Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Rand Paul: Fauci acting like the Medieval Church with 'I represent science' declaration
Published November 29, 2021
Fauci's proclamations are more often 'public policy' than strictly science, senator says.
National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease Director Anthony Fauci invoked imagery of the all-powerful church of the Medieval era when he declared on CBS News, "I represent science", medical doctor and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul remarked Monday on "Fox News Primetime."
Paul, a doctor of ophthalmology who has clashed with the Brooklyn immunologist in Senate hearings multiple times in recent months, told Fox News Fauci's declaration was just the latest example of his self-important view of himself.
"When a government bureaucrat has the audacity and the arrogance to say they represent all of science, we should be running the other way," he told host Pete Hegseth. "It conjures up images of the Medieval Church and their repression of science. Science has nothing to do with having obedience to any kind of government dogma."
Dr. Anthony Fauci was accused of constant flip flopping in a lengthy Twitter thread. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool) (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool)
Paul said Americans should, however, listen closely to Fauci as most of his public comments and requests are not principally scientific:
"He isn’t talking about a study on this or a study on that. He is talking about ‘wear a mask.' When you talk about peer-reviewed study of masks, one done in Denmark showed [masking edicts] didn’t work," the Republican lawmaker said.
Paul added that in Sweden, 1.8 million children did not wear masks for the past two years and that there have been "zero" COVID infections among them, with a relatively small rate among their classroom educators.
"It turned out the teachers are infected the same rate as the rest of the public," he said, adding that Fauci's proclamations are instead public policy and not scientific prescriptions.
On Sunday, Fauci told CBS that critics of government mandates offer a "distinctive anti-science flavor" in their objections.
"If they get up and criticize science, nobody is going to know what they’re talking about. But if they get up and really aim their bullets at Tony Fauci, well, people could recognize there is a person there," he said.
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 04: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky (L) and NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci arrive ahead of testifying before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee about the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on November 04, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
"So it’s easy to criticize. But they are really criticizing science. Because I represent science."
Earlier this year, Paul asked Fauci under oath if he would like to retract previous testimony to the Senate on NIH support for gain-of-function experimentation in Wuhan, China, where coronavirus originated.
Fauci instead claimed Paul did "not know what [he] is talking about" and the pair continue to have a contentious relationship.
In November, Paul told Fauci in another hearing that his agency scrubbed a reference to gain of function from its website and that the bureaucrat's "protestations… have worn thin" with the public.
Monday, November 29, 2021
A billion Catholics, COVID vaccines, and the duty to refuse injection
Nov8 by Jon Rappoport
Unless fear and comfort are the true pillars of the Church
by Jon Rappoport
November 8, 2021
Let me start by saying, everybody acts from faith. Faith in something, no matter what it is.
A billion Catholics are not the Vatican.
The Vatican, through the Pope, has made its position clear: take the COVID vaccines.
But then there are the consciences of a billion of the faithful.
In prior articles in this series (archive here), I’ve made it clear that COVID vaccines have, in fact, relied on a fetal-tissue cell line, HEK 293, for testing, and the cell line was originally obtained via an abortion.
Moreover, the evidence points to an abortion in which the infant was delivered from her mother’s womb, alive, and then was killed by a doctor removing her kidneys for fetal tissue. Infanticide. Murder.
Does it matter whether the abortion and the murder were committed yesterday, or in a room in a hospital in the Netherlands, in 1972? Are a billion Catholics willing to say, “It was so long ago, it doesn’t have meaning anymore”?
Is that a reasonable position of Faith?
My understanding is this: Catholics believe Jesus commanded the founding of His Church, which is their Church. Does that count now? Is it wrong to contemplate what He would advise? As opposed, for example, to what Anthony Fauci would advise?
I also understand the Pope, in telling Catholics to take the vaccine, was not claiming to speak from a position of infallibility. Doesn’t that leave the door open to the consciences of the billion members of the Church?
Is it archaic to speak about conscience? Is religious membership really an elaborate charade, a social stage play?
Suppose a high member of the Vatican said to the world: “There are many medical experiments that are used to develop and test vaccines and drugs. In these experiments, which have been performed for a hundred years, doctors remove an infant from his mother’s womb, ALIVE, and then take his kidneys or make a hole in his skull and vacuum out his brain, or cut out his heart. These killings are very real. Those of our faith should think deeply about whether they want to receive the medicines and vaccines associated with these murders…”
What would happen?
Suppose this esteemed member of the Vatican made this announcement, replete with details, every day for a month?
What would happen?
Suppose this esteemed priest decided to keep making the announcement until sufficient members of the congregation, worldwide, stepped forward, visibly, and made their voices heard and refused the vaccine?
What would happen?
As some people are reading this, they will answer, “This esteemed priest would be murdered.”
Yes? And? So?
Don’t the sacred vows of a priest go beyond loyalty to this world? Isn’t his conviction to his faith a thing larger than his life on Earth?
Would you expect or want a priest, who serves as a pipeline to God for his congregation, to be a materialist, a person inextricably bound to his comforts and duties here?
If by joining the Church as a member, a person comes closer to God, is he asked to pay no price for that gift? Is he asked to incur no risk in his life?
The Church is, in fact, founded on matters of life and death. That is where faith encounters a reckoning. And this is true of all religions.
But at their most profound pinnacle of teaching, where “the outer garments” are cut away, religions guide the individual soul to come to his own decision about what his faith means, and how far he will go in standing with it.
One person, a billion people.
The Power is always there.
One step across the threshold.
~
George Fox, the fiery 17th century preacher who founded the Quakers movement in England, traveled the countryside exhorting thousands of people to find Christ and God for themselves: “Why should any man have power over any other man’s faith, seeing [that] Christ Himself is the author of it?”
At the time, there were laws forbidding “unauthorized worship.” Fox constantly broke them. He was frequently arrested—at least twice for blasphemy, and on one of those occasions it was suggested he should be sentenced to death. Parliament intervened on his behalf.
He performed many healings and wrote a book listing and describing them. The book disappeared, and no copies ever surfaced.
Thinking about George Fox and his courage as background and example…
Now, in 2021, should believers grasp a destiny that outdistances the fear of being banned from Facebook; being “attacked” online for expressing an opinion about an election audit; being fired from a job; being “canceled” for telling a joke?
Has the need for security and comfort expanded to such a degree that people of faith are willing to abandon their beliefs on a moment’s notice?
~
If today you picked a few thousand people of faith and sent them back to the time of Moses, to live as Egyptians under the Pharaoh; it’s quite possible that when God loosed the 10 plagues against them—“water turning to blood, frogs, lice, flies, livestock pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness and the killing of firstborn children”; the Pharaoh would simply say: “The only adverse effects are minor pain and swelling at the injection site and transient fatigue”; and these people would believe him.
How much faith is required in order to open one’s eyes?
And having opened them, to have a voice and make that voice heard?
And to endure against the consequences, because faith is not ultimately invested in material things?
~
Book of Revelation: “And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter; The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks…”
For those who believe these words, the majestic scope of these words, who take them as truth—
What will they do now?
Will they sit still, or will they rise up and take action?
Federal judge blocks Biden administration's vaccine mandate for healthcare workers in 10 states
Jake Epstein
President Joe Biden speaking about the authorization of the COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus on November 3, 2021, in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
A federal judge blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a vaccine mandate in 10 states.
The injunction applied to workers at Medicare- and Medicaid-certified medical facilities.
The states had sued the Biden administration and said the mandate was unconstitutional.
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A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a vaccine mandate for healthcare workers in 10 states.
Judge Matthew Schelp of the Eastern District of Missouri issued the preliminary injunction for workers at Medicare- and Medicaid-certified medical facilities in Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota, court documents said.
The 10 states had sued the Biden administration, saying the vaccine mandate was unconstitutional.
Schelp — whom President Donald Trump nominated to the bench in 2019 — said the public would benefit from the ruling "because it would ensure that federal agencies do not extend their power beyond the express delegation from Congress."
He said the mandate would impose a burden "on the ability of healthcare facilities to provide proper care, and thus, save lives."
Biden has issued different mandates to get more Americans vaccinated against COVID-19
Federal vaccine mandates have been the target of various lawsuits filed over the past few months as states push back on attempts by the Biden administration to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
Earlier in November, over half of US states — mostly Republican-led — filed or joined lawsuits opposing a vaccine mandate for employees of large companies, Insider's Kevin Shalvey previously reported.
Biden, and the executive branch, have implemented vaccine requirements at a few different levels of government. The president issued executive orders requiring federal workers and federal contractors to get vaccinated, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a since paused rule requiring workers at companies with 100 or more employees to get vaccinated or take weekly COVID-19 tests, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a regulation requiring healthcare workers at facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid to get vaccinated.
A federal judge blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a vaccine mandate in 10 states.
The injunction applied to workers at Medicare- and Medicaid-certified medical facilities.
The states had sued the Biden administration and said the mandate was unconstitutional.
Get a daily selection of our top stories based on your reading preferences.
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a vaccine mandate for healthcare workers in 10 states.
Judge Matthew Schelp of the Eastern District of Missouri issued the preliminary injunction for workers at Medicare- and Medicaid-certified medical facilities in Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota, court documents said.
The 10 states had sued the Biden administration, saying the vaccine mandate was unconstitutional.
Schelp — whom President Donald Trump nominated to the bench in 2019 — said the public would benefit from the ruling "because it would ensure that federal agencies do not extend their power beyond the express delegation from Congress."
He said the mandate would impose a burden "on the ability of healthcare facilities to provide proper care, and thus, save lives."
Biden has issued different mandates to get more Americans vaccinated against COVID-19
Federal vaccine mandates have been the target of various lawsuits filed over the past few months as states push back on attempts by the Biden administration to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
Earlier in November, over half of US states — mostly Republican-led — filed or joined lawsuits opposing a vaccine mandate for employees of large companies, Insider's Kevin Shalvey previously reported.
Biden, and the executive branch, have implemented vaccine requirements at a few different levels of government. The president issued executive orders requiring federal workers and federal contractors to get vaccinated, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a since paused rule requiring workers at companies with 100 or more employees to get vaccinated or take weekly COVID-19 tests, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a regulation requiring healthcare workers at facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid to get vaccinated.
Sunday, November 28, 2021
World is put on high alert over the Omicron coronavirus variant
By Ivana Kottasová, CNN
Updated 3:44 AM ET, Sun November 28, 2021
Omicron variant sparks travel bans and worries scientists 02:20
(CNN)As fears mount over the newly identified coronavirus variant Omicron, governments around the world are scrambling to protect their citizens from a potential outbreak.
The new mutation, which is potentially more transmissible, was first discovered in South Africa and has since been detected in Australia, United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Czech Republic and Hong Kong.
Israel is banning all foreigners from entering the country in response to Omicron fears, authorities announced Saturday. The ban, pending government approval, is expected to last two weeks. Israelis returning from a country on the red list, which includes countries in southern Africa, will be required to isolate for seven days in a designated hotel.
There are seven suspected cases of the variant in Israel, in addition to one confirmed case found in a person returning from Malawi, its Health Ministry said.
Two Omicron cases have been detected in Australia after travelers from southern Africa arrived in Sydney, the New South Wales Health Ministry said Sunday.
The two travelers are in isolation along with 12 other passengers who came from southern Africa, the ministry said.
Both cases are people who are fully vaccinated and asymptomatic, it added.
Australia has banned the entry of foreigners who have traveled to nine southern African countries in the past 14 days, including South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, and Zimbabwe.
Meanwhile, South Korea has imposed restrictions on travelers from eight southern African countries, its Disease Control and Prevention Agency announced Saturday.
Foreign nationals traveling from South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini, Malawi and Mozambique are banned from entering South Korea, the agency said. The issuing of visas for nationals from those countries has been suspended until further notice, it added.
Korean nationals entering from those countries must quarantine in a government-designated facility for 10 days.
What's happening in Europe?
Europe is also frantically imposing travel bans and scrambling to ramp up its coronavirus sequencing abilities after several countries on the continent reported suspected Omicron cases.
A suspected case of the variant was discovered in Innsbruck, western Austria, after a traveler who recently arrived from South Africa tested positive for Covid-19, the Tyrol state government said Saturday.
Samples from the case have been sent to the capital of Vienna, and results are expected in the coming days, authorities said.
Meanwhile, scientists at the Regional Hospital in Liberec, Czech Republic, told CNN Saturday that one case of the Omicron variant was detected in a traveler who arrived from Namibia. Eight other people that traveled with the infected person are also being checked for Covid-19 and the variant, according to CNN affiliate CNN Prima.
By Saturday afternoon, two cases were confirmed in the UK, two others in Germany and one in Italy. Dozens more are suspected in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. The top infectious disease expert in the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci, also said it was possible the new variant was already in his country but was yet to be detected.
UK's Secretary of State for Health Sajid Javid said the two cases detected in the UK were linked to travel to southern Africa, the region where the Omicron variant was first detected. "These individuals are self-isolating with their households while further testing and contact tracing is underway," he added.
The German cases, identified in Munich, are two passengers who arrived from Cape Town on November 24, the Bavarian Ministry of Health said in a statement on Saturday.
"The individuals have been in domestic isolation since Nov. 25 following a positive PCR test. Following reports of the new variant, the two individuals had the foresight to arrange for themselves to be tested for the variant," authorities said.
The Italian case is in the southwestern region of Campania, a passenger who arrived from Mozambique, Italy's Health Ministry said in a statement. It didn't disclose the date of the passenger's arrival or nationality.
Earlier on Saturday, German authorities had identified a "suspected" case of the Omicron variant in Frankfurt from another passenger who returned from South Africa. The local health department said it should be able to confirm the full sequencing of the virus in this patient on Monday.
Dutch health authorities are investigating whether 61 people traveling from South Africa who tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday were infected with the new variant.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that no known Omicron cases have been identified in the United States, and that if the variant emerges, the agency expects that cases would be quickly identified through the nation's variant surveillance system.
The French government extended its suspension of flights from seven southern African countries on Sunday. The ban was scheduled to be in place until midnight on Sunday evening but was extended to midnight Tuesday evening.
Fauci, the CDC director, told NBC Saturday, "I would not be surprised if it is [in the US], we have not detected it yet, but when you have a virus that is showing this degree of transmissibility and you're having travel-related cases they've noted in other places already, when you have a virus like this, it almost invariably is going to go all over."
The World Health Organization (WHO) said late on Friday that early evidence suggest the Omicron variant, first identified in South Africa, could pose an increased risk of reinfection and said that some of the mutations detected on the variant were concerning.
GGD Kennemerland, the municipal health service responsible for the Amsterdam Schiphol airport, said the positive test results would be examined as soon as possible. Those who tested positive were sent into isolation at a nearby hotel, the Dutch authorities added.
The discovery of the new variant has sparked fears around the world. A number of countries have imposed travel bans and the global markets plunged.
Travel doors slam shut as new Covid variant triggers alarm, stranding hundreds of passengers
But while WHO designated the Omicron a "variant of concern" on Friday, it stressed that more research is needed to determine whether the variant is more contagious, whether it causes more severe disease, and whether it could evade vaccines.
"This variant has a large number of mutations and some of these mutations have some worrying characteristics," Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO's technical lead for Covid-19, said in a statement on Friday.
"Right now there are many studies that are underway ... so far there's little information but those studies are underway so we need researchers to have the time to carry those out and WHO will inform the public and our partners and our member states as soon as we have more information," she added.
Lawrence Young, a virologist and a professor of molecular oncology at Warwick Medical School in the United Kingdom, said the Omicron variant was "very worrying."
"It is the most heavily mutated version of the virus we have seen to date. This variant carries some changes we've seen previously in other variants but never all together in one virus. It also has novel mutations," Young said in a statement.
The variant has a high number of mutations, about 50 overall. Crucially, South African genomic scientists said Thursday more than 30 of the mutations were found in the spike protein -- the structure the virus uses to get into the cells they attack.
What we know about the Omicron variant
Scientists have praised South African health authorities for their quick reaction to a Covid-19 outbreak in the country's Gauteng province, which led to the discovery of the new variant.
When cases in the province started to rise at a higher rate than elsewhere, health experts focused on sequencing samples from those who tested positive, which allowed them to quickly identify the B.1.1.529 variant.
Sharon Peacock, a professor of Public Health and Microbiology at the University of Cambridge, said the South African Health Ministry and its scientists "are to be applauded in their response, their science, and in sounding the alarm to the world."
She added the development shows how important it is to have excellent sequencing capabilities and to share expertise with others. That message was reinforced by WHO, which has on Friday called on countries to enhance their surveillance and sequencing efforts to better understand coronavirus variants.
CNN's Martin Goillandeau, David McKenzie, Ghazi Balkiz, Laura Smith-Spark, Sharon Braithwaite, Antonia Mortensen, Tim Lister, Nadine Schmidt, Mia Alberti, AJ Davis, Jonny Hallam, Jake Kwon, Hillary Whiteman and Lauren Lau contributed reporting.
Saturday, November 27, 2021
Thursday, November 25, 2021
THE POPE, ENVIRONMENT, AND SUNDAY LAW
23rd July 2021
News and Prophecy Staff
For years, the Vatican has promoted the pope’s Laudato Si’ message. This plan, “designed to encourage strategic actors to commit to achieving total sustainability with Pope Francis’s environmental advocacy as a guide,” kicked into gear this year (CruxNow, May 25, 2021). “Pope Francis said humanity has a duty to future generations to overcome selfishness, indifference, and ‘irresponsible’ habits, asking faithful to respect creation and ‘inaugurate a lifestyle and a society that is finally eco-sustainable.’” According to a Vatican official, the plan is designed to be seven years long because of the biblical significance of the number seven. Year one is a planning year, followed by five years of environmental action. The final, seventh year “will be a ‘sabbatical’ year dedicated to ‘praise and thanking God.’”
The idea is to begin with Catholic churches and organizations and then bring in other churches and organizations, ultimately involving the whole world. Integral to the plan is a mandatory weekly day of rest. “The Pope’s encyclical calls for Sunday to be implemented as a weekly day of rest to save the environment” (OpenPr.com, December 11, 2020).
Bible prophecy foretells the rise of an end-time “beast power” in central Europe. This “beast” will be a powerful political/military/economic leader who will work in concert with a powerful religious leader (see Revelation 13). Ultimately, the religious leader will cause “all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name” (vv. 16–17). Could mandatory Sunday worship be part of this mysterious “mark” of the beast, and could Francis’ Laudato Si’ help bring this about? For more insight, watch our telecast “The Mark of the Beast Is Here.”
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Fifty Years in the Church of Rome
Monday, 26 November 2012
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CHARLES CHINIQUY
CHARLES CHINIQUY
CHAPTER 61
Every time I met President Lincoln I wondered how such elevation of thought and such childish
simplicity could be found in the same man. After my interviews with him many times, I said to myself:
"How can this rail-splitter have so easily raised himself to the highest range of human thought and
philosophy?"
The secret of this was, that Lincoln had spent a great part of his life at the school of Christ, and that he
meditated his sublime teachings to an extent unsuspected by the world. I found in him the most perfect
type of Christianity I ever met. Professedly, he was neither a strict Presbyterian, nor a Baptist, nor a
Methodist; but he was the embodiment of all which is more perfect and Christian in them. His religion
was the very essence of what God wants in man. It was from Christ Himself he had learned to love God
and his neighbour, as it was from Christ he had learned the dignity and the value of man. "Ye are all
brethren, the children of God," was his great motto.
It was from the Gospel that he had learned his principles of equality, fraternity, and liberty, as it was
from the Gospel he had learned that sublime, childish simplicity which, alone, and for ever, won the
admiration and affection of all those who approached him. I could cite many facts to illustrate this, but I
will give only one, not to be too long: it was taken from the Memoirs of Mr. Bateman, Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Illinois.
"Mr. Lincoln paused: for long minutes, his features surcharged with emotion. Then he rose and walked
up and down the reception room, in the effort to retain or regain his self-possession. Stopping at last, he
said, with a trembling voice and his cheeks wet with tears: I know there is a God, and that He hates
injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming and I know that His hand is in it. If He has a place and
work for me, and I think He has, I believe I am ready! I am nothing, but truth is everything! I know I am right, because I know that liberty is right: for Christ teaches it, and Christ is God. I have told them that a house divided against itself cannot stand, and Christ and reason say the same thing, and they will find it so. Douglas does not care whether slavery is voted up or down. But God cares, and humanity cares, and I care. And with God's help, I will not fail. I may not see the end, but it will come, and I shall be vindicated; and those men will see that they have not read their Bible right! Does it not appear strange that men can ignore the moral aspect of this contest? A revelation could not make it plainer to me that slavery, or the Government, must be destroyed. The future would be something awful, as I look at it, but for this ROCK on which I stand (alluding to the Gospel book he still held in his hand). It seems as if God had borne with slavery until the very teachers of religion had come to defend it from the Bible, and to claim for it a Divine character and sanction. And now the cup of iniquity is full, and the vials of wrath will be poured out.'"
Mr. Bateman adds: "After this, the conversation was continued for a long time. Everything he said was
of a very deep, tender, and religious tone, and all was tinged with a touching melancholy. He repeatedly
referred to his conviction 'that the day of wrath was at hand,' and that he was to be an actor in the
struggle which would end in the overthrow of slavery, though he might not live to see the end. After
further reference to a belief in Divine Providence, and the fact of God, in history, the conversation
turned upon prayer. He freely stated his belief in the duty, privilege, and efficacy of prayer; and he
intimated, in no unmistakable terms, that he had sought, in that way, the divine guidance and favour."
The effect of this conversation upon the mind of Mr. Bateman, a Christian gentleman whom Mr. Lincoln profoundly respected, was to convince him that Mr. Lincoln had, in his quiet way, found a path to the Christian standpoint, that he had found God, and rested on the eternal truth of God. As the two men were about to separate, Mr. Bateman remarked: "I had not supposed that you were accustomed to think so much upon this class of subjects; certainly your friends generally are ignorant of the sentiments you have expressed to me."
He quickly replied: "I know they are, but I think more on these subjects than upon all others, and I have
done so for years; and I am willing you should know it."*
More than once I felt as if I were in the presence of an old prophet, when listening to his views about the future destinies of the United States. In one of my last interviews with him, I was filled with an
admiration which it would be difficult to express, when I heard the following views and predictions:
Every time I met President Lincoln I wondered how such elevation of thought and such childish
simplicity could be found in the same man. After my interviews with him many times, I said to myself:
"How can this rail-splitter have so easily raised himself to the highest range of human thought and
philosophy?"
The secret of this was, that Lincoln had spent a great part of his life at the school of Christ, and that he
meditated his sublime teachings to an extent unsuspected by the world. I found in him the most perfect
type of Christianity I ever met. Professedly, he was neither a strict Presbyterian, nor a Baptist, nor a
Methodist; but he was the embodiment of all which is more perfect and Christian in them. His religion
was the very essence of what God wants in man. It was from Christ Himself he had learned to love God
and his neighbour, as it was from Christ he had learned the dignity and the value of man. "Ye are all
brethren, the children of God," was his great motto.
It was from the Gospel that he had learned his principles of equality, fraternity, and liberty, as it was
from the Gospel he had learned that sublime, childish simplicity which, alone, and for ever, won the
admiration and affection of all those who approached him. I could cite many facts to illustrate this, but I
will give only one, not to be too long: it was taken from the Memoirs of Mr. Bateman, Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Illinois.
"Mr. Lincoln paused: for long minutes, his features surcharged with emotion. Then he rose and walked
up and down the reception room, in the effort to retain or regain his self-possession. Stopping at last, he
said, with a trembling voice and his cheeks wet with tears: I know there is a God, and that He hates
injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming and I know that His hand is in it. If He has a place and
work for me, and I think He has, I believe I am ready! I am nothing, but truth is everything! I know I am right, because I know that liberty is right: for Christ teaches it, and Christ is God. I have told them that a house divided against itself cannot stand, and Christ and reason say the same thing, and they will find it so. Douglas does not care whether slavery is voted up or down. But God cares, and humanity cares, and I care. And with God's help, I will not fail. I may not see the end, but it will come, and I shall be vindicated; and those men will see that they have not read their Bible right! Does it not appear strange that men can ignore the moral aspect of this contest? A revelation could not make it plainer to me that slavery, or the Government, must be destroyed. The future would be something awful, as I look at it, but for this ROCK on which I stand (alluding to the Gospel book he still held in his hand). It seems as if God had borne with slavery until the very teachers of religion had come to defend it from the Bible, and to claim for it a Divine character and sanction. And now the cup of iniquity is full, and the vials of wrath will be poured out.'"
Mr. Bateman adds: "After this, the conversation was continued for a long time. Everything he said was
of a very deep, tender, and religious tone, and all was tinged with a touching melancholy. He repeatedly
referred to his conviction 'that the day of wrath was at hand,' and that he was to be an actor in the
struggle which would end in the overthrow of slavery, though he might not live to see the end. After
further reference to a belief in Divine Providence, and the fact of God, in history, the conversation
turned upon prayer. He freely stated his belief in the duty, privilege, and efficacy of prayer; and he
intimated, in no unmistakable terms, that he had sought, in that way, the divine guidance and favour."
The effect of this conversation upon the mind of Mr. Bateman, a Christian gentleman whom Mr. Lincoln profoundly respected, was to convince him that Mr. Lincoln had, in his quiet way, found a path to the Christian standpoint, that he had found God, and rested on the eternal truth of God. As the two men were about to separate, Mr. Bateman remarked: "I had not supposed that you were accustomed to think so much upon this class of subjects; certainly your friends generally are ignorant of the sentiments you have expressed to me."
He quickly replied: "I know they are, but I think more on these subjects than upon all others, and I have
done so for years; and I am willing you should know it."*
More than once I felt as if I were in the presence of an old prophet, when listening to his views about the future destinies of the United States. In one of my last interviews with him, I was filled with an
admiration which it would be difficult to express, when I heard the following views and predictions:
Monday, November 22, 2021
Sunday, November 21, 2021
The Temple of God
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
I Corinthians 3:16,17.
Service members struggle to acquire religious exemptions for vaccines
By Christopher Hutton
November 21, 2021 - 1:20 PM
Military personnel claim they have been struggling to get religious exemptions to the military vaccine mandate approved.
With the deadline for mandated military vaccinations looming, service members must get vaccinated or seek an exemption. For those seeking religious exemptions, the attempt has been a struggle.
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“It’s a giant mess,” Sean Timmons, a Houston attorney representing more than 100 military personnel seeking religious exemptions, told the Washington Times. “Nobody knows what’s going on. It’s been a complete and utter disaster every step of the way.”
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According to the Washington Times, at least 4,933 airmen filed waiver applications, estimated to be the most filed in history. As of Nov. 3, none of the applications had been approved.
The Army also reported a higher number of requests for religious exemptions.
“The Army’s religious accommodation process related to medical care is not new. While the scale of religious exemption requests related to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate may become higher in volume than previous requests, the Army will continue to handle all religious accommodation requests pursuant to established Department of Defense and Army policy,” Army spokeswoman Heather J. Hagan told the Washington Times.
The inability to respond to a lack of religious exemption approvals has sparked several lawsuits. Nearly three dozen Navy SEALS and sailors joined a lawsuit that claims the mandate violated their First Amendment rights because they were not granted a religious exemption.
As of early November, 93% of the Marines and 97% of the Air Force had received the vaccine, claims Pentagon press secretary John Kirby. Last week, the Navy reported that 96% of active-duty sailors had been vaccinated, with 99.5% having received one dose.
A memo filed by Army Secretary Christine Wormuth states that any military personnel who decline the vaccine will be barred from being promoted, reenlisting, and receiving enlistment bonuses and tuition assistance.
Active-duty members of the Army will have to be vaccinated by Dec. 15, while active-duty members of the Air Force will need to be vaccinated by Nov. 2 and active-duty Navy sailors by Nov. 28. The Navy deadline also applies to Marine Corps members.
Non-active-duty Marine Corps and Navy Reserve service members must be fully vaccinated by Dec. 28. Reserve Air Force personnel need to get the shot by Dec. 2, and Army reservists need it by June 30, 2022.
Saturday, November 20, 2021
KTF: Vaccine Parallels, Part 3 - What Should a Christian Do?
Note:
Program begins @ Approximately 30:00 Mins. Timestamp.
Goya Foods CEO rips 'big government' for dismantling nation, warns 'hard times' ahead
Published November 18, 2021
Goya Foods CEO rips 'big government' for dismantling nation, warns 'hard times' ahead
Big government has 'stepping in as our competitor' and 'incentivizing' people not to work, Bob Unanue says
By Alicia Warren FOXBusiness
Goya CEO slams 'big government' for dismantling nation, warns 'hard times' ahead
Goya CEO Bob Unanue argues the company has to deal with a competitor that 'prints money all day.'
Goya CEO Bob Unanue took a swipe at "big government" and warned of "hard times" ahead for consumers and employers as the U.S. sees mounting economic pressures that could lead to future challenges.
"We have an unfair competitive disadvantage with big government from one year to the next," Unanue told the "Varney & Co."
The criticism from the CEO comes as the country faces rising inflation, supply chain backlogs and labor shortages. A concoction of these economic issues has hurled yet another challenge at U.S. companies.
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Highlighting the dramatic rise in prices, Unanue pointed out that the cost of a container of coconut water jumped from $1,800 to nearly $20,000 a container.
Goya products on supermarket shelves in New Jersey (FOX Business/ Talia Kaplan )
"The big backlog jam is from Asia to the United States. We’re not producing things here. We’re buying everything. So the demand for these products has spiked the price of transportation," he explained.
Unanue told FOX Business that the government has "stepped in as our competitor" and is "incentivizing" people not to work as the country’s largest Hispanic-owned food company grapples with employee shortages.
Goya CEO: Demand for products causing prices to spike amid inflation
Goya Foods President and CEO Bob Unanue provides insight into the ongoing supply issue.
"Last year with COVID, we were working and we were a capitalist society. When the government stepped in and started printing money and giving it out and telling people, you don’t need a reason to get up in the morning," the Goya CEO argued.
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He noted that wages for warehouse and production workers have increased by about 70% since the onset of the pandemic as the company tries to work with limited employees.
"We are heading for hard times. We are dismantling this country. We’re getting soft. We have the government as our biggest competitor. Government needs to get out of the way and let us work," Unanue said.
FOX Business’ Talia Kaplan contributed to this report
Friday, November 19, 2021
Biden to transfer power to Harris while under anesthesia during colonoscopy
Jake Lahut
22 minutes ago
U.S. President Joe Biden talks to reporters as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi watches after the president met with Democratic lawmakers at the U.S. Capitol to promote his bipartisan infrastructure bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 1, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner
The White House announced that President Joe Biden will undergo a colonoscopy procedure on Friday and transfer his presidential duties to Vice President Kamala Harris while under anesthesia.
Biden's procedure comes as the House voted to pass his nearly $2 trillion social spending plan before sending it over to the Senate.
In 2019, the Trump White House handled the same procedure very differently, according to former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham. In her recent memoir, Grisham suggested that when Trump had to go in for a colonoscopy, he kept it secret from the public and refused anesthesia so he wouldn't have to transfer power to former Vice President Mike Pence.
In 2002, former President George W. Bush became the first US president to invoke section 3 of the 25th Amendment to temporarily transfer power to former Vice President Dick Cheney when he had to get a colonoscopy. Bush did the same again in 2007 for the same procedure.
Following several instances involving a vice president having to step in while a president was briefly incapacitated, the 25th Amendment was officially ratified in 1967 after two years of states voting on it.
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson was unable to invoke it for a medical procedure in 1965 because it wasn't ratified yet.
"It was 180 years ago, in the closing days of the Constitutional Convention, that the Founding Fathers debated the question of Presidential disability," Johnson said at the time. "John Dickinson of Delaware asked this question: 'What is the extent of the term 'disability' and who is to be the judge of it?' No one replied. It is hard to believe that until last week our Constitution provided no clear answer. Now, at last, the 25th amendment clarifies the crucial clause that provides for succession to the Presidency and for filling a Vice Presidential vacancy."
- President Joe Biden is undergoing a colonoscopy procedure.
- He will transfer power to VP Kamala Harris, according to the White House.
- This is the same procedure Trump kept secret to avoid giving Mike Pence temporary power, Stephanie Grisham suggested in her memoir.
The White House announced that President Joe Biden will undergo a colonoscopy procedure on Friday and transfer his presidential duties to Vice President Kamala Harris while under anesthesia.
Biden's procedure comes as the House voted to pass his nearly $2 trillion social spending plan before sending it over to the Senate.
In 2019, the Trump White House handled the same procedure very differently, according to former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham. In her recent memoir, Grisham suggested that when Trump had to go in for a colonoscopy, he kept it secret from the public and refused anesthesia so he wouldn't have to transfer power to former Vice President Mike Pence.
In 2002, former President George W. Bush became the first US president to invoke section 3 of the 25th Amendment to temporarily transfer power to former Vice President Dick Cheney when he had to get a colonoscopy. Bush did the same again in 2007 for the same procedure.
Following several instances involving a vice president having to step in while a president was briefly incapacitated, the 25th Amendment was officially ratified in 1967 after two years of states voting on it.
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson was unable to invoke it for a medical procedure in 1965 because it wasn't ratified yet.
"It was 180 years ago, in the closing days of the Constitutional Convention, that the Founding Fathers debated the question of Presidential disability," Johnson said at the time. "John Dickinson of Delaware asked this question: 'What is the extent of the term 'disability' and who is to be the judge of it?' No one replied. It is hard to believe that until last week our Constitution provided no clear answer. Now, at last, the 25th amendment clarifies the crucial clause that provides for succession to the Presidency and for filling a Vice Presidential vacancy."
Building Back Better
This article is about the United Nations program. For the slogan used by the 46th President of the United States, see Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign. For the proposed $7 trillion COVID-19 relief, future economic, and infrastructure package, see Build Back Better Plan. For the initiative by G7 countries, see Build Back Better World.
Building Back Better (BBB) is a strategy aimed at reducing the risk to the people of nations and communities in the wake of future disasters and shocks.[1] The BBB approach integrates disaster risk reduction measures into the restoration of physical infrastructure, social systems and shelter, and the revitalization of livelihoods, economies and the environment.[2]
BBB was first officially described in the United Nations' Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction document, which was agreed on at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held on March 14–18, 2015, in Sendai, Japan. It was adopted by UN member states as one of four priorities in the Sendai Framework for disaster recovery, risk reduction and sustainable development.[3] The UN General Assembly adopted this document on June 3, 2015.
Introduction of the concept to the UNEdit
At the opening speech of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, stated: "The word of "Build Back Better" sounds like a new concept, but this is common sense to the Japanese people, coming from our historical experiences in recovering from disaster and preparing for the future, and it has become an important part of the culture of Japan."[4]
During the negotiation period for the Sendai Framework, the concept of "Build Back Better" was proposed by the Japanese delegation as a holistic concept which states: "The principle of 'Build Back Better' is generally understood to use the disaster as a trigger to create more resilient nations and societies than before. This was through the implementation of well-balanced disaster risk reduction measures, including physical restoration of infrastructure, revitalization of livelihood and economy/industry, and the restoration of local culture and environment". The concept was fully agreed as one of the most important concepts among each state's delegates and embedded into the Sendai Framework.
This concept was included in chapter 7 of the book Disaster Risk Reduction for Economic Growth and Livelihood, Investing in Resilience and Development: "Recovery and reconstruction: An opportunity for sustainable growth through 'build back better'". BBB had been used by people involved in the recovery process from natural disasters, but had not been clearly described as a holistic concept before this book.
Concept
Benefits
WEF Founder Klaus Schwab calls for a ‘great narrative’ for humankind at meeting in Dubai
WEF Founder Klaus Schwab calls for a ‘great narrative’ for humankind at meeting in Dubai
The WEF is about to have a great narrative to go with the great reset agenda: perspective
Tim Hinchliffe
World Economic Forum (WEF) Founder Klaus Schwab launches the Great Narrative Meeting in Dubai, which aims to create a “story for the future” that will be the “great narrative for humankind.”
The WEF’s great reset is about to have a great narrative to further its agenda.
World Economic Forum (WEF) Founder Klaus Schwab launches the Great Narrative Meeting in Dubai, which aims to create a “story for the future” that will be the “great narrative for humankind.”
The WEF’s great reset is about to have a great narrative to further its agenda.
Klaus Schwab
“We are here to develop the great narrative, a story for the future” — Klaus Schwab, Great Narrative Meeting, 2021
Speaking at the Great Narrative Meeting in Dubai, United Arab Emirates today, Schwab announced his intent to develop a great narrative that public and private entities will use to shape the future of humanity.
“We are here to develop the great narrative, a story for the future,” said Schwab.
“In order to shape the future, you have first to imagine the future, you have to design the future, and then you have to execute it,” he added.
“Here, I think the next two days, we will look [to] how we imagine, how we design, how we execute the great narrative, how we define the story of our world for the future.”
“Let’s use our positive energy really to create a great narrative for humankind in the next two days” — Klaus Schwab, Great Narrative Meeting, 2021
“People have become much more self-centered, and to a certain extent, egoistic” — Klaus Schwab, Great Narrative Meeting, 2021
The Great Narrative Meeting runs for two days where the unelected globalists will brainstorm ideas on how to run society from the top-down, and they will publish their findings in a book called “The Great Narrative” in early 2022.
According to Schwab, there are three obstacles in the globalists’ way of shaping humanity’s future :
People have become much more self-centered, and to a certain extent, egoistic. In such a situation it is much more difficult to create a compromise because shaping the future, designing the future usually needs a common will of the people.
We all have become so much crisis-focused with the pandemic.
The world has become so complex. Simple solutions to complex problems do not suffice anymore.
On the complexity of the world, Schwab added, “You have today, not anymore separation between social, political, technological, ecological — it’s all interwoven.
“It’s very difficult in such a situation to really bring everybody together and to imagine and to design the future.”
“Designing the future usually needs a common will of the people” — Klaus Schwab, Great Narrative Meeting, 2021
With respect to the first obstacle Schwab mentions, the WEF’s great reset itself is a polarizing agenda that, if anything, has brought the common will of the people against it — not for it — people don’t like being told they’ll own nothing and they’ll be happy.
“We all have become so much crisis-focused with the pandemic” — Klaus Schwab, Great Narrative Meeting, 2021
Secondly, Schwab complains that we have all become too crisis-focused on the pandemic, yet the WEF publishes reports on the pandemic on a daily basis while constantly reminding people that the pandemic is a reason why we need a great reset.
“You have today, not anymore separation between social, political, technological, ecological — it’s all interwoven” — Klaus Schwab, Great Narrative Meeting, 2021
And to Schwab’s third obstacle of the complexity growing out of not having separation between government, business, and science — that is exactly what the WEF strives to accomplish — to be the global organization for public and private stakeholder collaborations, which is a closer merger of corporation and state.
“We are here to develop the great narrative, a story for the future” — Klaus Schwab, Great Narrative Meeting, 2021
Speaking at the Great Narrative Meeting in Dubai, United Arab Emirates today, Schwab announced his intent to develop a great narrative that public and private entities will use to shape the future of humanity.
“We are here to develop the great narrative, a story for the future,” said Schwab.
“In order to shape the future, you have first to imagine the future, you have to design the future, and then you have to execute it,” he added.
“Here, I think the next two days, we will look [to] how we imagine, how we design, how we execute the great narrative, how we define the story of our world for the future.”
“Let’s use our positive energy really to create a great narrative for humankind in the next two days” — Klaus Schwab, Great Narrative Meeting, 2021
“People have become much more self-centered, and to a certain extent, egoistic” — Klaus Schwab, Great Narrative Meeting, 2021
The Great Narrative Meeting runs for two days where the unelected globalists will brainstorm ideas on how to run society from the top-down, and they will publish their findings in a book called “The Great Narrative” in early 2022.
According to Schwab, there are three obstacles in the globalists’ way of shaping humanity’s future :
People have become much more self-centered, and to a certain extent, egoistic. In such a situation it is much more difficult to create a compromise because shaping the future, designing the future usually needs a common will of the people.
We all have become so much crisis-focused with the pandemic.
The world has become so complex. Simple solutions to complex problems do not suffice anymore.
On the complexity of the world, Schwab added, “You have today, not anymore separation between social, political, technological, ecological — it’s all interwoven.
“It’s very difficult in such a situation to really bring everybody together and to imagine and to design the future.”
“Designing the future usually needs a common will of the people” — Klaus Schwab, Great Narrative Meeting, 2021
With respect to the first obstacle Schwab mentions, the WEF’s great reset itself is a polarizing agenda that, if anything, has brought the common will of the people against it — not for it — people don’t like being told they’ll own nothing and they’ll be happy.
“We all have become so much crisis-focused with the pandemic” — Klaus Schwab, Great Narrative Meeting, 2021
Secondly, Schwab complains that we have all become too crisis-focused on the pandemic, yet the WEF publishes reports on the pandemic on a daily basis while constantly reminding people that the pandemic is a reason why we need a great reset.
“You have today, not anymore separation between social, political, technological, ecological — it’s all interwoven” — Klaus Schwab, Great Narrative Meeting, 2021
And to Schwab’s third obstacle of the complexity growing out of not having separation between government, business, and science — that is exactly what the WEF strives to accomplish — to be the global organization for public and private stakeholder collaborations, which is a closer merger of corporation and state.
House pushes vote on Build Back Better to Friday due to record-breaking McCarthy speech
BY SARAH EWALL-WICE, CAROLINE LINTON, MELISSA QUINN
UPDATED ON: NOVEMBER 19, 2021 / 5:22 AM / CBS NEWS
The House delayed the vote on President Biden's signature Build Back Better social spending plan until Friday as Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke at extraordinary length. He wound up setting a record for the longest speech on the House floor.
McCarthy wrapped up his remarks at 5:10 a.m. Friday, eight hours and thirty-two minutes after he began, eclipsing the eight-hour-seven-minute mark set by Nancy Pelosi in a 2018 speech about the "DACA" program for immigrants. Only a handful of representatives were still in the chamber.
The House adjourned a minute later and was to reconvene at 8 a.m. Friday.
McCarthy's high-energy speech, featuring a wide variety of attacks on Democrats and Pelosi, the House speaker, capped off a busy evening on Capitol Hill.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its cost estimate for the bill. Several moderate Democrats had said they wanted to wait for that score before they voted.
At least two of the moderates who were holding out for the CBO score said Thursday night that they would vote for the bill and another moderate, Congressman Henry Cuellar, of Texas, also indicated he would.
But Democrats' handle on the measure remained razor-thin. Representative Jared Golden, of Maine, was still expressing reservations and, with the Democrats' slim majority, they can only afford to lose three votes. No Republicans are likely to support the legislation.
The CBO said it would increase the deficit by more than $367 billion over 10 years. But the estimate did not include the revenue that could be generated from increasing IRS enforcement, which the CBO suggested would be $207 billion.
In this image from House Television, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, of California, speaks on the House floor during debate on the Democrats' expansive social and environment bill on November 18, 2021.HOUSE TELEVISION VIA AP
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen welcomed the CBO's analysis. Noting that the Treasury Department estimates that the crackdown on tax evaders would raise $400 billion, she said in a statement that the combined CBO score, Joint Committee on Taxation estimates and her own department's analysis "make it clear that Build Back Better is fully paid for, and in fact will reduce our nation's debt over time by generating more than $2 trillion through reforms that ask the wealthiest Americans and large corporations to pay their fair share."
The CBO has been releasing estimates on individual components of the Build Back Better Act over the past few weeks, but did not address how much money the legislation would raise, or its cost, until Thursday.
Overall, the CBO estimates the legislation would result in spending $1.63 trillion. The office said changes to the tax code and other provisions would generate more than $1.26 trillion in revenue and suggested increased IRS enforcement would add $207 billion in revenue.
Some of the CBO figures have come in lower than Biden administration estimates. The cost of universal pre-K and affordable child care would be roughly $382 billion, the agency found, compared to the bill's line item figure of $400 billion. Prescription drug reforms would save nearly $300 billion — $50 billion more than the White House estimated. Other estimates were closer: Both put affordable housing-related costs at roughly $150 billion. And the CBO said expanding Medicare to include hearing would cost $36 billion, while the White House said it would be $35 billion.
The CBO also estimated that a four-week paid leave included in the House version of the bill would cost $205 billion. That provision was not included in the revised White House framework because paid leave had been dropped from the bill but was later partially restored by lawmakers.
The White House, which estimated its framework would cost $1.75 trillion, claims it would reduce the deficit over time, generating more than $2.1 trillion over 10 years.
After the House vote on Build Back Better, the bill will head over to the Senate, where the Democrats' 50-seat majority will surely lead to more changes.
Jack Turman and Brian Dakss contributed to this report.
Thursday, November 18, 2021
The War on Science and the 20th Century Descent of Man
Cynthia Chung
October 30, 2021
© Photo: Wikimedia
Huxley makes it crystal clear that he considers the world to be overpopulated, and that science and progress cannot be free to advance without limits.
In Part 1 the question was discussed what was Aldous’ real intention in writing the Brave New World; was it meant as an exhortation, an inevitable prophecy or as an Open Conspiracy? An Open Conspiracy closely linked to not only H.G. Wells, who clearly laid out such a vision in his book by the same title, published in 1928, but a vision also in the vein of Aldous’ famous grandfather Thomas Huxley “Darwin’s bulldog” and mentor to Wells.
It is from here that we will continue to discuss what exactly were Aldous’ views on such matters, did he in fact believe in the need for a scientific dictatorship? A scientific caste system? Was he actually warning the people that such a dystopia would occur if we did not correct our course or was it all part of a mass psychological conditioning for what was regarded as inevitable, and that Aldous’ role was rather to “soften the transition” as much as possible towards a “dictatorship without tears”?
The War on Science
“ ‘A New Theory of Biology’ was the title of the paper which Mustapha Mond had just finished reading. He sat for some time, meditatively frowning, then picked up his pen and wrote across the title-page: ‘The author’s mathematical treatment of the conception of purpose is novel and highly ingenious, but heretical and, so far as the present social order is concerned, dangerous and potentially subversive. Not to be published.’ … A pity, he thought, as he signed his name. It was a masterly piece of work. But once you began admitting explanations in terms of purpose – well, you didn’t know what the result might be. It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes – make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere, that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being [as happiness and comfort], but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge. Which was, the Controller reflected, quite possibly true. But not, in the present circumstance, admissible.”
– Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”
This is the credo for all scientific dictatorships, to forbid any search for knowledge whose purpose is the discovery of a universal truth, something that “is beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere.” Something that is and will remain always true, and not just true so long as people are led to believe it is so.
Thus, a scientific dictatorship must deny purpose by all means and promote an artificial “cushy” conception of happiness and comfort, since the former makes for very bad servants/slaves and the latter for very good ones.
Purpose leads to unpredictability in the status quo, there are no sureties for an oligarchic system of governance in a world that is motivated by a purpose towards truth, beauty, and knowledge, as Mustapha Mond succinctly lays out.
It is also the case that whenever one discovers a universal truth, it unifies rather than divides, truth is thus the very enemy of tyranny, for it offers clarity. And one can no longer be ruled over when they can see a superior alternative to their oppression.
Therefore, under the rule of tyranny, truth must when possible be snuffed out, otherwise it is contorted until it is no longer recognizable, it is broken into fragments of itself in order to create factions, schools of opposing thought that are meant to confuse and lead its followers further astray.
To deny purpose is thus the necessary condition to rule within a scientific dictatorship. Whether its controllers believe in purpose or not is irrelevant, since it is simply not admissible.
The question thus is, where does Aldous fit into all of this? For starters let us take a look at Aldous’ family roots to see if indeed the apple did not fall too far from the tree…
Aldous’ grandfather T.H. Huxley (1825-1895) had made a name for himself by the age of twenty-five and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950. Within a span of just a few years he would rise to become a leading member of Britain’s scientific establishment.
By the late 1700s, discoveries in geology began to contradict the accepted religious view of Creation. It was increasingly found that steady changes were the primary cause of most geological formations which developed over very long spans of time and that these changes had even led to the extinction of certain organisms/creatures. This was the first time that the biblical view of Creation was ever challenged as a mainstream argument within the sciences.
October 30, 2021
© Photo: Wikimedia
Huxley makes it crystal clear that he considers the world to be overpopulated, and that science and progress cannot be free to advance without limits.
In Part 1 the question was discussed what was Aldous’ real intention in writing the Brave New World; was it meant as an exhortation, an inevitable prophecy or as an Open Conspiracy? An Open Conspiracy closely linked to not only H.G. Wells, who clearly laid out such a vision in his book by the same title, published in 1928, but a vision also in the vein of Aldous’ famous grandfather Thomas Huxley “Darwin’s bulldog” and mentor to Wells.
It is from here that we will continue to discuss what exactly were Aldous’ views on such matters, did he in fact believe in the need for a scientific dictatorship? A scientific caste system? Was he actually warning the people that such a dystopia would occur if we did not correct our course or was it all part of a mass psychological conditioning for what was regarded as inevitable, and that Aldous’ role was rather to “soften the transition” as much as possible towards a “dictatorship without tears”?
The War on Science
“ ‘A New Theory of Biology’ was the title of the paper which Mustapha Mond had just finished reading. He sat for some time, meditatively frowning, then picked up his pen and wrote across the title-page: ‘The author’s mathematical treatment of the conception of purpose is novel and highly ingenious, but heretical and, so far as the present social order is concerned, dangerous and potentially subversive. Not to be published.’ … A pity, he thought, as he signed his name. It was a masterly piece of work. But once you began admitting explanations in terms of purpose – well, you didn’t know what the result might be. It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes – make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere, that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being [as happiness and comfort], but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge. Which was, the Controller reflected, quite possibly true. But not, in the present circumstance, admissible.”
– Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”
This is the credo for all scientific dictatorships, to forbid any search for knowledge whose purpose is the discovery of a universal truth, something that “is beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere.” Something that is and will remain always true, and not just true so long as people are led to believe it is so.
Thus, a scientific dictatorship must deny purpose by all means and promote an artificial “cushy” conception of happiness and comfort, since the former makes for very bad servants/slaves and the latter for very good ones.
Purpose leads to unpredictability in the status quo, there are no sureties for an oligarchic system of governance in a world that is motivated by a purpose towards truth, beauty, and knowledge, as Mustapha Mond succinctly lays out.
It is also the case that whenever one discovers a universal truth, it unifies rather than divides, truth is thus the very enemy of tyranny, for it offers clarity. And one can no longer be ruled over when they can see a superior alternative to their oppression.
Therefore, under the rule of tyranny, truth must when possible be snuffed out, otherwise it is contorted until it is no longer recognizable, it is broken into fragments of itself in order to create factions, schools of opposing thought that are meant to confuse and lead its followers further astray.
To deny purpose is thus the necessary condition to rule within a scientific dictatorship. Whether its controllers believe in purpose or not is irrelevant, since it is simply not admissible.
The question thus is, where does Aldous fit into all of this? For starters let us take a look at Aldous’ family roots to see if indeed the apple did not fall too far from the tree…
Aldous’ grandfather T.H. Huxley (1825-1895) had made a name for himself by the age of twenty-five and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950. Within a span of just a few years he would rise to become a leading member of Britain’s scientific establishment.
By the late 1700s, discoveries in geology began to contradict the accepted religious view of Creation. It was increasingly found that steady changes were the primary cause of most geological formations which developed over very long spans of time and that these changes had even led to the extinction of certain organisms/creatures. This was the first time that the biblical view of Creation was ever challenged as a mainstream argument within the sciences.
The Weekly Podcast (11/18/21): Popes, Presidents & Politics
The Weekly Podcast (11/18/21):
Popes, Presidents & Politics
Nov 18, 2021
C-SPAN
Starting with President Biden's recent visit with Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome, we look back at other presidents who have met with -- or mentioned -- Popes. We'll hear President Carter citing Pope John Paul II at the 1980 Democratic Convention, remarks from President Clinton welcoming Pope John II to America, President George W. Bush welcoming Pope Benedict XVI to the White House, and Presidents Obama and Trump remarks on Pope Francis. Plus a special bonus clip featuring former House Speaker John Boehner
Nov 18, 2021
C-SPAN
Starting with President Biden's recent visit with Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome, we look back at other presidents who have met with -- or mentioned -- Popes. We'll hear President Carter citing Pope John Paul II at the 1980 Democratic Convention, remarks from President Clinton welcoming Pope John II to America, President George W. Bush welcoming Pope Benedict XVI to the White House, and Presidents Obama and Trump remarks on Pope Francis. Plus a special bonus clip featuring former House Speaker John Boehner
The U.N. Global Compact Strategy 2021-2023
The United Nations Global Compact is uniquely positioned to support companies as they align their practices for a sustainable and inclusive future while building back stronger from the COVID-19 pandemic. With the broad-based support of all 193 participant countries of the United Nations General Assembly, the UN Global Compact remains the single, global normative authority and reference point for action and leadership within a growing global corporate sustainability movement.
Our new strategy intends to leverage that position and elevate expectations of how businesses will embed all Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact into their operations. These Ten Principles — covering human rights, labour rights, the environment and anti-corruption — are intrinsic for the sustainability of business, people and the planet. They offer companies of all sizes a blueprint for contributing towards achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement.
The pandemic and ongoing climate crisis has compromised much of the progress the world had attained since the adoption of the Global Goals in 2015. Our strategy aims to regain that lost ground and advance much, much further by persuading the global business community, and its leaders, to scale up their contributions to the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement.
It is our ambition because it is imperative.
How we shaped our strategy
The 2021–2023 UN Global Compact Strategy is built upon a framework with five key elements. Each element represents a deliberate, specific set of choices on our ambition, on who we will engage on the issues and programmes we will focus upon, and on how we will operate.
To achieve our ambition in this Decade of Action, we will drive impact through two main paths: accountable companies and enabling ecosystems.
Accountable companies are businesses that are devoted to accelerating their own individual company’s progress in upholding the Ten Principles and contributing to the Global Goals. Enabling Ecosystems are global and local communities and networks that encourage, assist and support collective action on the Ten Principles and the Global Goals.
Rick Warren: Why (we) Need Both Local & Global Vision | Praise on TBN
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"We have to be global and local at the same time. You have to have glocal vision." @RickWarren
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Johnny Cirucci: Jesuits and Crypto Jews
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Who are the Crypto Jews? Did they guise as Catholics as proposed by essays to infiltrate Vatican and control the Roman Church through the Jesuits, or do the Jesuits have reign on them? In his manner of naming names, places, and dates, Johnny shows us the affiliation of the powerful agencies and people in them. The Jesuits vs the Crypto-Jew argument is addressed.
A supplement edition was produced to clarify a correction on Noahide Law
https://www.spreaker.com/user/jimdukeperspective/noahide-law-clarification_1
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New Hampshire high schooler allegedly suspended for saying there are ‘only two genders’ sues school district
Published November 15, 2021
Last Update 14 hrs ago
The student is alleging that the school violated his free speech and religious liberties
A New Hampshire student-athlete is suing his school district after he was suspended from a football game for allegedly expressing his views that there are "only two genders."
The interior of Exeter High School (Google Maps)
The lawsuit, filed in Rockingham Superior Court on November 4, alleges that the September suspension violated the student’s constitutional right to free speech and the New Hampshire Bill of Rights because he expressed his religious beliefs.
Exeter High School (Google Maps)
The plaintiff is also aiming to block the enforcement of Exeter High School’s gender-nonconforming student’s policy because of what he says is its infringement on his First Amendment rights.
High school computer lab. (ehs.sau16.org)
Fox News has reached out to Exeter High School, which referred all questions to the school district. The school district did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
The district’s policy on transgender and gender nonconforming students "requires that all programs, activities, and employment practices be free from discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity."
Kindergarten Students in Connecticut Learn about Being Transgender in Line with ‘Social Justice Standards’
Brittany Bernstein
Mon, November 15, 2021, 5:37 PM
·4 min read
Elementary school students in West Hartford, Conn. public schools are being forced to undergo “social emotional learning through an equity lens” as district officials have reportedly told parents they may not opt-out of the curriculum, which aims to teach students a set of “social justice standards.”
Parents from the district contacted the non-profit Parents Defending Education to share concerns over materials being used to teach elementary students about group identities, including transgender content being taught to kindergarten students.
One parent raised a red flag about When Aidan Became a Brother, a book being taught to fourth grade students that the parent described as “full on gender theory” which is teaching students that the sex you’re assigned at birth is “wrong.”
“When Aidan was born, everyone thought he was a girl. His parents gave him a pretty name, his room looked like a girl’s room, and he wore clothes that other girls liked wearing,” the description of the book reads. “After he realized he was a trans boy, Aidan and his parents fixed the parts of his life that didn’t fit anymore, and he settled happily into his new life.”
When Aidan’s parents announce they’re having a second child, Aidan “wants to do everything he can to make things right for his new sibling from the beginning” including choosing the best name and picking out the right decor and clothes. The book asks what “making things right” actually means.
Another fourth-grade mentor text is a book about pronouns called They She HE Me; Free to Be!
The lessons are supposed to teach students in kindergarten through fifth grade about social justice standards including identity, diversity, justice and action.
The “identity” standard includes texts that teach students about transgender people and the use of preferred pronouns, including the inclusive singular “they.”
A mentor text for kindergarten students is Introducing Teddy which tells the story about a character and his teddy, Thomas. Thomas says, “I’ve always known that I’m a girl teddy, not a boy teddy. I wish my name was Tilly, not Thomas.” Another text for the kindergarten age group is Let’s Talk About Race.
Meanwhile, a first grade texts include Jacob’s New Dress, a story about a boy who wants to wear a dress to school and Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?, a book about a character who “prefers not to tell other children whether they are a boy or a girl.”
Third grade students read a similar book called 10,000 dresses about a boy named Bailey who dreams of magical dresses but people in his life tell him he should not be thinking about dresses because he is a boy but later he begins making dresses with a new friend.
Fifth graders also read several books on gender identity including I am Jazz about a character who “knew that she had a girl’s brain in a boy’s body,” and It Feels Good to be Yourself which says, “Some people are boys. Some people are girls. Some people are both, neither or somewhere in between.”
In an email to parents, the district’s director of equity advancement, Dr. Roszena Haskins, explains that the schools have “redoubled district-wide efforts to attend to the social and emotional needs of children and adults.”
It explains that the aforementioned “social justice standards” come from the framework o the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL).
Haskins writes that “CASEL acknowledges that ‘While SEL alone will not solve longstanding and deep-seated inequities in the education system, it can help schools to promote understanding, examine biases, reflect on and address the impact of racism…close opportunity gaps and create a more inclusive school community.'”
“Essentially, SEL provides students with understandings and skills that they need to increase their social consciousness and act in ways that foster respect, empathy, fairness, and universal humanity,” Haskins writes. “SEL instruction sits at the cross-section of prosocial education that fosters safe, positive, inclusive, equitable and supportive learning environments.”
“WHPS teaches SEL through an equity lens, adapted from the Learning for Justice social justice and anti-bias framework,” the email adds.
Elementary school students in West Hartford, Conn. public schools are being forced to undergo “social emotional learning through an equity lens” as district officials have reportedly told parents they may not opt-out of the curriculum, which aims to teach students a set of “social justice standards.”
Parents from the district contacted the non-profit Parents Defending Education to share concerns over materials being used to teach elementary students about group identities, including transgender content being taught to kindergarten students.
One parent raised a red flag about When Aidan Became a Brother, a book being taught to fourth grade students that the parent described as “full on gender theory” which is teaching students that the sex you’re assigned at birth is “wrong.”
“When Aidan was born, everyone thought he was a girl. His parents gave him a pretty name, his room looked like a girl’s room, and he wore clothes that other girls liked wearing,” the description of the book reads. “After he realized he was a trans boy, Aidan and his parents fixed the parts of his life that didn’t fit anymore, and he settled happily into his new life.”
When Aidan’s parents announce they’re having a second child, Aidan “wants to do everything he can to make things right for his new sibling from the beginning” including choosing the best name and picking out the right decor and clothes. The book asks what “making things right” actually means.
Another fourth-grade mentor text is a book about pronouns called They She HE Me; Free to Be!
The lessons are supposed to teach students in kindergarten through fifth grade about social justice standards including identity, diversity, justice and action.
The “identity” standard includes texts that teach students about transgender people and the use of preferred pronouns, including the inclusive singular “they.”
A mentor text for kindergarten students is Introducing Teddy which tells the story about a character and his teddy, Thomas. Thomas says, “I’ve always known that I’m a girl teddy, not a boy teddy. I wish my name was Tilly, not Thomas.” Another text for the kindergarten age group is Let’s Talk About Race.
Meanwhile, a first grade texts include Jacob’s New Dress, a story about a boy who wants to wear a dress to school and Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl?, a book about a character who “prefers not to tell other children whether they are a boy or a girl.”
Third grade students read a similar book called 10,000 dresses about a boy named Bailey who dreams of magical dresses but people in his life tell him he should not be thinking about dresses because he is a boy but later he begins making dresses with a new friend.
Fifth graders also read several books on gender identity including I am Jazz about a character who “knew that she had a girl’s brain in a boy’s body,” and It Feels Good to be Yourself which says, “Some people are boys. Some people are girls. Some people are both, neither or somewhere in between.”
In an email to parents, the district’s director of equity advancement, Dr. Roszena Haskins, explains that the schools have “redoubled district-wide efforts to attend to the social and emotional needs of children and adults.”
It explains that the aforementioned “social justice standards” come from the framework o the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL).
Haskins writes that “CASEL acknowledges that ‘While SEL alone will not solve longstanding and deep-seated inequities in the education system, it can help schools to promote understanding, examine biases, reflect on and address the impact of racism…close opportunity gaps and create a more inclusive school community.'”
“Essentially, SEL provides students with understandings and skills that they need to increase their social consciousness and act in ways that foster respect, empathy, fairness, and universal humanity,” Haskins writes. “SEL instruction sits at the cross-section of prosocial education that fosters safe, positive, inclusive, equitable and supportive learning environments.”
“WHPS teaches SEL through an equity lens, adapted from the Learning for Justice social justice and anti-bias framework,” the email adds.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Pope Francis Sent Me a Letter. It Gives Me Hope as a Gay Catholic.
OPINION
GUEST ESSAY
Nov. 15, 2021
Credit...Duncan Andison/Getty Images
By Michael O’Loughlin
Mr. O’Loughlin, a correspondent for a Catholic news organization, is the author of “Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of the Fear,” from which this essay is adapted.
When Carol Baltosiewich was a Catholic nun, she spent 10 years caring for young men dying from AIDS. Even so, the first time I spoke to her, in 2016, I was terrified to tell her I’m gay.
As a reporter who covers the church, I had started interviewing Catholics who worked and fought during the height of the H.I.V. crisis in the United States, roughly 1982 to 1996. People like Ms. Baltosiewich persisted amid frequent hostility from church leaders toward gay people and the broader stigmas of the time. A poll in 1987 found that 43 percent of Americans agreed with the statement, “AIDS might be God’s punishment for immoral sexual behavior.”
A Catholic myself, I’d long internalized that being honest about my sexual orientation could be dangerous. L.G.B.T. people have been fired from their jobs at Catholic organizations. Some groups supporting L.G.B.T. Catholics have been barred from parishes. So even someone like Ms. Baltosiewich, who has loved and served countless gay men, could feel risky.
But my conversations with Ms. Baltosiewich and others like her — the fellowship, gratitude and moments of revelation we exchanged — had a profound effect on my own faith. So much so that recently, I wrote a letter to Pope Francis to share the book I wrote based on those conversations, and even to tell him a little about myself as a gay Catholic. To my surprise, he wrote back. His words offer me encouragement that dialogue is possible between L.G.B.T. Catholics and church leaders, even at the highest levels.
When I first learned about Ms. Baltosiewich’s work, I was tempted to describe her as a hero nurse-nun who showed compassion to gay men with AIDS at a time when so many other people refused to help. And she was. But what gets lost in that framing of her story is the reality of how the individuals she met through this ministry broadened her understanding of God’s love and ultimately made her a better Christian.
By Michael O’Loughlin
Mr. O’Loughlin, a correspondent for a Catholic news organization, is the author of “Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of the Fear,” from which this essay is adapted.
When Carol Baltosiewich was a Catholic nun, she spent 10 years caring for young men dying from AIDS. Even so, the first time I spoke to her, in 2016, I was terrified to tell her I’m gay.
As a reporter who covers the church, I had started interviewing Catholics who worked and fought during the height of the H.I.V. crisis in the United States, roughly 1982 to 1996. People like Ms. Baltosiewich persisted amid frequent hostility from church leaders toward gay people and the broader stigmas of the time. A poll in 1987 found that 43 percent of Americans agreed with the statement, “AIDS might be God’s punishment for immoral sexual behavior.”
A Catholic myself, I’d long internalized that being honest about my sexual orientation could be dangerous. L.G.B.T. people have been fired from their jobs at Catholic organizations. Some groups supporting L.G.B.T. Catholics have been barred from parishes. So even someone like Ms. Baltosiewich, who has loved and served countless gay men, could feel risky.
But my conversations with Ms. Baltosiewich and others like her — the fellowship, gratitude and moments of revelation we exchanged — had a profound effect on my own faith. So much so that recently, I wrote a letter to Pope Francis to share the book I wrote based on those conversations, and even to tell him a little about myself as a gay Catholic. To my surprise, he wrote back. His words offer me encouragement that dialogue is possible between L.G.B.T. Catholics and church leaders, even at the highest levels.
When I first learned about Ms. Baltosiewich’s work, I was tempted to describe her as a hero nurse-nun who showed compassion to gay men with AIDS at a time when so many other people refused to help. And she was. But what gets lost in that framing of her story is the reality of how the individuals she met through this ministry broadened her understanding of God’s love and ultimately made her a better Christian.
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Friday, November 12, 2021
Number of people quitting jobs hits record h
By Zachary Halaschak
November 12, 2021 - 10:18 AM
The number of people who quit their jobs hit a record in September, according to data released by the Department of Labor on Friday.
Some 4.4 million workers quit their jobs in September, up from a previous record of 4.3 million in August. The quantity of people quitting is the highest since the United States began keeping records of the statistic about two decades ago. The figure is equivalent to about 3% of the country’s labor force.
The rate measures the number of people who voluntarily left their jobs and includes those who left their job for another one and people who quit and are confident they will soon find new employment, given the tight labor market.
TRUCKERS NEEDED TO HELP ALLEVIATE US SUPPLY CHAIN WOES
“As result of many changes caused by the pandemic, many employers will need to continue to consider raising wages and improving working conditions, such as providing more flexibility, as they attempt to attract and retain workers,” said Bankrate senior economic analyst Mark Hamrick. “This remains an opportune time for people to look for employment while demand for workers remains high. For many employers, the struggle continues.”
The new data highlight the fears that businesses across the country have had about acquiring and holding on to workers.
The number of job openings was essentially steady from the month before, with about 10.4 million openings in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. Job openings increased by the largest margin in the healthcare and social assistance space followed by state and local government (excluding education). Openings in wholesale trade and information spaces also increased.
Job openings decreased in education and the real estate industry. The layoffs and discharges rate was unchanged in September, registering at nearly 1%.
While the economy added 531,000 new jobs in October, more than expected, the U.S. is still millions of jobs short of where it was prior to the COVID-19 pandemic when unemployment was at a record 3.5%.
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