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4 Takeaways From Bill And Melinda Gates’s Divorce

That ‘new’ feeling gray divorcées are chasing is fleeting. At some point, they will wind up in the same spot they were in with their exes.

First, Jeff and Mackenzie Bezos. Now, Bill and Melinda Gates. Divorce among middle-aged adults is so popular these days there’s a term for it: gray divorce, or married couples who break up in the second half of life. Gray divorce doubled between 1990 and 2012 and is largely a Baby Boomer phenomenon.

It’s not one their children would like to repeat. Indeed, researcher Susan L. Brown found that younger Americans are far less accepting of divorce than the previous generation. “Nearly two-thirds [of adults over age 50] agree that divorce is the best solution when couples can’t work out their marriage problems versus fewer than half among younger adults.”

That’s a critical finding. Young people view marriage differently than the way their parents do. Clearly, millennials and Gen Zers want to get married and stay married despite many of their parents’ inability to do so. So with that mind, here are four key takeaways for the younger set from the news of the gates’ split.

1. Having a Lot of Money Isn’t the Road to Marital Bliss

I know your parents told you to get your careers in order and your bank accounts full before getting married. This was supposed to give you options in the event of a divorce, but you can see now that it doesn’t work that way.

For one thing, the overemphasis on education and career at the expense of marriage caused many young people, ironically, to rack up so much debt that marriage has become all the more elusive. For another, even if young people’s finances were strong and steady heading into marriage, this has little to do with marital success.

As America’s billionaire divorces prove, the opposite is often true: having a lot of money in the bank can work against the success of a marriage due to the vast complexities and conflicts that occur as a result. Lesson learned: having a lot of money has nothing to do with having a happy or a stable marriage.

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Connecticut form requires health care professionals to sign away their lives saying “I voluntarily assume full responsibility for any reactions” caused by covid vaccines

Medical workers in the state of Connecticut are having to sign a special liability form upon getting injected with the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) that makes them solely responsible for their own negative health outcomes, whether that be injury or death.

The form contains a questionnaire asking “vaccine” recipients to indicate if they feel sick, have received a previous injection for the Chinese Virus, are allergic to polyethylene glycol (PEG), and if they have ever tested positive for the Wuhan Flu.

“Do you have a weakened immune system caused by something such as HIV infection or cancer or do you take immunosuppressive drugs or therapies?” another of the questions asks.

The list reads like something one might fill out at a doctor’s office before going in for an appointment. However, upon closer examination, its purpose is to basically have the signer sign away his or her life in the event that the jab causes life-threatening illness or death.

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Chemical Giants Misled FDA, Consumers on Health Impact of ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Food Packaging

A new report reveals chemical giants DuPont and Daikin withheld studies from the public and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about the health effects of a “short-chain” PFAS chemical widely used in food packaging.

A new report by The Guardian reveals chemical giants DuPont and Daikin lied to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) when they told agency officials certain types of “forever chemicals” used in food packaging were safer and less likely to accumulate in humans than older versions of the chemicals.

According to The Guardian, the companies deliberately concealed the negative health effects of fluorotelomer alcohol, or 6:2 FTOH, a type of “short-chain” per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) chemicals used in pizza boxes, to-go containers and fast-food wrappers.

The chemicals have been linked to numerous health issues including kidney disease, liver damage, cancer, neurological damage, developmental problems and autoimmune disorders.

According to The Guardian:

“The companies initially told the FDA that the compounds were safer and less likely to accumulate in humans than older types of PFAS, also known as ‘forever chemicals’ and submitted internal studies to support that claim.”

What Daikin didn’t tell the FDA — or the public — is that a 2009 internal company study showed low-level exposure to the chemicals damaged the livers and kidneys of lab rats.

In 2012, DuPont learned the chemicals stayed in the bodies of animals for longer than previously believed. Yet, DuPont took no action to alert the FDA or to make the information available to the public —  until three years later when the company summarized its findings in a study that independent researcher Maricel Maffini, who studies PFAS in food packaging, said used “cherry-picked” data to support its claim that the 6:2 FTOH chemicals were safe.

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Mike Billand, Running Against Dan Crenshaw, Calls Him A Turncoat For Refusing To Contest 2020 Election

Crenshaw’s “treachery cannot be forgiven,” Billand told National File.

Republican Mike Billand hopes to primary Rep. Dan Crenshaw in Texas’s Second Congressional District, and is honing in on what some people view as disappointing developments from Crenshaw, notably his support for anti-Second Amendment Red Flag Laws, and his inaction on the subject of Election Integrity in the days leading up to January 6.

“I’m just a local man from East Texas who actually cares about these issues. I’m sick of this political oligarchy which has grown in the DC swamp, and that’s what I decided to run,” Mike Billand told National File. Especially since Crenshaw got elected, Billand told National File he feels that his district has not been truly represented. “Crenshaw sees himself as living in DC. I’m a man of the people of East Texas.”

In particular, Billand cited Crenshaw’s claims to support election integrity, despite certifying what many believe to be fraudulent election results earlier this year. “What I ultimately hope with these audits is that turncoats like Crenshaw don’t successfully posture as the true defenders here. Their treachery cannot be forgiven.” By contrast, Billand says he “absolutely would have objected to the electoral certification” on January 6.

He also attacked Crenshaw for his advocacy of Red Flag Laws. “Especially since Crenshaw is a veteran, the group who is most impacted by red-flag laws, this is just disgusting to see,” said Billand. Crenshaw previously described opponents of Red Flag Laws as emotional and uninformed in a video he recorded in 2019.

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Fauci Admits He Wore a Mask for ‘Theater’, Not ‘Science’: Sen. Rand Paul

Sen. Paul calls out Dr. Fauci for not accepting “basic vaccine science.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci stated on ABC News that he only wore a mask before the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) changed their official mask-wearing guidelines not because of the science but because he didn’t want it to “look like” he was “giving mixed signals.”

Watch Fauci’s response to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos:

However, this admission contradicts Fauci’s Senate testimony on Thursday during which he sparred with Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who pressed the fact that Fauci—a fully vaccinated man—was still wearing not just one mask but two in public.

Watch the heated exchange:

The vindicated Senator Paul appeared on Newsmax’s Spicer & Co. to call out Fauci’s doublespeak, retorting he was happy the NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Director now “accept[s] vaccine science.”

“Well, I’m just glad that Dr. Fauci has now chosen to accept vaccine science. Basic vaccine science says you can’t get it after you’ve been vaccinated. That’s why we get vaccinated,” said Paul.

“And yet he was unwilling to accept it. And he was performing theater wearing masks because he didn’t want people to see him without a mask. It wasn’t that the masks worked or that he needed it. You heard the way he phrased it. He didn’t want someone to see him without the mask. So, really, it was theater,” Paul added.

Watch the Senator’s statement on Newsmax:

Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor for American Faith.

Also read: “‘Dr. Fauci Could be Culpable for the Entire Pandemic’: Sen. Rand Paul”

60,000-Strong: America’s Sprawling, Corporate Backed, Spy Army

Some 60,000 individuals belong to a comparatively huge undercover US army, “working under masked identities and in low profile,” according to an exclusive Newsweek report.

“The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagon over the past decade,” says the Newsweek report.

This “broad program” is a “significant reduction” effort, which is an attempt by so-called security agencies to minimize their footprint in the realm of surveillance.

Newsweek says it engaged in a two-year investigation of “over 600 resumes and 1,000 job postings, dozens of Freedom of Information Act requests, and scores of interviews with participants and defense decision-makers,” in order to put together a more comprehensive picture of this secret army.

“The force, more than ten times the size of the clandestine elements of the CIA, carries out domestic and foreign assignments, both in military uniforms and under civilian cover, in real life and online, sometimes hiding in private businesses and consultancies, some of them household name companies.

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43% of millennials ‘don’t know, don’t care, don’t believe’ God exists: study

Just 26% of Gen X and 16% of millennials believe that when they die, they will go to Heaven only because they confessed their sins and accepted Jesus as their savior, compared to nearly half of the generation before them, a new study has found.

The American Worldview Inventory 2021, a survey of the philosophy of life on American adults from Arizona Christian University, assessed the worldviews of four generations: millennials (born 1984-2002), Gen X (1965-1983), baby boomers (1946-1964) and builders (1927-1945).

Researchers found that among other recent generations, millennials have gone farther in cutting ties with traditional Christian views and normative biblical teaching.

For example, nearly half of all boomers believe that when they die, they will go to Heaven only because they confessed their sins and accepted Jesus as their Savior, compared to only 26% of Gen X and 16% of millennials.

A staggering 90% of builders believe you treat others as you want them to treat you, while less than half of millennials agree.

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Bill Gates transferred $850M in Deere shares to Melinda Gates: WSJ

The total value of all shares publicly disclosed to have been transferred to Melinda Gates now exceeds $3 billion, a report said.

Bill Gates transferred more than $850 million in shares of Deere & Co. to his estranged wife Melinda French Gates, according to a report.

That brings the total value of shares transferred to Melinda Gates to more than $3 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, referring to shares that the couple has publicly acknowledged transferring since May 3, when they announced plans to divorce after 27 years together.

The Deer transfer represents 2.25 million shares in the Illinois maker of farm equipment and other devices, representing about 7% of the Microsoft co-founder’s total investment in the company, the Journal report said.

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Roe v. Wade is on trial. Don’t let the Left threaten the Supreme Court over it

Roe v. Wade is on the docket again, and everybody knows exactly what will happen. 

No, we cannot predict the ruling on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban. Republican-appointed judges are inevitably mercurial on this issue in hearings. We would not be surprised to see Justices John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, or even Neil Gorsuch uphold part or even all of the current deformed jurisprudence on abortion. 

But we do know with certainty that the Left will use media pressure, corporate pressure, and even violent threats against the republic in a tireless lobby effort to preserve Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. 

The abortion lobby has long been the beating heart of the Democratic Party. Defense of abortion and subsidies for Planned Parenthood are the central items of Democratic dogma. On war, taxes, spending, labor, and even guns and climate change, Democrats allow some dissent. But not on abortion. The party’s fundraising apparatus is inextricably tied with the abortion industry.

Roe and Casey are pillars of the abortion cause. These rulings are grounded not at all in the Constitution nor in science but instead clumsily crafted by dishonest activist judges to invent a right to kill unborn children. They took abortion out of the realm of representative democracy. Legal scholars across the political spectrum know the rulings are indefensible. They know that any honest judge would throw them over the side hastily like a leaky, toxic nuclear reactor from a Soviet submarine. 

That’s why the Democrats need to resort to threats. With six conservative judges on the court for the first time in nearly a century, Democrats are afraid that their holy grail is in danger. They will stop at nothing to protect it. 

Specifically, Democrats aided by media allies will declare that the Supreme Court becomes illegitimate if it strikes down Roe. This is absurd because again, pro-choice legal scholars admit the ruling “is not constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be.” But Democrats and liberal journalists will threaten to delegitimize the court because that’s what they’ve done in the past any time they didn’t like its ruling.

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Biden Canceled Keystone Pipeline but Will Waive Sanctions on Company in Charge of Russian Pipeline

President Joe Biden notoriously stopped the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline back in January, but his administration is making it easier for one of the United States’ most prominent adversaries to finish one in Europe.

An Axios report discovered that the State Department plans to waive sanctions for Nord Stream 2 and its CEO Matthias Warnig, who is a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Nord Stream 2 pipeline is already 95 percent complete, and is intended to be an easy way for Russian gasoline to be transported to Germany.

While sanctions are being lifted on the company, the ships used to help finish the project will be sanctioned.

Originally, there was serious concern about the pipeline, as it would give Russia significant control over Europe’s energy supply.

“I am determined to do whatever we can to prevent that completion, the last hundred yards, I very much agree,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during his confirmation hearing in January.

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