Priest Attacked, Hurt in Turkey
December 19, 2007
A Catholic priest was hospitalized Sunday after being stabbed, the Italian Embassy in Ankara said, in the latest in a string of attacks on Christians in Turkey. Police said they had detained the suspected attacker.
The assault on Italian priest Adriano Franchini was likely to add to concerns about whether the predominantly Muslim country — which is bidding for European Union membership — can protect its Christian community.
Franchini was stabbed after Sunday Mass at St. Anthony’s church in the port city of Izmir, said Simon Carta, the Italian consul there.
The priest is responsible for the Capucine order in Turkey and heads the Church of the Virgin Mary in Ephesus, Carta said. He said the priest was conscious when he was taken to a hospital.
The state-run Anatolia news agency said Franchini was stabbed in the stomach but his condition was not life-threatening.
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Natural Types The Spiritual - Wheat Supplies Disappearing Price Soaring
December 19, 2007
Wheat prices have soared above a record $10 a bushel Monday. The strong demand for the grain around the world has raised concerns over wheat shortage in the U.S. in 2008 as food prices surge to even higher levels.
The Chicago Board of Trade WH8 contract gained more than 3 percent to hit a record high of $10.09.
Partly due to a drought in Australia, wheat prices have increased twofold since last year. This has brought about fears of food price inflation in a global economic environment that is slowing.
“We think agricultural commodity prices are going to continue rising, (with the scale) depending on the climate and the state of the harvests,” said Moncef Kaabi, head of commodities research at French investment bank Natixis, reports BBC News.
Russia Says Missiles Could Target US Shield
December 19, 2007
Russia’s nuclear weapons chief threatened Monday to target a planned US missile defense shield in central Europe if Washington fails to take into account Moscow’s worries, the Interfax news agency reported.
General Nikolai Solovtsov, head of strategic missile forces, said that such a decision could be taken if the US shield is seen to “undermine the Russian nuclear deterrent capability.”
In that case, “I do not exclude… the missile defense shield sites in Poland and the Czech Republic being chosen as targets for some of our intercontinental ballistic missiles,” Solovtsov said, according to Interfax.
Washington says the plans to install radar in the Czech Republic and 10 interceptor rockets in Poland would guard against theoretical missile strikes from “rogue” nations such as Iran, without denting Russia’s massive nuclear offensive arsenal. But Moscow claims the United States is exaggerating the threat from Iran and describes the shield as the thin end of a wedge aimed at changing the current balance of military power.
On Saturday, the Russian chief of staff, General Yury Baluyevsky, warned that the launch of US interceptor missiles could accidentally trigger a Russian retaliatory strike. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk denounced the comments as “unacceptable” and said that “no declaration of this kind will influence Polish-American negotiations.”
Iran Receives Nuclear Fuel in Blow to U.S.
December 19, 2007
The United States lost a long battle when Russia, as it announced on Monday, delivered nuclear fuel to an Iranian power plant that is at the center of an international dispute over its nuclear program. Iran, for its part, confirmed on Monday plans to build a second such plant.
In announcing that it had delivered the first shipment of enriched-uranium fuel rods to the power plant, at Bushehr in southern Iran, on Sunday, Russian officials said that while the fuel was in Iran, it would be under the control of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the nuclear monitoring agency for the United Nations. Russia also said the Iranian government had guaranteed that the fuel would be used only for the power plant.
The Bush administration took pains not to criticize the Russian move publicly, even expressing support for outside supplies if that led Iran to suspend its nuclear enrichment program.
“If the Russians are willing to do that, which I support, then the Iranians do not need to learn how to enrich,” President Bush said Monday. “If the Iranians accept that uranium for a civilian nuclear power plant, then there’s no need for them to learn how to enrich.”
But from the American standpoint, the timing could not have been worse, coming just two weeks after the release of a United States intelligence estimate that concluded that Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003. The National Intelligence Estimate also concluded that Iran had not restarted its nuclear weapons program as of mid-2007, undercutting a central tenet of the Bush administration’s basis for maintaining international pressure against Iran.
U.S. Joins Rebuke of Israel
December 19, 2007
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joined her counterparts in the international “Quartet for Middle East peace” yesterday in a rare formal rebuke of Israel for its plans to expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Seismologists Warn Of Looming Quake On Hayward Fault In San Francisco Bay Area
December 19, 2007
When geologists across the country observe the 140th anniversary of the 1868 Hayward earthquake next year on Oct. 21, they will have more than speeches and slideshows on their mind.
Seismologists at the American Geological Union’s meeting at the Moscone Center in San Francisco last week warned that the average interval between the past five earthquakes on the Hayward Fault was 140 years.
“The 1868 earthquake was the first great ‘San Francisco earthquake,’ and one of the most destructive earthquakes in the nation’s history,” said Arthur Rodgers, a seismologist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).
“However it has always been eclipsed by the great 1906 quake. It’s important to know that if an earthquake of the same scale happens today on the Hayward Fault, its aftereffects will be devastating.”
Rodgers, along with Xiao-Bi Xie from the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UC Santa Cruz and Anders Petersson from LLNL performed simulations of the 1995 Kobe earthquake on the Hayward Fault using reported finite rupture models from large strike-slip earthquakes under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy at Livermore lab.
“We wanted to calculate what the ground motions will be on a large earthquake on the Hayward Fault,” Rodgers said. “The results showed large damaging ground motion levels near the asperities along the fault. Very strong ground motions are predicted in the sedimentary basins, particularly the Evergreen, Cupertino, San Leandro, Livermore basins and San Pablo Bay. Moderate damage will also occur in Berkeley and Oakland.”
The 1868 earthquake—which took place at 7:53 a.m. with a magnitude of 7 on the Hayward Fault—stands as the country’s 12th deadliest quake.
The last of a decade-long sequence of earthquakes in the Bay Area, the Hayward Earthquake left 30 people dead and brought about an extensive loss of property.
According to a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) report, the damage was most severe in Hayward and the nearby towns of Alameda County. A town of about 500 residents back then, Hayward had almost every building either damaged or extensively wrecked.
San Leandro—with a population then of about 400—saw the second floor of the Alameda County courthouse collapse and other buildings destroyed.
Oakland, then a town of about 12,000 with predominantly wood frame buildings, sustained far less damage than either Hayward or San Leandro.
San Francisco, which was then the largest U.S. city on the West Coast with a population of 150,000, suffered damages to the Custom House and several other structures built on landfill reclaimed from the former Yerba Buena Cove (modern day Financial District).
The USGS report states that very little information is available on the 1868 earthquake because of a lack of funding from the state and the non-existence of seismographs during that time.
“The 1868 Hayward earthquake and more recent analogs such as the 1995 Kobe earthquake are stark reminders of the awesome energy waiting to be released from below the east side of the San Francisco Bay along the Hayward Fault,” said Tom Brocher, a seismologist with the USGS and one of the authors of the study, “The M7 Oct. 21, 1868 Hayward Earthquake, Northern California—140 Years Later.”
“The population at risk from a Hayward Fault earthquake is now 100 times larger than in 1868,” Brocher said. “The infrastructure in the San Francisco Bay Area has been tested only by the relatively remote 1989 magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake … We are not saying that an earthquake is going to happen next year but if it does, we are not going to have any warnings. We have to prepare now. Whatever we have during the quake, we will have the same during the next three days.”
To help attract public attention to future hazards, the 1868 Hayward Earthquake Alliance (www.1868alliance.org) was formed.
The Coming Collapse Of The Modern Banking System
December 19, 2007
Most people have no idea how grave the present situation is or the disaster the country will face if trillions of dollars of over-leveraged bonds and equities begin to unwind. Theres a widespread belief that the stewards of the system Bernanke and Paulson can somehow steer the economy through this “rough patch” into calm waters.
But they cannot, and the presumption shows a basic misunderstanding of how markets work. The Fed has no magical powers and will not allow itself to be crushed by standing in the path of a market-avalanche. As foreclosures and bankruptcies increase; stocks will crash and the fed will step aside to safety.
Russia Test-fires Intercontinental Missile
December 18, 2007
Russia successfully conducted a test launch on Monday of a new intercontinental ballistic missile, the navy said.
A statement said the missile was launched from the Tula nuclear powered submarine in the Barents Sea in the Arctic and hit a designated area in the Kura testing ground on the Kamchatka Peninsula on Russia’s Pacific coast.
“The launch was conducted from an underwater position as a part of training to test the readiness of the marine strategic nuclear forces,” the statement said.
A navy spokesman would not say what type of missile was tested. Itar-Tass news agency said the Tula submarine carried Sineva missiles commissioned by a decree from President Vladimir Putin in July.
Missile tests have become regular occurrences in the Russian armed forces in the past few years. They are viewed by Russia’s political and military leadership as evidence that they are reviving the country’s military might.
Revealed: Gays Plan To Spread Agenda Message To School Children In California
December 18, 2007
Children as young as two years old are in the bull’s-eye of coming changes in California’s school curriculum, which “gay” advocates now admit will alter the very foundation of information presented to public school classrooms.
A list of school resources, sponsored by a homosexual-advocacy group called Safe Schools Coalition, suggests for those who are only 2 years old, there’s “Felicia’s Favorite Story,” which tells how she was “adopted by her two mothers.”
The list also promotes a book called “Are You a Girl or a Boy?” by Karleen Jiminez, which is a potential resource for children ages 4-8 when advocating homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderism and other alternative lifestyle choices.
It’s described as “A sweet book about a gender-different kid.”
Other resources being promoted in light of California’s adoption of SB 777 as state law include books authored by officials for Planned Parenthood and the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network.
Major Quakes Rock Planet
December 17, 2007
Eight major quakes of 6.5 and aboive have taken place over the past 32 days. Clock the link below for additional information.
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