The Biggest Oil Discovery In 50 Years?

AUSTRALIA - In a virtually uninhabitable section of South Australia, a discovery has been made which could rock the world. Some are calling it the biggest discovery of oil in 50 years.

USDA Fast-Tracks 'Rubber-Stamp' Approval of 'Dangerous' GE Seeds

USA - The USDA 'rubber-stamped' the first of many 'dangerous' new genetically engineered (GE) seeds Friday under the department's new streamlined approval process.

(Sm)art Investing: Rich Move Assets from Banks to Warehouses

SWITZERLAND - To avoid paying taxes, the rich are emptying their bank accounts in Switzerland and investing in art. This has spawned a new business of storing such works tax- and duty-free in warehouses across the world.

Pope: Resist "idols" of money, power, pleasure

APARECIDA, BRAZIL - Pope Francis urged Catholics to resist the "ephemeral idols" of money, power and pleasure during a pilgrimage Wednesday to one of the most important shrines in Latin America

The Coming Black Swan From ChinaComment

CHINA - Another “growth story” is dying before our very eyes. China is rapidly approaching ZERO growth. This is not less growth, but ZERO growth as in full-scale economic collapse from the days of 12% GDP growth per year.

Feeling the heat from China slowdown

CHINA - China's manufacturing engine lost further momentum in July and the job market weakened, a survey showed on Wednesday, complicating a transition to consumer-driven growth and boding ill for so many leveraged to the world's second-largest economy.

If you think Britain is on its way back to prosperity, think again, it's a mirage

UK - It is one of the many wonders of our Royal Family that its babies are perfectly, almost eerily, timed with the economic cycle. Prince Charles' birth in 1948 coincided with the start of a 25-year period of strong economic recovery, while Prince William's arrival in June 1982 heralded the end of a bitter recession and a quarter century of unparalleled prosperity.

The Tip Of The Iceberg Of The Coming Retirement Crisis

USA - The pension nightmare that is at the heart of the horrific financial crisis in Detroit is just the tip of the iceberg of the coming retirement crisis that will shake America to the core.

19 US cities have proportionately bigger workforces than bankrupted Detroit

USA - Detroit declared bankruptcy due in no small part to $3 billion in unfunded public employee pensions owed a sprawling city workforce that kept growing even as the city’s population shriveled, but a Washington Examiner analysis found that 19 major American cities have even bigger ratios of such workers to residents.

NSA growth fueled by need to target terrorists

USA - Twelve years later, the cranes and earthmovers around the National Security Agency are still at work, tearing up pavements and uprooting trees to make room for a larger workforce and more powerful computers.

Italy to Ban Monsanto GMO Maize

ITALY - Three Italian ministries have signed a decree banning the cultivation of a type of genetically modified maize, citing environmental concerns, the agriculture ministry said on Friday.

Schmallenberg Virus Is Crippling Lambing Season Says Producer

UK - Low impact: that's how Professor Nigel Gibbens, Defra's chief vet, describes the effect of the Schmallenberg Virus on our farming industry. He might have extensive experience of exotic diseases and their control, but I and everyone who has experienced the effects of this crippling disease would describe it as far from "low impact".

America No Longer Has a Functioning Judicial SystemComment

USA - The Department of Justice told a federal court this week that the NSA’s spying “cannot be challenged in a court of law”. This is especially dramatic given that numerous federal judges and legal scholars – including a former FISA judge – say that the FISA spying “court” is nothing but a kangaroo court.

Liberty Slipping

USA - 10 Things You Could Do (in the USA) in 1975 That You Can't Do Now:

Feel-free fee: TSA will grope you less for $85

USA - If full-body scanners and TSA pat-downs make you feel uncomfortable, you now have an alternate option – making the agency like you and paying a fee of $85 every five years.

“Just what is an APOSTLE?”
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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Listen to Me, You who know righteousness, You people in whose heart is My Law: …I have put My words in your mouth, I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, That I may plant the heavens, Lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, “you are My people” (Isaiah 51:7,16)