God wants this Message Passed Along:

No worries, this is a Place of Peace. Let whoever wants to appreciate that, let them appreciate how amazing and peaceful a cemetery truly is. I mean, who wouldn’t want to hang here? I don’t get why the nice places are always so desolate here. America flocks to the herds, to the business, to the madness and chaos. They leave all of these beautiful, peaceful gardens. They ignore the sunrises, the sunsets. Don’t they see how beautiful it is? Don’t they see how easy it is, to chat with me? I mean, take away the distractions, and there I am. Right there, in their heads, in their hearts. The Peace. The Calm. The Clarity.
Why don’t they want that? Why do they choose the chaos over the serenity? It just baffles me so much. So much. I always wondered this, for centuries. Because they always felt so much better after they spent some time with me. Then they’d return to the madness and chaos, to the fog. Why would you choose fog over clarity? Why?
Why…
No, not you. It’s alright, you’re allowed what I allow you. You know that. I know that. You’re in Peace with me, and we’re just chilling on a Sunday afternoon. Keeping the Peace alive. You don’t have to go to a ‘church’ for that. I mean, the lake, the fields, the water’s streams. The ocean, the cemetery. Just wherever you can be at Peace, that’s where you find God. Because God is these things. God is the Peace.
Churches are more chaotic – all that banter, all that talking. No room to just let Me in there and to restore the Peace. Mental Cleansing. I’m there, for everyone. Just let me in. They just have to be in Peace – then they’ll know it’s Me in there. I am the Peace. I am the Peace.

There’s the first message.
And this one…
Well, this is a HUGE one. Here it is:

People need to find another way to pray. They need to find the Peace within themselves. They need to look for that space, that alone time. They need to surround themselves in this. This is their way out, their way to freedom, to Peace. To the New Beginning.

They need this. Or else they won’t find these things. They won’t find the New Beginning. They won’t find Peace. They won’t find Eternity. They won’t find Paradise.

They need to Listen. They need to know what is happening, that this is for real, this is The Transition. MorningStar will guide them through this. They need to understand this. She is their way there, the way to the Light. If they don’t understand this, they won’t find Paradise. They won’t find The New Beginning. They won’t find Eternity. They won’t know these things. They won’t be. Period.

This is a choice. This is free will. This is for real. For Real. And this is Very Fast. From Now On, This Is Very Fast.
Thank You.
God



Worst floods in 11 years hit Thailand, Myanmar

BANGKOK, Oct 11 (Reuters) - The worst monsoon floods in more than a decade are sweeping through Myanmar and Thailand, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake, officials said on Wednesday.

At least 13 people have been killed over the last few days in army-ruled Myanmar, where the 690 km (430 mile) main rail line between Yangon and Mandalay was among many severed connections, they said.

In Thailand, where 39 people have died in flash floods and landslides since August, the Chao Phraya river spilled into low-lying parts of Bangkok, a sprawling city of 10 million people.

In a desperate bid to prevent widespread flooding, authorities have been building sandbag and concrete defences along city centre river banks and diverting the flow upstream into rice fields near the ancient city of Ayutthaya.

High tides have also contributed to the danger, although officials said sea levels peaked on Tuesday, so the Thai capital should be spared unless there are huge amounts of rain up-country in the coming week.

"Bangkok is not likely to face floods in the next few days," said Sunsern Ruengrit of the Flood Control Centre in Bangkok, even though tourists to the capital's glittering Grand Palace had to wade through knee-deep water.

High tides are due to return on Oct 25 and 26, suggesting the threat is far from gone and the Meteorological office is forecasting more downpours in the next few days.

The floods -- the worst since 1995 -- in Thailand's rural and mountainous north have already left their mark, sweeping away roads, bridges, and schools and ruining crops.

Around 2 million people in 46 of the country's 76 provinces have been affected, officials estimate.

The Health Ministry says 230,000 people have been hit by flood-related diseases and urged those in affected areas not to urinate or excrete into the water to prevent the spread of infection.

The floods have also taken their toll on farmers in the world's largest rice exporter, with officials estimating more than 3 billion baht ($80 million) in crop damage.

There are still concerns for the safety of the ancient temple complex of Ayutthaya, a World Heritage site 75 km (40 miles) north of Bangkok, where the Chao Phrya is dangerously close to bursting its banks. ($1=37.45 Baht)

Heavy Flooding in Mexico

Silver Spring, Maryland—In response to heavy flooding in northern Mexico in September, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is providing aid to 2,400 persons who lost their homes during the heavy seasonal rains.

Emergency kits containing mattresses and blankets will be distributed to 300 families who have lost their furniture, beds, and linens to the floods.

ADRA is also providing food baskets to 300 families. "The food will cover the immediate needs of families that have already received mattresses and blankets from the government relief program, but who are still in need of additional help," stated Rafael Garcia, country director for ADRA Mexico.

"The rehabilitation will not happen overnight, but with time we will be able to meet the needs of those left destitute by this crisis," added Garcia.

The project began on September 27, and is scheduled to be completed by October 12. The flooding relief project is funded by ADRA Mexico, the ADRA Inter-American Divisional office located in Miami, Florida, and ADRA International.

ADRA is present in 125 countries, providing community development and emergency management without regard to political or religious association, age, gender, or ethnicity.

From the book "Natural Disasters - the Terrifying Forces of Nature":

On The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906:

One journalist eyewitness told how, during the foreshock, "the pavement pulsated like a living thing. Around me the huge buildings, looming up more terrible because of the queer dance they were performing wobbled and veered. Crash followed crash and resounded on all sides."
When the main earthquake struck, the reporter was petrified:
"It made me think of the loved ones in different portions of the country.

It turned my stomach, gave me a heartache that I will never forget and caused me to sink upon my knees and pray to the Almighty God that me and mine should escape the awful fate I knew was coming to so many thousands."

U.N. warns of locusts in north and west Africa

ROME, Oct 11 (Reuters) - The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned countries in western and northern Africa to be on the alert for an outbreak of locusts, which devastated the regions' farms in 2004.

Locusts have been found in parts of Mauritania and are laying eggs that will hatch in the next 10 days, FAO said on Wednesday, warning countries like Algeria, Mali, Morocco and Senegal to be on the lookout for the pests.

"Surveys are currently in progress in summer breeding areas in southern and central Mauritania, northern Niger and in the southern parts of Morocco and Algeria," FAO said in a statement.

The organisation said the outbreak would be an opportunity to test a new environmentally friendly pesticide that uses a natural fungus to infect locusts and stop them feeding.

The 2004 locust outbreak cost more than $400 million to eradicate. FAO said there were sufficient resources in place in Mauritania to handle the outbreak at present, but that more might be needed if the situation worsened in the coming months.

Study: 655,000 Iraqis die because of war

NEW YORK - A controversial new study contends nearly 655,000 Iraqis have died because of the war, suggesting a far higher death toll than other estimates.

The timing of the survey's release, just a few weeks before the U.S. congressional elections, led one expert to call it "politics."

In the new study, researchers attempt to calculate how many more Iraqis have died since March 2003 than one would expect without the war. Their conclusion, based on interviews of households and not a body count, is that about 600,000 died from violence, mostly gunfire. They also found a small increase in deaths from other causes like heart disease and cancer.

"Deaths are occurring in Iraq now at a rate more than three times that from before the invasion of March 2003," Dr. Gilbert Burnham, lead author of the study, said in a statement.

Early snow storms in Calif., upper Midwest

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - An early winter storm system was expected to hit the Northern Plains and Great Lakes region on Wednesday with snow, the second straight day that part of the United States has seen snow showers.

On Tuesday, an unexpected winter-like storm blanketed the South Lake Tahoe area with several inches of snow, disrupting traffic and forcing highway workers to scramble the snowplows.

Amnesty: 11,000 Congolese child soldiers still missing

GOMA, Congo (Reuters) -- Children in Congo are still being recruited by armed groups and authorities are not doing enough to stop ex-child soldiers being sucked back into a life of violence and abuse, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

The rights group said in a report at least 11,000 children in Democratic Republic of Congo were still in the hands of rebel or militia gangs or unaccounted for three years after the end of a war in which they were captured and forced to fight.