10 Years Later, The Christian Baker Fights On

10 Years Later, The Christian Baker Fights On

Mark Clouse January 18, 2022

LGBT Activists Have Been Harassing This Christian Baker For Ten Years

From thefederalist.com
2022-01-17 12:46:08

Excerpt:

Jack Phillips is an American. His nation’s supreme law claims to protect his inalienable rights to free speech and to freely practice his faith. Yet for ten years, these same rights have been effectively suspended by a state legislature and multiple courts, despite a 2018 win in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Phillips, who lives in the Denver, Colorado suburb of Lakewood, was first prosecuted for faithful Christianity in 2012. He was hauled into Colorado’s non-judicial Civil Rights Commission, then later into real courts, for offering to sell a gay couple anything in his bakery, Masterpiece Cakeshop, except a custom cake celebrating homosexual acts. He’s still in court now.

His ten-year battle, Phillips said in a Jan. 14 phone interview, “had profound effects on me and my faith. My faith is much stronger now, my family is much closer. First coming out, there were death threats and things, hateful phone calls and emails. There was a time when my wife was afraid to come to the shop because you didn’t know what you would expect.”

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France Fines One Of Its Presidential Candidates for Hate Speech

Mark Clouse January 18, 2022

Eric Zemmour: Far-right candidate found guilty of hate speech – BBC News

From www.bbc.com
2022-01-17 13:34:19

Excerpt:

Far-right French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour has been fined €10,000 (£8,350) by a Paris court for hate speech.

The case was launched over a TV appearance, where he described unaccompanied migrant children as “thieves”, “rapists” and “murderers”.

Former broadcaster Zemmour is known for his anti-Islam and anti-immigration views.

His lawyer said he would appeal against the court’s decision.

Reacting to the verdict on social media, Zemmour complained that his freedom of speech was being restricted, and said there was an “urgent need to drive ideology out of the courts”.

He made the comments in September 2020 on the CNews television channel, where he used to work as a pundit.

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Canada Thinks Critical Thinking is Racist? That’s What It Seems….

Mark Clouse January 17, 2022

Canada appears concerned that one of their junior high schools chose to assign students with the task of providing reasons for supporting immigration and reasons for not supporting immigration. In the mind of a leftist (and Canada has gone full Tankie Left at this point), all immigration is good immigration and no nation-state could possibly have any reason to regulate or control immigration from anywhere (other than European nations) other than being racist. Now the government is looking into this exercise in critical thinking and considering deeming critical thinking racist (that last part might be made up, but, in essense, that’s what’s happening here).

‘Racist’ junior high immigration assignment has advocates calling for curriculum change

From www.cbc.ca
2022-01-17 09:30:00

Excerpt:

Anti-racism advocates and a university professor are calling an assignment handed out at a junior high school in St. John’s “racist” and say it could result in bullying and discrimination.

A textbook assignment that was sent to CBC News by a concerned parent asked students to write down two reasons why immigrants and refugees should be allowed into the country — and two reasons why they should not be.

The textbook provides a list of reasons why immigrants and refugees should be allowed in the country; for example, “Canada is a big country with room for many more people” and “Immigrants provide new ideas and skills.”

Delores Mullings, a professor of social work at Memorial University, says she’s concerned with the textbook’s suggestions for opposing migration: newcomers “may take jobs away from resident Canadians,” and “Some immigrants draw on social welfare programs and services,” according to the textbook.

Students were asked to use these graphs to debate why immigrants should or should not be allowed into Canada. (Name withheld)

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EU Targets Poland, Hungary, Claming Non-Leftism is UnDemocratic

Mark Clouse January 17, 2022

EU Prepares to Cut Billions in Funds to Anti-Democratic Members – BloombergQuint

From www.bloombergquint.com
2022-01-17 09:23:48

Excerpt:

The European Union may move in a matter of weeks to punish countries that don’t uphold the bloc’s democratic standards by withholding emergency pandemic aid as well as payments from the EU’s trillion-euro budget. Poland, which has clashed with the EU on multiple rule-of-law fronts, stands to miss out on more than 130 billion euros ($149 billion) from the bloc’s seven-year budget.

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Dealing with the Underwater Tonga Volcano Fallout

Mark Clouse January 17, 2022

Major Blast in Tonga Create Tsunami and Heavy Ash Fall

From www.discovermagazine.com
2022-01-15 16:45:00
Erik Klemetti
Excerpt:

The first major volcanic eruption struck today in the island nation of Tonga. Over the past few weeks, the small volcanic island of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai had been experiencing minor but impressive explosions. However, on January 14-15, the eruption became much more violent, sending ash over 60,000 feet (18 kilometers) into the skies. The blast also generated a tsunami that hit many of the islands in Tonga, destroying homes and buildings across the country.

UPDATE January 15, 7 pm ET: News continues to trickle in about this eruption. Current estimates for the ash column put it closer to 100,000 feet (~30 kilometers), which means it punched into the stratosphere. It released a siginificant amount of sulfur dioxide as well. The tsunami that raced across the Pacific Ocean created waves over 3 feet (1 meter) tall in places like Santa Cruz, California and the Oregon coast. There might even have been a “meteo-tsunami” in the Caribbean generated by the pressure wave in the atmosphere. We detected the pressure wave here in Ohio at ~9:45 am ET, with our seismometer also seeing a low frequency (<20 Hz) signal, which could be the shockwave passing the midwest.

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Zero American Capital Ships in Middle East

Mark Clouse January 13, 2022

The US Military moved a Capital ship, the Carrier USS Essex, out of the Middle East, sending it to the Philippine Sea. This move means that, currently, the Middle East has no US Capital ship at present, and the 5th Fleet is also now without any carrier in support of it.

No U.S. capital ship in Middle East after Essex group departs for Philippine Sea

From www.upi.com
2022-01-11 17:39:11

Excerpt:

The Middle East has no U.S. capital ship since the three-ship Essex Amphibious Ready Group and the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit recently left the area.

After deploying on Aug. 12 and operating in the Middle East region since late September, the Essex ARG, and the 11th MEU left the region last week, according to USNI News’ Fleet and Marine Tracker.

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Will Americans Buy Smart Guns? They’re Going to Get Their Chance

Mark Clouse January 13, 2022

Unsmart guns, so-called smart guns, or guns with significant impediments to being assured of reliably utilizing a firearm in self-defense, are set to hit the US market. The unSmart guns have things like digital fingerprint safety features that are intended to assure only the user can fire the weapon, the kind of safety feature you want to rely on when you face a life or death situation.

Exclusive: Smart guns finally arriving in U.S., seeking to shake up firearms market

From www.reuters.com
2022-01-11 17:32:00

Excerpt:

Jan 11 (Reuters) – Personalized smart guns, which can be fired only by verified users, may finally become available to U.S. consumers after two decades of questions about reliability and concerns they will usher in a new wave of government regulation.

Four-year-old LodeStar Works on Friday unveiled its 9mm smart handgun for shareholders and investors in Boise, Idaho. And a Kansas company, SmartGunz LLC, says law enforcement agents are beta testing its product, a similar but simpler model.

Both companies hope to have a product commercially available this year.

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LodeStar co-founder Gareth Glaser said he was inspired after hearing one too many stories about children shot while playing with an unattended gun. Smart guns could stop such tragedies by using technology to authenticate a user’s identity and disable the gun should anyone else try to fire it.

They could also reduce suicides, render lost or stolen guns useless, and offer safety for police officers and jail guards who fear gun grabs.

But attempts to develop smart guns have stalled: Smith & Wesson (SWBI.O) got hit with a boycott, a German company’s product was hacked, and a New Jersey law aimed at promoting smart guns has raised the wrath of defenders of the Second Amendment.

The LodeStar gun, aimed at first-time buyers, would retail for $895.

The test-firing of the LodeStar gun before Reuters cameras has not been reported elsewhere. A range officer fired the weapon, a third-generation prototype, in its different settings without issue.

Glaser acknowledged there will be additional challenges to large-scale manufacturing, but expressed confidence that after years of trial and error the technology was advanced enough and the microelectronics inside the gun are well-protected.

“We finally feel like we’re at the point where … let’s go public,” Glaser said. “We’re there.”

Most early smart gun prototypes used either fingerprint unlocking or radio frequency…

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Financial Aid Wealth Redistribution Plan by US Universities Exposed?

Mark Clouse January 11, 2022

It appears as many as 170,000 former undergraduate students who recevied some form of partial financial aid may be eligible to compensation from the Universities they attended.

According to the Wall Street Journal, American Universities, including Harvard and Yale, have been allegedly weighting consideration of a student’s ability to potentially pay off a loan to how much money they receive in financial aid.

The suit alleges that students who were deemed to be more likely to pay got less financial aid. If true, it sounds like these Neo-Marxianesque institutions of thought control have illegally engaged in redistributing wealth. This fits perfectly with their institutional values. The problem is, that financial aid was coming from American taxpayers, not the Chinese Communist Party.

Top US universities accused of illegally limiting financial aid | Education News

From www.aljazeera.com
2022-01-10 19:27:58

Excerpt:

Lawsuit alleges 16 major US universities including Yale and Georgetown broke antitrust laws by using a shared methodology to determine student financial aid.

Yale University is among more than a dozen higher education institutions in the United States that are being sued for allegedly breaking antitrust laws and unfairly limiting financial aid awards for students, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported (paywall) on Monday…..

The suit claims that the universities unlawfully used a shared methodology to determine financial aid awards because the institutions sometimes weigh candidates’ ability to pay for their higher education, said the WSJ…..

In addition to Yale, other universities named in the lawsuit include Georgetown University, Northwestern University, Brown University, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Emory University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Pennsylvania, Rice University and Vanderbilt University.

According to the WSJ, lawyers claim that more than 170,000 undergraduate students who attended the schools named in the lawsuit and received partial financial aid dating back up 18 years may be eligible to join the suit as plaintiffs.

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Turkey Pushes Cyprus to Re-Unite in Opposition to Turkey

Mark Clouse January 10, 2022

Rising anger with Turkey drives calls for reunification in crisis-hit northern Cyprus | Cyprus

From www.theguardian.com
2022-01-09 10:00:00

Excerpt:

In his sun-filled office in north Nicosia, Şener Elcil is plotting his next protest. Anger, he says, is in the air in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus.

The economy is in freefall, thanks to the self-declared republic’s financial and political dependence on Turkey. Thousands have taken to the streets, spurred by inflation rates that have left many struggling to make ends meet; ahead of parliamentary polls later this month, calls for a boycott are mounting, while a blacklist of Turkish Cypriot dissidents, reportedly drawn up at the behest of Ankara, has spawned consternation and fear.

“Turkey is our biggest problem,” says Elcil, who heads the Turkish Cypriot teachers’ union and is a vocal proponent of reunification of the war-divided island under a federal umbrella with the Greek-run south. “It should keep its hands off Cyprus and take its lira and go away.”

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Is Iran Behind the Yemen Arms Smuggling?

Mark Clouse January 10, 2022

Iran Navy Port Emerges as Key to Alleged Weapons Smuggling to Yemen, U.N. Report Says

From www.wsj.com
2022-01-09 11:51:00

Excerpt:

Thousands of rocket launchers, machine guns, sniper rifles and other weapons seized in the Arabian Sea by the U.S. Navy in recent months likely originated from a single port in Iran, according to a confidential United Nations report that provides some of the most detailed evidence that Tehran is exporting arms to Yemen and elsewhere.

The draft report prepared by a U.N. Security Council panel of experts on Yemen said small wooden boats and overland transport were used in attempts to smuggle weapons made in Russia, China and Iran along routes to Yemen that the U.S. has tried for years to shut down. The boats left from the Iranian port of Jask on the Sea of Oman, the U.N. report said, citing interviews with the boat’s Yemeni crews and data from navigational instruments found on board.

Iran has diplomatically supported the Houthis in their conflict in Yemen and abroad against targets in Saudi Arabia and the Red Sea, but has long denied providing the group with arms….

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