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UK only to pay 1/2 of EU surcharge; Most in Poland oppose adoption of the Euro

COGwriter The European Union asked the UK to give over USD$2,000,000,000 in a ‘surcharge’ December 1, 2014, but now the amount has been reportedly been halved and the payment terms delayed: November 7, 2014 The UK will only have to pay half of the £1.7bn budget surcharge demanded by the European Union, Chancellor George Osborne [...]

Rome has an official day to honor ‘relics’

Statue at Fatima Chapel and Image of That the Children Saw COGwriter November 8th is the day that the Church of Rome claims is for ‘Holy Relics’ and partially cites the Council of Trent from the 16th century as proof this is acceptable: Feast of the Holy Relics Protestantism pretends to regard the veneration which [...]

WSJ: Barack Obama sends secret letter of cooperation to Iran related to Islamic State; VOA: Barack Obama to request permanent air strike authorization against Islamic State

Refinery controlled by Islamic State, before and after USA bombing COGwriter The United States has decided to take additional steps to try to deal with the Islamic State: November 6, 2014 WASHINGTON—U.S. President Barack Obama secretly wrote Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the middle of last month and described a shared interest in [...]

Vladimir Putin named world’s most powerful person; Finland worried he may want take it over

Russia’s Vladimir Putin COGwriter Russia’s President Vladimir Putin topped the latest list by Forbes: For the second year running, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been named the world’s most powerful person by a panel of Forbes editors. Forbes says its list isn’t based on political influence, but an evaluation of “hard power” – the use [...]

Lying hurts your health

COGwriter Lying is hazardous to your health: When we lie, blood pressure in the heart rises — and polygraphs pick up the change. Lying often enough, long enough can damage the heart and arteries. Researchers at the University of Notre Dame carried out a 10-week honesty experiment with 110 people, half of whom were instructed [...]

More US states legalize marijuana

Marijuana, Cannibis sativa COGwriter The marijuana movement had much success in the latest US elections: November 5, 2014 Voters in Washington, D.C., and the northwestern state of Oregon have approved measures to legalize marijuana. The successful ballot initiatives were some of the separate questions on ballots Tuesday as Americans voted for members of the House [...]

WT: America faces most dangerous two years in 150 years

Barack Obama (Official Photograph) COGwriter The Washington Times believes that US President Barack Obama was shellacked in yesterday’s election, but will be very dangerous for the country while he remains in office: Washington Times – Nov 5, 2014  excerpt… If President Obama suffered a “shellacking” in the 2010 elections, then what he endured Tuesday night was nothing [...]

Shepherd’s Voice on ‘Protestant Samaritans’

Ancient Samaria COGwriter The latest edition of the Chicagoland Church of God magazine Shepherd’s Voice has the following article by former GCG board member Norman Edwards: For the mature Christian, the last words of Jesus Christ to His apostles are utterly vital. They certainly have application throughout the entire church age. They were not just [...]

West condemns Donetsk and Luhansk elections; USA holds its own election that some wonder where it will lead to

Aleksandr Zakharchenko (newsanna) and Igor Plotnitsky (Че Гевара) COGwriter As the USA has its own elections, the West and the United Nations has condemned the elections in Donetsk and Luhansk/Lugansk: November 4, 2014 NATO has observed Russian troops moving closer to the Ukraine border. Speaking in a news conference with EU foreign affairs chief Federica [...]

West condemns Donetsk and Luhansk elections; USA holds its own that some wonder where it will lead to

Aleksandr Zakharchenko (newsanna) and Igor Plotnitsky (Че Гевара) COGwriter As the USA has its own elections, the West and the United Nations has condemned the elections in Donetsk and Luhansk/Lugansk: November 4, 2014 NATO has observed Russian troops moving closer to the Ukraine border. Speaking in a news conference with EU foreign affairs chief Federica [...]