> "We know that already 43 days after conception there is brainwave activity. So even at that point the soul is present, and so abortion would be killing a human person.
--William Lane Craig
https://www.youtube.com/live/T6ou9yo0W1M
Marakesh 𓅦
Marakesh@coinos.io
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Christ Follower • Truth Seeker • Freedom Lover
The US #GovtIsTheProblem
> "As long as there are governments powerful enough to maintain national boundaries and national political postures, then there will be the absolute risk, if not the certainty, of war between them. Even the possibility of war seems far too cataclysmic to contemplate in a world so ripe with technology and prosperous potential, ripe even with the seeds of extraterrestrial exploration. Violence and the institutions that alone can support it should be rendered obsolete."
-- Karl Hess, "The Death of Politics" (1969)
> "Like Linus, neither liberal nor conservative can bear the thought of giving up the blanket--of giving up government and going it alone as residents of a planet, rather than of a country."
-- Karl Hess, "The Death of Politics" (1969)
I was just talking to my dad the other about how his father, my grandfather, was able to raise 11 kids on just his income (and he wasn't wealthy) and have have his wife stay at home, while today, earning what looks like more in dollars, it can be a challenge to afford to raise even one child, with both parents working!
When you see that median earnings per year in gold are now 1/15th of what they were in 1971 it makes sense (assuming gold was/is properly valued)... 😩
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> He who says “state” means coercion and compulsion. He who says: There should be a law concerning this matter, means: The armed men of the government should force people to do what they do not want to do, or not to do what they like. He who says: This law should be better enforced, means: The police should force people to obey this law. He who says: The state is God, deifies arms and prisons. The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
- Ludwig von Mises,
*Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War* (1944)
#anarchy #voluntarism
For the noobs, one beautiful thing about #Nostr is that when one app isn't working (like #Amethyst here)
You can switch to another app (like #Primal here) that does work:
#newstr
You can switch to another app (like #Primal here) that does work:
#newstr
> The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The State's behavior is violence, and it calls its own violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime".
Max Stirner,
*The Ego and Its Own* (1845)
(Max Stirner sketch by Friedrich Engels)
(Max Stirner sketch by Friedrich Engels)
#tunestr
> "Just a few hours ago, #Trump announced the deployment of two nuclear submarines in response to what he called “highly provocative statements” from Duhmeetry Medvedev. A social media spat—yes, a damn tweet—has now triggered a U.S. nuclear escalation. This is no longer political theater. This is nuclear war posturing in real time, and it’s not coming from shadowy generals or faceless bureaucrats—it’s coming from the man many believe is returning to power.
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> "And the Russians? They didn’t laugh. They didn’t flinch. Medvedev responded not with a threat, but a prophecy. He invoked “Dead Hand.” To most Americans, that sounds like Cold War fiction. But to anyone who understands nuclear doctrine, it’s the most terrifying phrase imaginable. It’s not a metaphor. It’s a machine—designed to destroy the world automatically if Russia’s leadership is ever taken out in a first strike.
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> "And Trump? He’s positioning U.S. nuclear submarines for exactly that kind of decapitation scenario.
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> "The Dead Hand—formally known as Perimeter—is a Cold War-era Russian system created for one purpose: to guarantee that #Russia would still launch a full nuclear counterattack even if Moscow were reduced to ash. If command and control are gone, if Putin and his staff are dead, if communications are severed—Dead Hand takes over. It launches everything.
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> "And Trump has just brought us inches away from activating it."
Chuck Baldwin Live
In The Year 2025
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> "It will take a few months for the American citizenry to begin feeling the deleterious and disastrous effects of Trump’s maniacal punitive tariffs, but feel it we will. Tariffs are taxes on consumers. That’s us! If #Trump stays the course of using tariffs as personal, vindictive international retributions, before this time next year, many store shelves will be empty, and the cost of everything will be higher than any of us can now imagine."
Chuck Baldwin Live
In The Year 2025
Download free computerized mp3 audio file of this column (To subscribe to my columns at no cost, click here.) Faithful readers know that I saw Tr...
> "Canada has been quickly sinking into authoritarianism with draconian censorship laws and woke indoctrination. The Carney government is currently implementing a mass gun ban with over 300 models of firearms abruptly prohibited. Conservative Canadians in provinces like Alberta believe that the Carney government is trying to disarm them to prevent secession, a serious possibility under the current conditions. Our conservative brothers to the north have a difficult path ahead of them.
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> "The legal changes in #Canada will leave the #US as the only nation left in the west with widespread civilian gun ownership, not to mention the only nation left with legitimate free speech rights."
Alt-Market.us
As America Soul Searches, The Rest Of The West Is Falling Apart - Alt-Market.us
By Brandon Smith In terms of geopolitics one could argue that allies don’t have to like each other, they just...
> "Keep in mind that the Canadian government has been flooding the country with #Muslim migrants over the past ten years and is allowing them extreme latitude to run their own communities. There has been no government effort to silence the anti-LGBT rhetoric of Islamic speakers."
https://w3.do/jRF_LN6q #Canada
> "In Montreal last week an American #Christian singer by the name of Sean Feucht was set to hold a small concert, but had his permit for the event revoked by city officials. They stated that they were preventing the show because the content “runs counter to the values of inclusion, solidarity, and respect that are championed in Montreal.”
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> "This was just one of six Christian shows that Canadian politicians tried to cancel. They accused Fuecht of promoting “hate”, and the Canadian government is taking actions to remove religious exemptions from existing hate speech laws. This was the goal of hate legislation all along. No official in #Canada is trying to shut down Muslim events; they are singling out Christians with censorship.
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> "Feucht decided to hold the concert in a local church instead, which triggered a bizarre series of incidents. Local police tried to disrupt the concert and demanded Feucht produce a permit which they knew he didn’t have. Antifa and LGBT activists showed up to harass concert goers and one of them threw smoke bombs into the church. They then threatened the singer with fines and arrest. The media attacked him for not having a permit to which he stated: “You don’t need a permit to sing in a church.”
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> "The church has since been fined $2500 | 0.02 BTC for hosting the show.""
Alt-Market.us
As America Soul Searches, The Rest Of The West Is Falling Apart - Alt-Market.us
By Brandon Smith In terms of geopolitics one could argue that allies don’t have to like each other, they just...
> "...I am thoroughly convinced that key elements of #Christianity are ideals that best represent the western world – Our values of hard work, meritocracy, independence, self improvement, freedom, charity, and moral compass are rooted in the #Christian tradition.
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> "Western civilization cannot exist without the fundamentals of Christian doctrine. Remove those fundamentals, and the west will collapse. Moderate liberals cannot keep the west going, their vision is superficial and devoid of soul."
– Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
As America Soul Searches, The Rest Of The West Is Falling Apart - Alt-Market.us
By Brandon Smith In terms of geopolitics one could argue that allies don’t have to like each other, they just...
Some great teaching on Revelation, specifically about the Rapture and #Israel, especially if you're a Dispensationalist...
#Bible #Christian #Maranatha
> "One story is told that Oswald [the king of North Umbria, 7th c. A.D.] was preparing to sit down to feast and he was informed that there were a large number of people outside looking for alms. Moved by pity, Oswald has the food taken to the people outside and orders even the dinnerware to be given away as well. So moved by this, as Bede tells us [in his "Ecclesiastical History of England"], Aidan [a bishop who was with Oswald at the time] raised the hand of the king and proclaimed, 'May this arm never wither!' As you might expect, the uncorrupted arm of the king would be a favorite relic in North Umbria. It would move around until, like so many relics, they were destroyed during the Reformation."
Fountain
Christian History Almanac • Tuesday, August 5, 2025 • Listen on Fountain
Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the Medieval Christian King who was the inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien's King Aragorn. Show Not...
Today on the Christian #History Almanac: Remembering the Medieval #Christian King who was the inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien’s King Aragorn...
#lotr
Fountain
Christian History Almanac • Tuesday, August 5, 2025 • Listen on Fountain
Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the Medieval Christian King who was the inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien's King Aragorn. Show Not...
> "Trump is understandably frustrated that his promise to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours has not been fulfilled after six months in office. President Trump doesn’t seem to understand that you cannot arm one side in a war and then demand that the other side – the side that’s winning – stop fighting. That has never happened in history.
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> What is most tragic is that the war in Ukraine could have likely been ended if not in 24 hours, then surely in six months if #Trump simply ended Joe Biden’s policy on #Ukraine. It is continued US support for the war that keeps the war going."
– Ron Paul
The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity
Cold War 2.0 Heats Up - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity
Last week the nuclear rhetoric between the US and Russia made some of us feel like we were transported back to 1962. Back then, Soviet moves to pla...
