Curious vortex whirlpool found in Latvia River

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The Extinction Protocol

April 25, 2013LATVIAIn 1841, Edgar Allen Poe referred to a maelstrom, or powerful whirlpool in the ocean, as a “whole sea … lashed into ungovernable fury.” Now 172 years later, a YouTube video titled “Amazing monstrous whirlpool” gives gravity to Poe’s words, though (likely) on a slightly smaller scale. Set in Dviete, Latvia, near the banks of the Daugava River, the video depicts a mysterious whirlpool churning — and destroying — all that enters. Huge chunks of ice? Gone. Floating islands of debris? Annihilated. “Swallowing everything dragged towards its direction,” reads the description by Jānis Astičs, “this monstrous whirlpool looks as if a plug has been pulled from the ground beneath.” Astičs isn’t too far off in his analysis, actually. While most whirlpools in nature occur as a result of fast moving currents meeting one another in opposite directions (often caused by ocean tides), the…

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Psalm Sunday-Psalm 15

Lord, who may abide in Your tabernacle? Who may dwell in Your holy hill?

2 He who walks uprightly,     And works righteousness,     And speaks the truth in his heart; 3 He who does not backbite with his tongue,     Nor does evil to his neighbor,     Nor does he take up a reproach against his friend; 4 In whose eyes a vile person is despised,     But he honors those who fear the Lord; He who swears to his own hurt and does not change; 5 He who does not put out his money at usury,     Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent.

He who does these things shall never be moved.  NKJV