Earthquake List

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Earthquake List for 10-degree Map Centered at 40°N, 145°E

Update time = Fri Mar 11 08:44:51 UTC 2011

Here is a list of the earthquakes located by the USGS and contributing networks for the 10-degree Map Centered at 40°N, 145°E. Most recent events are at the top. (Some early events may be obscured by later ones on the map.) Click on the date portion of an earthquake record in the list below for more information.

MAG UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s LAT deg LON deg DEPTH km  Region MAP 6.2 2011/03/11 08:15:40    37.034 144.612  27.8   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 6.2 2011/03/11 08:12:04    36.606 141.557  19.8   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.9 2011/03/11 08:01:58    37.071 142.734  22.6   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.6 2011/03/11 07:56:15    37.130 142.305  34.0   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.7 2011/03/11 07:54:44    37.742 141.565  45.3   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.8 2011/03/11 07:42:55    36.406 141.919  29.9   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.9 2011/03/11 07:38:26    39.250 142.783  29.1   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 6.1 2011/03/11 07:28:12    36.802 141.911  24.0   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 6.1 2011/03/11 07:25:33    37.916 144.621  15.0   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 6.3 2011/03/11 07:14:59    36.648 141.811  25.0   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.9 2011/03/11 07:13:47    36.051 142.347  28.5   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.8 2011/03/11 07:10:59    37.899 142.734  30.0   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 6.3 2011/03/11 06:57:14    35.758 140.992  30.2   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 6.3 2011/03/11 06:48:47    37.993 142.764  22.3   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 7.1 2011/03/11 06:25:50    38.106 144.553  19.7   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 6.8 2011/03/11 06:15:45    36.126 140.234  30.2   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 6.4 2011/03/11 06:07:21    36.401 141.862  35.4   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 6.4 2011/03/11 06:06:11    39.025 142.316  25.1   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 8.9 2011/03/11 05:46:23    38.322 142.369  24.4   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 4.9 2011/03/10 22:44:25    38.844 143.006  34.2   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 4.7 2011/03/10 21:49:46    38.590 143.086  26.0   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.2 2011/03/10 16:54:45    38.053 143.253  4.7   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.1 2011/03/10 11:21:08    38.611 143.049  17.6   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.2 2011/03/10 09:02:21    38.652 143.146  21.9   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 4.8 2011/03/10 08:59:19    38.547 143.295  19.8   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.7 2011/03/10 08:08:20    38.630 143.304  17.2   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 4.8 2011/03/10 07:33:04    38.954 142.458  20.0   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 4.6 2011/03/10 04:14:00    38.406 143.427  31.0   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.0 2011/03/10 01:20:23    38.408 143.033  25.1   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 4.8 2011/03/09 23:57:41    38.308 143.275  20.0   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.4 2011/03/09 23:37:00    38.438 143.185  32.8   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 6.1 2011/03/09 21:22:18    38.385 142.642  23.0   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 4.9 2011/03/09 21:00:57    38.267 142.580  22.5   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 6.0 2011/03/09 18:44:35    38.502 143.199  23.0   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 6.1 2011/03/09 18:16:14    38.378 142.506  22.0   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 4.8 2011/03/09 14:24:05    38.589 143.226  10.0   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 4.7 2011/03/09 12:03:17    38.358 143.119  13.1   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.1 2011/03/09 11:27:51    38.529 143.040  28.2   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 4.7 2011/03/09 10:13:39    38.721 143.090  27.2   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 4.8 2011/03/09 08:55:38    38.667 143.055  15.6   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.3 2011/03/09 08:02:36    38.606 143.103  15.4   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.1 2011/03/09 07:56:27    38.849 142.929  10.7   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.0 2011/03/09 07:13:48    38.246 143.108  9.9   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.1 2011/03/09 06:25:12    38.299 143.067  10.8   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 4.9 2011/03/09 06:12:13    38.681 143.022  10.0   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 4.7 2011/03/09 05:27:06    37.830 145.135  10.0   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.3 2011/03/09 04:45:54    38.543 142.740  27.0   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.7 2011/03/09 04:37:03    38.666 142.991  25.5   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.2 2011/03/09 04:32:10    38.727 143.001  32.1   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 4.8 2011/03/09 04:15:39    38.857 142.658  12.6   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.2 2011/03/09 04:05:53    38.870 142.420  10.9   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.0 2011/03/09 03:19:00    38.795 142.962  19.9   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.2 2011/03/09 03:08:35    38.339 143.097  24.4   OFF THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 5.6 2011/03/09 02:57:16    38.402 142.825  17.5   NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN MAP 7.2 2011/03/09 02:45:20    38.424 142.836  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Japan 8.9 Earthquake & Tsunami

Japan Hit With 8.9-Magnitude Earthquake, Massive Tsunami Follows

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Japan Hit With 8.9-Magnitude Earthquake, Massive Tsunami Follows

Max Read — An earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale just hit off the coast of Japan on Friday, sending a massive, terrifying wave to the country's northeast and causing untold amounts of damage.

Here's what we know, as of 3:00 a.m. EST:

The initial quake, which hit at 2:46 local time on Friday, was among the largest to be felt in Japan since 1906. It was quickly followed by several smaller quakes, reaching as high as 7.1. Here's the magnitude of the confirmed quakes, in order, via Mike Poppel: 8.9, 6.4, 6.4, 6.8, 7.1, 6.3, 6.3, 5.8, 5.9, 6.3, 6.1, 6.1, 5.9, 5.8, 5.7, 5.6, 5.9, 5.4 and 6.2. At least two large waves, one as high as 33 feet, hit the Miyagi prefecture in the northeastern part of Japan, engulfing Sendai airport and decimating farm fields and towns. Fires and at least one roof collapse have been reported in Tokyo.

Here are some photos from Tokyo: [via] Full size [AP ] Read more at gawker.com

 

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Prisoners to Make Body Armor

Army Recruits Prisoners to Make Body Armor

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Army Recruits Prisoners to Make Body Armor

By Noah Shachtman

Building parts for Patriot missile systems was just a warm-up, apparently, for a government-owned company that relies on federal inmates making as little as 23 cents an hour. On Wednesday, the U.S. Army announced that it handed Federal Prison Industries a no-bid, nearly $20 million contract to build body armor.

It’s the latest in a decades-long string of military deals for FPI, also known as Unicor. Over the years, the company has supplied parts for F-15 and F-16 fighter jets, the Cobra attack helicopter, and the iconic Patriot interceptor system. (More about that in a second.)

But this deal is particularly odd, because FPI’s track record with protective equipment is, to put it generously, uneven. In May of last year, the Army recalled 44,000 FPI-made protective helmets after they failed ballistic testing. FPI then promptly got out of the helmet business.

That rather serious blemish on FPI’s record hasn’t stopped the Army from going back to the firm for $19,767,468’s worth of bulletproof “Outer Tactical Vests.” According to the Army’s contract announcement, the gear is supposed to be “for Pakistan” — presumably, for the Pakistani military. (Although a State Department told suppliers Wednesday that it wants 1,000 vests in Pakistan, too.)

The vest-making will be done at the federal correctional facility in Yazoo City, Mississippi — one of 70 prisons where inmates make anywhere from $0.23 to $1.15 per hour building everything from clothing to office furniture to solar panels to military electronics.

Exactly which military electronics FPI’s nearly 20,000 prisoners build is a matter of some dispute, however. According to FPI’s website, the company “supplies numerous electronic components and services for guided missiles, including the Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) missile.”

A spokesman for Lockheed Martin, which assembles the missile, calls that “completely false” and insists in an e-mail to Danger Room that “at no time were parts from Unicor EVER used in the PAC-3.” The spokesman, Craig Vanbebber, instead says that Unicor components are only used in the larger Patriot system, like the ignition and control units which ensure that the missiles are actually launched into the sky. That larger system is put together by a separate defense contractor, Raytheon. The missiles themselves are free of prison labor, Vanbebber asserts.

But Eric Piepert, who sells FPI’s electronics to the government, insists that the company is very much involved in missile-making. “We’re not making anything up,” he tells Danger Room. “We make wiring harnesses for the military, this being one of them — the Patriot missile.”

The protective clothing business appears to be an equally integral part of FPI’s inmate-reliant business. The company website advertises five different models of body armor, on sale from $170 to $325 each.

Photo: U.S. Army See Also:

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Cromwell Parliment Speech 1656 Pt 2 of 5

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Cromwell Delivers Greatest Parlimentarian Speech in World History, 1656! Pt. 2 of 5

Oliver Cromwell: Protector of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, 1656

This magnificent speech of His Royal Highness, Oliver Cromwell, covers nearly 44 pages as found in Carlyle’s five-volume work, Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches with Elucidations.  Documented by the author as “Speech V,” it covers a host of topics, all the while Cromwell quoting from the AV1611 Reformation English Bible.  This first of four portions of the speech will cover ten pages.  Please be patient, take time and allow the simple points of the speech to take hold of your meditations to the end that your heart will be inclined not only to the pure and wonderful life of Oliver, but to the Holy Spirit of God, Who wrought in him the greatest of Faith and Works in obedience to the glorious gospel of the Risen Lord Jesus Christ.

Throughout Cromwell’s Speech, he will emphasize certain words and phrases.  Today we would put that emphasis in italics or in bold.  Below, during the 17th Century, that emphasis is put in quotes or is italicized in this fashion put in bold for clarification: ‘word or phrase.‘

Carlyle sets forth his introduction:

“At all events, on Wednesday 17th September 1656, Parliament, Protector, all in due state, do assemble at the Abbey Church; and, with reverence and credence, hear Doctor [John] Owen, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, very pertinently preach to them from these old words of Isaiah,—old and yet always new and true:

What shall one then answer to the Messengers of the Nation?  That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the Poor of His People shall trust in it.

Isaiah xiv.32 [AV1611 Reformation English Bible]

“After which, all having removed, still in due state, to the Painted Chamber, and there adjusted themselves, the Protector, rising in his elevated place and taking off his hat, now speaks.  The Speech, reported by one knows not whom, lies in old Manuscript in the British Museum; and printed in late years in the Book called Burton’s Diary; here and there which, as heretofore, a pious Editor strives to rescue it.  Sufficiently studied, it becomes intelligible, nay luminous.  Let the reader too read with piety, with a real endeavour to understand.”

“GENTLEMEN,

“When I came hither, I did think that a duty was incumbent upon me a little to pity myself; because, this being a very extraordinary occasion, I thought I had very many things to say unto you, ‘and was somewhat burdened and straitened thereby.’  But truly now, seeing you in such a condition as you are, I think I must turn off ‘my pity’ in this, as I hope I shall in everything else;—and consider you as certainly not being able long to bear that condition and heat that you are now in.— — ‘So far as possible, on this large subject, let us be brief; not studying the Art of Rhetoricians.’  Rhetoricians, whom I do not pretend to ‘much concern with;’ neither with them, nor with what they use to deal in:  Words!

“Truly our business is to speak Things!  The Dispensations of God that are upon us do require it; and that subject upon which we shall make our discourse is somewhat of very great interest and concernment, both for the glory of God, and with reference to His Interest in the world.  I mean His peculiar, His most peculiar Interest, ‘His Church, the Communion of the faithful Followers of Christ;’—and that will not leave any of us to exclude His general Interest, which is the concernment of the Living People, ‘not as Christians but as human creatures,’ within these three Nations, and all the Dependencies thereupon.  I have told you I should speak to things; things that concern these Interests: The Glory of God, and His Peculiar Interest in the world,—which ‘latter’ is more extensive, I say more extensive, than the People of all these three Nations with the appurtenances, or the countries and places, belonging unto them.

“The first thing, therefore, that I shall speak to is That that is the first lesson of Nature:  Being and Preservation.  As to that of Being, I do think I do not ill style it the first consideration which Nature teacheth the Sons of Adam:—and then I think we shall enter into a field large enough when we come to consider that of Well-being.  But if Being itself be not first well laid, I think the other will hardly follow!

“Now in order to this, to the Being and Subsistence of these Nations with all their Dependencies:  The conservation of that, ‘namely of our National Being,’ is first to be viewed with respect to those who seek to undo it, and so make it not to be; and then very naturally we shall come to the consideration of what will make it be, of what will keep its being and subsistence.

“‘Now,’ that which plainly seeks the destruction of the Being of these Nations is, out of doubt:  The endeavour and design of all the common Enemies of them.  I think, truly, it will not be hard to find out who those Enemies are; nor what hath made them so!  I think They are all the wicked men in the world, whether abroad or at home, that are the Enemies to the very Being of these Nations;—and this upon a common account, from the very enmity that is in them ‘to all such things.’  Whatsoever could serve the glory of God and the interest of His People,—which they see to be more eminently, yea more eminently patronised and professed in this Nation (we will not speak it with vanity) than in all the Nations in the world:  this is the common ground of the common enmity entertained against the prosperity of our Nation, against the very being of it.—But we will not, I think, take up our time, contemplating who these Enemies are, and what they are, in the general notion:  we will labour to specificate our Enemies; to know what persons and bodies of persons they practically are that seek the very destruction and Being of these Three Nations.

“And truly I would not have laid such a foundation but to the end I might very particularly communicate with you ‘about that same matter.’  For which ‘above others,’ I think you are called hither at this time:—That I might particularly communicate with you about the many dangers these Nations stand in, from Enemies abroad and at home; and advise with you about the remedies, and means to obviate these dangers.  ‘Dangers’ which,—say I, and I shall leave it to you whether you will join with me or no,—strike at the very Being and ‘vital’ interest of these Nations.  And therefore, coming to particulars, I will shortly represent to you the estate of your affairs in that respect: in respect ‘namely’ of the Enemies you are engaged with; and how you come to be engaged with those Enemies, and how they come to be, as heartily, I believe, engaged against you.

“Why, truly, your great Enemy is the Spaniard.  He is a natural enemy.  He is naturally so; he is naturally so throughout,—by reason of that enmity that is in him against whatsoever is of God.  ‘Whatsoever is of God’ which is in you, or which may be in you; contrary to that which his blindness and darkness, led on by superstition, and the implicitness of his faith in submitting to the See of Rome, actuate him unto!—With his King and State, I say, you are at present in hostility. We put you into this hostility.  You will give us leave to tell you how.  For we are ready to excuse ‘this and’ most of our actions,—and to justify them too, as well as to excuse them,—upon the ground of Necessity.  ‘And’ the ground of Necessity, for justifying of men’s actions, is above all considerations of instituted Law; and if this or any other State should go about,—as I know they never will,—to make Laws against Events, against what may happen, ‘then’ I think it is obvious to any man they will be making Laws against Providence; events, and issues of things, being from God alone, to whom all issues belong.

“The Spaniard is your enemy; and your enemy, as I tell you, naturally, by that antipathy which is in him,—’and also’ providentially, and this in divers respects. You could not get an honorable Peace from him: it was sought by the Long Parliament; it was not attained.  It could not be attained with honour and honesty.  I say, it could not be attained with honour and honesty.  And truly when I say that, ‘I do but say,’ He is naturally throughout an enemy; an enmity is put into him by God.  ‘I will put an enmity between thy seed and her seed;’ [Genesis 3:15]—which goes but for little among statesmen, but is more considerable than all things!  And he that considers not such natural enmity, the providential enmity, as well as the accidental, I think he is not well acquainted with Scripture and the things of God. And the Spaniard is not only our enemy accidentally, but he is providentially so; God having in His wisdom disposed it so to be, when we made a breach with the Spanish Nation ‘long ago.’

“No sooner did this Nation form what is called (unworthily) the Reformed Religion after the death of Queen Mary, by the Queen Elizabeth of famous memory,—we need not be ashamed to call her so!—but the Spaniard’s design became, By all unworthy, unnatural means, to destroy that Person, and to seek the ruin and destruction of these Kingdoms.  For me to instance in particulars upon that account, were to trouble you at a very unseasonable time:  there is a Declaration extant, which very fully hath in it the origin of the Spaniard venting himself upon this Nation; and a series of it from those very beginnings to this present day.  But his enmity was partly upon that general account which all are agree ‘about.’  The French, all the Protestants in Germany, all have agreed, That his design was the empire of the whole Christian World, if not more;—and upon that ground he looks, ‘and hath looked,’ at this Nation as his greatest obstacle.  And as to what his attempts have been for that end,—I refer you to that Declaration, and to the observations of men who read History.  If it would not be difficult to call to mind the several Assassinations designed upon that Lady, that great Queen: the attempts upon Ireland, the Spaniards’ invading of it; their designs of the same nature upon this Nation,—public designs, private designs, all manner of designs, to accomplish this great and general end.  Truly King James made a Peace; but whether this Nation, and the interest of all Protestant Christians, suffered not more by that Peace, than ever by Spain’s hostility, I refer to your consideration!

“Thus a State which you can neither have peace with nor reason from,—that is the State with which you have enmity at this time, and against which you are engaged. And give me leave to say this unto you, because it is truth, and most men know it, That the Long Parliament did endeavour, but could not obtain satisfaction ‘from the Spaniard’ all the time they sat:  for their Messenger [Mr. Ascham] was murdered: and when they asked satisfaction for the blood of your poor people unjustly shed in the West Indies, and for the wrongs done elsewhere; when they asked liberty of conscience for your people who traded thither,—satisfaction in none of these things would be given, but was denied. [Of course not dear Oliver, since Spain was the muscle of the Black Pope enforcing the wicked Council of Trent!] I say, they denied satisfaction either for your Messenger that was murdered, or for the blood that was shed, or the damages that were done in the West Indies.  No satisfaction at all; nor any reason offered why there should not be liberty ‘of conscience’ given to your people that traded thither.  Whose trade was very considerable there, and drew many of your people thither; and begot an apprehension in us ‘as to their treatment there,’—whether in you or no, let God judge between you and Himself.  I judge not:  but all of us know that the people who went thither to manage the trade there, were imprisoned.  We desired ‘but’ such a liberty as ‘that’ they might keep their Bibles in their pockets, to exercise their liberty of religion for themselves, and not be under restraint. But there is not liberty of conscience to be had ‘from the Spaniard;’ neither is there satisfaction for injuries, nor for blood.  When these two things were desired, the Ambassador told us, ‘It was to ask his Master’s two eyes;’ to ask both his eyes, asking these things of him!—

“Now if this be so, why truly then here is some little foundation laid to justify the War that has been entered-upon with the Spaniard!  And not only so:  but the plain truth of it is, Make any peace with any State that is Popish and subjected to the determination of Rome and ‘of’ the Pope himself,—you are bound, and they are loose. It is the pleasure of the Pope at any time to tell you, That though the man is murdered, yet his murderer has got into the sanctuary!  And equally true is it, and hath been found by common and constant experience, That Peace is but to be kept so long as the Pope saith Amen to it.—We have not ‘now’ to do with any Popish State except France:  and it is certain that they do not think themselves under such a tie to the Pope; but think themselves at liberty to perform honesties with nations in agreement with them, and protest against the obligation of such a thing as that,— ‘of breaking your word at the Pope’s bidding.’ They are able to give us an explicit answer to anything reasonably demanded of them:  and there is no other Popish State we can speak of, save this only, but will break their promise or keep it as they please upon these grounds,—being under the lash of the Pope, to be by him determined, ‘and made to decide.’ [Oh dear Oliver, how could you know that in a mere 19 years, the Jesuits would force King Louis XIV to revoke the pro-Protestant, freedom of conscience-protecting Edict of Nantes in 1685, murdering 500,000 French Protestant Huguenots and driving another 500,000 out of the country rendering the birthplace of the Order completely subservient to Rome until 1764 when the French did righteously expel the Sons of Loyola from their borders!]

“In the time when Philip Second was married to Queen Mary, and since that time, through Spanish power and instigation, Twenty-thousand Protestants were murdered in Ireland.  We thought, being denied just things,—we thought it our duty to get that by the sword which was not to be had otherwise! And this hath been the spirit of Englishmen; and if so, certainly it is, and ought to be, the spirit of men that have higher spirits!—With that State you are engaged.  And it is a great and powerful State:— though I may say also, that with all other Christian States you are at peace.  All these ‘your other’ engagements were upon you before this Government was undertaken:  War with France, Denmark,—nay, upon the matter, War, ‘or as good as War,’ with Spain ‘itself.’  I could instance how it was said ‘in the Long-Parliament time,’ “We will have a war in the Indies, though we fight them not at home.” I say, we are at peace with all other Nations, and have only a war with Spain.  I shall say somewhat ‘farther’ to you, which will let you see our clearness ‘as’ to that, by and by.

Having thus ‘said, we are’ engaged with Spain,— ‘that is the root of the matter;’ that is the party that brings all your enemies before you. It doth:  for so it is now, that Spain hath espoused that Interest which you have all along hitherto been conflicting with,—Charles Stuart’s Interest.  And I would but meet the gentleman upon a fair discourse who is willing that that Person should come back again!—but I dare not believe any in this room is.  And I say, it doth not detract at all from your Cause, nor from your ability to make defence of it, That God by His providence hath so disposed that the King of Spain should espouse that Person.  And I say ‘farther,’ No man but might be very well satisfied that it is not for aversion to that Person—!  And the “choosing out” (as was said today [in John Owen's sermon]) “a Captain to lead us back into Egypt,” ‘what honest man has not an aversion to that?’—if there be such a place?  I mean metaphorically and allegorically such a place; ‘if there be,’ that is to say, A returning ‘on the part of some’ to all those things we have been fighting against, and a destroying of all that is good (as we had some hints today [in Owen's sermon]) which we have attained unto—?—I am sure my Speech ‘and defence of the Spanish War’ will signify very little, if such grounds go not for good!  Nay, I will say this to you, Not a man in England, that is disposed to comply with Papists and Cavaliers, but to him my Speech here is the greatest parable, the absurdest discourse!  And in a word, we could wish they were all where Charles Stuart is, all who declare that they are of that spirit.  I do with all my heart;—and I wold help them with a boat to carry them over, who are of that mind!  Yea, and if you shall think it a duty to drive them over by arms, I will help in that also!—

“You are engaged with such an Enemy; a foreign enemy, who hath such allies among ourselves:—this last said hath a little vehemency in it: but it is well worth your consideration.

“Though I seem to be, all this while, upon the justice of the business, yet my desire is to let you see the dangers ‘and grand crisis’ this Nation stands in ‘thereby.’  All the honest interests; yea, all interests of the Protestants, in Germany, Denmark, Helvetia and the Cantons [Switzerland], and all the interests in Christendom, are the same as yours. If you succeed, if you succeed well and act well, and be convinced what is God’s Interest, and prosecute it, you will find that you act for a very great many who are God’s own.  Therefore I say that your danger is from the Common Enemy abroad; who is the head of the Papal Interest, the head of the Antichristian Interest,—who is so described in Scripture, so forespoken of, and so fully, under that characteral name ‘of Antichrist’ given him by the Apostle in the Epistle to the Thessalonians, and likewise so expressed in the Revelations; which are sure and plain things!  Except you will deny the truth of the Scriptures, you must needs see that that State is so described in the Scriputre to be Papal an Antichristian. I say, with this Enemy, and upon this accunt, you have the quarrel,—with the Spaniard.

“And truly he hath an interest in your bowels; he hath so.  The Papists in England,—they have been accounted, ever since I was born, Spaniolized.  There is not a man among us can hold up his face against that.  They never regarded France; they never regarded any other Papist State where a ‘hostile’ Interest was, ‘but Spain only.’ Spain was their patron.  Their patron all along, in England, in Ireland, and Scotland:  no man can doubt of it.  Therefore I must needs say, this ‘Spanish’ Interest is also, in regard to your home-affairs, a great source of your danger.  It is, and it evidently is; and will be more so,—upon that account that I told you of:  He hath espoused Charles Stuart!  With whom he is fully in agreement; for whom he hath raised Seven or Eight Thousand men, and has them now quartered at Bruges [in Roman Catholic Belgium]; to which number Don John of Austria has promised that, as soon as the campaign is ended, which it is conceived will be in about five or six weeks, he shall have Four or Five Thousand added.  And the Duke of Neuburg [Germany], who is a Popish prince, hath promised good assistance according to his power; and other Popish States the like.  In this condition you are with that State ‘of Spain;’ and in this condition through unavoidable necessity; because your enemy was naturally an enemy, and is providentially too become so.”

Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches with Elucidations, (London: Chapman and Hall, 1894), Vol. IV of V, pp. 177-188.

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Cromwell Parliment Speech 1656 Pt 1 of 5

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Cromwell Delivers Greatest Parlimentarian Speech in World History, 1656! Pt. 1 of 5

Oliver Cromwell: Protector of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, 1656

INTRODUCTION to THE SPEECH

Thomas Carlyle, one of England’s foremost Protestant historians, quotes one of his contemporaries eloquently summarizing this most gripping speech of the Protector of the Commonwealth of Great Britain and Defender of the Protestant Faith, our beloved Oliver Cromwell.  We read in awe this review of the epic grandeur of our most noble, AV1611 Bible-believing, Spirit-led, Savior of the Reformation in England:

“No Royal Speech like this was ever delivered elsewhere in the world!  It is,—with all its prudence, and it is very prudent, sagacious, courteous, right royal in spirit,—perhaps the most artless transparent piece of Public Speaking this Editor has ever studied.  Rude, massive, genuine; like a block of unbeaten gold.  A Speech not so fit for Drury Lane, as for Valhalla, and the Sanhedrin of the Gods.  The man himself, and the England he presided over, there and then, are to a singular degree visible in it; open to our eyes, to our sympathies.  He who would see Oliver, will find more of him here than in most of the history-books yet written about him.

“On the whole, the cursory modern Englishman cannot be expected to read this Speech:—and yet it is a pity; the Speech might do him good, if he understood it.  We shall not again hear a Supreme Governor talk in this strain: the dialect of it is very obsolete; much more than the grammar and diction, forever obsolete,—not to my regret the dialect of it.  But the spirit of it is a thing that should never have grown obsolete.  The spirit of it will have to revive itself again; and shine out in new dialect and vesture, in infinitely wider compass, wide as God’s known Universe now is,—if it please Heaven!  Since that spirit went obsolete, and men took to ‘dallying’ with the Highest, to ‘being bold’ with the Highest, and not ‘bold with men’ (only Belial, and not ‘Christ’ in any shape, assisting them), we have had but sorry times, in Parliament and out of it.  There has not been a Supreme Governor worth the meal upon his periwig, in comparison,—since this spirit fell obsolete.  How could there?  Belial is a desperately-bad sleeping-partner in any concern whatever!  Cant [the hypocritical use of pious speaking] did not ever yet, that I know of, turn ultimately to a good account, for any man or thing.  May the Devil swiftly be compelled to call-in large masses of our current stock in Cant, and withdraw it from circulation!  Let the people ‘run for gold,’ as the Chartists say; demand Veracity, Performance, instead of mealy-mouthed Speaking; and force him to recall his Cant.  Thank Heaven, stern Destiny, merciful were it even to death, does now compel them verily to ‘run for gold;’ Cant in all directions is swiftly ebbing into the Bank it was issued by.—”

Carlyle gives us the record of the Blessing of God upon Protestant England and His Curse upon Roman Catholic Spain after Oliver Cromwell’s epic speech:

“In this Parliament, different from the last, we trace a real desire for Settlement [a final settlement of the government and Parliament so desired by Cromwell].

“As the power of the Major-Generals, ‘in about two months hence,’ or three months hence, was, on hint of his Highness himself, to the Joy of Constitutional England, withdrawn, we may here close Part Ninth [of Carlyle's present volume IV of Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches].  Note first, however, as contemporary with this event, the glorious news we have from Blake and Montague at sea; who, in good hour, have at last got hold of a Spanish Fleet, and in a tragic manner burnt it, and taken endless sliver therein.  News of the fact comes in the beginning of October: in the beginning of November comes, as it were, the fact itself,—some Eight-and-thirty wagonloads of real silver: triumphantly jingling up from Portsmouth, across London pavements to the Tower, to be coined into current English money there.  The Antichrist King of Spain has lost Lima by an earthquake, and infinite silver there also.  Heaven’s vengeance seems awakening.  ‘Never,’ say the old Newspapers, ‘never was there a more terrible visible Hand of God in judgment upon any People, since the time of Sodom and Gomorrah!  Great is the Lord; marvellous are His doings, and to be had in reverence of all the Nations.’  England holds universal Thanksgiving Day; sees Eight-and thirty wagonloads of silver, sees hope of Settlement, sees Major-Generals abolished; and piously blesses Heaven.”

Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches With Elucidations, (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1894), Vol. IV, pp. 222-223, 224.

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The most awesome mugshot ever

Man flees barber shop halfway through getting afro cut after scissor attack

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Man flees barber shop halfway through getting afro cut after scissor attack

Half-cut: David Davis fled a barber shop after allegedly slashing a fellow customer with scissors. Pic: Stamford Polcie Department Source: Supplied

A MAN allegedly fled a barber shop halfway through his hair cut after he slashed another customer with a pair of scissors.

David Davis, 21, was getting his hair cut in a flat in Stamford, Connecticut, when he leapt from the barbers chair and slashed the victim across the back, it is claimed.

The victim, a Stamford man, also 21, was taken to hospital for treatment.

Stamford police officers with dogs found Mr Davis, from nearby Newhaven, in a nearby apartment shortly after the attack. He was initially arrested after police found he was wanted on a warrant for failing to appear in court and was later charged with the stabbing after an investigation.

According to a police statement, Mr Davis was getting a haircut in the flat at 126 Henry St. when the victim approached in what Mr Davis called an "aggressive manner," so he picked up scissors to protect himself.

The victim was wearing a heavy coat when he was attacked so it was difficult to say whether his wounds were serious, but there was a considerable amount of blood on his clothes, Stamford police told newstimes.com.

Following the stabbing, police cordoned off the pavement outside 124 and 126 Henry Street as residents looked on. Some accused officers of searching their homes without a warrant.

Police said the door of 124 Henry St. had been open when they spotted Mr Davis. Authorities also received an anonymous phone call that the stabbing suspect was in the home, police said.

Mr Davis was charged with first-degree assault and is being held on a $5,000 bond. He is due in court on March 22.

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