http://www.cgg.org//index.cfm/fuseaction/news.world The latest news and commentary from cgg.org en-us Copyright 1992-2012 by Church of the Great God dgrabbe@cgg.org Thu, 17 May 2012 00:01:00 EST Thu, 17 May 2012 00:02:00 EST 15 124 18 http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.world http://www.cgg.org/images/WorldWatch.gif http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19217 24/7 Wall Street.com dgrabbe@cgg.org http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19217 Wed, 16 May 2012 12:05:00 EST To be sure, cyber crimes have been occurring for some time, but the presence of social media has made many crimes much easier to commit. In social networks people make ?friends? without knowing the person and make personal information easily available. And none of the networks present more opportunity to criminals than Facebook and its hundreds of millions of users. With this in mind, 24/7 Wall St. looked at some of the most common ways criminals use Facebook. http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19218 Los Angeles Times dgrabbe@cgg.org http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19218 Wed, 16 May 2012 12:05:00 EST Greek officials were busy today cobbling together an emergency plan after talks to form a coalition government disintegrated Tuesday. In the meantime, Greeks have withdrawn $900 million from local banks. http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19216 The Telegraph dgrabbe@cgg.org http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19216 Tue, 15 May 2012 12:05:00 EST Europe?s financial crisis lurched into a perilous new phase as dire predictions emerged of a collapse in Greece?s economy, with a run on its banks bringing an inevitable end to its membership of the euro. http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19212 Financial Times dgrabbe@cgg.org http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19212 Mon, 14 May 2012 12:05:00 EST Eurozone central bankers have talked publicly for the first time of managing a possible Greek exit from Europe?s monetary union as stalemate in Athens talks on a coalition government raises the prospect that Greece will renege on the terms of its international bailout. http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19213 The Guardian dgrabbe@cgg.org http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19213 Mon, 14 May 2012 12:05:00 EST World population needs to be stabilised quickly and high consumption in rich countries rapidly reduced to avoid "a downward spiral of economic and environmental ills", warns a major report from the Royal Society. Contraception must be offered to all women who want it and consumption cut to reduce inequality, says the study published on Thursday, which was chaired by Nobel prize-winning biologist Sir John Sulston. http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19214 The American Dream dgrabbe@cgg.org http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19214 Mon, 14 May 2012 12:05:00 EST Despite what you may have heard from the mainstream media, Mitt Romney does not have the Republican nomination locked up. In fact, he is rapidly losing delegates that almost everyone assumed that he already had in the bag. To understand why this is happening, you have to understand the delegate selection process. http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19215 Guardian.co.uk dgrabbe@cgg.org http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19215 Mon, 14 May 2012 12:05:00 EST In the past year, TSA's snakelike VIPR (Visual Intermodal Prevention and Response) teams have been slithering into more and more bus and train stations ? and even running checkpoints on highways ? never in response to actual threats, but apparently more in an attempt to live up to the inspirational motto displayed at the TSA's air marshal training center since the agency's inception: "Dominate. Intimidate. Control." http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/audio.details/ID/3026 John W. Ritenbaugh dgrabbe@cgg.org http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/3026 Sat, 12 May 2012 12:05:00 EST John Ritenbaugh, observing that President Obama is presumptuously thumbing his arrogant nose at God, endorsing homosexual marriage, concludes that our hedonistic, self-centered society as a whole does not seem to care what God thinks. President Obama, sticking his finger in the air, discovering that 50% of the electorate now apparently favors same-sex marriage, boldly proclaims that he has carefully and thoughtfully ?evolved? into that brave political position. Over the preceding decades, feminists and homosexuals, modeling their protests on the example of the Black Civil Rights movement, suggest that they are the ?only? ones ?discriminated against.? This disgusting Chutzpah ignores the blatant fact that the over 50 white male professionals and the Christian (especially Sabbath- keeping Christians) are clearly the most discriminated - against members of society. Certainly, society has discriminated against the young Mormon male more than it has ever discriminated against women, who surprisingly, are not a minority at all, but actually constitute the majority of the population. Political correctness seems to allow for selected groups of people (seen by opportunist politicians as potential voter constituencies) to bellyache, whine and kvetch about their alleged ?unfair? treatment, while turning a blind eye on people who are actually persecuted for righteousness sake, trying to follow God?s standards. http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19207 CommodityOnline.com dgrabbe@cgg.org http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19207 Wed, 09 May 2012 12:05:00 EST Increasing US sanctions have been straining Iran from its oil revenues as its major markets began to cut back oil imports from the country in a bid to comply with US requests. But the sanctions may boomerang back at the US with countries starting to use their respective currencies instead of the US Dollar for oil trades. http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19208 The Telegraph dgrabbe@cgg.org http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19208 Wed, 09 May 2012 12:05:00 EST European Union leaders are to hold an emergency summit as a popular anti-austerity backlash threatens to break the eurozone apart and cause a deep rift between France and Germany. http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19209 New York Times dgrabbe@cgg.org http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19209 Wed, 09 May 2012 12:05:00 EST What is disturbing is that much of the decline in the growth rate is distributed unevenly, with the greatest burden falling on the poor. If the slower rate continues or worsens, many millions of Indians, for another generation, will fail to rise above extreme penury and want. The problems of the euro zone are a pittance by comparison. http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19210 Christian Post dgrabbe@cgg.org http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19210 Wed, 09 May 2012 12:05:00 EST NCFIC Director Scott T. Brown told The Christian Post that today's modern concept of youth ministry is a "50-year failed experiment." Brown said that when he was a church leader in the '70s and '80s he could have been the "poster boy" for the youth ministry movement in California. However, he said he now feels that dividing children from adults at church is an unbiblical concept borrowed from humanistic philosophies. http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19211 MSNBC dgrabbe@cgg.org http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/news.sa/a/19211 Wed, 09 May 2012 12:05:00 EST President Barack Obama endorsed the right of same-sex couples to marry on Wednesday, a landmark pronouncement made in light of mounting pressure from gay rights advocates. Obama became the first U.S. president to back the right of gay and lesbian couples to marry, a reversal from views expressed during the 2008 campaign, when he said he opposed same-sex marriage but favored civil unions as an alternative. Obama told ABC News that, after reflection, he had "concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married."