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USA's Six Outrageous South Africa Demands: Lying, Threats, Hypocrisy // The Corder Report YouTube video by Three Beanies Network w/ Dan Corder

USA's Six Outrageous South Africa Demands: Lying, Threats, Hypocrisy // ...
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#USA #RSA

The "Cultural Protestant" Origin of Multiculturalism A conservative blog for peace had an article on “Unitarianism, Modernism and multiculturalism are all Protestantism gone bad” with a link to 西儒 ─ The Western Confucian: The “Cultu…

The "Cultural Protestant" Origin of Multiculturalism
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#multiculturalism #monoculturalism #apartheid

US ambassador apologises for 'undiplomatic' remarks about SA | The Citizen Bozell apologised after making undiplomatic remarks on hate speech and the judiciary, as Dirco emphasised protocol and bilateral cooperation.

US ambassador apologises for ‘undiplomatic’ remarks about SA
www.citizen.co.za/news/south-a...

Why "Russian asset"?
Why not "Israeli asset"?

Why does this remind me of a song from "The Kinks" from about half a century ago, "Dedicated follower of fashion"?

Don't Forget Gaza and the Palestinians Israel is using the illegal war on Iran to continue to kill and starve Gaza, steal more Palestinian land, and restrict movement in the West Bank. Don't look away.

"Don't Forget Gaza and the Palestinians"

"Israel is using the illegal war on Iran to continue to kill and starve Gaza, steal more Palestinian land, and restrict movement in the West Bank, writes Diana Buttu for Zeteo. "Don't look away."

Cross Purposes: A New Novel I've written a new novel, Cross Purposes , was released as an ebook on 22 October 2022. It is available from Smashwords and other ebook reta...

Notes from underground: Cross Purposes: A children's adventure/fantasy/historical novel
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#childrensbooks #kidlit #mglit #booksky

Debate: Mike Huemer and Matt McManus YouTube video by José Maihub’s Path to Episteme

My debate with Professor Mike Humer on anarcho-libertarianism vs liberal socialism is up

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kp...

Major blaze at Glasgow Central Station

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service says 15 appliances including three high-reach vehicles are at the scene

The fire has taken hold of the Victorian buildings

The dome at one corner of the building has collapsed

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Hegseth: "The only ones who need to be worried right now are Iranians who think they're going to live"

Orthodox mission in the 21st century This post is from the concluding chapter of my thesis on “Orthodox mission methods”, submitted in 1998. I have posted it mainly as a follow-up to the previous post and comments, especia…

Something I wrote a while back. Now that the first quarter of the 21st century has passed, it might be time to look back and take stock: Orthodox mission in the 21st century
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#mission #missiology #Orthodox #Christianity

Morning Prayer of the Last Elders of Optina Many Orthodox Christians end their morning prayers with the following “Morning Prayer of the Last Elders of Optina”. O Lord, grant that I may meet all that this coming day brings to me with spiritu…

Morning Prayer of the Last Elders of Optina
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#Orthodox #prayer

Before you share that story about how troops were told the Iran War is for "Armageddon," read this The narrative is dramatic. The sourcing is thin. And skepticism matters, especially on something this serious.

Before you share that story about how troops were told the Iran War is for "Armageddon," read this
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#Armageddon

The Big Lie About Iran’s Support for Terrorism

The Big Lie About Iran’s Support for Terrorism
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#Iran #terrorism

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth”

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We texted 1,000 Americans about U.S. strikes in Iran. Here’s what they said. Fifty-two percent of Americans oppose the strikes, and two-thirds say the Trump administration hasn’t clearly explained the goals of the military action.

Poll suggests that most Americans oppose war on Iran.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
#IranWar

Tshwane Inklings Yesterday a group of us met for an informal discussion on Christianity and literature, in imitation, perhaps, of the Oxford Inklings. For a long time I’ve felt the need for such a group, and …

Ten years ago a group of us gathered at an Arcadia coffee shop to talk about #theology and #literature after the manner of the Oxford #Inklings. We met weekly thereafter, until Covid put an end to it.
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Israel launches 'preventive strike' on Iran; sounds 'extremely serious alert' The development comes at a time of heightened strain between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s nuclear programme. | World News

Israel just lost its "right to exist"

Israel launches preventive strike on Iran; sounds extremely serious alert
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#WW3

Splendour and catastrophe in the Mediterranean: book review Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is tale of three cities — Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut. But it is a great deal more …

Splendour and catastrophe in the Mediterranean: review of "Levant" by Philip Mansel, which gives the historical background to some current tensions
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#history #Levant #booksky #NearEast #MiddleEast

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The proliferation of unreadable e-mail I’m getting more and more unreadable e-mails. About a month ago I noted that WordPress’s response forms, which used to be a useful feature, are now unreadable and unusable. More and mor…

The proliferation of unreadable e-mail
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The Year of the Dragon My book The Year of the Dragon has now been published in ebook format, and may be ordered from major ebook retailers including Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Scribd and from Smashwords. IS…

The Year of the Dragon -- a novel set at the beginning of the end of the Cold War, and the beginning of the end of apartheid.

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#books #reading #booksky

This article gives an extremely distorted picture of the #Orthodox Church. If you want to know what *really* goes on, come to the English service, Sat 21 Feb at 9:00am, St Sergius Cathedral, cor Wattle & 8th Streets, Midrand, Gauteng, & see for yourself.

#media #journalism #Bloomberg

The Enchanted Grove My children's book, The Enchanted Grove , is available in paperback from Lulu Bookshop . It is suitable for kids aged 9-12 (and also for th...

"The Enchanted Grove" -- an adventure/fantasy/historical novel for kids aged 9-99. Set in the picturesque Southern Drakensberg during the apartheid era of South Africa, kids face bullies, hostile cops and witches.
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#kidlit #childrensbooks #mglit #booksky

Are #blogs only for bots now?

This map shows that most readers of my #blog are bots in Mountain View, California. Though it's in English, it has no readers in English-speaking countries like UK, Canada or New Zealand. but a lot in Vietnam & Latin America
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#blogging

Across Africa, Russia Seeks to Expand Influence Through Orthodox Church What may be the most significant expansion in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church is serving as a powerful new tool for the Kremlin.

This article is behind a paywall, but to judge from the heading, it's as nasty a bit of disinformation as I've seen anywhere, bordering on hate speech. That's our parish church in Midrand in the pictures; an asset for state influence it's not.
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#Orthodox #Africa

Hard Reading and Hip Hop After Humanity: A Review of Michael Ward’s Guide to C.S. Lewis’ Abolition of Man I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it here, but it took me a long time to “get” what C.S. Lewis was doing in The Abolition of Man. It’s the kind of book that gets name-dro…

Hard Reading and Hip Hop After Humanity: A Review of Michael Ward's Guide to C.S. Lewis' Abolition of Man
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#books #Reviews #theology #philosophy #Inklings

Ayn Rand Really, Really Hated C.S. Lewis
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#Inklings #CSLewis #objectivism

French foreign minister faces criminal complaint over misquoting Francesca Albanese.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/french-...
#fakenews #disinformation

It drives me insane that Elon Musk basically did a Holodomor on the third world and it's not treated like a bigger deal. This should be the number one thing that people know him for. This should be in the first paragraph of his Wikipedia entry. This is a history book scale atrocity.