Isaiah 9:19-20,   

19 Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.

20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:

Jeremiah 19:9

9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straightness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

Ezekiel 5:10

10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.

Similar attacks have been happening all around the world actually since 2009 but have not been reported on that much in the news. Maybe it’s a government cover up or conspiracy ? All I know is the cops in most of these cases seem to have advanced knowledge of the “zombie” like nature of those involved. Several accounts and eyewitness say cops were very concerned about getting to close to those involved. I have never seen that behavior before from police who are always heavily armed while out number those involved. Cops usually can’t wait to go in full steam ahead with guns drawn, mace ready, taser fully charged with their baton swinging. Ask your self why would these cops be so hesitant and nervous ? Did they fear what would happen to them if they were bitten by the attacker ? Do plenty of research and you will find on your own a heavy Masonic influence in every police force world wide. Go to this link provided and read carefully all the words on the page at http://www.fop.net/about/history/star.shtml

Notice anything strange about the star pictured, look at the symbols. The Masonic shield and with checkerboard pattern in the middle. The “all seeing eye” as seen on the back of the American dollar bill. The Masonic handshake that so many elites and celebrities have been witnessed using. Anyway this article would be way too long so I will just leave links and if I get plenty of reads then I will elaborate further with a more detailed part 2. Watch plenty of movies not just zombie movies Hollywood loves to leave in plain sight lots of hints about the world and the world the elite are trying to make. Biological attacks and warfare are real and possible so please take this seriously don’t just sweep it under the rug. The battle for your mind and your imagination starts young and continues all your life. If you can’t imagine you will not be able to see the signs or symbols, you will not think anything of the world and believe everything is ok. I’m really tired of talking about this stuff because I know deep down that nobody will do anything about it. Knowing and having this knowledge is good and all but at some point action must be taken. Wars are won when some soldiers die on both sides, don’t be afraid to die for freedom. It’s not just your freedom that you fight for, think about it.  Here are the links :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2152519/Rudy-Eugene-Last-words-Miami-cannibal-girlfriend-attack-Ronald-Poppo.html?ICO=most_read_module

http://www.exciteddelirium.org/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2152925/Engineering-student-21–stabbed-dismembered-roommate-knife-ate-brain-heart.html?ICO=most_read_module

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/10/1001027-rabies-influenza-zomb…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBxc_7EyXlg&feature=related

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Police-Investigate-After-Naked-Man-Shot-Wi…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idxzjAt1T4Y

I know that I am not the only one that has pondered this question. I have seen many posts presenting the Liberal perspective, but I have also seen post leaning more towards the Conservative opinions.

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Could it really be that Barnes and Nobles will go out of business? Does that mean for us writers and bloggers, no more time spent in the heaven of books and coffee? Well according to New York Times this could actually become a reality in the book world. But of course Mr. Lynch won’t say so.

The New York Times reported that it may come to many as a surprise, but Mr. Lynch (C.E.O of Barnes and Nobles) stated that B&N is, in fact, a technology company. Never mind the fact that it has 703 bookstores and operates in all 50 states.

When B&N premiered the Nook it grabbed a lot of the market shares from Amazon.com. But this is still an uphill battle for B&N. B&N’s stocks closed on Friday at $11.95, putting the value of the company at $719 million. Amazon’s shares closed at $195.37, valuing Mr. Bezos’s (C.E.O of Amazon.com) company at $88 billion.

The numbers alone speak volumes.

Mr. Lynch said “B&N stores will endure. The idea that devices such as the Nook, Kindle, and Apple iPad will make bookstores obsolete is nonsense”.

The Washington Post recently reported that Microsoft announced a $300 million dollar investment in B&N e-reader and tablet business, giving the software giant a late entry into the race for digital publishing and online education.

If you ask me this looks like a last pitch effort by Microsoft to reestablish itself as the leading tech giant. With Microsoft’s 17.6 percent stake in B&N’s Nook business, the company gains access to the library of book titles and direct contact with the bookseller’s hundreds of university bookstores.

It looks like to me, B&N is trying to compete with Amazon.com by trying to join forces with Microsoft, but Amazon already as a strong connection with Google, which may cause even more obstacles to overcome by B&N in later efforts.

But I will also mention that there is another giant and the rise that is right dab in the middle of all of this. Yes, you guessed Facebook!   

The suspect entered the Cafe Racer in Seattle on Wednesday morning and began to open fire on the customers. Five were killed by the man identified by family as Ian Lee Stawicki aged 40.

According to some sources, Stawicki had been attending the cafe several times a week, often showing violence and hatred to the other patrons. Where some may believe that this was a planned attack, his mental illness could imply that it wasn’t.

This attack has risen Seattle’s crime rate substantially and the city now has 21 homicides this year. Because it was one of the safest cities, residents have expressed confusion and fear that something else may happen. Certain residents have even described how they feel the city falling apart.

The gunman’s brother says he isn’t surprised by the attack, adding that no one could go on with that amount of hatred inside them.

Charles Manson, in a recent image

A federal judge in Texas authorized the delivery to the Police Department of Los Angeles suspected tapes might contain new evidence to help solve the crimes committed by the cult of Charles Manson, known as “The Family”, reported the chain CNN.

Cassettes include 8 hours of taped conversations between Charles Denton “Tex” Watson and his lawyer in 1969, Bill Boyd, in which the convicted murderer recounts his experiences as a member of Manson.

“The Family” was an organization that terrorized Hollywood in the 60’s and is credited to the date of death of 9 persons, one of which was actress Sharon Tate, 26, wife of filmmaker Roman Polanski. Watson was convicted of killing 7 people with three other members of the Manson, and among its victims figured Tate, who was pregnant at that time.

The judge decided to give the tapes to investigators at the request of Chief of Police of the city California, Charlie Beck. The material was in possession of the law firm took the case of Watson and now going through financial problems.
Unsolved crimes

According to court documents, Watson waived the confidentiality of your relationship with your lawyer in 1976 when the recordings were turned over to Chaplain Raymond G. Hoekstra, who used to write the biography of Watson’s book “Will You Die for Me: The Man Who Killed for Charles Manson Tells His Own Story.”

“The Police Department of Los Angeles has information that Mr. Watson spoke of unsolved crimes added to those committed by the followers of Charles Manson” Beck said in a letter.

In November, the prison authorities refused for the sixteenth time probation for Watson, 66, and this year, in March, same thing happened to Charles Manson, 77, for the tenth second time.

“The original Black Ops took place during the first Cold War,” says Mark Lamia, the Studio Head of Treyarch, “I call it the first Cold War because the new Cold War hasn’t happened — yet.”

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 is a direct sequel which will take place in part during the fictional second Cold War in the year 2025. You will play as David Mason, the son of Alex Mason, the previous game’s protagonist.

Alex will return as a playable character in flashbacks to the late 1980s. As a de facto enforcer of the Reagan doctrine, he will be in charge of igniting and arming proxy wars with Russia in locations like Nicaragua and Afghanistan.

Black Ops 2’s story spans generations, Lamia tells us. The father and son have a mutual enemy: Raul Menendez. Menendez is a mysterious figure. We know he’s somehow tied to the Reagan-era conflict in Nicaragua. I ask Lamia if Menendez might harbor ill-will towards the United States, considering the government was reluctant to provide additional funds to the country’s rebels at that period. Lamia won’t provide a definitive answer just yet.

The Story

Screenwriter David Goyer (The Dark Knight, Superman: Man of Steel) returned to help Treyarch develop the time-bending tale, and create what both parties believe will be an unforgettable villain in Menendez. Lamia can’t help but remind me that Goyer was responsible for Heath Ledger’s Joker.

Both Masons will receive help from Frank Woods who somehow did not die in the original Black Ops. In that game’s campaign he tackled villainous Victor Kravchenko, who was wearing a belt of live grenades, out a window. Hidden intel in Black Ops hinted at the possibility of Woods being alive at a POW camp in Hanoi.

A very old Woods is still alive in 2025 and a narrator of sorts inBlack Ops 2. He explains what happened in the 80s while on assignment with Alex Mason and why it matters in the game’s present.

Woods has an ongoing story of his own, and though it’s unclear, the Treyarch team hinted at a major third-act reveal imagined by Goyer. Maybe I’m way off, but could Woods have been brainwashed in Hanoi like Alex Mason was in Vorkuta in the original Black Ops?

Anyhow, in the late 1980s, which will be roughly a third of the game, you will see how Menendez becomes a monster of a man, and in 2025, you will see what he’s capable of. It’s rather unsettling.

What’s most important, though, Lamia tells me, is believability. “We gotta be grounded,” he repeats time and again, like a holy mantra.

Rare Earth ElementsOLIVER NORTH, WHO IS A CONSULTANT ON THE GAME, SAYS HE’S NOT WORRIED ABOUT THE GUY WHO HIJACKS THE ONE PLANE, BUT ABOUT THE GUY WHO HIJACKS ALL OF THEM.

Lamia tells us future war won’t be about oil, but rare earth elements.

Rare earth elements are about as grounded as it gets. The minerals are essential to many of today’s most important products, from smartphones to renewable energy devices like wind turbines and hybrid car batteries. Rare earth elements also play an important role in the creation of most modern military technology.

So what’s the rub? In the real world, rare earth elements are almost entirely controlled by China’s market, which provides 95% of all REEs. By comparison, Iran controls only 10% of the Earth’s oil.

Lamia plays a clip of Obama talking about the necessity of China’s participation with Western market in trading rare earth elements fairly. He shows an interview with a Japanese businessman discussing the dangers of China’s complete control of the commodity.

Then things get apocalyptic.

The Treyarch team volleys between clips from news and military television programs pertaining to war in the not so distant future. They paint a world in which a hacker could bring a superpower to its knees.

Drones, advanced robotics, security systems: Our best weapons may one day be used against us. Oliver North, who is a consultant on the game, says he’s not worried about the guy who hijacks the one plane, but about the guy who hijacks all of them.

Which is an apt lead-in to the gameplay.

June 19, 2024: Los Angeles, California

A well-dressed man covered in blood shrieks in agony. David Mason pushes him into a seat and looks around the limousine, spotting the president. She looks like a younger Hillary Clinton. We hear G20 leaders across the world are under attack.

The vehicle is speeding down the highway. Outside, blinking construction signs call for an evacuation of Los Angeles. Above, a swarm of dozens, maybe hundreds of drones are bombarding the skyscrapers and roads. One swoops over the limo, lighting it up.

Mason pulls the president from the wrecked car, dashes across the highway, and hops into a turret atop a military vehicle dangling precariously off the lifted roadway. The weapon locks onto a half dozen or so drones at a time, chasing them with heat seeking rockets. A drone shot out of the air crashed onto the highway and skips like a three-ton stone over Mason, nearly slicing the head from his shoulders.

A DRONE CRASHES ONTO THE HIGHWAY AND SKIPS LIKE A THREE-TON STONE OVER MASON’S HEAD.

In action-star fashion, Mason abandons the turret moments before it slides off the freeway in a thunderclap of fire and cement. “On route to prom night with the president,” some colleague says.

The president is repelled beneath the freeway by a couple of soldiers, while Mason provides cover with a sniper rifle. It’s futurefied with the ability to see enemies through cars and cement barrier. They look like images from the new scattershot x-ray machines at airports — Lamia later mentions them as an inspiration for the weapon.

When Mason pulls the trigger, it kicks sharply back, letting out a piercing noise, like wood slapping pavement.

Mason finally makes his way down to the lower road, hops in a sports utility vehicle, and drives through the abandoned street, hammering cars and pulverizing enemy soldiers. Up ahead, the vaulted freeway begins to collapse.

A female pilot keeps watch over Mason from a Vertical Take-Off and Landing aircraft, a harrier-like jet (remember, from Saints Row The Third). She provides direction through the dizzying battlefield.

“Most of the city’s a full blown war zone,” shouts some guy. The Pentagon and Wall Street are in equal or worse shape we hear, before a red semi sideswipes the vehicle.

CUT TO BLACK.

“The arena district is compromised,” screams a grainy voice over the radio. Mason opens his eyes.

He is in the arena district, between the massive storefronts of a futuristic Staples Center and Nokia Theater.

A horse-like robot called the Cognitive Land Assault Weapon, C.L.A.W. for short, led by the enemies, shoots a cop apart. You’ve seen something like this machine before. Maybe here. Or here. In game, it’s bigger and scarier.

Mason and what remains of the U.S. soldiers shoot the heavy steel legs out from beneath the C.L.A.W., and fire a round into its rear panel, igniting the fuel chamber into a plume of smoke and flame and electricity.

He heads into a shopping center. A swarm of friendly quadrocopters, basically military grade versions of the AR.Drone Parrot, swoop in. Mason dials a few numbers into his wrist computer, which literally wraps around his forearm, commanding the gaggle of flying artillery-bots. He makes his way through the interior of a shopping area. When an enemy charges him, Mason lifts his other hand, which is wrapped in a glove-like electronic-device, and fires a propulsive blast of air, knocking the baddie to the floor.

Outside is a horror show. Falling buildings and dead civilians. A skyscraper comes down, the rush of debris screaming towards Mason.

CUT TO BLACK.

Mason wakes up, and the intersection is filled with brown air, ash and little flames.

The pilot in the VTOL calls in. She’s been injured. The plane lands and she is taken by paramedics to an ambulance. Naturally and without a second thought, Mason pilots the vacated aircraft.

He doesn’t know a thing about flying one of these, but a voice on the radio says the “flight computer should handle most of the work.”

The VTOL is entirely player controlled, from steering to boosting to shooting. Mason releases missiles with abandon, decimating parking structures, drones and more red semis. Apparently the latter are the chosen vehicle of enemies nationwide.

Things are going fine, until Mason hits another plane dead on – in what is a rather showy display of heroism. He ejects at the last moment, launches his chute, slides into the side of building and tumbles towards the ground.

Pause screen. That’s it.

If you’re a connoisseur of the franchise, you know Black Ops was a bit more covert. A bit less bombastic than the landmark destroying Modern Warfare series. Lamia assures me that this game will have more top-secret, no-one-ever-knew-you-were-there missions.

But they wanted to introduce Black Ops 2 with a bang.

Pick a path and the new single-player mode, Strike Force

Dave Anthony, game director on Black Ops 2, says he used to love choose your own adventures, and that, for years, he’s wanted to bring something similar to Call of Duty.

“For the first time,” he says, “player decisions will impact the story.”

He explains that this will work in two ways:

Key decisions will have significance from a narrative point of view, but so will skill. How well you do will influence the narrative’s outcome. Main squad members and villains’ henchmen will live or die depending on what you do and how you do it.

He says these won’t be small impacts. The result of the new Cold War and the success of Raul Menendez will depend solely on the player.

“At end of campaign,” Anthony says, “you’ll see how things could have been different.”

Anthony says Strike Force missions are one example of how player decision and ability will impact the outcome of the story.

Strike Force missions are sets of levels that will shape the outcome of the Cold War between the United States and China. They are non-linear, sandbox campaign missions.

They exist within the single-player campaign’s main story. At choke points throughout the campaign, you will be updated on the state of the world at large by being shown a number of conflicts. As a covert operative, you will select one mission from the set of missions, and do your best to complete it. Whether your group lives or dies will affect the game’s story.

“FOR THE FIRST TIME PLAYER DECISIONS WILL IMPACT THE STORY.”

Strike Force missions are like team-based multiplayer scrimmages — played by one player. The player is able to shift between all available soldiers and robots on his team on a battlefield. You could hop from a rifleman’s perspective to a drone to a C.L.A.W. in a matter of seconds, and omniscient overhead view will allow you to give, what looks like, real-time strategy commands. Send this guy here, direct this drone to flank from the right.

The goal is to kill the opposing A.I.-controlled team and complete a series of objectives in any order. When a person dies or a bot is destroyed, it is gone, and you inhabit who or whatever remains. Run out of people or time, and the mission is lost.

We see a Strike Force mission on a shipping dock in Singapore. The mission is to capture the A, B and C points.

The Treyarch employee running the demo makes quick work of the opposition. One moment he’s a soldier, the next he’s a C.L.A.W. He’s flying a drone, now he’s a mobile rocket launcher called the Autonomous Ground Robot, or A.G.R.

He pulls out to the commander view, and we see the squad, controlled by the computer on his behalf, maintaining status quo, taking cover, and making careful moves against the enemy.

He zips back into a soldier and calls in air strike to take out boat, completing mission. Lamia laughs. You could play the mission this way, or you could just play as a single soldier. It’s totally up to the player, they say.

In a way, it looks like single-player multiplayer. One person controlling an entire team in a game of domination.

In dedication to all the soldiers who died for our freedom.  They are incredible.

And for those who resist their lives}  Law enforcement, firefighters and etc..

for our safety and etc…

They are awesome as well.  They deserve our recognition.  

Please be sacred on this day.  If possible hang your Countries flag out on

your front and back yard to demo your love for your Country, please.

Suggestion:  show your family a lot of love and pride knowing you can

do this.  Our troops made this day possible.  

Please add a photo of a soldier.. on the comment section at the bottom

so we can honor them..  

If you have a Memorial Wall in your community.. suggestion:  pay tribute

to it.. 

Man we have got a long way to go as a species. The turmoil that surrounds this mortal coil at times can almost be unbearable. The topics of global climate change, failing economies, human rights violations, starving populations, globalization, genetic modification, drugs, cloning, war, genocide, and what hell can be done about it! The average person scratches their head and deems the subject too depressing, makes some comment about the futility of the matter, and proceeds to normal animal behavioral function. Critical thought has seemed to have eluded the “Hive”, and this “Hive Mind” mentality is a mold to be broken. No longer do we have to be slaves to a system put before us when we can collaborate to form new systems all together. With the plethora of information available to the world via “the web”, we can learn, build and organize in ways that never would have been imaginable in previous times. New ideas on ethics and philosophy are rising from this climate of calamity like Open Sourcing, Anonymity, and the quest for “truth” and “knowledge”. I feel a different climate coming, one where we will take manners into our own hands and live in a way that is beneficial for all. All children of all species for all time. If we as individuals and communities could occupy our minds we could do amazing things as a species. Taking control of our food, water, and energy needs will be a primary step, while eliminating systems of pollution and implementing standards for universal sustainability. Why should we idly stand aside and bide our time when we can do something about. “But what can I do?” asked the one who’s lost his way. The answer is quite simple really. First you’ve got to care. About something positive, anything…really! Then you’ve got to ask yourself: “What am i good at?” Whether it be cooking, gardening, music, engineering, programming, writing, speaking, organizing,  literally anything you can do can make a dramatic difference in shaping our reality, something we forgot we had the power to do! Educate your self about whats going on in your community and begin to learn about things that would be beneficial. If we can shed the skin of apathy then our sight will be renewed.

If most of us had a sexual disease and we knew about it we would want to spread it around, but not everyone feels that way. There are people out there who have sexual infections are are happy to pass it on to other people through unprotected sex.

One of these people is a 19 year old girl who recently appeared in a British magazines openly admitting that not only does she have herpes but she happily has unprotected sex because she says condoms ruin the moment.

Even though she nearly died from the infection after she developed painful blisters that stopped her from going to the toilet and her bladder filled up with nearly ten pints of urine and could have burst at any moment. 

Why this girl choses to do what she does it unbelievable, its almost like she proud. What she doesn’t realise though is that she could be put in jail, by having unprotected sex with people when you know you have an infection that you can pass on is a crime, and with good reason.

Shockingly she does tell people she carries the virus and then leaves it up to them if they want to take the risk or not. I don’t know who is more stupid the girl, or the guys she sleeps  with. 

Raising 14 children can be expensive and no one knows this more than Nadya Suleman. The mother is so broke she is considered turning to porn after being forced to fill for bankruptcy. Nadya’s home is up for auction after she failed to keep up with the mortgage    payments. 

Nadya was seen posing in a skimpy outfit with a man wearing a baby costume which sparked outrage. The mother fears she will lose her children if she cannot afford to look after them properly and is said to be thinking about turning to the porn industry to keep her family afloat. Saying she would be willing to star in porn movies if the money was good enough.

What worries me is why she felt the need to have even more children after having her sixth child when she was already struggling? Clearly she needed help then and she needs it now. 

Octomom has admitted that she regrets having so many children. Saying she is not a maternal person. So if she’s not maternal then why have so many children? I think she could see a councilor have someone needs to help her with the children as she is clearly not coping. Perhaps they could all use family counseling.