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Scottish Churches Ask Court to Overturn Order Criminalizing In-person Services

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The New American: A group of Scottish church leaders is taking their government to court over recent coronavirus regulations that outlawed holding or attending an in-person worship service.

On January 8, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon “made it a criminal offense in the highest tiers for churches to hold services in-person,” according to a press release from the London-based Christian Legal Center, which is supporting the churches’ request for judicial review of the order. Sturgeon also forbade individuals to leave home to attend worship services.

While the order bans in-person services, it permits churches to be open for funerals, very small weddings, and “essential voluntary services or urgent public support services” such as providing food banks or serving as blood-donation or vaccination centers.

On January 15, 27 church leaders from a variety of denominations sent a pre-action letter to the Scottish ministers, urging them to reopen churches. Their pleas fell on deaf ears, so they are now asking the courts to intervene. Read More

Mahmoud Abbas is threatening to kill anyone who might oppose him

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Jihad Watch: The Palestinian attempt to appease the Biden administration by holding Palestinian elections threatens to reveal the flabbiness and collapse of Fatah, which lies at the heart of the Palestinian Authority.

Recently, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas threatened Fatah members who opted to run outside the Fatah list with death. This apparently occurred last week during a Fatah Revolutionary Council meeting in Ramallah.

Abbas had barred members of the Fatah Central Committee, Revolutionary Council, and Consultative Council from running in the upcoming legislative elections. This ban also included current ministers, ambassadors, governors, security officials, and former members of the Legislative Council.

Abdel Fattah Hamayel, a senior member of Fatah and former governor of Bethlehem, posted a message on Facebook in which he indicated that Abbas would be responsible if he were killed.  “This [post] is an official complaint to all legal departments and human rights institutions,” he added. Read More

Report: Iranian attack against Israeli embassy in African state foiled

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Israel Hayom: An Iranian terror attack targeting an Israeli embassy in one of Africa’s eastern countries was thwarted in January, Kan 11 News reported on Monday.

Citing Western intelligence sources, the report said that Tehran sent agents to the unnamed country for the purpose of gathering information about the Israeli, American, and Emirati embassies in order to carry out an attack against one of them.

Kan 11 News did not stipulate which agencies foiled the terrorist operation but mentioned that some of the Iranian agents were arrested in the African state and some in other locations.

Several agents were of European nationality, besides their Iranian citizenship, the report noted.

The sources cited by Kan further said that the operation was conducted in part as an attempt to avenge the killing of top Iranian commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani and nuclear project chief Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad on Jan. 3, 2020. Fakhrizadeh was assassinated on Nov. 27, 2020 in the outskirts of Tehran. Read More

Ultra-elite Prep-school Parents Rage Against Racial, Anti-white Curriculum

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The New American: Be careful what you wish for — you just may get it. Some wealthy New York City parents may be learning this the hard way now that their prep school has begun ramming a racialized, anti-white curriculum down their children’s throats.

Faculty at NYC's Dalton School issues 8-page anti-racism manifesto

Perhaps they should have seen this coming at Manhattan’s posh Dalton School. After all, it was reported last year that the small institution planned to hire 12 diversity officers (hey, Yale University already has 150 full-time ones), which partially explains why it charges $54,180 in yearly tuition.

Regardless, a group of Dalton parents is now rebelling against the social engineering and has “circulated a letter of protest, seeking to ensure that Junior and Muffy will not be dumbed down and radicalized in the name of avenging the death of George Floyd of a drug overdose while in custody of the Minneapolis Police,” writes American Thinker.

“It is notable that the parents backing the letter remain anonymous; such is [the] power of casual accusations of ‘racism’ today,” the site continues. “Nonetheless, at least when their privacy is protected, parents can recognize that the demands of the racialists can harm their offspring, curtailing the breadth and depth of their education, degrading their ability to think and be aware of the intellectual heritage of our civilization, and maybe even cheapening the value of the education they receive.” Read More

Elon Musk says his start-up Neuralink has wired up a monkey to play video games using its mind

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CNBC: Elon Musk said in an interview that a monkey has been wired up to play video games with its mind by a company he founded called Neuralink.

  • Neuralink put a computer chip into the monkey’s skull and used “tiny wires” to connect it to its brain, Musk said.
  • “It’s not an unhappy monkey,” he said during a talk on Clubhouse, a new social media app gaining popularity that allows people to have informal voice chats while others listen in. Read More

Iran’s FM suggests path to overcome impasse with US

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Arutz Sheva: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday suggested a path to overcome the impasse with Iran over who first returns to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

Speaking to CNN and quoted by Reuters, Zarif said, “There can be a mechanism to basically either synchronize it or coordinate what can be done.”

Zarif noted the agreement created a Joint Commission coordinated by the European Union foreign policy chief, a role currently held by Josep Borrell.

Josep Borrell: Green Light To EU's New Foreign Policy Chief

Borrell, said the Iranian Foreign Minister, “can … sort of choreograph the actions that are needed to be taken by the United States and the actions that are needed to be taken by Iran.”

The commission includes Iran and the six other parties to the deal: Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States.

Former US President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 agreement nearly three years ago and reimposed sanctions on Iran. The Islamic Republic, in turn, has gradually scaled back its compliance with the 2015 deal. Read More

Inflation Galore at Manufactures, amid Massive Shifts in Demand, Supply-Chain Snags, Shortages, Lack of Shipping Capacity

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Wolf Street:

For now, the story is that it’s just temporary.

For now, the story is that the sudden and massive shifts in the economy in 2020 have caused shortages and distortions in the goods-producing sectors and in shipping and trucking, as consumer spending has shifted from services – such as flying somewhere for vacation and spending oodles of money on lodging and restaurants and theme parks – to goods, particularly durable goods.

The story is that prices are rising because components and commodities are in short supply, and supply chains are dogged by production issues, and are facing transportation constraints, as demand for those goods has suddenly surged. And that all this is temporary.

And the Fed has said it will ignore inflation for a while, that it will allow it to overshoot, and only when it overshoots persistently for some unknown amount of time and becomes “unwelcome” inflation – “unwelcome” for the Fed – that it will try to tamp down on it.

Meanwhile, inflation pressures are building up. Read More

“COVID-19 Jails” Open in Germany for Quarantine Offenders

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The New American: The 19th-century philosopher George Santayana famously wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Shockingly, Germany seems to be suffering from a severe bout of historical amnesia. Taking extreme action to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, the country is interning people in “camps” to punish those found “guilty” of subverting strict COVID-19 quarantine rules.

Opening today, February 1, 2021, in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, is Germany’s first “corona prison.” Reporting by the RAIR Foundation uncovers that quarantine offenders will be held at the former Mortsfelde youth detention center. Inmates will be “policed by former law enforcement officials and prison wardens.” The crimes allegedly committed by these “dangerous” individuals include “refusing to quarantine after engaging in travel, after coming in contact with high-risk individuals, or after receiving a positive test result.”

Descriptions of the lockdown facility might be lifted straight out of a George Orwell or Ray Bradbury novel.

The center is reportedly surrounded by barbed wire and a security fence. It permits up to six people; each convict is held in a 129-square foot cell. Metal bars cover the windows of inmates’ rooms, and meals are allegedly delivered through a food flap in the heavy steel room door. Read More

Pollak: Biden Risks Putting the Middle East Back on a Path to War

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Breitbart: Presidents like to say that their predecessors left them a mess. Yet in Middle East policy, President Donald Trump left his successor an extraordinary gift of peace and stability.

Peace agreements were emerging almost weekly between Israel and her Arab neighbors. Iran, struggling under the burden of U.S. sanctions, was isolated, broke, and wracked by internal turmoil. In Afghanistan, a tentative deal with the Taliban meant that U.S. troops could look forward to coming home.

Trump left the U.S. in a position of historic strategic advantage. But like President Barack Obama, who squandered the gains of the Iraq “surge” and withdrew before the country was stable enough to prevent the rise of the terrorist “Islamic State,” Biden is throwing away many of the gains Trump achieved in the region.

If he simply stays on the course Trump charted, Biden can maximize his leverage on Iran and entice Saudi Arabia to make peace with Israel.

Those prospects are dimming. Read More

African social activist condemns US intent to target developing nations with abortion funding

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President Biden is revoking the Mexico City Policy as part of his commitment to protect women’s health and advance gender equality ...

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