Current Events-Climate Change

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/11/14/obama-brisbane-climate-g20/19051779/

BRISBANE, Australia — President Obama's climate change agreement with China, which was announced Wednesday, has changed the agenda for the G20 summit that started Saturday.

The U.S.-China pledge announced in Beijing to reduce carbon emissions caught Australian summit planners off guard. The accord between the world's two biggest polluters had not been expected, and Australia's conservative prime minister Tony Abbott initially resisted putting climate change on the G20 agenda. Australia is the rotating chairman of the G20, formed in 2008 to deal with pressing global economic issues.

Obama will also announce a $3 billion U.S. contribution to the United Nations Green Climate Fund that facilitates poorer countries' investments in clean energy. The George W. Bush administration into 2008 had pledged $2 billion to the World Bank's Climate Investment Funds.
U.S. officials say the contribution will promote sustainable growth while preserving stability and security in some of the world's most fragile regions. The contribution, they say, demonstrates the need to reach across traditional divides to tackle climate change.

The UN loves that term...."sustainable growth" or "sustainable development"....




Is it me or is BO getting things done quicker either through EO's or accords?

Don't worry, he has been permitted to do so...Remember he will change times and laws....

Catholicism

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/11/13/latin-america-less-religious-study/18946703/

In just one generation, Latin America has seen the number of people who identify themselves as Catholic plummet, with more people becoming Protestant or dropping religion altogether, a new report shows.

Why?

The most common answer was people saying they wanted a more personal connection with God.
Christ's sacrifice did away with the role of an intercessor, the role that priests used to play while guiding Israel towards the incarnation. Christ himself became that interceding lamb/sacrifice and so the need for a middle-party becomes less necessary. Relationship with God is intimate and that is non-existant with someone always in the middle like a priest. No matter how much a person may want to cleanse themselves through an institution, it is not the same when doing so with God and through God. God became man. God is personal. God is Father. "And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven."

“I may not be the man I want to be...."

“I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be but praise God, I’m not the man I once was”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

While reading MLK quotes...

I ran into this one:

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”


It brings to mind the NDAA. It tells me that the LAW gives people confidence through the authority vested into them. That's why people change laws, because since Law is so absolute, whoever dares change it, and succeeds, can in essence be considered to be above that last law. Even though everything Hitler did was hateful...everything he did was LEGAL. It was more important to comply with the rule of law than to comply with the law of love.


Being "right" does attract authority. But it takes skill to change laws to suit your own "right" agenda.




INTERnational Socialism....the only thing in the way....is the capitalist empire...

 The difference between BO and other past dictators is that the previous ones actually believed their philosophy was good for their nation. Since Obama isn't American, and is against American principles, it is easy for him to destroy something he does not care about or believe in. He believes that by destroying America, he will be doing the world a favor. And when that happens, the world will return the favor.

Maybe one day Americans will sympathize with the following words of the aforementioned MLK:

“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.”

Current Events-Cybersecurity

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/11/12/china-weather-satellite-attack/18915137/

China has been hacking into the U.S. weather network and satellite systems, forcing cybersecurity teams to seal off data vital to disaster planning, aviation, shipping and other crucial uses, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

Even weather is being hacked....

Current Events-astronomical speculation

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/11/12/spacecraft-descent-comet/18900867/

After a daring 7-hour descent, a miniature spacecraft settled safely onto the rugged surface of a comet 300 million miles from Earth this morning, provoking cheers of triumph and relief from scientists and engineers assembled at the mission control room in Germany.


Wow! That is great! The human race is just so....wow....Im without words. Humans have become so knowledgeable! Maybe one day we will travel all the way to heaven! We landed on a comet! And we will be able to talk to aliens! Prevent any sort of unruly space cadet or projectile.



This image puts the size of the "comet" into perspective...and a whole lot of other things as well.

Current Events-Desecration

http://www.newser.com/story/198454/book-claims-jesus-had-2-kids.html

It's quite the press-generating claim, and one that an Oxford University professor says "sounds like the deepest bilge": that Jesus had two kids with wife Mary Magdalene.



Right...and I also owned stocks and had a 401k.  ;)

Current Events-World Economy

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/11/11/banks-foreign-exchange-penalties/18852943/

U.S. and British regulators are expected to announce billions of dollars in civil penalties as early as Wednesday for several major domestic and foreign banks suspected of manipulating the $5.3-trillion-a-day foreign exchange currency-trading market.

U.S. banks JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Citigroup (C), London-based Barclays (BCS)and HSBC (HSBC), Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Swiss banking giant UBS (UBS) are expected to agree to fines totaling as much as 1.5 billion pounds, or nearly $2.4 billion, from Britain's Financial Conduct Authority, several media organizations reported.

WHERE DOES ALL THIS MONEY COME FROM? AND WHERE DOES IT GO TO? WHO CARES??!!! 

Keep things in perspective

[ On Not Loving the World ] Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
1 John 2:15-16 NIV

Current Events-Cyberwar

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/11/10/us-postal-service-post-office-hacked/18795289/

In classified briefings Oct. 22 and Nov. 7, the U.S. Postal Service told members of Congress that it had been hacked.

The Washington Post reported China may have been involved in the cyberattack, citing anonymous sources.

HA....I wouldn't be surprised...

Current Events-BO

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/11/10/obama-gum-chewing-riles-some-chinese/18801757/

USAToday headline reads : Gum-chewing, limo-eschewing Obama riles some Chinese.

Yet, BO's ride was still way larger than your standard sedan. This link provides a better view about how BO was received in socialist China...like a 21st Century emperor...deemed so by the Chinese themselves. WHY? Because he, like the rest of the world, look forward to the demise of the empire. And it will be he who accomplishes it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqrXxFdSevE

BUAHAHAHHAHA! WHATA BO!

Current Events-UN treaties

http://www.un.org/disarmament/ATT/

On its official website, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (yes, that’s really a thing and yes, it is housed right here in the United States) announced that the UN’s Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) “will enter into force on 24 December 2014.”

The agreement demands that national governments take “appropriate measures” to enforce the terms of the treaty, including civilian disarmament. If these countries can’t get this done on their own, however, Article 16 provides for UN assistance, specifically including help with the enforcement of “stockpile management, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes.” In fact, a “voluntary trust fund” will be established to assist those countries that need help from UN peacekeepers or other regional forces to disarm their citizens.

Americans might not like ATT...they have an amendment in their Constitution that affords them the "right to bear arms"...