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A Service of the Church of God Faithful Flock
Weekly News and Commentary - Week of September 16, 2007
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WORLD NEWS BULLETIN
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 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A package of Dole salad mix that tested positive for E. coli has triggered a recall in at least nine states, prompting new produce fears almost exactly a year after a nationwide spinach scare.
The tainted bag of Dole's Hearts Delight salad mix was sold at a store in Canada, officials said. Neither Canadian health officials nor Dole Food Co. have received reports of anyone getting sick from the product.
Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said today.
 Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was an airplane crashing near their remote village, located in the high Andes department of Puno in the Desaguadero region, near the border with Bolivia.
Residents complained of headaches and vomiting brought on by a "strange odor," local health department official Jorge Lopez told Peruvian radio RPP.
Saudi Arabia has refused to cut interest rates in lockstep with the US Federal Reserve for the first time, signalling that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom is preparing to break the dollar currency peg in a move that risks setting off a stampede out of the dollar across the Middle East.
Ben Bernanke has placed the dollar in a dangerous situation, say analysts
"This is a very dangerous situation for the dollar," said Hans Redeker, currency chief at BNP Paribas.
"Saudi Arabia has $800bn (£400bn) in their future generation fund, and the entire region has $3,500bn under management. They face an inflationary threat and do not want to import an interest rate policy set for the recessionary conditions in the United States," he said.
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard,
International Business Editor
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
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Picture of the Week
Tungurahua Erupts
Volcano Tungurahua erupted spectacularly last year. Pictured above, molten rock so hot it glows visibly pours down the sides of the 5,000-meter high Tungurahua, while a cloud of dark ash is seen being ejected toward the left. Wispy white clouds flow around the lava-lit peak, while a star-lit sky shines in the distance. The above image was captured last year as ash fell around the adventurous photographer. Located in Ecuador, Tungurahua has become active roughly every 90 years since for the last 1,300 years. Volcano Tungurahua has started erupting again this year and continues erupting at a lower level even today.
A Canadian cold front is expected to bring rain, snow, thunderstorms and lower temperatures to the Southland.
Still think things are normal?
After about 150 days of dry weather that has frustrated firefighters, devastated crops and contributed to Southern California water woes, the region is expected to see its first significant rains beginning today.
A storm moving into the Southland from British Columbia is bringing unseasonably cold temperatures, snow at high elevations and steady precipitation, a welcome sight for many on the heels of a 2006-07 weather year that was the driest on record in Los Angeles.
Rather: Government Influencing Newsrooms
NEW YORK (AP) — Dan Rather said Thursday that the undue influence of the government and large corporations over newsrooms spurred his decision to file a $70 million lawsuit against CBS and its former parent company.
 "Somebody, sometime has got to take a stand and say democracy cannot survive, much less thrive with the level of big corporate and big government interference and intimidation in news," he said on CNN's "Larry King Live."
In the suit, filed a day earlier in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Rather claimed CBS and Viacom Inc. used him as a "scapegoat" and intentionally botched the aftermath of a discredited story about President Bush's military service to curry favor with the White House. He was removed from his "CBS Evening News" post in March 2005.
By SAMANTHA GROSS
http://ap.google.com
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China Evacuates 1.8 Million, Closes Schools in Shanghai As Typhoon Churns Toward Coast
A typhoon expected to be among the most powerful storms to hit China in years churned toward the densely populated coast on Tuesday with 165 mph wind gusts, and the government evacuated 1.8 million people.
The fringes of Typhoon Wipha lashed northern Taiwan, where schools, offices and the stock market closed. A construction worker was killed when the storm's winds knocked down scaffolding, Taiwan's Disaster Relief Center said.
 WASHINGTON (AP) - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress on Wednesday the government will hit the current debt ceiling on Oct. 1. He sought quick action to increase the limit, saying it was essential to protect the "full faith and credit" of the country, especially at a time of financial market turmoil.
The limit is $8.965 trillion. Unless Congress votes to raise it, the country would be unable to borrow more money to keep the government operating and to pay debt obligations coming due.
 Editorial
 A review of Bjorn Lomborg’s Cool It. The Skeptical Environmentalist’ s Guide to Global Warming (Knopf, 2007, pp. 272)
If you believe Al Gore and his shills in Hollywood and the media, science has definitively proven that within decades polar bears and penguins will become extinct, heat waves will slaughter millions, malaria will devastate North America, rising sea levels caused by melting ice caps will swallow up coastal communities, droughts will create killer famines, monster hurricanes will ravage the Gulf Coast, and the Gulf Stream will disappear and spawn a new Ice Age––all because George Bush wouldn’t sign the Kyoto treaty and do something, something about the CO2 emissions that have caused global warming.
As Bjorn Lomborg argues in Cool It, these apocalyptic scenarios don’t have that much reliable science to back them up, and the alleged solution––radically reducing CO2 emissions––wouldn’t help that much anyway. Lomborg is the Danish economist whose earlier book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, used Occam’s razor to slice and dice the neo-romantic nature-love that these days masquerades as environmental science. Cool It uses the same sort of calm, rational pragmatism and respect for empirical evidence to analyze global warming, its possible effects on people today and in the future, and the proper way to address this issue.
Lomborg starts with the hyped hysteria over polar bears to illustrate the way “vastly exaggerated and emotional claims that are simply not supported by data” obscure the facts. In reality, there are 20 subpopulations of polar bears, only one or two of which are declining. In addition, the polar bear population has increased from 5000 in the 1960s to 25,000 today. Nor is it clear that global warming accounts for the two declining subpopulations, since the two increasing subpopulations inhabit an environment that is growing warmer. Global warming may indeed impact future polar bear populations, but they will not become extinct. And if we’re worried about those bears that will be lost to global warming, we can easily offset those numbers––an estimated 15 a year around Hudson Bay––by banning the hunting of polar bears, which kills 49 a year.
Biblical Perspective
 The Gate of God
When we think of the places where the events of the Bible took place, we usually picture Bethlehem, Nazareth, Galilee, maybe Egypt, and of course Jerusalem. But much of the Bible took place in a land hundreds of
miles away from these places. It is known as Mesopotamia, "the land between the rivers." It is also known as the "cradle of civilization."
To understand the significance of Babylon for us today, we must go back in time to the beginning of human civilization.
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