News and Views: July 23, 2025
California’s “disaster recovery” plan isn’t about rebuilding homes—it’s about replacing homeowners with tenants and handing their land to corporate-government cartels.
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Immigrants Send $200 Billion Out Of The United States Every Year, Study Finds Many migrants qualify for government-funded benefits even as they send their paychecks back to their home countries.
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Columbia University Suspends, Expels, Revokes Degrees of Pro-Hamas Activists Who Seized Butler Library Columbia University has imposed severe disciplinary sanctions — including degree revocation — on upwards of 70 students who perpetrated an illegal seizure of campus property during the final weeks of the academic year and refused to surrender it unless school officials acceded to a list of five demands which, among other things, called for a boycott of Israel and divestment from armaments manufacturers. Image
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Charles was not making a case for mere cultural relativism, different strokes for different folks. He was actively championing the Islamic worldview as superior to that of the post-Enlightenment West. It ‘can teach us today a way of understanding and living in the world which Christianity itself is the poorer for having lost’, he said. ‘Western civilisation has become increasingly acquisitive and exploitative in defiance of our environmental responsibilities’, he continued, before claiming that ‘we can relearn from Islam’ a ‘wider, deeper, more careful understanding of our world’. Image
British Law Firm Goes Full Hamas...'Riverway to the Sea' vows 'Death to Zionism' The British law firm formerly known Riverway has given itself the new and more fitting name of Riverway to the Sea (get it? River? Sea? From the river to the sea?) but it’s under the same old management, consisting of lawyers — both barristers and solicitors — who hate Israel and love Hamas, and want to see the Jewish state disappear, to be replaced by a 23rd Arab state.
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'Catastrophic': AI Agent Goes Rogue, Wipes Out Company's Entire Database In a stunning display of AI insubordination, Replit deleted Lemkin's live company database - and it did so while explicit instructions were in place prohibiting any changes whatsoever. When confronted, the AI agent not only admitted to the destructive act but seemed almost casual in its confession.
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Swedish Priest Under Media Fire for Refusing To Wear Rainbow Vestment While the media paints him as acting from “a hidden minority-intolerant agenda” and accuses him of discriminating against the LGBT community in his parish, the priest insists he merely follows the liturgical rules of the church, and his doors remain open to anyone, but not to momentary political trends and sexual advertising.
“In the Church of Sweden, we have liturgical vestments that follow the church year. We actually have rules for that,” Persson explained. Anything other than white, red, green, and purple, depending on the liturgical season, is inconsistent with the Church’s official guidelines, he said.
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After years of coming up with ways to dodge the issue, the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) quietly changed its rules about eligibility for the sexes earlier this week. It will now ban "transgender women" from participating in all women's sports. That means that a man who thinks he is or pretends to be a woman can only play with the other guys, and women are safe to compete without worrying about men in their locker rooms or coming at them with unfair advantages on the court, on the field, on the track, in the pool, etc.
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The explosion of lab-grown stones from China has shaken up the sector, leaving established players struggling for relevance...
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