For daring to believe homosexuality is a sin, one Finnish Politician is at risk of going to jail, and her Lutheran family are not happy about it.
Regardless of what you believe, if you favor criminalizing people for calling homosexuality is a sin, you favor tyranny, for the tyrant won’t stop using the power you gave them, to define ‘proper thinking.’
Lutheran bishops have decried the “egregious” actions of Finland in prosecuting a Christian politician over her views on sexuality and marriage.
Päivi Räsänen, a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and former Minister of the Interior, has been charged with hate speech against homosexuals.
The charge is in connection to her views on sexuality expressed on social media, a talk show, and in a 2004 booklet called “Male and Female He Created Them.”
If found guilty, she faces up to six years in prison.
The decision to prosecute has been condemned by the International Lutheran Council (ILC), who called it outrageous and unfair.
According to TFI Global, an India-based global news service, citizens of Iran are beginning to openly shun authoritarian Islam. The anti-regime protests are in their third week, despite violent responses, mostly over such things as lack of water due to a nationwide draught, lack of electricity, and Iran’s foreign policy which sees billions of dollars wasted on adventures that do not serve the Iranian people.
Demonstrators in major Iranian cities have called for the death of their leaders and an end to the religious system. One common cry is “no Gaza, no Lebanon, I sacrifice my soul for Iran”, a cry that has surfaced in almost every protest since the massive 2009 protests. For the most part, Democrats has essentially been soft on or turned a blind eye to such protests, for instance in 2009 President Obama did nothing to show any tangible support for the protests.
Deaths, injuries, and widespread arrests and detentions are continuously happening as vans show up in neighborhoods and pull out 500 activists at a time and then disappearing them. Far from causing the protests to stop without their now detained leaders, new leaders keep stepping forward and the protests persist. One openly wonders if some Democrats look on this oppression and wish they too could round up their opponents, based on the rhetoric of many Democratic leaders and the press who are using January 6th as a casus belli to oppress all Republicans.
It is hard to predict the stability of the regime which is being propped up by Russia and China and which the current US Administration seems to tacitly support and is willing to “negotiate with” to ease sanctions and further boost the regime. The alliance of authoritarians from China and Russia and even America’s Democratic Party establishment against freedom sees three distinctly different forms of authoritarianism colluding to prop up yet a fourth version of authoritarianism. It seems that what connects them is a fundamental belief that the few should lord over the many and that this is best for stability.
From America’s secular hedonism to Iran’s Islamist cultism, the common theme is that whatever the ruling class believes must and can be imposed by force on everyone. Any authoritarian government, or would-be authoritarians (the US is not an authoritarian state despite the outlandish and fantastical aspirations of the Democratic Party establishment and its lunatic fringe base), would naturally react against any popular uprising. This is the reason why the Democrats cannot bring themselves to side with the Iranian people in a meaningful and substantive way.
Azadi, meaning freedom, is the craving of what appears to at least be a growing plurality of Iranians and any craving for total freedom will be shunned by every authoritarian of every stripe, on principle. The problem for Azadi in Iran is that the movement is not presently capable of meeting force with force and nor does it have any tangible support from any outside power.
While America tears itself apart through reductionist materialism that sets humanity’s worth according to its melatonin, genitalia, and sexual preference, China is rushing forward in its efforts to catch up to the possibly former republic of America in the Space Race. Its Space Station is humming along and preparing to engage in a thousand scientific experiments that are sure to bring ‘hope’ to the world.
China launched the core of its space station in April, and sent three astronauts up in June. But although the space station probably won’t be complete until late 2022, there is already a long queue of experiments from across the world waiting to go up. Scientists in China told Nature that…
Yesterday, June 28th, 2021, a Chinese national was wounded after an attack was executed in Karachi, Pakistan. The assailant used a gun despite Pakistan’s strict antigun laws to target Chinese citizens for death as China is beginning to extend its presence into foreign lands that don’t appreciate Chinese imperialism any more than they appreciated American imperialism.
This news is not as significant as how China is responding to the action, choosing to brand this as an “isolated incident,” despite the recent bus bombing in the region of Kohistan, Pakistan. 9 Chinese nationals, all engineers, were killed in that attack.
This move, to this writer, seems to be more about the dome4stic audience at home than the audience abroad, especially the Pakistani one, as the CCP will have to use its media corporations (in the same way the DNC does here in America) to convince the Chinese whatever they need to convince them to push the narratives forward that keep them in power and extend it.
As more Chinese die in foreign lands as a result of Chinese imperialism, this effort will become increasingly difficult even for the CCP to manage.
It was the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian who labeled the assault an “isolated” incident not indicative of any collective sentiment by the Pakistani people themselves.
Biden’s DNC-infused and serving Department of Injustice is telegraphing to the world its alignment with the Chinese Communist Party by moving quickly to suppress the just efforts to bring to account the Chinese military researchers who violated American law and engaged in spying and espionage efforts to enrich the Chinese military, sworn enemy of the American way of life.
The Department of Injustice announced it will be dropping 6 cases against the Chinese spies that were headed to a California Federal Court, the Eastern District Court of California. In a statement given to the Washington Examiner, a DOJ (aka DNC) spokesperson, Wyn Hornbuckle, said,
“In all of our prosecutions, the Department of Justice evaluates the merits of a case as it prepares for trial. Recent developments in a handful of cases involving defendants with alleged, undisclosed ties to the People’s Liberation Army of the People’s Republic of China have prompted the department to reevaluate these prosecutions, and we have determined that it is now in the interest of justice to dismiss them.”
As the Washington Examiner highlighted, one such case involved a researcher named Tang Juan, who failed to disclose her military service in the People’s Liberation Army, an institution of anti-Americanism that is seeking to destroy our liberties from without and within. Even in 2020, before the Presidential Election, the DOJ apparently had DNC operatives that were pushing back against the Americans still occupying that institution, operatives who were claiming that her lack of mentioning her military service didn’t appear to be an example of intentional obstruction, but merely omission.
Tang’s defense lawyers told the court in a trial brief earlier this month that “there is dissension in the FBI’s own ranks” about the case against Tang. The lawyers pointed to an April 2021 draft analysis written by two FBI analysts titled “Defining the Extent of Obfuscation of Visiting Chinese Scholars’ Ties to the PLA.” The analysts suggested that the visa application’s military service declaration is potentially ambiguous, making it difficult to determine “whether obfuscation is intentional or for nefarious tech transfer purposes.”
The move by the DOiJ further underscores, in this writer’s opinion, the importance of the CCP to the DNC’s source of power in America and further erodes Americans’ confidence in a Justice Department limited by the Bill of Rights and working in the interests of a free American people.
The Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong province is leaking higher levels of radiation than are normally allowed according to recent reports. Problems were reported by the plant’s co-owner, Electrictie de France (EDF). EDF owns 30% of the plant.
Meanwhile, as the French company Framatone, which EDF has a 75% stake in, reaches out to the US for help they issued a statement that they are “supporting resolution of a performance issue with the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong Province, China. According to the data available, the plant is operating within the safety parameters. Our team is working with relevant experts to assess the situation and propose solutions to address any potential issue.”
But while the Biden administration is touting Chinese statements that “all is well”, Framatone has requested a special waiver allowing it to use American technology to help resolve the evolving “non-crisis”, a transfer of technology that would only be granted if there were an imminent crisis. The request and actions of the company versus the public statements of the company and the Chinese and American governments clearly don’t align with each other and this has people concerned.
The plant in located near Hong Kong and Shenzen on the Chinese coastline. A major radiological leak, evidently caused by a problem with a control rod, would impact over 100 million people and could possibly be a hazard well beyond China. Unit 2, which is the unit impacted, went offline this year for a refurbishment and was put back in operation on June 20, 2021. There is not explanation on what caused the refurbishment or if it was potentially the root of the problem.
The first unit, Taishan 1, entered commercial service in December 2018. The second unit, Taishan 2, entered commercial service in September 2019. The plant is the first in the world to use the new Evolutionary Power Reactor.
The EPR is a third generation pressurised water reactor design. It has been designed and developed mainly by Framatome (part of Areva between 2001 and 2017) and Électricité de France (EDF) in France, and Siemens in Germany. In Europe this reactor design was called European Pressurised Reactor, and the internationalised name was Evolutionary Power Reactor, but it is now simply named EPR.
EDF has acknowledged severe difficulties in building the EPR design. In September 2015, EDF stated that the design of a “New Model” EPR was being worked on, which will be easier and cheaper to build.
There is no word on whether the new design is a critical element here, but the fact the plant has only been operating for around 3 years and has had difficulties in a new reactor that is only two years old and has had a recent refurbishment has led to speculation.
The plant itself claimed, “Since it was put into commercial operation, the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant has strictly controlled the operation of the units in accordance with operating license documents and technical procedures. All operating indicators of the two units have met the requirements of nuclear safety regulations and power plant technical specifications.”
The Chinese government is widely known for suppressing negative news and shifting any blame. As a totalitarian regime which relies on force and fear more than voluntary loyalty and consent of the governed, the Chinese regime cannot afford PR nightmares.
This crisis is not close to the Chernobyl incident, but it is being watched by many as it is feared the present American administration is too unwilling to confront China, despite its rhetoric, on such sensitive issues. This lack of external pressure and willingness to demand answers may in fact lead to face-saving efforts by the Chinese which get in the way of safety measures that might resolve the situation.
For some reason, Iran has sent ships to the Baltic Sea….for some reason. The Danes have sussed them out and they are none-too-pleased to find the Iranians in waters that don’t seem to be directly relevent to the geopolitical reality of Iran.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Danish military said Thursday it spotted an Iranian destroyer and a large support vessel sailing through the Baltic Sea, likely heading to Russia for a military parade in the coming days.
The Danish Defense Ministry posted photographs online from the Royal Danish Air Force of the new domestically built Iranian destroyer Sahand and the intelligence-gathering vessel Makran passing by the Danish island of Bornholm.
A Chinese prosecutor has been accused of travelling to America to direct a harassment campaign against a US resident and his family, and then ordering the destruction of evidence related to those actions, according to the US Justice Department.A superseding indictment was filed in federal court on Thursday against a group of nine individuals, including the Chinese prosecutor, who are believed to have conspired as part of the Chinese government’s “Operation Fox Hunt” programme targeting…
Hong Kong police have charged four former Apple Daily journalists with collusion weeks after the pro-democracy newspaper was forced to close because city government officials froze its assets.
Among those detained Wednesday was the paper’s executive editor-in-chief Lam Man-chung, who became…
In a move that has literally shocked no one, China has told the WHO (World Health Organization) that it would prefer not to have any more investigations into the origins of Covid-19 because reasons. That’s right, Chairman Xi is insisting that to do any more investigating into figuring out what led to a worldwide shutdown and millions of dead is no bueno.
The people that Xi lets live and speak on his name have come out and declared the lab leak theory is crazy talk from extremists and stuff. They feign surprise that the WHO would offer this token suggestion, one which we are sure will not seriously be followed up, but one that that had to be made to hold on to any semblence of not being what they really have become, Chairman Xi’s diplomatic soldiers.
China cannot accept the World Health Organization’s plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19, a senior Chinese health official said Thursday.
Zeng Yixin, the vice minister of the National Health Commission, said he was “rather taken aback” that the plan includes further investigation of the theory that the virus might have leaked from a Chinese lab.
He dismissed the lab leak idea as a rumor that runs counter to common sense and science.
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