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.... along with, "Our Democracy",It is how we are slowly losing our identification and essence in the battle for our minds.Children not taught freedom, easily lose it.

President Joe Biden on Friday hinted that he was considering conditioning aid to Israel on its military reducing bombing in Gaza in its offensive against the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. During a press conference on Friday, a reporter asked him, “Mr. President, there are members of your party who would like to see conditions placed on aid to Israel. What is your view on that? They would like to see, you know, a reduction in the bombing and that sort of thing.”

ANZ bank is stripping back some of its services .. Some banks will no longer carry physical cash ... ANZ said only eight per cent of customers use banks .. ... One of Australia's biggest banks has confirmed that some of its branches will no longer allow customers to withdraw money over the counter. ANZ bank is stripping back some of its services, with certain branches no longer carrying physical cash. Instead, customers will be directed to ATMs if they wish to withdraw money - even though these machines are also being cut down across the country. .... this could...

Newly-released communications between the Biden administration and Meta show an effort to crack down on so-called "vaccine-skeptical" content shared on the private communications platform WhatsApp. Independent journalist David Zweig reported on Friday that the White House went beyond Twitter to curb COVID-related posts. Emails obtained through discovery from the ongoing Missouri v Biden legal battle show email exchanges from the White House to the tech giant began just days after President Biden took office. Zweig stressed that unlike Facebook and Instagram, both of which are owned by Meta, WhatsApp is an encrypted direct messaging platform, Citing Meta, "90% of WhatsApp...

Crows are considered to be some of the most intelligent birds around and some will be trained to pick up litter in exchange for food, potentially saving the Nordic country millions in street-cleaning efforts.videoA start-up in Sweden has begun recruiting crows in a pilot project to assist in cleaning up the streets of the city of Södertälje in Greater Stockholm.Crows are among the most intelligent animals in Sweden and can learn to pick things up in exchange for food, something that the local company Corvid Cleaning aims to benefit from. In particular, the birds will be taught to pick up...

Have you heard of the Biderman Report? This little gem from yesteryear told us everything you’d ever want to know about what brainwashing is, and how the bad guys go about doing it. And if you measure today’s events by those standards? Yikes! The Biderman Report is instrumental in setting out what someone’s got to do to deprogram someone who had been trapped in a cult. And the chart that was later developed is also used to map out abusive relationships. It sets out the framework of exactly what tools of coercion are employed by bad actors to break the...

When this report first came out last week I didn’t feel tempted to write about it, but it did lead to a lengthy and interesting discussion with some friends on social media. It involves the release of the results of a study conducted in Great Britain and the United States that’s being billed as the biggest study ever conducted on genetics and same-sex attraction. I’ll have to confess… I was kind of shocked at the conclusions. But long story short, while some possible correlations were noted, they concluded that there is no single “gay gene” that determines your sexual...

Since cannibalism is found throughout the animal kingdom and therefore is something natural, perhaps it is time for humans to rethink the “ultimate taboo” against eating human flesh, Newsweek proposes in an article Wednesday. There is nothing necessarily unethical or unreasonable about eating human flesh, declare psychologists Jared Piazza and Neil McLatchie of Lancaster University, but careful reasoning over the merits of cannibalism is often “overridden by our feelings of repulsion and disgust.”While not going so far as to recommend cannibalism, saying “there is no need to overcome our repulsion for the foreseeable future,” the two authors suggest that humans could master their...

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Is the American population at large capable of independent thought anymore? With politics going the way they are today, it’s a question worth asking. As the 2016 election season progresses, it becomes more and more apparent on a daily basis that a vast majority of Americans on both the left and the right require their news to be ruminated, masticated, hashed and rehashed prior to consumption. Instead of using their brains to consume and synthesize facts concerning their country’s politics and politicians, Americans – more often than not – have consigned themselves to a state of cerebral laziness. For such...

Operation Jade Conditioning First, let’s cover what Joint Military Exercise Jade Helm 15 is not: it is not a covert plan for the military to conquer the Southwest and institute martial law. And no, the hundreds of special operations troops and thousands of other military personnel taking part in Jade Helm 15 are not bad guys who are out to establish tyranny in America. Those are straw man arguments, posited to be rejected. But the elimination of the straw men does not mean that Jade Helm 15 is benign. Reality check, please: does anybody reading this seriously believe that President...

ROCKVILLE, MD — Thousands of motorists were brought to a standstill when police conducted a massive roadblock to find three crime suspects. Twelve lanes of traffic were shut down and swarms of armed government agents combed through a giant traffic jam performing warrantless vehicle-to-vehicle searches. The busy Tuesday morning commute was abruptly halted just after 10:00 a.m. on March 11th. One driver told ABC News that traffic stopped and he witnessed 30 police cars pass on the shoulders of I-270 near Rockville. “Then, when I saw a wall of police officers with automatic weapons approaching our cars, it was apparent...

A father was dragged from his home and handcuffed in front of his children by a SWAT team looking for his estranged wife – to collect her unpaid student loans... Mr Wright was later told by Stockton police that the order to send in the SWAT team came from The U.S. Department of Education who were looking for his estranged wife to collect defaulted loan payments. 

Â…Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.(2 Thessalonians 2:6-10)Evil thrives on lies. The fall of man came about by the acceptance of a lie. Satan himself is the father of lies. Lying and...

Surely you've heard... "the end of days"; "prophecy is being fulfilled in our times"; "the time of the end is near"; "Armageddon"; "the mark of the Beast";... and Jesus said in the gospels, "So You, when you see these things happening, know that it is near... at the doors!" Well, human history is replete with evidence of the evils of sin in the heart of man but make no mistake, this history will come to an end. God's word says there will come a Time when He will draw Time to an end and He will set up a new...

A commercial produced by an organization fighting for the freedom of Iran that depicts a nuclear terror attack in America – the kind many experts believe is possible should Tehran get the bomb – will run in 20 markets across the country this month. Titled "An Atomic 9-11: When Evil is Appeased," the spot, sponsored by the Iran Freedom Foundation, is based on a scenario described in the new WND Books release "Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians," by Jerome R. Corsi, co-author of the best-selling "Unfit for Command." Corsi believes an atomic 9-11...

Many people are surprised to learn that any movement that can be done with any apparatus, can also be done without the apparatus -- usually to much greater effect and productivity. So when one sees the apparatus advertised on television as the latest great thing, one merely needs to simulate the movement without the apparatus to see if such a claim is possible and plausible. While the apparatus (machine) does suggest the general idea of the intent and purpose of the exercise, the limitation of most machines is that it loses effectiveness at the very extreme of the movement --...

... sociologists and social psychologists have discovered that terrorist groups use cult-like conditioning techniques to convert normal individuals into remorseless killers ... ... limited global counterrorism resources should focus on eradicating the terrorist group training camps where the conditioning takes place ... ... If a terrorist is truly convinced that enemy old people, women and children are evil creatures, then killing them is not just easy; it is necessary, honorable, and rewarded ... What have we learned that will help responsible authorities eradicate terrorism? ... (1) If a leader is eliminated, the group is greatly weakend. ... (2) Aggressively disrupting...

Hot weather has little chilling effect on workouts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Wayne Drehs ESPN.com STARKVILLE, Miss. -- The temperature was 92 degrees. The humidity, 81 percent. And the Mississippi State football players had one of their most challenging days of offseason training ahead. Yet outside the Bulldogs' locker room, there was a sense of relief as a welcome breeze greeted the players as they headed toward "The Compound" for another grueling workout. It is often back-breaking work to stay in shape for the football season ahead, as Mississippi State's Tray Clark can attest. "You pray for days like this," said Scott...

UK schoolkids fingerprinted, prompting privacy concerns "Dangerous, illegal, unnecessary," says watchdog By INQUIRER staff: Monday 22 July 2002, 15:11 PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN are being fingerprinted in a scheme that human right watchdog Privacy International up in arms. The body says tens of thousands of kids are being fingerprinted at school, often without parents' consent, or even without their knowledge. The electronic finger printing is being conducted as part of a cost cutting "automation" of school libraries. Privacy International has condemned the procedure, branding it "dangerous, illegal and unnecessary", and has called for a prohibition of the technology in schools. The...