A really good website to check out.
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Here’s the link to the story. Hope you like it too. ☺
http://www.odemagazine.com/exchange/24330/lessons_learned_from_war
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I’d like people to comment on any experience they might have with working in such an environment or if they know someone who does. I realize the risks, but every day is a risk in one way or another. Most of my dreams have passed me by anyway and I really get tired of the struggle of making an honest living week to week.
Just a thought for now…………………
May the Sun warm your Heart
Turning hijacked computers into cash is still
hard work for most computer criminals. They’ve got to trick the
infected PC into sending spam, then trick a recipient into buying a
useless product — or they have to steal online banking passwords, log
onto a victim’s account, bypass the bank’s money transfer fraud
controls, and so on.
It’s much easier to just demand cash directly from infected users — a crime that’s the Internet’s equivalent of kidnapping.
"Give me all your money or your computer gets it-" is the basic proposition.
The technique was dubbed "ransomware" many
years ago by computer virus researchers, and is not new. What is new
is the explosion of ransomware, thanks to the evolution of
ever-more-believable tactics during recent months.
In December, the FBI issued a warning about a
broader category of malicious programs called "rogueware.” These
programs appear on users’ machines and claim to find viruses, then
offer to clean them for $50. Rogueware looks so realistic — complete
with Windows-like dialog boxes and scary warnings — that Web users
were tricked into sending $150 million to criminals last year, the FBI says.
Continue reading about how you can avoid this.
What’s really interesting at the end is the real meaning of the 12 days of Christmas –
Christmas Trees ‘Round the World
The Capitol Christmas tree in Washington, D.C., is decorated with 3,000
ornaments that are the handiwork of U.S. schoolchildren. Encircling
evergreens in the ‘Pathway of Peace’ represent the 50 U.S. states.
There is one Christmas Carol that has always baffled me.
What in the world do leaping lords, French hens,
swimming swans, and especially the partridge who won’t
come out of the pear tree have to do with Christmas?
This week, I found out.
From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly.
Someone during that era wrote this carol as a catechism song for young Catholics.
It has two levels of meaning: the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of their church.
Each element in the carol has a code word for a religious reality which the children could remember.
-The partridge in a pear tree was Jesus Christ.
-Two turtle doves were the Old and New Testaments.
-Three French hens stood for faith, hope and love.
-The four calling birds were the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John.
-The five golden rings recalled the Torah or Law, the first five books of the Old Testament.
-The six geese a-laying stood for the six days of creation.
-Seven swans a-swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit–Prophesy, Serving,
Teaching, Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership, and Mercy.
-The eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes.
-Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit–
–Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self Control.
-The ten lords a-leaping were the ten commandments.
-The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful disciples.
-The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in the Apostles’ Creed.
So there is your history for today.
This knowledge was shared with me and I found it interesting and enlightening
and now I know how that strange song became a Christmas Carol…
so pass it on if you wish.’
Merry (Twelve Days of) Christmas Everyone
CHRISTMAS AT ARLINGTON CEMETERY
I wonder why the press hasn’t enlightened the public about it??
Arlington National Cemetery
Rest easy, sleep well my brothers.
Know the line has held, your job is done.
Rest easy, sleep well.
Others have taken up where you fell, the line has held.
Peace, peace, and farewell…
Readers
may be interested to know that these wreaths — some 5,000 — are
donated by
the Worcester Wreath Co. of Harrington,Maine.
The owner,
Merrill Worcester, not only provides the wreaths, but covers the
trucking expense as well.
He’s done this since 1992. A wonderful guy.
Also, most years, groups of Maine school kids combine an educational
trip to DC with this event to help out.
Making this even more
remarkable is the fact that Harrington is in one the poorest parts of
the state.
Please
share this page with everyone on your address list.
You hear too much about
the bad things people do.
Lets change that, and share some good that people do.
…Everyone should hear about this..
Want to have some fun this CHRISTMAS? Send the ACLU a CHRISTMAS CARD this year. As they are working so very hard to get rid of the CHRISTMAS part of this holiday, we should all send them a nice, CHRISTIAN card to brighten up their dark, sad, little world..
Make sure it says "Merry Christmas" on it.
Here’s the address, just don’t be rude or crude.
(It’s not the Christian way, you know.)
ACLU
125 Broad Street
18th Floor
New York , NY 10004
So
spend 44 cents and tell the ACLU to leave Christmas alone. Also tell
them that there is no such thing as a " Holiday Tree". . . It’s always been called a CHRISTMAS TREE!
And pass this on to your email lists. We really want to communicate with the ACLU! They really DESERVE us!!
For those of you who aren’t aware of them, the ACLU, (the American Civil Liberties Union
)Please, all Christians join together and
wish everyone you meet during the
holidays a MERRY CHRISTMAS
Christ is The Reason for the Christ-mas Season!
If you agree please link this to a friend, if not, simply delete your cookies.
We
can only hope that world leaders will do nothing more than enjoy a
pleasant bicycle ride around the charming streets of Copenhagen come
December. For if they actually manage to wring out an agreement based
on the current draft text of the Copenhagen climate-change treaty, the
world is in for some nasty surprises. Draft text, you say? If you
haven’t heard about it, that’s because none of our otherwise talkative
political leaders have bothered to tell us what the drafters have
already cobbled together for leaders to consider. And neither have the
media.
Enter Lord Christopher Monckton. The former adviser to Margaret
Thatcher gave an address at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota,
earlier this month that made quite a splash. For the first time, the
public heard about the 181 pages, dated Sept. 15, that comprise the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—a rough draft of what could be signed come December.
So far there have been more than a million hits on the YouTube post
of his address. It deserves millions more because Lord Monckton warns
that the aim of the Copenhagen draft treaty is to set up a
transnational "government" on a scale the world has never before seen.
The "scheme for the new institutional
arrangement under the Convention" that starts on page 18 contains the
provision for a "government." The aim is to give a new as yet unnamed
U.N. body the power to directly intervene in the financial, economic,
tax and environmental affairs of all the nations that sign the
Copenhagen treaty.
The reason for the power grab is clear
enough: Clause after complicated clause of the draft treaty requires
developed countries to pay an "adaptation debt" to developing countries
to supposedly support climate change mitigation. Clause 33 on page 39
says that "by 2020 the scale of financial flows to support adaptation
in developing countries must be [at least $67 billion] or [in the range
of $70 billion to $140 billion per year]."
And how will developed countries be slugged to provide for this
financial flow to the developing world? The draft text sets out various
alternatives, including option seven on page 135, which provides for "a
[global] levy of 2 per cent on international financial market
[monetary] transactions to Annex I Parties." Annex 1 countries are
industrialized countries, which include among others the U.S.,
Australia, Britain and Canada.
To be sure, countries that sign international treaties always cede
powers to a U.N. body responsible for implementing treaty obligations.
But the difference is that this treaty appears to have been subject to
unusual attempts to conceal its convoluted contents. And apart from the
difficulty of trying to decipher the U.N. verbiage, there are plenty of
draft clauses described as "alternatives" and "options" that should
raise the ire of free and democratic countries concerned about
preserving their sovereignty.
Lord Monckton himself only became
aware of the extraordinary powers to be vested in this new world
government when a friend found an obscure U.N. Web site and searched
through several layers of hyperlinks before discovering a document that
isn’t even called the draft "treaty." Instead, it’s labeled a "Note by
the Secretariat."
Interviewed by broadcaster Alan Jones on Sydney radio Monday, Lord
Monckton said "this is the first time I’ve ever seen any transnational
treaty referring to a new body to be set up under that treaty as a
‘government.’ But it’s the powers that are going to be given to this
entirely unelected government that are so frightening." He added: "The
sheer ambition of this new world government is enormous right from the
start—that’s even before it starts accrediting powers to itself in the
way that these entities inevitably always do."
Critics have admonished Lord Monckton for his colorful language. He
has certainly been vigorous. In his exposé of the draft Copenhagen
treaty in St. Paul, he warned Americans that "in the next few weeks,
unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your
democracy and your prosperity away forever." Yet his critics fail to
deal with the substance of what he says.
Ask yourself this question: Given that our political leaders spend
hundreds of hours talking about climate change and the need for a
global consensus in Copenhagen, why have none of them talked openly
about the details of this draft climate-change treaty? After all, the
final treaty will bind signatories for years to come. What exactly are
they hiding? Thanks to Lord Monckton we now know something of their
plans.
Janos Pasztor, director of the Secretary-General’s Climate Change
Support Team, told reporters in New York Monday that with the U.S.
Congress yet to pass a climate-change bill, a global climate-change
treaty is now an unlikely outcome in Copenhagen. Let’s hope he is
right. And thank you, America.
Ms. Albrechtsen is a columnist for the Australian.
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On
October 14, Lord Christopher Monckton, a noted climate change skeptic,
gave a presentation at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN. In this 4
minute excerpt from his speech, he issues a dire warning to all
Americans regarding the United Nations Climate Change Treaty, scheduled
to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009.
Lord Monckton
served as a policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher. He has repeatedly
challenged Al Gore to a debate to which Gore has refused. Monckton sued
to stop Gore’s film "An Inconvenient Truth" from being shown in British
schools due to its inaccuracies. The judge found in-favor of Monckton,
ordering 9 serious errors in the film to be corrected. Lord Monckton
travels internationally in an attempt to educating the public about the
myth of global warming.
READ IT FOR YOURSELF! Framework Convention On Climate Change – 181 Page PDF
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Copenhagen Climate Treaty
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Countdown to Copenhagen
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment…
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