USA - When homeowners visit The Easy Loan Site™ official website, they may be surprised to find out they qualify for a plan that offers them shockingly low interest rates. Unknown to many, this brilliant government program called the Home Affordable Refinance Plan (HARP) could benefit millions of Americans. By refinancing their homes at lower interest rates, homeowners could easily reduce their payments by as much as $4,264 each year.
USA - An Alabama man who sued over being hit and kicked by police after leading them on a high-speed chase will get $1,000 in a settlement with the city of Birmingham, while his attorneys will take in $459,000, officials said Wednesday. Warren is serving a 20-year sentence for attempted murder stemming from his running over a police officer during the chase, in which he also hit a school bus and a patrol car before crashing and being ejected from his vehicle. Under the terms of the settlement of Warren's 2009 federal suit, in which he accused five Birmingham police officers of excessive force, his attorneys will receive $100,000 for expenses and $359,000 in fees, said Michael Choy, an attorney representing the officers on behalf of the city.
CANADA - Canadian prime minister delivers defiant message, saying shootings are a reminder that the country is not immune to terror attacks. Canada's prime minister said his nation would not be intimidated by Wednesday's gun attack in its capital but would redouble its efforts against terrorism.
UK - Much has gone right for George Osborne. The economy is still growing strongly, despite the ambient turbulence, and is easily outperforming many other similar economies. Unemployment is sliding at an astonishing speed and job creation remains buoyant. Corporate investment has risen more quickly than many sceptics had feared and the consumer debt burden has fallen.
EUROPE - A German stimulus package may now be too late, and too small, to revive the euro area economy, according to a report by ratings agency Standard & Poor's. The eurozone is yet again in a nasty state. As it suffers from low growth and low inflation, the two combine to make a nasty cocktail. Without much of either, unemployment remains stuck at an eye wateringly high 11.5 percent, and government debt burdens are likely to feel increasingly heavy.
ISRAEL - Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman made a connection Thursday morning between the attacks that occurred in Jerusalem and Ottawa - both state capitals - on Wednesday. The comments were posted on his official Facebook page. "The terror attacks that took place yesterday, at almost the same time in both ends of the world, show that terrorism is a global epidemic that must be fought against with force and without compromises," Lieberman wrote.
ISRAEL - Rioters target a kindergarten in Ma'ale ha-Zeitim and the light rail station in Shuafat Thursday morning, after last night's deadly attack. A day after the tragic attack in Jerusalem, resulting in the death of an infant girl, assaults against Jewish targets by Arab extremists continue.
USA - Don't think that Republicans are going to save the country, because they support "Free Trade" much more than Democrats do. The President is seeking Fast Track authority to allow passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, or TPP, in the first quarter of 2015. The TPP has been negotiated in secret by global corporations, and even Congress has been denied access to the proceedings! With Fast Track, the TPP will face an up or down vote with minimal debate, and require only 50.01% to pass. If passed, TPP will signal the complete end to American national sovereignty, turning over trade and economic policy-making to global bodies. TPP is a clear and present danger, and yet there is very attention being given to it.
USA - While vaccine makers and drug companies are rushing to bring medical interventions to the market that might address the Ebola pandemic, there's already a technology available right now that can kill Ebola in just two minutes in hospitals, quarantine centers, commercial offices and even public schools.
UK - Campaigners say chicken meat needs better labelling. How much do people really know about the life of a chicken before it reaches their plate? A long, low, metal shed, fed by large plastic drums, pipes and chimneys - to the layman it looks like a small chemical plant. Hidden in the folds of the Peak District, it's an incongruous sight. The only hint that living things are housed inside is the pungent smell from the extractor fan - like a mixture of a pet shop and manure.
USA - Around the world, student debt is a financial burden for millions - and in the US, a growing number of senior citizens are still repaying the cost of their education into retirement age. In 2005, older adults owed $2.8 billion (£1.61 billion) in federal student debt. By 2013, that figure that had ballooned to $18.2 billion, according to a report released last month by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Students in the US often take out loans, both privately funded and financed by the US Department of Education, to pay their school fees. While other loans, such as a home mortgage, can be forgiven if a borrower files for bankruptcy, student loans cannot.
USA - The New York City region’s emergency agencies are practicing for a disaster. The city’s Office of Emergency Management ran a training exercise Wednesday that simulated a response to a 10-kiloton nuclear device exploding at 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue in Times Square, WCBS 880’s Rich Lamb reported. According to the exercise, 100,000 people were instantly killed; a wave of overpressure took down buildings for a half-mile radius and did damage for up to two miles; and a radiation cloud swept over the region. Esposito said the blast would produce an electromagnetic pulse, disrupting much of communications, Lamb reported. “What’s the message? Shelter in place, evacuate, seek medical aid. How would we do that?”
ISRAEL - Palestinian and Israeli leaders have clashed over access to the Temple Mount, as tensions in Jerusalem intensify. Both Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have ratcheted up the rhetoric on Israel over Temple Mount.
JORDAN - Jordanian ambassador to 'Palestine' reveals diplomatic war against new prayer bill, and vast financial network to Arabize Jerusalem. Jordan's King Abdullah II is pressing Israel not to pass a bill allowing Jews to exercise their religious rights and pray on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, a senior official of the Hashemite kingdom revealed on Tuesday.
ISRAEL - Members of the Jewish Home party welcomed on Tuesday evening the election of two new Chief Rabbis for Jerusalem. Former Israeli Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar was elected as the new Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, while Rabbi Aryeh Stern of the Halacha Brura Institute was voted in as Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi.
“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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