TURKEY - Turkey is ready to work towards restoration of peace and stability in the region together with Russia and Iran, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a telephone conversation with Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Monday. "Today, we are determined more than ever before to contribute to the solution of regional problems hand in hand with Iran and Russia and in cooperation with them," the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) quoted Erdogan as saying. The Turkish president informed Rouhani about the situation in Turkey. "At present, the situation is getting back to normal but it is too early to say that everything is over," Erdogan said. For his part, Hassan Rouhani gave credit to the courage and political maturity of the Turkish people who stood up to defend the legitimate authorities.
GERMANY - Anti-immigration movement PEGIDA has launched the process of founding a political party, the movement's head Lutz Bachmann said in Dresden. The new faction would act as an ally of the far-right AfD. PEGIDA members aim to enter the election arena with the new Popular Party for Freedom and Direct Democracy, Bachmann told his supporters on Monday. The move is also a reaction to authorities considering a ban of the organization, according to Bachman. However, voices within the movement have long speculated about transforming the populist, anti-immigration group into a political party. The populist movement is ideologically close to the far-right AfD party, which is expected to enter the federal parliament in the next election cycle.
ITALY - A long-dormant complex of volcanoes on Rome's doorstep is slowly filling up with liquid magma and will erupt once more, according to scientists at Italy's National Vulcanology and Geophysics Institute (INVG). Scientists made the startling discovery while carrying out research into the historical eruption patterns of the Alban Hills volcanic complex over the last 600,000 years. “The surprising results reveal these volcanoes are anything but extinct,” explained INVG geophysicist Fabrizio Marra, who studied the hills with colleagues from Rome's Sapienza University. “They are moving out of a dormant state and are waking up.”
EUROPE - The scenario elaborated by Franck Biancheri in 1998 in his article “Europe in 2009 could end up in the hands of the post modern great-grandsons of Hitler, Franco, Mussolini and Petain” is being realized in front of us. Franck Biancheri determined that the changeover would be when the “antidemocratic and xenophobic parties reach scores between 20 and 30% in a minimum of 7 member states.” Today populist, nationalist, separatists, anti-democratic, xenophobic forces have invaded the political space in Europe. The vote of Brexit is a very strong signal to all these populist/nationalist parties: they can win elections on European issues by confining a purely national poll, and influence the European policy agenda in their direction (as an example the current chaos of post-Brexit).
USA - Donald Trump officially became the Republican Party's presidential nominee on Tuesday after a roll call vote overshadowed by dissent and apathy atypical of what is traditionally a celebration of the party's White House candidate.
UK - The UK Parliament has overwhelmingly voted in favor of renewing Trident, the aging Scotland-based fleet of four nuclear submarines, despite strong opposition from Labour and the Scottish National Party.
TURKEY - Turkish police have raided a NATO base used by the US Army days after a failed military coup, as the military alliance's top official issued a thinly-veiled warning that Turkey could be kicked out of the 28-member bloc. Security services searched the air base, which also houses nuclear weapons, hours after authorities arrested a Turkish air force general from the Incirlik base who the government believes helped in plotting Friday's coup.
TURKEY - The United States and the European Union stepped up pressure on Monday on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey to not use an attempted coup as an excuse for an authoritarian crackdown.
TURKEY - Democracy, freedom and the rule of law have no value any longer, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. He added that those who don’t support Ankara’s efforts to combat terrorists in the country are Turkey’s “enemies.”
USA - "The biggest lie about global warming is that the science ‘is settled’ and that the ‘vast number of climate scientists agree.’ Well, it is not settled and there are many more scientists who disagree than who agree. In other words, a minority of fanatical Technocrat scientists are driving the paranoia" (Technocracy News Editor).
USA - Products made possible through gene-editing have landed on grocery shelves. Whether they’ll stay there is up to shoppers wary of technological tinkering. Food companies are now required to label GMOs in Vermont, and debate is raging over a federal standard. But so far, regulators at the US Department of Agriculture have taken a pass on overseeing gene-edited crops. “There’s a feeling among consumers that they want their food as close as possible to what nature intended,” said Carl Jorgenson, director of wellness strategy at Daymon Worldwide, a retail marketing firm. “There’s an overall distrust of Big Food and Big Science.”
UK - More than a hundred children have been reported for hate crimes over the past year with those as young as three being investigated by police. Figures obtained from 37 of 43 police forces in England and Wales showed that 138 incidents of racial or religious abuse by those under the age of 10 were reported last year - almost double the number of those reported in 2011.
USA - FBI Director James Comey got Hillary off the hook but wants to put you on it. He is pushing hard for warrantless access to all of your Internet activity. Comey, who would have fit in perfectly with Hitler’s Gestapo, tells Congress that the United States is not safe unless the FBI knows when every American goes online, to whom they are sending emails and from whom they are receiving emails, and knows every website visited by every American.
USA - Social Security Just Ran a $6 Trillion Deficit and No One Noticed! This afternoon, President Obama announced his support for a great idea: increasing Social Security benefits. As Talking Points Memo reports, the president said: “We can’t afford to weaken Social Security, we should be strengthening Social Security,” Obama said. “And not only do we need to strengthen its long term health, it’s time we finally made Social Security more generous and increased its benefits so today’s retirees and future generations get the dignified retirement that they have earned.” Obama suggested the country pay for expanding Social Security by asking the “wealthiest Americans to contribute a little bit more.” “They can afford it,” he added. “I can afford it.”
NIGERIA - Almost a quarter of a million children in parts of Nigeria's Borno state formerly controlled by Boko Haram are suffering from severe malnutrition, the UN children's agency says. Tens of thousands will die if treatment does not reach them soon, Unicef warns. In areas where Boko Haram militants had been in control, it found people without water, food or sanitation. Last month, a charity said people fleeing Boko Haram had starved to death. The Islamist group's seven-year rebellion has left 20,000 people dead and more than two million displaced.
“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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