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A Service of the Church of God Faithful Flock
Weekly News and Commentary - Week of November 18, 2007
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WORLD NEWS BULLETIN
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(AP) -- The air smells acrid from the squat gas burners that sit outside homes, melting wires to recover copper and cooking computer motherboards to release gold. Migrant workers in filthy clothes smash picture tubes by hand to recover glass and electronic parts, releasing as much as 6.5 pounds of lead dust.
For five years, environmentalists and the media have highlighted the danger to Chinese workers who dismantle much of the world's junked electronics. Yet a visit to this southeastern Chinese town regarded as the heartland of "e-waste" disposal shows little has improved. In fact, the problem is growing worse because of China's own contribution.
China now produces more than 1 million tons of e-waste each year, said Jamie Choi, a toxics campaigner with Greenpeace China in Beijing. That adds up to roughly 5 million television sets, 4 million fridges, 5 million washing machines, 10 million mobile phones and 5 million personal computers, according to Choi.
The food supply in the United States is, without a doubt, the safest in the world. But when 21 million pounds of ground beef – inspected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture – is recalled because it contains E. coli 0157:H7, the question must be asked: Is the meat you buy safe enough?
 The Topps Meat Company, a 67-year-old New Jersey firm, closed its doors Oct. 5, sending 87 employees to the unemployment line, because 21.7 million pounds of its product contained E. coli 0157:H7. This strain "produces a powerful toxin and can cause severe illness, kidney failure and even death," according to the USDA.
Every package of this contaminated meat contained a USDA inspection seal. Why did the USDA inspection fail to discover this contamination before it was shipped to stores across the nation?
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 Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- When central bankers in the Middle East say they have no plans to end their fixed exchange rates to the dollar, the currency market hears the opposite.
Merrill Lynch & Co. predicts either the United Arab Emirates or Qatar will cut their dollar peg within half a year. Standard Chartered Plc says the six Gulf Cooperation Council nations need to raise the value of their currencies 20 percent. The difference between the price of the Saudi Arabian riyal and the cost of buying it in a year using forward contracts has widened 10-fold since October as traders bet the kingdom will sever its 21-year-old link to the dollar, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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Aurora in the Distance
Some auroras can only be seen with a camera. They are called sub-visual and are too faint to be seen with the unaided eye. The reason is that the human eye only accumulates light for a fraction of a second at a time, while a camera shutter can be left open indefinitely. When photographing an already picturesque scene above Juneau, Alaska, USA, a camera caught green sub-visual aurora near the horizon. Auroras are sparked by energetic particles from the Sun impacting the magnetic environment around the Earth. Resultant energetic particles such as electrons and protons rain down near the Earth's poles and impact the air. The impacted air molecules temporarily lose electrons, and when oxygen molecules among them reacquire these electrons, they emit green light. Auroras are known to have many shapes and colors.
Within 10 years, doctors could transplant embryos created by three 'parents' – so eliminating genes that lead to life-threatening conditions – under plans to be debated by MPs tomorrow. Opponents fear this will pave the way for human cloning.
 Babies made by cloning techniques from the DNA of two women could be born within 10 years as ministers prepare to give the green light for embryos produced by biological material from three "parents". A new law, to be debated in the House of Commons tomorrow, opens the door for such hybrid eggs to be implanted in women.
The novel procedure is designed to find a cure for mitochondrial disease, a range of life-threatening conditions that affect one in 10,000 people.
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Up to 15,000 people were killed and seven million lives left devastated by the cyclone in Bangladesh last week, aid agencies have said as the full extent of the disaster became clear.
The Bangladeshi Red Crescent Society, the country's main humanitarian group, said that more than 3,000 bodies had already been recovered from villages shattered by Cyclone Sidr's 150mph winds.
While the official death toll remains low, Save the Children last night said that it feared that 15,000 people could have died while the Red Crescent estimated around 10,000.
 JERUSALEM, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Israel is quietly preparing for the possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran despite public vows to deny Tehran the means to threaten the existence of the Jewish state, Israeli political and defence sources said on Thursday.
Top aides to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert are drafting proposals on how Israel, whose security strategy is widely assumed to hinge on having the Middle East's only atomic arsenal, might deal with losing this monopoly, they said.
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There's an old expression about war: "Victory has many fathers, while defeat is an orphan." But in the case of Iraq, it seems the other way around. We've blamed many for the ordeal of the last four years, but it is the American victory in Anbar province that now seems without parents.
There's an old expression about war: "Victory has many fathers, while defeat is an orphan." But in the case of Iraq, it seems the other way around. We've blamed many for the ordeal of the last four years, but it is the American victory in Anbar province that now seems without parents.
Over the last few months, the U.S. military forced Sunni insurgents in Anbar to quit fighting. This enemy, in the heart of the so-called Sunni Triangle, had been responsible for most American casualties in the war and was the main cause of unrest in Iraq. Even more unexpectedly, some of the defeated tribes then joined in an alliance of convenience with their American victors to chase al Qaeda from Iraq's major cities.
As President Bush recently told U.S. troops about Anbar province: "It was once written off as lost. It is now one of the safest places in Iraq."
But that dramatic turnabout in Iraq is rarely reported on. We know as much about O.J.'s escapades in Vegas as we do about the Anbar awakening or the flight of al Qaeda from Baghdad. When we occasionally do hear about Iraq, it is just as likely through a Hollywood movie — "In the Valley of Elah," "Redacted," "Lions for Lambs" — preaching to us how the U.S. was mostly incompetent or amoral in fighting a hopeless war.
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
http://victorhanson.com
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Global petroleum prices dipped below $50 a barrel at the start of 2007, but by October 2007 they careened past $90 a barrel on their way to possibly hitting an unprecedented $100 a barrel, nearly doubling in cost in less than a year! On Nov. 7, crude oil prices touched a record $98.62 a barrel after it was reported that crude oil inventories had declined for a third straight week.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) re ported U.S. crude oil inventories were down by 800,000 barrels after they had dropped 3.9 million and 5.3 million barrels the previous two weeks. On Oct. 31, unexpected drops in those inventories to a two-year low caused oil futures to rocket to a record $96 a barrel, equaling the inflation-adjusted highs hit in 1980 at the time of the Iranian Revolution!
On that date, crude oil for December delivery gained as much as $1.68 or 1.8 percent to hit $96.21 a barrel in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the highest since trading began in 1983, the Associated Press reported, noting crude prices had risen 39 percent from August to October. On the previous day, the contract surged $4.15 or 4.6 percent to settle at $94.53 barrel, the biggest jump since Sept. 19,2005, when Hurricane Rita threatened Gulf of Mexico petroleum production. Oil prices are up 63 percent from a year ago, the AP reported. They have more than quadrupled since 2002.
"It's not a question of when we'll hit $100, but how quickly," Nauman Barakat, senior vice president of global energy futures at Macquarie Futures USA Inc. in New York, told the Bloomberg news service. "The door is open to $100," said Kevin Norrish, an energy analyst at Barclays Capital Inc. in London.
The spiraling, record-breaking oil prices have been a crude awakening for many motorists accustomed to inexpensive fuel for many years. Those days are now well behind us in the rearview mirror as we cruise toward a bruising at gasoline pumps. The full impact of the oil price spike has yet to be felt by consumers and the general economy.
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KOLD News 13 Tucson is currently running a special report focused on a urgent FBI report outlining a possible terrorist threat in southern Arizona. It speaks specifically to Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista.
 The document gives no timetable or explanation of how the threat will be carried out.
But it does say, “a group of Iraqis may have entered the United States through tunnels from Mexico into Arizona,” and those same “Iraqis are believed to be the ones who will perpetrate the attack on Fort Huachuca.
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