Friday, October 13th, 2017
Stephan: This is the Christofascist vision, and they have made themselves essential to the deranged man in the White House. This is his base the media go on and on about but never really grapple with directly.
Paula White, Trump’s Spiritual Advisor: Christians ‘Were Sent Here To Take Over’ Credit: a Screen Grab
Pastor Paula White, Trump’s spiritual advisor, claims Christians will take over the U.S., and that any opposition to Trump is opposition to God.
White, one of President Trump’s key spiritual advisors, recently appeared on pastor Jim Bakker’s television program, where she declared that Christians will take over the U.S., and that any opposition to Trump is opposition to God.
White said:
… whether people like him or not, he’s been raised up by God because God says that He raises up and places all people in places of authority. It is God that raises up a king, it is God that sets one down and so when you fight against the plan of God, you’re fighting against the hand of God.
White continued her pro-Trump diatribe, with much encouragement from the collection of evangelist surrounding her. At one point White declared that Christians “were sent here to take over.”
After White said Christians “were sent here to take over,” Baker […]
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Friday, October 13th, 2017
Kyle Mantyla, - Right Wing Watch
Stephan: Most SR readers have probably never heard of this Rick Wiles, but millions of Christofascists hang on his words; he articulates the Christofascist vision. Not everyone in this demographic believes this perhaps but enough do for this to be a motivating myth. It is essentially the Nazis vision of the battle between the forces of the light and the dark, and it has been growing in the U.S. ignored by most of mainstream America because we have a cultural taboo about criticizing someone's religion.
“Christian” broadcaster Rick Wiles
During his recent appearance on Greg Hunter’s program, End Times broadcaster Rick Wiles declared that the government, the media and the business world are all controlled by “avowed satanic Luciferian devil worshipers” and asserted that the recent mass shooting in Las Vegas was carried out by a group of demon-possessed killers.
“I know that sounds extreme and bizarre to people,” Wiles said, “but every day that goes by, the more I’m convinced that I’ve been right all these years that there is a deeply embedded satanic cult that has gained control of powerful institutions in this country and other nations. You can’t escape it.”
Wiles said that “there is no other explanation” for what happened in Las Vegas than to admit that “it’s raw evil.”
“It’s raw evil committed by a demon-possessed group of people,” he said. “It wasn’t just one man, there were several people but those people were possessed by demons. No normal person in his or her right mind would slaughter people like that. You have to be possessed […]
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Friday, October 13th, 2017
Elizabeth Preza, Staff Writer - Alternet
Stephan: You want to know how crazy we have become as a culture; consider this. At one level it is funny; but really I see it as a warning.
Credit: Shutterstock
Texas has more laws on the books regarding the possession of dildos than of firearms, the Houston Chronicle reports.
The Lone Star State has a law banning the possession of more than six dildos, and a total of zero laws regulating the number of guns you can own. As the Chronicle notes, the 1973 sex toy law makes it illegal for someone to possess “six or more obscene devices or identical or similar obscene articles,” or to possess them with intent to promote the same.”
The codified discrepancy isn’t limited to Texas proper. In August 2016, University of Texas at Austin student Jessica Jin organized the “Cocks not Glocks” protest after discovering that, according to the school penal code, guns are allowed on campus while sex toys are banned.
“You would receive a citation for taking a dildo to class before you would get in trouble for taking a gun to class,” Jin wrote on a Facebook event. “Heaven forbid the penis.”
Texas’ hard-line stance against vibrators and other sex toys is not entirely surprising considering the […]
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Thursday, October 12th, 2017
Stephan: Donald Trump and his band of zombies are setting the U.S. up for second class status in return for short term profits. China has committed to what it calls an "ecological civilization." That translates into millions of jobs and trillions of dollars of business, and a United States that is second tier. Here is a short outline of the dynamic.
Workers in China work on a new solar panel installation in Datong.
Credit: CBS NEWS
DATONG, CHINA — Scott Pruitt, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, declared Monday that “the war on coal is over.” He told an audience in Kentucky that he plans to repeal an Obama-era rule that limits carbon emissions from power plants that burn coal.
China, on the other hand, is doing the opposite. Coal is on the way out and solar power is coming in.
On a farm in northern China, they are planting a new crop: Nearly 200,000 solar panels in the heart of coal country.
In the south, China flipped the switch on the world’s largest floating solar installation — built on top of a lake created by an abandoned coal mine. Projects like these helped China double its solar capacity last year. It is now twice as big as the U.S. capacity.
Nearly half of all the solar installations in the world are now happening in China and they’re doing it quickly. Greenpeace says they […]
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Thursday, October 12th, 2017
SHREY DAS, - Modern Diplomacy
Stephan: Just exactly what does China mean by "ecological civilization." Here is a pretty good essay on the subject.
President of China, and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping
The 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was passed in Rio de Janeiro with a vision that the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions could be made possible by including a commitment from the developed nations to cut their emissions back to 1990 levels by 2000. At that time, China was a typical developing country as its economic capacity was insignificant in global terms.
Two decades later, by 2011, China had become one of six countries which were responsible for over 70% of the global CO2 emissions; it accounted for 29%, while the U.S. accounted for 16%, the EU for 11%, India for 6%, Russia for 5%, and Japan for 4%.
Climate change is not a ‘normal’ international environmental problem, but rather threatens to cause huge changes in living conditions and challenges existing patterns of energy use and security. Incidentally, a writer such as Kenneth Szabo has irresponsibly referred to China “as one […]
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