EUROPE - France and Germany plotting to merge borders, economies and defence policies in the latest step towards an EU superstate. The neighbouring countries are to forge together policies in areas including terrorism and transport in an unprecedented "twinning" pact just two months before the UK is due to leave Europe. In line with the agreement, regions on either side of the Franco-German border will be encouraged to form "Eurodistricts", The Times reports.
GERMANY - One of the most controversial figures in the nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) announced on Friday that he was leaving the party and setting up his own breakaway group. There was shock and anger when Andre Poggenburg unveiled the logo of his new “German Patriots Awakening” party. The emblem features a blue cornflower, which was used as a secret symbol for the banned Nazi party in 1930s Austria. Mr Poggenburg was forced to resign as AfD regional leader in the state of Saxony-Anhalt last year over speeches in which he was accused of using “Nazi vocabulary”.
USA - Something strange is going on at the top of the world. Earth’s north magnetic pole has been skittering away from Canada and towards Siberia, driven by liquid iron sloshing within the planet’s core. The magnetic pole is moving so quickly that it has forced the world’s geomagnetism experts into a rare move. On 15 January, they are set to update the World Magnetic Model, which describes the planet’s magnetic field and underlies all modern navigation, from the systems that steer ships at sea to Google Maps on smartphones. The most recent version of the model came out in 2015 and was supposed to last until 2020 — but the magnetic field is changing so rapidly that researchers have to fix the model now. “The error is increasing all the time,” says Arnaud Chulliat, a geomagnetist at the University of Colorado Boulder…
SAUDI ARABIA - A massive swarm of locusts plagued Mecca, Saudi Arabia, earlier this week, prompting authorities at Islam’s holiest site to launch a cleaning operation to remove them. Videos posted to social media showed the insects swarming around cleaners and worshipers in the city’s Grand Mosque, where millions of Muslim pilgrims congregate every year. “Specialized teams have been directed to work in the fight to eliminate these insects,” authorities in Mecca said, according to the Al-Araby Al-Jadeed news site.
USA - Just something I find rather interesting right now. If you look back at the history of global markets since the GFC [Greek Financial Crisis], we’ve had a spattering of issues around the world that have caused a lot of worry in the markets. Here are some examples of what we faced and moved past. Major Financial Market Issues Post GFC… Eurozone crisis of 2011… commodity crash of 2012-2015 (namely oil in 2014)… Chinese hard landing in 2015-2016… and potential currency problems… potential Brexit crisis… broad emerging market recession… So lets take a review of the current issues that global markets are worried about…
EUROPE - Yellow Vest protesters are hoping to trigger a bank run with a nationwide coordinated cash withdrawal. By threatening the French financial system, protesters say, they want to peacefully force the government to pass their reforms. “If the banks weaken, the state weakens immediately,” said Yellow Vest “sympathizer” Tahz San on Facebook. “It’s elected officials' worst nightmare.” Protesters plan to empty their bank accounts on Saturday, withdrawing as much money as possible in a bid to undermine the French banks – if not the euro itself. The plan is to “scare the state legally and without violence,” forcing the government to adopt the movement’s Citizens’ Referendum Initiative, which would allow citizens to propose and vote on new laws.
EUROPE - Italy’s Euroskeptic deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini has said he wants Italy and Poland to join together to create a “European Spring” which could end the long-standing French and German domination on the continent. Speaking during a press conference with Polish Interior Minister Joachim Brudziński in Warsaw on Wednesday, Salvini said that Poland and Italy “will be part of the new spring of Europe, the renaissance of European values” which would create a “new equilibrium” where the dominance of France and Germany is diminished. The leader of the Northern League party said that upcoming European parliamentary elections, set for May, could lead away from a Europe “that is run by bureaucrats.”
USA - US President Donald Trump seems poised to declare a national emergency and redirect Pentagon resources towards building a wall on the border with Mexico, after his talks with congressional Democrats went nowhere. Visiting the border in Texas on Thursday, Trump met with federal, state and local officials and repeated the need for a barrier along the border with Mexico.
UK - With just 80 days remaining until Brexit Day, March 29, nerves are fraying on both sides of the English Channel. Nowhere is this more true than in the City of London where the Square Mile’s dominance of the global financial industry faces its biggest threat in decades. In the City’s worst-case scenario — a crash-out Brexit on March 29 — London-based firms that have not prepped properly for this outcome could be cut off from the continent altogether. Since moving key operations and staff across the channel is a costly, complex, timely undertaking, many companies have preferred to play a waiting game. But the clock continues to tick down, and as the risk of a disorderly exit grows, inaction is becoming a risky strategy.
USA - Something is happening to our planet. The mainstream media is not talking much about this, and the experts assure us that everything is going to be just fine, but the truth is that we have been witnessing an unusual amount of seismic activity all over the world. Up until just recently, most of the shaking has been elsewhere on the globe, and so it has been easy for most Americans to ignore. But now North America is rattling, and that isn’t going to be so easy to brush aside. In fact, 2019 has barely even gotten started and the state of Alaska has already been hit by 81 significant earthquakes…
ISRAEL - A Temple Mount expert, a rabbi who has been studying the subject for years, combined his knowledge of Jewish sources and archaeology and arrived at the conclusion that the Jewish Temples did not stand where visitors now see the prominent golden Dome of the Rock.
USA - Sharyl Attkisson is one of the few remaining real journalists in America, and she has been attacked, smeared, censored and de-platformed for daring to ask real questions about vaccines, government spying and other “disallowed” topics. Her latest broadcast episode, The Vaccine Debate, features the true story of Dr Andrew Zimmerman, a pediatric neurologist who served as the government’s own expert witness in secret vaccine court proceedings that now typify so-called “justice” for vaccine-damaged children in America.
USA - DC Comics drew critical praise for its series of short-run books that re-imagine classic characters and coming up soon, the company is set to release a new book featuring an out-of-touch, bungling Jesus Christ in the lead. In the new comic, written by Mark Russell, Jesus Christ will be portrayed as an out-of-touch former savior who is cast out of his prison in heaven and back down to earth because God the Father felt that Christ messed up his first visit with mankind, Newsbusters reported.
USA - President Donald Trump stopped short on Tuesday of declaring that a national emergency exists on America's southern border, but reiterated his demand that congressional Democrats fund a border wall that he has promised for nearly four years. But he played the shame card with a vengeance, blaming them for playing politics with innocent American lives and allowing 'a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul' to fester.
USA - Although widely expected to declare a national emergency in a televised address this evening, President Trump instead used the broadcast to appeal to the American people to demand Democrats capitulate and approve funding for border security. In doing this, President Trump set the stage for invoking a new national emergency in the days ahead if Democrats fail to fund the border wall.
“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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