Government
You are being watched.
The control freaks that hold power in the United
States have become absolutely obsessed with surveillance. They are
constantly attempting to convince the American people that we are all
"safer" when virtually everything that we do is watched, monitored,
tracked and recorded. Our country is being systematically transformed
into a giant surveillance grid far more comprehensive than anything
George Orwell ever dreamed of. If you still believe that there is such a
thing as "privacy" in this day and age, you are being delusional. Every
single piece of electronic communication is monitored and stored. In
fact, they know that you are reading this article right now. But even if
you got rid of all of your electronic devices, you would still be
constantly monitored. As you will read about below, a rapidly growing
nationwide network of facial recognition cameras, "pre-crime"
surveillance devices, voice recorders, mobile backscatter vans, aerial
drones and automated license plate readers are constantly feeding data
about us back to the government. In addition, private companies involved
in "data mining" are gathering literally trillions upon trillions of
data points about individual Americans each year. So there is no escape
from this surveillance grid. In fact, it has become just about
impossible to keep it from growing. The surveillance grid is expanding
in thousands of different ways, so even if you stopped one form of
surveillance you would hardly make a dent in the astounding growth of
this system. What we desperately need is a fundamental cultural
awakening to the importance of liberty, freedom and privacy. Without
such an awakening, the United States (along with the rest of the planet)
is going to head into a world that will make "1984" by George Orwell
look like a cheery story about a Sunday picnic.
The following
are 19 signs that America is being systematically transformed into a
giant surveillance grid....
#1 New Software That Will Store
And Analyze Millions Of Our Voices
Did you know that there is software that
can positively identify you using your voice in just a matter of
seconds? Law enforcement authorities all over the U.S. are very eager to
begin using new Russian software that will enable them to store and
analyze millions of voices....
#2 Unmanned Aerial Drones Will Be
Used Inside The U.S. To Spy On You
Unmanned aerial drones have been used
with great success by the U.S. military overseas, and now the U.S.
government is promoting their use to local law enforcement authorities
all over America.
#3 High Tech Government Scanners
That Can Secretly Scan You From 164 Feet Away
A new scanner that has just been
developed can scan your body, your clothes and your luggage from 164
feet away. According to Gizmodo, these very creepy scanners will soon be
used at airports and border crossings all over America....
#4 The DNA Of Newborn Babies Born
All Over The United States Is Systematically Collected
These days, the invasion of our privacy
begins just after birth. Did you know that the DNA of almost every
newborn baby in the United States is systematically collected and stored
in databases? Unfortunately, most new parents don't even realize what
medical personnel are doing when this takes place...
#5 Twitter Is Being Used To
Monitor You
Hopefully you understand by now that
nothing you do on the Internet will never be private again. According to
a recent article by Susanne Posel, Twitter is being used as a law
enforcement tool more than it ever has been before....
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September 26 - Monsoon flooding leaves two million homeless in India
Article: Signs Of The Last Times
More than two million people in
Assam in North-East India have been forced to leave their homes
after rising floods left almost two thousand villages under water.
Eighteen people
have died in the tragedy and many more are missing
as rescue teams have been hampered by poor weather.
According to
government disaster management officials
more than 400,000 in the state are living in
temporary relief shelters. Several hundred thousand homes have been
destroyed.
The floods were caused by driving monsoon rains and
fast-rising water levels in five of the state's main rivers,
including the biggest of them, the Brahmaputra, which has risen
beyond its danger level.
Government relief
teams have been dropping food
supplies to stranded villages but some families have said they fear
starvation because relief has yet to reach them.
Rupamoni Payeng, a
mother-of-three said it was the third time this year she had fled to
an elevated section of land on the submerged island of Majuli to
escape flooding. "We have not
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September 26 - AP Interview: Ahmadinejad pushes new world order
Article: One World Government
After an hour of fielding questions about
Syria,
sanctions and
nuclear weapons,
Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had enough. Now, he said, it was his turn to
choose the topic - his "new order" which
will inevitably replace the current era of what he called U.S. bullying.
Continuing his hectic pace of media appearances and diplomatic meetings,
Ahmadinejad presented an air of boredom when it came to the hot topic on
everyone's mind - Iran's
nuclear program
and the possibility of impending war. Whether it was feigned or sincere,
he said he would much rather be talking about
his vision of what the next world order might be.
Conveniently, it would be an order in which
the U.S. and the traditional powers play a smaller role and every country
has equal standing (though the state of
Israel, he
often predicts, will soon become a historical footnote).
"God
willing, a new order will come and will do away with ... everything that
distances us," Ahmadinejad told The Associated Press in
an interview Tuesday, speaking through a translator.
"All of the animosity, all of the lack of sincerity will come to an end. It
will institute fairness and justice."
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September 27 - Ahmadinejad Tells U.N. Messiah's Return At Hand
Article: Miscellaneous
With the U.S. and Israeli delegations
absent in boycott, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed
the General Assembly on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur in a
rambling, apocalyptic speech in which
he declared his confidence that the table
already is being set for a "new world order."
What Ahmadinejad means by "new world order," however, has nothing to
do with the globalist economic and political integration envisioned
by President George H. W. Bush.
Known internationally as "Twelvers,"
radical Shiite Muslims like Ahmadinejad
believe the new order will come with the
return of their messiah, the Mahdi - the child imam who supposedly
went into seclusion at the bottom of a well more than 1,000 years
ago.
Indeed, after a long diatribe in
which he blamed Western
civilization for most of the world's major problems, Ahmadinejad
concluded his speech today with an extensive description of his
belief that the Mahdi will soon usher the world into a new era of
peace and prosperity.
"God
has promised us a man of kindness," he said,
according to the official transcript,
"a man who loves people and loves absolute justice, a man who is a
perfect human being and is named Imam al-Mahdi, a man who will come
in the company of Jesus Christ and the righteous."
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September 28 - "Biblical" drought bites into Spain's olive oil harvest
Article: Signs Of The Last Times
"An
olive tree
is like a camel, you don't have to give it much water, but when it's
thirsty, it really has to drink," says olive oil producer
Francisco
Nuņez de Prado of the drought
that could shrivel this year's harvest to half of last year's.
Nuņez de Prado's estate in the country's olive oil heart
in Spain's sun drenched Andalucia is expected to suffer a sharp fall in
harvest this year. His has been saved to some extent thanks to extensive
irrigation, but other producers have
seen not a single olive growing on their branches.
That has caused prices to spike, with consumers expected
to pay more for the 'green gold' in coming months as supermarkets jack
up prices.
"It's
been a drought of biblical proportions, the worst since 1945, the 'year
of hunger' for Spain," said Nuņez de Prado, adding
rainfall where his farm is located in the shadows of the Sierra Madre
mountains was the lowest since that year.
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We hope the Weekly News In Review has been a
blessing to you.
Sincerely,
Roger Oakland
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