Living a life that's totally dedicated to our Lord Jesus Christ
in anticipation of His soon return! <><<><<><
- Your ears will hear a word behind you, "This is the way, walk in
it," whenever you turn to the right or to the left.
Isaiah 30:21
Jesus' words:
(...look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh! Luke 21:28)
Department of Homeland Security partners with Boys & Girls Clubs of America on cybersecurity
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will partner with over four million members of Boys & Girls Clubs of America to heighten cybersecurity, the DHS announced on Friday.
The over-100-years-old Boys & Girls Clubs of America join the DHS "Stop.Think.Connect." campaign, a national effort to achieve a higher level of internet security by educating Americans at home, in the workplace and in communities.
"In today's world, Americans can use technology to engage with communities around the globe," said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in the announcement.
"Now, more than ever, it is important that all Americans learn to protect themselves online and do their part to ensure that cyberspace is a safe and secure environment for all Internet users."
Boys & Girls Clubs of America president and CEO Roxanne Spillett said in the announcement that because technology skills are critical to closing the achievement gap, preventing abuse of technology becomes equally important.
"Technology skills and access to the Internet are critical in closing the academic achievement gap and leveling the playing field for all children," said Spillett.
"Equally as important is ensuring online safety by preventing abuse of technology where bullying and other negative behaviors live on indefinitely."
The partnership will provide Boys & Girls Clubs tools and resources to raise awareness of online safety among youth.
The Clubs serve some 4.1 million young people at nearly 4,000 locations in all 50 states. Of the members, 64 percent are from minority families, according to their site.
"Cybersecurity is not an end unto itself;" President Barack Obama said in a statement on the Stop.Think.Connect site, "it is instead an obligation that our governments and societies must take on willingly, to ensure that innovation continues to flourish, drive markets, and improve lives." •
(This government keeps messing with our children!!)
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(This is a very good message! -Missygirl*)
Yom Teruah/ Day of the Awakening Blast
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Illegal alien from Kenya named Obama arrested in U.S.
Is drunk man who nearly slammed SUV into police car president's uncle?
BREAKING NEWS: Irene now a tropical storm, killing 40
and leaving 7 million without power along the East Coast.
The powerful storm system Irene has weakened to a tropical storm, but authorities warn that its 65-mph winds are still very dangerous.
In other developments:
-- New York City's Hudson and East Rivers overflowed
-- River water began flooding into Manhattan's streets
-- 7 million people are without electricity and FEMA officials say it could be days before power is restored
-- Parts of outer Philadelphia were flooded as high as street-sign levels
-- At least 40 have died in twelve states due to the storm
The evacuation order for low-lying parts of New York City will be lifted at 3 p.m. ET Sunday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. The order had been put in place as the city braced for the worst from this weekend's storm system.
As it turned out, Irene's impact with North Carolina weakened the storm. "It never got its eye back. It never got its mojo back," CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said.
In other Irene-related developments:
--At least 40 people have died so far across twelve states
--The storm is heading northeast toward New England with 60-mph winds
--"Do not leave your homes. ... It is still not safe," New Jersey's governor says, as much of his state is flooded
--Flooding in New York City threatens its electrical infrastructure, which is below ground.
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The FCC released a new carriage order that could give Obama control over what you see on TV!
A new scheme by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could sell-off broadband spectrum that only local stations currently use. The air space would be bought up by cellular cartels like Verizon and Google. That means - religious and political broadcasters would be axed! A total of at least 210 stations would be forced off the air.
Did you know the goals of the FCC/Obama free speech grab will...
Gag religious voices
Kill small businesses and entrepreneurs
Elimination of free TV
Choke political dissent
Destroy all avenues of free speech
Give Obama control of the dissemination of information
By MITCH WEISS,SAMANTHA GROSS | AP – 1 hr 57 mins ago
TheVirginian-Pilot, Bill Tiernan - One of two people rescued from a sailboat, right, uses a line to make their way onto the beach on Willoughby Spit in Norfolk Saturday morning, Aug. 27, 2011.
NAGS HEAD, N.C. (AP) — Weaker but still menacing, Hurricane Irene knocked out power and piers in North Carolina, clobbered Virginia with wind and churned up the coast Saturday to confront cities more accustomed to snowstorms than tropical storms. New York City emptied its streets and subways and waited with an eerie quiet.
With most of its transportation machinery shut down, the Eastern Seaboard spent the day nervously watching the storm's march across a swath of the nation inhabited by 65 million people. The hurricane had an enormous wingspan — 500 miles, its outer reaches stretching from the Carolinas to Cape Cod — and packed wind gusts of 115 mph.
Almost a million homes and businesses were without power. While it was too early to assess the full threat, Irene was blamed for five deaths.
The hurricane stirred up 7-foot waves, and forecasters warned of storm-surge danger on the coasts of Virginia and Delaware, along the Jersey Shore and in New York Harbor and Long Island Sound. In the Northeast, drenched by rain this summer, the ground is already saturated, raising the risk of flooding.
Irene made its official landfall just after first light near Cape Lookout, N.C., at the southern end of the Outer Banks, the ribbon of land that bows out into the Atlantic Ocean. Shorefront hotels and houses were lashed with waves. Two piers were destroyed, and at least one hospital was forced to run on generator power.
"Things are banging against the house," Leon Reasor said as he rode out the storm in the town of Buxton. "I hope it doesn't get worse, but I know it will. I just hate hurricanes."
By evening, the storm had weakened to sustained winds of 80 mph, down from 100 mph on Friday. That made it a Category 1, the least threatening on a 1-to-5 scale, and barely stronger than a tropical storm. Its center was positioned almost exactly where North Carolina meets Virginia at the Atlantic, and it was picking up speed, moving at 16 mph — up from 13 mph — as it re-emerged over the Atlantic. A hurricane warning had been lifted south of Surf City, N.C.
After the Outer Banks, the storm strafed Virginia with rain and strong wind. It covered the Hampton Roads region, which is thick with inlets and rivers and floods easily, and chugged north toward Chesapeake Bay. Shaped like a massive inverted comma, the storm had a thick northern flank that covered all of Delaware, almost all of Maryland and the eastern half of Virginia.
The deaths included two children, an 11-year-old boy in Virginia killed when a tree crashed through his roof and a North Carolina child who died in a crash at an intersection where traffic lights were out.
In addition, a North Carolina man was killed by a flying tree limb, a passenger died when a tree fell on in a car in Virginia, and a surfer in Florida was killed in heavy waves.
It was the first hurricane to make landfall in the continental United States since 2008, and came almost six years to the day after Katrina ravaged New Orleans. Experts guessed that no other hurricane in American history had threatened as many people.
At least 2.3 million were under orders to move to somewhere safer, although it was unclear how many obeyed or, in some cases, how they could.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told 6,500 troops from all branches of the military to get ready to pitch in on relief work, and President Barack Obama visited the Federal Emergency Management Agency's command center in Washington and offered moral support.
"It's going to be a long 72 hours," he said, "and obviously a lot of families are going to be affected."
In New York, authorities began the herculean job of bringing the city to a halt. The subway began shutting down at noon, the first time the system was closed because of a natural disaster. It was expected to take as long as eight hours for all the trains to complete their runs and be taken out of service.
On Wall Street, sandbags were placed around subway grates near the East River because of fear of flooding. Tarps were placed over other grates. Construction stopped throughout the city, and workers at the site of the World Trade Center dismantled a crane and secured equipment.
While there were plenty of cabs on the street, the city was far quieter than on an average Saturday. In some of the busiest parts of Manhattan, it was possible to cross a major avenue without looking, and the waters of New York Harbor, which might normally be churning from boat traffic, were quiet before the storm.
The biggest utility, Consolidated Edison, considered cutting off power to 6,500 customers in lower Manhattan because it would make the eventual repairs easier. Mayor Michael Bloomberg also warned New Yorkers that elevators in public housing would be shut down, and elevators in some high-rises would quit working so people don't get trapped if the power goes out.
"The time to leave is right now," Bloomberg said at an outdoor news conference at Coney Island, his shirt soaked from rain.
A day earlier, the city ordered evacuations for low-lying areas, including Battery Park City at the southern edge of Manhattan, Coney Island with its famous amusement park and the beachfront Rockaways in Queens.
The five main New York-area airports — La Guardia, John F. Kennedy and Newark, plus two smaller ones — waved in their last arriving flights around noon. The Giants and Jets postponed their preseason NFL game, the Mets postponed two baseball games, and Broadway theaters were dark.
New York has seen only a handful of hurricanes in the past 200 years. The Northeast is much more used to snowstorms — including the blizzard last December, when Bloomberg was criticized for a slow response.
For all the concern, there were early signs that the storm might not be as bad as feared. Some forecasts had it making landfall as a Category 3 storm and perhaps reaching New York as a Category 2.
"Isabel got 10 inches from coming in the house, and this one ain't no Isabel," said Chuck Owen of Poquoson, Va., who has never abandoned his house to heed an evacuation order. He was referring to Hurricane Isabel, which chugged through in 2003.
Still, Owen put his pickup truck on a small pyramid of cinder blocks to protect it from the storm tide, which had already begun surging through the saltwater marshes that stand between Poquoson and Chesapeake Bay.
Airlines said 9,000 flights were canceled, including 3,000 on Saturday. Airlines declined to say how many passengers would be affected, but it could easily be millions because so many flights make connections on the East Coast. There were more than 10,000 cancellations during the blizzard last winter.
American Airlines spokeswoman Andrea Huguely said it was not clear when flights would resume out of New York.
"The one thing about a hurricane is that you can prepare for it and you just have to adapt your plan based on how the storm travels," she said. "It's basically an educated guessing game."
Greyhound suspended bus service between Richmond, Va., and Boston. Amtrak canceled trains in the Northeast for Sunday.
The power losses covered 900,000 homes and businesses and were heavily concentrated in Virginia and North Carolina. Dominion Resources reported almost 600,000 customers without power and Progress Energy 260,000, with much of the outages in Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach, N.C.
Irene roared across the Caribbean earlier this week, offering a devastating preview for the United States: power outages, dangerous floods and high winds that caused millions of dollars in damage. •
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Mexico deploys 1,500 troops after 'terrorist' casino attack
By the CNN Wire Staff
August 27, 2011 -- Updated 2116 GMT (0516 HKT)
An attack at the Casino Royale left at least 52 people dead.
NEW: Mexico's president deploys 1,500 troops to Monterrey
State officials release composite sketches of three suspects
45 of 52 victims have been identified, the state-run Notimex agency reports
Analyst: Criminals using terrorism to pressure government, anti-violence protesters
Monterrey, Mexico (CNN) -- Hundreds of troops headed to northern Mexico Saturday as authorities continued investigations into the torching of a casino that left at least 52 people dead.
Mexico's president, who described the attack as an act of terrorism, ordered the deployment of 1,500 troops to the city of Monterrey over the next three days, the country's defense department said in a statement.
State officials released composite sketches of three suspects. And Mexico's Attorney General's Office said it was offering a 30-million peso ($2.4 million) reward for information leading to the capture of men they suspect were behind Thursday afternoon's attack in the affluent city.
The ambush left a charred shell where a high-end casino once stood. Photos of the scene at the Casino Royale showed singed slot machines. A video released by Mexican authorities showed armed men bursting into the casino carrying what appeared to be gallons of gasoline. Seconds later, dozens of people fled as smoke and fire engulfed the building.
On Saturday, 300 soldiers from the Mexican Army and Air Force boarded planes in the nation's capital, bound for Monterrey as part of Calderon's plan to help local authorities fight drug trafficking and organized crime, Mexico's defense department said.
Investigators were still trying to identify seven of the 52 people killed in Thursday's attack, Mexico's state-run Notimex news agency reported Saturday.
The staggering number of victims drew national attention in a country where headlines regularly describe brutal drug-related violence.
"It is evident that we are not facing common criminals," Calderon said Friday. "We are facing true terrorists that have crossed all the limits, not only of the law, but also of common sense and respect for life."
Analysts said the attack could be connected with rival gangs seeking revenge, or the casino's owners could have been targeted for not paying extortion fines. But no matter what sparked the attack, analysts said it had a clear goal: Creating widespread fear.
"Without a doubt, what this act and others like it are trying to do is provoke terror in the population," said Jose Luis Pineyro, a professor at the Autonomous Metropolitan University in Azcapotzalco, Mexico.
"Of all the similar events, this has the most impact, not only because of the number of victims, but because it seems like they were trying to have the largest number of victims possible," he added.
Criminal organizations are using terrorism to challenge the government's security strategy and pressure people who have been protesting against violence, according to Jorge Luis Sierra, an expert in armed groups.
"There are various indications that drug trafficking and organized crime are laying the groundwork to put pressure on society and on the state, and given the larger military and police presence, they are resorting to terrorism," Sierra said.
The attack and others like it show failures in Mexico's military intelligence, Sierra said.
"As long as they haven't resolved problems of this nature in the security policy, the state, the government and society are going to be living in a very vulnerable situation," he said.
In the past three years, Nuevo Leon state -- located in northeastern Mexico -- has seen an increase in violence due to clashes between the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas gang over control of drug-trafficking routes to the United States.
Two mayors were assassinated in 2010. Last month, four civilians were injured when two grenades were thrown at a prison in Apodaca.
Monterrey, the state's capital, is a key industrial hub and Mexico's wealthiest city.
Since 2008, the government has stepped up the military's presence in Nuevo Leon as it tries to crack down on crime. It sent more troops to the state last November.
On Friday Calderon pledged to increase the presence of federal forces in Monterrey and northeastern Mexico to "restore to the people of Nuevo Leon the peace that has been lost."
In addition to the 1,500 troops heading to Monterrey, 1,500 federal police will be deployed to Nuevo Leon in the next several weeks, the state's public safety secretary told reporters Friday.
Thursday's attack has also drawn more scrutiny of the region's casinos. Authorities said Saturday that they had seized or blocked 2,800 slot machines at nine casinos under suspicion that they entered illegally.
More than 34,600 people have died since Calderon announced a crackdown on cartels in December 2006, according to government statistics. Other reports have listed a higher toll. The latest Mexican government tally was released in January. •
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Arizona shooting suspect's condition worsens
By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press | AP – 17 hrs ago
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The man accused in the Arizona shooting rampage kept himself awake for 50 hours straight after an appeals court stopped forced medication. He walked in circles until he developed sores and then declined antibiotics to treat an infected foot. Already thin, he stopped eating and shed nine pounds.
U.S. District Judge Larry Burns described Jared Lee Loughner's behavior to explain his refusal to overrule prison doctors who decided to resume forced medication July 18. The drugging, he said, "seems entirely appropriate and reasonable to me."
Loughner's attorneys argued unsuccessfully that a court should review whether the forcible medications could resume.
The ruling came in a three-hour pretrial hearing Friday that offered insights into Loughner's fragile condition at federal prison in Springfield, Mo., where he is on suicide watch.
Christina Pietz, a psychologist who is treating him at the prison, testified by phone that Loughner is "less psychotic" than in the past and that she is now more concerned about depression.
She worried that videotaping her sessions with him — as Loughner's lawyers requested — would only exacerbate his ills. She said he turned "almost defeated" and withdrawn when she broached the idea on Wednesday.
"He feels as though he has no control about what's going on around him, and this is just one more element," she said.
Pietz said Loughner sobs uncontrollably at times and steps aside during their meetings to cover his face.
Burns reaffirmed his earlier ruling to prohibit the videotaping, even after Loughner's attorneys agreed to limit their request. He said it would add to Loughner's stress and impair the psychological evaluation.
Loughner has pleaded not guilty to 49 charges in the Jan. 8 shooting that killed six people and wounded 13 others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, at a meet-and-greet event held by the congresswoman outside a Tucson grocery store.
Loughner has been at the Missouri prison since late May after mental health experts determined he suffers from schizophrenia. Burns ruled him mentally unfit to stand trial.
He was forcibly medicated between June 21 and July 1 after prison doctors found he was a danger to others. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals halted the medications while it considered an appeal of Burns' decision to allow the drugs. The appeals court has scheduled a hearing in San Francisco on Tuesday.
The prison decided to resume the forced medications July 18 after doctors found Loughner's condition has significantly worsened and that he was a danger to himself. Defense attorneys argued that the prison was violating the 9th Circuit's order but the appeals court refused to step in.
Friday's hearing was held in San Diego, where Burns is based. He was appointed to the case after all federal judges in Arizona recused themselves. John Roll, the chief federal judge for Arizona, died in the January rampage. •
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Report urges world to secure drinking water access
By LOUISE NORDSTROM - Associated Press | AP – Fri, Aug 26, 2011
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Investing as little as 0.16 percent of the world's gross domestic product — or $198 billion per year — could give half a billion people regular access to safe drinking water within four years, a U.N. official said Friday.
That would halve the number of people who risk serious illness and death on a daily basis, the United Nations Environment Program said.
The findings are presented in the U.N.'s Green Economy report, which also warns that if the global community continues to ignore water services investments, demand for water risks outstripping supply by 40 percent before 2030.
UNEP spokesman Nick Nuttall said the world total of people without access to safe drinking water currently totals around 1 billion people.
According to the report, people living in countries such as Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam are particularly prone to catching waterborne diseases because of the poor water sanitation there.
"Accelerated investment in water-dependent ecosystems, water infrastructure and water management, coupled with effective policies, can boost water and food security, improve human health and promote economic growth," said U.N. Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.
Prof. Mike Young, lead author of the water chapter of the report, said that "without this investment and policy reform, water supply crises will become increasingly common."
UNEP said that more water productivity, recycling, new dams and desalination plants could largely help avoid increased drinking water scarcity but that money also needs to be put toward infrastructure, water policy reforms and technologies.
The findings were presented during this week's World Water Week in Stockholm. •
BUNKER HILL, Ind. (AP) — A 76-year-old man has been stabbed to death while leading Boy Scouts on a hiking trip in northern Indiana, and a suspect who battered his mother and killed a dog near the trail is under arrest, police said.
The assistant scout leader, Arthur L. Anderson, had stopped to identify a tree on the Nickel Plate Trail in Bunker Hill Sunday afternoon when an attacker approached him from behind and stabbed him in the neck, Indiana State Police said in a statement. Witnesses told police the attack was unprovoked.
Anderson of Kokomo, Ind., died at the scene despite the efforts of medical personnel who responded to a 911 call. Police said he had been involved in scouting for 50 years.
Officers later arrested Shane C. Golitko, 22, of Bunker Hill, after he ignored a state trooper's attempted traffic stop and led police on an eight-mile chase, the Indiana State Police said in a statement.
Police are holding Golitko without bond on a murder charge and two felony counts of battery at the Miami County Jail.
A minute before the 911 call alerting authorities that Anderson had been stabbed, Golitko's mother Valerie Henson, called 911 to report that her son had assaulted her during an altercation at their home, about 150 yards south of the trail, state police said.
Henson told police that after she fled to a neighbor's house, her son walked to the trail where Anderson was later stabbed. She said her son later returned home, smashed up their home and stabbed two dogs, killing one.
Henson was treated for a broken arm. Police did not say what sparked the altercation between Henson and Golitko. •
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Will Allen Talks Us Through Growing Power
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Secret U.S. experiments to prompt 2nd Coming?
Is mankind's quest for knowledge, power and longer life about to backfire and wipe human beings off the face of the Earth?
Secret experiments now underway in the U.S. and elsewhere are sparking fears of a potential extinction-level event prompting the 2nd Coming of Jesus.
Two researchers associated with the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign and Northwestern University reported a startling invention in a recent issue of the journal, "Science." They announced the development of a "patch" which is thinner than a human hair. It feels as "soft as human skin" and can draw power from light or ambient electromagnetic radiation. It adheres to the skin without glue or sticky material. It is practically weightless and, because of its incredible nanotechnology, can be used to monitor brain, heart, and muscle tissue activity. When placed on the throat, it allows the wearer to operate voice-activated devices.
Coincidentally, the device, which they say "blurs the distinction between electronics and biology," can also be used to digitize the wearer's identity and banking records, thus making it possible to conduct financial transactions by simply scanning the easily applied electronic "tattoo."
Now, I'm not saying that this is the "mark of the Beast" described in Revelation 13:16-18, but there's no denying that it is an eye-popping example of how technology is racing toward providing the coming Antichrist with the ability to control the financial transactions of every person in the world.
But technology alone won't be sufficient to cause most of the world to accept his leadership and even worship him as god. It will take massive calamities and economic crises to convince the nations of the world to submit themselves to his rule. And, frankly, when I look at what's happening in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even here in America, that doesn't require a huge leap of imagination! •
Location: *Rocky Mountains* U.S.A., Colorado, United States
I'm in my late 40's, I have 4 children. I'm married, & living in beautiful Colorado! I have 10 Grandchildren! (I'm so blessed!) I've been sick with MS for 18 years already. (That's difficult!) But the biggest and best thing I can tell you about me is that I love my Lord Jesus with all my heart. He's my life!
Christopher Redd is caught dancing on a grave.
By Hal Lindsey
Coincidentally, the device, which they say "blurs the distinction between electronics and biology," can also be used to digitize the wearer's identity and banking records, thus making it possible to conduct financial transactions by simply scanning the easily applied electronic "tattoo."
