‘Apocalyptic War’ (Pixabay) COGwriter Each year, various ones point to their predictions and/or calculations as to when they believe the Great Tribulation (Matthew 24:21) will begin. Consider, for example, that some claimed that the blood moons in 2014 and 2015 may have marked the beginning of it, and I correctly denounced that years ago (Blood […]
Month: April 2019
104th anniversary of Armenian genocide
Murdered Armenians 1915 COGwriter April 24th marks the 104th anniversary of the date traditionally believed to have been the start of the Armenian genocide in 1915. The US Congress discussed it last year: U.S. Senators and Representatives joined together Wednesday evening at a U.S. Capitol observance hosted by the Congressional Armenian Caucus, making bipartisan calls […]
Donald Trump Jr. on big tech’s “private ‘social credit’ system”
Donald Trump Jr. (Gage Skidmore) COGwriter As I have reported before, government surveillance is increasing. Donald Trump Jr., son of US President Trump, made some comments about what is happening to those with more ‘conservative’ views. Here is some of what he wrote: As Big Tech’s censorship of conservatives becomes ever more flagrant and overt, […]
China’s Belt and Road forum kicks off … Arab nation attendance provides a strong confirmation to end of Petrodollar
COGwriter Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of physics was, “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” While that is not completely applicable in international politics, the reality is that there are ‘unintended consequences’ with sanctions, threats, tariffs, military interventions, etc. US trade policies have increased the desire of certain nations to topple […]
Shroud of Turin: Does a 3-D model help prove or disprove its authenticity?
Face in Shroud: Actual and Enhanced (Dianelos Georgoudis) COGwriter “Christian Headlines’ earlier reported the following about the Shroud of Turin: Italian researchers and experts have revealed that they have new and fascinating answers to how Jesus looked as a human man. The researchers based their study off the Shroud of Turin, which, as CBN News […]
‘US won’t renew sanctions waivers for importing Iranian oil’
pic.twitter.com/nk2vKvHuaL — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 2, 2018 COGwriter Last November, US President Donald Trump sent out a tweet related to sanctions as is shown above. But then his administration announced exceptions (see Donald Trump warns Iran ‘Sanctions are coming,’ but also reportedly has made exceptions for 8 countries). Now, what looks to be […]
Death count rises in Sri Lanka, Jihadist group blamed
Magazine of the Islamic State (aka ISIS) COGwriter As many of us suspected, an Islamic Jihadist group is being blamed for the bombings in Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka Blasts: Local Jihadists Blamed April 22nd, 2019 Sri Lanka says local Jihadist group National Thowheed Jamath is responsible for the Easter Sunday blasts https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-04-22/sri-lanka-blasts-local-jihadists-blamed-video 22 April 2019 […]
Earth Day, Vatican Plans, and USA as a ‘rogue nation’
Unofficial Earth Day Flag COGwriter April 22nd is known as “Earth Day.” This year’s focus is on protecting species of life according to the Earth Day website: Earth Day 2019: Protect Our Species There has been a great loss of species. For more details, see the recent post ‘Planetary Collapse Threatens Our Survival’. Now, here […]
‘China’s Belt and Road Continues to Win Over Europe While Technocrats Scream and Howl’
Proposed Silk Road Corridors (Lommes) COGwriter China continues to move ahead with its Belt and Road Initiative: April 21, 2019 The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping in the autumn of 2013. Five years have passed, it continues to offer a fresh impetus to regional cooperation among Asia, Europe, […]
Terrorists strike churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, killing hundreds; What were ‘St. Thomas Christians’?
St. Anthony’s Shrine, Kochchikade (AntanO) COGwriter Terrorists killed hundreds throughout Sri Lanka: April 21, 2019 Sri Lankan military officials stand guard in front of the St. Anthony’s Shrine, Kochchikade church after an explosion in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 21, 2019. In the deadliest violence in Sri Lanka in a decade, multiple explosions ripped through churches and […]