USA - This is a disservice not only to President Trump but also to the American people and the planet itself. Dr George Szamuely, a distinguished member of the Global Policy Institute of London Metropolitan University, is a British citizen and not a partisan of US politics. He has carefully investigated the so-called Russian dossier and reports that it was entirely the work of the Hillary Democrats.
ISRAEL - Fifty years since the Six-Day War, 100 years since the Balfour Declaration, 150 years since Mark Twain first visited Palestine. This has been a year of big Israel-related anniversaries. To the Jewish state’s most diehard Christian supporters, the barrage of milestones is not mere coincidence but rather a harbinger of prophecies being fulfilled.
UK - Liberalism has reached the point of mass mental illness. Political correctness may be more rampant in the United Kingdom than it is in the US, if that’s even possible. Case in point: UK government bureaucrats seem to be objecting to the terminology “pregnant women” in an international treaty because it excludes transgender individuals. The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which is apparently similar to our State Department, wants edits made to the International Covenant on Civil and Politic Rights, a UN treaty that originally went into effect in the 1970s, that in its original version includes various protections for expectant mothers. The UN Human Rights Committee recently announced that it would accept minor revisions to the treaty that would leave its essential purpose unaffected.
VATICAN - The former doctrinal chief of the US Bishops Conference (USCCB) has written a forceful letter to Pope Francis, criticizing the pontiff’s “intentionally ambiguous” teaching, derision of conservatives and resistance to constructive criticism. Capuchin Father Thomas Weinandy, who was named to the Vatican’s International Theological Commission by Pope Francis himself in 2014, told Crux that he only wrote the letter and eventually released it for publication after much prayer and discernment, as Pope Francis often recommends.
USA - For those lying awake at night worried about health care, the economy, and an overall feeling of divide between you and your neighbors, there’s at least one source of comfort: Your neighbors might very well be lying awake, too.
USA - Are we about to see chaos in the streets in major cities all over America? Antifa and other radical leftist groups are promising that a series of protests will begin on November 4th that will never end until “the Trump/Pence regime” is “removed from power”. Antifa has openly and publicly embraced violence and the Department of Homeland Security says that they have engaged in domestic terrorism. Hopefully these “protests” will fizzle out after a few weeks, because political organizations that believe in “the necessary use of violence” have no place in our society. We are in a battle for the future of America, and the fate of our children and our grandchildren is hanging in the balance. The radical left must not win, because if they do they will transform our society into a totalitarian socialist “utopia” that will look nothing like the nation that our forefathers originally founded.
VATICAN - The Reformation anniversary gives us a renewed impetus to work for reconciliation, said a statement released jointly Tuesday by the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Lutheran World Federation. “We recognize that while the past cannot be changed, its influence upon us today can be transformed to become a stimulus for growing communion and a sign of hope for the world to overcome division and fragmentation,” it said October 31. “Again, it has become clear that what we have in common is far more than that which still divides us.” The statement was released to mark the end of the year of common commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
GERMANY – Germany has become the world’s biggest buyer of gold amid fears of economic meltdown across the eurozone. Figures from the World Gold Council (WGC) reveal the country invested a record £6 billion in gold bullion and coins as well as in exchange-traded products.
MIDDLE EAST - Hamas leaders newly returned from an official visit to Iran have hailed their restored ties with the Tehran regime, praising the Islamic Republic’s “making no secret” of the “exceptional support” it provides to the Palestinian terrorist organization.
KENYA - Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has rejected the results of the re-run presidential election that saw Uhuru Kenyatta gaining a second term. Mr Odinga called it "a sham" but made no mention of any legal challenge. Mr Kenyatta won 98% of the vote with turnout under 40% - less than half that recorded in August's vote, largely because of an opposition boycott.
CANADA - The last time there was a widespread physical gold counterfeiting scare was in the summer of 2012 when we reported the discovery of a single 10 oz Tungsten-filled gold bar in Manhattan's jewelry district led to a panic among the dealer community, which then resulted in local jewelry outlets discovering at least ten more fake 10-ounce "gold bars" filled with Tungsten. Fast forward to today when a similar instance of gold counterfeiting has been discovered, this time in Canada, and where the fake bar in question had been "certified" by the highest possible authority.
IRAN - A top Iranian military commander has threatened to launch ballistic missile attacks on US forces in the region amid a public effort by the Islamic Republic to show off its advanced missile capabilities, according to US officials and regional reports. Iranian leaders disclosed that their advanced ballistic missile technology, which could be used as part of a nuclear weapons program, is sophisticated enough to strike US forces up to nearly 1,300 miles, or 2,000 kilometers, away, which encompasses all US bases in the region.
USA - As millennials continue to leave traditional Christian religions, interest in Wiccan and pagan practices have seen increased interest in recent years, a trend also spotted among young people and on college campuses. Pagan or Wiccan student groups are present on a number of college campuses — both secular and religious — across the nation. The growing normalization of such practices, albeit still a minority, corresponds with the decline in Christian believers, some observers note.
EUROPE - An Austrian MEP insisted that “most of Europe has moved to the right” following claims that a rise in populism could eventually destroy the European Union. MEP Eugen Freund admitted that he was “not surprised” at Austria's shock election results due to the populist wave sweeping across Europe. Austria faced an unexpected election result after right-wing party FPO grabbed 26 per cent of the vote in its parliamentary election on October 15. Former European Parliament President Martin Schultz warned at the start of the year that a rise in populism in Europe is a "virus" that could spell the end for the EU.
CHINA - China has quietly undertaken more construction and reclamation in the South China Sea, recent satellite images show, and is likely to more powerfully reassert its claims over the waterway soon, regional diplomats and military officers say. With global attention focused on North Korea and Beijing engrossed in its Party Congress, tensions in the South China Sea have slipped from the headlines in recent months. but with none of the underlying disputes resolved and new images reviewed by Reuters showing China continuing to develop facilities on North and Tree islands in the contested Paracel islands, experts say the vital trade route remains a global flashpoint.
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