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‘The world’s most popular pesticide probably killed England’s wild bees’

Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) COGwriter More are realizing that neonicotinoids are causing massive declines in bee populations: August 17/18, 2016 Since around 2002, farmers in the English countryside have been using neonic insecticides to protect their abundant oilseed crops spanning 8.2 million hectares. Now, scientists are linking the chemicals, also called neonicotinoids, to the death [...]

Jacob Rothschild: World seeing ‘greatest monetary policy experiment in history’

Rothschild Family Coat of Arms (Mathieu CHAINE) COGwriter A reader sent me a link to the following: World seeing ‘greatest monetary policy experiment in history’ – Rothschild 17 August 2016 Low interest rates, negative yields on government debt and quantitative easing are part of the biggest financial experiment in world history, and the consequences are [...]

German leaders oppose Donald Trump and seemingly prefer Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump COGwriter Various of Germany’s political leaders, when commenting about the Democratic and Republican nominees for the US presidency, have repeatedly made negative statements against Donald Trump, but not so much against Hillary Clinton. Notice, for example, the following: 17 August 2016 Germany’s European affairs minister Michael Roth told the Reuters [...]

Additional clues about the Reuben-French connection

Reuben Was in Palestine Until Deportation COGwriter Former WCG member Bert Otten of the Netherlands sent me a paper which included the following (the first five clues were in an earlier post: Looking at the ‘prophetic clues’, one has to conclude that a core of the tribe of Reuben once found its way to the [...]

Plot to destroy US dollar for September 30, 2016? Or is it ‘Will history record September 4th, 2016 as the day the dollar died?’

COGwriter Jim Rickards has pointed to two dates in September 2016 as being related to the destruction of the USA dollar.  Here is his most recent post: August 16, 2016 The Day The Dollar Died, Part II The reason the dollar is the world’s leading reserve currency is because there’s a very large liquid dollar-denominated [...]

Signs and lying wonders: Police witness ‘poltergeist’

1911 Report of ‘Poltergeist’ COGWriter A reader sent me a link to the first of the following two related items: August 15, 2016 THE MUM at the centre of Scotland’s incredible “poltergeist” case broke her silence yesterday. Catherine Shreenan told of the stress the whole affair had placed her under – but insisted she didn’t [...]

NHS: Online porn is ‘damaging’ men’s health

COGwriter The BBC reported the following: Easy access to online porn is ‘damaging’ men’s health, says NHS therapist August 15, 2016 Angela Gregory says more and more men in their late teens and early 20s are suffering from erectile dysfunction. She puts the blame on people becoming addicted to watching online porn. There are no [...]

‘Putin deploys Russia’s most advanced air-defence missiles in Crimea as alarm grows war is imminent’ but . . .

S-400 Triumf launch vehicle (Соколрус) COGwriter Their are serious concerns about the situation between Ukraine and Russia over Crimea: Putin deploys Russia’s most advanced air-defence missiles in Crimea as alarm grows war is imminent August 15, 2016 World powers urged Russia and Ukraine to refrain from ratcheting up a confrontation over Crimea as President Vladimir [...]

Barack Obama to push TPP; Singapore’s Lee Hsien Loong says USA’s ‘reputation’ is ‘on the line’

Actual TPP countries in green, interested TPP countries in turquoise or light green (Wikipedia composite map) COGwriter Barack Obama says he will send a Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) bill to the US Congress: August 15, 2016 The Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal, dismissed as inadequate by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, would help American companies, [...]

The Assumption of Mary, the Assumption of Diana, and Pope Francis

The ‘Mary’ in the Basilica of Mary Major That Pope Francis Prays Before (Photo by Joyce Thiel, June 2013) COGWriter August 15th is a holiday known as the Assumption of Mary. It is not a day that the early Christian church observed. Pope Francis has observed it: August 15, 2015 (Vatican Radio) On Saturday, Pope [...]