[An Nahar] Five months after a media frenzy over a U.S. preacher's "end of the world" prophesy, his faithful were awaiting Judgment Day again Friday based on his "recalculated" prediction.
Harold Camping, the evangelist of Family Radio based in Oakland, Caliphornia, caused a global stir earlier this year when he predicted doomsday would occur on May 21 -- a day which came and went.
Undeterred, Camping has claimed a new analysis based on the Bible's Book of Genesis showed the real event would in fact be on October 21.
"We are living in a most unusual time. On May 21, of 2011, mankind entered into the Day of Judgment. This 'day' will last for 5 months (153 days) until October 21, 2011," he said in a message to followers.
"The Bible declares that it was God's plan to save 200 million people out of all those that would ever live upon the earth."
Camping bases his prediction on a message from God to Noah in the year 4990 BC, claiming that the destruction in "seven days" really translates to 7,000 years.
"God shut the door to the sheepfold after finding the last lost sheep," he says in his latest message.
"Another way of saying the same thing is that God shut the door (Christ) to heaven on May 21 the beginning of Judgment Day! Once the door shut it cannot ever open again for a sinner to become saved and enter in."
For believers, this means that the time to repent is over -- those who have not done it already are lost souls, according to Camping's prediction.
"Sadly, as we have earnestly studied the Bible over these five months we have found verse after verse that supports and strengthens the conclusion that the Lord is no longer saving sinners. He has finished that glorious work," the preacher contends.
The latest prediction was greeted in a more low-key manner than in May, when people around the world went into hiding or scrambled to repent, while others staged parties and snapped up T-shirts and souvenirs.
Camping and his followers were not picking up the phone, and steering clear of new media appearances.
Camping's original prophecy said the end will be signaled in each region by powerful earthquakes, after which the good will be whisked up to heaven and the not-so-good will suffer through hell on earth until God pulls the plug on the planet once and for all.
It was not immediately clear how many people around the world were girding for the Apocalypse this time around.
But in Cuba, a group that has spent two months holed up, waiting for God to unleash his divine fury on "sinful Cuba," seemed to be anticipating no immediate cataclysm.
"We have not predicted a cataclysm would occur, because God has not pronounced it," William Herrera, son of pastor Bruno Herrera, told AFP from inside the church.
"However he has told us that plagues and maladies will strike Cuba and that has begun."
Herrera maintained his group was not buying into the end-of-the-world prophesies offered by other evangelists.
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"The Bible declares that it was God's plan to save 200 million people out of all those that would ever live upon the earth."
Well, it's October 23rd and I'm still here, so I guess I'm one of them. Anybody else make it, or am I here by myself?
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You know in the old days, they stoned* false prophets.
That rocks not weed. However, given the reluctance of society today to engage in such acts, maybe mandatory heavy applications of the 'medical' stuff is called for.
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I think I'm still here. I'll go look in the mirror..............yup, still here.
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According to the Church of the SubGenius, the world ended on July 5th, 1998, at 7:00am, and has ended every year thereafter on July 5th, at 7:00am, or not.
That was when the sex goddesses from Planet X were supposed to pick up all the SubGeniuses and transport them away, as they watched the destruction of Earth on their goddesses wide screen TVs, according to their prophet, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, a clip art illustration taken from the Dallas, Texas yellow pages in the 1970s.
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Not that I believe but, I've been told that the end of the world would not be a hollywood destruction. It would be the suddenly lifting of the blessed to heaven and the world would continue with continuing escalation of destruction and bad things giving the remaining people a chance to find Jesus before the very end.
If true our only sign today would be a number of missing people or the sudden death of holiest among us.
I have to say any prophesy that says things will get worse and worse before the end seem especially scary this election year.
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A long time ago I read of an interesting conversation between two small boys, who had heard a brief description of the "rapture", with few details.
The first boy described the event as "All the good people going to heaven and getting ice cream and stuff, and all the bad people staying here and getting spankings."
To which the second boy responded like a true skeptic, "What if it's the other way around?"
[An Nahar] News Corp's purchase of Myspace was a "huge mistake" and the social network was mismanaged "in every possible way" following the acquisition, chief executive Rupert Murdoch said Friday.
Murdoch, addressing shareholders at the media and entertainment company's annual meeting in Los Angeles, said News Corp.'s 2005 purchase of Myspace for $580 million was seen as "fantastic" at the time.
"We paid $600 million," Murdoch said. "We could have sold it for $6 billion a month later."
Myspace, however, was quickly eclipsed by Facebook, which has grown to more than 800 million members as Myspace's numbers have dwindled.
"I made a huge mistake," Murdoch said of the Myspace acquisition.
"We then proceeded to mismanage it in every possible way," he said, adding that "all of the people concerned with it are no longer with the company."
News Corp. sold Myspace in June for $35 million, just six percent of its purchase price, to Specific Media, a digital ad-targeting platform.
Murdoch also defended News Corp. during the meeting from criticisms by shareholders angry about a phone-hacking scandal in Britannia that led to the closure of the tabloid weekly The News of the World.
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Wonder what tipped him off?
Maybe he'll buy Google+ next...
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Lemmee see - the usual suspects said it was Allen's wrath that caused the recent 5.8 (or so) earthquake here on the East Coast, so obviously Allen reallyhates Turkey.
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that 7.3 was fairly shallow. Bet that bounced the rubble
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construction standards low and inspectors bribed
fatalities probably will eventually exceed 500
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The usual suspects---substandard concrete and courtesy amounts of rebar.
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Didn't they recently hang a contractor in China for Building a bridge wuth Trash (Garbage) as the filler, Yup, it fell down.
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They have a crap government, but think about the week they have had. The PPK killed around 50 of their 18-year soldiers on Tuesday.
Then this happens. 1000, at least, dead.
I have three Turkish students in class; they were in a 9/11-style evil mood last week. They'll probably be putting heads on pikes in this one.
[Dawn] Dengue claimed five lives in Lahore while a patient passed away in Chichawatni on Saturday.
Aslam, 50, a resident of Iqbal Town and Mubashir, 50, a resident of Samanabad died in the Ganga Ram Hospital while Shakil, 30, of Jaranwala passed away at Lahore's Mayo Hospital. Moreover, Rashid and Imran of Ghaziabad succumbed to the fever at Services Hospital, a private television channel reported.
In Chichawatni, 40-year-old Ghulam Murtaza fell victim to the virus.
The number of dengue cases was also increasing in other cities, including Faisalabad, Bahawalpur, Sargodha and Taxila.
In Faisalabad, the number of dengue patients has reached 1,324. Moreover, the number of dengue patients has risen to 305 in Bahawalpur, 232 in Sargodha and 90 in Taxila.
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TUNIS: Tunisians go to the polls today, Sunday, with a bewildering number of candidates to choose from. Some 117 parties have been authorized to stand -- secularist, Islamist, socialist, communist, Baathist, center-left, center-right, green and more. Even some parties with no ideology at all. The moderate and well organized Islamist Ennahda party led by Rached Ghannouchi is expected to win the largest number of votes with the centrist and secularist Progressive Democrat Party (PDP) coming second, but with so many parties involved and possible permutations of alliances, it was impossible on the eve of polling to predict whether Tunisia will remain on a secularist path, head down an Islamist one or end up with a grand coalition running the country.
It is be Tunisia's first free elections since independence in 1956 and, according to Tunisians and others, the first genuinely free contest ever in the Arab world.
Other than Iraq...
There were elections under Tunisia's post independence President Habib Bourguiba and then his successor, President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali who was overthrown in January, but they were not free and fair. Parties opposed to the ruling party were banned. Turnout was usually around 10 percent although it was always put much higher.
The vote brings to an end the initial transitional period that started with the January revolution. Technically, it is purely for a 217-member constituent assembly that will draw up a new constitution. In reality, the assembly can, and probably will, name a new head of state to replace acting President Fouad Mebazaa, and he in turn could appoint a new prime minister and Cabinet.
[Bangla Daily Star] Cameroon's President Paul Biya was reelected for a sixth term with about 78 percent of the votes cast in the October 9 election, the country's supreme court said Friday.
Biya, who is 78 and has been in power for 29 years, beat long-time opposition leader John Fru Ndi who took just under 11 percent of the vote. A front man for Fru Ndi's party rejected the result and vowed to challenge it.
Turnout was 66 percent, down from the 2004 election where 83 percent of eligible voters turned out; and the one in 1997, 81 percent.
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when you throw coins to decide on how big a margin your guy gets... you sometimes need to fudge on the size of the pool.
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DUSHANBE: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Central Asian nations on Saturday to play a role in securing and rebuilding war-torn Afghanistan, promoting the concept of a new Silk Road that would benefit the entire region.
Before arriving in Uzbekistan, Clinton told an audience in Tajikistan that Afghanistans reintegration into the regional economy would be critical to its recovery from war, as well as for better conditions in surrounding countries.
Afghanistan has been at the crossroads for terrorism and insurgency and so much pain and suffering over 30 years, she said. We want Afghanistan to be at the crossroads of economic opportunities going north and south and east and west, which is why its so critical to more fully integrate the autonomies of the countries in this region in South and Central Asia.
Clinton says the new Silk Road will increase regional trade and commerce.
We hope it will give rise to a network of thriving economic relationships around the region, she said. But, Clinton added, countries would have to remove or ease trade restrictions and reform commercial laws for the scheme to succeed. On human rights, Clinton told a town hall meeting in Dushanbe that she would raise the issue with the leaders of both Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Clinton is at the tail end of a weeklong, seven-nation overseas trip that has also taken her to Malta, Libya and Oman. She planned to return to Washington on Sunday.
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Clinton is at the tail end of a weeklong, seven-nation overseas trip that has also taken her to Malta, Libya and Oman.
ZUPCE, Kosovo: Hundreds of Kosovo Serbs prevented NATO troops in Kosovo (KFOR) from removing roadblocks on roads to two contested border crossings between the countrys volatile north and Serbia early on Saturday, witnesses said.
Tensions have mounted in the north as Kosovos government tries to stamp its authority over this largely lawless area, home to 60,000 ethnic Serbs who want to stop Kosovo deploying its own police and customs at the Serbian border.
Mostly ethnic-Albanian Kosovo is Serbias former southern province and declared independence in 2008 after a 1998-99 war and years under United Nations rule. The country is still patrolled by KFOR and EU law and justice mission, EULEX.
At a roadblock in the village of Zupce, about 80 km (40 miles) north of Kosovos capital Pristina, Serbs sat in the road in front of armored personnel carriers and an infantry cordon. In the nearby village of Jagnjenica, Serbs parked trucks across the road to the Brnjak crossing, reinforcing a barricade there. KFOR troops tried and failed to get a bulldozer past meters-high earth and gravel barricades, a human shield and the trucks.
On Friday the KFOR commander, German General Erhard Drews, said Kosovan Serbs must secure freedom of movement for his troops and other international missions. He said more talks were planned with local Serbs for Saturday and warned NATO was running out of patience.
I still believe that the better solution would be a peaceful one but ... theres little hope we will come to the solution in time, he told reporters. Time is running out.
Earlier this week KFOR used tear gas to disperse Serbs at a barricade along a network of roads leading to the Brnjak border post. Eight peacekeepers and about two dozen civilians were slightly injured in the scuffles.
Hardline Serb leaders from northern Kosovo defied NATO calls to remove roadblocks and called for Belgrade to send in Serbian troops and police.
In Belgrade, President Boris Tadic asked NATO to refrain from violence and Kosovo Serbs to secure freedom of movement for peacekeepers.
Serbia holds parliamentary elections in 2012 and Kosovo, seen by Serbs as their historic heartland, will be a hot issue.
Serbia still effectively runs Serb-dominated northern Kosovo, but is under pressure to resolve the impasse and mend ties with Pristina if it wants the European Commission to approve its candidacy for joining EU. More than 80 countries, including the United States and most EU states, have recognized Kosovo as a sovereign country.
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We will worship Aphrodite,
Though she's real wild and flighty,
She looks purty in her nightie,
And that's good enough for me.
Give us that real old-time religion,
Give us that real old-time religion,
Give us that real old-time religion,
Cause it's good enough for me.
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Koran 10:2
Have the people been amazed that We revealed [revelation] to a man from among them, [saying], "Warn mankind and give good tidings to those who believe that they will have a [firm] precedence of honor with their Lord"? [But] the disbelievers say, "Indeed, this is an obvious magician."
and from chapter 15
15:14 And even if We opened unto them a gate of heaven and they kept mounting through it,
15:15 They would say: Our sight is wrong - nay, but we are folk bewitched.
15:16 And verily in the heaven we have set mansions of the stars, and We have beautified it for beholders.
15:17 And We have guarded it from every outcast devil,
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And a reading from the Firesign Theater:
And Lo there came unto him Phillip called Punter.
And he was Lillian Roth in his extremity. Merrily, Merrily he says
unto them say Merrily, Merrily for I am come.
And he came.
And he came onto the house of his mothers brothers servants saying
"Where am I?"
And there was none there to answer him not even no one saying nowhere,
yea.
But in the land of reversible cups and sanitary pedestals.
And he lay in that land a long time like worms out of a hot cheese
log.
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[Emirates 24/7] Folk music legend Pete Seeger and '60s folk singer Arlo Guthrie have joined Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in their campaign against corporate greed while residents near the protest park encampment are pushing to regain some peace and quiet in their neighborhood.
Seeger joined in the Occupy Wall Street protest Friday night, replacing his banjo with two canes as he marched with throngs of people in New York City's tony Upper West Side past banks and shiny department stores. The 92-year-old Seeger shouted out the verses of protest anthems as the crowd of about 1,000 people sang and chanted.
But some residents complain of protesters urinating in the streets and beating drums in the middle of the night. Some are calling for the protesters to vacate the park.
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Wow. It's like they flipped over a 60's rock and everything came crawling out. Who's up next? Country Joe and the Fish?
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TW - showing your age, or bragging? Don't eat the brown acid
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What's a Wavy Gravy, Fred?
Heh. I detect either a generation gap, or a sheltered upbringing.
Awhile back, Ol' Banjo Pete came out and declared that Communism wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Don't know if he finally finished counting up all the corpses or if he learned something about economics. I suspect the protests just triggered his involuntary Stick-it-to-the-Man reflex.
A major difference between the 60's protests and this band of mooks is the hippies and Weathermen hated both the corporations AND the government. No self-respecting hippie would be calling for more government.
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After looking at the above post, I realized it had kind of a JOE M structural quality to it that I don't want to "rip off, man..."
For those of a certain age, my reference is a no brainer... other feel free to ask Mr WiKi what I am talking about and how it applies to the cast of characters in this thread :-)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Five months after a media frenzy over a U.S. preacher's "end of the world" prophesy, his faithful were awaiting Judgment Day again Friday based on his "recalculated" prediction.
News Corp's purchase of Myspace was a "huge mistake" and the social network was mismanaged "in every possible way" following the acquisition, chief executive Rupert Murdoch said Friday.
Dengue claimed five lives in Lahore while a patient passed away in Chichawatni on Saturday.
Cameroon's President Paul Biya was reelected for a sixth term with about 78 percent of the votes cast in the October 9 election, the country's supreme court said Friday.
Folk music legend Pete Seeger and '60s folk singer Arlo Guthrie have joined Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in their campaign against corporate greed while residents near the protest park encampment are pushing to regain some peace and quiet in their neighborhood.
