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Encore of Revival: America, June 14, 2021

Raucous parties turn riot in New York. AOC says we have crime because we have prisons—specifically because we waste money on punishing people rather than helping people. Yes, America’s priorities are off. But, solutions are equally simple to their problems. AOC says people need mental health care and hospitals instead of prisons. She forgot to mention how much money gets wasted on church buildings. AOC makes the problem too complicated. The solution to rave partying in New York is much simpler than that. The problem came from a combination of imbalanced taxes and a breakdown of the Darwinian family.

Sunday church hasn’t helped preserve the Darwinian family either, but we’ll circle back to that later.

Young members of New York’s working class are partying at night—after work. This indicates a need to let out stress caused by instability and lack of hope. As we approach the face-off between the Returning Christ and the soon-to-be-seen Antichrist, all Hell is breaking loose, so to speak.

Yes, AOC, people aren’t partying from lack of prisons. No, AOC, people aren’t partying from lack of insane asylums nor from lack of Obamacare. People are partying from lack of a stable home and reliable taxes. After all, why should anyone in New York try to work to become wealthy when New York will tax away their wealth anyway? It goes to show why the partiers of Washington Square label the rich residents uncaring “Karens”. This is a fight between classes inflamed by strange taxes. But, the best-kept secret to the success among residents near Washington Square was always that they came from stable families.

A stable family is not anything AOC will suggest as a solution because stability at home is not something government can take away and then redistribute. Once stability is taken away, it’s gone.

But, what got us here is not a lack of prisons or hospitals anymore than it is a lack of church buildings. The real Jesus—the Returning Christ—can repair all things, even re-stabilize homes. But, the real Jesus is the best-kept secret on Sunday morning. Establishment Churchianity pushed its own man-made morals, which even the Apostle Paul said can’t help (viz Col 2:23). The church-goers left a bad taste in society’s mouth because society doesn’t need another list of made up rules. The best-kept secret on Sunday morning is what God’s rules actually are. Those are very simple and hard for anyone to hate. But, if you’ve hated fake rules all your life, it’s hard to listen to real ones. So, how to love actually remains a secret.

If government can’t redistribute it and Sunday church can’t sell it, nobody wants to talk about it. In response, Washington Square in New York hosts parties to let out our self-made stress. Even police can find an excuse to beat people while church-goers find their excuse to keep complaining. But, some people are starting to see what’s really going on.

Washington as Usual

Violence, Radicalism & Terrorism

AOC’s answer to reducing violent crime? Stop building jails // NY Post

Violence and chaos continues to overrun Washington Square Park // NY Post

NYC’s Washington Square Park hit by fresh stabbings, mugging and assaults // Daily Mail

Soc Media, Cybersecurity & Tech

Apple tightens rules after Justice Department targeted U.S. lawmakers // Yahoo Finance

Science, Weather & Health

Across US West, drought arriving dangerously early // France 24

Music & Entertainment

Hillsong Founder Breaks Silence on Scandals Surrounding Carl Lentz // YouTube @ TODAY

Justin Bieber Leaves Hillsong Church, Not Becoming A Minister // PopCrush

Russia

In NBC interview, Putin calls Trump ‘colorful’ but says he can work with Biden // NBC News

Israel

Israel’s Lapid: from TV anchor to coalition architect // France 24

Netanyahu picks fight with Biden in final speech as prime minister // Jerusalem Post

Naftali Bennett: The tech millionaire son of Berkeley ‘left-wingers’ who is poised to take over from Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu // MSN News

Israel swears in new coalition, ending Netanyahu’s long rule // AP

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Encore of Revival: America, September 23, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPU6q-ZUjnM

Drama, drama, drama... With the celebritization of Kavanaugh, the judiciary is gaining even more power than it had in the past.

The Left is unhappy with new judges who hold the value of "applying the law", rather than judges who "do whatever they think is right". What you think is right might not be what I think is right. Who decides? The law should. Liberals want judges who take sides and create an imbalance. New judges will keep balance and apply the law, even if they disagree with it, thereby giving justice even to their enemies. The only way that the Left hopes to stop this new sweep of justice in our courts is to attack Kavanaugh—but that is only making him famous and, thus, more powerful.

Drama is the Left's way of shooting its foot off. AOC has been a gift to the Republicans. Congressional Democrats just don't get how much they alienate voters with their incessant pushing. Of course there are voters who support their left-of-center ideals, but not most voters. And, they don't know that. And, it's about to cost them the election.

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Encore of Revival: America, July 22, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGcon1V_4dY

Washington is all excited because this week Mueller is scheduled to testify, again, about a report he already handed in. If the report had said enough on its own then there would be no need for him to testify, again. Democrats are all excited, but not as excited as Senator Graham, who plans to launch his own investigation investigation.  While Washington is distracted with theatrics of Russians and the "fab four", a much deeper problem is swelling, one which will not escape Trump's tenure unchanged: social media.

Social media giants are out of control. One current argument on the table is to make Google's "index" public.

This "index" is Google's inside stockpile of information that a "Google search" queries. Right now, it's on lockdown and no one can access it without going through Google. Making it public would allow anyone to use it—if they know the right code, which code monkeys could learn. And, that's where the trouble is...

Publicizing Google's search index would be difficult to prove because it would need a new computer language—or API—to access. What's to keep Google from making that API language too difficult to use? And, what's to ensure the same idiots in Washington who tried to ram SOPA & PIPA down everyone's throats—or wondered if Hillary wiped her server "with a cloth"—would know whether Google is making the API too difficult to use?

It could be done. It would need oversight. It should apply to Yahoo, Microsoft, and any other publicly traded tech giant with a search index. And, it would be a game changer.

According to Bloomberg, Google gets over 90% of all search traffic; Microsoft's Bing at second place gets under 3%. That's a lot of power to be in just one place.

While the current thinkers have "thunk" up this as the way to regulate Google under laws governing "public utilities", there's another important argument to consider. Google's search index isn't an index about Google's own intellectual property—Google's search index is an index about private information owned by everyone. So, the real question is whether it should be legal to "index the public", which is essentially what Google does. If it's legal to "index the public", then of course the public should have access to that index, duh.

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