Jacob's House Comment,

God's new thousand year reign with His Son, Jesus, as the visible High Priest here, is approaching quickly.  Therefore, we at Jacob's House want to urge all of God's devoted Christians to get their family members saved and rescued by God at this time.  They must truly believe in God and His Son, Jesus, before it is too late.  They also must use the last remaining moments they have here to ask God to forgive them for all of their past trespasses, wickedness, and sins.   

For we at Jacob's House know time is already running out for many mingled people all around this world today.  We know God's judgment of death for their wickedness and sins, is already upon them.  Soon His judgment will be in every nation and dwelling place when God decides to visit and come to this world for a second time.   

January 3, 2010

The Hunt for a Clear Picture of Polar Bears' Future. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - as well as many polar-bear biologists - say that global warming is destroying so much of the bears' icy habitat that the species could be nearly wiped out in the next 100 years. The U.S. is pushing to ban global trade in polar bears at an international meeting in March. Canada says it has "considerable concern" over polar bears' future, but that it is unclear how much Arctic ice will be lost and what effect the melts will have on the wildlife that lives there.

Mutation leads to new and severe form of bacterial disease.  Fighting an illness is not just about fighting the bacteria or viruses that cause it, it also has to do with your genes. Scientists have now identified a gene mutation that makes children susceptible to a severe form of mycobacterial disease, any disease caused by species of Mycobacterium such as tuberculosis and leprosy. The mutation represents a new layer of disease severity in children who lack a vital disease-fighting component from their immune system.

No US war deaths in Iraq in December.  December was the first month since the start of the war in Iraq in which there were no U.S. combat deaths, the U.S. military said. There were three noncombat fatalities. Since the beginning of the war more than six years ago, 4,373 U.S. military members have died -- 3,477 from hostilities and 898 in non-combat incidents. Combat fatalities have decreased significantly since June, when the United States started withdrawing troops from Baghdad, Iraq's capital, and other urban areas. The United States also started a troop drawdown in 2009 from about 160,000 to the current level of around 110,000. According to the Iraq Interior Ministry, 2,773 Iraqi civilians were killed and 8,900 were wounded in 2009. In addition, 242 Iraqi soldiers were killed and 612 were wounded in 2009. In December, the ministry said, 306 Iraqi civilians were killed and 1,137 were wounded; 13 Iraqi soldiers were killed and 32 were wounded. Also in December, 48 Iraqi police were killed and 119 were wounded.

US budget cuts for municipalities are forcing dozens of libraries to close all over the US.  Approximately 20% are closing or operating at reduced hours because of a shortage of funds and budget cuts. 

Bitter cold weather has gripped the US with below zero temperature readings being seen in many states.  Record low temperatures are being recorded in several states including North Dakota.

Jacob's House Comment,

Isn't it ironic that while global warming talks are going on in Scandinavia, God is bringing record cold temperatures to the US today.  Our Lord God is trying to show many scientists, fools, and dead ones that He is the one you have to fear and worry about today.  God is trying to show them that the weather all over the world is being changed right before their eyes by Him, so His new day can arrive. 

Over 8,000 people have been ordered to evacuate their homes because of the eruption of the Galeras Volcano in Columbia, Central America.

January 4, 2010

At least 500 homes damaged in Solomons quake. HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AFP) - About 500 homes were damaged or destroyed when a 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked the Solomon Islands, officials said Monday following a reconnaissance flight over remote islands near the epicentre. The National Disaster Management Office said it was possible thousands of people could be homeless, but an exact assessment could not be made until ground parties arrived on Tuesday.

Tunnels beneath Vegas are a refuge for homeless people. LAS VEGAS - Underneath its glitzy casinos, far from the bright marquees, there is another Las Vegas, a pitch-black, dank underworld virtually unknown and unseen by those who live, work and play above. About 300 people, mostly men battling demons of various addictions, live in the underground storm system built to protect the desert playground from the infrequent cloudburst.There's no sign or word of welcome down here. Drug use is nearly universal. Most people carry makeshift weapons and the police don't often come unless they're called.

January 4, 2010

Midwest and Northeast US blasted with high winds and extreme cold temperatures.  One-third of the population of the US has been affected by the cold.  Record snowfalls being seen in Vermont and several other states.  Homeless shelters are packed in Minnesota.

It is being reported that the US is on track to have the coldest winter in 25 plus years.  Record low temperatures are being seen in Mid and southern Florida which is affected the citrus crop there.  Two thirds of the US are being affected by the winter weather. 

January 6, 2010

Fla. farmers scramble to save crops from cold. COLUMBIA, S.C. - Subfreezing temperatures across the South have Florida farmers worried that strawberry, tomato and other crops could be destroyed, with temperatures in even usually balmy Miami only in the 50s on Tuesday.  Throughout central and south Florida, farmers are trying to salvage millions of dollars worth of citrus and vegetable crops from week long freeze predicted.  They are spraying them in protective layers of ice and covering them in plastic. Forecasters say the Southern deep freeze will last through the weekend, likely breaking records for continuous cold temperatures in many parts of Florida and elsewhere. The eastern U.S. was not only dealing with subfreezing temperatures, but parts of New England were under record snowfall. In Burlington, a storm dumped more than 33 inches, breaking a single-storm record of nearly 30 inches set in 1969.

Dead Octopuses Wash Up on Portuguese Beach. What is killing the octopus of Vila Nova de Gaia? That question has obsessed the Portuguese city, located just across the Douro river from Porto, since Jan. 2, when 1,100 lbs. (500 kg) of dead octopus were found on a 1.8-mile (3 km) stretch of local beach. The following day, another 110 lbs (50 kg) appeared; today there was just one expired creature. The evidence points to some sort of disease: a parasite, bacteria, or a powerful virus. It affected octopus of all ages and sizes and wiped out the entire population in that area.

Thirty-two US states are under severe winter warnings. 

Only 45% of Americans are satisfied with their jobs.  This  is the lowest point in 22 years. 

January 8, 2010

U. S. economy loses 85K jobs, unemployment rate steady. WASHINGTON - The economy lost more jobs than expected in December while the unemployment rate held steady at 10 percent, as a sluggish economic recovery has yet to revive hiring among the nation's employers. The Labor Department said Friday that employers cut 85,000 jobs last month, worse than the 8,000 drop analysts expected. A sharp drop in the labor force, a sign more of the jobless are giving up on their search for work, kept the unemployment rate at the same rate as in November. Once people stop looking for jobs, they are no longer counted among the unemployed.

Obama orders up more air security and intelligence sharing. WASHINGTON - Hundreds of law enforcement officers are being trained as federal air marshals to ramp up security as the Obama administration tries to prevent a repeat of the near-catastrophic attempt to blow up an airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day. President Barack Obama ordered the U.S. intelligence agencies to do a better job of recognizing serious terror threats and sharing information with those who can disrupt a plot as quickly as possible. 

Jacob's House Comment, 

The Lord's words from Obadiah speak about the USA's current, trouble, travail, and downfall today.  God's words from this book in the Bible speak about how the USA will go through a time of fear, worry, depression, thievery, and trepidation.  God's words speak about Esau and the terrorists which will come to the USA to help bring her down.  Therefore, all the fear, worries, and problems the USA is having is because they have left God behind for the filthy lucre and corruptable images and idols of this world.  The USA is suffering grief, economic trouble, poor reasoning and decision power, and woe, because they have not kept the vows and promises that were made to God long ago. Therefore, has God's curse come down in good measure to this once great and prosperous  nation.  The following verses also speak about the devil's destruction and demise. 

Obadiah verses 2-8:

2 Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.

3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.

5 If thieves came to thee, if  robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegathers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?

6 How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!

7 All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men htat were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.

8 Shall I not in that day, saith the Lord, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

Mind-reading systems could change air security. CHICAGO - A would-be terrorist tries to board a plane, bent on mass murder. As he walks through a security checkpoint, fidgeting and glancing around, a network of high-tech machines analyzes his body language and reads his mind. As far-fetched as that sounds, systems that aim to get inside an evildoer's head are among the proposals floated by security experts thinking beyond the X-ray machines and metal detectors used on millions of passengers and bags each year. New ideas include highly sophisticated sensors, more intensive interrogations of travelers by screeners trained in human behavior, and a lifting of the U.S. prohibitions against profiling.

January 11, 2010

US security alerts are being enforced at airports in the US after several unruly passengers in more than 4 states including California, Hawaii, South Carolina, and Newark, New Jersey have disrupted their flights.  Security failures have occurred at many airports. 

It is being reported that more than half of the US is seeing temperatures 15 to 30 degrees below normal. 

A 6.4 earthquake has struck Northern California near the city of Eureka.  Eleven aftershocks have been reported including a 4.5 one. 

A new study is saying a high degree of US high school and college students are now exhibiting anxiety behavior.  These studies are concluding that the pressure to succeed, and fast pace lifestyles are to blame.  This anxiety today being exhibited by young people is larger than it was in the Great Depression of over 50 years ago.  

January 12, 2010

The Doomsday Clock to Change This Week. The minute hand of the famous Doomsday Clock is set to move this Thursday, and for the first time, anyone with Internet access can watch. Which way the hand will move and by how much have not been made public. The last time the Doomsday Clock minute hand moved was in January 2007, when it was pushed forward by two minutes, from seven to five minutes before midnight. The change was meant to reflect two major sources of potential catastrophe that could bring us closer to doomesday.  According to the board, the looming dangers included: the perils of 27,000 nuclear weapons, 2,000 of them ready to launch within minutes; and the destruction of human habitats from climate change. The factors influencing the latest Doomsday Clock change include international negotiations on nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, expansion of civilian nuclear power, the possibilities of nuclear terrorism, and climate change.

January 14, 2010

A new report is stating suicide rates among young males have increased 26% between 2005 and 2007.  The males affected the most were 18 to 29 year olds. 

Haiti quake: Survivors struggle while awaiting aid. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Turning pickup trucks into ambulances and doors into stretchers, Haitians were frantically struggling to save those injured in this week's earthquake as desperately needed aid from around the world began arriving Thursday. Planes carrying teams from China, France and Spain flew into the Port-au-Prince airport with searchers and tons of food, medicine and other supplies, with far more promised soon from around the globe. Tens of thousands dead, up to 500.000 may have died from 7.0 earthquake, which has hit this nation. Bodies lay everywhere in Port-au-Prince: tiny children next to schools, women in rubble-strewn streets with stunned expressions frozen on their faces, men hidden beneath plastic tarps and cotton sheets.

Jacob's House Comment,

It is not surprising at Jacob's House that Haiti is going through a time of trouble, famine, distress, disease, death, and travail with this earthquake, coming from God today.  Jacob's House has knowledge of evil and demonic practices going on in Haiti for many years.  Several Christian ministries and missionaries that have gone to Haiti have told us that open devil worship and voodoo offerings were regularly going on in the Port-au- Prince downtown areas.  These Christian missionaries told Jacob's House that chickens and other animals were being burned, destroyed, and cut up to give praise and worship to the devil.  They told Jacob's House they were afraid to go through certain areas of this city because they feared for their lives, and the lives of other Christians, while they were traveling through this demonic and perverse city. 

In the prophecy on this website entitled: GOD WARNS THE PROMINENT, dated 9/21/08.  God spoke to Jacob about how He would soon destroy the evil men and the filthy nations they now govern. God said He would look for new ways to distress, trouble, and try them from His Holy habitation in heaven.   

Excerpt from God warns the Prominent:

I, the Lord God, have been busy in My chambers in the heavens to devise new ways to try, trouble, and distress many filthy, prominent, and governing men today.  For I loathe their evil doings at this time.  I loathe all of the untrue things that they are saying and speaking against Me and My Son, Jesus. 

Therefore, I will continue to give them poor judgment and reasoning in their hearts and minds.  On occasion I will trouble and try them more than they can ever know.  I will give them a poor discernment of what would be the right and proper prudent thing for them to do in every perplexing situation they might face.  Soon all of their rulings and decisions will not work for them anymore.  For their rulings and decisions are all a part of their fall from My grace, love, peace, and mercy.  Their poor rulings and judgment decisions are part of the disintegration of their own minds, bodies, and souls. 

For it is a known fact in the heavens, watchman and messenger, that I, the Lord God, have made this world quite unstable in the last few years.  I have made it to reap what it has sown in bitter tears.  I have brought whirlwinds from the North to many cities and towns, and glad tidings from the East to trouble many of the indigenous and hideous men who do not desire to know Me today.  I have taken down a portion of their palaces, monuments, and secret meeting places.  I have brought mayhem to their doors and righteous judgment, afflictions, and woe to them and their little children.   

I, the Lord God, have made their own judgment halls and ruling centers to stink with the scent of mildew, mold, and decay from dark graves.  I have tried to show many of these prominent and governing men today how corrupt, foolish, and out of touch they are with My words, My Son, Jesus, and Me.  I have tried to show them what new and deadly challenges they will have to face if they continue to go against My commandments, precepts, and statutes for this world.  I have tried to show them that their nations and their cities are quickly crumbling and dissolving before their eyes. 

A new report is showing the people who watch TV more that 4 hours or more per day were more likely to suffer higher risks of cardio vascular diseases and death from those who didn't.

U. S. president Obama to outline $90bn bank bail-out tax.  President Barack Obama is expected to announce plans for a new tax to be levied on bailed-out US banks later. The fee is designed to recoup $90bn that US taxpayers are expected to lose from bailing out the banks during the financial crisis. It comes ahead of the latest reporting season on Wall Street, with banks expected to report record bonuses.

Surprise rise in US job losses. US employers unexpectedly cut 85,000 jobs in December, but the unemployment rate held steady at 10%, official figures have shown. The number of job losses was surprising, particularly after November's figures had been revised. Since the recession began in 2007, 7.2 million jobs have been lost in the US. In 2009 alone, the economy lost 4.2 million jobs. Analysts were surprised by the latest data.

A new report is stating one in four female teens are now involved in some kind of evil behavior.  Many of them are violent or fighting others. 

The US FDA has found cadmium poison in cheap jewelry coming from China.  Therefore, it is saying that this jewelry should be taken away from children because of the health danger. 

A new report is stating that the swine flu has now touched as many as 80 million Americans. 

MRSA 'spread by patients moving between hospitals'. MRSA is mainly spread by patients moving between hospitals, Dutch researchers have said.  The authors have called for more screening of people who are repeatedly admitted to different hospitals to try to break this transmission cycle. They said this would eventually help to eradicate MRSA. The conclusions were drawn from a large study of the geographical location of different strains of MRSA across 26 European countries. MRSA is a potentially lethal bug which is difficult to combat because it has developed resistance to some antibiotics.

January 17, 2010

A new US report states that the US joblessness will hover around 8% through 2012. 

Moderate earthquake shakes the seacoast city of Carupano in Venezuela.

Fifty-three million bottles of Tylenol, Motrin, and Rolaids have been recalled by Johnson and Johnson for an unusual odor found in them.  This odor is believed to be coming from the wood pallets they are stored on or the packing materials they are shipped in. 

Jacob's House Comment,

As we have said before many times on this website, everything the Lord has made on this earth is interconnected.  Therefore, the fact that the Lord God is taking the stabilizers of this world out, is showing that many things we took for granted are deteriorating further and further today.  This is because of the sin and evil that is in every nation at this time.  Things will not get better until the Lord God cleanses, burns, and destroys the old, sinful, and evil order that is here now.   

Laboratories are now growing pork food and pork chops from pig muscles.  This pork food is being grown in laboratories as an alternative to help relieve the shortages of food being seen around the world.  Critics of this new technology are saying that the ramifications of eating this food could be dangerous.  The nutritional content of protein could also be at risk.

Scientists: Haiti must prepare for more massive quakes. CHICAGO (AFP) - Haiti and its neighbors must prepare themselves for more massive quakes after the devastating tremors this week increased pressure along a lengthy fault line, scientists warned Friday. Paul Mann, a senior research scientist at the Institute for Geophysics at the University of TexasAustin, warned that just because the rebuilding process had started, people shouldn't assume the risk was over. "This relief of stress along this area near Port-au-Prince may have actually increased stress in the adjacent segments on the fault," he told AFP. Rescuers pulled a dehydrated but otherwise uninjured woman from the ruins of a luxury hotel in the Haitian capital early Sunday, an event greeted with applause from onlookers witnessing rare good news in a city otherwise filled with corpses, rubble and desperation. 200,000 people now estimated to have died in the 7.0 quake.  Deng fever, malaria, and measles are now a serious problem there.  This quake is the worst disaster the UN has ever faced.   at

 Amos 8:3-8: 

3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.

4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,

5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

6 That we my buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

7 The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. 

8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.    

January 20, 2010

Strong new earthquake hits Haiti.  A magnitude-6.1 temblor shakes buildings and sends screaming people running into the streets. The latest quake struck as the U.S. dispatched more naval ships to help clear Haiti’s ports and speed up supplies of food, water and medicine to victims of the Jan. 12 earthquake while rescuers extended the search for survivors. Wails of terror rose from frightened survivors as the earth shuddered at 6:03 a.m. U.S. soldiers and tent city refugees alike raced for open ground, and clouds of dust rose in the capital. Last week's magnitude-7 quake killed an estimated 200,000 people in Haiti, left 250,000 injured and made 1.5 million homeless, according to the European Union.

3 weeks after gay marriage law, NH takes up repeal. CONCORD, N.H. - Three weeks after the state legalized gay marriage, opponents are asking a House committee to repeal the law and let voters amend the constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman. The House Judiciary Committee was holding hearings Wednesday on the two measures, which many observers expect the House to reject when they are brought to the floor in the next few weeks.

Officials order evacuations before 3rd So Cal U. S. storm. LOS ANGELES - After two days of lightening, flooding and even a few tornados, officials tried to get ahead of the next round of powerful storms that are pummeling Southern California by ordering evacuations in mudslide-prone foothill neighborhoods. Los Angeles County fire officials said they would issue mandatory evacuation orders for about 587 homes in flood-prone foothill areas beginning early Wednesday in anticipation of the next storm.

MUMBAI, India - India's top three outsourcing companies are ramping up hiring and increasing pay as global corporations, mainly from the U.S., send more work offshore to cut costs as they emerge from the downturn. The employment revival in India's outsourcing sector, which counts on the U.S. for about 60 percent of global sales, comes as unemployment in the U.S. stagnates around 10 percent, near a 26-year high. Inflation-adjusted wages in the U.S. last year fell 1.6 percent, the biggest decline since 1990.

Evolving Strains of HIV May Cause Wave of Drug Resistance (HealthDay News) - Strains of drug-resistant HIV that will emerge in San Francisco within the next five years could pose a serious threat to efforts to control the HIV pandemic, according to U.S. researchers.

U. S. Jobless rates will remain high for many more years. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unemployment rates will likely peak in most U.S. cities in 2010, but it will be many more years before jobless rates hit their lows of the last decade, a report released by a U.S. mayors group shows. In some areas, such as California's central valley and cities in Nevada, unemployment rates will stay at or above 10 percent through 2013.

2000s warmest decade on record, government reports.  WASHINGTON -The 2000-2009 decade was the warmest on record, easily surpassing the previous hottest decade, the 1990s, researchers said Tuesday in a report providing fresh evidence that the planet may be warming at a potentially disastrous rate.

January 21, 2010

S. California braces for 4th day of rain, wind. A CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. - With more than 1,000 homes already under evacuation orders, already-drenched Southern California prepared Thursday for a fourth powerful storm and mudslides below fire-scarred mountains. The National Weather Service predicted up to 3 inches of rain throughout the day, accompanied by gusts up to 50 mph and up to 20 inches of snow in the mountains. Waves of 15 to 20 feet pounded the coast, bringing the threat of flooding in beach communities. Flash flood watches were up for foothill communities below mountains that were denuded by wildfires last year. A week's worth of rain has soaked hillsides in the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of downtown Los Angeles, where 250 square miles of forest burned in a summer wildfire.

Scientists at the CDC warn that although cases of the swine flu have dropped recently, the 3^rd wave could be the most severe and bring the most cases within the next 2 to 3 years.

Haitians are being granted temporary status for 18 months to live in the US and get jobs in the USA.   

Violence and looting is rampant in Haiti especially at night.  Approximately ten thousand US troops have been deployed there to help stop the violent gangs from stealing from houses and stores in Port-au-Prince.    

Haiti's mass graves swell; doctors fear more death. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Workers are carving out mass graves on a hillside north of Haiti's capital, using earth-movers to bury 10,000 earthquake victims in a single day while relief workers warn that people are still dying of their injuries. Medical clinics have 12-day patient backlogs, untreated injuries are festering and makeshift camps housing thousands of survivors could foster disease, experts said. The palace the ruler of the country lived in was also destroyed.  The next health risk could include outbreaks of diarrhea, respiratory tract infections and other diseases among hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in overcrowded camps with poor or nonexistent sanitation. The death toll is estimated at 200,000, with 110,000 confirmed dead, according to Haitian government figures relayed by the European Commission, with 80,000 buried in mass graves. The commission now estimates 2 million homeless, 250, 000 need urgent care, and says 3.5 million are in need of housing, food, etc.

Jacob's House Comment,

On this website, in the prophecy, "God Speaks about Idols", dated 6/16/08, our Lord God spoke to Jacob about what would happen to the heathen tribes upon this earth if they continued to practice idol worship within their homes.  God said that He would tear down the established dynasties, kingdoms, palaces, and dwelling places that these heathens worshipped their false gods in.  These words from God in June 2008 are already coming to pass in less than 2 years.  They are coming to pass in Haiti, and will soon come to pass in many other nations that now worship idols.  These nations will also feel God's wrath upon them as never before in the next few seasons of time.   

Excerpt from "GOD SPEAKS ABOUT IDOLS" on this website:

I, the Lord God, also want to tell all of the heathen tribes who are upon this earth today that if they continue to practice any idol worship of any kind within their homes, then I will be forced to punish them incessantly from within.  I will punish them in their minds, bodies, and souls, so their bones will become like brittle batter and cracked clay.  I, the Lord God, will allow strongholds of poisonous venom from the destroyer's house to enter into their members.  I will allow his devious and crafty ways to enter into their thoughts, both night and day.  Then they will not be able to run from him, or escape from his tearing claws upon them.  

Even though I, the Lord God, will soon be bringing deliverance, peace, and joy to the faithful and devoted children who love Me and My Son, Jesus, I will also at the same time be bringing mourning and weeping to the heathen people who have opposed Me on this earth.  In many cases their entire household and their generations before them will be devoured, separated, and destroyed. 

For I Am now in the process of reestablishing My holy order and name here as never before, servant Jacob.  Therefore, in the next few seasons of time I will be tearing down many established dynasties, kingdoms, palaces, chaos centers, and dwelling places.  If they have not sought the good deeds, the good holy order, and the common sense that I favor and love, they will not be seen here anymore.  

January 24, 2010

JERUSALEM -  Washington's Mideast envoy pressed on with his sputtering, year-old peace mission Sunday, shuttling between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders in an effort to break a stubborn deadlock over Israeli settlement construction. President Barack Obama took office last year with the ambitious aim of putting Mideast peacemaking on a fast track.  Instead, it has stalled over Israel's settlements on occupied lands, forcing the American leader to acknowledge that he underestimated the domestic political forces at play in the region and overreached in expecting a quick breakthrough in Mideast peacemaking.

A new study is finding kids 8 to 18 years of age are spending 8 hours or more a day connected to IPODS, video games, and other gadgets.

Jacob's House Comment,

On this website in the prophecy, "The New Tower of Babel," dated 8/19/07, God spoke to Jacob that many people, and even children, would be destroyed and trapped by the waster in the next few years.  God said the waster would devour them for the gadgets and hand held devices they loved, more than Him.  God said the waster would take many people down to the grave in the next few years for the evil things they adored and coveted today. 

Excerpt from "The New Tower of Babel" prophecy on this website:

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.

Therefore, in the coming days, many foolish people will be snared and trapped by the waster, watchman.  They will become his dead meat as they are separated far away from Me and My Son, Jesus.  They will become his portion when they are sequestered far away from the power, goodness, and the light that only I, the Lord God, own.  They will remain in their own darkened and filthy chambers for an extended period of time.   

Fourteen tornadoes have hit Texas and Louisiana damaging several homes.  Recent freezing rain and ice storms have also hit the Midwest US.

Britain Raises Terror Threat Level. U.K. terrorism expert explains what change in status means; government releases statement that an attack is likely but 'not imminent.

Report: Visas of U.S.-Bound Foreigners Not Checked Before Flight. Prior to the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, federal officials did not check the visa status of foreign airline passengers until after their flights had already left the ground for the U.S., report says. The report sources U.S. officials who offer little reasoning as to why the visa verification process routinely occurred after, rather than before, U.S.-bound planes had departed. The information means that the visa status of Detroit bomb suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was not checked until his flight was already in the air. Prior reports have claimed that security officials "learned" of Abdulmutallab's link to extremists while he was en route to the U.S. from Amsterdam.

Californians prepare to return to evacuated homes as Arizona residents dig out after wicked weather. WENDEN, Ariz.  - A powerful winter storm that pounded Arizona with rain, flooding,  and snow prompted a search for a boy who was swept away by rising waters and is presumed dead, flooded an unknown number of homes and left several hikers stranded. Entire town of Wenden Underwater after storm.  Siege of California rain storms triggers more mudslide fears.  California now bracing for fourth storm.   

A 19-year-old woman is blind after taking Tamiflu - and she didn't even have the H1N1 virus, London's Daily Mail reported. A National Health Sevices helpline advised Samantha Millard to take the medication, and within 72 hours Millard was in the hospital on life support. Millard suffered from Stevens-Johnson syndrome, causing her skin to peel off, and toxic epidermal necrolysis syndrome, which robbed the woman of her sight. Hospital tests revealed Millard, of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England, never had the H1N1 virus. Doctors told Millard it could take up to two years for her to recover, and they are not sure if her eyesight will return.

Bee decline linked to falling biodiversity. The decline of honeybees seen in many countries may be caused by reduced plant diversity, research suggests. Bees fed pollen from a range of plants showed signs of having a healthier immune system than those eating pollen from a single type, scientists found.  Writing in the journal Biology Letters, the French team says that bees need a fully functional immune system in order to sterilise food for the colony. Other research has shown that bees and wild flowers are declining in step. Two years ago, scientists in the UK and The Netherlands reported that the diversity of bees and other insects was falling alongside the diversity of plants they fed on and pollinated. Other new research, from the University of Reading, suggests that bee numbers are falling twice as fast in the UK as in the rest of Europe. The most spectacular losses have been seen in the US where entire colonies have been wiped out, leading to the term colony collapse disorder. However, the exact cause has remained elusive. A possible conclusion of the new research is that the insects need to eat a variety of proteins in order to synthesise their various chemical defences; without their varied diet, they are more open to disease.

Is Genetically Modified Corn Toxic?  In the United States, we grow and eat corn whose genes have been tweaked to make the plants more resistant to pests and pesticides. Most European countries don't, largely because the citizenry fears it isn't safe. However, a new analysis of private data by Monsanto Corporation suggests there may be something to the idea that we shouldn't be eating maize that's had its DNA messed with. The study found that three strains of modified crops - MON 810 and MON 863, which are resistant to pests, and NK 603, which is fortified to withstand weed killer - significantly disrupted the blood chemistry of rats who ate them. According to an article in New Scientist: With each of the three strains of maize, researchers say they found unusual concentrations of hormones and other compounds in the blood and urine of the tested rats, suggesting each strain impaired kidney and liver function. By the end of the trials, the female rats that were fed MON 863 had elevated blood-sugar levels and raised concentrations of fatty substances called triglycerides. Both are potential precursors of diabetes. What is being shown is clearly not proof of toxicity, but signs of toxicity, and who's to say there are no chronic effects? The researchers are suggesting that if the GM corn has the same affect in humans that it does in rats, we're unknowingly taxing our kidneys and livers, and probably raising the risk of damaging those organs.

Jacob's House Comment,

On this website in the prophecy, "God Warns the Insolent", dated 12/20/07, God spoke to Jacob about what would happen to the foolish and ignorant men who tried to destroy the fabric of beautification that He created here long ago.  God said that many men today were trying to become like gods themselves.  They were trying to change His DNA and they would ultimately bring a great plague upon themselves for their evil works and deeds.  They would also bring judgment upon them coming from God in the near future.

Excerpt from "God Warns the Insolent" on this website:

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.

January 26, 2010

80 homes evacuated in San Antonio as hill crumbles. SAN ANTONIO - Construction crews moved dirt to shore up a group of houses precariously perched on a crumbling hill in San Antonio on Monday as engineers tried to determine why the land below was shifting, causing dozens of homes to evacuate. Gaping crevices, some 15 feet deep, cut across several yards as dirt cascaded into a towering stone retaining wall that nearly split in half. Fences crumpled like accordions as crews packed dirt under one home and around its exterior after part of its foundation was exposed.

Winter storm in Midwest brings fierce winds. BISMARCK, N.D. - A winter storm that moved across several Midwestern states Monday brought fierce winds and light snow that was easily blown around, leaving travelers stranded and closing some schools and businesses. Heavy snowfall was not expected, but strong winds were blowing around what was falling, or had already fallen in the last several days, in the Dakotas, Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota, creating whiteout conditions in some places. Ice buildup on power lines also was a problem in some areas.

U.S. teen pregnancy rate up after 10-year decline. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. teen pregnancy rate rose in 2006 for the first time in more than a decade, reversing a long slide, a U.S. think tank reported on Tuesday. The overall teen pregnancy rate was up 3 percent in 2006, with a 4 percent rise in the rate of births and a 1 percent rise in the rate of abortions, according to the report by the Guttmacher Institute. The United States has higher rates of teen pregnancy, birth and abortion than in other Western industrialized countries. There were 71 pregnancies per 1,000 U.S. girls aged 15-19. In 2006, 7 percent of all teenage girls got pregnant, according to the report.

UK economy moves out of recession.  The UK economy finally returned to growth in the fourth quarter of last year, after the deepest recession since records began more than half a century ago, but at far weaker rate than expected.

Jacob's House Comment,

All wealth and prosperity in this world comes from God's almighty grace, mercy, and abiding love.  Therefore, if the leaders and rulers in these nations today continue to refuse God's principles, Commandments, and laws for this world, they will continue to suffer with grievous diseases, poor thinking, and other difficult problems for their wickedness.

It is time these leaders got on their hands and knees and ask God to forgive them for their evil works and their sins.  It is time they asked God, through His Son, Jesus, to take away the curse that now is overrunning their nations and cities today.  For without God's approval, this curse cannot be changed or altered.  Instead, it will continue to overrun their nations until their cities are made into desolate dunghills and wilderness heaps.  This curse will also overrun their children and their families until they are totally destitute and destroyed.   For this curse from God cannot be changed while these leaders are on the foolish, ignorant, deceptive, and self-centered paths they are now on. 

Parasite Spreading Between Animals, Zookeepers. The finding suggests cross-species infections may be common in zoos world-wide. A common parasite associated with diarrhea and irritable bowel syndrome appears to be spreading among animals, and from animals to zookeepers, at several zoos worldwide, according to a new study. The resulting infection, called Blastocystis, has been identified in humans, non-human primates, elephants, giraffes, quokkas (a small, Australian mammal), southern hairy nosed wombats and western grey kangaroos at zoos in Australia, Belgium, Japan, Malaysia, The Netherlands and Spain, and scientists believe the bug is prevalent "in most zoos." While this parasitic illness is not usually serious, its presence at so many zoological parks, and among so many different species, demonstrates the need for zoos to closely monitor the health of their staff and animal charges.

January 28, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The smallest survivors of Haiti's catastrophic earthquake are growing into one of the biggest problems in its aftermath. Many of the countless thousands of children scattered among Port-au-Prince's makeshift camps of homeless have nobody to care for them, aid workers say, leaving them without protection against disease, child predators and other risks. She said U.N. experts estimate there may be 1 million youngsters who lost at least one parent in the Jan. 12 quake or are separated from their families. Some young Haitians are even being released from hospitals with no one to care for them, there just aren't enough beds for them.

Economic downturn pummels college endowments.  US college endownments suffered the worst losses since the Great Depression in the past fiscal year, dropping nearly one-fifth in value.

Jacob's House Comment,

God is the provider of all wealth, economic prosperity, and happiness.  What these colleges do not understand is because they have taken God's laws and rules for this world out of their books they are suffering with the curse today.  They will still continue to suffer with God's curse in the next few seasons of time until they are made desolate dunghills and heaps.  God will continue to punish them and the nations that promote these worldly schools until they are dissolved, dismantled, and destroyed.  

January 29, 2010

Heavy snow and ice bury southern Plains, cut power. OKLAHOMA CITY - A storm that toppled power lines, closed major highways and buried parts of the southern Plains in heavy ice and snow began moving into the South on Friday, leaving tens of thousands of people in the dark, possibly for several more days. Winter storm warnings were in effect from New Mexico to North Carolina, and Arkansas. Heavy ice brought down electrical lines and trees limbs, leaving nearly 142,000 homes and businesses in Oklahoma without power. The snow, sleet and freezing rain were expected to crawl east through Friday. Up to a foot of snow was expected in Arkansas near the Missouri state line, northern Tennessee near the Kentucky and Virginia borders and western North Carolina.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -  Bandits in Haiti are preying on vulnerable earthquake survivors, even raping women, in makeshift camps which were set up in the capital of Port-au-Prince after the disaster. "With the blackout that's befallen the Haitian capital, bandits are taking advantage to harass and rape women and young girls under the tents," Haiti's national police chief Mario Andresol said yesterday. "We have more than 7,000 detainees in the streets who escaped from the National Penitentiary the evening of the earthquake. It took us five years to apprehend them. Today they are running wild."

Bin Laden Blames U.S. for Global Warming in New Tape. The Al Qaeda leader blamed the United States and other industrialized nations for climate change and said the only way to prevent disaster was to break the American economy, calling on the world to boycott U.S. goods and stop using the dollar. "The effects of global warming have touched every continent. Drought and deserts are spreading, while from the other floods and hurricanes unseen before the previous decades have now become frequent," bin Laden said in the audiotape, aired on the Arab TV network Al-Jazeera. The terror leader noted Washington's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gases and painted the United States as in the thrall of major corporations that he said "are the true criminals against the global climate" and are to blame for the global economic crisis, driving "tens of millions into poverty and unemployment."

(Newser) - The severe winter weather affecting the United States is just another symptom of climate change and global warming, says a new report. The National Wildlife Federation study surmises that the unusual volume of precipitation this year is the result of more atmospheric moisture because the Great Lakes are "less likely to freeze over." Thus, "surface water evaporation is recharging the atmosphere."

Haiti Quake Creates Generation of Amputees. Many lose limbs because doctors can't treat injuries fast enough.

'Princess and Frog' pendants recalled for cadmium. Federal consumer safety regulators on Friday announced the recall of "The Princess and The Frog" pendants because of high levels of the toxic metal cadmium, an unprecedented action that reflects concerns of an emerging threat in children's products. The recall affects two products, about 55,000 items in total, sold exclusively at Walmart stores for $5 each. The action was taken voluntarily by Rhode Island-based jewelry company FAF Inc., which did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which disclosed the recall, had been testing for cadmium in children's metal jewelry for several weeks in response to an Associated Press investigation that reported high levels of the known carcinogen in the Disney movie-themed pendants and other children's metal jewelry imported from China.

HUA HIN, Thailand - A dozen Asian nations and Russia vowed Friday to double the number of wild tigers by 2022, crack down on poaching that has devastated the big cats and prohibit the building of roads and bridges that could harm their habitats. Tiger numbers in recent decades have plummeted because of human encroachment - with the loss of more than nine-tenths of their habitat, and poaching to supply a vibrant trade in tiger parts. From an estimated 100,000 at the beginning of the 20th century, the number of tigers today is less than 3,500.

Rain and Mudslides at Machu Picchu in nation of Peru, Strand Tourists. Deadly landslides in Peru have claimed several lives and devastated the homes of thousands.  More than 2,500 people are stranded in and around Machu Picchu. While some tourists have been airlifted out, evacuation efforts are still ongoing.

Floods prompt Bolivia emergency. Bolivian President Evo Morales has declared a state of emergency in areas of the country, as heavy rains and floods affect some 24,000 families. The worst-hit areas are La Paz, Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, Chuquisaca and Beni. The flooding is expected to get worse as more rain is forecast. Rivers have broken their banks and overflowed. There have been mudslides and flooding being blamed on the El Nino weather phenomenon which results in severe weather conditions across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Rain regularly increases in Bolivia in January and February. However, officials are saying that climate change is also to blame.

January 31, 2010

Watchdog: Bailouts created more risk in U. S. system. WASHINGTON - The government's response to the financial meltdown has made it more likely the United States will face a deeper crisis in the future, an independent watchdog at the Treasury Department warned. The problems that led to the last crisis have not yet been addressed, and in some cases have grown worse, says Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the trouble asset relief program, or TARP. Even if TARP saved our financial system from driving off a cliff back in 2008, absent meaningful reform, we are still driving on the same winding mountain road, but this time in a faster car. Barofsky also said his office is investigating 77 cases of possible criminal and civil fraud, including crimes of tax evasion, insider trading; mortgage lending and payment collection, false statements and public corruption.

Snow Storm Causes Damage Across South U. S. RICHMOND, Va. - A winter storm that crossed in a nearly straight line dumping snow, sleet and ice this week from northern Texas to Washington was heading off the Atlantic coast early Sunday. More than 5 inches of dry, fluffy snow was reported in Washington D. C. The storm left a wake of damage beginning in northern Texas and Oklahoma, where snow and ice shut down interstates and snapped power lines to thousands of customers. It left roads icy and snow-packed roads across the South, and thousands were without power as ice accumulated. Police said they had to clear hundreds of wrecks overnight.

5.2 Earthquake Jolts Southwest China, Toppling Homes. BEIJING -  A moderate earthquake jolted southwestern China on Sunday, killing one person and injuring 12 others, officials said. More than 200 houses were damaged or destroyed. The quake struck in Sichuan province and registered a magnitude of 5.2, the U.S. Geological Surveysaid. The Sichuan provincial seismological bureau said all of the casualties occurred in the town of Moxi, near the epicenter, with a population of about 30,000 people.

DAVOS, Switzerland - The state of the world's economy, and keeping it on a course of recovery, is the focus of the last day of the World Economic Forum. The five-day conference, which draws to a close Sunday, has seen much spirited debate on whether more regulation is needed for the financial industry, boosting sagging global employment and finding ways to ensure the nascent recovery is kept on course through 2010.

Monday, February 2, 2010

White House expects the deficit to approach a record $1.6 trillion this year as the U. S. government continues to dig out from recession. U. S. Deficit to Hit All-Time High. Obama pitches $3.8T budget, pushing a spending plan that includes jobs programs but will lift soaring deficit into the future.

New 'No Child Left Behind' formula part of administration rewrite for U. S. schools. The Obama administration is developing a new formula to hold schools accountable for student performance in an effort to rewrite the eight-year-old No Child Left Behind law, an Education Department official said.  Under the law, schools are rated on how many of their students pass state reading and math tests. Target pass rates rise each year toward a standard of universal proficiency by 2014 for all groups - a goal experts have long called utopian.

Invasion of the Giant Squids.  Hundreds of the creatures show up in California waters, causing a big spike in fishing trips. An article from the AP explains that the squids weigh up to 60 pounds each, but most tip the scales somewhere between 20 and 40 pounds. And, yes, they squirt ink when irritated. As of today, around 400 of the giant squids have been nabbed by anglers. That number is likely to rise.

Obama budget: Record spending, record deficit (AP) Spelling out painful priorities.  President Barack Obama urged Congress on Monday to quickly approve a huge new shot of spending for recession relief and job creation, part of a record $3.8 trillion budget that would boost the deficit beyond any in the nation's history while only slowly beginning to put Americans back to work.  Obama will announce details today of a $30 billion plan to spur lending by community banks to small businesses using money from the financial bailout fund, administration officials said.

UN warns of Haiti volatility after convoy attacked. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haiti's security situation is potentially volatile, the United Nations warned Tuesday, after an armed group of 20 men attacked a food convoy. Haitian police have increased their own patrols and are accompanying UN police as frustration grows at the slow pace of aid since the Jan. 12 earthquake that killed at least 150,000 people. Most of the quake victims are still living outside in squalid tents of sheets and sticks, many forced to scramble for food and water. Mobs have stolen food and looted goods from their neighbors in the camps, prompting may to band together or stay awake at night to prevent raids.

February 5, 2010

January unemployment rate drops to 9.7 percent. WASHINGTON - The outlook for jobs became a bit less bleak with January's unexpected decline in the unemployment rate, which fell to 9.7 percent from 10 percent as more people said they had jobs.  Still, Friday's unemployment report showed just how deep the job crisis remains. The government now estimates 8.4 million jobs vanished in the Great Recession, and economists think the nation would be lucky to get back 1.5 million of them this year. And they say it will take at least three to four years for the job market to return to anything like normal.

Snow storm has Mid-Atlantic scrambling for staples. WASHINGTON - Stores ran low on milk, bread and snow shovels and federal workers were sent home early Friday as the second major snow storm in less than two months bore down on a winter-weary Mid-Atlantic. Up to 28 inches of heavy, wet snow accompanied by powerful winds were forecast in Washington, Baltimore and surroundings. That could be a historic snowfall for the nation's capital, where the record stands at 28 inches in January, 1922. Airlines canceled flights across the region and school districts closed for the day ahead of the winter storm forecast from Virginia and West Virginia across Maryland into southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Magnitude 6.0 Earthquake Is Offshore California.  A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck offshore northern California, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site. The earthquake took place 47 miles (76 kilometers) from Eureka and 225 miles from Sacramento, and occurred at a depth of 7 miles. No immediate reports of any casualties or injuries, from the quake which was the second to hit the Northern Californian shores in the same month.

U. S.Tea Party Convention Plans National Organizing Strategy for Elections. Volunteers at the Tea Party Convention intend to propose a series of broad "First Principles" which have already been generally embraced by most Tea Party chapters around the country. They include: fiscal responsibility, upholding the constitution, and national security. If a particular candidate meets the proposed Tea Party criteria he or she would be eligible for fundraising and grassroots Tea Party support. Once elected to office, members would be required to join a Congressional Tea Party Caucus, attend regular meetings and be held accountable for the votes they cast. Those who stray from the Tea Party path would risk losing it's support and a likely re-election challenge.

Jacob's House Comment,

The Tea Party grass roots movement today against the powers and rulers that be, is part of the polarization we at Jacob's House have talked about many times on this website.  This polarization between the have's and have nots, the old and the young, and the rich and the poor, will continue to become more powerful and deadly before the second coming of God's Son, Jesus, to this earth.  (see the prophecy "God Talks About Polarization" on this website)

Blame El Nino for Recent Storms. Newser) - The strongest El Nino in more than a decade is the culprit behind the wretched weather bombarding much of the country this winter, from the snowstorms that buried the mid-Atlantic states in December to the rains that drenched California last month. "Ocean temperatures are somewhere upwards of two degrees above average," a meteorologist tells NPR. "So we have had what we would characterize as a strong El Nino." It's the strongest, in fact, since the winter of 1997-98. El Nino years occur when the warmer surface waters of the Pacific move east, altering the flow of two major jet streams. That tends to pull more storms toward California and the Gulf area, while drying out Indonesia, and parts of Indonesia have been plagued with fires recently. Scientists expect this season's El Nino to stick around for another month or two.

Jacob's House Comment,

Fools abound today all over this world.  They refuse to see that a living God is controlling the weather patterns in many parts of this world today.  They also refuse to see that God is in the early stages of closing this earth age down, so that a new glorious and revived earth age without defilement can begin.  However, these fools will soon discover that they cannot handle all of the economic problems, distress, and irratic weather that God will soon be bringing to this world at an accelerated pace.  They will not be able to fathom how God will be allowing evil to go door to door and house to house to destroy anyone who worships idols and refuses to repent of their wickedness and sins.  

Spate of Sinkholes Open Up in Florida.  Freezing weather has led to a series of new sinkholes swallowing up strawberry fields and threatening highways and homes in Florida. he unusually persistent cold weather that's been so damaging to Florida's citrus crops this winter has also led, strangely enough, to the sudden opening of at least 22 new sinkholes, including one under an interstate highway. Historically, sinkholes have not been a big problem in agricultural areas. But now there are more homes built in these areas, and that means more chances that a sinkhole will undermine a foundation and render a million-dollar house uninhabitable.

February 7, 2010

World financial leaders focusing on budget crises. IQALUIT, Nunavut - A crisis in Europe over budget belt-tightening has upended global markets and seized the attention of financial leaders meeting in the Canadian Arctic. Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven major industrial countries also planned to try on Saturday to settle differences on banking industry changes. There are fears that go-it-alone moves such as President Barack Obama's plan to break up big banks will further hamper the fledging economic recovery. Developments in Europe are a sobering reminder that G-7 policymakers still face major hurdles in repairing a broken global economy. The Portuguese parliament's defeat of a government austerity plan triggered renewed concerns that it and other countries such as Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain were having trouble tightening budget controls to manage their budget deficits. That could threaten the economic recovery in Europe.

WASHINGTON - A record breaking blizzard battered the Mid-Atlantic region Saturday, with emergency crews struggling to keep pace with the heavy, wet snow that has piled up on roadways, toppled trees and left thousands without electricity. Officials urged people to huddle at home and out of the way of emergency crews. Forecasters said the storm could be the biggest for the nation's capital in modern history. A record 2 1/2 feet or more was predicted for Washington. As of early Saturday, 10 inches of snow was reported at the White House, while parts of Maryland and West Virginia were buried under more than 20 inches. Forecasters expected snowfall rates to increase, up to 2 inches per hour through Saturday morning.

U. S. Mudslides sweep away cars, assault homes near LA.  LOS ANGELES - Thunderous mudslides swept away cars and pushed furniture out of homes and into the streets in the foothills north of Los Angeles Saturday as an intense winter storm brought down hillsides in wildfire burn areas. At least 41 homes were seriously damaged and 500 more were ordered evacuated after heavy rains overflowed debris basins, carried away cement barricades and swept cars into storm drains. 24 inches of snow easily one of the worst snowstorms for D.C. in modern history.

Haitian women become crime targets after quake. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Bernice Chamblain keeps a machete under her frayed mattress to ward off sexual predators and one leg wrapped around a bag of rice to stop nighttime thieves from stealing her daughters' food. She's barely slept since Haiti's catastrophic earthquake Jan. 12 forced her and other homeless women and children into tent camps, where they are easy targets for gangs of men. Women have always had it bad in Haiti. Now things are worse. "I try not to sleep," says Chamblain, 22, who lost her father and now lives in a squalid camp with her mother and aunts near the Port-au-Prince airport. "Some of the men who escaped from prison are coming around to the camps and causing problems for the women. We're all scared but what can we do? Many of our husbands, boyfriends and fathers are dead." Reports of attacks are increasing: Women are robbed of coupons needed to obtain food at distribution points. Others relay rumors of rape and sexual intimidation at the outdoor camps, now home to more than half a million earthquake victims.

February 8, 2010

Conservationists are saying there are less than 50 tigers remaining in China. 

A moderate 5.4 earthquake rattled southern Mexico.  It was felt 200 miles away in Mexico City.

11 soldiers dead, 50 trapped in Kashmir avalanche. The avalanche hit a training center at the army's High Altitude Warfare School at about 11 a.m. and swept away soldiers during a training session. It was the worst avalanche in the area in many years. About 400 people, including 30 civilian workers, were at the training center, but the avalanche hit only one portion of the facility.

One third or 18 US states are under winter storm warnings or watches in the next few days.  Seven states are under blizzard warnings with white out conditions. 

A 4.3 earthquake shook northern Illinois USA. 

It is now being reported that 230,000 people have died in the Haiti earthquake of one month ago. 

'Historic' U, S. snowstorm strands countless in Mid-Atlantic. WASHINGTON - Tens of thousands of workers in the snowy Mid-Atlantic region were given Monday off to shovel out from a blizzard that buried some areas in nearly 3 feet of snow as another storm loomed. The National Weather Service called the storm "historic" and reported a foot of snow in parts of Ohio and 2 feet or more in Washington, Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Parts of Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia got closer to 3 feet.

2 Street Preachers Shot to Death in Florida. BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. -  Two men ministering on the streets of Boynton Beach were allegedly gunned down by an 18-year-old man. Police say 24-year-old Tite Sufra and 23-year-old Stephen Ocean were preaching to Jeriah Woody for about 15 minutes, until he got a phone call. Woody left, but then allegedly started walking toward the two. When Sufra approached, Woody allegedly shot him in the head. Ocean ran, and police say Woody shot him in the back, then walked up and shot him again - this time in the head at point-blank range.

Strong Quake Hits Off Southern Japan Coast. TOKYO -  A strong earthquake shook several small islands off Japan's southern coast on Sunday, rattling buildings over 100 miles away in Taiwan and causing officials to temporarily issue a tsunami warning. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. Japan's Meteorological Agency said the earthquake hit at 3:10 p.m. and registered magnitude 6.6.  It was felt in Taiwan, about 155 miles to the east, where residents in Taipei measured it at 6.4. Japanese officials immediately issued a warning for a tsunami about 1.6 feet high, but removed the warning about an hour later. The quake made many buildings shake in the area.

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Fury erupts as giant dam approved in heart of Amazon. Brazil has given the go-ahead for the controversial construction of a giant hydroelectric dam in the heart of the rainforest. Brazil has approved the controversial construction of a giant hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon, defying a 20-year protest by indigenous and environmental campaigners who say that the project will devastate the surrounding rainforest and threaten the survival of local tribes. The Belo Monte project on the Xingu river, an Amazon tributary, was started in the 1990s but abandoned amid widespread protests at home and abroad.

New methods aim to keep E. coli in beef lower all year. Industry and researchers are turning their sights to new technologies being deployed on the farm, the feedlot and at the slaughterhouse to knock E. coli O157:H7 down to winter levels all year round. There's an unconventional mix at the forefront of this fight: bacteria-eating viruses, a paper-bleaching chemical, vaccines and a kind of yogurt for cattle. The efforts come at a critical time. E. coli continues to make headlines, so far this year the US Department of Agriculture has overseen the recall of 40,000 pounds of beef potentially contaminated with O157:H7. The total for last year was about 2.1 million pounds. In the spring, Congress takes up a new bill targeting food safety. There's clearly a push from the USDA to move the front lines against E. coli and other pathogens to the feedlot and farm.

February 11, 2010

U.S. Watchdog: Bailout Funds Must Be Used to Help Commercial Real Estate. A government watchdog panel called on the Treasury Department and bank regulators to tackle continuing problems in commercial real estate more aggressively or risk jeopardizing recovery in the economic and financial systems. The Congressional Oversight Panel for the $700 billion TARP bailout program said that it fears a "second wave" of problems for firms that can have an outsize effect on a banking sector weakened by both the current crisis and by the economy remaining in a severe recession. The risks on the horizon could open a way to undoing what the TARP has accomplished. Over the next five years, about $1.4 trillion of commercial real estate loans are scheduled to mature, more than $300 billion a year. The industry, lenders and investors are struggling to refinance loans amid tight credit conditions, falling property values, falling rents and rising vacancies.

Crippled East Coast Digs Out After Record Snow. Federal offices, city agencies and schools remain closed to deal with the second of back-to-back blizzards that smothered the East Coast and easily eclipsed record seasonal snow totals.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -  About 1,000 American-born children are forced into the sex trade in Ohio every year and about 800 immigrants are sexually exploited and pushed into sweatshop-type jobs, a new report on human trafficking in the state said Wednesday. Nationwide, between 45,000 and 50,000 people are trafficked into the United States, according to a 2001 report by the U.S. State Department. But Williamson noted that the problem is hard to quantify because of the underground nature of human trafficking, and studies often rely on estimates. Even the Ohio study, which analyzed law enforcement and government databases, is limited.

Brazilian Heat Wave Kills 32 Elderly People. SAO PAULO, Brazil -  A health official in the Brazilian city of Santos says 32 elderly people have died during a heat wave this week. The city's health ministry says the fatalities were all people between 60 and 90 years old with pre-existing conditions such as diabetes or hypertension. The first deaths were registered Monday, when the temperature in Santos reached 102 degrees Fahrenheit. Temperatures have stayed well above 86 degrees Fahrenheit in the following days.

U. S. foreclosures down in January, but surge might be on the way. The number of U.S. households facing foreclosure in January increased 15 percent from the same month last year, and a surge in cash-strapped homeowners who've fallen behind on mortgages could be on the way. More than 315,000 households received a foreclosure-related notice in January. That number is down nearly 10 percent from 349,000 in December, which saw the third highest total since the company began tracking foreclosure data in 2005. In January, one in 409 homes were sent a filing, which includes default notices, scheduled foreclosure auctions and bank repossessions. Banks repossessed more than 87,000 homes last month, down 5 percent from December but still up 31 percent from January 2009. January marked the 11th straight month with more than 300,000 properties receiving a foreclosure filing. The numbers could stay above that level as unemployed homeowners  finally start missing monthly payments.

U.S. Government Shuts a Fourth Day as Blizzard Passes. The U.S. government will close for a fourth day while a blizzard moves out over the Atlantic Ocean after setting snowfall records from Washington to Philadelphia and triggering power outages and havoc for commuters.  Schools along much of the Washington to Boston corridor as well as federal agencies in the nation's capital will remain shut for another "snow day" after the second of two back-to- back storms crippled air, rail and road traffic.

BRUSSELS - EU President Herman Van Rompuy says European leaders have reached a deal on helping Greece with a debt crisis that threatens to spread to other eurozone nations. Nervous markets worldwide are watching for concrete assurance that the 27-nation European Union can help Greece stave off a default - and keep the crisis from spreading to other vulnerable countries, threatening Europe's hesitant economic recovery.

February 13, 2010

Snow in all 50 states? New storm could make that true. This has been one of the most bizarre winters of the new century, with storm after storm slamming the East Coast in particular. And now, a storm that dropped a foot of snow Thursday on Dallas - Dallas! - could help bring about the presence of snow in all 50 states. That's if the storm delivers a few inches, as expected, in parts of north Florida. If that indeed happens, meteorologists at AccuWeather and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) say they expect some coverage in all 50 states. Some of the tallest peaks in Hawaii already have snow sprinkled on them. By the time the storm ends, we may be looking at a truly historic snow cover map to open up the weekend.

AN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A volcano on Montserrat shot ash some nine miles into the sky Thursday, one of its most dramatic events since a devastating 1997 eruption that drove away half the Caribbean island's population. The partial collapse of the dome in the volcano's crater also unleashed flows of hot gas and rocks, triggering sirens for the evacuation of about 20 people from a nearby village.

(Newser) - The H1N1 pandemic has been less deadly than a normal flu season, but the infection has claimed the lives of far younger victims, the CDC announced today. The outbreak killed 17,000 Americans, far less than the 36,000 who die during an average flu season. But in a normal flu season, 90% of victims are elderly. This time, the reverse was true; Between 880 and 1,800 of those killed in the outbreak were children, and up to 13,000 more were adults under the age of 655.

Strong 6.3 Quake Hits Near Tonga. WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit near the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, but no tsunami alert was issued and there were no immediate reports of injury or damage. The quake, centered 60 miles southwest of the capital, Nuku'alofa, was a shallow 6 miles below the ocean's surface, the agency said. It hit as Tonga - a 170-island archipelago about halfway between Australia and Tahiti , already braced for tropical cyclone Rene, currently a Category 3 cyclone packing winds up to up to 93 miles an hour. On its present track, the storm is gathering strength and could pass close to the islands that are home to more than 100,000 people.

Woman in Serious Condition After Shark Attack in Australia. BRISBANE, Australia. A 60-year-old woman is in serious condition after being bitten by a shark off northeastern Australia and losing several pints of blood. A spokeswoman for the Department of Community Services says the woman has severe lacerations to her buttocks from the Saturday afternoon attack. It is the second shark attack in Australia this week. On Thursday, a man was bitten in the leg at a Sydney beach and was treated for minor injuries.

The FBI Knows Where You Are, Thanks to Your Cell Phone. A federal appeals court Friday debated a privacy issue you probably hadn't considered: the government's ability to track your location at any time, if you carry a cell phone. As cell phones have morphed from cordless communication devices into pocket-sized PCs, cellular providers have developed and honed the ability to pinpoint your location fairly accurately - potentially to within 150 feet. That feature could be a lifesaver if your car runs off a rural road on a dark night. However, it also enables the authorities to track you and know your location at all times when you're carrying your phone.

Jacob's House Comment,

February 15, 2010

More Homeless Americans Living in Cars and Campers. For people who cannot afford rent, a car is the last rung of dignity and sanity above the despair of the streets. A home on wheels is a classic American affair, from the wagon train to the RV. Now, for some formerly upwardly mobile Americans, the economic storm has turned the backseat or the rear of the van into the bedroom. Officers found six people sleeping in their cars on an overnight police ride-along in December. Cars are the new homeless shelters and nearly 50,000 U. S. people are homeless in 2009. Of these, experts estimate that up to 10% live in vehicles - even though doing so is illegal in most of the county. A similar situation is true for many other regions across the nation, especially in the Sun Belt.

Deep South U.S. braces for another round of snow. ATLANTA - Several areas across the Deep South might soon be glazed with another coating of snow. The National Weather Service says 2 to 4 inches could fall late Sunday and early Monday across southern Tennessee and northeastern Alabama, while 1 inch to 2 inches could fall in parts of northern and central Georgia. Mountainous portions of Georgia and the Carolinas could get up to 3 inches. Several cities that are ill-equipped to deal with icy roads and piled snow, including Atlanta, were paralyzed by a snowstorm that dropped several inches of snow on the region Friday and Saturday.

February 16, 2010

200,000 Bangladesh cyclone victims still homeless. DHAKA (AFP) - Nine months after losing their homes to a powerful cyclone, 200,000 Bangladeshis are living in "inhuman" conditions on river embankments with no resolution in sight, aid groups said Tuesday. Cyclone Aila, which tore through southern Bangladesh in May last year, killed 300 people and destroyed 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles) of roads and embankments, none of which have been rebuilt, the groups said in a statement. More than 100,000 people from Khulna and Satkhira districts are still living in inhuman conditions... and an additional 100,000 people have been displaced.

Haiti president: 3 years needed to move rubble. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - It will take three long years to clear the rubble left by Haiti's devastating earthquake, said President Rene Preval who admitted even he's still afraid to sleep under concrete in case another quake strikes. "It will take 1,000 trucks moving rubble for 1,000 days, so that's three years. And until we move out rubble, we cannot really build," Preval said.

February 17, 2010

Obama to Create Deficit Panel as U.S. Debt Soars. The federal deficit spiked to an extraordinary $1.4 trillion last year and could top that figure this year as the struggling economy puts a big dent in tax revenues. WASHINGTON - Determined to have a deficit commission with or without Congress' backing, President Obama plans to announce on Thursday that he is establishing a panel similar to - although weaker than- the one lawmakers rejected.

Just weeks before elections, specter of sectarian violence resurfaces in Iraq. BAGHDAD - It was only one killing, but it unleashed the demons of a bitter and perhaps unfinished past. The victim was a Sunni man in the mostly Shiite neighborhood of Hurriyah, in northwest Baghdad. The death and the aftermath were reminiscent of the prelude to the sectarian war, which began in late 2005 with a smattering of killings and threats and culminated with 100 bodies a day being dumped in the streets of the capital. With the imminent departure of American forces and fierce competition for power ahead of general elections on March 7, many here say sectarian strife is reigniting. But this time, there will be no outsider acting as a buffer between the warring sects.

Foreign demand falls for Treasuries. Foreign demand for US Treasury securitiesfell by a record amount in December as China purged some of its holdings of government debt, the US treasury department said on Tuesday. 

China sold $34.2bn in US Treasury securities during the month, the US Treasury said on Tuesday, leaving Japan as the biggest holder of US government debt with $768.8bn. China overtook Japan as the largest holder in September 2008. The shift in demand comes as countries retreat from the "flight to safety" strategy they embarked on upon during the worst of theglobal economic crisis, and could mean the US will have to pay more to service its debt interest.

February 18, 2010

A 6.2 Earthquake strikes the borders of Russia and China.  There are no reports of damage.

February 21, 2010

Report: Fewer people falling behind on home loans. WASHINGTON (AP) - The end of the foreclosure crisis is finally in sight. For the first time in almost three years, the number of homeowners falling behind on their loans is declining. The drop means the number of people losing their homes will start to fall. But some pain from the crisis is sure to persist. Because millions of people are already in foreclosure, deeply discounted houses will put pressure on home prices for years.

Getting Back Lost U. S. Jobs Could Take 5-Plus Years. WASHINGTON - Job creation is stuck on an uphill treadmill. So many jobs have been lost that the U.S. must run hard just to keep from losing more ground. Despite the election-year emphasis on job creation by both parties, the short-term outlook is bleak. While many economists believe the recession is technically over, nearly 15 million Americans remain unemployed. Six million of them have been out of work for more than half a year. President Barack Obama is asking for almost $300 billion more for recession relief and job formation.

U. S. Governors Fear More Economic Turmoil Ahead. WASHINGTON - On the recession's front lines, governors are struggling to chart the road ahead for states staggered by unrelenting joblessness and cut-to-the-bone budgets even as Washington reports signs of economic growth. 38 states are not bringing in enough revenue that they estimated would come in at the start of this year. States face budget holes will total $134 billion over the next three years, according to the governors, explaining that tax collections keep declining as Medicaid costs soar. High unemployment persists. States cut 18,000 jobs in January alone and more job losses are anticipated. Because states are required to balance their budgets, shortfalls will be made up by raising taxes and fees, or cutting services. Neither is easy in an election year where 37 states are poised to vote for new chief executives.

Landslides Claim 40 in Portugal Resort. Madeira awash in mud after heaviest rains since '93 AP) – The death toll from mudslides and flash flooding on the Portuguese island of Madeira rose to 38 people today as the government rushed emergency aid to the resort haven. More than 100 others were injured and an unknown number were missing. Heavy rain lashed the island yesterday, turning some streets in capital of Funchal into raging torrents of mud, water and debris.

Fog decline threatens US redwoods. Scientists in California say a drop in coastal fog could threaten the state's famed giant redwood trees. Their study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, says such fog has decreased markedly over the past 100 years. "Fog prevents water loss from redwoods in summer and is really important for the tree and the forest," said research co-author Professor Todd Dawson.

February 23, 2010

New Full-Body Scanners Coming to Two Airports. WASHINGTON -  The first of 150 full-body scanners planned for U.S. airports will be installed in Boston next week, officials said Tuesday. The plan is to install three machines at airports, according to a homeland security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement has not yet been made. In the next two weeks, officials plan to install another machine at Chicago's O'Hare International. The rest of the 150 machines that were purchased with $25 million from President Barack Obama 2009 stimulus plan are expected to be installed in airports by the end of June.

Suggestion to Recite the Pledge of Allegiance. A candidate for Congress in California's 30th district is calling on Democratic U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra to "clarify his reaction" caught on a YouTube video that depicts the lawmaker laughing at the suggestion that the Pledge of Allegiance be recited prior to a Feb. 20 meeting. David told Fox News he found Becerra's reaction "completely inappropriate," adding: "I was stunned as an American that one of our members of Congress would act that way. "Considering these people want immigration reform, shouldn't they say the national anthem before a public meeting with their elected official there?"

New home sales in US hit record low. Report underscores formidable challenges facing the industry as it tries to recover from slump. WASHINGTON - Sales of new homes plunged to a record low in January, underscoring the formidable challenges facing the housing industry as it tries to recover from the worst slump in decades. The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that new home sales dropped 11.2 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual sales pace of 309,000 units, the lowest level on records going back nearly a half century. While winter storms were partly to blame, home sales have fallen for three straight months despite sweeping government support.

Death toll nears milestone. The number of U.S. military fatalities in the Afghan War is nearing 1,000.  

U.N. report warns of alarming rise of 'date-rape drugs' worldwide. A new U.N. report on narcotics use says 'date-rape drugs" are on the rise worldwide. The report from the International Narcotics Control Board says "the abuse from prescription drugs is greater in some countries than from heroin, cocaine, and ecstasy combined." What is alarming is the unscrupulous way in which those drugs are used upon unwitting victims, the drugs, which are usually disguised in food or drinks, are introduced in dosages that are significantly higher than the dosages used for therapeutic purposes, a practice which entails serious health risks for the victims. Sexual assault crimes are often committed in public places such as bars, restaurants, nightclubs but also in private surroundings.

Snow hit businesses, state governments hard in U. S. People may have dug out their cars from this month's historic East Coast snowstorms, but businesses and governments will be digging out for a long time from the lost revenue and extra costs they incurred. Back-to-back snowstorms that pounded the East from Washington to New York City with up to 4 feet of snow in five days cost the nation about $15 billion. Hit hardest were hourly workers such as restaurant servers and factory workers.

Storm dumps 8 inches of snow on parts of Michigan. A winter storm that dumped 8 inches of snow on parts of southern lower Michigan has closed dozens of schools, caused numerous spinouts and.  Snowstorms blanket parts of Colorado, Utah, and Nevada.  A band of winter storms that brought more than a foot of snow to southwest Colorado briefly closed some mountain passes for avalanche. Winter storm hits Kansas; several die on slick roads. A mixture of freezing rain, sleet and snow caused numerous accidents, several of them fatal, in Kansas.

WHO: Swine flu still hasn't peaked. LONDON (AP) - The World Health Organization says the swine flu pandemic still has not peaked. The agency's emergency committee met Tuesday and suggested it was "premature" to recommend downgrading the global flu outbreak. Swine flu cases have dropped dramatically in recent weeks in Western countries, but the virus has only recently hit Africa. The southern hemisphere is also bracing for another wave of the illness in the next few months.

Obama Presidency a Surprise Boon to Gun Owners. States loosen laws as expected gun control push fails to arrive. Newser - New laws allowing weapons in bars, national parks and Amtrak trains were probably the last thing gun-rights advocates would have expected from the Obama administration. But that's exactly what's happened, as the president stays largely silent on the gun issue while states bracing for a pro-gun-control agenda from Washington rush to loosen their gun laws. Virginia has scrapped a 17-year-old ban on buying more than one handgun a month, and Montana and Tennessee recently passed unprecedented laws exempting themselves from federal regulation of firearms made, sold and used in their states.

Plastic Sea' now being found North of the Caribbean. Atlantic plastic patch threatening food chain. (Newser) - Researchers trying to determine just how much plastic trash is building up in the world's oceans, have found a large concentration just north of the Caribbean. The study, based on more than 22,000 plastic fragments collected over the years-found that a huge area between 22 and 38 degrees north latitude is accumulating trash delivered by ocean currents in the same way as the huge plastic patch in the Pacific, the AP reports.  A single tow of a net in both the Atlantic and Pacific gyres collected more than 1,000 pieces of plastic, researchers say. Scientists say the concentration of plastic is more like a plastic soup than a collection of solid chunks of plastic, making it impossible to clean up. They warn that plastic is making its way into the food chain as it degrades into particles, and believe a rethink of society's use of plastics could be the only solution.

Almost 20% of US Underemployed. Actual job picture much worse than official statistics indicate. Newser) - Roughly 30 million Americans, almost 20% of the workforce, are either unemployed or able to find only part-time work, according to a new poll. The Gallup survey, which tallied 20,000 respondents and has a 1% margin of error, paints a far darker picture of the economic landscape than official US statistics, which peg unemployment at just under 10% and underemployment at 16.5%, Reuters reports. Among those underemployed, 60% said they were not hopeful that they’d find an adequate job within the next month. The glut of underemployment could spell trouble for the U. S. economy; the underemployed spent 36% less than their employed counterparts in January.

Jacob's House Comment,

The high unemployment the US is facing today is part of God's reprimmand and punishment upon America.  It is part of God's current curse and plan to destroy this bloody nation.  These things are happening to the US for the fact the leaders here have refused God's commandments, laws, statutes, precepts, and rules for this world.  Therefore, we at Jacob's House know the United States is in for many more months of problems, woes, tornadoes, mudslides, flooding, etc., before God decides to close down this present earth age.  The US will not get out of its problems unless the leaders and the people in this nation get on their hands and knees and pray to God, through His Son, Jesus, and ask our Creator for His forgiveness.   

Java Landslide Buries 60. At least 6 killed at tea plantation. Newser) - A landslide at a tea plantation in Java has killed at least 5 people and left 60 others buried, according to police on Indonesia's main island. Villagers are digging through tons of mud with farm tools and their bare hands searching for survivors, the AP reports. Days of heavy rain have soaked the area south of Jakarta, leaving roads impassable.

Belief In Climate Change Hinges On Worldview. When it comes to climate change, some look at the facts presented and see a coming catastrophe, others see a hoax. This difference in interpretation, social scientists say, has more to do with each individual's existing outlook than the facts. Over the past few months, polls show that fewer Americans say they believe humans are making the planet dangerously warmer, despite a raft of scientific reports that say otherwise. "However, ninety-eight percent of the research climatologists in the world say that global warming is real, that its impacts are going to be catastrophic.

February 26, 2010

Trainer's Death Sparks Searches for why. The horrifying accident at Orlando's Sea World, in which a veteran trainer was killed by a whale, has sparked a tremendous amount of interest on the Web.  The whale's name is Tilikum, and he has a "violent history." In fact, the whale was "typically kept isolated from SeaWorld's other killer whales." Additionally, trainers were not permitted to get in the tank with Tilikum. "In 1991, a trainer at Sealand slipped into a pool with the 5-ton Orca named Tillikum and two other whales. She was batted around by the whales until she drowned. "In 1999, Tilikum, the largest Orca in captivity, was involved in another death. A 27-year-old man hid in the SeaWorld park, and after it closed, tried to go swimming with the whales, that cost the man his life.  Dawn Brancheau, the late trainer, was a 40-year-old veteran who had worked at SeaWorld for some time. The details of the accident are both scant and disturbing. Apparently the whale grabbed Ms. Brancheau by her ponytail and dragged her into the tank. By the time help arrived, the trainer had drowned.

Bam! Bam! Bam! 3rd blizzard this month in U. S. smacks East. HAMPTON, N.H. - A slow-moving winter storm smacked the Northeast on Friday, unleashing heavy snow, rain and hurricane-force winds as it knocked out power to more than a million homes and businesses, turned highway. Power failures were so severe and widespread in Maine beachfront streets into rivers and piled on the misery in places hit by three major blizzards in less than a month. Every form of travel was miserable if not impossible. More than 1,000 flights were canceled, bus service across northern New Jersey was knocked out and roads from Ohio to West Virginia to Maine were closed. State troopers used snowmobiles to reach motorists stranded for hours on an eastern New YorkNew Hampshire - 330,000 of the state's roughly 800,000 customers. Friday's storm made February the snowiest month ever for New Brunswick, N.J.; it has gotten 37 inches so far. This had already been the snowiest winter for Philadelphia and Atlantic City, N.J., before the latest storm dropped another 4 to 5 inches by midmorning Friday. 

SYDNEY - A massive iceberg struck Antarctica, dislodging another giant block of ice from a glacier, Australian and French scientists said Friday. The two icebergs are drifting together about 62 to 93 miles (100 to 150 kilometers) off eastern Antarctica following the collision on Feb. 12 or 13. The dislodging occurred because of the iceberg's latest location and water that had warmed during Antarctica's summer, leaving less sea ice. Some experts are concerned about the effect of the massive displacement of ice on the ice-free water next to the glacier, which is important for ocean currents.

February 27, 2010

Chile struck by one of strongest earthquakes ever. TALCA, Chile - One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded tore apart houses, bridges and highways in central Chile on Saturday and sent a tsunami racing halfway around the world. Chileans near the epicenter were tossed about as if shaken by a giant, and authorities said nearly 150 people were dead. The magnitude-8.8 quake was felt as far away as Sao Paulo in Brazil, 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) to the east. The full extent of damage remained unclear as scores of aftershocks, one nearly as powerful as Haiti's devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, shuddered across the disaster-prone Andean nation. President Michelle Bachelet declared a "state of catastrophe" in central Chile. Newly built apartment buildings slumped and fell. Flames devoured a prison. Millions of people fled into streets darkened by the failure of power lines. Collapsed bridges crushed cars and trucks and complicated efforts to reach quake-damaged areas by road. 2 million people affected by quake. At least 300 people were killed, and hundreds of thousands of people had their houses damaged or destroyed. 500,000 homes destroyed or damaged

Tsunami races across Pacific, threatens Hawaii. EWA BEACH, Hawaii - A tsunami triggered by the Chilean earthquake raced across the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, threatening Hawaii as it rushed toward the U.S. West Coast and hundreds of islands from the bottom of the planet to the top. Sirens blared in Hawaii to alert residents to the potential waves. Nine small planes equipped with loudspeakers flew along the shoreline, warning beachgoers. On several South Pacific islands hit by a tsunami last fall, police evacuated tens of thousands of coastal residents. Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle declared a state of emergency as the island chain prepared for possible tsunami damage.

Thousands still lack power after Northeast storm. CONCORD, N.H. - Frustration turned to resignation Saturday for hundreds of thousands of people in the Northeast struggling to survive another day waiting for utility crews to restore electricity after powerful storms socked the region with heavy snow, rain and hurricane-force winds. The region was left to deal with the fallout of gusting winds that created near-blizzard conditions this week in what was the third strong storm this month for some areas. Parts of New York got more than 2 feet of snow while some areas of coastal New England were drenched with flooding rains.

LOS ANGELES - California warned its coastal cities to prepare for possible tsunami waves following a deadly magnitude-8.8 earthquake off the coast of Chile. A tsunami advisory was issued for the coast of California and an Alaskan coastal area from Kodiak to Attu islands. An advisory means there may be strong currents, but that widespread inundation is not expected to occur.

Chile Earthquake: Is Mother Nature Out of Control? Chile is on a hotspot of sorts for earthquake activity. And so the 8.8-magnitude temblor that shook the capital region overnight was not a surprise, historically speaking. Nor was it outside the realm of normal, scientists say, even though it comes on the heels of other major earthquakes. One scientist, however, says that relative to a time period in the past, the Earth has been more active over the past 15 years or so. Is Earth shaking more?  The Ryukyu Islands of Japan were hit with a 7.0-magnitude quake just last night. News of this, the Haiti quake and now Chile make it seem Earth is becoming ever more active. But in the grand scheme of things, geologists say, this is just Mother Nature as usual.  They are saying this is probably not any indication of a global change in earthquake rate of significance." They are saying coupled with better communication, as the human population skyrockets, and we move into more hazardous regions, we're going to hear more about the events that do occur. 500,000 homes destroyed or damaged

Jacob's House Comment,

The more the blind fools of this earth continue to believe that mother nature or el nino is causing today's disastrous weather problems around the world, the more they will make God angry in the heavens above.  The more these people refuse to honor and glorify their Creator and Maker with their praise and worship, the more blind, destitute, and naked they will become in their Creator's eyes.  For judgment from God is now finally here in many countries around this world.  It is here with a vengence before God's new day and time completely appears. 

February 28, 2010

Tsunami warning lifted; Waves reach Japan, Russia. Streets were flooded with seawater in Kesennuma, northern Japan on Sunday Feb. 28, 2010. Japan, fearing the tsunami could gain force as it moved closer, put all of its eastern coastline on tsunami alert Sunday and ordered hundreds of thousands of residents in low-lying areas to seek higher ground as waves generated by the Chilean earthquake raced across the Pacific at hundreds of miles (kilometers) per hour. The biggest wave following the magnitude-8.8 quake off Chile hit the northern island of Hokkaido. There were no immediate reports of damage from the four-foot (1.2-meter) wave, though some piers were briefly flooded. As it crossed the Pacific, the tsunami dealt populated areas, including the U.S. state of Hawaii, only a glancing blow.

Fierce storms in Europe kill 50, mostly in France. PARIS - A violent late winter storm with fierce rain and hurricane-strength winds ripped across western Europe on Sunday, battering France and four other countries, leaving at least 50 people dead. The storm, named Xynthia, was the worst in France since 1999 when 90 people died. Many of the 45 victims in France drowned, while others died when hit by parts of buildings or trees and branches that were ripped off by the wind. At least a dozen people were missing Sunday and 59 others were injured. Three people died in Spain, one was killed in Germany and a child was crushed to death in Portugal. The storm also hit Belgium, but no deaths were reported there. Nearly 900,000 people in France were without electricity. Rivers overflowed their banks in Brittany, while high tides and pounding waves swamped Atlantic Ocean communities. The threat of avalanches was high in the Pyrenees Mountains and the southern Alps due to wind and wet snow.

March 1, 2010

Kroger recalls 2 onion soup and dip mixes. CINCINNATI - Kroger Co. is recalling two onion soup and dip mixes because of possible salmonella contamination. The grocer said an ingredient in its Kroger Onion Soup & Dip Mix and Kroger Beefy Onion Soup & Dip Mix may have been contaminated with the bacteria. The mixes were sold in a number of states and are being recalled from its Kroger, Dillons, Fry's, King Soopers, City Market, Smith's, Food 4 Less, Jay C, Scott's, Owen's, Baker's, Gerbes, Hilander and Pay Less stores. No illnesses have been reported in connection with the products. But eating food contaminated with salmonella can cause salmonellosis, a potentially life-threatening bacterial foodborne illness.

Chile quake death toll over 700 as rescue efforts ramp up. CONCEPCION, Chile - Police fired tear gas and imposed an overnight curfew to control looters who sacked virtually every market in this hard-hit city as Chile's earthquake toll surpassed 700. President Michelle Bachelet promised imminent deliveries of food, water and shelter for thousands living on the streets. "We are confronting an emergency without parallel in Chile's history," Bachelet declared Sunday, a day after the magnitude-8.8 quake - one of the biggest in centuries - killed at least 708 people and destroyed or badly damaged 500,000 homes. Bachelet said "a growing number" of people were recorded as missing. Police fired tear gas and imposed an overnight curfew to control looters who have sacked virtually every market in Chile's hardest-hit city.

Chile Seaside Resort of Pelluhue Washed Away After Quake. The massive earthquake that rocked Chile early Saturday and the tsunamis that followed it have devastated the Andean nation's coastal communities. Several seaside resort towns have simply been washed away, and such was the fate of Pelluhue, and its roughly 1,000 residents. In one spot, the waves had harpooned 70-foot-high Cypress trees into beachfront homes, while washing other houses up onto the mountainside above the beachfront town. Plywood and housing materials littered the coast and floated offshore.

200,000 Homes Still Powerless After Snow Storm Battered Northeast U. S.  PORTLAND, Maine - More than 200,000 homes and business were still without power Sunday as restoration efforts continued days after a slow-moving storm battered the Northeast with heavy snow, rain and high winds. Nearly 100,000 utility customers still lacked electricity Sunday in New Hampshire, the hardest-hit state. New York had about 96,000 outages and Maine 33,000. More than a million utility customers throughout the region lost power at the peak of the storm.

7.3 Quake Rattles Japan; Tsunami Warning Lifted. Temblor strikes Okinawa; no major damage reported.

Drug-resistant malaria 'growing' in Cambodia. Parasites are developing resistance to one of the most important anti-malaria drugs, according to experts. Artimisinin has been highly effective, particularly in places where resistance to other drugs has developed.  But now some patients along Cambodia's border with Thailand are taking longer to respond to the treatment.  Experts on the disease are meeting village health workers in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, to discuss ways to stop drug-resistant malaria from spreading. "There is a lot of population movement - people coming for instance from Nigeria to Asia - and it's growing and growing," she said. "It would only take a few people carrying the resistant parasites travelling one way or the other to actually get the parasites in. "And once they're in they're likely to spread quite fast."

Rising Threat of Infections that are unfazed by Antibiotics. Acinetobacter baumannii. The germ is one of a category of bacteria that by some estimates are already killing tens of thousands of hospital patients each year. While the organisms do not receive as much attention as the one known as MRSA - for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - some infectious-disease specialists say they could emerge as a bigger threat. That is because there are several drugs, including some approved in the last few years, that can treat MRSA. But for a combination of business reasons and scientific challenges, the pharmaceuticals industry is pursuing very few drugs for Acinetobacter and other organisms of its type, known as Gram-negative bacteria. Meanwhile, the germs are evolving and becoming ever more immune to existing antibiotics. "In many respects it's far worse than MRSA," said Dr. Louis B. Rice, an infectious-disease specialist. "There are strains out there, and they are becoming more and more common, that are resistant to virtually every antibiotic we have." The bacteria, classified as Gram-negative because of their reaction to the so-called Gram stain test, can cause severe pneumonia and infections of the urinary tract, bloodstream and other parts of the body. Their cell structure makes them more difficult to attack with antibiotics than Gram-positive organisms like MRSA. Meanwhile, New York CitySUNY Downstate Medical Center, more than 20 percent of the Klebsiella infections in Brooklyn hospitals are now resistant to virtually all modern antibiotics. And those supergerms are now spreading worldwide. According to researchers hospitals, perhaps because of the large numbers of patients they treat, have become the global breeding ground for drug-resistant Gram-negative germs,

March 2, 2010

Uganda landslides kill 30; 100 missing. KAMPALA, Uganda - Landslides in a mountainous region of Uganda killed more than 30 people overnight and left more than 100 others missing in the East African nation, a police commander said Tuesday. The landslides occurred about 170 miles (275 kilometers) east of the capital, Kampala, in the mountainous region of Bududa. The area has long suffered from landslides but rarely has the death toll been so high. Death toll could go much higher. 

Study: Teen pot, alcohol use rising. WASHINGTON - Alcohol and marijuana use among teens is on the rise, ending a decade-long decline, a study being released Tuesday found. The annual survey found the number of teens in grades 9 through 12 who reported drinking alcohol in the last month rose 11 percent last year, with 39 percent - about 6.5 million teens - reporting alcohol use. That's up from 35 percent, or about 5.8 million teens, in 2008. For pot, 25 percent of teens reported smoking marijuana in the last month, up from 19 percent.

It is now being reported that 200,000 people have died in Haiti from the devastating earthquake there.

As world watches Chile earthquake, deadly floods hit quake-rocked Haiti. Port-au-Prince - Officials have reported there that at least a quarter of the town took on rivers of runoff water a meter and a half deep, damaging homes and spreading panic, particularly among those earthquake victims camped out in yards and open spaces. At least eight people were killed. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) are coordinating shelter efforts.  They are estimating that nearly 40 percent of the 1.3 million earthquake victims now have some form of shelter. But hundreds of thousands more are living in the open or under flimsy sheets tied to thin strips of wood. Early rains pelted them, which caused mudslides and increased concern that time is running out before the rainy season starts. "If the rains could do this now -before the real rainy season - what is going to happen to those of us living in tents in Port-au-Prince? Or people sleeping on the street?" she asked. "We are all going to be dead."

Jacob's House Comment,

As we have said before on this website many times God is already breaking down and disassembling this world.  He is taking out the stabilizers that hold this world called earth together.  He is changing this world day by day, and month to month, to bring many sinners to Him through His Son, Jesus.  He is also bringing the goats of this world to the precipice of death and destruction, before He bundles them up and burns them with His fire.  Therefore, this world has little time left before this present filthy earth age ends, and a new much higher ordered spiritual earth age from God begins.    

Study: Food-borne illnesses costing US $152 billion. AKIMA, Wash. - Food-borne illnesses, such as E. coli and salmonella, are costing the United States $152 billion annually in health care and other losses, according to a report released Wednesday by a food safety group. The report comes as the U.S. Senate considers legislation that would require more government inspections of food manufacturers and give the Food and Drug Administration new authority to order recalls, among other things. The House passed a similar bill last year. The government estimates 76 million people each year are sickened by food-borne illness, hundreds of thousands are hospitalized and about 5,000 die. Recent outbreaks have resulted in large recalls of peanuts, spinach, and peppers.

The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday. The quake, the Seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 milliseconds, according to research scientist Richard Gross at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Perhaps more impressive is how much the quake shifted Earth's axis," NASA officials said in a Monday update.  The computer model used by Gross and his colleagues to determine the effects of the Chile earthquake effect also found that it should have moved Earth's figure axis by about 3 inches (8 cm or 27 milliarcseconds).

March 7, 2010

Strong earthquake hits southern Taiwan, causing damage. TAIPEI , Taiwan, A powerful 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked southern Taiwan on Thursday, terrifying residents, disrupting communications and triggering damage to buildings.

Jakarta - A 6.5-magnitude undersea earthquake struck off the western coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island late Friday, seismologists said. The quake struck at 11:07 pm (1607 GMT) at a depth of 10 kilometres, about 119 kilometres south-east of Mentawai Islands, Indonesia's National Meteorological and Geophysics Agency (BMG) said. There were no immediate reports of injury or structural damage from the quake, the latest to jolt Indonesia in recent weeks.

25 die as Iraqis defy violence to vote in election. BAGHDAD - Iraqis voted Sunday in an election testing the mettle of the country's still-fragile democracy as insurgents killed 25 people across the Iraq, unleashing a barrage of mortars intent on disrupting the historic day. About 19 million Iraqis are eligible to vote for who will lead the country after U.S. forces pull out, in an election that will determine whether Iraq can overcome the jagged sectarian divisions that have defined it since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

Courts Cracking Down on Texting Jurors.  New instructions are being adopted and electronics are being banned from courtrooms as jurors using their portable electronic devices continue to cause mistrials, overturned convictions and chaotic delays in court proceedings. Last year a San Francisco Superior Court judge dismissed 600 potential jurors after several acknowledged going online to research the cCourriminal case before them. "You may not use any electronic device or media" in connection with the case, the recommended federal instructions admonish. They also bar visits to "any Internet chat room, blog, or website such as Facebook, My Space, LinkedIn, YouTube or Twitter."

Soon I shall challenge the wicked ones' followers of iniquity as never before.  They will be torn apart and skillfully devoured by their own unscrupulous ways.  Their proud and crafty devices will cause them to reap what they sow in bitter tears.  They will be bombarded by the incessant rhetoric the evil one will cause them to hear in their minds and in their thoughts. 

Therefore, in the next few years shall the wicked ones' followers be bundled up, bridled, and tied to one another.  When the time comes they will be cast out of My sight, forevermore.  However, before these things occur, servant of Mine, leaven in the fields will be at all time highs.  Therefore, My beloved children will have to be careful they do not succumb to temptation.  They will have to be careful they do not leave My side.  They will have to be watchful that they are not enticed by the wicked ones' crafty ways.  They will have to make sure they are able to keep their watch both day and night and they are not sleeping when I Am ready to take them up in My holy arms.  They will have to be careful they do not succumb to the arrows of darkness that the evil one will be trying to snare and trap them with in their hearts and minds. 

Doctors Warn of Health Threat From Chile Wreckage. CONCEPCION, Chile -  Huge piles of wreckage and tons of rotting fish and other debris blanketing the ground are turning the coastal towns shattered by Chile's earthquake and tsunami into nests of infection, doctors warned. As Chileans lined up for hepatitis and tetanus shots Friday on the opening day of an extensive vaccination campaign, doctors said cases of diarrhea are increasing from people drinking unclean water and a growing number of patients are suffering injuries wading through the mess.

WASHINGTON - Methane, a potent global warming gas, is bubbling out of the frozen Arctic faster than had been expected. Methane had become trapped in the permafrost over time and a warming climate is now resulting in its release, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science. The amount of methane currently coming out of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is comparable to the amount coming out of the entire world's oceans. Concerns about global warming have centered on rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but scientists note that methane can be 30 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide.

Jacobs House Comment

Will the world leaders be able to keep all of the problems that are confronting them from getting out of control?  We don't think they will be able to when God increases them seven fold in the near future. Therefore, it is time for all Christians to repent of their past mistakes and get themselves and their families right with God.  For time is surely running out for this earth age.

March 8, 2010

A strong earthquake has hit eastern Turkey.  The pre-dawn magnitude 6.0 trembler began at 4:32 a.m., when most of the population was asleep. More than 50 aftershocks followed, the strongest of which measured at 5.5 and 5.3. At the time of this writing, at least 57 people have been killed and about 100 others wounded. "Everything has been knocked down, there is not a stone in place," said Yadin Apaydin, administrator for the village of Yukari Kanatli.

Sectarian violence has claimed more than 200 lives in three Nigerian villages. Rioters armed with machetes attacked the mostly Christian towns on Sunday, killing scores of men, women and children, including a 4-day-old infant. The slayings represent the latest violence between Christians and Muslims in an area that was once known as Nigeria's top tourist destination.

HIV Hides in Bone Marrow: Researchers say. (AP) - The virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness, according to new research that could point the way toward better treatments for the disease. HIV can infect long-lived bone marrow cells that eventually convert into blood cells. The virus is dormant in the bone marrow cells, but when those progenitor cells develop into blood cells, it can be reactivated and cause renewed infection. The virus kills the new blood cells and then moves on to infect other cells.

U. S. FDIC Seizes 4 More Banks. Tally hits 26 this year; pace of closures expected to increase in coming months. Regulators yesterday shuttered banks in Florida, Illinois, Maryland, and Utah, boosting to 26 the number of US bank failures so far this year following the 140 brought down in 2009 by mounting loan defaults. The pace of bank seizures this year is likely to accelerate , FDIC officials have said, as the number of banks on its confidential "problem" list jumped from 552 to 702 in the fourth quarter.

(Newser) - Aftershocks continue to hit southern Chile a week after the earthquake that killed hundreds and set off deadly tsunamis. Tremors up to a magnitude of 6.6 are terrifying residents of the city of Concepcion and the surrounding areas.  The government has revised its previously reported death toll of 802.  Only 279 deaths have been confirmed, though many bodies are unidentified.  Confusion over the death toll spread because many victims who survived the initial quake were killed in ensuing tsunamis, a tragedy worsened by a failure in the government's storm-warning system.  

Growing low-oxygen zones in oceans worry scientists. WASHINGTON - Lower levels of oxygen in the Earth's oceans, particularly off the United States' Pacific Northwest coast, could be another sign of fundamental changes linked to global climate change, scientists say. They warn that the oceans' complex undersea ecosystems and fragile food chains could be disrupted. In some spots off Washington state and Oregon , the almost complete absence of oxygen has left piles of Dungeness crab carcasses littering the ocean floor, killed off 25-year-old sea stars, crippled colonies of sea anemones and produced mats of potentially noxious bacteria that thrive in such conditions. Areas of hypoxia, or low oxygen, have long existed in the deep ocean. These areas in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans appear to be spreading, now covering more square miles, creeping toward the surface and in some places, such as the Pacific Northwest , encroaching on the continental shelf within sight of the coastline. "The depletion of oxygen levels in all three oceans is striking," said Gregory Johnson, an oceanographer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Seattle . In some spots, such as off the Southern California coast, oxygen levels have dropped roughly 20 percent over the past 25 years. Elsewhere, scientists say, oxygen levels might have declined by one-third over 50 years. "The real surprise is how this has become the new norm," said Jack Barth , an oceanography professor at Oregon State University . "We are seeing it year after year."

Controversy swirls around U. S. White House Chief of Staff Emanuel. Rep. Eric Massa, who initially announced he was leaving Congress over health issues but stepped aside officially today, took a shot at the White House enforcer on his way out the door, telling a New York radio station that Emanuel is the "son of the devil's spawn" who would "sell his own mother to get a vote." The Hill published a reportt over the weekend suggesting that unfavorable tidbits about Emanuel were leaked from inside the White House, while Emanuel himself has been accused of pulling strings with friendly contacts at the Washington Post to get them to print nice things about him.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's health care bill would change federal policy on abortion, but not open the spigot of taxpayer dollars that some abortion opponents fear. Major anti-abortion groups such as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Right to Life Committee say the Senate provisions expected to come before the House shortly are a backdoor taxpayer subsidy for abortion. Current law, known as the Hyde amendment, prohibits federal funding for abortion except in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother.

Not more quakes, just more people in quake zones. First the ground shook in Haiti, then Chile and now Turkey. The earthquakes keep coming hard and fast this year, causing people to wonder if something sinister is happening underfoot. There have been more deaths over the past decade from earthquakes, said University of Colorado geologist Roger Bilham. He called for better construction standards in the world's megacities. Last year his study of earthquake deaths, population, quake size and other factors produced disturbing results. And that was before Haiti, Chile and Turkey. "We found four times as many deaths in the last 10 years than in the previous 10 years," Bilham told The Associated Press Monday. "That's definitely up and scary." Other experts said they too have noticed a general increase in earthquake deaths. The World Health Organization tallied than 453,000 deaths from earthquakes from 2000 to 2009, up markedly from the previous two decades.

Jacob's House Comment,

This report from scientists today is foolish reasoning, and an outright, archaic lie.  God forced the dinosaurs out of existence about 6 thousand years ago with His Great Flood of pounding rain and fissures opening up all over this world.  Therefore, only Noah and the land animals aboard his ark were saved after this Great Flood coming from God.  However, the animals in the oceans of this world were not affected by this Great Flood, all coming from God's wrath and fury upon this world for its sinning and idolatrous ways.    

March 10, 2010

No damage from 5.1 quake in Aleutian Islands.  FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The Alaska Earthquake Information Center says a magnitude 5.1 quake has struck the Andrean of Islands region of the Aleutian chain, but there are no reports of damage and the quake did not generate a tsunami.

Scientists tease DNA from eggshell of extinct birds. PARIS (AFP) - In a world first, scientists in Australia announced on Wednesday they had extracted DNA from the fossilized eggshells of extinct birds, including iconic giants such as the moa and elephant bird. The achievement marks a major step towards drafting the genome of birds wiped out by human greed, although the scientists warn this does not mean an extinct species should - or even can - be resurrected in the style of Jurassic Park.

Asthma Rates Rising Across the U.S.  Asthma rates are increasing across the United States, a new government study shows, but certain states have significantly lower rates of the respiratory disease. The overall rate of asthma is currently estimated to be 7.85 percent of the population, an increase of about 0.5 percent every three years. But, the report also found that some states have dramatically lower rates of asthma. For example, the study found that while almost 11 percent of people in Rhode Island had asthma, just 5 percent of those living in Louisiana had the illness. Nineteen states had larger-than-average increases, and the states with the two highest increases were Oklahoma with a 2.03 percent increase and Alabama with a 1.91 percent increase.

48 Hawaii-only species given endangered listing. HONOLULU - Wildlife officials lauded Washington's "holistic approach" to conservation in Hawaii after the Obama administration declared 48 species as endangered and announced plans to set aside more than 40 square miles on Kauai as critical habitat to allow the plants and animals to flourish. Two Honeycreeper birds, a fly and 45 ferns, trees and shrubs found only on the island of Kauai were among the species named Wednesday, boosting the number of such classifications by the Obama administration from two to 50.

'Doomsday' Seed Vault Stores 500,000 Crops. A mold-resistant bean, a German pink tomato and a wild strawberry plucked from the flanks of a Russian volcano are just some of the crops whose seeds are being tucked away this week in a giant vault dug out of a mountainside of the Norwegian island Svalbard.  With these new deposits, the so-called Svalbard "Doomsday" Global Seed Vault will reach its half-million mark of seed varieties. The giant icebox of sorts, which was officially opened on Feb. 26, 2008, is meant to protect the world's crop diversity from natural or manmade disasters. If current crops and agriculture don't adapt to climate change, neither will humanity.

Genital Herpes Virus Infects One in Six Americans, Study by U.S. CDC Finds. Genital herpes, a condition that produces painful sores and increases transmission of AIDS, has infected one in six Americans, according to a U.S. study that shows prevention efforts haven't stopped outbreaks.

U. S. tornadoes Rip Across Arkansas, 4 Injured. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Tornadoes cut a path through much of Arkansas on Wednesday, destroying a handful of homes and injuring four people.

Massive Chilean Quake Moved Whole Cities.  The Earth really did move during last month's massive Chile quake, which killed hundreds of people and left two million homeless. Researchers say cities and islands physically shifted west. Thanks to satellites, scientists at Ohio State University and the University of Hawaii found that the city of Concepcion moved at least 10 feet to the west. Chile's capital, Santiago, moved just shy of 1 feet, and even Buenos Aires, in Argentina, moved an inch. The Falkland Islands also went a bit west. Researcher Ben Brooks said this happens with every quake but is usually too small to notice. This time, with a magnitude of 8.8, the scientists saw a great deal of movement.

Tapestry of violence haunts central Nigeria. JOS, Nigeria - Christians and Muslims once shared their lives together in Nigeria's fertile central belt, buying each other's goods in mixed neighborhoods and cultivating each other's farms across a sun-baked plateau. But growing religious hatred, political and ethnic rivalries and increasing poverty have led to two outbursts of savage violence this year in which men, women and children and even babies were butchered, and that harmony seems lost forever. Now, many people carry weapons and man impromptu road blocks, fearful of the military, the police and each other. Various factors have been involved in violence here, but Sunday's bloodshed,  was mostly about revenge. Christian villages near the city of Jos were attacked before dawn, less than two months after Muslims were targeted and a mosque torched, with hundreds killed, their corpses stuffed into wells and sewage pits.

March 14, 2010

Strong earthquake rocks central Japan. TOKYO - A strong magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit off the eastern coast of Japan on Sunday, rattling buildings across a broad swath of the country, including the crowded capital. There were no reports of casualties, with only light damage to structures near the epicenter, according to local officials. The quake hit at 5:08 p.m. and was felt most strongly in central Fukushima prefecture about 130 miles (210 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo.

Storm leaves Northeast U. S. soggy, windblown and dark. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Utility crews pushed through fallen trees and windblown debris to reach downed power lines Sunday, working to restore electricity to more than a half-million homes and businesses after strong winds and heavy rain wreaked havoc in parts of the Northeast. The storm, which battered parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut on Saturday with gusts of up to 70 mph, struck about two weeks after heavy snow and hurricane-force winds left more than a million customers in the Northeast in the dark.

China wants US reassurance over dollar. BEIJING - China's premier expressed concern about the U.S. dollar and called on Washington on Sunday to take "concrete steps" to reassure Beijing about the safety of its huge Treasury bond holdings. "Any fluctuation in the value of the U.S. currency is a big concern for us," Premier Wen Jiabao said at a news conference. "We cannot afford any mistake, how slight it is, when running our financial assets," he said. "I would like the United States to take concrete steps to reassure investors." China has pressed Washington to control its yawning budget deficit and prevent inflation that would erode the value of the dollar and China's holdings. The premier said Treasury values were a matter of the "national credibility" of the United States.

HAINES CITY - Two tornadoes ripped through Central Florida, damaging 28 units at a golf resort and leaving five of the condos uninhabitable. Polk County authorities on Friday were still tallying the damage from a severe storm that rumbled across the region, which also damaged mobile homes and toppled trees across an 80-mile swath. Hail measuring 3/4 of an inch in diameter fell along Florida's Atlantic coast.

March 18, 2010

Arctic animals doing better, but not close to pole. WASHINGTON – The overall number of animals in the Arctic has increased over the past 40 years ago, according to a new international study. But critters who live closest to the North Pole are disappearing. The report by the United Nations and other groups released Wednesday at a conference in Miami concludes that birds, mammals and fish have increased by about 16 percent since 1970. That's mostly because of decades-old hunting restrictions. The number of geese have about doubled. Marine mammals, such as certain whales, are also rebounding. However, scientists aren't celebrating the increase. Species in what is called the High Arctic dropped by a quarter between 1970 and 2004. North American caribou are down about one-third. What we're seeing is that there's winners and losers with rapid changes in the Arctic. The area with the biggest losses also has sea ice shrinking faster than predicted, and species like polar bears and whales called narwhals are dependent on sea ice, the report said. 

Smithsonian opens $21M human evolution hall. WASHINGTON - Hundreds of early human fossils, artifacts and forensically recreated faces of our prehistoric relatives went on display Wednesday, exploring 6 million years of evolution at the National Museum of Natural History.

Northeast slowly dries out from wind-whipped storm. WAYNE, N.J. - The powerful nor'easter had moved out at sea, but flooding lingered Tuesday in many Northeast communities. Many places from the mid-Atlantic to New England were still inundated with water, with tens of thousands of people lacking electricity and hundreds still in emergency shelters - some for a fourth day. The storm caused moderate erosion to New Jersey's 127-mile coastline, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection. At least 11 people died in storm-related accidents, and nearly a half-million people lost power at the peak of the storm. Governors from New Jersey to New Hampshire were seeking federal assistance to help defray cleanup costs.

Chile says earthquake and tsunami left 700 dead. SANTIAGO, Chile - The earthquake and tsunami that struck Chile last month killed 700 people and caused damages of nearly $30 billion, according to the government. And the ground hasn't stopped shaking. A magnitude-6.7 aftershock rocked south-central Chile Monday night, adding to the raw nerves and mounting damages caused by the Feb. 27 quake.

NEW YORK - New HIV infections are increasing among homosexuals, drug users and prostitutes who don't seek help because of laws that criminalize these practices, the head of the U.N. AIDS agency said Monday.

CHARLESTON, S.C. - A cruise liner hit by an outbreak of intestinal illness for a third straight trip from South Carolina returned a day early Thursday as operator Celebrity Cruises brought in extra crew to scrub the ship down for three days. The Celebrity Mercury arrived about 2 a.m. and passengers began disembarking as the sun rose over Charleston. The company said 369 of more than 1,800 passengers became ill following a March 8 departure. Hundreds of passengers got sick with the norovirus on two previous Mercury cruises this year from Charleston. The norovirus can spread quickly in closed quarters with symptoms including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach cramps.

More, younger US kids are 'extremely obese': study. WASHINGTON (AFP) - More US children are becoming extremely obese at a younger age, putting them at risk of dying decades younger than normal-weight children and of suffering old-age illnesses in their 20s, a study warned Thursday.

March 21, 2010

Volcano erupts in Iceland, hundreds evacuated. REYKJAVIK, Iceland - A volcano erupted near a glacier in southern Iceland, shooting ash and molten lava into the air and forcing the evacuation Sunday of hundreds of people from a nearby village. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage from the volcano but a state of emergency was declared in communities near the Eyjafjallajokull glacier and scientists feared the eruption could trigger a larger and potentially more dangerous eruption at the nearby Katla volcano. The eruption, which occurred came weeks after a series of small earthquakes in the area.

3 deaths reported as snow storm strikes Plains. NORMAN, Okla. - A powerful storm began blowing through Oklahoma and the southern Plains on the first day of spring Saturday, bringing heavy snow and strong winds a day after temperatures reached into the 70s.

U. S. Fargo North Dakota's fight against flooding nears its climax. FARGO, N.D. - A weeklong fight against flooding neared its climax in Fargo on Sunday, with miles of sandbags and clay dikes expected to hold back the bloated Red River at its crest with room to spare. City officials and residents were on the brink of declaring victory and ready to move out of flood fighting mode. They hoped for mostly dry weather to speed the river's fall by week's end. As they waited for the crest, Fargo residents turned their attention to cleaning up the debris in low-lying neighborhoods where more than a million sandbags held back waters. The calm mood stood in stark contrast to last year, when floods along the north-flowing Red River sparked a last-minute frenzy of sandbagging that brought life to a halt and forced thousands to evacuate.

Huge sandstorm covers Beijing, turns sky orange. BEIJING - Tons of sand turned Beijing's sky orange as the strongest sandstorm this year hit northern China, a gritty reminder that the country's expanding deserts have led to a sharp increase in the storms. The sky glowed Saturday and a thin dusting of sand covered Beijing, causing workers and tourists to muffle their faces in vast Tiananmen Square. The city's weather bureau gave air quality a rare hazardous ranking. Air quality is "very bad for the health," China's national weather bureau warned. It said people should cover their mouths when outside and keep doors and windows closed.

Demise of coral, salamander show impact of Web. DOHA, Qatar - The Internet has emerged as one of the greatest threats rare species, fueling the illegal wildlife trade and making it easier to buy everything from live baby lions to wine made from tiger bones, conservationists said Sunday. The Web's impact was made clear at the meeting of the 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES. Delegates voted overwhelmingly Sunday to ban the trade of the Kaiser's spotted newt which the World Wildlife Fund says has been devastated by the Internet trade. The United States and Sweden, meanwhile are proposing to regulate the trade in red and pink coral which is crafted into expensive jewelry and sold extensively on the web.

Jacob's House Comment,

We are now seeing some of the evil and wicked affects the internet is having on this world, and on many of the foolish people who continue to use it today to promote their low-based and unholy desires.  On this website, in the prophecy titled, The New Tower of Babel Today, dated 8/19/07, our Lord God spoke to Jacob about how He would destroy the internet and take away the evil imaginations of people's hearts and minds today.  God spoke about the fact that He would pulverize the internet's web pages, just like He pulverized the old tower of Babel long ago.  God said He would break the internet into a million pieces and then scatter this new tower before the foul birds and the four winds of heaven.  He said He would then bury it in an unmarked and unholy grave. This will surely soon come to pass as our Lord God's anger against the internet continues to be provoked and kindled today.

Quote from The New Tower of Babel Today:

            Soon I, the Lord God, will break this new ugly tower of Babel into a million pieces.  Then I will scatter it before the foul birds and the four winds of heaven, watchman on the wall.  My holy angels of the light will help Me to break the hold the waster now has on this new ugly tower today.  Therefore, when the time is right, I will throw the waster into another bottomless pit.  So shall I bring him down and destroy this new ugly tower he is helping to nourish and build today.  I will pulverize its web filled pages, just like I pulverized the old tower of Babel long ago, watchman.  So shall I bury this new ugly tower of Babel in an unmarked and unholy grave. 

Therefore, I, the Lord God, want to warn many people today that if they continue to use this new tower of Babel  If they try to use it to further the evil imaginations of their hearts and minds, they will not survive My wrath and fury upon them.  If they continue to follow the waster, and they desire to lend their hands to do evil on this new ugly tower today, they will be strangled in their own polluted and uncircumcised blood.  

If any foolish people try to further their wicked desires and their evil ways with this new ugly tower, so shall these things smother them in their own web of poison, trouble, and iniquity.  If they continue to use this new tower to help the waster sit in My glory seat from on high, so shall they be tormented and pillaged night and day.  For I, the Lord God, have already marked this new tower of Babel as an abomination of unsightly and unseemly ugliness and shame before Me.  Therefore, in the coming days, I will bury it where no one will be able to find it, watchman.

Cyclone hits Australian resort coast. SYDNEY (AFP) - A tropical cyclone smashed into Australia's northeast coast on Sunday, bringing winds of up to 200 kilometres (124 miles) an hour which downed trees and ripped air-conditioning units from walls. Cyclone Ului made landfall near Queensland's Whitsunday islands, a popular tourist destination on the Great Barrier Reef, damaging buildings, washing yachts ashore and cutting power to thousands of homes, officials said.

Mexico's drug war takes growing toll on Americans. MEXICO CITY - More Americans in Mexico are falling victim to a wave of drug violence sweeping the country, a change driven home by the recent killing of a U.S. Consulate employee and her husband who were gunned down after leaving a children's birthday party.

March 24, 2010

Honey bees in more trouble than ever after bad winter in U. S. MERCED, Calif. - The mysterious 4-year-old crisis of disappearing honeybees is deepening. A quick federal survey indicates a heavy bee die-off this winter, while a new study shows honeybees' pollen and hives laden with pesticides. Two federal agencies, along with regulators in California and Canada, are scrambling to figure out what is behind this relatively recent threat, ordering new research on pesticides used in fields and orchards. Federal courts are even weighing in this month, ruling that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency overlooked a requirement when allowing a pesticide on the market. Scientists are concerned because of the vital role bees play in our food supply. About one-third of the human diet is from plants that require pollination from honeybees, which means everything from apples to zucchini. Bees have been declining over decades from various causes. But in 2006 a new concern, "colony collapse disorder," was blamed for large, inexplicable die-offs. The disorder, which causes adult bees to abandon their hives and fly off to die, is likely a combination of many causes, including parasites, viruses, bacteria, poor nutrition and pesticides, experts say. "It's just gotten so much worse in the past four years," said Jeff Pettis, research leader of the Department of Agriculture's Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Md. "We're just not keeping bees alive that long." 

Amid budget crisis, California makes parole easier. LOS ANGELES - California's budget crisis and overcrowded prisons have led to a new reality for thousands of convicted felons: parole is getting a lot easier, no more random drug tests, travel rules or requirements to check in with an officer. Restrictions have been relaxed for nonviolent criminals like burglars, drug offenders and fraudsters under a new law that aims to shrink the prison population by reducing the number of minor parole violations that send ex-cons back to prison. About 24,000 nonviolent ex-cons are expected to qualify for less supervision. The number includes many people already on parole and those expected to be paroled over the next year. Nonviolent offenders leaving prison will still be required to register their addresses with the prisons agency, but a state parole officer won't check up on them.

Iceland's eruptions could have global consequences. REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Blasts of lava and ash shot out of a volcano in southern Iceland on Monday and small tremors rocked the ground, a surge in activity that raised fears of a larger explosion at the nearby Katla volcano. Scientists say history has proven that when the Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupts, Katla follows, the only question is how soon. And Katla, located under the massive Myrdalsjokull icecap, threatens disastrous flooding and explosive blasts when it blows. Saturday's eruption at Eyjafjallajokull (AYA-feeyapla-yurkul) - dormant for nearly 200 years, forced at least 500 people to evacuate.

Poor nations' most at risk from plant loss caused by Global Warming. PARIS (AFP) - Global warming could reduce the range of plant biodiversity by more than nine percent by century's end, and poor countries least to blame for the problem will be worst hit, a study published on Wednesday says. In far northerly latitudes, land locked in permafrost would open up to vegetation through warming, which implies uninhabited tracts of Canada or Siberia could be opened up to agriculture. But deserts, savannahs, moist tropical forests and other habitats where humidity holds the key to species survival would be damaged by water stress. The Amazonian rainforest would be the most vulnerable of all.

Strong quake hits off Papua New Guinea: geologists. PORT MORESBY (AFP) - A strong 6.6 magnitude quake struck off Papua New Guinea's coast on Monday, US geologists said, but there was no tsunami warning and the epicentre's depth lessened the likelihood of damage.

Chaos as freak storm batters Australia's Perth. PERTH (AFP) - Some 100,000 people were left without power on Tuesday after a freak storm battered the Australian city of Perth, hurling golf ball-sized hailstones and causing floods and landslides. Western Australia premier Colin Barnett estimated a damage bill of hundreds of millions of dollars after the wild weather smashed into the city late on Monday, paralyzing flights and commuter traffic. Thousands of residents jammed emergency phone lines as falling trees downed power cables and crashed into homes in the worst storm seen in years. Hospitals were flooded and some damaged schools remained closed on Tuesday.

March 25, 2010

U. S. democrats deal with threats over health care support. Democratic Congress members are getting lessons from the FBI on how to handle threats such as several directed at their colleagues, including bricks hurled through windows and menacing obscenity laced phone messages left for those who supported sweeping federal health care legislation. Windows were shattered at four Democratic offices in New York, Arizona and Kansas and at least 10 members of Congress have reported some sort of threats, leaders said. No arrests had been made as of Wednesday, but the FBI is investigating.

A strong earthquake struck the Philippines early Thursday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The 6.1 magnitude quake hit in the Mindoro region of the Philippines. The epicenter was about 86 miles (139 km) from the capital, Manila, and was about 72 kilometers (45 miles) deep, the USGS said.  The quake was felt in Quezon City on the island of Luzon and also in the Lubang Island.

Syphilis Soars in U.K., Thanks to Facebook and the Internet. Cases of syphilis have increased four-fold in Britain's Facebook capital as users meet up for unprotected sex, it was revealed yesterday. Cases of syphilis have increased four-fold in Britain's Facebook capital as users meet up for unprotected sex. Figures released last month showed that people in Sunderland, Durham and Teesside were 25 per cent more likely to log on regularly. And an NHS trust chief said Facebook and similar sites were to blame for a shocking rise in cases of potentially-lethal syphilis in the region.

Bernanke says economy still needs aid of U. S. Fed. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy still needs help from the Federal Reserve's ultra-low interest rate policy, but the central bank stands ready to remove stimulus once the expansion "matures," Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday. In prepared testimony before the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, Bernanke offered a brief overview of the tools the Fed intends to use to reverse the emergency measures taken to grapple with the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. "The economy continues to require the support of accommodative monetary policies," Bernanke told lawmakers. "However, we have been working to ensure that we have the tools to reverse, at the appropriate time, the currently very high degree of monetary stimulus." Bernanke argued that these programs had helped to improve conditions in mortgage markets, which were at the epicenter of a financial meltdown that began when falling home prices spurred a wave of defaults.

March 28, 2010

China Tops India on World Diabetes Ladder as Economic Boom Spurs Obesity.  China has overtaken India as the global epicenter of the diabetes epidemic after a study showed twice as many Chinese are afflicted with the disease as previously estimated. Type-2 diabetes, mostly caused by a high-calorie diet and sedentary lifestyle, afflicts 92.4 million adults in China. Earlier surveys calculated 43.2 million diabetics in the country, fewer than the 50.8 million estimated are in India. "This shows that the global burden of diabetes is far larger than previously estimated," David Whiting, a disease tracker with the federation, said in a statement. 'It is a wake-up call for governments and policy-makers to take action on diabetes."

Scientists: New Anthropocene Age to Bring Mass Extinctions. A group of scientists, including Paul Crutzen, the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist, is studying changes human activities have brought to Earth's biodiversity and rock structure as well as the impact of factors including pollution and mineral extraction. It is feared that the damage mankind has inflicted will lead to the sixth largest mass extinction in Earth's history with thousands of plants and animals being wiped out. In the journal Environmental Science & Technology the group concludes: "The Anthropocene represents a new phase in the history of both humankind and of the Earth, when natural forces and human forces became intertwined, so that the fate of one determines the fate of the other."

Landmarks, cities worldwide unplug for Earth Hour. LONDON - Europe's best known landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and Rome's Colosseum - fell dark Saturday, following Sydney's Opera House and Beijing's Forbidden City in joining a global climate change protest, as lights were switched off across the world to mark the Earth Hour event.In the United States, the lights went out at the Empire State Building in New York, the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and the Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta, among many other sites in the Eastern time zone. Millions were expected to turn off lights and appliances for an hour from 8:30 p.m. in a gesture to highlight environmental concerns and to call for a binding pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

FRESNO, Calif. - One of the dirty secrets of California's wine country is now on everyone's lips. Somehow a voracious grape-eating moth has found its way nonstop from Europe to the heart of the Napa Valley, the land of three-figure cabernet. With valuable fruit at risk, the region's fast and loose play with federal agriculture quarantine laws is getting new scrutiny from investigators and researchers. Suitcase smuggling is the winked-at act of sneaking in cane cuttings to clone vines from France's premier vineyards, hoping to replicate success. Vintners say it helped build a handful of exceptional vineyards in the 1980s when U.S. plant choices were limited and import testing took seven years. As California clamps a quarantine across the heart of Napa Valley and farmers ready their pesticides, nobody is winking anymore. A new Napa reality is setting in that lax attitudes invite costly invasions of new pests that can threaten the country's most expensive and economically productive farmland.

Jacob's House Comment,

As we have said here many times before on this website, everything God made here is intertwined and interrelated.  Therefore, you cannot change things in one area of this world without serious consequences happening in another area of this world.  God has made the creatures and animals here interdependent on one another for their sustenance, their food, their propagation, and their survival.  Therefore, many men today, with their greed and their low based lifestyles, have destroyed this balanced integrity and independence God created here long ago.  These men will be responsible for their evil works and deeds when judgment from God comes down upon them and their families in the next few troublesome years. 

What if all coral reefs die out? Experts are scared. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Coral reefs are dying, and scientists and governments around the world are contemplating what will happen if they disappear altogether. Coral reefs are part of the foundation of the ocean food chain. Nearly half the fish the world eats make their homes around them. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide - by some estimates, 1 billion across Asia alone - depend on them for their food and their livelihoods. If the reefs vanished, experts say, hunger, poverty and political instability could ensue. Whole nations will be threatened in terms of their existence. Numerous studies predict coral reefs are headed for extinction worldwide, largely because of global warming, pollution and coastal development, but also because of damage from bottom-dragging fishing boats and the international trade in jewelry and souvenirs made of coral. At least 19 percent of the world's coral reefs are already gone, including some 50 percent of those in the Caribbean. An additional 15 percent could be dead within 20 years, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Jacob's House Comment,

God is already diminishing the structure and virility of this world called earth today.  At the same time our Lord God is bringing His new spiritual day to the forefront of this world.  God is allowing the animals and creatures of this world today to die out in record numbers to show many men how insignificant their accomplishments and rules, truly are.  However, many blind men today cannot see what is happening to them before their eyes.   They cannot understand or comprehend that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is already creating a new world before them, while He is continuing to discard the old one that He despises today. 

28% of U.S. Kids Drank Alcohol in Past Month. More than one-quarter (27.6 percent) of American youth aged 12 to 20 said that they drank alcohol in the past month, according to a study released Thursday by the federal government. The analysis of 2006-2008 data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health also found that underage past-month drinking rates were as high as 40 percent in some states, including North Dakota and Vermont. One of the lowest rates was in Utah (13.7 percent). About 8.6 percent of underage past-month drinkers said they purchased their own alcohol the last time they drank. The rates were lowest in Alaska (3.1 percent) and New Mexico (3.7 percent) and highest in Louisiana and the District of Columbia (both at 18.8 percent).

Jacob's House Comment,

The breakdown of American society and infrastructure is well underway today.  The curse from God is also well established here in the US.  Therefore, time is running out for the heathens and blasphemers of the Lord God's commandments and righteous ways.  These low base people will soon be rounded up and then separated far away from their Creator, never to be seen or heard from again.  They will be punished by the Lord God for thousands of years, for their evil works, and their mischievous deeds.   

March 30, 2010

More flooding threatens storm-weary East Coast. BOSTON - A second major storm in less than a month continued to drench the East Coast as meteorologists predicted "very dangerous" flooding Tuesday in the Northeast and the wettest March on record in some places. The National Weather Service called on commuters to be prepared to travel alternate routes in case of washed-out roads and posted flood warnings and advisories from Maine to the Carolinas, with as much as 5 to 7 inches of rain expected over the coming days. The storm hits as the Northeast works to recover from a storm March 13-15 that dropped as much as much as 10 inches of rain, causing several rivers to rise and flooding basements throughout the region.

Tornado topples crane at Bahamas port, killing 3. FREEPORT, Bahamas - A tornado touched down during a fierce thunderstorm in the Bahamas on Monday and toppled a port crane, killing three people and injuring at least four. Trees were uprooted and windows blasted out of hotels as at least one tornado cut a destructive path on the island about 60 miles (100 kilometers) east of Florida. Hurricanes are common in the Bahamas but tornadoes are relatively rare. Damage on Grand Bahama appeared to be greatest in and around Port Lucaya and Freeport, with witnesses reporting many uprooted trees, broken windows and damaged roofs and cars.

ATLANTA - Health officials are renewing their push for Americans to get swine flu vaccinations following a recent uptick in hospital cases in Georgia. No other state has had such an increase in hospitalizations, and overall swine flu illnesses and deaths have been down for months. But in the past two weeks, 70 to 80 people in Georgia have been hospitalized with swine flu, the most since September.

Sex infection gonorrhea could become next "superbug". LONDON (Reuters) - The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea risks becoming a drug-resistant "superbug" if doctors do not devise new ways of treating it, a leading sexual health expert said. A World Health Organization (WHO) meeting in Manila next week would be vital to efforts to try to stop the bug repeatedly adapting to and overcoming drugs. It is a very clever bacteria and if this problem isn't addressed, there is a real possibility that gonorrhea will become a very difficult infection to treat. Gonorrhea is a common bacterial sexually-transmitted infection and if left untreated can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, and infertility in women. Globally, the WHO estimates that there are at least 340 million new cases of curable sexually transmitted infections - including syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and trichomoniasis - every year among people aged 15 to 49. The highest incidences of gonorrhea were in south and southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, but as yet the WHO has no breakdown by individual infection type.

BANGKOK (AFP) - UNAIDS, backed by hundreds of parliamentarians, called Sunday for the lifting of travel restrictions on HIV-positive people which are still by imposed by 52 countries. Complete entry bans on HIV-positive visitors are in place in 11 countries, including Singapore and China, while other restrictions including the refusal of residency rights remain elsewhere, including Australia and New Zealand. "There's no reason to have these travel restrictions now, it's not based in public health rationale, and they're depriving people of their basic rights," UNAIDS chief Michel Sidibe said at an international meeting of lawmakers. "We are calling for global freedom of movement for people living with HIV," he said in the Thai capital.

College Students Want 'Our Lord' Phrase Off Diplomas. A group of students at Trinity University in Texas wants the Christian-rooted school to remove the words "Our Lord" from their diplomas, the Houston Chronicle reported. "A diploma is a very personal item, and people want to proudly display it in their offices and homes," Sidra Qureshi, president of Trinity Diversity Connection, told the Chronicle. "By having the phrase 'In the Year of Our Lord,' it is directly referencing Jesus Christ, and not everyone believes in Jesus Christ." Qureshi, a Muslim student at the school, is leading the campaign to remove the words. The Board of Trustees is expected to vote on the matter during a meeting next month. The school's student government association and a commencement committee already has thrown their support behind the proposal. But not everyone supports changing the diplomas.

Undersea Volcano Threatens Italy, Says Scientist. Europe's largest undersea volcano could disintegrate and unleash a tsunami that would engulf southern Italy "at any time," a prominent vulcanologist warned in an interview published Monday. The Marsili volcano, which is bursting with magma, has "fragile walls" that could collapse, Enzo Boschi told the leading daily paper there.

FDA Urged to Take On Food Fraud. Mislabeling and diluting of foodstuffs has reached epidemic levels during the economic downturn and the FDA isn't doing enough to combat the problem, industry groups say. Experts believe at least 5% of the American food is supply is mislabeled and say regulators should step up efforts to stop instances of food fraud - like "100% pure honey" diluted with corn syrup or Mississippi saddlefish sold as sturgeon caviar; one 2004 study found 77% of US-sold snapper was mislabeled.

Continuing rising water forces evacuations in New England. CRANSTON, R.I. - The second record storm that socked the Northeast this month was reduced to drizzle as it was winding down Wednesday, but the worst of widespread flooding was yet to come, forecasters said. Rivers from Maine to New York were expected to crest later Wednesday or Thursday. And in Rhode Island, officials were bracing for what was expected to be the most severe flooding to hit the state in more than 100 years. "None of us alive have seen the flooding that we are experiencing now or going to experience," Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri said Tuesday night. "This is unprecedented in our state's history." The rain came as residents were still recovering from a storm two weeks ago that dumped as much as 10 inches on the region. Business owners in the flood zone are still grappling with the impact of lost income.

Storms batter Scotland, Northern Ireland. Several days after the start of spring, Scotland and Northern Ireland were battered by snow, gale force winds and torrential rain on Wednesday, leaving thousands of people without power and causing havoc on roads.  Britain's weather agency said the tough weather conditions will continue through Wednesday. High winds, snow in drifts up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) and blizzards are expected. The worst conditions are forecast for the Scottish highlands. This follows one of Britain's coldest winters in decades.

April 4, 2010

Health dangers lurk in New England floodwaters. PROVIDENCE, R.I. - While things appear to be looking up in Rhode Island, the state hit hardest this week by three days of rain and record flooding, health and environmental officials warn there's still danger below the surface. Raw sewage, garbage and oil are swirling around in the muddy floodwaters, creating a threat to people as the contaminants make their way toward and then down New England's rivers and streams. In Rhode Island, the flooding stands to introduce pollutants into Narragansett Bay, the ocean inlet whose nooks and crannies give the tiny state more than 400 miles of coastline, and disrupt the important shellfishing industry there. "The impact on this infrastructure is unprecedented," said Curt Spalding, administrator of the New England region of the Environmental Protection Agency. "It's a very rare occurrence when wastewater plants are completely disabled by flood, literally taken out and become inoperable. This is a very serious matter." The flooding has forced hundreds of people from their homes and businesses, and Gov. Don Carcieri said Thursday that damage could reach into the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Economic crisis could worsen HIV/AIDS epidemic: U.N. BANGKOK (Reuters) - Economic crisis and climate change concerns could affect the fight against the AIDS virus and lead to a "universal nightmare," the head of the United Nations' agency for HIV/AIDS said on Sunday. The global economic downturn has brought about greater inequality and could increase vulnerability and fuel the epidemic, said Michele Sidibe, executive director of UNAIDS. About 33.4 million people worldwide are infected with HIV and the AIDS virus. Since AIDS emerged in the 1980s, almost 60 million people coming from the poorest segment of society have been infected, and 25 million have died.

Oil spill pollutes tributary of China's Yellow River. BEIJING (AFP) - A tributary of China's Yellow River has been polluted by an oil spill, state-run media reported Saturday, in the latest environmental accident to threaten the nation's drinking water. About 1,000 tonnes of oil sludge has contaminated farmland and the Luohe River in northern Shaanxi province after a recycling pool at a sewage treatment plant collapsed last Sunday, the China Daily said. More than 30 years of unbridled economic growth have left most of China's lakes and rivers heavily polluted, while the nation's urban dwellers also face some of the world's worst air pollution. More than 200 million Chinese currently do not have access to safe drinking water, according to government data. 

Even in the Desert, Plants Feel the Heat of Global Warming. Global warming is a hot topic, and it's causing concern for scientists studying winter annuals in the Sonoran Desert.  While desert winters have become warmer and drier over the years, climate changes have pushed the arrival of winter rains later in the year, forcing winter-annual plants like the curvenut combseed (Pectocarya recurvata) to emerge later when temperatures are colder. Bet-hedging is an adaptive response by seeds that allows them to delay germination. The delay lets the plant attempt survival by avoiding harsh environmental periods. The germination delay can be caused by insufficient rainfall, lack of nutrients, inappropriate temperatures or any adverse condition that would affect the survival of a seed. The seeds can remain dormant for extended periods if the environment is unfavorable for germination and survival. The later arrival of Sonoran desert winter rains pushes the germination of the winter annuals later into the year and has affected the types of winter annuals that dominate the location. Researchers measure carbon and nitrogen in the plants' leaves to learn how well the various species grow at winter's lower temperatures. The winter annuals are not the only vegetation affected by the climate shift occurring in the Sonoran desert. The increasingly drier climate has caused a decrease in dominant desert shrubbery as well. The lack of water available to the shrubs has caused them decrease in size so they can more efficiently utilize the amount of water that's available.  If the later arrival of winter rains continues, the germination of the winter annuals will subsequently occur later in the year, and the plant community will continuously change and favor plants that thrive in colder environments. The winter annuals are not the only vegetation affected by the climate shift occurring in the Sonoran desert. The increasingly drier climate has caused a decrease in dominant desert shrubbery as well. The lack of water available to the shrubs has caused them decrease in size so they can more efficiently utilize the amount of water that's available. If the later arrival of winter rains continues, the germination of the winter annuals will subsequently occur later in the year, and the plant community will continuously change and favor plants that thrive in colder environments.

Jacob's House Comment,

As long as these scientists and other fools refuse to give God the credit and glory for what is happening around this world, they will go down to defeat and eventually lose their souls.  As long as they refuse to believe that God is controlling this world and changing it before their eyes, they will never understand what is happening to them, and what is happening to this world all around them.  For the truth is, God is ending this present earth age by taking His blessings away from it at this time.  God is also taking the stabilizers out that hold this world together.  Therefore, earthquakes and uncertainties abound.  Plants and animals are also deteriorating at a rapid rate.  However, these things must occur before God's coming new day of revival can begin.  They must occur so that God can come here in all of His majestic power and glory to dwell with His saints and His faithful children of the promise. 

Baghdad ; 32 dead. suicide blasts target embassies; BAGHDAD - Suicide attackers detonated car bombs near three embassies in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 32 people and wounding more than 100, authorities said.

Jacob's House Comment,

This place called Babylon, or modern Iraq today, was where the devil originally beguiled Eve in God's Garden of Eden.  Therefore, God is bringing His magnified fury, wrath, and jealousy upon this defiled place as never before.  He is already settling up for all of the debts and sin that is owed Him, which was committed there, starting with Eve, thousands of years ago.  Soon Babylon will be a place of desolate heaps, never to be seen or heard from here again.  This place of the original sin of Eve in the Garden of Eden will continue to go through unprecedented judgment, pain, travail, death, and wrath, coming from God.   

See the prophecy on this website called, "God is Destroying Babylon". 

In Egypt, Christians celebrate Easter Sunday under shadow of Christmas attacks. Naga Hamadi, Egypt - When Kamal Nashed Deryes Ghobrial celebrates Easter Sunday this weekend, it will be under the shadow of one of the most striking episodes of sectarian violence in Egypt in years. Mr. Ghobrial's son was one of seven young men, six of them Christian, who were killed after Christmas Eve mass. The shooting was followed by three days of violent clashes and attacks against mostly Christian shops and homes in the small town and nearby villages. Though the violence of the attack in Naga Hamadi was startling, it was not an anomaly; attacks against Christians have become more frequent throughout Egypt in recent years.  It is driven, most agree, in part by the government's refusal to acknowledge the problem and its failure to prosecute perpetrators, leading to an environment where such attacks can occur with impunity. Some say it is also a result of the increasing Islamicization of society, with Christians complaining of being treated as interlopers in their own country, instead of citizens.

UN's Ban calls Aral Sea "shocking disaster". NUKUS, Uzbekistan - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the drying up of the Aral Sea is one of the planet's most shocking disasters and is calling on Central Asian leaders to step up cooperation in solving the environmental problems. Once the world's fourth largest body of fresh water, the sea shrank by 90 per cent after the Soviets boosted cotton production in the arid region.

April 5, 2010

Strong quake kills 2 in Mexico, rattles US states. IJUANA, Mexico - A powerful earthquake swayed buildings from Los Angeles to Tijuana, killing two people in Mexico, blacking out cities and forcing the evacuation of hospitals and nursing homes. One California city closed off its downtown due to unstable buildings. The 7.2-magnitude quake centered just south of the U.S. border near Mexicali was one of the strongest earthquakes to hit region in decades. "It sounds like it's felt by at least 20 million people," USGS seismologist Lucy Jones said. "Most of Southern California felt this earthquake." Sunday afternoon's earthquake hit hardest in Mexicali, a bustling commerce center along Mexico's border with California, where authorities said the quake was followed by at least 20 smaller aftershocks.

Stranded and leaking oil ship a time bomb to the Great Barrier Reef. - A stranded Chinese coal ship leaking oil onto Australia's Great Barrier Reef is an environmental time bomb with the potential to devastate large protected areas of the reef, activists said on Monday. The Great Barrier Reef stretches along Australia's northeastern coast and is the only living structure on Earth visible from space. It is the world's largest coral reef and a major tourist draw. As salvagers struggled on Monday to stop the ship breaking up and spilling hundreds of tons of oil and thousands of tons of coal, environmentalists told Reuters tighter controls on shipping were needed to protect the reef.

Non-native animals cause rural problems, charity warns. A number of non-native mammal species are damaging the UK countryside by eating crops and threatening wildlife, a conservation charity has warned. A report by the People's Trust for Endangered Species identified 14 problem species including rats, American mink and muntjac deer. According to the report, two of the UK's fastest declining native species - the red squirrel and the water vole - which has declined by 90% - are under threat by mammals introduced by humans in the last two centuries.

April 7, 2010

Major Earthquake Strikes Sumatra, Indonesia. JAKARTA, Indonesia - A 7.7 earthquake shook Indonesia's northwest island of Sumatra early Wednesday, prompting a brief tsunami warning and sending residents rushing for higher ground. There were scattered reports of injuries, but only minor damage was reported in most areas. At least five strong aftershocks measuring up to 5.2 were recorded, the meteorology agency said.

Flowers bloom earlier as UK warms. British plants are flowering earlier now than at any time in the last 250 years, according to new analysis. Researchers stitched together nearly 400,000 first flowering records covering 405 species across the nation. Writing in the journal Proceedings B, they show that the average first flowering date has been earlier in the last 25 years than in any other period. Flowering dates are closely linked to temperatures recorded in the Central England Temperature Record. Across the plant record, researchers found that a temperature difference between two years of 1C equates to a difference in flowering time of about five days, with some species responding much more than others.  In general, spring-flowering species respond more to temperature changes than those blossoming later.

CITES is mandated to ensure that international trade in wild animals and plants, or products derived from them, does not threaten their survival. 175 parties (member countries) are supposed to be committed to implementing various protection measures for some 5,000 species of animal and 28,000 plants. Yet at times on the floor of last month's conference in Doha, Qatar, one had the impression that the arguments and outcomes had more to do with protecting commercial interests than protecting wildlife. The process of decision making has become intensely political. Parties choose to use scientific evidence to support their positions when it suits them, and refute the validity of the science when it doesn't. Attempts to gain CITES listings for marine species threatened with extinction because of overfishing, including bluefin tuna and hammerhead sharks, failed to gain the necessary support, in spite of UN Food and Agriculture Organization endorsement. As a consequence, these species - like so many other overfished marine stocks - remain at the mercy of Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs), the very organisations that have presided over their near demise. Delegates in favour of maintaining trade in certain threatened species often claim that limiting trade will harm the economies of poor communities, or reduce the opportunity for people to obtain essential resources. However, most shark fishing is carried out in international waters by large commercial vessels to serve the tastes of the growing middle classes in East Asia for shark fin soup, and 80% of Atlantic bluefin tuna ends up as sushi in Japanese restaurants. Red and pink corals are disappearing fast in order to supply nothing more essential than markets for jewelry items and trinkets.

Jacob's House Comment,

God told His servant, Jacob, recently that He would have to come here personally to completely change this world, or man would destroy it within 20 to 25 years.  God told His servant Jacob that He valued this precious earth He made here thousands of years ago, more than all the rubies and gold that are in His storehouses and treasure chests of today.  God said that He would soon save this world called earth from man's greed, corruption, sin, and depravity, and that He would preserve it for His faithful children of the promise to enjoy.  Therefore, God will be visiting this world sooner than most people even realize today.    

Non-native animals cause rural problems, charity warns. A number of non-native mammal species are damaging the UK countryside by eating crops and threatening wildlife, a conservation charity has warned. A report by the People's Trust for Endangered Species identified 14 problem species including rats, American mink and muntjac deer. The trust said some of the creatures have been in the UK for so long, they are thought of as indigenous. It said it was important to stop the extinction of native species. According to the report, two of the UK's fastest declining native species - the red squirrel and the water vole - which has declined by 90% - are under threat by mammals introduced by humans in the last two centuries.

Jacob's House Comment,

Below is an excerpt of the prophecy entitled, GOD SPEAKS ABOUT HIS NEW DAY, dated 12/28/07, which God gave to Jacob at that time, and can be found on this website.  

Excerpt from "God Speaks About His New Day":

For it is time for My established ways to be seen here as never before, servant Jacob.  Therefore, man will soon lose his power over the animals, the trees, the plants, and the harvest fields he has planted of fine grain.  I, the Lord God, will soon take away the dominion here that man now has, which he has not given Me thanks for, servant Jacob. 

Therefore, many animals will soon become more aggressive, violent, and ferocious in their eating habits.  They will become more vicious in their defenses and their desires to eat their precious meat.  They will become more and more separated far away from man's control and dominance over them in the coming hours.  When My visitation to this earth draws perilously near in the next few years, many animals, horses, and beasts of the night will attack man in his own dwelling places.  They will attack him more and more often before My Son's second coming.  For I, the Lord God, will soon have My new holy order and My new day firmly in place.  Therefore, from the midst of My holy temple will I direct it, form it, and bless it in My heavenly realm.  My new day will begin to take shape when My anointed ones have been given the opportunity to come to Me as I so choose.  My new day will also bring about a new earth that I shall make which cannot be challenged or stopped in midstream. 

Americans Sneezing More As Allergies Mysteriously Increase. If you think you're seeing more people sneezing and tearing up this allergy season, you might be right. Studies show that allergies are on the rise in developed countries, including the United States - not just seasonal allergies, but allergies of all kinds.  An allergy is a reaction of your immune system to what are usually harmless, run-of-the-mill substances, such as pollen, cat hair, or even a peanut. About 54 percent of Americans are sensitive to at least one allergy-inducing substance, according to a national survey conducted from 1988 to 1994 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). That's about two to five times higher, depending on the allergen, than the rates found by NIH between 1976 and 1980. The result: Americans are sneezing and wheezing and rubbing itchy eyes more than ever.  Food allergies in children have also experienced an up tick. From 1997 to 2007, the number of children with food allergies rose 18 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

BILLINGS, Mont. - Glacier National Park has lost two more of its namesake moving icefields due to climate change, which is shrinking the rivers of ice until they grind to a halt, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

April 8, 2010

MIAMI - Hurricane threat increasing.  The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will produce an above-average eight hurricanes, four of them major, posing a heightened threat to the U.S. coastline, the Colorado State University hurricane forecasting team predicted on Wednesday.

Endangered vacations appearing in the US. You've heard of a "life list" - the vacation spots you want to see before you die. This is a little different. These are top U.S. destinations you might want to see before they die. "They" being the destinations themselves. Each of these vacation ideas is located in a landscape that is threatened in some way by an environmental hazard. While inclusion on this list isn't an indication that these sites are in imminent danger of disappearing, the fact that this list seems plausible is a distinctly 21st-century phenomenon.  The list includes the Florida Everglades because of too little water from urban development, Glacier National Park because of glaciers disappearing, the Appalachian mountains because of overdevelopment in mining, no more salmon being found or fished on the Snake River because of too many dams, and Las Vegas and other cities on the west coast because of a lack of water from the Colorado River.

April 11, 2010

7.1-magnitude quake strikes off Solomon Islands. ADELAIDE, Australia - A powerful earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands on Sunday, but a monitoring agency said a tsunami was not expected. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 7.1-magnitude quake hit southwest of the island chain's Kira Kira island in the South Pacific.

Moderate 4.5 Quake Shakes SoCal Awake.

Human pollution Speeds Up Snow Melt in Europe and Asia. Over the past 30 years, springtime snow melt and warming appear to be proceeding at a faster rate in Eurasia than in North America. New study finds the warming rates and snow cover decline in Eurasia may be twice what they are in North America.

Virus outbreak causes 40 child deaths in China. BEIJING - top Chinese leader called for stepped-up research into vaccines and drugs for hand, foot and mouth disease after 40 children died from outbreaks last month, a state news agency said Saturday. The Ministry of Health reported 77,756 cases of the disease in March. The number of deaths increased sharply, up from 10 in February. Hand, foot and mouth disease typically strikes infants and children and is characterized by fever, mouth sores and a rash with blisters. It is spread by direct contact with nose and throat discharges, saliva, fluid from blisters, or the stool of infected people.

Brazil searches for answers as flood toll climbs. NITEROI, Brazil (AFP) - Rescuers have been racing against time amid fading hopes of finding survivors of a huge mudslide, with over 400 people now feared dead in some of the worst flooding to swamp Brazil in decades. The torrential rain has caused landslides and flooding. A state of emergency was  declared when mudslides crushed many homes. Rescuers painstakingly pulled bodies from the thick mound of dirt and debris in the Niteroi shantytown of Morro do Bumba late Friday and Saturday, bringing the death toll to 223. Another 200 people were feared to have been buried alive in the slum, itself precariously perched atop a garbage dump in this city just east of Rio de Janeiro. Some 60 hours after the heaviest rains in half a century unleashed floods and mudslides, rescue workers still were far from having finished the work of recovering bodies from beneath tons of rocks, rubble and earth. The floods tore through the metropolitan area's precarious hillside slums, or favelas.  Many houses in Rio's hillside shanty towns were buried under mudslides. Authorities say the city of Rio de Janeiro's transport system is close to collapse, after traffic ground to a halt with many streets under water. "The situation is chaos," Mayor Eduardo da Costa Paes said in a statement on Tuesday. "All the major streets of the city are closed because of the floods.

Jacob's House Comment,

As we have said before on this website, when God sees an area of the world He particularly dislikes for its sin and wickedness, He often does one of three things to cleanse it of its wickedness, sin, and defilement.  God will either send drought, flooding rains, or burning heat to a nation to rid it of its sin and wickedness.  When God sends a drought and famine to a nation it is usually a first stage warning sign that He will not tolerate the sin and wickedness that He sees there.  When God decides to flood a nation with heavy rains and mudslides, then He is trying to wash it clean of its defilement, wickedness, and fallow, hard ground.  This is the second stage of God's wrath upon a nation for its sin and wickedness.  In the third stage of its sin God will burn it like He burned Sodom and Gomorrah long ago.  Brazil and the area around Rio de Janeiro are being warned by God today with this latest flooding and mudslides to rid themselves of the sin and wickedness that are currently in this nation today.  

E. Coli Outbreak Kills 1 Child, Sickens 3 at Washington State Day Care Center. Health officials said they don't know the precise source of the outbreak. But they said it didn't appear related to food, water or another single source. E. coli O157:H7 is a potentially deadly bacterium that can cause bloody diarrhea and dehydration. The very young, seniors and people with compromised immune systems are most susceptible.

 April 14, 2010

Cyclone kills 68 people in eastern India. CALCUTTA, India - A cyclone packing speeds of more than 100 mph (160 kph) demolished tens of thousands of mud huts in villages in northeastern India, killing at least 68 people, officials said Wednesday. The cyclone struck Tuesday night in northeastern parts of West Bengal and Bihar states, uprooted trees and snapping telephone and electricity lines, West Bengal Civil Defense Minister Srikumar Mukherjee said. Hundreds of people were injured. The cyclone demolished nearly 50,000 mud huts in West Bengal and more than 1,000 in Bihar, officials said.

Quake in western China kills 400, buries more. BEIJING - A series of strong earthquakes struck a far western Tibetan area of China on Wednesday, killing at least 400 people and injuring more than 10,000 as houses made of mud and wood collapsed, trapping many more, officials said. The largest quake was recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey as magnitude 6.9. In the aftermath, panicked people, many bleeding from their wounds, flooded the streets of a Qinghai province township where most of the homes had been flattened.

Iceland evacuates hundreds as volcano erupts again. REYKJAVIK, Iceland - A volcano under a glacier in Iceland rumbled back to life Wednesday, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing hundreds of people to leave their homes.The volcano, 75 miles (120 kilometers) east of Reykjavik, erupted March 20 after almost 200 years of silence.  Emergency officials evacuated 800 residents from around the Eyjafjallajokull glacier as rivers rose by up to 10 feet (3 meters) and flooded a sparsely populated area.

Obama Foreclosure Aid Leaves Many Out in U. S. WASHINGTON - A watchdog panel overseeing the financial bailouts says the Obama administration's flagship mortgage aid program lags well behind the foreclosure crisis and leaves too many families out. The Congressional Oversight Panel said that the administration projects only one million families will end up with lower monthly payments as a result of the program. The report said six million families are more than two months behind with their payments, and 200,000 more families receive foreclosure notices each month. It warned that borrowers who have their monthly payments lowered as a result of the program still could lose their homes because the payments remain high and many Americans are facing new financial strains.

Rates Rise for Some Common Hospital Infections. Federal officials say the nation's hospitals are failing to stamp out common infections that can turn life-threatening for patients. The Health and Human Services department's 2009 quality report, released Tuesday, finds "very little progress" on eliminating health care infections. For example, rates of bloodstream infections following surgery increased by 8 percent. Infections from urinary catheters rose by 3.6 percent.

April 15, 2010

Iceland's volcanic ash halts flights across Britain, Ireland, and Europe. LONDON - Ash clouds from Iceland's spewing volcano halted air traffic across Europe on Thursday as authorities closed air spaces over Britain, Ireland and the Nordic countries. Tens of thousands of passengers were stranded in one of most disruptive events to hit air travel in years. Authorities said it was not even clear when it would be safe enough to fly again. In one sobering prediction, a scientist in Iceland said the ejection of volcanic ash - and therefore the disruptions in air travel - could continue for days or even weeks. Shutdowns and cancellations spread to France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, Sweden, FinlandSwitzerland. In Iceland, hundreds of people have fled rising floodwaters since the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull (ay-yah-FYAH'-plah-yer-kuh-duhl) glacier erupted Wednesday for the second time in less than a month. Rising water gushed down the mountainside, and rivers rose up to 10 feet (3 meters) by Wednesday night, slicing the island nation's main road in half. and

Aid arrives after cyclone kills 119 in India. CALCUTTA, India - Aid workers distributed rice, dried fruits, water and tarpaulins Thursday to the victims of a ferocious cyclone that killed at least 119 people in northeastern India and demolished ten of thousands of mud huts. Rescuers cleared hundreds of uprooted trees and electricity poles blocking roads to the devastated areas in Bihar state. Packing winds of more than 100 mph (160 kph), the cyclone struck close to midnight Tuesday. Hundreds of people were injured and thousands left homeless.

Bodies pile up after quake kills 740-plus in China. MADOI, China - Rescue teams fought gusty winds and altitude sickness Thursday as supplies of food, water and almost everything ran thin after strong earthquakes left more than 700 dead in a mountainous Tibetan area of western China. Survivors, many of whom spent the night outside in freezing weather, wandered bleeding from their wounds through Jiegu township for a second day, witnesses said. Rescuers, tired from the high winds and thin oxygen, pulled some survivors and many bodies from the pulverized remains of the town flattened by Wednesday morning's quakes. "We've seen too many bodies and now they're trying to deal with them. The bodies are piled up like a hill. You can see bodies with broken arms and legs and it breaks your heart," said Dawa Cairen, a Tibetan who works for the Christian group the Amity Foundation and was helping in rescue efforts. "You can see a lot of blood. It's flowing like a river."

 SALT LAKE CITY - A magnitude-4.9 earthquake rattled parts of Utah, Wyoming and Idaho on Thursday night. There were no reports of significant damage or injuries. University of Utah officials said the quake's epicenter was about five miles east-northeast of Randolph, a town about 73 miles northeast of Salt Lake City. The quake was the largest in Utah since a magnitude-5.9 temblor hit near St. George in 1992, according to Relu Burlacu of the University of Utah seismograph stations.

April 18, 2010

KLM pushes to resume flights after ash tests. AMSTERDAM - Dutch airline KLM said it safely flew aircraft without passengers through a window in the cloud of volcanic ash over Europe Sunday, and pressed for an end to the total ban on commercial air traffic that has paralyzed travel across the continent. Other airlines including Lufthansa and Air France said they, too, were conducting test flights. Authorities, however, extended airspace restrictions across Europe and said there was no end in sight to the plume spewing out of a volcano in Iceland, which they insist is dangerous to planes. KLM said the planes, of various types in its fleet, flew at normal altitude above 10,000 feet but did not encounter the thick cloud that had hovered over the continent since Wednesday, apparently indicating the Icelandic dust had thinned or dispersed.

Sinkhole cuts off 100 homes in N. California city. RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) - Crews were building a new road after a massive sinkhole in Richmond cut off a neighborhood of more than 100 homes. The sinkhole swallowed up two parked cars when it opened Thursday evening. No one was in the cars. A Richmond fire official says the hole, estimated to be about 60 feet long, 40 feet wide and 20 feet deep, cut off vehicle access for people in the neighborhood. A temporary road was expected to be completed after the cars were hauled out of the sinkhole. Residents have been able to walk in and out of their neighborhood, but not drive. Officials are still investigating what caused the chasm to form.

Jacob's House Comment,

In the prophecy on this website entitled "GOD SPEAKS ABOUT HIS BOOK", our Lord God, told Jacob about how He would punish the people who have denied Him and His Son, Jesus.  God spoke about how He would have the ground swallow some of them up and how others of them would go into captivity.  God spoke about the fact that there would be hail in the wilderness places, diseases, madness, and faintness of heart, breath, and mind for the people who have denied and refused Him and His Son.  Many of these things are already beginning to come to pass in these last hours before the second coming of God's Son, Jesus, to this earth.

 Excerpt from Prophecy "God Speaks About His Book";

Therefore, what will happen to all of the wicked ones' followers who have denied My name and My grace from the beginning?  What will happen to all of the idol worshippers who I, the Lord God, can now see in every green field today?  I will tell you what will happen to them, servant Jacob.  They will be caught up between a rock and a hard place.  They will go into captivity as the hard ground around them opens up and swallows them all in. 

For when My horses of thunder come across a crimson sky, then the lightning based arrows from My Holy mouth will destroy all of My enemies.  When hail is seen coming from My nostrils upon all of the wilderness places, then no one here will be able to deny that I, the Lord God, am a living, breathing, Creator God.  They will not be able to deny that I exist. 

In the end all of the creatures upon this earth will have to bow down to My name, My glory, and My greatness.  They will have to worship and praise Me and My Son, Jesus.  They will have to acknowledge the fact that I Am their Benefactor and their Creator, or they will succumb to madness, disease, and faintness of heart, breath, and mind. 

Iceland erupting Volcano's Big Sister Poses Bigger Threat, Scientists Say. Iceland's erupting Eyjafjallajokull volcano might be causing its fair share of havoc across Europe but scientists said we haven't seen anything yet. All eyes in the volcano logy community are focused on Eyjafjallajokull's much larger sister, called Katla, which could cause disruption on a far larger scale. Katla is about eight miles to the west, under the Myrdalsjokull ice cap. An eruption could cause widespread flooding and disrupt air traffic between Europe and North America. While Katla is not part of the same underground network of magma channels, it is close enough to be affected by power shifts in Eyjafjallajokull's system.

Jacob's House Comment,

We refer you to the prophecy on this website entitled, "God's Great Boiling Pot Today", dated 12/1/07, for the truth and the revelations from God that can set you free from this world and its soon destruction. 

Quote from "God's Great Boiling Pot Today":

The disdain that many people have towards My new house of Israel today will not allow them to see how I, the Lord God, am controlling this world from the inside out.  Therefore, servant Jacob, I, the Lord God, will be looking to see if any of the dead bones inside this boiling pot are worthy to be cleansed today.  I will be watching these bones to see if they still desire to see Me with all of the storm clouds that will soon be brewing over their heads. 

In the coming months I, the Lord God, will be watching many people to see if they have the ability to notice Me when I Am visiting this world and walking among them.  I will be observing them to see if they are able to know when I Am punishing them for all of their grievous sins, trespasses, and evil deeds.  When I begin to heat them beyond measure I will see if they are trying to hold onto everything they have now acquired in this world.  

In the coming hours I, the Lord God, will be observing many people to see if they will desire to cry out to Me for My love and mercy.  When I decide to heat this great pot to its full intensity I will be looking at their hearts and minds to see if they are willing to turn from their evil ways.  Otherwise their bones will stay in this boiling pot until the end of this earth age is over, servant Jacob.  Their bones will stay there until they rot inside and I have the time to send them down to the pit. 

Christianity's Surge in Indonesia. A religious revolution is transforming Indonesia. The boom is in Christianity - Indonesia's second largest faith and a growing force throughout Asia. Indeed, the number of Asian Christian faithful exploded to 351 million adherents in 2005, up from 101 million in 1970, according to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. It is the faith's inroads in Indonesia that are most riveting. Exact figures are hard to gather but a 2000 census counted just under 10% of Indonesians as Christians, a figure many Christian leaders believe is much too low.

April 20, 2010

Some flights resume over Europe. PARIS - Applause, cheers and whoops of joy rang out from New York to Asia to Paris on Tuesday as airplanes gradually took to the skies after five days of being grounded by the drifting volcanic ash that has crippled European air travel. But only limited flights were allowed to resume and British officials said London airports - a major hub for thousands of daily flights worldwide - are likely to remain closed for another day.

Volcanic ash poses little health threat so far: WHO says. GENEVA (Reuters) - Ash particles from Iceland's still-erupting volcano remain high in the atmosphere and do not pose a health risk so far to people in Europe, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. Toning down its guidance from Friday, when it said the ash cloud that has grounded flights could be "very dangerous" for those with asthma and respiratory problems, the WHO said there was no cause for public health alarm so far. Icelanders living near the volcano should stay indoors or wear face masks and goggles to protect themselves against coarse particles that can irritate the lungs and eyes. The most dangerous ash particles are the smallest ones which can be breathed deep into the lungs, and which have moved further from the volcano site in the ash plume billowing over Europe. The deeper they penetrate into the lungs, the bigger their potential concern for public health.

Millions spent on malaria but problems remain. LONDON - Health groups have spent more than a billion dollars and bought millions of bednets to fight malaria, and 20 African countries have increased their bednet coverage at least fivefold, new research says. In a report on the status of malaria in Africa issued on Monday by UNICEF and Roll Back Malaria, a U.N.-led partnership, the authors said $1.8 billion was spent last year, a 10-fold jump since 2004. More than 150 million insecticide-treated bednets to protect against the mosquito-borne disease have been produced and donors have purchased 160 million drug treatments. However according to its most recent figures from 2008, the World Health Organization estimated there were about 250 million malaria cases including 850,000 deaths. Africa accounts for 90 percent of the world's cases. Before 2008, WHO guessed there were nearly 500 million malaria cases and 1 million deaths. The agency doesn't issue yearly figures but estimates based on household surveys and national statistics so there is little concrete proof to show what difference programs are making.

Quake hits western Australian mining town. PERTH, Australia (AP) - A powerful earthquake struck Australia's major gold-mining region in the west Tuesday, collapsing roofs of several buildings and prompting the evacuation of mines, schools and hospitals. The magnitude 5 quake hit at 8:17 a.m. local time (0017 GMT, 11:17 p.m. Monday EDT) about six miles (10 kilometers) southwest of the town of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, according to Geoscience Australia.

Parasite 'a growing stroke risk'. A tropical parasitic disease is becoming an increasingly common cause of stroke, experts say. Some 18m people worldwide have Chagas disease, caused by an infection with the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Recently, researchers discovered having this disease puts the individual at increased risk of stroke due to heart complications and blood clots. Chagas disease is endemic in Latin America. But emigration of millions of people to Europe, North America, Japan and Australia over the past 20 years has also made Chagas disease an emerging health problem in these countries, with the potential to cause a substantial disease burden. One study estimates that more than 300,000 Latin American immigrants with Chagas disease could be living in the US, and many do not know they have it.

Jacob's House Comment,

What is happening today in many nations today is they are allowing heathen immigrants without the knowledge of God to come into their nations and destroy them from within.  Many Christians are allowing these heathens who know not God to marry their sons and daughters and put them on open fires of disfigurement, stealing, and maiming. 

Quote from Nehemiah 13:23-27:

23 In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

24 And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jew's language, but according to the language of each people.

25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves. 

26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things?  Yet among many nations there was no king like him, who was beloved of God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

27 Shall we hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?

April 21, 2010

China mourns 2,064 victims in devastating quake. BEIJING  - Bowing their heads in silent tribute, thousands of officials, soldiers and civilians gathered Wednesday in ceremonies across China to mourn the 2,064 victims killed in a devastating quake that hit one week ago in a remote Tibetan region.

Teens Now Text More Than Talk Face to Face. Not so long ago, "text" simply described plain old letters on a page. Today, according to new research, it's become the primary method of communication for America's teenagers, more popular even than face-to-face conversations. News of the paradigm shift comes by way of a report on "Teens and Mobile phones," released today by the Pew Research Center. After surveying some 800 teens ages 12 to 17, Pew found that 54 percent were daily texters, up drastically from just 38 percent in 2008, and now far outpacing actually talking to each another, which rests at a measly 33 percent. Just as staggering is the sheer volume of texting being done by today's teens. The study found that half of all those it surveyed send upwards of 50 text messages a day, for a total of 1,500 a month. One in three sent more than 100 a day. The researchers also noted a distinct gender divide, with young women texting on average much more than young men (80 texts daily versus 30).

April 25, 2010

Emergency official: 10 killed by Miss. Tornado. Tornadoes ripped through the Southeast on Saturday, killing 10 people in Mississippi and injuring more than a dozen others. Roofs were torn off businesses, churches, and homes were splintered, and roads were severely damaged.

Sandstorm and snow close air link to China quake zone. BEIJING - A choking sandstorm of dust and heavy snow have severed a vital air link to the remote quake-hit Chinese county of Yushu, severely affecting relief efforts, state media said on Sunday. An earthquake earlier this month in Yushu, high on the Tibetan plateau in western Qinghai province, killed more than 2,000 people and left thousands of others homeless in freezing temperatures. The government has spent millions of dollars on projects to rein in the spread of deserts, planting trees and trying to protect what plant cover remains in marginal areas. But the battle is being fought against a backdrop of rising average temperatures and increasing pressure on water resources after three decades of booming growth.

KABUL (AP) - More than 80 schoolgirls have fallen ill in three cases of mass sickness over the past week in northern Afghanistan, raising fears that militants who oppose education for girls are using poison to scare them away from school, authorities said Sunday.  Sayedi blamed the sickness on "enemies" who oppose education for girls. Presidential spokesman Waheed Omar said any attempt to keep girls out of school is a "terrorist act." The Taliban and other conservative extremist groups in Afghanistan who oppose female education have been known to target schoolgirls. Girls were not allowed to attend school when the Taliban controlled most of Afghanistan until they were ousted in the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.

University of Texas System Recalls Students from Mexico.  Citing escalating drug violence in at least seven northern Mexico states, the University of Texas System is ordering all students, faculty and staff in the affected regions to return home immediately. 7 Mexican police officers killed in Ciudad Juarez.  Gunmen ambushed two police vehicles at a busy intersection in this drug- and violence-plagued city, killing seven officers and a 17-year-old boy who was passing by, authorities said. Ciudad Juarez, a city of 1.3 million across from El Paso, Texas, is one of the world's deadliest cities, and a two-year turf battle between drug cartels has left more than 5,000 people dead.

Illegal immigrant law opponents to rally in Ariz. PHOENIX - Opponents who fear that Arizona's tough new immigration law will lead to police harassment of legal immigrants and U.S. citizens who look Hispanic are set to demonstrate against the measure at the state Capitol Sunday afternoon. The rally comes two days after Gov. Jan Brewer signed a bill that requires police to question people about their immigration status, including asking for identification if they suspect someone is in the country illegally. The law also toughens restrictions on hiring illegal immigrants for office at day labor and knowingly transporting them. Civil rights advocates have vowed to challenge the law in court, saying it would undoubtedly lead to racial profiling despite Brewer's assurances. Supporters have dismissed those concerns, saying the law prohibits the use of race or nationality as the sole basis for an immigration check. A U.S. congressman, who closed his Arizona office Friday, after receiving death threats over his opposition to a contentious state immigration measure, wants the federal government and the president to immediately reject it in the strongest possible terms. President Obama has called the bill "misguided" and said it could violate people's civil rights. He said he's instructed the Justice Department to see if it is legal. At least two advocacy groups are preparing legal challenges and Mexico has warned that the law could affect cross-border relations.

Jacob's House Comment:

In the prophecy from our Lord God entitled GOD TALKS ON POLARIZATION, given to Jacob on 5/18/08, God spoke about how the mingled people in many nations would become harder to control in the next few years. God said they would become like foaming debris and become harder to challenge and resist. What is happening in Arizona, Mexico, Afghanistan, Greece, and the tea party movement in the U. S., is only the beginning of this great polarization and violence which will increase before the second coming of Jesus, to this world.   

 GOD TALKS ON POLARIZATION 5/18/08 

Therefore, soon this polarization that is already taking place between the rich and the poor, and the halves and have-nots, will escalate into a burning and searing fire.  Then shall violence, diseases, and affliction be seen in the wilderness places of sin, wickedness, and fornication. 

Soon a burning heat, a glistening sword, and a burning flame from Me, will turn many cities into desolate heaps.  Then shall the plight of the poor, the homeless, the put-always, the shunned, and the unfortunate ones, become known.  In many of the great cities and towns of this world today shall lasciviousness and corrupt behavior be seen. This plight will not go unnoticed, or unseen, any longer.   

For I, the Lord God, know many multitudes of mingled people today are now becoming as foaming debris, messenger and watchman Jacob.  They are getting harder to challenge, resist, or control.  Therefore, soon shall the waves of this foaming debris devour the palaces and monuments that are all around them.  The seas of this earth shall soon roar, and the oceans shall explode, into an evil nightmare before My Son, Jesus, steps upon this earth for a second time.  

Drug users must be helped to halt AIDS spread: U.N. LONDON - Countries in eastern Europe and central Asia face spiralling AIDS epidemics if they fail to help people who inject drugs and stop the spread of infection, the head of the United Nations agency for HIV/AIDS said on Friday. Countries such as Russia, Ukraine, and others could halt or buck the global downward trend in new HIV infections if they ignored the threat posed by drug users and failed to introduce effective harm reduction steps. HIV infection has slowed down globally, but it is expanding in this region of Eastern Europe and central Asia. The 3.7 million people in the region who inject drugs, a quarter have the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS. Drug users, often criminalized and marginalized from health and social services, can spread the virus by sharing needles with an HIV-infected person or pass it on by having unprotected sex.

Strong earthquake rattles eastern Indonesia island. JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 has struck Indonesia's North Maluku  province. There have been no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning has been issued.

April 26, 2010

Potentially Deadly Fungus Expected to Spread Across the U.S. NY, NY (Apr 24) - An airborne fungus also known as the "deadly fungus" has infected more than 50 people in the Pacific Northwest. The fungus is capable of triggering both pneumonia and meningitis. The fungus, Cryptococcus gattii is airborne and has only been detected in the Pacific Northwest. Researchers studying the fungus which is typically located in tropical climates, originates in soil and is associated with certain tree species, and becomes airborne.  Once inhaled the sickness can take up to 8 months to appear and symptoms include: Severe Headache, Fever, Chills, and Shortness of Breath. Some infected individuals have only exhibited one of the four symptoms. This deadly, airborne new strain of fungus has emerged in Oregon, California, and Canada. It has killed nearly one out of four known affected people so far and might also attack animals ranging from dogs to dolphins. And it is likely to spread, researchers now warn. The new strain of fungus not only targets humans but has also proven capable of infecting dogs, cats, alpacas, sheep and elk. Other strains have even infected porpoises.  Although it can spread to mammals, it does not jump from animals to animals. Instead, people and other animals get it from inhaling spores released by samples of the fungus that infect trees. It has been seen over the last decade causing outbreaks on Vancouver Island, Canada, and then spreading to mainland British Columbia and the United States.  The new Oregon strain, however, appears to be a sign that the fungus is evolving and adapting to local environments. That, in turn, suggests it's likely to spread to similar environments in northern California, Idaho and even parts of Nevada.

Dozen dead in violent U. S. southern storms; 10 in Miss. Hundreds of homes were damaged in the tornado, which carved a path of devastation from the Louisiana line to east-central Mississippi, and at least three dozen people were hurt. Two deaths in Alabama also have been blamed on the violent weather that churned through a half-dozen Southern states over the weekend. National Weather Service meteorologist Marc McAlister said the tornado had winds of 160 miles an hour, was 1 mile wide, and left a path of destruction at least 50 miles long.

China quake leaves 8,000 monks homeless: state media. BEIJING (AFP) - The quake in China's remote northwest has left more than 8,000 monks homeless after damaging nearly 90 monasteries, state media said Monday, as the focus of relief work moved onto resettling survivors. Authorities in the province of Qinghai said repairing monasteries would be a priority in reconstruction efforts, the state-run China Daily said, nearly two weeks after the 6.9-magnitude earthquake, which killed over 2,200 people.

Chicago Lawmakers: Call In the National Guard. CHICAGO - Two lawmakers who believe violence has become so rampant in Chicago that the Illinois National Guard must be called in to help made a public plea to Gov. Pat Quinn on Sunday to deploy troops. A recent surge in violent crime, including a night last week that saw seven people killed and 18 wounded, mostly by gunfire, prompted the request from Chicago Democratic Reps. John Fritchey and LaShawn Ford. They were joined by Willie Williams, whose son was shot and killed in 2006. Chicago has had 113 homicide victims so far this year, almost one per day.

April 28, 2010

Hunt on for rogue male killing elephant in India. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (AFP) - Wildlife experts in southern India are hunting a rogue bull elephant who is thought to have gored 12 female tuskers to death because they spurned his sexual advances. The Times of India said on Wednesday that a 15-member taskforce has been set up to catch the aggressive male, called Alpha, who has been on the run in the jungles of Kerala state for the last three years. Kerala's chief wildlife warden, K.K. Srivastava, said eight female elephants were found dead in the vast Periyar reserve between February and June last year.

JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) - Tornadoes that killed 10 people in Mississippi destroyed at least 700 homes and did tens of millions of dollars in damage, state authorities said on Monday.

World markets tumbled Wednesday amid acute fears that Greece's debt crisis would spread like wildfire through Europe after a leading credit ratings agency downgraded the country's debt to junk status and cut Portugal's rating as well.

Terror Attacks Decline Globally, but Rise in Afghanistan, Pakistan. WASHINGTON - An increase in terrorist attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan triggered a spike in the number of civilians killed or wounded there last year, pushing South Asia past the Middle East as the top terror region in the world, according to figures compiled by a U.S. intelligence agency. Thousands of civilians, overwhelmingly Muslim, continue to be slaughtered in extremist attacks, contributing to the instability of the often shaky, poverty-stricken governments in the region, the statistics compiled by the National Counterterrorism Center show. The struggling nations provide havens for terrorists who are increasingly targeting the U.S. and other Western nations. At the same time, U.S.-led operations against insurgents increased in both countries.

U.N.'s Environmental Housekeeping in Chaos, Internal Report Shows. The U.N. is telling countries how to save the planet, but its own environmental housekeeping is a 'scattered' mess, according to a report by a special group of internal investigators. U.N. efforts at setting internal guidelines on environmental housekeeping and management across its sprawling network of global organizations are "uncoordinated ad hoc efforts" that "continue to be scattered." Most of the environmental measures implemented by the central organs of its many funds and programs, not to mention the central U.N. secretariat, "are not based on any specific guidance and are not documented in a clear and transparent way." When it comes to existing multilateral environmental agreements, or MEAs, international treaties for such things as preserving biodiversity, protecting wetlands and migratory species, and halting desertification, the U.N. officials responsible for implementing the agreements told the inspectors of a "lack of high-level support" from the organization's collective top leadership.

Has Noah's Ark Been Found on Turkish Mountaintop? The remains of Noah's Ark have been discovered 13,000 feet up a Turkish mountain, according to a sensational claim by evangelical explorers. A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say wooden remains they have discovered on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey are the remains of Noah's Ark.  The group claims that carbon dating proves the relics are 4,800 years old, meaning they date to around the same time the ark was said to be afloat. Mt. Ararat has long been suspected as the final resting place of the craft by evangelicals and literalists hoping to validate biblical stories. Yeung Wing-Cheung, from theNoah's Ark Ministries Int. found the Ark, and is 99 per cent certain this is it." "There's a tremendous amount of solid evidence that the structure found on Mount Ararat in Eastern Turkey is the legendary Ark of Noah," said Aalten. Representatives of Noah's Ark Ministries said the structure contained several compartments, some with wooden beams, that they believe were used to house animals. At an elevation of more than 4,000 meters, I saw a structure built with plank-like timber. Each plank was about 8 inches wide. I could see tenons, proof of ancient construction, predating the use of metal nails." We walked about 100 meters to another site. I could see broken wood fragments embedded in a glacier, and some 20 meters long. I surveyed the landscape and found that the wooden structure was permanently covered by ice and volcanic rocks." 

Jacob's House comment;

What you are seeing today in these end times is proof there is a living God and everything in the Bible is the truth.  God is making these events happen at this time to Show He is the only God and the Supreme ruler Here.  Soon God will also show He is faithful as promised to the chidren who love Him and His Son, Jesus, when He takes them up on the third day.  He will also show that He can reconstruct and and change this world at a moments notice without anyone standing in His way.  He will show He alone owns eternal life and know one who is dead in their hearts and minds can come to Him to receive this gift. 

April 30, 2010

Workers march on Wall Street, protest big banks. NEW YORK - Thousands of workers and union leadersWall Street on Thursday to express their anger over lost jobs, the taxpayer-funded bailout of financial institutions and questionable lending practices by big banks. The rally was organized by the marched on AFL-CIO and an association of community groups. It included a diverse mixture of union workers, activists, the unemployed, and homeowners threatened by foreclosure. "These guys are like pirates," said small business owner Karen Casamassima, of New York, who called for "economic patriotism" and held up a sign depicting a jewel encrusted skull with the words, "Financial Terrorists."

Pelicans, otters along La. U.S. shore in path of oil spill. MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER - Oil from a massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico was starting to ooze ashore, threatening migrating birds, nesting pelicans and even river otters and mink along Louisiana's fragile islands and barrier marshes. Crews in boats were patrolling coastal marshes early Friday looking for areas where the oil has flowed in, the Coast Guard said. The leak from a blown-out well a mile underwater is five times bigger than first believed. The oil slick could become the nation's worst environmental disaster in decades, threatening to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez in scope. It imperils hundreds of species of fish, birds and other wildlife along the Gulf Coast, one of the world's richest seafood grounds, teeming with shrimp, oysters and other marine life.

May 3, 2010

Best case: Another week of unabated oil geyser. VENICE, La. - Federal officials shut down fishing from the Mississippi River to the Florida Panhandle on Sunday because of the uncontrolled gusher spewing massive amounts of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, and the environmental disaster is still expected to take at least a week to cut off. Even that toxic scenario may be too rosy because it depends on a low-tech strategy that has never been attempted before in deep water. The plan: to lower 74-ton, concrete-and-metal boxes into the gulf to capture the oil and siphon it to a barge waiting at the surface. If it doesn't work, and efforts to activate a shutoff mechanism called a blowout preventer continue to prove fruitless, the oil probably will keep gushing for months until a second well can be dug to cut off the first.

Tenn. officials brace for more flooding, deaths. NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Cumberland River is near an expected crest of more than 11 feet above flood stage in Nashville following devastating weekend thunderstorms that slammed Tennessee and northern Mississippi, killing at least 15 people. Tennessee authorities are preparing for more deaths and have evacuated the downtown area and north Nashville where a leaky levee threatened residents and businesses. Flooding could hit the downtown tourism industry, a commuter train depot and nearby LP Field, where the Tennessee Titans play. At least 11 are dead in Tennessee and four in northern Mississippi. Thousands of homes have been damaged or destroyed by flooding and tornados. Hospitals, schools and state buildings also were flooded.

May 6, 2010

Nashville's Famed Music Quieted by Flooding. NASHVILLE, Tennessee - While city officials reported progress Wednesday restoring Nashville's electrical and water systems after a devastating flood, the downtown remained dark, homes were sodden and patience was wearing thin four days after flash flooding and storms blamed for at least 29 deaths in three states. Nashville's country music scene also began assessing damage from the floods. The city is considered the heart of country music, and the blazing fiddles and screaming guitars in Nashville's famed downtown honky-tonks were a little quieter as business owners pumped water out of their restaurants and bars.

Americans 'Bombarded' with Cancer Causes. Americans are being "bombarded" with chemicals, gases and radiation that can cause cancer, and the federal government must do far more to protect them, presidential cancer advisers said on Thursday. Although as many as two-thirds of cancer cases are caused by lifestyle choices like smoking, poor diet and lack of exercise, the panel said many avoidable cancers were also caused by pollution, radon from the soil and medical imaging scans.

FDA Finds Recalled Children's Cold Medicines Had Bacteria. WASHINGTON -  Ingredients used by Johnson & Johnson in some of the 40 varieties of children's cold medicines recalled last week were contaminated with bacteria, according to a report by the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA report lists more than 20 manufacturing problems found at the McNeil Consumer Healthcare plant in Fort Washington, Pa., where the formulas were made. The recalled products include children and infant formulations of Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl. The FDA report, which was posted online, lists more than 20 manufacturing problems found at the McNeil Consumer Healthcare plant.

One Baby Born with Syphilis Every Hour in China. Every hour a baby is born in China with syphilis, as the world's fastest-growing epidemic of the disease is fueled by men with new money from the nation's booming economy, researchers say. The bacterial infection, which was nearly wiped out in China five decades ago, is now the most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease in its largest city, Shanghai. Prostitutes along with gay and bisexual men, many of whom are married with families, are driving the epidemic, according to a commentary published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The increase reflects the country's staggering economic growth, providing both businessmen and migrant laborers more cash and opportunity to pay for unsafe sex while away from home.

Stomach Cancer Rising in Young, White Adults. CHICAGO -  Scientists are puzzling over a surprising increase in stomach cancer in young white adults, while rates in all other American adults have declined. Chances for developing stomach cancer are still very low in young adults but the incidence among 25 to 39 year old whites nonetheless climbed by almost 70 percent in the past three decades, a study found.

Chemical Detergents May Make Gulf Oil Disaster Worse, Say Experts. Oil-dispersing chemicals used to clean the vast BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico carry their own environmental risks, making a toxic soup that could endanger marine creatures even as it keeps the slick from reaching the vulnerable coast, experts say. The concentration of detergents and other chemicals used to clean up sites contaminated by oil spills can cause environmental nightmares of their own. Some of the detergents that are typically used to clean up spill sites are more toxic than the oil itself, in which case it would be better to leave the site alone and allow microbes to do what they do best.

Earthquake Rattles Peru and Chile. Blackouts are being reported, likely due to downed electricity poles, and at least 10 injuries have also been reported so far. Whether there were any casualties remains unknown, but only moderate damage has been seen so far. The epicenter of the quake was 25 miles west of Tacna.

Study: Older, unmarried, educated moms on rise. Half of mothers surveyed said parenthood "just happened." While most women giving birth are doing it within the context of marriage, researchers said a record 41 percent of births were to unmarried women in 2008. That's up from 28 percent in 1990, according to the study, "The New Demography of American Motherhood." The trend crossed major racial and ethnic groups. Nearly 14 percent of mothers of newborns were 35 or older two years ago, and only about 10 percent were in their teens. The age trend was reversed in 1990, when teens had a 13 percent share of births.

 Europe faces debt contagion fear.  LONDON - The euro slid further amid fears that Greece's debt crisis would spread across the continent after a ratings agency warned Thursday that contagion could hit banks in weaker countries. Spain saw its borrowing costs rise ominously at a debt auction, and markets looked for some form of extra help from the European Central Bank. Greece says bailout is only hope.

May 7, 2010

Obama: Authorities investigating wild market swing. WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said Friday that regulatory authorities are evaluating the "unusual market activity" on Wall Street this week in hopes of keeping such a sudden, violent drop from happening again. A computerized sell-off mixed with fears that the European debt crisis would spread sent the Dow Jones industrial average plummeting by almost 1,000 points within a half-hour Thursday afternoon. The market regained two-thirds of the loss before the end of trading. Obama commented on Friday's report that the economy had added 290,000 jobs last month while the unemployment rate inched up to 9.9 percent. Obama said that while his administration is taking steps to boost hiring "we're also mindful of other economic factors that can emerge," such as a plunging stock market and fears of a spreading overseas financial crisis.

Abandoned water cooler causes Times Square scare. NEW YORK - Police cleared streets around Times Square on Friday and called in the bomb squad after finding a cooler and a shopping bag left on a sidewalk about a block from where a failed car bomb was found over the weekend. They opened streets to traffic after finding out the cooler contained only water bottles.

More of Gulf closed to fishing because of spill. NEW ORLEANS - Federal officials have expanded an area that is off-limits to fishing because of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. From the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River, to south of Pensacola, Fla., is now closed to fishing because of the spill. The initial closure was 6,814 square miles and the new area is 10,807 square miles. Late Thursday, Louisiana officials closed shrimping in state waters from South Pass of the Mississippi to the eastern shore of Four Bayous Pass just east of Grand Isle. Earlier, state waters east of the Mississippi were closed to seafood harvesting.

MONTREAL (AFP) - Seasonal water levels in the Saint Lawrence seaway - a major North American shipping corridor - have reached their lowest point in 40 years, the Quebec hydro center warned Friday. This follows one of the warmest Canadian winters on record, in which very little snow fell. Environment Canada said fish are likely to suffer the most. Pike, for example, spawn their eggs in flooded plains along the banks of the seaway that remained unusually dry this year. Barges and ocean-going vessels that travel along the system of locks, canals and channels from the Atlantic Ocean to the North American Great Lakes, have also had to reduce loads. Alfred Jaouich, a researcher at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) blamed "a winter with little precipitation in the region of the Great Lakes," which hold 25 percent of the world's fresh water reserves, and other tributaries. The Great Lakes themselves are also at record low water levels, officials said.

Jacob's House Comment,

In the prophecy on this website entitled "God's New Ark is Here" and dated 8/9/07, God spoke to Jacob about how the seas of this world would become dead and not support life. God spoke about the fact that many outsiders, fornicators, fools, and drunkards would not be able to enter into His new ark today.  He spoke about the fact that they would not be able to envision its glorious splendor and majesty before them.  They would also miss their last opportunity to be with God and His Son, Jesus.  Instead, they would be stranded among the dead seas of this world without God's purified water to taste and drink in their weary and troubled souls.  This prophecy from our Maker is already coming to pass as these major great lakes dry out and have problems supporting fish and life in them.

Excerpt from prophecy,  "God's New Ark is Here":  

Therefore, Jacob, though My faithful children of the promise and the blood will be able to enter into My new ark today, many outsiders, fornicators, fools, and drunkards will be left behind.  Though My beloved ones will be able to enter into this new ark's loving, joyful, and peaceful chambers, the outsiders, fornicators, and drunkards I despise will not be able to have any solitude or peace in the coming days.  They will not be able to see when My new ark has past them by.  They will not be able to envision its glorious splendor and majesty before them.  Instead they will miss their last opportunity to have a place with Me and My Son.  They will not be able to see My great new day when it is unfolding and coming together before their eyes.  They will also miss their last chance on this earth to reconcile with Me for all of the evil deeds and mischievous wrongs they have done. 

Therefore, Many foolish people will soon be stranded among the dead seas of this world, servant Jacob.  They will be without My purified water of life to taste and drink in their weary and troubled souls.  My loving kindness and My beautiful ways of righteousness will elude them on the seventh day of My new beginning. 

So shall many vain drunkards and proud fornicators refuse My precious ark as it sails past them today.  They will also not be able to enter through the door to eternal life that My Son, Jesus, maintains.  Though some of them will ask Me and My Son to forgive them of their sins, I, the Lord God, will not allow them to come into My new ark today.

WASHINGTON - A food company is recalling lettuce sold in 23 states and the District of Columbia because of an E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 19 people, three of them with life-threatening symptoms. The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that 12 people had been hospitalized and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was looking at 10 other cases probably linked to the outbreak. Freshway Foods of Sidney, Ohio, said it was recalling romaine lettuce sold under the Freshway and Imperial Sysco brands because of a possible link to the E. coli outbreak.

Euro zone agrees emergency steps to contain crisis. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone leaders decided on Friday they have special measures ready before financial markets open on Monday to prevent financial turmoil in Greece spreading to other countries such as Spain and Portugal. The leaders of the 16 countries that use the single currency said after talks with the European Central Bank and the executive European Commission they were ready to take whatever steps were needed to protect the stability of the euro area.

May 9, 2010

EU seeks mechanism to contain Greek debt crisis. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union finance ministersGreece's debt crisis to stop it spreading to countries like Portugal and Spain. European Union officials have been working out the details of a financial support mechanism that the finance ministers aim to set in motion before markets open on Monday. "We are going to defend the euro... we have to give more stability to our guarantee," Spanish Economy Minister Elena Salgado told reporters before the Brussels talks. Ministers of France, Finland and other countries also stressed the need to defend the euro currency. called for strong action to ensure stability before a meeting on Sunday to discuss ways of ring-fencing

May 14, 2010

Europe faces debt contagion fear. LONDON - The euro slid further amid fears that Greece's debt crisis would spread across the continent after a ratings agency warned Thursday that contagion could hit banks in weaker countries. Spain saw its borrowing costs rise ominously at a debt auction, and markets looked for some form of extra help from the European Central Bank. Greece says bailout is only hope.

May 16, 2010

Asian ivory trade poses danger to African elephant. A surge in demand for ivory in Asia is fuelling an illicit trade in elephant tusks, especially from Africa. Over the past eight years, the price of ivory has gone up from about $100 per kilogram ($100 per 2.2 pounds) to $1,800, creating a lucrative black market. Experts warn that if the trade is not stopped, elephant populations could dramatically plummet. The elephants could be nearly extinct by 2020, some activists say. Sierra Leone lost its last elephants in December, and Senegal has fewer than 10 left. "If we don't get the illegal trade under control soon, elephants could be wiped out over much of Africa, making recovery next to impossible," said Samuel K. Wasser, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington. "The impact that loss of this keystone species would have on African ecosystems is difficult to even imagine." Wasser estimated that the illegal trade is about 100 times the legal trade, with a value of $264 million over the past decade. Demand for ivory runs strong in the Chinese city of Putian, which sits directly across from Taiwan, its outskirts crowded with factories owned by Taiwanese businessmen. These businessmen have a reputation for collecting ivory, a sure way to seal a deal with an important client.

Jacob's House Comment,

God told His servant Jacob about 5 years ago that within the next 20 to 25 years man would destroy His precious earth.  God said that if He did not intervene to save this world from man's greed and selfishness, every living creature here would suffer and die because of man's sinful and self serving ways. However, the good news is our glorious God is coming to save His children and save this world.  He is coming faster than most people think He is today.  God will be here soon with His Son, Jesus, to deliver up His enemies to the sword.  Then He will take back and preserve what He has loaned us, but has always been His.  

2nd German banker doubts Greece's ability to repay. BERLIN - The chief economist of a German bank is quoted as saying that he doubts Greece's ability to repay its huge debts in an orderly fashion. German news website Handelsblatt on Sunday reported that the Dekabank's chief economist shares the doubts voiced by Deutsche Bank AG's Chief Executive Josef Ackermann on Thursday. Ulrich Kater was quoted as saying: "It will be very, very difficult for Greece to orderly repay its debt." He said the country's new austerity measures and its lack of competitiveness were dooming Greece's prospects for economic growth, making debt reduction difficult. Ackermann, CEO of Germany's biggest lender, caused outrage and nervousness on already jittery markets by publicly doubting Greece's ability to repay its debt and mentioning the possibility of a debt restructuring.

Under pressure, BP tries again to contain oil spill in U. S. Gulf of Mexico. GALLIANO, La (Reuters) - Energy giant BP made a new attempt to siphon gushing oil from an offshore well as political pressure and public outrage increased over the company's slow progress at stopping environmental disaster. The latest fix involves guiding undersea robots to insert a small tube into a 21-inch (53-cm) pipe, known as a riser, to funnel the oil to a ship at the surface. Crude oil is gushing unchecked into the sea from a blown-out offshore well a mile (1.6 km) deep on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico, threatening an ecological and economic calamity along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Oil debris and tar has begun to wash up on barrier islands and outlying beaches of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. Scientists and residents of the Gulf Coast say a far greater concern is the anticipated encroachment of oil into the environmentally fragile bayous and marshes teeming with shrimp, oysters, crabs, fish, birds and other wildlife.

Earthquake rattles East Bay, Calif. U. S. A small earthquake rumbled about six miles northeast of Hayward this morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake, which had a preliminary magnitude of 3.3, hit at 10:54 a.m.Watsonville reported to the U.S. Geological Survey that they had felt the temblor. There were no initial reports of damage or injuries. More than 60 people from as far north as Ukiah.

USGS reports 5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Puerto Rico. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 struck the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico early Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake hit at 1:16 a.m. (0516 GMT) four miles (six kilometers) from the small town of Espino on the western side of the island and 63 miles (101 kilometers) from the capital, San Juan.

Strange Sea Species Found Off Greenland. There's been a spike in fresh fish faces seen off Greenland. Whether the cause is rising ocean temperatures or increased deep-sea fishing, the new discoveries are astounding. Looking like a creature from the Alien movies, this nightmarish "longhead dreamer" anglerfish (Chaenophryne longiceps) was until recently an alien species to Greenland waters. The dreamer, which grows to a not-so-monstrous 6.7 inches in length, is 1 of 38 fish species found around the Arctic island for the first time, according to a recent study led by biologist Peter Moller of the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. The Atlantic football fish and the Iceland catshark species are among several other fish and sharks recently found in Greenland waters, many for the first time.

May 17, 2010

Oil falls below $70 as euro sinks to 4-year low. SINGAPORE - Oil prices dropped below $70 a barrel Monday in Asia as the euro sank to a four-year low and stock markets tumbled on investor concern Europe's economy will wither amid a debt crisis and fiscal austerity measures. The euro fell to $1.2279 on Monday from $1.2352 on Friday while the dollar slid to 92.03 yen from 92.30 yen. Asian stock markets also plunged Monday, and oil investors often look to equities as a sign of overall investor confidence.

Jacob's House Comment,

Woe, trouble, and tribulation continue to plague many nations today.  Problems are increasing in them because they have defied the living God.  These nations have defied God's commandments, instructions, and statutes which bring everlasting life.  Therefore, they will continue to suffer with economic problems in the next few years before the second coming of our Lord Jesus to this world.  They will suffer with violence, polarization, pestulance, severe weather, and problems that they will not be able to overcome or control. 

Deep sea oil plumes, dispersants endanger reefs. NEW ORLEANS - The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has already spewed plumes over ecologically sensitive reefs, part of a stalled marine sanctuary proposal that would have restrict drilling in a large swath of the northern part of the vital waterway. Marine scientists fear that two powerful Gulf currents will carry the oil to other reefs. The eastward flowing loop current could spread it about 450 miles to the Florida Keys, while the Louisiana coastal current could move the oil as far west as central Texas. The depth of the gushing leaks and the use of more than 560,000 gallons of chemicals to disperse the oil, including unprecedented injections deep in the sea, have helped keep the crude beneath the sea surface. Marine scientists say diffusing and sinking the oil helps protect the surface species and the Gulf Coast shoreline, but increases the chance of harming deep-sea reefs, which are seen as bellwethers for sea health.

Dramatic surge seen in U. S. kids hospitalized with MRSA. CHICAGO - The number of children hospitalized with dangerous drug-resistant staph infections surged 10-fold in recent years, a study found. Disease incidence increased from 2 cases to 21 cases per 1,000 hospital admissions from 1999 to 2008. Most infections were caught in the community, not in the hospital. The study involved methicillin-resistant staph infections, called MRSA. These used to occur mostly in hospitals and nursing homes but they are increasingly showing up in other settings in children and adults. Recent evidence suggests hospital-acquired MRSA cases may be declining while community-acquired cases are becoming more common. MRSA often begins as a pimple or boil on the skin. It can also spread to other parts of the body, including the bones or lungs, where it can cause pneumonia.

Four dead, many evacuated as floods sweep central Europe. WARSAW (Reuters) - Flash floods triggered by days of heavy rain have killed at least four people, forced mass evacuations and cut off power to thousands in central Europe and weather forecasts offered no hope of respite in coming days. The Polish interior ministry said it expected to evacuate up to 2,000 people from their homes as floods submerged fields, roads and some railway lines. More than 2,000 people were forced from their homes in northern Hungary as heavy weekend rains blocked off villages and cut power supplies.

ST. LOUIS - Heavy U. S. rains have caused several Midwestern rivers to rise, with more storms in the forecast. Many rivers are at or near their crest after the latest round of spring storms over the weekend. But flood-watchers aren't ready to relax just yet. Heavy rain caused the Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois, Meramec, Grand, Fabius and other rivers to rise. Missouri was hardest hit, but other states in the nation's midsection were seeing mostly minor flooding.