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Democrats Propose Overturning The First Amendment

Adam Schiff and a group of Democrats introduced a proposed constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision, one of the greatest free-speech victories in history.

It’s just a political stunt, of course, as Schiff doesn’t have the votes. But it does reflect the authoritarian outlook of the contemporary left on free expression. From the day the decision came down, 13 years ago this week, Citizens United was a rallying cry for those threatened by unregulated discourse. President Barack Obama infamously, and inaccurately, rebuked the justices during his State of the Union for upholding the First Amendment. Since then, Democrats have regularly blamed the decision for the alleged corrosion of “democracy.”

Recall, however, that Citizens United decision revolved around the federal government’s banning of a documentary critical of 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton before the Democratic primary elections. At the time, McCain-Feingold made it illegal for corporations (groups of freely associating citizens) and unions (ditto) to engage in “electioneering” a month before a primary or two months before a general election. It was outright censorship. In oral arguments, then-Solicitor General of the United States, now-Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan initially contended that the federal government had the right to censor books that “express advocacy.”

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'Witches' give Catholic students magical 'crystals' – counselor loses job for inviting Wiccans to school - TheBlaze

Tabitha Latshaw, one of the Wiccan witches, explained that she was unaware that the alleged magical properties of the crystals would be "an offense to the Church."

Latshaw told KDKA, "God made these [crystals]. They come from the earth. That's all I can say."

"We worship as Wiccans," she added. "We worship nature. So our elements, earth, air, water and fire, that's what we worship."

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Video shows Atlanta Cop City protests with fire, fireworks - TheBlaze

Explosive video shows a riot breaking out in Atlanta following a protest against fatal police shooting at the future Atlanta Public Safety Training Center that has been nicknamed "Cop City."

On Wednesday, police fatally shot activist Manuel Esteban Paez Teran. The 26-year-old staged a protest at the future site of a planned public safety training center to be constructed in a southeast Atlanta forest.

Teran – who called himself "Tortuguita" – reportedly refused to comply with law enforcement, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Teran allegedly shot a Georgia State Patrol Trooper at Intrenchment Creek Park. Other law enforcement officers returned fire, struck Teran, and killed him.

Protests against the police shooting were organized for downtown Atlanta at 5 p.m. on Saturday.

Protesters held signs that read: "They Can’t Kill Us All” and “Trees Give Life, Police Take It.” There were also chants of "Stop Cop City" and "If they build it, we will burn it."

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Croatia Stands with Hungary Against EU Overreach

The EU penalty against Hungary consists in the freezing of billions of euros because the country’s government has allegedly undermined democracy. In particular, the EU takes issue with the policies of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who has taken on migrants, homosexuals, and NGOs in his advancement of right-wing and nationalist policies.

Milanović contended that the EU is overstepping its powers. According to Croatia’s president, the European Union should not become a “United States of Europe,” but rather should respect the sovereignty of its member states. He further argued that the EU’s actions threaten the 27-nation bloc by fomenting the kind of tension that led the U.K. to leave via Brexit.

“This sort of approach (between the EU and Hungary) is deeply irritating,” Milanović said, adding that “today it is Hungary, tomorrow it will be some bigger country that will need to be ‘taught a lesson.’”

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Call to Action: Feds Attacking Utah Hero Doctors - Defending Utah

Straight to the source: The full indictment by a federal grand jury was released on the KSL news website and can be read here.

Some highlights from the detailed indictment include:

– 1,937 vaccines doses were disposed of (that’s a lot of lives saved, short and long term)
– Saline for children (saving their lives)
– Under cover agents

One of the most egregious mentions is that one of those thousands who used their services, turned on them. Imagine if your family was hiding Jews from the Nazis in WWII and someone in your own family turned you in to the Gestapo. That’s what happened here.

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How long will it take the church to change their policies on suicide to conform with the state.

Canada is edging toward creating a right to suicide
Shortly after Robin Williams died by suicide on Aug. 11, 2014, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tweeted an image of Aladdin tearfully hugging Williams’s character from the iconic Disney film. “Genie, you’re free,” read the caption. The tweet, as The Post’s Caitlin Dewey noted at the time, carried the “implication that suicide is somehow a liberating option” was promptly blasted by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, whose chief medical officer warned “suicide should never be presented as an option.”

In Canada, however, consensus seems to be consolidating around a different conclusion: Suicide is, in fact, a liberating, acceptable option for whoever wants it.

Medical assistance in dying (MAID) is legal in Canada thanks to the country’s mercurial judiciary, which has, over the years, slowly constructed a constitutional right for Canadians to die by suicide.

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This Should End Well: Harley-Davidson Vows to Go All-electric - The New American

A 300-pound, hairy wrestler in a pink tutu; ice cream and bacon; doughnuts and seafood. While certain things just don’t go together, all three preceding combinations may work better than what has just been called inevitable: Harley Davidson’s entire line of motorcycles going electric.

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mes5464 wrote: January 23rd, 2023, 12:20 pm This Should End Well: Harley-Davidson Vows to Go All-electric - The New American

A 300-pound, hairy wrestler in a pink tutu; ice cream and bacon; doughnuts and seafood. While certain things just don’t go together, all three preceding combinations may work better than what has just been called inevitable: Harley Davidson’s entire line of motorcycles going electric.
From the article:
“It takes decades, right?” Zeitz told Dezeen. “But you have to also think in decades rather than just thinking about what year and the short-termism that everyone is exposed to as a public company. We have to think about the transition, and preparing for that transition is why LiveWire [the name of Harley’s first electric motorcycle, launched in 2018] was born.”
So, there we have it. Harley Davidson is going to "transition".

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A bit of context for this terrible issue. The cost of rent in Canada has escalated so much in the last few years here and has been exacerbated by the record number of immigrants. The lack of housing and housing affordability is a major issue now across the country. Single bedroom apartments are going for $2300-2600 a month. In many place in the country, minimum wage isn't just below the poverty line, it's below the livability line. That rent doesn't include utilities, a phone, food, or transportation.

Canada has become a rich person's country now, you can't afford to be poor like this man. The immigrants that come to Canada have to meet certain qualifications in the National Occupational Classification (NOC) system, usually a university degree or skill trade, so all these people coming are taking high paying jobs and are the only ones that can afford the housing.

Now you won't see this on any government documents because they don't want this black mark on their watch. They obfuscate the numbers, similar to what the LDS church has been doing. Immoral 'business' tactics for numbers.

He has basically said, he no longer can afford to live, so therefore the only alternative is to die. Being homeless in the winter in Canada is deadly and tens of thousands are homeless and out in the cold (or heat). Very few places in the world have the extreme temperature differences between summer and winter. No one should ever come to that conclusion here on the promised land but the way the country has gone the last few years, I understand how he came to that conclusion and that deeply saddens me. I hope that people in his area will be able to help him but hospital care and beds are few and far between.

This is one of the most disturbing pieces of news I've ever heard. It saddens me that this world has become so wicked that people are basically forced into suicide.

Without a home or hope, man seeks medically assisted death
Since becoming legal in Canada in 2016, medical assistance in death (MAID) has been reserved for the terminally ill as a merciful way to die; the core purpose of the original legislation was to give those who are suffering intolerably from a physical condition the choice to die on their own terms.

One man from Orillia, however, has begun the MAID process for an entirely separate set of reasons. Due to what he sees as the state of the world, along with his circumstances and growing frustration with his lived experience, Tyler Dunlop says he simply sees no benefit in carrying on.

The 37-year-old has experienced homelessness on and off for the past 12 years, and he recently began the MAID process with a trip to Orillia Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital.

MAID was originally set to be available for mental illness purposes beginning March 17, 2023. However, in December, the federal government announced plans to temporarily delay this date.

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As woke agenda spreads in STEM education, dissenters wary of speaking out | Just The News

This month's Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston, the self-proclaimed "largest mathematics gathering in the world," invited Vanderbilt University's Luis Antonio Leyva to share his research on "re-imagining" the "white, cisheteropatriarchal space" of undergraduate math education by deploying "structural disruptions that advance justice" for nonwhite queer and transgender STEM majors.

The presentation by the math education professor, who has a joint appointment in gender studies, sounds like "an over-the-top caricature, another Sokal hoax," computer science professor Aryeh Kontorovich of Israel's Ben-Gurion University told The College Fix, referring to physicist Alan Sokal's 27-year-old gibberish paper in Social Text on quantum gravity as a "social and linguistic construct.")

Leyva didn't respond to a query about Kontorovich's characterization of his presentation and has hidden his Twitter account since his presentation drew wider notice.

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Bugs to be used in bread, beer, and various other items 'intended for the general population,' courtesy of the EU - TheBlaze

According to the official journal of the EU, a company called Cricket One submitted an application in 2019 seeking authorization to place partially defatted house cricket powder on the market as novel food.

The company sought to clear it for use in the manufacture of various foods, such as "multigrain bread and rolls, crackers and breadsticks, cereal bars, dry pre-mixes for baked products, biscuits, dry stuffed and non-stuffed pasta-based products ... beer-like beverages, chocolate confectionary ... and meat preparations."

The EFSA concluded in early 2022 that cricket powder was "safe under the proposed conditions of use and use levels," despite admitting that there was "limited published evidence on food allergy related to insects in general, which equivocally linked the consumption of [house crickets] to a number of anaphylaxis events."

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mes5464 wrote: January 24th, 2023, 12:28 pm Bugs to be used in bread, beer, and various other items 'intended for the general population,' courtesy of the EU - TheBlaze

According to the official journal of the EU, a company called Cricket One submitted an application in 2019 seeking authorization to place partially defatted house cricket powder on the market as novel food.

The company sought to clear it for use in the manufacture of various foods, such as "multigrain bread and rolls, crackers and breadsticks, cereal bars, dry pre-mixes for baked products, biscuits, dry stuffed and non-stuffed pasta-based products ... beer-like beverages, chocolate confectionary ... and meat preparations."

The EFSA concluded in early 2022 that cricket powder was "safe under the proposed conditions of use and use levels," despite admitting that there was "limited published evidence on food allergy related to insects in general, which equivocally linked the consumption of [house crickets] to a number of anaphylaxis events."
They call it "micro-livestock" :(

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Vermont Supreme Court Upholds Noncitizen Voting

The Vermont Supreme Court ruled Friday that noncitizen residents in its capital city of Montpelier may continue to vote in municipal elections. The court argued that allowing noncitizens to vote does not violate the state Constitution because citizenship requirements only apply to federal elections.

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Tractor Supply Chicken Feed Reportedly Causing Egglaying to Stop, Board has Ties to WEF, Jeffrey Epstein

Online claims have emerged, corroborated by others, that the popular “Producer’s Pride” chicken feed sold by the Tractor Supply chain has been recently altered and that its new formulation is causing chickens to stop laying eggs. Some suggest a deliberate reduction in the amount of protein in the feed may be causing the reduction in egg production.

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Police Officer Resigns After Backlash Over Traditional Marriage Views

A Georgia police officer has resigned after he was told by superiors that he could not share his personal religious views on social media.

“If someone somewhere considers an opinion I have—that isn’t a direct quotation from Scripture—to be offensive, then that would be a fireable offense,” Jacob Kersey, the former officer, told The Daily Signal.

Kersey, 19, who began working last May at the Port Wentworth Police Department in a jurisdiction just outside Savannah, says “everything was going well” until the start of the new year.

On Jan. 2, Kersey posted a 20-word message about his view of marriage on Facebook.

“God designed marriage. Marriage refers to Christ and the church,” he wrote, paraphrasing the Apostle Paul’s teaching in the Book of Ephesians. “That’s why there is no such thing as homosexual marriage.”

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Golden statue of horned monster erected atop NYC courthouse to honor Justice Ginsburg and pro-abortion 'resistance' - TheBlaze

The Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court — the state's intermediate court of appeals — took possession of the courthouse built by architect James Brown Lord at Madison Avenue and 25th Street in 1900. The builders stood ten honored lawmakers atop this marble alcazar, including the biblical Moses, French King Louis IX, Byzantine Emperor Justinian the Great, and Iranian religious figure Zoraster.

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As a reminder, Biden warned that sending tanks or planes to Ukraine means WW3.

"FIRST COME THE TANKS, THEN COME THE NUKES." President Trump calls for End to Crazy War with Russia

On Wednesday Germany and the US announced they were sending tanks into Ukraine to fight Russia.



Ukraine now wants F-16s, other Western fighter jets after getting tanks from US, Germany | Just The News

Ukraine in its effort to defeat the Russia invasion is now reportedly pushing for top-grade Western fighter jets such as the United States' F-16, after securing tanks this week from the U.S. and German.

A Ukraine military adviser revealed the plan to Reuters on Wednesday, the same day Germany announced plans to provide heavy tanks to Ukraine. The announcement was followed by President Biden saying hours later that he had approved sending 31 Abrams M1 tanks to Ukraine, ending weeks of diplomatic deadlock on the issue.

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Everything I underlined, I consider fulfilled.

The next day the Prophet came to our home and stopped in our carpenter shop and stood by the turning lathe. I went and got my map for him. “Now”, he said, “I will show you the travels of this people”. He then showed our travels through Iowa, and said, “Here you will make a place for the winter; and here you will travel west until you come to the valley of the Great Salt Lake! You will build cities to the North and to the South, and to the East and to the West; and you will become a great and wealthy people in that land. But, the United States will not receive you with the laws which God desires you to live, and you will have to go to where the Nephites lost their power. They worked in the United Order for 166 years, and the Saints have got to become proficient in the laws of God before they can meet the Lord Jesus Christ, or even the city of Enoch”. He said we will not travel the shape of the horse shoe for there we will await the action of the government. Placing his finger on the map, I should think about where Snowflake, Arizona is situated, or it could have been Mexico, he said, “The government will not receive you with the laws that God designed you to live, and those who are desirous to live the laws of God will have to go South. You will live to see men arise in power in the Church who will seek to put down your friends and the friends of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Many will be hoisted because of their money and the worldly learning which they seem to be in possession of; and many who are the true followers of our Lord and Savior will be cast down because of their poverty. There will be two great political parties in this country. One will be called the Republican, and the other the Democrat party. These two parties will go to war and out of these two parties will spring another party which will be the Independent American Party. The United States will spend her strength and means warring in foreign lands until other nations will say, “Let’s divide up the lands of the United States”, then the people of the U. S. will unite and swear by the blood of their fore-fathers, that the land shall not be divided. Then the country will go to war, and they will fight until one half of the U. S. army will give up, and the rest will continue to struggle. They will keep on until they are very ragged and discouraged, and almost ready to give up–when the boys from the mountains will rush forth in time to save the American Army from defeat and ruin. And they will say, ‘Brethren, we are glad you have come; give us men, henceforth, who can talk with God’. Then you will have friends, but you will save the country when it’s liberty hangs by a hair, as it were”.

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This is stupid!

Seattle is suing Kia and Hyundai, blaming them for huge increase in vehicle thefts in the city - TheBlaze

The attorney's office is blaming the South Korean car giants for what they call a "failure to install anti-theft technology in some vehicles which has contributed to an exponential increase of Kia and Hyundai car theft" in Seattle and surrounding areas. The city is seeking damages.

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They are literally trying to kill people.

Suicide Pact: Minnesota Democrats Pass Bill to Ban Coal, Oil and Gas in One of Nation's Coldest States - As Biden Bans Mining in State's Iron Range

It should be clear by now that the Democrats are leading the nation into rapid collapse

Democrats in Minnesota banned coal, oil and gas after passing historic legislation in the state House of Representatives on Thursday.

Democrats hold a 34-33 advantage in the Minnesota State Senate.
Democrats hold a 70-64 advantage in the Minnesota State House of Representatives.

And the legislation will cause electricity prices to skyrocket.

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Leftists Try To Protect Killing The Unborn By Calling It A Religion

Abortion lawyers are launching less conventional attacks, including that pro-life laws violate the right to freely exercise religion.

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WHO Decides COVID-19 Pandemic is Not Over (VIDEO)

After three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries have returned to the pre-pandemic era by abolishing vaccine and testing requirements, while others have eased restrictions.

Japan, for example, has categorized COVID-19 the same as seasonal flu.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan announced earlier this month that he had instructed his cabinet to reclassify COVID-19, placing it in the same category as seasonal flu, rubella, and chickenpox in spring.

“In order to further advance the efforts of ‘living with Corona’ and restore Japan to a state of normalcy, we will transition the various policies and measures to date in phases,” Kishida said.

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WHO updates critical medicines list for radiological and nuclear emergencies

Key highlights
  • This publication supersedes the 2007 WHO report on the development of national stockpiles for radiation emergencies. It includes updated information on the stockpile formulary based on the developments in radiation emergency medicine in the last decade.
  • It provides policy advice for acquisition of drugs which can prevent or reduce radionuclides uptake or increase elimination of radionuclides from the human body.
  • It looks at the main elements required for developing, maintaining and managing the national stockpiles of specific medical supplies which will be required for radiological and nuclear emergencies.
  • The report looks at the role of national health authorities in stockpile development as well as the role of WHO. As the leading international organization in public health with both the authority and responsibility to assist in health emergencies, WHO provides advice and guidance to countries on public health preparedness and response to radiation emergencies, including stockpile development. In health emergencies WHO may assist in procuring or sharing medical supplies among countries.
  • This report includes a brief review of selected emerging technologies and drug formulations, including potential repurposing of products previously approved for other indications.
  • Finally, the publication provides examples of practices in establishing and managing a national stockpile in selected countries, namely Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation and USA.

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Will the church eventually take this same position?

Church of England: Gay Sex OK if Part of a "Stable, Loving, Committed" Relationship - The New American

Under pressure from LGBTQ activists to publicly endorse homosexual marriage, the Church of England’s (CofE) Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, recently said that, although the church will not officiate at homosexual weddings, the behavior itself, when in the context of a “stable, loving, committed” relationship, is not necessarily sinful.

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mes5464 wrote: January 26th, 2023, 4:22 pm Everything I underlined, I consider fulfilled.

The next day the Prophet came to our home and stopped in our carpenter shop and stood by the turning lathe. I went and got my map for him. “Now”, he said, “I will show you the travels of this people”. He then showed our travels through Iowa, and said, “Here you will make a place for the winter; and here you will travel west until you come to the valley of the Great Salt Lake! You will build cities to the North and to the South, and to the East and to the West; and you will become a great and wealthy people in that land. But, the United States will not receive you with the laws which God desires you to live, and you will have to go to where the Nephites lost their power. They worked in the United Order for 166 years, and the Saints have got to become proficient in the laws of God before they can meet the Lord Jesus Christ, or even the city of Enoch”. He said we will not travel the shape of the horse shoe for there we will await the action of the government. Placing his finger on the map, I should think about where Snowflake, Arizona is situated, or it could have been Mexico, he said, “The government will not receive you with the laws that God designed you to live, and those who are desirous to live the laws of God will have to go South. You will live to see men arise in power in the Church who will seek to put down your friends and the friends of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Many will be hoisted because of their money and the worldly learning which they seem to be in possession of; and many who are the true followers of our Lord and Savior will be cast down because of their poverty. There will be two great political parties in this country. One will be called the Republican, and the other the Democrat party. These two parties will go to war and out of these two parties will spring another party which will be the Independent American Party. The United States will spend her strength and means warring in foreign lands until other nations will say, “Let’s divide up the lands of the United States”, then the people of the U. S. will unite and swear by the blood of their fore-fathers, that the land shall not be divided. Then the country will go to war, and they will fight until one half of the U. S. army will give up, and the rest will continue to struggle. They will keep on until they are very ragged and discouraged, and almost ready to give up–when the boys from the mountains will rush forth in time to save the American Army from defeat and ruin. And they will say, ‘Brethren, we are glad you have come; give us men, henceforth, who can talk with God’. Then you will have friends, but you will save the country when it’s liberty hangs by a hair, as it were”.

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Uh… being driven South to abide the “laws of God” means that polygamy was of God. They moved polygamy to Canada as well as South America.

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