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| Inflation Reduction Act "Secretly" Brought To You By Bill Gates |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-18-2022, 07:08 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act "Secretly" Brought To You By Bill Gates
ZH [adapted - emphasis in the original] | AUG 18, 2022
The Democrats' "Inflation Reduction Act" - which according to the Congressional Budget Office will raise taxes on the middle class to the tune of $20 billion - not to mention unleash an army of IRS agents on working class Americans over the next decade, was made possible by Bill Gates and (in smaller part) Larry Summers, who have been known to hang out together.
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Pals hanging out
The bill, of course, was signed yesterday.
In a Tuesday Bloomberg article that reads more like a newsletter for the Gates fan club, the billionaire Microsoft co-founder recalls how earlier this year, as moderate Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema continued to block the tax-and-spend legislation over concerns that it would raise taxes on the middle class (it will), Gates says he tapped into a relationship with Manchin that he'd been cultivating since at least 2019.
Quote:Gates was banking on more than just his trademark optimism about addressing climate change and other seemingly intractable problems that have been his focus since stepping down as Microsoft’s chief executive two decades ago. As he revealed to Bloomberg Green, he has quietly lobbied Manchin and other senators, starting before President Joe Biden had won the White House, in anticipation of a rare moment in which heavy federal spending might be secured for the clean-energy transition.
Those discussions gave him reason to believe the senator from West Virginia would come through for the climate — and he was willing to continue pressing the case himself until the very end. “The last month people felt like, OK, we tried, we're done, it failed,” Gates said. “I believed it was a unique opportunity.” So he tapped into a relationship with Manchin that he’d cultivated for at least three years. “We were able to talk even at a time when he felt people weren’t listening.” -Bloomberg
We know, gag us with a spoon.
Apparently Gates and Manchin's bromance began when the billionaire wooed the West Virgina Senator at a 2019 meal in Seattle, in an effort to garner support for clean-energy policy. Manchin at the time was the senior-most Democrat on the energy committee.
"My dialogue with Joe has been going on for quite a while," said Gates.
After Manchin walked (again) on the bill last December over concerns that it would exacerbate the national debt, inflation, the pandemic, and amid geopolitical uncertainty with Russia, Gates jumped into action. A few weeks later, he met with Manchin and his wife, Gayle Conelly Manchin, at a DC restaurant, where they talked about what West Virginia needed. Manchin understandably wanted to preserve jobs at the center of the US coal industry, while Gates suggested that coal plant workers could simply swap over to nuclear plants - such as those from Gates' TerraPower.
Manchin apparently wasn't convinced, announcing on Feb. 1 that "Build Back Better" (the Inflation Reduction Act's previous iteration) was "dead."
In an effort to convince him otherwise, Democrats pulled together a cadre of economists and other Manchin influencers - including former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, who convinced Manchin that the bill wouldn't raise taxes on the middle class, or add to the deficit.
Quote:Collin O’Mara, chief executive officer of the National Wildlife Federation, recruited economists to assuage Manchin’s concerns — including representatives from the University of Chicago and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Senator Chris Coons of Delaware brought in a heavyweight: former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, who has spent decades advising Democrats.
The economists were able to “send this signal that [the bill’s] going to help with the deficit,” O’Mara said. “It’s going to be slightly deflationary and it’s going to spur growth and investment in all these areas.” Through this subtle alchemy, clean-energy investments could be reframed for Manchin as a hedge against future spikes in oil and gas prices and a way to potentially export more energy to Europe. -Bloomberg
Gates also sprang into action again on July 7, when Manchin was spotted at the Sun Valley media conference in Idaho - which Gates also attended.
"We had a talk about what was missing, what needed to be done," Gates said. "And then after that it was a lot of phone calls."
Gates looks back at the new law with satisfaction. He achieved what he set out to do. “I will say that it's one of the happier moments of my climate work,” Gates said. “I have two things that excite me about climate work. One is when policy gets done well, and this is by far the biggest moment like that.” His other pleasure comes from interviewing people at climate and clean-tech startups: “I hear about this amazing new way to make steel, cement and chemicals.” -Bloomberg
"I don’t want to take credit for what went on," says Gates - in the article about how he gets credit for what went on.
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| Vandals behead Saint Anthony statue at Catholic school in Northeast DC |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-17-2022, 06:07 AM - Forum: Anti-Catholic Violence
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Vandals behead Saint Anthony statue at Catholic school in Northeast DC
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Aug 15, 2022
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — A Catholic school marking 100 years in the Brookland neighborhood of Northeast became the target of vandalism.
St. Anthony Catholic School shared pictures of the destruction on its property, located at 3400 12th St. NE, on an online fundraising page established to help fix the damage. Among the vandalism was a beheaded statue of the school’s patron saint.
The school included this message on its fundraising page:
Quote:We are sad to share that our beloved St. Anthony Catholic School was recently vandalized. Our school is proudly celebrating its 100th year in the neighborhood. St. Anthony loves the Brookland neighborhood and we make it our mission to serve and love our neighbors well. Even if you don’t attend the school or church, you are probably still familiar with our school and our principal, Mr. Thomasian, and our school children and families who take pride in being part of this vibrant neighborhood. We are very hurt by the actions of one or few, but we plan to fix all the damage before the first day of school.
Our beautiful St. Anthony statue was knocked down and broken, the nearby concrete windowsill was broken, and the statue’s head is missing. Our three playground benches were also pulled out of the ground and damaged.
This desecration is a hate-crime and was reported to the police.
These spaces that were vandalized were created by the generous donations from school families and from the community for the community.
Many neighborhood volunteers have put sweat equity into making our outdoor space inviting and welcoming for all. The playgrounds have always remained unlocked so that they are available for the neighborhood. This wasn’t a just a loss for our church and school but truly a loss for the community.
We will use the funds to replace the statue, broken benches and repair the damage done to the building.
Any additional funds will go towards beautifying the outdoor space and improved safety. Thank you for your prayers and for partnering with us to rebuild the broken pieces before our school doors open to our children.
Please keep our school community in your prayers.
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| It’s ‘Guaranteed’ Americans Earning Less Than $400,000 Will Be Hounded by IRS: Rep. Scalise |
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Posted by: ThyWillBeDone - 08-16-2022, 09:17 PM - Forum: Socialism & Communism
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www.theepochtimes.com
It’s ‘Guaranteed’ Americans Earning Less Than $400,000 Will Be Hounded by IRS: Rep. Scalise
Tom Ozimek
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Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) said that the Democrat spending bill that boosts IRS funding is “guaranteed” to squeeze more tax revenue from middle- and lower-income Americans despite Biden administration insistence that households making less than $400,000 won’t face higher taxes or audit rates.
Scalise, who is the House Republican whip, made the remarks on the House floor and in an interview on Fox News on Aug. 12, the day the Democrat-controlled House passed the Inflation Reduction Act.
“The smoking gun came out this morning,” Scalise said on the House floor, referring to a statement from the non-partisan scorekeeper at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that reportedly confirmed that $20 billion in additional tax revenue would come from middle- and lower-income households owing to the IRS enforcement funding boost.
“It was a confirmation that the IRS agents will be getting about $20 billion in new taxes from people making less than $400,000,” Scalise said, while characterizing the CBO statement as confirmation that the bill “breaks President [Joe] Biden’s promise” that Americans making less than that amount shouldn’t worry as their taxes won’t go up.
“It’s confirmed by the CBO, and there was an amendment to stop it from happening, and every Democrat voted against it,” Scalise continued, referring to amendment 5404 (pdf) proposed by Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) that would have prevented any of the funds appropriated under the Inflation Reduction Act being used to audit taxpayers making less than $400,000 a year.
The $20 billion in additional taxes from American households earning less than $400,000 was arrived at by calculating how much less tax revenue would flow into government coffers if legislators had accepted Crapo’s amendment, according to Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee, who disclosed part of the CBO statement.
“CBO has not completed a point estimate of this amendment but the preliminary assessment indicates that amendment 5404 would reduce the ‘non-scorable’ revenues resulting from the provisions of section 10301 by at least $20 billion over the FY2022-FY2031 period,” the CBO said, according to Republicans.
The Epoch Times has reached out to the CBO with a request for confirmation of the scorekeeper’s assessment.
null[/url] Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) in an interview with NTD in Washington on Sept. 30, 2021. (Screenshot via The Epoch Times)
‘Army of 87,000 New IRS Agents’
In an interview on Fox News, Scalise said that the reason Democrats rejected Crapo’s amendment is because they plan to squeeze more tax revenue from middle- and lower-income Americans, despite multiple statements by Biden administration officials to the contrary.
“This army of 87,000 new IRS agents … will be going after people making less than $400,000. That would break President Biden’s pledge,” Scalise told Fox News.
“It’s been guaranteed. We know that it will happen. CBO confirmed it today,” Scalise added.
It’s a view shared by Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), who told NTD in a recent interview that middle-income Americans are going to be harmed as the “onerous and burdensome” provisions of the bill enable a legion of “hyper-motivated” IRS agents to go after Americans making less than $400,000 a year.
“I’ve never had one constituent yet tell me they wish we had more IRS agents. Most of this money will be spent on enforcement to go after Americans to harass and intimidate Americans to collect more revenue to try to pay for these terrible Democrat environmental extremist policies,” Good said.
The Republican lawmaker estimated that the tens of thousands of potential new IRS hires would result in around a million additional audits per year.
“They’ll go after the middle-income Americans who they know when they get that threatening tax letter saying you owe the money you must pay or else we’ve presumed you’re guilty,” Good said.
“They know middle-income Americans can’t hire the tax lawyers, the tax accountants to fight it. So they’ll just comply. They’ll just give in and they’ll pay. That’s what it’s intended to do, to harass and threaten, intimidate Americans,” he added.
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More Tax Audits?
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen [url=https://www.theepochtimes.com/yellen-tells-irs-not-to-target-middle-income-americans-with-audits-as-crackdown-fears-swirl_4658201.html]has insisted Republican claims that tax auditors will target lower- and middle-income Americans at higher rates are politically motivated falsehoods.
“Contrary to the misinformation from opponents of this legislation, small business or households earning $400,000 per year or less will not see an increase in the chances that they are audited,” Yellen said in an Aug. 10 letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig.
Yellen also said in the letter that she was ordering the IRS not to use any of the additional revenue from the legislation to increase audit rates among middle- and lower-income Americans.
“I direct that any additional resources—including any new personnel or auditors that are hired—shall not be used to increase the share of small business or households below the $400,000 threshold that are audited relative to historical levels,” she said.
The IRS chief, too, has insisted that the tax agency would “absolutely not” be increasing audit scrutiny on small businesses or middle-income Americans relative to “recent years,” according to a letter to members of the Senate on Aug. 4 (pdf).
A CBO analysis indicated that, under basically the same funding plan as is featured in the Inflation Reduction Act, audit rates would be restored to levels around 10 years ago and that audit rates would rise “for all taxpayers,” though ones with higher incomes would face the biggest increase.
IRS audit rates have fallen sharply over the past decade, with the Government Accountability Office saying in a report that rates in 2019 were about one-third of those in 2010 for all income groups, dropping from 0.9 percent down to 0.25 percent.
A CBO estimate (pdf) shows that that the additional $80 billion in funding will bring in around $204 billion in new revenue, including from enforcement.
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| Germany announces color-coded vaccine passport system similar to Communist China’s |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-16-2022, 07:25 AM - Forum: COVID Passports
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Germany announces color-coded vaccine passport system similar to Communist China’s
Those who aren't 'freshly vaccinated' will be subject to restrictions.
Vaccination passport
Aug 15, 2022
(Reclaim the Net) – German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach has announced that the nation’s digital contact tracing and vaccine passport app, Corona-Warn-App (CWA), will start assigning different colors to citizens based on whether they received a COVID-19 vaccine within the last three months.
The CWA will assign one color to citizens who add proof that they received a vaccine within the last three months and a different color to citizens who add proof of vaccination that’s more than three months old. Only those with the color showing that they’re “freshly vaccinated” (have received a vaccine within the last three months) will be exempt from Germany’s mask requirement in public indoor spaces.
Other citizens, including those who received multiple vaccines but had their last vaccine more than three months ago, will have to show proof of recent recovery from COVID or a current negative test to get an exemption from this mask requirement.
Germany’s Berliner Zeitung noted that the color codes in the vaccine passport app would “give different rights in the future” and said the system would put citizens who are already quadruple vaccinated on the same legal footing as those who are unvaccinated.
Berliner Zeitung also reported that this new German vaccine passport system would be similar to Communist China’s color code vaccine passport system. China’s system assigns a green, yellow, or red code to citizens. Those with a green code are allowed to move freely, those with a yellow code may be asked to stay home for seven days, and those with a red code have to quarantine for two weeks.
Despite moving to this color code vaccine passport system, Lauterbach has admitted that the goalposts could shift at any time and that if too many freshly vaccinated people make use of the mask exception, Germany will change the rules and close the exception.
Lauterbach, who is quadruple vaccinated, announced this new color code vaccine passport system four days after he contracted COVID. The new system is being introduced as part of Germany’s “Infection Protection Act.”
Health agencies defended the rollout of vaccine passports and other COVID surveillance measures by claiming that they would prevent the spread of the coronavirus. However, in recent weeks, government health experts have admitted that COVID vaccines don’t prevent infection.
Despite this admission, Germany and other nations are continuing to push far-reaching, restrictive vaccine passport systems. Some countries are also combining vaccine passports with digital ID or rolling out more invasive COVID surveillance devices such as wristbands and ankle bracelets.
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| Dispositions for a Good Death |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-16-2022, 06:39 AM - Forum: Resources Online
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Dispositions for a Good Death
by St. Louis Grignion de Montfort
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These dispositions are believed to be written by St. Louis Marie de Montfort. On the eve of his death, a copy was found among the effects of the missionaries accompanying the Saint. It is preserved in the general archives of the Company of Mary.
Remote Dispositions
I. Think of death every day.
- Death is certain.
- It is near.
- It is deceptive.
- It is awe-inspiring.
- It is painful.
- It follows the pattern of life.
II. Live a good life.
- Avoid grave sin and deliberate venial sin.
- Combat your dominant fault.
- Love the cross.
- Receive the sacraments frequently.
- Practice mental prayer and obedience.
- Have a great devotion to the Blessed Virgin.
III. Make your Will as soon as you can.
- Have Masses said before you die.
- Present your Will in proper form.
- Return everything wrongfully acquired.
- Pay your debts.
IV. Follow the practices of the Saints to remind you of death & prepare for it
- When you go to bed, take the position of a dead person.
- At every meal remember that one day your body will be the food of worms.
- Consider sickness as the companion of death.
- Keep a skull in your room and meditate on what that person, was, what he did, said and thought. Think of what this skull is now and what will become of it, and then reflect on your own life.
- Prepare your coffin and your grave, and embrace them in spirit every day.
Proximate Dispositions
I. Endure sickness patiently for these reasons:
- God sends it to you.
- It can free you from this exile on earth.
- It helps you to expiate your sins.
- Firmly believe that you will die of this illness.
II. Receive the Sacraments of Penance, Holy Eucharist & Extreme Unction.
- Receive them as soon as possible, and sooner than your friends and relatives want you to.
- Receive them with contrition, humility and gratitude.
- Receive them with fervor.
III. Choose two good friends to help you.
- They can keep out of your room relatives, friends and other persons who can be of no help to you.
- They will help you to make acts of faith, hope and love.
- They will help you to receive the Sacraments.
- They will help you to withstand temptation.
IV. Resist the temptations of the Devil.
- If you are tempted against Faith say simply, "I believe in God" or "I believe everything that the Catholic Church teaches.
- If you are tempted to despair, put all your trust in the infinite merits of Our Lord and the all-powerful intercession of Our Lady.
- If you are tempted to impatience, think of the sufferings of Jesus, the reward he promises, the sufferings of the next life, the seriousness of your sins.
V. Resist any temptations to vainglory and presumption
- By considering the number and gravity of your past sins in themselves.
- By considering them in the face of the infinite holiness of God.
VI. Do not be misled by friends and relatives.
- Do not believe the comforting words of your friends and relatives and keep them away from you as much as you can.
- Do not share their natural grief; do not listen to their anxious advice or their deceptive reassurances.
Final Dispositions
- Follow the example of Jesus and forgive all your enemies from the depths of your heart.
- Ask pardon of those you have offended, and of those you caused to offend God.
- Commit your souls into the hands of God.
- Commit your body to the earth, and willingly accept that it become the food of worms.
- Pray to God for yourself and for others.
- Commit all your relatives and friends to the care of the Blessed Virgin.
- Exhort your whole family to true devotion to the Blessed Virgin.
- Renew your baptismal promises, and bid farewell to everyone here below.
- Thank God for His infinite mercy and for all His benefits, and then rely on Him alone.
- Adore God's judgment of you, no matter what it may be.
- Offer yourself to the Justice of God in union with Our Lord Jesus Christ, no matter where He may put you, provided that there you may be able to love God.
- Ardently desire the joyous possession of Jesus and of His Kingdom.
- Have the prayers for the dying said and give the responses yourself. Have the Passion of Our Lord read or the Prayer He offered before He died. (John 17)
- Recite, if you can, the Magnifcat and the Psalm, "I rejoiced because they said me, We shall go up into the house of the Lord." (Ps 122:1)
- Finally, in union with Jesus and Mary, with nothing more to worry about, with no one near you but your two friends, wait for the hour of death with joy. Often repeat the words, "Jesus, Mary, Joseph," to gain the indulgences of the confraternities you belong to, kiss your crucifix, look at the image of the Blessed Virgin, make the Sign of the Cross, and sprinkle your bed with holy water.
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| St Louis de Montfort quotes on the Holy Rosary |
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Posted by: ThyWillBeDone - 08-15-2022, 09:47 PM - Forum: Our Lady
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St Louis de Montfort quotes on the Holy Rosary.
https://www.beautysoancient.com/top-25-s...ly-rosary/
“The word rosary means “Crown of Roses,” that is to say that every time people say the Rosary devoutly they place a crown of one hundred and fifty-three white roses and sixteen red roses upon the head of Jesus and Mary. Being heavenly flowers these roses will never fade or lose their exquisite beauty.” ~St. Louis De Montfort
“Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and will save your soul, if-and mark well what I say-if you say the Holy Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins.” ~St Louis de Montfort
“When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer.” ~St Louis de Montfort
“Put you on the armor of God.” So arm yourselves with the arms of God—-with the Holy Rosary—-and you will crush the devil’s head and you will stand firm in the face of all his temptations. ~St Louis de Montfort
“For never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil. This is a statement which I would sign with my blood.” ~St Louis de Montfort
“The rose is the queen of flowers, and so the Rosary is the rose of devotions and the most important one.” ~St Louis de Montfort
“It is scarcely possible for me to put into words how our Lady esteems the Rosary and how she prefers it to all other devotions. Nor can I sufficiently express how wonderfully she rewards those who work to make known the devotion, to establish it and spread it nor, on the other hand, how strictly she punishes those who work against it.” ~St Louis de Montfort
“To say the Holy Rosary to advantage one must be in a state of grace or at the very least be fully determined to give up mortal sin.” ~St Louis de Montfort
“I would like to add that the Rosary ought to be said reverently, that is to say, it ought to be said as much as possible, kneeling, with hands joined, clasping the rosary. However, if you are ill, you can, of course, say it in bed; or if one is travelling it can be said while walking; if, on account of some infirmity, you cannot kneel you can say it standing or sitting. You can even say it while working if your duties do not allow you to leave your job, for work with one’s hands is not always incompatible with vocal prayer.” ~St Louis de Montfort
“Blessed is the Rosary which gives us this science and knowledge of our Blessed Lord through our meditations on His life, death, passion and glory.” ~St Louis de Montfort
St Louis de Montfort
Ora Pro Nobis
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| Atlantic Writer Claims the Rosary is an Extremist Symbol for Christian Nationalists |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-15-2022, 12:07 PM - Forum: General Commentary
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Atlantic Writer Claims the Rosary is an Extremist Symbol for Christian Nationalists
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GP | August 15, 2022
Atlantic contributor Daniel Panneton has published an op-ed in which he claimed that the rosary is now a symbol of extremism.
The rosary, of course, is a string of beads or knots that are used by Catholics as they do a series of prayers.
In the article titled, “How the Rosary Became an Extremist Symbol,” Panneton claimed that “just as the AR-15 rifle has become a sacred object for Christian nationalists in general, the rosary has acquired a militaristic meaning for radical-traditional (or ‘rad trad’) Catholics.”
Panneton claimed that “on this extremist fringe, rosary beads have been woven into a conspiratorial politics and absolutist gun culture. These armed radical traditionalists have taken up a spiritual notion that the rosary can be a weapon in the fight against evil and turned it into something dangerously literal.”
The writer claimed that the “the rosary—in these hands—is anything but holy.”
Panneton noted that the rosary, a weapon against evil, is often shown in memes and merchandise alongside guns and imagery celebrating a warrior mentality.
Quote:“The militarism also glorifies a warrior mentality and notions of manliness and male strength,” Panneton wrote. “This conflation of the masculine and the military is rooted in wider anxieties about Catholic manhood—the idea that it is in crisis has some currency among senior Church figures and lay organizations. In 2015, Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix issued an apostolic exhortation calling for a renewal of traditional conceptions of Catholic masculinity titled ‘Into the Breach,’ which led the Knights of Columbus, an influential fraternal order, to produce a video series promoting Olmsted’s ideas.”
The article went on to attack people who wish to defend their church and family.
“But among radical-traditional Catholic men, such concerns take an extremist turn, rooted in fantasies of violently defending one’s family and church from marauders,” he noted.
The op-ed was widely mocked online, particularly in a Catholic subreddit.
“It would be even more hilarious if people started praying the rosary outside his house in Toronto (so he can see them praying) for the salvation of his soul,” one user wrote.
Another replied, “Calling the police, ‘there are armed extremists outside my home!!'”
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| Saintly Quotes |
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Posted by: ThyWillBeDone - 08-14-2022, 08:11 PM - Forum: The Saints
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Saintly Quotes
http://www.catholictradition.org/Saints/...htm#HEAVEN
The affairs of God are accomplished little by little and almost imperceptibly. The Spirit of God is neither violent nor hasty.
- St. Vincent de Paul
God does not hasten His works. He does all things in their time.
- St. Vincent de Paul
It is not expedient to wish to do everything all at once, or to think that all is lost if everybody else does not hurry along with us.
- St. Vincent de Paul
HEAVEN
I don't put a penny's value on this life if only our Lord will give me a tiny corner in Paradise.
- St. Camillus de Lellis
Our home is Heaven. On earth we're like travelers staying at a hotel. When you're away, you're always thinking of going home.
- St. John Vianney
DIVINE REWARD
His Majesty [the Lord] . . . rewards great services with trials, and there can be no better reward, for out of trials springs love for God.
- St. Teresa of Avila
That is how His Majesty [the Lord] rewards our good works-----I mean, by predisposing us to perform better ones.
- St. Teresa of Avila
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds.
- St. Teresa of Avila
HELL
Hell is full of the talented, but Heaven of the energetic.
- St. Jane Francis de Chantal
If you die as an unbeliever, you will be damned and lost forever.
- St. John Bosco
All who die without the faith are in Hell.
- St. Francis Xavier
"Lord, are they few that are saved? But He said to them: 'Strive to enter by the narrow gate; for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter, and shall not be able.' "
- St. Luke 13:23-24
The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to be.
- St. Alphonsus Liguori
A multitude of souls fall into the depths of Hell, and it is of the faith that all who die in mortal sin are condemned for ever and ever. According to statistics, approximately 80,000 persons die every day. How many of these will die in mortal sin, and how many will be condemned! For, as their lives have been, so also will be their end.
- St. Anthony Mary Claret
Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.
- St. Augustine
Meditate on the horrors of Hell which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.
- St. Benedict Joseph Labre
He who abuses too much the mercy of God will be abandoned by Him.
few I wish to be.
- St. Alphonsus Liguori
THE HOLY SPIRIT
The Holy Spirit rests in the soul of the righteous just like the dove in her nest. He hatches good desires in a pure soul, as the dove hatches her young.
- St. John Vianney
If you die as an unbeliever, you will be damned and lost forever.
- St. John Bosco
All who die without the faith are in Hell.
- St. Francis Xavier
www.catholictradition.org/Saint/saintly-quotes18.htm
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| Bolivian man claims he was offered as a sacrifice to Pachamama |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-14-2022, 09:06 AM - Forum: Global News
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“They wanted to put me out of sullu”: a man is saved from being offered to the Pachamama
He indicated that after he became unconscious, they took him to an area where there was a half-built infrastructure.
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“They wanted to put me out of sullu”: a man is saved from being offered to the PachamamaVíctor Hugo Mica,
the victim of the event recorded in Achacachi. video capture
Pagina Siete [La Paz] | August 08, 2022
After having consumed alcoholic beverages with a friend and becoming unconscious, a 30-year-old man woke up inside a box and covered in dirt, in a vacant lot in Achacachi. He denounces that they wanted to use it as a "sullu", that is, as an offering item to Pachamama.
”Last night was the pre-entry (of Villa Victoria), we went to dance, I'm a guide, and I don't remember anymore. The only thing I remember is that I thought I was in my bed and I got up to go urinate, and I couldn't move anymore, and when I pushed the coffin I barely broke the glass and dirt began to enter through the glass and So I managed to get out. They have buried me”, declared Víctor Hugo Mica Álvarez.
You can also read: In the month of Pachamama, people from La Paz prepare tables to give thanks
The victim is a dancer from a Tobas fraternity and reported that after having participated in the pre-entry of Villa Victoria, he met a friend, who invited him for a few beers. After that he lost consciousness.
The man indicated that there was a half-built infrastructure in the area, which is why he assumes that they wanted to use it as an offering. “They wanted to put me out of sullu”, he told the press.
When he managed to escape, he asked a young man for help, who took him to a police station. However, he did not receive the expected help there and now he asks that the case be clarified.
https://fb.watch/eMXIv46FXm/
From the Daily Mail:
A man has told of how he smashed his way out of a coffin after being buried alive by festival goers 'as a sacrifice to mother earth' when he passed out while drinking in Bolivia.
After passing out the night before following a heavy drinking session at the opening of the Mother Earth Festival in El Alto, Bolivia, on 5 August, Víctor Hugo Mica Alvarez, 30, found himself 50 miles away inside a casket in Achacachi.
The Mother Earth Festival sees people giving thanks to Pachamama, the goddess of earth and fertility, where they give offerings, also known as a 'sullu', to the planet.
Indigenous Bolivians believe the goddess 'opens her mouth' for offerings in August, and many will give anything from live animals to sheep foetuses, as well as cocoa leaves and sweets.
Some say ancient human sacrifices and offerings are still carried out in secret.
Alvarez believes that other party-goers had buried him alive as a 'sullu', sacrificing him to mother earth.
'They wanted to use me as a sullu.'
But to add insult to injury, when Alvarez reported his burial to police they refused to believe him saying he was too drunk.
The offerings to Pachamama continue all year round, with many indigenous people taking part in folk dances and ritual ceremonies.
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Indigenous Bolivians believe the goddess 'opens her mouth' for offerings in August, and many will give anything from live animals to sheep foetuses, as well as cocoa leaves and sweets - but Some say ancient human sacrifices and offerings are still carried out in secret. Pictured, the festival in May earlier this year |
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| Documentary about the Life of Maximillian Kolbe |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-14-2022, 07:02 AM - Forum: Resources Online
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Excerpt from the video description:
The Servant Brothers of the Home of the Mother have produced this documentary about the life of Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe, an outstanding Catholic figure of the 20th century.
Kolbe was a man with great apostolic zeal, a precursor in the use of the Mass Media for the transmission of the Gospel and consumed his life with the testimony of love as a martyr of charity in Auschwitz.
The source of his zeal was his passionate love for the Mother of God, the Immaculate.
In the midst of many exterior difficulties, physically limited by his tuberculosis, he worked passionately for the spread of the Gospel. He was a missionary in Japan, and his publications reached as far as India, China, and even Arabia. He founded a city in Poland called Niepokalanow dedicated to the Blessed Virgin.
Saint Maximilian Mary is an example of generosity in the surrendering of oneself to God and encourages us to foment a tender devotion to Mary. To belong to the Immacualte was his ideal.
Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
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| Artificial Intelligence - A Secular Look At The Digital Antichrist |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-14-2022, 06:53 AM - Forum: Great Reset
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Artificial Intelligence - A Secular Look At The Digital Antichrist
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ZH | AUG 13, 2022
Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us,
Why do globalists have a deep rooted obsession with Artificial Intelligence (AI)? What is it about the fervent quest for an autonomous digitized brain that sends them into fits of ecstasy? Is it all about what AI can do for them and their agenda, or, is there also a darker “occult” element to the concept that is so appealing?
The World Economic Forum, an organization dedicated to the globalist “Great Reset” agenda, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the “Shared Economy,” dedicates a large portion of every annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland to discussion on AI and the expansion of its influence over daily life.
The United Nations holds extensive policy sessions on AI and has been spending a considerable amount of energy to establish “ethics rules” for the development and use of Artificial Intelligence. At the core of the UN’s efforts is the assertion that only the UN is qualified to dictate and control AI technologies; for the good of all mankind, of course. AI governance is slated to go into full effect by 2030 according to the UN’s own white papers (All globalist institutions have set 2030 as the target date for all of their projects).
Another lesser known but substantial organization is the World Government Summit held every year in Dubai. These summits are attended by many national leaders and representatives as well as corporate CEOs and celebrities. The primary subjects of focus at the WGS are usually climate change propaganda, centralization of the global economy, Transhumanism and AI.
Most of the public discussions on AI revolve around positive narratives; we are meant to be convinced on the many great advancements that AI technology will provide. Some of the “advantages” include transhumanist health modifications, computer implants in the body or brain, and even nanobots which may one day be advanced enough to change our very cells. In other words, in order to benefit from AI we must become less human and more machine.
Other supposed benefits require a vast array of new systems (some of them are being built now) that would allow algorithms to monitor every facet of our lives. Globalists often refer to these systems as the “internet of things” – Every appliance you own, the car you drive, every computer, every cell phone, every surveillance camera, every stop light, everything would be centralized into a single AI network within a city, and each city would be connected in a great spider’s web to a national AI database.
The Internet of Things is regularly mentioned in conjunction with climate change governance and carbon restrictions. The purpose is crystal clear – Governments and corporate elites want the ability to monitor every watt of energy you use everyday. This kind of full spectrum information makes it easier to dictate our decisions and our access to goods and services. They would have total control of anyone living within these “Smart Cities.” Your entire life, every second, would be watched and scrutinized.
But how could this be made possible? Millions upon millions of people living day-to-day; that’s a LOT of data to sift through to find anyone not following the rules. This is one of the reasons why the globalists are salivating over AI technologies – It’s the only tool available to collect and delineate mass data collection in real time.
Already, there are efforts to use AI systems to predict crime before it happens (pre-crime). These experiments are rather overhyped as they don’t actually predict specific crimes or identify specific criminals. Rather, they use statistical analysis to predict which areas of a city certain crimes are most likely to occur. You don’t need AI for this, any cop that’s worked in a city long enough can tell you when and where certain crimes are most likely to happen.
Hilariously, AI algorithms have recently been accused of “racial bias” when it comes to the areas they select for predictive crime, because often these areas tend to be in predominantly black neighborhoods and the most predicted criminals tend to be young black men. So, the computers have been accused of racial profiling just as many cops are accused of racial profiling.
Just another classic contradiction of the political left: They love the idea of climate change restrictions, transhumanism, and even AI surveillance when it suits them, but a computer does not care about your feelings and it doesn’t care about social taboos. It only cares about the numbers.
And this is where we get into the greater dangers inherent in AI. Imagine a world micro-managed by a cold dead algorithm that views you as only one of two things: A resource or a threat.
Prediction of pre-crime is nonsense; algorithms monitor habits and patterns and human beings tend to break patterns abruptly. People are affected by crisis events in different ways that are impossible to portend. There are far too many variables and there will never be a system that is able to predict the future, but that’s not going to stop the globalists from trying to force the issue.
AI governance is an inevitability according to globalist institutions – They claim that one day Artificial Intelligence will be used to govern whole societies and dole out punishment based on scientifically efficient models. They act as if this is just the natural path of mankind and one we cannot avoid, but in reality it is a self-fulfilling prophesy. It’s not necessarily meant to happen, it is being engineered to happen.
AI proponents argue that the algorithms cannot act with the same bias that humans do, therefore, they would be the best possible judges of human behavior. Every decision from production to distribution to healthcare to schooling to law and order would be managed by AI as a means to achieve ultimate “equity.”
As noted above, they’ve already run into the road block of statistical probability and the fact that even if AI is left to autonomously make decisions devoid of emotion, millions of people will still see those decisions as biased. And, in some ways they would be right.
The most logical decision is not always the most moral decision. Furthermore, an AI is programmed by its creator and can be engineered to make decisions with the creator’s biases in mind. Who gets to program the AI? Who gets to dictate its coding? Global elitists?
And here is where we get to the more “spiritual” element of the AI issue in relation to the globalists.
A couple years back I wrote an article titled ‘Luciferianism: A Secular Look At A Destructive Globalist Belief System.’ My goal in that piece was to outlined the large amount of evidence that globalists are in fact a kind of cult of organized psychopaths (people without empathy that take joy in destruction for the sake of personal gain). I concluded that globalists do indeed have a religion, and their root belief system according to the evidence is Luciferianism.
Yes, I’m sure there will be naysayers out there that will scoff at this notion, but the facts are undeniable. There is a distinct occult element to globalism, and Luciferianism pops up consistently as the root philosophy. I think I broke this down rather effectively in the article and I won’t rehash all the evidence here; people are welcome to read it if they wish.
I wrote from a secular standpoint because Luciferianism is an inherently destructive ideology even when viewed outside of the lens of Christian belief. Beyond that, there are psychological elements that need to be addressed that Christianity often ignores. Luciferian philosophy is tailor made for narcissistic and sociopathic people. The root of the cult is about “special” human beings that are not hindered by the boundaries of conscience, morals or ethics. Lack of empathy is seen as an advantage to progress and the ultimate goal of Luciferianism is godhood – A person becoming like a god, whether through being worshiped by others, the power of influence or by technological methods of extending life and abilities.
But what does this have to do with AI?
I believe that globalists view AI with such reverence because they think it is a new form of life, or an ultimate form of life – A life that they are creating (as gods create life). And, if you think about it symbolically, this new “life” is actually made in the image of its creators: It has no empathy, no remorse, no guilt, no love. For lack of a better word, it is soulless, much like globalist psychopaths are soulless.
If we are to look at AI in religious terms for a moment – AI is a kind of antithesis to the figure of Christ. Christ represents an all-knowing form of ultimate love and ultimate self sacrifice according to Christian doctrine. I don’t think there is a word for what AI ultimately represents. The only term that seems to fit is “Antichrist”: The all seeing eye. A rulership of a super-intelligence devoid of humanity.
To be clear, I DO NOT believe in end-of-the-world concepts portrayed by those that adhere to more popular interpretations of Revelations. I think the world changes. I think empires rise and fall and this can often be seen as the “end of the world” when it’s really just the end of an epoch. That said, I wholeheartedly believe in the existence of evil; evil being defined as willfully deceitful or destructive actions for purely personal or organizational benefit, such as murder or enslavement. Evil does indeed exist and is an observable element of human life.
There are also traits of humanity that lead to good, that prevent us from self destruction when we listen to them. Conscience, reason, wisdom and often faith can provide a shield against evil actions for the majority of us. If we didn’t have these pillars within our psyches we would have annihilated ourselves long ago. But, there are some who do not have conscience, that do not have empathy and they despise these traits as “limiting.”
AI is being designed by these kinds of people. And maybe they won’t cause the “end of the world” in terms we commonly understand (or in biblical terms), but over time they could take away everything that makes humanity worthy of the world. In a way, this would be an Apocalypse. It would be a living nightmare run by psychopathic people using sociopathic artificial intelligence, actively encouraging and enabling the masses to abandon their human bodies to become digital monstrosities and technological chimera.
If successful, it really would be the ultimate defilement of nature, or of God’s design if that is what you believe in. The pursuit of godhood is not worth it for most of us, but for the globalists it is the dream of an age, and they will do ANYTHING to achieve it.
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| Vatican renews Pope’s push for COVID vaccination as an ‘act of love’ in new video |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-14-2022, 06:40 AM - Forum: Pandemic 2020 [Spiritual]
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Vatican renews Pope’s push for COVID vaccination as an ‘act of love’ in new video
The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development reiterated the Pope's call to the faithful that taking an abortion-tainted COVID shot is 'an act of love' in new promotional material.
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Pope Francis advocating for wider distribution of the abortion-tainted COVID-19 shots in an August video.
Aug 13, 2022
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) – As worldwide public health agencies announce a slowing down on national COVID-19 shot drives, even treating the virus like seasonal influenza, the Vatican has released a new video renewing calls for vaccine development and distribution for the novel coronavirus as an “act of love.”
“The Pandemic and the Magisterium of Pope Francis” is the third part in a series of materials created by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, in collaboration with its COVID-19 Commission, Vatican News reported Friday.
The express aim of the project is to “explore the Pope’s teachings on the global health crisis, reaffirming that one does not come out of the crisis the same, but either better or worse.”
Stitching together archived footage of the Holy Father, the video highlights the Pope’s encouragement of the faithful to take the COVID jabs “as an act of love,” despite the available shots having been derived from aborted fetal cell lines.
“Being vaccinated with the vaccines authorized by the competent authorities is an act of love,” the Pope is shown saying as the video opens, “and contributing to ensure the majority of people are vaccinated is an act of love. Love for oneself, love for one’s family and friends, love for all people.”
The video also highlighted the Pope’s call for COVID-19 shots to first be distributed among the “poorest and most vulnerable,” decrying the possibility that “priority … be given to the richest.”
“It would be sad if this vaccine were to become the property of this nation or another, rather than universal and for all,” the Pope said of the abortion-tainted jabs.
The video also focused on apparent “misinformation” being published regarding the COVID shots, asking viewers to “help provide correct and truthful information about COVID-19 and vaccines, without digging trenches or creating ghettos.”
“The pandemic opens our eyes to what is essential, what is truly important, and the need for us to be saved together,” the video continues, adding the Pope’s exhortation to “be together for, and never against.”
“Let us remember too that access to vaccines … must be ensured to all, including the poor: we will get better if we get better together.”
In Denmark, the government has moved away from continuing to offer COVID shots in a broad and coercive manner to all citizens, opting to focus efforts on the over 50s while restricting children under 18-years-of-age from getting jabbed without the express approval of a doctor.
“Based on previous experience, we expect COVID-19 to be a seasonal disease. This means that the disease most likely flares up in fall and winter, just as we know it from, for example, influenza,” the government wrote.
In the U.S. the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) appears to have relaxed its view on the nature of the virus, acknowledging the effectiveness of natural immunity against illness and suggesting that travel restrictions for the unvaccinated might soon be dropped.
The CDC still recommends vaccination against COVID.
“The pandemic has highlighted the urgent need to promote public health and to make every person’s right to basic medical care a reality,” the Pope states in the Vatican’s new video. “For this reason, I renew my appeal to political leaders and the private sector to spare no effort to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccines.”
By contrast, Bishop Athanasius Schneider of St. Mary’s, Kazakhstan, has consistently held that while public health is an important issue, that the good of health can never supersede the value of the life of the unborn taken for the production of a vaccine or other medicine.
“We will never acquiesce to this injustice, even if it is already so widespread in medicine,” Schneider wrote for LifeSiteNews last April. “It is not allowed to treat unborn children, the lives of the weakest and most defenseless people in the whole world, in such a degrading way, so that the stronger, those already born, may receive a temporal health benefit from their use.”
“It is incomprehensible how churchmen, with the aid of abstract theories from moral theology, can tranquilize the conscience of the faithful, by allowing them to use such vaccines and medicines,” Schneider charged.
“The blood of murdered unborn children cries to God from vaccines and medicines which utilize their remains in any manner whatsoever. We have to make reparation for the accumulated crimes involved in their production,” he added.
In addition to the moral concerns, considerable health issues have been linked to the injections. The CDC on Friday released its latest data showing that a total of 1,379,438 reports of adverse events following COVID-19 vaccines were submitted between Dec. 14, 2020, and Aug. 5, 2022, to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). The data in the voluntary reporting scheme included a total of 30,162 reports of deaths. However, VAERS has been shown to report only 1% of actual vaccine adverse events.
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| WEF Calls For Merging Of Human And AI Intel To Censor "Hate Speech" & "Misinformation" |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-13-2022, 06:05 AM - Forum: Great Reset
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World Economic Forum Calls For Merging Of Human And AI Intel To Censor "Hate Speech" & "Misinformation"
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ZH | AUG 12, 2022
Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,
Despite the fact that no one asked, the World Economic Forum is now advocating for the merger of human and artificial intelligence systems to censor “hate speech” and “misinformation” online before it is even allowed to be posted.
A report published to the official WEF website ominously warns about the peril of “the dark world of online harms.”
But the globalist body, run by comic book Bond villain Klaus Schwab, has a solution.
They want to merge the ‘best’ aspects of human censorship and AI machine learning algorithms to ensure that people’s feelings don’t get hurt and counter-regime opinions are blacklisted.
Quote:“By uniquely combining the power of innovative technology, off-platform intelligence collection and the prowess of subject-matter experts who understand how threat actors operate, scaled detection of online abuse can reach near-perfect precision,” states the article.
After engaging in a whole host of mumbo jumbo, the article concludes by proposing “a new framework: rather than relying on AI to detect at scale and humans to review edge cases, an intelligence-based approach is crucial.”
Quote:“By bringing human-curated, multi-language, off-platform intelligence into learning sets, AI will then be able to detect nuanced, novel abuses at scale, before they reach mainstream platforms. Supplementing this smarter automated detection with human expertise to review edge cases and identify false positives and negatives and then feeding those findings back into training sets will allow us to create AI with human intelligence baked in,” the article rambles.
In other words, your free speech will probably get censored before you’re even able to post it on social media sites. Some are calling it “preemptive censorship.”
Or as the WEF puts it, “Trust and safety teams can stop threats rising online before they reach users.”
No doubt that a central part of such “misinformation” will be strident denunciation of the WEF itself, given that the organization is notorious for blocking its critics on Twitter.
Many would ask why the World Economic Forum, amidst a cost of living crisis, upcoming energy rationing and a global recession, is concerning itself with any of this.
Why don’t they just stick to the economy?
“It’s never a sure bet if this Davos-based elite’s mouthpiece comes up with its outlandish “solutions” and “proposals” as a way to reinforce existing, or introduce new narratives; or just to appear busy and earn its keep from those bankrolling it,” writes Didi Rankovic.
Quote:“No – it’s not the runaway inflation, energy costs, and even food security in many parts of the world. For how dedicated to globalization the organization is, it’s strangely tone-deaf to what is actually happening around the globe.”
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| New CDC COVID guidelines throw out quarantine, allow for benefits of natural immunity |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-12-2022, 02:08 PM - Forum: Health
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New CDC COVID guidelines throw out quarantine, allow for benefits of natural immunity
Two and half years later, the federal health agency also acknowledges that testing everyone is not a good strategy.
Aug 12, 2022
ATLANTA, Georgia (LifeSiteNews) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued new guidance on COVID-19 Thursday, implicitly acknowledging the effectiveness of natural immunity, and hinting at future easing of COVID “travel” rules.
Individuals exposed to someone with COVID-19 do not need to isolate themselves if they do not have any symptoms, according to new guidelines released by the CDC on Thursday.
The CDC also acknowledged that some people are not at a significant risk of infection due to natural immunity and that COVID is likely here to stay like other diseases like the flu. The new rules now treat those “who are not up to date on COVID-19 vaccines” the same as those “who are up to date on COVID-19 vaccines.”
However, the health agency still recommends everyone to get vaccinated.
“This guidance acknowledges that the pandemic is not over, but also helps us move to a point where COVID-19 no longer severely disrupts our daily lives,” CDC official Greta Massetti stated in the Thursday announcement.
The CDC now recommends that “instead of quarantining if you were exposed to COVID-19, you wear a high-quality mask for 10 days and get tested on day 5.” Studies have called into question the effectiveness of mask wearing to prevent the transmission of the virus.
The CDC also no longer recommends “screening testing of asymptomatic people without known exposures… in most community settings.” Some universities, for example, had required students to get tested once or twice per week, if not more.
The six-feet social distancing rule has also been thrown out – the CDC now states that “physical distance is just one component of how to protect yourself and others.”
“It is important to consider the risk in a particular setting, including local COVID-19 Community Levels and the important role of ventilation, when assessing the need to maintain physical distance,” the CDC says.
“In the coming weeks CDC will work to align stand-alone guidance documents, such as those for healthcare settings, congregate settings at higher risk of transmission, and travel, with today’s update,” the CDC announced.
One medical expert who opposed the CDC’s COVID restrictions commented that his views were now being acknowledged.
“The CDC guidance to end mass asymptomatic testing is a big deal, though it comes a full 2 years too late,” Stanford University medical Professor Jay Bhattacharya wrote on Twitter. “If your child is going on a field trip and has no symptoms and is forced to test, make sure to let the authorities know that they are violating CDC guidelines.”
Quote:The CDC guidance to end mass asymptomatic testing is a big deal, though it comes a full 2 years too late. If your child is going on a field trip and has no symptoms and is forced to test, make sure to let the authorities know that they are violating CDC guidelines.
— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) August 12, 2022
He linked to a September 2020 Wall Street Journal op-ed he wrote with Harvard epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff that argued against asymptomatic mass testing, particularly for children and young adults.
“There is little purpose in using tests to check asymptomatic children to see if it is safe for them to come to school. When children are infected, most are asymptomatic, and the mortality risk is lower than for the flu,” the pair wrote. “While adult-to-adult and adult-to-child transmission is common, child-to-adult transmission isn’t. Children thus pose minimal risk to their teachers. If a child has a cough, a runny nose or other respiratory symptoms, he should stay home. You don’t need a test for that.”
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| WEF Advisor Says Global Elite ‘Don’t Need the Vast Majority of the Population’ to Live |
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Posted by: Stone - 08-12-2022, 07:05 AM - Forum: Great Reset
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WEF Advisor Says Global Elite ‘Don’t Need the Vast Majority of the Population’ to Live
The World Economic Forum regularly calls for the mass extermination of human beings
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National File | August 11, 2022
A top-level World Economic Forum (WEF) advisor says that we simply “don’t need the vast majority of the population,” and called for human beings to be replaced by machines whenever possible, saying that beyond producing data, people are just no longer “useful” to the global elite and their agenda.
World Economic Forum advisor Yuval Harari, an Israeli national who is described as a “historian and futurist,” made the remarks during an interview with Chris Anderson that was published on Tuesday. Anderson, the head of TED, interviewed Harari as part of TED’s audio collective, which is meant to take a deeper dive into issues than is done in standard “TED Talks.”
After declaring that humankind has reached the end of history, Harari made the claim that “we just don’t need the vast majority of the population,” due to technological advancements and the simple fact that humans are no longer useful to their governments and the globalist organizations they intertwine with.
While as recently as the 20th century, governments were able to look at their citizens through the lens of labor and production, now, they see a bunch of people who just don’t understand “big words” and are growing “resentful” over the fact that “the future doesn’t need [them],” because we “have all these smart people in California and in New York and in Beijing, and they are planning this amazing future with artificial intelligence and bio-engineering and in global connectivity and whatnot.”
In the 21st century, Harari says, “we just don’t need the vast majority of the population. Because the future is about developing more and more sophisticated technology, like artificial intelligence [and] bioengineering. Most people don’t contribute anything to that, except perhaps for their data, and whatever people are still doing which is useful, these technologies increasingly will make redundant and will make it possible to replace the people.”
Curiously, Harari never described what would be done with the people once they are “replaced.”
Listen to World Economic Forum Advisor Yuval Harari’s Full TED Interview Below:
Harari’s anti-human sentiments expressed in his Ted interview are nothing new. Earlier this year, he warned of a growing class of “useless people” not needed by the global elite and suggested keeping them docile by way of drugs and video games.
“The biggest question maybe in economics and politics in the coming decades will be what to do with all these useless people,” Harari said. “The problem is more boredom, what to do with them and how will they find some sense of meaning in life when they are basically meaningless, worthless…My best guess at present is a combination of drugs and computer games.”
Read More: WEF Advisor Yuval Harari Ponders How World Will Deal With ‘Useless People’
Harari’s views on mankind and the future of the world are commonly held among his World Economic Forum colleagues, as well as others within the globalist circles directing governments worldwide.
Led by Klaus Schwab, the son of a major industrialist in Nazi Germany, the World Economic Forum has taken on a highly visible role in recent years, promoting COVID lockdowns, open borders, and other forms of tyranny. It is often identified as the group which sits atop the so-called “New World Order,” and has even planned to block out the sun in a supposed effort to halt “climate change.”
At one of the World Economic Forum’s recent gatherings, Primatologist Jane Goodall, who gained fame by spending years living alone among monkeys and apes, suggested that 90% of the world’s population be eliminated, in order to solve global issues. If Goodall had her way, the global human population would be somewhere around 500 million souls, the population level recommended by the mysterious Georgia Guidestones, which were recently destroyed by a lightning strike.
VIDEO: Jane Goodall Says Global Issues ‘Wouldn’t Be A Problem’ If Human Population Was 94% Lower At World Economic Forum
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