July 2, 2009

Another major 5.1 earthquake in China has damaged more than 9000 homes in Sichuan Province. 

A major 6.7 earthquake has rocked Greece.

The US FDA is now saying that the drug acetaminophen sold over the counter in drug stores can cause liver damage.  Restrictions are being discussed on the dosages people can take of this current dangerous over the counter drug.

Jacob's House Comment,

Many of the drugs that are being issued today from drug companies can cause permanent damage to people's minds, bodies, and souls.  They can also damage their organs from within.  These drugs are nothing more than a form of sorcery today.  They are being administered to many unsuspecting people who are not aware of the dangerous side effects they contain.  These people do not know how lethal many of these over the counter drugs are.  However, they are now being administered in great quantities because of the internet and the ease they can be acquired.  Therefore, a new tower of Babel of people's evil desires is being created, seen, and enhanced today.   

On this website in the prophecy called, "God Speaks About The New Tower of Babel Today", dated 8/19/07, our Lord God spoke to Jacob about this new tower of Babel we are witnessing now.  Our Lord spoke about the fact that the devil was using this new internet tower for his evil and wickedness to flourish. God said He would soon destroy all of the wickedness, sorcery, witchcraft, etc., that this new tower of Babel has brought to this earth.

Excerpt from the prophecy, "God Speaks About The New Tower of Babel Today":

I know where the waster is using this new tower of Babel to spew out his wickedness, lust, lies, idol worship, and perversions of the flesh.  I, the Lord God, can see the sorcery, witchcraft, foolishness, vices, adulteries, dangerous substances, and lewdness this new tower of Babel is helping to promote today.  I know it has become like a naked, shameful, and menstruous woman in My eyes.  It has become filthy before Me for it thrives on the polluted blood, crudeness, slavery, usury, envy, idol worship, vanity, lust, violence, fame, cankerworms, and vices, which I abhor. 

I, the Lord God, know the waster will soon use many similar devices like this tower to beguile his victims and reel them in.  He will use hand held devices to trap and snare some of his victims soon.  He will use this new ugly tower to captivate their hearts and minds before My Son, Jesus, returns here for a second time.  He will use it to tighten his grip on many of the foolish people he is now trying to destroy from within.  They will be pillaged and left for dead when they try to sample his controlled substances, his vices, his lusts of the flesh, and his tempting lies of deceit.

A new report is stating that a 3% to 4% shortfall in revenues is being seen in many states across the USA.  This is leading to budget woes for these states and their new fiscal year budgets starting July 1.

A new warning has been issued that popcorn seasoning from Kruger food stores has been recalled because of Salmonella poisoning bacteria.   

Another US report is stating is that big cities are now growing by leaps and bounds because of people there looking for jobs.  This reverses a decade long drop of people leaving urban areas for living in the country. 

Citing the Legislatures failure to pass a budget plan, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announces that he is declaring a fiscal emergency to address California's deficit during a Capitol news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, July 1, 2009.  Lawmakers will have 45 days to send him a plan to balance the state's budget which ended the fiscal year with a $24.3 billion deficit. California's top accountant said the state would begin issuing IOUs to creditors after lawmakers failed to meet its deadline this week to close a massive budget deficit.  The Governor is ordering state employees to take another day off per month without pay because of the state of emergency there. 

The civilian death toll in Iraq has soared in the last month from a record low of 134 in May of this year. 

Tree rings and log books say they are seeing the least sea ice in 800 years. New research, which reconstructs the extent of ice in the sea between Greenland and Svalbard from the 13th century to the present says that there has never been so little sea ice as there is now.

Plainview Recalls Products On Salmonella Scare. Plainview Milk Products Cooperative is voluntarily recalling a number of dairy products due to possible Salmonella contamination, but said on Monday there had been no reports of illness related to its products.

Earth's most prominent rainfall feature creeping northward.  The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years, probably because of a warmer world, according to research published in the July issue of Nature Geoscience. If the band continues to migrate at just less than a mile (1.4 kilometers) a year, which is the average for all the years it has been moving north, then some Pacific islands near the equator - even those that currently enjoy abundant rainfall - may be drier within decades and starved of freshwater by midcentury or sooner. The findings suggest increasing greenhouse gases could potentially shift the primary band of precipitation in the tropics with profound implications for the societies and economies that depend on it. This area has most prominent rainfall feature on the planet, one that many people depend on as the source of their freshwater because there is no groundwater to speak of where they live. In addition many other people who live in the tropics but farther afield from the Pacific could be affected because this band of rain shapes atmospheric circulation patterns throughout the world.

Brazil flora risk greater than thought: study. RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - Nearly 2,300 plant species are at risk of disappearing from flora-rich Brazil, many more than once thought, according to an academic study released on Wednesday. The research, carried out by 175 scientists, indicates the Brazilian government has dramatically underestimated the risk to the country's plant species caused by deforestation, fires and urbanization. Last year Brasilia said 472 plants were at risk in a country that contains an estimated 15 percent of the world's flora species. Jose Maria Cardoso, a conservation expert who took part in the project, said the 2,291 species identified as being in danger were many more than the government's "conservative" estimates, which did not take into account rare species.

2010 species pledge set to fail, 16,928 are threatened with extinction: say conservationists. In its new report, issued on Thursday, the Swiss-based IUCN said Earth was hurtling towards a mass extinction. Out of 44,838 species on the IUCN's famous "Red List", 869 are considered to be extinct or extinct in the wild, it said. This tally rises to 1,159 if 290 critically endangered species that are tagged as possibly extinct are included. Nearly one third of amphibians are at risk of being wiped out through habitat loss, fungal infection and other risks. More than one in eight birds are threatened with extinction, with Brazil, Indonesia and oceanic islands spearheading the peril. Nearly a quarter of mammals, especially hunted species in Asia, face a similar threat. "Overall, a minimum of 16,928 species are threatened with extinction," IUCN said in a press release. "Considering that only 2.7 percent of the 1.8 million described species have been analysed, this number is a gross underestimate, but it does provide a useful snapshot of what is happening to all forms of life on Earth. Jean-Christophe Vie, deputy head of the IUCN's species programme, called on governments to tackle the biodiversity crisis with the same urgency with which they tackled its economic crisis. "Economies are utterly dependent on species diversity. We need them all, in large numbers. We quite literally cannot afford to lose them." He added: "Governments should put as much effort, if not more, into saving nature as they do into addressing the economic and financial sectors."

Worried scientists find sea otter numbers continue to decline. MONTEREY -The three-year average sea otter population on California's coast declined for the first time in more than a decade, according to a U.S. Geological Survey. Officials from the survey counted 2,654 otters this spring along the coast from Point Conception in the Santa Barbara area to Half Moon Bay. The count includes a colony of otters around the Channel Islands. It was the lowest single-year total since 2003, when about 2,200 were counted. But more alarming, said officials at the Otter Project, an otter advocacy group in Monterey, is that the running three-year average, which the USGS uses for the official population count, dropped for the first time since the late 1990s. "We've always identified the sea otter as the canary in the coal mine of the marine system," said Allison Ford, the new executive director of the Otter Project. "I hope this can be a wake-up call."

The UN's top health official has opened a forum in Mexico on combating swine flu by saying that the spread of the virus worldwide is now unstoppable. As the summit opened, the UK alone was projecting more than 100,000 new cases of H1N1 a day by the end of the summer. As the peak of the flu season approaches in South America, some areas have declared a public health emergency. El Salvador reported its first death from swine flu, a day after Paraguay'Mild symptoms'"As we see today, with well over 100 countries reporting cases, once a fully fit pandemic virus emerges, its further international spread is unstoppable," Dr Chan said in her opening remarks. Since then, the H1N1 virus has entered more than 100 countries, infected more than 70,000 people and killed more than 300 worldwide. Authorities across South America are becoming increasingly concerned as the peak flu season approaches. 

July 5, 2009

A new report is now out which states that 95 per-cent of corn, soybeans, and wheat crops in the U. S. A. are now being genetically altered to raise yields, fight off pests, etc.

Jacob's House Comment

On this website in the prophecy entitled "God speaks to Insolent Men", dated 12/20/07, our Lord God spoke to Jacob about How He would soon punish many insolent men for interfering with His secrets to life and breath.  God's words from this prophesy are already being realized in less than 2 years.

Excerpt from "God Speaks to Insolent Men":

Some foolish and ignorant men today are now teaming up with other scientific and blind men.  They are trying to destroy the fabric of beautification that I carefully created here long ago.  They are trying to become like gods themselves at this important late date and transition end time.  They are in the process of rearing their ugly heads before Me.  They are trying to manipulate My life giving DNA and impose their ideas and plans upon everything that I now manage, propagate, control, and own here. 

July 6, 2009

China says 156 killed in riots in west. URUMQI, China - Violent street battles killed at least 140 people and injured 828 others in the deadliest ethnic unrest to hit China's western Xinjiang region in decades, and officials said Monday the death toll was expected to rise. Police sealed off streets in parts of the provincial capital, Urumqi, after discord between ethnic Muslim Uighur people and China's Han majority erupted into riots. Witnesses reported a new protest Monday in a second city, Kashgar.

Bankruptcy judge OKs GM sale plan. NEW YORK - A bankruptcy judge has ruled that General Motors Corp. can sell the bulk of its assets to a new company, potentially clearing the way for the automaker to quickly emerge from bankruptcy protection.

Australia heavy rain storms cause flooding. Flooding has hit parts of Perth and Kinross after heavy rain storms. Residents of Falkirk, Aberdeenshire, Highland and Moray have also been warned to prepare for heavy downpours. "It was raining like I've never seen in my life before, it was just torrential rain," he said. "The drains in the street just couldn't take the amount of water and it was overlapping the pavement and flowing into all the premises, especially on this north side of New Road." He estimated that there had been about a foot of water in his agricultural store and that pubs and the post office had also been affected.

July 7, 2009

Han Chinese Roam City With Clubs. Thousands of Han Chinese roamed the capital of Xinjiang region, armed with makeshift weapons, following ethnic riots that left scores dead and more than 1,000 injured.

NASA is reporting that the Artic Sea ice is melting and thinning rapidly, including older Artic ice which is hard to melt. 

A new report is stating all 50 US states now have budget short falls totaling 120 billion dollars because of declining revenues, sales taxes, personal incomes, and corporation taxes.

Another report is stating 2434 US banks are now in trouble.  Some of the worst of them are in Illinois and Texas.  These banks cannot get above the US government capital requirements they must have. 

Most economists worldwide still feel economic worldwide crisis has yet to hit its low.  

Big Salmon Exporter in Chile Fights Isa Virus. SANTIAGO - A virus is crippling Chile's farmed salmon industry, damping exports and squeezing fish producers. Chile is currently the world's second-largest exporter of salmon and trout, with salmon exports of a record $2.4 billion in 2008. The virus first hit Chile in 2007 but worsened late last year.  Of Chile's 40 producers, 25 have reported the Isa virus at a total of 200 cultivation centers. The Isa virus - infectious salmon anemia - is a continuing threat to big fish farms the world over. Norway, the world's largest salmon producer, where the virus originated in the 1980s, has implemented measures to control it, including vaccines and limiting fish numbers. But Chile's industry is heavily reliant on antibiotics, which has allowed harmful strains of bacteria to build immunity, and Chilean farms' close proximity and frequently overcrowded fish pens have led to the rapid spread of the disease.

Drug Firms See Poorer Nations as Sales Cure. For the first time in a half-century, sales of prescription drugs are forecast to decline this year in the U.S., historically the industry's biggest and most profitable market. As a result, developing countries like Venezuela have begun to look more attractive to the industry. Sales of prescription drugs in emerging markets reached $152.7 billion in 2008, up from $67.2 billion in 2003.

Greed behind crisis, warns Pope. The Pope is set to blame greed and selfishness for the global financial crisis, in his latest encyclical letter. On the eve of the G8 summit in Rome, the letter will remind world leaders, bankers, businessmen and ordinary people of their moral duties. While the global financial system needs reform, the Pope has said, individuals must also realize that they have to make personal sacrifices in order to help the poor and move towards a more just division of the world's resources.

Rain floods London Tube stations. A number of London Underground stations were closed due to flooding after a series of thunderstorms. Victoria, Hyde Park Corner and Paddington Tube stations were shut at about 1730 BST after torrential rain hit, with hail and lightning.

US loan defaults hit record level. The level of people falling behind with consumer loans in the US hit a new high in the first three months of 2009, the American Bankers Association said. Rising unemployment was behind the missed payments, it suggested. Delinquencies - payments that were more than 30 days overdue - rose to 3.23% from 3.22%, the highest level since rates began being tracked in the 1970s.

July 9, 2009

G8 Leaders met in L'Aquila, a mountain town wrecked by April's earthquake and a fitting backdrop to talks on a global economy struggling to overcome the worst recession in living memory.  G8 sees continued perils for world economy. They believe the world economy still faces "significant risks" and may need further help. They said on Wednesday they had agreed to try to limit global warming to just 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels. That is the level above which, the United Nations says, the Earth's climate system would become dangerously unstable. The group is seeking a more co-ordinated position on climate change including promoting new technology and cleaner energy, and limiting temperature increases.

Scientists in Newcastle claim to have created human sperm in the laboratory in what they say is a world first. The researchers believe the work could eventually help men with fertility problems to conceive.  However, there are ethical concerns and diseases could increase.

Jacob's House Comment,

In the prophesy on this website entitled, "God Speaks to the Insolent", dated 12/20/07, our Lord God spoke about the fact that He would punish any scientists or other men who tried to manipulate His DNA, or His secrets of life and breath here.  Therefore, these foolish and ignorant men will soon bring great tribulation upon themselves for their evil ways and their sins.  　

Excerpt from "God Speaks to the Insolent";

Some foolish and ignorant men today are now teaming up with other scientific and blind men.  They are trying to destroy the fabric of beautification that I carefully created here long ago.  They are trying to become like gods themselves at this important late date and transition end time.  They are in the process of rearing their ugly heads before Me.  They are trying to manipulate My life giving DNA and impose their ideas and plans upon everything that I now manage, propagate, control, and own here. 

However, these men do not realize that I, the Lord God, can bring a great plague of judgment fire into their bones, and upon their dwelling places.  At any time I can consume the foundations of their houses, going back many generational years.  These foolish, ignorant, and hypocritical men do not realize that for their efforts to come against Me, I, the Lord God, can sentence them to a hundred million years across My great divide.  I can make their ungrateful hearts to go through midnight terrors, and their minds to become like molded butter in My hands.  I can also sentence them to become like the beasts of the fields they now want to look like and emulate.  I, the Lord God, can make them to wish they were never born.  I can also consume away their bodies and minds with My fire, which will send them to early, unmarked graves. 

 Science news: Massive Imbalances Found In Global Fertilizer Use, Resulting In Malnourishment In Some Areas And Serious Pollution Problems In Others. Synthetic fertilizers have dramatically increased food production worldwide. But the unintended costs to the environment and human health have been substantial. Nitrogen runoff from farms has contaminated surface and groundwater and helped create massive "dead zones" in coastal areas, such as the Gulf of Mexico. Ammonia from fertilized cropland has become a major source of air pollution, while emissions of nitrous oxide form a potent greenhouse gas. Some parts of the world, including much of China, use far too much fertilizer. But in sub-Saharan Africa, where 250 million people remain chronically malnourished, nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrient inputs are inadequate to maintain soil fertility.

Texas has driest regions in the US; major cities baking in heat, rainfall chances slim.

Los Angeles, California brush fires seen again this time near the Getty museum which had to be evacuated. 

Minor Earthquake Reported in Va. No damage or injuries have been reported following a small earthquake that rattled parts of central Virginia.

The authorities in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) have reduced water supplies by 30 per cent as it faces one of the worst shortages in its history.  The drought in Mumbai is in contrast to other areas of the country. In the north-eastern state of Assam, about half a million people have been stranded as rivers burst their banks due to flooding.  The fear now for Mumbai residents is that they may soon have to buy water from private water suppliers as the five main lakes which supply the city now have levels between four to 10 metres lower than at this time last year.

Jacob's House Comment,

There is no shortage of God's end time signs and wonders today to those who have the eyes to see it, and the ears to hear, what is going on all around them coming from our Creator.  These signs and wonders will increase as the return of our Lord Jesus draws near. 

July 12, 2009

Fast-growing kelp invades San Francisco Bay. SAN FRANCISCO - A fast-growing kelp from the Far East has spread along the California coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco Bay, worrying marine scientists and outpacing eradication efforts. In May, scientists for the first time found the invasive seaweed called Undaria pinnatifida clinging to docks at a yacht harbor in San Francisco Bay, fouling boat hulls and pier pilings. The seaweed concerns marine biologistskelp forests provide key habitat for otters, fish and other marine life. The seaweed spreads by releasing millions of spores that can be dispersed by currents in the open ocean, but in a protected marina lighter currents could slow its reach. While it is native to Japan, China and Korea, studies have found the kelp in the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Coast of Europe, New Zealand and Argentina. It can damage fragile ocean ecosystems by choking off the sunlight needed by native kelps. 

More than 50 people have been killed in a series of bomb attacks in Iraq in the worst day of violence since US forces withdrew from urban areas on 30 June. The most lethal attack was in Talafar, near Mosul, where at least 34 people were killed and more than 60 injured in a double suicide bombing. In Baghdad, two attacks at markets left at least 16 dead.

 Gang violence is surging in Mexico, where 40,000 soldiers have been deployed across the country to root out drug cartels.  Beheadings, attacks on police, and shootings in clubs and restaurants are a daily occurrence in some regions. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the US must take part of the blame for drug-related violence in Mexico. Some 8,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico over the past two years.

Scientists have detected a spike in underground rumblings on a section of California's San Andreas Fault that produced a magnitude-7.8 earthquake in 1857.

Another small earthquake - the seventh in about a month - has been reported in the North Texas town of Cleburne.

Iran Claims It Is First Country in Middle East to Clone a CowIranian scientists have become the first in the Middle East to clone a cow as part of the country's stem cell research.

A rapid loss of water is occurring in Central Asia's Aral sea which is shared by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Decades ago, the sea was the world's fourth largest body of inland water, but diversion of rivers for irrigation has been rapidly shrinking the sea. Two decades ago, it split into the small northern and larger southern sections, and further divisions have been happening ever since.

Reporting in the journal Science, researchers say they've found a form of Ebola virus in pigs in the Philippines. The strain doesn't harm humans, but there's concern it may mutate.  Ebola-Reston virus (REBOV) has only previously been seen in monkeys and humans - and has not caused illness. But researchers are concerned that pigs might provide a melting pot where the virus could mutate into something more menacing for humans and a wider range of livestock. Pigs are known to provide an ideal host for viruses to mutate. Experts say the potential risk is magnified because they are an essential part of the human food chain, and come into close contact with people. REBOV belongs to the family of filoviruses which usually target primates. These viruses cause viral haemorrhagic fevers, which cause extensive internal bleeding, and can be fatal.

Jacob's House Comment,

In our Lord God's Bible, in Leviticus, 11: 7-8, God speaks about the uncleanness of the swine, and the fact that we are not to eat of their flesh or touch them in any manner.  The fact that these animals are infected with Eboli should not be a surprise to God's faithful children today if they have followed their Lord's Bible words. 

Leviticus 11:7-8

7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven footed, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.

8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcass shall ye not touch, they are unclean to you.    

See also Mark 5:7-14 for how unclean these particular animals are in God's eyes. 

July 17, 2009

Girl's death takes flu toll to 16. A six-year-old girl from London has died after contracting swine flu, taking the number of swine flu-related deaths in the UK to 16..

Mysterious Tremors Detected Along San Andreas Fault.  Scientists have detected a spike in underground rumblings on a section of California's San Andreas Fault that produced a magnitude-7.8 earthquake in 1857.

U. S. deficit soars to new milestone of 1 trillion dollars for first 9 months of 2009.

The US Federal Reserve is stating a hopeful global recovery may be on the horizon.

New US food safety rules being put in place because of rash of food scares lately.

A new US report is stating 6.5 million jobs have been lost since the US recession started. 

Honeybees have been dying in record numbers, yet many commercial crops depend on them for pollination. Entomologists who have been struggling to find an alternative now report that another bee might fill the void.

Late blight, which caused the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s and 1850s, is killing potato and tomato plants in home gardens from Maine to Ohio and threatening commercial and organic farms, U.S. plant scientist said. Late blight has never occurred this early and this widespread in the United States," said Meg McGrath, a plant pathologist at Cornell University's extension center in Riverhead, New York. She said the fungal disease, spread by spores carried in the air, has made its way into the garden centers of large retail chains in the Northeastern United States. "Wal-mart, Home Depot, Sears, Kmart and Lowe's are some of the stores the plants have been seen in.

July 18, 2009

Regulators shut Calif. Banks and small banks in Georgia, South Dakota. This makes 57 US Fed Insured bank failures this year.

Another Plan To Fix The U. S. Housing Market: Rent-To-Own. A few days ago, Ruters reported that the Obama administration is considering another plan to stave off foreclosures: Rent-to-own. The administration's original plan-mortgage modifications-has so far been a disappointment). The goal of the program would be to reduce foreclosures and keep people in their houses- by reducing their monthly payments and eliminating the crushing burden of debt on homeowners that underwater.

Arctic Mystery: Identifying the Great Blob of Alaska. A group of hunters aboard a small boat out of the tiny Alaskavillage of Wainwright were the first to spot what would eventually be called "the blob." It was a dark, floating mass stretching for miles through the Chukchi Sea, a frigid and relatively shallow expanse of Arctic Ocean water between Alaska's northwest coast and the Russian Far East. The goo was fibrous and hairy. When it touched floating ice, it looked almost black. But what was it? Test results released Thursday showed the blob wasn't oil, but a plant - a massive bloom of algae. While that may seem less dangerous, a lot of people are still uneasy. It's something the mostly Inupiat Eskimo residents along Alaska's northern coast say they could never remember seeing before.  On Thursday, on the other side of the U. S. continent, U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican, urged NOAA to direct at least $500,000 to assess a disastrous red tide - a form of algal bloom. "The state of Maine is currently besieged by the most virulent red tide event ever recorded in the region," Snowe wrote. "As a result of this outbreak, virtually the entire coast of our state has been closed to the harvest of clams, mussels, ocean quahogs, and other shellfish."

Grant to help restore bumblebee habitat near farms. With bumblebees and other native insects that pollinate crops dying off, scientists are working on the best ways to restore natural habitat on or near farms.

China quarantines school groups. More than 100 schoolchildren and their teachers from the UK and US have been quarantined in Beijing after eight children were found to have swine flu. The four UK and four US children are being treated in a Beijing hospital and are said to be in a stable condition. Hundreds of people quarantined so far this year.

Twenty-nine people have now died in the UK after contracting swine flu, up from 17 on Monday, the government has said. It comes as the number of new cases hit 55,000 last week and the NHS has seen a surge in calls and consultations. The US now has 2,532 confirmed cases of swine flu, after a jump in figures in recent days, officials say.  The cases - up around 600 since Friday - mean the US has now surpassed Mexico as the most affected nation.  But the total of three confirmed deaths is far lower than in Mexico where 48 people are known to have died.

U. S. Luxury housing in trouble. Some of the nation's wealthiest areas are suffering from a glut of overpriced, unsold homes.

Rumblings being felt in U. S. Yellowstone Park.  Scientists believe this could this be the precursor to a great earthquake in U. S.

CNN News has reported World Vision, a Christian aid and relief organization, has been accused of stealing over 92% of the aid, food, and relief money that was destined to go to various African nations.

Jacob's House Comment,

The Lord God has made this world called earth for His pleasure, power, and glory to be seen here by a select few people today.  He has made this world for specific called and chosen people to realize who He is, and to come to Him in humility, innocence, and true faith.  They are to see Him as He really wants to be seen, so they can understand Him as their Creator.  They are to come to Him through His Son, Jesus, with repentance and sorrowful hearts for all of their evil deeds and their corrupt mistakes. 

Therefore, this world that God has created is a proving ground which will show our God which of the people here are worthy enough to be His eternal angels of glory in the future.   When wealthy people steal from the poor, and corrupt their businesses, they will not be allowed to enter into the kingdom of God.  For God knows they are more concerned with money and power for themselves, than they are with helping others.  Remember God does not want filthy angels like Satan in His kingdom, who cannot conform to His rules, His commandments, and His judgments.    

July 20, 2009

Eleven thousand people flee western Canadian wildfires. VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters)  Emergency crews made slow progress Sunday to contain wildfires that have forced thousands of residents of a western Canadian community to flee their homes. Wind and dry conditions were fueling the large blazes that broke out Saturday in the rugged hills along Okanagan Lake west of the city of Kelowna, British Columbia, where housing subdivisions have encroached on the surrounding forest in recent years.

Apollo 11 crew: Moon less interesting than Mars. WASHINGTON - The first astronauts to walk on the moon want President Barack Obama to aim for a new destination: Mars. Aldrin presented an elaborate slide detailing how to make a quick visit to the moon a stepping stone to visits to the Martian moon.

Divorces are down all over the world.  In the US, England, India, etc., because of the current recession. 

New reports show many US banks misused 700 billion in taxpayer bailout funds.  Many of them who received funds put a portion of the money they received into lobbying congress. 

Twenty-four people are dead and hundreds are homeless from Mongolian floods. 

Waste and fraud have been discovered in the US Pentagon.  Millions of dollars were given out to invalid accounts. 

Troubled banks in the US are now at 305 in 2009.  The FDIC lists the rescue of the financial system could top 23 trillion dollars.

US commercial real estate has fallen 10% to 50% in value.  There are 5000 +  distressed buildings in the US and these could effect regional banks to the tune of 30 billion dollars in losses.   

Alarming Africa male gay HIV rate. HIV rates among gay men in some African countries are 10 times higher than among the general male population, says research in medical journal the Lancet. The report said prejudice towards gay people was leading to isolation and harassment, which in turn led to risky sexual practices among gay communities.

HOT ISSUE: Should we deliberately move species? LOS ANGELES -On naked patches of land in western Canada and United States, scientists are planting trees that don't belong there. It's a bold experiment to move trees threatened by global warming into places where they may thrive amid a changing climate. Something similar will be tried in the Lower 48. Researchers will uproot moisture-loving Sitka spruce and Western redcedar that grace British Columbia's coastal rainforests and drop their seedlings in the dry ponderosa pine forests of Idaho. All of this swapping begs the question: Should humans lend nature a helping hand? With global warming threatening the livelihoods of certain plants and animals, this radical idea once dismissed in scientific circles has moved to the forefront of debate and triggered strong emotions among conservationists. About 20 to 30 percent of species worldwide face a high risk of becoming extinct possibly by 2100 as global temperatures rise.

Military Study Ties War Trauma to Violence at Home. Soldiers in a single Army unit killed as many as 11 people after returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the military said last week. One contributing factor? The psychological trauma of war.

Outbreak of Fungus Threatens Tomato Crop. A highly contagious fungus that destroys tomato plants has quickly spread to nearly every state in the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic, and the weather over the next week may determine whether the outbreak abates or whether tomato crops are ruined, according to federal and state agriculture officials. The spores of the fungus, called late blight, are often present in the soil, and small outbreaks are not uncommon in August and September. But the cool, wet weather in June and the aggressively infectious nature of the pathogen have combined to produce an explosive rate of infection on such a wide scale.

World Health Organization says swine flu death toll now at 700, school closures must be an option. GENEVA (Reuters) - The H1N1 virus has killed more than 700 people worldwide since emerging in April, and countries could consider closing schools to slow its spread, the WHO said on Tuesday. The WHO, whose previous death toll was tallied  at 429 two weeks ago, also said it was up to national health authorities to decide what measures they should impose to slow the spread of the new strain.

Israeli official: US should honor past deals. Jerusalem - Israel's deputy prime minister said Tuesday the Obama administration's call to freeze West Bank settlement construction undermines past agreements between the U.S. and Israel.  The comments by Dan Meridor underscored the growing rift between Israel and the U.S. over construction in the settlements. President Barack Obama has urged Israel to halt all settlement construction as a confidence-building move to restart stalled peace negotiations. 

Scuba divers off the Californian city of San Diego are being menaced by large numbers of jumbo squid. The beaked Humboldt squid, which grow up to 5ft (1.5 metres) long, arrived off the city's shores last week. Divers have reported unnerving encounters with the creatures, which are carnivorous and can be aggressive. One diver described how one of the rust-coloured creatures ripped the buoyancy aid and light from her chest, and grabbed her with its tentacles. "I just kicked like crazy," diver Shanda Magill told the Associated Press news agency.

Jacob's House Comment,

We have mentioned here before that the animals on this earth will get more aggressive with man as the end of this earth age draws near.  Therefore, you can expect more animals to try to maim and devour people as God takes away man's dominion over this earth in the next few seasons of time. 

July 23, 2009

3 NJ mayors, lawmakers arrested in corruption case.  NEWARK, N.J. - An investigation into the sale of black-market kidneys and fake Gucci handbags evolved into a sweeping probe of political corruption in New Jersey, ensnaring more than 40 people Thursday, including three mayors, two state lawmakers and several rabbis. An FBI official called corruption "a cancer that is destroying the core values of this state." Federal prosecutors said the investigation initially focused on a money laundering network that operated between Brooklyn, N.Y.; Deal, N.J.; and Israel that laundered tens of millions of dollars through Jewish charities controlled by rabbis in New York and New Jersey. Prosecutors accused one man of dealing in human kidneys from Israeli donors for transplant for a decade. It is alleged that "vulnerable people" would give up a kidney for $10,000 and these would then be sold on for $160,000. The corruption was widespread and pervasive and was a way of life for the accused." Politicians had "willingly put themselves up for sale" and clergymen had "cloaked their extensive criminal activity behind a facade of rectitude".

Jacob's House Comment,

Man is corrupt and sinful in all of his doings.  He is often evil and not charitable to other people who are in need.  This corruption, graft, and stealing we are seeing is part of the end time scenario for this earth.  Therefore, God will soon have to completely close down this current earth age, to make room for His new virtuous and holy day.  This has already begun to happen in many areas of the world where the wilderness places are especially offensive to God.  You can expect diseases, disastrous weather, economic trouble, and earthquakes to plague many nations in the next few seasons of time.  For we are already beginning to see the early signs of God's new day, which will lead to the second appearance of our Lord Jesus, upon this earth.   

Zephaniah 3:6-8:

6 I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.

7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: they rose early, and corrupted all their doings. 

8 Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them my indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.   

See also the prophecy on this website entitled, "God Speaks To His Defiant"  dated 9/4/08.

Afghan war is 'worth the effort' says U. S. Vice President Joe Biden.  He said that the terror groups on the border with Pakistan could "wreak havoc" on Europe and the US. The number of foreign troop deaths has jumped recently, sparking questions in the UK over its involvement in the war. Mr Biden suggested more sacrifice would have to be made during what he termed the "fighting season".

South Africa's government has vowed to crack down on riots in townships across the country where residents are demanding better basic services, such as water and housing.

Four firefighters have been killed while trying to tackle forest fires in north-eastern Spain. Another two were badly burned in the same incident, when the wind changed direction and the firefighters were suddenly overwhelmed by the flames. A senior official said the firefighters killed on Tuesday found themselves at the mercy of the wind.

Swine flu 'critical care threat'. Swine flu cases could overwhelm intensive care departments, specialists have warned. Demand for critical care beds could outstrip supply by 130%, a study in the journal Anaesthesia predicts.  Hospitals on the South East Coast, in the South West, East of England and East Midlands will be worst hit, the researchers calculated. It comes as the World Health Organization said there could be 2bn cases globally during the pandemic.

Wall 'could stop desert spread'. A plan to build a 6,000km-long wall across the Sahara Desert to stop the spread of the desert has been outlined. The barrier - formed by solidifying sand dunes - would stretch from Mauritania in the west of Africa to Djibouti in the east. In 2007, the UN issued a report that said that one third of the Earth's population, about two billion people, are potential victims of desertification. It is concerned that the slow creep of the sands will displace people and put new strains on natural resources and societies.  Problem areas include the former Soviet republics in central Asia, China, and sub-Saharan Africa. Desert spread now affects 140 countries.

Jacob's House Comment,

God is taking away the rain water and crop supplies from many countries today.  He is showing them that they are dry deserts and wilderness places in His eyes.  God is showing them they will soon perish without Him and His Son, Jesus.  This is one of God's ways of punishing the nations when they have not honored His commandments and they have defied His rules and judgments for this earth.    

Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki has hinted that US forces could stay in Iraq beyond the current deadline of 2011.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The swine flu virus is starting to infect older people, while pregnant women and the obese are at highest risk, the World Health Organization said on Friday. In a statement, the United Nations agency said school-age children remain most affected by the newly discovered virus that has been spreading fast in schools and is gaining momentum in broad communities alongside seasonal flu. The United Kingdom is reporting 100,000 cases of swine flu in the last week.  There is another report out stating there could be a potential of 2 billion cases worldwide in the coming new year.

Swine flu could hit up to 40 percent in US ATLANTA - In a disturbing new projection, health officials in the U. S. say up to 40 percent of Americans could get swine flu this year and next and several hundred thousand could die without a successful vaccine campaign and other measures. The estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are roughly twice the number of those who catch flu in a normal season and add greater weight to hurried efforts to get a new vaccine ready for the fall flu season. Swine flu has already hit the United States harder than any other nation, but it has struck something of a glancing blow that's more surprising than devastating. The virus has killed about 300 Americans and experts believe it has sickened more than 1 million. It has the weird ability to keep spreading in the summer.

PARIS - Many French people aren't devout but hold to at least one religious teaching: Sunday is a day of rest. That practice is under threat from a controversial pro-work law that will allow more French stores to open Sundays. The law was passed by Parliament Thursday.

Massive Quake Shifts New Zealand Closer to Australia. Southern New Zealand has moved slightly closer to the east coast of neighboring Australia as a result of a massive earthquake last week off the country's South Island, a scientist said Wednesday.

Researchers in China now state living mammals can be grown from so-called induced pluripotent stem cells, cells from an adult that act in many ways like embroyonic stem cells.  Dozens of these rodents were created from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) and born to a surrogate mother.

July 26, 2009

Governor Perdue declares disaster areas. Gov. Sonny Perdue says the U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 60 Georgia counties as disaster areas because of extreme weather conditions since March.

Deforestation and, some scientists contend, global climate change are making the Amazon region drier and hotter, decimating fish stocks in this area. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that up to 30 percent of animals and plants face an increased risk of extinction if global temperatures rise 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in coming decades. But anthropologists also fear a wave of cultural extinction for dozens of small indigenous groups - the loss of their traditions, their arts, their languages. "In some places, people will have to move to preserve their culture," Cultures threatened by climate change span the globe. They include rain forest residents like the Kamayura tribe who face dwindling food supplies; remote Arctic communities where the only roads were frozen rivers that are now flowing most of the year; and residents of low-lying islands whose land is threatened by rising seas.

Get ready for banking's next headache. A weak economy and frozen financing markets could spell trouble for regional banks with big commercial loan portfolios. Though housing markets remain weak, analysts expect credit problems over the next year to center on commercial real estate - mortgages on office and apartment buildings and shopping malls, as well as construction, development and industrial loans. U.S. banks hold some $1.8 trillion worth of commercial loans, according to Federal Reserve data.

Europe fast-tracking swine flu vaccine. LONDON - In a drive to inoculate people against swine flu before winter, many European governments say they will fast-track the testing of a new flu vaccine, arousing concern among some experts about safety issues and proper vaccine doses. The European Medicines Agency, the EU's top drug regulatory body, is accelerating the approval process for swine flu vaccine, and countries such as Britain, Greece, France and Sweden say they'll start using the vaccine after it's green lighted, possibly within weeks.

The art of a recession: U. S. Art Gallery owners struggling.  Art is a very discretionary sort of object and art galleries are in the worst recession arguably in the postwar era. Even people with plenty of discretionary money aren't spending much on it.

US hopes China talks spur economic recovery, jobs. WASHINGTON - With the global economy mired in recession, the United States and China begin talks Monday to seek a solution together despite tensions over currencies, the U.S. budget deficit and the huge U.S. trade gap with China. 

A serious US drought persists in the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Texas.  The Texas drought has seen half of its cotton, corn, and sorghum crops withered and destroyed.  The ground there is so dry it is cracking after triple digit temperatures persist for weeks. 

One hundred thousand cases of the swine flu have been reported in the UK in the past week.      

July 28, 2009

Job woes sap U.S. consumer confidence in July. NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. consumer confidence fell more than expected in July, the Conference Board said on Tuesday, recording its second consecutive decline as sentiment remained hampered by a difficult job market. The Conference Board, an industry group, said its index of consumer attitudes slid to 46.6 in July from 49.3 in June. The worsening of sentiment came as Americans saying jobs were hard to get increased and those who thought jobs were plentiful fell to its lowest in more than a quarter century, hurting their overall assessment of the present situation. All of this is bad news in the short term for an economy that has been heavily dependent on consumer spending in recent years.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. home prices rose in May for the first time in three years, suggesting the housing market is stabilizing. However, a weakening job market hit consumer confidence in July and could prevent near-term economic recovery.

Russia's chief public health officer has recommended the cancellation of school trips abroad this summer as a precaution against swine flu. The advice issued by Gennady Onishchenko's office came after he warned on television against school trips to the UK specifically.

The swine flu virus has reached 160 countries and could infect two billion people within the next two years, the World Health Organization has said. A senior WHO official, Keiji Fukuda, said the virus was still in its early stages and would continue to spread for some time.

Texas Scorched by Worst Drought in 50 Years. Crop and Livestock Losses Reach $3.6 Billion, and Tourism Industry Takes a Hit. A combination of record-high heat and record-low rainfall has pushed south and central Texas into the region's deepest drought in a half century, with $3.6 billion of crop and livestock losses piling up during the past nine months. Many Texas counties are primary natural-disaster areas because of drought, above-normal temperatures, and associated wildfires.  The heat wave has drastically reduced reservoirs and forced about 230 public water systems to declare mandatory water restrictions. Lower levels in lakes and rivers have been a blow to tourism, too, making summer boating, swimming and fishing activities impossible in some places. In late April, the USDA designated 70 Texas counties disaster areas.

A STRONG 6.2 earthquake hit the Pacific nation of Vanuatu and Indonesia's Sumatra island today, seismologists said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

The area of forest burnt by wildfires in the United States is set to increase by over 50 percent by 2050, according to research by climate scientists.

July 29, 2009

 BEIJING - Contaminated drinking water has sickened more than 2,600 people in northern China, including 59 who were hospitalized with fevers, diarrhea, stomach aches and vomiting, state media reported Wednesday. Heavy rains caused contaminants to seep into a water supply in Chifeng city in Inner Mongolia, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, without saying what the contaminants were.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nearly 10,000 Uighurs involved in deadly riots in China's northwestern Xinjiang region in the first week of July 2009, went missing in one night, exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer said Wednesday, calling for an international investigation. "If they are dead, where are their bodies? If they are detained, where are they?" She called on the international community to send an independent investigative team to Urumqi to uncover details of what had taken place. The official death toll from the riots stands at 197, most of whom were Han Chinese who form the majority of China's 1.3 billion population.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four promoters and a Phoenix-based company have been accused of defrauding at least 900 investors across the United States in a mortgage lending scam, the Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday. The SEC alleges that the Arizona-based promoters, including a pharmacist and a grade-school principal, raised more than $197 million from at least 900 investors by making false statements about the safety and performance of the investments.

Record heat wave continues in Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon, U.S. PORTLAND, Ore. - "Brutal" temperatures are predicted for the Seattle area on Wednesday as a record heat wave afflicting the Pacific Northwest continues to bake everything west of the Cascades, a National Weather Service meteorologist said. The high temperature could easily tie or break the all-time record temperature of 100 degrees set July 20, 1994, at Sea-Tac.

 WASHINGTON -. With the budget deficit soaring towards 2 trillion dollars, government agencies are trying to find $102 million in spending cuts. Still, the reductions account for only 0.006% of the deficit. The list of 77 spending cuts, which the White House is calling "the $100 million savings challenge," reflects the vastness of government - and its vast inefficiency. Hundreds of millions of dollars in savings were found simply by casting around for areas to trim.

July 30, 2009

There are indications the number of swine flu cases in England is no longer rising rapidly and may have hit a plateau, officials have said. There were an estimated 110,000 new cases of swine flu last week, compared with 100,000 the week before. Overall, around one in every 150 people in England has had swine flu so far and there have been 27 deaths. This figure is higher in younger age groups with one in 90 under ones and one in 77 one to four year olds infected since the start of the pandemic. Meanwhile, officials say more than half of children taking Tamiflu medicine for the swine flu suffer side-effects such as nausea and insomnia. In the first seven days of the service, 150,000 people were given tamiflu.

UK Afghan casualty rate hits high. British forces in Afghanistan suffered their highest injury rate this month since the mission began in 2001, new Ministry of Defense figures show. A total of 57 UK troops were wounded in action in the first two weeks of July alone, compared with 46 in the whole of June and 24 in May. Of the injuries in the first 15 days of July, 16 service personnel were seriously or very seriously wounded. July has also seen the most deaths - some 22 - since operations began.

Nasa defends its spaceflight plan. Engineers developing Nasa's new rockets have denied that the agency's human spaceflight plans are too expensive, too risky and subject to long delays. The US space agency has already spent four years developing its next generation rockets, called Ares. They said Ares was the safest, fastest way to get Americans back into space.  

China concerned about abortions. There are 13 million abortions each year, compared to 20 million births, according to newly published research. Researchers believe the real figure could be even higher because there are many abortions at unregistered clinics. Other countries have higher rates. They include Russia - which some years has more terminations than births. Although the number is high, China's abortion rate of 24 per 1,000 woman of childbearing age, as the rate is usually calculated, is far from the top of the international list. According to UN figures, Russia is highest with more than 50. The US has 15, and Spain has just under 12. China began restricting the number of children each couple can have in 1978. Officials say this has prevented 400 million extra births.

Fresh hope for world's fisheries. There is fresh hope that the world's depleted fisheries can be saved from collapse, say a team of researchers. They said that efforts introduced to halt over fishing in five of the 10 large marine ecosystems they examined were showing signs of success. A combination of measures - such as catch quotas, no-take zones, and selective fishing gear - had helped fish stocks recover, they added. However, they warned that the signs of recovery should not be interpreted by policymakers as a sign that all was well beneath the waves. The majority of fisheries were still in trouble, and were not being managed or regulated properly.

Town halls gone wild. Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, congressmen fearful for their safety - welcome to the new town-hall-style meeting, the once-staid forum that is rapidly turning into a house of horrors for members of Congress. On the eve of the August recess, members are reporting meetings that have gone terribly awry, marked by angry, sign-carrying mobs and disruptive behavior. In at least one case, a congressman has stopped holding town hall events because the situation has spiraled so far

August 2, 2009

US President Barack Obama has said that new figures on the American economy indicate progress is being made in tackling the country's problems. The economy shrank at an annual pace of 1% in the April-to-June quarter, government figures have shown. The data was better than expected, but marked the longest period of decline since records began in 1947.

Report highlights hunger in India. India is emerging as the world center of hunger and malnutrition, a report by Indian campaign group, the Navdanya Trust, says. The trust says that there are more than 200 million people, or one in four Indians, going without enough to eat. The prominent environmentalist Vandana Shiva, who runs the trust, said there were now more hungry people in India than in sub-Saharan Africa. Because of bad harvests 57 million children in India are underweight due to malnutrition.

A huge forest fire is out of control on one of the Canary Islands, forcing the evacuation of up to 4,000 people, including tourists. Two military planes, six helicopters and 500 firemen are fighting the flames on La Palma, which have been spread by strong winds and high temperatures. Some residents were saved just minutes before fire engulfed their homes.

Facebook criticised by Archbishop. Social networking websites, texting and e-mails are undermining community life, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has warned. Archbishop Vincent Nichols said MySpace and Facebook led young people to seek "transient" friendships, with quantity becoming more important than quality. He said a key factor in suicide among young people was the trauma caused when such loose relationships collapsed. Archbishop Nichols said society was losing some of its ability to build communities through inter-personal communication, as the result of excessive use of texts and e-mails rather than face-to-face meetings or telephone conversations.

Jacob's House Comment,

We are aware at Jacob's House that the internet today is being seen by our Lord God as the new Tower of Babel.  Though it has some good information which can be deciphered from its pages today, it is also bringing many people despair, fear, lust, and worry into their hearts and minds.  It is also spreading the devil's evil and wickedness through people speaking their filthy ideas to each other, all over this world, just as the first Tower of Babel did.  It is allowing the devil, who now uses it to his own advantage, to communicate his evil and wickedness to multitudes of unsuspecting people.  Therefore, soon many of them will be destroyed by him in the next few years.

A new study is stating the Swine Flu could affect the brains of unborn babies and their development.  They could become disabled later on if they contract this flu.

A new report is out that is saying that many people are now parting with their family heirlooms, art, and jewelry because of hard times.  Auction houses are booming because of this. 

A new land slide in Central China has derailed a train, killed 4 people, and injured 50 others. 

Another report is stating that US banks which received government taxpayer funds are not focusing on distressed loans to modify and help foreclosed property residents.  Therefore, a low amount of applications for help with distressed loans are being approved.  Nine million homeowners are having trouble staying in their homes. 

A new poll is stating 82% of Americans think the US economy is in bad shape, however, only 4% of them blame President Obama.  The US recession is being seen as twice as long and bad as originally expected.    

The Pacific Northwest USA swelters in 103 degree temperatures and all time history records are being set.  In other parts of the US tornadoes have been seen in New Jersey, the Northeast US, Pennsylvania, and Oklahoma.  However, Texas remains in extreme drought with no rain.

Universities in England are failing to safeguard degree standards, according to a damning report from MPs. "Inconsistency in standards is rife," said committee chairman, Phil Willis. The hard-hitting report calls for urgent action to improve how universities safeguard the quality of degrees. It describes as "absurd and disreputable" the claim that the growing demand for courses, including from overseas students, is proof that university standards are being maintained.

Recent new US poll finds two-thirds of Americans believe their Congress lacks a true understanding of health issues involved with health care.  

Jacob's House Comment

In the prophesy on this website entitled, "God Will Ruin The eagle", dated 3/16/08, our Lord God spoke about how He would destroy both England, the mother eagle, and the U.S., the baby eagle, for their self-serving and haughty ways. God spoke about how these two nations' destructive ideas would soon signify their untimely end. God spoke about how her young ones would also soon be destroyed. These things are already beginning to come to pass.

Excerpt From God Will Ruin The Eagle:

For I, the Lord God, know this eagle all too well, servant Jacob.  I know the history of her defiant and stiff-necked backward stance towards Me and My Son, Jesus.  I know all of the lies and untrue fables she has spoken about Me and My Son, Jesus.  I know her mouth is now an open sepulcher of filth, decay, vile words, and dead bones today.  For she has adopted the self-serving and self-centered haughty ways of the mother eagle who raised her and brought her up.  She has learned the crooked ways of the heathens who are all around her today, and now guide all of her footsteps.  They have taught her their filthy ways, and they have taught her to destroy her own young ones.

Therefore, this eagle now believes in the destructive ideas which will soon signify her end.  I, the Lord God, know she long ago detached herself far away from Me, My goodness, and My Son, Jesus.  She decided to write Me out of her heart and mind, and take Me out of the nesting places and learning centers she has recently erected.  She has not kept any of the vows and promises she made to Me long ago.

I, the Lord God, am aware of the fact that this eagle stiffened her neck and turned her back on Me and My Son.  I know more than a generation ago she started to pursue the evil adventures of her own heart and mind.  This is why she is not able to figure out her own destiny and future.  She also cannot even control her little ones anymore, or the polluted environment she has given them to survive in.  She cannot tell when her environment is radically changing and shifting before her.  She cannot think of the right things to say or do when other evil enemies assemble themselves against her on a daily basis.    

 A minor earthquake rattled the mountainous area of southeastern Tennessee, western North Carolina and northern Georgia on Saturday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

Apple moth destroying crops in California. The Australian moth has forced quarantines across more than 3,500 square miles around the Bay Area, and was detected this week in Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo counties. It has damaged hundreds of acres of organic strawberries near Watsonville, forced the quarantine of 20 percent of Sonoma County's grape crop and threatens oak and cypress trees. It is now being seen from coastal communities south to Hollister and Los Osos, and inland to Manteca in San Joaquin County.

Agriculture officials say an infestation of the white striped fruit fly has been found in Los Angeles County, the first time the crop damaging pest has been detected in the Western Hemisphere. The fly is native to tropical Southeast Asia, where it damages the fruit of many trees, most notably guava and mango.

ADA releases position paper on food and water safety in U. S. ADA's position paper cites studies that find the United States has one of the safest food supplies in the world, "yet food-related illnesses impose an increasingly important public health problem. It is estimated that 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths result from food borne disease annually, with a cost of $23 billion. High-risk populations (the very young; elderly; pregnant; and immunocompromised due to medical conditions such as diabetes, renal diseases and chemical and radiological treatments) experience the most serious consequences of food borne illnesses," the authors write.

Experts puzzled by spot on Venus. Data from the European probe suggests the spot appeared at least four days before it was spotted from Earth. The bright spot has since started to expand, being spread by winds in Venus's thick atmosphere. Scientists are unsure as to what caused the bright spot tens of kilometers up. However, a volcanic eruption is a possibility.

Jacob's House Comment,

In the prophesy on this website entitled, "God Speaks About His Signs dated 7/6/08, our Lord God spoke about the many signs he would be bring to this world today.  God spoke about how these signs would lead to the second coming of His Son, Jesus, to this world.

Excerpt From God Speaks About His Signs: 

The signs are clear watchman, that I, the Lord God, am bringing to a close this filthy earth age of concupiscence, greed, idolatry, vanity, corruption, usury, and highly immoral desires.  The signs are clear that I Am bringing this world to a close, week by week, month by month, and day by day.  The signs are clear to anyone who has eyes to see that I Am fulfilling the intentions of My pure heart, mind, and soul.  However, I know the fools, drunkards, and heathens of this world will not be able to see what I Am accomplishing all around them today.

Therefore, with every breath that I, the Lord God, take I will remove the iniquity that I see upon the land today.  Everywhere you look, watchman, you will be able to see the adverse weather patterns that I will be using to cleanse and purge the unfavorable areas of this world which I dislike.  You will be able to see with own spiritual eyes the foul tempests and winds that I will be bringing to the dead seas of this world today.  You will know in your heart and mind these adverse weather patterns are being controlled by Me and no one else, and they are under My sole discretion and direction.  For soon they will affect the harvest time crops and fields that were once rich, tranquil, and serene.

August 3, 2009

Plague kills 2nd man; China seals off entire town in Qinghai province. BEIJING -A second man has died of a pneumonic plague in northwest China, in an outbreak that prompted authorities to lock down a town where about a dozen people were infected with the highly contagious deadly lung disease, a state news agency said. The World Health Organization office in China said it was in close contact with Chinese health authorities and that measures taken so far to treat and quarantine sickened people were appropriate. The town of 10,000 people has been sealed off and a team of experts was sent to the area, the local health bureau said Sunday, warning that anyone with a cough or fever who visited the town since mid-July should seek treatment at a hospital. Authorities said homes and shops should be disinfected and residents should wear masks when they go out. 80 percent of the shops in the town were closed and prices of disinfectants and some vegetables have tripled. People are very scared and there are few people on the streets. Pneumonic plague is spread through the air and can be passed from person to person through coughing, according to the World Health Organization. It is caused by the same bacteria that occurs in bubonic plague - the Black Death that killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe during the Middle Ages. While bubonic plague - which is usually transmitted by flea bite - can be treated with antibiotics if diagnosed early, pneumonic plague is one of the deadliest infectious diseases. According to the WHO, humans can die within 24 hours of infection.

SACRAMENTO - Even if the world is successful in cutting carbon emissions in the future, California needs to start preparing for rising sea levels, hotter weather and other effects of climate change, a new state report recommends. It encourages local communities to rethink future development in low-lying coastal areas, reinforce levees that protect flood-prone areas and conserve already-strapped water supplies. "We still have to adapt, no matter what we do, because of the nature of the greenhouse gases," said Tony Brunello, deputy secretary for climate change and energy at the California Natural Resources Agency,

U. K. E.coli mother is 'seriously ill'. A woman is on a life support machine after an E.coli outbreak thought to be linked to a fish and chip shop. The family of librarian Karen Morrisroe-Clutton, who has an 11-week-old baby, said she fell ill after eating a vegetarian burger. The National Public Health Service (NPHS) for Wales said it was investigating four cases. Llay Fish Bar, Llay, Wrexham has been closed. Mother started with diarrhea, then developed sickness, and was passing blood.

The NSPCC in Britain has seen calls about serious child abuse to its helpline rise by more than a third since the death of Baby Peter in London, 2 years ago, the charity has said. The helpline passed on more than 11,000 suspected abuse cases to police and social services in the year to March. And the number of child abuse calls continues to grow. In June the helpline referred more than 1,000 calls to agencies - more than one an hour.

Fires rage across Canary island. A huge forest fire is out of control on the island of La Palma in the Canaries, forcing the evacuation of up to 4,000 people, including tourists.

August 4, 2009

One point five million US jobless people will see their benefits run out by the end of this year. 

A new report is stating many cases of the swine flu are going undetected and up to two billion cases could be seen in the next few years.

The number of people in the US with mental illness has jumped 17 million more recently.

A record number of 34 million Americans, or 1 in 9 people, are now receiving $133 per month in food stamps.

Almost 15 million Americans are still looking for jobs and are now unemployed.       

FDA: Arthritis drugs pose cancer risk to children. WASHINGTON - Federal regulators on Tuesday added stronger warnings to a group of best-selling drugs used to treat arthritis and other inflammatory diseases, saying they can increase the risk of cancer in children and adolescents. After more than a year of review, Food and Drug Administration scientists said the drugs appear to increase the risk of cancer after they are used beyond 2 1/2 years. The agency studied several dozen reports of cancer in children taking the drugs, some of which were fatal. Half of the cases were lymphomas, a cancer that attacks the immune system. The drugs are known as tumor necrosis factor blockers and work by neutralizing a protein that, when overproduced, causes inflammation and damage to bones, cartilage and other tissue. The drugs are prescribed to children with rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disorder and Crohn's disease. All the products are multibillion-dollar sellers.

Iowa school abandons plan to jam cell phones. Like most school districts, the administration in St. Ansgar, Iowa has struggled with students constantly talking and tapping away into their cell phones instead of paying attention to their teachers. Not only is it a distraction to the classroom setting, but cheating is rampant as kids look up answers on Wikipedia on their cells.  Naturally, it's against the rules to use your phone during the school day, but the kids simply don't seem to care, violating the edict regularly, much to the chagrin of the school faculty. So St. Ansgar did what any rational school district would do: It passed a motion authorizing the expenditure of up to $5,000 for a cell-phone jamming system that would turn off the communications capabilities of the phones. (Games and other applications stored on the handsets would still work, however.) However, the plan has a bit of a snag: It's illegal to jam cell phone signals, as the FCC has deemed such practices a risk to the general safety of the population, since calls couldn't go out or be received in case of emergency.

Chinese factory poisons hundreds. Hundreds of residents near a Chinese chemical plant have been found to have high levels of a dangerous metal in their bodies, after a series of leaks. Thirty-three of them were admitted to hospitals in Hunan province over the weekend with cadmium poisoning, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Cadmium can damage the liver, kidneys, lungs, nervous system and brain. Compounds containing the highly toxic metal, which is used in batteries, are also carcinogenic.

The Llay Fish Bar in Wrexham Wales has closed while an investigation is carried out. A council inspection of a chip shop possibly linked to an E.coli outbreak found poor hygiene conditions and major non-compliance with food legislation.

Canada on alert as BC fires burn. Much of British Columbia in western Canada remains on high alert as high temperatures and winds continue to stoke widespread forest fires. Some 5,300 people have fled the latest fires as thousands of firefighters try to tackle the flames. Since April, more than 2,000 fires have burned 63,000 hectares (155,700 acres) in British Columbia, officials say. Hot dry weather and lightning storms are igniting more than 100 new fires in British Columbia's forests each day, officials say.

European bison on 'genetic brink'. Europe's largest mammal, the European bison, remains extremely vulnerable to extinction, despite long-standing efforts to save it, new research shows. One of the two remaining wild herds of pure bred European bison is down to an effective population size of just 25.  That is despite the actual number of wild bison in the herd having steadily risen to around 800.

Earth's water cycle is changing as result of global warming and other factors. With global warming and other planet-wide impacts, biogeochemical cycles are being drastically altered. Like broken gears in machinery that was once finely-tuned, these cycles are falling out of sync.

Coral Reefs Face Increasing Difficulties Recovering From Storm Damage. As global warming whips up more powerful and frequent hurricanes and storms, the world's coral reefs face increased disruption to their ability to breed and recover from damage. Climate researchers are seeing increasing evidence for a direct relationship between global warming and rising hurricane intensity as well as frequency. The high temperatures cause bleaching, while the storms inflict physical destruction on the corals as well as eroding the rocky platforms they need to grow on, or burying them in sand. Research suggests their breeding of new colonies is severely disrupted after one of these major events.

Drug-resistant Malaria Has Emerged In Cambodia. Malaria parasites in western Cambodia have become resistant to artemisinin-based therapies, the first-line treatment for malaria, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on July 29. Resistance to the drugs makes them less effective and could eventually render them obsolete, putting millions of lives at risk.

Scientists said there's no tsunami threat to the West Coast and Hawaii following two earthquakes that struck minutes apart in Mexico's Gulf of California.

A moderate earthquake has struck in waters off the island of Guam, but there are no reports of any damage or injury.The U.S. Geological Survey says in a preliminary report that the magnitude-5.1 quake.

Water crisis in parched northern China. YIXIAN, China (AFP) - The river has dried up, the well yields only dust, and Li Yunxi is hard pressed to irrigate his plot of land, even though he lives right next to the largest water project in history. The temperatures have approached 40 degrees centigrade (104 degrees Fahrenheit) for weeks this summer in Hebei province, a region surrounding Beijing that has been stricken by drought for much of the last decade.

August 5, 2009

Silent gunman's Pa. health club shooting kills 4. BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. - Investigators were trying to piece together the motive of a gunman who walked into an exercise class in suburban Pittsburgh and fired dozens of shots, killing three women and himself and injuring nine other women, authorities said.  Two women and the man believed to be the shooter died at the scene Tuesday night and another woman died on the way to a hospital.

Jacob's House Comment,

There will be more women and children attacked and killed in violence in the next few years as God closes down this earth age to make way for a new day of true, virtuous, and holy order.  Only God's sons and daughters will be saved in this opheaval.  For our Lord God has never settled up for the sins of Eve that were committed in the Garden of Eden long ago.  Our God has never settled up for the fact that when Eve polluted this pristine garden long ago, she set in motion evil to spread to every nation, all over this world.  These things must be settled up by God, and judged righteously by Him in the next few years, before a new Garden of Eden from God can be seen here.  

Entire populations of North American fish already are being affected by several emerging diseases, a problem that threatens to increase in the future with climate change and other stresses on aquatic ecosystems, according to a noted U.S. Geological Survey researcher. A generation ago, we couldn't have imaged the explosive growth in disease issues facing many of our wild fish populations. Recent studies in natural aquatic systems have revealed that, in addition to being a cause of natural death, infectious and parasitic fish diseases can produce significantly greater mortality in altered habitats leading to population fluctuations, extinction of endangered fish, reduced overall health and increased susceptibility to predation.  The populations of certain fish species have suffered catastrophic losses after non-native diseases were first introduced into a water body. Examples include whirling disease in the intermountain west and the recent introduction of viral hemorrhagic septicemia in the Great Lakes.

Malaysia was Wednesday hit with the worst haze levels recorded this year, as smoke from forest fires caused "unhealthy" levels of pollution in six areas. Environment Department director general Rosnani Ibarahim said hundreds of forest fires were blazing in the Indonesian provinces of Kalimantan and Sumatra, and in Malaysia's SarawakBorneo island. 

August 7, 2009

Job losses slow in U.S. as unemployment dips. WASHINGTON - Employers sharply scaled back layoffs in July, and the unemployment rate dipped for the first time in 15 months, sending a strong signal that the worst recession since World War II is finally ending. A net total of 247,000 jobs were lost last month, the fewest in a year. That compares with 443,000 jobs that disappeared in June. And the unemployment rate for July declined to 9.4 percent from 9.5 percent in June. However, to push the jobless rate down the US government has not counted 700 thousand unemployed people, saying they are no longer in the workforce, because they are not looking for work. 

WASHINGTON - The government said Friday that schools should only close this fall if large numbers of students have swine flu, and could allow their sick kids to return 24 hours after a fever is gone. The decision on closing rests with local school officials, but they have been looking to the federal government for advice about the new flu strain that has caused a global epidemic. The advice on sick kids returning is a change from previous recommendations that people with swine flu stay home for a week. As the virus spread to students last spring, more than 700 schools in half the states temporarily closed their doors. The new flu is expected to hit schools again this fall. But the Obama administration is hoping to minimize closings and disruptions they cause for families. Unlike regular seasonal flu, this virus has not retreated during the hot and humid summer months and so far has infected more than 1 million Americans.

Jacobs House Comment

The schools in the U. S, and all over the world, are an abomination to God today.  In them students are being taught idol worship, lasciviousness, filthy and corrupt ideas, and lies about God and his Son, Jesus.  They are being taught evolution and the self-centered and damaging ways of this fallen world. Therefore, God is bringing a new plague to many of them today to close them down and stop this nonsense from being heard. 

US glaciers melting at faster rate. US geological survey commissioned by Obama administration indicates a sharp rise in the melt rate of key American glaciers over the last 10-15 years.

FRESNO - A massive beef recall has been announced over concerns of a salmonella outbreak. Fresno-based Beef Packers Inc. is recalling 825,769 pounds of ground beef produced between June 5, 2009 through June 23, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service. The beef was distributed to retail distribution centers in Arizona, California, Colorado and Utah. Twelve states have been affected.

Pest found in package had citrus disease. Tests on a bug found by a dog sniffing packages at a FedEx facility showed it carried a disease capable of devastating California's citrus industry, agricultural official said Wednesday. On Wednesday, U.S. Department of Agriculture tests confirmed the live Asian citrus psyllid nymph found in the leaves last month was infected with the huanglongbing virus - the first such find west of the Rockies. Huanglongbing, or citrus greening as it is commonly called, has killed tens of thousands of acres of citrus across Florida and Brazil, and has caused billions of dollars in losses.

King salmon vanishing in Alaska, smokehouses empty. ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Yukon River smokehouses should be filled this summer with oil-rich strips of king salmon - long used by Alaska Natives as a high-energy food to get through the long Alaska winters. But they're mostly empty. The king salmon failed to show up, and not just in the Yukon. One Alaska river after another has been closed to king fishing this summer because significant numbers of fish failed to return to spawn. The dismally weak return follows weak runs last summer and poor runs in 2007, which also resulted in emergency fishing closures.

U. S. Forests fall to beetle outbreak. MEDICINE BOW NATIONAL FOREST, Wyoming (Reuters) - Among the green foliage of the healthy spruce are the orange-red needles of the sick and the dead, victims of a beetle infestation closely related to one that has already laid waste to millions of acres (hectares) of pine forest in North America.  The plague has cost billions of dollars in lost timber and land values and may thwart efforts to combat climate change, as forests are major storing houses of carbon, the main greenhouse gas blamed for global warming. This scenario is being replayed across the West. In Colorado, aerial surveys show that from 1996 to 2008 Colorado lost almost 2.5 million acres (1 million hectares) of pine forest to the beetle outbreak, Wyoming 677,000 acres and South Dakota 354,000 acres.  Over the same period of time, the spruce beetle, which has also ravaged forests as far north as Alaska, took out 374,000 acres of spruce trees in Colorado, and 340,000 in Wyoming. That cumulative total of over 6 million acres (2.5 million hectares) is an area larger than Israel or South Africa's Kruger National Park.  Farther north in Canada, the pine beetle has attacked trees over an area of about 39 million acres (14.5 million hectares) in British Columbia since the 1990s. The sheer scale of the damage can be seen northwest of Denver in Colorado's Yampa Valley. Vast tracts of formerly evergreen forest now have huge splashes of orange running through them.

August 9, 2009

The giant Typhoon Morakot's center is about to cross Taiwan. 92 mph Morakot has already caused problems in Taiwan on its approach and has proven deadly in the Philippines.  Taiwan has already reported 20 inches of flooding rains, landslides, gusty winds and power outages.  Its torrential rains have caused the island's worst flooding in 50 years and left dozens missing and feared dead.  Taiwan has ordered airline flights canceled and schools closed. Morakot is so large that the southern extent of its cloud cover and heavy rains reach into the northern Philippines. The same typhoon slammed into China's east coast Sunday just hours after nearly 1 million people evacuated the area. Morakot made landfall on Xiapu, a county in eastern China's Fujian province, carrying heavy rain and winds of up to 74 miles per hour (119 kilometers per hour.

India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assures states of support in tackling drought and food shortages. Describing drought like situation as, a difficult one Singh has said the Centre has adequate foodgrains and would not hesitate to take strong measures and intervene in the market if the need arose. Singh stressed on the better coordination between the Centre and states for effective implementation of public distribution system and action against hoarders. "We are in a position to ensure adequate availability of food grains in drought affected areas. We should not hesitate to take strong measures and intervene in the market if the need were to rise," Singh said. He asked the Chief Secretaries to operationlise the contingency plan for crops, drinking water, and fodder without any delay.

Honeybees face new threat in Texas: "Crazy" ants. Viruses, grueling journeys, monoculture diets. U.S. honeybees have had it rough lately, and millions have perished from the mysterious colony collapse disorder (CCD). But now some of the nation's bees have a new threat to contend with: ants. However, not just any ants these ants are crazy Rasberry crazy ants (Paratrenicha species near pubens), to be precise. Named for their helter-skelter scamper, which contrasts with most ants' standard rank-and-file march, the tiny invasive ants were first noticed in near Houston, Texas, in 2002 and have been destroying electronics, pestering picnickers and gunking up sewage pumps ever since. Now they have started to go after local honeybee hives.  Beekeepers say the omnivorous ants swarming the hives appear to be less interested in the sweet honey inside than they are in the bee larvae there. And once a hive is decimated, the ants will take over and use it to raise their own young. One beekeeper reported that the ants had destroyed about 100 of his hives in the past year. Aside from the crops they help to pollinate, the bees also produce about 4.9 million pounds of honey a year, the AP said. Local researchers note that these ants are spreading north at a good clip and are now found in more than 10 Texas counties. They're easily transported accidentally through trash and plant material. They also appear to have a taste for everything from ladybugs to fire ants.

WORCESTER, Mass. - A group of volunteers is joining an effort to find the invasive Asian longhorned beetle in central Massachusetts. The nonprofit Greater Worcester Land Trust is training people to comb woodland areas in and around Worcester for signs of the destructive insect. The sessions come just as new beetles are emerging from trees. The bugs bore holes in hardwoods, eventually killing them.

Jacobs House Comment

When any nation or city like Jerusalem today does not honor God's Commandments, judgments, and statutes for this world, they set themselves up to be punished incessantly by God for their wickedness and their sins. They also set themselves up for God's curse to come down upon them.  Therefore, many nations and cities today are being directly punished by God for not obeying His holy and truthful words, and for also defiling His sanctuaries. The U. S. is in the forefront of these nations being punished, cursed, and destroyed by God for her wickedness and her sins today.  Her leaders and her people had  better repent before she is completely ruined and destroyed.

See Ezekiel: 5:11-17

Excerpt 5:11-12:

11 Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord God; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.  

August 11, 2009

Cerebral Malaria has hit 92 villages in India.  New Delhi - Six people have died and at least 1,000 were suffering from cerebral malaria in India's eastern state of Bihar, news reports said Sunday.  Local residents said at least 30 people including several children had succumbed to the disease, IANS reported.  Cerebral malaria is caused by a type of mosquito bite and can be fatal if not treated in time. The disease, which causes high fever, can affect the brain.

Rare tornadoes recently seen in Minnesota, USA.

One hundred degree heat wave persists in Indiana and parts of the Midwest USA.

Dozens are feared dead in an India mudslide.  NEW DELHI, India (CNN) - At least 43 people are feared dead after a massive mudslide swept away three hamlets in northern India, authorities said Sunday.  Two small villages were completely destroyed Saturday while one was partially knocked down, said Manoj Pande, a senior disaster management official in Pithoragarh district.  Rescuers have pulled 15 bodies from the debris and many more may have been swept into the river, Pande said.  More than 2.9 million people in India have been affected by floods since June, according to federal officials.

A 7.1 earthquake strikes the coast of Japan. 

Eleven thousand people have died in Mexico because of the drug cartels there. 

It is reported that 71 US troops in Iraq are in isolation because of the swine flu outbreak there.  Fifty-one Iraqi troops have been diagnosed with the swine flu and 71 are also in isolation.

A new report is stating one in five US teenagers who take drugs are sharing them or exchanging them with friends.  This could lead to damaging interactions and problems.

Hundreds of people in Taiwan are feared dead after 8 feet of rain has caused mudslides and buildings to collapse.  More than 80 inches of rain were seen in Taiwan and China from recent typhoon. 

Another 6.4 major earthquake has hit Central Japan and has forced the shutdown of nuclear plants in the area.  There has been 43 injured in this latest earthquake. 

A new report is stating 1 in 3 people are victims, or know of people who are victimized online.  The FBI is saying online fraud has increased 33% in the last year alone.   The stealing of identity is rampant today on the internet.  The confidence level to give personal information has been hurt.  Only 1 in 8 shoppers feel comfortable shopping online. 

Home foreclosures are still rising in the USA.  Up 7% from June to July and 32% from a year ago. 

The economy in the USA is now stabilizing, but the deficit now stands at 1.2 trillion dollars, the largest in history and rising.     

Obama denounces emphasis on health care protests. BELGRADE, Mont. - Trying to lower the temperature of the health care fight, President Barack Obama on Friday denounced news media emphasis on angry protesters at town-hall meetings. The president didn't deny that there have been angry outbursts by foes of his plan at town halls featuring Democratic lawmakers this month. But he said that was hardly the whole story.

Taiwan Counts Typhoon Toll.  Taiwan now says at least 118 people were killed in floods caused by Typhoon Morakot, and 57 are still missing, while mudslides may have buried alive another 200 residents of a mountain village. Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, under pressure over his government's response to the aftermath of Typhoon Morakot, on Friday estimated that more than 500 people had died in flooding and mudslides.

A rare April freeze in 2007 provided researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory with further evidence that climate change could have negative effects on stream and forest ecosystems. As warm weather arrives sooner in many parts of the nation, forest plants and trees on the banks flourish, shading the stream from sunlight and causing an overall decrease in productivity in the late spring and summer. A new research paper describes how a small change in canopy cover can dramatically impact a stream. "The study implies that the algal productivity pulse in the stream that drives the ecosystem during the spring months could be shortened with climate change if leaf-out continues to occur earlier each year.

Increased Ocean Acidification in Alaska Waters, New Findings Show. The same things that make Alaska's marine waters among the most productive in the world may also make them the most vulnerable to ocean acidification. According to new findings, Alaska's oceans are becoming increasingly acidic, which could damage Alaska's king crab and salmon fisheries.

Sterling Pacific Meat Co., which is based in Commerce, has recalled more than 3,500 pounds of ground beef products that might be contaminated with E. coli.

Excessive irrigation and the unrelenting thirst of tens of millions of people are causing groundwater levels in northern India to drop dramatically, a problem that could lead to severe water shortages.

From Asian kudzu conquering the U.S. South to brown tree snakes wiping out birds on Guam, the ecological havoc wrought by exotic plants and animals has become-along with habitat destruction and climate change-one of the most talked about problems in species conservation.

Jacob's House Comment,

How many signs do the fools of this world need to see before they realize that God is in complete control here?  How many destructive weather patterns does our God have to bring here until these fools realize our God is completely changing and breaking down this evil and sinful world of today?  How many times do we have to state on this website that our God is in complete control here, and soon He will end this sinful and corrupt world to make way for His new day and glory filled time? 

Millions of sockeye salmon expected to reach the Fraser River on Canada's Pacific Coast this month have vanished, devastating the local fishery, officials said Thursday. According to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, between six to 10 million sockeye were projected to return to the river this month. But the official count is now just 600,000 for the "summer run",  by far the largest of four salmon groupings that return to area lakes and rivers each year from June to late August. Where the other fish went remains a mystery.

One of the largest glaciers in Antarctica is thinning four times faster than 10 years ago, research suggests.

MIAMI - Tropical Storm Bill formed in the far eastern Atlantic on Saturday and the government of the Netherland Antilles issued a tropical storm watch for St. Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatius because of Tropical Storm Ana. The National Hurricane Center said Saturday evening that Ana had maximum sustained winds near 40 mph and was moving west near 17 mph. It was about 805 miles east-southeast of the Leeward Islands.

ALLEJO, Calif. - A health clinic in this blue-collar city north of Oakland, partly funded by the county, is saving local hospitals thousands of dollars in emergency-room visits by treating uninsured patients who suffer only non-urgent ailments. A watchdog group is now calling on county officials to cut funding for clinic patients who can't prove they are in the U.S. legally, a debate certain to surface in the national health-care overhaul. In many ways, illegal immigration is at the nexus of two key health issues: the uninsured and ballooning costs. Roughly half of the 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. don't have health insurance, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research group. Like others who can't afford medical care, illegal immigrants tend to flock to hospital emergency rooms, which, under a 1986 law, can't turn people away, even if they can't pay. Emergency-room visits, where treatment costs are much higher than in clinics, jumped 32% nationally between 1996 and 2006

MEXICO CITY (AP) - A moderate earthquake has struck in a mountainous region of southern Mexico between the capital and the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. Geological Survey says the Saturday morning quake had a magnitude of 5.3 and was centered 5 miles (10 kilometers) from the city of Arcelia, in the coastal state of Guerrero. It was also felt 105 miles (170 kilometers) away in Mexico City.

As Florida wrestles with an invasion of Burmese pythons, hunts have been organized to try to snare the giant, invasive snakes. The snakes, which can grow to 12 feet or more, have established a breeding population in the Everglades and appear to be spreading out from there. The death of a toddler in Florida last month, strangled by an escaped pet python, spurred a number of new initiatives. The federal government is considering a ban on python imports; Florida is considering a ban on sales. And the state has begun issuing python hunting permits to experienced snake handlers.

August 16, 2009

Governor of California declares emergency as wildfires spread. DAVENPORT, Calif. - Fire crews fanned out Friday across a parched California where wind-whipped wildfires have forced thousands of people to flee their homes and led to an emergency declaration in Santa Cruz County. In the Santa Cruz Mountains, the Lockheed Fire has prompted officials to issue mandatory evacuation orders for the mountain communities of Swanton and Bonny Doon, which have about 2,400 residents and several wineries. Residents evacuated from homes. The blaze damaged two small structures and was threatening more than 1,000 homes and buildings. It started Wednesday night, and has blackened over 6, 300 acres, or more than 10 square miles of remote rugged terrain wilderness near the coast. Now only about 30 percent contained.

Britain suffers 200th soldier Afghanistan death. LONDON - A British soldier wounded in an explosion in Afghanistan died Saturday, the defense ministry said, bringing the country's military death toll there to 200.  Prime Minister Gordon Brown called the grim milestone "deeply tragic news." It is sure to raise more questions about Britain's increasingly perilous mission in Afghanistan.

Jacob's House Comment

In the prophecy on this website, in the prophecy titled GOD'S PLANS FOR THE EAGLE, dated 8/2/07, our Lord God spoke to Jacob about His end time plans for the eagle (the USA) the mother eagle, the UK, and for the rest of this world.  God said He would distress all of the people of this world who had refused His kindness and His Love. God said many tribes here would soon fade away and be shriveled up like fallen leaves before Him. These truthful words 2 years ago from our Creator are now being realized today.

Excerpt from GOD'S PLANS FOR THE EAGLE: 

For I, the Lord God, am aware of all the promises the mother eagle and her offspring made to Me long ago.  I Am aware of all of the violence, confusion, and trouble they have started all over this world in recent years.  I know how they have decimated and destroyed a great portion of My precious earth.  I know how they have both instigated and started trouble and mischief all over this world.  Therefore, My recompense upon them both will soon be swift and sure.  I will have to correct them in measure and punish them excessively together for their crooked and corrupt ways.  Then I will bring them both down to the pit, servant Jacob.

As this putrid eagle has truly offended Me today, so have many other unruly nations truly offended Me today.  They have refused the outstretched hands of My only Son, Jesus, servant Jacob.  Like the eagle they have taken a proud stance against Me, My commandments, and My straight ways of old.  Therefore, has their violence, crime, and their trouble increased.  Because they have decided to follow the eagle's mischievous and vile paths, now diseases, crime, and murders have increased seven fold within their borders.

Tropical storm warning issued for parts of Fla. MIAMI - A tropical storm warning was issued Sunday for parts of Florida as a newly formed depression swirled about 90 miles off the coast near Tampa. The warning was issued for areas east of the Alabama state line to the Suwanee River. The warning means tropical storm conditions are likely within the next 24 hours.

With back-to-school season just around the corner, federal health and education officials today are not suggesting drastic K-12 schools closures where students have already caught swine flu.  Instead they're releasing guidance for schools that outlines what schools can do while keeping doors open - and have loosened their recommendation for the amount of time sick students and teachers should stay home. If the flu does not get any more severe, the advice is for those sick with swine flu to stay home just 24 hours after their fever subsides and they are off of fever medications rather than holing up for seven days as previously instructed.

Big Tropical Storms in Atlantic Hit 1,000-Year High. Study Suggests Hurricane Frequency Has Increased Dramatically.  Scientists believe Climate Change is the Potential Culprit. The people of U.S. Gulf coast have felt unusually battered by big storms during the past few years. Now, it turns out their instincts are right. A new report in the scientific journal Nature indicates that the last decade has seen, on average, more frequent hurricanes than any time in the last 1,000 years. The last period of similar activity occurred during the Medieval Warm Period.

In the prophecy on this website, entitled, "God's Power Today" dated 1/15/06, our Lord God spoke to Jacob about how he would soon tear this world apart so He could start a new virtuous one of true holy delight and order.  God said He would bring to pass judgment on the defiled cities and heathen people of this world today.  Our father in heaven is letting the people of this world know the end of all things as we know it is near. To think any other way, as most politicians, governors, scientists, and rulers do now, is ignorant foolishness.  These people will soon be dealt with severely and punished by God for their lies about Him and His Son, Jesus.

Excerpt from God's Power Today

As I live and breathe, you, watchman, know what I, the Lord God, am saying today is true.  You know what I Am capable of doing and accomplishing on this earth and in the heavens above.  For I have shown you a portion of the firestorms, rumblings, whirlwinds, hail, and erratic weather patterns that I can bring to this earth today.  I have let you see the torrential rains, floods, disease, turmoil, distress, and tempests I can put upon the foolish and ignorant people who have defied and blasphemed Me and My Son, Jesus.  You know I have the power to do these things to them to wake them out of their dreamy and unprofitable sleep.  I can distress their habitations with wormwood, mold, and decay.  I can afflict their little children with diseases of the mind and consternation in their hearts.  I can get many tribes to surrender their lives to Me and My only Son, Jesus. 

August 17, 2009

WHO has reported nearly 178,000 cases of swine flu including 1,462 deaths worldwide, though those numbers are believed to be a gross underestimate of the actual caseload, since hard-hit countries no longer test all cases with flu-like symptoms? As the virus has spread worldwide, countries have tried different methods to slow it down and pharmaceutical companies are now racing to produce a swine flu vaccine.

Survey Finds Binge Drinking Among Older People, Too. Binge drinking isn't just a problem of young people, researchers say. In a nationwide survey of people 50 to 64 years old, nearly a quarter of the men and nine percent of the women told Duke University researchers they had engaged in binge drinking in the previous 30 days. Defined as five or more alcoholic drinks in a short time, binge drinking is considered extremely risky behavior, and its dangers increase with age. The survey also found that 14 percent of men and three percent of women 65 and older reported binge drinking in the previous month.

S. Korean firm to open major dog cloning centre.   SEOUL (AFP) - A South Korean biotechnology firm will early next year open a centre capable eventually of producing up to 1,000 cloned dogs annually, a company executive said Friday.

WASHINGTON - Ocean surface temperatures around the world were the warmest on record for the month of June, according to federal scientists, though they caution that one month doesn't necessarily imply global warming.

TOKYO (AFP) - Two strong earthquakes jolted the ocean floor off southern Japan on Monday, triggering tsunami warnings for a cluster of sub-tropical islands and shaking buildings in nearby Taiwan.

August 19, 2009

Wave of Baghdad blasts kills at least 75. BAGHDAD - A truck bomb tore through Iraq's Foreign Ministry Wednesday, knocking out concrete slabs and windows and leaving a mass of charred cars outside as a wave of explosions around Baghdad killed at least 75 people. It was the deadliest day in the capital since U.S. troops largely withdrew from cities on June 30 and a major challenge to Iraqi control of Baghdad. A steady escalation of attacks this month has sparked fears of a resurgence of violence ahead of next year's national elections. The deadliest of the attacks hit near the Foreign Ministry, killing at least 59 people and wounding 250.

Flooding is being seen in Sri Lanka as 16,000 homes are destroyed.

Illicit and illegal drugs in the US have doubled between people 50 to 59 years old between 2002 and 2007.  Baby boomers are still getting a large number of them and using them often. 

US bank failures are increasing as 77 banks have failed in 2009 compared to 25 that failed in all of 2008.  The cost of these failures to the FDIC this year alone is 18.2 billion compared to 17.8 billion in all of 2008.

US home prices are now at 5 year lows and they are back to 2003 prices.  They are down 31% since 2005.

Nearly a dozen fires are now burning near Davenport, California in Santa Cruz County south of San Francisco, USA. 

A tornado has struck a crowded shopping center in Beaumont, Texas, USA.  Eight Midwest states also report tornadoes, heavy rains, violent weather, and hail that took down trees and damaged homes. 

There are now 50 attacks in Afghanistan per day compared with 32 attacks a year ago in this nation.  

Algae spread threatens coastline. The Environment Agency says it is worried by the spread of  a seaweed that is threatening to choke wildlife along the south coast of England. The algae is thriving on nutrients released by farmland fertilizers and sewerage systems. Hundreds of acres of mudflats along estuaries and harbors have been taken over. The agency hopes new controls on farming and sewage will help to starve the algae. Large areas of the French coastline in Brittany have also been badly affected. Walkers in the UK and France say the green slime is ruining beautiful coast lines.

Researchers are working to decode the complete genomic sequences of influenza pandemic 2009 virus from patients with severe respiratory disease.

Connecticut agriculture officials say late blight has devastated tomato crops across the state this year. Tobacco farmers are taking a financial hit as tobacco crops suffer from a wet summer and diseases.

Earthquake rolls across southeastern Colo. Plains. An earthquake in the Colorado plains set off tremors across the southeastern part of the state and western Kansas, but did no reported damage.

In Kenya a bruising and recurring drought is driving huge numbers of subsistence farmers away from rural areas, where they are increasingly reliant on hand-outs, into congested slums.

PHILADELPHIA - The Army plans to require that all 1.1 million of its soldiers take intensive training in emotional resiliency, military officials say. The training, the first of its kind in the military, is meant to improve performance in combat and head off the mental health problems, including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide, that plague about one-fifth of troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.  Active-duty soldiers, reservists and members of the National Guard will receive the training, which will also be available to their family members and to civilian employees.

August 22, 2009

Rioting inmates set central Ky. prison ablaze. BURGIN, Ky. - Rioting inmates set fire to trash cans and other items inside a central Kentucky prison, and damage to some buildings was so extensive that officials were busing many of the facility's 1,200 prisoners elsewhere, police said Saturday. By early morning, firefighters had extinguished the fires at the medium-security Northpoint Training Center in a rural area 30 miles south of Lexington, state police Lt. David Jude said. Eight inmates were treated for minor injuries, and eight staff were also injured in the melee, although none of the employees were admitted to the hospital.

Taiwan mourns for Morakot victims. Flags are being flown at half-mast in Taiwan as three days of mourning begin for the160 people who lost their lives as a result of Typhoon Morakot. At least 500 people are still missing, thought killed by floods and mudslides caused by the typhoon, which was Taiwan's worst typhoon in 50 years.

New tests are showing that mercury is being found in every fish of hundreds sampled in 291 freshwater streams in the US.

August 23, 2009

Fires rage unchecked near Athens Greece. Major wildfires north-east of the Greek capital Athens are burning out of control, officials have said. The government has declared a state of emergency in the area as fire crews, backed up by helicopters and water-bombers, fight to contain the blazes.  Fed by strong winds, fires have reached the towns of Grammatiko and Varnavas, but no casualties have been reported.  Thousands evacuated as fire burned through suburbs north of Athens early Sunday, destroying homes and forcing thousands to flee in nighttime evacuations.

Hurricane Bill shut the airport and caused flooding but no casualties on Bermuda on Saturday, then prompted tropical storm warnings for parts of Canada and the U.S. coast. Bill had winds of 100 mph (160 kph) after blowing between Bermuda and the East Coast of the U.S. The category one hurricane taunted the New England coastline from a distance Sunday, after closing beaches and setting off a string of safety warnings for weekend boaters, swimmers and surfers along the eastern seaboard.

Mexico Eases Ban on Drug Possession. Mexico has decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday, in a move that creates one of the world's most permissive narcotics markets and that opponents say could complicate President Felipe Calderon's war against illegal drug cartels. The law goes beyond what is allowed in many other countries by making it legal to possess small amounts of a wide array of drugs. The new law allows the equivalent of about five joints of marijuana or four lines of cocaine. The softened approach to small-scale drug possession comes as Mexico fights drug gangs that account for a large part of the marijuana and cocaine sold on U.S. streets.  In Mexico, more than 12,000 people have died in the past three years in the cartels' battles for turf and clashes with law enforcement. The gangs are also selling more and more drugs domestically, fueling drug addiction. A 2008 government survey found the number of drug addicts in Mexico had almost doubled in the past six years to 307,000, while the number of those who had tried drugs rose to 4.5 million from 3.5 million.

Developing World's Parasites, Disease Hit U.S. Researchers Say Infections Spread by Bug Bites, Larvae Are Flourishing Along Border and in Other Pockets of Poverty. Parasitic infections and other diseases usually associated with the developing world are cropping up with alarming frequency among U.S. poor, especially in states along the U.S.-Mexico border, the rural South and in Appalachia, according to researchers. Government and private researchers are just beginning to assess the toll of the infections, which are a significant cause of heart disease, seizures, and congenital birth defects among black and Hispanic populations. Some of the infections are transmitted by bug bites and some by animal feces contaminated with parasite larvae; still others are viral. All are spread in conditions of overcrowding, malnutrition, poor sanitation, and close contact with animals receiving little veterinary care.

Jacob's House Comment,

As we have said before, our Lord God is already closing this current earth age down with diseases and a lack of His blessings here.  God is showing His dissatisfaction on the nations like Mexico and the USA, because they have defied His laws and commandments in recent years.  God is forcing many nations to deal with increasing amounts of travail, trouble, and violence, as their cities and towns corrode and disintegrate before their eyes.  This is part of God's plan and the forming of His new day.  Soon God's new day will be seen here by His beloved ones in the next few years.  However, before God's new day and His new thousand year reign with His Son, Jesus, can begin, travail and trouble will grip this world as a woman in painful, excruciating childbirth.

August 25, 2009

A new US government report is stating that the swine flu could effect 50% of Americans and kill 90,000 of them in the next few years. 

A new study says kids as young as 10 or 11 are feeling pressured by others to have perfect bodies.

The FDIC in the US says it is running out of cash to save failing US banks.  The FDIC will have to borrow more money and increase fees to banks to cover their losses.  Over 500 problem banks are on the FDIC list as trouble banks in the USA.

A coalition is being formed to save the vanishing amphibians which are now dying all over this world.   

South Asia hit by sugar shortages. A massive shortage in sugar stocks in India and Pakistan has led to soaring prices and consumer unrest. The Indian government has introduced strict limits on companies that stockpile sugar to check rising prices. Shortages led Pakistan's government to nearly double sugar prices causing public outrage. The price of raw sugar worldwide has increased to its highest level since 1981, as supply concerns grow.

Stress caused by pollution is shrinking polar bears. Physical "stress" caused by pollutants in the bears' bodies, and the increased effort needed to find food, could limit the animals' growth. Because the ice is melting, the bears have to use much more energy to hunt their prey. The pollutants that the scientists focused on were compounds containing carbon and halogens - fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine. Some of these compounds have already been phased out, but many still have important uses in industry. These include solvents, pesticides, refrigerants, adhesives and coatings.

Trees are advancing in a warming world. Trees around the world are colonizing new territories in response to higher temperatures. From the US west coast to northern Siberia and south-east Asia, trees are growing at higher elevations, and at higher latitudes as the climate warms. Of 166 sites studied, trees are advancing at more than half, while they are receding at just two sites.

Faced with the threat of a booming population going hungry in a warming world, there is quiet confidence among many researchers that technology can provide solutions. Currently there is a potentially catastrophic imbalance between the world's people and the food they need. Roughly 50% of the population lives in areas where there is only 30% of the arable land.

One in six homes in the U. K. has no work. More than one in six UK homes which house at least one person of working age does not have anyone in employment, official statistics show. The number of workless households hit 3.3 million in April to June, a 240,000 rise compared with a year earlier. The issue was most acute in the north-east of England, and the lowest rate was in the eastern region of England.

Exports from Latin American and Caribbean nations are set to show their steepest fall in more than 70 years, the United Nations has predicted. The region's exports are expected to shrink in volume by 11% in 2009. According to Eclac, Latin America and the Caribbean are feeling the impact of the global economic crisis on four fronts: foreign direct investment, remittances from citizens abroad, commodity prices and trade. Worst hit have been countries that thrive on exporting commodities, oil and minerals.

New survey work suggests that fewer than 1,200 Mexican axolotls remain in its last stronghold, the Xochimilco area of central Mexico. The axolotl is a type of salamander that uniquely spends its whole life in its larval form. Its odd lifestyle, features and ability to regenerate body parts make it a popular animal kept in labs, schools and as pets.

August 29, 2009

Soaring temperatures in France are hurting the wine industry.  Centuries old trade under threat from soaring temperatures and global warming.

UN warns over swine flu found in birds. The discovery of swine flu in birds in Chile raises concerns about the spread of the virus, the UN warns. Last week the H1N1 virus was found in turkeys on farms in Chile. The UN now says poultry farms elsewhere in the world could also become infected. Scientists are worried that the virus could theoretically mix with more dangerous strains. It has previously spread from pigs to humans. Chilean authorities first reported the incident last week. Two poultry farms are affected near the seaport of Valparaiso.  Juan Lubroth, interim chief veterinary officer of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said: "Once the sick birds have recovered, safe production and processing can continue. They do not pose a threat to the food chain."

Asia Faces Food Shortage By 2050 Without Water Reform. A comprehensive new study of irrigation in Asia warns that, without major reforms and innovations in the way water is used for agriculture, many developing nations face the politically risky prospect.

Plastics patch found across 1,700 miles of Pacific. Scientists have just completed an unprecedented journey into the vast and little-explored "Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch called North Pacific Ocean Gyre, located some 1,000 miles off California's coast." The scientists found that at numerous areas in the gyre, flecks of plastic were abundant and easily spotted against the deep blue seawater. Among the assortment of items retrieved were plastic bottles with a variety of biological inhabitants. The scientists also collected jellyfish called by-the-wind sailors (Velella velella). On August 11th, the researchers encountered a large net entwined with plastic and various marine organisms; they also recovered several plastic bottles covered with ocean animals, including large barnacles. "Finding so much plastic there was shocking," said Goldstein. "How could there be this much plastic floating in a random patch of ocean--a thousand miles from land?" Researchers say a Texas-sized garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean is possibly killing marine life and birds that are ingesting the trash.

A pest that can carry a fatal citrus disease has been found in Los Angeles County, stoking fears that California's $1.6 billion citrus industry could be hit by a potentially devastating threat. They found an Asian citrus psyllid in a trap in a homeowner's citrus tree.

August 30, 2009

Hurricane Jimena is now strengthening in the Pacific Ocean and is now 500 miles off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

TOKYO - Japan's opposition party won historic elections in an apparent landslide Sunday, media projections said, sending the conservatives to defeat after 54 years of nearly unbroken rule amid widespread economic anxiety and desire for change. The left-of-center Democratic Party of Japan was set to win 300 or more of the 480 seats in the lower house of parliament, ousting the Liberal Democrats, who have governed Japan for all but 11 months since 1955.  The Japanese jobless rate has hit a record high recently. 

Jacob's House Comment,

In the Prophecy entitled, "God Talks on Polarization", date 5/18/08, our Lord God spoke to Jacob about the infighting, violence, and distrust that would occur among many multitudes of people in the next few years.  Our Lord spoke about how the rich and the poor, and the haves and the have-nots would fight with each other over the necessities of life and breath.  God spoke to Jacob about the fact that He would allow Satan come into every home and tear it apart if that house and its inhabitants did not want to obey Him and His Son, Jesus.  Therefore, this polarization is already occurring in many nations all over this world today.  It will increase sevenfold in the final days before the appearance of our Lord God and His wonderful Son. 

Excerpt from "God Talks on Polarization":

Therefore, as I have shown you in My records of time and remembrance, a great polarization will continue to occur all over this world today.  It is already beginning to occur between the halves and the have-nots, and the rich and the poor.  This polarization will also occur between the hungry ones who have nothing, and the wealthy, rich and powerful ones, who are starving them out of existence today.  It will occur between the ones who have food on their tables and the ones who have no food at their disposal to eat.  This polarization will occur at a more rapid pace in the next few years of dread and drought. 

          Therefore, soon a revolting stream of violence will take place in the inner cities that do not desire to speak My true words and faithfully mention My name.  For as I, the Lord God, have stated many times before, messenger and watchman Jacob, I have desired charity and brotherly love to take place all over this world.  However, I do not appreciate it when certain rich men try to use extortion, usury, corruption, bribery, and robbery to further their own gains.  I do not appreciate it when they try to pillage and destroy the poor and destitute ones who are under their care. 

New So Cal U. S. wildfire surges in size, threatens thousands. LOS ANGELES - A wildfire in the mountains above Los Angeles has surged in every direction, going in a single day from a modest threat to a danger to some 10,000 homes. The blaze nearly tripled in size in triple-digit heat Saturday, leaving three people burned, destroying at least three homes and forcing the evacuation of 1,000 homes and an untold number of people. The fire was the largest and most dangerous of several burning around southern and central California and in Yosemite National Park. The fire especially grew to the north and west, bringing new concerns for the areas near the coastal areas of Acton and Santa Clarita. More than 31 square miles of dry forest was scorched by the fire. It was only 5 percent contained. At least three people were burned in the evacuation areas. A major goal was to keep the fire from spreading up Mount Wilson, where many of the region's broadcast and communications antennas and the historic Mount Wilson Observatory are located, officials said.  The fire was also burning in steep wooded hills next to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in northern Pasadena. A second fire in the Angeles National Forest was burning several miles to the east in a canyon above the city of Azusa. The 3.4-square-mile blaze, which started Tuesday afternoon, was 95 percent contained Saturday. No homes were threatened, and full containment was expected by Monday.  A wildfire on the rich coast of Palos Verdes Peninsula on the south Los Angeles County coast has been contained.  Southeast of Los Angeles in Riverside County, a 3 1/2-square-mile fire in a rural area of the San Bernardino National Forest was 30 percent contained as it burned in steep, rocky terrain in Beeb Canyon. To the north, in the state's coastal midsection, a 9.4-square-mile fire threatening Pinnacles National Monument kept 100 homes under evacuation orders near the Monterey County town of Soledad and is 60 percent contained. A state of emergency was declared Saturday for Mariposa County, where a nearly 5.5-square-mile fire burned in Yosemite National Park and is 30 percent contained.

Jacob's House Comments,

In the prophecy on this website entitled, "God Condemns the Coasts", dated 8/18/08, our Lord God spoke to Jacob about how displeased He was with America's coasts and many nations' coasts today.  Our Lord God said that He would destroy these areas of the world because of the evil rhetoric spoken against Him and because of the innocent blood that had been spilled there in the past.  These things of judgment of the coasts that God spoke about one year ago to Jacob are already coming to fruition.

Excerpt from "God Condemns the Coasts": 

Yes, watchman, I, the Lord God, am very disappointed and sore displeased with the nations' coasts of this world today.  Therefore, I Am now in the process of condemning them and tearing many of them down.  I Am chastising them because of the political rhetoric and the polluted and innocent blood that has been spilled there in recent days.  For I know many innocent and poor people have lost their lives while dwelling on these coasts in recent years.  Evil and crooked speculators have sought them out to destroy their cherished possessions, their dwelling places, and their whole family trees. 

          Especially on the east, west, and southern coasts where the eagle now makes its home, I, the Lord God, have noticed many things of iniquity and corruption are apparent there today.  Therefore, this filthy eagle now has nothing to be proud of anymore.  For she has helped to rape, murder, plunder, pollute, and spoil many innocent and deserving people that I love.  She has even squandered her own inheritance with Me and My Son, Jesus, by taking up with the heathens who are all around her today.  She has even forgotten My whole house of Israel in her quest to extort usury, fines, wealth, taxes, and judgments from her subjects.  She has gone against My judgments and My will for this world called earth in her quest for vanity, notoriety, power, and fame. 

September 7, 2009

U.S. Taxpayers face heavy losses on auto bailout. WASHINGTON - Taxpayers face losses on a significant portion of the $81 billion in government aid provided to the auto industry, an oversight panel said in a report to be released Wednesday. The Congressional Oversight Panel did not provide an estimate of the projected loss in its latest monthly report on the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program. But it said most of the $23 billion initially provided to General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC late last year is unlikely to be repaid.

Istanbul floods kills 20.  ISTANBUL - Istanbul's governor says the death toll from flooding in the city has risen to 20. Muammer Guler says more than 20 people were also injured in the floods that immersed part of the city on Wednesday. He says heavy downpours are expected to continue throughout the week but insists authorities are taking the necessary precautions. At least eight people also died in flooding in Turkey on Tuesday, including two in an Istanbul suburb.

LOS ANGELES - Crews hope favorable weather conditions will allow the setting of backfires to destroy fuels that would help spread a 2-week-old deadly wildfire that is still burning unchecked deep into the forest above Los Angeles. Unpredictable winds delayed backfiring plans Monday and Tuesday. Two weeks after the arson fire was ignited on a lonely stretch of mountain highway, the blaze was 60 percent contained after blackening 160,357 acres, or 250 square miles, of Angeles National Forest. Two Los Angeles County firefighters were killed Aug. 30 when flames overran their truck and they plunged off a mountain road.

When Indian students arrive in Australia, probably the last thing they think they will end up doing is taking to the streets in a series of boisterous protests. First, they were voicing anger over a spate of muggings and attacks in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. Police confirm there have been 97 attacks since late-May, although the true figure is probably much higher since many assaults go unreported. Now, the ranks of disgruntled Indian students have been swelled by those who believe they are being ripped off by a private system keen to take their money, but unable to offer value for money or even a proper education.  Twin demands of protection from attacks, and safeguards from unscrupulous private education providers are now motivating what has fast become a student movement.

The world will suffer another financial crisis, former U.S. Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan has told the BBC. "The crisis will happen again but it will be different," he told BBC Two's The Love of Money series. He added that he had predicted the crash would come as a reaction to a long period of prosperity. But while it may take time and be a difficult process, the global economy would eventually "get through it", Mr Greenspan added.

South American storm kills at least 17. A violent storm has left at least 17 people dead in northern Argentina and southern Brazil. Dozens more were injured as rain, hail and winds of over 100km/h (60 mph) destroyed their homes. At least 10 people were killed and more than 50 hurt in Argentina, according to local officials. In Brazil, four people died in the town of Guaraciaba, while three people were reported to have died in mudslides heavy rains in the state of Sao Paulo. The storm also damaged homes in Paraguay. Several local media reports described the storm as a tornado, but meteorologists called it a severe depression, where tropical warm air and frigid air collide to create instability. 'Incredible' devastation. The worst affected places in Argentina were in the north-eastern province of Misiones, including the small towns of San Pedro, Santa Rosa and Tobuna, where trees and power lines were brought down. "Whole houses disappeared," said Ricardo Veselka, the civil defence director for San Pedro. The local mayor, Orlando Wolfart, described the devastation as "incredible". "This is something we've never seen," he told reporters. In the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, four people died in the town of Guaraciaba and across dozens of localities reported.

BOSTON Mass. U. S. - Six boys were charged with severely beating a Guatemalan immigrant with bricks, bottles and rocks as he slept near railroad tracks, an attack that civil rights groups decried Tuesday as "hateful." Police say six boys, ages 11 to 14, beat the 30-year-old Merida in July in Lynn, a city 10 miles northeast of Boston. Merida was hospitalized at Massachusetts General Hospital for a month with serious head injuries. Merida's brother said the attack caused brain damage. In a statement, police said the Lynn boys targeted Merida because of his ethnicity. Police also said they were looking into the assault of another Guatemalan immigrant and "the possibility that the attack was not the first perpetrated by these youths."

September 10, 2009

Two California produce shippers have recalled thousands of cases of green onions supplied by an onion farm in Mexicali, Mexico, over fears the onions could be contaminated with salmonella.

California fire near Los Angeles cost 88 million dollars to control.  More than 78 homes and buildings burned.  It is now the largest fire in California history.

A volcano called San Cristobal has erupted and spewed ash over several miles on the nation of Nicaragua.

 A new report states that 2 out of 3 teens in the US are now making homemade porn pictures.  Some of them are distributing these nude pictures in their own schools. 

Foreclosure rates of homes in the US are still up 18% from a year ago.  One in every 357 people are now losing their homes. 

A new report is stating that 58 countries around the world are now using forced child labor to make their goods.

Feds push new national identification card program after 'Real ID' flops. Four years ago, President Bush signed a law requiring states to create driver's licenses that meet national standards, store related information in nationally connected databases, and foot the bill for most of this nearly $4 billion project. Now, after the 2005 Real ID Act has alienated state governments and privacy advocates alike, the federal government is considering a replacement measure called Pass ID that it hopes will improve national security while being less expensive and less intrusive on privacy. Critics have said that Real ID essentially creates a national ID card and makes citizens vulnerable to identity theft and privacy invasion. Pass ID is expected to retain many elements of Real ID, such as requiring a digital photograph, signature and machine-readable features such as a bar code. But Pass ID would eliminate the need for states to create new databases linked through a national data hub that would allow all states to store and cross-check such information, according to the Post.

Jacob's House Comment,

What is happening with national Real ID cards in the US is the beginning of the mark of the beast that was stated in God's Bible long ago.  It is also the beginning of the end of this world as we know it.  There will not be any need for a chip to be implanted in people for it is spiritual evil that God's children must be aware of today.  This spiritual evil is taking many paths of destruction, crudeness, slavery, and depravity now.  It is also taking away the basic freedoms of not only God's children, but also many of the other tribes who inhabit this world called earth.  This evil from the powers that be can only be stopped by God and His Son, Jesus, and it will be stopped and destroyed within the next few years. 

However, in the meantime God's children had better repent of their past mistakes and ask God to forgive them of their mischievous deeds and their sins.  God's children should always look to improve their relationship with their Father in heaven while there is still time to do so.

Excerpt from prophecy on this website entitled, "God Speaks on the Wedding"dated 11/2/08 and given to Jacob from our Lord God:

Therefore, servant Jacob, it is time for you to tell all of My children today that I, the Lord God, do not want them to be slack or unsure of themselves concerning Me or My Son, Jesus.  They had better give Me the allegiance, devotion, faith, compliance, and dedication that I desire if they want to be bidden to this wedding that is already beginning to form in their midst.  They had better at least be planting good seeds of nourishing food, hospitality, love, charity, and revival for Me and My Son.  They had better give Me the worship, trust, and praise that I desire and deserve in everything they say and do. 

For I, the Lord God, will be watching all of My children closely in the next few seasons of time, servant Jacob.  I will be looking at them to see if they have true love, allegiance, tenderness, and sincerity in their hearts and minds concerning Me and My Son, Jesus.  I will be watching them to see if they have the right kind of attitudes, hospitality, and motives that are pleasing to Me and My Son.  For I may have to put a great many of them through a series of trials, trouble, and distress upon this earth.  That will be the only way I will give them an entrance to this wedding that I shall make. 

EU Commission on Thursday proposed tens of billions of euros in global aid for poor nations to fight global warming, amid fears that UN climate talks in December are gridlocked before they start.

BOSTON - A total of five great white sharks have now been electronically tagged off Cape Cod, allowing experts to track their movements and learn more about their migratory habits. The sharks were first spotted last week, prompting officials to close Chatham-area beaches to swimming over the Labor Day weekend.

An emerging form of malaria thought only to infect monkeys poses a deadly threat to humans, research shows. It had been thought the parasite Plasmodium knowlesi infected only monkeys. But it has recently been found to be widespread in humans in Malaysia, and the latest study confirms that it can kill if not treated quickly. The increase in tourism in Southeast Asia may mean that more cases are detected in the future, including in Western countries

COPENHAGEN - Fearing that a possible global deal on climate change is in danger, European foreign ministers announced Thursday they were stepping up efforts to make sure that nations around the world face up to global warming. Five EU foreign ministers have been traveling to European capitals for the last week to press the issue - and now they are taking the case for tackling climate change to other world capitals. The complexity of disputes between industrialized and developing nations over how to cut greenhouse gas emissions without derailing economic growth have threatened the climate change negotiations.

From Deep Pacific, Ugly and Tasty, With a Catch. The answer to the eternal mystery of what makes up a Filet-O-Fish sandwich turns out to involve an ugly creature from the sunless depths of the Pacific, whose bounty, it seems, is not limitless. A lot of money is at stake, as well as questions about the effectiveness of global guidelines meant to limit the effects of industrial fishing.  Without formally acknowledging that hoki are being over fished. New Zealand has slashed the allowable catch in steps, from about 275,000 tons in 2000 and 2001 to about 100,000 tons in 2007 and 2008 - a decline of nearly two-thirds. "We have major concerns," said Peter Trott, the fisheries program manager in Australia for the World Wildlife Fund, which closely monitors the New Zealand fishery. The problems, he said, include population declines, ecosystem damage, and the accidental killing of skates and sharks. "Most Americans have no clue that hoki is often what they're eating in fried-fish sandwiches," SeaFood Business, an industry magazine, reported in April 2001.  It said chain restaurants using hoki included McDonald's, Denny's and Long John Silver's.

September 12, 2009

Dangerous staph germs found at West Coast beaches. SAN FRANCISCO - Scientists have found dangerous staph bacteria in sand and water samples from five beaches along the west coast of Washington state. The germ, called MRSA, causes hard-to-treat skin infections and serious illnesses such as pneumonia. A previous study found it in ocean water along a South Florida beach. Researchers say the germ is probably at other beaches as well. Doctors are not recommending that people avoid beaches, but say they should cover cuts or scrapes before digging in the sand, and shower afterward.

WASHINGTON - Tens of thousands of protesters fed up with government spending marched to the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, showing their disdain for the president's health care plan with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" and "I'm not your ATM." The line of protesters clogged several blocks near capitol, according to the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency. Demonstrators chanted "enough, enough" and "We the People." Others yelled "You lie, you lie!" and "Pelosi has to go," referring to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Throngs of people waved U.S. flags and held signs reading "Go Green Recycle Congress" and "I'm Not Your ATM." Men wore colonial costumes as they listened to speakers who warned of "judgment day" Organizers say they built on momentum from the April "tea party" demonstrations held nationwide to protest tax policies, along with growing resentment over the economic stimulus packages, out of control government spending, and bank bailouts.

LONDON - Violent clashes between anti-Islam demonstrators and Muslim counter-protesters in English cities are worrying the government, with one British minister comparing the disturbances to 1930s-era fascist incitement. The violence that has hit Luton, Birmingham and London in the last few months has involved a loose collection of far-right groups such as the previously unknown English Defense League on one side, and anti-fascist organizations and Muslim youth on the other. A spike in anti-Muslim incidents has been seen recently, including arson attacks on mosques in the past few months. 

Jacob's House Comment

The polarization we are already seeing between the rich and the poor, the old and the young, and the haves and the have nots of this world today will continue to bring trouble, distress, and turmoil to many nations.  The rulers and leaders in these nations will not be able to stop it, or stop the violence and distrust of governments from occurring  These problems will not go away, but will increase until God brings these things to an end with the second coming of His Son, Jesus.

 Excerpt from God Talks on Polarization available on this Website:

Words from God Given to Jacob on 5/18/08 :

Therefore, as I have shown you in My records of time and remembrance, a great polarization will continue to occur all over this world today.  It is already beginning to occur between the halves and the have-nots, and the rich and the poor.  This polarization will also occur between the hungry ones who have nothing, and the wealthy, rich and powerful ones, who are starving them out of existence today.  It will occur between the ones who have food on their tables and the ones who have no food at their disposal to eat.  This polarization will occur at a more rapid pace in the next few years of dread and drought. 

Therefore, soon a revolting stream of violence will take place in the inner cities that do not desire to speak My true words and faithfully mention My name.  For as I, the Lord God, have stated many times before, messenger and watchman Jacob, I have desired charity and brotherly love to take place all over this world.  However, I do not appreciate it when certain rich men try to use extortion, usury, corruption, bribery, and robbery to further their own gains.  I do not appreciate it when they try to pillage and destroy the poor and destitute ones who are under their care. 

For I, the Lord God, know this extortion, usury, and robbery being used by the rich today will lead to starvation, disease, and homeless deprivation in many wilderness places soon.  It will lead to the murder of many innocent people who are unable to feed themselves with true food and water, and the necessities of life. 

Recession Takes a Toll on Living Standards. The recession has slashed families' earnings, increased poverty and left more people without health insurance, according to the Census Bureau's annual snapshot of living standards. The report Thursday offered sharp evidence of how much the falling economy has touched Americans across incomes and races. Median household income, adjusted for inflation, fell 3.6% last year to $50,303, the steepest year-over-year drop in forty years. The poverty rate, at 13.2%, was the highest since 1997. About 700,000 more people didn't have health insurance in 2008 than the year before, though the share of the population without coverage was about the same. The 2008 median income, adjusted for inflation, was the lowest level since 1997, meaning many middle-class Americans have been seen their living standards dialed back a decade, undoing advances made during boom years.

A review article in the journal Science this week summarizes the state of research on climate change in the Arctic. Among the findings  Arctic ecosystems have been severely disturbed. The Arctic, as we know it, says the report and the lead author of the report, may soon be a thing of the past. According to the report, sea ice is diminishing rapidly, snow cover is declining, there's early melting and early start to the growing season. And because of this rapid change, many species, including polar bears, caribou, ringed seals are suffering. Also in danger, the native people who depend on the Arctic. Arctic warming is affecting plants, birds, animals and insects as ice melts and the growing season changes.

September 13, 2009

Powerful quake rattles Venezuela. A strong earthquake has struck off the coast of Venezuela, knocking out power in the capital and sending people rushing into the streets. The 6.4-magnitude quake's epicentre was 65 miles (110km) west of Caracas, at a depth of 6.2 miles (10km).  Buildings were damaged and at least seven people were injured in the north-western Falcon state, the worst hit.

Israel mourns the dying Dead Sea. The Middle East is famously a place of paradoxes, and perhaps the oddest paradox of all is this: the Dead Sea is dying. Edward Stourton, who has been to Israel to investigate, has found the Dead Sea is now shrinking at a terrifying speed with the sea level dropping by more than three feet a year.

E.coli children 'seriously ill in England'. Twelve children are in hospital - four seriously ill - after contracting the vomiting bug E.coli in an outbreak at a children's farm. All the children are aged under 10. The Health Protection Agency says 36 cases have been reported so far.  The children are thought to have caught the bug at Godstone Farm in Surrey, which also has a playground. The attraction receives up to 2,000 visitors a day in the summer. It has been temporarily closed.

September 14, 2009

Powerful quake rattles Venezuela. A strong earthquake has struck off the coast of Venezuela, knocking out power in the capital and sending people rushing into the streets. The 6.4-magnitude quake's epicentre was 65 miles (110km) west of Caracas, at a depth of 6.2 miles (10km).  Buildings were damaged and at least seven people were injured in the north-western Falcon state, the worst hit.

A report is saying that 32,000 suicides are happening in the US each year because of depression and other factors.  Eight million Americans seriously consider suicide. 

Stroke rates among US kids are 2 to 4 times higher than first thought.  Nobody has an explanation as to why this is happening. 

A new report is saying only 26% of US businesses surveyed think their business is good.  This comes as the Federal Reserve Chairman said the worst of the recession is over but it will take 18 months before the job situation will improve. 

Another new report is stating that the Federal government in the USA is going to allow students in US schools to opt out of saying the pledge of allegiance.  This will be based on whether they believe in God or not.  

 AP Poll: Economy still troubles most Americans. WASHINGTON - One year after Wall Street Congress to act on new banking regulations for troubled banks. The pessimistic outlook sets the stage for President Barack Obama, as he attempts to portray the financial sector as increasingly confident and stable and presses Congress to act on new banking regulations. Seven out of 10 Americans lack confidence the federal government has taken safeguards to prevent another financial industry meltdown. Even more - 80 percent - rate the condition of the economy as poor and a majority worry about their own ability to make ends meet. 

UN warns on West Africa floods. Heavy flooding has now affected some 350,000 people across West Africa, killing at least 32 in Ghana and Burkina Faso, UN officials say. More than 150,000 people in Burkina Faso have fled their homes, mainly in the capital Ouagadougou.  A UN spokeswoman said the amount of rain that fell in Ouagadougou on one day this week was equal to a quarter of the whole country's annual rainfall. Neighboring countries affected include Benin, Guinea, Niger and Senegal.

AP Enterprise: U. S. Bullying laws give scant protection. Laws meant to protect youngsters from playground bullies at schools in the U. S. are largely ineffective, according to an Associated Press review, and several students' recent suicides have parents and advocates calling for tougher measures. In 2007, nearly a third of students ages 12 to 18 reported having been bullied during the school year, according to data on more than 55 million students compiled annually by the National Center for Education Statistics. That's up from as few as 1 in 10 students in the '90s, though bullying experts point out the rising numbers may reflect more reports of bullying, not necessarily more incidents. Many children reported teasing, spreading rumors and threats, all harder to spot and manage

September 16, 2009

World food aid at 20-year low, 1 billion will go hungry. LONDON (Reuters) - Food aid is at a 20-year low despite the number of critically hungry people soaring this year to its highest level ever, the United Nations relief agency said Wednesday. The number of hungry people will pass 1 billion this year for the first time, the U.N. World Food Programbudget shortfall. "Millions have been buffeted by the global financial downturn and their ability to buy food is limited by stubbornly high prices. In addition, unpredictable weather patterns are causing more weather-related hunger," the WFP said, adding that it is facing a serious crisis worldwide.

Jacob's House Comment,

More Investigations into one of the biggest E.coli outbreaks ever at a UK farm will take weeks and focus on what led to such a large exposure to the bacterium.  Thirty-six cases of E.coli infection linked to Godstone Farm in Surrey have been confirmed, including 12 children. Three are seriously ill in hospital.

AFP - Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday the US recession "is very likely over" technically but that the economy remains weak due to difficult credit conditions and high unemployment. 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new pandemic H1N1 influenza was circulating undetected in pigs for at least a decade before it jumped to people, and much better surveillance is needed among both pigs and people, an expert said on Tuesday. Molecular tests show the swine flu virus made a mutational jump as it passed from pigs to humans, which apparently happened recently, Michael Worobey of the University of Arizona told a meeting of flu experts sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Medicine. "This virus most likely has been circulating under the radar in pigs for the better part of 10 years.

Despite great strides made to help soldiers in Iraq survive their wounds, medical personnel in the U.S. military still struggle to treat drug-resistant bacterial infections.  Among the most common bacteria to turn up, usually in soldiers' wounds, are methicillin-resistant Staphylococus aureus (MRSA) and strains of the virulent Klebsiella. The spectrum of bugs harkens back to infections that were common during the Vietnam War, and doctors today are using the same antibacterial drugs as 40 years ago.

PARIS (AFP) - Failure to tackle climate change at a key UN conference in Copenhagen could be "catastrophic" for health, the heads of 18 doctors' associations warned on Wednesday. Scientists have repeatedly warned climate change could affect health in many ways, ranging from malnutrition caused by drought to the risk of cholera from flooding and the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, to temperate zones.

September 20, 2009

President Barack Obama has said that some Americans may oppose him because of race, but that this has not been the main factor behind healthcare protests.  He suggests, in TV interviews to be broadcast on Sunday, anti-government sentiment was the key reason for angry protests against healthcare reform.

An earthquake off the Indonesian holiday island of Bali has sent people running from their homes in panic. At least seven people have been injured - some were hurt jumping from buildings while others had been hit by falling debris, an official said.  The quake - measuring 5.8 according to the US Geological Survey - struck at dawn 75km (45 miles) south of Denpasar.

'Tighter grip on economy needed'. Most people want their government to take more control over the regulation and running of national economies, a BBC World Service poll has found. Overall a total of 67% of people wanted an increase in "government regulation and oversight of the national economy". In the 20 countries polled, 60% backed more spending to boost the economy.

Strong earthquake hits western China. BEIJING - Officials say a strong earthquake has shaken western China but there are no reports of injuries or serious damage.  The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-5.4 quake struck at 4:54 p.m. Saturday in the region bordering Sichuan and Gansu provinces.

Recent storms in Texas brought some long-awaited relief to the nation's most drought-stricken state, but the brutal dry spell is far from over as it drags into its third year. About 16 percent of the state - all in the southern and central parts of Texas - is classified under the most extreme two categories of drought, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's latest drought monitor map released Thursday. That's down from last week's 25 percent, but still well above 2.4 percent from a year ago. A small section of Hawaii is the only other U.S. area classified as under severe drought.

Species of plants, animals and other categories of living things are disappearing. And millions of people still live in extreme poverty. But is there a connection? For example, is the ongoing destruction of the Indonesian rainforest driven by the economic development of Indonesians? Or is the global demand for wood products to blame? Is it a combination? Or are there other factors that are more important?  The bad news is that answer isn't clear. And the worse news is that the world's countries have not lived up to their pledge under the Convention on Biological Diversity to reduce the rate of species loss by 2010.

Jacob's House Comment,

The words in this paragraph above show you how unclear thinking and faulty judgments are ruining this world today.  These things are happening because the rulers and overseers in these nations do not want to worship and obey the Living God and His Son, Jesus.  Therefore, they cannot see that they are destroying this world with their faulty judgments and their faulty decisions.  However, anyone who has the ears to hear, and the eyes to see, will know what the Living God is saying to them now. 

New wildfires are burning in Riverside County, California, U. S. A., 30 homes have already been burned. 

September 22, 2009

A new report is stating 38 million people around the world are now living with Alzheimer's and dementia problems. 

Another report from the UN is saying that climate disasters have forced 20 million people from their homes. 

September 23, 2009

Floodwaters begin to recede in the Southeast U. S.. AUSTELL, Ga. - As floodwaters around eastern Atlanta began to recede; residents were packing moving vans with furniture and commiserating about water-logged apartments. At least nine deaths in Georgia and Alabama were blamed on the torrential downpours in the Southeast. The storms finally relented and relief was in sight with just a slight chance of rain overnight, but the onslaught left many parts of the region in stagnant water. Washed-out roads and flooded freeways around metro Atlanta caused commuters headaches. Many neighborhoods remained awash in several feet of murky, brown water, even as an emerging sun shed light on the widespread flood damage. After several days of steady rain, the ground was saturated from Alabama through GeorgiaTennessee and western North Carolina. The floods came just months after an epic two-year drought in the region ended with winter rains. 

The head of oil giant Total has told the BBC the world could face a shortage of oil because of underinvestment. Chief executive Christophe de Margerie warned that too little has been spent trying to tap into new oil reserves because of the economic crisis. "If we don't move [now] there will be a problem," Mr de Margerie said. "In two or three years it will be too late." He also said he thought oil prices would rise to more than $100 a barrel, from their current level of around $70.

'Millions at risk' as deltas around the world sink. Most of the world's major river deltas are sinking, increasing the flood risk faced by hundreds of millions of people, scientists report. Damming and diverting rivers means that much less sediment now reaches many delta areas, while extraction of gas and groundwater also lowers the land. Rivers affected include the Colorado, Nile, Pearl, Rhone and Yangtze.  About half a billion people live in these regions and 85% of the major deltas have seen severe flooding in recent years.  The area of land vulnerable to flooding will increase by about 50% in the next 40 years as land sinks and climate change causes sea levels to rise.

The climate deal planned for Copenhagen in 10 weeks' time is in grave danger of failure, the U. K. prime minister has said. He told Newsweek magazine there was no second chance to undo "catastrophic damage" to the environment if "we miss the opportunity to protect the planet". The vast majority of climate scientists say there must be no further delay in emissions cuts.

Species-jumping Diseases: Better Global System Needed To Effectively Prevent, Detect, Respond To Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. Significant weaknesses undermine the global community's abilities to prevent, detect early, and respond efficiently to potentially deadly species-crossing microbes, such as the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus sweeping the globe.

The red dust storm which has enveloped Sydney and large parts of NSW has now engulfed southern Queensland Australia, causing traffic delays, raising health concerns and canceling horse racing. Sydney residents coughed and hacked their way through their morning commute, rubbing grit from their eyes. Some wore masks, wrapped their faces in scarves or pressed cloths over their noses and mouths to keep the dust out. Amateur photographers stopped in the middle of busy intersections to snap photos of the dust-covered streets, and cars were covered in a thin film of red. The haze has also wreaked havoc on public transportation.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 50 of California's 58 counties as natural disaster areas because of crop losses due to ongoing drought. The USDA says 21 counties are part of the primary disaster area, and 29 more are designated because they are next to counties where widespread losses have occurred. The declaration comes as California farmers struggle with a third consecutive year of drought conditions.

Quake shakes Bhutan, India's remote northeast. A 6.3-magnitude earthquake shook the remote mountain nation of Bhutan and India's northeastern Assam state Monday, sending people running into the streets and damaging schools and homes, officials said.

First global scientific conference supporting UN efforts to curb desertification opens in Agentina.  As climate change negotiators continue to skirt the role of agricultural land use in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, top scientists working on land management in the world's vast dry areas will gather this week in Buenos Aires, Argentina, determined to make the case that thwarting desertification in drylands is viable and also critical to the success of a new climate deal.

Warming ocean melts Greenland glaciers. The temperature of the water that flows into the Arctic has increased by as much as 3.5 F (2 C) since the 1990s, says Helge Drange, professor of oceanography at Norway's University of Bergen. "This can only be understood as a combined effect of natural variability and manmade warming," he says. That has had a big impact on marine ecosystems, with fish traveling north into waters that were previously too cold for them. For example, more than 20 new species of fish have been found off Iceland, including blue sharks and flounders. We're heading off to a climate extreme and this is just going to snowball. 

Wildfire burns 8,500 acres in hot, dry So Cal, U. S. MOORPARK, Calif. - A wildfire stoked by the notoriously hot and dry Santa Ana winds has burned some 8,500 acres in the hills of Ventura County, where airtankers - including a DC-10 jumbo jet and big helitankers - have bombarded flames with retardant and water. This fire is more than a 13-square-mile fire, which was one of several burning in Southern California Tuesday.

September 25, 2009

A 6.4 earthquake has struck off the coast of Jalisco, Mexico.  There are no reports of severe damage at this time. 

AP IMPACT: School drinking water contains toxins. CUTLER, Calif. -Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins. An Associated Press investigation found that contaminants have surfaced at public and private schools in all 50 states - in small towns and inner cities alike. But the problem has gone largely unmonitored by the federal government, even as the number of water safety violations has multiplied. The contamination is most apparent at schools with wells, which represent 8 to 11 percent of the nation's schools. Roughly one of every five schools with its own water supply violated the Safe Drinking Water Act in the past decade. 

September 28, 2009

Philippine storm toll rises to 140 dead. MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines appealed for international help Monday after a tropical storm killed 140 people in the country's north and warned a new storm could strike this week, with tens of thousands of citizens still displaced from their homes. At least 32 people were reported missing, and authorities were still trying to verify scores of unconfirmed deaths, including in the hard-hit capital Manila and nearby Rizal province, where there were reports that about 99 more people had died. The extent of devastation became clearer Monday with mud-covered communities, cars upended on city streets and huge numbers of villagers without drinking water, food and power.

Flooding forces evacuations in central Kentucky, USA.  About 500 million dollars worth of damage was caused by recent Georgia flooding, where hundreds of people were forced from their homes. 

 September 29, 2009

Magnitude 8.0 to 8.3 earthquake triggers tsunami in the Samoas, killing dozens. PAGO PAGO, American Samoa - A powerful Pacific Ocean earthquake spawned towering tsunami waves that swept ashore on Samoa and American Samoa, flooding and flattening villages, killing at least 39 people and leaving dozens missing. Cars and people were swept out to sea by the fast-churning water as survivors fled to higher ground, where they remained huddled hours after the quake struck early Tuesday. Signs of devastation were everywhere, with a giant boat washed ashore lying on the edge of a highway and floodwaters swallowing up cars and homes. Four tsunami waves 15 to 20 feet (4 to 6 meters) high roared ashore soon afterward, reaching up to a mile (1.6 kilometers) inland.

MANILA, Philippines - One of the most destructive Typhoon storms in years extended its deadly path across Southeast Asia, blowing down wooden villages in Cambodia and crushing Vietnamese houses under mudslides after submerging much of the Philippine capital. The death toll Wednesday climbed past 300 and was rising. "We're used to storms that sweep away one or two houses. But I've never seen a storm this strong," said Nam Tum, governor of Cambodia's Kampong Thom province. Landslides triggered by the storm slammed into houses in central Vietnam on Tuesday, burying at least seven people including five members of the same family, the government said. They were among 52 people killed in the country, some by falling trees, officials said. The storm destroyed or damaged nearly 170,000 homes and flattened crops across six central Vietnamese provinces. 350,000 people had to be evacuated. In neighboring Cambodia, at least 11 people were killed and 29 injured Tuesday as the storm toppled dozens of rickety houses in Kampong Thom province. Relief officials in the Philippines, struggling to feed and shelter hundreds of thousands of displaced people, admit they have been overwhelmed by the disaster

Powerful earthquake rocks western Indonesia. JAKARTA, Indonesia - A powerful underwater earthquake rocked western Indonesia Wednesday, triggering a tsunami alert for countries along the Indian Ocean and sending panicked residents out of their houses. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.9. An Indonesian television network reported that buildings had collapsed in the coastal city of Padang, in Southern Sumatra province.

Jacob's House Comment,

As we have said before here on this website many times, God is already in the process of forming His new day.  There is nothing the rulers of this world can do about this drastic change and upheaval that God is already bringing about.  Therefore, God will continue to tear down the old order and filthy earth age that is here now.  It will deteriorate more and more in the next few years as God's new day forms and becomes a reality.  This old order and old earth age has to die out to give way for God's new glorious time of renewal, purity, virtue, strength, and beauty to be seen here. 

We at Jacob's House therefore urge God's true Christians to prepare for this new day with true cleanliness, repentance, virtue, sincerity, honesty, charity, and brotherly love circumcised within their own hearts and minds.  For this is the way God's virgin bride should act and behave if she wants to attend God's marriage ceremony in the near future.       

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its forecast for the amount likely to be written off globally in bad loans and investments by 15%. The total it expects banks to lose between 2007 and 2010 has been cut to $3.4tn, from $4tn. "We are on the road to recovery, but this does not mean that risks have disappeared," said Jose Vinals from the IMF. Its report also warned that banks overall had recognized slightly less than half of their losses, with US banks more advanced in the process than their counterparts in the UK and the eurozone, meaning there is still a great deal of bad news to come.

US consumer confidence fell unexpectedly in September, suggesting Americans are not as convinced as US policymakers of an economic recovery. The closely-watched Consumer Confidence Index from the Conference Board business organization slipped to 53.1 from a revised 54.5 in August. US consumer confidence is closely watched, as personal spending accounts for about 70% of US economic activity. An index reading of 90 is the minimum to indicate a healthy economy. The powerful typhoon that has hit the Philippines and Vietnam with deadly force is now battering Cambodia.

October 2, 2009

2nd quake shakes Indonesia after first temblor kills 715. PADANG, Indonesia - Rescue workers used excavators Thursday to pull out victims, some screaming in pain, from the heavy rubble of buildings felled by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 529 people. The death toll was expected to rise. The brunt of Wednesday's 7.6-magnitude earthquake, which originated in the sea off Sumatra island, appeared to have been borne by Padang town where 376 people were killed. Four other districts accounted for the remaining deaths. The region was jolted by another powerful earthquake Thursday morning, causing damage but no reported fatalities. More than 500 buildings including hotels, schools, hospitals and a mall were destroyed or damaged in Padang. Thousands of people were believed to be trapped in the rubble.

Death toll in Samoas tsunami now reaches at least 155, many missing. APIA, Samoa - Stunned Samoans combed through the sodden wreckage of their lives and told of the terror of being trapped underwater or flung inland by a tsunami that ravaged towns and killed at least 155 people in the South Pacific.  Officials expect the death toll from Tuesday's disaster to rise as more areas are searched. "The devastation caused was complete," Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele told New Zealand's National Radio on Wednesday after inspecting the southeast coast of the main island of Upolu, the most heavily hit area. "In some villages absolutely no house was standing. Total destruction was achieved within 10 minutes by the very powerful tsunami."

U. S. Police use acoustic warfare to disperse crowds. PITTSBURGH - Police ordered protesters to disperse at the Group of 20 summit last week with a device that can beam earsplitting alarm tones and verbal instructions that the manufacturer likens to a "spotlight of sound," but that legal groups called potentially dangerous. The device, called a Long Range Acoustic Device, concentrates voice commands and a car alarm-like sound in a 30- or 60-degree cone that can be heard nearly two miles away. It is about two feet square and mounted on a swivel such that one person can point it where it's needed. The volume measures 140-150 decibels three feet away - louder than a jet engine - but dissipates with distance. Those who heard it said authorities' voice commands were clear and sounded as if they were coming from everywhere all at once. They described the "deterrent tone" as unbearable.

WASHINGTON - Consumer spending, the bulwark of economic growth, is showing signs of life as the economy transitions from recession to recovery. The key question is whether the spending rebound can be sustained while U.S. households face rising employment, tight credit conditions and other obstacles.

Toll from Typhoon Ketsana climbs. The death toll from Typhoon Ketsana in Vietnam has risen to at least 85, a relief official has said. The official from the national flood and storm control committee said 24 of the deaths occurred in the mountainous inland province of Kon Tum.  There were also 16 people missing and 124 injured, across the central region.  The powerful typhoon that fatally hit the Philippines and Vietnam is now weakening over Cambodia, where several people died and hundreds lost homes. The victims in Kon Tum had mostly died in landslides, when their houses collapsed after being rattled by the storm, or by drowning in floodwaters.

The unemployment rate across the 16 countries that use the euro has risen again as the effects of the recession continue to be felt. August's seasonally adjusted rate rose to 9.6%, compared with 9.5% in the previous month, official figures show.  The number of people without a job in the eurozone is now 15.2 million.

U.S. Senate to Consider U.S. Climate Legislation.  The bill would be stronger than the version of limiting greenhouse gasses than was passed earlier this year in the U.S. House of Representatives. It comes with a mandate by 2020 to curb the nation's greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent from 2005 levels, however, it omits many details.

The people of East Africa once again face a devastating drought this year: Crops are withering and failing from Kenya to Ethiopia, livestock are dropping dead and famine is spreading.

Developing countries will need up to 100 billion dollars (80 billion euros) a year for 40 years to combat the effects of global warming, said a World Bank report released in The Hague on Tuesday.

Ten percent of world's major species 'at threat with extinction'. SYDNEY (AFP) - The "Number of Living Species in Australia and the World" study found 0.9 percent of the world's 1.9 million classified species were at threat, including 9.2 percent of major vertebrate species. Australia's government-funded Biological Resources Study, the world's only census of animal and plant life, found 20.8 percent of mammals were endangered, as were 12.2 percent of birds and 29.2 percent of amphibians. Of reptiles, 4.8 percent were considered threatened, along with 4.1 percent of fish species.

Why the September Jobs Report Is So Brutal. Employers in the United States continue to be more interested in cutting their payrolls than in keeping their existing employees, let alone adding new ones. Employers slashed another 263,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported today. That brings non-farm employment down to the level of 2004, when there were about 7 million fewer U.S. workers. The unemployed face a market in which job seekers outnumber job openings by a ratio of 6 to 1.

Scores killed in India flooding. At least 125 people have been killed after three days of torrential rains battered the Indian states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, officials say. Most victims were either washed away in rivers or died as their homes collapsed, police said.  Karnataka is the worst affected state. About 22,500 houses have been damaged in rains blamed by weather experts on the cyclone in the Bay of Bengal. The authorities say incessant rains have not only damaged crops but also disrupted communication and transport links in many areas of Karnataka and neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.

October 5, 2009

For the First Time, a Census of Autistic Adults. Among the many great mysteries of autism is this: Where are all the adults with the disorder? In California, for instance, about 80% of people identified as having an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are 18 or under. Studies by the Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) indicate that about 1 in 150 children in the U.S. have autism. On Sept. 22, England's National Health Service (NHS) released the first study of Autism in the general Population. The findings confirm the intuitive assumption: that ASD is just as common in adults as it is in children. Researchers at the University of Leicester, working with the NHS Information Center found that roughly 1 in 100 adults are on the spectrum - the same rate found for children in England, Japan, Canada and, for that matter, New Jersey.

 LALOMANU, Samoa - Hundreds of survivors of the Samoas tsunami gathered at a church on high ground to mourn lost relatives, while pledging to rebuild their obliterated communities after a disaster that killed 177 people. The Congregational Christian Church of Lalomanu was packed with about 1,000 people, including relatives from Australia and New Zealand and rescue workers, for a belated funeral service Sunday for 52 friends and loved ones. A national prayer service also was held in neighboring American Samoa. The losses were inflicted when tsunami waves roared ashore after an underwater earthquake struck last Tuesday with a magnitude of up to 8.3. The death toll rose by one Sunday to 136 in Samoa after officials identified decomposed human remains, government spokeswoman Vaosa Epa said. Thirty-two people were killed in American Samoa, and nine in nearby Tonga.

Indonesia calls off search for missing survivors. PADANG, Indonesia - Rescue workers called off the search Monday for life under the rubble left by a massive earthquake, focusing instead on bringing aid to survivors in the towns and hills of western Indonesia, despite being hampered by torrential rains. The death toll from Wednesday's 7.6-magnitude temblor in Sumatra island is expected to be in the thousands once the missing people are declared dead. The U.N. has said 1,100 people died, while the government puts the toll at 603.

Captive turtle found to have infectious disease. SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian veterinary student said Monday she has documented the country's first known case of a bred-in-captivity turtle acquiring a highly infectious disease which could potentially spread to humans. Debbie Bannan said the freshwater turtle had never been in the wild, but managed to acquire a mycobacteria, a pathogen capable of infecting animals and humans, which ultimately led to its death. "How did it get mycobacterium? We don't know that," she told AFP. "How does it get to a turtle in a fish tank in a little kid's room somewhere?" "What was most concerning about this case was that the pathogen had never before been found in a captive aquatic reptile in Australia," she added. While there had been cases of this kind documented in the United States, this was the first of its type in Australia, she said.

'Death and destruction' following India floods. DELUGE: People use a rescue rafts as they wade through floodwaters in Kudal village, about 100 kilometres west from the Indian state of Goa. Floods triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 200 people in the past five days in southern India, destroyed standing crops and left tens of thousands of people homeless, officials said on Sunday. At least 167 people have been killed in Karnataka state, where several rivers burst their mud embankments following heavy rains and swept away houses. "There is death and destruction all around us."

Life resumes, but little hope for villages on the Island of Sumatra, Indonesia.  Markets reopened and some children attended school in the shattered port city of Padang on Monday, but no hope remained for some inland villages which would be left as mass graves. Relief workers said there was little chance of finding anyone else alive in the ruins five days after a 7.6 magnitude quake hit the Indonesia island of Sumatra. An official said three hamlets on the foothills of the Gunung Tigo mountain wiped out by landslides would be turned into mass graves. While aid and international rescue teams have poured into Padang, a city of 900,000, help has been slow to reach remoter inland areas, with landslides cutting many roads. When rescuers arrived they found entire villages obliterated by landslides and homeless survivors desperate for food, water and shelter.

A 4.9 magnitude earthquake has hit central California, the US government reports.

Biotech firms are planning to Sustain Agriculture. Popular movements may call for more organic methods, but the agricultural industry sees biotechnology as a crucial part of farming's future. By 2050 or so, agriculture will need to produce about 50 percent more food than it currently does because of the expanding population. Traditional crops and farming methods could not sustain that much productivity. Representatives from the agricultural industry defend genetically modified crops as one of several tools that should be used to help farmers in developing countries become more productive.

Drought-affected people in the communities of northern Kenya are selling their cattle to the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office so meat can be given back to them as relief.

Jacob's House Comment,

As we have said before on this website we are in the middle of 7 years of famine all over the world.  This famine will increase and become more pronounced before God closes down this present earth age, to make way for His new righteous and virtuous new day and thousand year reign. 

October 7, 2009

Typhoon bears down on Japan; car plants shut. TOKYO (Reuters) - A powerful typhoon approached Japan's main islands Wednesday, closing car factories, disrupting flights and threatening heavily populated industrial centers with torrential rain and strong winds. Typhoon Melor may be the most powerful storm to hit Japan's main islands in more than 10 years, the Meteorological Agency said.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistani leaders jousted Wednesday over a multibillion-dollar U.S. humanitarian aid bill that the ruling party praises as a lynchpin to strengthening democracy here but that opponents say will lead to greater American interference in Pakistani affairs. The bill, which awaits President Barack Obama's signature, would give Pakistan $1.5 billion annually over the next five years for democratic, economic and social development programs. It also allows "such sums as are necessary" for military aid.

Eight year of US presence in Afghanistan.  About 859 US military personnel have been killed in this war there.  The new US President Obama will make the decisions on how to proceed with this war.

The US budget deficit for 2009 has hit 1.4 trillion dollars because of less tax revenues and the poor economy. 

The California sheep farm fire has burned more than 11 square miles in the San Bernardino Hills.  It is now fully contained. 

Obama 'rules out' Afghan combat troop cutbacks. US President Barack Obama has said his review of Afghan strategy will not look at pulling out or cutting troop levels. Mr Obama told key members of Congress that he would decide on a course of action with a sense of urgency - but that not everyone would be pleased. But a source said he did not pledge to increase troop numbers as his top general in Afghanistan wants. The meeting came on the eve of the eighth anniversary of the start of the US-led Afghan military operation.

The 2009 chemistry Nobel prize has been awarded to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath. The prize is awarded for the study of the structure and function of the ribosome - the cell's protein factory. The ribosome translates genetic code into proteins - which are the building blocks of all living organisms. It is also the main target of new antibiotics, which combat bacterial strains that have developed resistance to traditional antibiotic drugs.  These new drugs work by blocking the function of ribosomes in bacterial cells, preventing them from making the proteins they need to survive.

U. S. Dollar Living on Its Reputation and Borrowed Time. A new report says secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars. The details on how and what other currency would replace the dollar, according to the report, are still in the works. Sources aren't named and Saudi officials, among others, are quickly denying the report. However, it appears some investors are buying the story attesting to recent all time high in gold prices. Questioning the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency does make sense. How long can the U. S. print money and increase its debt before other global markets take action? Also how will the Fed manage its exit strategy to save the U. S. economy without causing hyper-inflation of its currency?

Strong quakes near Vanuatu spark tsunami alert. WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Two powerful earthquakes rocked the South Pacific near the Vanuatu archipelago Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, triggering a regional tsunami alert. The first quake, with a magnitude of 7.8, struck 183 miles (294 kilometers) northwest of the Vanuatu island of Santo, and 354 miles (596 kilometers) northwest of the capital of Port Vila, at a depth of 21 miles (35 kilometers). Just 15 minutes later a second quake with a magnitude 7.3 hit at the same depth but 21 miles (35 kilometers) farther north of Santo and Port Vila. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center immediately issued a regional tsunami warning for 11 nations and territories, including Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Fiji and Kiribati. A tsunami watch was in effect as far as Australia and New Zealand.

Peace an illusion, says Israel FM. Israel's foreign minister has said there is no chance of an early solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and told people to "learn to live with it". "We have to be realistic - we will not be able to reach agreement on core and emotional subjects like Jerusalem and the right of return (of Palestinian refugees0," he said. "I am going to say very clearly - there are conflicts that have not been completely solved and people have learned to live with it, like Cyprus." His suggestion was a long-term interim deal to ensure prosperity, security and stability and leave tough questions until later.

One in four people in the world are Muslims, study says. A report from an American think-tank has estimated 1.57 billion Muslims populate the world - with 60% in Asia. The report, by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, took three years to compile, with census data from 232 countries and territories. It showed that 20% of Muslims lived in the Middle East and North Africa. The data also showed that there were more Muslims in Germany than in Lebanon, and more in Russia than in Jordan and Libya together.

A typhoon has struck Japan, killing two people and leaving a trail of damage across the centre of the country. More than 40 people were injured as Typhoon Melor landed south-west of Tokyo on the main island of Honshu. Strong winds and heavy rains flooded roads, uprooted trees and tore roofs from houses. Many flights and train services were cancelled.

NASA makes as-yet unseen hit on moon with probes. NASA bulldozed two spacecraft into the lunar south pole7:31 a.m., followed four minutes later by a probe with cameras taking pictures of the first crash. But the big live public splash NASA had hoped for didn't quite happen. Screens got fuzz and no immediate pictures of the crash or the six-mile plume of lunar dust that the mission was all about. NASA officials said their instruments were working, but the planned live photos were missing. The idea is to confirm the theory that water - a key resource if people are going to go back to the moon - is hidden below the barren moonscape. Instruments confirm that a large empty rocket hull barreled into the moon in search for hidden ice or water.

Jacob's House Comment,

Man has destroyed this world with his wickedness and his unbridled sinful ways.  Therefore, what makes him think that he can manage the heavens and not pollute and destroy them as he has totally polluted and destroyed this current filthy world?  What makes him think that God will not reprimand him severely for attempting to pollute and destroy God's moon and His heavenly realm?

October 10, 2009

US troops help Philippine people as storm death toll rises. MANILA, Philippines - The U.S. military trucked in supplies and marshaled helicopters and Navy ships as the Philippines struggled with the aftermath of back-to-back storms that have left more than 600 dead. Roads are blocked and bridges washed away.  The Philippine government's resources have been stretched thin. Officials have asked U.S. troops who are in the country for an annual military exercise to extend relief operations. The city of Manila has experienced the worst flooding in over four decades after Tropical Stormtropical depression for about a week, also over the main northern Philippine island of Luzon. It has dumped more heavy rains, triggering floods and landslides that have killed at least 276 people, most of them in the last two days. It has displaced about 170,000 people. Ketsana dumped record rains Sept. 26. That disaster displaced about 1 million people and killed 337 in the capital and surrounding provinces. More than 287,000 remain in evacuation centers.

LONDON - Police in fluorescent jackets stood between hundreds of anti-Islam protesters and ant-racist counter-demonstrators in the English city of Manchester on Saturday, arresting 48 people in a bid to keep the peace. Police locked down a section of the city center as about 2,000 people gathered. Most of those arrested, all men, were suspected of public order offenses. Several people suffered minor injuries in sporadic scuffles. A group called the English Defense League, which says it opposes militant Islam, squared off against a larger group of counter-demonstrators from the group Unite Against Fascism. Manchester, 200 miles (320 kilometers) northwest of London, is the latest English city to be hit with tensions. Troubles also have occurred in Luton, Birmingham and London in the last few months involving a loose collection of far-right groups, including the little known English Defense League.The league rejects the fascist label, arguing that it only opposes militant Islam. But several of its supporters made Nazi salutes during Saturday's protest. 

October 11, 2009

The CDC says that more than 75 children have died from the swine flu virus since April in the USA.  These children were in a weakened state when they caught this virus and this contributed to their deaths. 

October 12 2009

Polarization now taking hold.  Countless Internet blogs have taken on the administration of the first African-American president, claiming that Barack Obama isn't an American citizen, is a secret Muslim, is a socialist, wants to establish death panels to decide when elderly Americans would no longer receive medical care and be allowed to die. The list is long. Most recently, a partisan furor blew up when Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Republican national chairman Michael Steele set the tone, declaring that giving the prize to the U.S. commander in chief showed "how meaningless a once honorable and respected award has become. The environment is much more extreme today because of the level of public involvement, the level of incivility among both the political elite and the public. "It's a hard thing to stop and it is escalating" each time Republicans or Democrats cede power in the capital.

Jacob's House Comment,

As announced on this website months ago in the prophecy, "God's Words About Polarization", dated 5/18/08, our Lord God told Jacob that infighting between many different factions of people would take place in the next few years.  This is another prophecy from God to Jacob, which is already coming to pass.   

Retirees in the United States are being forced to find work because of the threat of homelessness, or the loss of adequate money to buy medications.  Many of these retirees have lost a great deal of their wealth in the recent stock market debacle. 

A new report is stating more workers than ever before are looking for the few jobs being offered to them.  About 6.3 workers are applying for every job offered since the recession began. 

Rocky Mountain and Plain States have seen record lows and record snowfalls for so early in October.  There have been 81 record lows and 17 inches of snow seen in areas of Nebraska, USA. 

A new report is stating that about 11% of students are addicted to the internet.  Many more of them have ADHD and other problems. 

Flash flooding problems are now occurring in Central California as a storm there drops heavy rain on burned and dry areas. 

A 3.8 earthquake rattled an area 45 miles south of San Francisco, USA.

President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But in an unannounced move, the White House has also authorized - and the Pentagon is deploying - at least 13,000 troops beyond that number, according to defense officials. The deployment of the support troops to Afghanistan brings the total increase approved by Obama to 34,000. The buildup has raised the number of U.S. troops deployed to the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan above the peak during the Iraq "surge" that President George W. Bush ordered, officials said. The deployment does not change the maximum number of service members expected to soon be in Afghanistan: 68,000, more than double the number there when Bush left office.

Rising winter temperatures are shrinking Himalayan glaciers in Indian Kashmir at "alarming" speeds, threatening water supplies to vast tracts of India and Pakistan, according to a new report.

Warmer Climate Not The Cause Of Oxygen Deficiency In The Baltic Sea. Oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea has never been greater than it is now. But it is not an effect of climate change but rather of increased inputs of nutrients and fertilisers. This is the finding of researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. In his thesis, Hansson notes that oxygen deficiency and spread of dead seabeds in the Baltic Sea are essentially due to human activity. "Climate change to date has only had a negligible effect on oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea. The principal cause of oxygen deficiency and large areas of dead seabed is that inputs from agriculture and untreated wastewater increased sharply, in particular in conjunction with increased use of commercial fertilizer in the mid-20th century," says Hansson.

Southern California communities below wildfire-scorched mountains made preparations Monday for the possibility of fast-moving floods laden with mud and rocks as a Pacific storm headed for the West Coast arrives. The U.S. Geological Survey recently warned of potentially massive debris flows from the area burned by the late summer Station Fire. Two firefighters were killed and 89 homes were destroyed as it spread over more than 250 square miles of Angeles National Forest, becoming the biggest fire in Los Angeles County history. Unusually strong for October and packing gusty winds, the storm was expected to move into northern and central parts of the state Monday night and reach southern areas Tuesday, the National Weather Service said.

More than 50,000 people in southern China's Guangdong province are suffering from water shortages as a spreading drought has left farmers' fields dry and cracked, state media reported Sunday.

OUAGADOUGOU (AFP) - A world away from the heated negotiations for a critical deal on stopping climate change at the UN summit in Copenhagen, Burkina Faso inhabitants are suffering the direct consequences of global warming. Jacqueline, Noroudine and Guy-Prosper are among the 150,000 made homeless by floods after the heaviest rainfall in decades hit Burkina's capital Ouagadougou last month. On September 1 some 30 centimetres (one foot) of rain fell in the space of 10 hours, the heaviest rainfall in the west African country since 1919. In central Ouagadougou the flood victims live in a makeshift tent village set up on a sporting pitch in the middle of the capital. At first glance the site, which houses 1,600 people -mostly women and children- looks like a warzone refugee camp.

ORANGE COVE, Calif. - Tom Mulholland is girding for battle against a tiny enemy that could devastate the orange grove he has spent his life cultivating. His adversary: the Asian citrus psyllid, a fruit-fly-sized insect with red eyes and a long, leaf-penetrating beak. The psyllid, which can carry an incurable disease fatal to citrus trees, was spotted in August in Los Angeles, closer than ever before to the ribbon of central California where the state's $1.6 billion citrus-growing industry is concentrated. California growers and agricultural officials are worried the state's citrus industry will be crippled by the disease carried by the psyllid, which devastated Florida's crops. The two states produced about 97 percent of the nation's 12 million tons of citrus during the fiscal year ending in June. In California, the insect has so far been found among planted citrus trees in four southern counties, prompting quarantines that prohibit nurseries from shipping seedlings to other areas. Fruit grown in those counties also must be washed before it can be sold outside the quarantine zone.

October 14, 2009

So Cal U. S. storm menaces neighborhoods near burn areas. LOS ANGELES - A powerful fall storm packing strong winds and rain drenched fire-scarred hillsides around California on Wednesday, and residents from north to south braced for possible mudslides and debris flows. The storm prompted evacuation warnings earlier Tuesday near Santa Cruz and disrupted power across the state. Officials urged residents to evacuate from about 60 homes in the town of Davenport in the Santa Cruz Mountains, 50 miles south of San Francisco, where more than six inches of rain fell on an area that burned in August.

Global hunger worsening, warns UN. Targets to cut the number of hungry people in the world will not be met without greater international effort, UN food agencies have warned. The UN's annual report on global food security confirms that more than one billion people - a sixth of the world's population - are undernourished.  It says the number of hungry people was growing before the economic crisis, which has made the situation worse.

Noise pollution is becoming a major threat to the welfare of wildlife, according to a scientific review. Sounds produced by vehicles, oil and gas fields and urban sprawl interfere with the way animals communicate, mate and prey on one another. The sounds are becoming so ubiquitous that they may threaten biodiversity. Even the animals living in protected National Parks in the US are being exposed to chronic levels of noise.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.3 quake struck off Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake, shallow at a depth of 8.5 miles under the seabed, was centered 75 miles southeast of Nikolski.

PARIS (AFP) - More than 100,000 people in northern Iraq have abandoned their homes since 2005 because of water stress, after drought and over-extraction of groundwater caused the collapse of an ancient water system, UNESCO said on Tuesday. The karez system, designed in ancient Persia to cope with an arid climate, is a man-made underground system that for centuries has provided Iraqis with drinking water and irrigation needs. "Drought and excessive well pumping have drawn down aquifer levels in the region, causing a dramatic decline of water flow in ancient underground aqueducts.  Since the onset of the drought four years ago, 70 percent of the functioning karez in northern Iraq have dried up, specialists found. By August this year, only 116 of 683 karez systems in northern Iraq were still functioning."The rapid decline of karez is forcing entire communities to abandon their homes in the pursuit of new sources of water," it said."Population declines have averaged almost 70 percent among the communities adversely affected since 2005." "An additional 36,000 people are on the brink of abandoning their homes if conditions do not rapidly improve.

MADRID (AFP) - Underground fires have been raging for weeks in a wetlands area in southern Spain, sparked by the dry summer and the overuse of water for agriculture, an environmentalist said Tuesday. The Tablas de Daimiel National Park, fed by the Guadiana river, has been drying up since the 1980s, and some lagoons have already disappeared. In late August, hot dry weather caused the peat subsurface to catch fire, and plumes of smoke can be seen rising from the ground. Spain was hit by dozens of wildfires last summer as temperatures remained around 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in much of the country.

October 15, 2009

Lottery hoax causes riot at Ohio coat store. COLUMBUS, Ohio U.S. - A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases u to 500.00, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax. Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted, leaving the store looking as though a hurricane had passed through it, police said. At least 500 people filled the aisles and another 1,000 were outside trying to get in, he said. She told people she won $1.5 million, but she didn't win anything and had no money to pay for anything.

A new report is stating that bears are now increasing rapidly in the US and causing populated areas to fear them as they begin to search for food in these areas. 

US home foreclosure filings are set to hit 3.5 million units this year. 

Parts of the Northeast, USA got their earliest snowfall on record in October with some of the coldest temperatures in decades.  

Foreclosures rise 5 percent from summer to fall. WASHINGTON - The number of households caught up in the foreclosure crisis rose more than 5 percent from summer to fall as a federal effort to assist struggling borrowers was overwhelmed by a flood of defaults among people who lost their jobs. The foreclosure crisis affected nearly 938,000 properties in the July-September quarter, compared with about 890,000 in the prior three months, according to a report released Thursday by RealtyTrac Inc. That puts foreclosure-related filings on a pace to hit about 3.5 million this year, up from more than 2.3 million last year.

Arctic ice cap to disappear in 20-30 years: new study says. LONDON (AFP) - The Arctic ice cap will disappear completely in summer months within 20 to 30 years, a polar research team said, as they presented findings from an expedition led by adventurer Pen Hadow. It is likely to be largely ice-free during the warmer months within a decade, the experts warned. In about 10 years, the Arctic ice will be considered as open sea.

WASHINGTON Reuters) - The new pandemic H1N1 flu may cause blood clots and other unusual damage in the lungs and doctors need to be on the lookout, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday. Two studies published in the American Journal of Roentgenology show the need to check X-rays and CT scans for unusual features, and also point out swine flu can be tricky to diagnose in some of the sickest patients. H1N1 flu is causing a pandemic, and while it is not particularly deadly, it is sickening many younger adults and older children who usually escape the worst effects of seasonal flu.

Florida State University in the US, releases NCAA transcripsts: Some 'Noles students reading on only a 2nd-grade level?  Brenda Monk, a learning specialist hired to work with athletes who had learning and physical disabilities, was accused of improperly helping students type, edit, and write their papers. Monk, who testified that some of those athletes had a second-grade reading level, was accused of committing academic fraud. In one case, she was said to have let students use a study guide that had answers to exam questions for an online music course. Monk has left the university and filed a defamation suit against Florida State.

Jacob's House Comment,

In the prophecy on this website entitled, "God Warns Prominent Men", dated 8/12/07, our Lord God spoke to Jacob about the lying, lasciviousness, cheating, and extortion many men, and even women, were involved in to further their own evil gains.  God said He would cause these people to go through a time of distress and sorrows in the coming days, for their refusal to obey His commandments and laws.  God said He would keep these people out of His kingdom for the filthy behavior they were involved in today.  This prophecy from God is already beginning to come to pass. 

We at Jacob's House also know that what is going on in Florida State University in the US, is also going on in many colleges, universities, and high schools today, all over this world.  It is happening because the students in them cannot read, do math, or write with any degree of certainty anymore.  It is happening because God's curse is now over many nations and their learning centers today. 

Excerpt from "God Warns Prominent Men":

I, the Lord God, know many prominent men today are also involved in lying, lasciviousness, cheating, lewdness, and extortion to further their evil gains.  They are exhibiting the negligent behavior that I have always despised.  They are trying to go against My commandments, My Son, Jesus, and Me.

Therefore, I, the Lord God, want to tell these foolish men of prominence today their hateful and destructive ways will soon cause them to go through long periods of grief, distress, depression, and sorrows in the coming days.  Their corrupt and evil ways will soon immerse them in trouble, woe, and pain that they will not be able to run from or escape from.  In the next few years, the uncircumcised land they are now dwelling upon will yield them little in the way of fresh or comely fruit or meat.  This land will also not give them any purified water for their weary and defiled souls.  Instead, this land will only bring up nettles, briars, cesspools, and dead meat upon it in the coming days.  It will not be able to nourish any of these foolish men, for they have decided to come against My desires here, and My sword of the truth.  I know they have stiffened their necks and backs to Me and My Son, Jesus.  They have decided to refuse My commandments and My Holy laws, and so I, the Lord God will soon be forced to refuse them and spit them out of My mouth.

I will soon deny many prominent men an entrance to My kingdom, watchman.  I will turn them away from My milk and My honey for all of the grievous lies, rumors, and fables they have spoken about Me and My Son.  Soon I will punish many of them incessantly in their minds and bodies for the sinful behavior they are exhibiting before Me today. 

Green spaces 'improve health'. There is more evidence that living near a 'green space' has health benefits. Research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health says the impact is particularly noticeable in reducing rates of mental ill health.   The annual rates of 15 out of 24 major physical diseases were also significantly lower among those living closer to green spaces.  One environmental expert said the study confirmed that green spaces create 'oases' of improved health around them. The biggest impact was on anxiety disorders and depression.

October 18, 2009

Swine flu hits hard, and early, claims 11 more kids. WASHINGTON - Swine flu is causing unprecedented illness for so early in the fall - including a worrisome count of child deaths - and the government warned Friday that vaccine supplies will be even more scarce than expected through this month. Federal health officials said 11 more children have died in the past week because of the virus. Overall, what CDC calls the 2009 H1N1 flu is causing widespread disease in 41 states, and about 6 percent of all doctor visits are for flu-like illness - levels not normally seen until much later in the fall. Eighty-six children have died of swine flu in the U.S. since it burst on the scene last spring - 43 of those deaths reported in September and early October alone.

Jacob's House Comment:

On this website, in the prophecy entitled "The Days Of Noah", dated 12/10/06, Our Lord God spoke to Jacob about how the end times here would unfold.  God told Jacob there would be woe, trouble, distress, and magnified grief while His new and glorious day began to appear. God warned His children to be careful they were not corrupted by the entrapments of this world.  He warned His children to keep a watch over their houses, their property, and their little ones both night and day, so they could overcome the floods He would soon be bringing to this world.  This prophesy is now coming to pass.

Excerpt From "The Days Of Noah"  are Here Again:

Therefore, I, the Lord God, want to say to My children today they had better come to Me with repentance and sweet surrender in their hearts and minds.  It is time for them to come back to the fruitful endeavors and good works that I favor, enjoy, and love.  They had better come back to Me by winning the souls that were profitable for them in the past.  They had better not let their hearts become corrupted by the entrapments and the wicked ideas of this fallen and perverse world.  Instead, My children should rely on Me and My Son, Jesus, to guide them and sustain them in the next few years of woe, trouble, distress, and magnified grief.

For I, the Lord God, have not hidden My desires and My words from My children today.  Instead, I have made My desires and plans known to them through My servant, Jacob.  Therefore, they will need to know that a season of darkness, madness, and grief will soon be upon them.  The next few years they had better prepare themselves to endure this final harvest and new day, which I Am planning.  My children better prepare themselves by keeping watch, both day and night, over their houses, their property, and their little ones.  For soon this world will become a hardened battleground between good and evil.  I, the Lord God, will win this battle, and I will vanquish all of My enemies and all of the evil and decay that is here now.

Therefore, I do not want My children to be surprised by the forming of My new glorious and virtuous day.  They will have to put on the full armor I will give them if they want to overcome the floods that I Am planning to bring to this earth.  They will have to have faith the size of a mustard seed if they want to succeed with Me and My Son.  They will also have to have the blood of My Son, Jesus, on the doorposts of their houses, their property, and their little ones, to keep them free from all trepidation and harm.   

Dangerous Hurricane Rick still growing off Mexico. MEXICO CITY - Hurricane Rick quickly strengthened into an "extremely dangerous" Category 5 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast on Saturday and forecasters said it could strike the Baja California Peninsula in about four days. The storm had sustained winds near 155 mph. Forecasters said it was projected to stay well off the coast for several days before bending east over cooler waters and hitting some resort towns on Baja California Peninsula by early Thursday as a weakened Category 1 hurricane.

October 19, 2009

Back to back typhoon storms have now killed 850 people in the Philippines.  People there are trying to stock up on food and clothing. 

US Hospitals will begin limiting access to swine flu victims because of the danger of their spreading this virus to others.

A Red Cross survey is saying 78% of Americans have begun washing their hands more because of the swine flu virus. 

Another survive is stating that the people in the US now mistrust their banks and this stems from how these banks used their taxpayer bailout money.     

October 21, 2009

Bailout watchdog expects much to remain unrefunded to U. S. Taxpayers. WASHINGTON - The man who watches over the $700 billion in government money given to banks and other institutions to avert a financial collapse says it's too early to say how much will be repaid to the taxpayers. The Treasury has spent more than $454 billion through TARP programs. Forty-seven recipients have paid back nearly $73 billion. That means more than $317 billion remains unrefunded, with the program expiring Dec. 31.

A new report is saying now in the USA there are 47 million people living in poverty.  That is up 7 million more than is being reported by the US government. 

Why Obama's U. S. Housing Rescue Hasn't Prevented Record Foreclosures. After taking withering criticism for the Department-of-Motor-Vehicles pace of its initial efforts to keep struggling borrowers out of foreclosure, the Obama administration proudly announced last week that it had hit its goal of 500,000 trial loan modifications almost a month ahead of schedule. But with the foreclosure rate hitting a new record in the third quarter, the government's ability to put a meaningful dent in the tally of housing-crisis victims faces renewed skepticism. Foreclosure filings were reported on 937,840 homes in the three-month period, a 23 percent jump from a year earlier, according to a report real estate firm RealtyTrac released Thursday. Home foreclosures in September, meanwhile, decreased 4 percent from August but remained 29 percent higher than a year earlier.

Mexico struggles to save monarch reserve from bark-beetle infestation.  Authorities who have struggled to stop illegal logging in Mexico's famed monarch butterfly reserve now are cutting down thousands of trees themselves to fight an unprecedented infestation of deadly bark beetles.

Carbon emissions by industrialized nations increased one percent in 2007, a "worrying" rise ahead of a crunch climate summit in Copenhagen in December, the UN climate agency said Wednesday.

Several US Cape Cod, Massachusetts homes have been pushed into Chatam Harbor from a new storm there with heavy rains.

Climate change: Global issue spurs global protest. PARIS (AFP) - Could climate change spark the first worldwide grassroots movement? Even as politicians dial down expectations for the December 7-18 UN climate talks in Copenhagen, analysts and activists detect a groundswell of anger, channeled through the Internet and voiced especially by the young, demanding action on global warming. "As evidence mounts of the severity of the threat, civil society groups will be fuelled by the urgency of acting now to avoid the worse consequences of a problem for which future generations will surely hold us accountable," said British expert Peter Newell.

WHO: nearly 5,000 swine flu deaths worldwide. GENEVA - Nearly 5,000 people have reportedly died from swine flu since it emerged this year and developed into a global epidemic, the World Health Organization said Friday. Since most countries have stopped counting individual swine flu cases, the figure is considered an underestimate. WHO said there were 4,999 total deaths through Oct. 18, most of them in the Western Hemisphere. The figure was up 264 from a week earlier. Iceland had its first swine flu death this week, and WHO said Sudan and Trinidad and Tobago also reported deaths from the virus for the first time this week. In the United States, swine flu caused at least 95 children's deaths since April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. Forty-six U. S.  states now have widespread flu activity.

October 23, 2009

ScienceDaily (Oct. 23, 2009) - The Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata, is a world plague which represents one of the most serious problems for agriculture. However, the control methods currently present in the market for this plague are ineffective. the Mediterranean fruit fly has a special economic relevance in the Mediterranean countries, like Spain. Given the capacity of the C. capitata to tolerate colder climates than the rest of the species of flies and their wide range of host plants, the C. capitata has been considered as one of the most important species from an economic point of view. This plague attacks more than 260 species of fruits, flowers or nuts of agricultural fruits and it has been estimated that it causes losses assessed in hundreds of millions of dollars annually in the countries where it becomes established.

October 24, 2009

Swine flu declared national emergency.  WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect non-infected patients. The declaration, signed Friday night and announced Saturday, comes with the disease more prevalent than ever in the country and production delays undercutting the government's initial, optimistic estimates that as many as 120 million doses of the vaccine could be available by mid-October. Health authorities say more than 1,000 people in the United States, including almost 100 children, have died from the strain of flu known as H1N1, and 46 states have widespread flu activity.

Thousands gather worldwide on day of climate protests. PARIS (AFP) - Kicking off with thousands gathering on the steps of Sydney's iconic Opera House, global warming protests took place around the world Saturday to mark 50 days before the UN climate summit. From Asia to Europe via the Middle East, activists staged lively events addressing world leaders and to mobilise public opinion around climate issues. Many waved placards bearing the logo 350, referring to 350 parts per million (ppm) of CO2 in the atmosphere which scientists say must not be exceeded to avoid runaway global warming. France's politicians received a "wake up" call from several hundred Parisians who chose clocks as their symbol. "Hundreds of thousands of people are taking part (globally) and for us that's so important, to have people out on the streets," campaign activist Abi Edgar told AFP. "We want serious action on climate change and we want it now."

Strong quake hits off Indonesia. A magnitude 7.0 earthquake has hit deep under the sea off Indonesia's coast, the US Geological Survey (USGS) says. The quake was reported in the Banda Sea, near the Maluku islands to the east of East Timor.  It struck at 2340 local time (1440 GMT) at a depth of 92 miles (148km). Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, one of the world's most active areas for earthquakes and volcanoes. It has recently been struck by string of deadly earthquakes. In September, dozens were killed by a tremor off Java, while a quake which hit Sumatra left more than 1,000 people dead.

October 26, 2009

Violent clashes erupt at Jerusalem's holiest site. JERUSALEM - Israeli police firing stun grenades faced off Sunday against masked Palestinian protesters hurling stones and plastic chairs outside the Holy Land's most volatile shrine, where past violence has escalated into prolonged conflict. A wall of Israeli riot police behind plexiglass shields marched toward young men covering their faces with T-shirts and scarves, sending many of them running for cover into the Al-Aqsa mosque, one of the Islamic structures in the compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. They remained holed up in the mosque with police outside for several hours until dispersing before nightfall. Eighteen protesters were arrested, and no serious injuries were reported. But even mild troubles at the disputed compound in Jerusalem's Old City can quickly ignite widespread unrest, and police remained on high alert.

BAGHDAD - A pair of suicide car bombings Sunday devastated the heart of Iraq's capital, killing at least 147 people in the country's deadliest attack in more than two years. The bombs targeted two government buildings and called into question Iraq's ability to protect its people as U.S. forces withdraw. The bombings show that insurgents still have the ability to launch horrific attacks even as violence has dropped dramatically in Iraq.

'Freezer plan' bid to save coral reefs. The prospects of saving the world's coral reefs now appear so bleak that plans are being made to freeze samples to preserve them for the future. A meeting in Denmark took evidence from researchers that most coral reefs will not survive even if tough regulations on greenhouse gases are put in place.  Scientists proposed storing samples of coral species in liquid nitrogen.  That will allow them to be reintroduced to the seas in the future if global temperatures can be stabilized.

The UK economy unexpectedly contracted by 0.4% between July and September, according to official figures, meaning the country is still in recession. It is the first time UK gross domestic product (GDP) has contracted for six consecutive quarters, since quarterly figures were first recorded in 1955.