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Major Earthquakes Skyrocketing · October 28, 2009

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the total number of major earthquakes above magnitude 6.0 in 2009 is now much higher than any previous year on record. The current year has spiked to a record of 67 major earthquakes, of which 15 are greater than 7.0 magnitude, with two months yet to go! And the seismic activity doesn’t give any signs of letting up. The chart below gives a picture of the large number in comparison to previous years. Note that this year (2009) has far and away the most earthquakes since record keeping began.

Jesus said their would be earthquakes in divers places in Matt 24. He connected them to the time of trouble, or tribulation, for God’s people predicted in verse 9 & 10 and in verse 21 & 22?

 
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Study prompts provinces to rethink flu plan PDF E-mail
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A “perplexing” Canadian study linking H1N1 to seasonal flu shots is throwing national influenza plans into disarray and testing public faith in the government agencies responsible for protecting the nation's health.

Distributed for peer review last week, the study confounded infectious-disease experts in suggesting that people vaccinated against seasonal flu are twice as likely to catch swine flu.

The paper is under peer review, and lead researchers Danuta Skowronski of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Gaston De Serres of Laval University must stay mum until it's published.

Met with intense early skepticism both in Canada and abroad, the paper has since convinced several provincial health agencies to announce hasty suspensions of seasonal flu vaccinations, long-held fixtures of public-health planning.

“It has confused things very badly,” said Dr. Ethan Rubinstein, head of adult infectious diseases at the University of Manitoba. “And it has certainly cost us credibility from the public because of conflicting recommendations. Until last week, there had always been much encouragement to get the seasonal flu vaccine.”

On Sunday Quebec joined Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Nova Scotia in suspending seasonal flu shots for anyone under 65 years of age. Quebec's Health Ministry announced it would postpone vaccinations until January, clearing the autumn months for health professionals to focus on vaccinating against H1N1, which is expected to the more severe influenza strain this season.

“By the time the H1N1 wave is over, there will be ample time to vaccinate for seasonal flu,” Dr. Rubinstein said.

B.C. is expected to announce a similar suspension during a press conference Monday morning.

Other provinces, including Manitoba, are still pondering a response to the research.

New Brunswick is a lone hold-out, announcing last week it would forge ahead with seasonal flu shots for all residents in October, as originally planned.

So far, the study's impact is confined to Canada. Researchers in the U.S., Britain and Australia have not reported the same phenomenon. Marie-Paule Kieny, the World Health Organization's director of vaccine research, said last week the Canadian findings were an international anomaly and could constitute a “study bias.”

An international panel is currently scrutinizing the research data. “The review process has been expedited, so we're hoping for a response within days,” said Roy Wadia, spokesman for the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.

Dr. Rubinstein, who has read the study, said it appears sound.

“There are a large number of authors, all of them excellent and credible researchers,” he said. “And the sample size is very large – 12 or 13 million people taken from the central reporting systems in three provinces. The research is solid.”

The vaccine suspensions do not apply for people over 65. Seniors are considered more susceptible to severe seasonal flu symptoms. At the same time, they carry antibodies from a 1957 pandemic that seem to neutralize the current version of H1N1.

Even if the statistical link is proven, the medical link between seasonal flu shots and H1N1 remains mysterious. One hypothesis suggests seasonal flu vaccine preoccupies the cells that would otherwise produce antibodies against H1N1.

But, according to Dr. Rubinstein, the research shows that people who received the seasonal shot during the 2007-08 flu season remained vulnerable to swine flu well into 2009 – an interval that should provide most immune systems ample restoration time.

“We don't understand the mechanism,” Dr. Rubinstein said. “At the present time it is quite perplexing.”

 

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From:  theglobeandmail.com   Sept. 27,  2009

By:  Patrick White

 
 
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Scientist: Carbon Dioxide Doesn't Cause Global Warming PDF E-mail
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A noted geologist who coauthored the New York Times bestseller Sugar Busters has turned his attention to convincing Congress that carbon dioxide emissions are good for Earth and don't cause global warming. Leighton Steward is on Capitol Hill this week armed with studies and his book Fire, Ice and Paradise in a bid to show senators working on the energy bill that the carbon dioxide cap-and-trade scheme could actually hurt the environment by reducing CO2 levels.

"I'm trying to kill the whole thing," he says. "We are tilting at windmills." He is meeting with several GOP lawmakers and has plans to meet with some Democrats later this week.

Much of the global warming debate has focused on reducing CO2 emissions because it is thought that the greenhouse gas produced mostly from fossil fuels is warming the planet. But Steward, who once believed CO2 caused global warming, is trying to fight that with a mountain of studies and scientific evidence that suggest CO2 is not the cause for warming. What's more, he says CO2 levels are so low that more, not less, is needed to sustain and expand plant growth.

Trying to debunk theories that higher CO2 levels cause warming, he cites studies that show CO2 levels following temperature spikes, prompting him to back other scientists who say that global warming is caused by solar activity.

In taking on lawmakers pushing for a cap-and-trade plan to deal with emissions, Steward tells Whispers that he's worried that the legislation will result in huge and unneeded taxes. Worse, if CO2 levels are cut, he warns, food production will slow because plants grown at higher CO2 levels make larger fruit and vegetables and also use less water. He also said that higher CO2 levels are not harmful to humans. As an example, he said that Earth's atmosphere currently has about 338 parts per million of CO2 and that in Navy subs, the danger level for carbon dioxide isn't reached until the air has 8,000 parts per million of CO2.

Steward is part of a nonprofit group called Plants Need CO2 that is funding pro-CO2 ads in two states represented by two key lawmakers involved in the energy debate: Montana's Sen. Max Baucus and New Mexico's Sen. Jeff Bingaman.

 

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From:  usnews.com        October 7,  2009

By:   Paul Bedard, Washington Whispers

 

 

 

 
 
Pope, in Austria, says Sunday must be protected as day of worship PDF E-mail
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"For the early church, he said, Sunday gradually assimilated the traditional meaning of the seventh day, the Sabbath, the day God rested. But Sunday is also 'the feast of thanksgiving and joy over God's creation,' he said."
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VIENNA, Austria (CNS) -- Celebrating Mass in Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral, Pope Benedict XVI urged Austrian Catholics to protect Sunday as a day of spiritual focus in an increasingly busy world.

Modern Christians need an appointment with the Lord to give them a sense of direction and help them move beyond "the bustle of everyday life," the pope said Sept. 9.

And in an innovative touch that seemed to reflect the pope's recent attention to "green" issues, he suggested that Sunday be celebrated not only as a day of rest but as "the church's weekly feast of creation."

Referring to the biblical account of creation, the pope said that Sunday, as the first day of the week, saw the dawning of the created world, the day on which God said: "Let there be light."

For the early church, he said, Sunday gradually assimilated the traditional meaning of the seventh day, the Sabbath, the day God rested. But Sunday is also "the feast of thanksgiving and joy over God's creation," he said.

"At a time when creation seems to be endangered in so many ways through human activity, we should consciously accept this dimension of Sunday, too," he said.

The pope, on the final day of a three-day trip to Austria, began the liturgy with a procession along a street in front of the famed gothic cathedral. Rain that had fallen steadily throughout the morning stopped as the pontiff, dressed in lime-green vestments, waved to well-wishers who crowded the sidewalks and waved yellow bandanas.

Inside the packed cathedral, the pope was treated to the choral and orchestral music of the "Missa Cellensis," the Mass Joseph Haydn composed in honor of Mary in 1782.

In his sermon, the pope said Sunday has been transformed by Western society into leisure time. Leisure is important in "the mad rush of the modern world," but, unlike worship, it often lacks direction, he said.

He noted that for early Christians, Sunday Mass was not a commandment but an inner necessity -- a time to meet Christ.

"Without him who sustains our lives with his love, life itself is empty," he said.

In Austria, according to polls, regular weekly church attendance among Catholics has declined steadily over the last 30 years and today may be as low as 10 percent.

The pope also examined the radical nature of Christ's call to his disciples and, in a sense, to all his followers: the injunction to "leave everything behind" in order to be totally available for him and for others.

The aim, the pope said, is to "create oases of selfless love in a world where so often only power and wealth seem to count for anything."

The pope acknowledged that the idea of leaving behind family, friends and the good things of life strikes many people as strange.

Not everyone can make such a commitment, he said, but everyone should recognize the truth in Christ's call -- that "whoever wants to keep his life just for himself will lose it." Love demands going out of oneself, and leaving oneself, he said.

Afterward, the pope stood on a platform outside the cathedral and blessed a crowd of several thousand, his red cloak flipped up occasionally by a brisk wind. Many had stood in the wet weather for hours to get a glimpse of the German pontiff, and they cheered as the sun finally broke through.

The pope spoke about Mary's unconditional "yes" to God despite inner hesitation, and said her cooperation in the divine plan remains a model for all Christians.
 
 
 
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