Barack Obama (Official Whitehouse Photograph) COGwriter A reader sent me a link to the following BBC article: The decline of US power? July 10, 2015 Standing on the Washington Mall at the turn of the new millennium, it was impossible not to be struck by America’s power and global pre-eminence. … Over the past 15 […]
Month: July 2015
Fulton Sheen, ‘Mary,’ and the End Times
Archbishop Fulton Sheen COGwriter The late Catholic Archbishop Fulton Sheen was known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio and is considered a candidate for Roman sainthood: Venerable Fulton John Sheen (born Peter John Sheen, May 8, 1895 – December 9, 1979) was an American bishop (later archbishop) of the Catholic […]
General: Russia is the biggest existential threat to the USA
General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. COGwriter The general nominated to be the next chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff made comments related to Russia and Ukraine before the US Senate: July 9, 2015 Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, the nominee to serve as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the […]
NYSE and United ‘glitches’: Technological risks or false flag?
New York Stock Exchange COGwriter There were some supposedly unrelated technological glitches yesterday that had major impact in the USA: July 9, 2015 Three outages came one after another on Wednesday morning, affecting one of America’s biggest airlines, its largest financial news publication and its main stock exchange. The spate of technological foul-ups grounded United […]
Nigel Farage: ‘The European project is actually beginning to die.’
Nigel Farage (Dweller) COGwriter Nigel Farage made some comments at the EU parliament related to Greece and Europe: NIGEL FARAGE: Thank you. What we’re seeing in this chamber this morning and indeed across the whole of Europe is an irreconcilable cultural difference between Greece and Germany. A split between the North and the South of […]
Wikileaks: U.S. spy agency tapped German chancellery for decades
Germany’s Angela Merkel COGwriter More has come out related to spying on Germany by the USA: July 8, 2015 The U.S. National Security Agency tapped phone calls involving German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her closest advisers for years and spied on the staff of her predecessors, WikiLeaks said on Wednesday.A report released by the group […]
VOA: ‘Americans Think God Made Us Great’
Embarkation of the Pilgrims painting COGwriter Voice of America (VOA) reported the following today: Americans Think God Made Us Great July 8, 2015 Six in 10 agree with the notion that God has granted America a special role in human history. “Fundamentally, if there is one thing that has been traditionally what makes America unique […]
Jimmy Carter claims Jesus would endorse homosexual marriage
Jimmy Carter COGwriter In perhaps the worst thing he could do for the USA now, former USA President Jimmy Carter falsely claims that Jesus would endorse homosexual marriage: Jimmy Carter: Jesus would approve of same-sex marriage Former President Jimmy Carter shared his views, and what he speculates would be Jesus’ views, on the intersection of […]
Priscilla and Aquila
COGwriter July 8th is observed in honor of Priscilla and Aquila by some associated with the Greco-Roman churches. Priscilla and Aquila were apparently early converts to Christianity, and must have worked together. I have listed Priscilla (also called Prisca) first, as the Bible twice lists her first. This is not to say that she was […]
New Europe: Europe must reorganize into regions and not nation states
European Union Shown in Dark Blue COGwriter A supporter in Canada sent me a link to the following from New Europe: July 6, 2015 Do we need a new Europe? Yes. Europe has to change completely because it isn’t able to solve problems but only to create them. … What kind of Europe do you […]