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We are watching people around the world erupt. They see the writing on the wall and have decided that they aren’t going to take it anymore. In China, from The Economist: “Under a road bridge in central Beijing, just before two o’clock in the morning on November 28th, one of that city’s most powerful men came face to face with youngsters driven to despair by China’s harsh “zero-covid” controls. The brief meeting was revealing in several ways. It offered a glimpse of the security machine built by China’s supreme leader, President Xi Jinping, and the Communist Party’s confidence in it....

The woman in these pictures is a visual artist. Modest. Kind. Smart. Courageous. (Like the best conservatives.) She is an unwavering but careful opponent of authoritarian tyranny murdering her sisters. I hope to say more about her later. I only met her yesterday.

NANTUCKET — For anyone who enjoys the free ebb and flow of ocean air and currents over their bare skin, the coast is now clear for people of all genders to legally go topless on Nantucket beaches. Seven months after Nantucket voters approved a bylaw amendment specifically to allow all people — including women — freely to eschew torso coverings while spending time on the island's beaches, Attorney General Maura Healey has given the change her seal of approval. Her endorsement was required before the so-called "Gender Equity on Beaches" amendment could become Nantucket law. Nantucket is the first town...

The White House .. avoided condemning China's handing of protests.. Crowds have gathered to protest its 'zero COVID' policy of lockdowns ... White House .. would not be speaking up for protesters ... U.S. embassy in Beijing warned Americans in China to be prepared for quarantines, transport disruptions and lockdowns. ... Rep. Kevin McCarthy, likely to be the next House speaker, tweeted: 'The Chinese Communist Party’s lockdowns have imprisoned people against their will—many have died. 'As Chinese citizens bravely protest, Joe Biden and the corporate class shrug. Our Select Committee on China will do what Biden refuses—finally reckon with the...

Paul Harvey - Freedom to Chains

op Biden administration officials pressed their Canadian counterparts to clear truckers blockading parts of the United States’s northern border during protests in January. A public inquiry into the Canadian government’s decision to use emergency powers to clear the “Freedom Convoy” protesters revealed on Thursday that frantic phone calls were placed by Washington to Ottawa in an effort to open up choked-off supply lines. “They are very, very, very worried,” Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland wrote in an email to her staff after a Feb. 10 phone call from White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, according to Politico. “If...

Dreams and vision of events... The city of Phoenix is situated on Parallel 33. - The city of Phoenix was given its name by its founders because it had sprung from from the ruins of a former (ancient) civilization that had vanished into history ! https://www.phoenix.gov/pio/official-city-bird-logo/history-of-the-city-bird === The Myth The phoenix bird symbolizes immortality, resurrection and life after death, and in ancient Greek and Egyptian mythology it is associated with the sun god. According to the Greeks, the bird lives in Arabia, near a cool well. Every morning at dawn, the sun god would stop his chariot to listen to...

I believe that the essential loving nature of men and women can be redeemed through the right mix of freedom and moral regeneration. The power of the beauty driven humanity God has implanted in us gives this a chance. In America, the modern freedom movement has grown from the likes of Barry Goldwater, Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul to towering figures like Donald Trump and Ron De Santis fighting back to maintain core western values and social norms. Australia has a politically fractured range of small parties regularly out politicked by the mainstream Left. Please pray for us. And learn....

FIFA bans "human rights for all" practice jerseys at World Cup ... What happened: FIFA, the international soccer federation, refused to let the Danish national team practice in shirts promoting "human rights for all" at the World Cup, which begins later this month in Qatar. Seriously? Yes. The chief executive of Denmark's soccer association said FIFA rejected the team's request "due to technical reasons." The seemingly innocuous phrase was presumably deemed too "political" due to the host country's appalling human rights record and ties to terrorist organizations. Wait, what? Human rights groups have condemned Qatar for using forced labor to...

Yesterday’s Midterms were not a victory for conservative or progressive ideology, but an assertion of the growing power of geography in American politics. It was less a national election than a clash of civilisations. Virtually nowhere in blue areas did Republicans make gains. Both the north-east and California – the central players in Democratic Party politics – stayed solidly blue. Even the most well-regarded GOP candidates, such as Lanhee Chen who ran for California state controller, struggled to make inroads in Democratic territory. Meanwhile, the senators and governors of the leading red states – Texas’s Greg Abbott, Georgia’s Brian Kemp,...

Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) wins a second term as South Dakota's Governor.

Hollywood star Fran Drescher — who is the president of SAG-AFTRA, Hollywood’s largest actors union — has blasted COVID vaccine mandates as an infringement on basic liberties, saying no one should be forced to take the vaccine as a condition for work, travel, dining, or attending public events. In a recently posted TikTok video that has gone viral, Fran Drescher warned that overzealous mandates could turn into a form of “fascism.” ... to make that one vaccine the criteria for who is allowed to work, travel, dine, go to theater, etc., is an infringement on the Disabilities Act, the Freedom...

Monday, November 7, 2022: Join the RSBN broadcast crew LIVE from Vandalia, OH for all day coverage of President Donald J. Trump’s SAVE AMERICA rally. President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will hold a rally in Vandalia, Ohio on Monday, November 7, 2022, at 8:00PM EST.

'What has happened to me has only furthered the cause of Christ, and for that I rejoice,' said Pastor Tim Stephens ... Canadian pastor who was arrested twice in 2021 for continuing to congregate with his church in Calgary, Alberta ... The Provincial Court of Alberta tossed out charges against Pastor Tim Stephens alleging he violated provincial public health orders regarding physical distancing .... Stephens was imprisoned twice last year for keeping his Fairview Baptist Church open. .... Stephens' acquittal comes weeks after Danielle Smith, Alberta's new premier, promised a plan to pardon COVID offenders in the province. Her administration...

Voters in five states, including four that are among the most conservative in the country, are deciding on whether to legalize recreational marijuana this election. If passed in each state, Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota would join 19 other states and the District of Columbia where cannabis has already been legalized for personal use. All except Maryland backed Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, underscoring that the legalization effort increasingly spans the political spectrum and is even gaining support in some of the most overwhelmingly Republican parts of the nation. "The more people learn about cannabis...

In Australia, the most outspoken critic of the false imprisonment of Cardinal George Pell (https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/2021/10/05/australia-is-not-a-free-country/) was the conservative columnist and television host Andrew Bolt. Bolt is an atheist. I believe that, if all the Christians, who knew that what was done to Pell was wrong, had spoken up as Bolt did, then the cowardly bullies of the Socialist Left government, whose politicized police force attacked Pell, would have backed down. But with a few exceptions (Fathers Kevin Donnelly and Frank Brennan and Bishop Anthony Fisher) the churches and clergy were spectacularly silent. Such attacks will continue in places like Australia...

As the midterm elections quickly approach, Americans across the country are discussing their thoughts on trending policy topics with family, friends and colleagues. Just how truthful they are in those conversations, however, is now a reasonable question to consider. A new study from Populace Insights shines light on how deeply American adults are affected by social pressure to fit in, especially when it comes to hot-button political issues. The report’s findings suggest that American popular culture, and the desire to fit into it, makes the American people look far more politically extreme than they really are. The study uses a...

Peter Richardson joined the police force because he cared deeply about serious action in the War on Drugs. He left after a year and a half of frustrating inaction and now works as a rubbish removalist and campaigns for freedom against Socialist Left tyranny. He is a One Nation candidate for the upper house of Victoria's state parliament this year. God Bless Peter. I pray for his success.

President Joe Biden flashed annoyance at his Secret Service detail as they redirected him at the White House after an event on Monday. The president and First Lady Jill Biden participated in a tree planting ceremony for White House groundskeeper Dale Haney to mark his 50 years of service. After the event Biden began walking away in one direction before a Secret Service agent pointed him toward the opposite direction. “Which way we going?” Biden asked. “This way,” the agent replied. “How about going the other way?” Biden responded. “This way sir,” another agent added. How about if I want...

I publish this to celebrate the beauty and vitality of freedom and in homage to the wisdom of Herbert Hoover as we near the end of the 58th anniversary of his death in 1964.