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Some asylum claimants who arrived in the UK in small boats or in the back of lorries could be electronically tagged under a new Home Office trial. A 12-month trial could apply to adults due to be removed from the UK after arriving via what the government calls "dangerous or unnecessary" routes. Boris Johnson said it was important to "make sure asylum seekers can't just vanish into the rest of the country". Critics say the plan treats those fleeing persecution as criminals. The pilot comes days after the first flight taking asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda was cancelled...

A month or so ago, Netflix CEO Ted Serandos took a lot of criticism from the LGBTQIA+ community for saying Netflix was going to support its creators’ right to free speech. The criticism began with a Netflix special starring comedian Dave Chappelle, containing humor that some have claimed is offensive to gay and trans people. It continued with the release of Ricky Gervais’s new special Supernature, which features similar critiques of gender ideology. Serandos’s response to employee complaints included sending an internal memo last month stating that if employees had a problem with Netflix’s “breadth of content,” then perhaps they...

As the post-pandemic recovery chugs along, the global economy is set to see major changes in the coming decades. Most significantly, China is forecast to pass the United States to become the largest economy globally. The world’s economic center has long been drifting from Europe and North America over to Asia. This global shift was kickstarted by lowered trade barriers and greater economic freedom, which attracted foreign direct investment (FDI). Another major driving factor was the improvements in infrastructure and communications, and a general increase in economic complexity in the region. Visual Capitlaist’s visualization uses data from the 13th edition...

Drag queens are the ultimate symbol of disrespect for women. In a speech at an education summit on June 15, 2022, Dana Nessel, Michigan attorney general, described the outrage over drag queen shows for children as “fake issues” that are divisive. She said, “drag queens are fun” and “make everything better.” She asserted that drag queens are entertainment, then mocking the angry conservatives said that she was in favor of “a drag queen in every school.” This statement was supposedly a joke. Yeah, right, very funny. Drag queens are the ultimate symbol of disrespect for women. Men portray women as...

The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located. This thread is a non-political respite. No matter what, you won’t be flamed, and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked. It is impossible to hijack...

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis staked his claim Thursday as the first governor in America not to provide state support for vaccinating younger kids against COVID-19. DeSantis stressed at an event Thursday that parents can still vaccinate their young children. Even though the state will not be working with the federal government to distribute the vaccine, that doesn’t mean it is banned, according to DeSantis. “You are free to choose — that’s not the issue,” he said.

The EU’s interests rest in de-escalating the Ukrainian Conflict so that their companies can quickly get to work economically colonizing that country via the scheme that Zelensky proposed during last month’s Davos Summit for them “to take patronage over a particular region of Ukraine, city, community or industry.” Former US President Trump just made a strong point about the EU’s participation in the NATO proxy war on Russia through Ukraine when he said the following: “We just gave $40 billion on top of another $16 billion. So, we’re in for $56 billion. But when you look at Europe – and...

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IPray For The Peace of JerusalemGenesis 22Abraham Tested 22 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. 2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.” 3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had...

Democrats seem unable or unwilling to learn that We No Longer Trust Them. In 1955, Pete Seeger released the iconic song, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?," which railed against the Vietnam War. A line frequently reprised in the song resonates with today's Democrat party: "When will they ever learn?" Progressive Democrats are currently in positions of authority in the White House, halls of Congress, federal agencies, school systems, large corporations, and the legacy media. Using a fabricated COVID crisis as a bludgeon, progressives justified an unconstitutional power-grab with statements we know were and are lies. Nonetheless, they expect Americans...

... Semiconductor manufacturing involves hundreds of carefully formulated, highly-purified chemicals, gases and materials. Together, they account for about 20% of total chip manufacturing costs, industry executives estimate. But this part of the $40 billion chipmaking supply chain -- including wafers, chemicals, gas to materials that are indispensable to building chips -- has long been overlooked, as the prices of these chemicals and materials tended to be stable and their availability reliable. All that changed after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, war in Ukraine and a sudden boom in demand for chips for applications like 5G connectivity and electric vehicles,...

VIDEO https://www.facebook.com/arsen.avakov.1/videos/5069131156534111 ROUGH TRANSLATION FROM THE RUSSIAN: The reality and truth of three months of military aggression against Ukraine🇺🇦: CONS: - 20% of the territory of Ukraine is occupied; ⁃ huge losses among the civilian population; ⁃ military losses; ⁃ A number of cities were completely destroyed, many settlements suffered from bombing; ⁃ Infrastructure destroyed; ⁃ the economy is paralyzed; ⁃ The enemy we are beating still hangs over us with its 140 million people. PROS: + Ukraine from the first days provides the most brutal resistance, which surprises the whole world; + We have won many victories of valor...

WASHINGTON, June 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order aimed at curbing discrimination against transgender youth and drying up federal funding for the controversial practice of "conversion therapy." Biden's executive order asks the federal health and education departments to expand access to gender-affirming medical care and find new ways to counter a flurry of bills passed in U.S. states by conservative lawmakers this year that ban these treatments for transgender youth.

The price of bitcoin fell 9% in 24 hours to $19,217 according to Coin Metrics data...Crypto investors are grappling with aggressive interest rate hikes from the U.S. Federal Reserve and a worsening liquidity crunch. [Half an hour ago, BTC was at $19,040]

There is an old spiritual that says, “My God is so high you can’t get over Him. He’s so low you can’t get under Him. He’s so wide you can’t get around Him. You must come in, by and through the Lamb.”It’s not a bad way of saying that God is “other.” He is beyond what human words can describe, beyond what human thoughts can conjure. On the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity we do well to remember that we are pondering a mystery that cannot fit in our minds.A mystery, though, is not something wholly unknown. In the...

A common question arising around the time of Trinity Sunday is rooted in this passage from John’s Gospel:If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I (Jn 14:28). This is somewhat puzzling because we are taught that each Divine Person of the Blessed Trinity fully possesses the nature of God and is equally to be adored and glorified. What, then, did Jesus mean when He said, “the Father is greater than I”?The most common (and correct) answer is that in this passage Jesus was speaking in reference...

June 18th 2022 Saturday of week 11 in Ordinary Time Child Jesus Catholic Church, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First reading2 Chronicles 24:17-25 ©'You have deserted the Lord: now he deserts you'After the death of Jehoiada, the officials of Judah came to pay court to the king, and the king now turned to them for advice. The Judaeans abandoned the Temple of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, for the worship of sacred poles and idols. Because of their guilt, God’s anger fell on Judah and Jerusalem. He sent them prophets to bring them back to...

Israel-Iran Shadow War on Verge of Exploding Into the Open By Sri Lanka Guardian •June 10, 2022 •Espionage feature World View •Comments : 0 Iran removing UN monitoring cameras, poised to move troops into Syria by Jonathan Broder On the evening of May 31 in the central Iranian city of Yazd, an Iranian aerospace engineer was returning home from dinner with a colleague when he suddenly felt ill and collapsed into unconsciousness. Ayub Entezari was rushed to hospital, where he died after several unsuccessful attempts to resuscitate him, according to an Iranian opposition media outlet. The cause of Entezari’s death:...

A quiet sunny summer's day in the suburbs became the setting for the dramatic climax of a police chase this past Wednesday afternoon. A video, which came via a Ring doorbell camera, shows a black SUV turning a corner and then flipping over twice as it hurtles to the front yard of a home in Rochester, New York. Multiple police vehicles speed toward the crashed vehicle with sirens blaring. Shortly after the police show up, two suspects emerge simultaneously from the car, breaking through the shattered windscreen, before trying to flee the scene. According to a statement from the Rochester...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Alaska’s first all mail-in election is drawing criticism for an abnormally high number of ballots that have been rejected by the Division of Elections. A majority of the rejected ballots are coming from rural Alaska. Ballots for the special primary election to fill the late Rep. Don Young’s seat had to be postmarked by June 11, but election officials are still counting incoming ballots. Data released Friday, June 17, shows several areas with unusually high rejection rates. In House District 38 which includes the city of Bethel and communities along the Kuskokwim River, 374 of the...