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Work, welfare, and the illusion of a new Eden

Richard Porter
RealClearPolitics
Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:28 UTC
Somali immigrants
© shutterstockSomali immigrants
The scandal among the Somali community in Minnesota highlights a question to consider as we plunge deeper into the AI Age, an age in which some futurists, such as Elon Musk, suggest work will be optional: What's the point of working?

In the beginning, there was no work: God's punishment for Adam's disobedience was tossing him from the Garden of Eden and condemning mankind to suffer through labor.

And for millennia, man suffered and labored merely to exist and reproduce, as all other living things did on earth. But whether from eating from the Tree of Knowledge, intelligent design, or the vagaries of evolution, man has the capacity to reason and imagine, create and innovate that other animals do not have.

As a result, humans no longer labor merely to exist, but to aspire, acquire, and achieve. We trade our labor for things we cannot or do not wish to make ourselves; to provide for future needs; to enjoy plenty, luxury, and convenience. Humans are social animals too, so we work with others to build what a single person could not, and to gain status or admiration from other humans.
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Gaza's Christians mark sombre Christmas amid fragile truce: 'There is nothing to celebrate'

Maha Hussaini and Hani Abu Rezeq
Middle East Eye
Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:11 UTC
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Christmas in Gaza, 2015. It's only gotten worse
Once marked by shared festivities with Muslims, Church leaders say Israel's genocidal war has left little room for celebration

Youssef Tarazi, a Palestinian Christian in Gaza, says the giant Christmas tree that once stood as a symbol of communal celebration will not be lit this year.

For a third consecutive year, Gaza's Christian community says they will be observing Christmas without public celebrations, as Israel's repeated ceasefire violations and restrictions on humanitarian aid entering the enclave continue to cast a shadow over the holiday.

"Churches have suspended all celebrations outside their walls because of the conditions Gaza is going through," Tarazi, 31, told Middle East Eye.

"We are marking the birth of Jesus Christ through prayer inside the church only, but our joy remains incomplete".
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Beloved Pennsylvania school bus driver fired for trying to prevent bullying on her route

Amy Curtis
Townhall
Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:20 UTC
School bus
Cancel culture isn't dead. It's alive and well in certain enclaves. Sometimes, it doesn't work — as in the case of the woke Karen who tried to get a Target employee fired for wearing a Charlie Kirk Freedom shirt. That woman, identified as Michelea Ponce, faced tremendous backlash and issued a lengthy apology. At the same time, the Target employee, Janine Beeman, received a large sum raised by patriots and responded with grace and class.

But in Pennsylvania, a beloved bus driver was fired for asking the students on her bus to speak English.

"I do care. I care about a lot," Diane Crawford said in a tearful interview. "I didn't mean to be racially insensitive or anything like that."

Crawford said a Spanish-speaking student with a history of causing problems was the reason she posted the sign. "I didn't know if he was bullying somebody, telling them to do something they shouldn't do," Crawford said. "How do you keep control of your bus if you have no control?"

Comment: Excellent:



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COVID Christmas: Never Forget

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 25 Dec 2025 18:17 UTC

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Yes, it's been five years.

Yes, it's the season of joy and forgiveness, blah blah blah.

But, fuck that!

In 2020, while the sheeple huddled in fear-porn isolation, a cabal of power-hungry bureaucrats and pharma-shilling "experts" pulled off the greatest heist in modern history: they stole Christmas.
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Government Minister steps in to defend Met Office as fake temperature scandal escalates

Chris Morrison
The Daily Sceptic
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:00 UTC
Lord Patrick Vallance
© ScreenshotLord Patrick Vallance, the former Government Chief Scientific Adviser
In a couple of weeks' time, the Met Office is likely to announce another 'hottest year evah' in the UK. The message will be broadcast faithfully by trusted messengers in mainstream media, keen to prop up the fading Net Zero fantasy, but greeted with howls of derision across social media. Eye-opening investigative research over the last two years has revealed a national temperature network mainly composed of 'junk' inappropriate sites and massive data inventions across over 100 non-existent stations. Now the British Government has stepped in with the suggestion that questioning the Met Office's shoddy measuring systems "weakens trust in science". Misinformation is said to have proliferated on "conspiracy networks".

Comment: During years of tracking temperature shifts, the manipulation of statistics has played an ongoing role to validate a pre-targeted result: 'Global warming' is 'verified' on these manufactured results.

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Democratic despotism: The American left moves from censored to compelled speech

Jonathan Turley
jonathanturley.org
Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00 UTC
Puppets
© Hortus DeliciarumMedieval knight puppets
Below is my column in The Hill on how Democrats in some blue states are moving from censoring speech to compelling speech in renewed attacks on free speech. They are facing resistance in the courts despite determined efforts to force others to mouth approved viewpoints.

Here is the column:

More than five years ago, I wrote in these pages of a growing trend on the left toward compelled speech — the forcing of citizens to repeat approved views and values. It is an all-too-familiar pattern. Once a faction assumes power, it will often first seek to censor opposing views and then compel the endorsement of approved views.

This week, some of those efforts faced setbacks and challenges in blue states like Washington and Illinois.

In Washington state, many have developed what seems a certain appetite for compelled speech. For example, Democrats recently pushed through legislation that would have compelled priests and other clerics to rat out congregants who confessed to certain criminal acts. Despite objections from many of us that the law was flagrantly unconstitutional, the Democratic-controlled legislature and Democratic governor pushed it through.
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US agency urges white men to report discrimination


RT
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:10 UTC
Andrea Lucas, chair of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
© Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesAndrea Lucas, chair of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, June 18, 2025.
Victims can seek compensation with federal help, including over resisting DEI programs, the workplace civil rights chief has said.

The head of the US federal body responsible for enforcing workplace civil rights has urged white men to come forward if they believe they have been discriminated against, including under diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

In a video message published on Wednesday, Andrea Lucas, chair of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), called on white male employees and job applicants who feel they were targeted because of their race or sex to submit formal complaints. She emphasized that strict deadlines apply for filing claims with the agency.
"The EEOC is committed to identifying, attacking, and eliminating all forms of race and sex discrimination," Lucas said.

Comment: See also:

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California faces fuel disaster as refineries and gas stations shut down

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sun, 21 Dec 2025 06:05 UTC
NewsomGas prices
© UnknownCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom Fuel price manipulator
The Democrat crusade to divert blame for the stagflation crisis triggered during the Biden Administration led them down a path of economic lies. The central theme of their narrative was that corporations were "price gouging" consumers and inflation was actually a product of "corporate greed." In reality, helicopter money and dollar devaluation during the pandemic triggered a massive consumer demand rush as well as shortages in a variety of goods and raw materials.

The profit margins in many of these industries were paper thin as their manufacturing and labor costs skyrocketed, yet Democrats tried to scapegoat them anyway. The word "accountability" is not in the leftist vocabulary.

We are only now starting to witness the aftermath of the legislation and policies put in place by blue states as a means to control prices. California under Governor Gavin Newsom may have staged its own economic demise (the final nail in the coffin) after laws were passed requiring even greater state interference into oil refineries and gas stations.
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MSM Stays Silent As Horrific Video Emerges Of Attack On 75-Year-Old Woman In Seattle

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:12 UTC
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Outside of local reporting in Seattle, corporate media outlets at the national level have entirely ignored the brutal attack on a 75-year-old woman by a repeat offender. The silence is telling and underscores how progressive criminal justice reforms continue to backfire spectacularly, enabling a revolving-door chaotic environment that releases serial offenders back onto the streets with nation-killing consequences.

That's correct. There has been no coverage in the mainstream press. The reason is very simple: corporate media outlets no longer function as independent news organizations, but as public-relations arms that filter stories based on narrative control rather than public importance.

Comment: How much more of this kind of violence can society allow?

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Jim Beam shuttering Kentucky distillery, halting production for 2026

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sun, 21 Dec 2025 18:07 UTC
Jim Beam
One of Kentucky's largest bourbon producers will halt whiskey production at its main Clermont site for 2026. Jim Beam plans to pause distillation at the James B. Beam campus in Happy Hollow beginning Jan. 1 while investing in site enhancements, according to the Lexington Herald Leader.

"We are always assessing production levels to best meet consumer demand and recently met with our team to discuss our volumes for 2026," the statement said. "We've shared with our teams that while we will continue to distill at our (Freddie Booker Noe) craft distillery in Clermont and at our larger Booker Noe distillery in Boston, we plan to pause distillation at our main distillery on the James B. Beam campus for 2026 while we take the opportunity to invest in site enhancements. Our visitor center at the James B. Beam campus remains open so visitors can have the full James B. Beam experience and join us for a meal at The Kitchen Table."
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