JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - As Tisha B’Av (the 9th of the Jewish month of Av) arrives, and with it, the mourning caused by the absence of the Holy Temple which would serve as the center of spiritual life for the Jewish people – and according to the tradition, all the nations of the world – a renewed outcry for "Temple consciousness" has arisen with a flurry of activity.
TEMPLE MOUNT, ISRAEL - As Jews fast and mourn the Temple, Muslim Brotherhood members in Egypt will be protesting about their “holiest site” on Temple Mount. The Arab League has released a statement warning Israel to stay away from the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The mosque is located on the Temple Mount, which Judaism teaches is the holiest site in the world.
UK/EUROPE - The Fresh Start group of Conservative MPs launched its green paper on EU reform last week which sets out a range of options to either reform or repatriate EU policy areas. The launch was attended by Foreign Secretary William Hague.
USA - New details from court documents and sources close to the Libor scandal investigation suggest that groups of traders working at three major European banks were heavily involved in rigging global benchmark interest rates.
USA - After setting sights on creating a heavily modified apple that ‘never browns’ and doing their very best to hide the fact that they are indeed genetically altered, a biotech corporation known as Okanagan Specialty Fruits is now pushing for their new genetically modified apples to hit the market.
TOLEDO, OHIO, USA - There are 100 days left in what, at times, has seemed like an endless presidential election. And these are the bewildered sounds of the Undecided American, trying to decide. “I’m definitely not voting for [Mr] Obama. Our country’s in the worst mess ever, and certainly he needs to take some responsibility,” said Bobbie Hodge, 71, a retired nurse from Iron County, Missouri. “And yet, I’m not sure about Romney.” In these next 100 days, President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney and their political allies will spend hundreds of millions of dollars trying to sway uncommitted voters in a few key states. These are the people they’re after.
USA - The former University of Colorado graduate student accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others in a shooting rampage at a cinema last week had been under the care of a psychiatrist who was part of a campus threat-assessment team. The disclosure came in court documents filed yesterday by lawyers for James Holmes, 24, who is accused of opening fire last Friday on a packed showing of the latest Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Rises," in the Denver suburb of Aurora.
NORTH KOREA - Severe flooding across North Korea has killed 88 people and left tens of thousands homeless, state media reported late on Saturday, threatening to make the poverty-stricken country's already chronic food shortage still worse. The floods caused by torrential rains and a typhoon this month caused "big human and material losses", North Korea's official KCNA news agency said, stranding nearly 63,000 people.
UK - Britain's families will pay more for peas this summer as the year of unpredictable weather leaves growers with a heavily reduced harvest. The drought conditions earlier this year followed by the record rainfall in April and June have harmed the prospects of this year's British pea crop. British shoppers consume 150 million kilos of frozen peas every year worth over £200 million at retail prices. Over 90 per cent of these are grown in the UK.
USA - Andrew M Cuomo, the governor of New York declared a state of emergency in Chemung County after a tornado reportedly touched down in Elmira, where author Mark Twain is buried. Most of the damage from yesterday's event occurred in New York and Pennsylvania where the weather front may have created a rare wind storm known as a derecho. A derecho is defined as an event that has wind gusts of at least 58 miles per hour and leaves a swathe of damage for a minimum of 240 miles, according to the US Storm Prediction Centre.
USA - What was measured was reflectivity of water on the surface of the ice that, in some cases, is thousands of feet deep. Surface ice melt happens every year. As soon as freezing temperatures return, the surface water will return to ice and so-called global warming will be over. Do not expect mainstream media to report it.
USA - Last Friday's mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, in which 12 people were brutally gunned down and more than 50 people injured, is only the latest tragedy involving rampant gun violence sweeping the nation, according to a prominent anti-gun group. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, has compiled an extensive list of the last 431 shootings with more than one victim since 2005. The organization's data says that since 2005, there has been a multiple-victim shooting every 5.9 days in the United States, with 87 people dying of bullet wounds each day.
USA - A producer behind some of Hollywood's most violent films has called for a summit to discuss the impact of movies on real life in the wake of the Dark Knight Rises massacre. Harvey Weinstein says the industry needs to address how on-screen gore might be influencing viewers to commit similar atrocities. His comments come after 12 people were killed and 58 others injured when crazed gunman James Holmes opened fire during a midnight screening of the new Batman movie.
SPAIN - Spain has admitted for the first time it might need a full EU/IMF bailout worth €300 billion after its borrowing costs soared to a record 7.6 percent. The money would come on top of the €100 billion Spain has already received to prop up its banking sector. The issue was brought up by Economy Minister Luis de Guindos during a meeting with his German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble in Berlin last Tuesday.
LONDON, UK - The opening ceremony of the London Olympics is just hours away after seven years of preparations. The three-hour spectacle in the Olympic Stadium will be viewed by a global TV audience of around a billion people.
“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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