Boris Karloff made up as Frankenstein’s monster COGwriter Time reported the following: August 5, 2016 Human-Animal Chimera Studies Are Now Allowed In the U.S. The NIH is poised to lift a ban that prevented researchers from creating human-animal chimeras with stem cells. Nearly a year ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) decided to stop […]
Month: August 2016
China warns and threatens revenge on Australia
Chinese Embassy in Canberra, Australia (Nick-D) COGwriter A Chinese newspaper has issued military threats and warnings to Australia: 4 August 2016 China and Australia: Claws Out for a Paper Cat China has harsh words for Canberra’s response to the recent South China Sea ruling. China’s Global Times … has decided that Australia is a “paper […]
Hiroshima and Nagasaki remembered
Nagasaki Nuclear Bomb (1945) COGwriter Tomorrow is the 71st anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killing about 140,000 people. On August 9, Nagasaki was hit by a second nuclear bomb that killed about 70,000. There truly was massive […]
World Vision supporting Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood?
COGwriter There seems to be a problem with the evangelical organization called World Vision: August 4, 2016 Christian Today reported that Mohammad El Halabi, an employee of World Vision(WV), the world’s largest evangelical Christian charity, had been detained on June 15 at the Erez crossing “on his way home from routine meetings” and was being […]
Australia’s election finally official, and ‘One Nation’s’ Pauline Hanson gets more clout
COGwriter It has taken a month, but Australia’s election results were finalized today. Here are reports from the German and Japanese press: 4 August 2016 Australia’s far-right makes real gains The nativist One Nation party has gained seats in Australia’s Senate. Its four newly elected senators will give the rightist fringe party of Pauline Hanson […]
Obama still supports TPP, but now, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will not; WND: Might Obama not leave office?
Actual TPP countries in green, interested TPP countries in turquoise or light green (Wikipedia composite map) COGwriter Barack Obama is still pushing the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), but it may not make it: August 3, 2016 WASHINGTON—U.S. President Barack Obama wants Congress to approve the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal his administration has been negotiating […]
It’s official: Americans are 15 pounds heavier
Estimated obesity rates in USA by state, 2014 COGwriter Despite massive spending related to the health and fitness industries, the USA is getting fatter: August 3, 2016 WEDNESDAY, Aug. 3, 2016 (HealthDay News) — There’s no doubt about it: Americans are getting heavier and heavier. But new U.S. estimates may still come as a shock […]
‘The Curse of Cash’
COGwriter A new book just came out that advocates the elimination of most cash. It is titled The Curse of Cash: August 3, 2016 [I]t’s time to start phasing out paper money, argues Kenneth S. Rogoff in The Curse of Cash (Princeton, August). The bigger denominations ($100 and up) enable “tax evasion, corruption, terrorism, the […]
Satanism and Birthdays
COGwriter Do you realize where the practice of birthday celebrations came from or how they are viewed by certain Satanists? Back in 1969 Anton Lavey wrote The Satanic Bible. On page 96 (in the 1976 version) it mentions birthdays: THE highest of all holidays in the Satanic religion is the date of one’s own birth. […]
Islamic State claims it is soon to launch a major attack and explains why it hates the West
The current issue of the magazine of the Islamic State COGwriter Voice of America reported the following: The Islamic State (IS) is inciting supporters to mount more attacks on Christians just days after two of the terror group’s sympathizers slit the throat of an 85-year-old French priest as he was celebrating Mass — a killing […]