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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!
Macron Says Security Guarantees for Russia Needed for Future Peace Deal
Post Date: 2022-12-05 18:03:03 by Charles_Byrd
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French President Emmanuel Macron has said that Russia’s security concerns when it comes to NATO expansion need to be taken into account in any future peace talks and that the West needs to be prepared to give Moscow guarantees. “We need to prepare what we are ready to do, how we protect our allies and member states, and how to give guarantees to Russia the day it returns to the negotiating table,” the French leader said in an interview that aired Saturday. Click for Full Text!
Old Testament: Isaiah 7:10-17 (Advent 4: Series A)
Post Date: 2022-12-05 18:01:34 by Charles_Byrd
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This is a great text to take us one step deeper into trusting God during the season of Advent. First, some background information. The context for this section of scripture can be found in 2 Kings 16 where political and military trouble surrounds Ahaz in the year 735 BC. The Northern Kingdom together with Syria sought an alliance with Judah against Tiglath-Pileser III who was advancing with his Assyrian troops onto their lands. Israel had already suffered defeat from the Assyrians and knew they needed more help to resist them. So, with threats from the Assyrians and warnings that he had better capitulate to this coalition, Isaiah comes to offer Ahaz the most gracious alternate proposal from ...
Doing His Duty
Post Date: 2022-12-05 17:58:32 by Charles_Byrd
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The Kansas Commission on Peace Officers' Standards and Training has revoked the law enforcement certification of Justin Herb, a former Topeka police officer, saying he was guilty of "exploiting or misusing the position as an officer to establish or attempt to establish a financial, social, sexual, romantic, physical, inmate or emotional relationship." Click for Full Text!
Raytheon Gets $1.2 Billion Contract to Produce Air Defense System for Ukraine
Post Date: 2022-12-05 17:56:26 by Charles_Byrd
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The US Army has awarded Raytheon a $1.2 billion contract to produce an air defense system for Ukraine as part of US military aid for the country. The contract is for six National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS), a system the US recently began providing Ukraine. The funds for the contract are coming from the fifth package from the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), which allows the US to purchase arms for Kyiv. Click for Full Text!
Gospel: Matthew 1:18-25 (Advent 4: Series A)
Post Date: 2022-12-05 17:55:05 by Charles_Byrd
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he Gospel reading for this last Sunday in Advent tells the other version of the Christmas story. “Now the birth of Jesus took place in this way...” (verse 18). Unlike Luke, Matthew makes no mention of a census or shepherds or multitudes of angels. Instead, he tells of a scandalous pregnancy, a quietly planned divorce, and a dream-induced change of plans. This is Christmas from Joseph’s point of view. We do not know much about Joseph. He was a descendent of David (Åἱὸ ”±Å¯´ – son of David) and a good (´¯º±¹¿Â – righteous) man. He also seems to have been thoughtful. He ...
NRA Files Lawsuit Against Oregon Gun-control Law
Post Date: 2022-12-05 17:53:14 by Charles_Byrd
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A third lawsuit challenging Oregon’s Measure 114 was filed on Thursday by the Oregon State Shooting Association, the state’s affiliate of the National Rifle Association (NRA). Click for Full Text!
The Woman Who Spearheaded Prohibition's Repeal
Post Date: 2022-12-05 17:30:05 by Charles_Byrd
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The person with the greatest claim to have ended Prohibition just might be Pauline Sabin. As we celebrate Repeal Day today, she deserves a toast. As an upper-class divorcée who started a successful interior design business, Sabin was sure to be the subject of at least some controversy in early-20th-century America. But it was in politics that she really made her mark. Sabin believed women should be active within political parties and not confine themselves to causes viewed as exclusively the preserve of women. Thanks to her charm, her fundraising abilities, and her political skill, Sabin quickly became one of the most influential women in the GOP. With Henrietta Wells Livermore, she ...
How to replace the welfare state
Post Date: 2022-12-05 17:27:50 by Charles_Byrd
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The American people donated a record $3.1 billion for charities this past week, proving once again they are the most charitable people on Earth, despite the inflation that is making it difficult for millions of families to make ends meet. Thank you, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his fellow “legal counterfeiters.” For more than three decades I have been advocating that individuals receive a tax credit, instead of tax deduction for every dollar donated to a 501(c) 3 organization that provides nonprofit services such as education, healthcare, food banks, pregnancy crisis counselling, etc. Click for Full Text!
Will Your State Reject the Fed’s Digital Dollar?
Post Date: 2022-12-05 17:25:42 by Charles_Byrd
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Personal and political freedoms are inseparable from economic freedom. To this end, economic freedom is contingent upon an economy that transacts using honest money that’s free from coercion. Volumes have been written on America’s experience with money of varying veracity. Here we’ll touch on a few key events.
Rep. Adam Smith Says Calls for Ukraine Aid Oversight are ‘Russian Propaganda’
Post Date: 2022-12-05 17:23:14 by Charles_Byrd
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Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the head of the House Armed Services Committee, said Saturday that the growing calls for more oversight of the billions of dollars the US is spending on Ukraine are “part of Russian propaganda.” While the majority of Republicans strongly favor continuing to arm Ukraine, even the more hawkish GOP members have said they favor increased oversight for the aid. Smith said that the concern from Republicans for more transparency “makes me a little crazy.” Click for Full Text!
Epistle: Romans 1:1-7 (Advent 4: Series A)
Post Date: 2022-12-05 17:21:26 by Charles_Byrd
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t seems as if we are working backwards after hearing the pericope lesson from Romans 15:4-13 during the second week in Advent. We saw how Saint Paul concluded his epistle by revisiting the principle theses laid out in Romans 1:4-5. This week we go to that lesson. Why? Why read the beginning after the end, as it were? Simple: Romans 1:1-6 proclaims the Gospel of Christmas with power to bring to a crescendo our collective anticipation for the Advent of our King and Savior, the Messiah of God, Jesus. Verse 1 introduces Paul, a joyful and willing servant of King Jesus. He is an apostle, which means he has a direct commissioning, a calling from the King to speak with the authority of the King, ...
Almost No One Noticed the Hate Speech Law That Just Took Effect — or the Lawsuit Against It
Post Date: 2022-12-05 17:19:33 by Charles_Byrd
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It was already the case that certain conservative websites have had to eliminate their comment sections under threat from Big Tech, which has the ability to take those sites offline (as it did with Parler). Now the New York state government has gotten in on the act, instituting a “hate speech” law that compels any site allowing comments to police its users’ speech — or face punishment. As law professor Eugene Volokh puts it, the state wants to “conscript” us to “violate the Constitution.” The law, which took effect Saturday, sparked an 11th-hour lawsuit filed by the nonprofit group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) on behalf of ...
After a Crackdown on a Pain Clinic, a Tragic Double Suicide
Post Date: 2022-12-05 17:16:55 by Charles_Byrd
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"In my mind, what the DEA [Drug Enforcement Administration] is essentially doing is telling a diabetic who's been on insulin for 20 years that they no longer need insulin and they should be cured. They just don't understand what chronic pain is." That's what Gretchen Elliott's brother told Vice at his sister's funeral last month. Gretchen and her husband Danny committed suicide because they could no longer endure a pain that doctors were terrified of treating. It was the most recent of the many dreadful outcomes that follow when cops practice medicine. Click for Full Text!
11th Circuit Says a Judge Should Not Have Interfered With the FBI's Review of the Mar-a-Lago Documents
Post Date: 2022-12-05 17:14:44 by Charles_Byrd
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U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon never should have interfered with the FBI's investigation of government records that former President Donald Trump retained after leaving office, a federal appeals court ruled last week. The decision, which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit issued late Thursday, allows the Justice Department to resume its examination of some 13,000 documents that the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago in August. Special Counsel Jack Smith is considering whether Trump or his underlings committed federal crimes by keeping the records at his Palm Beach resort. Cannon threw a wrench into that investigation on September 5, when she agreed with Trump that a special ...
Police thought his cash was suspicious. So they took it. And won’t give it back.
Post Date: 2022-12-05 17:11:42 by Charles_Byrd
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Rebuilding his post-prison life — drug offenses derailed the young Jerry Johnson — he attempted a 50 percent increase of his North Carolina trucking firm, from two semi-trucks, nine and 16 years old, to three. Learning of a used-truck auction in Arizona, he assembled from his savings and from relatives $39,500 in cash, and flew there in August 2020. Click for Full Text!
REAL ID Requirement for Travelers Delayed Until May 2025
Post Date: 2022-12-05 17:10:27 by Charles_Byrd
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The United States government’s Department of Homeland Security announced Monday it is delaying until May of 2025 requiring people to present REAL ID compliant identification to make it through security checkpoints at American airports. This delay extends a previous delay in implementation of the requirement that was set to expire in May of 2023. In 2005, when the US House of Representatives considered the REAL ID Act, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) presented a brief speech on the House floor in which he layed out a strong pro-liberty case against REAL ID. You can watch Paul’s speech here. Click for Full Text!
Lavrov Says Russia, China Stepping Up Military Cooperation in Response to NATO
Post Date: 2022-12-05 17:03:50 by Charles_Byrd
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday that the US and NATO’s move to focus on countering China in the Asia Pacific has led to an increase in military cooperation between Moscow and Beijing. “We know how seriously the People’s Republic of China regards these provocations [by NATO in the South China Sea], let alone Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait. We understand that this playing with fire by NATO in that part of the world carries threats and risks for the Russian Federation,” Lavrov said at a press conference, according to TASS. Click for Full Text!
A Tribute to the U.S. Marine Corps
Post Date: 2022-12-05 17:01:46 by Charles_Byrd
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A recent United States Marine Corps recruitment advertisement tells us: “When there are battles to win for America’s future, there is one constant: Marines.” Despite the advert being a minute-long, propagandizing call to imperial action, this line rings true. And it highlights why we are morally obligated to support Bring Our Troops Home. Click for Full Text!
Church Fathers on Christmas: St. Augustine
Post Date: 2022-12-05 16:59:27 by Charles_Byrd
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That day, Christmas, is called the birthday of the Lord on which the Wisdom of God manifested himself as a speechless Child and the Word of God wordlessly uttered the sound of a human voice. His divinity, although hidden, was revealed by heavenly witness to the Magi and was announced to the shepherds by angelic voices. With yearly ceremony, therefore, we celebrate this day which saw the fulfillment of the prophecy: “Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven” (Ps. 84:12). Truth, eternally existing in the bosom of the Father, has sprung from the earth so that he might exist also in the bosom of a mother. Truth, holding the world in place, has sprung ...
Russia Is the Last Remaining Christian Country
Post Date: 2022-12-04 13:23:35 by 3-Dee
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Russia Is the Last Remaining Christian Country And thus under attack by the forces of Satan Paul Craig Roberts At his year-end press conference, Russian President Putin said that “a woman is a woman and a man is a man,” and he expressed his confidence that the religious denominations of the Russian Federation would have the moral fiber to resist the intrusion of the corrupted and degenerate values of the Western world. www.lewrockwell.com/2021/...n/a-woman-is-a-woman-man- is-a-man-putin-vows-to-protect-russia-from-wests-gender-obscurantism/ Alas, the Western World has no such moral fiber. The West has cut itself off from its past and is tottering on the premise that it can ...
Zelensky’s Long History of Crushing Dissent
Post Date: 2022-12-04 13:10:28 by 3-Dee
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Zelensky’s Long History of Crushing Dissent BY SPACE WORM MONDAY, NOV 21, 2022 - 17:29 Credit: Time Magazine Authored by The Space Worm Substack Volodymyr Zelensky has become something of a western folk hero in these last 8 months. Lionized by both the neoconservative right and much of the left, an eclectic chorus of western voices have heaped praise on the Ukrainian President: “Zelensky defines courage in our time” - Karl Rove in The Wall Street Journal. “Volodymyr Zelenskyy embodies resilience” - Marguerite Ward in Business Insider. “The Ukrainian leader’s refusal to back down is as inspiring as it is illuminating” - Tom McTague in The ...
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