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A Service of the Church of God Faithful Flock
Weekly News and Commentary - Week of June 10, 2007
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WORLD NEWS BULLETIN
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The world's top military powers are gradually dismantling their stockpiles of nuclear arms, but all are developing new missiles and warheads with smaller yields that could increase the risk of atomic warfare, a Swedish research institute said Monday.
In its annual report on military forces around the globe, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute also said the rising number of nations with nuclear weapons is raising the risk such arms could be used.
Faith-based Media Earning Respect
 ROME, JUNE 11, 2007 (Zenit.org).- In spite of hostility to religion from a part of the media, faith-based material is flourishing in a number of sectors. The enthusiasm for films with a religious message shows no sign of flagging, especially with the recent announcement of a Christian entertainment company that it plans to build a $150 million studio to produce what they call "spiritainment."
The year-old Good News Holdings hopes to make Massachusetts the home for the multimedia studio, the Boston Globe reported June 6. The company is young, but has already developed a number of products.
 Editorial
Doug MacEllven knows this is not like any other time of war.
"This isn't a war with mostly 19- and 20-year-old men going overseas and coming back to marry their high-school sweethearts," says Washington County's Veteran Services officer.
"These are people -- men and women, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers -- who have been married for 15 or 20 years and are committed to one another," he says. "And then one of them comes back from overseas and they aren't the same person as the one who left."
 WASHINGTON (AP) - States should have the power to restrict the movement of patients with contagious diseases even before they have the chance to disobey doctors' orders, says a top U.S. health official.
The need for such authority to order someone quarantined emerged as lesson No. 1 from the case of the Atlanta lawyer who went to Europe despite having a dangerous form of tuberculosis.
 DENVER — Drought, a fixture in much of the West for nearly a decade, now covers more than one-third of the continental USA. And it's spreading.
As summer starts, half the nation is either abnormally dry or in outright drought from prolonged lack of rain that could lead to water shortages, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, a weekly index of conditions. Welcome rainfall last weekend from Tropical Storm Barry brought short-term relief to parts of the fire-scorched Southeast. But up to 50 inches of rain is needed to end the drought there, and this is the driest spring in the Southeast since record-keeping began in 1895, according to the National Climatic Data Center.
By Patrick O'Driscoll
USA TODAY
 Right-wingers were seething on Friday afternoon after initial reports about Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's recent flurry of secret messages from Israel to Syria, signaling Olmert's willingness to give up the Golan Heights in return for a peace agreement.
Effi Eitam (NU-NRP) said: "The Olmert government that failed in Lebanon, is behaving as failed regimes have acted throughout history, and in an attempt to hide his responsibility for the failure he is embarking on a dangerous political adventure.
Yet another summit saved: at the closing press conference Friday, a tired but happy Angela Merkel described this year's G-8 summit as a success. Even Bono accepted her assurances, she said.
Shortly before Angela Merkel strides into the press center in Heiligendamm, George W. Bush and his wife Laura stand on the tarmac at Rostock-Laage airport. The president looks a little pale. He wasn't able to take part in a morning session with the African heads of state and government because of a stomach ailment.
Bush thanks the ground staff and then climbs up the gangway. A last wave by the most powerful man in the world, then the light blue door of Air Force One eases shut.
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Picture of the Week
Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth
Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse. The shadow of the Moon can be seen darkening part of Earth. This shadow moved across the Earth at nearly 2000 kilometers per hour. Only observers near the center of the dark circle see a total solar eclipse - others see a partial eclipse where only part of the Sun appears blocked by the Moon. This spectacular picture of the 1999 August 11 solar eclipse was one of the last ever taken from the Mir space station. The two bright spots that appear on the upper left are possibly Jupiter and Saturn, although this has yet to be proven. Mir was deorbited in a controlled re-entry in 2001.
DuPont, Tate & Lyle Begin Production Of Corn-Based Polymer That Can Replace Petroleum
 (AP) The nation's top energy official hailed on Friday the innovation behind chemical giant DuPont Co.'s new $100 million bioengineering joint-venture with multinational agri-processor Tate & Lyle PLC to produce a new biology-based polymer.
The Loudon plant is churning out a product derived from corn that the companies say can directly replace and improve upon petroleum-based ingredients in everything from carpets to clothes to cosmetics, saving energy and using renewable resources at the same time.
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 The United States, Israel and European states said Friday that they were prepared to ease a ban on aid to the new Palestinian emergency government as Arab foreign ministers held an emergency session on how to deal with the Palestinian split. The Arab ministers brought their meeting forward from Saturday after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas dissolved a three-month-old power-sharing government on Thursday and Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip.
The formation of an emergency government in the occupied West Bank was immediately welcomed by Western and Arab governments and the United Nations.
More than 640,000 people reported homeless
BEIJING - The death toll from flooding and landslides in southern China has risen to at least 71, with more rain forecast for the area, state media reported Tuesday.
More than 640,000 people have been forced from their homes, Xinhua News Agency reported, citing an official from the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
 Iran is smuggling graphite and a graphite compound that could be used in nuclear weapons, an Iranian dissident and a senior diplomat said Friday (see GSN, May 20)
While it has civilian and conventional weapons uses, graphite can also be used to encase weapon-grade uranium in nuclear warheads, the Associated Press reported.
Tehran has been forced to obtain such dual-use items on the black market, Iranian exile Alireza Jafarzadeh told AP.
“It is not clear how much governments are involved,” Jafarzadeh said. Iran is “using front companies to deceive other companies, other entities in foreign countries, and they wouldn’t know what the destination would be.”
Up to 5.7 million pounds of beef in 11 states may be contaminated
 LOS ANGELES - Southern California meatpacker United Food Group LLC expanded a recall to include 5.7 million pounds of fresh and frozen beef that may be contaminated with the potentially deadly E. coli bacteria, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday.
Fourteen people in six Western states have fallen ill after eating the beef but all have recovered, the department said.
The beef was butchered and shipped in April, and is no longer on store shelves.
MSNBC News Services
Updated: 5:28 p.m. PT June 9, 2007
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Nation's Defense Relies On Small Group That Operates On Tiny Budget, Experts Say
 Evidence is mounting that cyberwarfare tactics are part of the 21st-century arsenals of powers like Russia and China, yet the United States has not made Internet defenses a major priority.
A two-week cyberattack on Estonia — which overloaded government Web sites, knocked a bank's overseas customers offline and caused Internet service to slow to a crawl — has brought the issue to the fore for U.S. defense officials. While the tiny Baltic nation reacted well, experts say, the U.S. may be at greater risk for mass disruptions of banking, telecommunications, and government services. The reasons: a lack of coordination, funding, and centralized authority.
(Christian Science Monitor) This article was written by Ben Arnoldy and Gordon Lubold.
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Gusts At Surface As High As 92 MPH
 DENVER -- If you didn't sleep well Wednesday night, especially in the northwest Denver metro area, blame Mother Nature.
A powerful area of low pressure passing to the north of Colorado produced hurricane-force winds in and near the foothills west of Denver.
Sustained winds of 50 to 70 mph hammered the northwest Denver metro area late Wednesday and early Thursday, with numerous gusts between 80 and 90 mph.
 Biblical Perspective
 Did you ever ask yourself: “Who am I? What am I? Why am I?” You are a mystery. The world about you is a mystery. Now, you can understand
Your life is engulfed in mysteries. On reflection, your very existence is a mystery. Did you simply happen by unintelligent resident earthly forces without meaning or purpose, or were you intelligently designed and created by an all-powerful God of supreme mind for a purpose that also has been hidden in mystery? In fact, the persistent tradition throughout human history about the Creator God has been such a mystery that higher education in the Western world has sought to erase the mystery by giving its virtually unanimous acceptance to the theory of evolution.
Diffusion of education did not begin among the human race until after the invention of printing in the 15th century. As education became more widespread— as intellectualism developed—as knowledge of astronomy expanded knowledge of the universe about us—thinking minds began to ask questions. What of the whole vast universe? How did it all originate? Rational, scientifically oriented minds found themselves unable to explain the developing knowledge of an expanded universe with the teaching of religion as they knew it, through the Roman Catholic Church and Protestantism, which had dominated the thinking of the Western world. The teaching of a long-haired, semi-effeminate picture of Jesus and the concept of a God composed of invisible spirit was not intellectually satisfying to them. It was all a colossal mystery. In the vanity of their self-professed scholarly minds they tried to evade the mystery entirely on the basis of materialism. They appeased their curiosity by attempting to work out a solution to the mystery of origins, existence, and life by reasoning out a self-satisfying, materialistic explanation.
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Editorial
 Thousands of aliens crossing our 2,000-mile border from an impoverished Mexico reflect a much larger global one-way traffic problem.
In Germany, Turkish workers — both legal and illegal — are desperate to find either permanent residence or citizenship.
"Londonstan" is slang for a new London of thousands of unassimilated Pakistani nationals.
In France, there were riots in 2005 because many children of North African immigrants are unemployed — and unhappy.
Albanians flock to Greece to do farm work, and then are regularly deported for doing so illegally.
The list could go on
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