USA - Donald Trump has taken the mainstream media by storm, blowing conventional political strategies up. He almost appears to be having fun on the campaign trail, spouting off whatever he wants and apologizing to no one.
USA - Meteorologists say the current El Nino has stormed its way into the record books, tying 1997-1998 as the strongest recorded. Halpert said what really matters is what El Nino does during January, when its impact peaks. Weather Underground meteorology director Jeff Masters said "Darth Nino may finally have California in its sights," as a series of storms may dent record drought.
USA - For anyone who still has doubts, the European Union was not really motivated by the twin desires of ending warfare on the continent of Europe and promoting economic growth by making it easier for European countries to trade with each other. This was the story you were spoon-fed. It was actually the creation of America. Read on.
NORTH KOREA - North Korea has announced it has successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen bomb following an “artificial seismic event” that has likely become the country’s fourth known nuclear test. In a “special and important” announcement at noon, North Korean TV claimed that the country has successfully conducted a hydrogen bomb test at 10:00am local time. The announcement followed the USGS detection of a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in the vicinity of a known Pyongyang nuclear site.
EUROPE - The hollowing out of the transatlantic alliance is the biggest risk facing the world in 2016 and will lead to a year of unprecedented global instability, according to one of the world’s leading foreign policy experts.
SAUDI ARABIA - Saudi Arabia just doesn’t know when to quit. The kingdom’s plan to deliberately suppress crude prices in an effort to bankrupt the US shale space and preserve market share has cost Riyadh dearly over the past 12 months.
SAUDI ARABIA - Saudi Arabia has perpetrated a mass execution that puts ISIS’s beach beheadings to shame. Forty-seven heads rolled on Saturday. One of them belonged to Nimr al-Nimr, a revered Shi’ite cleric who had been sentenced to death for sermons in which he criticized the government (especially for its persecution of the country’s Shi’ite minority). His brother has been sentenced to be crucified.
CHINA - Authorities buy shares, inject liquidity and extend selling ban in the wake of renewed stock turmoil. Chinese authorities have escalated their market intervention in a bid to prop up stocks after $590 billion was wiped off shares on Monday. Beijing's state-owned financial institutions hoovered up shares, and regulators extended a selling ban on major companies, to quell investor fears after a tumultuous start to 2016 trading. The measures came after Chinese stocks saw the worst ever start to the year, with shares in the blue-chip CSI300 falling by 7 percent on Monday. This triggered an automatic "circuit breaker" mechanism, where trading was halted in a bid to dampen volatility.
EUROPE - It gets more difficult, year after year, to be hopeful about the future; about what is to come. As the illusion that we can only experience our daily realities passively sets in, we lose touch with the historical truth that each individual can change the world; that fights to make it a better place are not lost in the fray.
MIDDLE EAST - As you read the latest headlines, you might draw this historical parallel: suppose Pope Leo X in the 16th century had executed Martin Luther for nailing his 95 Theses to that church door in Wittenberg, Germany - after Luther had become a well-known figure in Europe. The "Wars of Religion" in the 16th and 17th century might have ignited at a much earlier date.
ARGENTINA - Argentina's new conservative government said on Sunday night that it would continue to push the country's claim to the Falkland Islands, dashing hopes that a change of government in Buenos Aries may herald a new era of improving relations with London. Diplomatic ties between the UK and Argentina deteriorated during the eight-year, populist rule of Cristina Kirchner, who placed the future of the islands at the heart of her foreign policy.
UK - A British exit from the European Union took a step closer to becoming reality today after a group of Tory MPs vowed to defy David Cameron and vote to sever ties with Brussels. The outspoken rebels delivered a stunning attack on the Prime Minister's supposed renegotiation of powers with European leaders, stating it will do virtually nothing to curb immigration. Half a dozen of the Tory's newest recruits issued statements last night decrying the creation of a "United States of Europe" and vowing to campaign to get Britain out of the EU. In a withering attack on Mr Cameron they voiced fears that Britain will be "swallowed up into a superstate" losing its own laws, culture and traditions unless links with an increasingly overbearing and dictatorial Brussels are cut.
UK - Christianity is being subtly “silenced” within the public sector in the UK because of a civil service culture which treats speaking about faith as “not the done thing”, according to a former top Whitehall mandarin appointed as Church of England’s most senior lay official. William Nye said a “secularising spirit” now permeates the machinery of government, leading to an unspoken “squeezing out of Christianity” from national life, despite public expressions of support from David Cameron and other ministers. He said ministers or the general public would be surprised to realise the full extent to which faith is now seen as “odd and unusual” within the public sector in Britain.
EUROPE - Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, countries that long set the standard for welcoming refugees from war and persecution, are rapidly rethinking their generosity as the tide of migrants to Europe strains their budgets and roils their politics.
UK - The areas of London where more than half of the population was born abroad have been revealed in a new analysis of official data. Vast swathes of the capital are dominated by foreign-born residents, including 10 boroughs where Indian nationals are the largest foreign-born group.
Londoners born in Nigeria, Poland, Turkey and Bangladesh also make up the largest foreign-born groups in at least three areas each. Analysis of latest ONS data, published last summer, showed nine boroughs now have more than half their population born overseas, with Brent, in north-west London, the highest at 65.1 per cent.
“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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