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There’s No Natural ‘Carrying Capacity’ for the Human Population: An Essay Inspired by the Happy News that the Human Population Has Reached Eight Billion
Post Date: 2022-12-06 20:51:50 by Charles_Byrd
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The late, great Julian Simon spent decades battling intellectually against biologists and zoologists who were convinced that human population growth, if governments did not hold it in check with draconian measures, would spell doom for multitudes of humans. (I might as well have used the present tense above, because many of the scientists with whom Simon did battle, including the most prominent, Paul Ehrlich, are still alive.) These students of animal development and behavior insist that every species inhabits an environment with a natural “carrying capacity.” If the population of a species grows in number beyond the limits of its environment’s carrying capacity, the death ...
Turkey Expects More Extraditions From Sweden for NATO Membership
Post Date: 2022-12-06 20:49:03 by Charles_Byrd
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Sweden last week extradited a suspected member of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) to Turkey, a move Turkish officials have welcomed, but Ankara wants to see more extraditions before approving Stockholm’s NATO membership. Click for Full Text!
As the Pentagon Fails Another Audit, Congress Wants to Spend Even More on "Defense"
Post Date: 2022-12-06 20:47:51 by Charles_Byrd
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In November, the Pentagon announced it had failed yet another audit. In spite of the fact that the Department of Defense has had years to get its act together, the Pentagon still doesn’t know how it spends or maintains its trillions of dollars’ worth of taxpayer-funded assets and income. Click for Full Text!
Danger Zone: On Religion, America Is Becoming More Like China
Post Date: 2022-12-06 20:46:11 by Charles_Byrd
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Not too many Americans want to see their land become more like China, but it is doing so in at least one particular way: The United States is secularizing — and rapidly. In fact, more than a third of Americans under 30 and 23 percent of adults overall now claim no religious affiliation. This still pales in comparison to China’s corresponding 91- percent figure, but such people constituted only about seven percent of the U.S. population in the early 1990s. This phenomenon has serious implications. For one thing, church attendance is an excellent predictor of voting patterns, with those attending services regularly breaking Republican (being conservative) and atheists largely ...
World Court Must Rule on Climate Justice: UN "Youth" Delegate
Post Date: 2022-12-06 20:44:03 by Charles_Byrd
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The International Court of Justice must rule on the issue of "climate change" to guide national authorities in the global battle against human emissions of carbon dioxide, "youth" climate-justice activist Mert Taner Kumru told The New American magazine's Alex Newman at the United Nations COP27 climate summit. The global tribunal should weigh in with an advisory opinion because people's "human rights" are endangered by human CO2 emissions, he said. Asked tough questions about the science underpinning the agenda and the supposed solutions, Kumru deflected. DISCLAIMER: Views and opinions expressed in this interview are solely those of the interviewee and ...
California Reparations Task Force Proposes $223K Per Person for Black Residents
Post Date: 2022-12-06 20:24:33 by Charles_Byrd
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In June, the California Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans (Reparations Task Force) released an interim report on the supposed “harms inflicted on African Americans in California and across the nation due to the ongoing legacy of slavery and systemic discrimination.” Click for Full Text!
Renowned Cardiologist: mRNA Vaccines May be “Changing the Human Genome”
Post Date: 2022-12-06 20:22:51 by Charles_Byrd
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In a November 24 interview with Tanya Gaw of Action4Canada, Dr. Peter McCullough, an eminent cardiologist and the former vice chief of internal medicine at the Baylor University Medical Center, claimed that mRNA vaccines for Covid-19 may last permanently in the body, be transferred to the unvaccinated in certain cases, and may even be changing the human genome. McCullough had very strong opinions regarding the Covid-19 vaccines. Click for Full Text!
New York Forces Websites To Monitor 'Hateful' Speech. A New Lawsuit Says This Violates the First Amendment.
Post Date: 2022-12-06 20:20:54 by Charles_Byrd
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In New York, websites and apps are required to have a plan to address "hateful conduct" on their platforms. A new lawsuit is seeking to change that. On Thursday, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) filed a lawsuit on behalf of two online platforms, Rumble and Locals, as well as Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor who runs the blog The Volokh Conspiracy (which is hosted by Reason.) FIRE claims that a New York law mandating that online platforms provide mechanisms for reporting "hateful" speech violates the First Amendment. Click for Full Text!
Congress inches toward year-end government funding deal
Post Date: 2022-12-06 20:19:19 by Charles_Byrd
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Congressional negotiators are making a dash to scrounge together a bipartisan deal on how to fund the federal government for fiscal 2023, with just weeks on the clock until a looming shutdown deadline. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) told The Hill on Wednesday that top negotiators on both sides have begun exchanging top-line figures for a potential omnibus funding package, but he added “it’s still an open question” whether Congress will pass such a bill next month. Click for Full Text!
Russian Oil Price Cap, EU Sanctions Come Into Effect
Post Date: 2022-12-06 20:15:04 by Charles_Byrd
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An EU embargo on Russian oil and a Western-imposed price cap on Russian oil came into effect on Monday as Moscow said it is preparing a response to the policies. The US led the push to impose a price cap on Russian oil, and the EU agreed to set it at $60 per barrel, or at least 5% below market value. The EU embargo on Russian oil also prohibits issuing insurance for Russian oil shipments unless the crude is sold at or below the cap. Click for Full Text!
Born on the Tenth of January
Post Date: 2022-12-06 20:13:27 by Charles_Byrd
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If Tom Cruise was Born on the Fourth of July, then he can thank Thomas Paine, who can be said to have been born on January 10, 1776, with the publication of his incendiary essay Common Sense. In this pamphlet, which he priced cheaply (at two shillings), Paine argued passionately for independence from England, and he wrote in a direct style that readers could understand. Common Sense relieved the political constipation of the Second Continental Congress, which was stalled between reconciliation and independence. The seventy-seven-page pamphlet blasphemed the English king as a royal brute and obliterated the arguments opposing independence. Furthermore, it presented the issues in terms of ...
Word and Sacrament: The marks of the church
Post Date: 2022-12-06 20:11:35 by Charles_Byrd
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The LCMS seeks church fellowship with churches around the world who clearly confess and hold to the “marks” of the church. Having “faith” or being a pious person is not a sufficient mark upon which the church and its unity depend. Faith is unseen. The appearance of it can be faked, or it can contain errors. The true “marks” of the church are evident to all and provide sufficient grounds to identify the presence of true fellowship. As Luther notes, even when they are present but obscured by false teaching or belief, they still gather Christians. Article VII of the Augsburg Confession defines the marks of the church as the “pure” preaching of the ...
SCOTUS Appears Favorable to Web Developer in Lawsuit Against Colorado Anti-discrimination Law
Post Date: 2022-12-06 20:09:16 by Charles_Byrd
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Liberal media watching the two-and-a-half-hour oral arguments in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis on Monday concluded that Lorie Smith is likely to prevail in her preemptive lawsuit against Colorado’s anti-discrimination law and the state agency attempting to enforce it. Reuters concluded that the high court “leans toward web designer” while Colorado’s liberal CPR News headlined: “Supreme Court seems poised to side with Colorado web Designer in 303 Creative case.” CPR reluctantly added that the high court is likely to rule “that creative businesses [like Lorie Smith’s] would be protected by the 1st Amendment.” Click for Full Text!
Semiconductor Manufacturers Don't Need More Subsidies. They Need Less Government.
Post Date: 2022-12-06 19:59:18 by Charles_Byrd
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President Joe Biden will visit the site of a new semiconductor manufacturing facility in Arizona on Tuesday afternoon to tout what the White House sees as proof that it is solving global worries about high- tech supply chains with expensive subsidies and new industrial policy. In reality, however, semiconductor manufacturers don't need more government handouts. They need less government getting in the way. Click for Full Text!
Supreme Court Debates Whether Web Designers Can Be Forced To Make Gay Wedding Pages
Post Date: 2022-12-06 19:57:07 by Charles_Byrd
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Whether designing a webpage for customers counts as speech and therefore whether a designer could be compelled by Colorado law to design wedding pages for same-sex couples took center stage before the Supreme Court this morning. Creative 303 LLC vs. Elenis came before the Court this morning and brought with it a tangled thicket of competing Supreme Court precedents about when the government can compel businesses or institutions to pass along messages or ideas they object to. At the heart of this case, Lorie Smith, owner of Creative 303 LLC, wants to design web pages for weddings. But she has religious objections to same-sex marriage and doesn't want to design pages to celebrate gay ...
NATO Exists To Solve The Problems Created By NATO's Existence
Post Date: 2022-12-06 19:54:12 by Charles_Byrd
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NATO has doubled down on its determination to eventually add Ukraine to its membership, renewing its 2008 commitment to that goal in a meeting between the foreign ministers of the alliance in Bucharest, Romania this past Tuesday. Click for Full Text!
Life insurance companies sound DEATH ALERT warnings over nearly 100,000 excess deaths per month happening right now in the USA
Post Date: 2022-12-06 19:50:22 by Charles_Byrd
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There are nearly 100,000 excess deaths happening per month in the USA right now, according to life insurance companies that are sounding the alarm over what Dr. Robert Malone calls a “mass casualty event” that’s unfolding due to covid vaccines. This is a red alert situation unfolding right in front of us. The human race is being slaughtered through the injection of “clot shots” that are deliberately designed to reduce global population through death and infertility. All the politicians, scientists, regulators and journalists who are in on this are committing genocidal crimes against humanity, and they are even targeting children. Click for Full Text!
Iran Says It Won’t Resume Nuclear Deal Talks ‘Under Pressure’
Post Date: 2022-12-06 19:47:23 by Charles_Byrd
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The Iranian Foreign Ministry said Monday that Tehran would not resume negotiations on the nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, “under pressure” from the US. “American officials know that the Islamic Republic of Iran, under pressures and threats, is not willing to negotiate or make concessions,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said, according to the Iranian news agency MEHR. Click for Full Text!
US Army Plans ‘Dramatic’ Increase in Ammunition Production as Ukraine Aid Drains Stockpiles
Post Date: 2022-12-06 19:46:08 by Charles_Byrd
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The US Army is planning a “dramatic” increase in the production of 155mm artillery rounds as the US has sent a staggering amount of ammunition to Ukraine over the past eight months. According to a Pentagon fact sheet released at the end of November, the US has sent Ukraine 924,000 155mm artillery rounds to Ukraine since February 24. The US currently makes 14,000 155mm rounds each month, but the Army is set to ramp that up. Click for Full Text!
WSJ: US Secretly Limited Range of Weapons Sent to Ukraine
Post Date: 2022-12-06 19:44:18 by Charles_Byrd
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The Department of Defense secretly altered the most advanced weapons systems the US has transferred to Ukraine. The change prevented the platform from firing long-range munitions, according to the Wall Street Journal. The White House has sent 20 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to Ukraine over the past six months, out of a total of 38 units authorized for Kiev. Without telling their Ukrainian counterparts, the Pentagon outfitted the systems with a component to prevent them from firing munitions with a range of over 50 miles. Click for Full Text!
Imagining a Revived, Twenty-First Century Capitalism
Post Date: 2022-12-06 19:42:29 by Charles_Byrd
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The death of capitalism has been a common topic of conversation lately. Millennials seem resigned to it, the younger generations can’t wait for it. Bastions of global capitalism—alleged capitalism—such as the World Economic Forum in Davos are quite eagerly promoting the concept of post- capitalism, and Wall Street for whatever its reasons follows in lockstep. Whether it’s socialism, localism, techno-feudalism, red anarchism, or state capitalism, whatever is advanced as the replacement for capitalism includes a firm rejection of markets and their role in social organization. Across the political spectrum, the voices of the early twenty-first century are calling for ...
Ukraine war: Fighting will be at 'reduced tempo for months' US intelligence experts say
Post Date: 2022-12-05 18:12:41 by Charles_Byrd
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US intelligence experts have said they expect a "reduced tempo" in fighting in Ukraine to last several months, with both sides looking to prepare for a counter-offensive after the winter. The Director of National Intelligence said that while this might be the case, there is no evidence of a reduced Ukrainian will to resist and morale hasn't faded, despite persistent Russian attacks on the country's energy infrastructure. Click for Full Text!
Nigerian President Says Weapons From Ukraine are Winding Up in Africa
Post Date: 2022-12-05 18:10:31 by Charles_Byrd
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Nigeria’s president has warned that weapons and ammunition used in the war in Ukraine are winding up in the hands of “terrorists” in the Lake Chad region of Africa. President Muhammadu Buhari made the comments last week from the Nigerian capital of Abuja. According to a press release from his office, Buhari drew attention “to the increased number of arms, ammunition, and other weapons from the Russia and Ukraine war in the Lake Chad Basin.” Click for Full Text!
Ukraine Says Oil-Price Cap Won’t Dent Russia’s Ability to Fund War
Post Date: 2022-12-05 18:09:42 by Charles_Byrd
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KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine denounced a price cap on Russian oil agreed to by the U.S. and its allies as a “weak” measure that would fail to deprive Russia’s military machine of funds, as Moscow said it could stop supplying consumers in response. The Group of Seven agreed Friday to cap the price of Russian oil at $60 a barrel, moving forward with an unprecedented sanction against one of the world’s largest producers following its invasion of Ukraine. Click for Full Text!
Russia Rejects EU’s $60 Oil Price Cap
Post Date: 2022-12-05 18:06:58 by Charles_Byrd
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Russia on Saturday rejected the EU’s decision to impose a price cap on Russian oil for $60 per barrel and warned it will cut off any country that endorses the cap. The EU’s ban on Russian oil will take effect on Monday, and the idea of the cap is so European insurance and other services can continue for Russian oil shipments if the crude is sold at the $60 limit. But Russia has warned since the plan was first discussed by the US and G7 that it wouldn’t comply. Click for Full Text!
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