COGwriter in Philadelphia in Asia Minor COGwriter Yesterday, I noticed that the Living Church of God just published its audited financial statements for 2009 (they are in the July-August 2010 edition of LCG’s Living Church News). LCG is the second largest of the COG groups that once had their origins in the old WCG. UCG […]
Month: June 2010
Bobby Fischer Problems in the Philippines Post Mortum
Bobby Fischer’s Grave COGwriter Bobby Fischer made the news: 19 Jun, 2010 Chess Master Bobby Fischer had a Filipino daughter? The late American chess champion, Bobby Fischer, could have fathered a child to a Filipina lady years before he passed in 2008. A Filipina lady named Marilyn Young flew out to Iceland with her 9-year-old […]
Medvedev and Greenspan Currency Predictions
World Currencies COGwriter The world economy situation is changing and the USA will not remain on top. First notice two reports related to Russia’s goals: Medvedev Pushes Ruble Reserve Currency to Cut Dollar Dominance Bloomberg – June 19, 2010 Russia wants the ruble to be one of the world’s reserve currencies as President Dmitry Medvedev […]
UCG Reports Local Website Statistics
The Above Map Show the Number of Internet Users By Country COGwriter The June 2010 edition of UCG’s United News arrived last night. Page 5 was primarily devoted to UCG’s local internet program and related statistics. To put those statistics into perspective, I thought I would show how the 12 months UCG reported compared to the […]
Russia and India Hoping for Jet Superiority by 2015
Vladimir Putin, Official Photograph COGwriter Russia and India seem to be expecting to have a more advanced jet than the USA by 2015: Putin boasts new jet fighter better than U.S. plane Prime Minister Vladimir Putin climbed into the cockpit of Russia’s newest fighter jet on Thursday and said it would trump a U.S.-built rival, […]
Electronic Armageddon?
Depiction of solar particles interacting with Earth’s magnetosphere COGwriter Somewhat as a follow-up to the article from a few days ago, Solar problems are coming. NASA and other scientists raise concerns., a reader forwarded me the following: Electronic Armageddon: How An EMP Bomb Would Be A Deathblow To Life As We Know It Huffington Post […]
India’s Baptists and Presbyterian Mark of the Beast Fears
COGwriter Some in India fear its census because of the “mark of the beast”: Fear of the Devil holding up census in Mizoram Express India – June 16, 2010 The fear of the ‘Beast’ or the Devil in the Christian-dominated state of Mizoram has caused almost 1,000 families to refuse to enroll their names in […]
More Gold in Egypt and Minerals in Afghanistan
The 220 kg Gold brick displayed in Taiwan COGwriter There apparently is even more gold in Egypt than recently thought: Centamin Egypt ups resource estimates for Sukari Reuters – June 8, 2010 LONDON (Reuters) – Centamin Egypt Ltd raised its estimated gold resources at its flagship Sukari gold project, lifting the miner’s shares to a […]
June 17th Journal Out
COGwriter The latest issue (print date June 17, 2010) of The Journal just came out. This is the first issue since the February 28, 2010 issue, and is the first I recall coming out, both on and with a mid-month date. This particular edition has many pages related to a debate by a couple of […]
COGaIC’s Peter Nathan on Sacred Names
COGwriter Some have alleged that “sacred names” in Hebrew must be used for deity. Was this the practice of the early Christians? Here is some of what COGaIC’s Peter Nathan reported yesterday: Should we use the Greek name Jesus to refer to the Son of God? A feature of the 20th century has been the […]