What's Troubling America?

This is a beautiful country, but the human beings within it are being turned into something that God Himself is angry at and sick of. To make God angry is to incur His wrath. John the Revelator said, "And the nations were angry and Thy wrath is come. It is the time of the dead that they should be judged and given justice."

In America, we have millions today who are homeless. We have many more millions who are sick, imprisoned, impoverished and weak, and it appears as though the conservative element of the country is moving away from care for the poor, the weak, the helpless, and the children and catering to the desires of those that have. But it is the poor and the weak who built the country. It is the poor and the weak who have fought, bled and died to maintain America as a great nation. Now America is turning her back on the weak and blaming the condition of the country on the poor, on the Black, on the Hispanic. In reality, the mismanagement of the wealth and people of this country is the fault of those who are at the top who have held power, who have manipulated the masses of the people against the good of America and the good of the world.

How will America answer to Christ, with human beings sleeping under bridges and America is spending over half a trillion dollars to bail out the savings and loan industry, but won't spend money to bail out those veterans who fought, bled and died, who are sleeping under bridges, who have fallen on hard times, whose homes and cars have been repossessed?

What is America coming to? The cities are filled with crime and violence. People can't walk the streets in safety. The elderly of the nation are preyed upon by wicked, unscrupulous people who sometimes rob them of their life savings and of their little social security checks. The babies of the nation are abused, murdered, drowned in hot water, even put in ovens by their parents. The stress of life in America is such that some parents can't handle the crying of children. So babies are coming to hospitals dying of trauma, shock, their heads bashed, thrown against the wall, thrown out of windows by parents who have had enough. Young girls in a sex-mad society are having their sexual nature titillated by sick television programs, sick movies, sick video tapes, sick songs from a sick, decadent culture that is using the talent of gifted people to spread degenerate life in the name of music and art. Babies are having their sexual nature titillated. Mothers are not home because they have to work. Daughters are left to be savaged by brutal men, sometimes their own fathers and uncles, cousins and brothers. And we ask, “What is the world coming to?”

America the beautiful is becoming America the ugly. They say love her or leave her. We have no place to go. Some of us will say we will run to Africa. But Africa is suffering, too. We say we will run to Europe. Be careful. We say we will run to South America or to Mexico. There is no hiding place today. The Judgment of God has touched every nation in every corner of the globe.

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Guard rescued at SC prison; officers control unit

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A guard held hostage at a South Carolina high security prison was rescued early Wednesday after a standoff of more than six hours, a corrections department spokesman said.

The officer was rescued and prison officials regained control of the building around 3:15 a.m. when negotiations with the inmates failed, said said Clark Newsome, a spokesman for the Department of Corrections.

About 100 corrections officers and State Law Enforcement Division agents blew open a door and regained control of the building. The inmates did not resist, Newsome said. The correctional officer had been dressed in an inmate's uniform to disguise him but he was recognized and rescued, Newsome said.

During the standoff, the inmates never left the wing of the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville and there was no danger to the community, Newsome said.

"No attempt was made to actually get out," Newsome said. "That probably would have been fruitless because there were so many officers on the grounds."

The officer appeared to have a suffered a head injury that was not thought to be serious and was taken to a hospital for evaluation. His name has not been released.

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Untreatable gonorrhoea spreading around world: WHO

 
The World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters is seen in Geneva November 9, 2009.

Credit: Reuters/Denis Balibouse

Drug-resistant strains of gonorrhoea have spread to countries across the world, the U.N. health agency said on Wednesday, and millions of patients may run out of treatment options unless doctors catch and treat cases earlier. Scientists reported last year finding a "superbug" gonorrhoea strain in Japan that is resistant to all recommended antibiotics and warned then that it could transform a once easily treatable infection into a global health threat.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said those fears are now reality, with many more countries around the world, including Australia, France, Norway, Sweden and Britain, reporting cases of the sexually transmitted disease resistant to cephalosporin antibiotics - normally the last option for drugs against gonorrhoea.

"Gonorrhoea is becoming a major public health challenge," said Manjula Lusti-Narasimhan, from the WHO's department of reproductive health and research.

"We are very concerned about recent reports of treatment failure from the last effective treatment option - the class of cephalosporin antibiotics," she added. "If gonococcal infections become untreatable, the health implications are significant."

Gonorrhoea is a bacterial sexually transmitted infection which, if left untreated, can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirths, severe eye infections in babies, and infertility in both men and women.

It is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the world and is most prevalent in south and southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. In the United States alone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of cases is estimated at around 700,000 a year.

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Russia's Putin says to push military ties with China

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he will boost military cooperation with China, including holding more joint exercises, after the United States announced plans to shift most of its warships to the Asia-Pacific by 2020.

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IPv6: Trillions of new net addresses now possible

The new system will run concurrently with the old for the next few years.

A new standard which will enable the creation of trillions of new web addresses has been enabled.

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) - a replacement to the existing IPv4 system - launched at 00:01 GMT on Wednesday.

The new system is necessary to prevent the internet running out of available addresses for new devices.

Experts said users should not notice any difference in their web use, and new devices should be using the new system as standard.


The Transit of the Planet Venus Between the Sun and Earth

Enjoy these wonderful photos of the planet Venus during its transition across the Sun on June 5th and 6th (depending where you live), 2012.  NOTE: The 'black spot" or "black dot" is the planet Venus transitioning across the Sun.

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