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23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
See here, 1. How a small estate may be improved by industry, so that a man, by making the best of every thing, may live comfortably upon it: Much food is in the tillage of the poor, the poor farmers, that have but a little, but take pains with that little and husband it well. Many make it an excuse for their idleness that they have but a little to work on, a very little to be doing with; but the less compass the field is of the more let the skill and labour of the owner be employed about it, and it will turn to a very good account. Let him dig, and he needs not beg.
2. How a great estate may be ruined by indiscretion: There is that has a great deal, but it is destroyed and brought to nothing for want of judgment, that is, prudence in the management of it. Men over-build themselves or over-buy themselves, keep greater company, or a better table, or more servants, than they can afford, suffer what they have to go to decay and do not make the most of it; by taking up money themselves, or being bound for others, their estates are sunk, their families reduced, and all for want of judgment.
22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
See here, 1. How a good man’s estate lasts: He leaves an inheritance to his children’s children. It is part of his praise that he is thoughtful for posterity, that he does not lay all out upon himself, but is in care to do well for those that come after him, not by withholding more than is meet, but by a prudent and decent frugality. He trains up his children to this, that they may leave it to their children; and especially he is careful, both by justice and charity, to obtain the blessing of God upon what he has, and to entail that blessing upon his children, without which the greatest industry and frugality will be in vain: A good man, by being good and doing good, by honouring the Lord with his substance and spending it in his service, secures it to his posterity; or, if he should not leave them much of this world’s goods, his prayers, his instructions, his good example, will be the best entail, and the promises of the covenant will be an inheritance to his children’s children,Ps. ciii. 17.
2. How it increases by the accession of the wealth of the sinner to it, for that is laid up for the just. If it be asked, How should good men grow so rich, who are not so eager upon the world as others are and who commonly suffer for their well-doing? It is here answered, God, in his providence, often brings into their hands that which wicked people had laid up for themselves. The innocent shall divide the silver,Job xxvii. 16, 17. The Israelites shall spoil the Egyptians (Exod. xii. 36) and eat the riches of the Gentiles,Isa. lxi. 6.
21 Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.
Here see, 1. How unavoidable the destruction of sinners is; the wrath of God pursues them, and all the terrors of that wrath: Evil pursues them closely wherever they go, as the avenger of blood pursued the manslayer, and they have no city of refuge to flee to; they attempt an escape, but in vain. Whom God pursues he is sure to overtake. They may prosper for a while and grow very secure, but their damnation slumbers not, though they do.
2. How indefeasible the happiness of the saints is; the God that cannot lie has engaged that to the righteous good shall be repaid. They shall be abundantly recompensed for all the good they have done, and all the ill they have suffered, in this world; so that, though many have been losers for their righteousness, they shall not be losers by it. Though the recompence do not come quickly, it will come in the day of payment, in the world of retribution; and it will be an abundant recompence.
Europeans shunned Iran leader, but we should be worried about rest of world
The Persian guy delivered a speech, and the Europeans walked out. This is what the summary of the Iranian president’s appearance at the Geneva anti-racism conference, dubbed “Durban II,” looked like to Israeli viewers. A great diplomatic victory.
Yet while it was certainly diplomatic, it was not necessarily a victory.
First World countries indeed shunned the conference or walked out immediately. Yet the dignified delegations from the Second and Third World remained seated when Ahmadinejad delivered his speech.
The authorized representatives of the vast majority of humanity, 80% of it, attentively listened to his speech, with the United Nations logo in the backdrop. The speech was also broadcasted to the homes of hundreds of millions of people. The parade of those walking out of the conference hall was indeed broadcasted too, briefly; white diplomats in custom-made suits. Only white ones.
In his speech, just like in his previous public appearances, Ahmadinejad presented an orderly doctrine that would lead to a comprehensive and original solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. His argument is outrageous and sounds phony, distorted, inflammatory, and anti-Semitic to us (and to the majority of enlightened global public opinion, for the time being.) However, to others, far away from Europe, it sounds like the voice of repressed justice.
Partition decision fundamentally unjust
Here is the essence of the Iranian president’s narrative, and we would do well to become closely familiar with it: Whether there was a unique Jewish Holocaust during World War II or not – and we can likely assume that it didn’t happen, and certainly not to the extent described by the Zionists – the Jews exploited it and used it cynically and slyly in order to justify the expulsion of the Palestinians from their homeland. Through malicious manipulations and wealthy lobby groups, the Zionist Jews exploited the sense of guilt felt by the USSR, US, and European states, prompting them to support one of the greatest robberies in history: The UN partition plan and the Jewish State’s establishment.
This UN decision, as it was tainted by fundamental injustice to begin with, is null and void in moral terms. The Zionist entity established in Palestine sinfully has been characterized from the very beginning by racism and exploitation, which only grew with the passage of time. This entity turned itself into the focal point of global evil and to the ultimate factor undermining global stability.
Now, with the changing global balance of power, the time has come to formally annul the disgraceful 1947 partition decision, which granted Arab land to a handful of Jews. Instead, the UN should adopt a new decision, premised on the following: A referendum among all “people of Palestine” on its future. The people who will be invited to take part in the referendum are the Muslims currently residing there, the Muslims who resided there before the Zionist occupation, their descendents, and the Christians and Jews born in Palestine itself.
Change UN voting procedures
The peace-seeking Iran pledges to accept the majority decision in the above-mentioned referendum. Therefore, this is not about nuclear sabre-rattling or a declaration of war on the Zionists, but rather, a just and democratic solution that will be achieved peacefully and with international consensus.
If, as result of the referendum, the Jewish state will be abolished, the Jews would not be threatened with extermination or a second “Holocaust.” They will be allowed to integrate into the great Palestinian state as a religious element with recognized civil rights, even beyond the rights given to Iranian Jews. The Muslims, as opposed to the Nazis, will do everything to protect the Jewish minority to be left in Palestine in the wake of the referendum results’ implementation.
All that is left is to change the UN’s voting procedures: The four billion people residing in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America are the majority, and they deserve to be recognized as such. Iran will serve as their mouthpiece; that is, Ahmadinejad’s mouth.
Time is running out
The Iranian president’s narrative is not perceived as delusional or crazy in the Second and Third World (and also among the radical European Left.) On the contrary, it is perceived as legitimate within the confines of post-colonial discourse – the amelioration of a historical injustice caused by the UN in 1947; a solution of peace, co-existence, and democracy. It also features certain similarities to the agreements in South Africa and the former Yugoslavia. And as to the sanctity of international agreements, wasn’t the Yalta Agreement on Europe’s division annulled?
This time around, Israeli diplomacy managed to make Iran’s president feel slight discomfort and prompted First World states to reject him and his messages. This is something, but it’s very little.
Just look at who stuck around to listen to Ahmadinejad in Geneva and you’ll realize that time is running out.
The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said in an interview broadcast Friday that he’s “extremely concerned” about indications the Taliban was moving closer to Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad.
“We’re certainly moving closer to the tipping point” where Pakistan could be overtaken by Islamic extremists, Adm. Mike Mullen said in the interview, even as reports from Pakistan suggested a pullback was under way.
Speaking from Afghanistan, Mullen said he feels “events continue to move in the wrong direction” in both Pakistan and Afghanistan. And Mullen also said he hopes that the arrival soon of an additional 17,000 American combat troops will stabilize things.
“We’re going as fast as we can go right now and we want to get it right,” he said. But Mullen also said the Afghan people “have to take over security for their nation. That’s the only way we’re going to be successful.”
Meanwhile, a local official in Pakistan said Friday that Taliban militants had begun withdrawing from a recently seized district in the northwestern part of the country after the government warned it would remove them by force. The pullback, if carried through, would eliminate the most immediate threat to a peace agreement in the militant-held Swat Valley that the U.S. government worries has created a haven for allies of al-Qaida.
Mullen said he shares the sentiments of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who told a House committee earlier this week she believes the Pakistani government is “basically abdicating to the Taliban and the extremists.”
“Changing paradigms and mindsets is not easy,” Clinton said at the time, “but I do believe there is an increasing awareness of not just the Pakistani government but the Pakistani people that this insurgency coming closer and closer to major cities does pose such a threat.”
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on Thursday noted Clinton’s remarks and said, alluding to Pakistan, “I think the news over the past several days is very disturbing. The administration is extremely concerned.”
Julio Severo, a prominent Brazilian pro-family activist, has been forced into exile because of the “hate crimes” laws that are being implemented in his native land, perhaps providing a preview of what Christians can expect in the United States should similar “hate crimes” proposals be implemented.
And several organizations are reporting Congress could begin adopting measures similarly draconian to Brazil’s as early as this week.
“It is imperative that we contact all members of the House and demand that they vote against this bill as it will not protect a pastor, Bible teacher, Sunday School teacher, youth leader or anyone else from prosecution if he or she teaches against homosexuality if an individual who hears their message then goes out and commits a crime against a homosexual,” wrote Pastor Rick Scarborough of Vision America Action, which as a website link to make that contact.
“Hate crimes laws that include sexual orientation are a bad idea, because they elevate homosexuality to the same status as race and do nothing to prevent violent crimes. All crimes are motivated by hate,” said Mathew Staver, chief of Liberty Counsel, which also is alerting people to the congressional plans.
“Hate crimes laws will not be used to punish the perpetrators but will be used to silence people of faith, religious groups, clergy, and those who support traditional moral values,” Staver said.
Severo reports he was forced to flee his homeland after federal prosecutors there recently charged him with “homophobia’ for his statements about the nation’s “Gay” Parade in 2006.
Severo told WND that while Brazil does not criminalize Christianity, it does regulate what biblical principles can and cannot be preached, and it bans biblical citations that disapprove of the homosexual lifestyle.
“Brazil grants freedom to preach Christianity, provided that the sermons avoid negative mentions of state-protected behaviors and cultural trends,” Severo said. “The Brazilian government is establishing more and more categories of protected behaviors, banning negative mentions. So Brazilian preachers need to get updated on the latest political changes and preach a Gospel according to the state interests.”
He said, “Today it is risky to preach a complete Gospel in Brazil. Because of the diversity politics, you cannot say anything negative about witchcraft, especially when such practices are from Africa.”
He cited an example of what is happening.
“In Rio, a Pentecostal minister led a criminal to Jesus and convinced him to deliver himself to police. Rev. Isaías da Silva Andrade accompanied the former criminal to police and when they asked how his life had been changed, the minister answered that the former criminal lived under the influence of demons from Afro-Brazilian religions which inspired him to criminal conduct, but now he found salvation in Jesus. Because of this innocent account, Rev. Andrade is now being prosecuted for discrimination against the Afro-Brazilian ‘culture’! If condemned, he will serve between two and five years in jail,” Severo said.
Severo reported on his blog that prosecutors were working to find him by demanding his address from friends and acquaintances.
So he said he took matters into his own hands to protect himself and his family, as well as his friends, from further discrimination.
‘”I was forced to leave the country with my family: a wife in the advanced stages of pregnancy and two little children,” he reported on his blog. “We are now in a place that is completely foreign to us. What choice did we have?”
He said Brazil has no law stating that the broadly interpreted “homophobia” – a term used derogatorily against those who choose to follow biblical precepts and not endorse homosexuality – is illegal.
But he said case rulings show that it is considered a crime. In fact, he said Brazil is one of a growing number of countries cracking down on “homophobia.”
Severo said an influential homosexual activist attempted to publish his name and contact information, which he believes was an attempt to intimidate him. He said he became alarmed and concerned for his own safety and that of his family.
“Because of the fierce opposition of gay militants and their charges against me, I had limited freedom to appear openly in Brazil,” Severo said. “The most important homosexual leader in Brazil tried to publish my complete name, physical address and telephone number, in a stealth way of intimidating me. Yet, even now I have to be careful.”
WND has reported that the Obama administration has stated its dedication to strengthening “federal hate crimes legislation” and expanding “hate crimes protection.”
Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission was among those raising the warning of impending “hate crimes” legislation in the United States.
“One of the gravest threats to religious liberty and freedom of speech is proposed hate crime legislation. Even while national attention is focused on the economy and Obama’s radical economic and foreign policy, the far left is at work undermining our First Amendment rights at home with hate crime legislation,” he said.
“In other countries where these types of laws have been implemented, pastors and Christians have been jailed and fined for their faithful adherence to the Scriptures,” he said.
He reported Barney Frank, an openly homosexual congressman, announced Thursday that the House Judiciary Committee will be considering “hate crimes” legislation, H.R. 1913, this week.
“Frank is expecting the committee to pass the bill which would leave it in the House to vote on later this spring, according to a news release issued by Barney Frank on his website last week,” Cass said.
As reported earlier by CADC, the bill, H.R. 1913, is named the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The bill already had 42 co-sponsors. The bill was introduced into the House on April 2 by U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
“All freedom loving Americans must voice their opposition to this bill. If this bill passes it lays the foundation for censoring Christians. In other countries, like in Canada and Sweden, where these types of hate crime laws have been implemented, pastors and Christians have been jailed and fined for their faithful adherence to biblical values,” he said.
Also raising the alarm was the Traditional Values Coalition, where Executive Director Andrea Lafferty said, “the so-called hate crimes bill will be used to lay the legal foundation and framework to investigate, prosecute and persecute pastors, business owners, Bible teachers, Sunday School teachers, youth leaders, Christian counselors, religious broadcasters and anyone else whose actions are based upon and reflect the truths found in the Bible.”
The organization warned based on a broad definition of “intimidation,” even “a pastor’s sermon could be considered ‘hate speech’ … if heard by an individual who then acts aggressively against persons based on any ‘sexual orientation.’”
The organization noted during markup of the plan in a 2007 committee hearing, Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala., admitted that the law would not protect a pastor from prosecution.
Scarborough reported the U.S. plan is to be voted on in the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday.
“Hate crimes laws are actually ‘thought crimes’ laws that violate the right to freedom of speech and of conscience,” warned Liberty Counsel. “Hate crimes laws will have a chilling effect on people who have moral or religious objections to homosexual behavior. Evidence of a person’s beliefs will be used against any individuals who are even suspected of criminal activity.
“Hate crimes laws are unnecessary, as criminal laws already provide criminal penalties for the violent crimes,” the organization continued. “Additional penalties will subject individuals to scrutiny of their beliefs, rather than focusing on a person’s criminal actions, and will do nothing to prevent crime.”
Severo said, “If they wish to continue with their absurd acts against me for ‘homophobia,’ I state that I am no longer in Brazil. Leave my friends in peace.”
But that doesn’t mean people won’t hear from him.
“I will not be silenced. The voice that God gave me will continue to be used to alert Brazil, whether I am in India, Kenya, Nicaragua, or any other country in the world,” he said.
The article that originally sparked controversy, in which Severo criticized Brazil’s homosexual parade, also urged homosexuals to repent of their behavior and turn to Christianity.
Some in the U.S. are fighting back, too, including Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas.
He appears in a YouTube video arguing against the earlier plan.
“A large part of this is that many people do not understand the Christian heart,” he said. “They just don’t like people who disagree with them. The true Christian heart can disagree with people, and still love them deeply,” he said.
But the law, Gohmert said, would allow prosecutors to “go after a minister … who says [sexual] relations outside of the marriage of a man and a woman are wrong.”
The congressman says if there is a crime, and the suspect says he was inspired by a minister, the preacher suddenly also would be a defendant in the crime.
Tony Perkins of FRC Action also was busy alerting his constituents.
He emphasized that the scenario explained by Gohmert not only is possible but probable.
“How would it happen? A federal ‘hate crimes’ law prohibiting ‘bodily injury’ could be construed by many law enforcement officials and judges to include words that inflict emotional or psychological distress,” he said. “That means an ‘offended’ homosexual could accuse a religious broadcaster … a pastor … Sunday School teacher … or other individual of causing emotional injury simply by expressing the biblical view that homosexual behavior is morally wrong and unhealthy.
“That’s all it could take to trigger a wave of federal prosecutions and begin an era of censorship like America has never seen!” he warned.
Critics have said “hate crimes” laws actually criminalize thought because they demand enhanced penalties because of the “perception” of the victim by the perpetrator. A mugger, for example, who attacks a victim while screaming an epithet denoting a race or sexual preference could get a much more significant penalty than a mugger who attacks a victim but doesn’t say anything.
Matt Barber, director of cultural affairs at Liberty Counsel, has spoken out repeatedly in opposition to the idea.
“The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees equal protection under the law,” he said. “Hate crimes legislation is … [a] violation of the Fourteenth Amendment in that it elevates one class of citizen based upon their chosen sexual behaviors above other people.”
Coral Ridge Ministries, launched by the late D. James Kennedy, has published a book on the issue by John Aman, who says such laws put into doubt “the future of religious liberty and freedom of speech for Christians.”
More people are living alone, more children are being raised by single parents and more grown-up children are living with their parents than ever before, according to the Office for National Statistics.
One expert said that the in-depth annual study was final confirmation that the nuclear family had become “a museum piece”.
The Social Trends report made clear, however, that the most radical changes had been to child-rearing and marriage.
Its figures showed that 30 per cent of women under 30 had given birth by the age of 25, while 24 per cent had married: the first time that having children had become the first major milestone of adult life, ahead of marriage. This was in sharp contrast to their parents’ generation. In 1971 three-quarters of women were married by 25, and half had given birth. The statistics also showed that:
- the number of adults living alone doubled in a generation, from 6 per cent to 12 per cent, because of a combination of death, divorce and marrying at a later age;
- single-parent households nearly tripled from 4 per cent of the total to 11 per cent between 1971 and 2008;
- the percentage of households comprising the traditional nuclear family – a couple with children – fell from 52 per cent to 36 per cent over the same period;
- the number of married couples hit the lowest level, in real terms, since 1895, with 237,000 marriages in England and Wales in 2006, down from a peak of 471,000 during the Second World War;
- some 1.66 million children were being brought up by an unmarried couple, up from one million 10 years ago. The number brought up by married parents dropped from 9.57 million to 8.32 million.
The figures were published two months after official statistics showed that the annual rate of teenage pregnancy in England had risen to 42 in every 1,000, despite a £286 million government campaign to tackle the problem. The figures reinforced Britain’s position as the teenage pregnancy capital of Europe.
Dr Richard Woolfson, a leading family expert and child psychologist, said: “The nature of family life has changed significantly in the last 30 years. The traditional nuclear family of two parents and 2.4 children has become a museum piece.
“The single-parent family carried all sorts of social and moral judgments back then [in 1971]. That is just not the case any more.
“The couple who do not get married is now socially acceptable in a way that it never was before.”
Dr Woolfson said it was impossible to say if children raised outside the traditional family were unhappier, but he added: “You have to ask what sort of families will today’s children create. Where will they go?”
Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative leader and chairman of the Centre for Social Justice, said the figures “mattered hugely”. He added: “One in 12 children will experience their parents breaking up by the age of five if those parents are married. But that figure is one in two if the parents are cohabiting. Marriage is not just a piece of paper.”
Mr Duncan Smith called for the tax system to favour those who choose marriage over living together. “It is not our job, as politicians, to lecture, but the problem has been caused by successive UK governments centring on the child, and forgetting the parent,” he said.
“We now know that children suffer hugely if they don’t get the balance of two parents in their upbringing. Those with two parents are less likely to take drugs, more likely to do well at school, more likely to get jobs.”
The ONS said the Divorce Reform Act of 1969, which made it easier to dissolve a marriage, was one of the main causes for the radical change in families.
Critics of the Government point out that the tax system has also been altered to the advantage of unmarried couples.
The last tax break for married couples, the married couples’ allowance, was abolished in 2000. State benefits, and especially Gordon Brown’s flagship tax credit system, pay more to single mothers than to two-parent families.
Patricia Morgan, the author of The War between the State and the Family, said: “There is discrimination on the one hand, but on the other there are major benefit incentives for a single woman to have children. It’s a mug’s game, getting married.”
Local Presbyterians voted overwhelmingly Tuesday night to approve an amendment to their church constitution to allow gay clergy.
The vote, announced just after 8 p.m. at a crowded meeting at National Presbyterian Church in Northwest, was 222-102 with one abstention. The voters represented 34,000 Presbyterians in the District, Northern Virginia and five Maryland counties who belong to the National Capital Presbytery.
“This presbytery has consistently voted along these lines,” said the Rev. Tim Cargal, moderator for National Capital. “They wanted to record their support of having this language removed from the Book of Order.”
The church’s constitution is divided into a Book of Order and a Book of Confessions. The amendment replaces language that requires clergy to maintain “fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman or chastity in singleness.” The new language specifies only that clergy will “declare their fidelity to the standards of the church.”
The amendment was passed last summer in San Diego at a General Assembly of the 2.2-million-member Presbyterian Church USA. To become church law, it must be approved by a majority 87 of the denomination’s 173 presbyteries, or geographic regions.
Along with National Capital Presbytery and Salem Presbytery in central North Carolina, which also voted for the amendment Tuesday, 67 presbyteries have voted to ratify. Voting results from two other presbyteries San Francisco and Wabash Valley in Indiana which also made their decisions Tuesday, were not known as of Tuesday night.
However, 85 presbyteries have voted against the amendment. If two more vote no, the amendment will fail.
Speakers at the National Capital Presbytery meeting did not seem concerned that their decision could become moot. About 20 percent of the 335 attendees wore rainbow-colored knit scarves to signify their support of the amendment, and the majority of those who spoke up during the four-hour meeting were in favor of the amendment.
Cindy Stauffer, an elder at Bradley Hills Presbyterian in Bethesda, pointed out that her assistant pastor, the Rev. Eric Scott Winnette, had a huge stake in the vote’s outcome.
“Scott is gay, and it saddens me to think any gay or lesbian person called to ordination in our church not be embraced in our denomination,” she said.
Opponents to changing the amendment’s language pointed out that members of the Presbyterian Church USA have been battling over the issue for several decades with little to show for it.
“This issue is the greatest gift we have given to Satan from this church,” said Henry Kim, a member of Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church. “We have lost a half-million or more members since I became a Presbyterian; the blood is neck-deep on this issue and absolutely nothing will be resolved by this vote.”
Moshe Feiglin, head of Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership Movement) said last week that if he was elected prime minister, he would try to rebuild the destroyed Temple in Jerusalem.
“I don’t know if I will have the merit of doing something that is the aspiration of every Jew,” said Feiglin. “But if I become prime minister I will take away control over the Temple Mount from the Wakf [the Islamic trust] and reinstate Jewish sovereignty over the entire mount and, hopefully, rebuild the Temple.”
Feiglin said that rebuilding the Temple and all that it symbolized was the essence of a Jewish state.
Feiglin made the comments during the second annual Ramle Conference, sponsored by the religious Zionist settler movement Komemiut and a small group of young rabbis who are involved in outreach in Ramle.
The subject of the conference was “Between Israel and the Nations of the World.”
Feiglin said that Israel’s political leadership since 1967 had missed the chance to “realize every Jew’s aspiration.”
“I am not saying that I will fulfill this dream, but I am saying that if I get the chance I will do my utmost to bring our hopes in line with reality. It may seem altogether disconnected from reality to talk about rebuilding the Temple, but imagine how an Auschwitz survivor would have responded if he were told in 1945 that the Jewish people would have a state of their own with a Jewish army,” he said.
In December of last year, ahead of national elections, Feiglin, who was number 20 on Likud’s list, was sidelined by Likud chairman Binyamin Netanyahu. In an internal party decision, Feiglin was bumped down to the number 36 slot, leaving him out of the present Knesset.
However, Feiglin, who spoke with The Jerusalem Post Sunday, said he still harbored ambitions of replacing Netanyahu and becoming Israel’s next prime minister.
Meanwhile, Rabbi Zalman Melamed, a leading spiritual leader of the settlement movement and rabbi of Beit El, envisioned a time when a majority of Israelis would be religious.
“There is a steady process unfolding in which the state is gradually becoming more religious,” said Melamed.
“Haredim and families from our crowd have large families. Also, there are growing numbers of newly religious families. There is a deep feeling that people want the redemption to arrive already. And part of that process will be the rebuilding of the Temple.”
A deadly strain of swine flu never seen before has broken out in Mexico, killing at least 16 people and raising fears it is spreading across North America.
The World Health Organization said it was concerned about what it called 800 “influenza-like” cases in Mexico, and also about a confirmed outbreak of a new strain of swine flu in the United States.
Mexico canceled classes for millions of children in its sprawling capital city and surrounding areas on Friday after authorities noticed a higher number of deaths involving flu-like illness than normal in recent weeks.
“It is a virus that mutated from pigs and then at some point was transmitted to humans,” Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova told the Televisa network.
He linked the disease in Mexico to a new kind of swine flu that struck seven people in California and Texas.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the virus in the United States was a never-before-seen mixture of viruses typical among pigs, birds and humans. All seven American patients have recovered.
The Mexican government warned people not to shake hands or kiss when greeting or share food, glasses or cutlery for fear of contracting the flu.
Mexico City, one of the world’s biggest cities and home to some 20 million people, was quieter than usual on Friday morning. Normally choking traffic was less chaotic in the absence of school buses and parents driving kids to school.
Many people waiting to enter subway stations had their faces covered with surgical masks.
The virus is an influenza A virus, carrying the designation H1N1. It contains DNA typical to avian, swine and human viruses, including elements from European and Asian swine viruses, the CDC has said.
WHO said about 60 people in Mexico have died from the disease. The Geneva-based U.N. agency said it was in daily contact with U.S., Canadian and Mexican authorities and had activated its Strategic Health Operations Center (SHOC) — its command and control center for acute public health events.
Surveillance for and scrutiny of influenza has been stepped up since 2003, when H5N1 bird flu reappeared in Asia. Experts fear this strain, or another strain, could spark a pandemic that could kill millions.
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