Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
11th Mexican Journalist Murdered In 2019 ~ Maybe we should send a few mainstream media types down to investigate… Oh never mind. Not only do they not have the cojones, they’re too busy peddling fake news to deal with real tragedies ~
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) confirmed the murder of Nevith Condez Jaramillo. The journalist was stabbed to death. Authorities recovered the victim’s body on Saturday morning in the town of Tejupilco in the state of Mexico.
The murder marks the 11th of its kind in 2019 and the 13th of its kind since Mexico’s current President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in December 2018. Mexico’s CNDH is reporting that Condez’s murder is the 12th of 2019.
Men Beware: Following the Billy Graham Rule Could Get You Fired. It Happened to a N.C. Sheriff ~ So men who want to avoid being #MeToo’d can’t win for losing? (Wonder if he’d still have his job if he was a Muslim…) ~
A former sheriff’s deputy in Lee County, N.C., says he was fired from his job for following the so-called Billy Graham rule and asking to be excused from spending a significant amount of time alone with a female trainee […]
Manuel Torres, 51, filed a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commissions (EEOC) in 2017, alleging that the sheriff’s office had “engaged in unlawful religious discrimination and retaliation against him in denying his requests for religious accommodations.” The EEOC issued a Notice of Right to Sue notice earlier this year, paving the way for Torres’ federal lawsuit.
According to the complaint, Torres “holds to Christian religious beliefs and regularly attends and serves as a deacon at East Sanford Baptist Church in Sanford, North Carolina” and “holds the strong and sincere religious belief that the Holy Bible prohibits him, as a married man, from being alone for extended periods with a female who is not his wife.”
Ilhan Omar’s Bizarre Response to Palestinian Crackdown on LGBT Group!!! ~ Illustrative video from Dr. Steve Turley explains how the Islamist card trumps the LGBTQ card in the grievance hierarchy
St Greta of Thunberg: Her Gospel Is Propaganda; Her Cause Is Evil ~ Climate change apostate James Delingpole is thoroughly irreverent 😀 ~
St Greta of Thunberg – Patron Saint of the Age of Stupid – has made landfall in the New World, there to preach to the unbelievers her gospel of imminent climate doom […]
Though St Greta has become a figure of huge influence in Europe – feted by Popes, presidents and prime ministers, lauded with uncritical coverage in the mainstream media, put forward for a Nobel Peace Prize – it seems likely that in the United States she will get a more mixed reception.
While the left will most certainly try to shoehorn her into their Green New Deal campaign, the right may be less convinced.
That’s because, unlike a worrying number of their counterparts across the pond, U.S. conservatives understand St Greta’s environmental scare narrative for what it is: a hoax.
Especially, it’s an anti-American hoax. As Rupert Darwall describes in some detail in his book Green Tyranny (listen to the podcast interview here) the global warming scare was cooked up largely by European leftists (the Swedes and Germans being the worst offenders) with the purpose of destroying Western Industrial Civilization – U.S. Industrial Civilization in particular.
Turkey: “Death to Jews” at Summer Camp ~ Don’t hold your breath waiting for representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar to condemn this hateful behavior ~
Turkey’s Jewish community is still reeling from the content of a video that went viral at the end of July. The video shows what appears to be a summer camp at which young children, with a group of burqa-clad women behind them, are being led in an anti-Semitic cheer in Turkish by a young girl or woman counselor.
In the 39-second clip, when the girl says, “The Jews,” the women and children reply, “Death!”
When she says, “Palestine,” they reply, “It will be saved.”
When she calls out, “Hagia Sophia” — referring to the Byzantine cathedral-museum in Istanbul that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced will be turned into a mosque — they chant, “It will be opened.”
Students choose Obama as greatest prez of all time ~ Ah, the tragedy of mis-education. Apparently public schools have dispensed with history class ~
Veteran conservative columnist Deroy Murdock, a member of Project 21, vehemently disagrees.
“For people of any age to think that he was not just an ‘OK’ president or a good president, but the very best president of the 45 we’ve had starting with Washington,” Murdock says, “that he would be the best, I think, is just a complete nonstarter.”
NYC police union approves ‘no confidence’ resolutions against de Blasio, commissioner ~ This is what happens when your mayor is a communist; how unfortunate for law-abiding New Yorkers ~
The city’s nearly 400-delegate Police Benevolent Association (PBA) called for Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to fire both de Blasio and O’Neill immediately or for the officials to resign.
The group also blasts the commissioner for his recent decision to fire Daniel Pantaleo — the officer accused of killing Eric Garner in 2014 — and criticizes the mayor because he “unlawfully interfered” in Pantaleo’s dismissal, according to a PBA news release […]“Today’s votes are an unequivocal indictment of our failed leaders in City Hall and 1 Police Plaza,” PBA President Patrick Lynch said in a statement. “For years, Mayor de Blasio has demonized police officers and undermined our efforts to protect our city. For years, Commissioner O’Neill has cravenly acquiesced to the Mayor and his anti-cop allies.”
Climate Fears Fail to Keep Coal at Bay ~ So essentially, any carbon reduction by western nations (which has been quite significant over the last few years) would be a drop in the bucket ~
Despite heightened fears of climate crisis, the global coal market remains upbeat. India and China, two of the largest producers and consumers of coal, have ramped up their coal production and show no signs of slowdown.
The United States, Australia, and Indonesia follow the big two, but their production and consumption levels are far less than China’s.
Reports came in early August that there has been a surge in Chinese coal mine approvals. In the first half of 2019 alone, the government has approved the building of new coal production with annual capacity of 141 million tons. In comparison, approval for new capacities in 2018 was just 25 million tons.
Making a ‘Gunlike Hand Gesture’ Is a Crime, Pennsylvania Court Rules ~ Seriously? These people never would have survived the last three centuries in America ~
A Pennsylvania court ruled that (64-year-old Stephen Kirchner) could be charged with “disorderly conduct” for the crime of pretending his hand was a gun and pointing the “gun” at his neighbor. Another neighbor saw the gesture and became frightened enough to call 911 […]
Where is the “public risk” in making the gesture? Some snowflake neighbor couldn’t bear seeing a gun — even just the hint of a non-existent gun — and called the police like a good little Nazi…er, citizen.
This is not a Second Amendment issue. It’s a sanity issue. And the Superior Court judges who made this determination are risking “public alarm” that Pennsylvania has judges who are not in their right minds.
More fake five-alarm crises from the IPCC ~ Paul Driessen will be speaking at the Heartland Institute’s upcoming conference, replacing the climate hysteria of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with actual facts ~
Heartland speakers will explain why climate change is some 97% natural, not manmade (contrary to that phony 97% consensus that says otherwise); and why real-world evidence does not support IPCC claims about dangerously rising seas, increasingly violent storms or worsening droughts. My talk will focus on why biofuel, wind, solar and battery technologies are not clean, green, renewable or sustainable.
I will point out for example that replacing 100% of US gasoline with ethanol would require some 360 million acres of corn – seven times the land area of Utah. Replacing the more than 25 billion megawatt-hours of electricity the world consumed in 2018 would require some 100 million 400-foot-tall 1.8-MW bird and bat-butchering wind turbines that would actually generate electricity only about 20% of the time.
Assuming just 15 acres apiece, those monster turbines would require some 1.5 billion acres – nearly 80% of the entire Lower 48 United States!
Exorcists to Jesuit head: Satan is real ~ Jesuits are another confused bunch that needs to be reminded of reality from time to time ~
“The real existence of the devil, as a personal subject who thinks and acts and has made the choice of rebellion against God, is a truth of faith that has always been part of Christian doctrine,” the International Association of Exorcists said in an Aug. 22 press release.
The organization’s release came in response to recent remarks on the devil from Jesuit superior general Fr. Arturo Sosa, SJ, which the organization called “grave and confusing.”
Sosa made headlines earlier this week when he told Italian magazine Tempi that “the devil exists as a symbolic reality, not as a personal reality.”
Good luck with that padre. He’s pretty active in China at the moment ~ China’s Forced Sterilization of Uighur Women Is Cultural Genocide ~ Not only are these Chinese Muslims interred in re-education camps, now they’re being sterilized? Where’s the world-wide condemnation?! ~
Uighurs, a predominantly Turkic-speaking ethnic minority in Xinjiang, are being seriously repressed by the Chinese government. Since 2017, more than 1 million Muslim minorities, including Uighurs, have been taken to detention without any proper trials.
Detainees are forced to show their loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party and deny their Islamic faith. Forced labor and torture are common.
Uighur women testify to the horrors they have endured, including new reports of forced sterilization. One Uighur woman interviewed by French television said she was constantly injected with a substance during her detention that stopped her periods.
Hong Kong’s Wild Card: Spirit-Filled Christians ~ What an amazing story of God’s grace and the power of the Holy Spirit! It all began with a young British woman who was called by God to Kowloon’s notorious Walled City (in Hon Kong) in the mid-1960s. Wow! ~
Hong Kong’s Christians are not skilled in political activism, nor are they people of power and influence. But God’s Kingdom came, and came in power, to the darkest corners of Hong Kong. The reign of God has been established in the lives of former drug addicts and gangsters and prostitutes. 1 Corinthians 1:27 explains that “God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise” and that He “chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.” Maybe He will choose to do this again in Hong Kong.
