USA - Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook on Thursday became the most prominent American corporate leader to come out as gay, saying he was trading his closely guarded privacy for the chance to help move civil rights forward.
USA - First we were told that Ebola wouldn't come to America. Then we were promised the best way to keep Ebola out of America was to eliminate quarantines and travel restrictions. Now, to the astonishment of nearly everyone, the US government is planning to deliberately transport Ebola-infected foreigners to the United States for treatment in US hospitals. Taxpayers will foot the bill, estimated at half a million dollars per patient.
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - Bayit Yehudi Minister Uri Ariel on Wednesday night indicated that the shooting of a prominent right-wing Israeli activist in Jerusalem was motivated by nationalism. "I am praying for the full recovery of Yehuda Glick. The bullets fired at him tonight were directed at all the Jews that want to exercise their Jewish and moral right to visit the most holy place to the Jewish people and to pray at the Temple Mount," he said."I call on the prime minister to immediately allow every Jew to freely go to the Temple Mount, and to act with an iron fist against the criminals responsible for this deed," the minister charged.
UK - A top Bank of England (BoE) official warns widespread financial crime in the City of London is eroding public trust. The BoE’s criticism surfaced as it launched a review to tackle market manipulation. In her first public address since adopting the position of BoE Deputy Governor, Nemet Minouche Shafik denounced the actions of UK traders in foreign exchange, currencies and bonds markets, warning financial misconduct in these sectors goes well beyond a few rogue financiers.
USA - A trend seen by prolife activists that frequently engage college students on campuses nationwide is the growing acceptance of post-birth abortion, or killing the infant after he or she is born, campus prolife outreach leaders tell The College Fix. Anecdotal evidence by leaders of prolife groups such as Created Equal and Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust said in interviews that not only do they see more college students willing to say they support post-birth abortion, but some students even suggest children up to 4 or 5-years-old can also be killed, because they are not yet “self aware.” “We encounter people who think it is morally acceptable to kill babies after birth on a regular basis at almost every campus we visit,” said Mark Harrington, director of Created Equal. “While this viewpoint is still seen as shocking by most people, it is becoming increasingly popular.”
USA - The US Federal Reserve has finally brought its “QE3” asset purchase programme to an end, weaning America off one of the most radical monetary policy experiments in history. The central bank said that America’s labour market had made “solid gains” in recent months, and that the world’s largest economy was now strong enough to do without quantitative easing, which has swelled the US's balance sheet by $1.66 trillion over the past two years to more than $4.48 trillion. “The committee judges that there has been a substantial improvement in the outlook for the labour market since the inception of its current asset purchase programme,” the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) said. “Moreover, the committee continues to see sufficient underlying strength in the broader economy to support ongoing progress toward maximum employment in a context of price stability.”
USA - The Federal Reserve has ended its asset purchasing programme. It is a quiet end to one of the most radical monetary policy experiments in modern times. Since the financial crisis, the world's biggest central bank has embarked on an unprecedented programme of asset purchases that has resulted in its balance sheet growing to more than $4.48 trillion.
GERMANY - As a pretext for the rearmament program, government spokesmen are citing the civil war in Ukraine, which was set in motion by the support of the US and Germany for the fascist-led coup that overthrew the elected pro-Russian government and installed a Western puppet regime last February.
UK - Britain's ageing population has created a "debt timebomb" that can only be defused through a combination of significant spending cuts, faster increases in the state pension age and ending universal free healthcare, according to a respected think-tank.
UK - The tax that has seen the biggest rise in contributions to the Exchequer is air passenger duty with an increase of almost 300 percent. The amount of tax revenue the Government has collected through indirect or "stealth" taxes has risen by 50 percent over the past 10 years, research has found. The amount collected by HMRC [Revenue & Customs] in indirect taxes grew from £93 billion in 2003-04 to £138 billion in the last tax year (2013-14), research from Bloomsbury Professional, a specialist tax publisher, found. This is a 50 percent increase. In second place is landfill tax, where the tax take rose from £610 million to £1.2 billion, followed by betting and gaming taxes, which increased from £1.4 billion to £2.1 billion. VAT receipts stood at £69.1 billion a decade ago, but the figure has now climbed to £104.7 billion, while the income from customs duties increased from £1.9 billion to £2.9 billion.
UK - The controversy was recently documented in the film Citizenfour, and consciously or not, Schneier’s sentiments echo Snowden’s own words in an early email to the film’s director Laura Poitras: “Every cell phone tower you pass, friend you keep, article you write, site you visit, subject line you type, and packet you route, is in the hands of a system whose reach is unlimited but whose safeguards are not.” Indeed, pretty much everything you do can be tracked now, says Schneier.
USA - How does it feel to live under a government that is getting even more paranoid with each passing day? Yes, we live in a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, but that is no excuse for how ultra-paranoid the federal government has become. Today, every single one of us is viewed as a “potential threat” by the government. As a result, the government feels the need to intercept our emails, record our phone calls and track our expenditures. But they aren’t just spying on individuals. The government keeps tabs on thousands of organizations all over the planet, it spies on our enemies and our allies, and it even spies on itself. The American people are told that the emerging Big Brother police state is for our safety, but the truth is that it isn’t there to protect us. It is there to protect them. Our government has become kind of like a crazy rich uncle that is constantly spying on everyone else in the family because he believes that they are “out to get him”.
SWITZERLAND - The Swiss will head to the polls on the 30th November to vote in a referendum on gold. The “Save Our Swiss Gold” initiative will ask the Swiss population to vote on the following three measures.
1. To repatriate all Swiss gold vaulted in London and Canada.
2. Stop all future sales of Swiss Central Bank gold.
3. Mandate the Central Bank of Switzerland to hold 20% of their total reserves in gold bullion.
Results from the first opinion poll confirmed that 45% of Swiss intend to vote “Yes” with 39% indicating they will vote “No”. The Swiss Central Bank is against the initiative as it would stop their ability to print money. If the Swiss vote “yes” the Central Bank would need to spend $50 billion to bring the reserve ratio up to 20%, which equates to a staggering 1,000 tons of gold.
UK - Most of us have no idea a glass of seemingly healthy apple juice contains almost as much sugar as three Krispy Kreme donuts or a bar of Dairy Milk, a survey has found. With almost seven teaspoons of sugar in a single serving, apple juice contains more than the recommended daily amount for adults who want to stay healthy. According to the World Health Organisation, this should be six teaspoons of 'added' sugar - ie not that found naturally in products such as milk. A glass of apple juice contains almost seven teaspoons of sugar, and the average fat-free yogurt contains five. The World Health Organisation recommends no more than six teaspoons of sugar a day. Similarly, a fat-free yogurt - a food also often marketed as a natural, healthy choice - contains five teaspoons of sugar - the same as in three scoops of ice cream. The high levels of sugar found in everyday – often so-called ‘healthy items’ - were revealed as part of a survey by Bupa.
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's call to prevent Jews from entering the Temple Mount - the holiest site in Judaism - using "all means necessary" two weeks ago has gone viral on PA TV. The remarks inciting violence in the midst of daily Arab riots on the site were broadcast 19 times in just three days on PA TV, focusing on the part of the speech where he called for violence against Jews who "defile" the site. Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) exposed the propaganda campaign - and noted that it bears uncanny similarity to the calls of former PA Chairman Yasser Arafat, who slammed then-MK Ariel Sharon for "defiling" the site in 2000 and thereby instigated the Second Intifada. The five-year terror campaign to "defend Al-Aqsa Mosque" murdered 1,200 Israelis.
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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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