19 April 2008
News and Comments - 04/19/08
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: What's News .
I JUST GOT LOST IN THOUGHT. IT WASN’T FAMILIAR TERRITORY.
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Jesse Says:
19 April 2008 at 2:02 am.
I know we talked about this happening but to actually see it is plain weird.
Crude hits record $117 per barrel
NEW YORK (AP) — Crude oil futures surged to a new trading record of $117 a barrel on Friday following an attack on a key pipeline in Nigeria. The rally capped a week of record highs fueled by supply woes and the dollar’s weakness relative to other major currencies. Gasoline futures also reached new record highs.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/04/18/oil.prices.ap/index.html
Jesse Says:
19 April 2008 at 2:12 am.
Citigroup sees second giant loss
Citigroup has suffered a second massive loss and is cutting 9,000 jobs as the credit crisis continues to take its toll on the biggest US bank.
It made a loss of $5.11bn (£2.7bn) in the first quarter, although this was smaller than the $9.8bn loss reported in the final three months of 2007.
The results included about $12bn of write-downs for sub-prime mortgages and other risky assets.
Cameron Says:
19 April 2008 at 9:00 am.
Polygamous-sect children ordered to stay in Texas custody
By MICHELLE ROBERTS, Associated Press Writer 45 minutes ago
SAN ANGELO, Texas - A chaotic two-day hearing ended with dropped heads and silence when a judge ordered that the 416 children taken from a ranch run by a polygamous sect will stay in state custody for the time being.
State District Judge Barbara Walther heard 21 hours of testimony over two days before ruling Friday that the children would be kept in custody while the state continues to investigate allegations of abuse stemming from the teachings of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
“This is but the beginning,” Walther said.
She also ordered genetic testing to sort out family relationships that have confounded welfare authorities.
Individual hearings will be set for the children over the next several weeks, and the judge will determine whether they are moved into permanent foster care or can be returned to their parents. All of the hearings must be held by June 5.
Walther ordered all 416 children and parents be given genetic tests. Child welfare officials say they’ve had difficulty determining how the children and adults are related because of evasive or changing answers.
A mobile genetic lab will take samples Monday at the main shelter where children are being kept; parents will be able to submit samples Tuesday in Eldorado, closer to the ranch.
The custody case is one of the largest and most convoluted in U.S. history. The ruling on Friday capped two days of marathon testimony that sometimes descended into chaos as hundreds of lawyers for the children and parents competed to defend their clients in two large rooms linked by a video feed.
Attorneys popped up with objections in a courtroom and nearby auditorium, then queued up and down the aisle to cross-examine witnesses in a mass hearing that frustrated attorneys and stretched the small-town court system.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080419/ap_on_re_us/polygamist_retreat
Matt Says:
19 April 2008 at 1:40 pm.
Look at the last line. To protect the Christians from slaughter is giving them preference? That is completely insane and obviously anti-Christian.
Thousands March in Brussels to Protest Attacks on Christians in Iraq
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Thousands of people were demonstrating outside EU headquarters Saturday to demand protection for Christians in Iraq, saying they were increasingly being targeted in cold-blooded attacks.
Iraqi religious leaders led the protesters, whom police prevented from marching toward U.S. Embassy. Organizers said 4,000 to 7,000 had come for the demonstration from several European countries. Police put the turnout figure at 3,750.
“Christians in the Middle East are being assassinated and massacred,” Iraqi priest Jacob Idine said. “Above all, religious leaders, the archbishops and priests, are being killed in cold blood in Iraq.”
Islamic extremists have killed prominent members of Iraq’s Christian community in recent weeks. Tens of thousands of Iraqi Christians are believed to have fled since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Idine said the demonstrators wanted the EU to help protect Iraqi people and clergy in Iraq.
German officials on Friday sought backing from other EU nations to accept more Christian refugees from Iraq, arguing that they were particularly vulnerable to violence and discrimination.
But other EU countries expressed concern that giving priority to Christians could discriminate against other groups.
Benjamin Says:
19 April 2008 at 2:22 pm.
The EU hates Christians. This disgusts but doesn’t surprise me.
Sid Says:
19 April 2008 at 3:39 pm.
Christianity is fast dying in Europe. North and South America are the strongest bastions left although there are some exceptions to that in Africa and the south seas etc.
SGS Says:
19 April 2008 at 6:59 pm.
Sid, Europeans’ Catherals already are empty in most of the countries that were not formerly part of USSR. All of those churches now are financed entirely by the governments (remember, those governments, though much more secular than us, still have state churches). Yes, their clergymen and women are state employees, and have been for a long time.
Ghost Says:
19 April 2008 at 7:43 pm.
I had no idea about the clergy being state employees. That blows my mind. I guess they never heard of the little concept of church and state. No wonder it works so much better over here and no wonder the Europeans are becoming so disillusioned with religion.
Joy Bischoff Says:
19 April 2008 at 8:23 pm.
Things are getting very complicated in Iraq. I truly am convinced, knowing the Muslim people, that they will never settle for occupation. The difference between Kuwait and Iraq and multitude. For one thing, we were asked to come in and we liberated them. The Iraqis are not going to put up with endless war.
Sadr threatens open war against U.S., Iraq
BAGHDAD — Renegade cleric Muqtada al Sadr on Saturday issued a “final warning” to the Iraqi government, threatening an open-ended “war until liberation” if U.S. and Iraqi troops don’t stop their offensive against followers of his militant Shiite Muslim movement.
Sadr’s threat signals his growing fury with the joint U.S.-Iraqi offensive against his strongholds in Baghdad’s Sadr City and in the volatile southern port city of Basra. Such a rebellion would end Sadr’s eight-month-old ceasefire, which was widely credited - even by U.S. military officials - with curbing violence in Baghdad and throughout the Shiite south.
Bryon Says:
20 April 2008 at 5:38 pm.
If it was any other groups they would be tripping themselves to get them out. They are huge hypocrites.
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