Newslinks: August 31, 2024
My biggest beef is with all the clueless and undiscerning Christians out there. I see this happening so often: A diabolical and vile public attack on Christ and Christianity happens, and we get some Christians who make excuses for it and in effect stand up to defend these attacks.
Now more than ever the words of John Calvin need to be heeded: “A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.” The person and work of Christ was wilfully under attack in Paris, yet too many Christians think it is ‘no big deal’ and we should just ‘move on’. No wonder why the church keeps losing in the West.
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Many pastors, doctrinally sound but unaware of the boot camp efforts that have been under way for years, have, out of a desire not to appear judgmental or overly focused on one sin to the exclusion of others, been successfully shamed into barely mentioning homosexuality, transgenderism, or the rest of the LGBTQ array. Given this imbalance in commitment to our respective beliefs, faithful Christians can hardly wonder at the fact that the LGBTQ movement is chewing up ground and claiming new converts as quickly as evangelical churches are meekly ceding the field. [First Things]
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As the 2024 presidential election season reaches a fever pitch, a poll of a different kind has tracked our nation’s precipitous decline in history and civics education. Last year, the “nation’s report card,” a biannual study put out by the National Center for Education Statistics on the basis of a nationally administered standardized test, found that only 13 percent of American eighth grade students were proficient in history, while just 22 percent showed proficiency in civics. Earlier this month, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) released a report titled “Losing America’s Memory 2.0,” a data-point survey administered in May and June measuring over 3,000 college students’ responses to 35 multiple-choice questions on civics, related historical topics, and opinion questions pertaining to citizenship.
The results are nauseating. Among the study’s 28 civics and history questions that had definite right and wrong answers, only two had a correct response rate of over 70 percent, while correct answers to 15 questions registered at 40 percent or below.
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Report: Congressional Panel Finds that U.S. Military Is ‘Not Prepared‘ for War The report, which the Commission on the National Defense Strategy released in July, reveals that while the U.S. is currently facing some of “the most serious and most challenging” threats since 1945, several problems are preventing the U.S. military from being able to address threats from China or Russia.
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9/11 mastermind KSM and two other terrorists awaiting trial on Guantánamo Bay strike plea deals The announcement was a bitter pill to swallow for victims’ families who have anxiously awaited the conclusion of the case for nearly 24 years — many of whom felt death was the only appropriate punishment for the perpetrators of the heinous attacks...
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Hardly had we managed to digest the horrific news of the massacre of small children at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class yesterday in a northern English town than we were looking on appalled at what followed.
At a school in Southport, three little girls aged six, seven and nine were murdered by a random attacker wielding a knife. Five of the eight other children who suffered stab wounds as well as two adults were left in a critical or serious condition.
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Female boxer quit Olympic bout with 'biological male' to save her life The clash between the 25-year-old and her Algerian opponent Imane Khelif lasted just 46 seconds, with Carini yelling 'this is unjust' before she fell to canvas and wept having had her Olympic dreams snatched away from her.
Carini was rocked by two punches from Khelif - who had been banned from a major boxing contest before the Olympics - and said the savage force of the blows made it 'impossible to continue'. Image
Volleyball player left partially paralyzed by a transgender opponent has slammed the Olympics over its boxing controversy Ms McNabb was left with brain damage and paralysis on her right side, which ended her dreams of getting a volleyball college scholarship and has made it difficult to walk without falling.
She told DailyMail.com it was 'disgusting' that two boxers who failed gender tests had been cleared to fight women at this year's Games in Paris.
The surreal super-saturated, cotton-candy-hued imagery of the Olympic opening ceremony is eerily reminiscent of The Hunger Games, a series of books and subsequent films depicting a dystopian world where the elites occupy “The Capitol” and everyone else struggles for survival in “the districts.” The Games in the title are an annual spectator event for which each district must sacrifice a child, who then competes to the death with the children from the other districts. Only one child survives.
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games may be far from the savagery of the gladiatorial Hunger Games. But the parallels between the fictional Capitol and Paris as a metaphorical center for globalist power are bone-chilling.
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The gang is involved in human trafficking, gun smuggling, drugs, and murder. One gang member, who shot two cops in Queens, NYC, told investigators that the gang sneaks guns into migrant shelters via DoorDash food delivery bags.
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Remember When the Left Fact-Checked Us to Death Over Big-Tech Interference in 2020? It's incredibly frustrating for those of us on the media front lines. We have information that needs to get into the hands of voters, yet we're attacked at every turn by the Big Tech censors who want us to just shut up and take it.
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Weird: Doctors pull 26-inch EEL out of a man's backside after he forced the live creature into his anus (along with a lemon)… and it started to bite his large intestine Horrified medics in Vietnam discovered the 26-inch long eel in X-ray scans taken to diagnose the cause of his pain on July 27, local media reports.
They found the eel had attempted to chew its way out by biting through the wall of his large intestine.
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Detroit finds out the hard way: there's nothing "grand" about the transition to EV's Wait, weren’t we all supposed to be awash in EVs by now, especially Ford EVs? Wasn’t this supposed to be EV Nirvana, where we would all blissfully move around in our whoosh-mobiles, not causing any damage to the environment, even though the creation of batteries exacts a heavy toll to the environment on several fronts? Oh, “they” forgot about that little detail, right? They don’t want us to think about that, do they?
So, what happened? Reality happened. Myriad boastful statements by “Electric Boy” about how Ford is going to be an industry EV leader turned out to be unfounded. Because without the profits from its ICE vehicles, especially the incredible, mind-boggling profits generated by its line of pickup trucks, the Dearborn automaker would be dead in the water. The sustenance generated by its ICE vehicles is the company’s financial lifeline, and there’s just no denying it.
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Scientists Warn New 'Neurological Emergency' Spreading Among Covid-Vaxxed They report that two cases of deadly Status Epilepticus (SE) have now been confirmed to have been caused by Covid mRNA injections.
In a peer-reviewed study, published in the European Journal of Epilepsy, the scientists revealed that SE, a dangerous condition in which epileptic fits follow one another without recovery of consciousness between them, has a mortality rate of 20 percent.
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