USA - As attendance declines at Christian churches all over America, many Satanic groups are experiencing tremendous growth.  For some, embracing Satanism is the ultimate form of rebellion, for others it is about making an anti-Trump political statement, and yet others claim that they are attracted by the very real power that they discover in Satanism. 

USA - The Pentagon has recalled $300 million of aid earmarked to support Pakistan's anti-terrorism efforts, accusing Islamabad of going soft on extremists and providing them with safe havens, Reuters reports. "Due to a lack of Pakistani decisive actions in support of the South Asia Strategy, the remaining $300 [million] was reprogrammed," Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Kone Faulkner said, as cited by Reuters.

USA - Over the past year, certain Google advertisers have been able to use a "potent new tool" which allows them to track whether ads they run online translated to sales at physical stores throughout the United States, thanks to a secret deal between the Silicon Valley tech giant and Mastercard, reports Bloomberg.  Most of Mastercard's two billion customers weren't aware of this arrangement, since neither Google parent Alphabet Inc nor the credit card company told the public about the deal which was brokered after four years of negotiations.

GERMANY - It has long been the received wisdom that Germany needs to take account of, and deal with, the real problems and genuine concerns of people in the old east. People have been saying this since the Saxons first shocked the newly reunited country in 1991. That year, after a week of violence in the small town of Hoyerswerda, about 230 asylum seekers were simply spirited away by the authorities at dead of night. For the neo-Nazis, it was an epochal victory, still celebrated: the state, they said, could not, or would not, resist a populist right prepared to use open violence.

USA - The conspiracy of scientific fraud = 70% of experiments cannot be replicated, 50% of researchers cannot reproduce their own results. Scientists are shameless whores when it comes to guilt by omission. Whenever they see evidence they don’t like, they ignore it. It gets worse, then they conspire to shame any offending author, cut his funding, and often provide fake counter-arguments to preserve their status quo point of view.

USA - At one time, the notion that the general population would be microchipped someday was a “conspiracy theory”, but now the mainstream media is coming right out and telling us that we will all get chipped.  It is almost as if they are trying to mentally condition us to accept what is coming. 

ISRAEL - Standing next to a secretive Israeli atomic reactor earlier in the week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to “wipe out” his enemies. In a speech that many will see as the Jewish state breaking its long silence over the possession of nuclear weapons, the Likud leader warned that it has the means to destroy its enemies. “Those who threaten to wipe us out put themselves in a similar danger, and in any event will not achieve their goal,” he said on Wednesday during a ceremony to rename the complex, near the desert town of Dimona. The site has long been suspected to be the location where Israel has been developing nuclear weapons. Iran hit back by describing Netanyahu as a “warmonger”. The threat “atomic annihilation” against the Islamic Republic was denounced as “beyond shameless in the gall”.

IRAN - Iran Stuns Enemies By Moving Ballistic Missiles To Iraq - Within Easy Striking Distance of Tel Aviv. In what is sure to be a realization of one of Netanyahu's worst nightmares, and deeply awkward for US advisers to Baghdad, Iran has transferred ballistic missiles to Shia proxy forces in Iraq, according to Western and Iraqi intelligence sources cited in a new Reuters report.

UK - Currencies in Turkey, India and Argentina have plummeted sparking fears of a global economy crash. Stock markets have been rocked after the Argentine peso nose-dived 12 percent, triggering a 60 percent interest rate hike by the nation’s central bank. This followed a tumble from the struggling Turkish lira in what has been a fourth day of declines. India followed suit when its rupee slumped to a record low against the US dollar today, which had toppled more than 11 percent since the beginning of the year. Also in Asia was the Indonesian rupiah which hit a three-year low after a series of terrifying earthquakes throughout the whole of August that destroyed Lombok and neighbouring Bali.

USA - The United States is ending all funding for the UN's Palestinian refugee agency, the US State Department says. It described the organisation, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa), as "irredeemably flawed". The US administration has "carefully reviewed" the issue and "will not make additional contributions to Unrwa," spokeswoman Heather Nauert said. Earlier this year, [the US] threatened to cut aid to the Palestinians over what was called their unwillingness to negotiate with Israel. The US and Israel also disagree with Unrwa on which Palestinians are refugees with a right to return to the homes they fled following the 1948 war. Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, said earlier this week that Unrwa exaggerated the number of Palestinian refugees, and needed to reform.

USA - After a little bit of a lull, the international currency crisis is back with a vengeance. Currencies are collapsing in Argentina, Brazil, India, Turkey and other emerging markets, and central banks are springing into action. It is being hoped that the financial chaos can be confined to emerging markets so that it will not spread to the United States and Europe.

USA - President Donald Trump said he would pull out of the World Trade Organization if it doesn’t treat the US better, targeting a cornerstone of the international trading system. “If they don’t shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO,” Trump said Thursday in an Oval Office interview with Bloomberg News. Trump said the agreement establishing the body “was the single worst trade deal ever made.” A US withdrawal from the WTO potentially would be far more significant for the global economy than even Trump’s growing trade war with China, undermining the post-World War II system that the US helped build. Trump said last month that the US is at a big disadvantage from being treated “very badly” by the WTO for many years and that the Geneva-based body needs to “change their ways.”

VATICAN - The pope is facing mounting pressure to quit as ultra-conservative members of the Catholic Church hierarchy continue to accuse him of covering for a cardinal in a sex abuse scandal. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a former Vatican envoy to the US, dropped an 11-page bombshell at the weekend accusing Francis of ignoring abuse allegations against prominent US cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Pope Francis 'knew from at least June 23, 2013, that McCarrick was a serial predator,' Vigano alleged. 'He knew that he was a corrupt man, he covered for him to the bitter end.' The timing of the letter's release - right in the middle of Francis's landmark trip to Ireland - immediately raised speculation about a possible plot against the Argentine pontiff.

VATICAN - A group of prominent Catholic women wrote to Pope Francis Thursday, charging him with providing an “inadequate” response to a recently released report that accuses the pope of ignoring sanctions placed on the former archbishop of Washington, DC, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, despite knowing that McCarrick had sexually abused priests, seminarians, and minors. The Catholic women, among them seminary professors, theologians, evangelists, and missionaries, boldly assert to Pope Francis their decision to pen a letter to him is based upon his own words regarding a desire for “a more incisive female presence in the Church.”

USA - Now that the attack on InfoWars has emboldened the radical Left, Democrat politicians like Senator Chris Murphy are already calling on Big Tech to deepen their censorship efforts. Murphy, a Democrat from the deep blue state of Connecticut, recently declared on Twitter that the “survival of our democracy” depends on more censorship and suppression. “Infowars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart. These companies must do more than take down one website. The survival of our democracy depends on it,” the senator tweeted. In another Twitter statement, Murphy applauded Silicon Valley corporations for taking down InfoWars and silencing Alex Jones. “They are private companies that shouldn’t knowingly spread lies and hate. They took a good first step today by removing Infowars,” he wrote.