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June 29, 2020

Post-revolution South Africa Today

Andiswa Kolanisi looks out over the corrugated iron roofs, the shelters of salvaged plyboard, the washing fluttering in the raw wind, and smiles as she remembers a day 25 years ago. “The memories of that time are there but it is like we are telling a fairy tale now,” she says. “When we think about the difference between now and then, we ask: what happened?”
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Published on June 29, 2020 22:00

June 24, 2020

Minority Report in Detroit, MI



On a Thursday afternoon in January, Robert Julian-Borchak Williams was in his office at an automotive supply company when he got a call from the Detroit Police Department telling him to come to the station to be arrested. He thought at first that it was a prank. An hour later, when he pulled into his driveway in a quiet subdivision in Farmington Hills, Mich., a police car pulled up behind, blocking him in. Two officers got out and handcuffed Mr. Williams on his front lawn, in front of his wife and two young daughters, who were distraught. The police wouldn’t say why he was being arrested, only showing him a piece of paper with his photo and the words “felony warrant” and “larceny.”
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Published on June 24, 2020 09:26

June 15, 2020

Isaiah and Israel's Depravity



Isaiah 1:2-9. The prophet addresses Israel's wickedness. The results of forgetting about God and how to avoid doing so. The importance of the struggle to learn how to rightly divide the Word of God in order to love Him wholly.ESV Bible The Book of Isaiah Commentary by Edward J. Young https://www.christianbook.com/the-boo...
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Published on June 15, 2020 17:37

June 9, 2020

The Indiana Jones of Missionaries Review


“It’s the Indiana Jones of missionary stories.”With that recommendation from my pastor-dad, I picked up an autobiography of John Paton in the summer of 2000. He was right. Paton’s life story contains many harrowing moments reminiscent of an action film, like the time he fled for his life and spent the night in a tree with the yells of cannibal “savages” below. Or the time Paton convinced the captain of a steamer to tie him to the mast during a storm. Continue to full review.
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Published on June 09, 2020 13:41

May 30, 2020

Isaiah and God the Father



Isaiah 1:2,3. Who are God’s children? Are we children or servants? Or both? E.J. Young defines "sons" as the marker for the beginning of God's decree. R.A. Webb and The Doctrine of Adoption. Jesus explains our sonship to the Pharisees. How then shall we live in light of our relationship to God? ESV Bible The Book of Isaiah Commentary by Edward J. Young https://www.christianbook.com/the-boo... Book Review: R.A. Webb and The Doctrine of Adoption https://2012writersalive.blogspot.com... Relevant Bible Verses: Exodus 4:22, Deut 1:31; 8:5; 32:6; Isa 63:16; Jer 3:19; Hos 11:1; Mal 1:6
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Published on May 30, 2020 21:22

Economic Data Porn

How The Federal Reserve Unilaterally, De-Facto Amended the US ConstitutionThe US Constitution is the spectacular framework upon which our nation is built.  The framers even built in a means to right the terrible wrongs that were beyond their capabilities at the time...the amendment has been utilized 27 times in all (most recently in 1992), righting freedoms of religion, equality of all races and sex, among others.  But not included anywhere in the Constitution was the Federal Reserve, allowing it the power to guide interest rates ever lower or infinitely purchase assets.  The implications of the Federal Reserve policies have been to undermine the Congress' primary function, that of compromise in an attempt to balance spending versus taxation.  The Federal Reserve policies have removed market based discipline, (market based interest payments), encouraging Congress to raise seemingly infinite federal debt.  Thus Congress' role as an institution for compromise is broken.  This de-facto Constitutional amendment has spurred ideas of infinite spending like MMT.  Flawed as the framers were, this insertion of a de facto, unelected, quasi private/federal branch of government was explicitly never intended because of the cancer it represented. Click here to see the images.
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Published on May 30, 2020 21:08

May 26, 2020

Conspiracy Theory Porn

If you need it, it's here...especially in the comments section of this article.

After two months of COVID-19 panic and terror, the world is now being ushered into a “new normal”. However, there is nothing “new” nor “normal” about an oppressive police state that haphazardly revokes rights and freedoms while citizens snitch on each other. Nope, such regimes have existed in the past. And, in societies that dare call themselves “free” and “democratic”, the “new normal” is an aberration – a slippery slope towards a global totalitarian regime.

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Published on May 26, 2020 19:49

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