NEW ZEALAND - A leading Kiwi food campaigner has slammed calls to increase the limit of a sweetener - which health advocates claim is linked to kidney and liver problems - in popular chewing gum brands.
USA - The gas station's ground was covered with the small winged bugs. Piles of carcasses, inches deep, sat swept to the sides. On the road, they rained onto car windshields. They flew by the thousands toward even the smallest sources of light, and crept along windows and kitchen tables.
CHINA - While examining Eastern press reports of the recent St Petersburg International Economic Forum for news that went largely unnoticed in the West, I came across a Greek Reporter article titled Greek PM Tsipras Meets with Gazprom Chief, BRICS Delegation in St Petersburg. In the Western news reports of the time, I saw it mentioned that Tsipras met with Putin, but I heard nothing about him meeting with the head of the BRICS Bank, KV Kamath…
USA - Federal officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have kicked off an investigation into what they term a mysterious mass death of whales, saying the 30 or so carcasses that have washed up on the beach in the last four months is a highly unusual occurrence. Since May, 11 fin whales, 14 humpbacks, one gray and four unidentified types have washed onto the shores of islands in the western Gulf of Alaska and the southern portion of the Alaska Peninsula, the NOAA said. And the agency’s calling it an “unusual mortality event” of mystifying proportions, the Hill reported.
USA - Apparently, Catholics for Choice want their friends at Planned Parenthood to know how appreciated they are since they will be “harassed” tomorrow at the protests across the country regarding their organ harvesting business.
UK - Police and local government agencies in the United Kingdom are distributing a “pioneering” document for “empowering teachers to encourage and support” transgenderism in schools at the “earliest stages” after a four-year-old child identified as transgender. The “School Transgender Guidance” document has been distributed to all schools in the Cornwall area, and been named as “best practice” by the UK government’s Department of Education. It says transgenderism can potentially be identified in those as young as two, and discusses powerful, irreversible and controversial treatments for prepubescent children. The UK is leading the way, and authorities in Canada launched similar guidelines in 2014, as did the US Department of Education. New York State followed this year and just days ago similar guidelines sparked a huge controversy in Alaska.
IRAN - Iran’s supreme leader claimed Saturday that Islamic nations were being manipulated into internal strife by the world’s “bullies” and urged Islamic unity in the face of what he identified as the Umma’s two greatest enemies: the US and Israel.
IRAN - Hussein Sheikholeslam, a senior adviser to Iran’s Speaker of Parliament, told the Hamas-affiliated newspaper al-Resalah that Tehran “reject[s] the existence of any Israeli on this earth,” a position he says Iran relayed to the P5+1 powers during the nuclear negotiations, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday.
IRAN - Iran’s development of a nuclear weapon that complies with Islamic law should be grounds enough for Congress to kill the agreement between Iran and the West, since just a “Shariah-compliant” bomb could “threaten the existence of the United States,” according to two experts.
CHINA - The Chinese and Russian navies are gearing up for their largest-ever joint exercises, slated to begin Thursday in the Pacific with more than 20 ships and featuring anti-submarine operations as well as a joint-beach landing. The “Joint Sea 2015 II” exercises will run through August 28 in the Sea of Japan and off the coast of Vladivostok. While analysts say the operations have increased in size and sophistications during recent years, the Chinese and Russian navies have held five such joint exercises over the past decade. But in the current round of exercises, Chinese frigates have reportedly made their first-ever visit to the Russian Novorossiysk naval base in the Black Sea.
CHINA - Russia will be one of ten foreign countries that will take part in a grand parade celebrating the 70th anniversary of China's victory over Japan, which has put strain on the already-tense relationship between Beijing and Tokyo. "Their participation in the parade is a clear indication of their willingness to jointly commemorate victory in the World anti-fascist War, and a symbol of the pursuit of and hope for lasting world peace," Qu Rui, deputy chief of the Operations Department of the General Staff Headquarters of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) told the media in Beijing. China has worked hard to remind the world that it suffered casualties of at least 15 million people, mostly civilians, in its fight against Axis Japan, a role, Chinese politicians say is underplayed in Western narratives of World War II.
CHINA - The biggest global “tail risk” is China’s deteriorating economy and an emerging market debt crisis, according to BofA Merrill Lynch’s monthly poll of fund managers. And 48% of them were expecting the Fed to raise rates, despite languid growth and low inflation expectations.
CHINA - China silences the reasons and consequences of the country's largest industrial disaster that happened in the city port of Tianjin on Wednesday, 12th of August. The blasts are still going on, residents take to the streets for spontaneous protests. And there occurs a parallel with Chernobyl - not only given the facts of concealment, but also the extent of the tragedy. So, what exploded in China?
GERMANY - A German firm was this week chosen to take over 14 Greek airports as Athens begins selling off its assets to meet the terms of its bailout deal. It is not the first time Greece’s economic crisis has boosted the coffers of its biggest creditor.
USA - Many Christians refer to them as “the Jewish feasts or holidays.” Yet, nowhere in the Bible are they referred to as such. Instead, God refers to them as His “Feasts of the Lord.” They were practiced from the time of Moses, through Jesus, through the Apostles and early church and, according to prophetic scripture, will be practiced in the Kingdom of God after the return of Jesus – by all nations.
“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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