Snowden: Facebook a ‘surveillance company’

USA - NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden tweeted Saturday that Facebook is a “surveillance company” that sells its users’ personal details, weighing in on a scandal involving a private firm that harvested data from the social media giant. “Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as ‘surveillance companies,’” wrote the former National Security Agency contractor. “Their rebranding as ‘social media’ is the most successful deception since the Department of War became the Department of Defense.”

 
Pacific Ring of Fire on alert

ARGENTINA - An Earthquake in Argentina has rattled millions in the country as well as in neighbouring Chile, putting the Pacific Ring of Fire on alert. Argentina was hit by a 5.1 earthquake this afternoon. Chile was also rattled by the quake, which struck at 12.51pm GMT. It struck 50 miles from the Argentinian city of Mendoza, which is home to 800,000 people. Chile’s capital Santiago, home to 4.8 million, was also hit with many citizens reporting shaking. One person reported on earthquake tracking website CSEM-EMSC: “Movement and noise in Santiago.” Today's Argentina earthquake was followed by a 4.7 magnitude earthquake several hundred miles off the coast of Chile. 

 
Samsung Launches a Site That Can “Erase Your Memory” With Hypnosis

SWEDEN - “Unspoil Me” claims it can “erase the memory” of a TV show you’ve watched, allowing you to watch it again for the first time. Did you ever tell yourself: “I wish there was a corporate website that could hypnotize me and erase part of memory”? If so, what is wrong with you? Also, you’re in luck.

IBM will today reveal what it claims is the world's smallest computer.

USA - The machine will pack several hundred thousands of transistors into a chip smaller than a grain of salt, and cost less than 10 cents to manufacture. The processor is designed to help track goods and combat fraud in the global supply chain, and while it won't be doing heavy lifting or have much in common with what most people consider a computer, IBM claims it will be capable of monitoring, analyzing and sorting data, thanks to having access to about as much power as a 1990s x86 processor.

 
Good Guy with Gun Ended Threat

USA - Reports indicate a resource officer at Maryland’s Great Mills High School “exchanged gunfire” with the attacker Tuesday morning to end the threat. Breitbart News reported news of the shooting and indicated that St Mary’s County Sheriff Office was on scene and FBI and ATF agents were en route. Injuries are reported as three, including the shooter.

UPDATE: CNN reports that St Mary’s County Sheriff Tim Cameron says the Great Mills High School shooter succumbed to his injuries after being engaged by the resource officer.

 
USA - Chaos is a certainty

USA - Most people who live in cities are stunningly unprepared for almost any kind of disruption, and the situation has grown far worse in recent years. Although I usually stay out of large cities, I just finished some travel that took me through several cities (and a few suburban areas, too), giving me a fresh new look at the situation.

Army of Islam would be world's biggest military

TURKEY - When Turkey’s semi-official newspaper Yeni Safak called for urgent action in forming a 57-nation “Army of Islam” to besiege and attack Israel, a suggestion undoubtedly approved with at least a wink and nod by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, it would signal the possible intent to create the largest military force on the planet – one nearly as large as the total population of the Jewish state.

Police Memo Said Telford Girls ‘Consented’ to Sex Abuse

UK - Police officers investigating the Telford grooming gang scandal, possibly the largest in UK history, were sent an internal memo telling them “in most cases the sex is consensual”. The initial police probe, Operation Chalice, identified at least 100 potential victims in Telford targeted between 2007 and 2009. However, fewer than ten men were jailed despite the police admitting as many as 200 groomers may be involved.

Saudi Arabia: If Iran makes nuclear bomb, so will we

SAUDI ARABIA - Saudi Arabia will enter the nuclear arms race if Iran is ever successful in developing a weapon of mass destruction, according to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. He also branded Iran’s supreme leader the “new Hitler.” The next leader of Saudi Arabia made the comment in an interview set to air on CBS 60 Minutes this weekend. The two countries have continuously clashed over religious teachings, as well as Saudi Arabia’s close ties to the US government. Asked about Saudi Arabia’s view of nuclear armaments, the prince declared that the country will seek to develop such weaponry only if it comes under threat from Iran. “Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb. But without a doubt if Iran developed a nuclear bomb we will follow suit as soon as possible,” he said.

 
Trump signs bill on Taiwan cooperation

USA - US President Donald Trump has signed into law a bill which aims to deepen ties between the US and Taiwan. China has issued multiple warnings to both Washington and Taipei over the law. The Taiwan Travel Act (HR 535), which US lawmakers presented to Trump on March 5, aims to increase travel and visits "at all levels," including state officials and business leaders, both on the American and the Taiwanese side.

Vatican Intensifies Battle Against Gender Theory

VATICAN - The Vatican under Pope Francis is consolidating its opposition to “gender theory,” the notion that maleness and femaleness can be separated from biological sex, according to veteran Vatican analyst John L Allen, Jr. Francis denounced gender theory for its denial of “the difference and reciprocity in nature of a man and a woman” and for its dream of “a society without sexual differences” in a lengthy 2017 teaching letter on marriage and the family called “The Joy of Love” (Amoris Laetitia). “An appreciation of our body as male or female,” he wrote, is “necessary for our own self-awareness in an encounter with others different from ourselves” and is far from the “unisex utopia” that some would like to impose. Efforts to blot out sexual differences based on anatomy are symptomatic of a sick society that “no longer knows how to deal with it,” he added.

 
The unlikely rise of Jacob Rees-Mogg

UK - He is favourite to be the next Conservative leader – and, therefore, Prime Minister. "In religion he is fervent in his support of the one holy, Catholic and apostolic Church - the accumulated knowledge of 2,000 years of revelation to the Church”. “I am a Catholic and I take the teachings of the Catholic Church seriously.”

Indian Children’s Book Lists Hitler as Leader Who Will Inspire You

USA - An Indian publisher came under fire this week for including Hitler in a children’s book about world leaders who have “devoted their lives for the betterment of their country and people.”

What is the state of the earth's species?

UK - Two species of vertebrate, animals with a backbone, have gone extinct every year, on average, for the past century. Currently around 41 per cent of amphibian species and more than a quarter of mammals are threatened with extinction. There are an estimated 8.7 million plant and animal species on our planet and about 86 percent of land species and 91 percent of sea species remain undiscovered.

GERMANY: Stop this madness!  Comment

GERMANY - Germany finally snaps as nation to become EU ‘cash cow’ after Brexit. A German politician has demanded an end to the “madness” which sees Berlin pumping cash in to the European Union while taking less and less out and has warned it will become even worse after Brexit. Alternative for Germany (AfD) economic policy spokesman Mario Beger lashed out after EU Budget Commissioner Günther Oettinger told Germany’s regions they should expect to receive significantly less money from Brussels after Brexit.

“Just what is an APOSTLE?”
Just what is an Apostle?

Today we find the Church of God in a “wilderness of religious confusion!”

The confusion is not merely around the Church – within the religions of the world outside – but WITHIN the very heart of The True Church itself!

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