News and World Events
"The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faints." - Isaiah 1:5 (NKJV)
May 8, 2008
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Ethanol May Pose Problem For Older Vehicles May 8 - It's supposed to help cars burn fuel more cleanly and help protect the environment, but it may also drive up repair bills. The new E-10 ethanol-blended gasoline is pouring into Central Florida, but some mechanics are reporting mechanical problems that might be directly related to the new fuel. Drivers already stung by higher gas...
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Lost Diary Tells of Teenage Holocaust Victim May 7 - Many people worldwide know the story of Anne Frank -- and now the discovery of a long lost diary is causing a sensation about another teenage Holocaust victim. Her story has been waiting to be told for more than 60 years. Beautiful 14-year-old Rutka Laskier was forced to live with her family in the Jewish ghetto during the Nazi...
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U.S. Honey Bee Deaths Increased Last Year May 7 - A survey of bee health released Tuesday revealed a grim picture, with 36.1 percent of the nation's commercially managed hives lost since last year. Last year's survey commissioned by the Apiary Inspectors of America found losses of about 32 percent. As beekeepers travel with their hives this spring to pollinate crops...
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Report: Olmert Willing to Give 90% of Territory May 7 - With Prime Minister Ehud Olmert under the police investigators' gun, sources imply he has agreed to give away 89% of Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Authority - and some say even more. On Tuesday morning, while the Israeli media was rife with reports of expected "dramatic developments" in the latest criminal...
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Idaho student says teacher tossed his Mexican flag in trash May 7 - A high school student says he may file a lawsuit against a physical education teacher who took a Mexican flag he had brought for Cinco de Mayo and put it in the garbage. Clint Straatman denies Froylan Camelo's version of events but said he took the flag Monday because "white kids" might have hurt the 16-year-old. He said he...
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A Political Scandal Casts a Shadow Over Israel's 60th Birthday Party May 6 - In advance of Israel's planned celebrations of its 60th birthday on Thursday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert seemed about to announce a major achievement: a cease-fire with Hamas and other Gaza militant groups in Gaza, which would have halted the seven-year-long rocketing of the border town of Sderot. But at the...
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U.S. urged to consider effect of ethanol on the poor May 7 - The United States should consider spiraling food prices that hurt the world's poor when it sets policies that are funneling much of its corn crop into biofuel production, the World Bank said on Wednesday. Global food prices for staples like wheat and rice have surged in recent years, causing hunger, riots and hoarding in poor...
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Gore Blames Myanmar Cyclone on Global Warming May 7 - It took no time at all for Al Gore to blame the cyclone that all but leveled parts of Myanmar, once known as Burma, on global warming, a phenomenon that some experts argue stopped ten years ago. According to the Business & Media Institute, Gore said the storm was an example of "consequences that scientists have long...
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Hezbollah: Lebanon has declared war on us May 8 - Hezbollah's leader on Thursday said the Lebanese government's decision to declare the Shiite militant group's telecommunications network illegal amounts to a declaration of war. The U.S.-backed government on Tuesday said the network was a threat to state security. The government also said it would dismiss...
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May 1, 2008
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Blood moon eclipses: 2nd Coming in 2015? April 30 - Will Jesus Christ return to Earth in the year 2015? And can studying NASA's website provide evidence for such a scenario? A minister who promotes the Old Testament roots of Christianity suggests a rare string of lunar and solar eclipses said to fall on God's annual holy days seven years from now could herald what's come...
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Obama adviser: Israel must give up its nukes May 1 - Israel should give up its nuclear weapons to ensure Iran halts its illicit nuclear program, argues an adviser on nuclear issues to Sen. Barack Obama. Joseph Cirincione, director of nuclear policy at the Center for American Progress, also previously dismissed reports Israel's Sept. 6 airstrike targeted a Syrian nuclear reactor as...
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The amazing 'pixie dust' made from pigs bladder that regrew a severed finger in FOUR weeks May 1 - Scientists are claiming an amazing breakthrough - regrowing a man's severed finger with the aid of an experimental powder. Four weeks after Lee Spievack sliced almost half an inch off the top of one of his fingers, he said it had grown back to its original length. Four months later it looked like any other finger, complete with "great...
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Jersey Lawmakers Consider Tax On Fast Food April 30 - The sputtering economy has caused an increase in prices of many staples including gasoline, rice, ice cream, even beer. Now some lawmakers in New Jersey are considering taking food taxes a step further and install a proverbial "sin" tax on fast food. Yes, the idea of marking up your favorite fast food burger or pack of fries is...
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Chinese build secret nuclear submarine base May 1 - 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...
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London Church Forced Off Its Property April 29 - If you live in London, and you want to build the largest Mosque in Western Europe, that's great. But if you want to build the largest church, forget about it. London's Kingsway International Christian Church, the largest church in Europe, no longer has a permanent home. Nor is there much prospect of it finding one in...
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Manufacturing in third month of declines May 1 - The Institute for Supply Management said Thursday U.S. manufacturing in April slid for the third consecutive month. New orders and production "are slowly declining," the report said. "But prices continue to rise at highly inflationary rates." Backlog of orders offered the one "bright spot," the report said, growing after six...
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D.C. forging surveillance network May 1 - The D.C. government is launching a system today that would tie together thousands of city-owned video cameras, but authorities don't yet have the money to complete the high-tech network or privacy rules in place to guide it. The system will feature round-the-clock monitoring of the closed-circuit video systems run...
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'Iran may get nuke technology this year' April 30 - Iran will likely have nuclear bomb technology in 2008, Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz said Wednesday, citing an updated Israeli intelligence assessment. In the past, the general consensus in the intelligence community has been that Iran had hit some technical difficulties with enrichment and that its attainment...
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April 24, 2008
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On St. George's Day, EU wipes England off map April 24 - England has been wiped off a map of Europe drawn up by Brussels bureaucrats as part of a scheme that the Tories claim threatens to undermine the country's national identity.The new European plan splits England into three zones that are joined with areas in other countries. The "Manche" region covers part of...
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Syria: Israel ready to return Golan April 23 - A Cabinet minister said Wednesday that Israel has passed a message to Syria saying it is prepared to return the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace treaty. Israeli officials declined to comment on the report, but the message could be a sign of progress in back-channel contacts that the two nations have reported in recent...
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Iran nuclear ambitions are major Gulf threat: NATO April 24 - NATO's secretary-general told Gulf Arab states on Thursday that Iran's nuclear ambitions were a major threat to regional stability. "Iran's pursuit of uranium enrichment capability in violation of its U.N. Security Council obligations is a serious concern not just for Iran's neighbors but for the entire international community," Jaap de...
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Student in Wheechair Faces Assault Charges for Running Over Classmate's Toe April 24 - A high school student who uses an electric wheelchair faces three misdemeanor charges for allegedly running over the toe of another student at school. Joshua Martinez told television station KDVR-TV Wednesday that he received a summons alleging assault, battery, and reckless endangerment for the incident at Rangeview...
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Court broadens police power in searches April 24 - The Supreme Court affirmed yesterday that police have the power to conduct searches and seize evidence, even when done during an arrest that turns out to have violated state law. The unanimous decision comes in a case from Portsmouth, Va., where city detectives seized crack cocaine from a motorist after arresting...
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Machine Gun-Toting Officers To Patrol NYC Subway April 24 - More protection against terrorists is coming to a subway station near you. Starting Thursday, special bomb teams, known as "Torch Teams," will be toting submachine guns and bringing bomb-sniffing dogs onto the platforms and into the trains. CBS 2 HD was out first thing Thursday morning on the lookout for these...
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Piles Of Teeth, Fillings Hit Pawn Shops In Dental Gold Rush April 24 - A dental gold rush is being reported at pawn shops in Florida and elsewhere as people sell piles of gold teeth, dental caps, fillings and even bridgework to cash in on the metal's high prices. Local 6 reported that people are getting as much as $50 for each gold crown they turn in to pawnshops. Some people are bringing...
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April 17, 2008
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Neanderthals speak out after 30,000 years April 15 - Talk about a long silence – no one has heard their voices for 30,000 years. Now the long-extinct Neanderthals are speaking up – or at least a computer synthesiser is doing so on their behalf. Robert McCarthy, an anthropologist at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton has used new reconstructions of Neanderthal vocal...
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Senate panel passes bestiality bill April 16 - Animals could be safer under a bill being passed by a Senate committee that would punish people who sexually abuse them. Law enforcement officers have not been able to charge offenders with a crime because having sex with animals isn't against the law in Florida. Charges could only be filed if an animal was...
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Sickened pork workers have new nerve disorder April 16 - Eighteen pork plant workers in Minnesota, at least five in Indiana and one in Nebraska have come down with a mysterious neurological condition they appear to have contracted while removing brains from slaughtered pigs, U.S. researchers and health officials said on Wednesday. They said the illness is a new disorder that...
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Gas prices pass $3.40 a gallon, are expected to rise higher April 17 - Retail gas prices pushed past a record high $3.40 a gallon Thursday, fulfilling expectations that they'll keep climbing toward $4 as the summer driving season approaches. Oil prices, meanwhile, fluctuated after setting yet another record high overnight. Analysts said investors were locking in gains from crude's ongoing rally and...
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Jimmy Carter Meets With Hamas Delegation April 17 - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter met a Hamas delegation from Gaza Thursday, part of a series of talks with the Islamic militant group that has drawn sharp criticism from U.S. and Israeli officials. Carter spoke with Hamas officials in the West Bank Wednesday and angered Israelis when he embraced one of them.
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U.S. To Expand DNA Collection April 17 - The government plans to begin collecting DNA samples from anyone arrested by a federal law enforcement agency - a move intended to prevent violent crime but which also is raising concerns about the privacy of innocent people. Using authority granted by Congress, the government also plans to collect DNA samples from...
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Annual 'Dishonor' Given to Liberal Media April 11 - In the news business, there are awards that most every journalist covets. Like an emmy award. And then, there are some awards that they don't want. Last night, the Media Research Council held a ceremony for one such award - the annual "Dishonor Awards." The ceremony roasted what they have called the most...
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Netanyahu: Let the Third Reich be a Lesson April 17 - What's the greatest danger to world stability? Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu believes it's the possibility of a nuclear Iran. "Our central policy must be that Iran must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons." Netanyahu addressed a group of foreign journalists and warned of the danger Iran poses. "The...
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April 10, 2008
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O Jerusalem! America drafts plan to cut in 2 April 9 - The United States, which has been mediating negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority here, has proposed a plan to divide Jerusalem, WND has learned. The plan, divided into separate phases, among other things calls for Israel eventually to forfeit parts of the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site. According...
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Man Claims Self-Defense In Bear Shooting April 10 - A Massachusetts man charged with illegal hunting after shooting a black bear is saying he shot the animal in self-defense. David Menard, of Granby, said the bear charged at him on his property, but environmental police aren't buying his story. They said there was no evidence the bear, estimated to be about 1 year old,...
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Bill Looks To Outlaw Idling Cars April 9 - Lawmakers are considering a bill that would ban trucks and cars from idling for more than three minutes. The bill is part of a new plan to help reduce air pollution in Connecticut. Channel 3 Eyewitness News reporter Dan Kain reported that the bill has passed a number of committees by wide margins. "There are people who...
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Two-Faced Baby Worshipped As Goddess April 8 - A baby with two faces was born in a northern Indian village, where she is doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, her father said Tuesday. The baby, Lali, apparently has an extremely rare condition known as craniofacial duplication, where a single head has two faces. Except for her...
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U.S. Gas Prices Kick Into Overdrive April 7 - Gas prices rose further into record territory Monday, pulled higher by resurgent oil futures and a growing belief that gasoline supplies are falling as the summer driving season approaches. Oil futures, meanwhile, jumped by more than $2 a barrel as traders bet the Federal Reserve will continue cutting interest rates. Comments...
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Boy Scouts Defend their Honor April 10 - The City of Brotherly Love is squaring off with a long-time ally -- the Boy Scouts of America. At issue: the Scout's 80-year-old headquarters building in downtown Philadelphia. But what's really at stake is the right of the Scouts to ban homosexuals from leadership. Since 1910, the Boy Scouts have sought to nurture young boys by...
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Pound falls to all-time euro low April 9 - The pound has touched a fresh all-time low against the euro, hit by market expectations that the Bank of England will further cut UK interest rates. With the Bank widely tipped to trim rates to 5% from 5.25% on Thursday, one pound was worth as little as 1.2500 euros in early Wednesday trading. Sterling later...
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