Historic Flood Forecast For Arkansas - Engineers Scramble
March 24, 2008
High water pouring down the White River could cause historic flooding in cities along its path in eastern Arkansas, forecasters warned Sunday.
The river, one of many out of its banks across wide areas of the Midwest, could top levels recorded in a devastating flood 25 years ago, National Weather Service meteorologist John Robinson warned.
“There will be water going into areas where people have not seen it before, and may not be expecting to see high water,” Robinson wrote in an e-mail to reporters Sunday.
A tributary of the White River, the Black River, ruptured a levee in two places Saturday near Pocahontas, said Renee Preslar, a spokeswoman for the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management. That stream has been bloated by water pouring downstream from hard-hit southeastern Missouri.
Preslar said the levee breaks allowed flooding in outlying areas but she did not have details on what might have been damaged.
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JuicyCampus.com Gossip Website Targeted
March 24, 2008
The anonymous gossip site JuicyCampus.com is spreading “malignant and malicious falsehoods” about Yale University students on its message board, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal charged Friday.
A lawyer for Yale said Friday the university supports the attorney general. Blumenthal announced an investigation into the Los Angeles-based social-networking operation that could lead to civil charges against Juicycampus.com under the state’s consumer protection law.
He said the site is fostering a wide variety of hate speech and appears to be operating in a manner that breaks its own rules of usage.
“JuicyCampus.com is different from other social-networking sites because of its absolute guarantee of anonymity and its refusal to provide information about people who post hateful, slanderous, abusive and offensive speech,” Blumenthal said. “This Web site is filled with insults, taunts, slander based on race, gender, religion. It is filled with comments that are homophobic and anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic.”
Blumenthal said that Yale officials are supporting his investigation, which is collaborating with New Jersey officials and other universities.
“Essentially what we’re investigating is this Web site’s failure to follow and enforce its own guarantees and promises to the public,” Blumenthal said.
Gospel of Godlessness
March 24, 2008
Holy Week has offered an opportunity to cue up the media attacks on Christianity and faith.
The first salvo in the annual Easter faith-flagellation fest came last week from Comedy Central on a show called “Root of All Evil.” Comedian-prosecutors were tasked with making the case as to which defendant was the “root of all evil.” The choices were Oprah and the Catholic Church.
Said the Catholic Church “prosecutor”: “Then there’s the Virgin Mary. The Virgin Mary. God impregnated Mary. We have a whole religion based on one woman who reeeeeeally stuck to her story.”
Sadly, most Christians are not surprised by this kind of invective. The media — entertainment and news — often treat Christianity and faith in God with indifference if not outright hostility.
For atheists it’s a different story. In 2007 three books by atheists — Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens — made the best-seller lists. The news media used this fact to shine the spotlight on atheism and atheists throughout the year. And while there is nothing wrong with reporting a trend, media coverage of the godless and their beliefs was virtually uncritical. Unlike Christianity and Christians, atheism and atheists got a free ride.
At times, the media blatantly promoted atheism. In September, ABC’s “Good Morning America Sunday” ran a feature on an atheist convention. ABC proclaimed that atheism was “unleashed,” that “more and more” people were becoming atheists, and that the “stigma” of being an atheist “may be fading.”
“Apostles of Atheism,” a just-released special report from the Media Research Center’s Culture and Media Institute, examines the 2007 coverage of atheism by several national news outlets. CMI reviewed all news programs on ABC, CBS and NBC, every 2007 issue of Newsweek, Time and U.S.News & World Report, and four news programs aired on taxpayer-funded National Public Radio (”All Things Considered,” “Morning Edition,” “Weekend Edition” and “Talk of the Nation”).
TB Threat Worse Than AIDS
March 24, 2008
Tuberculosis could once again cause one of the world’s deadliest epidemics because it is being ignored, a leading bioethicist says.
While one-third of the world’s population carried some sort of TB and new drug-resistant strains have recently been identified, not much has been done to stop a global epidemic, ANU bioethics expert Michael Selgelid said today.
Dr Selgelid said the development of TB medicine has been stagnant for decades while pharmaceutical companies focus on making AIDS drugs.
He said the number of people that die from TB was close to the number of AIDS-related deaths, but reported cases of the older disease have been more restricted to poorer countries.
“The pharmaceutical companies haven’t had much financial incentive to develop TB drugs,” Dr Selgelid said.
He said while many people have been involved in lobbying drug companies to develop cheaper AIDS medicines, very few had paid attention to TB.
He said new strains of the disease, including the Extensively Drug-Resistant (XDR) TB which most traditional medicines cannot cure, had been recognised in recent years.
And he said Australia could be hit with an epidemic because of it was so near to Asia, which has a high proportion of TB sufferers.
“I don’t think there has been a confirmed case of XDR TB in Australia, but I think it’s just a matter of time (before there is),” Dr Selgelid said.
“Since the 1960’s, no new TB drugs have been developed and it’s said that we shouldn’t expect any new drugs until 2015.
“Though cures have existed since the 1950s, TB is still the second leading infectious cause of mortality - a close runner up to AIDS. One-third of the world population is infected with latent TB and 10 per cent of these are expected to develop active illness at some time in their lives.”
It is believed 1.7 million people each year are killed by TB.
Cheney Says A Palestinian State Is Long Overdue
March 24, 2008
Declaring that an independent Palestinian state was “long overdue,” Vice President Dick Cheney said on Sunday that the success of the U.S.-sponsored peace negotiations depends on the Palestinian ability to rein in militant groups that favor armed resistance over negotiations.
“Terror and rockets do not merely kill civilians, they also kill the legitimate hopes and aspirations of the Palestinian people,” Cheney said after meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah. “The future belongs to the advocates of peace and reconciliation.”
Abbas is largely unable to limit the activities of the largest Palestinian militant group, Hamas. After a unity government between Hamas and Abbas Fatah party collapsed in June, Hamas gunmen drove Fatah forces out of the Gaza Strip, leaving Abbas in control of only the West Bank.
Efforts to reconcile the warring Palestinian factions continued Sunday in Yemen, with both sides agreeing only to continue talking.
Abbas, after meeting with Cheney, said that Israeli actions in both the West Bank and Gaza were undermining Palestinian faith in a negotiated settlement with Israel.
“Peace and stability will not be achieved through settlement expansion, or the setting up of checkpoints around towns and villages, and the military escalation against Gaza,” he said.
Nearly 20 Earthquakes Shake The San Francisco Bay Area
March 22, 2008
If you live in the East Bay your house may have rattled overnight. Nearly two dozen earthquakes have hit the Dublin area since Thursday afternoon. Three more small shakers were recorded early Friday morning.
This comes as a new report warns that the Bay Area is not ready for the big one coming on the Hayward fault.
Geologists say that with a cluster of quakes like this - the Bay Area could continue to feel the quakes for the next several days or even weeks.
Canadian Hate Crime Laws Shuts Down Christian Ministry
March 22, 2008
The Canadian government has ordered a Christian ministry that teaches doctrine and the differences between Christians and cults shut down because its reference materials were “critical” of the beliefs of those who are not Christian, WND has learned.
So what used to be called MacGregor Ministries with offerings in how to recognize and eliminate “faulty fads” in Christian churches has been re-created in the United States, and now operates under the name MM Outreach Media Ministries.
Lorri MacGregor, who has dedicated her life to explaining the straight and narrow of Christian beliefs since she found her way out of the Jehovah’s Witness system years ago, told WND Canada’s version of a “hate crimes” law prevented their work from continuing as it had for nearly 30 years.
“Canada is no longer a Christian nation,” she said. “And watch out America!”
The issue of the ministry’s charities license in Canada, allowing it to operate as a ministry, came up during a routine audit of the ministry’s finances, which was uneventful.
“The auditor that originally looked at our books told us her supervisor had said she wanted us shut down,” Mrs. MacGregor told WND. “Canada has very strong hate laws.”
She said the ministry points out the differences between Christianity and various cult beliefs, but also with respect, and never as a proponent. She said the work always is in response to a question or issue.
“When a group such as Jehovah’s Witnesses said of our doctrine we’re worshipping a freakish three-headed God (the Trinity), we should be able to respond,” she said. “We say, ‘Here’s the doctrine of the Trinity and here is where it is in the Scripture.’”
That, however, violates Canada’s hate crimes laws, and the ministry was ordered to either make wholesale changes in its presentations, or shut down.
More Than 5 million Americans Have Alzheimer’s
March 19, 2008
An estimated 5.2 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease, and it could steal the minds of one out of eight baby boomers, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Alzheimer’s Association.
The report found there were 411,000 new cases of Alzheimer’s in 2000, a number expected to grow to 454,000 new cases a year by 2010. By 2050, 959,000 people will be diagnosed with the disease every year, the report predicts.
The report, available on the Internet here, says that 14 percent of all people age 71 and over have dementia.
That includes 16 percent of women and 11 percent of men in that age group.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia, accounting for 60 to 80 percent of cases.
UFO’s - Strange Lights In Skies May Have Been A Warning Of Earthquake That Sent Tremors Across Britain
March 19, 2008
Strange lights spotted in Lincolnshire’s skies may have been a warning of the earthquake which sent tremors across Britain.
Several sightings of lights appearing in the sky were reported in the days leading up to the quake, which had its epicentre near Market Rasen when it struck early on February 27.
And some believe that these could be “earthquake lights” - caused by changes in the electrical properties of the ground before a quake occurs.
There have been many similar reports of “earthquake lights” throughout history.
The most well known case was in Lincoln’s twin town, Tangshan, in China in 1976, before a massive quake that killed 240,000 people across the country.
Husband and wife Jamie and Emily Goddard, of Alexandra Terrace, in Lincoln, managed to capture the lights on a mobile phone camera just as they appeared above Drury Lane at around 8.30pm on February 22.
And other people have contacted the Echo to say they saw lights on the same night - with some wondering at first whether it was a ‘UFO’ from an RAF base.
Dr Richard England, from the Department of Geology at the University of Leicester, said that there is little evidence to explain the phenomenon - but there have been enough sightings to suggest there could be a link.
Is Atheism Getting a Free Pass
March 19, 2008
The Institute examined the apparent “rise in atheism,” subject covered in broadcast news programs, three leading weekly news magazines, and four programs on taxpayer-funded National Public Radio, all shown during 2007
Although only eight percent of Americans call themselves atheists, the report found that not only is the news media hostile toward religion, particularly Christianity, but the media may be spreading a “Gospel of Godlessness” on the American public.
“Whether deliberately or not, the news media did not subject atheism or atheists to the same skepticism to which they subject Christians and Christianity,” the report said. “Journalists who look at America’s majority religion through a skeptical prism should equally apply their critical faculties to atheism.”
In their report, CMI details their discovery of imbalances in the media’s coverage of the religion. Among the findings:
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