Sunday, April 07, 2024

Elites at War with the People; Biden planning to label goods coming from Jewish settlements...more

An important takeaway from the last four years for many governments is the surprising ease of winning public compliance with demands for intrusive behavioural changes that completely reset the balance of rights and responsibilities between citizens, society, markets, and the government. Instead of implementing policies to give effect to voter priorities, the emboldened dominant metropolitan elites are entirely dedicated to the proposition that citizens should be forced to live by their rules on what to say, think, read, watch, do.

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Wait, The Biden Administration Is Going to Label Jewish Goods Now? Sounds Pretty Hitlerian.  The Biden administration is drawing up plans to require goods produced in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank to be clearly labelled as coming from there, according to US officials, another sign of White House unhappiness with the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. 

'Death to America,' 'Death to Israel' chants pour out of Muslim protesters in Michigan on last day of Ramadan   Protesters in Dearborn, Michigan, shouted "Death to America!" and "Death to Israel!" during an International Al-Quds Day rally held in the town.

"Imam Khomeini, who declared the International Al-Quds Day, this is why he would say to pour all of your chants and all of your shouts upon the head of America," Tarek Bazzi, a Michigan-based activist associated with the Hadi institute, said in a video from the rally that was shared by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

Bazzi’s comments were followed by crowds chanting "Death to America!" in the background.

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World population predicted to fall for the first time since the Black Death   “We are facing staggering social change through the 21st century,” senior author Professor Stein Emil Vollset said. “The world will be simultaneously tackling a ‘baby boom’ in some countries and a ‘baby bust’ in the others. As most of the world contends with the serious challenges to the economic growth of a shrinking workforce and how to care for and pay for aging populations, many of the most resource-limited countries in sub-Saharan Africa will be grappling with how to support the youngest, fastest-growing population on the planet in some of the most politically and economically unstable, heat-stressed, and health system-strained places on earth.”

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Which brings me to the present, and to the Venerable Doctor Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, the newly appointed Anglican Archdeacon of Liverpool. She recently tweeted: ‘Let’s have anti-whiteness, and let’s smash the patriarchy.’ This outburst, resulting from her attending a conference on ‘whiteness’, prompted a litany of outrage in the media, her comments being described as racist, divisive and nonsensical. Her views on the patriarchy are certainly odd given that the first words of the Lord’s Prayer, taught by Christ, are ‘Our Father’ which seems very problematical for someone who wants to smash the patriarchy. She has, of course, backtracked and stated that her comments were part of a more nuanced discussion. Yea, yea, but out of the abundance of the heart the fingers tweet (to misquote Christ)....
....She exemplifies the current problems facing the Church of England which is that as far as many are concerned it speaks not with a clear, authentic voice, only the babble of noise reflecting the many woke issues of today, but with a veneer of clericalism and religious language applied liberally. As in the Baptist’s days the religious elites seem totally disconnected from the people they are supposed to serve which is as far from ‘a voice crying in the wilderness’ as is possible.
    In my town there are at least four lively, independent churches, all conservative evangelical in theology, and each with very ethnically diverse congregations, (whiteness does not seem to be a problem). The large Anglican church in the centre of town holds coffee mornings and the usual poorly attended services, but with little discernible life.

Christian social worker has job withdrawn because LGBT patients 'might kill themselves'  Mr Ngole, of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, told Leeds employment tribunal he has worked as a youth worker, teacher and pastor for 20 years, and has helped gypsies, lesbians, gays and trans people during that time.

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The evidence is clear: authoritarian restrictions did not save more lives.

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Puberty Blockers Are Not a ‘Pause Button’, They’re a ‘Sterility Button’  A 12-year-old boy who had taken puberty blockers for 14 months had nearly 60 percent of his sex glands had "fully atrophied."

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