EU cannot ignore its own rules
EUobserver - 27/06/2008

EUROPE - EUobserver reports that Czech President Vaclav Klaus has said that the Lisbon Treaty "cannot come into force".

French plans to give EU "real military credibility"
Open Europe Press Summary - 27/06/2008

GERMANY - Former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer condemns the Irish no vote. He argues, "First, a strong European foreign policy, badly needed given the current state of the world, was buried on June 12, for the time being. The nation states will have control over foreign policy once again."

Big boost for Barclays as Qataris pour billions into UK companies
business.timesonline.co.uk - 26/06/2008

LONDON - Qatar took a near-8 per cent stake in Britain's third-largest bank yesterday as it ploughed billions of pounds into UK companies.

Commuters get less space than farm animals
telegraph.co.uk - 26/06/2008

UK - Statistics provided by the Department for Transport show that passengers can be packed into carriages in conditions which would be regarded as unacceptable for goats, chickens, calves and sheep.

A quarter of adults to face 'anti-paedophile' tests
telegraph.co.uk - 26/06/2008

LONDON - The launch of a new Government agency will see 11.3million people vetted for any criminal past before they are approved to have contact with children aged under 16.

U.S. crop damage from weather tops $8 billion
reuters.com - 26/06/2008

CHICAGO - From the worst floods in the Midwest grain belt in 15 years to drought in California, damage to crops from inclement weather has topped $8 billion so far this year, the largest U.S. farm group said on Wednesday.

Iran's rice farmers ask where's the money
reuters.com By Zahra Hosseinian - 26/06/2008

CHALUS, IRAN - From the lush paddy fields of northern Iran to the dusty grain bazaars of Tehran, the pain and paradoxes of the global crisis spawned by rising food and fuel prices are starkly on show.

Sarkozy lays out plan for Internet tax
iht.com - 26/06/2008

PARIS - France will ban prime-time advertising ON PUBLIC TELEVISION as of Jan. 1 and plans to tax Internet, phone and commercial broadcasting companies to replace the lost funding, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Wednesday.

Texas Real Estate Slump Lets Mexicans Take It Back
bloomberg.com By Thomas Black - 26/06/2008

USA - A "Texas for Sale" sign and cowgirls in boots and white hats greeted Garza at the Convex center in Monterrey, Mexico, earlier this month. A Monterrey developer and investor, Garza was in search of foreclosed U.S. property to buy.

Heavy rains soak flooded Midwest.
reuters.com - 26/06/2008

CHICAGO - A new round of storms dumped a half foot or more of rain across parts of the U.S. Midwest on Wednesday, dealing fresh trouble to a region already struggling with billions of dollars in flood damage.

Obama to get Hanuman idol
timesofindia.indiatimes.com - 26/06/2008

NEW DELHI - With Democrat senator Barack Obama busy in the run-up to the US presidential polls, a group of well-wishers in the capital have decided to send him a symbol of his lucky charm, Lord Hanuman, to help him emerge victorious.

Sickness bug found in tap water
BBC - 26/06/2008

ENGLAND - About 250,000 people in Northamptonshire are being told to boil tap water for drinking after a bug was found to have contaminated supplies.

Gold medal for security
dailymail.co.uk - 25/06/2008

BEIJING - China has stationed a battery of ground-to-air missiles just 300 metres from a Beijing Olympic venue, another sign of the tightening security with the games just six-and-a-half weeks away.

Queen strips Robert Mugabe of knighthood
timesonline.co.uk - 25/06/2008

LONDON - Robert Mugabe has been stripped of his honorary knighthood, as the pressure grows on him to postpone Friday's run-off election.

We're eating Zimbabwe's food... as its people starve
dailymail.co.uk - 25/06/2008

UK - Supermarkets have been condemned for selling produce from Zimbabwe at a time when many in the stricken country are going hungry.

“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)