Regulators shut banks in California, Georgia and South Dakota
AP - 19/07/2009

WASHINGTON - Regulators on Friday shut two banks in California and two smaller banks in Georgia and South Dakota, boosting to 57 the number of federally insured banks to fail this year.

2010: A new space odyssey beckons
independent.co.uk - 19/07/2009

USA - This weekend, 40 years after man first landed on the Moon, more human beings than ever before are orbiting on a single spacecraft. In 1969, three men squeezed into Apollo 11's command module, a craft little bigger than a Mini.

Rafsanjani defies Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
timesonline.co.uk - 19/07/2009

IRAN - Tens of thousands of Iranians flooded the streets of Tehran yesterday to hear the country's most influential powerbroker pronounce the Islamic Republic in crisis and as he called for the release of those arrested in recent pro-democracy demonstrations.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews visit Hamas
BBC - 19/07/2009

ISRAEL/GAZA - Four members of a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews opposed to the existence of Israel have visited Hamas in Gaza. The men, clad in the traditional ultra-Orthodox garb of black hats and coats and with long side-curls in their hair, met Hamas leader Ismail Haniya.

The Pagan Police Association
dailymail.co.uk - 17/07/2009

UK - Police officers who practise witchcraft to get Pagan Police Association and their own religious holidays. Pagan PCs to get time off to celebrate Halloween and summer solstice (and have their own support group).

Vatican reconciles with Oscar Wilde
telegraph.co.uk - 17/07/2009

VATICAN - Oscar Wilde, whose flamboyant homosexuality shocked Britain in the 19th century, won an unlikely endorsement from the Vatican on Thursday.

'We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt'
cnsnews.com - 17/07/2009

USA - Vice President Joe Biden told people attending an AARP town hall meeting that UNLESS THE DEMOCRAT-SUPPORTED HEALTH CARE PLAN BECOMES LAW THE NATION WILL GO BANKRUPT and that the only way to avoid that fate is for the government to spend more money.

China's Market Value Overtakes Japan as World's Number 2
bloomberg.com - 17/07/2009

CHINA - China overtook Japan as the world's second-largest stock market by value for the first time in 18 months, after government stimulus spending and record bank lending boosted share prices this year.

Terrifying 57% tax looms for biggest earners
nypost.com - 17/07/2009

USA - Congressional plans to fund a massive health-care overhaul could have a job-killing effect on New York, creating a tax rate of nearly 60 percent for the state's top earners and possibly pressuring small-business owners to shed workers.

Bank boards come under scrutiny
BBC - 17/07/2009

UK - Failures in the way the banks are run played an important part in the financial crisis, according to a government-commissioned report. It calls for better trained non-executive directors with more power, and greater shareholder involvement.

Obama: Pressure on Israel to Continue
Arutz Sheva News Service - 17/07/2009

USA - US President Barack Obama assured 15 leaders of Jewish American organizations of his commitment to Israel, but he also insisted he would continue to publicly press the Jewish State to conform to his vision of Middle East peace.

Israel 'Destroyed' Gaza Hospital that Never Existed
Arutz Sheva News Service - 17/07/2009

ISRAEL - Another anti-Israeli campaign, this time charging that the IDF destroyed a Christian hospital in Gaza earlier this year, has gone up in smoke following an investigation by the Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA). One question remains: what was supposed to happen with the $1.67 million raised for "rebuilding" the hospital?

German debate on EU decision-making powers heats up
EUobserver.com - 17/07/2009

GERMANY - Germany's debate on how much national say there should be over further EU integration is intensifying two weeks after the country's constitutional court handed down a significant judgement on the EU's Lisbon Treaty.

The European Defence Agency at five years
Euobserver.com - 17/07/2009

BRUSSELS - Most Europeans have probably never heard of the European Defence Agency, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this month. Yet, this little known EU agency has slowly created a basis for the development of common military projects.

Scientists Write Open Letter to Congress:
climatedepot.com - 16/07/2009

USA - Below is a reprint of a July 1, 2009 Open Letter to Congress by a team of prominent atmospheric scientists. 'You Are Being Deceived About Global Warming' - 'Earth has been cooling for ten years' - 'Present cooling was NOT predicted by the alarmists' computer models, and has come as an embarrassment to them'

“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)