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An investigation by The Sunday Times of London has found rampant malfeasance in the recycling racket.
PAPER, bottles and plastic that millions of householders are being forced to recycle are routinely being dumped in landfill sites.Recycling companies say they are receiving tens of thousands of tons of materials from councils which are so contaminated or badly sorted that they have to be rejected or dumped.
I always suspected recycling was a big scam.
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Hindu extremists have issued death threats against two Indian Christian leaders—one a pastor, the other a missionary.
Pastor Pabitra Kata was himself once a Hindu radical, but his life has been transformed by the saving gospel of Jesus Christ. Since becoming a Christian and a preacher in 1999, at least 15 people have become believers through his ministry and several have been baptised.
Early last month, he was set upon by a mob of radical Hindus and mercilessly beaten.
“He was beaten with thick sticks, kicked on his jaw and face and dragged on the road. He was screaming because of the pain and praying out loud, asking God to forgive the attackers. He was bleeding profusely from his jaw and ear, and was unable to see. In spite of his painful cries, the attackers continued striking him until the police arrived and stopped the beating,” VOM [Voice of the Martyrs] contacts said. Following the attack, it was discovered the extremists had planned to murder Pastor Pabitra then make a false report claiming he had died in an automobile accident.
As is commonly the case for Christians who have been assaulted by Hindu mobs, Pastor Pabitra got no help from the authorities. After being harangued by police all night, Christian friends took him to hospital the next morning.
Pastor Pabitra has been told that, if he does not renounce Christ, Hindu extremists will kill him and his family.
Last week Gospel for Asia missionary Daya Marandi was threatened with death if he did not abandon his present mission field in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
Suspected Hindu militants have threatened to kill a native missionary and to attack dozens of evangelical Christians in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a major mission group has said.
In comments monitored by BosNewsLife Sunday, June 3, Gospel for Asia (GFA) said the militants threatened to kill one of its missionaries, Daya Marandi, if he does not leave the area "where he is currently ministering."
They also want "to harm about 60 people who worship at a GFA-affiliated church where Daya serves as pastor", the group said. "The extremists are demanding that believers in the church denounce Christianity and return to their former religions."
Today GFA is rejoicing because their prayers were answered with an opportunity to share the gospel with everyone in the area.
When word of the death threats spread throughout the village, the people became curious about Daya and the church he had started. They wanted to know what the Christians were doing that had raised the ire of the extremists. That Sunday, nearly every person in the village attended the worship service at Daya's church. These people who heard the Gospel preached are now defending the missionary against the extremists.
Both Pabitra Kata and Daya Marandi need continued prayers for safety and fruitful ministry.
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Those Neptunians obviously need to cut back their greenhouse gas emissions emissions pronto.
In a study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, H.B. Hammel of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo., and G.W. Lockwood of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., found that Neptune's brightness appears to correlate with temperature changes on Earth. They also noted that Neptune's temperature warmed from 1980 to 2004.
Since there are no humans on Neptune to cause anthropogenic warming — the crime that Gore and the Greenshirts have accused mankind of committing — another explanation is needed. Hammell and Lockwood believe the changes might well be solar-driven.
"If changing brightnesses and temperatures of two different planets are correlated, then some planetary climate changes may be due to variations in the solar system environment," they write in their abstract.
The research by Hammel and Lockwood corroborates other studies supporting the view that climate change is primarily driven by solar activity. Also, several investigations have found that other planets in our solar system show signs of global warming, including Mars and Jupiter.
The abstract of Hammel and Lockwood's article is posted here. Nonsubscribers to Geophysical Research Letters can purchase the full text for $9.00.
h/t: Andrew Bolt
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It is estimated that about 5000 Muslims living in Germany convert to Christianity every year. Bishop Wolfgang Huber (photo at right), Chairman of the German Evangelical Church, says such converts are being increasingly intimidated by Muslims who see them as “apostates”.
Muslim converts fear for their lives – not only in predominantly Muslim countries but also in Germany.The leader of the main line Protestant Churches in Germany, Bishop Wolfgang Huber, is deeply concerned about increasing threats to the lives of former Muslims, who have embraced the Christian faith.
There are congregations of former Muslims in Berlin, Huber’s diocese, who live in constant fear of violent attacks, the Bishop told the 6,000 participants of a Protestant Church Rally in Bavaria, May 28. Huber: “I am convinced that there are more Muslim converts in Germany than we know of.”
German evangelist Ulrich Parzany reports that former Muslims who have embraced Christ sometimes change their identity to avoid reprisals.
h/t: International Christian Concern
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