Source: PHILIP ROSS, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES
A deadly illness from abroad has made its way to the U.S. – but it’s not Ebola. Several cases of “kissing bug” disease, known formally as Chagas disease, have recently been identified in Texas, according to researchers gathered Tuesday at the annual American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting in New Orleans. The Washington Post reports that health officials found 17 Houston residents who had been infected with Chagas, a disease native to Latin America that is spread to humans through contact with the parasitic triatomine bug, or so-called kissing bug. The tiny insect feeds on human blood by biting people’s faces during the night. It carries a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi, which causes the disease. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chagas-kissing-bug-disease-in-texas-2014-11#ixzz3Icx0eD00
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RENO, Nev. — On a farm about six miles outside this gambling town, Jason Chamberlain looks over a flock of about 50 smelly sheep, many of them possessing partially human livers, hearts, brains and other organs. The University of Nevada-Reno researcher talks matter-of-factly about his plans to euthanize one of the pregnant sheep in a nearby lab. He can’t wait to examine the effects of the human cells he had injected into the fetus’ brain about two months ago. “It’s mice on a large scale,” Chamberlain says with a shrug. As strange as his work may sound, it falls firmly within the new ethics guidelines the influential National Academies issued this past week for stem cell research. In fact, the Academies’ report endorses research that co-mingles human and animal tissue as vital to ensuring that experimental drugs and new tissue replacement therapies are safe for people. Doctors have transplanted pig valves into human hearts for years, and scientists have injected human cells into lab animals for even longer. Biological mixing of species But the biological co-mingling of animal and human is now evolving into even more exotic and unsettling mixes of species, evoking the Greek myth of the monstrous chimera, which was part lion, part goat and part serpent. In the past two years, scientists have created pigs with human blood, fused rabbit eggs with human DNA and injected human stem cells to make paralyzed mice walk. Read More HERE Source: RT News Nearly two-thirds of British people stated that religion causes more harm than it brings benefits, according to a new poll, which shows Muslim beliefs at odds with those of the rest of society. The poll of 2,004 people conducted by Survation exclusively for Huffington Post UK revealed that nearly two in five Britons have no religious allegiance, with just 56 percent describing themselves as Christians. The figures for active worship are even more stark, with 60 percent of the population surveyed claiming they are “not religious at all” with only 8 percent saying they are “very religious.” “Religion has become a ‘toxic brand’ in the UK," Linda Woodhead, professor of the sociology of religion at Lancaster University, told HuffPost UK. "What we are seeing is not a complete rejection of faith, belief in the divine, or spirituality, though there is some of that, but of institutional religion in the historic forms which are familiar to people.” The Moore Police Department says that a man beheaded a woman after a workplace dispute Thursday at a food distribution plant. The suspect, 30-year-old Alton Nolen, beheaded a co-worker at Vaughan Foodsjust after 4 p.m. Thursday. In a press conference Friday Moore Police Department Sgt. Jeremy Lewis said Nolen had just been fired by Vaughan Foods before attacking and beheading 54-year-old co-worker Colleen Hufford. According to police, the suspect then stabbed another co-worker, 43-year-old Traci Johnson, at the business before being shot by an off-duty deputy and the COO of the company Mark Vaughan. Source: CBN News
The Satanic Temple in Orange County, Florida, is planning to hand out satanic "children activity books" at some schools. The group is distributing the material as a response to the school district allowing a Christian group to leave Bibles, saying their whole point is to counter biblical indoctrination. "It's far better philosophically for us and we feel for the students, that they see there is a multiplicity of voices and that there's many voices and choices," Lucien Greaves, spokesperson for the Satanic Temple, said. High School Student Claims She Was Suspended For Saying ‘Bless You’ After Classmate Sneezed8/28/2014 Source: CBS News: Charlotte DYER COUNTY, Tenn. (CBS Charlotte) – A high school student was allegedly suspended after breaking a class rule of saying “bless you” after a classmate sneezed. Kendra Turner, a senior at Dyer County High School, said bless you to her classmate who sneezed and the teacher told her that the term was for church. “She said that we’re not going to have godly speaking in her class and that’s when I said we have a constitutional right,” Turner told WMC. When she defended her actions, the teacher told Turner to see an administrator. The student said that she had to finish the class period in in-school suspension. Source: Washington Times By Douglas Ernst Sunni radicals with the Islamic State terrorist group have posted a number of tweets aimed at the citizens of Chicago, including a picture of an unidentified man on Michigan Avenue holding a paper with a handwritten Arabic message: “We are in your streets.” The terrorist group, which operates primarily out of Syria and Iraq, relies heavily on social media platforms to spread its message, using the hashtag #AMessageFromISIStoUS to single out Chicago. The location of the tweet was 307 N. Michigan Avenue at the city’s Old Republic Building, Chicago’s WGN network reported Friday. The tweet, dated June 20, allegedly says, “Soldiers of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria will pass from here soon,” the station reported. Security at the Old Republic Building wouldn’t comment, nor would local or federal authorities, including Secret Service and the FBI, WGN reported. Source: Charisma News Author: Michael Brown On a regular basis, whenever there are reports of moral collapse in our country or of wars and crises worldwide, someone will say to me, "This is it! Jesus is about to return! Everything is coming down!" Of course, according to one system of interpretation, that could be true and the Lord could return within the next few moments or years. The problem I have is that I've heard Jesus is coming back any moment for more than 40 years. Could it be that we have a wrong mentality about the end of the age? Could it be that we're missing something very important? Source: Yahoo News Virginia Republican Rep. Frank Wolf says there is a genocide being perpetrated against the Christians of Iraq and the White House hasn’t said a word about it, much less acted to stop it. The terrorist group the Islamic State, an al Qaida off shoot that has taken over large swaths of Iraq in recent months, told Christians in the Iraqi city of Mosul they had to convert to Islam by July 18 or they would be killed, according to the Economist. The only other option they were given was to leave Mosul, a city which has had a Christian presence for nearly two millennia. So thousands of Christians have now fled the city in fear for their lives. -Is Sharia Law on the horizon for all 57 Muslim countries--and then the whole world? -Are Muslims calling for Sharia Law in the USA? -Could it be part of the one-world religion predicted in bible prophecy? -What Christian leaders are compromising the faith for "Chrislam", and what is the immediate danger? -What are Islam's plans for Israel, Christianity and planet earth? Get the answers to these and other critical questions in this powerful teaching from Drs. Jack and Rexella Van Impe - and you will discover the startling truth about the real threat of Islam and it's place in these latter days! |
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