ISRAEL - The Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, David Lau, said he would like to see the Jewish temple rebuilt on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. To build it, there was no need to remove any of the Muslim shrines on the Temple Mount, where there was plenty of room for “Jews, Christians, Muslims, everyone,” he told the Knesset Channel on Tuesday.
USA - With California entering its fifth year of a statewide drought, Governor Jerry Brown moved on Monday to impose permanent water conservation measures and called on water suppliers to prepare for a future made drier by climate change. Under the governor’s executive order, emergency drought regulations, like bans on hosing down driveways or watering lawns within 48 hours of a rainstorm, will remain indefinitely. Urban water suppliers will be required to report their water use to the state each month and develop plans to get through long-term periods of drought. Despite winter rains that replenished reservoirs and eased dry conditions in parts of Northern California, Mr Brown suggested that the drought may never entirely end, and that the state needed to adapt to life with less water.
USA - The shooter who killed at least 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando has been identified as Omar Mateen, law enforcement sources told The Post. Mateen was a US citizen with no apparent criminal history, was born to Afghan parents in New York in 1986 and was living in Port St. Lucie, Florida, according to multiple media reports.
UK - Britain will make history by triggering the end of the EU in the referendum vote Nigel Farage has declared in a barnstorming speech to the European Parliament. After his successful appearance debating the Prime Minister on ITV, Mr Farage has spelt out how the EU project will die with a Brexit vote in Britain.
USA - GOP Presidential Nominee Donald J Trump’s speech Tuesday night resonated with the crowd and garnered much praise and attention. During Trump’s speech, which was aided by teleprompters, the very Presidential looking real estate fat cat talked up a political storm that further backed his opponent Hillary Clinton back into a corner, adding heat to her vast record of illegal dealings and current Servergate issue.
MOSCOW, RUSSIA - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed on Wednesday that he was not seeking to replace Washington as Israel’s closest ally, as he wrapped up his fourth visit to Moscow in a year, which had touted the increasingly warm ties between Israel and Russia.
EUROPE - NATO has begun its Anaconda-16 war game, calling for the largest assembly of foreign forces in Poland since World War II. On Monday, NATO launched its largest war game in decades, near the Russian border, as part of what analysts call the "summer of provocation," a bid to reignite the Cold War intended to force Moscow to starve its domestic economy to ramp up its military to meet a growing external threat.
USA - The World Bank is reducing its forecast for the global economy this year — again. The aid agency predicted Tuesday that the world economy will expand 2.4 percent this year, down from the 2.9 percent it expected in January and unchanged from a tepid 2015. "The global economy is fragile," said World Bank economist Ayhan Kose, who helped produce the forecast. "Growth is weak." In the years since the world began recovering from the 2008 financial crisis, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have repeatedly proved too optimistic about the world.
UK - EU migrants living in Britain are more likely to have a job than British citizens, an alarming new Brussels report has revealed. It also shows EU migrants are far more likely to be in work in the UK than those from outside of Europe - giving a boost to the Brexit campaign's argument that our current immigration system is 'racist' because it favours people from the continent over others. The EU report, published yesterday, shows 85.9 per cent of EU migrants in the UK have a job - 5 per cent more than British adults. But in rival countries - such as Germany, France and Sweden - the reverse is true, with more domestic people in work than EU migrants. Just 69.2 per cent of non-EU migrants are employed in Britain.
EUROPE - It is tempting to think that the latest Pew Research Center survey showing euroscepticism to be sharply on the rise all across Europe will send a chill wind through the corridors of the European Commission’s labyrinthine headquarters in Brussels. Tempting, but almost certainly wrong.
RUSSIA - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday hailed the increasingly cordial ties between the two countries. “We place great importance on our relationship with Israel,” Putin said, at the beginning of their meeting in the Kremlin, noting that many Russian-speakers live in Israel. More than a million Jews and their relatives from the former Soviet Union moved to Israel when the Iron Curtain fell and travel restrictions were relaxed. Netanyahu, speaking in Hebrew translated into Russian by Jerusalem Affairs Minister Ze’ev Elkin, said he wanted to reinforce Putin’s point and highlighted the fact that two ministers in his government are Russian-speakers.
ISRAEL - Israel will not let Iran use the Hezbollah terror group to turn the Syrian side of the Golan Heights border into a new front, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russian media outlets in comments published Tuesday. Netanyahu, who is on a two-day visit to Moscow, told the state-run Interfax news service and TASS news agency ahead of the talks that he would do everything in his power to prevent Iran from gaining a foothold in Syria, and intended to ask Russia for help in curbing the threat from Hezbollah.
FRANCE - Divine retribution struck Thursday night as world powers gathered in Paris for talks that could end in attempts to pressure Israel to accept a Palestinian state.
EUROPE - As Britain prepares to vote on June 23 on whether to remain in the European Union, skepticism about the bloc is on the rise across Europe, with about two-thirds of Britons wanting some powers returned to their national government, according to an opinion poll released on Tuesday by the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan institution based in Washington. The survey of respondents in 10 European countries showed increasing dissatisfaction with the European Union since last year, a period of low growth and during a migrant crisis, particularly in France and Spain. In France, 38 percent of respondents viewed the European Union favorably and 61 percent viewed it unfavorably. In Greece, 27 percent viewed it favorably and 71 percent unfavorably. In Britain, by contrast, 44 percent of respondents viewed the bloc favorably while 48 percent viewed it unfavorably.
UK - News that a university lecturers’ union has banned straight, white men from attending their equality conferences in a bid to create “safe spaces” is deeply depressing. University and College Union equality conferences are held exclusively for women, LGBT, ethnic minorities or disabled people, and members must declare their “protected characteristic” when applying to attend. Surely UCU can see the irony of hosting an equality conference where – as George Orwell wrote – some are more equal than others? One cannot deny the privileges that straight, white men have in today’s society. By excluding this group, UCU is only strengthening the divide. That is not the way to tackle inequality, and it’s absurd that UCU thinks it is.
“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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