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Here, Janice Fiamengo calls for a moratorium on women’s tears. She explains how women’s tears have created an accountability gap for over 200 years. She cites a Smithsonian study that says men are subconsciously affected by women’s tears over 40 percent of the time. I believe I can relate to this, but must admit that my experience in recent years has lowered my own reactionary response to something below this threshold. I figure I am currently in the 14 percent range, and dropping fast.
https://youtu.be/pSOOFFL8RKs?si=VdFKvR5DjRgCrCq2
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Another day, another headline out of China
CCP Conducts EMERGENCY Drills For Pneumonia Of Unknown Drills Across China
I wonder if this is the same strain that killed Kary Mullis way back in August of 2019 OR is this another political “Fear, Fear, Fear” tactic for even more control. I am sure the young global leaders Justine and Freeland will tell us useless eater, little people and the “fringe minority” brain dead if this is soooo serious, we may need lockdowns.
A Planned Parenthood clinic will be offering people free vasectomies and abortions during the Democratic National Convention (DNC), which is set to be held next week in Chicago.
Planned Parenthood Great Rivers (PPGR), the Chicago Abortion Fund, and The Wieners Circle will be “providing FREE vasectomies & medication abortion” at Planned Parenthood Great Rivers’ mobile health clinic, PPGR announced in a post on X.
According to the New York Times, the mobile health clinic will be set up “blocks away” from the DNC.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/17/planned-parenthood-to-offer-free-vasectomies-abortions-during-dnc/
Let’s hope the Antifa folks learn of this…
A Trump supporter claims that she was prevented from entering the New York Mets stadium while wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, and labeled it “political discrimination.”
Aura Moody explained to the New York Post that she, and her friend Taisha had been wearing MAGA hats and had gotten past the security checkpoint when they were informed they could not enter the Mets stadium, known as Citi Field. The ladies were informed by an employee that the hats were “too political.”
Moody and her friend were instructed to put the hats back in their car after the stadium worker informed them they were not allowed to place them in their bags.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/17/trump-supporter-prevented-from-entering-mets-stadium-with-maga-hat-political-discrimination/
“History has begun the music. We now must all dance to her tune or be crushed.”
Jim Butcher Warriorborn page 13
Amazing ‘Jesus Revolution’ Reported in Iran – Mosques Close as Muslims Turn to Christianity
thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/amazing-jesus-revolution-reported-iran-mosques-close-muslims/
Aug. 18, 2024 10:15 am
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When you think of Iran and religion, Christianity isn’t what comes to mind.
The Middle Eastern nation isn’t just the biggest Shiite Muslim state in the world, it’s also one of the most draconian when it comes to enforcing the tenets of the religion. The country’s morals police is again in the international spotlight after they reportedly shot a woman last month for a violation of the country’s mandatory hijab laws, according to The Associated Press.
However, amid the severity of the country’s morality crackdown is a ray of light for Christians: Iran may well be in the midst of what some commentators are calling a “Jesus Revolution.”
In a Tuesday article for faith-based outlet CBN News, writer Gary Lane described how an “unprecedented number of Muslims are choosing to follow Christ, especially in Iran as people search for a better life.”
“You have a country with one of the highest drug addiction rates in the world. You have a country where corruption runs rampant. You have a country where more than half the people live below the poverty line,” said Todd Nettleton of The Voice of the Martyrs, a non-governmental organization focused around providing support for persecuted Christians.
“And the people of Iran are looking at this and they are saying, ‘Wait a minute. If this is what Islam has brought us in the last 45 years, we’re not interested. We want to know what the other options are.’”
Nettleton said that over a million Muslims had left the faith for Christianity and two-thirds of the country’s 75,000 mosques had closed — a claim that had been echoed in other outlets like U.S.-based Iran International, but which is difficult to verify given the nature of Iran’s closed society.
“This is not something that is making the regime happy. And, really, in many ways, they are seeking to solidify their power and to crush any kind of dissent,” Nettleton said.
“We have heard multiple stories this year of Bible study, a home church being raided. Everyone there is photographed; everyone there is questioned. But then the leader of the meeting is held on to. They are arrested. They are detained. They’re put in prison.”
However, he said that family and friends are often easier on Christian converts than the government is.
“They kind of have the attitude of, ‘Hey, if you found something that works for you, if it’s Jesus or if it’s atheism or if it’s whatever, if it works for you … I know Islam doesn’t work, so I’m happy you found something that works,’” he said.
The move toward Christianity is a surprising one for those of us familiar with Iran only as a merciless theocratic state. Yet, this isn’t a new phenomenon; in a 2023 piece for the Washington Stand, a Christian outlet, Lela Gilbert noted that “a significant survey taken in 2020 by Gamaan, a secular Netherlands-based research group, reported that there are far greater numbers of Christian believers in Iran than ever before — more than a million. In fact, those involved with the ‘house church’ movement in Iran are convinced that there are likely several million Christian believers there.
“In my research and interviews, it has become clear that new Christians’ witness to others is mostly shared in quiet conversations, encouraged by low-profile online Bible studies, and affirmed by visions, dreams, and miraculously answered prayers. Due to their risky circumstances, recent Christian converts are enthusiastically communicating about their changed lives with friends and loved ones — but quietly and carefully. However, their discreet but persistent witness accounts for the extraordinary number of new Iranian believers, who meet in small house churches,” she wrote.
“These house churches are usually comprised of no more than 10 to 15 believers. On a given day, they arrive, one by one, at a small apartment or some other nondescript location. After the last one enters, the door closes and locks, and they all take a deep breath and relax, greeting each other warmly.”
And, one church leader quoted by Gilbert noted that this isn’t just in spite of the state, but because of it, as well: “What if I told you the mosques are empty inside Iran? What if I told you no one follows Islam inside of Iran?” he said. “What if I told you the best evangelist for Jesus was the Ayatollah Khomeini [founder of the Islamic Republic]?”
Don Shenk, the executive director of The Tide Ministry, said what’s happening in Iran is indicative of a wider trend, as well, according to CBN.
“I think what’s happening there is actually representative of what’s happening in the Islamic world,” he said.
“We get responses from listeners who say, you know, now I understand that God loves me. I always thought that God wanted to punish me,” Shenk said. “And I think there’s an awakening that is taking place across the Muslim world, not just in Iran.”
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Shenk said countries which have seen growth in new converts include Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and war-torn Yemen.
Nettleton agreed, citing — in one instance — a new openness toward Christians from nearby Saudi Arabia.
“Not necessarily welcoming with open arms, obviously. But just the understanding that it could happen, that there could be Christians here,” he said.
“And maybe that’s not the worst thing in the world. That’s such a change from what we would have seen 10 or 15 or 20 years ago.”
Nevertheless, these are still men and women risking their lives to follow Jesus Christ. It’s an amazing “Jesus Revolution” indeed, but it’s also a reminder they need our prayers to grow in faith and to have God’s hand of protection upon them. It’s an amazing story — and one which will doubtlessly have heavenly recompense. We can only hope that the spiritual transformation of these Iranian Christians is mirrored in the earthly state of their country, as well.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/amazing-jesus-revolution-reported-iran-mosques-close-muslims/
G-d is responding to the people suffering under the satanic regime of the IRI. Showering them with the blessings of Christianity is a gift few might’ve anticipated, though the faith has been spreading quietly for years in communist China.
May they survive and flourish, may their courage inspire a billion in the [alt-media cliche] “Global South”.
As Jews are persecuted in the [formerly] “Free World”, so burn Christian churches. Worse, they fall to aloha-snackbar bases. Secular politics has become our immediate enemy, serving the devil in red and green. Time to reset the compass.
Yup, that is what is at stake in this election.
The BANNED Professor’s BRUTALLY Honest Opinion On COVID-19 & Dr Fauci… | Dr Bret Weinstein
Great common sense interview.
The leaders of the French far-left have threatened to impeach President Emmanuel Macron over an “institutional coup against democracy” for so far refusing to nominate a leftist to become the next prime minister.
With the ‘Olympic Truce’ now over, former and current presidents of the far-left La France Insoumise (LFI) party Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Mathilde Panot have threatened to launch proceedings to “remove” President Macron for allegedly refusing to “take note” of the legislative elections in July.
Macron had partnered with the leftist New Popular Front coalition, which includes the far-left LFI, in a desperate last-minute bid to block the surging right-wing populist National Rally (RN) party of Marine Le Pen during the elections, with Macron’s neo-liberals and the leftists strategically standing down candidates to back the candidates with the strongest chance of defeating RN in the second round of voting last month.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/08/18/french-far-left-threatens-to-impeach-macron-if-socialist-not-installed-as-prime-minister/
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Kamala’s Plan – PRICE CONTROLS! Do Price Controls Work?
OFFICIAL Jovan Hutton Pulitzer – August 19, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT
https://rumble.com/v5bj35x-kamalas-plan-price-controls-do-price-controls-work.html