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Charlie discusses the lefts ultimate agenda for power. Charlie talks about the economy as it is now. He talks about the direction of the great reset, how it ties in with US economic issues. Charlie discusses the new currency coming to America. He talks about the amount of control the government will have over your funds.

America's coldest case. Seven men were brutally gunned down in a garage near the north side of Chicago. The murders resulted from the gangland wars during prohibition. The Irish North Side gang run by Bugs Moran versus the Italian South Side gang lead by America's most notorious gangster Al Capone. The murderers have never been caught, but there are plenty of theories as to who may have committed this horrible crime. www.thearchivistpodcast.comSources:https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/prohibition#:~:text=The%20Prohibition%20Era%20began%20in,Prohibition%20was%20difficult%20to%20enforce.The St. Valentine's Day Massacre and Al Capone (Excerpt from Get Capone) By Jonathan Eig. April 30, 2010. https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/may-2010/get-capone-st-valentines-day-massacre-jonathan-eig/Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine%27s_Day_MassacreSt. Valentine's Day Massacre. History.com February 4, 2021 https://www.history.com/topics/crime/saint-valentines-day-massacreInside the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, History's Bloodiest Mob Hit. By Katie Serena. February 2, 2022. https://allthatsinteresting.com/st-valentines-day-massacreProhibition. History.com https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/prohibition#:~:text=The%20Prohibition%20Era%20began%20in,Prohibition%20was%20difficult%20to%20enforce.Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_StatesInflation calculator

For a text summary: https://micksmith.substack.com/p/what-is-stage-5-of-the-heros-journey-322?sd=pfMick, The Doctor of Digital, Smith mick.smith@wsiworld.comBurning America: In the Best Interest of the Children?https://burning-america.comAmazon: https://www.amazon.com/G-Mick-Smith/e/B0B59X5R79Also at Barnes & Noble, Walmart, and TargetLeave a message for The Doctor of Digital:https://podinbox.com/thedoctorofdigitalpodcastInstagram: burningamericacommunityPatreon burningamericacommunity:https://www.patreon.com/SmithConsultingWSITheDoctorofDigitalPodcastListen, subscribe, share, and positively review The Aftermath:https://www.podpage.com/the-aftermath-the-epidemic-of-divorce-custody-and-healing-1/he-saidshe-said-the-one-about-getting-involved-in-parental-alienation-legislation/Substack:https://micksmith.substack.com/Commercials Voice Talent || Narratives Voice TalentDo you want a free competitive analysis for your business? Make an Appointmenthttps://app.hubspot.com/meetings/mick-smithBe sure to subscribe, like, & review The Doctor of Digital™ PodcastSign up for the Doctor Up Your Life courseFacebook || Instagram || Twitter || LinkedIn || YouTube

The Jubal Show Opens with America's Favorite Game Show, Stupid Internet Question! Today's Stupid Internet Question is, What is a red flag you chose to ignore?Leave a rating and review wherever you listen. It will help the show out in a big way. If that's not your thing, you can find us on social media here:https://instagram.com/thejubalshowhttps://twitter.com/thejubalshowhttps://www.tiktok.com/@thejubalshow

You’ve heard of “Timeboxing” to be more productive, but “Spaceboxing” is just as important. We talk about being more productive with your space, iPhone gimmicks, and discuss: why is America so much LESS productive this year? Go to Shopify.com/tps for a FREE trial. You can find links to everything that we share in the show […]

Music historian and former host of NPR's Rock & Roll America, Richard Aquilanew book, ROCK & ROLL IN KENNEDY'S AMERICA: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE EARLY 1960s (November 2022; Johns Hopkins University Press)https://www.amazon.com/Rock-Roll-Kennedys-America-Cultural/dp/1421444984Edwin Waldhttps://waldaudio.com/newest audiobook, "After Woodstock," also by Elliot TiberNational Geographic historian Jean-Pierre Isbouts, coauthor of MAPPING AMERICA: The Incredible Story and Stunning Hand-Colored Maps and Engravings that Created the United States. His books have sold over 2 million copies. For more information, visit: www.jpisbouts.org.Richard Aquila is a professor emeritus of history and American Studies at Penn State University and the former host of NPR's Rock & Roll America. He is the author of The Sagebrush Trail: Western Movies and Twentieth Century America and Let's Rock!: How 1950's America Created Elvis and the Rock & Roll Craze. In his new book Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s,, Richard offers a fresh look at the early 1960s through the prism of rock & roll and revisits all the memorable hits and misses heard on American Bandstand and Top 40 radio stations across the country. https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12480/rock-roll-kennedys-americaEdwin Wald is a veteran actor, director, designer, composer, voice and dialect coach who has performed in more than one hundred theatrical productions. As a voice actor, he has also brought to life many characters for the renowned Kathy Burks Theatre of Puppetry Arts, and Dallas Puppet Theatre. Edwin became the voice of Elliot Tiber for the new audio book of Elliot's final memoir, After Woodstock. He is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors' Equity Association. https://waldaudio.com/Prof. Jean-Pierre Isbouts is a best-selling National Geographic historian whose books have sold over 2 million copies, including The Biblical World, In the Footsteps of Jesus, and The Ultimate Visual History of the World. His lectures are featured on Wondrium and The Great Courses. He is co-author of Mapping Amercia: The Incredible Story and Stunning Hand-Colored Maps and Engravings that Created the United States. https://www.jpisbouts.org/--------------------------Frankie Boyer is an award winning talk show host that empowers listeners to live healthy vibrant lives http://www.frankieboyer.com

Steve Deace, Dr. Steve Turley. the "Twitter Files" and Katie Hobbs Just Got CAUGHT!!!   The Twitter Files Are the PERFECT Allegory for America's Collapse Steve Deace Show  Dec 05 2022   Steve discusses the release of the "Twitter Files," which prove collusion between political campaigns and Twitter to censor users' tweets, and why it's the perfect allegory for America's collapse.   Katie Hobbs Just Got CAUGHT!!! Dr. Steve Turley https://youtu.be/v5fKBLwiLAQ 1.02M subscribers 262,564 views Dec 5, 2022 ✅Go to http://www.hometitlelock.com/turleytalks -- and use promo code: TURLEYTALKS. Then enter your address for your no obligation home title scan to see if you're already a victim. That's a $100 value -- FREE. Be sure to use my promo code TURLEYTALKS for your FREE TITLE scan at http://hometitlelock.com/TURLEYTALKS  promo code TURLEYTALKS. ✅ Download my Most Incredible FREE Gift Ever for Patriots including my personal research resources at https://insidersclub.turleytalks.com/ ❤ Subscribe to my channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/DrSteveTurl...   The Steve Deace Show on Rumble-  https://rumble.com/c/SteveDeaceShow The Steve Deace Show serves up principled conservatism with a snarky twist every weekday from 12-2 PM ET on BlazeTV. ► Click HERE to subscribe to BlazeTV on Youtube! https://bit.ly/2KJHuwu ►Click HERE to join BlazeTV! https://get.blazetv.com/ ► JOIN our NEWSLETTER - https://theblaze.com/newsletters Connect with Steve on Social Media: http://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow http://facebook.com/SteveDeace The Steve Deace Show is highly recommended by ACU. Subscribe today!   HELP ACU SPREAD THE WORD!  Please go to Apple Podcasts and give ACU a 5 star rating. Apple canceled us and now we are clawing our way back to the top. Don't let the Leftist win. Do it now! Thanks. Forward this show to friends. Ways to subscribe to the American Conservative University Podcast Click here to subscribe via Apple Podcasts Click here to subscribe via RSS You can also subscribe via Stitcher FM Player Podcast Addict Tune-in Podcasts Pandora Look us up on Amazon Prime …And Many Other Podcast Aggregators and sites   Please help ACU by submitting your Show ideas. Email us at americanconservativeuniversity@americanconservativeuniversity.com Please go to Apple Podcasts and give ACU a 5 star rating. Apple canceled us and now we are clawing our way back to the top. Don't let the Leftist win. Do it now! Thanks.

Morrie Shechtman is a personal and corporate consultant with 45 years of experience. Morrie's academic background includes an M.S.W. with a clinical specialization in psychotherapy. He also has his A.C.S.W., the professional credential required for independent practice. He has taught at distinguished universities throughout the United States, has worked as a therapist and counselor, and now also runs a successful management consulting company, Fifth Wave Leadership. Morrie's first book, Working without a Net: How to Survive and Thrive in Today's High Risk Business World (1994) is widely used as a reference in corporate America. It is utilized as a textbook by a number of universities and is used by many government agencies in management development training. As Chairman of Fifth Wave Leadership, Morrie has consulted with hundreds of top executives worldwide about managing disruptive change, merging corporate cultures, and effectively mentoring an increasingly demanding workforce. A highly sought-after speaker, he has lectured on personal transformation and productivity to audiences throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Latin America, India, Europe, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. He has also authored two books, Working Without A Net: How To Survive And Thrive in Today's High Risk Business World and The Internal Frontier: Creating The Personal Transformations That Lead To Success, that examine the close connection between personal growth, bottom line profitability and stakeholder value. Morrie has been interviewed on Good Morning America and has been a frequent guest on PBS and major market radio talk shows. A number of political figures have recognized him as one of the most influential minds of our generation for his strategies for thriving in today's high-risk business culture. Morrie lives with his wife, Arleah, and two dogs in rural Montana.www.morrieshechtman.comwww.livelifedriven.com

America is widely seen as the greatest free country in the world, but that doesn't mean it hasn't suffered from horrible things in the past. What can we learn from the American Revolution, the Slave Trade, the Civil War, Columbus Day, and other pivotal moments in history if we scrutinize them through the lens of social psychology? J.R. Lowry sits down with author and social psychologist Dolly Chugh to look more deeply than America's Instagrammed version and delve into its highly complicated history. She explains what it takes for people to come to terms with the controversial events of this country's past with empathy, to shape effective leaders and build a progressive society today. Dolly also discusses her own career journey and its various meanderings over the years that led toward her current work as a business school professor and author. Check out the full series of "Career Sessions, Career Lessons" podcasts here or visit pathwise.io/podcast/. A full written transcript of this episode is also available at https://pathwise.io/podcasts/a-more-just-future-with-dolly-chugh.

It's been twenty years since five men who were convicted as kids in the “Central Park jogger case” were exonerated. Their story has resonance in today's crime-panicked United States. In 1989, amid a national and local panic about crime, five Black and Latino teenage boys were accused of a raping a woman in New York's Central Park. Despite inconsistencies in their coerced, false confessions and other evidence, they were convicted. Their images were held up in national media as representative of urban chaos, in which wild Black and Brown youth threatened white America. It wasn't until December 2002 that DNA evidence finally established their innocence. They are now known as the Exonerated 5 and advocates for justice reform. Host Kai Wright speaks with two of the five, Kevin Richardson and Raymond Santana, about their story and how anxieties about crime still affect today's politics.  Companion listening for this episode:  People Feel Unsafe–and It's More Than Crime (5/14/2022) The social fabric is torn. People nationwide are scared, some going as far as to arm themselves. What can we learn from our history as we react to this fear? Scholar James Forman Jr., author of the book Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, helps break down what's real, vs perception, about the rise in violent crime.  “Notes from America” airs live on Sunday evenings at 6pm ET. The podcast episodes are lightly edited from our live broadcasts. To catch all the action, tune into the show on Sunday nights via the stream on notesfromamerica.org or on WNYC's YouTube channel.   We want to hear from you! Connect with us on Instagram and Twitter @noteswithkai or email us at notes@wnyc.org.

A recent headline declared "bye bye booty, heroin chic is back," referring to a fashion look in the 1990s and 2000s that glorified women with ultra-thin figures. But the backlash to the headlines from people recalling how this trend harmed their relationships with food and their bodies, shows that plenty of people are not interested in going back. So what really makes a "trend" go in and out of fashion?  Professor Sabrina Strings says that while we may have had a few years in which having curves was considered fashionable, the thin ideal has never truly gone "out" of style. It's older than America itself — but just like America, it's rooted in racist hierarchies.  Professor Strings is an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine and author of "Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia."

There's one week left in the 60% off premium sale! Skippy drops knowledge on the top food joints in America. Doogles walks through an article on how some countries are able to grow out of poverty, while others can't. Skippy tests Doogles' knowledge on industry growth during and post Covid. Listener mail covers (literally) shorting GameStop and Jim Cramer's follies. The episode wraps with a historical take on the impact of inflation on stock market valuations.Join the Skippy and Doogles fan club. You can also get more details about the show at skippydoogles.com, show notes on our Substack, and send comments or questions to skippydoogles@gmail.com.

Episode SummaryHow do we make it easier for people around the world to learn and get the tools to innovate and become entrepreneurs? In this episode, founder Alejandro Juárez Crawford shares his answer: RebelBase, a company that is helping people understand problems and launch experiments that can become solutions. Erudite and articulate, Alejandro is that unique leader who can share his philosophy about innovation and purpose while grounded in the everyday reality of what works and what doesn't.Sydney Finkelstein Syd Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He holds a Master's degree from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Professor Finkelstein has published 25 books and 90 articles, including the bestsellers Why Smart Executives Fail and Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent, which LinkedIn Chairman Reid Hoffman calls the “leadership guide for the Networked Age.” He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a consultant and speaker to leading companies around the world, and a top 25 on the Global Thinkers 50 list of top management gurus. Professor Finkelstein's research and consulting work often relies on in-depth and personal interviews with hundreds of people, an experience that led him to create and host his own podcast, The Sydcast, to uncover and share the stories of all sorts of fascinating people in business, sports, entertainment, politics, academia, and everyday life.Alejandro Juárez CrawfordAlejandro Juárez Crawford, co-founder & CEO, leads RebelBase, the SaaS equipping students, employees, and citizens to build solutions of their own. He serves as a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Bard MBA in Sustainability. Previously, he led the boutique consultancy Acceleration Group. He earned his BA at Cornell and his MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Crawford led RebelBase as it built and successfully commercialized its library of educational modules, cloud-based interactive tools, and state-of-the-art methodology. In 2020-2021, his research has expanded to university systems from Bangladesh to Kyrgyzstan, through Bard's new course sequence for changemakers supported by the Open Society University Network. He writes and speaks widely on expanding access to innovation, and keynotes events such as Erasmus+ ISYEC and Europe's Towards Collaborative Practice. Recent publications include “An Ecosystem Framework for Credentialing Entrepreneurs,” from the Research Triangle Institute, and a chapter in the Federal Reserve's Investing in America's Workforce (Upjohn, 2018). In 2020 he co-won the Roddenberry Award to create a documentary about game-changing initiatives developed using the RebelBase platform.Insights from this episode: Details about RebelBaseWhat RebelBase doesHow to deal with pessimistsSolving problems with people who understand the problemDetails on the bottom-up approach to solving problemsHow to build a culture of experimentationHow to maintain a culture of experimentation as the company grows biggerThe importance of constructive criticism when building a productQuotes from the show:“Up until now, it's been very difficult for regular people to think that they could launch an experiment and how to make it work better, and RebelBase makes that possible. RebelBase democratizes and accelerates bottom-up innovation by enabling people who understand problems to launch experiments that could become solutions” —Alejandro Juárez Crawford [7:00]“When you give folks the tools to create these experiments, something dramatic happens (…) suddenly you've actually asked the person who understands the problem what needs to be solved” —Alejandro Juárez Crawford [17:25]“We do a lot of work on researching skills and mindset change by users on this platform because not every solution, not every experiment is going to succeed” —Alejandro Juárez Crawford [27:43]“Often, actually the experimentation that most people do is taking things we already know work and figuring out how to do them in new places and new ways” —Alejandro Juárez Crawford [35:50]“Comfort with failure is itself a trainable mentality” —Alejandro Juárez Crawford [41:02]“We are not just trying to encourage risk-taking, we are trying to encourage calculated experimentation where the point of our experiments is to learn what works, to learn from your users what to adopt, to learn how you could then move to a larger group of users and get them to existing channels” —Alejandro Juárez Crawford [46:45]Stay connected:Sydney FinkelsteinWebsite: http://thesydcast.comLinkedIn: Sydney FinkelsteinTwitter: @sydfinkelsteinFacebook: The SydcastInstagram: The SydcastAlejandro Juárez CrawfordLinkedIn: Alejandro Crawford Website: https://rebelbase.coSubscribe to our podcast + download each episode on Stitcher, iTunes, and Spotify.This episode was produced and managed by Podcast Laundry.

We welcome YOU back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience! It's YOUR time to #EdUp In this episode, YOUR guests are Dr. Joe Sallustio and Kate Colbert, Co-Authors of Commencement: The Beginning of a New Era in Higher Education YOUR guest HOST is Dr. Bill Pepicello, host of EdUp Insights YOUR sponsor is Fierce Education The most anticipated higher education book of 2022 has been released. Commencement: The Beginning of a New Era in Higher Education is available to order now on Amazon or in bulk. In their highly anticipated book born from interviews with 100+ college and university presidents, Kate Colbert and Joe Sallustio, EdD, welcome you into a conversation like no other … a conversation where the truth is told, the future is examined, and the possibilities are endless. The ivory tower is about to get colorful. Listen in to #EdUp! Thank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to EdUp! Connect with YOUR EdUp Team - Elvin Freytes & Dr. Joe Sallustio ● Join YOUR EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! We make education YOUR business! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edup/message

Le CAC 40 ouvre la semaine sur une petite baisse de 0,67% et tombe juste sous la barre des 6700, vers les 6697 points et 2,8 milliards d'euros échangés alors que l'activité du secteur privé dans la zone euro a diminué pour le cinquième mois d'affilée en novembre, ce qui suggère que l'économie de la région se dirige vers une récession modérée. C'est un peu la même ambiance à Wall Street à 17h45 avec un Dow Jones à -0,76% vers les 34.168 points et un Nasdaq à -1,14% vers les 11.331 points. A noter Tesla (-4,5%) en manque d'énergie alors que le constructeur de véhicules électriques aurait décidé de réduire la production de son modèle Y en Chine, du fait de stocks élevés et d'une demande ralentie sur ce marché. Valeurs en hausse ALD accélère grâce à Stifef. Le bureau d'analyses a entamé la couverture du titre avec une recommandation d'achat et un objectif de cours établi à 21 euros, contre 10,46 euros à la clôture aujourd'hui. Stifel s'attend à ce que le leader européen de la location longue durée et de la gestion de flotte automobile publie des résultats «records» cette année après un exercice 2021 déjà solide. Séance solide aussi pour Valneva : la biotech a annoncé des données positives sur la persistance des anticorps douze mois après la vaccination avec une seule dose de son candidat vaccin contre le chikungunya, VLA1553. Seb et Orpéa sont également bien orientés. Sur le CAC 40, c'est Renault qui roulait le plus vite devant Alstom, Thales et Stellantis. Sur le SRD, les vents sont favorables pour Bénéteau (+16,4%). Le constructeur de bateaux a dinqué qu'il pourrait dépasser ses prévisions de résultats pour l'exercice 2022 et qu'il disposait désormais d'une «avance significative» sur son plan stratégique 2020-2025, dont il rehaussé plusieurs chiffres clés. Valeurs en baisse GTT est lanterne rouge sur le SBF 120. Le titre réagit à une décision judiciaire en Corée du Sud communiquée vendredi soir. D'un côté, la Haute Cour de Séoul a partiellement fait droit à son appel contre l'ordonnance rectificative de la commission coréenne en charge de la concurrence, ce qui se traduit par l'annulation de l'amende administrative de 9,5 millions d'euros payée par GTT début 2021. Mais de l'autre, elle a confirmé l'obligation pour le français de séparer l'accord de licence technologique de l'assistance technique si les chantiers navals coréens le demandaient. Pour rappel, à la fin 2020, la KFTC avait jugé que certaines pratiques commerciales de GTT enfreignaient les règles de concurrence du pays et voulait autoriser les chantiers navals coréens à effectuer les services d'assistance technique inclus dans la licence de technologie du français. Derrière Plastic Omnium perd 4,2%. JPMorgan a abaissé sa recommandation sur l'action de l'équipementier automobile de «neutre» à «sous-performance». Autre avis d'analyste sur Bouygues, pénalisé par Bank of America. Le bureau d'analyses de la banque américaine est passé de «neutre» à «sous-performance», avec un objectif de cours réduit de 30 euros à 27 euros. Toujours sur le CAC 40 Teleperformance repart en baisse de 2,7%

S2E114 - All Hail Yilter Intro - The average date night cost $98 in US Ye pulls up to Alex jones show to put full support behind hitler. The message, Love all. CP3 slept with Kim k — Alex jones files for bankruptcy Twitter Files- displays it's internal investigation of it's abuse of power and government interference. The findings? A lot of collusion, Dems heavenly clouded for hunter Biden laptop Tj Holmes & Amy Robach co-anchors of Good morning America exposed by private investigation for intimate relationship Scientist awaken “zombie” virus that have been frozen for 48,500 years, signs still infectious The worlds first solar power car Takeoff killer has been found, conspiracies he's not actual shooter but taking the fall??Supreme Court blocks student loans, will go to Supreme Court Underdog update projections update

Yesterday, 12/4/22, was the 1st planned terrorist attack by right wing extremist groups (white power, Neo Nazi, etc) that has been planned by these groups to bring America's power grid down. All it takes is to attack just five power substations and the entire grid on the eastern seaboard can be brought down putting America into the dark ages. This info has been published in Inspector General reports for quite some time and Homeland Security and the FBI have talked about the "possibilities" since 2007. The reality is it is HERE NOW. What is CONGRESS, the FBI and HOMELAND SECURITY doing to prevent this, to harden the the grid, these substations from such attacks? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. In the meantime, you might want to purchase a gas generator as a back up so you can have some power like the 100,000 citizens of Charlottesville, and surrounding communities are now having to deal with. Laws need to be changed and hardened and laws against being able to join such home grown terror groups need to be passed.

Who knew that Elon Musk is the man who could very well be saving America? It's episode #320 of The ANEZ SEZ podcast...

The writer and activist James Baldwin grew up in a majority white America that saw white American lives as standard and universal, and Black American lives as different and particular. But in his 1963 book The Fire Next Time, Baldwin showed that his life as a Black man in America was universally human. Josef Sorett is the Professor of Religion and African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. He is also chair of the Department of Religion and directs the Center on African-American Religion, Sexual Politics and Social Justice. He is the author of Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics. See more information on our website, WritLarge.fm. Follow us on Twitter @WritLargePod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

With Brother Jay away, Brother Tay and Producer J welcome Brother Zay from the Loading Up Podcast. In this episode, the Brothers talk about Marvel Phase 4, especially Marvel's tv shows. They give their opinions of the shows. While watching this episode. play this special game: figure out how many shows Brother Tay has actually watched based on his ranking. Tell us your opinion about the Marvel tv shows.

Charlie tells Sophie the horrific story this week that shocked America in 1983. Something wasn't quite right when Diane came screaming into a hospital, wailing that somebody attacked her and shot her three children. But what would eventually come to light would paint a rather different story, one of obsession and neglect. Diane Downs interview footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQrNTxsPbbY&t=401sSources for this episode are: Diane Downs: Her Children Got in the Way of Her Love -- The Crime Library - Crime Library on truTV.com (archive.org)The Mother & - The Washington PostDiane Downs Biography - Facts, Childhood, Family Life & Achievements (thefamouspeople.com)The Daughter of Diane Downs (oprah.com)Guilty As Sin — Diane Downs: Her Children Got in the Way of Her Love -- The Crime Library — Crime LibraryMusic by Pawel Fezczuk - Free Music Archive - Paweł Feszczuk

Candice shares her perspective on sex work and prostitution on America.

Re-connecting with friends and family over the holidays means hearing the big things of the past year. One of those big things might include the sentence: I'm gay. Whether you're looking to come out intentionally this Christmas, thinking that it might happen accidentally, or you are wanting to be prepared for the next time someone comes out to you, this episode is for you.  Mycah McNett (she/her) and Pastor Colleen of APT have a conversation about coming out at Christmas, how to care for yourself along the way, and how to care for yourself if this isn't your time to come out. Technicolor Ministries Advent Calendar - Launches December 1 RSVP to Blue Chrismas Communion FB/Insta: @TechnicolorMinistries All Places Together Merch Store FB/Insta/TikTok: @AllPlacesTogether  All Places Together (APT) is a non-geographic community, based in Virginia. APT seeks to gather individuals who are searching for God in the wilderness of life, individuals who deeply want to connect to something beyond themselves, and individuals who believe the love of Jesus is embodied in all of God's diverse creation. Thank you to our Mission Partners: Virginia Synod (www.vasynod.org) and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (www.elca.org). To give to All Places Together, visit our website: http://www.allplacestogether.org/ Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the button "Give to All Places Together". This will take you to the APT giving page. Enter your contribution amount to the basket and follow the instructions to check out!

Why were the people building the Tower of Babel? What was their goal? They were trying to “make a name for themselves” but more subtly, they are building a Gate to God. The root word of Babel means “Gate of God.” Think of Stargate or a science-fiction Portal if it helps you. The Tower is a gateway to bring God near, to control God, to pull him down to earth. There is metaphor here in the Tower, obviously, but metaphor is how we remember and re-tell stories of great meaning. If we were robots we could just use zeroes and ones, but a Tower or Gate to heaven is meant to invoke the image of man overtaking God, which is the reverse of humility before God. Since God made us in his image and likeness, with a body and soul together, God is obviously not a robot. Thank God for that. I, for one, am glad, because staring at code all day at work does not stir me like hearing a well-told story does. Here's the central theme of Babel. If we can pull God down, and lift up ourselves, then we can become god. We can then make God into a kind of pet. That is quite a different idea of God from the great quote from St. Athanasius about why Jesus came to earth. “God became man so that man might become God.” That is a great quote, but wow, it can be easily misunderstood. This makes it sound like through prayer we can become God himself, and hardly sounds different than some of the modern meditation practices that are being used. Karlo Broussard says of this quote: “According to the original Greek of St. Athanasius, the phrase, “that we might become God” is better translated as ‘that we might be deified.'…The idea of sharing in the divine nature means we share what philosophers and theologians identify as God's communicable attributes (goodness, holiness, and love) as opposed to his incommunicable ones (omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, and absolute simplicity).St. Athanasius could have made it easier for us and just said that we can become like God, with the full understanding that we can never become God. That distinction is enormous to gaining understanding of what it means to work toward sanctification and holiness in the Christian life. You can never be God. That's off-limits and impossible. But, you can partake in God's divine nature, particularly through prayer and receiving the Eucharist at Mass. But we never, ever, become God. Not with a million prayers or pushups or a perfect college entry exam score. The addition of the word “like” in his quote has critical meaning, because without it, we might as well be chasing after our divine selves in New Age religions. We are creatures, not divine, made like God - but must never forget that we are not God. That may have been the greatest discovery of my life. What a relief!What Babel is attempting is to justify our behavior by making God into an idol that performs vending machine operations. This God has an LED screen that reads, “Insert two dollars. Press B12 for a sandwich. C36 for drunkenness. F25 for group sex. G31 for an orgy.” At Ziggurats, the priests sacrificed people or animals, but with our vending-machine god we can just use quarters and get whatever we want approved. It's the same thing. People who assume prayer will direct God to take action are making the same assumptions of those at Babel. Prayer is powerful, but not if it's meant to control God, or if it's perceived as controlling God. In fact, again, the atheist may be better off than this person who misunderstands prayer, because prayer used in this way could just as well be a child sacrifice to bring the rain. What's the difference? Both are attempts at controlling God. We can pray for requests, but we must pray for God's will to be done, not ours. The vending machine god of Babel is just as powerless and useless as the absentee God of the Deists. While it probably looked exciting watching sacrifices on those altars at Babel, it was really just the denial of the one God, the God Most High. This is why when Jesus came, he corrected the record and said, “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” What a statement! What about all those sacrifices in the Temple of Jerusalem? What about all that stuff in Leviticus and Numbers about the goats? I would like to go there now, but I'll continue with Babel or I'll never finish. (If this topic of sacrifice interests you at all, I highly suggest listening to the Lord of Spirits podcast - all of it, from the beginning to the end). The builders of Babel, and the deists like Franklin, and the atheists like Richard Dawkins are all doing the same thing in the end. They are speaking the common language, but Dawkins is the only one who really puts all his chips in the middle and lays his cards on the table. Atheists don't buy the bluff about Baal the storm god and know that the deists are just hedging bets on a bad hand. The only card player left for them is those who believe in the one God. The cool thing about atheists is that they are closer to coming back to belief in the one God than they ever realize, or would ever care to admit, because they've seen through all the smoke and mirrors of the meaningless and dead gods. The reality is this: the builders at Babel are trying to appease a god that is a convenient projection of their own power and desire, while the Deists of early America are tipping their wigs at a dead or fully absent version of God. The ziggurats in America are courts and the Statue of Liberty. Next time you see the Statue of Liberty in New York, you can ponder our worship of “Liberty” and consider the Tower of Babel. Dawkins just says what everyone else in power was thinking all along, which is this: God doesn't matter. He is saying that the Emperor has no clothes. He is also like the Emperor Napoleon, when an officer suggested that “God willing” they would take Brussels in the morning. Napoleon allegedly said, “God? God has nothing to do with it.” That's the same answer Dawkins gives. To Dawkins, the only towers or cathedrals that ever existed were in the mind of those built by mitosis. There is no God, or gods, living or otherwise, outside of our brains. Of course, Dawkins' grand bet on the selfish gene goes too far. He's all in with all the answers, but he left out of the equation an important variable. He fails to solve for Y, as in “Y are we here?” That is the problem with this worldview, because in a world without meaning, you have to live in that world. So does everyone else, and everyone else is not necessarily an educated PhD who can spend a lifetime inspecting in all corners of science and history. Everyone else lacks the funds and leisure time to find meaning. Everyone else, for the most part, in the end, has to rely on what someone says is true. I take it on faith that germs cause disease and not fairies, even though I have never actually saw either of them infect a person. Dawkins and company can win arguments about how the world works, but what they cannot win an arguments about is why a sunset is beautiful. When there is no satisfactory ultimate why, people spend a lifetime searching for that variable. In the end, what the world without a living God results in is someone else taking control by force and dictating that the value of Y must be what they say it is, simply because they said so. So even though I'm not a Dawkins fan, at least he isn't hedging his bets. He's all in, and I actually think deniers like him are closer to finding God than the builders of Babel or the deists like Franklin ever were. Having the door half-open to God is like letting the heat out of the house in winter. At some point, you have to make up your mind to go outside or stay inside. This makes me realize, truly, that we should pray for Richard Dawkins. He may end up bringing more people back to faith in God than we could have ever realized. He is almost at the top of the circle, since when we run away from God, we often find ourselves running right into the arms of God. At Babel, the builders may think there is a God at the end of their staircase, but if they think God can be extracted somehow, or pulled into the universe, then they have actually rejected God. They have invented something new that is not God, not the one true God. I will be coming back to this, because there is something happening at these temples, it's just not what the builders think it is. The God of Israel is outside of time and space. He cannot be accessed via a portal, or gate, or tower. The living Creator God is beyond our understanding. He is transcendent and immanent, near and far. We can know he is living, that his will is being played out at all times, but we cannot control or change God. I don't know how, but even children can understand that God is alive, that he is real. What is being done at the Tower of Babel is the creation of idols, which replace God, reduce God, and substitute God with man-made ideas and desires. An idol is the god of a cynic, not of one who has the faith of a child. When the concept of God nosedives from a living Creator God outside of time and space, it becomes nothing more than a local god that can be manipulated through a gate or a tower. What inevitably follows is that there is no longer sin, or rather, certain sins are approved while others are outlawed. It just depends on who holds power. This is happening before our eyes in America today. An elaborate ritual in a ziggurat is just a big ruse, a power play, but what is really happening is the attempt to control the concept of “God,” because gaining the upper ground on that idea is required to justify whatever behavior those in power want to dictate as acceptable behavior. In our case today, an already bad concept of God is being reduced further as Redditors and public school administrators go to great lengths to ensure that even the word God is removed from our mouths. You can't even say God today at work or at school without potentially losing your job. Interestingly, talk of “sin” is becoming less common at church, which is a clear sign that there is a widespread lack of understanding of the God of Christianity, because you cannot understand your need for God unless you understand your own weakness in sin. The affirmation of sin is the voice of the culture today, and where sin is denied, ziggurats of the mind are constructed. Today, we are witnessing the outcome of what happens when the idea of Dawkins are taken to its logical conclusion. The reason Dawkins is a fool is that he doesn't understand what the builders at Babel and the deists like Franklin understood well. The emperors and Founders of history knew that people needed religion, and to pull that rug out from society would cause the city itself to collapse. Dawkins has a middle-school concept of God that he never outgrew. He's also operating as an autonomous speaker of “his truth” without a plan or concept of how to organize a world. He doesn't have employees or mouths to feed or an economy to plan. In the walled-in academic world where the idea of “no souls” exists, Dawkins fails to realize something rather large. His theory of the “Selfish Gene” starts from the bottom, instead of the top, and therefore he cannot describe the whole. His answer of “Because of genes!” is too simple. A toe does not describe the wholeness of a person any more than a gene does, and genes cannot explain the totality of human nature. Dawkins is so smart, but he can't understand what farmers and mothers with no education understand perfectly well. You would think an evolutionary biologist would be very equipped to understand the parable of the grain of wheat, but somehow he misses it completely. We need religion. People need religion. Or they will find one. And it won't be what you expect. In the clean, childless world of our universities, ideas sound good that lack depth. Dawkins' answer is from the atomic layer, and he emerges from a quiet library to tell us that we are nothing but atoms. Meanwhile the bustle of the street doesn't hear a word he's said, because life is happening far beyond the atomic layer. When Dawkins' burst forth from his library, he was telling a very different message from what the apostles told when they emerged from the Upper Room at Pentecost, after having received the breath of life, touched by tongues of fire. No, when Dawkins and his disciples emerged in their lab coats to tell us the good news, their message was that respiration is a selfish act to propagate our genes and that there is no meaning to any of it. The apostles had a message of eternal life, while Dawkins made us ponder suicide. So while I commend Dawkins for his honesty, he is actually more foolish than the leaders of Babel. At least the leaders at Babel are offering something to believe in: “Look, here's a tower. It's a Gate to God. See?” And Jefferson and Franklin offer something, too: “Look, here's a sacred document, a Constitution, where we make a nod to God - and also - over there - see the Statue of Liberty?”Dawkins only offers the abyss. And our brains revolt at the idea. We all know the Big Empty is there, but we don't really want to stand on the edge and look into it. We can't. Not for long. The temptation to believe that Dawkins is right draws us all, as doubt is more natural to us than faith. So even if we dabble in disbelief, most move away from the edge in search of a Higher Power of some kind. The search for God, when thwarted or stifled or silenced, erupts like boils, in strange places and in uncomfortable ways. We are already seeing strange religions being born in America now, almost more strange than that of the pagan gods of Babel or America's traditional worship of the rule of law, wealth, and the slippery thing called “Liberty.” The Tower of Babel may be an expensive lie to justify power, but it is a better attempt at meaning than what Dawkins offers the masses. But again, Dawkins is the only honest one, which is why his idea is the most dangerous. He's the anti-Jesus (I don't want to call him the anti-Christ, because he lacks the charisma needed for that). Dawkins tells us that we are purely material beings without souls. He goes all the way. Most people hold back and speak the old common language that dances around this fact, finding idols and obsessions to occupy or fence off the Big Empty. Dawkins has spent his life shouting this message and now we are seeing what fruit it bears, where we are in fact atomized, solitary beings - kind of like genes. When we are just chemical machines, we act like the “selfish gene” writ large. Again, not only is this message the polar opposite of Christ, but it's brings the polar opposite result. Where people know Christ, they form communities, families, and fellowship. There is warmth amid the struggle. Dawkins inability to get past middle-school in his understanding of God leaves him out on the playground all alone. As we watch millions of community organizations and church groups fading away in America, we are clearly becoming more atomized, as people sit at home watching TV alone instead of joining the Lions' Club or a bowling team. What is worrisome about this is that Hannah Arendt, who dissected the rise of 1930's totalitarianism, said that loneliness, a.k.a atomization, is a first step toward totalitarianism, because isolated people without purpose or faith are attracted to a powerful ideology that delivers some kind of meaning. So yes, Babel may be called a fool's game, or superstitious nonsense, but in our “common language” we already play a fool's game, and are happy to do it because Dawkins' worldview makes Kurt Cobain or Morissey seem light-hearted. We don't want to mope about in atomized solitude knowing that we are nothing more than chemicals, a bunch of matter mixed together. Even if we suspect we are “just a clump of cells” we don't want to live like a meaningless mass of molecules. We want meaning. We want to kick ass and take names. We want to win the Super Bowl and go to Disney World and sleep with all the cheerleaders. We want to fight, or at the very least, to watch the fight. We want stories, winners, losers, heroes, and goats. We'll believe in that Tower of Babel or Statue of Liberty if it allows us some sport, some entertainment, a full belly, and a chance to get a little action on the side. Dawkins was honest, but even crazy Nero understood human beings better.The Tower of Babel could be summed up in the saying, “If you tell them a lie, don't tell a little one, tell a big one.” This saying has been attributed to Lenin, Hitler, Goebbels, and various other dictators, but this saying precedes those infamous names by thousands of years - probably tens of thousands of years. The “Big Lie” is old; it was just perfected in the 20th century and is now being refined. To maintain power, great narratives must be upheld, and Franklin, Jefferson, and Washington knew this. They understood it better than any ruler in the time of Babel, but the ancient leaders also knew it or they wouldn't have started building a Tower in the first place. The pyramids in Egypt are probably the most famous form the big lie. They were not a Gate to God, but a tomb that said the Pharaoh was god. Caesar was known as a god and built great structures to prove the lie. The Eiffel Tower is a Tower built in an era of denying God, built to celebrate our modern obsession with technology and engineering. In an odd reversal of Babel, the Eiffel Tower is almost like a Tower to keep God away. You might say it was the next logical step after the Statue of Liberty. Then you have, finally, the degradation into modern art structures that have absolutely no meaning whatsoever, like the Bean in Chicago or the Cherry on a Spoon in Minnesota. These are as meaningful as the world's largest ball of twine. The modern structures and buildings have no meaning because, well, you guessed it - there is none! The National Endowment for the Arts is on full Richard Dawkins' mode. You can easily see how things get uglier in art and architecture as we move away from the era of Christendom. This can also be observed in modern churches, which Bishop Robert Barron has appropriately titled “Beige Catholicism,” in a lament at the drabness of churches built in the latter part of the 20th century. Countries still build structures to symbolize their chosen-ness, their righteousness. They still try to convince citizens of blessings from above, even after they have stopped pretending that the power of the state is really just from the status quo. If you walk through the Washington D.C. mall or the Roman Forum, you can still feel awe at what the builders of Babel were intending to achieve. They were offering what the band Poison was searching for when Brett Michaels cried out, “Give me something to believe in.” Unfortunately, you will get spoon-fed poison if you are looking for some “thing” to believe in that is not the living Creator God, because he created all of the “things” that you might be offered. If you have a Gate to God, then whoever owns the Gate can conceivably talk to the god and tell us what god wants. Oddly enough, the god always wants what the owner of the Gate wants. What luck! But in reality, a Gate or Tower or Altar or Pyramid that grants access to God, like Delphi in Greece, is really a trick that those in power use to sell their claim to the crown. All of these structures are a way to kill off the true God, the Most High, the one true God, and replace him with a human who pretends to have the ear of God. What happens is that there is no longer a living Creator God. As long as the economy is looking good, most people don't really care, and bread and circuses do nicely for keeping the masses pacified. Still, it's nice to have some kind of feeling that the god has blessed the nation, even if you suspect it's all nonsense. That's the genius of the ancient kings, and that's how the “Divine Right of Kings” went off the rails in Europe. The bogus claim to power as “God-given” was abused so horribly that the French Revolution was bound to happen. Louis XIV even called himself the Sun King while simultaneously claiming to be a practicing Catholic. I will resist the urge to comment on Joe Biden here, but I will say this: those who use Christianity in the same way that the pagans used their gods, are pagans themselves. In other words, paganism never really died. As for all who would like to say it simply moved into Catholicism, I would suggest reading the Catechism of the Catholic Church before repeating what others have said and judge for yourself. The great casualty of this trick about god and power is that there is no redemptive suffering, no forgiveness, and no reason to love one another. If there is no living God, then of course there is no ultimate truth. The obvious answer is to take power for yourself and for your family. People who lambast the faithful for only behaving out of fear of hell suggest that believers would be robbing and looting if not for God. They argue that you can be good without God, but they are making that argument in the days of plenty, when famine and economic meltdown have not yet hit. The rise of atheism has coincided with the most bountiful era of food production and wealth in human history. That is not a coincidence. When the economic winds change and the grocery stores shelves are empty, we will see how “good” people are without God. After all, God helps those who help themselves. Let's now return to the Bible, to Genesis, to look at the world after the Tower of Babel story. There is a key difference in dealing with God in the post-Babel chapters, when Abraham and Jacob show up. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.whydidpetersink.com

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Welcome to Episode #78 of the Fatal Conceits Podcast…They're sometimes called “California refugees.” But they hail from New York and Illinois, too… You'll find them in sleepy little towns in Florida… Texas… Arizona… Nevada… and across the sunbelt… basically anywhere that doesn't suffer oppressive taxation, creeping government, woke school curriculums, high crime, homelessness, drug epidemics…The pandemic didn't birth this trend, but it sure did accelerate it. Presently, California is losing about 370,000 people per year, a record rate. In today's program we're joined by MN Gordon, editor and publisher of the Economic Prism newsletter and former California native. Earlier this year, Mr Gordon packed up his family and headed east to find his own American Bolt Hole. We begin today's discussion with his fascinating story… then talk about Opendoor - as both an idea and a company - and what's next for real estate in the US. Please enjoy our discussion and leave your own comments and ideas regarding the best places in the US to live below…Cheers,Joel BowmanP.S. For those inclined to read rather than listen, please find a lightly edited (for clarity) transcript below…Thank you for reading Bonner Private Research. This post is public so feel free to share it.TRANSCRIPT:Joel Bowman:All right. Well, welcome back, dear listeners, to the Fatal Conceits Podcast. As you know, by now, it's a show about money, markets, mobs, and manias, not necessarily in that order. If you've not already done so, please head over to the Bonner Private Research substack page. You can find us at bonnerprivateresearch.substack.com, where there are now hundreds of articles on everything from high finance to lowly politics and everything in between. There's plenty of research reports there, of course, by our macro analyst, Dan Denning and investment director, Tom Dyson, as well as plenty of Bill Bonner's daily musings. You won't find them anywhere else.And in addition, of course, there are many more conversations just like this on the Fatal Conceits Podcast. Grab that at the tab on the top of the page. And speaking of which, I'm delighted today to welcome a newcomer to the show. Mr. MN Gordon is the Editorial Director and Publisher of the Economic Prism Newsletter. I'll provide a link in the transcript to this, so you can head on over there. In particular, check out the library. You'll find plenty of usual suspects from Messrs. Hayek to Hazlitt to Mises, and all the rest of those free market oriented kind of gentleman. So, without further ado, Mr. MN Gordon, welcome to the program.MN Gordon:Hey, Joel. Morning. Thanks for having me on.Joel Bowman:Yeah, not a problem. Not a problem. Now, we've got so much to talk about, as is the case whenever we sit down these days. We had the remarks from Mr. Powell yesterday. There's real estate to discuss, credit markets, the dollar, on and on. But one thing I wanted to start with here is a story I read over on your Economic Prism website, and I think it's really instructive. I think a lot of people in America are thinking along these lines at the moment, and that is your exodus story from California. Why don't you just kick us off by telling us a little bit about how you got out of the Sunshine Tax State?MN Gordon:Yeah, you bet. Yeah, I'm a native of Southern California, born and raised there and worked for many years there in my career. And over the years, it just became more and more intolerable of a place to be. Certainly, the high taxes and wacky politics have always been a part of California, but it really turned ugly or just more and more intolerable during the COVID lockdown that had taken place.And my wife and my kids, we were just eager to get out and try something else and look for a place that maybe has a lighter touch from the government, more favorable tax policies, lower cost of living. So, we certainly found that in Knoxville, Tennessee. We moved out here in July, so we've been here for several months and we're really enjoying it so far. Really, really liking the green and wet conditions, not being in perpetual drought...Joel Bowman:Must be a nice change.MN Gordon:It is a nice change, for sure. And yeah, certainly more of a freedom feel here, no state tax, and lower cost of living, so it's turning out to be a really great move for us.Joel Bowman:Fantastic. Yeah, my wife and I were just in Austin, Texas a couple of months back and ran randomly into a group of people who referred to themselves as "California refugees." There are these pockets of similar people, it seems like, all around the country, in Austin, in other states. You guys looked at a few other places, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Florida, but none of them floated your boat for various reasons. What was your criteria?MN Gordon:Yeah. That's right. I think for us, it was really finding that lower cost of living, finding somewhere that had very good access to nature. I grew up at the beach and really connected with the beach in my youth and into my early adulthood. And the older I got, the more appealing the mountains became for me. California certainly has mountains that you can go to, but they're kind of tinder boxes. You don't really want to spend much time in them, and certainly wouldn't want to live there.And all the mountains in East Tennessee, we've got quick access to the Smoky Mountains here, and while they're certainly more subtle, the peaks are lower and what have you, they really are livable and very beautiful and enjoyable to spend time in. So, that was certainly something that attracted us to this area.Joel Bowman:And you mentioned your wife and kids, obviously it was a more appealing environment for a family in addition to just the great outdoors and having easy access to the lush Smoky Mountains. What about things like schooling? I'm interested in this, in particular as a father of a young daughter, what were the kinds of, I don't want to call them grievances, but complaints that you had pre-COVID, did you find those exacerbated with lockdowns and that kind of thing? Was that prevalent where you were in Southern California?MN Gordon:Yeah. Yeah, so that was also a big part of it. So, my son is 15, he'll be 16 next month or later this month actually. And so, he's in high school and the school he was going to, the local public school in Long Beach, has about 4,000 kids there, and they shut it down, of course during COVID. And when they reopened it, it really seemed like that the kids just went back and were really wild or what have you.Anyhow, it just turned into a rough situation. There was an incident where the school safety officer ended up shooting and killing a woman that was fighting one of the students right in the street, in front of the school.Joel Bowman:Wow. Oh my goodness.MN Gordon:Yeah. So, it was really crazy. And then, just during COVID and this prevalence of this woke ideology that had seemed to come into the school. Several years ago, the state of California created a third alternative when you apply for a driver's license. So, you can be male, female, or X, right?Joel Bowman:Oh, right, okay. Yep.MN Gordon:Yeah. And so, all of a sudden then my son's got a teacher that is clearly a mister, but he goes by Mx, because that's what's on his driver's license, and just a lot of that kind of nonsense.Joel Bowman:That teacher didn't happen to be the biology teacher, did they?MN Gordon:Right, yeah.Joel Bowman:Creates a little conflict.MN Gordon:Yeah. So, we were eager to get out of there for those reasons, and certainly don't want to be too negative on it here, but that was also certainly part of the factors in our decision to leave.Joel Bowman:So, how have you found it then in Tennessee? Because one of the things that you mentioned in the article, and actually one of the things that this group of "California refugees" impressed upon me when we met them in Texas, was exactly what you would said, which is, "Don't California our Tennessee." Or, "Don't California our Wyoming." Or whatever it is.We think of places like Tennessee and like Texas as brimming with Southern hospitality and very warm and welcoming, but I can see that there would be a little reticence when you see this brigade of California number plates just teeming over the hills. How have you found the welcome there in East Tennessee?MN Gordon:Right. Yeah, I mean, overall the welcome's been great. The people are very friendly and accommodating. We certainly have gotten some odd reactions from people when we say we're from Long Beach, California, and just moved here. And we have gotten some, very few, but some people that seem visibly outraged or what have you, that we moved here. We had one experience where we stopped by the lake marina and were talking to the lady at the boathouse, and she found out we were from Long Beach, and she really started questioning why we would move there and so on. And I think that's what it is, they're protective of the Tennessee that they have. Right?Joel Bowman:Right.MN Gordon:They don't want liberal policies coming in and taking over the schools or the government, whether that's limiting freedoms or increasing taxes, or creating these massive social programs that you have in California. So, I think that's what it comes down to. And they'll warm up to you pretty quickly once you start talking with them.Joel Bowman:Yeah. One of the things I liked that you mentioned in your article, is that a lot of times people think that those who are coming from California or maybe Illinois, or New York, or wherever else, and seeking refuge elsewhere, they think maybe they do want to bring their woke policies or what have you to the school boards there. But actually, it's people like yourself who know full well, have been on the front lines of this, who see it for what it is. It's really gotten to a fever pitch just in the past few years, and you see exactly what has happened upfront, whether it's at the school, or with taxes, or real estate prices, crime, homelessness, drug problems...MN Gordon:True.Joel Bowman:So, I find actually a lot of the people who have moved away from those places, they may have been very progressive to begin with. They moved to the Bay Area and then all of a sudden they see the end game of those policies and they think, "Oh, I've got to get out of here. Even if I'm centrist or if I vote a little left, this has just gotten out of hand here."MN Gordon:Right. Yeah. I think that's certainly accurate. I think people that are looking to leave California or other liberal dominated cities are looking to get to places that have greater freedom and are not wanting to recreate the situation that they're escaping from.Joel Bowman:Right. So, then let's talk about the nuts and bolts of your exodus with regards to selling your home. You mentioned that you had a story with regards to Opendoor. And for those readers listeners who are perhaps unfamiliar, I actually wrote something similar about Zillow a couple of weeks ago, one of these online real estate market makers. They wear various hats, I guess. But what was your experience with unloading California real estate and getting into the Tennessee market?MN Gordon:So, I used Opendoor. They refer to themselves as an iBuyer, I guess that's the buzz word, but essentially they use their digital pricing models to make offers on houses, cash offers, and then they make light touch-ups to the houses and then flip them back onto the market.And so, it was about June of this year when we were looking to sell our house, and I'd heard a bunch of commercials on the radio about how easy it is to sell your house with Opendoor. So, I reached out to them and got a price quote, and it was a price quote that I was certainly happy with and was ready to take. However, I wanted to just see what sort of price I could get, perhaps I could get a better price if I went with the traditional approach.And so, I got an agent and they staged the house and took a bunch of nice pictures and had open houses over a series of two weekends. And this was early June, so it's right when the mortgage rates had spiked up above 6% for the first time. And while we got a lot of traffic, we didn't get any offers. So, it was, "We really need to get out of California. We want to get into Tennessee before the next school year starts."And so, I went back to Opendoor, and this was maybe three weeks after my initial offer and spoke to the same person there who had given me the initial offer. And so, he came back with a new offer that was actually higher than the first one that they had given me. Clearly they weren't recognizing what was going on with the market. And so, certainly I jumped at that offer and took it.Joel Bowman:Yeah. Congratulations.MN Gordon:Their process was really simple. I got all my stuff moved out, took some pictures, uploaded it to the website, put the keys in a lockbox that they had mailed me on the door, and I left. Right? And then they wired the money to my account and it was really smooth and simple.But then after that, I've been following what's been going on with that house, my former house. And so, about two weeks after I had sold it to Opendoor, they had put it back on the market. They had gone through and really just done some interior painting on the walls, nothing major. We had some more colorful paints, and so perhaps they just wanted something more neutral, who knows? And so, they put it back on the market for 60,000 less than they bought it from us for. So it was-Joel Bowman:Wow. What was the timeframe there? That was just a few weeks?MN Gordon:Yeah. It was literally two weeks after they'd bought it from us. So, I don't know why they didn't recognize that before they bought it from us, but after they bought it, clearly they realized that they'd paid too much. They put it on for 60,000 less, and then it still hasn't sold. They've been dropping the price every several weeks. And so, we're going on 110 days and it's over $110,000 less than what they bought it from us for.Joel Bowman:My goodness.MN Gordon:Yeah. So, it was pretty wild. And so, that got me into really looking at Opendoor as a company and what's going on. And I wrote an article a couple weeks ago about it, and it seems like there's countless examples out there of my experience. In my article, I cited one in Colorado where Opendoor had paid close to $780,000 for a house in April, and then listed it for 870,000 and it didn't sell until October. So, about six months later. And when they sold it, it was for a $154,000 loss.Joel Bowman:Oh, wow.MN Gordon:Yeah. So, I'm not quite sure how the company expects them to make money that way...Joel Bowman:It's difficult to make up losses on volume.MN Gordon:Right. Right. So, from what I can gather, they have these digital pricing models or these algorithms that they use, and somehow they just missed it. That when interest rates rise, that it's ultimately going to cause the prices to drop, right? And interest rates or the price of credit really is fundamental to the markets, and especially those that rely on large quantities of debt.So, the housing market's a prime example of a market that's really sensitive to interest rates. And so, as the rates rise, the house prices eventually must adjust downward to balance out the monthly mortgage payments that people have. And so from what I can gather, Opendoor was projecting this trend outward that they had seen over the last several years. And when the inflection hit, they just missed that, missed what was happening with the rising rates, and continued to load up on houses that they would eventually have to sell for a loss. So, a wild ride going on there at Opendoor.Joel Bowman:Yeah. It's amazing too, that this happened, as you say, in the summer months of this year, because Opendoor had a forward example in Zillow. I may have to double check the years here, but I think it was in 2019, 2020, Zillow did something similar, where it used one of these AI algorithms to extrapolate straight lines into the future, which is never a good undertaking when you're dealing with human behavior and all of the complexities of something like a real estate market, which can be hit by things like pandemics, or economic downturns, or rapid interest rate hikes, all of which we've seen in the past couple of years.And Zillow really got caught out as well, where they had just onboarded, almost automatically, this huge inventory of houses and properties that the algorithms had weighed and decided were worth X amount and hadn't factored in or adjusted for reality, let's say. And all of a sudden, they were left with this enormous inventory, which of course, has a carrying cost. And then, if they can't rent out, they have to sell into a falling market, which can exacerbate the problem that in some ways they kind of caused in the first place. But it's interesting that Opendoor wouldn't have seen that as an example and maybe tweaked their own machine learning a little bit in anticipation of exactly this.MN Gordon:Yeah. Right. Who knows? That seems like a good example that they could have learned from. Perhaps they thought they were smarter. I don't know.Joel Bowman:So, what's happened with the price of Opendoor, the share price of Opendoor you mentioned had cratered. What's going on there?MN Gordon:Yeah. So, the share price is really circling the toilet bowl here. I think it peaked at around $35 per share in early 2021, and now it's down to somewhere around $1.80 or so.Joel Bowman:Wow.MN Gordon:That's a loss of over 95%. And meanwhile, the company recently laid off 20% of their staff. So, a ugly situation for the company. Perhaps that's an opportunity for, I wouldn't call it investing, maybe speculating, but when I was doing research for that article on Opendoor, I came across some writing from an analyst named Luke Lango, who writes for InvestorPlace. And so, he made the statement that, "Opendoor today could be like buying Amazon in 1997." And that seemed like a bold claim to me, but who wouldn't want to have bought Amazon in 1997?Joel Bowman:Right. Another company that, of course, was cut in half any number of times on its way to what it would eventually become and has, along with the rest of the tech sector, come off considerably since its highs, at whatever it was a year ago or something like that. But yeah, you do see these ... I mean, 95%, it would be maybe generous to call it a dip. That's pretty much a hatchet job.MN Gordon:Right.Joel Bowman:But at some point, somewhere, assuming there's not bankruptcy and insolvency, there's going to be an attractive discount, 95%. What was your experience like with Opendoor? It seemed like it was pretty open and shut, right?MN Gordon:Yeah. Yeah, I mean, as far as the company, their user interface was really simple and entering my info into the website and then contacting the actual staff person there, who we did a walkthrough on Zoom and what have you. As far as going through the close and getting the money credited to my account. I mean, they certainly operated like a professional business, so they weren't winging it, I guess, as they were going. So, in that sense, they seem to operate like a good business. Who knows if they can survive these losses that they're taking? And their share prices is reflecting that.Joel Bowman:Yeah. I wonder what these big, mass buyers, whether they be the BlackRocks or the big funds of the world, but also outfits like Redfin, like Opendoor, like Zillow, that are just automatically vacuuming up these thousands or tens of thousands of residences. I wonder what that does for that old adage that real estate's about "location, location, location."If the buying and selling is going to be done by artificial "intelligence" that just algorithmically determines what entire regions are worth and then comes in with enough capital, enough muscle to move markets, if we're not going to have severe aberrations like this more in the future. It's interesting to think about.MN Gordon:Yeah, that is an interesting idea. And I don't know if they ultimately end up owning a lot of these houses that they can't sell, without taking a major loss, if they end up just becoming these large scale renters or what have you, until the market bounces back. I don't know. That's certainly a interesting idea to think about.Joel Bowman:All right. So, mate, what's on the future for you guys now that you've made the exodus, now that you're out in Tennessee, what have you and the family got programmed for the next couple of years? You've got a bit more schooling for the kiddos and then?MN Gordon:Yeah. My son's wrapping up high school here over the next few years. I've got a daughter who's 10, she's in fourth grade, and we homeschool her through a co-op, where she goes to school two days a week. And that was something that we started back in California. She was in first grade when the pandemic hit and we just couldn't have her on Zoom calls seven hours a day, trying to learn that way. So, that's when we switched to homeschooling. And it's turned out to be a really good thing for her.But yeah, as far as long-term plans, I mean, we're trying to settle in and make this our home and become connected to the community here, and getting out and exploring the city and the surrounding areas. And so yeah, I guess that's our short-term and long-term plans are to get connected here.Joel Bowman:That's fantastic. We've got our macro analyst, Mr. Dan Denning up there freezing on the high plains of Laramie at the moment. A couple of years ago, he did a bolthole project, where he drove thousands of miles around the country looking for the best spots with his particular checklist of what he wanted in various places.But it does seem like there are a lot of people who are peering over their own fence and thinking, "Hey, maybe there's not a better life for me somewhere else." So congratulations, mate. Best of luck with you and the family out there in East Tennessee. It's a place I haven't visited, so I'll maybe put that on the to-visit list in the future.MN Gordon, thank you so much for your time today, mate. And I'll include a link to Economic Prism and please, readers, listeners, viewers, what have you, head over there and check out Mr. Gordon's work. And of course, check out our own substack page. Again, that's bonnerprivateresearch.substack.com. And we'll catch you again next week.MN Gordon:Great. Thanks, Joel.Thank you for reading Bonner Private Research. 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This week's discussion centered around Holiday Prayer for the Fathers of Children they have abandon.Crossing Bridges Talk Show is America's only live streaming talk show for Black men and Youth. Available live on FACEBOOK every Saturday afternoon at 5:00 pm (est). The recorded presentation is available every Tuesday evening on the African American Shopping Network channel on YouTube. Join the discussion live or via email. Remember to show you support by subscribing or sponsorship email us at montgomerybusiness@hotmail.com 

Today we have something a little different for you. I'm with Ciahnan (Keenan) Darrell, author of the new book, Blood at the Root, and we're going to talk about the role literature and the arts can play in promoting social justice.According to Justin Gifford, associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Blood at the Root “is a sharp-witted social satire that takes unflinching aim at race and class privilege in contemporary America.”An award-winning author, and scholar, Ciahnan's first book was the award-winning “A Lifetime of Men.” His short stories and essays have appeared in several journals, most recently in The Columbia Review, Gone Lawn, and The Legendary. His story 'What Remains' was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Rum Punch Press. Ciahnan holds Masters degrees from the University of Chicago and Stony Brook University, and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University at Buffalo. Both his creative work and his scholarly research explore systemic inequality and the ways in which discourse on race and gender shape the horizons of individual and social life.These are important topics, so I'm pleased to welcome Ciahnan Darrell to our podcast. Thanks for joining us, Ciahnan…--Bob: To get started, Ciahnan, tell us about Blood at the Root. What's it about and what's its message? And where did that title come from?Bob: As a white male, what gives you the right – the authority – to write about issues of race and gender? And why do you feel it is important to do so?Bob In the atmosphere in which live today, with so much division, and yes, ethnic and racial hatred, what role can we, as authors, play in helping to ease these tensions and improve understanding among those with differing views regarding these subjects.Bob: To me, one of the most important issues that we face today is the growing diversity of our country, which I believe is at the root of much of the division we face. Your thoughts about that…Bob: The nation is becoming increasingly diverse, in terms of ethnicity, as we speak. According to the 2020 U.S. Census, the White non-Hispanic population stood at 57.8 percent, a decline of six percent since 2010. That, we know, continues and projections are that soon the White non-Hispanic population will be in the minority. Is this one reason why we see so much hatred and defensiveness from the MAGA crowd and the likes of the Proud Boys?Bob: An important finding in the census is the increased diversity in the younger population. In 2019, for the first time, more than half of the those under 16 identified as a racial or ethnic minority. What are some of the political and cultural implications of that?Bob: As an author and scholar who's work centers around fairness and equality, what's your view of the way Donald Trump and his followers have attempted to weaponize fear to pave the road to power? Bob: Your first book, A Lifetime of Men…tell us about that book.Bob: And your short stories…let's hear about them.Bob: Thanks, Ciahnan, for being with us on our podcasts.

Our guests are Mark Dorazio, newly elected Texas State Rep for District 122, who discusses the legislative priorities for the coming year; Esther Chapoy, newly elected Val Verde County Clerk, who discusses why she won while most Republicans lost; Randy Clark, Breitbart reporter, who provides an update of the news at the border; Matt Coday, president of Texas Oil & Gas Workers Association, who talks about the Biden administration energy policies that hurt America workers and consumers buy help foreign dictators. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The premise that schools are failing, teachers are doing a horrible job, and professors like me are ruining America and sending our economy into decline, is a myth perpetuated by those with political and for-profit agendas. If you think I'm wrong, show me some research-based data showing said decline and some isolated variables. Show me some valid, reliable, comparable data, collected over time, that shows our schools are failing and that teachers are doing a horrible job. Give me some solid data that indicates that our schools are worse than they were 5, 10, 20, or 30 years ago. That data should not be based on your selected memory of what you think schools were like once upon a time, but some solid data with appropriate sample sizes, that represent the population to which you are seeking to generalize. As well, that data should not be cherry-picked to support your predetermined belief. Causality should not be assigned to whatever issue you seem to take exception with.

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The Divided Stories of America: The Green ForestInterview with J. C. FinneganIn this episode of Faith and Family Fellowship, Dallas interviews J. C. Finnegan, author of, "The Divided Stories of America: The Green Forest".A Word From Our Guest:What if the United States of America were no longer united?The USA is dead. In its wake lie four autonomous territories: the Southeast, the Pacific, the Frontier, and the Northeast. The last of these is ruled by an authoritarian corporatocracy that uses AI technology, social credit scores, and a central bank digital currency to subjugate the masses. It's a green forest of greedy creeps and broken beasts. It's the place Finn Culligan calls home.In the aftermath of the National Divorce, the present is grim and the past has been labeled a dangerous conspiracy theory. With truth existing only as a fading memory, Finn struggles to convince his girlfriend of the importance of freedom while holding out hope that it still can be found... somewhere. As he contemplates an escape from the Northeast, Finn encounters two people from his past who provide evidence that the green forest is darker than he imagined. Their revelations are the catalysts for a plan that could cause the ruling elite to strip Finn of everything. With his job, his girlfriend, and his social credit score hanging on by a thread, Finn faces a dilemma. Buy The Divided Stories of America: The Green Forest to discover if he chooses the assurance of safety and security over truth, freedom, and love.Find the copy of the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLMCMJSV?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420Thank you for listening and supporting the 'Faith and Family Fellowship PODCAST SHOW'. We are excited to connect with each of our listeners on our various platforms. Below are just some of the ways you can not only connect with us but also support our various Christian Ministry projects around the world.Support the show (https://cash.app/$laymedownministry)Connect with the show on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/faith.family.fellowship.podcast)Connect with Pastor Chris Buscher (https://www.facebook.com/cmbuscher87)Connect with Dallas O. Monticue (https://www.facebook.com/dmonticue)Connect with Lay Me Down Ministries (https://www.facebook.com/LayMeDownMinistries)For Marketing and Publishing needs, Buscher's Social Media Marketing LLC (https://www.facebook.com/buscherssmm)

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Andrae Griffin was the victim of mental, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of those who should have been her protectors.  Andrae's parents made her life a living hell.  Andrae's only refuge was school.   Andrae reached out to other adults, but help did not come. Her parents threatened Andrae with her very life if she continued to plead to those outside the family. Andrae left home as a teenager.  She bought a plane ticket, and made the decision to fend for herself. Andrae's behavior kept her in a dangerous place.  She lived with strangers, drank alcohol, and was involved in unhealthy relationships.   Andrae considered herself unworthy of goodness or unconditional love.  It was her future husband, Ray, who patiently waited for Andrae to trust he was there for good. This is the story of Andrae Griffin.  She is candid about her abuse, poor life choices, and, finally, how the freedoms in America allowed her (and anyone willing to work hard) to beat poverty and abuse; living a life she is proud to pronounce as her own. Andrae and her husband, Ray, are fierce American patriots, instilling the love of country to their children.  Andrae has supported Ray through his tenure in the Utah Army Reserve, often times raising the children on her own while Ray protects and serves in far off places.  She and Ray are also owners of the Griffin Jiu Jitsu Academy, taking special pride in classes they offer for women's safety. Andrae is a contributor to the Utah Patriot Camp, teaching children about the constitution and our great American republic.  

Pastor Dennis Hall and his guest Pastor George Whirley, New Creation Restoration Church and Prison Ministry, Indianapolis, Indiana discuss the things that indicate that America is no longer a nation that fears God. The Bible speaks of fear in reference to God more than 300 times. Americans love freedom and freedom has come to be defined as the absence of any constraints on us. Religion is seen as the enemy of freedom because God does place constraints on us. Isaiah 8:13 says "The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, is the one you are to fear, is the one you are to dread. Romans 3:23, "All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." God poses an ominous threat to our egos but to not to us; he stands over against our delusions, but not against the truth that sets us free: he cast us down, but only to lift us up. He sits in judgment of our sin, but he forgives us, nevertheless. The Scripture says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but love is its completion.

Old money and power can buy a lot even in current America, but for the Murdaugh family it seems that the law is finally catching up and is ready for justice. Get your murder board ready because there are lots of players in this game, but this case has a little bit of everything. Insurance fraud, cover ups, a boat crash, a hit man, a father murdering his own family, and more. Sources:https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/video/murdaugh-murders-deadly-dynasty-investigation-discovery-atve-us/something-wicked https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pictures/mallory-beach-boat-crash-death-alex-murdaugh-family/https://wpde.com/news/local/hampton-banker-chad-westendorf-deposition-gloria-satterfield-case-alex-murdaugh-cory-fleming-judge-carmen-mullenhttps://people.com/crime/murdaugh-family-murders-everything-to-know/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11426085/amp/Alex-Murdaughs-surviving-child-Buster-moved-quiet-resort-town-South-Carolina.htmlSupport the showhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/1336304093519465https://twitter.com/Murder_Mimosashttps://www.instagram.com/murder.mimosas/murder.mimosas@gmail.com

We open the book of Acts once again on today's broadcast, and we've been observing the early Christians and the establishment of the Church. Among the many people we encounter in Acts, is the Apostle Paul. As we give attention to chapter seventeen today, we'll take a look at Paul's time in the city of Athens and, as we do, we'll t take notice of how similar that ancient city was to modern day America. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1425/29

Welcome to our weekend jaunt into the news, headlines and talking points that have caught our eye over the past seven days, and we are delighted to welcome a previous guest and a good friend of Hearts of Oak, Karen Siegemund. As the president of 'American Freedom Alliance' Karen has her finger on the pulse of what's really going on, so we look forward to hearing her thoughts and opinions on the topics up for discussion this episode.... - Let us pray. Quadruple jabbed Bill Clinton has Covid. - Ukraine to prepare law banning churches that are 'affiliated' with Russia. - Unsolved murder rate in the US is the highest in decades amid police staffing shortfalls. - The EU raises the prospect of a big fine or a ban if Twitter fails to follow new legislation. - Former Trump advisor goes public with story of Kanye West/Trump dinner at Mar-a-Lago. - California panel estimates $569 billion in reparations is owed to black residents. - New data shows nearly half of all transgender criminals in prison are guilty of sex crimes. - Chris Whitty warns UK faces 'prolonged period' of excess deaths due to lockdown effects. - Nurse who injected up to 8,600 patients with saline solution instead of the Covid clot shot walks free from court. As the daughter of a man who grew up in Hitler's Berlin, Dr Karen Siegemund has always been keenly aware of how precarious freedom is, and how tyranny typically begins not with a revolution, but with a slow erosion of rights and freedoms. For this reason, Karen has dedicated her life to fighting against this erosion on every level. During the Cold War, Dr. Siegemund worked in the field of underwater acoustics, developing new sonar systems and testing them during sea trials around the world. After the defeat of the Soviet Union she turned her sights first to earning a Master's Degree in International Relations, then a doctorate degree in “Education and American Culture.” Recognizing that only with an educated citizenry could we hope to maintain our freedoms, she became an educator; for over ten years she has taught in a number of areas, from Latin and French to Science and Mathematics, at the middle school, high school and University levels. Along with these specific academic disciplines, of course, she strives to educate her students about the values that make Western Civilization generally, and America specifically, as exceptional as we are. As another result of the recognition that totalitarianism creeps in with baby steps, and that our media has been complicit in its advance rather than the bulwark against it that it us supposed to be, Karen had founded and was president of “Rage Against the Media,” an activist group in Los Angeles which fought against the propagandistic nature of our news media. Since becoming the President of the American Freedom Alliance, she's been part of the fight against a longer list of encroachments on our freedom, and has been hosting exceptional events ranging from World-Class Conferences to Literary Cafes, Lectures to Movie Premieres, all on topics relating to Freedom, how it's being attacked and how we can preserve it. She has also paid a price for the position she takes in defense of Western Civilization and for her political activity outside the classroom. Karen became a victim of the very “cancel culture” she warned about when her teaching position at a local private school was not renewed. Among countless articles, the Epoch Times ran a feature article about her, and she was a guest on The Huckabee Show, a frequent speaker at clubs, organizations and events, and is published in a wide range of publications. The American Freedom Alliance is a non-partisan, non-profit organization which promotes, defends and upholds Western values and ideals. AFA sponsors conferences, publishes opinions, distributes information and creates networking groups to identify threats to Western civilization and to motivate, educate and unite citizens in support of that cause. American Freedom Alliance links Website https://americanfreedomalliance.org/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_mKQpt648ouOD7SuotFhSA GETTR https://gettr.com/user/americanfreedomalliance Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AmericanFreedomAlliance/ Twitter https://twitter.com/AFAlliance Vimeo https://vimeo.com/afa Originally broadcast as a live video news review 3.12.22 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more go to https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Links to stories..... Bill Clinton Covid https://twitter.com/BillClinton/status/1598031920642011136?s=20&t=YgZ5NrTB_ogTMouug6Jg_Q Ukraine churches https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-orders-probe-into-russian-linked-church-says-zelenskiy-2022-12-01/ Murder rate in US https://thepostmillennial.com/unsolved-murder-rate-in-us-highest-in-decades-amid-police-staffing-shortfalls?utm_campaign=64483 EU Twitter https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/30/eu-raises-prospect-of-big-fine-or-ban-if-twitter-fails-to-follow-new-legislation Ye-Trump dinner https://thepostmillennial.com/former-trump-advisor-goes-public-with-story-of-ye-trump-dinner-at-mar-a-lago?utm_campaign=64483 California reparations https://nypost.com/2022/12/02/california-panel-estimates-569-billion-in-reparations-is-owed-to-black-residents Transgender criminals https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11492797/Four-10-transgender-criminals-prison-guilty-sex-crimes-new-data-shows.html?ito=native_share_channel-home-preview Chris Whitty https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/chris-whitty-warns-uk-faces-28636391 Nurse walks free https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/anti-vaxxer-nurse-who-injected-up-to-8600-patients-with-saline-instead-of-covid-vaccine-walks-free/ar-AA14MOrA?ocid=mailsignout&li=AAnZ9Ug