Despite having agreed to vacate the White House on 20 January, Trump continues his claims that widespread voter fraud allegedly took place in 2020. However, all of the former Republican president’s claims have been rejected in several courts.
Former US President, Donald Trump, has announced via his personal messaging platform that a “bombshell pleading” was filed as part of his efforts to prove “election fraud” took place in Michigan in 2020. The ex-POTUS did not delve into the details of the “pleading”, but said that according to it “votes were intentionally switched from President Trump to Joe Biden”.
Trump said that the number of these “switched” votes is “massive” and alleged that similar frauds will be found in other states too.
“If a thief robs a jewellery store of all of its diamonds (the 2020 Presidential Election), the diamonds must be returned,” Trump wrote.
The former president also used the opportunity to scold the media for purportedly failing to cover the “voter fraud”, the existence of which Trump’s lawyers have so far failed to prove in courts. Trump went on to claim that eventually, the media will “have no choice” but to cover it.
We got gaslit by Darwin, then hypnotized by Caesar.
(The Stream) The collapse of our churches from apostolic zeal into weak-tea social activism started long ago. In the mid-19th century, in fact. First came geological discoveries revealing how old the earth really is. Then Darwin launched his speculative attempt to explain away the apparent “design” in animals and man. Each seemed to raise doubts about the reliability of the Bible on historical and doctrinal questions. After brief attempts to contest the implications of such theories, most “Mainline Protestant” churches surrendered on that front. They began to shift their emphasis away from personal holiness and evangelism, toward social reform and politics.
Christianity could no longer be trusted, these clergymen admitted, to tell us how things are. That is the domain of Science. But a role still existed for men like themselves, and theology faculties, and churches, they hastened to add! Christianity was the source for how thingsought to be. It told us how we should treat the poor, how we should organize politics and reform both the economy and the law.
Just an Elevated Philosophy of Man
Christianity began to appear as just an elevated philosophy of man, intended to preserve his traditional dignity from the tar pits into which Darwinism threatened to ditch it. Jesus became an exemplar, an inspiration, a “great moral teacher.” Disconcertingly, He was one who tended to insist on His own divinity. And to perform public miracles, culminating at last in His resurrection from the dead and ascension into heaven.Please Support The Stream: Equipping Christians to Think Clearly About the Political, Economic and Moral Issues of Our Day.
That is, if we trust the text of the New Testament. But modern biblical critics were ready to help with that. For centuries, political intellectuals from Machiavelli to Hobbes had aided monarchs eager to aggrandize the State at the Church’s expense by finding “creative” new ways to explain away the plain sense of the Bible.
In the Enlightenment, thinkers eager to secularize the culture as a whole turned these skills on the Bible itself. These critics attacked not just the traditional Christian doctrines derived from the Bible, but the authenticity and reliability of its very texts. Especially in 19th century Germany, in the legally established churches of the Second Reich, state-funded scholars produced an entire methodology they called the “Higher Criticism.”
While it entailed a wide array of apparently “scientific” techniques, at its core this mode of Bible-reading was dedicated to eliminating as “inauthentic” any trace of the supernatural. Hence every miracle attributed to Jesus must be seen as a later “interpolation,” added on by a “church community” instead of attested by eyewitnesses. Scholars strained every nerve to date the texts of the four Gospels themselves as late as possible, sometimes well into the second century. All the better to render them essentially legends, with a mysterious man at their center, whose ethics we find appealing.
Gas stations in multiple U.S. states ran out of gas on Monday after hackers attacked a pipeline that runs from Texas to New Jersey.
Stations in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia were out of fuel after customers rushed to fill vehicles following the hack of Colonial Pipeline.
Approximately seven percent of stations in Virginia had run out of gas as of 11 p.m. Central Time on Monday, Patrick De Haan, an analyst with GasBuddy, which lists prices and availability at U.S., Canadian, and Australian stations, said on Twitter.
At the same time, over two percent of stations in North Carolina, about 1.5 percent of stations in Georgia and Florida, and about 0.5 percent of stations in South Carolina had no gas, he added. A small portion of stations in Alabama also ran out of fuel.
Bags covered pumps at stations across Pensacola in northwest Florida on Monday, while stations that still had gas saw long lines of drivers waiting to fill their gas tanks.
“It’s kind of scary when it’s raining because I don’t want to be stuck on the side of the road with my daughter with no gas,” Pensacola resident Tieisha Brown told WEAR-TV. “So this is my second attempt and I’m slowly but surely running low on gas trying to find a gas station.”
Nikki Fried, Florida’s agriculture and consumer services commissioner, urged people in a video statement not to panic buy or hoard gas.
Along with the cyberattack on Colonial, a shortage of truck drivers for fuel trucks has contributed to shortages, she said.
Vehicles are seen near Colonial Pipeline in Helena, Ala., on Sept. 20, 2016. (Brynn Anderson/AP Photo)
In North Carolina, people reported struggling to find gas in the Asheville area, as some stations ran out of fuel. A clerk at a Shell station in Robbinsville told a local reporter her manager told her it could be five days until a fresh supply comes in. Ingles CFO Ron Freeman told the Citizen Times that some of the company’s stations were seeing occasional outages.
Citizens Launch Petition To Audit The Vote In Pennsylvania, Citing ‘Alleged Fraud’
Patriotic American citizens have launched a petition to urge the Pennsylvania legislature to audit the results of the 2020 election, citing “alleged fraud” and numerous statistical abnormalities. The citizens demand a recount of certain votes and signature verification on mail ballots. A Trump stronghold in 2016, Pennsylvania certified its Electoral College votes for Democrat Joe Biden after a disputed paper ballot-counting effort in Philadelphia that alarmed civilians nationwide.
The petition at Auditthevotepa.com, drafted by freedom activist Toni L. Shuppe of Citizens For Free Speech, lays out a number of concerning anomalies and calls for an audit similar to the kind currently underway in Maricopa County, Arizona, where Republicans in the Arizona Senate tagged in the Cyber Ninjas group to search for evidence of fraud.
A new report, described as “the most rigorous assessment of the behavioral effects of food dyes ever conducted,” is based on a review of the results of 27 clinical trials in children performed on four continents over the last 45 years.
Synthetic dyes used as colorants in many common foods and drinks can negatively affect attention and activity in children, according to a comprehensive review of existing evidence published this month by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA).
Funded by the California legislature in 2018, the new report involved a literature review, scientific symposium for experts, peer review process and public comment period. Its conclusions about the behavioral effects of food dyes are grounded in the results of 27 clinical trials in children performed on four continents over the last 45 years, as well as animal studies and research into the mechanisms through which dyes exert their behavioral effects.
Food dyes in products such as breakfast cereals, juice and soft drinks, frozen dairy desserts, candies and icings were linked to adverse neurobehavioral outcomes in children including inattentiveness, hyperactivity and restlessness. Animal studies also revealed effects on activity, memory and learning.
The report is the most rigorous assessment of the behavioral effects of food dyes ever conducted, said Lisa Lefferts, a senior scientist with the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest. (Editor’s note: Lefferts previously worked as an editor at Environmental Health News (EHN).
Lefferts has been tracking the issue for years and through the Center published her own report on the link between synthetic food dyes and behavioral problems in children in 2016. In it she called for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to either revoke approvals for all food dyes or institute a federal labeling rule.
The EU enacted such a law in 2010 that requires most dyed foods to bear a label warning consumers that food colorings “may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children.” In response, many food manufacturers reformulated their products for the European market to avoid the dyes, and thus the label.
A notable Christian professional counselor has advised men to reclaim their “biblical masculinity” amid mounting attacks on manhood by the mainstream culture.
Tim Clinton, president of the American Association of Christian Counselors, co-authored the book, TakeIt Back, with prolific writer Max Davis. In it, they counter critiques and corruptions of masculinity by various entities within modern American culture and champion biblical ideals of manhood.
One example cited in the book was the release of guidelines by the American Psychological Association in 2018 that described “traditional masculinity” as being a “particular constellation of standards” that include “anti-femininity, achievement, eschewal of the appearance of weakness, and adventure, risk, and violence.”
Many conservative social commentators interpreted the guidelines as expressing hostility toward masculinity and the healthy attributes it brings to culture and civilization.
“It’s no secret that there’s been a real beat-down on men in the media and our culture,” Clinton told The Christian Post. “In response, there has been an aggressive and radical push to feminize men.”
“Many men feel marginalized — like they have to almost apologize for being a male. We want to say to men all over America, ‘it’s OK to be a man, to be masculine!’ Honestly, it’s crazy we have to say this.”
Clinton told CP that he and Davis “are not justifying any sinful or unhealthy behaviors, but we are making a distinction that while behavior can be toxic, it does not mean that masculinity is toxic.”
