The numbers: RWE, Germany’s largest power generator, reported a €2.8 billion ($3.9 billion) net loss in 2013, the company’s first loss in its history, which stretches back more than 60 years to the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949. LINK
Monthly Archives: March 2014
Meet the 131 Republicans who are urging the Supreme Court to overturn a ban on same-sex marriage
Nothing like bringing more of “God’s wrath” upon our nation
President Obama was joined by 131 Republicans in urging the Supreme Court to overturn California’s gay marriage ban on Thursday. In a separate friend of the court brief, the signers — called amici — argued that gay marriage promotes conservative values of strong family and limited government. LINK
Violent crime on the rise again in South Africa
Should we say, welcome to democracy?
South Africa — South Africa’s high walls, electric fences and lurid headlines are all part of the country’s obsession with violent crime. But the release of national crime statistics is an annual ritual that sparks anxiety like little else. The 2012-13 statistics released Thursday are the worst in a decade, analysts said. The figures show increases in the crimes South Africans fear most: murder; attempted murder; violent, armed house robbery; and carjacking. LINK
Disney cuts ties with Boy Scouts over anti-gay policy
The Walt Disney Company has joined a growing list of corporate sponsors to cut ties with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) over a controversial policy banning gay adult leaders. In an email posted online Friday by Scouts for Equality, an alumni association dedicated to ending anti-gay discrimination in the BSA, the board president of the BSA’s Central Florida Council alerted Scout leaders and parents of the entertainment company’s decision. LINK
Japan pledges $200 million in aid for Palestinians
Japan pledged more than $200 million in aid Saturday to help the Palestinian Authority, as representatives from 22 nations reiterated their support of the Palestinians’ quest for their own state. The pledge was announced by Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida at the second Conference on Cooperation among East Asian Countries for Palestinian Development, LINK
Churches propose a boycott of Redskins unless the team changes its name
What ever happened to “Preaching the Gospel
The 180 congregations in the conference, which stretches from Richmond to New Jersey, were asked to debate the resolution before a vote on whether to adopt it at the conference’s annual meeting in mid-June. The conference also asked the church’s national governing body to consider passing a similar boycott resolution. Continue reading
VIDEO: Why your kids are “economically worthless”
Remember when children were an economic asset? No, you probably don’t, because that was back in the 1800s, when kids labored on farms and in factories and kicked in a few pennies to help cover the family expenses. “The more [children] you had, the better off you were,” Jennifer Senior, author of the new book All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood, LINK
Update: The Great Apostasy–Anti-Christ System & The Second Coming of Christ
By Joseph B. D. Saraceno
As I explain more fully the Marks of the Beast and how we are affected by them is explained in my lecture & writings. Just briefly however, that the Great Apostasy does not mean a complete abandonment of Christian principals but is made up of the Vatican II Council of a syncretism, humanistic, & inter-faith gospel which is being implemented by the imposition of the Secular, liberal, democracy, the U.N. E.U., IMF and the Vatican II church. (Religious Liberty) This system has to spread throughout the world before Christ comes back. However you might say most of the world has accepted this agenda but it seems the Orthodox Russian Church is now opposing the whore of Babylon. Scriptures indicates it’s down fall before the end. However this does not produce another true Pope or reverse the Second Coming of Christ. Continue reading
CNN: “Horrible medical mystery… alarming rate of birth defects” in Washington — Babies missing parts of brain, skull
Elizabeth Cohen, CNN senior medical correspondent: Yakima Valley, Washington, a horrible medical mystery has unfolded — An alarming rate of birth defects. Sara Barron, a nurse in the region and was the first to report cases of anencephaly, babies born with much of their brain and skull missing.
Barron: “I was just stunned. 3 in a couple month period of time, that’s unheard of, and they’re such tragic, terrible outcomes.”LINK
Married dad becomes Maronite Catholic priest in US
For the first time in nearly a century, a married priest has been ordained by the Maronite Catholic Church in the United States — and his wife and daughter were on hand to support him.
Wissam Akiki was welcomed by hundreds of supporters during a ceremony Thursday night at St. Raymond’s Maronite Cathedral in St. Louis. He called it a “historic day” and said he had been given two great blessings: marriage to his wife of 10 years, Manal, and “the dream to serve the Lord thanks and church as a priest.” LINK