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RandomNumber 5 points ago +5 / -0

That exorcist, Fr. Ripperger, gives a lot of talks. Search "Ripperger" on YouTube and you will find many. All good stuff!

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RandomNumber 1 point ago +1 / -0

Like not negotiating with kidnappers, not rewarding terrorists their own country is a good idea.

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RandomNumber 2 points ago +6 / -4

Genocide is wanting to exterminate (kill off) an entire ethnic people. Given that there are Arabs living in Israel (with their own political parties and representatives in the Knesset), and given that Israel is not attacking the Palestinians in the West Bank, it does not appear to be genocide. So, ya, correct.

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RandomNumber 2 points ago +2 / -0

Estes Carter Thompson is accused of recording multiple girls by taping his phone to plane toilet seats.

In a new court filing, American Airlines says the young girl should have known that there was a recording device on the toilet.

Riiiiight.

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RandomNumber 2 points ago +2 / -0

The report was condemned in the Quebec National Assembly and in the House of Commons.

Well there is something: Quebec is the least religious part of the country, and even THEY thought "Christmas-is-racist" is a bit over the top.

When you are too woke for Quebec, you have really hit rock bottom.

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RandomNumber 2 points ago +2 / -0

Retirement funds, even personal retirement savings, have to be invested to at least keep up with inflation. And you have to put that money into the market somewhere. Which is where are those ETFs and Mutual Funds and Hedge Funds and stuff come into play.

They key driver is inflation.

Government "targets" 2% inflation (here in Canada at any rate) on purpose.

But needing to keep ahead of inflation is what drives everyone's savings into the hands of the banksters.

Hard to break that system, though....

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RandomNumber 3 points ago +3 / -0

People prefer to eat crap. Oh sure they say they want healthy home cooking, but when push comes to shove, they really want restaurant food with all the sugar and seeds oils that entails.

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RandomNumber 3 points ago +3 / -0

Typical lazy reporters, actually. To be fair, their editors give them tight deadlines so it is difficult for them to research. But also, they are lazy: make up some shit and say "some are saying blablabla" is easier than doing any work, even as minimal as an internet search.

Hell, all of what we call news reports is just filler to go around the ads anyway. The business of a media is not to sell accurate news to the readership, it's to sell the readership to the advertisers.

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RandomNumber 7 points ago +7 / -0

what happened was a hedge fund bought Red Lobster and as a condition of the sale, they made therm split up their land and their restaurants.

Because up until that point, Red Lobster actually owned all of the land that their restaurants were located on.

And then once they made them split that up, the hedge funds made the leases on that land so expensive that the Red Lobsters couldn't possibly continue to operate.

Wickedpedia says:

"Golden Gate Capital was Red Lobster's parent company after it was acquired from Darden Restaurants on July 28, 2014."

It also says:

"Golden Gate Capital is an American private equity firm based in San Francisco. The firm makes investments in a number of select industries, including technology, financial services, retail and industrial, through leveraged buyout transactions, as well as significant minority purchases and growth capital investments. As of April 2018, it had over $15 billion in assets under management. ... On July 28, 2014, Golden Gate completed the purchase of Red Lobster from Darden Restaurants, for $2.1 billion."

I can't independently verify if what he says is true about the restaurant-vs-land thing is true, but it would not surprise me.

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RandomNumber 5 points ago +5 / -0

I was afraid of Linux, not being tecchie. But I now use Linux Mint Cinnamon and will never go back to Windoze. Good amount of application software (all free!) and a really good user community to help out if you need it (installation can be tricky, but using it is a breeze).

Take the plunge!

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RandomNumber 2 points ago +2 / -0

Big Pharma has been test driving their shit in Africa since the 1980s, and Africans have been complaining about it since then. Only now are we paying attention.

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RandomNumber 3 points ago +3 / -0

This is merely the private opinion of one elderly Argentinian.

Given that this topic does not concern the faith or morals of the Catholic Church, it does not matter that this elderly Argentinian holds the day job of "Pope".

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RandomNumber 25 points ago +25 / -0

This is merely the private opinion of one elderly Argentinian.

Given that this topic does not concern the faith or morals of the Catholic Church, it is not relevant that this elderly Argentinian holds the day job of "Pope".

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RandomNumber 5 points ago +5 / -0

Here is a survey currently being done by a student in Computer Science at Aston University in Birmingham, England.

Digital Identity - Evaluating public trust and security challenges in the transition

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScCWH7VFtwOpRMCnqFQaI4I3g_6xFLYSF9yMUfcrdfkv4iueg/viewform

A lot of these stupid ideas are supported by such "studies". It behooves us to participate therein, so we can indicate our dislike of these things.

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RandomNumber 1 point ago +1 / -0

They say that generous parents make for selfish children. So yes, one does have to train children in how to be thankful. But that's not the main point.

Back to the opening meme: "Feminism: the belief that serving one's family is slavery but serving one's employer is freedom".

What is slavery? Work without compensation.

If a stay-at-home mother gets no recognition or appreciation for what she does from her husband, she is getting no compensation for the work she does. So ya, technically, it is "slavery".

Or at least it makes it understandable why she would want to get a job.

No one wants to be taken advantage of.

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RandomNumber 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yes, there used to be real skills involved in home-making: as you say clothes, appliances like washing machines and electric stoves (rather than wood stoves). Cooking from scratch is a rarity, as is freezing or canning.

De-skilling the work of home-making is also a part of this phenomenon; again, this leads to women wanting to make a contribution in the work-world rather than at home.

Martha Stewart, for one, with her "Martha Stewart Living" TV show and magazine, did a good service by highlighting all the creative things you can do around the house to make it more of a home. More recognition for the skills involved would really help encourage them.

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RandomNumber 2 points ago +2 / -0

The "traditional" costumes did not seem outrageously revealing, actually. Wearing those 'round here would be considered quite modest.

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RandomNumber 4 points ago +4 / -0

Interesting look at all the "infrastructure" needed to maintain spies in their covert lifestyle.

To keep someone covert for real, and to do so for any period of time, requires a time consuming dance that not only has to tend to someone's operational identity but also maintain their real life back home. As Darby explains it, this includes clandestine bill paying but also working with banks and credit card security departments to look the other way as they search for identity fraud or money laundering. And then, signature reduction technicians need to ensure that real credit scores are maintained—and even real taxes and Social Security payments are kept up to date—so that people can go back to their dormant lives when their signature reduction assignments cease.

Befitting how secret this world is, there is no unclassified definition of signature reduction.

And they can change fingerprints using a silicon sleeve that so snugly fits over a real hand it can't be detected, embedding altered fingerprints and even impregnated with the oils found in real skin. Asked whether the appliance is effective, one source, who has gone through the training, laughs. "If I tell you, I'll have to kill you."

Somehow, I don't think he was kidding!

Also discusses really, really, good silicon face masks for altering appearances.

Then came the DNA scare, when Adm. John Richardson, then chief of naval operations, warned military personnel and their families to stop using at-home ancestry DNA test kits. "Be careful who you send your DNA to," Richardson said, warning that scientific advancements would be able to exploit the information, creating more and more targeted biological weapons in the future.

Interesting!

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