USA - TN Note: The global war on cash is exacerbated by negative interest rates imposed by central bankers, which drives cash out of banks. Central and global banks are calling for a cashless society, which would give them complete control over the economic system – a tacit goal of Technocracy.
ETHIOPIA - Today's martyrs have become “the seed of Christian unity,” Pope Francis said Monday during an audience with the leader of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and his delegation. “The ecumenism of the martyrs is a summons to us, here and now, to advance on the path to ever greater unity,” the Pope said at the February 29 meeting at the Vatican with Abune Mathias, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox. “Just as in the early Church the shedding of the blood of martyrs became the seed of new Christians, so today the blood of the many martyrs of all the Churches has become the seed of Christian unity.” The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is the largest of the Oriental Orthodox Churches.
USA - When you ‘Like’ something on Facebook - or use the new emoji for ‘Love’ or ‘Sad’ - you could be giving away more than you realise. Every day, there are 4.5 billion Likes on Facebook, according to the site’s own statistics - and Facebook can work out some fairly scary things using them.
EUROPE - As tear gas rained down on rioting migrants in Greece and France, bickering countries squabbled over who should take the blame for the spiralling crisis which shows no sign of slowing. Once again the cavernous divisions between different EU countries were laid bare for all to see, with Angela Merkel angrily defending Germany's role in the chaos amid sniping from other member states.
EUROPE - Have the US government, Saudi Arabia and their allies been secretly plotting a massive ground invasion of Syria? Earlier this month, defense ministers from 49 countries gathered at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium to talk about what to do in Syria. As you will see below, Saudi Arabia’s defense minister is now admitting that a ground invasion was discussed at this meeting.
UK - Exclusive: Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, says that David Cameron's emergency brake on EU migrants will do nothing to reduce the number of foreigners coming to the UK. Boris Johnson has issued an appeal to Cabinet ministers backing the campaign to stay in the European Union to “think again” and reconsider their positions.
UK - The European Union is an explicit political project designed by a former communist, Iain Duncan Smith has said. The Work and Pensions Secretary, a eurosceptic, said it was important for the British public to realise that the EU was not about trade – but political integration.
IRAQ - Iraq's Mosul Dam faces "unprecedented" risk of a "catastrophic failure" that would unleash a wave of water which could flatten cities and kill hundreds of thousands within hours, the US has said.
HUNGARY - The Hungarian Prime Minister has lashed out at billionaire George Soros, criticizing the support he has expressed towards refugees from the Middle East heading to Europe, saying that he undermines stability on the continent. One has to admire Orban's tell-it-like-it-is attitude, which is certainly making him no friends in Brussels: “[Soros] is perhaps the strongest example of those who support anything that weakens nation states, they support everything that changes the traditional European lifestyle,” Orban said in an interview on public radio station Kossuth, according to Bloomberg. “These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.”
USA - Earlier this month, as retail investors lost confidence in the global economy and broader stock markets, an air of panic began to set in. Reports indicate the lines were literally forming around the block at gold stores throughout London and elsewhere. It was, by all accounts, the very scenario one might expect in an environment where trust in government and central banks has been eroded.
VATICAN - Pope Francis urged world leaders to “promote peaceful coexistence” in the face of “a devastating outbreak of violence against Christians” on Monday, when he received the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Pope Matthias I, in the Vatican.
UK - Social worker postgraduate is told quoting the Bible in Facebook discussion could cause offence. A Christian postgraduate student has been expelled from his course, effectively ending his chances of a career as a social worker, for voicing opposition to gay marriage in a Facebook discussion.
USA - When it comes to whatever social media platform we use on a regular basis, most of us take it for granted that these websites are spying on us in some capacity. Granted, many social media users don’t know or don’t care, but everyone else at least implicitly agrees that in exchange for using these websites for free, their posts will be data mined for information that can be used to target them with ads.
IRAN - Iran's president hailed the beginning of a "new chapter" on Sunday when moderate candidates made sweeping gains in the country's elections, winning all 30 parliamentary seats in Tehran.
EUROPE - THE EU is to launch a £3 BILLION defence research and development programme with the ultimate aim of merging the continent's militaries into one gargantuan Euro army, Express.co.uk can exclusively reveal today.