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Sunday School Looks Different Since Pandemic’s Start: From Monthly to Missing
Post Date: 2022-12-28 22:41:09 by Charles_Byrd
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At St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in the Chicago suburb of Woodstock, Illinois, the once weekly Christian education program is now monthly, and known as “Second Sunday Sunday School.” Click for Full Text!
Banking, Large Corporations, and Government Pawns Have Taken All the Wealth for Themselves at the Expense and Death of the Duped Masses
Post Date: 2022-12-28 22:38:42 by Charles_Byrd
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It is once again time to look at reality so as to comprehend the master plan of the ruling class, instead of concentrating only on the subordinate parts and compartmentalized agendas of those intent on destroying the earth and its inhabitants, all in order to gain total dominance over this world. In doing so, it is imperative to understand that in order to be successful, those seeking this great power must control the bulk of all the money, property, and natural resources on earth. This can only be accomplished if the enforcement of this control is concentrated in the hands of the rulers, and the people voluntarily comply. For this to be possible all state organizations must also be ...
India Builds One of World’s Largest Facial Recognition Systems, Arousing Fears Over Mass Surveillance
Post Date: 2022-12-28 22:36:55 by Charles_Byrd
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Following the Islamist bombings that shook the south-central Indian city of Hyderabad in 2013, officials scrambled to install 5,000 CCTV cameras to enhance security. Today, in 2022, there are almost 700,000 of these cameras in the city and its vicinity. To gain an inkling of Hyderabad’s surveillance apparatus, one only need look at the Command and Control Center in the posh Banjara Hills neighborhood. This 20- story tower is a newer substitute for a campus where a multitude of officers already had access to 24-hour, real-time CCTV and cellphone tower data that geolocates reported crimes. Such technology activates any available camera in the surroundings, reveals a photographic ...
Charity, Better Than Government
Post Date: 2022-12-28 22:35:21 by Charles_Byrd
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It’s the season for giving. Click for Full Text!
Why Take Responsibility When You Can Blame Somebody Else?
Post Date: 2022-12-28 22:32:01 by Charles_Byrd
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–N.Y.) this month blamed Republicans for preventing Congress from enacting legislation that would make it easier for state-licensed marijuana businesses to access financial services. Yet Schumer himself has played a leading role in blocking the SAFE Banking Act, which passed the House last year with support from 106 Republicans and has bipartisan backing in the Senate. Schumer, who insisted that his own marijuana bill take priority and warned that approving the SAFE Banking Act would make federal legalization harder, wants reformers to forget that history of obstruction. Schumer's striking attempt to dodge responsibility for his own actions ...
Psychiatric Times: The Harms of Assisted Death Are Not Just a “Disabled Thing”
Post Date: 2022-12-28 22:25:52 by Charles_Byrd
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It is with the greatest pleasure I learn that Douglas W. Heinrichs, MD, has accorded me the honor of replying to my criticism of his views on assisted dying. Dr. Heinrichs incorrectly surmises that I support medical aid in dying (MAID) for patients at the end of life. I do not. However, I do believe that to usefully discuss MAID at the present time, we must stipulate a wider context; for this is how MAID is now increasingly defined and practiced. Click for Full Text!
China has announced several significant changes to how it will manage Covid-19 outbreaks. Strict lockdowns affecting entire communities will no longer be implemented, while those arriving in the country will not be subjected to quarantine, the Chines
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:44:07 by Charles_Byrd
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Humans are both predatory and cooperative. Jonathan Haidt, whose works on moral psychology include The Righteous Mind, says that we are “90 percent chimp, 10 percent bee.” Chimpanzees are violent and competitive, with little ability to cooperate. Bees coordinate effectively and seem willing to sacrifice for the sake of the hive. Much political theory follows Thomas Hobbes, who wrote that living without a government would mean enduring a “war of all against all.” Without an overriding authority, the chimpanzee component of human nature would not permit us to live peacefully with one another. Click for Full Text!
China to ease strict Covid-19 policies
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:42:16 by Charles_Byrd
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China has announced several significant changes to how it will manage Covid-19 outbreaks. Strict lockdowns affecting entire communities will no longer be implemented, while those arriving in the country will not be subjected to quarantine, the Chinese National Health Commission (NHC) announced on Tuesday. The virus behind the Covid-19 disease is becoming increasingly “less pathogenic,” the NHC said in a statement explaining the decision to downgrade it from an infection requiring “A level control measures” to one demanding the less strict “B level” response. Click for Full Text!
Ukraine FM Says No Talks With Russia Until After War Crimes Tribunal
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:40:50 by Charles_Byrd
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told The Associated Press on Monday that Russia must face a tribunal for alleged war crimes in Ukraine before direct peace talks can be held between Kyiv and Moscow. The comments are the latest sign that there’s no end in sight to the fighting in Ukraine, as Russia would never comply with Kuleba’s conditions, and the US continues to escalate military aid and other kinds of support for Kyiv. Click for Full Text!
The Second Housing Bubble of the 21st Century Is Over
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:38:55 by Charles_Byrd
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The 21st century, only 23 years old, has already had two giant, international housing bubbles. It makes one doubt that we are getting any smarter with experience. Among the countries involved in the second bubble, both the U.S. and Canada fully participated in the newest rampant inflation of house prices. Prices this time reached levels far above those of the last boom peak. In the U.S., the S&P/Case-Shiller National House Price Index by mid-2022 had risen to 67% over its 2006 bubble peak (130% over its 2012 trough). In Canada, the Teranet- National Bank House Price Index had soared to 143% over its 2008 peak (168% over its 2009 trough). What the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Canada ...
Gospel: Matthew 2:1-12 (Epiphany: Series A)
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:36:48 by Charles_Byrd
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Epiphany is the celebration of God revealing Christ to us because we could never intuitively figure it out. God reveals Christ to us, and “us” has no limits when it comes to God’s work in revealing His Son to be our Savior. Any notions of “us” and “them” are erased under the mercy of God. God’s revelation extends to outsiders like the Magi. When the original readers of Matthew’s Gospel got to Chapter 2, verse 1, they would not have thought of wise men. They would have thought of pagan outsiders. They would have said: “Magi! What are they doing here? Them? They’re outsiders.” One might even expect their foolishness to disqualify ...
U.S. Power Companies Beg Customers to Turn Down Thermostats Amid Cold and Wind
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:33:36 by Charles_Byrd
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On Friday, multiple U.S. power companies issued an emergency request to customers to turn down their thermostats due to extreme cold and wind straining the power grid. The requests lasted until Christmas Eve on Saturday and were said to be a result of “unprecedented” demand for power during last week’s storm and cold weather. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which supplies power to more than 10 million customers and boasts that the power they deliver is “nearly 60 percent carbon-free,” was forced to use “planned intermittent interruptions” during the crisis to keep the system working. Click for Full Text!
Why Did George Santos Lie About His Past To Get Elected to Congress?
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:31:17 by Charles_Byrd
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When George Santos was elected to Congress to represent Long Island, New York, the media narrative at the time was that he was the first openly gay Republican elected to the House of Representatives as a non-incumbent. It was a minor story in the news cycle, which focused more generally on how voters rejected the fringier and Trumpian candidates the Republican Party put forward in November. But now Santos is getting all sorts of national press coverage, because it turns out huge chunks of his biography—including his education and past employment—are complete fabrications. Click for Full Text!
UK Authorities Arrest Woman Praying Outside Abortion Clinic
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:27:27 by Charles_Byrd
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When I saw this video, I thought it was a joke. An innocent British woman, Isabel Vaughan Spruce, was arrested for praying outside of an abortion clinic. The pro-life woman is the director of the UK March For Life. She wasn’t making a “scene,” yet police arrested her and charged her with breaking the Public Space Protection Order. Click for Full Text!
The U.S. spends $4 billion a year subsidizing ‘Stalinist-style’ domestic sugar production
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:25:26 by Charles_Byrd
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In the United States, fewer than 4,500 farm businesses produce sugar. Yet they cost taxpayers up to $4 billion a year in subsidies. The U.S. sugar program is a Stalinist-style supply control initiative that limits imports through quotas and domestic production through what are called marketing allotments. Click for Full Text!
Lock Up the White House Silverware! Volodymyr Zelensky is in town!
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:21:35 by Charles_Byrd
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In my humble opinion the surfacing of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington last week was possibly the most disgusting example of the corruption of our country and its values since Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu arranged for a similar invitation to address a rapturous Congress back in 2015. Zelensky’s “surprise” visit had in fact been arranged over the course of several months and was a carefully choreographed performance intended to pay political dividends for both the White House, for the Democratic Party in Congress and for Zelensky and his political supporters at home. He met privately with President Joe Biden in the White House, where he presumably ...
What’s another $1.7T in the omnibus when you’ve taken the national debt to $31.4T?
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:19:14 by Charles_Byrd
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Congress concluded last week the annual shenanigans with funding the government. And while the body’s refusal to get the omnibus done before the 59th minute of the 11th hour is grounds for harsh criticism, its shirking and dodging is only a tiny part of the problem, which is how utterly irresponsible DC is with its checkbook. The $1.7 trillion omnibus itself was loaded with laughable pieces of pork — self-named monuments for various legislators; a chauffeur for the IRS commissioner — but it’s just the latest in a long trend for DC’s free spending and ever-growing government bureaucracy. Click for Full Text!
Three Killed in Ukrainian Drone Attack Deep Inside Russia
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:14:29 by Charles_Byrd
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Three Russian soldiers were killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on the Engels airfield in Russia’s Saratov Oblast early Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The Engels airfield is about 300 miles from the Ukrainian border and was targeted by a similar attack earlier this month. In the latest attack, Russian officials said that a Ukrainian drone was shot down while it was approaching the airfield. Click for Full Text!
Objection, Professor Harari! Logic Proves the Existence of Free Will
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:11:45 by Charles_Byrd
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Yuval Noah Harari, professor of history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is not only a best-selling author but also a top advisor to Klaus Schwab, founder and front man of the World Economic Forum (WEF). In 2018, Harari wrote: “Unfortunately, ‘free will’ isn’t a scientific reality. It is a myth inherited from Christian theology.” Click for Full Text!
Epistle: Romans 6:1-11 (Baptism of Our Lord: Series A)
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:08:31 by Charles_Byrd
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With this Feast, the Baptism of Our Lord, Christmas ends, though it continues in spirit as a liturgical cycle until Candlemas (the third Sunday of Epiphany) when we recall Mary’s post-birth Purification and Our Lord’s Presentation in the Temple. On this day, the octave of Epiphany (celebrated two days ago) continues. We now focus on the epiphany of Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptizer in the Jordan River. He whose birth we just celebrated and who has been unveiled to the gentiles (represented by the Magi) now shows us how to be born again or “born from above.” In doing so, Christ confers on us, through union with Him, all He accomplished on our behalf, even the full ...
Christmas: The Shot Heard 'Round the World
Post Date: 2022-12-27 20:05:07 by Charles_Byrd
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Here we are at Christmas, and the hustle bustle has given me some thoughts. Most aren’t very festive ones, so heads up— this will start as a sort of long and nostalgic Festivus post, a nod to the Seinfeld holiday for the “rest of us,” and conclude with battle commentary, although I’m no Victor Davis Hanson. As I see it, the face of Christmas hasn’t exactly been a holly, jolly scene so far. First, I live in Atlanta, a city that has experienced increasing crime under those who believe in decreasing consequences. I’ve navigated stores full of stony, masked faces, with my own unmasked face stoically turning to stone as well. Our traffic is epic, although ...
Patriot John Hill Launches Petition to Stop Cultural Marxism at West Point
Post Date: 2022-12-27 01:00:15 by Charles_Byrd
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John Hill, a direct descendent of General Robert E. Lee and the closest living relative of General AP Hill, one of Lee’s top battlefield commanders, has made National File headlines in recent weeks for his staunch defense of his ancestors and American history, in the face of Marxist revisionism and outright grave robbery by left-wing Democrats and their henchmen. Click for Full Text!
BEWARE OF THE END OF DAYS FOG & DECEPTIONS--WHEN HEAVEN IS
Post Date: 2022-12-27 00:53:16 by A K A Stone
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Natural Law or Chaos
Post Date: 2022-12-27 00:32:19 by Charles_Byrd
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I have started watching a video series entitled “Welcome to Negative World.” That would be our world. The speakers are Aaron Renn, Joe Rigney, and James Wood. I am only into the second video of seven, so I cannot speak to the value of the entire series. However, I am so far finding it of value. I discovered the series via a video by Paul VanderKlay, where he examines the first video in the series. The second video in the series is a talk given by Joe Rigney: The Three Worlds and the Tao. He presents the case for natural law as what has been broken in our society – yes, there was always sin, but it is today where the sin is codified, celebrated, even mandated by the law. ...
Staying Warm During a Winter Power Outage
Post Date: 2022-12-27 00:29:16 by Charles_Byrd
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Depending on where you live, a winter power outage can quickly become a life- threatening emergency. Winter storms with heavy snowfalls, high winds, and a coating of ice are a threat to our vulnerable power grid. Making winter even more of a threat recently is the current economic upheaval. In economically depressed places like Detroit, many residents have had their utilities shut off due to an inability to pay their bills. With temperatures in the negatives, people could quite literally freeze to death in their homes. You don’t have to be a prepper to realize that secondary heating systems, some specialized skills, and a frigid weather plan could be vital to your survival in the ...
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