EUROPE - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called the UK's decision to leave the European Union a watershed for Europe and European unity. It's now up to her and EU leaders to ensure other countries don't follow suit. "There's no way around it: Today is a watershed for Europe and the European unity process," Merkel said before urging other EU leaders not to be hasty in their responses to Britain's referendum vote.
GERMANY - Britain's vote to leave the EU was a gut decision, an emblem of a country in retreat. The island nation is getting smaller and smaller. Brexit was a decision based on gut instinct rather than reason. The predominant sentiments in play were nostalgia, fear and a vague hatred of the establishment. On top of this comes a fear of foreigners that was deliberately stoked by Brexit strategists during the campaign - and that's what makes this decision both sad and depressing.
GERMANY - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed "great regret" following Britain's decision to sever ties with the crumbling European Union. But in her first public address since the nation backed a Leave vote, the German chancellor also called for Brussels to maintain "close future relations" with Britain.
USA - There are now more non-military government employees who carry guns than there are US Marines, according to a new report. Open the Books, a taxpayer watchdog group, released a study Wednesday that finds domestic government agencies continue to grow their stockpiles of military-style weapons, as Democrats sat on the House floor calling for more restrictions on what guns American citizens can buy. Open the Books found there are now over 200,000 non-military federal officers with arrest and firearm authority, surpassing the 182,100 personnel who are actively serving in the US Marines Corps.
USA - White babies are now outnumbered by minority babies, according to new population estimates from the Census Bureau. In 2015, racial and ethnic minorities made up 50.2 percent of babies under a year old. That year, there were 1,995,102 minority babies born, just slightly more than the 1,982,936 white babies born. While whites are expected to become the minority in the US population in the coming decades — estimates run from 2044 to 2055
USA - When less stuff is being bought, sold and shipped around the country with each passing month, how in the world can the US economy be in “good shape”? Unlike official government statistics which are often based largely on projections, assumptions and numbers seemingly made up out of thin air, the Cass Freight index is based on real transactions conducted by real shipping companies.
UK - The UK has voted to leave the European Union after 43 years, in a historic referendum. Leave won by 52% to 48% with England and Wales voting strongly for Brexit, while London, Scotland and Northern Ireland backed staying in the EU.
UK - Prime Minister David Cameron announced his plan to resign following yesterday's "Brexit" referendum, in which the UK public declared its desire to leave the European Union. "The will of the British people is an instruction that must be delivered. It is not a decision that was taken lightly," he said. "There can be no doubt about the result."
UK - Stock markets from Tokyo to London collapsed on Friday as the UK’s major media networks projected a victory for the "Leave" campaign, with most votes counted in Britain’s referendum on European Union membership. The British pound plunged 10 percent, the most since 1985, the euro fell the furthest since its introduction in 1999, while the Japanese yen had its biggest surge since 1998.
UK - What a political education that turned out to be. The leadership of every major party will now have to re-connect with the reality of public opinion overnight. So furious, and so confident in their own self-belief did the voters prove to be that no amount of bullying, or threats or moral blackmail would sway them. In fact, it was almost certainly the threats and the coercion that sealed their determination to resist. This is just the beginning, of course, of the great European revolt. Which country will be first to demand its own referendum? Italy, the Netherlands or even France? This is the beginning of the end for a failed project. Our decision will seem like small beer by this time next year.
GERMANY - Germany’s finance minister has admitted the European Union (EU) is on the slippery slope to destruction and cannot continue in its current form - whether Britain decides to leave or not. Wolfgang Schäuble has pleaded for a change in policies to stop the organisation from imploding.
GERMANY - Germany should substantially increase its defense spending to cope with “external threats,” Chancellor Angela Merkel has said, stressing that Berlin can’t count on the US, and the EU is incapable of defending itself. During an economics conference in Berlin on Tuesday, Merkel said the EU can’t rely on the transatlantic partnership with the US to deal with external threats, Reuters reports.
UK - David Cameron and George Osborne’s economic scaremongering over Britain’s potential exit from the European Union has been laughed off by a senior German official. Markus Kerber, head of the BDI group which represents industry in Germany, said it would be “very, very foolish” for the EU to force post-Brexit Britain to pay tariffs.
USA - Fresh wildfires erupted on Monday near Los Angeles and chased people from their suburban homes as an intense heatwave stretching from the West Coast to New Mexico blistered the region. Towering columns of smoke rose from the San Gabriel Mountains as two fires a few miles apart devoured brush on steep slopes above foothill suburbs, sending a dark pall into the sky above the Los Angeles skyline. Police in the city of Azusa and parts of Duarte ordered hundreds of homes evacuated. Others were under voluntary evacuations. Officials had warned of extreme fire danger in the region as the heat peaked. Temperatures surpassed 100 degrees across much of Southern California well before noon, while some desert cities sizzled in the 120s.
UK - Polls have opened in a historic referendum on whether the UK should remain a member of the European Union or leave. An estimated 46,499,537 people are entitled to take part in the vote - a record number for a UK poll. Polling stations opened at 07:00 BST and will close at 22:00 BST. It is only the third nationwide referendum in UK history and comes after a four-month battle for votes between the Leave and Remain campaigns. The referendum ballot paper asks the following question: "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?" Whichever side gets more than half of all votes cast is considered to have won. The Electoral Commission estimates a final result "around breakfast time" on Friday.
“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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