AFP – Super Typhoon Usagi — one of the strongest storms of the year — barrelled towards Hong Kong and southern China on Friday, prompting warnings of fierce winds and torrential rains. Packing gusts of up to 205 kilometres (127 miles) per hour, the storm is projected to roar between the Philippines and Taiwan LINK

MALAGA, N.J., (CBS) – Members of St. Mary’s Malaga are in disbelief after vandals smashed the heads off of statues of Virgin Mary and Jesus. In all, nine statues were damaged including three statues that are about five-feet-tall – Sacred Heart of Jesus, Virgin Mary, and Our Lady of Fatima. LINK

Giants cornerback Prince Amukamara’s teammates didn’t know that he wears a chastity belt underneath his jockstrap — and they’re all supporting him. “When I first heard it, I was like, ‘Wow,’ ” cornerback Jayron Hosley told The Post Thursday of the 24-year-old’s vow to stay a virgin until marriage. LINK

In the course of the last three years, there has been a surge in Afghan opium production.  The Vienna based UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reveals that poppy cultivation in 2012 extends over an area of  more than  154,000 hectares, an increase of 18% over 2011.  LINK

News for Pope says Church cannot be obsessed … LINK

1. Pope Bluntly Faults Church’s Focus on Gays and Abortion

   New York Times ‎”We have to find a new balance,” Pope Francis said in the first …Church had grown “obsessed” with preaching about abortion, gaymarriage and contraception, and that … The church’s pastoral ministrycannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently.

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude 5.8 struck Fukushima Prefecture early Friday morning but no tsunami warning has been issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, the Kyodo news service reported. LINK

A North Carolina police officer was charged with voluntary manslaughter on Saturday after police say he fatally shot an unarmed man who had apparently just survived a car crash in Charlotte and was looking for help. LINK

Turkey, like America, has been providing substantial amounts of weaponry to the jihadists for their violent incursions in Syria, which would include slaughtering Christians. The former Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey and a close friend of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Abdullatif Sener, made a very revealing statement in which he said: LINK

A volunteer group who was helping in the rescue efforts with the Colorado flood have been forced by FEMA to stop and go home.  FEMA even threatened the group with arrest when they wanted to carry on their efforts anyway. LINK

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Multiple earthquakes were recorded in the La Verne and Pomona areas Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. A magnitude-3.7 earthquake struck at 4:43 a.m. about one mile southwest of La Verne. Ten minutes later, a magnitude 1.5 earthquake struck two miles west of Pomona. LINK

Celebrated eugenicist  Sir David Attenborough calls on nations to stop feeding hungry third world citizens in order to reduce world population after calling humanity a ‘plague. David Attenborough who works for the BBC which is run by pedophiles who used Jimmy Saville to get disabled and vulnerable children mostly boys so they could be abused by the elite.LINK

Scores of people are dead and tens of thousands of tourists — including many Americans — were stranded Thursday after storm-whipped flooding and a massive landslide turned the tourist destination of Acapulco into a veritable swamp. LINK