Thursday, January 16, 2025

News and Views: January 16, 2025

Report: 380 Million Christians Suffer ‘High Levels of Persecution’   Worldwide, one in seven Christians is persecuted. For Christians in Africa, the number is higher still: a full 20 percent live in persecution. Meanwhile in Asia, two in five Christians are persecuted for their faith, an astonishing 40 percent.
   Topping the World Watch List is once again North Korea, which also occupied the number one spot in the 2023 WWL findings.

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Biden exempted nearly 7000 foreign nationals from terror-related entry restrictions into the US  The Biden administration gave almost 7,000 exemptions to mostly refugees and foreign nationals who would otherwise be ineligible for admission into the US due to terrorism-related entry restrictions, according to a new report.

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California Politicians Cut Fire Department Funding Because of These Three Things   This is the 'fall of Rome' stage in Sacramento and California. Too many years of de facto single-party rule led to this catastrophe. Feelings and moral superiority complex antics also contributed to the mayhem. The LAFD also engaged in DEI nonsense and bias training when they should have been vetting people who wanted to join the department regardless of their race, religion, or ethnicity. No one cares what you are as long as you save their homes and lives from wildfires. There’s no bonus if a black lesbian does it.  
   The fact that most fires put out by LAFD, around half, are started by homeless people might be a clue as to how and why these latest fires keep popping up in the county. It should be investigated but won’t because the media is afraid to say so.

Some commenters speculate that the fires this time will lead to a conservative reawakening in California. A nice thought, but I rather doubt it. Even with the various mismanagement of things in California … it’s still very pleasant for those who have a comfortable income, have lived there all their lives and disdain the thought of living anywhere else. The climate is mild year-round, compared to most other places, the range of scenery is glorious, and there still are some cultural advantages. A handful of counties back of the coastal zone and outside of the big cities are still well-managed and sane.

"Super Toxic" Smoke From The California Fires Could Cause Respiratory Problems For Millions Of Americans   The most dangerous component of wildfire smoke is fine particle pollution, also known as PM2.5 or soot. These tiny particles, smaller than one 20th the width of a human hair, can, if inhaled, become embedded in the bloodstream and lungs. It is estimated that about one-third of all particulate matter pollution in the US now comes from wildfire smoke.

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No Surprise: Census Data Shows Americans Continuing to Flee High-Tax for Low-Tax States   "Americans are continuing to leave high-tax, high-cost-of-living states in favor of lower-tax, lower-cost alternatives. Of the 26 states whose overall state and local tax burdens per capita were below the national average in 2022 (the most recent year of data available), 18 experienced net inbound interstate migration in FY 2024...

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When it comes to Type-2 diabetes, the health-care establishment appears to agree that the prevalence of 1.04 cases per 1,000 among 15- to 19-year-olds is cause for alarm. Diabetes Care, the flagship journal of the American Diabetes Association, noted in 2009 an “increasing and alarming incidence of type 2 diabetes in adolescent populations.” By 2023 that journal referred to it as “an awakening epidemic.” That same year, another journal echoed the sentiment, calling pediatric Type-2 diabetes an “urgent challenge.”
   While a one-in-1,000 event is an “epidemic” and “urgent challenge” when it comes to Type-2 diabetes, however, it’s apparently nothing of the kind when it comes to so-called gender-affirming care for minors. A newly published study in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics estimates that 1.40 of every 1,000 adolescents born female have received a prescription for cross-sex hormones by the time they turn 18. The study therefore concludes that, from 2018 through 2022, “receipt of puberty blockers and hormones was rare.”

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Unwinding Woke: America’s Classless Act   With the notable and terrible exception of racial slavery and the caste system (which in itself was notably different from the European feudal model in form and scope), Americans consider the economic tiers of their society traversable, meaning that material endowments do not rigidly define an individual’s or family’s position. Americans instead tend to locate class, if at all, more in the manners, mores, and folkways of their particular subregion or social set. Youtube screenshot

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