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Federal Reserve votes to raise interest rates; M&M discounts idea of hyperinflation, plus claims Europe to be torn to pieces by 2020

COGwriter The US Federal Reserve voted to raise interest rates for the first time in years: December 16, 2015 WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve hiked interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade on Wednesday, signaling faith that the U.S. economy had largely overcome the wounds of the 2007-2009 financial crisis. The U.S. central bank’s [...]

Republican Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jingping want control over the internet

Donald Trump (photo by Michael Vadon) and Xi Jinping COGwriter The Washington Post and BBC see similarities in Donald Trump’s and Xi Jingping’s approaches to internet control: December 16, 2015 Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping may have more in common than they think. During the fifth Republican presidential debate, Trump said the United [...]

John Chrysostom on Holy Days, Lies, and Christmas

John Chrysostom (Istanbul, Turkey. May 2008) COGwriter John Chrysostom a ‘doctor’ of the the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Certain Protestants also consider him to be of great importance. The improperly named Protestant publication Christianity Today went so far as to claim he was the “Early church’s greatest preacher.” In the late fourth century [...]

Speaker Ryan claims partial victory in proposed spending bill; LA school district terror scare

The So-called Debt Ceiling Keeps Rising COGwriter Spending negotiations are going on in the US Congress: December 15, 2015 Congressional aides were working feverishly Tuesday to finish drafting a massive, $1.1-trillion spending bill that would keep government funded through September 2016, while lifting a longstanding ban on exporting U.S. oil and enacting new measures to [...]

‘Saudi Arabia Announces 34-Nation Islamic Alliance Against Terrorism’ to Protect the ‘Islamic Nation’: Is the King of the South starting to form?

Saudia Arabian Infantrymen COGwriter Several readers sent information about the following: Saudi Arabia Announces 34-Nation Islamic Alliance Against Terrorism December 15, 2015 Saudi Arabia announced Tuesday what it called a new Islamic military alliance made up of 34 countries to fight terrorism. The state-run Saudi Press Agency published a statement saying the initiative will include [...]

Thought control?

Ukrainian poster on side of an industrial building (Борис У.) COGwriter Can humans directly manipulate and/or control thoughts of other humans? Apparently: A… study by University of Washington researchers — led by Rajesh Rao and Andrea Stocco — created the first human-to-human brain interface that is noninvasive. It allowed the thoughts of one researcher to [...]

Vatican pushing climate change and interfaith agendas: It still does NOT realize that the Old Covenant was replaced and Jesus must be confessed to be saved

Vatican City (photo by Joyce Thiel) COGwriter The Vatican has been pressing world leaders to implement ‘climate change’ agreements and proposals: December 14, 2015 (ANSA) – Bologna, December 14 – Environment Minister Gian Luca Galletti said Monday the merit for the historic climate change agreement was due in part to the pope and his encyclical [...]

Angela Merkel calls for LESS refugees; Islamic State orders those with Down Syndrome to be killed

Angela Merkel COGwriter The Chancellor of Germany was named Time magazine’s ‘person of the year’ last week, partially because she urged the acceptance of more refugee migrants into Germany and elsewhere in Europe.  Today, she made comments about reducing future migrants into Europe: December 14, 2015 The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has described the migrant [...]

Biblical and Catholic warnings about Christmas trees

COGwriter What does the Bible teach about using trees in worship? Have Catholic writers made warnings against Christmas trees? First, notice that the Bible has a lot of warnings about trees: 2″Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the sky, though the nations are terrified by them. 3 [...]

Church of God New in Spanish

COGwriter The Continuing Church of God continues to get additional materials translated into the Spanish language. Here are links to the latest items we received: Muslim terrorists kill in CaliforniaTerroristas musulmanes matan en Californiahttp://www.cdlidd.es/terroristas-musu... Zephaniah told God’s people to ‘gather together’ in the end timesSofonías pidió al pueblo de Dios ‘congregarse juntos’ en los tiempos [...]