(Posted for those who may be here from Singapore and reading my blog--or others following this who aren't on Dark Christianity at LJ.)

A few days ago, I wrote about an attempted steeplejack of the Singaporean women's NGO AWARE by a Joel's Army church.

I have some VERY good news to report on that front.

We won.

Let me repeat that.

We won ( Read more... )

Just in case people thought dominionism was a problem restricted to the US or Australia ( Read more... )

On April 1, a new version of the worm/botnet Conficker (specifically Conficker.C) is supposed to deliver its "payload" (which includes downloads of instructions from upwards of 50,000 registered domains and measures to lock down the worm against attempts at detection and removal ( Read more... )

If you are using Flash (and you most certainly likely are, unless possibly you are using the FlashBlock extension in Firefox--and even then you may still be at risk), you should be aware that a fairly nasty proof-of-concept exploit of ActiveScript in Flash files has been released (ActiveScript is basically a subset of JavaScript used for Flash file ( Read more... )

Support Red Hand DayToday, as it turns out, is Red Hand Day--a day to work for the ending of the use of children as soldiers (which is sadly something all too common--one particularly notorious recent example is the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda where kids are kidnapped and forced into being literal foot soldiers for a religious cult ( Read more... )

It would appear that our government is actively trying for frank nullification of Godwin's Law (the law that claims that in any controversial discussion that the likelihood of comparison with Nazi Germany or Hitler will tend to one; there is a corollary to Godwin's Law, rarely mentioned, that states that it does not apply if the policy being ( Read more... )

Colony Collapse Disorder in bees linked to new virus (in American bees), overwork, underfeeding.

Possible co-infection with two viruses and fungi may also be making bees sicker due to the stress of fighting off multiple infections.

In addition, Australian imports of bees may have first brought the infection to the States to our poor stressed-out ( Read more... )

Lots of updates in the past few days to the pet food recall news tickera) FDA is now investigating all food makers to see how far contamination has spread ( Read more... )

Well, the update round for the new news ticker is in:

a) Upwards of 3.1 million chickens were slaughtered--and bought, and cooked, and eaten by the likes of you and me--before it was found they were contaminated from one run of contaminated feed (meaning there are probably lots more contaminated chickens in the food chain); 100,000 chickens are ( Read more... )

This post will now be the primary source of news re the pet food recall (and partner to the original post on the pet food recall); the original "news ticker" post has hit LJ's limits for post length and is archived here.

MAJOR UPDATE 17 APRIL, 20 APRIL, 29 APRIL, AND 1 MAY: RECALL IS NO LONGER RESTRICTED TO WHEAT OR WHEAT GLUTEN AND ALL FOOD ( Read more... )