COGwriter August 10th marks the beginning of a three-day festival called the Irish Puck Fair. A reader sent me the following: The fair, which crowns a goat as king for three days before dethroning him, will run from August 10 to August 12. The fair is over 400 years old and is worth an estimated […]
Month: August 2017
Kenyans protesting preliminary election results
COGwriter Many in Kenya are not pleased with the preliminarily-released results of its election: August 9, 2017 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s election took an ominous turn on Wednesday as violent protests erupted in the capital and elsewhere after opposition leader Raila Odinga alleged fraud, saying hackers used the identity of a murdered official to […]
Donald Trump tweets ‘there will never be a time that we are not the most powerful nation in the world!’ COGwriter posts: ‘The Bible disagrees!’
COGwriter US President Donald Trump made some ‘tweets’ out of Twitter today: August 9, 2017 With the threat of a nuclear armed North Korea looming over the Pacific, President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed to have made the U.S. nuclear arsenal “far stronger and more powerful than ever before” during his first few months in […]
Mark Biltz on the approaching Asteroid Apophis and the August 21, 2017 solar eclipse
Egyptian snake god Apophis COGwriter WND reported the following: Approaching asteroid ignites end-times talk The asteroid Apophis, named after an Egyptian god of chaos, is poised to make a near miss of Earth on April 13, 2029. … Mark Biltz, who rocked the Christian world with his discovery of the “Blood Moons” phenomenon, quoted Isaiah […]
‘Now, A Trade War; Next A Shooting War?’ USA-UK dividing from EU-Russia? USA to fight North Korea?
COGwriter ZeroHedge reported the following two trade-related reports, the first by Jim Rickards and the second by Curt Mills: Now, A Trade War; Next A Shooting War? August 8, 2017 A popular thesis since the 1930s is that a natural progression exists from currency wars to trade wars to shooting wars. Both history and analysis […]
BBC: Questionable data on ‘greenhouse’ gas levels
COGwriter The BBC reported the following: ‘Dodgy’ greenhouse gas data threatens Paris accord 8 August 2017 Air monitors in Switzerland have detected large quantities of one gas coming from a location in Italy. However, the Italian submission to the UN records just a tiny amount of the substance being emitted. Levels of some emissions from […]
COGwriter 101st radio interview since CCOG formation
COGwriter As long-term readers are aware, I, Dr. Bob Thiel, AKA COGwriter have frequently been a radio guest. However, because of scheduling and other issues they are usually not announced here. But sometimes they are. Today, I am scheduled to be on The Morning Show with Mike Hogan. This would be on KHUB 1340 AM […]
Greek support of Genesis? Israeli report of Peter’s house?
On this vase from 350 B.C., one of the Hesperides, Greek nymphs, tends to a serpent as another tends to a tree. The parallel to Genesis is obvious here. (WND) COGwriter World Net Daily (WND) reported the following: WASHINGTON – Some among modern people regard the book of Genesis as a “myth,” but what if […]
‘Imperial Folly Brings Russia And Germany Together’
German Chancellor Merkel and Russian President Putin COGwriter The following was authored by Pepe Escobar via InformationClearingHouse.info: Imperial Folly Brings Russia And Germany Together August 7, 2017 With an Orwellian 99% majority that would delight the Kim dynasty in North Korea, the “representative democracy” Capitol Hill has bulldozed its latest House/Senate sanctions package, aimed mostly at Russia, […]
French prejudice against the ‘burkini’
Woman in a burqini carrying a towel (Giorgio Montersino) COGwriter The following was reported by the German press: 7 August 2017 A Muslim woman was barred from using a swimming pool at a vacation home in southern France because she wore a burkini bathing suit, the Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) said on its […]