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A Service of the Church of God Faithful Flock
Weekly News and Commentary - Last Updated: Wednesday, May 07, 2008
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WORLD NEWS BULLETIN
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 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.
NEW YORK (AP) - The for-sale listings on the online hub Craigslist come with plaintive notices, like the one from the teenager in Georgia who said her mother lost her job and pleaded, "Please buy anything you can to help out."
Or the seller in Milwaukee who wrote in one post of needing to pay bills—and put a diamond engagement ring up for bids to do it.
 Film Overview
Ben Stein, in the new film EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed
His heroic and, at times, shocking journey confronting the world’s top scientists, educators and philosophers, regarding the persecution of the many by an elite few.
Coming to a theater near you on April 18, 2008
Ben travels the world on his quest, and learns an awe-inspiring truth…that bewilders him, then angers him…and then spurs him to action!
Ben realizes that he has been “Expelled,” and that educators and scientists are being ridiculed, denied tenure and even fired – for the “crime” of merely believing that there might be evidence of “design” in nature, and that perhaps life is not just the result of accidental, random chance.
To which Ben Says: "Enough!" And then gets busy. NOBODY messes with Ben.
Picture of the Week
Volcano Awakens
after 2000 Years
ORIGINAL CAPTION: A plume of ashes and smoke rises from the Chaiten volcano some 1,200 km south from Santiago, Chile on May 2, 2008. Up to now, 1,200 people were evacuated from the area. The eruption caused a red alert in neighbouring regions of Chile and Argentina. (AFP,Christian Brown)
World News Bulletin is dedicated to bringing you up to date news from around the world with a Biblical Perspective and Focus. We strive to bring the why behind the news from the standpoint of Bible Prophecy.
As of April 30th, we will be bringing you news as it happens on a daily basis. Instead of creating a new page each week and adding to it, we will be adding and deleting articles as we come across stories of interest. In doing this we will no longer be archiving the stories.
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Editorial Comment for review and approval.
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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.
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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.
 Severe weather battered the nation's midsection Friday killing at least seven people in Arkansas, injuring dozens others and damaging hundreds of homes and businesses.
Photo: Residents of Siloam Springs, Ark., cover a mobile home damaged by a fallen tree during a thunderstorm early Friday morning, May 2, 2008. According to city officials, one resident of the mobile home was killed in the incident. (By Zac Lehr, The Morning News/ AP)
May 2, 2008
By Robert A. Cronkleton
The Kansas City Star
http://standeyo.com/
 Suppliers no longer able to keep up with demand as farmers plant more to meet call for food, biofuel
XUAN CANH, Vietnam–Truong Thi Nha stands just 4 1/2 feet tall. Her three grown children tower over her, just as many young people in this village outside Hanoi dwarf their parents.
The biggest reason the children are so robust: fertilizer.
Nha, her face weathered beyond its 51 years, said her growth was stunted by a childhood of hunger and malnutrition. Just a few decades ago, crop yields here were far lower and diets much worse.
So far the threat of a global food crisis has not affected Australia, but there are worrying signs appearing in the United States where some worried locals are beginning to hoard supplies.
Two bulk US retailers are rationing some sales of imported rice and that's been enough for some Americans to begin stocking up.
It has also rekindled America's survivalist movement.
April 28, 2008
Peter Ryan
Houston Chronicle
http://standeyo.com/
Editorial
“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
United States and Britain in Prophecy
A staggering turn in world events is due to erupt in the next few years. It will involve violently the United States, Britain, Western Europe, the Middle East. It's already rather late for the free world to come awake to the real meaning behind current world events! Why do not the world's leaders see what is coming? Why are the world's best minds unseeing - the heads of state, scientists, educators, editors, news analysts, bankers, industrialists, leaders in business and commerce? They are totally unaware! Why?
Because they have been falsely educated and deceived into closing their minds to the great causes behind world events and trends. This world has been falsely educated to ignore causes and deal with effects! Yet all the world's problems and ills are simply a matter of cause and effect. There is a cause that has produced strife and war; poverty, wretchedness, inequality; crime, disease, mental ills. But the leaders do not know!
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There is a reason the United States is going to suffer greatly in the future, Those reasons are shown clearly in this free booklet
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FOOD CHAIN: Fertilizer Crisis
