(Photo by Geierunited) COGwriter This week the US FDA announced a new anti-smoking campaign, and today, the pharmacy CVS decided to end its apparent hypocrisy with tobacco: February 5, 2014 WASHINGTON — Drug store giant CVS Caremark announced Wednesday it will no longer sell tobacco products at its 7,600 pharmacies by Oct. 1. CVS sells […]
Month: February 2014
Black History: Early Real and Pretended Christians in Africa
COGwriter February is Black History Month in the USA and Canada (the UK uses October instead), and I thought that this would be a good time to explain that there were real and pretended Christian leaders in North Africa in the third century (irrespective of race). In the third century, once there were some real […]
Deficit going down and credit limit to be reached?
Official Photograph COGwriter Saw the following headline and report: WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. budget deficit is set to fall to $514 billion this year, down substantially from last year and the lowest level by far since President Barack Obama took office five years ago, a congressional report said Tuesday… Last year’s deficit registered $680 […]
WHO: Cancer rates rising; JAMA: Sugar increases heart disease risk
COGwriter February 4th is now called World Cancer Day. The World Health Organization released a report about increasing cancer rates: February 04, 2014 The cancer agency of the World Health Organization said in a new report that cancer cases are expected to surge 57 percent worldwide in the next two decades, leading to increased need […]
Love and Valentine’s Day?
COGwriter Valentine’s Day is observed by many in February. Currently we are starting to see store displays and tv & print ads for it. In the past, the improperly named Christianity Today (CT) sometimes seemed to try to justify its position on the holiday by talking about love, as this is what its Valentine’s page […]
Female now head of US Federal Reserve; there are concerns about her economic views
Janet Yellen COGwriter There are hearings being held today for Janet Yellen to be the first woman to become the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve: February 03, 2014 The new head of the U. S. Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, was sworn in Monday in Washington, D.C. Yellen had been the Vice Chair of the […]
European Commission: Widespread financial corruption in EU is ‘breathtaking.’ What might this lead to?
COGwriter A new report from the European Commission has exposed a massive degree of financial corruption in the European Union. Here is how the 230 page report titled Corruption begins with the following introduction: Corruption, whether it takes the form of political corruption, corrupt activities committed by and with organised criminal groups, private-to-private corruption or […]
BibleNewsProphecy: Barack Obama and the State of the Apocalypse
COGwriter The Continuing Church of God is pleased to announce our latest video on our Bible New Prophecy YouTube channel. 22:03 Barack Obama and the State of the Apocalypse Is Barack Obama apocalyptic? Could he be the final Antichrist? Dr. Thiel has been writing about this since 2008 and covers this in this 2014 video. […]
USA interest rates expected to rise; what does that really mean?
Hungary Hyperinflation 1946 (Mizerák István) COGwriter Voice of America reported the following: WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve gave the improving U.S. economy a vote of confidence this past week, saying it no longer needs as much stimulus to keep growing. The Fed’s actions will raise key U.S. interest rates, but some economists say it has […]
Iran says nuclear talks failure would be ‘a disaster for everybody’
Nagasaki Nuclear Bomb (1945) COGwriter An Iranian leader issued another warning today: February 2, 2014 (Reuters) – Iran’s foreign minister held rare private talks with his U.S. counterpart on Sunday and said it would be a “disaster” if Tehran did not turn a provisional agreement to defuse a decade-old dispute over its nuclear program into […]