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Ukraine 'weaponizing' religion - Church of Jerusalem

RT
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 21:48 UTC

The Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, one of the oldest Christian churches in the world, has called on the Ukrainian government to repeal a law which exposes the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) to a likely ban.

Kiev has outlawed religious organizations that it suspects of having ties with Russia. The legislation, which Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky signed into law last month, is designed to shut down the UOC, the largest Christian denomination in the country. The UOC was previously targeted in a massive crackdown by the state, as officials told priests and the faithful that they should switch to the Kiev-supported rival Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU).

In a statement on Tuesday, the Patriarchate of Jerusalem denounced Kiev's move, insisting that "such a blanket punishment of countless faithful men and women does not promote unity, nor does it promote peace."

"There is no justification to weaponize religious belief practice and we all must allow those who wish to pray to do so in a manner that accords with their conscience," the statement stressed.

NBC News issues weaksauce correction on Twitter after anchor falsely claims Harris was at dignified transfer

Julio Rosas
The Blaze
Mon, 02 Sep 2024 18:46 UTC

© Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Biden apparently checking his watch as he and Jill Biden attend the dignified transfer of the remains of a fallen service member at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Aug. 29, 2021.

'We incorrectly implied ...'

NBC News' Meet the Press posted a correction on X after host Kristen Welker falsely claimed Vice President Kamala Harris was at the dignified transfer for the 13 service members who were killed in the Abbey Gate bombing during the fall of Afghanistan.

The mistake occurred after Welker asked Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) if it was appropriate for former President Donald Trump to "make campaign content at military gravesites?"

Comment:

Harris attempt to attack Trump's Arlington visit backfires spectacularly after Gold Star families respond

Speaking of "making campaign content" . . . .

The Tennessee Star releases 'Manifesto' left by transgender Covenant School killer Audrey Hale

Tom Pappert
The Tennessee Star
Tue, 03 Sep 2024 13:51 UTC

On Tuesday, The Tennessee Star and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy released 90 pages of writings left by Covenant School killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale. The Covenant Killer's 2023 Journal, which was handwritten by Hale between January and March of 2023, can be downloaded here.

The journal was legally obtained by The Star from a source familiar with the investigation in June 2024. It was recovered from Hale's vehicle by officers with the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD), along with a spiral notebook, after her March 27, 2023 attack on the Covenant School, where she murdered three 9-year-old children and three adult staff members before she was killed by MNPD officers.

Between June 5 and September 3, The Star published approximately 50 articles that are based on The Covenant Killer's 2023 Journal but do not contain the actual pages from that journal. Tuesday's publication of The Covenant Killer's 2023 Journal provides further evidence supporting those 50 articles, but also reveals new information, including the octagonal symbol Hale drew when writing about her planned attack on the Covenant School or her gender identity.

Hale, who was 28-years-old when she died, was born a biological female, but identified as a transgender male at the time of her attack. She often signed journal entries using the name Aiden.

Comment: See also:

German state media creates video game with climate "deniers" as villains

James Murphy
The New American
Sun, 01 Sep 2024 13:30 UTC

Unhappy with the amount of sense that climate realists are making, Südwestrundfunk (SWR), a German state broadcaster, has come up with a virtual-reality video game in which the player can shoot them with laser guns. GreenGuardiansVR is set to be released to the public this fall.

GreenGuardiansVR

In the game, a dastardly corporation known as the "Environment Venture Income League," or EVIL, invites youths to "learn about the wonders of fossil fuels." The logo for the corporation is the word "evil" spelled out in large block letters, with the "i" doubling as a smokestack emitting multicolored puffs of smoke.

If this sounds like a parody of the climate movement, it's not. GreenGuardiansVR is set to debut at Gamescom, a Cologne-based video game fair this autumn. The game is targeted at youths aged 14-25.

In a press release, project manager Tim Philipp from the SWR Innovation Lab explained his reason for creating the violent game:

We realized that young people from Generation Z are primarily attracted by entertaining content. Youth between the ages of 14 and 25 want to have something to do; they want to be involved and interact in groups.

"Something to do" like killing those who disagree with the climate apocalypse.

Comment: It's the desire of not just the nutcases in the climate movement but also those in ideological movements of all stripes to kill those who don't conform. Better to avoid all ideologies lest one becomes a similarly mindless and murderous ideologue.

Grenfell Tower fire: UK inquiry blames avoidable deaths on incompetence and greed

Michael Holden and Catarina Demony
Reuters
Wed, 04 Sep 2024 13:24 UTC

A public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower blaze that killed 72 people blamed the disaster on failings by the government, construction industry and, most of all, the firms involved in fitting the exterior with flammable cladding.

The fire ripped through the 23-storey social housing block in one of London's richest areas during the early hours of June 14, 2017. It was Britain's deadliest blaze in a residential building since World War Two.

"The simple truth is that the deaths that occurred were all avoidable," said inquiry chair Martin Moore-Bick.

Comment: See also:

Anxiety referrals for UK children doubles to 200,000 in just 4 years

Andrew Gregory
The Guardian
Tue, 27 Aug 2024 23:48 UTC

More than 500 children a day in England are being referred to NHS mental health services for anxiety, more than double the rate of before the pandemic began, the Guardian can reveal.

In 2023-24 there were 204,526 new referrals of patients aged 17 or under where the primary cause was anxiety, official figures show. In 2019-20, the year before Covid-19 struck, the total was 98,953. In 2016-17 it was 3,879.

The alarming increase means children are now being referred to NHS mental health services in England for anxiety at a rate of one every three minutes or almost 4,000 a week.

Doctors, NHS officials and health leaders said in interviews that the surge in anxiety referrals was "staggering" and "shocking" and laid bare an urgent need to tackle the crisis in children's mental health.

Comment: It seems likely that a substantial proportion of those presenting for anxiety will have been, in part, influenced by the US trend for medicalising developmental challenges and medicating children. Similar to how the gender dysphoria social contagion began in earnest a decade or so ago in the US and, in recent years has begun to proliferate in certain countries in Europe.

That said, living standards in the UK are collapsing, and markers for personal and societal health are also sliding, and this follows the nearly two-year-long lockdowns, which saw neglect and abuse spike, and so UK children, relatively, do have reasons to be more anxious than usual:

Japan pushes for four-day work week to boost declining birth rate

Vikrant Singh
WION
Sat, 31 Aug 2024 23:34 UTC

In Japan, at least 54 people die annually because of overwork

In Japan, at least 54 people die annually because of overwork, revealed a government white paper. The societal attitude is such that working overtime and for longer hours is considered cool in Japan, leading to the problem of "karoshi," which means "death from overwork" in Japanese.

Now, the Japanese government is pushing for a major change. It's asking its companies and employees to follow a four-day workweek model. The model was first backed by lawmakers in 2021 but today only eight per cent of Japanese companies allow their employees to take at least three days off a week.

Data from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare reveal that seven per cent of companies offer just legally mandated one day off per week.

Comment: They're going to need to do better than that, because various countries, and with less cultural problems than Japan, have attempted to encourage people to get married and have larger families, and with much more significant incentives, and have only had a modicum of success:

'Fraud': US bank glitch goes viral, customers use 'hack' to withdraw money they don't have

Jordan Valinsky
CNN
Tue, 03 Sep 2024 23:13 UTC

A number of viral TikTok videos had some people believing they could get "free" cash from Chase ATMs. But it was just a glitch - and those customers were actually committing fraud, according to the bank.

Over the weekend, videos appeared on the app showing people depositing checks for large sums of money at Chase ATMs and then making a withdrawal for a smaller yet substantial amount, leading them to believe they had discovered a bug and were hitting the jackpot.

The problem is that this is just a form of check fraud, a criminal offense. Chase said in a statement to CNN that the issue has "been addressed" and warned people not to try it.

Comment: It's perhaps a sign of just how poorly educated people are these days, and how susceptible they are to social contagion, especially that which involves money.

Nord Stream sabotage: How Western media outlets do their governments' dirty work

Tarik Cyril Amar
RT
Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:27 UTC

Most of the 'fourth estate' is no longer able or willing to hold politicians accountable, and act instead like another branch of power

When some combination of Western and Ukrainian terrorists with obvious state support - we still don't know who and how precisely - destroyed the Nord Stream I and II Baltic Sea pipelines in September 2022, they caused an ecological catastrophe by releasing an unprecedented amount of the climate killer gas methane into our atmosphere. In other words, they made a hell of a stink. But that immediate impact pales in comparison with the rotten stench generated by the politics of cover-up that have followed the attack.

We have gotten so used to the European and German response that it's hard to grasp just how perverse it has been. Usually, the victims of a crime do not try to cover it up. And yet, despite being the targets of a perfidious assault on critical energy infrastructure, both the EU as a whole and Berlin in particular have done everything they could to delay investigations and obfuscate and downplay the attack, while avoiding finding or naming all its perpetrators.

Indeed, Sweden and Denmark, both directly affected by the sabotage, simply and quickly abandoned any attempt at investigation. NATO, of course, if it followed its own rules, would have moved heaven and earth to identify and then, in accordance with precedent, bomb the aggressor state behind the attack on its members.

Comment:
1) See also about the same case:

2) The Nord Stream sabotage event and the subsequent bumbling investigation and indifferent statements about it from several Governments have offered many opportunities for learning. Perhaps some young people becoming aware of the world around them as they mature for the first time in their lives come to realize from their own experience that their Government is not as open as it claims but hiding what ought to be public and lying to them as it suits the occasion.

3) The author lays out his observations as if it is something new or fairly recent that the media is doing more to hide than to reveal, however that is hardly the case:

Ex-German media boss admits on live radio the national news agenda is govt controlled which has:

This week, during a radio event in Berlin, the retired head of ZDF Bonn, Dr Wolfgang Herles, dropped a bombshell. He admitted the network, and others, takes orders from the government on what, and what not, to report.

Also from Germany but relating to an older case; the way it is done today may be different:

4) See also:

5) There still seems to be a market for propaganda: Most people today want to be propagandized In other words for such people something like the Nord Stream sabotage is not a big issue; it does not register.

Finally: Oregon allows drug decriminalization law to expire

Sarah Fortinsky
The Hill
Tue, 03 Sep 2024 20:26 UTC

Oregon's 2020 drug decriminalization law expired Sunday, ending the first-in-the-nation experiment that made possession of small amounts of hard drugs punishable by a ticket and maximum $100 fine.

As of Sunday, possession of personal-use quantities of illicit drugs will be a misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in prison.

The new law, passed in March, recriminalizes drug use and makes it easier for police to combat public drug use, introducing harsher penalties for those selling drugs in parks.

Comment: No sane person would have expected things to end any other way for daft libtards of Oregon.

Quote of the Day

"The purpose of GLADIO was to attack civilians, the people - women, children, innocent people, unknown people, far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force the public to turn to the State and demand greater security. Under a strategy of tension, you 'destabilize in order to stabilize', to create tension within society and promote conservative, reactionary social and political tendencies."

~ Italian neo-fascist whose prosecution led to the discovery of NATO's 'Gladio' networks across Western Europe

- Vincenzo Vinciguerra

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