Kink is a way to get closer to God.
So says Natalie Wigg-Stevenson, a professor of Theology at the University of Toronto and an ordained Baptist minister.
Cost of Many Basic Grocery Items Has Increased 3 to 4 Times Inflation Rate: StatCan
If it seems like every grocery trip is costing more and the quantity of food that comes home is getting smaller, that impression might be accurate. The cost of grocery staples is so high that it has increased by more than three or four times the rate of general inflation, according to new data from Statistics Canada.
Bremen ‘Fridays For Future’ Disbands After Racism Claims
There appears to be no future for the Bremen branch of the climate change alarmist group “Fridays for Future,” which was originally founded by Swedish climate wunderkind Greta Thunberg in 2018.
On July 3rd, the Bremen Fridays for Future (FFF) wrote on their website that they would be dissolving and accused the German national branch of FFF of being “structurally racist” and claimed that “Black, Indigenous, People of Colour (BIPoC)” people had suffered abuse from other activists with the FFF movement.
Meat, Plane Rides, and Clothes Are Gone in 2030, Say WEF Commie
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is, thankfully, not being secretive about its plans to enslave us. Unfortunately for humankind, we are once again ignoring the tyrants looking to take over the world.
As change comes to an ancient Irish city, inhabitants strive to be blasé
For centuries, the Irish fought British Protestants and, eventually, southern Ireland prevailed to become the independent Republic of Ireland. However, there’s a new theocratic overlord headed their way, and they don’t seem inclined to fight this time. Preemptive surrender appears to be the chosen pathway, at least for those people in Galway who were told the most common boy’s first name in their city.
Why no one can end the Ukraine war
Five hundred days on, both sides are caught in the same paradox
At an otherwise newsy event last month, Jens Stoltenberg, the Nato chief, made a low-key administrative announcement: “We are working on a multi-year package with substantial funding…”
Not the stuff of headlines, but a rather sobering admission that, as the war approaches its 500th day tomorrow, there is no end in sight. Not this year, or next year or the year after. That should be deeply concerning, especially because, contrary to received wisdom, all those who really matter — the Ukrainians, Russians and the Americans — are actually trying very hard to end it.
#Ukraine: In #Zaporizhzhia Oblast, the Ukrainian 102nd TDF Brigade hit a Russian staging point with drone-dropped munitions- destroying two BTR-82A APC that were hidden inside. pic.twitter.com/wRkohgsSGF
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) July 6, 2023
The cruelty and snobbery of the nanny state
Britain’s nanny-state policymakers seem intent on punishing those on lower incomes. Over and over again, they cast snobbish judgement on the eating and drinking habits of poorer Brits. Policies such as sugar, alcohol and tobacco taxes disproportionately target working-class people.
Did drug lords end the French riots?
‘Dealers told the rioters to stop the violence so that they could resume drug dealing’
It wasn’t President Macron who brought six days of rioting in France to an end, nor the brave bands of mothers who called for calm in some of the inner-city estates. It wasn’t even the presence of 45,000 police and gendarmes on the streets that persuaded the rioters, arsonists, vandals and looters to stand down. Instead, it seems that it was the drug gangs who decided enough is enough. Having so many boys in blue patrolling the streets was bad for business and so gang leaders exerted their influence and ordered the young hoodlums back to their bedrooms.
I have wondered at the sudden de-escalation.
Elizabeth Tsurkov was Kidnapped in Iraq. Leave Her There.
She works for a Muslim Brotherhood group, smeared Israel and defended Hamas.
Elizabeth Tsurkov was kidnapped in Baghdad by Kata’ib Hezbollah: an Iraqi Shiite militia that has attacked Americans and answers to Iran. Even though the leftist activist had entered Iraq using her primary Russian passport, Prime Minister Netanyahu announced that Israel was doing what it could to get her out. Israel would do better to pay attention to the security of its actual citizens rather than to a career terrorist supporter who for a time used Israel as her base.
China is preparing for war
Tensions between the West and China show no sign of easing. Interdependence and mistrust continue to mix uneasily. Triggers are many and varied including; human rights, relations with Russia vis-à-vis Ukraine, microchip manufacturing and the big one, Taiwan.
Then there is the rhetoric. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is in Beijing for talks aimed at easing some of these tensions. It’s ironic, but not unprecedented, that at the exact same time, President Xi is telling the troops of the Eastern Theatre Command – the one that faces Taiwan – that they need to step up their combat readiness and “… persist in thinking and handling military issues from a political perspective, dare to fight, be good at fighting, and resolutely defend our national sovereignty, security, and development interests.”
Texas Walmart shooter Patrick Crusius gets 90 life sentences, may still face death penalty
EL PASO, Texas — A white gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack on Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in a Texas border city was sentenced Friday to 90 consecutive life sentences but could still face more punishment, including the death penalty.
Patrick Crusius, 24, pleaded guilty earlier this year to nearly 50 federal hate crime charges in the 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, making it one of the US government’s largest hate crime cases.
Lord’s Prayer opening may be ‘problematic’, says archbishop
The archbishop of York has suggested that opening words of the Lord’s Prayer, recited by Christians all over the world for 2,000 years, may be “problematic” because of their patriarchal association.
In his opening address to a meeting of the Church of England’s ruling body, the General Synod, Stephen Cottrell dwelt on the words “Our Father”, the start of the prayer based on Matthew 6:9–13 and Luke 11:2–4 in the New Testament.
‘True’ or ‘crazy’? UFO whistleblowers coming ‘out of the woodwork’
In a June 26 interview with NewsNation, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) stated that multiple individuals had corroborated a whistleblower’s explosive allegations of a secret, decades-long UFO crash retrieval and reverse-engineering effort.
As the top Republican on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and a member of the so-called Gang of Eight, Rubio’s extraordinary comments carry particular weight.
Trudeau blames opposition for him not being able to do his job
Justin Trudeau wants you to know that he can’t call a public inquiry into China’s interference in Canada because the mean Conservatives won’t let him. Sure, according to the law, only Trudeau can call an inquiry, but Pierre Poilievre won’t agree with him on everything, meaning there is no consensus and therefore no inquiry.
Canada’s secret service is fighting a hidden civil war
The smart money is on the spooks. They have the public on their side
The Canada of our allies’ imagination is a peaceable land of winter, hockey and exquisite politeness. The winter and the hockey haven’t changed. But peaceable and polite? Not since the civil war broke out.
This civil war doesn’t pit Quebec nationalists against English Canada, but centres instead on China. The two sides are a political elite that yearns for the days when China was an economic opportunity, and a national security community aware of Beijing’s ambition to deindustrialize the West economically and neuter it geostrategically.