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It’s true, love is patient. May the holy one watch over your family.
We all know not to blame our parents or even the well meaning doctors who did everything in their power to successfully bring us healthy into this world. We are dealing with evil and principalities in high places, this is a spiritual battle. Your family is fine and healthy and it’s very rare somebody is severely harmed by this beyond the obvious. You love your family and continue to do what is best for them, all we can do is place the seeds that will continue to crack the foundations of this empire of evil. Knowing you’ve even questioned it and talked about it is rain on a thirsty garden. Thank you so much for taking care of your family but also hearing our woes.
Your child already has special needs and our quarrel is with the routine of needlessly amputating parts of boys bodies. People may have pinhole phimosis or short frenulums or any kind of issue that may necessitate this procedure and it should be a decision they make with parents and a doctor. It’s absolutely not medically necessary for any man to have this done by default default otherwise God would not have made us like this. It was commanded of Abraham so he could mark his family and his slaves as part of a covenant with his offspring not because humanity grew faulty anatomy.
Thank you for the strength to look out for your son, and your whole family, and your community. Most everyone here understands the layers of social pressure and normalization this situation sits under. You’re quite brave for even speaking up about it to anyone and we thank you, because there are many out there who suffer in silence and get ridiculed for being upset .
You are right people are set in their ways. The part that upsets me most is that it happens to millions of men and nobody bats a lash. That patch of skin on an adult has about the surface area of an iPhone, it protects tissues that are the same kinds of tissue as inside your mouth or organs, keeps it from getting rough and callous. There is an infant mortality rate tied to it you will never see honest statistics of but it is an extremely invasive procedure that damages a lot of nerves. There are a host of issues tied to this ultimately cosmetic change. New studies come out debunking myths because Europe and Asia have men that live perfectly healthy lives without the need to cut highly sensitive parts of their body off. I just wanted to put my two bits out there, maybe your grandchildren or their children will make different choices to not have their children cut up as a welcome into this world.
I hope one day when people stop listening to the Faucis about triple masking and getting their fifteen boosters to slow the spread…
…that people also stop listening to the Faucis of the world about having healthy parts of their children’s body cut off.
Doctorsagainscircumcision.org
Babies can’t consent to having their reproductive organs surgically altered and parts of it amputated. Educate yourself on the hygiene aspect these are based on wives tales and poor studies. If it were not good God would have not made us this way and Paul condemns it as a ritual practice - and you probably shower with drinking water and can keep anatomy more complex than a little flap of skin clean. If you think a man is incapable of this then you have other problems I can’t help with. The amount of nerves in a prepuce rival the tip of your tongue, your finger tips, and even your clitoral hood. This is indeed a torturous thing doctors have done to your husband and children, learn about what is happening to men every day against their will.
Satanists? Yes. Consuming blood cuts one out from being a servant of anything else.
Now make a law against routine infant circumcision.
Like… imagine the optics if Trump were president when they announced this.
You can take the user out of Reddit but you can’t take the Reddit out of some users.
The same military that is "the only way"?
Sun is as quiet as ever
The bible repeatedly mentions that devouring the flesh of children is a sign of abject rebellion towards God so anything using aborted fetal tissue is off the table. Imbibing blood is forbidden. Taking a mark without which you cannot buy nor sell is forbidden. I should make a detailed post about this.
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This could just be Y!A humor I used to hang out there.
Something about the plane and the windows reminds me of the WTC
FDA approved Nickelodeon slime.
I gave you a resource to prove to slack-jaws when the media is lying about solar events and you threaten me like that.
Not very cash money of you.
https://www.solarham.net suns quiet dont believe stupid shit
I thought they fired a cannon 21 times as he pulled up to the cemetary?
This took a while to type up sorry for errors. [after intro]
It's great to have this opportunity, I've been following the work of Voice of America for decades and it's because Bob just mentioned I Started my career as an army officer patrolling the Iron Curtain freedoms Frontier and the 1980s I couldn't come into East Germany I was serving in a little town called Binlach(?) West Germans couldn't cross either but your broadcast, VOA broadcast put millions of men and women whose names we'll never know listen to you often at their own peril. Their governments dealt only in lies and propaganda but VOA's listeners wanted the truth and that's what you gave them. VOA's very first broadcast in 1942 that Bob referred to began with the Battle Hymn of the republic along with this pledge... quote:
"The news may be good, the news may be bad, but we'll tell you the truth."
I love that. I always told my son, I've told this story before when he was growing up, I said work hard, keep your faith, and tell the truth. He mostly followed my advice and it has served him and many of you I know well. Your mandate here at VOA is unambiguous to be accurate, objective, and comprehensive, and to represent America. The mission of USA GM is to inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy. That's because expanding freedom and democracy are what America has always been about. You're the voice of American exceptionalism, you should be proud of that. The world NEEDS VOA's clarion call for freedom now more than ever, I hear it everywhere I go. That's what I wanted to talk about today. I tell audiences about American exceptionalism wherever and whenever I can because it's true and it's important. America is good and great and everyone who truly grabs our founding understands this. Michael and Bob have made studying this history their life's work. Many of you have made it your life's mission too - that's why you work here at VOA. We were indeed the first nation founded on the central belief that all human beings are endowed with certain inalienable rights and the governments are instituted to secure those god-given rights. We have always striven for a more perfect union and goodness knows we don't always get it right. Therefore we need both pride and humility about our past and our present. We need the truth! But it's very clear when Americans have united around our founding values, be it in PA, Gettysburg, at Seneca Falls, or during Martin Luther King's march on Washington, we've made good on our founding promise time and time again. Now our adversaries try to claim otherwise, when the Chinese Communist Party tried to exploit the tragic death of George Floyd. To claim their authoritarian system was somehow superior to ours. I issued a statement which read in part, quote: "During the best of times the People's Republic of China ruthlessly opposes communism, but amid the most difficult challenge the United States secures freedom. There is no moral equivalence. This is a self-evident truth. It is not fake news for you to broadcast that this is the greatest nation in the history of the world and the greatest nation that civilization has ever known. Indeed I'm not saying this to ignore our faults, it's just the opposite, to acknowledge them. But this isn't the vice of America, focusing on everything that is wrong with our great nation - it's the voice of America! It certainly isn't the place to give authoritarian regimes in Beijing or Tehran a platform. Your mission is to promote democracy, freedom, and American values all across the world. The US taxpayer funded institution aimed squarely at that. Indeed this is what sets VOA apart from MSNBC and FOX News and the like. You can give voice to the voiceless in dark corners of the world. You're the voice of Americans striving. You're the voice of American exceptionalism. You're indeed the tip of freedom's spear.
Now look, like many government agencies after the Cold War ended, our international broadcasters... well they lost their way. Many of you know this. I'm sure there were many reasons: the Soviet Union had collapsed, the wall had come down, names like Bin Laden and Zarqawi and Baghdadi weren't widely known. In fact many wrote that history was over we allowed security protocols to lapse and VOA lost its commitment to its founding mission. Its broadcasts have become less about telling the truth about America and too often about demeaning.
In 2013 one of my predecessors described the broadcasting board of governors as "practically defunct" (end of quote).
Look that's in part why Congress created the role of CEO of the USA GM on a bipartisan basis and it is again why I'm here today. I read that some VOA (word?) didn't want me to speak here today. I'm sure it was only a handful. They didn't want the voice of American diplomacy to be broadcast on the VOA. Think about that for just a moment. Look, were all part of institutions with duties and responsibilities higher and bigger and more important than any one of us individually. But this kind of censorial instinct is dangerous. It's morally wrong. Indeed it's against your statutorial mandate here at VOA, censorship, wokeness, political correctness, it all points in one direction: authoritarianism cloaked as moral righteousness. Similar what we're seeing at Twitter and Facebook and Apple and on too many university campuses today. It's not who we are. It's not who we are as Americans and it's not what VOA should be. It's time that we simply put wokeism to sleep, and you can lead the way. You all know that's why you came here. There's a new dawn here at VOA the American public doesn't know this but when Michael took office some 1500 employees, almost 40% of the workforce, had been improperly vetted including with high level security clearances. VOA was rubber-stamping J-1 visas for foreign nationals including some from communist China. We shouldn't be doing that! We have many Mandarin language speakers here in America and we are building, growing, teaching, educating more! Committed patriots. Some of them are Chinese American descent who are amazing people.
The Trump Administration team is working to fix these national security threats. We want to vet employees properly. We want to re-orient VOA to its mission of truth and unbiased reporting. We want to de-politicize what takes place here. It's too important for the American people and for the world. Returning this organization to its charter and its charge to spread a message of freedom, democracy, and American exceptionalism. This isn't about politicizing these institutions, we're trying to take politics out, and pretty good feature story for whoever wants to write it up.
As Secretary of State I'm telling you all of this because I want the best for the people here and for this organization because you are vital to helping American shine light into the darkest places with a power that only America can muster. Governments like those in China, Iran, North Korea, they don't have the universal dignity of every human being in the way that America does, indeed, that is what America was founded upon. Those regimes are anathema to everything that our nation stands for. We.. we know the government exists to serve people. They... they believe the people exist to serve government and VOA's work is vital. As I've said before you're the tip of freedom's spear every week 278 million people listen to VOA in 47 languages, there are Iranians who are listening to you, wondering if they'll ever be able to shed their Islamic shackles. There are Moldovans and Ukranians who want truthful reporting, not Russian disinformation and propaganda. There are Chinese citizens who are tired of a regime who has done nothing but brutalize them since 1949. There are Venezuelans who want to know the truth of the Maduro regime's corruption. There are press people all over the globe who still turn to America for hope.
Now I know many of you, especially those overseas, continue and have done heroic work thank you. I want to commend VOA's Hong Kong reporting team which faced political intimidation harassment attacks but still go the job done. My highest praise. Well done. You were behind the barricades of the freedom fighters telling their stories. You're upholding VOA's finest traditions and continuing to be the voice of American exceptionalism.
I also want to pay tribute to members of the other radio services who are here and listening. The only Uyghur language news service in the world is run by RFA. you've told everyone who will listen, indeed some who didn't want to, the truth about the CCP's atrocities against its own people in Shinjiang, the stain of the century, and you've done so despite the fact that the CCP has jailed the relatives of at least six of RFA journalists in Shinjiang's internment camps and continues to threaten you and your families simply for doing your jobs. Your work takes courage. Please keep telling everyone who will listen what's happening in the toughest parts of the world. The world expects it and America will be better off for it.
I want to leave you with a quote that conveys why the VOA's mission is so critical before I take some questions from Bob. This quote's from a ways back, it's from George Washington. He said quote: "Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light" end of quote. When America brings truth to the world we bring light, don't forget that. It's what you do. May God bless you, may God bless the VOA, and God bless these United States.
Thank you all.
Except so many of them are catholic and folk catholic.