Depiction of solar particles interacting with Earth’s magnetosphere COGwriter Is the earth going to heat or cool? Last year, while many reported that it would heat up, some reported that cooling was first expected: The New Scientist has given weight to the prediction that the planet is in for a cool 20 years – defying […]
Month: October 2010
Guttenberg’s Military Modernization Plan Appears to be Moving Forward
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg COGwriter Karl Guttenberg made the news again today: Germany’s armed forces are in need of a radical overhaul, while the country’s civilian defence bureaucracy is “substantially ineffectual,” a long-awaited official report has found. The recommendations, released by Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg on Tuesday, confirmed what was already widely thought – that […]
Islamic Developments
جامعة الدول العربية Jāmaʻat ad-Duwwal al-ʻArabiyya Arab League Flag COGwriter There have been several interesting Islamic developments in the news. The first to mention is that Egypt and Saudi Arabia had their first ever joint military exercise: First joint Saudi-Egyptian maneuver ever was geared to Iranian threat DEBKA – Oct 22, 2010 Egypt and Saudi […]
Origins of Halloween
COGwriter Many will be observing “Halloween” is less than a week. Many consider that it is a holiday appropriate for “Christians”. One article at the mislabeled Christianity Today starts out with the statement, “I love Halloween” (Mendenhall D. A Halloween Solution. Christianity Today, October 31, 2005. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/novemberweb-only/13.0.html). But the origins of today’s Halloween are not […]
Russia helps shift IMF power to China, India, Brazil, and Turkey
World Currencies COGwriter With the following IMF news report, we are seeing further decline of US financial strength and additional power given to “Gentile” nations: A G20 agreement to give emerging market countries more power in the International Monetary Fund opens the door for breakthroughs on easing global tensions over trade imbalances.The surprise deal reached […]
Large Hadron Collider May Change Much About Physics
COGwriter The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) continues to create buzz in the scientific community: Optimism among the hundreds of scientists working at CERN — in the foothills of the Jura mountains along the border of France and Switzerland — has grown as the initially troubled $10 billion experiment hit its targets this year… Despite […]
LCG Producing Telecasts for China!
Righteous(ness) = Sheep + I, Us COGwriter One of my prayers was answered. The following was announced at LCG services yesterday: Mr. Gerald Weston and several staff from the Canadian Office were in Charlotte to film new programs for future airings in China. Gerald Weston is an evangelist of the Living Church of God and […]
UCG Crisis Continuing
Ancient Laodicea COGwriter This week I was forwarded a couple of emails related to the UCG crisis. As one was anonymous and the other was not, I decided to post something here that was at Abigail Cartwright’s site a few days ago as I have received confirmation from various sources (including often, UCG itself) for […]
Vatican Bishops Condemn Israel
View in Vatican City (photo by Joyce Thiel) COGwriter The following was announced today: Vatican meeting of Mideast bishops demands Israel end occupation of Palestinian lands Canadian Press – Oct 23, 2010 VATICAN CITY — Bishops from the Middle East who were summoned to Rome by the pope demanded Saturday that Israel accept U.N. resolutions […]
Fatal Pork Born Virus in the United Kingdom
COGwriter Swine flu again? Not exactly, but notice the following: Virus warning over undercooked pork after three die Britons were warned not to eat undercooked pork after three people died from a rare virus. Telegraph, London – Oct 22, 2010 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8081387/Virus-warning-over-undercooked-pork-after-three-die.html At least 55 others were made ill from it. Of course, since we in the […]