IN the NEWS - That Taste of the Future continues Another week

It has been continuing---the massive weird global natural calamities--crammed into a small window of time of the last few weeks....a TASTE OF THE FUTURE?

For nation shall rise against nation,
and kingdom against kingdom:
and there shall be famines,
and pestilences and earthquakes,
in divers places.
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars:
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, ...and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Matthew 24:7,8,6/Luke 21:11

Afghanistan: Several earthquakes including one killing thousands.

Japan: At least 3 quakes rattle nation. Typhoon bring floods and landslides.

Ecuador: Quake off coast.

Mexico: 17 quakes rattle Baha Peninsula.

China: Another massive hailstorm destroys crops and buildings.

Burma: Another earthquake.

Italy: Continuing quake swarms near Naples.

Saudi Arabia: Massive flooding including Mecca.

Sudan: Rains cause a landslide burying over 1,000 alive.

Philippines: Quake rattles coast.

India: Massive flooding in the Punjab--again.

Guatemala: Volcanic eruption.

Norway: Landslide buries highway and railway.

Spain: Canary Islands quake swarm of more than 100.

U.S.A.: Nevada quake swarm and sand storm (does serious damage

to the "burning man" event in the desert including destroying their "orgy tent"). Several quakes off coast of Alaska. Houston flooded--again. Small quake in bay area of California.

Chile-Argentina: Quake rattles border--again.

Antarctica: More quakes near islands nearby in Atlantic.

HEALTH NOTE: 47 Mask Study Series- #35

  Beloved,  

I wish above all things that thou mayest... be in health... 

 3 John 1:2

35. Respiratory performance offered by N95 respirators and surgical masks: human subject evaluation with NaCl aerosol representing bacterial and viral particle size range

“The study indicates that N95 filtering facepiece respirators may not achieve the expected protection level against bacteria and viruses”

Study article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18326870/ Lifesite

Q: IF these Politicians in America keep pushing the notion of mandating the Jab here---WHY would you not mandate for Refugees entering your nation?

Q: IF these Politicians (i use the term "Politician" here in the most Machiavellian sense possible since it is applicable) tell us the Vax will protect you and keep it from spreading--and is guaranteed safe-- then why not HELP these poor Refuges of the Debacle of historic proportions from Afghanistan and jab 'em? ...just asking...

"Gen. Glen VanHerck, the commander of the United States Northern Command, said during a press conference on Friday that around 7,000 Afghan refugees have thus far been airlifted to the U.S. The refugees, who will be housed at U.S. military bases around the country, will be offered the COVID-19 vaccine but won’t be forced to take it.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday confirmed that a mass-vaccination site has been set up at Dulles to greet arriving evacuees. A second such site is reportedly set to open at Philidelphia International Airport to vaccinate evacuees arriving there.

Individuals are tested upon arrival in the U.S. and quarantined if they test positive. VanHerck said that several people have tested positive, though he emphasized that it’s only a small percentage of the thousands who have arrived.

They were all crammed onto planes for hours on end as they were flown to the U.S.—and before hanging out at the crowded Kabul airport—so it wouldn’t be surprising to see a major outbreak amongst the evacuees over the next couple of weeks.

Meanwhile, members of the U.S. military will be forced to take the COVID-19 vaccine beginning next month, whether they want it or not." PJMedia 

Provide things honest in the sight of all men. Romans 12:17

IN the NEWS - Taliban Begin Targeting Christians

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. John 15:18 

"The Taliban is killing people in Afghanistan they find with copies of the Bible on their mobile phones, a Christian non-profit

denounced on Tuesday.

The Taliban, a radical Islamist terrorist organization, seized leadership of the country on Sunday after surrounding the nation’s capital, Kabul, prompting former President Ashraf Ghani to flee. 

“..... the Taliban demand people’s phones, and if they find a downloaded Bible on your device, they will kill you immediately,” said SAT-7 North America President Dr. Rex Rogers told Religion News Service. “It’s incredibly dangerous right

now for Afghans to have anything Christian on their phones. The Taliban have spies and informants everywhere.”

 Even without the Taliban in power, Afghanistan was the second most dangerous place for Christians to practice their faith, behind North Korea, according to the 2021 version of Open Doors’ World Watch List." Breitbart

IN the NEWS - Tears of Afghanistan

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

Psalm 6:6 

Afghan Girl Tears Up, Says ‘No One Cares About Us. We’ll Die Slowly In History’

 

Desperate Afghans Hang On to the Side Of U.S. Cargo Plane, Plunge to Death After Takeoff

Breitbart/TP

IN the NEWS - Face of the Taliban

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.

John 8:44

 

"Islamist Taliban forces now control more than 65 percent of Afghan territory, including 12 of 34 provincial capitals. Before the announcement of the US troop withdrawal in April, Herat, with its population of more than 500,000, was considered a calm oasis in the volatile country. 

The militants shot dead a 21-year-old woman, named Nazanin, in Balkh province in northern #Afghanistan. The reason? She was outside without a male relative.....

The woman was attacked after she left her house and was about to board a vehicle to travel to Balkh's capital Mazar-e Sharif. The woman was wearing a burqa, a veil that covers the face and body, at the time of the attack, the police said. 

The Mail on Sunday reported that whenever the extremists capture a new town or district, they issue orders through the speakers of local mosques for the names of wives and widows of all local government and police personnel to be handed over.

 

On Friday, Taliban terrorists killed Dawa Khan Menapal, head of the Afghan government's media and information centre, in Kabul's Darul Aman Road. Taliban's spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility and lauded the terrorists over Twitter.....Taliban looting, murdering, and taking civilians as hostages in and around Lashkar Gah in Helmand province. Besides, they are also forcing women to cook, taking their clothes and jewellery, and shooting children in front of their parents' eyes."

France24/IndiaNews

Paths From Babel: To Afghanistan

Therefore is the name of it called Babel;

because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth:

and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Genesis 11:9

"Historical records indicate that Aryans from Iran were the first to occupy Afghanistan (eighth century B.C.) followed by Persians (sixth century B.C.), Greeks (fourth century B.C.), Mauryans

from India (ushered Buddhism into the region), Greco-Bactrians, Arabs (introduced Islam) and Mongols among others.
The official languages of Afghanistan, Dari and Pashto, are of Indo-European origin and are spoken by the Tajiks and Pathans or Pashtuns, respectively. Pathans live primarily south of the Hindu Kush Mountains and comprise the most prevalent ethnic group in Afghanistan (42%) while representing approximately 15% of the population of neighboring Pakistan.
Blood samples were obtained with informed consent from 190 unrelated males representing the general population of Pathans from Afghanistan. The collection was subsequently divided along the Hindu Kush Mountain Range into north Afghanistan (n=44) and south Afghanistan (n=146) to assess the role of the massif as a barrier and/or corridor to gene flow between the two regions.

Y-SNP and Y-STR genotyping

A total of 116 bi-allelic markers were hierarchically genotyped as previously described. The nomenclature followed for the Y-SNP haplogroup assignment is in accordance with the Y Chromosome Consortium and subsequent updates. The 17-loci Y-STR haplotype data from our previous reports were utilized in the current investigation to perform pertinent Y-STR-based analyses.

Distribution of Y-chromosome haplogroups

From a total of 116 binary markers typed, we identified 25 paternal lineages in 190 Afghan males, 11 of which were observed in north Afghanistan and 22 in the southern collection.
The majority of the Afghan individuals examined in the current investigation belong to haplogroup R-M207 (67.4%), with sub-haplogroup R1a1a*-M198 predominating in both the north (50%) and south (65.8%).

It is interesting to note that the paralagous branch, R2a-M124, is observed at a considerably higher proportion in north Afghanistan (11.4%) as compared with the south (2.1%) and that haplogroups R2*-M479 (0.7%) and R1b1a2a-L23 (0.7%) are detected, albeit at low frequencies, exclusively in the southern region of the country.
Haplogroup L-M20 (9.5%), the second most abundant in this study, exhibits substantial disparity in its distribution on either side of the Hindu Kush range, with 25% of the northern Afghans belonging to this lineage, compared with only 4.8% of males from the south.
Haplogroup G-M201, which occurs at an average frequency of 7.9% in the Afghan gene pool, is reported at high frequencies in the Caucasus (eg, 74% in Ossetians from Digora) and it is thought to be associated with the Neolithic expansion throughout the region. Although G2c-M377 is the second most frequent haplogroup in south Afghanistan (6.2%), it is found at substantially lower levels in the northern population (2.3%).
South Afghanistan is represented by 22 polymorphic binary markers, 14 of which are absent from the northern region, suggesting reduced genetic diversity in the latter population. A plausible explanation for the reduced diversity might be the presence of the Hindu Kush Mountain range, which may have served as a directional barrier to gene flow.
Pakistan displays higher haplotype variance (0.548) than India (0.118), suggesting that L-M20 most likely originated in what is today Pakistan rather than in India.
Afghanistan populations are comparable to those computed for Pakistan and higher than India at the seven-loci resolution.
This finding supports the notion that the L3-M357 sub-clade is of Afghani or Pakistani origin and subsequently spread southernly to India.
Our study demonstrates close genetic ties between Pathans from Afghanistan and Pakistan. The affinity between Pathans from these two regions is expected considering that the Durand Line, which established Afghanistan southeastern limits since 1893, was imposed without concern to tribal and ethnic affiliations.
On the origins of Pathans

Although Greeks and Jews have been proposed as ancestors to Pathans, their genetic origin remains ambiguous. The Lasithi Plateau isolate, in the highlands of eastern Crete, partitions relatively close to the Afghanistan populations in the CA graph, which could be attributed to the elevated proportion of R1a1a chromosomes shared among them. However, the absence of the predominantly Greek E1b1b1a2 -V13 lineage in Pathans does not argue for genetic contributions from Greece. Ashkenazi Levites and our north and south Afghanistan populations, on the other hand, exhibit significantly higher frequency of the R1a1a-M198 haplogroup (51.7%, 50.0% and 65.8%, respectively), whereas lower frequencies are detected in Ashkenazi Cohanims (1.3%) and Ashkenazi Israelites (4.0%).

Overall, Ashkenazi Jews exhibit a frequency of 15.3% for haplogroup R1a1a-M198. Nebel et al proposed, on the basis of moderate to high frequency of R1a1a in Central Asia and southern Russia/Ukraine, that these R1a1a chromosomes in Ashkenazi groups might represent vestiges of Khazars. It is thought that this Turkic tribe from Central Asia had converted to Judaism at the end of the Eighth century A.D. and, after the fall of their kingdom, they spread and were assimilated by the emerging Ashkenazi community in Eastern Europe.
In addition, the Jewish traditions (particularly circumcision, a talith prayer shawl, shabbat, praying in the direction of Jerusalem during the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur and the Magen David symbol in their houses, among several others) observed among Pathans from Afghanistan and the presence of haplogroup G2c-M377, a lineage commonly observed among the Ashkenazi Jewish population (~7%), are congruent with the above-stated hypothesis.
The diversity of Y-chromosome haplogroups in the Afghanistan populations examined in this study reflects the history of the area signaling multiple migrations over thousands of years. Our results indicate that Afghanistan exhibits patrilineal elements from the Neolithic revolution dispersal across Central Asia. The observed haplogroup distribution suggests some degree of genetic isolation of the northern population, likely because of the Hindu Kush Mountain range acting as a barrier and separating them from the southern Afghans who have greater contact with neighboring Pakistan and migrants from the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia.
 Genetic signatures of South Central Asian populations are evident in their patrilineages and may represent gene flow associated with the Silk Road migrations. In addition, the high frequencies of R1a1a-M198 chromosomes and the sharing of seven Y-STR loci haplotypes among Pathans, Ashkenazi Jews and west Russians may represent vestiges from the Khazars of Central Asia that converted to Judaism at the end of the Eighth century A.D., connecting Pathans with certain Ashkenazi Jews by the way of a common Khazar ancestry." EuropeanJournalOfHumanGenetics