shoebat--2020-12-28--Oil And Gas Exploration Opens In Namibia

Right now there is a global war on for resources in oil , gas , and rare earth minerals , the first two that power the industrial machines of war , and the latter that powers the computers of war .
All of this is about orientation towards a third and major global conflict , and bears a strong semblance to the scrambles that happened before World War I .
Just as in the past , Africa has been central in all of this , as her vast resources are being exploited by all sides in the race for arms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Namibia , it is being reported that Reconnaissance Energy Africa , an Anglo-Canadian oil and gas corporation , has formally began to explore for oil and gas in Namibia .
On December 21 , Reconnaissance Energy Africa ( Recon Africa ) announced that it had begun exploratory drilling for oil and gas in the Namibian portion of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area ( KAZA ) .
The move has alarmed environmental campaigners and community groups who are concerned about the impact this could have on the region ’ s watercourses , people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ holder of a licence to explore a 2.5 million hectare area ( 6.3-million-acres ) of northeastern Namibia , granted to a predecessor company in January 2015 .
The majority of the area covered by Petroleum Exploration Licence ( PEL ) 73 sits in the KAZA , a conservation initiative covering 520,000 square kilometres ( 201,000 square miles ) of Angola , Botswana , Namibia , Zambia and Zimbabwe .
The company also has a licence to prospect for oil in another section of KAZA , 1 million hectare area ( 2.5 million acres @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hopes to begin drilling in 2021 .
( source ) Namibia has been in the geopolitical crosshairs of the recent past for oil , saying that it has massive , untapped resources waiting to be exploited .
Given her history with Germany , it will be interesting to see if German companies will become involved in this region alongside Reconnaissance Energy .
Likewise , it will be interesting to see how this may affect trends in German industry as well as the development of war preparations or munitions in that nation .
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Right now there is a global war on for resources in oil, gas, and rare earth minerals, the first two that power the industrial machines of war, and the latter that powers the computers of war. All of this is about orientation towards a third and major global conflict, and bears a strong semblance to the scrambles that happened before World War I. Just as in the past, Africa has been central in all of this, as her vast resources are being exploited by all sides in the race for arms.
Now according to Monga Bay News in Namibia, it is being reported that Reconnaissance Energy Africa, an Anglo-Canadian oil and gas corporation, has formally began to explore for oil and gas in Namibia.
On December 21, Reconnaissance Energy Africa (Recon Africa) announced that it had begun exploratory drilling for oil and gas in the Namibian portion of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA). The move has alarmed environmental campaigners and community groups who are concerned about the impact this could have on the region’s watercourses, people and wildlife. Recon Africa is the holder of a licence to explore a 2.5 million hectare area (6.3-million-acres) of northeastern Namibia, granted to a predecessor company in January 2015. The majority of the area covered by Petroleum Exploration Licence (PEL) 73 sits in the KAZA, a conservation initiative covering 520,000 square kilometres (201,000 square miles) of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The company also has a licence to prospect for oil in another section of KAZA, 1 million hectare area (2.5 million acres) of northwestern Botswana, where it hopes to begin drilling in 2021. (source)
Namibia has been in the geopolitical crosshairs of the recent past for oil, saying that it has massive, untapped resources waiting to be exploited.
Given her history with Germany, it will be interesting to see if German companies will become involved in this region alongside Reconnaissance Energy. Likewise, it will be interesting to see how this may affect trends in German industry as well as the development of war preparations or munitions in that nation.
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shoebat--2020-12-28--Boko Haram Murders Eleven Christians, Burns A Church  On Christmas Eve

While people around the world were celebrating Christmas , the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram killed at least eleven Christians @ @ @ @ @ in a terrorist attack at the BBC reports from Nigeria .
Several people are dead @ @ @ @ @ Haram militants raided a mostly Christian village and burnt down a church on Christmas Eve @ @ @ @ @ least 11 people had been killed , according to AFP news .
Fighters rode into @ @ @ @ @ , on trucks and motorbikes shooting indiscriminately , a local leader told the news agency @ @ @ @ @ Chibok where 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in 2014 .
Boko Haram have carried out a @ @ @ @ @ Nigeria where they are fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state .
@ @ @ @ @ Islam that forbids Muslims from taking part in activity not derived from Islamic tradition .
@ @ @ @ @ mean “ western education is forbidden ” .
The group ’ s most infamous attack @ @ @ @ @ 2014 and held many captive for years .
( source )

While people around the world were celebrating Christmas, the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram killed at least eleven Christians and burned down a church in a terrorist attack at the BBC reports from Nigeria.
Several people are dead in northeast Nigeria after Boko Haram militants raided a mostly Christian village and burnt down a church on Christmas Eve.
Local sources said at least 11 people had been killed, according to AFP news.
Fighters rode into Pemi, in Borno state, on trucks and motorbikes shooting indiscriminately, a local leader told the news agency.
Pemi is close to Chibok where 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in 2014.
Boko Haram have carried out a number of attacks in northern Nigeria where they are fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state.
They promote a version of Islam that forbids Muslims from taking part in activity not derived from Islamic tradition. Boko Haram loosely translates to mean “western education is forbidden”. The group’s most infamous attack targeted schoolgirls in Chibok in 2014 and held many captive for years. (source)


shoebat--2020-12-28--Trump Signs The $600 Checks, Wait For The $2000 One

According to the AP News , Trump just signed the recent government funding bill , complete with $ 600 per-person stimulus checks .
President Donald Trump signed a $ 900 billion pandemic relief package Sunday , ending days of drama over his refusal to accept the bipartisan deal that will deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals and avert a federal government shutdown .
The massive bill includes $ 1.4 trillion to fund government agencies through September and contains other end-of-session priorities such as an increase in food stamp benefits .
The signing , at his private club in Florida @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eleventh-hour demands for larger , $ 2,000 relief checks and scaled-back spending even though the bill had already passed the House and Senate by wide margins .
The bill was passed with what lawmakers had thought was Trump ’ s blessing , and after months of negotiations with his administration .
His foot-dragging resulted in a lapse in unemployment benefits for millions struggling to make ends meet and threatened a government shutdown in the midst of a pandemic..
But signing the bill into law prevents another crisis of Trump ’ s own creation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ party during the final days of his administration .
It was unclear what , if anything , Trump accomplished with his delay , beyond angering all sides and empowering Democrats to continue their push for higher relief checks , which his own party opposes .
In his statement , Trump repeated his frustrations with the COVID-19 relief bill for providing only $ 600 checks to most Americans instead of the $ 2,000 that his fellow Republicans already rejected .
He also complained about what he considered unnecessary spending by the government at large @ @ @ @ @ @ @ going to put forth a proposition here .
More of a prediction , but still something that one must look forward to .
Look for $ 2000 per person stimulus checks in the future .
Don ’ t expect them right away .
Wait a year or so , maybe less .
The reason I say this is based on the same logic that I said before , when I predicted that one printing would lead to another .
As I have said , once the money printing starts , it CAN NOT @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reason why companies are still receiving financial bailouts either directly or indirectly ( tax relief , interest-free loans , etc . )
is not an accident .
Monetary printing , especially as a means to pay bills that can not be serviced by natural means of income due to economic realities , is never a solution because it means that , as a fundamental rule , one ’ s fixed expenses outweigh one ’ s income .
When this happens , it is always a bad sign .
This first happened to American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans .
The government is quite literally bailing out individuals just like major corporations in order to keep the economy afloat .
First there was the original COVID bailout .
Then Mnuchin hinted at a second .
Here we are , just over six months later , with a second bailout .
If you are thinking about a third bailout , don ’ t worry , because it is likely going to come .
The people expect it and have been primed for it , and economically speaking , since fundamentals are not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to need another bailout .
Until there is a great chance that the dollar itself , as with many countries of the past , is worth the paper it is printed on .
Such is the story of many nations , and unless things change drastically here , is at risk of happening in the US .
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According to the AP News, Trump just signed the recent government funding bill, complete with $600 per-person stimulus checks.
President Donald Trump signed a $900 billion pandemic relief package Sunday, ending days of drama over his refusal to accept the bipartisan deal that will deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals and avert a federal government shutdown. The massive bill includes $1.4 trillion to fund government agencies through September and contains other end-of-session priorities such as an increase in food stamp benefits. The signing, at his private club in Florida, came amid escalating criticism over his eleventh-hour demands for larger, $2,000 relief checks and scaled-back spending even though the bill had already passed the House and Senate by wide margins. The bill was passed with what lawmakers had thought was Trump’s blessing, and after months of negotiations with his administration. His foot-dragging resulted in a lapse in unemployment benefits for millions struggling to make ends meet and threatened a government shutdown in the midst of a pandemic.. But signing the bill into law prevents another crisis of Trump’s own creation and ends a standoff with his own party during the final days of his administration. It was unclear what, if anything, Trump accomplished with his delay, beyond angering all sides and empowering Democrats to continue their push for higher relief checks, which his own party opposes. In his statement, Trump repeated his frustrations with the COVID-19 relief bill for providing only $600 checks to most Americans instead of the $2,000 that his fellow Republicans already rejected. He also complained about what he considered unnecessary spending by the government at large. (source)
I’m going to put forth a proposition here. More of a prediction, but still something that one must look forward to.
Look for $2000 per person stimulus checks in the future.
Don’t expect them right away. Wait a year or so, maybe less. The reason I say this is based on the same logic that I said before, when I predicted that one printing would lead to another.
As I have said, once the money printing starts, it CANNOT stop because of economic fundamentals. The reason why companies are still receiving financial bailouts either directly or indirectly (tax relief, interest-free loans, etc.) is not an accident. Monetary printing, especially as a means to pay bills that cannot be serviced by natural means of income due to economic realities, is never a solution because it means that, as a fundamental rule, one’s fixed expenses outweigh one’s income. When this happens, it is always a bad sign.
This first happened to American companies. Now it is happening to Americans. The government is quite literally bailing out individuals just like major corporations in order to keep the economy afloat.
First there was the original COVID bailout. Then Mnuchin hinted at a second. Here we are, just over six months later, with a second bailout.
If you are thinking about a third bailout, don’t worry, because it is likely going to come. The people expect it and have been primed for it, and economically speaking, since fundamentals are not changing, the common man is going to need another bailout.
And another.
And another.
And another.
And another.
Until there is a great chance that the dollar itself, as with many countries of the past, is worth the paper it is printed on.
Such is the story of many nations, and unless things change drastically here, is at risk of happening in the US.
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shoebat--2020-12-29--German Military Officer Caught Disguising Himself As Terrorist Refugee, And Lesson From Trading Plac

German Military Officer Caught Disguising Himself As Terrorist Refugee, And Lesson From Trading Places

For a long time , violence from migrants to Europe has been discussed .
Many of the stories from horrible things that people have experienced are true and can not be discounted .
However , as with all things , it is important to present balance , and to note that it is not all migrants , and that the migrants are seemingly being treated in a way so to encourage or bring out the worst in them and among them .
Likewise , one has not discussed the potential of overemphasizing or underemphasizing various aspects of their collective behavior @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of how many are responding .
But this is just the beginning , for according to Dnyuz , a whole separate dimension has been added to this picture , where a German military officer has been arrested for posing as a migrant to Germany and plotting to commit terrorism in order to have it blamed on migrants .
At the height of Europe ’ s migrant crisis , a bearded man in sweatpants walked into a police station .
His pockets were empty except for an old cellphone and a few foreign coins @ @ @ @ @ @ @ himself as a Syrian refugee .
He said he had crossed half the continent by foot and lost his papers along the way .
The officers photographed and fingerprinted him .
Over the next year , he would get shelter and an asylum hearing , and would qualify for monthly benefits .
His name , he offered , was David Benjamin .
In reality , he was a lieutenant in the German Army .
He had darkened his face and hands with his mother ’ s makeup and applied shoe shine to his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , he had walked 10 minutes from his childhood home in the western city of Offenbach .
The ruse , prosecutors say , was part of a far-right plot to carry out one or several assassinations that could be blamed on his refugee alter ego and set off enough civil unrest to bring down the Federal Republic of Germany .
The officer , Franco A. , as his name is rendered in court documents in keeping with German privacy laws , denies this .
He says he was trying to expose flaws in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ double life , which lasted 16 months , unraveled only after the police caught him trying to collect a loaded handgun he had hidden in an airport bathroom in Vienna .
“ That was really a shocking moment , ” said Aydan Ozoguz , a lawmaker who was commissioner for refugees and integration at the time .
“ The asylum system should identify cheaters , no doubt .
But the bigger story is : How could someone like this be a soldier in Germany ?
” ( source ) One of my favorite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy .
In the film , Winthorp Louis III ’ s ( played by Aykroyd ) bosses , Duke and Duke ( played by Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche ) destroy Aykroyd ’ s life as a wealthy commodities broker and switch him with a homeless convict named Billy Ray Valentine ( played by Murphy ) .
This involves using their associate , Mr. Clarence Beeks ( played by Paul Gleason ) to do a series of dirty tricks on Aykroyd that he and his friends are totally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jobless , broke , and miserable while he has no idea about what happened .
This idea of destroying one man ’ s life and presenting an image to the world as to his ‘ evil actions ’ seems to be , to me , what is happening with a lot of the migrants .
Again , I want to be clear that there are a lot of serious problems from them and the experiences of many can not be discounted .
That said , it is wrong to blame them as a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and to ignore how many are fleeing serious violence in their native lands started over geopolitical conflicts , and that their arrival to Europe is not an ‘ invasion ’ , but the taking up of an invitation extended to them by the Europeans .
To use an example , it would be like a man burning a neighborhood down , then inviting the people whose houses he burned down to live in his house , then shouting loudly and complaining at them for taking up his offer he made to them .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the public is being treated like Aykroyd .
They are unaware of what is going on to them , being mistreated by their own governments who , like Paul Gleason , are doing this on behalf of very wealthy financial , military , and occult interests .
Meanwhile , the common man is left confused and angry , similar to how Aykroyd was furious at Murphy until he realized what was happening .
The way that Aykroyd and Murphy together get their revenge , however , is not by violence or murder , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Duke brothers of their money , and make themselves rich while leaving the Dukes broke .
Now I mention this end because ultimately , there is something to be said here about the future of conflict in Europe and the world .
The way to win in this conflict being encouraged is ultimately not to play , and to aggressively refuse to participate in it , and if forced to participate , to do so in a way that is as non-or-anti-participatory as possible .
There is no winner in supporting any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for both migrant and native alike .
This is why the Church has been so careful about what She formally says , for in spite of many different factions and divided ideas within her , the fact is that one can not support ideas that lead to mass murder because that is a sin .
This is the main point of the anti-National Socialism encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge , written by the Servant of God Pope Pius XII and Pope Pius XI , which stated that Loving migrants does not mean abusing one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ means seeking mercy for them as well as justice , not just in helping them , but holding them accountable to the same standards for which one must old accountable to and how to treat one ’ s own people .
Heaven is not an ethnic club for any one particular race .
The sons of Ham , Shem , and Japheth alike and their children have places , and not separate from each other , but to call their own in the context of mingling freely with each other .
It is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ opposed national identity , but permitted and even encouraged it so long as it is under the spiritual empire of Christ , to Whom all men are subject and must obey , and the greatest among them is not the one with the most money or power , but the one who desires and obeys as Christ has commanded , being the humblest among men instead of the ‘ greatest ’ .
This is the warning here that we can see with this migration situation , where there are people who are even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be migrants in order to stir up social division and violence , leaving the public , like Dan Aykroyd in Trading Places , angry , broken , and confused , and all at the wrong sources until he figures out what is happening to him .
What is happening right now is aware for those who pay careful attention , and the way to win at this game is not to play , because in the end , just like in Trading Places , he who stays away from the chaos ultimately is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the games of lying , cheating , manipulation , division , and destruction for gain are the ones who will lose everything they have .
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For a long time, violence from migrants to Europe has been discussed. Many of the stories from horrible things that people have experienced are true and cannot be discounted. However, as with all things, it is important to present balance, and to note that it is not all migrants, and that the migrants are seemingly being treated in a way so to encourage or bring out the worst in them and among them. Likewise, one has not discussed the potential of overemphasizing or underemphasizing various aspects of their collective behavior in order to shape a particular image of how many are responding.
But this is just the beginning, for according to Dnyuz, a whole separate dimension has been added to this picture, where a German military officer has been arrested for posing as a migrant to Germany and plotting to commit terrorism in order to have it blamed on migrants.
At the height of Europe’s migrant crisis, a bearded man in sweatpants walked into a police station. His pockets were empty except for an old cellphone and a few foreign coins. In broken English, he presented himself as a Syrian refugee. He said he had crossed half the continent by foot and lost his papers along the way. The officers photographed and fingerprinted him. Over the next year, he would get shelter and an asylum hearing, and would qualify for monthly benefits. His name, he offered, was David Benjamin. In reality, he was a lieutenant in the German Army. He had darkened his face and hands with his mother’s makeup and applied shoe shine to his beard. Instead of walking across Europe, he had walked 10 minutes from his childhood home in the western city of Offenbach. The ruse, prosecutors say, was part of a far-right plot to carry out one or several assassinations that could be blamed on his refugee alter ego and set off enough civil unrest to bring down the Federal Republic of Germany. The officer, Franco A., as his name is rendered in court documents in keeping with German privacy laws, denies this. He says he was trying to expose flaws in the asylum system. But his elaborate double life, which lasted 16 months, unraveled only after the police caught him trying to collect a loaded handgun he had hidden in an airport bathroom in Vienna. “That was really a shocking moment,” said Aydan Ozoguz, a lawmaker who was commissioner for refugees and integration at the time. “The asylum system should identify cheaters, no doubt. But the bigger story is: How could someone like this be a soldier in Germany?” (source)
One of my favorite films is the 1983 comedy Trading Places with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. In the film, Winthorp Louis III’s (played by Aykroyd) bosses, Duke and Duke (played by Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) destroy Aykroyd’s life as a wealthy commodities broker and switch him with a homeless convict named Billy Ray Valentine (played by Murphy).
This involves using their associate, Mr. Clarence Beeks (played by Paul Gleason) to do a series of dirty tricks on Aykroyd that he and his friends are totally unaware of, leaving Aykroyd friendless, jobless, broke, and miserable while he has no idea about what happened.
This idea of destroying one man’s life and presenting an image to the world as to his ‘evil actions’ seems to be, to me, what is happening with a lot of the migrants. Again, I want to be clear that there are a lot of serious problems from them and the experiences of many cannot be discounted. That said, it is wrong to blame them as a collective for the actions of some, and to ignore how many are fleeing serious violence in their native lands started over geopolitical conflicts, and that their arrival to Europe is not an ‘invasion’, but the taking up of an invitation extended to them by the Europeans. To use an example, it would be like a man burning a neighborhood down, then inviting the people whose houses he burned down to live in his house, then shouting loudly and complaining at them for taking up his offer he made to them.
In the case of the migrants, the public is being treated like Aykroyd. They are unaware of what is going on to them, being mistreated by their own governments who, like Paul Gleason, are doing this on behalf of very wealthy financial, military, and occult interests. Meanwhile, the common man is left confused and angry, similar to how Aykroyd was furious at Murphy until he realized what was happening.
The way that Aykroyd and Murphy together get their revenge, however, is not by violence or murder, but by using their minds to strip the Duke brothers of their money, and make themselves rich while leaving the Dukes broke.
Now I mention this end because ultimately, there is something to be said here about the future of conflict in Europe and the world.
The way to win in this conflict being encouraged is ultimately not to play, and to aggressively refuse to participate in it, and if forced to participate, to do so in a way that is as non-or-anti-participatory as possible.
There is no winner in supporting any side other than the collective good, for both migrant and native alike. This is why the Church has been so careful about what She formally says, for in spite of many different factions and divided ideas within her, the fact is that one cannot support ideas that lead to mass murder because that is a sin. This is the main point of the anti-National Socialism encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge, written by the Servant of God Pope Pius XII and Pope Pius XI, which stated that
Whoever exalts race, or the people, or the State, or a particular form of State, or the depositories of power, or any other fundamental value of the human community – however necessary and honorable be their function in worldly things – whoever raises these notions above their standard value and divinizes them to an idolatrous level, distorts and perverts an order of the world planned and created by God; he is far from the true faith in God and from the concept of life which that faith upholds. (source)
Loving migrants does not mean abusing one’s own people, as it means seeking mercy for them as well as justice, not just in helping them, but holding them accountable to the same standards for which one must old accountable to and how to treat one’s own people.
Heaven is not an ethnic club for any one particular race. The sons of Ham, Shem, and Japheth alike and their children have places, and not separate from each other, but to call their own in the context of mingling freely with each other. It is the how the Catholic Church has never opposed national identity, but permitted and even encouraged it so long as it is under the spiritual empire of Christ, to Whom all men are subject and must obey, and the greatest among them is not the one with the most money or power, but the one who desires and obeys as Christ has commanded, being the humblest among men instead of the ‘greatest’.
This is the warning here that we can see with this migration situation, where there are people who are even going so far as to pretend to be migrants in order to stir up social division and violence, leaving the public, like Dan Aykroyd in Trading Places, angry, broken, and confused, and all at the wrong sources until he figures out what is happening to him.
What is happening right now is aware for those who pay careful attention, and the way to win at this game is not to play, because in the end, just like in Trading Places, he who stays away from the chaos ultimately is the victor, and those who play the games of lying, cheating, manipulation, division, and destruction for gain are the ones who will lose everything they have.
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shoebat--2020-12-29--Church And The Post-COVID Future

Church And The Post-COVID Future

According to an article from Christianity Today , the trend for the future of churches is going to be ‘ microchurches ’ , caused in large part by the seeming collapse of religious institutions that has been exposed by COVID , where people leave church and are not returning .
For the past four years , the Greens have been active with SALT churches , a network of microchurches they started in the region of Southern California .
Earlier this year , they led Saturate OC , a worship on the beach evangelistic outreach .
If you ask Parker , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people reaching those who do not yet know Jesus , making disciples and , most importantly , are on mission together .
That “ being on mission ” aspect distinguishes it from previous home-based church movements .
“ Doing what Jesus is doing [ in realtime ] , I find , is super helpful , ” he said , chuckling lightly , in a recent interview with The Christian Post .
Jessi added : “ We definitely think that this is the trajectory that the Church is going to move in and it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because of social media we ’ re so afraid to almost innovate when it comes to church because we don ’ t want to appear like we ’ re bashing or against the current thing.
” “ But if you look at church history , what we see right now is how many people would define ‘ church ’ is actually pretty new as of the last 100 years .
What we see now as almost untouchable when it comes to church and how it ’ s done , most of the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all.
” And distinctly missional microchurches are actually closer to what is seen in the pages of Scripture , they maintained .
The “ traditional ” model that has become the norm for many in the Western world is not as normal as many think .
( source ) I will offer another perspective .
This is not merely a trend from COVID , nor is this a move of God at all , but rather , it is a move from the devil that is but completing what began a long time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about the Catholic Church and how she is in decline , she is losing numbers , churches are closing , she has scandals , and on and on .
However , while true many of these things are at least in part , the fact is that the Catholic Church was never in danger of actual destruction as an entity .
This is a promise rooted in Sacred Scripture which has been insured by Christ Himself .
This is a good start .
But from a practical perspective in American society , this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the numbers , for while the Church has lost much and has many problems and more to come , the core bloc that makes up the Church is still present .
It has changed certainly , but it is not going anywhere .
In fact , in many areas , it has grown or solidified with converts from chiefly various Protestant sects .
For all of her problems , the fact is that while the diocese have suffered great financial losses , those who are still in the Church are very much solid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strengthen , with there being a strong core who want to hold fast to the teachings of the Faith .
This process never has really happened with the Protestant churches , even the ‘ conservative ’ inclined ones .
Due to the relationship between Protestantism and nationalism , there has been a consistent overlap between the support of ‘ Americanism ’ and these sects .
Given the general decline of the US , these sects are also in decline , and likewise , as many younger people are raised with religion as often @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , they do not see religion as central to who they are , and thus since they can be a good citizen , why do they need to go to a building once a week with other people who think the same yet they do not really know or even like ?
The Protestant churches are dying , and their death will most likely be quiet , sudden , and final .
In other words , it is not a long and visible decline like the Church , that so many have pointed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but it is likely just going to be that people leave and do not come back , and when it reaches a critical point , the churches will just close their doors and have the buildings sold or converted into office space or housing .
The people are not coming back , the people who believe are likely going to disperse to a very conservative Protestant Church or to the Catholic Church , and the rest will join the ranks of the many secular-pagan Americans that are all over the society .
There @ @ @ @ @ @ @ taking place in these ‘ churches ’ except that the churches are dying their natural death on account of heresy that began centuries ago .
It was inevitably that such a death would come , but the question is when , and after about five centuries , as it often seems to be with heresies , the illness has fully run its course , and now is finally disappearing , leaving behind a spiritual vacuum that will need to be filled .
This is going to be the real challenge for the future @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whole world is going into dark times and warns of the famed words spoken by Cardinal George , So if one is a Christian , remember to prepare , for things are not going to get easier .
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According to an article from Christianity Today, the trend for the future of churches is going to be ‘microchurches’, caused in large part by the seeming collapse of religious institutions that has been exposed by COVID, where people leave church and are not returning.
For the past four years, the Greens have been active with SALT churches, a network of microchurches they started in the region of Southern California. Earlier this year, they led Saturate OC, a worship on the beach evangelistic outreach. If you ask Parker, a microchurch is around 10 to 40 people reaching those who do not yet know Jesus, making disciples and, most importantly, are on mission together. That “being on mission” aspect distinguishes it from previous home-based church movements. “Doing what Jesus is doing [in realtime], I find, is super helpful,” he said, chuckling lightly, in a recent interview with The Christian Post. Jessi added: “We definitely think that this is the trajectory that the Church is going to move in and it’s funny because I think especially because of social media we’re so afraid to almost innovate when it comes to church because we don’t want to appear like we’re bashing or against the current thing.” “But if you look at church history, what we see right now is how many people would define ‘church’ is actually pretty new as of the last 100 years. What we see now as almost untouchable when it comes to church and how it’s done, most of the world would not define that as church at all.” And distinctly missional microchurches are actually closer to what is seen in the pages of Scripture, they maintained. The “traditional” model that has become the norm for many in the Western world is not as normal as many think. (source)
I will offer another perspective. This is not merely a trend from COVID, nor is this a move of God at all, but rather, it is a move from the devil that is but completing what began a long time ago.
For years people have complained about the Catholic Church and how she is in decline, she is losing numbers, churches are closing, she has scandals, and on and on. However, while true many of these things are at least in part, the fact is that the Catholic Church was never in danger of actual destruction as an entity. This is a promise rooted in Sacred Scripture which has been insured by Christ Himself. This is a good start.
But from a practical perspective in American society, this same statement can be shown true by the numbers, for while the Church has lost much and has many problems and more to come, the core bloc that makes up the Church is still present. It has changed certainly, but it is not going anywhere. In fact, in many areas, it has grown or solidified with converts from chiefly various Protestant sects. For all of her problems, the fact is that while the diocese have suffered great financial losses, those who are still in the Church are very much solid believers, and this position continues to strengthen, with there being a strong core who want to hold fast to the teachings of the Faith.
This process never has really happened with the Protestant churches, even the ‘conservative’ inclined ones. Due to the relationship between Protestantism and nationalism, there has been a consistent overlap between the support of ‘Americanism’ and these sects. Given the general decline of the US, these sects are also in decline, and likewise, as many younger people are raised with religion as often but a nominal thing in their lives, they do not see religion as central to who they are, and thus since they can be a good citizen, why do they need to go to a building once a week with other people who think the same yet they do not really know or even like?
The Protestant churches are dying, and their death will most likely be quiet, sudden, and final. In other words, it is not a long and visible decline like the Church, that so many have pointed at and scorned the Church for, but it is likely just going to be that people leave and do not come back, and when it reaches a critical point, the churches will just close their doors and have the buildings sold or converted into office space or housing. The people are not coming back, the people who believe are likely going to disperse to a very conservative Protestant Church or to the Catholic Church, and the rest will join the ranks of the many secular-pagan Americans that are all over the society.
There is no ‘move of God’ taking place in these ‘churches’ except that the churches are dying their natural death on account of heresy that began centuries ago. It was inevitably that such a death would come, but the question is when, and after about five centuries, as it often seems to be with heresies, the illness has fully run its course, and now is finally disappearing, leaving behind a spiritual vacuum that will need to be filled. This is going to be the real challenge for the future, as the Western world and the whole world is going into dark times and warns of the famed words spoken by Cardinal George,
“I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human history.” (source)
So if one is a Christian, remember to prepare, for things are not going to get easier.
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shoebat--2020-12-29--Claim: COVID Infections Cause Insanity In Some Patients

One of the interesting aspects of COVID is that we can see its effects in real time on people to see how the virus alters short and long-term behavior .
For example , it is known that people who get Lyme Disease can be cured , but it is also a well-established fact that “ long-term Lyme ” is real too .
This seems to be the case with COVID , where as Dnyuz reports there is a growing consensus that COVID , in some patients , causes long-term insanity and psychosis .
Almost immediately , Dr. Hisam Goueli could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his psychiatric hospital on Long Island this summer was unusual .
The patient , a 42-year-old physical therapist and mother of four young children , had never had psychiatric symptoms or any family history of mental illness .
Yet there she was , sitting at a table in a beige-walled room at South Oaks Hospital in Amityville , N.Y. , sobbing and saying that she kept seeing her children , ages 2 to 10 , being gruesomely murdered and that she herself had crafted plans to kill them .
“ It was like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ Kill Bill , ’ ” Dr. Goueli , a psychiatrist , said .
The patient described one of her children being run over by a truck and another decapitated .
“ It ’ s a horrifying thing that here ’ s this well-accomplished woman and she ’ s like ‘ I love my kids , and I don ’ t know why I feel this way that I want to decapitate them , ’ ” he said .
The only notable thing about her medical history was that the woman , who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Goueli to describe her case , had become infected with the coronavirus in the spring .
She had experienced only mild physical symptoms from the virus , but , months later , she heard a voice that first told her to kill herself and then told her to kill her children .
At South Oaks , which has an inpatient psychiatric treatment program for Covid-19 patients , Dr. Goueli was unsure whether the coronavirus was connected to the woman ’ s psychological symptoms .
“ Maybe this is Covid-related , maybe it ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ But then , ” he said , “ we saw a second case , a third case and a fourth case , and we ’ re like , ‘ There ’ s something happening.
’ ” Indeed , doctors are reporting similar cases across the country and around the world .
A small number of Covid patients who had never experienced mental health problems are developing severe psychotic symptoms weeks after contracting the coronavirus .
In interviews and scientific articles , doctors described : A 36-year-old nursing home employee in North @ @ @ @ @ @ @ believed her three children would be kidnapped and , to save them , tried to pass them through a fast-food restaurant ’ s drive-through window .
A 30-year-old construction worker in New York City who became so delusional that he imagined his cousin was going to murder him , and , to protect himself , he tried to strangle his cousin in bed .
A 55-year-old woman in Britain had hallucinations of monkeys and a lion and became convinced a family member had been replaced by an impostor .
Beyond individual reports , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ complications in 153 patients hospitalized with Covid-19 found that 10 people had “ new-onset psychosis.
” Another study identified 10 such patients in one hospital in Spain .
And in Covid-related social media groups , medical professionals discuss seeing patients with similar symptoms in the Midwest , Great Plains and elsewhere .
( source )

One of the interesting aspects of COVID is that we can see its effects in real time on people to see how the virus alters short and long-term behavior. For example, it is known that people who get Lyme Disease can be cured, but it is also a well-established fact that “long-term Lyme” is real too. This seems to be the case with COVID, where as Dnyuz reports there is a growing consensus that COVID, in some patients, causes long-term insanity and psychosis.
Almost immediately, Dr. Hisam Goueli could tell that the patient who came to his psychiatric hospital on Long Island this summer was unusual.
The patient, a 42-year-old physical therapist and mother of four young children, had never had psychiatric symptoms or any family history of mental illness. Yet there she was, sitting at a table in a beige-walled room at South Oaks Hospital in Amityville, N.Y., sobbing and saying that she kept seeing her children, ages 2 to 10, being gruesomely murdered and that she herself had crafted plans to kill them.
“It was like she was experiencing a movie, like ‘Kill Bill,’” Dr. Goueli, a psychiatrist, said.
The patient described one of her children being run over by a truck and another decapitated. “It’s a horrifying thing that here’s this well-accomplished woman and she’s like ‘I love my kids, and I don’t know why I feel this way that I want to decapitate them,’” he said.
The only notable thing about her medical history was that the woman, who declined to be interviewed but allowed Dr. Goueli to describe her case, had become infected with the coronavirus in the spring. She had experienced only mild physical symptoms from the virus, but, months later, she heard a voice that first told her to kill herself and then told her to kill her children.
At South Oaks, which has an inpatient psychiatric treatment program for Covid-19 patients, Dr. Goueli was unsure whether the coronavirus was connected to the woman’s psychological symptoms. “Maybe this is Covid-related, maybe it’s not,” he recalled thinking.
“But then,” he said, “we saw a second case, a third case and a fourth case, and we’re like, ‘There’s something happening.’”
Indeed, doctors are reporting similar cases across the country and around the world. A small number of Covid patients who had never experienced mental health problems are developing severe psychotic symptoms weeks after contracting the coronavirus.
In interviews and scientific articles, doctors described:
A 36-year-old nursing home employee in North Carolina who became so paranoid that she believed her three children would be kidnapped and, to save them, tried to pass them through a fast-food restaurant’s drive-through window.
A 30-year-old construction worker in New York City who became so delusional that he imagined his cousin was going to murder him, and, to protect himself, he tried to strangle his cousin in bed.
A 55-year-old woman in Britain had hallucinations of monkeys and a lion and became convinced a family member had been replaced by an impostor.
Beyond individual reports, a British study of neurological or psychiatric complications in 153 patients hospitalized with Covid-19 found that 10 people had “new-onset psychosis.” Another study identified 10 such patients in one hospital in Spain. And in Covid-related social media groups, medical professionals discuss seeing patients with similar symptoms in the Midwest, Great Plains and elsewhere. (source)


shoebat--2020-12-30--The European Union Is Spiraling Down To Nationalism And War

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shoebat--2020-12-30--FAA Approves Drone Flights At Night

FAA Approves Drone Flights At Night

Drones are going to be a major trend to watch for the future , since they will fundamentally transform how people interact with each other as well as the potential for surveillance and abuse like never before seen .
Noting this , it is of interest that Reuters reports that the FAA has approved that at night , drones can fly over people .
Small drones will be allowed to fly over people and at night in the United States , the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) said on Monday , a significant step toward their use for widespread @ @ @ @ @ @ @ long-awaited rules for the drones , also known as unmanned aerial vehicles , will address security concerns by requiring remote identification technology in most cases to enable their identification from the ground .
Previously , small drone operations over people were limited to operations over people who were directly participating in the operation , located under a covered structure , or inside a stationary vehicle – unless operators had obtained a waiver from the FAA .
The rules will take effect 60 days after publication in the federal register in January .
Drone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ producing drones with Remote ID , and operators will have an additional year to provide Remote ID .
There are other , more complicated rules that allow for operations at night and over people for larger drones in some cases .
“ The new rules make way for the further integration of drones into our airspace by addressing safety and security concerns , ” FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said .
“ They get us closer to the day when we will more routinely see drone operations such as the delivery of packages.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fleets to speed deliveries .
The United States has over 1.7 million drone registrations and 203,000 FAA-certificated remote pilots .
( source )

Drones are going to be a major trend to watch for the future, since they will fundamentally transform how people interact with each other as well as the potential for surveillance and abuse like never before seen. Noting this, it is of interest that Reuters reports that the FAA has approved that at night, drones can fly over people.
Small drones will be allowed to fly over people and at night in the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Monday, a significant step toward their use for widespread commercial deliveries.
The FAA said its long-awaited rules for the drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles, will address security concerns by requiring remote identification technology in most cases to enable their identification from the ground.
Previously, small drone operations over people were limited to operations over people who were directly participating in the operation, located under a covered structure, or inside a stationary vehicle – unless operators had obtained a waiver from the FAA.
The rules will take effect 60 days after publication in the federal register in January. Drone manufacturers will have 18 months to begin producing drones with Remote ID, and operators will have an additional year to provide Remote ID.
There are other, more complicated rules that allow for operations at night and over people for larger drones in some cases.
“The new rules make way for the further integration of drones into our airspace by addressing safety and security concerns,” FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said. “They get us closer to the day when we will more routinely see drone operations such as the delivery of packages.”
Companies have been racing to create drone fleets to speed deliveries. The United States has over 1.7 million drone registrations and 203,000 FAA-certificated remote pilots. (source)


shoebat--2020-12-30--Two-Thirds Of Americans Embrace A Veritable Telescreen

In the famous dystopian science fiction novel 1984 , there is something called a ‘ telescreen ’ , which broadcasts as well as monitors all people everywhere they go .
Once thought to be only in books , and as well as a warning about the future and what could happen .
However , it seems that few have paid attention , as a full two-thirds majority of Americans now have no problem being monitored all the time by their devices .
Are the ads popping up in your smart device a little too spot on ?
Is it an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ smart speakers listening in on everything you say in private ?
Privacy issues are a constant concern when it comes to digital technology , but a new survey finds many Americans are simply accepting they may not be alone in their own home .
Researchers say two in three U.S. adults “ don ’ t care ” if their smart devices are always listening to what they say .
The report by Safety.com finds 66.7 percent of U.S. residents over 18 wouldn ’ t have a problem finding out a home gadget is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on inside their home .
Researchers polled nearly 1,100 people between the ages of 18 and 64 during December of 2020 .
While tech companies repeatedly assure the public smart devices are not spying on their owners , not everyone is convinced of this .
That feeling is particularly prevalent among older adults .
The survey finds baby boomers are much more concerned about digital devices recording their conservations than Millennials or young adults in Generation Z .
Adults in Generation X are split on the issue .
The poll also finds women @ @ @ @ @ @ @ men are , by a margin of seven percent .
Unsurprisingly , residents in tech-dominant cities and regions are more accepting of potentially being recorded than Americans in communities with less high-tech development .
The Safety.com team says modern technology , capable of tracking every move we make , is becoming an unavoidable part of daily life .
From smart speakers in the kitchen to smart cameras in the doorbell , this technology is built to record , watch , or listen to information in real time .
Although many might wonder how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ commercial their speakers play , researchers note few Americans really go through the terms and services agreement when downloading their various apps .
They add skipping these privacy notices has actually become second nature to many tech users .
Therefore , do many people really know how much data they ’ re agreeing to share with companies ?
The poll finds the general sentiment regarding privacy and technology is “ if someone isn ’ t guilty of anything , then what difference does it make if they ’ re being listened to ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ legal and privacy experts continue to debate how ethical that sentiment is , Safety.com finds more and more people are choosing convenience over their own privacy .
This is especially true when it comes to owning smartphones .
( source )

In the famous dystopian science fiction novel 1984, there is something called a ‘telescreen’, which broadcasts as well as monitors all people everywhere they go. Once thought to be only in books, and as well as a warning about the future and what could happen. However, it seems that few have paid attention, as a full two-thirds majority of Americans now have no problem being monitored all the time by their devices.
Are the ads popping up in your smart device a little too spot on? Is it an eerie coincidence or are your smartphones and smart speakers listening in on everything you say in private? Privacy issues are a constant concern when it comes to digital technology, but a new survey finds many Americans are simply accepting they may not be alone in their own home. Researchers say two in three U.S. adults “don’t care” if their smart devices are always listening to what they say.
The report by Safety.com finds 66.7 percent of U.S. residents over 18 wouldn’t have a problem finding out a home gadget is listening in on what’s going on inside their home. Researchers polled nearly 1,100 people between the ages of 18 and 64 during December of 2020.
While tech companies repeatedly assure the public smart devices are not spying on their owners, not everyone is convinced of this. That feeling is particularly prevalent among older adults. The survey finds baby boomers are much more concerned about digital devices recording their conservations than Millennials or young adults in Generation Z. Adults in Generation X are split on the issue.
The poll also finds women are more unnerved about smart devices than men are, by a margin of seven percent. Unsurprisingly, residents in tech-dominant cities and regions are more accepting of potentially being recorded than Americans in communities with less high-tech development.
The Safety.com team says modern technology, capable of tracking every move we make, is becoming an unavoidable part of daily life. From smart speakers in the kitchen to smart cameras in the doorbell, this technology is built to record, watch, or listen to information in real time.
Although many might wonder how their interests end up in the next commercial their speakers play, researchers note few Americans really go through the terms and services agreement when downloading their various apps. They add skipping these privacy notices has actually become second nature to many tech users. Therefore, do many people really know how much data they’re agreeing to share with companies?
The poll finds the general sentiment regarding privacy and technology is “if someone isn’t guilty of anything, then what difference does it make if they’re being listened to?”
Digital amenities outweigh privacy concerns
As legal and privacy experts continue to debate how ethical that sentiment is, Safety.com finds more and more people are choosing convenience over their own privacy. This is especially true when it comes to owning smartphones. (source)


shoebat--2020-12-30--Round Two Of Trump Bucks Continues

Round Two Of Trump Bucks Continues

Printing money as a form of economic stimulus without fixing the underlying problems latent that caused them is like a Pringles commercial .
Instead of “ once you pop you just don ’ t stop , ” it becomes “ once you print you just don ’ t stop , ” and the reason is because by adding money to the system , it speeds up the consumption rate of said money through spending .
If the spending were to stop , the economy would crash .
However , since at this point the only think keeping the economy functioning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ printed until the value of the currency peters out itself .
Think of this like spinning a wheel faster and faster to prevent it from falling off of the spoke , and eventually , it is moving so fast that the spoke breaks and the wheel flies off and crashes on its own , because this is what we are doing right now .
As such , the US Treasury is sending out $ 600 checks while another series- a third round -totaling $ 2000 per American is being debated .
In a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Stephen Mnuchin confirmed that the US Treasury has delivered a payments file to The Fed for “ Americans ’ Economic Impact Payments.
” These payments may begin to arrive in some accounts by direct deposit as early as tonight and will continue into next week .
Paper checks will begin to be mailed tomorrow .
Eligible individuals will receive an Economic Impact Payment of up to $ 600 for individuals or $ 1200 for married couples and up to $ 600 for each qualifying child .
Generally , if you have adjusted gross @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for individuals and up to $ 150,000 for married couples filing joint returns and surviving spouses , you will receive the full amount .
( source ) Make no mistake , the third round will come .
Because it has to .
There is no way to stop the printing and avoid a political disaster .
I warned you all about this for years .
It ’ s not unique , just history happening in real time , and we are witnesses to it .
If you can , use the money to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investing in a tangible asset that can preserve or grow in value .
Ideas I have noted before , without giving financial advice , are gold , silver , land , and even livestock .
Perhaps things can still change .
I really hope so , but the patterns of history are not favorable right now given the circumstances .
Hope for the best , but prepare for the worst , because the US is heading down the path of Weimar Germany , ZANU Zimbabwe , Allende ’ s Chile , and post-Soviet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and if one is not prepared , it will destroy savings accounts and leave America looking a lot poorer and like the old world she so often promised to be a refuge from .
It is going to be an interesting ride next year .
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Printing money as a form of economic stimulus without fixing the underlying problems latent that caused them is like a Pringles commercial. Instead of “once you pop you just don’t stop,” it becomes “once you print you just don’t stop,” and the reason is because by adding money to the system, it speeds up the consumption rate of said money through spending. If the spending were to stop, the economy would crash. However, since at this point the only think keeping the economy functioning is the printing, more must be printed until the value of the currency peters out itself. Think of this like spinning a wheel faster and faster to prevent it from falling off of the spoke, and eventually, it is moving so fast that the spoke breaks and the wheel flies off and crashes on its own, because this is what we are doing right now.
As such, the US Treasury is sending out $600 checks while another series- a third round -totaling $2000 per American is being debated.
In a series of tweets tonight, Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin confirmed that the US Treasury has delivered a payments file to The Fed for “Americans’ Economic Impact Payments.” These payments may begin to arrive in some accounts by direct deposit as early as tonight and will continue into next week. Paper checks will begin to be mailed tomorrow. Eligible individuals will receive an Economic Impact Payment of up to $600 for individuals or $1200 for married couples and up to $600 for each qualifying child. Generally, if you have adjusted gross income for 2019 up to $75,000 for individuals and up to $150,000 for married couples filing joint returns and surviving spouses, you will receive the full amount. (source)
Make no mistake, the third round will come.
And a fourth.
And a fifth.
Because it has to. There is no way to stop the printing and avoid a political disaster.
I warned you all about this for years. It’s not unique, just history happening in real time, and we are witnesses to it.
If you can, use the money to pay down debts, and ideally consider investing in a tangible asset that can preserve or grow in value. Ideas I have noted before, without giving financial advice, are gold, silver, land, and even livestock.
Perhaps things can still change. I really hope so, but the patterns of history are not favorable right now given the circumstances.
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst, because the US is heading down the path of Weimar Germany, ZANU Zimbabwe, Allende’s Chile, and post-Soviet Russia in terms of her financial decisions, and if one is not prepared, it will destroy savings accounts and leave America looking a lot poorer and like the old world she so often promised to be a refuge from.
It is going to be an interesting ride next year.
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shoebat--2020-12-30--Russian Orthodox Church Defrocks Major Voice Against Sodomy On Charges Of “Blasphemy”

The Russian Orthodox Church has a sodomy problem in its ranks .
I have detailed this on Shoebat.com where priests , bishops , and even entire seminaries ( such as the one in Kazan ) are filled with homosexuals who sodomize each other and nothing is done to stop it .
But unlike the Catholic Church , where the scandal is open and called out by many , in the Russian Orthodox Church , it is kept secret , and those who attempt to expose it are abused or thrown out .
One of the very brave ROC voices against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , profiled here at Shoebat.com , who became famous for being one of the only orthodox voices to expose the rampant sodomy among the clerical ranks , for which he has been continually and viciously attacked over .
Now , according to RBC , Fr .
Kurayev has been inexplicably defrocked for “ blasphemy ” .
Protodeacon Andrei Kuraev by the decision of the Diocesan ecclesiastical court of Moscow was recognized as subject to “ ejection from dignity.
” The court ruled in absentia – Kuraev did not appear at the meeting , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , because “ on New Year ’ s Eve , Moscow is stuck in traffic jams , and it is dangerous to take the metro because of the pandemic.
” “ The court had a judgment that on April 21 , 2020 , a supernumerary cleric published in his LiveJournal an insulting description of Archpriest Alexander Ageikin , who died from the consequences of coronavirus infection that day , ” reads a statement on the website of the Moscow City Diocese .
In a post on April 21 on his blog in LiveJournal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death among Moscow clerics .
Archpriest Alexander Ageikin , rector of the Yelokhovsky Cathedral , died at the hospital in Lapino .
In my memory , this under-protopresbyter will remain as a stupid careerist who has made a career in the field of VIP service .
” In Kuraev ’ s words , the court saw signs of “ blasphemy against the Church.
” The court concluded that Kuraev “ did not change the nature of his actions after admonitions from the diocesan confessor , Archpriest Georgy Breev and members of the disciplinary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decision to depose Kuraev from his dignity will enter into force if approved by the ruling bishop , Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia .
Until then , it can be appealed .
At the end of April , Patriarch Kirill issued a decree banning Kuraev from the priesthood in connection with statements about Ageikin .
In the decree of the patriarch , Kuraev ’ s behavior was called “ immoral ” and “ especially cynical.
” ( source ) These “ blasphemy ” charges are not clearly explained , of course @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
From what one knows of his history , and given the proliferation of sodomy in the ROC and as well the acceptance of men such as Aleksandr Dugin , who was involved with Yevgeny Golovin and Jamal Haydar in a sodomite Nazi cult during the 1970s and 1980s where they drank each others ’ urine in satanic rituals , as “ good orthodox ” without acknowledging or dealing with this past , it is another scandal on a scandal .
I have said before that the sodomite problem in the Catholic Church @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Churches is just as bad or worse , and in all cases , is worse in so far as the problem is actively hidden as opposed to being exposed , for while exposure hurts , it is the only way to see that healing can happen .
It is also not just the Russians , for major scandals have been found among the Greek Orthodox and even the Oriental Orthodox Coptic Church .
The problem is worldwide , and it is all serious .
Getting rid of Fr .
Kurayev will not help @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cause , but like in the American past with the Catholic Church , it will only cover up a sordid reality that will continue to fester and rot the religious body from within .
Unless it can be clearly shown that Fr .
Kurayev was truly a “ blasphemer ” worthy of being defrocked , all signs do not point to “ blasphemy ” as the cause , unless “ blasphemy ” means daring to speak out against the proliferation of sodomite behavior consuming the world and ecclesiastical ranks .
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The Russian Orthodox Church has a sodomy problem in its ranks. I have detailed this on Shoebat.com where priests, bishops, and even entire seminaries (such as the one in Kazan) are filled with homosexuals who sodomize each other and nothing is done to stop it. But unlike the Catholic Church, where the scandal is open and called out by many, in the Russian Orthodox Church, it is kept secret, and those who attempt to expose it are abused or thrown out.
One of the very brave ROC voices against sodomy has been Fr. Andrei Kurayev, profiled here at Shoebat.com, who became famous for being one of the only orthodox voices to expose the rampant sodomy among the clerical ranks, for which he has been continually and viciously attacked over. Now, according to RBC, Fr. Kurayev has been inexplicably defrocked for “blasphemy”.
Protodeacon Andrei Kuraev by the decision of the Diocesan ecclesiastical court of Moscow was recognized as subject to “ejection from dignity.” The court ruled in absentia – Kuraev did not appear at the meeting, asking to postpone the meeting until January, because “on New Year’s Eve, Moscow is stuck in traffic jams, and it is dangerous to take the metro because of the pandemic.” “The court had a judgment that on April 21, 2020, a supernumerary cleric published in his LiveJournal an insulting description of Archpriest Alexander Ageikin, who died from the consequences of coronavirus infection that day,” reads a statement on the website of the Moscow City Diocese. In a post on April 21 on his blog in LiveJournal, Kuraev wrote: “The first death among Moscow clerics. Archpriest Alexander Ageikin, rector of the Yelokhovsky Cathedral, died at the hospital in Lapino. In my memory, this under-protopresbyter will remain as a stupid careerist who has made a career in the field of VIP service. ” In Kuraev’s words, the court saw signs of “blasphemy against the Church.” The court concluded that Kuraev “did not change the nature of his actions after admonitions from the diocesan confessor, Archpriest Georgy Breev and members of the disciplinary commission back in 2015”. The decision to depose Kuraev from his dignity will enter into force if approved by the ruling bishop, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. Until then, it can be appealed. At the end of April, Patriarch Kirill issued a decree banning Kuraev from the priesthood in connection with statements about Ageikin. In the decree of the patriarch, Kuraev’s behavior was called “immoral” and “especially cynical.” (source)
These “blasphemy” charges are not clearly explained, of course, because that is not the issue. From what one knows of his history, and given the proliferation of sodomy in the ROC and as well the acceptance of men such as Aleksandr Dugin, who was involved with Yevgeny Golovin and Jamal Haydar in a sodomite Nazi cult during the 1970s and 1980s where they drank each others’ urine in satanic rituals, as “good orthodox” without acknowledging or dealing with this past, it is another scandal on a scandal.
I have said before that the sodomite problem in the Catholic Church is bad, but that the Orthodox Churches is just as bad or worse, and in all cases, is worse in so far as the problem is actively hidden as opposed to being exposed, for while exposure hurts, it is the only way to see that healing can happen.
It is also not just the Russians, for major scandals have been found among the Greek Orthodox and even the Oriental Orthodox Coptic Church. The problem is worldwide, and it is all serious.
Getting rid of Fr. Kurayev will not help the Russian Orthodox Church or a religious cause, but like in the American past with the Catholic Church, it will only cover up a sordid reality that will continue to fester and rot the religious body from within. Unless it can be clearly shown that Fr. Kurayev was truly a “blasphemer” worthy of being defrocked, all signs do not point to “blasphemy” as the cause, unless “blasphemy” means daring to speak out against the proliferation of sodomite behavior consuming the world and ecclesiastical ranks.
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shoebat--2020-12-31--Why So Many Protestants Are Converting To Orthodox Christianity

My thoughts on why many Protestants are turning to Eastern Orthodoxy :


shoebat--2020-12-31--Viruses, Militarization, And 2021 Thoughts

As 2020 leaves and 2021 comes into full focus , many things await for this new year .
There are many hopes and dreams , but also a lot of concerns about what may come to pass , given that , as a theme I have fully emphasized , nothing has really changed in terms of fundamentals but only become worse .
The main driver of all things getting worse this year has been COVID .
Regardless of what one thinks or does not think about COVID , the fact remains that COVID is a really big deal because it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US economic machine that has driven the world since the end of World War II .
The details of this , while interesting and important in themselves , are not worthy of discussion here , except to say that there were serious problems building since 1965 , and that beginning around 1974 , those problems were not dealt with through actual economic activity , but through phantom tactics that were nothing more than financialization for the most part .
This scam exploded in 2007 with the subprime-cum-derivatives crisis in the financial markets , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ world should have had a major economic collapse by now , and the only reason it has not was because of the US government doing what governments traditionally do as a political solution , which is to destroy the value of the currency through printing .
This is not a new thing , but has been done in many countries throughout history going back to ancient times .
The main difference is now that the US is so central to the world economy , problems in the dollar create problems for the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a pre-world war type scenario .
And this warning , the resetting of conditions back to those pre-world war I , are happening around us , except this time with guns more powerful than ever before , nuclear weapons , computers , robotics , and artificial intelligence .
If you wanted a science fiction future , you got it coming , because that is what is going to be delivered for the future .
So what is a man to make of all this ?
Indeed , it is New Years Eve , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the events of the past year on “ rewind ” while looking to try and anticipate what the future will bring .
Let ’ s go through a brief list of topics and delve into them .
COVID : This is not going away .
COVID is a real issue , but it is more about the political nature of the virus at this point ( not to deny the medical issues tied to it in any way ) .
The virus has been used as an excuse to bring out the worst @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trend is going to continue worldwide .
What remains to be seen of how the vaccine will influence the relationship between the rulers of society and the ruled is yet to be determined , but we can say for sure that COVID is going to be fully exploited for any political leverage it can bring .
Prepare for the potential of COVID travel passports , more invasive forms of monitoring in the name of ‘ public safety ’ , potential restrictions on movement in certain venues , and possibly more severe measures .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the point is that no matter how severe or not various ‘ measures ’ are applied by nation , the excuse of safety is being used to strip people of their freedom , and people are lining up to get rid of them in the name of ‘ safety.
’ Freedom as a concept : Speaking of freedom , expect to see continual erosion in things such as freedom of speech , freedom of expression , and just the general idea that people can have an opinion outside of a prevailing and accepted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it makes any sense .
I ’ m not talking so much about religion here as I am about ‘ socially acceptable ’ ideas , but certainly not excluding the former .
Basically , with the decline in government and man being a creature made to worship , he is exchanging the worship of God for the worship of his own vanities , proclivities , and even governments , and so he is elevating his passions for these ideas over their natural status as concepts governed under religious belief to conceptual idols , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ creation of political sectarianism and violence as forms of religious practice and worship .
It ’ s why people have come to equivocate certain political positions with sentiments usually reserved for religious fervor or heretical damnation , since the religious impulse has been hijacked , abandoning the supernatural and truth for things of a temporal nature .
Conflict in the world : It ’ s always existed , but it ’ s getting worse .
Honestly I am at a point where one ’ s daily task , as a person , ought @ @ @ @ @ @ @ newspaper such as the Financial Times or Wall Street Journal daily since thee are so many things happening related to so many issues .
However , if I had to point and choose a few , I would watch the social and militaistic impulses in Germany , Turkey , and Japan closely .
China : Please .
And let me say I ’ m not saying that China is NOT a threat or dangerous or does bad things .
However , one must remember that China is not nor has ever been as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , mind you , is named in all languages after Emperor Qin , the tyrannical emperor said to have red hair and blue eyes and come from the Turkic Tocharian peoples and was the one who build the Great Wall , made the terra cotta soldiers , standardized the Chinese language , created the Chinese system of dates , weights , and measures , and was also a sadistic cannibal who served his enemies as food to their families ) .
China has a history of being invaded over and over by every @ @ @ @ @ @ @ steppes of Central Asia or Siberia , not to mention their continual beatings from Japan and the fact that tiny southeast Asia , while not imperial in any way , continually is able to keep China out of their homelands only speaks to the Chinese weakness .
Expect to see anger against China increase and the drums for war beat against them , but unless China can stop seriously mistreating her people , clean up her internal messes in all things from trade to farmland , and stop the rampant fraud that has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Confucius , expect 2021 to be just another year of delaying what is likely going to be the inevitable cycle of revolution coming from a “ mandate of heaven ” .
Deutschland : …and über alles as well , for while in 2021 she won ’ t be there yet , that is what she is striving for .
As US power continues to decline in Europe owing to economic problems , as I have noted , watch for the Bundeswehr to continue aggressive programs of remilitarization in the name of “ continental @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this .
Watch for major companies such as Airbus , C.G .
Haenel , and Rheinmetall ( especially that latter one ) become more powerful , see their stock prices grow , and get more contracts with the German government as the potential for an eventual and new I.G .
Farben awaits here formation .
As the economic problems worsen in Germany these trends will only become more pronounced and if not stopped , and while it won ’ t be in 2021 , there could again be the sound of boots marching @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The US Dollar : You still own that stuff ?
Not that dollars are bad , but the dollar is rapidly losing value as Trump and most likely Biden , following the example of their predecessors , are going to print , print , print , like a drunken sailor spending money on booze , cards , and questionable women at port .
I don ’ t give financial advice , and I ’ m not saying go on a spending spree .
But I ’ m also saying it may be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a traditional bank , but to consider investing it into commodities that preserve value , examples being gold , silver , precious metals , and land .
I ’ m not saying spend , but I am saying to pay attention to the markets , because I have explained before , value comes from scarcity , and it is impossible to ‘ print ’ one ’ s way to wealth , unless one wants to be a trillionaire in Zimbabwean dollars .
Africa : Watch for more geopolitical fighting on the continent as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Burkina Faso , Congo , Mozambique , and Ethiopia/Eritrea will be special areas of interest to pay attention to .
Japan : The trends are the same as Germany .
Watch for a revival of nationalism , and especially , militarism with a major focus on AI .
Also , immigration and population issues will be something to pay attention to , since Japan is undergoing major population problems and waves of migrants from across Asia and Brazil have been brought in to deal with the matter .
AI and robotics : One @ @ @ @ @ @ @ yet also the most important too because robotics is the way of the future .
What heavy industry making guns and weapons was in World War I , what nuclear science was in World War II , is what robotics and AI will be in World War III .
Do you have children ?
It might be a good idea to consider helping them learn about robotics and AI , since this will guide the future .
But first steps first , there is a lot more to go than just straight to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with rare earth elements in said batteries to prolong the life of tools , and the proliferation of the “ Internet of Things ” are the big sub-steps to watch , the latter moreso than the former as far as the popular man is concerned ( the former is more about scientists and research for companies such as Tesla ) .
If you haven ’ t already , consider things like learning Arduinos , Raspberry PI , and other electronic automation processes something that should be looked at very carefully .
You ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is .
They are now moving into middle age and the Zoomers are rapidly catching up , as the youngest Zoomer is going to be eleven and the oldest Zoomer will be 26 .
As the Millennials age , trends to watch will be long-term impoverishment , worsened by the effects of COVID-19 , and also to check the suicide rates of Millennial women , for as next year the youngest of the Millennial women ( 1981 ) will turn 40 , it is at this age that many begin to despair of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and one may start to see what I have feared in so far as the emergence of a trend towards suicide .
I also note again this pertains more to women , since men can sire children into old age ( think Larry King ) , but women if they have not had a child by 40 are practically done in so far as it concerns a first child .
Goodbye , Boomers : The oldest of the Boomers turn 75 , and with the youngest being 56 , all over the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are now the official old people of society , and given that the average age of death in the US is about 78 , the Boomers are going to continue to die off , although they will still have some influence .
As the 2020s are a decade of escalation , expect to see family tensions begin to escalate as the Boomers begin to get sick and fighting for inheritance- that is , what is left after the reverse mortgages and credit card debts are concerned -within families intensify , all exacerbated by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ devastated people .
This will be a major trend to watch beginning in 2021 and continuing for the rest of the decade .
American Lord of War ?
: Not the movie with Nicholas Cage , but the same concept , where given rising domestic tensions in the US , while I don ’ t expect to see blood on the streets yet , the tensions will definitely increase among political factions to the point that people are going to be angry to the point they may start hurting each other .
Pay @ @ @ @ @ @ @ since they are the ones that have been generally speaking the most restrained , and given the known inclinations of the political left to use violence such as with the BLM riots , look to se potential calls for the political right , using the justifications of the political left , to do violence themselves .
Migration and fertility : With the exception of deseparte Millennial women looking to get a child as their fertility runs out given their increasing age , fertility rates for the non-Hispanic white bloc in the US and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ long-standing trends for decades .
Likewise , expect in 2021 to see likely not above replacement rate , but proportionately higher birthrates among the Black and Hispanic demographics .
In the case of Europe and to a lesser extent the US , immigration will continue , and many increase significantly owing to conflicts , especially in the Tigray region of Ethiopia .
In this sense , most “ population growth ” and fertilty will not be grown by actual choices made in-country , but by migrations from out-of-country .
Russia is expected to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of replacement from Central Asia due to death and emigration from Russia among the Slavic population .
In general , we can say that 2021 is going to be much like 2020 , just amplified .
The most important trends , in my estimation , to watch will be the financial sector and the money printing , because that is directly tied to all the above trends .
Either way , it is most likely going to be more of the same , but just more intense , building up to something greater @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a rough ride , and now is the time to enjoy the journey .
Get ready , because the future is upon us .
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As 2020 leaves and 2021 comes into full focus, many things await for this new year. There are many hopes and dreams, but also a lot of concerns about what may come to pass, given that, as a theme I have fully emphasized, nothing has really changed in terms of fundamentals but only become worse.
The main driver of all things getting worse this year has been COVID. Regardless of what one thinks or does not think about COVID, the fact remains that COVID is a really big deal because it exposed the serious economic problems in the US economic machine that has driven the world since the end of World War II. The details of this, while interesting and important in themselves, are not worthy of discussion here, except to say that there were serious problems building since 1965, and that beginning around 1974, those problems were not dealt with through actual economic activity, but through phantom tactics that were nothing more than financialization for the most part. This scam exploded in 2007 with the subprime-cum-derivatives crisis in the financial markets, and has not gone away. The world should have had a major economic collapse by now, and the only reason it has not was because of the US government doing what governments traditionally do as a political solution, which is to destroy the value of the currency through printing. This is not a new thing, but has been done in many countries throughout history going back to ancient times. The main difference is now that the US is so central to the world economy, problems in the dollar create problems for the world that could set the world back to a pre-world war type scenario.
And this warning, the resetting of conditions back to those pre-world war I, are happening around us, except this time with guns more powerful than ever before, nuclear weapons, computers, robotics, and artificial intelligence. If you wanted a science fiction future, you got it coming, because that is what is going to be delivered for the future.
So what is a man to make of all this? Indeed, it is New Years Eve, and I have been sitting here watching the events of the past year on “rewind” while looking to try and anticipate what the future will bring.
Let’s go through a brief list of topics and delve into them.
COVID: This is not going away. COVID is a real issue, but it is more about the political nature of the virus at this point (not to deny the medical issues tied to it in any way). The virus has been used as an excuse to bring out the worst tyrannical impulses in governments, and this trend is going to continue worldwide. What remains to be seen of how the vaccine will influence the relationship between the rulers of society and the ruled is yet to be determined, but we can say for sure that COVID is going to be fully exploited for any political leverage it can bring. Prepare for the potential of COVID travel passports, more invasive forms of monitoring in the name of ‘public safety’, potential restrictions on movement in certain venues, and possibly more severe measures. Measures will vary by country, but the point is that no matter how severe or not various ‘measures’ are applied by nation, the excuse of safety is being used to strip people of their freedom, and people are lining up to get rid of them in the name of ‘safety.’
Freedom as a concept: Speaking of freedom, expect to see continual erosion in things such as freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and just the general idea that people can have an opinion outside of a prevailing and accepted cultural orthodoxy regardless of whether or not it makes any sense. I’m not talking so much about religion here as I am about ‘socially acceptable’ ideas, but certainly not excluding the former. Basically, with the decline in government and man being a creature made to worship, he is exchanging the worship of God for the worship of his own vanities, proclivities, and even governments, and so he is elevating his passions for these ideas over their natural status as concepts governed under religious belief to conceptual idols, and in doing this is risking the creation of political sectarianism and violence as forms of religious practice and worship. It’s why people have come to equivocate certain political positions with sentiments usually reserved for religious fervor or heretical damnation, since the religious impulse has been hijacked, abandoning the supernatural and truth for things of a temporal nature.
Conflict in the world: It’s always existed, but it’s getting worse. Honestly I am at a point where one’s daily task, as a person, ought to be just to read a good newspaper such as the Financial Times or Wall Street Journal daily since thee are so many things happening related to so many issues. However, if I had to point and choose a few, I would watch the social and militaistic impulses in Germany, Turkey, and Japan closely.
China: Please. And let me say I’m not saying that China is NOT a threat or dangerous or does bad things. However, one must remember that China is not nor has ever been as powerful as she seems (her country, mind you, is named in all languages after Emperor Qin, the tyrannical emperor said to have red hair and blue eyes and come from the Turkic Tocharian peoples and was the one who build the Great Wall, made the terra cotta soldiers, standardized the Chinese language, created the Chinese system of dates, weights, and measures, and was also a sadistic cannibal who served his enemies as food to their families). China has a history of being invaded over and over by every Turco-Aryan people that has ever inhabited the steppes of Central Asia or Siberia, not to mention their continual beatings from Japan and the fact that tiny southeast Asia, while not imperial in any way, continually is able to keep China out of their homelands only speaks to the Chinese weakness. Expect to see anger against China increase and the drums for war beat against them, but unless China can stop seriously mistreating her people, clean up her internal messes in all things from trade to farmland, and stop the rampant fraud that has characterized Chinese history since the days of Confucius, expect 2021 to be just another year of delaying what is likely going to be the inevitable cycle of revolution coming from a “mandate of heaven”.
Deutschland:…and über alles as well, for while in 2021 she won’t be there yet, that is what she is striving for. As US power continues to decline in Europe owing to economic problems, as I have noted, watch for the Bundeswehr to continue aggressive programs of remilitarization in the name of “continental security” or a term related to this. Watch for major companies such as Airbus, C.G. Haenel, and Rheinmetall (especially that latter one) become more powerful, see their stock prices grow, and get more contracts with the German government as the potential for an eventual and new I.G. Farben awaits here formation. As the economic problems worsen in Germany these trends will only become more pronounced and if not stopped, and while it won’t be in 2021, there could again be the sound of boots marching from Deutschland to her neighbors once again.
The US Dollar: You still own that stuff? Not that dollars are bad, but the dollar is rapidly losing value as Trump and most likely Biden, following the example of their predecessors, are going to print, print, print, like a drunken sailor spending money on booze, cards, and questionable women at port. I don’t give financial advice, and I’m not saying go on a spending spree. But I’m also saying it may be wise not to save your money in a traditional bank, but to consider investing it into commodities that preserve value, examples being gold, silver, precious metals, and land. I’m not saying spend, but I am saying to pay attention to the markets, because I have explained before, value comes from scarcity, and it is impossible to ‘print’ one’s way to wealth, unless one wants to be a trillionaire in Zimbabwean dollars.
Africa: Watch for more geopolitical fighting on the continent as the preparations for war resources continues. Burkina Faso, Congo, Mozambique, and Ethiopia/Eritrea will be special areas of interest to pay attention to.
Japan: The trends are the same as Germany. Watch for a revival of nationalism, and especially, militarism with a major focus on AI. Also, immigration and population issues will be something to pay attention to, since Japan is undergoing major population problems and waves of migrants from across Asia and Brazil have been brought in to deal with the matter.
AI and robotics: One of the most dangerous trends, and yet also the most important too because robotics is the way of the future. What heavy industry making guns and weapons was in World War I, what nuclear science was in World War II, is what robotics and AI will be in World War III.
Do you have children? It might be a good idea to consider helping them learn about robotics and AI, since this will guide the future. But first steps first, there is a lot more to go than just straight to the Terminator. Battery research, especially with rare earth elements in said batteries to prolong the life of tools, and the proliferation of the “Internet of Things” are the big sub-steps to watch, the latter moreso than the former as far as the popular man is concerned (the former is more about scientists and research for companies such as Tesla). If you haven’t already, consider things like learning Arduinos, Raspberry PI, and other electronic automation processes something that should be looked at very carefully.
You’re old now: Millennials, that is. They are now moving into middle age and the Zoomers are rapidly catching up, as the youngest Zoomer is going to be eleven and the oldest Zoomer will be 26. As the Millennials age, trends to watch will be long-term impoverishment, worsened by the effects of COVID-19, and also to check the suicide rates of Millennial women, for as next year the youngest of the Millennial women (1981) will turn 40, it is at this age that many begin to despair of life, generationally speaking as a whole, and one may start to see what I have feared in so far as the emergence of a trend towards suicide. I also note again this pertains more to women, since men can sire children into old age (think Larry King), but women if they have not had a child by 40 are practically done in so far as it concerns a first child.
Goodbye, Boomers: The oldest of the Boomers turn 75, and with the youngest being 56, all over the age for AARP membership, the Boomers are now the official old people of society, and given that the average age of death in the US is about 78, the Boomers are going to continue to die off, although they will still have some influence. As the 2020s are a decade of escalation, expect to see family tensions begin to escalate as the Boomers begin to get sick and fighting for inheritance- that is, what is left after the reverse mortgages and credit card debts are concerned -within families intensify, all exacerbated by the effects of COVID that have economically devastated people. This will be a major trend to watch beginning in 2021 and continuing for the rest of the decade.
American Lord of War?: Not the movie with Nicholas Cage, but the same concept, where given rising domestic tensions in the US, while I don’t expect to see blood on the streets yet, the tensions will definitely increase among political factions to the point that people are going to be angry to the point they may start hurting each other. Pay special attention to the political right, since they are the ones that have been generally speaking the most restrained, and given the known inclinations of the political left to use violence such as with the BLM riots, look to se potential calls for the political right, using the justifications of the political left, to do violence themselves.
Migration and fertility: With the exception of deseparte Millennial women looking to get a child as their fertility runs out given their increasing age, fertility rates for the non-Hispanic white bloc in the US and Western world will likely decrease, continuing long-standing trends for decades. Likewise, expect in 2021 to see likely not above replacement rate, but proportionately higher birthrates among the Black and Hispanic demographics. In the case of Europe and to a lesser extent the US, immigration will continue, and many increase significantly owing to conflicts, especially in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. In this sense, most “population growth” and fertilty will not be grown by actual choices made in-country, but by migrations from out-of-country. Russia is expected to have the same, continuing the trends of replacement from Central Asia due to death and emigration from Russia among the Slavic population.
Overall analysis
In general, we can say that 2021 is going to be much like 2020, just amplified. The most important trends, in my estimation, to watch will be the financial sector and the money printing, because that is directly tied to all the above trends. Either way, it is most likely going to be more of the same, but just more intense, building up to something greater in the future.
It’s a rough ride, and now is the time to enjoy the journey. Get ready, because the future is upon us.
Happy new year from all of us at Shoebat.com
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shoebat--2020-12-31--The Decay Of the Catholic Church

The Decay Of the Catholic Church

In this video I give some of my reflections on the decay of the Catholic Church :


shoebat--2020-12-31--The Purpose Of Religion Is To Prepare Us For Death

In this video I ponder on the purpose of religion :