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A series of Earth-shattering volcanic eruptions in Iceland during the Middle Ages may have spurred the people living there to turn away from their pagan gods and convert to Christianity, a new study finds. The discovery came about thanks to precise dating of the volcanic eruptions, which spewed lava about two generations before the Icelandic people changed religions. But why would volcanic eruptions turn people toward monotheism? The answer has to do with the "Voluspa," a prominent medieval poem that predicted a fiery eruption would help lead to the downfall of the pagan gods, the researchers said. Historians have long...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday that any military solution to the North Korea crisis would be “tragic on an unbelievable scale” and Washington was working internationally to find a diplomatic solution. North Korea has defied all calls to rein in its nuclear and missile programs, even from China, its lone major ally, calling them legitimate self-defense. It has been working to develop a nuclear-tipped missile capable of striking the U.S. mainland, and experts say its test on Sunday of a new missile was another important step toward that aim. “We are going to continue...

Government Issues Statement Debunking End of the World: “Just Rumors” Mac Slavo December 4th, 2012 With the purported 2012 Mayan Apocalypse calculated to take place on December 21st rapidly approaching, thousands of letters have poured into government agencies like NASA from citizens concerned about the end of the world. Doomsday fears surrounding the end of the Mayan calendar, a possible collision with a mystery “Planet X” theorized by some researchers, and pole shift popularized in the Hollywood movie 2012, have forced the government to issue a rebuttal debunking the claims at their USA.gov web site: Scary Rumors about the World...

The Number One Catastrophic Event That Americans Worry About: Economic CollapseDecember 30, 2011 Can you guess what the number one catastrophic event that Americans worry about is? There are certainly many to choose from. Many Americans are deathly afraid of a major terrorist attack. Others live in constant fear of natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes and hurricanes. Still others are incredibly concerned that a massive pandemic will break out at any time or that World War III will erupt in the Middle East. Yes, there are certainly a lot of potential catastrophic events that one can worry about in...

The Iranian regime led by Ahmadinejad and the Mullas of the Supreme Council, are driven by a dangerous Islamic ideology. They believe they can encourage the return of  the "Madi", their Islamic messiah, by creating a catostrophic situation.They actually believe this Madi is hiding at the bottom of a well, a short distance from Ahmadinejad's mosque. In this excellent CBN video report you will see believers in the Madi dropping notes and letters into the well for the Madi to read. One youngster was even using a flashlight to see if he could spot the Madi: See also: Nuclear Messiah, Iran Awaits His Return 

A great explosion is about to come , Destroying things not of my kingdom , Prophecies told about to unfold , Things new wiping out the old , The storehouses of God's lightning released , Disturbing things now resting in peace , Ancient walls suddenly cut down , Nothing left but burnt glass on the ground , As paper mache burnt and blown away , A prophecy of the past happening in one day , A blink of the eye and nothing left to see , Yet all the nations witnessing God's majesty , A turning point in a war...

On April 6 of this year I published a post titled Spend, Spend, Spend! which examined and criticized Obama’s unprecedented spending spree. Well here we are three and a half months later and he has not yet slowed the pace of spending. I am telling you America, Obama has created a financial catastrophy which we will not fully recover from for generations to come, if at all. I fear that our once great nation is well on it’s way to being lost forever. What differentiated the United States from the other powers of this world, what made us the greatest...

Earth 2100 on ABC. What a sky-is-falling fearfest. Cast of usual charachters: Academia, Media, etc going year-by-year on how "climate change" is leading to total destruction of everything as we know it. Of course the "American way of life" is to blame.

The federal government is doing something right now that is exactly the opposite of what it should be doing. It is forgetting to think dark. It is forgetting to imagine the unimaginable. Governments deal in data. People in government see a collection of data as something to be used, manipulated or ignored, but whatever they do with it, it's real. It's numbers on a page. You can point to them. To think dark, on the other hand, takes imagination--and something more. As adults living in the world, we know some things. As Murphy taught us, if it can go wrong,...

A United Nations official has warned that the town of Bunia in north-eastern DR Congo is on the verge of an "humanitarian catastrophe". Since the departure of Ugandan troops this week - part of an international peace deal for the DRC - Lendu and Hema militias have been battling for control of the town. Head of UN peacekeeping operations Jean-Marie Guehenno has warned Security Council members of the ongoing bloodshed in the region. The council said it would meet again on Monday to discuss "effective measures to stop the violence". Food shortages About 500 UN peacekeeping troops in Bunia have...

NAIROBI, Kenya -- More than 3 million people have died during Congo's civil war, the vast majority from malnutrition and disease, a relief organization said Tuesday. The International Rescue Committee said in a report that at least 85 percent of the 3.3 million deaths were from easily treatable diseases and malnutrition. IRC Congo Report: http://www.theIRC.org