DISCOURAGING: Yet another sign that the world is becoming a different place

Saturday, August 26, 2023

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ukrainian-basilians-confirm-permanent-closure-of-beloved-toronto-marian-shrine/?utm_source=digest-canadian-2023-08-17&utm_medium=email

Ukrainian Basilians confirm permanent closure of beloved Toronto Marian shrine

  • ‘In other words, the ‘Shrine’ is permanently closed,’ announced Fr. Gabriel Haber, the Provincial Superior of the Order of St. Basil the Great of St. Josaphat.

Clare Marie Merkowsky

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TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) — A religious order has decided to sell a Marian shrine beloved to Toronto Catholics and well-known as a source of many reported miracles. 

On August 15, Fr. Gabriel Haber, the Provincial Superior of the Order of St. Basil the Great of St. Josaphat, announced that the order is in the process of selling their Toronto-based monastery which includes the Marian Shrine of Gratitude, as faithful Catholics continue to pray the shrine will be preserved.   

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Again, the world is declining in entropy.  

“No Margin; No mission”.

Perhaps, if there had been an admission charge, then the place might have survived.

Sad to see the beautiful places being absorbed by crass materialism.

The people are robbed by the fiat currency system such that they have no wealth left to donate to the beautiful places.

Where and when does it all grind to a halt?

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ENCOURAGING: Demonstrating how little we really know challenges us as a speciaes to “wise up”

Friday, August 25, 2023

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/scientists-find-a-whole-new-ecosystem-hiding-beneath-earths-seafloor/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_medium=weekly_mailout&utm_source=17-08-2023

Scientists Find A Whole New Ecosystem Hiding Beneath Earth’s Seafloor
By Andy Corbley – Aug 15, 2023 

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“The discoveries made on each Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition reinforce the urgency of fully exploring our ocean so we know what exists in the deep sea,” said Wendy Schmidt, president and co-founder of Schmidt Ocean Institute. “The discovery of new creatures, landscapes, and now, an entirely new ecosystem underscores just how much we have yet to discover about our Ocean–and how important it is to protect what we don’t yet know or understand.”

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I’m continually amazed at all the fundamental scientific discoveries we keep making.  The Johari window http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_window seems have a huge quadrant 4 (I can’t see; you can’t see) content.

Fascinating.  And, encouraging that there is so much left to discover.

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RANT: “Rich Men North Of Richmond” reminds me that “America is not the greatest country in the world anymore”

Thursday, August 24, 2023

Rich Men North Of Richmond reminds me of Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and the anti-war folk singers in the 60’s. Hit a responsive chord in my thinking. Perhaps this is an anthem for the next revolution?

Remember when “Question Authority” was all the rage. “Rage against the dying of the light”!  Henry V – Speech – Eve of Saint Crispin’s Day “America is not the greatest country in the world anymore” – The Newsroom 2012 

When does “We, The Sheeple” wake up, if ever?
 
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: US government data is suspect at best; deceitful at worst

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

https://kirschsubstack.com/p/why-you-cant-trust-the-us-government?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=548354&post_id=136012965&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

Why you can’t trust the US government data

  • In this article, I will show you why government data is not trustable. That is why I personally prefer anecdotes that are verifiable when trying to figure out what is really going on.

Steve Kirsch  — Aug 15, 2023

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Example 3: Thousands of patients died at a tiny facility in 2020 (just 69 beds with 68% occupancy)

This is my favorite example. Facility #235601.

In the last 7 months in 2020, this facility had 2,584 total deaths which included 9 deaths from COVID (from 48 cases, a 19% death rate from COVID).

Here’s the impressive thing: the average occupancy throughout the period was just 47 beds and it stayed pretty constant throughout the 32 week period. There are just 69 beds in the entire facility.

In other words, on average, everyone living there died, on average, every 4.2 days and they were immediately able to fill the empty beds every week.

This facility passed all the Medicare QA checks.

Single facilities like this with such large death numbers throws the aggregate data off.

And this was not the only example of a small facility with thousands of deaths in 2020!

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To us Michael Malice’s line “factual but not truthful”.

We have a CPI that distorts inflation and more voters than are registered.  So why should we be surprised that other sources are “full of <synonym for excrement>”!

I don’t have any idea how to fix the problem other than to disbelieve anything reported.

How does that expression go: 

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” ― Edgar Allan Poe 

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LIBERTY: Big Pharma is trying to absolve “the Jab” from all the myocarditis

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

https://palexander.substack.com/p/truth-is-out-covid-mrna-technology?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=579356&post_id=136082401&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

Truth is out! COVID mRNA technology gene based Vaccination is the Primary Cause of Serious Myocarditis, it is not the virus! The Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex is working hard to shift the blame from COVID mRNA vaccines onto COVID/SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Dr. Paul Alexander  — Aug 16, 2023

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‘I agree with Joe Rogan who says Alex Jones is the most misunderstood man on earth. I had the pleasure go on his long program on the InfoWars channel early in August, 2023. This program covers in detail: 1) COVID-19 vaccine induced myocarditis—screening detection, diagnosis, prognosis, and management, 2) celebrity vaccine injury syndromes, 3) normalization of cardiac events in healthy young vaccinated people by the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex, 4) developments in Washington including Senator Rand Paul and his pursuit of Dr. Anthony Fauci for criminal activity during the pandemic response that led to unnecessary hospitalization and death of Americans and people across the globe.

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Jones addressed “normalization” of heart attacks and cardiac arrests in children. I made it clear that it was not COVID-19 illness in 2020 that caused the problems we are seeing now with the vaccines.

It is obvious the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex is working hard to shift the blame from COVID-19 vaccines onto SARS-CoV-2 infection. Sadly, most people worldwide have had both exposures. Long COVID or post-acute sequelae syndromes are due to the combination of infection and vaccines which both afflict the body with accumulating, damaging Wuhan Spike protein.

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I’m neither a fan or critic of Alex Jones.  I am a critic of Big Pharma for the mRNA “vaccination” scam and results.  Some of which was due to the stupidity of “We, The Sheeple” which let themselves be scared into taking an untested technology at the urging of politicians and bureaucrats!

The number of deaths and disabilities cause by the Jab is inconceivable and incomprehensible.  Young people are dropping dead is unprecedented numbers and no one is screaming for answers.

It also appears that politicians and bureaucrats have gotten rich off this new technology. (I remember Faucci saying he only got some small royalties; turns out to be millions!)

Alex Jones may get stuff wrong and go off the rails at times, but sometimes he is correct.

When do we get the “truth”?

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“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” Colonel Jessep in A Few Good Men played by Jack Nicholson

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We can’t get the truth from the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats.  And the media is just the Gooferment’s press secretary.  So we have to listen to the Conspiracy Theorists for the truth.

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CHROMEBOOK: This is a fraud and I’m surprised at WalMart

Monday, August 21, 2023

https://www.androidauthority.com/expired-chromebooks-on-sale-3352831/?utm_campaign=weeklyauthority&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=Weekly%20Authority

Computing
You shouldn’t buy these Chromebooks, even on sale

  • Thanks to Automatic Update Expiration, these Chromebooks will no longer receive any software updates.

By Aamir Siddiqui  —  August 7, 2023

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The US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) (via ArsTechnica) pointed out how end-of-life Chromebooks are still sold on various marketplace platforms, like Amazon, Walmart, and possibly others, in new and unused conditions. These include devices like the ASUS Chromebook Flip C302, which was launched in 2018 and reached its Automatic Update Expiration (AUE) date on June 1, 2023. This means the laptop will no longer receive any security or platform updates for its Chrome OS from Google.

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Google maintains a full list of AUE dates for all models.

Please check BEFORE you buy!

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RANT: There goes “freedom of the press”?

Sunday, August 20, 2023

https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/

Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones
By: Sherman Smith, Sam Bailey, Rachel Mipro and Tim Carpenter – August 11, 2023 4:15 pm

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MARION — In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper’s reporters, and the publisher’s home.

Eric Meyer, owner and publisher of the newspaper, said police were motivated by a confidential source who leaked sensitive documents to the newspaper, and the message was clear: “Mind your own business or we’re going to step on you.”

The city’s entire five-officer police force and two sheriff’s deputies took “everything we have,” Meyer said, and it wasn’t clear how the newspaper staff would take the weekly publication to press Tuesday night.

The raid followed news stories about a restaurant owner who kicked reporters out of a meeting last week with U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner, and revelations about the restaurant owner’s lack of a driver’s license and conviction for drunken driving.

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The search warrant, signed by Marion County District Court Magistrate Judge Laura Viar, appears to violate federal law that provides protections against searching and seizing materials from journalists. The law requires law enforcement to subpoena materials instead. Viar didn’t respond to a request to comment for this story or explain why she would authorize a potentially illegal raid.

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This “judge” should be IMMEDIATELY suspended with a view impeachment and disbarment.

Where is the Federal and State authorities?

Who’s the US Senators for Kansas and what do they have to say?

Where is the rest of the media?

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TECHNOLOGY: Brazil heads down the CBDC route

Saturday, August 19, 2023

https://www.activistpost.com/2023/08/and-just-like-that-the-brazilian-central-bank-goes-live-with-a-cbdc.html

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The ease and speed of Pix also drew the attention of criminals, and all sorts of imaginable hits and scams related to the system soared almost immediately. People now keep a second smartphone with their primary banking apps at home, in fear of being robbed or hijacked and having their accounts wiped clean in minutes.

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Beware of “technology theft” leading to an empty bank account.

And CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) is just a step forward from the Hollywood Nazi character’s “Where iszt your PAPERS!”.

Just use cash.

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DISCOURAGING: Have we lost the First Amendment and all rights associated with it

Saturday, August 19, 2023

https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/08/appeals-court-no-first-amendment-right-to-religious-exemption-from-vaccine-mandate/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=appeals-court-no-first-amendment-right-to-religious-exemption-from-vaccine-mandate

Appeals Court: No First Amendment Right to Religious Exemption From Vaccine Mandate

  • The appeals court also rejected the plaintiffs’ privacy and medical freedom, equal protection, and childrearing arguments.

Posted by Terrance Kible Friday, August 11, 2023 at 09:00am 10 Comments

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A federal appeals court ruled in Connecticut’s favor in a dispute over the state’s removal of the religious exemption to its vaccine mandate. Connecticut law mandates vaccinations for “schoolchildren, college and university students, and childcare participants.”

The plaintiffs objected on religious grounds “to us[ing] or benefit[ing] from the use of aborted fetal cells” from stem cell lines used to produce some vaccines.

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Addressing the childrearing argument, the appeals court acknowledged parents’ right to “the care, custody, and control of their children” but held the childrearing claim could not exist independent of the First Amendment claim, which the appeals court already rejected.

We The Patriots USA vowed “to file for en banc review at the Second Circuit, giving all 13 judges an opportunity to review this decision.” Festa pledged to “appeal to the United States Supreme Court” if unsuccessful before the Second Circuit again.

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CommoChief | August 11, 2023 at 9:17 am

Any Amish, Mennonites, Quakers in the 2nd Circuit? They about to be told to sign up for selective service among other things based on the logic of this opinion. If a compelling State interest applied in a neutral manner is all it takes to override religious belief/freedom of conscience exemptions there’s a whole lot of new room for the State to require all sorts of things.

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I find this stunning!

I can’t think of any more basic right then the rights recognized by the First Amendment.

While I disagree with “incorporation” that somehow makes the States subject to the Bill of Rights, if that is the “playing field” we are on, then surly the First Amendment covers the issue.  The plaintiffs are being enslaved right before our eyes by a tyrannical State Gooferment.

What comes next?

Clearly, Massachusetts residents need to move to New Hampshire.

And, the rest of us need to prepare to do battle on this issue in our own States.  Since tyranny doesn’t stop with one State.

Argh!

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Maryland Parents Can’t Sue School Over Policy On Secret Gender Transitioning, Federal Appeals Court Rules

Friday, August 18, 2023

Dissent: Majority’s decision is “an unfortunate abdication of judicial duty … with respect to a very important constitutional issue that is directly harming and will likely continue to harm the parents in this case by usurping their constitutionally protected role.” The post first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion .

Source: Maryland Parents Can’t Sue School Over Policy On Secret Gender Transitioning, Federal Appeals Court Rules

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