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Jesus' vision of economic and social redistribution of wealth and power

Anglicans urged to practice �shared abundance� of food

The keynote speaker of the diocese�s Outreach Networking Conference urged Anglicans to join the food sovereignty (also known as food security) movement, and said an early practitioner of it was Jesus Christ. �He told it, he showed and he embodied it,� said Ched Myers, speaking to about 170 people at Holy Trinity School in Richmond Hill on Oct. 16.

Mr. Myers, a biblical scholar and social justice advocate, said the �engineered scarcity� of the marketplace has led to persistent hunger and poverty and runs counter to the teachings of Jesus Christ and the prophets before him. �The vision of the Kingdom of God is that everyone gets fat and happy � everyone, not just some.� He said people are coming to the belief that food sovereignty is the proper response to this situation. �Foodbanks are good, but food sovereignty is better,� he said.

Food sovereignty is a term coined by members of an international peasant movement in 1996. It claims that people have the right to define their own food, agriculture, livestock and fishery systems, in contrast to having food largely subject to international market forces. One of its principles is that everyone must have access to safe, nutritious and culturally appropriate food in sufficient quality and quantity to sustain a healthy life with full dignity.

He said Anglicans who want to learn more about food sovereignty should look at the scriptures, where it was a central tenet of Christ�s life and was called for by the prophets. He quoted from Isaiah 55: �Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.�

Isaiah was calling for a world in which food was �unhooked� from the economy and available to all those who needed it, said Mr. Myers. �Food is a gift of God for the people of God,� he said. �This was not a vision of scarcity. It was a vision of abundance that was seen as the divinely ordained life for all people, particularly those without money.�

He said Mark�s Gospel gives ample evidence of Christ�s thinking on the consumption, distribution and production of food. One of the most telling scenes is when Jesus and his disciples (poor fishermen who occupied the bottom rung of the emerging imperial economy) sit down to eat with Levi, the tax collector who sold fishing leases on behalf of the governing elites. �What we see is this extraordinary fellowship between the debtor class (the fishermen) and the collectors of debt (Levi),� said Mr Myers. �And the only way that this meal would have been possible is by the embrace, particularly by the debt collecting class, of Jesus� vision of economic and social redistribution of wealth and power. In other words, it was the realization of Jubilee.�

Right after the meal at Levi�s house, the local authorities came and challenged Jesus� practice of shared abundance. According to Mr. Myers, �Jesus said to them, �Look, poor people are already hungry. They don�t need ritual fasting; they need shared abundance.� So Jesus spins that metaphor that the kingdom of God is like a wedding banquet. In Jesus time, the wedding banquet was a time when all the people in the village came together and shared their stuff, no matter how much they had. It was a time of shared abundance. That, says Jesus, is what the kingdom is about. That�s what folks need.�

Further on in Mark�s Gospel, Jesus and his disciples have nothing to eat on the Sabbath, so they pluck heads of grain, much to the disapproval of the local authorities. �The authorities were asserting the narrower vision of Sabbath as a form of prohibiting work, but Jesus was following the expansive view of Sabbath, which is: it isn�t about what you don�t do, it�s about what you do on behalf of justice,� said Mr. Myers.

He said Jesus was following the ancient �idea of the remainder,� which is one of the Sabbath principles in the Torah. �What that means is that there is no such thing as absolute ownership of a piece of land. You do not own 100 per cent of your farm. The edges of your field belong to the poor. They have a right to glean the edges and the leftover of your field. That is not understood in the Hebrew bible as charity; that�s understood as justice. And that is because the field doesn�t belong to you: It belongs to the creator. You�re just tending it. Because that common wealth belongs to everyone, the disenfranchised in your community have the intrinsic right to your productive capacity.�

When Jesus and his disciples were confronted by the authorities, he reminded them of what David, the father of their nation, and his companions did when they were hungry: they went into the local shrine and took the bread to eat. �Jesus said they were justified to do that because they were hungry,� said Mr. Myers. �Hungry people have rights to anything. Nothing is proprietory when people are hungry.�

Mr. Myers ended his talk by linking the story of the loaves and fishes in Luke�s Gospel to the Last Supper. He said both events use the same verbs and gestures: Jesus takes, he gives thanks, he breaks and he gives. Mr. Myers wondered if it made more sense to read the latter story in light of the former. �Every time we lift up this bread in the central ritual act of what it means to be church, are we supposed to be remembering a celebration of shared abundance in the teeth of an economy of engineered scarcity? How would that impact the life of the church if we understood that ritual like that? How would our church be different if the eucharist was anchored in the practice of Sabbath economics? What is it that we�re remembering when we do this in memory of? Are we just remembering his death and resurrection? That�s important to remember. But it�s also important to remember his life � his life of Sabbath economics.�

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Speaker Pelosi talked about one of her most favorite topics: wealth redistribution (read: theft)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Monday, Speaker Pelosi talked about one of her most favorite topics: wealth redistribution (read: theft)

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Video: Pelosi advocates targeting private ownership to address income disparity

Pelosi grinning maniacally at...targeting private ownership

Nancy Pelosi advocates the targeting of private ownership and property to address income disparity in the US. Speaking to a room full of United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Monday, Speaker Pelosi talked about one of her most favorite topics in the whole, wide world: wealth redistribution (read: theft) and making poor people jealous of the rich by planting in their heads the perverse idea that they are entitled to the income of those who make more money than they do. Of course, she didn’t phrase it exactly in this way, but she used her most favorite Democrat buzz words like "fairness" and "income" and "wealthy people" to indicate that she was basically advocating that both private ownership and property were fair game for government control. They were fair game so long as said control would go to making things "more fair" for the poor people in the US. Awww, bless her thieving, socialist heart.

Specifically, Pelosi said this:

"We’re talking about addressing the disparity of income where the wealthy people continue to get wealthier and some other people are falling out of the middle class when we want to bring many more people into the middle class. But that disparity is not just about wages alone, that disparity is about ownership and equity. It’s all about fairness in our country…"

To anyone with even mediocre observational skills, this will of course confirm again why Pelosi, Obama and the whole Democrat Party are in the toilet of abysmal ratings as the US heads into the midterm elections. Because they are a bunch of hardcore, anti-capitalist socialists…that’s why! In the US, the mindset of people is generally pro-capitalist, which is why the US, a country that people die trying to get into, is the country where you have the best chance of becoming rich out of any other country in the whole world. Most Americans intensely resent such Marxist-flavored, socialist propaganda that came flying out of Pelosi’s mouth, and she knows it. That’s why she spat her revolting, socialist talking points in front a hardcore, Democrat voting block: the union members of the United Steelworkers group.

Pelosi’s un-American comments can also be seen as a futile attempt on her part to "rally" the laughable tatters of those who still call themselves "Democrat voters" in this election climate. After all, in an election season when Pelosi is more unfavorable than someone who steals cookies from girl scouts, and her party leader, Barack "The One" Obama, is similarly less popular than an IRS tax auditor, there are few options Democrats can fall back on to form some kind of a "strategy" for the midterms. After all, after you have alienated conservatives, independents and by now even those few, though still quite dim bulbs, moderate Democrats who are slowly-yet-painfully just beginning to use their own judgment powers, you cannot expect to do more than try to rally the pitiful tatters of those hardcore voters in your party. AKA, the union members.

Ironically, far from motivating her own motley crew of socialism-loving supporters, Pelosi and her comments should instead serve to rally a totally different voter block to come out in droves to the polls: the normal, sane Americans. I would define those people as Americans who are 100% against the Obama-Pelosi-Reid brand of the Democrat Party that advocates nothing but theft in the form of socialism. At the same time, I would define those Americans as those who love capitalism, very limited government interference, and the personal responsibility to succeed or fail on their own terms, based on their own actions. If you are someone who is repulsed by the Democrats’ un-American brand of more government control and more socialism, you should come out to vote in full force in November…unless, of course, you want more of that Pelosi socialism to take even more root.
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The Rent Is Too Damn High Party's Jimmy McMillan at the NY Governor Debate

Jimmy "The rent is too damn high!" McMillan Party

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'Rent's Too High' guy not so funny

By Athima Chansanchai

UPDATE: Jimmy McMillan doesn't even pay rent, missing payments and living rent-free in exchange for maintenance work, according to the New York Times and as reported on MSNBC.com.

Here is Lawrence O'Donnell's exclusive interview with him on "The Last Word."

I have to admit, watching New York gubernatorial candidate Jimmy "The rent is too damn high!" McMillan and his impassioned rant (see video above, or read this Gawker story) that spread like a virus amongst my Facebook friends last night amused me, especially the theme song that plays on his website. It made for some levity in an otherwise somber election cycle.

It was the kind of crazy that made me miss living in New York.

But this morning, I'm finding out things about McMillan that really aren't so funny, and why I'm not going to be plastering his meme on this post.

First, his rent really isn't that damn high: only $800 for a one-bedroom in Flatbush, which is just $100 or so more than what I was paying for my share of a teeny tiny 2-bedroom in Manhattan TWELVE years ago. (Thanks to the New York Post for the digging on that one and hat tip to Gawker for guiding us there.)

Next, the reason he thinks the rent is too damn high: Jews.

A New York Times article profiling candidates mentioned this: "A perennial candidate, he was called an anti-Semite during his mayoral run in 2005 for blaming rent problems on Jewish people."

New York political blog Room Eight, through a poster named Gatemouth (the self-described "blog world's expert on Jimmy McMillan's raving lunatic obsession with THE JEWS") has also put some things out there that should dampen enthusiasm for the karate kicking, black-glove wearing, Dali-moustached candidate.

Gatemouth claims he lifted this from McMillan's 2009 mayoral campaign website and posted to Room Eight under a page called "The Jimmy McMillan Show":

This is true all Latinos/ Hispanics/ Blacks/ Others... as well as every religious group other than Judiasm are being run out of this area. The Williamsburg Section of Brooklyn, NY. Don't take our word go to Flushings Ave and Bedford Ave/ Lee Ave and Nostrand Ave witness the Hate by the people of the Jewish Faith.

If you are not JEWISH you are "PROHIBITED" from living in this area.

After the world fought hard to free the JEWISH people from the hands of HITLER.

They should be shame of themselves for discriminating in housing against the people in the State of New York especially in the city of Brooklyn.

They are violating every Housing Act written in the constitution and no one will address it because they are afraid they will be called Anti-Semantic and accuse of Anti-Semitism.

Apparently, all this caught up to McMillan, who at some point issued this defense:

"During this campaign someone choose to label me Anti-Semantic and An ti-Semite. Let me correct this definition for you just incase you have an educational problem, and difficulties. Someone is trying to make the word/name Jew - Jewish a Race, and that will never happen. This definition must be correct at once. Some damages had already been done but it's not too late to repair what has been done. we must move quickly before the Dictionary and Encyclopedia put the wrong definition in there publications."

And we'll leave it at that. Unless you have something to say about it?
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When is the Day of the Lord?

Have you been aware that they are 6 eclipses starting off with the bloodmoon eclipse in Passover of 2014, and the last bloodmoon eclipse end in Feast of Tabernacles of 2015? These dates have been confirmed by NASA astronomy. The four eclipses in between are: bloodmoon eclipse on Feast of Tabernacle of 2014, sackcloth sun eclipse on Feast on entry of 2015, then bloodmoon eclipse on exactly 12PM Sabbath on Passover 2015, and the 5th is sackcloth sun on Feast of trumpet of 2015.

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When is the Day of the Lord?

To answer this question, we must know what happen before the Day of the Lord:

Before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come, the sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood. Joel 2:31

The sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood...And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come. Rev 6:12, 14-17

Have you been aware that they are 6 eclipses starting off with the bloodmoon eclipse in Passover of 2014, and the last bloodmoon eclipse end in Feast of Tabernacles of 2015? These dates have been confirmed by NASA astronomy. The four eclipses in between are: bloodmoon eclipse on Feast of Tabernacle of 2014, sackcloth sun eclipse on Feast on entry of 2015, then bloodmoon eclipse on exactly 12PM Sabbath on Passover 2015, and the 5th is sackcloth sun on Feast of trumpet of 2015.

What did the WORD and SOP said about the Feast of Tabernacle and the bloodmoon and sackcloth sun?

In the Appointed Time (Hebrew translation) of the year of release, in the Feast of Tabernacles when all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which He shall choose. Deut31:10-11

Feasts [of Tabernacles] is as the children of Israel celebrated … His miraculous preservation of them during their journeying from Egypt, so should we gratefully call to mind the various ways He has devised for bringing us OUT from the world, and from the darkness of error, into the precious light of His grace and truth. PP 541

Feast of Tabernacles, is aka Feast of Harvest PP 542
It celebrated the ingathering of the fruits of the earth, and pointed forward to the great day of Final Ingathering, when the Lord of the harvest shall send forth His reapers to gather the tares together in bundles for the fire, and to gather the wheat into His garner. At that time the wicked will all be destroyed. PP542

At the Feast of Tabernacles, “The people of Israel praised God, as they called to mind His mercy in their deliverance from the bondage of Egypt. PP542
But when the ransomed of the LORD shall have been safely gathered into the Heavenly Canaan [New Jersalem], forever delivered from the bondage of the curse, under which "the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now [Feast of Tabernacles] (Romans 8:22), they will rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. PP542

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College student fills her Mexico town's toughest job: police chief

Marisol Valles Garcia, a 20-year-old college student who was the only person willing to become police chief of the northern Mexico town of Praxedis G. Guerrero, says she plans to use a mostly female, unarmed force to patrol streets.

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College student fills her Mexico town's toughest job: police chief

Marisol Valles Garcia, a 20-year-old college student who was the only person willing to become police chief of the northern Mexico town of Praxedis G. Guerrero, says she plans to use a mostly female, unarmed force to patrol streets.

Twenty-year-old Marisol Valles Garcia (c.) was sworn in Wednesday to bring law and order to the township of about 8,500 that was a string of quiet farming communities until two rival gangs, the Juarez and Sinaloa drug cartels, began battling for control of its single highway.

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Some may call her fearless. For others she is foolhardy. The fact remains: 20-year-old Marisol Valles Garcia is the only one who stepped up to become the new police chief in the troubled northern Mexico town of Praxedis G. Guerrero, in the state of Chihuahua.

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In towns such as this, in the grip of drug trafficking violence, a police chief is often the hardest job to fill. Heads of forces are commonly killed off in the violent turf wars between rival traffickers – sometimes because they are moonlighting for one gang, other times because they are standing in the way of lucrative sales. At times, entire forces have quit en masse in frustration and fear.

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But Ms. Valles Garcia, who is finishing her degree in criminology, says that the community must overcome fear and bring morals and values back to ravaged Mexico. "Yes, there is fear," she told CNN en Español Wednesday in an interview. "It's like all human beings. There will always be fear, but what we want to achieve in our municipality is tranquility and security."

Her posting comes as public officials have faced new threats against drug-trafficking organizations. The lead investigator looking into the death of an American tourist in Tamaulipas was recently beheaded. Political candidates have been assassinated. So far this year, a dozen-some mayors have been killed.

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Praxedis G. Guerrero is located in the once peaceful Juarez Valley, just 35 miles south of Ciudad Juarez, the most dangerous city in Mexico, where more than 28,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since 2006. It is now seeing a mass exodus of residents amid violence between the Sinaloa and Juarez groups.

It might seem that a tough-fisted police chief is the only one fit in the context of such violence. But Valles Garcia says she will take the reverse tactic: using a mostly female, unarmed force to patrol the streets and focus on social programs in schools and community-building. "The weapons we have are principles and values, which are the best weapons for prevention," she said. "Our work will be pure prevention. We are not going to be doing anything else other than prevention."

Her force is one of more than 2,000 municipal police forces throughout Mexico. Some of them have been corrupted by drug traffickers even though organized crime is not the responsibility of local police. The administration of President Felipe Calderón is trying to push through police reform that would centralize local forces under state control.

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Woman Accused In Sex Assault Of Girl

In April, Renia Chester, 23, met a 12-year-old Harrisburg girl in a hotel room in New Cumberland, police said. Chester is accused of engaging in sex acts with the girl.

The two also had sexual contact several times before that night, police said.

Chester faces charges of: involuntary deviate sexual intercourse; aggravated indecent assault; indecent assault; and illegal contact with a minor.

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Woman Accused In Sex Assault Of Girl

Police: Renia Chester Met 12-Year-Old In Hotel Room

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Harrisburg police are looking for a woman who is accused of sexually assaulting a girl.

In April, Renia Chester, 23, met a 12-year-old Harrisburg girl in a hotel room in New Cumberland, police said. Chester is accused of engaging in sex acts with the girl.
The two also had sexual contact several times before that night, police said.
Chester faces charges of: involuntary deviate sexual intercourse; aggravated indecent assault; indecent assault; and illegal contact with a minor.
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Will Jesus Return During Obama?

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Will Jesus Return During Obama?

Will Jesus return when Obama is President? Steve Wohlberg director of White Horse Media

Original message April 2008

The book of Acts predicts, quoting Joel 2:28, that in "the last days… young men shall see visions… old men shall dream dreams" (Acts 2:17). A few days ago White Horse Media learned about a pastor in the 1980's who had a dream informing him that Jesus Christ would return during the time that America had a black president. Here are a few excerpts from the email we received:

"Back in the 1980s, Elder Jack Darnall… who ran an end-time training center to prepare people for end-time events, held a prayer meeting in his house. As the people were leaving, he called aside another man and said to him that he felt impressed to tell him an impressive dream that he had.

"In the dream, he dreamed that it was the time when Jesus returned to Earth in power and great glory. America had an African-American president (something unthinkable in the 1980s) when Jesus returned. He was tall and thin, with close-cropped hair and large ears. When elected, at first he was greatly beloved by the people, but then he became a terrible dictator.

"The dream was not widely discussed, because at that time they could not see a black man being voted in as president with so much prejudice in the country still.

"It was just a dream, but an unlikely one at the time... We are not saying Pastor Jack Darnall was a prophet. We are simply saying that he had a dream. It may have been from the Lord, after all, the Lord said that at the end-times 'your old men shall dream dreams.' Joel 2:28. Time will tell whether this dream fits into that category. File it away in the back of your brain for future reference."

Apparently, the story was verified to be true. In other words, Elder Darnall really did have this dream. There was another point in the dream worth mentioning: there would be one more pope after John Paul II.

As the above quote states, "Time will tell." At White Horse Media, we are not prophets. Neither do we jump at every dream we hear about. Nevertheless, we felt that this one was worth sharing for you to think about.

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Mystical goliath tiger fish caught on camera

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Mystical goliath tiger fish caught on camera

The tigerfish has 32 teeth that are of similar size to those of a great white shark. Picture: ICON/BNPS.co.uk

AFTER an eight-day monster battle a British fisherman has caught one of the world's most fearsome freshwater fish.

Angler Jeremy Wade wrestled the 5ft-long goliath tigerfish during a fishing expedition along the Congo River in Africa.

The tigerfish - believed to be a deadlier version of the piranha - has 32 teeth that are a similar size to those of a great white shark and has been known to attack humans and even crocodiles, the UK's Daily Mail reports.

Mr Wade reeled in the 45kg beast as part of aTV show about mythical reports from around the world of humans being attacked by unknown monsters from the deep.

“'It is very rare to catch one, especially by an outsider because they are found in such a remote and difficult location to get to,” Mr Wade said on the show River Monsters.

Jeremy Wade quickly poses for a pictured with the monster tigerfish. Picture: ICON/BNPS.co.uk

“There are no guides or lodges on that part of the Congo River.”

Mr Wade said he used catfish as bait for the tigerfish and a 91kg rod and line.

He said he feared handling the monster fish and had to stand back from it until it was safely in his landing net.

“It is a very dangerous fish to handle. If you aren't careful it could easily take your finger off or worse,” he said.

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Prophetic Intelligence Briefings

Impending Food Crisis · October 20, 2010

“Fears of a global food crisis swept the world’s commodity markets as prices for staples such as corn, rice and wheat spiraled after the US government warned of ‘dramatically’ lower supplies. An especially hot summer in the US, droughts in countries including Russia and Brazil and heavy rain in Canada and Europe have hit many grain and oilseed crops this year. This has raised concern of a severe squeeze in food supplies and a repeat of the 2007-08 food crisis.”

The US Department of Agriculture, shocked traders by forecasting that the country’s corn farmers would harvest 4 per cent less than previously predicted, and said that corn stocks would reach their lowest levels in 14 years. It also cut estimates for wheat and soya production. It also predicted a “much tighter supply picture” for corn and barley.

“In Paris, European wheat prices rose 10 per cent, while the cost of other commodities including soya beans, sugar, cotton, barley and oats soared.” Russian and Ukraine have imposed restrictions on grain exports, and Middle East and North Africa importers have started to hoard supplies further tightening the markets.

Jesus predicted in Matthew 24:7 that at the end of time there would be famines which are the direct result of food shortages. Grain estimates this year were originally predicted to be abundant, but poor weather conditions changed the picture dramatically.

“In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow… These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous. Destruction will be upon both man and beast. ‘The earth mourneth and fadeth away,’ ‘the haughty people . . . do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.” Isaiah 24:4, 5. Great Controversy, p. 589-590.
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Police: Woman sought, had sex with 12-year-old girl at Fairview Twp. motel

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Police: Woman sought, had sex with 12-year-old girl at Fairview Twp. motel

ELIZABETH EVANS The York Dispatch

Renia Chester

Police are asking for the public's help in finding a Harrisburg woman accused of sexually molesting a 12-year-old girl in the woman's home and at a Fairview Township motel.

Renia Chester, 23, whose last known address was in the 1700 block of Susquehanna Street, may have left the Harrisburg area, according to police. Harrisburg Police have filed charges against Chester including involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault and illegal contact with a minor.

Harrisburg Police said that on April 16, Chester arranged for a taxicab to drive the Harrisburg girl to the Motel 6 at 200 Commerce Drive in Fairview Township, where Chester allegedly engaged in various sex acts with the girl.

Police said

there were several other sexual assaults prior to that, all at Chester's home.

Chester was aware of the police investigation, but has failed to attend scheduled appointments with detectives, police said.

Anyone with information about Chester's whereabouts is asked to call Detective Joseph Zimmerman at (717) 255-3115, or e-mail him at jzimmerman@cityofhbg.com.
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NSA’s Newest Recruiters: Cartoon-Leopard Twins

Dudes and dudettes: You know what’s totally radical? Reading your neighbors’ e-mail! So don’t you wanna be a junior National Security Agency deputy?

If so, the surveillance and cryptology crew at NSA has the right online companions for you: Cy and Cyndi, a pair of anthropomorphic snow leopards now kickin’ it with the CryptoKids, the Puzzle Palace’s team of cartoon animal hackers. Known as the CyberTwins and unveiled by NSA yesterday, Cy and Cyndi wear gaming headgear, talk into their hands-free mobile devices, and teach youths about proper online hygiene, all on the NSA website’s kids page, which actually exists.

Arriving in time for (the second half of) National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the CyberTwins have a backstory to appeal to military kids: Their mom is a government engineer, their dad is an Army computer scientist, and they “love to talk with other kids who love computers and cyber space as much as they do.”

That fits them right in with the other CryptoKids — a goateed turtle named T-Top whose uncle works for a computer manufacturer, Sergeant Sam the eagle who joined the military out of high school — who guide real-live youth through online crypto-themed puzzles and brainteasers. (Only one thing’s missing from the CryptoTwins’ rollout: cybersecurity tips for the underage.)

All this is a reminder that the most informative element of any spy agency’s website is its Kiddie Korner, where spycraft meets the schoolyard for an awkward, barely appropriate encounter. The CIA offers a world-explorer videogame starring Carmen Sandiego–esque junior officer Ava Shoephone, a trenchcoated operative who throws out trivia questions from the agency’s World Factbook.

The National Counterterrorism Center introduces you to “your NCTC friends,” Becker the Eagle and Little Lady Liberty. And the FBI has games — represented by an icon of the old Nintendo cartridges — like Special Agent Undercover, in which grade-school kids disguise themselves with mustaches to fool people.

As Noah Shachtman wrote a couple of years ago, only the government knows how earnest or how absurd these sites are intended to be. They do, however, inculcate the message that a career in spycraft is totally extreme. “Cryptology is making and breaking codes. It’s so cool,” NSA’s kids page explains. “You might be part of the next generation of America’s codemakers and codebreakers.” Then again, is a kid precocious enough to spend time on a surveillance and crypto agency’s website really going to be impressed by a snow leopard with a BlueTooth in her ear?