MIDDLE EAST - A much-touted $110-billion US-Saudi arms deal which has worried Israeli officials is not an actual binding deal, but rather a collection of letters of intent drafted by the sides, US political and defense officials told the Brookings Institution’s Bruce Riedel. ...Riedel said that none of the potential sales were new, and all had been initiated by the Obama administration. He noted that the Saudis are unlikely to be able to afford $110 billion in purchases in the near future, due to falling oil prices and accumulated costs related to the Yemen campaign.
ISRAEL - The guns had just gone silent in the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 when US President Lyndon Johnson jumped in to play the role of peacemaker. Just 11 days after the Six-Day War, Johnson went to the State Department and laid out a plan. "Our country is committed to a peace that is based on five principles," Johnson told a hall packed with American diplomats.
USA - The head of the US Missile Defense Agency, Vice Admiral James Syring, said on Wednesday that technological advances demonstrated by North Korea in its ballistic missile program in the past six months had caused him "great concern." Syring told a hearing of the US House Armed Services Committee that it was incumbent on his agency to assume that North Korea today could "range" the United States with an intercontinental ballistic missile carrying a nuclear warhead. "I would not say we are comfortably ahead of the threat; I would say we are addressing the threat that we know today," Syring said.
NORTH KOREA - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called upon his country’s air force to be prepared to attack aircraft carriers. The Korean Central News Agency, North Korea’s propaganda outlet, reported that Kim made the statements Monday during an event that involved a combat flight contest for commanding officers of the Korean People’s Army Air and Anti-Air Force. The goal of the contest was to train all the flight commanding officers “to be a-match-for-a-hundred fighters capable of destroying any targets including enemy aircraft carriers … and encouraging all the army to be combat-ready for national reunification,” the KCNA reported. Kim shows no sign of backing down, and this latest exercise, coupled with his alleged order to the air force to strike aircraft carriers, indicates the dictator wants to remain defiant at whatever cost.
RUSSIA - No country on earth would survive should the world’s most powerful nuclear states unleash their atomic weapons, Vladimir Putin has said. His remarks form part of a series of interviews with American film director Oliver Stone. The question of whether the human race would survive a potential global nuclear war has tormented the minds of generations, and indeed Stone, who wondered if the Russian president believes the US might emerge victorious if such a conflict were to break out. “In a hot war is the US dominant?” the American director asked the Russian president. “I don’t think anyone would survive such a conflict,” Putin replied.
UK - In Britain, as in the US, when an Islamic terrorist is said to be, “known to law enforcement,” the translation is: “He is being actively ignored by law enforcement.” After the latest terrorist attack in Britain — at least as of this writing — Prime Minister Theresa May bravely announced, “Enough is enough!” What is the point of these macho proclamations after every terrorist attack?
USA - US President Donald Trump has offered to host a Washington meeting to discuss the Gulf crisis, the White House has said. The offer was made in a phone conversation on Wednesday with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani “if it would help the parties resolve their differences,” according to a statement.
MIDDLE EAST - The estimated 832 deaths and 912 injuries from the estimated 60 attacks that have taken place across about 19 countries during the first 12 days of this year’s holy Muslim month of Ramadan have already marked the bloodiest Ramadan in recent years for adherents of Islam.
USA - The new US ambassador to the United Nations has accused the organisation of being anti-Israel ahead of important visits to Geneva and the Jewish state. Nikki Haley criticised the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for what she believes is a biased approach. In an opinion piece for the Washington Post, she said that "the council must end its practice of wrongly singling out Israel for criticism."
USA - The phrase “family planning” is just a more palatable way of saying “population control”. In the United States today, Planned Parenthood operates 650 “health centers” that work tirelessly to promote abortion and other “family planning measures”. Planned Parenthood says that approximately 2.5 million people visit their “health centers” each year, and somewhere around 60 million people visit their website.
USA - At one time, there was nothing more American than sipping on an ice cold Bud or biting into a Whopper burger. But those days are gone. Times have changed and some of America's most famous brands have fallen into foreign hands. We put together a list of the most surprising and popular consumer companies that are no longer able to truly call themselves American.
UK - Being one of the more inept tentacles of the deep state, CNN was apparently caught staging Fake News in the aftermath of the ISIS claimed London attacks which claimed 7 lives and injured 48. While ISIS supporters are celebrating the attacks, MSM propagandists have been hard at work pushing the “religion of peace” narrative – trotting out hijabbed women and a child to hold signs expressing Muslim outrage at the terrorist attacks. This was no ‘organic’ protest against terrorism, but instead, appears to be a staged CNN ploy to deliver its “Islamophobia” narrative. Everything was caught on video…
USA - Though President Donald Trump’s budget proposal raises military spending, the US Air Force wants more still. USAF has asked Congress for nearly $11 billion in additional funds for F-35 fighter jets, tankers, laser weapons and to modernize older planes. The Air Force’s wish list includes $1.76 billion for 14 more F-35A fighters, made by Lockheed Martin, in addition to the 46 currently covered by the budget proposal. Another $1.3 billion would buy a dozen MC-130J special operations tankers and one additional HC-130J search-and-rescue plane, both based on Lockheed’s C-130 platform.
UK - Consumers should consider going organic because pesticides on foods are far more dangerous than was thought, causing damage to the human brain, a major study suggests. The research, published by the European Parliament, warns of the “very high costs” of current levels of exposure to pesticides - especially for children and pregnant women. The landmark study suggests that the damage caused by pesticides across the EU amounts to at least £125 billion a year, based on the loss of lifetime income from such damage.
UK - Cathedrals are doing better than churches because they don't "bang on" about God, Sir Simon Jenkins has suggested. “One or two sociologists have explained it, one said if you go to a cathedral now it's anonymous. It's pillar worship, people can't see you reading. No one shakes you by the hand, no one says peace be upon you."
“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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