Newest NATO Member Escalates Prosecution Of Christians To Supreme Court; The ‘Gender Revolution,’ Seven Years Later...more

Finland: Newest NATO Member Escalates Prosecution Of Christians To Supreme Court “This court case is historic for freedom of expression and religion,” said Finnish Member of Parliament Paivi Rasanen, one of the two Christians prosecuted for publicly speaking what the Bible teaches about sex. “For the first time in a criminal case, the court has weighed in on whether teachings linked to the Bible can be brought forth and publicly agreed with.”

  The case could reach the European Court of Human Rights, where its outcome would affect the world. This appears to be the first post-Soviet case in Europe of a government prosecuting Christians for their beliefs, legal analysts have told The Federalist.

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Batten down the hatches, a financial hurricane is on the way The Biden administration is responsible for many economic nightmares the US faces, but one stands out above all others: the destruction of the dollar as a reserve currency.

Federal Reserve Payments to Banks Trigger Largest Ever Operating Loss  The Federal Reserve quietly lost a fortune in 2023 as interest it pays out to banks swamped the interest it earns on its bond portfolio, data released by the central bank Friday showed.

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No Time To Waste: Updating and Upscaling the American Defense Industrial Base Has To Happen Now...      The U.S. is struggling to keep up with the demand for our own warfighting plans, let alone provide military aid to our allies in Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel  

A 43% Drop in White Recruits Caused the Army’s ‘Recruitment Crisis’...The real military recruitment crisis is DEI discrimination against white people. 

The recruitment crisis was a case of the woke military leadership getting almost exactly what they wanted. White men, locked out of career tracks, forced into implicit bias and pronoun training, have opted out. Military families are telling their kids not to serve and ending the “warrior caste” that Army Secretary Christine Wormuth was worried about. And with Army recruiters focusing on Baltimore and New York City, instead of the rural South, potential recruits are left behind. But the woke military is struggling and failing to find the woke recruits it wanted.
It was always the rural white men who were going to be the likeliest to fight and die for America.

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First Things: More Confusion About Same-Sex Blessings...  On December 18, the Holy See’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith (DDF) released Fiducia Supplicans. That Declaration stated that priests may spontaneously bless couples in “irregular” situations—e.g., “remarried” or same-sex couples—within certain limits. Those limits were supposed to protect the Church’s witness to her teachings on sexual ethics and marriage, truths knowable by reason and divine revelation. Yet many bishops and episcopal conferences have expressed concern that providing such blessings would impede that witness, undermining the Church’s teachings that (1) marriage is the indissoluble union of husband and wife and that (2) all non-marital sexual acts are gravely sinful.

In response, the DDF has issued a press release attempting to clarify Fiducia Supplicans. But the press release is grossly inadequate. Heeding it will not begin to prevent the grave harm that the DDF says it had hoped to head off. The twelve paragraphs below explain why we urge that bishops and priests should not authorize or provide the blessings at issue: The circumstances in which they will avoid doing grave harm are rare, if not practically non-existent—at least without the set of conditions we will mention.

The moral corruption of the Vatican elites appears to have reached a new low with the revelations over a 1998 book written by Cardinal Fernández. 

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The ‘Gender Revolution,’ Seven Years Later...The contagion that is putting women in a worse place year after year  According to Dr. Grossman, this social contagion has been especially driven by social media, which has become a virtual “assembly line” for challenging girls to question their sense of self. Medical professionals jumped in, resulting in a trail of mutilated bodies, sterilization, bone-density loss, and other irreversible damage done.

Women have been hurt in other ways too. According to the Telegraph, a male student recently attacked female students in a gender-neutral bathroom. In sports such as in jiujitsu and volleyball, girls have been overpowered and injured, not to mention the other issues of fairness of competition, scholarship opportunities, and privacy concerns.

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31 minutes: Trump's historic Iowa victory puts America on notice  Inevitability has been the prevailing theme of Trump's quest for a third straight GOP nomination. His historic win in Iowa — declared by the networks just 31 minutes after caucusing began — moves the country one step closer to the longest general election campaign in modern history.

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First Plagiarism, Now Lying: What’s Happening to America’s Universities?  Here’s another good reason not to plunk down $126,584 (that’s the total for four years of tuition unless it goes up between now and 2027) to send your kid to Rutgers. Long considered to be one of America’s premier universities, the beloved alma mater of Mr. Magoo is now a sinkhole of woke indoctrination, with academic standards sinking lower than Old Joe Biden’s ethics. A professor at Rutgers Law School has lied openly in an academic paper and has refused to back down, knowing that she will face no consequences from an administration that is as corrupt and compromised as she is.....These incidents, however, were just the latest and highest-profile manifestations of an intellectual and spiritual rot that is everywhere.

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‘We Must Normalize Massacres’: Anti-Israel Activist Earns Cheers From London Crowd; Critics Blast Police Response How is this terrorist allowed to say this on the streets of London. Where are you [Metropolitan Police]?”

Britain’s Muslim ‘Grooming Gangs’ Report Finds White Children ‘Left at the Mercy’ of Rapists, With At Least 96 Still at Large  Despite the victims of Rochdale grooming gangs being overwhelmingly white, the word “white” appears in the report only twice. The report does not refer to Islam or Muslims, preferring to describe the predators as “Asian” — meaning South Asian — or Pakistani. 

   It also contained only one reference to the fact that officers’ failure to investigate grooming often stemmed from fear of being branded racist, beyond one quote from an officer who said he believed colleagues failed to stop cabs with “Pakistani-looking” drivers carrying children because “GMP patrols were frightened of being tarnished with a race brush for doing it.”

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How did Alberta wind up facing blackouts in the extreme cold?   Wake up Canada. No amount of renewable capacity can save you, when wind and solar both fail at the same time. The only reason the Alberta grid clung to life during the wind fail is coal and gas power, from Alberta and Saskatchewan – power plants which the Federal Government is pressuring Saskatchewan to close.

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What’s the Magic Number of “Vaccines” Needed for Covid?  As the number of people injured by COVID-19 shots rises, U.S. health officials continue to advise Americans to get more doses. Neither the U.K. nor Australia recommend repeated COVID-19 jabs for those who are under 65 and low risk.1 But in the U.S., official guidance suggests virtually everyone should get multiple COVID-19 shots, beginning at just 6 months of age.2

With shockingly little data, questionable benefits and a high likelihood of adverse events, the continuing campaign for COVID-19 shots raises many red flags.

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