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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article based on the shocking news that Taiwan's birth rate in May 2022 fell by 23.34% compared to May 2021.I explained that in terms of statistics, the change in Taiwan is an unthinkable 26-sigma event of enormous magnitude.Like most people would, I was hoping, despite evidence from other countries, that this is a data fluke.Well, it is not, and the data for June was just released in Taiwan. I am very upset.June Birth Rate Cratered by 27.66%!Compared to June 2021, birth rate in Jun 2022 is down by -27.66%. This is far...

One could easily reduce this Sunday’s Gospel to trite moral advice such as this: Help people in trouble; be kind to strangers. While these are certainly good thoughts, I would argue that it is about far deeper things than human kindness or ethics. This is a Gospel about the transformative power of God’s love and our need to receive it. It is not a Gospel that can be understood as a demand of the flesh.Let’s look at the Gospel in three stages.I. The Radical Requirements of Love – As the Gospel opens, there is a discussion between Jesus and a...

July 10th 2022 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham, UK Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingDeuteronomy 30:10-14 ©The Law is not beyond your strength or beyond your reachMoses said to the people: ‘Obey the voice of the Lord your God, keeping those commandments and laws of his that are written in the Book of this Law, and you shall return to the Lord your God with all your heart and soul. ‘For this Law that I enjoin on you today is not beyond your strength or beyond your reach. It is not in heaven, so that...

The pro-abortion group RiseUp4AbortionRights, which has been disrupting churches and large gatherings for weeks, is now being denounced by 13 other pro-abortion organizations who allege RiseUp is a “cult and pyramid scheme.” Live Action News previously documented that while the name RiseUp4AbortionRights was launched in January 2022, it is actually a rebranded version of the revolutionary pro-abortion group, Stop Patriarchy, which is led by activists Sunsara Taylor, Lori Sokol, and millionaire abortionist Merle Hoffman. The group has been behind multiple disruptions at churches and public gatherings across the nation. In 2014, a separate group, Texans for Reproductive Justice, published a...

Abortion advocates in the media and on social media have unleashed a barrage of myths about pro-life laws since Roe v. Wade was reversed on June 24. The misinformation is creating a wave of fear across the nation, as compassionate Americans now fear women will die and children will be born into abuse and neglect if abortion is not legal and on-demand through all nine months of pregnancy. Yet none of these myths are true. MYTH: Treatment for ectopic pregnancy will not be allowed. One of the most common myths spreading about pro-life laws in a post-Roe world is that...

Nick Wimbledon might win the Wimbledon Men's Singles title later today. Meanwhile Australia takes him to court and threatens him with two years jail for the "crime" of grabbing a woman. I love sport. But the country of my birth, a once great sporting nation, is now Police State Shit.

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Virginia (LifeSiteNews) — A group of parents filed suit against Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia for “moral corruption of children” over the school board’s promotion of radical gender ideology, Fox News reported. America First Legal’s Center for Legal Equality filed the “blockbuster lawsuit” against Loudoun County Public Schools “on behalf of 11 courageous parents” in response to “the district’s systemic and egregious moral corruption of children and its deliberate, and almost gleeful, violations of parental rights to control the upbringing of their children,” Fox reported. “Many will remember that Loudoun County was the epicenter of the debate...

(LifeSiteNews) — Michigan’s radically pro-abortion Democratic governor on Wednesday reaffirmed her commitment to defending legal abortion in her state, characterizing the ability to kill unborn babies as “a great part of [Michigan’s] legacy.” In a July 6 interview with CNBC, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer responded to questions about abortion access in her state by saying she “would love to be able to pitch Michigan as the place where every person has full civil rights, full bodily autonomy and the ability to make a good quality of life here in Michigan.” Whitmer, who imposed some of the harshest COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions...

A New Orleans woman is facing murder-for-hire charges after she inadvertently tried to book a hitman to take out a love rival on a website that is linked to the FBI. Zandra Ellis, 33, was taken into custody by the feds this week in the parking lot of a Waffle House in Louisiana after discussing the hit with an undercover agent, according to the criminal complaint in the case. Ellis made contact with Rent-A-Hitman.com on June 30 using a fake name, Jasmine D. Brown, the documents state. In her inquiry, Ellis said that she wanted a woman identified only as...

President Joe Biden's claim that a 10-year-old rape victim was forced to travel across state lines to get an abortion after last month's Roe Vs. Wade ruling has come into question, after a Washington Post fact-checker found the story to be largely unsubstantiated. It has also emerged that the doctor who first shared the story with an Indiana-based news outlet is a prominent abortion advocate - placing further doubt on its credibility. The one-source story was provided to an Indiana news outlet by Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Caitlin Bernard last week. She claimed a child abuse doctor in Ohio contacted her...

“Their [Police] attitude was intimidatory and I was made to feel like I was under investigation, when they should be focusing on the criminals preying on young girls in Telford” – Samantha Smith On July 5, 2022, Samantha Smith, a victim of grooming in Telford, England, joined Mark Steyn to discuss a report set to be published this month on grooming gangs in Telford. Smith, who was sexually abused from age 5 to 14, condemned the egregious handling of the child sexual exploitation scandal, which destroyed the lives of countless young girls. Two days after Steyn interviewed Smith for GB...

Buying a movie on a digital platform, apparently doesn't mean you own it. From August, Sony’s PlayStation users in Germany and Austria will no longer have access to the StudioCanal titles they purchased. Citing the rise of streaming services, on August 31, 2021, Sony’s PlayStation stopped selling and renting movies and TV shows. At the time, Sony told customers that they could still “access movie and TV content they have purchased through PlayStation Store for on-demand playback on their mobile devices, PS4, and PS5.” It appears the company did not mean the access would be forever. “As of August 31,...

Howdy old friends! Is anyone else listening to The Brendan Option?

“The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked” (Proverbs 10:11 KJV).

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott has defied President Joe Biden and ordered the Texas National Guard to start arresting migrants in Texas, and returning them to the Mexico border. On Saturday, Abbott slammed the president, saying: 'Biden's border policies are crushing local communities up and down the border.' He added that the Texas Department of Public Safety has already started making arrests after his executive order came into effect on July 7. It's unclear how many migrants have been arrested since then, but photos posted by Abbott and the Texas DPS show a handful of illegal immigrants being rounded up and...

A shocking video shows San Francisco school children having to pick their way through a filthy, open-air drug den of homeless addicts after getting off a school bus at the end of the day. The video, posed by Ricci Wynne, shows the elementary school kids filing off the 14 transit line in the Golden Gate City at 8th Street and Mission by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company building past dozens of sickly users nodding out on the sidewalk. 'This is no back ally,' he says in the tweet. 'This is the main artery of the city that has been...

A top court in Slovenia ruled that bans on same-sex couples getting marrying and adopting children are unconstitutional in the small European country and ordered its parliament to amend the law within six months to guarantee they can. Constitutional Court judges ruled 6-3 on both issues Friday, saying that Slovenia's laws allowing only opposite-sex marriages and adoptions violated a constitutional prohibition against discrimination. Discrimination against same-sex couples “cannot be justified with the traditional meaning of marriage as a union between a man and a woman, nor with special protection of family,” according to the ruling carried by the Slovenian Press...

Crowds dance on the streets of Berlin in the 'Rave the Planet' parade, a political demonstration dedicated to recognising and preserving electronic dance music culture as a cultural achievement. See video.

I just watched "The Terminal List", which was excellent. I was puzzled by the very ending, however. I couldn't decide whether Reece was going to the African place on the map shown or was he just going to sail until he ran out of food, water, or the tumor killed him? Any insights?