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VOA: ‘New Hillary Clinton Emails Link State Department, Family Foundation’

Clinton Foundation logo COGwriter Voice of America (VOA) reports that there are email ties between the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton when she was US Secretary of State: New Hillary Clinton Emails Link State Department, Family Foundation August 10, 2016 A new batch of U.S. State Department emails from Hillary Clinton’s earliest days as secretary [...]

WND: ‘Holy war: Government tries to control church sermons’

The US Bill of Rights COGwriter In another sign of the times, government officials in the State of Iowa are reinterpreting ‘freedom of religion’ to mean that the State can prohibit the free exercise of faith. World News Daily (WND) reported the following: Holy war: Government tries to control church sermons’ August 9, 2016 An [...]

Irish Puck Fair: Any tie to the Day of Atonement?

COGwriter August 10th marks the beginning of a three-day festival called the Irish Puck Fair. A reader sent me the following: Puck Fair is one of Ireland’s oldest festivals, celebrating almost 400 years of documented evidence. The first day of Puck Fair is called The Gathering Day which makes Puck Fair the original and oldest [...]

More USA adults are admitting to regular marijuana use

Marijuana, Cannibis sativa COGwriter Marijuana use among USA adults seems to be rising: August 9, 2016 Thirteen percent of adults surveyed by Gallup last month said they currently smoke pot, up from 7 percent only three years earlier. While Gallup stops short of directly attributing the nearly 100 percent increase on any particular trend, the [...]

Cartwright’s Journal Out: C. Wayne Cole

COGwriter The latest issue (says #186, print date June 31 2016) of The Journal was sent out electronically and just received. This was another relatively short edition. The most newsworthy item seemed to pertain to C. Wayne Cole. Here is some of what Dixon Cartwright reported related to him: BIG SANDY, Texas—Wayne Cole, known to [...]

American morals and courts going into the direction of destruction; Daniel Horowitz, ‘Elections don’t matter’

COGwriter The Associated Press reported a disturbing trend in the USA today: August 9, 2016 WASHINGTON (AP) — Young people in America overwhelmingly support LGBT rights when it comes to policies on employment, health care and adoption, according to a new survey. The GenForward survey of Americans ages 18-30 found that support for those policies [...]

Doctrinal similarities and differences between Martin Luther and Herbert W. Armstrong

Herbert W. Armstrong and Martin Luther COGwriter Most people are familiar with the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther. And most people who come to this News page regularly are familiar with the late COG leader Herbert W. Armstrong. While both men had issues in their personal lives, I would like to highlight a couple of their [...]

Times of India: ‘China to conduct world’s first gene editing trial on humans’

The Terraformas series includes genetically-modified humans COGwriter The Times of India reported the following: BEIJING: Chinese scientists are set to perform the world’s first genetic editing trial on human beings this month. The idea behind using this controversial technique on cancer patients at a hospital in Chengdu city, is to find a cure for lung [...]

Heritage Foundation names Iran as USA’s greatest security threat

Iranian Emad missile (Mohammad Agah) COGwriteri The Huffington Post reported the following: Counterterrorism officials and the public are on high alert from terrorism threats, but a new threat assessment from the conservative Heritage Foundation warned that Iran “represents by far the most significant security challenge to the United States, its allies, and its interests in the greater [...]

Former WCG member ties Tribe of Reuben in with France

Reuben Was in Palestine Until Deportation COGwriter Former WCG member Bert Otten of the Netherlands sent me a paper which included the following: Looking at the ‘prophetic clues’, one has to conclude that a core of the tribe of Reuben once found its way to the two northern thirds of (Celtic) France. This core passed [...]