Let Jesus Set You Free! (LJSF) Ministry

We ( my Fiancee Lori Labove & I) are getting married this Saturday May 26th, 2012 at 2 pm at Lakeview Baptist Church outside Vidor, Tx. Totally informal & casual and small reception afterwards. If you like to come contact us at 713 927-8469. Thank You! Steven White

March 19, 2011 Libya's minority Christians were among those facing danger Saturday, March 19, as the international community began enforcing a no fly zone over the predominantly Sunni Muslim nation to halt attacks by forces loyal to embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

The just-released Labor Department report on the U.S. job market in September pulls no punches: The U.S. economy continues to deteriorate.

Over 95,000 jobs were lost in September, on top of 57,000 in August.

The "official" unemployment rate held at 9.6 percent. But if you include discouraged and underemployed workers, of the true unemployment figure is 17.1 percent.

Almost 1 in 5 Americans either can't find solid, gainful employment ... or have basically given up looking for a job.

In addition ...

Construction lost another 21,000 jobs and manufacturing shed another 6,000 jobs.

IT employment slumped for the second month in a row, while the financial sector shed workers for the FIFTH consecutive month.

In the government sector, we saw a nasty loss of 159,000 jobs, with state, local, and federal governments ALL letting workers go!

http://www.worthynews.com/top/online-wsj-com-article-SB10001424052748704178004575350901919366406-html/

The U.S. and U.K. have two of the highest budget deficits in the world, but while Britain's newly elected government has embraced austerity in a bid to quickly cut the deficit, Washington continues to bang the drum for more spending, saying it is essential to rescue the global economy.

Other European leaders, notably German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet, have echoed the British approach.

But given the similarities of the so-called Anglo-Saxon economies, the contrast in the U.S. and U.K. approaches is most stark.

Reuters CHICAGO

  As much as 1 million times the normal level of methane gas has been found in some regions near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, enough to potentially deplete oxygen and create a dead zone, U.S. scientists said on Tuesday.

Texas A&M University oceanography professor John Kessler, just back from a 10-day research expedition near the BP Plc oil spill in the gulf, says methane gas levels in some areas are "astonishingly high."

Kessler's crew took measurements of both surface and deep water within a 5-mile (8 kilometer) radius of BP's broken wellhead.

"There is an incredible amount of methane in there," Kessler told reporters in a telephone briefing.

In some areas, the crew of 12 scientists found concentrations that were 100,000 times higher than normal.

For more'

http://www.worthynews.com/top/abcnews-go-com-print-id-10985767/

By George Whitten, Jerusalem Bureau Chief

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (Worthy News)– Pope Benedict XVI has urged the creation of a “true world political authority” to “guarantee the protection of the environment” and to manage the global economy, Worthy News learned on Monday, June 21.

The pope issued an encyclical on the eve of the G-8 summit entitled, “Charity in truth“.

An encyclical is the highest form of papal writing, and gives the clearest indication to the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics of what the Vatican thinks about specific social and moral issues.

Pope Benedict said, “there is an urgent need of a true world political authority” whose task would be “to manage the global economy; to revive economies hit by the crisis; to avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result.” Read more:

http://www.worthynews.com/8375-pope-calls-for-world-political-authority

http://patriotupdate.com/exclusives/read/141/Look-what-they-found-near-the-Texan-Mexican-border

Look what they found near the Texan/Mexican border!

By: Unknown

Where was our news media? Where was our president and congress? Why does the official move from Washington go against American private citizens and their guns, and not an all out war against the drug cartels using fully automatic military weapons, hand grenades, launchers and machineguns? Why is the president pushing for an international gun law that will bring registration and finally gun control to we American citizens? Who is for free and lawful American citizens? Where are our statesmen? Where are our patriots and where are champions for the Constitution and freedom and safety of American citizens?

This is not a false cry of Wolf! Wolf! The wolf is already ravaging the sheepfold. Until now we are acting like sheep and are in great danger of losing the greatest treasure on earth: freedom and opportunity for us and our children and grandchildren. WAKE UP AMERICANS!

Look what they found near the Texan/Mexican border! This will open your eyes & make you think! What are they planning?

A PRIME example of why we MUST support our neighbors in Arizona, and bolster the Texan border. This was a Zetas camp (a Mexican cartel w/ Guatemalan ties) that was found near Higueras, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The "state" of Nuevo Laredo borders the Rio Grande, and this town is a little over 100 miles away from Laredo, TX. Please forgive the crude translations; my Mexican Spanish isn't that great.-J.

Exactly where did you hear about it in OUR media? Thank God for the border patrol that this did not come over the border. There is one "graphic picture" but it tells the story.

Let's quit trying to decide who is violating our federal laws "to make a better life", and ENFORCE the laws across the board on EVERYONE violating them.

That way we won't have to lament or wonder just how many of the illegal aliens legalized (synonymous with rewarded) under the latest attempt to legislate away the millions who have spit on our laws, are MS-13, Zetas, cartel members, and other scum that would be "legal". There are many Hispanic men and women that I both love and respect that understand and support Arizona and any citizen's desire to keep our country a safe place to live and raise our children and grandchildren. It's not racist, and it's not xenophobic. I hope we can ignore and recognize the majority of the naysayers for the photo-op, attention-loving clowns they are, and start coming together as AMERICANS that want what's best for AMERICA !

http/patriotupdate.com/exclusives/read/141/Look-what-they-found-near-the-Texan-Mexican-border

Russian President Medvedev Shows off New Coin at G-8 Summit

MOSCOW/AQUILA (Worthy News)– Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called for a new global currency to replace the dollar as the World’s Reserve Currency.

http://www.worthynews.com/8371-russian-president-displays-new-world-currency-coin-at-g-8-summit

Praying For An Improvement

In Grand Isle, a group of about 30 people gathers for an interfaith service. The area has gotten more than its fair share of oil.

"I really want to thank you all so much for taking time today out of your schedule to join with us together on this very special day," says Jeff Dorson, president of the Humane Society of Louisiana.

Dorson isn't a minister. He's an animal-rights advocate, but on this evening he's channeling his spiritual side.

"Maybe we can magically help stop the flow of oil, even through the power of prayer," he says over a loudspeaker.

An "amen" rises up from the crowd.

Dorson is followed by a Catholic priest, a Methodist minister and a woman who reads a passage in French. There are tears and amens and when the service is done, everyone gathers at a berm overlooking the ocean and holds hands.

"You've lost your peace of mind. You've lost your faith in humanity, really," says Julie Cambre, who spends her summers on Grand Isle. She say she can't even sit on the beach to read because of the oil.

"You don't know for years to come what this oil is going to do to this area," she says. "And as a person, I can't do anything."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127940375

WASHINGTON D.C. (Worthy News)-- American President Barack Obama will receive "absolute power" to shut down the Internet, according to proposed U.S. Senate legislation seen by Worthy News Friday, June 18.

The bill, known as the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act (PCNAA), would give the president of the United States a "kill switch" to effectively seize control of the Internet in the event of a "national emergency".  Read more at;

http://www.worthynews.com/8341-america-watch-obama-to-control-internet-under-proposed-senate-bill

The central key to the USA Work Visa Bill is to record an accurate census of undocumented workers in the United States and provide them a work visa. By doing so, Hernandez believes the economy will benefit, which in turn would improve health care for low-income elderly and disabled veterans, provide funding for understaffed senior facilities, create jobs, lower taxes, provide funding for low interest home mortgages, provide pay increase for teachers and law enforcement.

http://www.hcnonline.com/articles/2010/03/31/pasadena_citizen/news/032810_immigraton_proposal.txt

THE JERUSALEM POST

HILARY LEILA KRIEGER in Washington and HAVIV RETTIG GUR , THE JERUSALEM POST Asthe deadline for Iran to respond to the international community's offerregarding its nuclear program passed Thursday, the US has toughened itsrhetoric and is looking increasingly to sanctions rather thandiplomacy.

That has pleased Israel, which wants strong action against the Islamic Republic as it continues to enrich uranium in defiance ofinternational demands and has rejected US President Barack Obama's outstretched hand.

The next step, according to Ambassador to the US Michael Oren,should be "imposing crippling sanctions" on the Teheran regime, whichis in keeping with the pledge Oren said Obama made to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in May that the US would end the engagement phasetoward Iran if it were unsuccessful by year's end.

Oren told The Jerusalem Post that "there isn't an Israeli view and an American view" on the Iranian question, but rather "one view."

However, the Obama administration is showing signs that itsapproach to sanctions might not be in line with the "crippling"measures that Israel is expecting. Instead, a more calibrated approachhas been emerging in which the US would press for another UN SecurityCouncil resolution this month and look at targeted sanctions ratherthan at disrupting Iran's energy markets and other more broad-basedmoves.

In addition, the US has repeatedly stressed that the door to diplomatic engagement remains open, not withstanding Obama's pledge toreview the process at the end of the year.

"The United States remains committed to a diplomatic resolutionto the international community's concerns regarding Iran's nuclearprogram," a State Department official told the Post Thursday, though he added, "Unfortunately, thus far, our efforts have been rebuffed."

He also said, "We would welcome Iran taking concrete steps tobuild confidence in the peaceful nature of its nuclear program,"particularly by "Iranian acceptance of the IAEA's standing TeheranResearch Reactor refueling proposal."

That deal - in which Teheran would have sent most of its enriched uranium abroad for processing so that Iran could then use itfor medical purposes - was worked out by global leaders in October, whogave Iran until Thursday to accept the deal. There have been reports,however, that Turkey is working to provide a compromise proposal eventhough the US has in the past ruled out any modification to the offer,which Iran has not approved.

American officials have several times referred to"consequences" Iran would face for rejecting the efforts at diplomaticsolutions, and in recent days have spoken increasingly about the optionof sanctions.

Along with the track of ongoing diplomatic efforts, "we aremoving on the pressure track in consultation with others," anadministration official told the Post Thursday. "The UnitedStates will continue to implement its dual-track strategy to achieveits goal of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weaponscapability. We continue to consult with our partners on how we willgive full meaning to the dual tracks."

He added that "a variety of options are being explored" on implementing the latter track and that "the discussions are continuing."

Earlier in the week, a senior US official fleshed out some of the approach on the pressure track, telling The Washington Post that the administration would like to use fine-tuned measures. "We have never been attracted to the idea of trying to get the whole world tocordon off their economy," he said. "We have to be deft at this,because it matters how the Iranian people interpret their isolation -whether they fault the regime or are fooled into thinking we are toblame."

Though Obama has been more forceful in his criticism of the Iranian regime as the crackdown on opposition forces has turned bloodier in recent days, the administration doesn't want to see sanctions policy hurt average Iranians or fuel the government'santi-Western charges.

"There's strong support for sanctions on regime figures. Beyondthat it gets to be more complicated," Iran expert Patrick Clawson ofthe Washington Institute for Near East Policy said of popular Iranian attitudes toward such measures.

More targeted restrictions - on the Revolutionary Guard Corpsand its economic enterprises in addition to the Iranian leadership -could also be an easier sell with many of the international countries that have at time been wary of sanctions.

The US is looking at leading another sanctions resolution through the UN Security Council once it reconvenes in the new year, aprocess that could take weeks or even months and in the past has resulted only in weak measures due largely to Russian and Chinese opposition.

Oren, speaking to the Post, expressed optimism over the possibility of such a resolution getting through. "All the indications we have are that the Russians are more cooperative now" on possible sanctions, though he indicated it wasn't clear whether China, which imports a large quantity of Iranian oil, would also cooperate.

Oren also referred to several other paths thatcould be taken, including targeting the financial activities of the government, curbing the import of refined petroleum and limiting the ability of Iranian leaders to travel around the world.

The US Treasury has already been going after some financial companies that work with Iran, including winning a $217million settlement with Lloyds TSB Bank and a $536m. global settlement with Credit Suisse in December because of prohibited dealings withIran. And designating leaders as personae non grata would be in line with a more focused approach.

But stemming refined petroleum imports is thekind of measure that the White House and international community might balk at. Though bills to do just that have been wending their way through Congress, some legislators have privately said they wouldprefer measures more focused on the regime than the people. In addition, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman, who sponsored the House bill, said he wanted to give time for the Security Council process to work before passing any law.

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