COGwriter Galileo is moving ahead: Paris (ESA) Feb 29, 2012 A worldwide chain of Galileo ground stations on some of the remotest sites on Earth is nearing completion ahead of this year’s launch of two more satellites… Galileo ground segment at the ready A worldwide network of Galileo Sensor Stations will continuously monitor Galileo performance […]
Month: February 2012
74% Increase in Mosques in USA
Roxbury, Massachusetts Mosque COGwriter The USA has seen a huge increase in the number of Islamic places of worship: The number of Islamic places of worship in the United States soared 74% in the past decade… • States with the most mosques are New York (257), California (246) and Texas (166). • Most mosques are […]
Israel Will Not Tell USA About Pre-Emptive Attack
Jerusalem COGwriter Israel wants to go silent about a strike against Iran: Israel wouldn’t warn US on Iran strike AP – Feb 28, 2012 WASHINGTON — Israeli officials say they won’t warn the U.S. if they decide to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. The pronouncement, delivered in a series of private, top-level […]
James Tabor Seems to Have Found Old Jonah-Related Tomb
1181 A.D. Depiction of Jonah Being Tossed Overboard COGwriter A Jonah-related tomb has apparently been found: Finder of ‘Lost Tomb of Jesus’ details ancient evidence of Jonah Published February 28, 2012… “If anyone had claimed to find either a statement about resurrection or a Jonah image in a Jewish tomb of this period I would […]
PA Judge Rules Muslim Was Obligated to Attack an Atheist?
Flag of the Taliban COGwriter The following news item is very disturbing: Jonathon Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, reports on a disturbing case in which a state judge in Pennsylvania threw out an assault case involving a Muslim attacking an atheist for insulting the Prophet Muhammad. Judge Mark Martin, an Iraq war […]
Rick Santorum’s Netherland’s Offense
Rick Santorum (Photo by Gage Skidmore) COGwriter Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum offended many in the Netherlands: Santorum’s Incredible Display of Ignorance On Euthanasia In the Netherlands In an interview with Social Conservative leader James Dobson in early February, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum ignorantly — and falsely — claimed that in the Netherlands euthanasia […]
Canada’s Obesity Risk
Obese Male COGwriter The Canadian press reported the following: Canada faces child obesity epidemic: Aglukkaq Montreal Gazette – 27 February 2012Canada is facing an epidemic of childhood obesity, with more children being diagnosed today with high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes and other health conditions once seen only in adults, Canada’s health minister warned Monday.”Today, […]
UCG Publishes Financials
COGwriter The February 2012 edition of UCG’s United News recently arrived. The United Church of God has finally published its audited financial statements for its fiscal year ending June 30, 2011. This is the latest it has ever published its financial statements, which may have to do with the turmoil that UCG experienced in 2011. […]
Papias Taught the Millennium
COGwriter Today is considered to be Saint Papias’ day on the Roman Catholic calendar. (Note: There was a Papirius of Smyrna who is not the same person.) Papias was probably a true Christian. I believe this is so, not only from his limited writings, but because he was a leader in the city in Asia […]
Ronald Weinland’s ‘Prophecy’ for Jesus to Return in 13 Weeks Will Change
VS. COGwriter According to CGPFK/CGPKG’s Ronald Weinland Jesus is to return 13 weeks from today: And so because of the 50th Truth and the understanding that God has given us of Christ’s return on Pentecost, May 27, 2012 we also came to understand the true date for the sealing of the 144,000 that was to […]