To get away from his unpopularity among Israelis, Netanyahu took a trip to the US.
Then he gets back. And this follows within a short time-frame:
– Israel killed Hezbollah’s most senior military commander Fuad Shukr in an air raid on the Lebanese capital, Beirut
– Israel assassinates Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’ political bureau, in Tehran.
– Israel assassinates IRGC Commander Amir Hajizadeh near Damascus
Israel doesn’t want a cease fire with Palestine. It doesn’t want a two-state solution. It is itching for war with Iran and has ensured the support of the US.
The stage is set for more wars. How does this happen?
Those two cults, they are interwoven with each other. Strangely, some can see the genocide, but they still think that Trump is the hero who is going to save the world. They still don’t get it.
Not CUFI. It needs to be ZUFI
Ziotians United For Israel
There is nothing Christian about what is being done in that only democracy in the ME.
Miriam Adelson has been quite active lately. After pledging at least $100 million to Trump, she attended the Republican Convention, and this week she was a featured speaker at the “Christians United for Israel” summit.
Comments:
– When will we see a “Christians United for America” conference?
– “Christians United for Israel”
That “Chickens for KFC” line from Netenyahu comes to mind…
– It’s a religion based on Jew-worship masquerading as “Christianity” for Americans who are too dumb and theologically illiterate to know the difference.
– Everyone in the “Christians United for Israel” convention in DC this week should be flown directly to Israel to fight on the front lines ..most are zionist Boomers they need to go
Pastor John Hagee and his “Christians United For Israel” are in DC this week for their annual summit and lobbying trip. Spectacular timing. Hagee called for sending Iran into the “dustbin of history,” along with the Turks, the Ottomans, the Romans, and the Pharaohs of Egypt
Slater: Counting the cost of Matildas’ Olympics failure
An unmitigated disaster – there’s no other way to describe the Matildas’ failed Olympic Games campaign. And Football Australia has themselves to blame for what is a costly failure.
This may enlighten you – hat tip Wall Street Journal
Thanks for that link, Interested observer.
Over the past few years, I have lost my trust in the MSM and what they report. As an example, take the war in Ukraine. What is the story they give us?
Russia: villain, Ukraine: victim. Putin: bad man, Zelensky: good man.
Brief Backstory: The US interferes in the affairs of another country and gets their man elected. Provoked, Russia invades Ukraine. Then puppet Zelensky runs around the world collecting taxpayer dollars in the billions delivered to the Laundromat in Ukraine where it gets nicely rinsed and bagged to where it should go.
Fact: the ordinary people in Ukraine and Russia suffer due to the war which can be stopped. But why end a war when it benefits politicians, weapons manufacturers and many other industries?
Notice how, despite a war, so many brave politicians, other industry leaders and Hollywood actors go to visit Ukraine?
Lesson for the world plebs: The narrative being fed to us has been decided by the beneficiaries of the disasters that they set up.
WSJ
White House officials said Tuesday they were “deeply concerned” about the situation unfolding in Venezuela and questioned the election results,
How did a country so rich in natural resources end up in die straits?
Due to Socialist dictators? Is Maduro a cheat, fraud, thug, tyrant?
Fact: the ordinary folk in Venezuela don’t have the basics they need. They are going through tough times. It is not like the US pollies or the media are worried about them.
Elon Musk is also paying great attention to the election in Venezuela. Why?
Because there’s plenty of lithium….very useful for batteries and Tesla.
With so much else taking place, the politics of Venezuela has not been on my list. But the elections this week, and Anya’s post, made me wonder what she meant. Just a quick check around social media and I learnt this. Venezuela is rich in oil – guess who is watching that? Why pay for it if you can get another puppet to install and set up another Laundromat?
Kamala Harris may have been the butt of jokes from both sides: right and left.
It used to be said that she was even less popular than Biden. The GOP thought they had nothing to fear. Trump vs Biden – no contest.
Kamala is already pulling in the big bucks and it’s the first weeks that she is the presumed Dem nominee. She has Hollywood on her side so she must be getting good acting lessons.
She is being well coached. And she is listening to her teachers and advisers.
Unlike her opponent.
Forget about her policies and just consider the appeal to the voters.
In dramatic scenes at the Paris Olympic boxing, Italian fighter Angela Carini, two time world champion, has abandoned the bout against controversial Algerian boxer Imane Khelif after just 40 seconds.
Khelif was the boxer who failed a sex test at last year’s world championships but was allowed to compete in the women’s Olympic welterweight preliminaries …
It appears the Algerian has broken Carini’s nose with just two punches. One knocked the chin strap, the second broke her nose.
Italy’s coach said his fighter Angela Carini may have protested after being punched in the nose.
“She felt pain in the nose and said to me I don’t want to fight anymore,” he said.
“People said don’t go, it’s dangerous, she’s a man.
“Maybe it’s this.”
UK stabbing suspect ‘smiles’ in first court appearance
The smirking teenager accused of murdering three girls at a Taylor Swift dance class was unmasked as Axel Muganwa Rudakubana after a judge refused to conceal the minor’s identity
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To Angela Carini although your dreams couldn’t come true today because of the crazy agendas that are at play in our world at the moment, I would love to offer you to fight on an MVP undercard, to show the world your talents on a fair platform and not against a man.
I had no plans to watch the Paris Olympics. Even before it began. It was only when catching up with the online news that I came across articles about what had taken place during the Opening Ceremony. I didn’t watch the video; the photos and descriptions were sordid enough.
There has been much outrage from Christians, Conservatives and some other groups. But why is everyone so shocked? This is unexpected? It is not as if we haven’t seen this building up slowly over decades, and more rapidly in recent years.
The cast of characters involved are pagans – they don’t believe in God, they have no respect for others, they have no self-respect, they lead degenerate lifestyles.
They picked on Christianity – not Islam, Judaism, Hinduism or Buddhism. It is not just that Christianity is a soft target as they will not face any real threat or violence. It is because they can’t dismiss the teachings of the faith, so they resort to mockery.
How did the human race in the western, civilised world reach this point?
Instead of using up my energy to release anger and rage at them, I want to look at it through a different lens – in three parts.
Part 1
Christianity and The Church
(two sub parts)
a/
The Catholic Church
For over 60 years, the plans have been afoot for the New World Order. But the architects of this scheme knew that if they could capture the Catholic Church it will be the final major organisation to complete their goal. But you can’t win from the outside; you need to get in. And so they infiltrated the Church and started their change to wokeism.
What we have now, within the Church, is two factions:
– the true Catholic Church (those holding firm to the teachings of the faith) with clergy and laity who have remained steadfast in following the teachings of the faith and
– the modern-progressive church (those disregarding the teachings) supported by the woke pope, some clergy and laity.
I covered parts of this topic in a Post, last year, so I will not spend too much time on this except in context to that tableau.
b/
Church sects
These are well-meaning but misguided sects which include groups claiming to be “Catholic” or in the denominational churches. They pick and choose parts of the Bible, and then go on to distort them by adding their own endings.
This is from a group called New Ways Ministry.
Their website description:
New Ways Ministry is a Catholic outreach that educates and advocates for equity, inclusion, and justice for LGBTQ+ persons, equipping leaders to build bridges of dialogue within the Church and civil society.
Part of that is right. Jesus ate with sinners. So yes, He would eat with the drag queens, homosexuals and sinners. But why did He do so?
It is the reason that makes the difference.
Christ ate with sinners not for the woke reasons but to help them understand that they were leading lives that were sinful, and to guide them so they could repent, change and be saved.
These New Age Christian groups are about inclusivity, diversity and being seen to be “accepting” of sinners. And affirming the way they are living their lives in sin. That is not the Christian way. If they do not understand that they are sinning, they will not repent and, thus, not be saved. How can that be following Christ’s teachings and example?
Luke 5:30–32 And the Pharisees and their scribes murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA), who may have already been picked as Kamala Harris’s VP running mate, chose to serve in Israel’s army — not America’s — as a young man.
To Angela Carini although your dreams couldn’t come true today because of the crazy agendas that are at play in our world at the moment, I would love to offer you to fight on an MVP undercard, to show the world your talents on a fair platform and not against a man.
I didn’t watch this match, but it has been trending in the news. Initially, it appeared to me that it is the usual case of a man, pretending to be a woman (tranny), taking part in a women’s sporting event.
Sadly, we have two opposing viewpoints on this episode. One is the pro-qwertyism supporting Khelif and the other is the women-only competitors in women’s sports, on the side of Carini.
From what I have now learnt, this Algerian boxer should not have been allowed to take part in the women’s event due to having a physical advantage. But, biologically speaking, it may be that Imane Khelif is not a tranny. Those in charge of sporting events may need to come up with a solution to this, for future matches.
I don’t know how this can be solved so as to be fair to all athletes, but getting the facts helps us learn more than we think we know.
Seems like a good time to re-post my older (now edited) post about athletes with XY DSDs (Disorder, or Difference of Sex Development). Lots of graphs and detail about the relevant biology at the end.
Earlier this week, I told myself that I was going to ignore what was happening in Venezuela. I don’t have the time to go digging down rabbit holes. Covid, Ukraine, Gaza, have taken up a ton of time.
But I’ve also learnt that the news coming from the previously trusted news sites cannot be blindly accepted as facts. The truth-seeker in me has broken my rule, done a little digging and got a bit more info on Venezuela.
I’m going to post links only – you can find more in them and will give you a picture of what’s happening there.
In 2017, there was a plebiscite held for voters in Australia to decide if the Marriage law should be changed to “..allow same-sex couples to marry?”. The plebiscite results showed a majority of Yes votes, and that resulted in a change to the law.
As long as homosexuals were fighting for this “marriage equality” they didn’t want to risk it by openly showing what they planned next. Once they achieved that, they set other goals.
The NO campaign had warned throughout the debate process what was happening in overseas jurisdictions where marriage had already been redefined – how a Yes result would impact the lives of those who, for personal or religious reasons, would not be able to comply with the requirements of equality and discrimination (such as bakers, florists, wedding industry) and mis-gendering when it came to the use of names and pronouns. No one would have been able to predict the drag queens and puberty blockers that would be used to target children.
But the so-called commentators and intelligentsia thought they were far advanced and knew better. They used their microphones and keypads to advocate for the Yes vote. Many so-called Conservatives and Christians declared their support for the change to the marriage law.
Here are two examples.
a/
Greg Sheridan, Catholic, writer of the books like God is Good For You (2018) and Christians (2021).
b/
Rita Panahi says she is an atheist. From her shows, I would conclude that she sees herself as a Conservative.
She wrote this article in 2017.
On a personal level, I have no issue with gay marriage.
Just as I don’t want the government to censor free speech and free expression, I don’t want it to dictate who can marry and who can’t. As an atheist, my position has always been that changing the Marriage Act would have zero impact on the lives of the majority of Australians, yet bring joy to those directly affected.
I knew she had voted Yes because she answered the question on a radio show and the reason was that: People are born gay.
Since then, the lgbtq+++ and those who support them have been fodder for many of her social media posts, articles and shows (such as this and this).
In her 2017 article, she said:
Marriage Act would have zero impact on the lives of the majority of Australians, yet bring joy to those directly affected.
Changing the Marriage Act to include homosexuals did not have any impact on the lives of Australians? Ask people whose careers have been affected for not baking cakes or using preferred pronouns.
Children who are being forced to undergo hormone replacement. Parents who are unhappy with the sexual indoctrination taking place in schools. The impact on religious institutions to comply with laws that go against their religious beliefs.
Do those who supported that first stage on the slippery slope – the Yes vote to change the Marriage Law – see how it is sloping out? Especially those who say that they are Christian and/or Conservative?
Or are they taking those slope markers to be unconnected issues? Nothing to do with their part in not seeing where it could lead?
But the so-called commentators and intelligentsia thought they were far advanced and knew better. They used their microphones and keypads to advocate for the Yes vote. Many so-called Conservatives and Christians declared their support for the change to the marriage law.
Though it wasn’t reflected in the vote, there were people without big platforms and microphones but with discernment and foresight enough not to take seriously any ‘Christian/Conservative thought leader’ preaching from the bandwagon. The past decade has been a lesson in the danger of following the self-appointed ‘prophets of the press’.
Obese Olympic ‘Christ’ to sue critics
https://www.rt.com/news/601918-butch-sue-abuse-olympic-paris/
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To get away from his unpopularity among Israelis, Netanyahu took a trip to the US.
Then he gets back. And this follows within a short time-frame:
– Israel killed Hezbollah’s most senior military commander Fuad Shukr in an air raid on the Lebanese capital, Beirut
– Israel assassinates Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’ political bureau, in Tehran.
– Israel assassinates IRGC Commander Amir Hajizadeh near Damascus
Israel doesn’t want a cease fire with Palestine. It doesn’t want a two-state solution. It is itching for war with Iran and has ensured the support of the US.
The stage is set for more wars. How does this happen?
The world order
.
The media
.
But, remember. Israel is always the victim.
That ongoing conflict in Gaza?
It only started on October 7.
Because of Hamas.
Bella Hadid explains (24 seconds)
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The rape of Palestinian prisoners by the IDF soldiers from a few days ago.
Legal aid calls it: Self-defence
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Rabbi says: It’s permissible
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Israeli lawmaker says: It is legitimate.
So the 9 soldiers have been released.
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Those two cults, they are interwoven with each other. Strangely, some can see the genocide, but they still think that Trump is the hero who is going to save the world. They still don’t get it.
Not CUFI. It needs to be ZUFI
Ziotians United For Israel
There is nothing Christian about what is being done in that only democracy in the ME.
1/
Miriam Adelson
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You can’t have a ZUFI without:
Pastor John Hagee
……
Stephen Sizer:
More here.
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The Human League – The Lebanon (Remastered 2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH-_bsCwdRw
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Are we over the hype yet?
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Younis Tirawi | يونس
@ytirawi
Erez Tadmor was the speechwriter of Netanyahu.
Yesterday he claimed that the Palestinian detainees in Sde Teiman raped themselves.
https://x.com/ytirawi/status/1818209239610847409
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Thanks for that link, Interested observer.
Over the past few years, I have lost my trust in the MSM and what they report. As an example, take the war in Ukraine. What is the story they give us?
Russia: villain, Ukraine: victim. Putin: bad man, Zelensky: good man.
Brief Backstory: The US interferes in the affairs of another country and gets their man elected. Provoked, Russia invades Ukraine. Then puppet Zelensky runs around the world collecting taxpayer dollars in the billions delivered to the Laundromat in Ukraine where it gets nicely rinsed and bagged to where it should go.
Fact: the ordinary people in Ukraine and Russia suffer due to the war which can be stopped. But why end a war when it benefits politicians, weapons manufacturers and many other industries?
Notice how, despite a war, so many brave politicians, other industry leaders and Hollywood actors go to visit Ukraine?
Lesson for the world plebs: The narrative being fed to us has been decided by the beneficiaries of the disasters that they set up.
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Southport riots: Nigel Farage demands CLARITY to put a lid on suspect’s identity rumours | LATEST
GBNews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt3ea5c24j4
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On to Venezuela:
How did a country so rich in natural resources end up in die straits?
Due to Socialist dictators? Is Maduro a cheat, fraud, thug, tyrant?
Fact: the ordinary folk in Venezuela don’t have the basics they need. They are going through tough times. It is not like the US pollies or the media are worried about them.
Elon Musk is also paying great attention to the election in Venezuela. Why?
Because there’s plenty of lithium….very useful for batteries and Tesla.
With so much else taking place, the politics of Venezuela has not been on my list. But the elections this week, and Anya’s post, made me wonder what she meant. Just a quick check around social media and I learnt this. Venezuela is rich in oil – guess who is watching that? Why pay for it if you can get another puppet to install and set up another Laundromat?
Venezuela-1
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Venezuela-2
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Venezuela-3
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They left the C word in this vid
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I’ll put together a post in coming weeks, Esme.
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The grifting never ends.
Melania Trump’s ‘Memoir’ is Now on Sale
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Kamala Harris may have been the butt of jokes from both sides: right and left.
It used to be said that she was even less popular than Biden. The GOP thought they had nothing to fear. Trump vs Biden – no contest.
Kamala is already pulling in the big bucks and it’s the first weeks that she is the presumed Dem nominee. She has Hollywood on her side so she must be getting good acting lessons.
She is being well coached. And she is listening to her teachers and advisers.
Unlike her opponent.
Forget about her policies and just consider the appeal to the voters.
Kamala-1
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Kamala-2
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Kamala-3
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Sanity break 1
I don’t know what’s going on in Paris now…
….But it ain’t nothing like this.
Casablanca:
We’ll Always Have Paris
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Sanity break 2
Nope, not Paris.
2024 Shaolin Games
A 9 year old Chinese girl.
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The Queer Games descends into farce.
Men vs Women boxing, via Courier Mail
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My message to Keir Starmer.
Nigel Farage
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qikeU5NGqp4
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England Has Fallen…Find Out Why 🇬🇧
Wesley Winter
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsgTTsQIgiM
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FYI. Some general points
1. Blog posters are doing self-moderation for their comments. That is good. Keep it that way. I am not needed here to keep checking in as often.
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To Angela Carini although your dreams couldn’t come true today because of the crazy agendas that are at play in our world at the moment, I would love to offer you to fight on an MVP undercard, to show the world your talents on a fair platform and not against a man.
Internet help this find her.
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Nick’s geopolitical analysis
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Lethbridge toon
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Jeff Taylor streaming right now.
It’s quite entertaining
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RE Kamala.
She has Hollywood on her side
Forget about her policies and just consider the appeal to the voters.
Suddenly populism is OK, as long as you approve of the populist?
I saved this post for future laughs.
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Keir Starmer’s Labour Party at war with Britain’s working class:
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Paris Olympics Tableau
I had no plans to watch the Paris Olympics. Even before it began. It was only when catching up with the online news that I came across articles about what had taken place during the Opening Ceremony. I didn’t watch the video; the photos and descriptions were sordid enough.
There has been much outrage from Christians, Conservatives and some other groups. But why is everyone so shocked? This is unexpected? It is not as if we haven’t seen this building up slowly over decades, and more rapidly in recent years.
The cast of characters involved are pagans – they don’t believe in God, they have no respect for others, they have no self-respect, they lead degenerate lifestyles.
They picked on Christianity – not Islam, Judaism, Hinduism or Buddhism. It is not just that Christianity is a soft target as they will not face any real threat or violence. It is because they can’t dismiss the teachings of the faith, so they resort to mockery.
How did the human race in the western, civilised world reach this point?
Instead of using up my energy to release anger and rage at them, I want to look at it through a different lens – in three parts.
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Part 1
Christianity and The Church
(two sub parts)
a/
The Catholic Church
For over 60 years, the plans have been afoot for the New World Order. But the architects of this scheme knew that if they could capture the Catholic Church it will be the final major organisation to complete their goal. But you can’t win from the outside; you need to get in. And so they infiltrated the Church and started their change to wokeism.
What we have now, within the Church, is two factions:
– the true Catholic Church (those holding firm to the teachings of the faith) with clergy and laity who have remained steadfast in following the teachings of the faith and
– the modern-progressive church (those disregarding the teachings) supported by the woke pope, some clergy and laity.
I covered parts of this topic in a Post, last year, so I will not spend too much time on this except in context to that tableau.
Here’s what we know from the Bible and the Catechism of the Catholic Church which is based on Sacred Scripture.
Despite that, we have examples including these:
Vatican – last year
The Pope – this week.
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Church sects
These are well-meaning but misguided sects which include groups claiming to be “Catholic” or in the denominational churches. They pick and choose parts of the Bible, and then go on to distort them by adding their own endings.
This is from a group called New Ways Ministry.
Their website description:
This is their explanation for that tableau.
Jesus Would Eat with Drag Queens.
Bishops Criticizing the Olympics Should Do So, Too.
Part of that is right. Jesus ate with sinners. So yes, He would eat with the drag queens, homosexuals and sinners. But why did He do so?
It is the reason that makes the difference.
Christ ate with sinners not for the woke reasons but to help them understand that they were leading lives that were sinful, and to guide them so they could repent, change and be saved.
These New Age Christian groups are about inclusivity, diversity and being seen to be “accepting” of sinners. And affirming the way they are living their lives in sin. That is not the Christian way. If they do not understand that they are sinning, they will not repent and, thus, not be saved. How can that be following Christ’s teachings and example?
(To be continued with Parts 2 and 3)
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Powerline’s The Week in Pictures: Weird Edition.
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Portsmouth: The real ‘far right’!
Jeff Taylor
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Honest Government Ad
Freedom of Information Laws
The Government has made an ad about our Freedom of Information laws, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
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I didn’t watch this match, but it has been trending in the news. Initially, it appeared to me that it is the usual case of a man, pretending to be a woman (tranny), taking part in a women’s sporting event.
Sadly, we have two opposing viewpoints on this episode. One is the pro-qwertyism supporting Khelif and the other is the women-only competitors in women’s sports, on the side of Carini.
From what I have now learnt, this Algerian boxer should not have been allowed to take part in the women’s event due to having a physical advantage. But, biologically speaking, it may be that Imane Khelif is not a tranny. Those in charge of sporting events may need to come up with a solution to this, for future matches.
I don’t know how this can be solved so as to be fair to all athletes, but getting the facts helps us learn more than we think we know.
Carole Hooven
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Venezuelan elections
Earlier this week, I told myself that I was going to ignore what was happening in Venezuela. I don’t have the time to go digging down rabbit holes. Covid, Ukraine, Gaza, have taken up a ton of time.
But I’ve also learnt that the news coming from the previously trusted news sites cannot be blindly accepted as facts. The truth-seeker in me has broken my rule, done a little digging and got a bit more info on Venezuela.
I’m going to post links only – you can find more in them and will give you a picture of what’s happening there.
1/
Anya with Kim Iverson
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2/
Anya Parampil
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3/
Michael Tracey
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Alan MacLeod
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5/
Venezuela:
While US Politicians Call Fraud, American Election Observers Endorse Results
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Venezuela President Maduro
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Part 2
The Slippery Slope
In 2017, there was a plebiscite held for voters in Australia to decide if the Marriage law should be changed to “..allow same-sex couples to marry?”. The plebiscite results showed a majority of Yes votes, and that resulted in a change to the law.
As long as homosexuals were fighting for this “marriage equality” they didn’t want to risk it by openly showing what they planned next. Once they achieved that, they set other goals.
The NO campaign had warned throughout the debate process what was happening in overseas jurisdictions where marriage had already been redefined – how a Yes result would impact the lives of those who, for personal or religious reasons, would not be able to comply with the requirements of equality and discrimination (such as bakers, florists, wedding industry) and mis-gendering when it came to the use of names and pronouns. No one would have been able to predict the drag queens and puberty blockers that would be used to target children.
But the so-called commentators and intelligentsia thought they were far advanced and knew better. They used their microphones and keypads to advocate for the Yes vote. Many so-called Conservatives and Christians declared their support for the change to the marriage law.
Here are two examples.
a/
Greg Sheridan, Catholic, writer of the books like God is Good For You (2018) and Christians (2021).
He declared his support for Same Sex Marriage (2017) and Gay couples with children (2016)
This week, Sheridan had the following commentary on that tableau in Paris.
Paris shame shows West’s true contempt for Christianity
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Rita Panahi says she is an atheist. From her shows, I would conclude that she sees herself as a Conservative.
She wrote this article in 2017.
I knew she had voted Yes because she answered the question on a radio show and the reason was that: People are born gay.
Since then, the lgbtq+++ and those who support them have been fodder for many of her social media posts, articles and shows (such as this and this).
In her 2017 article, she said:
Changing the Marriage Act to include homosexuals did not have any impact on the lives of Australians? Ask people whose careers have been affected for not baking cakes or using preferred pronouns.
Children who are being forced to undergo hormone replacement. Parents who are unhappy with the sexual indoctrination taking place in schools. The impact on religious institutions to comply with laws that go against their religious beliefs.
Report comment
Do those who supported that first stage on the slippery slope – the Yes vote to change the Marriage Law – see how it is sloping out? Especially those who say that they are Christian and/or Conservative?
Or are they taking those slope markers to be unconnected issues? Nothing to do with their part in not seeing where it could lead?
Slippery slope-1
.
Slippery slope-2
.
Slippery slope-3
.
(To be continued in Part 3)
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Though it wasn’t reflected in the vote, there were people without big platforms and microphones but with discernment and foresight enough not to take seriously any ‘Christian/Conservative thought leader’ preaching from the bandwagon. The past decade has been a lesson in the danger of following the self-appointed ‘prophets of the press’.
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Remember the IOC banned Russian athletes from the Olympics, so every medal is tarnished.
Like Djokovic being banned by the Morrison government from competing at the Australian Open. Officially Nadal won, but …
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