USA - Over 14,000 people across Alabama are now without power as Tropical Storm Gordon approaches, with the Storm expected to turn into a Category 1 hurricane before it reaches land. Across Alabama, Florida and Mississippi the figure has hit 27,000 according to AP’s Jeff Amy. At least 10,000 people are reported to be without power between Mobile County and Baldwin County. An additional 4,000 people are without power across the state, but mostly on Dauphin Island in the south, according to Alabama power. The governors of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana have all declared states of emergency as the storm approaches.
JAPAN - A powerful typhoon slammed into western Japan on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and injuring scores of people as more than a million people were told to evacuate amid the worst storm to hit the country in 25 years. Typhoon Jebi, reportedly the strongest typhoon to make landfall in Japan since 1993, headed north across the main island of Honshu toward the Sea of Japan. Giant waves and winds of up to 135mph lashed the country, inundating the region's main international airport and blowing a tanker into a bridge, disrupting land and air travel and leaving thousands stranded. More than 700 flights were canceled... More than 1.6 million households remained without power in Osaka, Kyoto and four nearby prefectures late Tuesday...
JAPAN - A powerful earthquake has rocked the city of Sapporo in northern Japan just hours after large parts of the south of the country were battered by the biggest typhoon to hit in 25 years. Residents in the city were woken up by strong shaking shortly after 7pm BST (3am Thursday local time) as the earth moved for around 20 seconds. Japanese TV showed damaged buildings and quoted police as saying some people had been trapped in collapsed structures. Sapporo is the capital of Hokkaido prefecture with a population of nearly two million people.
USA - The worst drought in years in the western half of the United States has sparked hundreds of wildfires, has crippled thousands of farms, and has produced what could ultimately be the worst water crisis in modern American history. Lake Powell and Lake Mead have both dropped to dangerously low levels, and officials are warning that we may soon be looking at a substantial shortfall which would require rationing.
GERMANY - Clemens Fuest, president of the Ifo Institute in Munich, says that Turkey is the biggest danger to Germany. The direct threat is to German investments and exports. The indirect one is to Spanish and Italian banks, which have bundles of loans to Turkey on their books that may now go bad. Italy’s banks are already wobbly, and its populist government is on a collision course with Brussels over debt. So this crisis in Turkey could become a crisis in Italy, and thus the euro zone. And then everybody would again come running to Germany for a bailout. Then there is Qatar... so rich that it is about to announce that it will be making huge investments in the German economy. Qatar apparently wants to buy into Germany’s so-called Mittelstand of medium-sized, family-owned firms.
JAPAN - Pacifism could be on the way out in Japan after 70 years, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe indicated yesterday in a speech to military officers, as tensions with China and North Korea continue to rise. Mr Abe addressed 180 Self-Defence Force (SDF) officers and explained the security threat has grown at a much faster pace in recent years and implied Japan must make room for the building up of military forces. These comments come just days after Japan and the US held military drills in the contested South China Sea, in a move that is likely to alienate the Chinese government as tensions between the countries escalate. Mr Abe said: “Arranging an environment where all SDF personnel can fulfil their duties with strong pride is the responsibility of politicians living in the present.”
USA – Ten years after the worst financial panic since the 1930s, growing debt burdens in key developing economies are fueling fears of a new crisis that could spread far beyond the disruption sweeping Turkey. The loss of investor confidence in the Turkish lira, which has surrendered more than 40 percent of its value this year, is only a preview of debt problems that could engulf countries such as Brazil, South Africa, Russia and Indonesia, some economists say.
USA - A protester shouted “Shame on you!” at Cardinal Donald Wuerl during mass Sunday as the Archbishop of Washington, DC asked for loyalty to Pope Francis. Wuerl glibly responded with, “Yes, my brothers and sisters, shame. I wish I could redo everything over these 30 years as a bishop and each time get it always right.” The protester, who is not a member of that particular church, immediately walked out. Another protester, a woman, turned her back on Wuerl during his remarks.
COLUMBIA - Two Colombian children have been found dead within 48 hours of each other after reportedly taking part in a ‘suicide game’ called ‘Momo’ which urges participants to kill themselves or face being ‘cursed.’ A 12-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy reportedly killed themselves in the municipality of Barbosa, in Santander, after playing ‘Momo’ – the name of the WhatsApp game based on a scary fictional character that gives deadly dares and instructions.
USA - An old television broadcast from 1973 has been discovered that warns that things will start getting really bad on this planet around the year 2020 and that our current civilization will come to an end in 2040. The 1973 television broadcast focused on an MIT computer model known as “World One” that attempted to predict what growing pollution and population levels would mean for our planet if nothing was done. This computer model was funded by the Club of Rome, and these days the exact same people are still trying to scare us into giving up our national sovereignty “for the good of the planet” so that they can implement their “New World Order”.
ISRAEL - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes every opportunity possible to boast that his country has reached an advanced stage of normalised relations with major Arab countries, in a clear reference to Saudi Arabia. Sources close to Netanyahu note that observers have only seen the tip of the iceberg, indicating the depth of the bilateral relations between Tel Aviv and Riyadh.
ISRAEL - Israel has threatened to attack any Iranian military assets in Iraq as it has done in Syria, following reports Tehran has moved ballistic missiles closer to the Jewish state. Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's defence minister, signalled on Monday it would “contend” with Iranian provocations wherever they are found. "We are certainly monitoring everything that is happening in Syria, and regarding Iranian threats we are not limiting ourselves just to Syrian territory. This also needs to be clear," Mr Lieberman told a conference in Jerusalem. Asked if this included Iraq, he responded: "I am saying that we will contend with any Iranian threat, and it doesn't matter from where it comes...”
USA - A new study that has drawn criticism from transgender activists finds most teens “come out” as transgender after belonging to a peer group in which multiple friends identify as trans. Additionally, the study shows most young people announcing they are transgendered have already been identified with at least one mental health disorder.
USA - Over the past decade, an unprecedented stock market boom has created thousands upon thousands of new millionaires, and yet the middle class in America has continued to shrink. How is that even possible? At one time the United States had the largest and most vibrant middle class in the history of the planet, but now the gap between the wealthy and the poor is the largest that it has been since the 1920s.
EUROPE - The European Union may almost double the number of defense-cooperation programs developed to bolster the 28-nation bloc’s military strength. The EU is weighing 33 new projects under its so-called PESCO program and could decide in November whether to move forward, foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Thursday at a briefing in Vienna. European governments are currently running 17 projects to enhance security and defense cooperation among member countries.
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