Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, President of Russia COGwriter It appears that Russia plans to annex, Ossetia, a region in South Georgia: TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Russian troops remaining in Georgian territory are effectively preventing Georgians from returning to their homes, a U.N. representative said Saturday… The zones are near the border with separatist South Ossetia, the […]
Month: August 2008
Hurricane Gustav
Hurricane Gustav COGwriter The Mayor of New Orleans called for an evacuation because of Hurricane Gustav: NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered the city’s more than 239,000 residents to evacuate on Sunday in the face of powerful Hurricane Gustav, which he called “the mother of all storms.”… Gustav crashed across the […]
Two Confused Seventh-day Adventists
James and Ellen White Established the Seventh-day Adventist Church COGwriter In its latest weekly update, LCG had the following news item: Everyone Doing what Is Right in their Own Eyes… Two Seventh-Day Adventists from California just wrote a book on how to properly count the Sabbath. They propose that the weekly cycle actually “floats” from […]
Might Sarah Palin Fulfill Prophecy?
Sarah Palin, Vice Presidential Nominee COGwriter On August 29, 2008, John McCain announced that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was his choice for Vice President. This is the first time that a woman has received that nomination from one in the Republican Party. On the news, Sarah Palin was quoted from an earlier interview where she […]
Barack Obama is Not the Antichrist
Barack Obama COGwriter Time reported the following article yesterday: The Web’s Word: Obama Is Not the Antichrist TIME – Aug 29, 2008 One of the most widely searched terms containing “Obama” over the last four weeks — it was the seventh most popular term, accounting for 0.45% of all U.S. Internet searches that contained “Obama” […]
John McCain Picks a Woman for VP
Sarah Palin, Vice Presidential Nominee COGwriter In a relatively surprising announcement, presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain picked Alaska governor Sarah Palin to be his vice-presidential running mate. Here is some of what AOL has reported about that: DAYTON, Ohio (Aug. 29) — John McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a conservative who shares his […]
June 30 Journal Out
COGwriter Even though it is the end of August, the latest issue (June 3o, 2008) of The Journal is now out. Its focus seems to be more unitarian meetings, CGI in Jamaica, a new book by Alan Knight, and a UCM women’s meeting. There were also the usual letters to the editor and columnists. As […]
China and Others Support Russia
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, President of Russia COGwriter As many Bible readers are aware, a 200,000,000 man army coming from the kings of the east is mentioned in the Bible: 13 Then the sixth angel sounded: And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, 14 saying to the sixth […]
Russia to Stop Oil to Germany?
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, President of Russia COGwriter The situation between Europe and Russia because of Georgia is getting even more tense as the following news item shows: Russia may cut off oil flow to the West Telegraph – Aug 28, 2008 Fears are mounting that Russia may restrict oil deliveries to Western Europe over coming […]
Europe and Japan Planned on Saving the Dollar
The Strength of Dollars Have Long Been Part of the “Pride of the Power” of the USA (which will be broken per Leviticus 26:19) COGwriter Yesterday, I posted that China has been supporting the dollar recently (see China Supporting the Dollar?). Today, the following was in the news: U.S., Europe and Japan planned dollar rescue […]