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Meet the House party crasher ... the U.S. House, that is

Protester charges Obama a 'tyrannical dictator' bent on bringing down U.S.

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Meet the House party crasher ... the U.S. House, that is

Protester charges Obama a 'tyrannical dictator' bent on bringing down U.S.

By Bob Unruh




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Theresa Cao

The woman who burst out with "except Obama" when New Jersey Democrat Rep. Frank Pallone today read in Congress the Constitution's requirement that the president be a "natural born Citizen" says she felt compelled to let representatives know of the absence of proof for Barack Obama's eligibility.

Theresa Cao, who was arrested by Capitol police, given a court date and then released, told WND in a telephone interview after her release, while she was standing in front of the Hart Office Building near the Capitol, that the only hope for the United States is a return to the faith of the Founding Fathers.

And that direction, she said, is opposite from the one Obama is leading the nation, citing his "socialism," such as a nationalized health-care system and the takeover of private companies including banks, insurance companies and car companies.

She said she had come to the U.S. House chambers to see the launch of the new Congress under the leadership of the Republicans. She said she was overwhelmed when the Constitution was being read, which came about as part of an effort by the new GOP majority to return the nation to a sense of its founding principles.

Pallone was reading Article II, Section 1, regarding the required qualifications for the president, which demand that the president be a "natural born Citizen," when she burst out, "except Obama."

"Literally if this question of the natural born citizenship, if this question does not get answered, then I am allowing a tyrannical dictator – the spirit of the anti-Christ, the new world order system that has their plans right this second to collapse the U.S. economy, and we know their plan, the new world order system's plan is to literally destroy humanity," she said.

She said "God made sure" that such a message "got out to every single American leader and every leader [now] knows the truth.

"He [Obama] has fought it not only for two years, not only has he fought it pre-election but historically all of his connections, every single connection [has been] blacked out."

Her description of the day's events was permeated with explanations of her belief that the God of the Bible is being abandoned by America, especially under Obama's rule because of his leanings toward "one-world" endeavors, through the United Nations and other channels.

"It's prophesied this new world order system will devastate America and the world, and Satan's plan is to take as many people to hell with him as he can," she said.


Theresa Cao at post in front of White House

"God is saying, 'no way,'" she said.

Cao told WND she obtained tickets for the House gallery a day early, and was impressed by the idea that a House speaker would be dedicated to doing "the will of the people," following California Rep. Nancy Pelosi's tenure at the speaker's desk, which included forcing the Obamacare mandate on Americans even though a majority oppose it.

"I knew that this was truly a historic moment in the history of America. … I heard John Boehner, the new House speaker. It was overwhelming to understand and know finally we have a House majority leader who will make it a priority to do the will of the people."

She said she saw in the incoming Congress what her own ministry, "Heaven's bailout," has been working on for several years.

"It's all about defending God, country and the Constitution."

"I understood that I as an American [needed] to do my part to defend God's country and the Constitution, that when and if America does become a nation that is going to be really not just socialist, fascist or communist, but really controlled by a dictator, if I, TC from DC, personally did not do something to 'change' what was going on for the good and to bring true 'hope,' I would have failed."


It was almost a year ago when she was profiled in WND as a lone woman evangelist delivering the message that "heaven is offering a 'bailout' far greater than dollars."

At the time, Cao told WND, "I have a standard location literally right in front of the White House" – encouraging people to follow the Bible to see God's miracles on earth and its companion warning of punishment for those who disobey.

The message applies not only to individuals but to nations, she believes.

"Most Americans really are asleep concerning what's taking place," she said then. "People are willing to hand over their God-given rights and the Constitution to the prevailing wicked forces."

The video reveals she shouted what sounded like, "except Obama, except Obama," and "Help us Jesus."

She said officers grabbed her arm and took her out of the chamber. She was processed, cited and released after several hours, she said.

She also has been an staunch advocate for former Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, the Army doctor who challenged Obama's eligibility to be president by refusing to deploy to Afghanistan. After a military judge ruled he would not be allowed to seek evidence to support his case because it could "embarrass" the president, could not argue his case in court, could not bring in evidence and could not call the witnesses he sought, he was court-martialed.

"I took a personal responsibility knowing that if I did not speak what was so deep in my heart … I would first and foremost be responsible to the God of Israel," Cao told WND.

She warned that the leaders of the U.S. repeatedly have rejected requests that Obama's eligibility be documented.

"You have been brought up to become leaders of this nation," she said. "You have not defended God, country and the Constitution."

In an interview with NBC not long after the interruption, House Speaker John Boehner said he wouldn't question Obama's eligibility, but he also wasn't going to dictate what other people believe.

Asked by NBC, "It was to express doubt over the president's American citizenship. Provided you believe the president is an American citizen, you've got 12 members co-sponsoring legislation that does about the same thing, it expresses doubt. Would you be willing to say, 'This is a distraction, I've looked at it to my satisfaction. Let's move on?'"

"The state of Hawaii has said that President Obama was born there. That's good enough for me," Boehner said.

But when NBC asked, "Would you be willing to say that message to the 12 members in your caucus who seem to either believe otherwise or are willing to express doubt and have co-sponsored legislation?," Boehner said, "When you come to the Congress of the United States, there are 435 of us. We're nothing more than a slice of America. People come, regardless of party labels, they come with all kinds of beliefs and ideas. Uh it's, it's the melting pot of America. It's not up to me to tell them what to think."

Actually, state officials in Hawaii have claimed they have seen Obama's birth documentation, but they never have revealed what it says. The "Certification of Live Birth" that was posted online by Obama's campaign is a computer-generated form that can be obtained by non-residents.

The reading of the Constitution was described by those on the left as being done because of a "fetish."

That's how it was put by Dahlia Lithwick of Slate.com, who wrote, "Read It and Weep: How the tea party's fetish for the Constitution as written may get it in trouble."

"The way some people rub Buddha and they think the magic will come off, I think there's a longstanding tradition in this country. We're awfully religious about the Constitution," she later told MSNBC. "I think there is this sort of fetishization that is of a piece with the sort of need for a religious document that's immutable and perfect in every way."

She added: "Part of what's a little bit fraud about this conversation is that the same people who are fetishizing the document as written, as framed by the framers – and bracket the idea that there wasn't one framer and there was no one agenda embodied in this – but even if you bracket that idea, I think there's a real problem with the idea that we're trying to sort of fetishize the document at the same moment that we're falling over ourselves to amend and change the parts we don't like."

Lithwick's remarks came under heavy fire from Rush Limbaugh, the top-rated radio host, who ripped into that sentiment.

"They're perverts themselves," Limbaugh said. "These are perverts perverting the founding documents. If the Constitution's not that big a deal, how come the same people had such a cow when they thought Christine O'Donnell didn't know what she was talking about regarding the Constitution? If it's so unimportant, how come Obama's so proud to have been a constitutional lawyer or professor or lecturer, whatever he was?

"Abraham Lincoln. They hate him? Abraham Lincoln had a fetish for the U.S. Constitution? Here's what Lincoln said among many other things: 'We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.' That's Lincoln. Is he a pervert? Lincoln have a fetish? Lincoln also said, 'Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.'"

Syndicated columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer said the objection to reading the Constitution aloud by many on the left "is truly astonishing."

He said on Fox News that in the 1960s, "Liberals got in trouble for being on the wrong side of the flag," and are now in danger of being on the wrong side of the Constitution, which he called "the essence of America." He noted for liberals to think there's an advantage in dismissing the public reading of the document "is real bad politics."

Members of the U.S. House rotated by party as they read short parts of the Constitution. The House also for the first time this session is requiring members to document the constitutionality of their plans when they are proposed.

WND has reported on dozens of legal challenges to Obama's status as a "natural born citizen." The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."

Some of the challenges question whether he was actually born in Hawaii, as he insists. If he was born out of the country, Obama's American mother, the suits contend, was too young at the time of his birth to confer American citizenship to her son under the law at the time.

Other challenges have focused on Obama's citizenship through his father, a Kenyan subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom at the time of his birth, thus making him a dual citizen. The cases contend the framers of the Constitution excluded dual citizens from qualifying as natural born.

Several of the cases have involved appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court in which justices have declined even to hear arguments. Among the other cases turned down without a hearing at the high court have been petitions by Mario Apuzzo, Philip Berg, Cort Wrotnowski, Leo Donofrio and Orly Taitz.

Complicating the situation is Obama's decision to spend sums estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to avoid releasing a state birth certificate that would put to rest the questions.

Obama wrote in his own book that he was born a dual citizen of the U.S. and Great Britain due to the fact his father was a subject of the British crown when Obama was born.

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When religion becomes a disorder: A question of scrupulosity

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When religion becomes a disorder

A question of scrupulosity.

False witness in the confessional: the urge to confess nonexistent sins may be a medical condition.

I know that many readers consider religion to be a delusion, an irrational obeisance to an "imaginary friend". Now it appears that research is being carried out at Utah State University into a condition where religious faith really does depart from the realms of normal sanity.

The condition, known as "scrupulosity", is a form of obsessive compulsive disorder that leads those afflicted to be "overly concerned that something they did might be a sin or other violation of religious or moral doctrine", according to the International OCD Foundation.

At Utah State, an assistant psychology professor, Michael Twohig, and a doctoral student, John Dehlin, are conducting ten-week studies of scrupulosity sufferers such as "Eric", a Mormon who became obsessed with confessing sins, even those he had not committed.

"Confessing sins that he actually did was not enough," the local Herald Journal reported. "He now had to start confessing sins he thought he did. 'I became convinced that I actually did those sins,' Eric said. 'If I had thought I had raped somebody, I would go confess that I had raped somebody. If I thought I had sex with a dog . . . I'd become totally convinced . . . and . . . I had to confess to my mission president again and again. In order to go heaven I was willing to do anything – even if it meant going to prison.' "

Dehlin told the Salt Lake Tribune that "if a person is prone to OCD and raised in a strict, orthodox home with religious teachings that include high stakes – on earth as well as the hereafter – he or she may be susceptible. 'You can't blame the parents, the person, the church, the religion,' he says. But, he adds, 'You don't hear about scrupulosity among Unitarian Universalists,' a faith that offers believers wide latitude."

It doesn't sound as though this condition is likely to affect too many Anglicans, then, either. What about those who belong to more demanding faiths, such as Catholics, Jews and Muslims? I referred last August to the philosopher Daniel Dennett's book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, in which he wrote about the appeal that "higher-tension", more "expensive" religious groups exerted. Previously I'd always thought of that as being one of their strengths. But rereading the relevant sentences made me pause:

An expensive religion is one that is high in "material, social and psychic costs of belonging". It doesn't just cost time spent on religious duties and money in the collection plate; belonging can incur a loss of social standing and actually exacerbate – not ameliorate – one's anxiety and suffering. But you get what you pay for; unlike the heathen, you get saved for eternity.

High in "psychic costs" was a bit I'd slightly skated over – but scrupulosity gives added weight to Dennett's words. I don't think, however, that the condition counts as a downside only of religion. Presumably somebody brought up in a household that followed a rigidly green moral code could suffer similar anxiety – or even one where any expression of sympathy for religion was equally frowned on. That search for certainty (over-certainty) is surely the cause of the problem. And aren't atheists just as prone to that as believers?

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Man Found In Burning Cumberland County Home

John Leonard, 37, Faced Child Porn Charges

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John Leonard, 37, Faced Child Porn Charges

CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. -- A Mount Holly Springs man was found dead in his burning home the same day he was supposed to be in court to face dozens of child pornography charges.

At about 8:30 a.m. Thursday, firefighters were called to 201 Chestnut Street (see interactive map below) and found fire on the first floor.

Someone deliberately put insulation and foam into the fire hydrant next to the house, which caused some initial problems for firefighters getting water.

They found John Leonard, 37, dead in a second-floor bedroom. He had shot himself.

The fire was deliberately set by the same person who tampered with the fire hydrant, police said.

The county coroner has not ruled whether Leonard's death is a suicide, but the district attorney said Leonard was facing serious charges of possessing child pornography.

Leonard's attorney said he was shocked by his death.

The attorney said Leonard was a heavy equipment operator for an insulation company and had gone to work Wednesday.
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New Holland Man Accused Of Having Sex With Minor

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New Holland Man Accused Of Having Sex With Minor

Text Messages Retrieved From Man's Cell Phone

David S. Burkhart


NEW HOLLAND, Pa. -- New Holland police announced charges Thursday against a man accused of having sex with a minor.

David S. Burkhart, 25, of New Holland, was charged with four counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with a minor, aggravated indecent assault, criminal use of a communication facility, corruption of minors and two counts of indecent assault.

Burkhart is accused of having oral sex with a 14-year-old boy at his home and at a laundromat.

Police said they retrieved hundreds of text messages about meeting the boy from Burkhart’s phone.

He was sent to Lancaster County Prison in lieu of $400,000 bail.

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10 Stories that Could Define Vatican in 2011


10 Stories that Could Define Vatican in 2011

An interesting post from a British Catholic perspective.
This comes from the Catholic Herald.
Ten stories that are likely to define the coming year



For British Catholics, the past 12 months were both unsettling and exhilarating. Will the year ahead be as dramatic? Given the turbulent nature of the times, it is impossible to know for certain which themes will define the year. But here are 10 stories that we believe are likely to dominate 2011 and have a far-reaching impact on the Church.



The ordinariate: In arguably one of most interesting developments in English Christianity since the Oxford Movement, groups of former Anglicans will form the first personal ordinariate. The English ordinariate will become a model for similar ventures around the world.



Persecution in the Middle East: The bombing of the Coptic church in Alexandria was al-Qaeda’s way of saying that no Christian in any Middle Eastern country is safe. The terror network is likely to wage a concerted campaign this year to drive Christianity out of its ancient heartlands.



Post-papal visit renewal: Many of us are still trying to absorb the impact of Benedict XVI’s trip to Britain. There is a danger that, if we continue to simply bathe in the visit’s warm afterglow, we will miss a key opportunity for spiritual renewal.



The Church and the Coalition: Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster has said that the papal visit seemed to herald a new era in relations between Church and state. But will the new spirit of cooperation survive the Coalition’s decision to place abortion at the forefront of overseas aid and to drive through controversial cuts?



Apostolic Visitation to Ireland: This year the Apostolic Visitators will attempt to discover what went wrong with the Irish Church and how it might be corrected. If Rome can draw the right conclusions about the malaise it can ensure that the scandal is not repeated elsewhere.



Reforming the Legion of Christ: No less important is the radical re-shaping of the most dynamic post-Vatican II clerical religious congregation, the Legion of Christ, and its lay movement, Regnum Christi. Pope Benedict has rejected the easy option of simply abolishing the Legion and will devote much energy in 2011 to salvaging the wreckage left behind by Marcial Maciel.



The referendum in Sudan: This month the people of southern Sudan (many of whom are Catholic) will vote on whether to secede from the north. Khartoum has warned them to expect violence if they opt for independence. Will anyone defend them?



Sino-Vatican ties: Before Christmas relations between Rome and Beijing deteroriated dramatically. Chinese state media accused the Pope of behaving “like a western politician”, while the Vatican said the Chinese authorities had engaged in “unacceptable and hostile acts”. Will Sino-Vatican ties continue to worsen in 2011?



SSPX talks: This might be the year that discussions between Rome and the Society of St Pius X finally bear fruit. As we report this week, SSPX leader Bishop Bernard Fellay is cautiously optimistic about full reconciliation. But we shouldn’t underestimate the obstacles that remain.



The Pope in Berlin: In September Benedict XVI will make his first papal trip to the German capital. Protests are expected, but the Pope may be able to charm the German public just as he did the British people. His scheduled address to the Bundestag is likely to be memorable.
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Las Vegas girl, 13, booked for jaywalking while still in coma after car hit

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Las Vegas girl, 13, booked for jaywalking while still in coma after car hit




A 13-year-old girl left in a coma after a car accident was issued a jaywalking ticket in the hospital by Las Vegas police.

The mother of Takara Davis, who remained in a medically-induced coma today, slammed the officials who handed her the ticket for her daughter as the child was being rushed into the operating theatre, according to the report by KVVU.

"That was not the time or place to come and hand me a jaywalking ticket for my child," Kellie Obong said. "How cold could you really be?"

Ms Obong, a cab driver, said her daughter was trying to keep up with friends yesterday as they crossed the street when she was hit by the oncoming car.

"She hit the windshield, flipped three times in the air and from the point of impact to where her body was ... Metro [police] told me she was 125 feet [away] (38m)," Ms Obong said.
















Police said the girl was not in a crosswalk.

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Media Fact Check: Beck Explores Reality Behind Mass Bird & Fish Deaths

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Media Fact Check: Beck Explores Reality Behind Mass Bird & Fish Deaths

What’s causing the deaths of millions of birds and fish around the world?

It turns out, perhaps nothing.  Digging down to the bare facts, it looks like recent wildlife deaths are not that out of the ordinary.  As Glenn explained during his Fox News broadcast Thursday evening, it’s not even that hard to verify the facts:

The AP also notes that while various blog and media sites connected the dots in the latest “aflockalypse” — from sinister government plots to biblical prophesies — biologists say these mass die-offs happen all the time:

Federal records show they happen on average every other day somewhere in North America. Usually, we don‘t notice them and don’t try to link them to each other.

“They generally fly under the radar,” said ornithologist John Wiens, chief scientist at the California research institution PRBO Conservation Science.

Since the 1970s, the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin has tracked mass deaths among birds, fish and other critters, said wildlife disease specialist LeAnn White. At times the sky and the streams just turn deadly. Sometimes it’s disease, sometimes pollution. Other times it’s just a mystery.

In the past eight months, the USGS has logged 95 mass wildlife die-offs in North America and that’s probably a dramatic undercount, White said. The list includes 900 some turkey vultures that seemed to drown and starve in the Florida Keys, 4,300 ducks killed by parasites in Minnesota, 1,500 salamanders done in by a virus in Idaho, 2,000 bats that died of rabies in Texas, and the still mysterious death of 2,750 sea birds in California.

On average, 163 such events are reported to the federal government each year, according to USGS records. And there have been much larger die-offs than the 3,000 blackbirds in Arkansas. Twice in the summer of 1996, more than 100,000 ducks died of botulism in Canada.

“Depending on the species, these things don’t even get reported,” White said.

Weather — cold and wet weather like in Arkansas New Year’s Eve when the birds fell out of the sky — is often associated with mass bird deaths, ornithologists say. Pollution, parasites and disease also cause mass deaths. Some are even blaming fireworks for the blackbird deaths.

So what’s happening this time?

Blame technology, says famed Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson. With the Internet, cell phones and worldwide communications, people are noticing events, connecting the dots more.

“This instant and global communication, it’s just a human instinct to read mystery and portents of dangers and wondrous things in events that are unusual,” Wilson told The Associated Press on Thursday. “Not to worry, these are not portents that the world is about to come to an end.”

Wilson and the others say instant communications — especially when people can whip out smart phones to take pictures of critter carcasses and then post them on the Internet — is giving a skewed view of what is happening in the environment.

The irony is that mass die-offs — usually of animals with large populations — are getting the attention while a larger but slower mass extinction of thousands of species because of human activity is ignored, Wilson said.

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Taiwanese animation redux: Arkansas’ dying birds

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Taiwanese animation redux: Arkansas’ dying birds

From the creative minds at NMA, a tale of dying birds:

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Bye Bye Blackbirds in Arkansas, Louisiana

New telescope array to look back into time

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New telescope array to look back into time

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LONDON, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- A new network of telescopes in Europe will see further into space and peer further back in time, astronomers say.

A network of 77 radio telescopes will detect low-frequency radio signals coming from outer space, giving a view of events that occurred far in the universe's past due to the time it takes for the radio waves to reach Earth, The Daily Telegraph reported this week.

Astronomers say they hope to find clues to how the first stars and galaxies formed after the Big Bang.

The far-flung network of telescopes in Europe, linked with two other radio telescopes in the Southern Hemisphere, will allow astronomers to sweep large sections of the sky in a single night and increase the chances of spotting previously unseen objects in space.

"Detecting low-frequency radio waves means we can look deeper into space than has ever been possible before and means we will be able to conduct the first studies of a time known as the epoch of reionization," University of Southampton astronomer Rob Fender said.

"This was when the universe moved out of its so-called dark ages in the first billion years after the Big Bang and the first stars and galaxies began to form."

"By looking this far back, we can hopefully find out more about what caused this to happen and what these early parts of the universe looked like."

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Crop failure impels Indian farmer suicides

Crop failures are due to the Monsanto GM seeds that they were sold. They tried to sow seed from 2nd generation seeds which are genetically altered to only allow one planting then they must purchase more seed from Monsanto to replant next season.

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Crop failure impels Indian farmer suicides

NEW DELHI, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- As more crops fail in India, the rate of suicides among farmers is climbing.

More than 17,368 Indian farmers killed themselves in 2009, the worst figure for farm suicides in six years, data from the National Crime Records Bureau indicate.

The suicides increased by 1,172 over the 2008 count of 16,196, bringing the total farm suicides since 1997 to 216,500.

"Poverty has assaulted rural India," journalist Palagummi Sainath, an expert on rural poverty in India, told Britain's The Independent newspaper. "Farmers who used to be able to send their children to college now can't send them to school."

Nearly all of the bereaved families of those who have committed suicide, he said, had problems with debts and land loss due to failing crops.

While the causes of poverty are complex, Sainath points to the long-term collapse of markets for farmers' produce. The price of cotton, for example, is 1-12th of the amount it was 30 years ago, in real terms. About half of the suicides are occurring in the four states of the country's Cotton Belt.

Vandana Shiva, a scientist-turned-activist, notes that the problem of farmer suicides started in 1997 when the Indian government removed cotton subsidies and genetically modified varieties of cotton were also introduced.

"Every suicide can be linked to Monsanto," Shiva told The Independent, saying that the biotech firm's modified Bt Cotton caused crop failure and poverty because it requires the use of pesticide and fertilizers.

India's increasingly erratic climate is taking a toll on Indian farmers as well.

In the past, farmers could prepare for droughts when they came every four years or so. Rajasthan, in northwestern India, only emerged from a 10-year drought this summer. And monsoons, which used to arrive once a year, have failed three times in the last 10 years across much of the country.

M.S. Swaminathan, chairman of the National Commission on Farmers, has called for a restructuring of the country's policies to help agriculture, saying the sector is entering a state of serious crisis, The Hindu newspaper reports.

Noting that 45 percent farmers in a national survey said they want to quit farming, Swaminathan said farming has become nonviable.

"Unless we revitalize farming and make our farmers enthusiastic, it is difficult to feed 1 billion people and 1 billion farm animals. It is going to be a difficult period."

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Major fish kill reported in S. Carolina

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Major fish kill reported in S. Carolina

CHARLESTON, S.C., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Hundreds of thousands of dead fish washed ashore on the South Carolina coast Thursday morning, littering the sand along the tide line, wildlife officials said.

State wildlife biologists say early indications are that it's another in a series of wildlife die-offs blamed on record-breaking cold conditions around the nation this winter, The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier reported.

The dead fish, a variety known as menhaden, appear to have been healthy otherwise, wildlife experts said.

Menhaden are mouse-sized bait fish that travel in large schools, and swim closer to the surface than other fish which makes them more susceptible to cold temperatures.

The die-off joins a growing a growing list of sea life trauma caused by unusually cold water temperatures that have wildlife officials alarmed for food and game fish such as shrimp, as well as sea trout and red drum.

"We certainly are nearing temperatures where we're concerned about shrimp too," Phil Maier of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources said.

The cold up and down the East Coast has already caused a massive fish kill in Maryland, and a number of stunned sea turtles are being treated locally at the South Carolina Aquarium's turtle hospital.

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The Last Year on Earth - 2011 or 2012?

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I want to begin by saying that I am grateful for each person that visits Presenttruth.com. It was started over 4 years ago now and has always been a joy to see the interaction with you as a reader and the content that is put onto the site. It was started with the purpose of sharing free sermons online. It has since become more of a place for unique content that I hope is not found on other sites.

My background is business and so it was my original thought to build up traffic and generate funds via advertisers. We do have a few advertisers but it is more of a personal joy to fund the site and servers than anything else.

As we enter a new year, I wanted to share what was on my heart just so you as a reader may know what keeps this site going. First off, it was started with an emphasis on lots of issues relating to ‘Last Day Events’. Over the past few years I have been driven to more deeply understand what has held up the second coming for over 150 years and in a greater extent, what has withheld the second coming for over 2000 years since the death of Christ.

I can say with confidence that Christ loves His people. I now understand He loves those that do not even love Him…yet. What do I mean by that? I think we have yet to see the real, living, breathing personal gospel go to the whole world. Christianity has in essence been the worst enemy of Bible Truth. I mean, let’s face it, the majority of ‘Christians’ do not read their Bibles and a large percentage of those that do, do not believe the Bible can be taken literally. I have lived in this camp much of my life- a grade A hypocrite. The idea of a 6-day literal creation, the young age of the earth at 6000 years, a 7th day Sabbath and that the Law of God is actually still an issue.

I have seen some crazy stuff as you have over the past few years in regards to what many have deemed ‘ The end of the world’. We are here and the world has not ended yet. I think we are primed for what God has called ‘an overwhelming surprise’. This world is ready for deception. Just look to Hollywood and you will see all of the ingredients for the coming of Lucifer onto the earth via the foundation of spriritualism. One day very soon we are going to see the apostles return to refute what they wrote 2000 years ago. We are told that we will see even heathen gods show up to deceive the world.

All things are now ready. So what do we do. We don’t panic, but we take a real assessment. Are you closer to the Lord now than a year ago? To get a true answer, ask your spouse, kids, brother, sister, parents etc. Those directly around you can be honest to tell you whether you are more godly or Christlike than 12 months ago.

You should know that answer but it would be great to ask your loved ones the truth. The truth is that this universe is waiting for a true demonstration that God can have a people that fully trust Him and will hold nothing back from Him. It is not so much are we willing to die for Christ but are we willing to live for Him? The millions of martyrs have shown the universe that people are willing to die for God. Have they seen a group willing to fully live for Him?

I challenge you in this year to treat it like it will be the last one we have on this earth. Below are a few videos that I found interesting. One is on the cities of our world and what life is like around the world. I found it invigorating that there is a world out there with no clue on what the Truth is. I just read that in 1900 there were 2 Billion people on earth…today we are nearing 7 Billion. May God help us reach them so that He can save them and give them Peace.

The other video is from the man who makes many upset but his video is most fascinating. He is being impressed by some spirit of what is soon to take place. Now is not a time to fear but to prepare for what is soon to break upon this world as an overwhelming surprise.

I have struggled lately with the idea that many will die ‘deceived’. The truth is though that Eve was deceived in the very beginning and lost paradise.

As cliche and stale as it may sound, let’s do something crazy this year. Let’s go back to our Bible’s and study so that we can really know what we believe. Also I am taking the challenge to pray for at least 30 minutes every day. Prayer is the license God needs to intercede in the middle of this War of Good and Evil.

Lastly, beware of the news and study Bible Prophecy with a fresh perspective ready to learn perhaps old truths for the first time. I am personally studying the old testament sanctuary so that I can more fully understand the book of Revelation. I believe there are secrets it holds to unlocking Prophecy.

The practical principle that I hope to implement more than ever before this year is to live out the principles of Isaiah 58 and Matthew 25. I want to really seek out those in need and help them. I challenge you to do the same.

As for 2011 or 2012 being the last year on earth. Well it may be for any one of us. We can hasten the return of God and I am ready to get to work to do just that. Join me :)

This group believes the end of the world is in May, I hope to meet one of them when they find out they were incorrect.

Pat Robertson’s predictions for the next few years…

http://www.cbn.com/media/player/index.aspx?s=/vod/PatNewYear_010311_WS

A Tour of the Cities of the World

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Thousands of dead fish in Maryland

100,000s: UNBELIEVABLE FISHKILL in Lousiana -- ALL TYPES, EVEN MAMMALS

100 Ton Fish Kill in Brazil; *list of areas affected by dead birds and s...

MASSIVE FISH KILL IN FLORIDA; MILLIONS OF DEAD FISH IN CHESAPEAKE BAY

Birds Drop Dead From Sky in Sweden

Veterinarian: Swedish Birds "Scared To Death"

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Veterinarian: Swedish Birds "Scared To Death"

Ita et vos, cum videritis haec fieri, scitote quoniam prope est regnum Dei. (Luke 21:31)

The Local reports a county veterinarian has speculated that the birds that fell from the sky in central Sweden on Tuesday may have been frightened by fireworks, then run over by a car after landing on the road in the dark.

Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, residents found 50 to 100 jackdaws on a street in Falköping southeast of Skövde.

The incident echoed a number of unexplained incidents earlier this week across the southern US.

Mass bird and fish deaths are getting more common around the planet.

County veterinarian Robert ter Horst believes that the birds may have been literally scared to death by fireworks set off on Tuesday night.

But I find this explanation somewhat odd, though.

Why were the birds scared to death by fireworks on January 4, but not at the New Year Eve's celebrations?

Yet there are a plenty of birds in Sweden.

I lived in Belgium 2000 - 2009, and there I didn't see many birds at all.

When I moved back to Sweden in 2009 I remember the difference, with the sky often literally black with all kinds of birds.

I moved to beautiful Lyon in France, in June last year, and here we have some birds, but not that many.

What happens to the birds in Sweden is maybe only the global tendency to only have one bird here and there, and not all these thousands of birds in the sky.

Maybe those dead birds were immigrant birds, which were frozen out by local birds?

"Amen dico vobis quia non praeteribit generatio haec, donec omnia fiant", Luke 21:32.
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Malaysian man dumps wife for being a demon

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Malaysian man dumps wife for being a demon


A Malaysian man abandoned his wife after a temple medium convinced him that she was a demon who wanted to kill him.
The local Star newspaper on Thursday quoted the wife, who gave her name as Loh, as saying that her factory manager husband now wants a divorce and also refuses to meet their two teenage children for fear his wife will use them to kill him.


"The medium told my husband I had been casting spells on him for the past 15 years," Loh was quoted as telling a news conference in Kuala Lumpur.


"He refused to eat or drink at home because he thought I poisoned the food."


Loh said the medium was heavily in debt and likely taking advantage of her husband, who had withdrawn their childrens' savings before deserting the family.


There has been a steady increase in complaints of cheating and sexual abuse in the country, which has prompted the government to announce it will table a bill this year requiring faith healers to register with the Ministry of Health. -- Reuters
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Intensive probation for York City man falsely accused of kidnapping

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Intensive probation for York City man falsely accused of kidnapping

ELIZABETH EVANS - The York Dispatch

A York City man falsely accused of kidnapping a 14-year-old girl in April is being released after spending more than eight months in York County Prison.


James Kenton Naylor, 19, was sentenced Wednesday to four years of intensive probation. He pleaded guilty in November to charges related to the incident, at which time more serious offenses - including kidnapping - were dismissed.


Naylor has been locked up since April 27, a prison official said.


Naylor and co-defendant Ryan Tanner Chambers, 22, of York City, both pleaded guilty to corruption of a minor for the incident in which the girl claimed she'd been kidnapped. Both received time-served sentences, according deputy prosecutor Seth Bortner.


"They were smoking marijuana around her, and that's where the corruption charge comes from," Bortner said. "We also think one of the (men) was trying to kiss her."


On Wednesday, Naylor was sentenced to four years of probation for possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, which he also pleaded guilty to in November.


Fake crack: Bortner said that when Naylor was arrested on the false kidnapping allegation, he had several grams of counterfeit crack cocaine in his possession.


For the first six months of his probation, Naylor must report daily to his probation officer, Bortner said, and also must submit to intensive drug counseling.

"It's about as close an eye as the probation department can keep on you," Bortner said.


Defense attorney Erin Thompson confirmed Naylor has addiction issues.


"He's obviously happy with the result (of his sentence) and is actually looking forward to treatment," she said.


The sentencing guideline range for Naylor's offense was 12 to 18 months in prison, Bortner said, noting that if Naylor not been charged with the false kidnapping he likely would have served less prison time than he has.


The background: The York City girl reported to police she'd been kidnapped from her South Duke Street home just after midnight April 24.


She isn't allowed out at night, but went outside after her mother went to sleep that night and accidentally locked herself out, Bortner said.


"She was locked out and crying when (Naylor and Chambers) found her, and she went with them because she pretty much didn't have anywhere else to go," he said. "It's not that these two (men) were completely innocent of what happened that night. But it wasn't the violent abduction that was originally reported to us."
Chambers and Naylor had been accused of kidnapping the girl at gunpoint. The girl claimed she was cut on the arm with a box cutter, forced to smoke marijuana and had rocks thrown at her, York City Police said.


'Went along': But Bortner said investigators got a different story from an independent witness.


"He said she went along with them on her own, and that the tales of her being terrorized were ... exaggerated," he said.


Bortner said the girl admitted part of her story was a lie, but continued to stand by some of her kidnapping allegations.


"But at that point we couldn't believe her," he said.


A second independent witness - 18-year-old Drakkar Gentry - could not be interviewed at length because he was fatally shot May 5 at the intersection of Walnut Street and Chain Avenue, Bortner said.


- Reach Elizabeth Evans at levans@yorkdispatch.com, 505-5429 or twitter.com/ydcrimetime.



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Speaking Against Homosexuality Labeled a Hate Crime

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“The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) says it will not back down from its decision to label the Family Research Council (FRC) and other socially conservative groups as hate groups,” together with radical, extremist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and other Aryan Nations for their views about homosexuality.

The FRC was placed on the list with 11 other groups such as the American Family Association, the Traditional Values Coalition. These conservative groups advocate the biblical marriage and family model, and values. Others such as the National Organization for Marriage and the Concerned Women for America were just classified as being anti-gay.

Tony Perkins, president of the FRC requested to have the SPLC retract the hate group designation, but SPLC Intelligence Project Director, Mark Potok, said that will never happen!

“Labelling people and groups as hate groups is laying the groundwork to then charge them with hate crimes using the full force of government to oppress people for their beliefs,” said Concerned Women America president Wendy Wright.

Potok says that the SPLC added the FRC to the hate group list because it claims that gay men molest children at higher rates than straight men, that gay activists want to eliminate age of consent laws, etc.

“We are not backing up, and we are not shutting up,” he said. “As long as they are pushing their radical social agenda, they are going to be waiting a long time before they are seeing a white flag from [us].”

The SPLC countered with a report against the FRC and similar groups’ anti-gay stance, titled “10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked.” Perkins said “that the SPLC cherry-picked the scientific evidence it chose to cite against the Family Research Council and other similar groups in its related report… and ignored contrary evidence.”

The bible defines marriage as a monogamous, heterosexual committed relationship between a man and woman, and that any other forms of sexual unions are contrary to God’s will. Those who defend the biblical model of marriage and the family, and denounce these unbiblical practices, will likely be labelled as hate groups/individuals too.

“Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot… Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.” Luke 17:28, 30.

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