BAHAMAS - Hurricane Dorian relentlessly pummeled the Bahamas overnight as the second-strongest Atlantic storm on record crawled toward the US mainland — tearing off roofs, overturning cars and downing power lines in its wake, AP reports. The latest: The National Hurricane Center said at 3 am Monday that Dorian was packing winds of 170 mph as it slowed to 2 mph as its eye crawled westward over Grand Bahama island. The core of the "extremely dangerous" storm was set to continue pounding the island for hours before moving "dangerously close" to the Florida east coast Monday night through Wednesday evening. Mandatory evacuations have begun in the state.
USA - Hurricane Dorian is already setting all sorts of records, and it hasn’t even reached the United States yet. As I write this article, this “lawnmower from the sky” is ripping through the Bahamas with immense fury. The east coast could potentially be the next target, and widespread evacuations have already been ordered all along the Florida coastline, and that even includes President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
USA - A growing number of states and companies are allowing people to designate their gender as “X” instead of male or female on driver’s licenses and other forms of identification. The changes are a response to transgender Americans who don’t identify as exclusively male or female and others who feel binary gender categories don’t accurately describe them. Two years ago, Oregon became the first state to officially accommodate such residents by allowing them to select an X in the gender field of their driver’s license...
GERMANY - The days of German complacency were nice, but they're over. They lasted nearly as long as Angela Merkel's chancellorship and were defined by a feeling of seemingly endless economic success and a sense of pride over Germany's role in the world. Indeed, at the World Economic Forum in Davos three years ago, Germany was designated as the "best country in the world." In Europe, there was talk of the "German model" as something for other countries to emulate. When Donald Trump became president in the US, some expected Angela Merkel to take up the torch as leader of the free world. Germany's economy seemed unshakable, as did Merkel's role in the world.
USA - The US economy is consistently ranked among the world’s strongest. But cut off its addiction to debt and exhaust its gold and currency reserves, and a very different picture would emerge. The nation’s health as measured by gross domestic product per capita would plunge into negative territory without its dependence on borrowed money, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. In fact, the US would fall almost to the bottom of a ranking of 114 economies by GDP per capita. Only Italy, Greece and Japan would fare worse. That’s a seismic shift from America’s comfortable Number 5 spot on a list based on conventional measures. The US isn’t alone, though; it’s pretty grim across the board. Among the 114 economies included in the final list, 102 would experience reduced per capita wealth if they suddenly lost the ability to borrow.
USA - Having destroyed discipline, central banks have no way out of the corner they've painted us into. It was such a wonderful fantasy: just give a handful of bankers, financiers and corporations trillions of dollars at near-zero rates of interest, and this flood of credit and cash into the apex of the wealth-power pyramid would magically generate a new round of investments in productivity-improving infrastructure and equipment, which would trickle down to the masses in the form of higher wages, enabling the masses to borrow and spend more on consumption, powering the Nirvana of modern economics: a self-sustaining, self-reinforcing expansion of growth.
USA - EEE fears sweep US: Officials in 3 states warn residents to stay inside at dawn and dusk and to NOT touch dying birds. At least five people have contracted Eastern Equine Encephalitis in three states. The virus kills about a third of humans who develop it and several have been left in comas or on life support. One case is confirmed in each Michigan and New Jersey. Four confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne disease have been verified in Massachusetts where one woman has allegedly died of the disease. Officials in New Jersey, Michigan and Massachusetts are advising people to cancel end-of-summer picnic dinners and stay indoors at dusk and dawn to stay safe from EEE-carrying mosquitoes.
USA - The tens of thousands of fires burning in the Amazon right now have caught the attention of environmentalists, politicians and celebrities alike. Unfortunately, many of them have been spreading bad information in the form of decades-old pictures and incorrect facts, such as the claim that the Amazon is the "lungs of the world," according to Forbes.
USA - “It would be a conservative estimate to say that more than 50 percent of our membership is LGBTQ,” the head of the Satanic Temple said in a recent interview. Lucien Greaves, who runs the US Satanic Temple, told UK-based Attitude magazine, “From the start, when one of our early actions was the Pink Mass, a lot of LGBTQ people were looking for another community that didn’t see them as defined by their sexual orientation.”
UK - Nigel Farage predicted the European Union may collapse within two years if Boris Johnson succeeds in securing a Brexit that delivers on demands for independence from the bloc. Nigel Farage claimed the prosperity he predicts Britain to bask in after Brexit will mark the end of the European project.
USA - We here in the US look at what China’s doing as if they’re on a reality TV show. Seeing what they’re doing with surveillance and their social credit system as if we’re watching some kind of dystopian entertainment series fashioned after the George Orwell book, 1984. Our burgeoning dystopia isn’t as overtly dystopian as Orwell warned against, and that’s the problem.
USA - Under a new law approved by Illinois Governor JB Pritker public schools will be required to teach LGBT history and the contributions of LGBTQ people. The new law, signed by the Governor three weeks ago, requires lessons highlighting noteworthy lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. The LGBTQ focused curriculum must be taught before students reach the eighth grade and is scheduled to go into effect in 2020.
UK - Food banks in some of the UK’s poorest areas are running critically low on supplies because of a spike in demand during the school holidays. Organisers say more families are seeking help in the summer holidays than in previous years, yet donations are falling. Tricia Ryder, a distribution centre manager at Leeds North and West food bank, said: “We’re running critically low on supplies. The summer months are always the time when we get the least donations, but each summer we’re getting more and more attendants.” Ryder said there had been a drop in donations over the summer, which she believed was due to people being less financially secure.
UK - Isn’t it odd that this simple fact should arouse such controversy? We voted to leave, after all, by a margin of over 1 million back in June 2016. Yet in the three years since a small, unrepresentative, but asymmetrically powerful group of Remoaner hold-outs – in government, in the Civil Service, in the media, in academe, in the legal profession, in finance, in big business – has thrown so many spanners in the works to try to thwart democracy and to stop Brexit happening that it seems almost miraculous that we’re finally getting out. The Remoaners have got themselves into an awful tizz that they will no longer be able to use the parliamentary process to block Brexit. That’s because Prime Minister Boris Johnson is going to prorogue – ie suspend parliament – for the three crucial days in October, rendering the opponents of Brexit utterly powerless. If it’s like this now, imagine how much more fun it’s going to be come October 31st – aka Independence Day!
ISRAEL - Nearly four decades after taking out Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor, Israel once again faces threats emanating from Iranian-backed militias in Iraq. 38 years later it appears Israel has once again carried out an attack on Iraqi territory. The August 20 strike near Balad air base in Iraq was the fourth in a series of recent explosions on bases controlled by Iranian-backed Iraqi militias. The explosions have targeted Iranian missile shipments as well as upgrade kits for advanced guidance.
“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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