More than 600 members of the "Almighty God" cult across China have been detained for spreading rumors of an impending apocalypse on December 21.
The cult, established in 1990 in central China's Henan Province, has promised salvation to those who join before "doomsday."
Most of the cult members apprehended by police were detained for 5 to 10 days for disturbing social order, in accordance with the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Administrative Penalties for Public Security.
Police have detained more than 400 "Almighty God" cult members in northwest China's Qinghai Province. A large number of leaflets, banners, computer discs, slogans, books and printing machines were seized by police.
"Advice before catastrophe: Satan's men will be extinct. Only the 'Almighty God' can save man. Anybody who resists God will go to hell," reads one leaflet.
In east China's Zhejiang Province, police have detained 58 cult members in Lanxi City. The members, aged 18 to 58, were apprehended for spreading rumors and proselytizing.
"The cult is different from other religions. They spread doomsday rumors," said Cao Wei, a police officer with the Shanghua police station of Lanxi City.
Read more: China cracks down on doomsday rumor cult[1]|chinadaily.com.cn
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12/20/12
France: Doomsday report: Apocalypse prophet appeases Bugarach invaders - by Mehdi Chebil
Bugarach was bracing for an invasion of new agers in beat-up vans, stoned hippies in white togas walking barefoot, and doomsayers seeking refuges in caves beneath the now famous Pic de Bugarach, the mysterious peak long believed to conceal a garage full of UFOs. Instead, the French doomsday village has been overrun by dozens of international TV crews rolling in on trucks with giant satellite dishes.
It took jet-lagged correspondents about five minutes after arriving in town to realise that their end-of-the-world report would look as bleak as a rural French village in winter. Which, by the way, is exactly what Bugarach is. Their editors in New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Istanbul or London were definitely not going to be happy with endless footage of TV crews roaming helplessly in the otherwise empty streets of Bugarach, the rocky outpost in southwest France that doomsday prophets inspired by an ancient Mayan calendar have designated as the sole survivor of the impending apocalypse.
Disappointment gave way to anger and exasperation on Wednesday when the mayor failed to appear at his 2pm press conference. Scores of journalists armed with massive tripods and cameras lay siege to the stone building housing the town hall, clamouring for an appearance of one of the top suspects behind the Bugarach apocalypse survival rumor.
The situation was about to degenerate into a storming of the Bugarach town hall when the ultimate prophet of doom suddenly made his appearance. Nobody quite remembers whence Sylvain Durif came. But for the correspondents swarming Bugarach's town hall, this pan-flute player with his oversized head and very articulate speech was simply a gift from God.
Dressed in a bright orange woolly jacket, Sylvain had all the self-confidence required to announce the apocalypse for December 21 in a matter-of-fact voice. Even better, the prophet of doom was happy to spend time with each TV crew to describe his personal version of the end of the world a sudden “cellular alchemy that would bring humans closer to God”.
Granted, it might not make much sense. But Sylvain Durif also came up with eyewitness descriptions of massive spaceships chartered by the Virgin Mary or three-metre-tall human beings living in the woods nearby… Just enough in terms of juicy stories to appease the jet-lagged invaders and prevent them from lynching the Bugarach mayor when he finally stepped out of his town hall.
Read more: Doomsday report: Apocalypse prophet appeases Bugarach invaders - FRANCE - FRANCE 24
It took jet-lagged correspondents about five minutes after arriving in town to realise that their end-of-the-world report would look as bleak as a rural French village in winter. Which, by the way, is exactly what Bugarach is. Their editors in New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Istanbul or London were definitely not going to be happy with endless footage of TV crews roaming helplessly in the otherwise empty streets of Bugarach, the rocky outpost in southwest France that doomsday prophets inspired by an ancient Mayan calendar have designated as the sole survivor of the impending apocalypse.
Disappointment gave way to anger and exasperation on Wednesday when the mayor failed to appear at his 2pm press conference. Scores of journalists armed with massive tripods and cameras lay siege to the stone building housing the town hall, clamouring for an appearance of one of the top suspects behind the Bugarach apocalypse survival rumor.
The situation was about to degenerate into a storming of the Bugarach town hall when the ultimate prophet of doom suddenly made his appearance. Nobody quite remembers whence Sylvain Durif came. But for the correspondents swarming Bugarach's town hall, this pan-flute player with his oversized head and very articulate speech was simply a gift from God.
Dressed in a bright orange woolly jacket, Sylvain had all the self-confidence required to announce the apocalypse for December 21 in a matter-of-fact voice. Even better, the prophet of doom was happy to spend time with each TV crew to describe his personal version of the end of the world a sudden “cellular alchemy that would bring humans closer to God”.
Granted, it might not make much sense. But Sylvain Durif also came up with eyewitness descriptions of massive spaceships chartered by the Virgin Mary or three-metre-tall human beings living in the woods nearby… Just enough in terms of juicy stories to appease the jet-lagged invaders and prevent them from lynching the Bugarach mayor when he finally stepped out of his town hall.
Read more: Doomsday report: Apocalypse prophet appeases Bugarach invaders - FRANCE - FRANCE 24
12/6/10
Doomsday reports: 4 Scenarios for the Coming Collapse of the American Empire
A soft landing for America 40 years from now? Don’t bet on it. The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines. If Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 as the end of the American Century, a more realistic assessment of domestic and global trends suggests that in 2025, just 15 years from now, it could all be over except for the shouting.
Despite the aura of omnipotence most empires project, a look at their history should remind us that they are fragile organisms. So delicate is their ecology of power that, when things start to go truly bad, empires regularly unravel with unholy speed: just a year for Portugal, two years for the Soviet Union, eight years for France, 11 years for the Ottomans, 17 years for Great Britain, and, in all likelihood, 22 years for the United States, counting from the crucial year 2003.
For more: 4 Scenarios for the Coming Collapse of the American Empire | | AlterNet
Despite the aura of omnipotence most empires project, a look at their history should remind us that they are fragile organisms. So delicate is their ecology of power that, when things start to go truly bad, empires regularly unravel with unholy speed: just a year for Portugal, two years for the Soviet Union, eight years for France, 11 years for the Ottomans, 17 years for Great Britain, and, in all likelihood, 22 years for the United States, counting from the crucial year 2003.
Future historians are likely to identify the Bush administration’s rash invasion of Iraq in that year as the start of America's downfall. However, instead of the bloodshed that marked the end of so many past empires, with cities burning and civilians slaughtered, this twenty-first century imperial collapse could come relatively quietly through the invisible tendrils of economic collapse or cyberwarfare.
Note EU-Digest: We can only hope this report will eventually be classified as just another of the many doomsday reports that have come and gone in the past.
For more: 4 Scenarios for the Coming Collapse of the American Empire | | AlterNet
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