'Go back to your disease-ridden country!'
dailymail.co.uk - 24/07/2009

FRANCE - British schoolchildren with swine flu were treated like 'dangerous criminals' before being kicked out of France. The 14-year-olds and their teachers were forced to wear surgical masks and shoes while being treated by medics in anti-contamination suits.

Intelligent transport raises privacy concerns
euractiv.com - 24/07/2009

EUROPE - The EU data protection authority has set alarm bells ringing over proposed rules governing intelligent transport systems (ITS), which are aimed at improving road safety but pose potential risks for citizens' privacy.

No more issues should be decided in one country
Open Europe Press Summary - 24/07/2009

POLAND - French Foreign Minister: "No more issues should be decided in one country - they must all be considered in Europe"

Climate Change and National Security
boston.com - 24/07/2009

WASHINGTON - Massive crop devastation, melting glaciers, water shortages, millions of displaced people - all of these will drag the US military into conflict if global climate change goes unchecked, a Senate panel was warned today.

Bernanke fights for Fed independence
reuters.com - 23/07/2009

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday fought hard to protect the independence of the US central bank and keep responsibility for consumer protection on financial products in its hands.

Roche bullish on markets, ups flu drug capacity
reuters.com - 23/07/2009

BASEL, SWITZERLAND - Swiss drugmaker Roche (ROG.VX) gave a bullish forecast for the next two years after its $47 billion acquisition of Genentech and said it would expand capacity for H1N1 flu drug Tamiflu.

Japan Democrats "get real" on US ahead of vote
reuters.com - 23/07/2009

TOKYO - Japan's main opposition party, WHICH UNTIL RECENTLY TOUTED PLANS TO STAND UP TO THE UNITED STATES AND FORM CLOSER TIES IN ASIA, is taking a more pragmatic line toward Tokyo's top ally ahead of a likely election victory.

Swine flu triggers change to church ritual
ft.com - 23/07/2009

UK - Swine flu has spurred the Church of England to revive a rule drawn up more than 450 years ago when bubonic plague swept the land.

Government monopsony distorts climate science
transworldnews.com - 23/07/2009

USA - The Science and Public Policy Institute announces the publication of Climate Money, a study by Joanne Nova revealing that the federal Government has a near-monopsony (monopsony means a market with only one buyer) on climate science funding. This distorts the science towards self-serving alarmism.

Drug firm charges NHS £6 for swine flu vaccine that costs £1 to make
dailymail.co.uk - 23/07/2009

UK - GlaxoSmithKline was today accused of profiteering from the swine flu pandemic after it emerged that it is making a 600 per cent mark-up on its vaccine for the virus.

Mass flu vaccination would be madness
timesonline.co.uk by Dr Richard Halvorsen - 23/07/2009

UK - A mass vaccination programme moves ever closer. Orders have been placed; priority groups identified. There will be enough swine flu vaccine to inoculate the entire population, starting with NHS staff, in an attempt to halt the spread of the disease and save lives.

Clinton says US would arm its allies against a nuclear Iran
timesonline.co.uk - 23/07/2009

USA/IRAN - At a meeting of Asian foreign ministers in Thailand, Mrs Clinton said that nuclear weapons would not make Iran more secure. America would arm its allies and extend its "defence umbrella" across the Middle East if Iran succeeded in producing nuclear weapons, the US Secretary of State said today.

Fiscal ruin of the Western world beckons
telegraph.co.uk - 23/07/2009

IRELAND - Events have already forced Premier Brian Cowen to carry out the harshest assault yet seen on the public services of a modern Western state. He has passed two emergency budgets to stop the deficit soaring to 15pc of GDP. They have not been enough.

Quake moves NZ towards Australia
BBC - 23/07/2009

NEW ZEALAND - A massive earthquake last week has brought New Zealand closer to Australia, scientists say. The 7.8 magnitude quake in the Tasman Sea has expanded New Zealand's South Island westwards by about 30cm (12in).

China and Russia in joint anti-terrorism exercise
reuters.com - 22/07/2009

BEIJING/MOSCOW - China and Russia were holding a joint military exercise on Wednesday, with the drill seen as a chance to beef up anti-terrorism cooperation after the recent flare-up of violence in China's Xinjiang region.

“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)