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A Service of the Church of God Faithful Flock
Weekly News and Commentary - Last Updated: Monday, May 12, 2008
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WORLD NEWS BULLETIN
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CAMP SPRINGS, Md. — Heavy rain and strong winds battered the mid-Atlantic region Monday, knocking out power to 70,000 homes and businesses, closing roads that flooded and prompting evacuations in flooded communities.
Up to 4 inches of rain fell across the region from Sunday afternoon into Monday morning, and the National Weather Service extended a flood warning for some areas into the afternoon.
http://www.usatoday.com/
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This funnel cloud formed in Keo, Ark. last month. Arkansas has had 49 tornadoes this year, already above its annual average of 48, according to Greg Forbes, severe weather expert at The Weather Channel. By Paul McIntosh, AP
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The USA has been ravaged through mid-May by a near-record number of tornadoes that has pushed the death toll — including 47 killer twisters over the weekend — to a 10-year high.
The deaths of 98 people attributed to tornadoes this year has made 2008 the deadliest year thus far for tornadoes since 1998 and the seventh deadliest since modern recordkeeping began in 1950, The Weather Channel said.
 Germany's foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has indicated he would like to see a European army established.
Speaking at a Social Democrat security policy conference in Berlin on Monday (5 May), Mr Steinmeier said he favoured the setting up of a "European armed force" and that he would like to see moves in this direction speeded up.
German daily Tagespiegel reported Mr Steinmeier as referring to the fact that the EU's new treaty, currently undergoing ratification across the European Union, allows for the possibility of a group of member states to "move ahead" in defence policy.
 Deadly attacks by large groups of ravens on young livestock are on the increase, farmers have warned.
Lambs, calves and sheep are being targeted across Britain, but especially in Scotland and Wales.
The ravens flock together to attack their victims in scenes which some describe as reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film The Birds.
China has secretly built a major underground nuclear submarine base that could threaten Asian countries and challenge American power in the region, it can be disclosed.
Satellite imagery, passed to The Daily Telegraph, shows that a substantial harbour has been built which could house a score of nuclear ballistic missile submarines and a host of aircraft carriers.
In what will be a significant challenge to US Navy dominance and to countries ringing the South China Sea, one photograph shows China’s latest 094 nuclear submarine at the base just a few hundred miles from its neighbours.
Photo: A man looks at a giant wave breaking on the coast
At least nine people including two children were killed when they were swept away by a high wave hitting a breakwater on the West Coast, Sunday, according to coastguard officials there.
Fourteen other people were injured and some were still missing as of 11:00 p.m. Among the injured, two are in critical condition, seven sustained minor injuries and five were sent home after treatment, the coastguard said. The exact number of casualties is expected to increase amid a conflicting number of victims.
RENO, Nev. — Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno are scrutinizing seismic readings and studying damage at residents' homes to try to figure out what's happening beneath the earth's surface under a northwest Reno neighborhood rocked by a seemingly endless string of earthquakes.
What they can't say is whether the hundreds of temblors that have rattled the area for two months — the largest a magnitude 4.7 Friday night — are subsiding or a prelude to bigger things to come.
"You're not going to get an earthquake prediction today," John Anderson, director of Seismology Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno, said Tuesday during a briefing with Gov. Jim Gibbons and emergency managers on the seismic activity.
USDA has almost no extra food to combat hunger at home and in developing nations
WASHINGTON - As the farm economy collapsed in the 1980s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture was saddled with mountains of surplus cheese, corn and other foods that it socked away in warehouses and even caves.
As recently as 2003, the USDA had to buy so much powdered milk to support dairy prices that beleaguered officials shipped some to U.S. ranchers for cattle feed.
May 1, 2008
By Sue Kirchhoff
Journal and Courier - Lafayette, IN
http://www.jconline.com/
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's President, has called the dollar a 'worthless piece of paper.'
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran, OPEC's second-largest producer, has stopped conducting oil transactions in U.S. dollars, a top Oil Ministry official said Wednesday, in a concerted attempt to reduce reliance on Washington at a time of tension over Tehran's nuclear program and suspected involvement in Iraq.
Iran has dramatically reduced dependence on the dollar over the past year in the face of increasing U.S. pressure on its financial system and the fall in the value of the American currency.
Oil is priced in dollars on the world market, and the currency's depreciation has concerned producers because it has contributed to rising crude prices and eroded the value of their dollar reserves.
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Electric Volcano
A cloud of ash and dust from a volcano dramatically erupts into colour as it is struck by lightning.
A town is now being evacuated after lava started to spew from an erupting volcano in southern Chile that has already covered surrounding areas in ash.
Authorities ordered the immediate evacuation of all remaining residents and journalists from the town near the Chaiten volcano, in Patagonia around 760 miles (1,220 km) south of the capital of Santiago.
It began erupting on Friday, sending a towering plume of ash into the sky that has since coated the surrounding area and reached as far as Argentina.
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Rescuers try to help a child trapped in the rubble at Juyuan Middle School in Dujiangyan City.
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: China says at least 8,600 dead but it expects figure to rise
900 children also buried when a school building collapsed, 50 bodies found
State news agency says several schools collapsed after 7.9 magnitude quake
NEW: China releasing $2.89 million to respond to the disaster, Xinhua reports
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BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Thousands of people have been killed by Monday's powerful earthquake in just one affected region of central China, its government said, with the toll expected to keep rising as bodies are retrieved from schools, homes and factories.
The Chinese government said at least 8,600 people were dead, but that the death toll was sure to rise as authorities began to reach some of the worst-hit areas. Thousands more were believed to be injured.
 "What we're now seeing is the end of what was historically called Christendom in Europe," says Jonathan Bartley, of the British think tank Ekklesia
Three decades ago, just days after Spain's new post-Franco Constitution took effect, the new government promised the Vatican that despite an official separation of church and state it would continue Franco's old practice of financially assisting Spain's Roman Catholic Church until it could stand on its own. Spain is still paying. Through subsidies, exemptions and tax breaks, the government has paid the church an estimated €5 billion per year to fund its schools, and for the upkeep of church property and Catholic facilities in prisons and hospitals.
But the Spanish government is now loosening the binds between the church and the state. Amid growing religious apathy nationwide, Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in 2006 eliminated the church's exemption from paying the value-added tax, as well as the government's largely symbolic guarantee that it would cover any shortfall between what taxpayers donated to the church and the church's €144 million budget that year. Now he is moving ahead with a series of distinctly secular projects, including introducing sexual-education classes in school and providing government funding for a free, over-the-counter morning-after contraception pill.
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The death toll from the cyclone that battered Myanmar last weekend has risen above 22,000, state radio has reported.
A news broadcast on government-run radio said Tuesday that 22,464 people have now been confirmed dead from Cyclone Nargis, which tore through the country's heartland and biggest city of Yangon early Saturday.
The broadcast added that thousands more are missing.
Relief efforts for the stricken area, mostly in the low-lying Irrawaddy River delta, have been difficult, in large part because of the destruction of roads and communications outlets by the storm. The first assistance from overseas arrived Tuesday from neighboring Thailand.
“The Seas and Waves Roaring”
Biblical Perspective Blog
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Pickups were partially submerged due to a flooding creek on Friday, April 4, 2008 in Jessamine County, Ky. The state was swamped Friday by heavy rains, making some roads impassable and causing rivers and streams to surge over their banks.
By David Perry, Lexington Herald-Leader/AP
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JACKSON, Miss — Strong thunderstorms toppled trees, knocked out power and damaged homes Friday across the South, while flooding in Kentucky forced evacuations and left a 2-year-old girl dead.
In Mississippi, fast-moving storms unleashed possible tornadoes, heavy rain and some hail. Power failures were reported in several communities, including near downtown Vicksburg and in Jackson.
 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A New York company is voluntarily recalling about 286,000 pounds (129,700 kg) of fresh and frozen meat and poultry products that may be contaminated with bacteria, U.S. agriculture officials said on Saturday.
The products produced by Gourmet Boutique LLC of Jamaica, New York, were sent to food service and retail establishments nationwide, a U.S. Department of Agriculture statement said.
 Salmon fishing was banned along the West Coast for the first time in 160 years Thursday, a decision that is expected to have a devastating economic impact on fishermen, dozens of businesses, tourism and boating.
Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez immediately declared a commercial fishery disaster, opening the door for Congress to appropriate money for anyone who will be economically harmed.
Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, May 2, 2008
http://www.sfgate.com/
When we first posted an image last Saturday showing numerous earthquakes hitting Reno's Crystal Peak golf course, it was interesting.
However, it was nothing compared to the very distinctive earthquake grid that's formed in Nevada. This simply can't be a natural event. There are many – literally hundreds – of earthquakes on this main image, but you can't truly appreciate the number until you look at the individual maps.
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“There is no greater sorrow on earth, than the loss of one’s native land.” -- Euripides
The key to understanding Patrick Buchanan’s message is found in his patriotism, which differs from that of President Bush. Buchanan’s argument is simple: the nation’s leaders have embraced ideals at variance with American national interests. According to Buchanan, patriotism has been overtaken by ideology which has led us astray. In fact, the current administration’s foreign policy derives more from ideology than it does from patriotism.
Quoting extensively from President Bush’s speeches, Buchanan proves that Bush worships at the altar of democracy. “Ideology is modernity’s golden calf,” says Buchanan, and democracy is the great idol itself. It is worshipped in the Temple of Egalitarianism, where many socialists and liberals find their religious calling. And today, many so-called conservatives are found worshipping there as well. The Declaration of Independence begins with the assertion that “all men are created equal.” But this is a fiction, not to be taken seriously. The Founding Fathers were not serious. Russell Kirk once pointed out, “The Declaration of 1776 is simply a declaration – and a highly successful piece of immediate political propaganda.” According to Buchanan, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address also used egalitarian sentiment “to ennoble the Union’s war to crush the South’s fight for independence….” Other presidents have relied on democratic or egalitarian slogans in wartime, such as Wilson in World War I and Roosevelt in World War II. The past use of ideological slogans to justify a nation’s cause should not obscure the real reasons wars have been fought. National survival and national interest, the bedrock of national patriotism, have nothing to do with ideology. Buchanan quotes from Lincoln’s letter to Horace Greeley: “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not … to destroy slavery.” The slogan of “equality for all men” should never be taken seriously.
Biblical Perspective
'There have ALWAYS BEEN false prophets, wars and rumors of war, famines, pestilences and earthquakes . . ." some will claim. "It's nothing new.' How can you KNOW whether this really IS the end-time generation? Can you PROVE it?
You are living in the time of the end. But people have said that for centuries, haven't they? Yes, they have.
And, surprisingly, we say it again today.
You are living in the time of the end — at the close of an age.
But, where do we get off telling you we are living in the end time when people have been saying the same thing for centuries?
After all, we could practically fill a room full of old and ancient books about predictions of the end of the world. As the story goes: "There have always been people who have said that." There have been people wandering around in religious and astrological circles talking about "the end of the world" from time immemorial.
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