A 1611 King James Version was digitized by the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections to celebrate its 400th anniversary. 

Available to view at http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/digital/bible/index.html.

Personal Discovery of the WORD of God: An interesting talk by Bro. Stephen Palmer on studying God's Word - the link will open a page from which the talk can be downloaded.

Jerusalem: The Struggle

An interesting multi-media resource looking at the issues surrounding Jerusalem:

Challenges in Defining an Israeli-Palestinian Border

Global Financial Crisis

An entire system of global trade is at risk: Sir Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, this week called the current financial crisis “the most serious… since the 1930s, if ever”, in justification for a further £75 billion of “quantitative easing”. Since Sir Mervyn cited the chaos of the inter-war years, it seems appropriate to quote Winston Churchill: “Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusions of counsel, until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features that constitute the endless repetition of history.” Read more>>

Echoes of 2008: Here we go again: The Europeans are pushing the global banking system to the edge. European bankers have been saying things are fine for weeks now, even as their exposure to indebted euro-zone countries strangles their access to funding. Read more>>

Solving the euro-zone crisis: The plan to have a plan: Policymakers are a long way from forming a coherent strategy. Banks’ woes have stolen the headlines this week. But the real reason to worry about Europe is that policymakers are still flailing in their efforts to come up with a big plan, fast, to get to grips with the region’s debt crisis. Read more>>

Syria's Threats

Report: Assad threatens to attack Tel Aviv in case of NATO strike: In meeting with Turkish FM, Syrian president discusses possibility of NATO strike, says 'I won't need more than six hours to transfer hundreds of rockets to Golan to fire at Tel Aviv'. Read more>>

Putin's Eurasian Union

Russia's Putin says wants to build "Eurasian Union": Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he wants to bring ex-Soviet states into a "Eurasian Union" in an article which outlined his first foreign policy initiative as he prepares to return to the Kremlin as the country's next president. Read more>>