Then and Now
Posted By: Moritz55, 4/9/2023 10:53:00 PM
On Good Friday, I chanced across a photograph of the lower Manhattan skyline at night from Good Friday in April 1956. Three skyscrapers, dominating the space, feature certain windows illuminated to form gigantic crosses to commemorate that most solemn of Christian holidays. The year 1956 was not that long ago. But how much has changed in those 60-odd years! Can you imagine such a public display of Christian affirmation in New York today? Nor can I. That was then. Now things are different. I thought about that disjunction between then and now when reading through Washington’s Farewell Address this weekend.
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Officials in the United States are scrambling to identify the source of an apparent breach of highly classified documents.
The leak reportedly gives details on a range of topics, including Ukraine's air defense and Israel's spy agency.
Chris Meagher, assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs, told reporters on Monday that the online leaks presented a "very serious" risk to national security.
What is the latest?
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Democrats dealt another blow: third lawmaker
leaves party, switches to Republican within
a month 4 replies
leaves party, switches to Republican within
a month 4 replies
Democrats were dealt another blow from within their own ranks this week as yet another state lawmaker declared he was leaving the party. According to a Monday report by The Advocate, a Louisiana-based newspaper, state Rep. Jeremy LaCombe announced he had left the Democratic Party and would be registering as a Republican. It was not immediately clear what prompted LaCombe's departure, however he is now the second Louisiana Democrat in less than a month to switch party affiliations, and the third nationwide after another state lawmaker in North Carolina did the same.
FBI sought to develop sources in Catholic
churches to combat domestic terrorism,
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churches to combat domestic terrorism,
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The FBI recently sought to develop sources inside Christian churches and Catholic dioceses as part of an effort to combat domestic terrorism, according to internal documents released by House Judiciary Committee on Monday. The internal documents — obtained last month by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., who are also members of the so-called Weaponization Subcommittee — showed the FBI planned to use churches as "new avenues for tripwire and source development." The federal law enforcement agency also aimed to specifically target "mainline Catholic parishes" as part of its efforts.
Democrats’ assault on democracy focuses
on whose ‘voices are being channeled’
not on the law 5 replies
on whose ‘voices are being channeled’
not on the law 5 replies
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Fiddling America Away
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Chinese tech companies are exploiting
US green energy goals, former State Department
officials warn 8 replies
US green energy goals, former State Department
officials warn 8 replies
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Then and Now
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On Good Friday, I chanced across a photograph of the lower Manhattan skyline at night from Good Friday in April 1956. Three skyscrapers, dominating the space, feature certain windows illuminated to form gigantic crosses to commemorate that most solemn of Christian holidays. The year 1956 was not that long ago. But how much has changed in those 60-odd years! Can you imagine such a public display of Christian affirmation in New York today? Nor can I.
That was then. Now things are different.
I thought about that disjunction between then and now when reading through Washington’s Farewell Address this weekend.
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They really are this petty.
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Shocking New Evidence Reveals Feds Possibly
Instigated Violence During the Jan. 6
Capitol Riot 18 replies
Instigated Violence During the Jan. 6
Capitol Riot 18 replies
More revelations about the federal government’s actions concerning the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol have surfaced, and they could place more scrutiny on the state’s role in the affair. A motion filed by a lawyer representing members of the Proud Boys, a right-wing activist group, indicates that there were a significant number of informants who infiltrated the group.
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“Red Pill”, “Based”, and “Chad”
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“Red Pill”, “Based”, and “Chad”
as Extremist Terms 17 replies
The FBI on Monday released new documents that reveal common words used on the internet are being flagged by FBI agents as extremism.
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The terms “red pill”, “Chad”, and “based” were all considered to be extremist rhetoric.
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Squad” stalwart [New York] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [AOC] says she’s willing to file articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for failing to report decades of luxury trips with a billionaire GOP donor … [saying] “I think this is an emergency. I think that this is a crisis. I think we’ve had a crisis for some time on the Supreme Court.
--New York Post, April 7, 2023
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A middle aged, upper income highly educated white woman with three children, all born from surrogates, explains how her worldview, everyone needs their safe space to find their best identity, shapes her brand representation. (snip)How her ideological outlook passed through the corporate filtration, is a case study on corporate stupidity.
Against the backdrop of micro-brew beer being popular with young people,
The law that redefined death in 1981, referred to as the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA), is being revised. The UDDA states that death by neurologic criteria must consist of "irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brainstem." However, in actual practice, doctors examine only the brainstem. The result is that people are being declared dead even though some still have detectable brainwaves, and others still have a part of the brain that functions, the hypothalamus. Lawyers have caught on, pointing out in lawsuits that the whole brain standard was not met for their clients.