AUSTRALIA - My sister Anna and her husband Jacob have four young children, all daughters whom they are trying to raise to value their own dignity and face the world with self-esteem and confidence. This, they have discovered, is becoming a full time job, since today’s culture seems bent on actively hindering their efforts at cultivating these virtues in their girls.
USA - US stocks fell for the first time in three days as Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the central bank’s stimulus program could end this fall and benchmark interest rates could rise six months later. Walt Disney Co, General Electric Co and Boeing Co lost at least 1.4 percent to lead the Dow (INDU) Jones Industrial Average lower. Consolidated Edison Inc led utilities to the biggest decline among 10 groups in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. Newmont Mining Corp lost 3 percent as gold tumbled the most in six weeks after the Fed’s decision to reduce asset purchases.
ARGENTINA - Argentina's newly appointed Falklands Islands secretary has said he is convinced that the islands will one day be returned to Argentine rule – and denounced Britain's "aggressive moves" in the region. Daniel Filmus said the issue was "a question that runs deep in the hearts of the Argentine people," speaking two days after Cristina Kirchner, the Argentine president, met with the Pope and is thought to have asked him – as a fellow Argentine – to champion their cause.
USA - The Federal Bureau of Investigation otherwise known as the FBI is an embarrassment to humanity. Since I started tracking this phenomenon late last year it has become clear that the FBI is busting fake terror plots they create, staging terror hoax events or investigating fake mass shootings roughly every six weeks.
FRANCE - It’s a boost to anti-GMO activists to know when other regions of the world are successfully banning GMO seeds and cultivation and resisting the rush to finish off the world’s agricultural food chain. No, labeling alone won’t do it. The latest; France’s agriculture ministry banned the sale, use, and cultivation of Monsanto’s MON 810 genetically modified maize, currently authorized in the EU. By the time labeling laws are enacted and if enough people are educated on GMO dangers, the game may be over when all crops are contaminated by GMOs from other fields. Labeling implies co-existence, but when it truly comes down to it, co-existence is not an option. Banning is the only solution, one county, state, or country at a time.
FRANCE - France’s foreign minister Laurent Fabius has threatened to veto the sale of two state-of-the-art warships, worth over $1.67 billion, to Russia, calling on other countries to take similar action, despite the financial losses likely to be incurred. "If Putin continues doing what he is doing we could envisage cancelling the sales," Fabius said to French television on Tuesday, as cited by The Guardian. “This would be part of a third level of sanctions. For the moment we are at the second level,” he said. The French are due to deliver two high-tech Mistral warships to Russia. The first, christened the Vladivostok, has already undergone sea trials; while the second, called the Sevastopol, is due to be completed by the end of next year.
UKRAINE - After a Ukrainian soldier at a base in Crimea was killed, Ukraine announced that the murder was a “war crime”, and that Ukrainians could use live fire to protect themselves. Fair enough. But no one knows who actually pulled the trigger. Shouldn’t we find out who’s responsible before we start beating the war drums?
USA - What does a poor or lower-middle-class white person, especially one from the South or Southwest, have to do to get a break from fancy high-end TV producers? It is a remarkable fact about this new Golden Age of television, which began with The Sopranos in 1999, that its primary focus of attention is the population cohort known (with the exquisite cultural sensitivity we have all learned in the era of political correctness) as “white trash.”
GERMANY - German Chancellor Angela Merkel hasn’t minced words. Unless Vladimir Putin steps back from Ukraine, she’s prepared to back European sanctions that would cause “massive economic and political harm” to Russia. What about the harm Germany would suffer if the showdown escalates into economic warfare?
GERMANY - A simple plaque marks the forsaken spot where the Red Baron was buried in central Berlin but hardly anyone stops to remember the flying ace shot down in 1918. For Germans, the Great War holds so little interest. The centenary of the outbreak of World War One has caught Germany off guard, while Britain, France, the United States and others mark it with battlefield tours, television programs, exhibitions and plans for ceremonies on the day, in August. Germans aren't sure how, or even if, they should commemorate a war that cost them 13 percent of their territory, all their colonies, huge reparations and 2.5 million lives. The government is under fire for its inactivity.
UK - A Christian couple who were told it was illegal to turn unmarried couples away from their guesthouse have launched a landmark legal case at the European Court of Human Rights. Sue and Jeff Green, who run a 13 bed B&B in mid Wales, advertised that only married couples were allowed to take double rooms. But at the end of last year they received a letter from the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s “legal enforcement team” informing them they could be guilty of discriminating against gay couples. Now Mr and Mrs Green have secured the backing of the Christian Legal Centre to take their case direct to Strasbourg in a bid to establish whether Christians’ beliefs and human rights are superseded by equality laws.
ICELAND - Hekla volcano, one of Iceland's most active volcanoes, is on the verge of a major eruption that could impact air travel, experts have warned. A University of Iceland geoscientist, Pll Einarsson, believes a 'bulge' on the northern side of the volcano is caused by huge deposits of magma rising. In 2010 the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano hampered air travel due to the ash and gas it spewed into the atmosphere, and there are fears another eruption could cause the same issues. Researchers say there is now more magma than in 2000, the last time the Hekla volcano erupted. Then, it took just 79 minutes from the first warning earthquake until the volcano exploded, Einarsson said.
GERMANY - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that Russia's absorption of Ukraine's Crimea region after a secession referendum and declaration of independence there violated international law.
CRIMEA - In an extraordinary day which redrew the map of Europe, fears were growing that widespread violence would erupt in the aftermath of Russia’s annexation of Crimea. An Ukrainian officer was killed in a confrontation in Simferopol, just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered an incendiary speech justifying Moscow’s reclamation of the former Ukrainian territory.
MALAYSIA - Asian military officials may be staging a mass cover-up over missing flight MH370, because they do not want to expose gaping holes within their countries' air defences, a leading aviation expert has suggested.
“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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