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Encore of Revival: America, September 20, 2021

Minimum wage needs a definition. It was intended for people who have a job for the first time, like high school students who live with parents and need to learn how to show up for work. When that wage minimum is applied to long-term employee of fifteen years, something is wrong. And, raising the minimum wage is no answer.

Instead, minimum wage should be defined somehow so that it is not applied to an employee of fifteen years. One important test for whether an employee should receive minimum wage is filing taxes as a dependent or living with parents. That would create two minimum wages: one for young dependents working simple jobs and another for experienced adults who live on their own.

Why hasn’t this been discussed? Blanketly raising the floor on all wages across society doesn’t make the house stand taller, it just adds a step to climb while making the ceiling closer. That sounds more like creating a problem so a politician can campaign on fixing it.

Elections themselves are evermore in doubt. The biggest problem with election fraud isn’t in government, but with news articles about election fraud asserting that fraud claims are “unfounded” without evaluating why. That’s still going on. To quote the ENRON hearings, “One word: ‘California’.”

Even with great products, why do Disney and Apple seem to be part of the problem and not the solution? The Biblical interpretation is to examine the morals of leadership. That’s one way of explaining it.

Election

Beto O’Rourke plans Texas comeback in governor’s race // Axios

Will Biden’s Vaccine Mandates Work? // The Atlantic

California recall vote shows Trump’s big lie is now Republican playbook // Guardian

Human Rights, Civil Liberties & Privacy

Religious exemption to vaccine mandates may be difficult to obtain, as Amish case shows // The Hill

Monopoly, Corptocracy & Big Greed

Critics warn of Apple, Google ‘chokepoint’ repression // Digital Journal

Amid reports of homelessness and food insecurity, 25,000 employees sue Disneyland for better pay // SF Gate

Tim Cook Faces Surprising Employee Unrest at Apple // DNyuz

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Encore of Revival: America, August 9, 2021

Greed is off the charts. Key holders and masters of ceremony are showing their true colors. Apple reportedly profits off apps that charge money either for nothing or with shady sales terms, including casinos hidden in children’s apps. Rich and powerful, including Obama, party in large groups without masks, all while lecturing the world on vaccines and masks during a resurgence of COVID.

The greed is being seen for what it is, on full display. It exists among the very leaders trumpeting a strange kind of globalism where those leaders own even more, they obey fewer rules, create even more rules for everyone else, and where everyone else has barely enough freedom to walk to a park as the only way to enjoy the outdoors. Many would call that servitude. And, about half of American society that would be subjugated by it also applaud it—even while the greed of the would-be slave masters sets on full display.

This can indicate only one thing: God is about to put the humble on fuller display, then conquer this evil already on display. God will first show an infinitely better kind of globalism, cleaning earth by empowering more travel, knowledge, buying power, and other freedoms for all people—a “green model” the greedy elites never suggest. It will be led by Jesus when there is no more church because Jeremiah 31:34 and Hebrews 8:11 will have come to pass—when no one teaches another to know the Lord because everyone will know who brought this not-yet-discussed, true globalism. The secret will start with enforcing what Jesus was expelled for in Nazareth; the secret will be to enforce Jubilee. And, 2021 is a Jubliee year.

Trump

Trump will run for president in 2024, Sean Spicer claims // Guardian

The full picture of Trump’s attempted coup is only starting to emerge // CNN

Scandal, Graft & White Collar Crime

Analysis: Clinton. Trump. Cuomo. Powerful men in politics are often rewarded. // CNN

Soc Media, Cybersecurity & Tech

Apple Suddenly Confirms New iPhone 13 Release Shock // Forbes

Monopoly & Big Greed

WEF by 2030 You’ll own nothing And you’ll be happy // YouTube @ Heinzelmann Heinz

Billionaires Segregate Themselves on Luxury Private Islands as Ordinary People Told They Can’t Travel // Summit News

Maskless Obama hits dancefloor at celeb-filled ‘scaled back’ Martha’s Vineyard 60th birthday bash // Daily Mail

DJ posts pics of Obama’s birthday party before being forced to delete them // NY Post

Conservatives hit climate envoy John Kerry for allegedly flying private plane to Obama’s birthday party // MSN News

Serious Warning Issued For Millions Of Apple iPhone Users // Forbes

Google billionaire Larry Page is an NZ resident, Government confirms // Stuff.co.nz

Pandemic

U.S. City With 2.4 Million Population Has Just Six ICU Beds Left // MSN News

Hawaii, Masked and Vaccinated, Still Falls Prey to Delta Strain // MSN News

Fauci warns US could ‘really be in trouble’ from variant worse than Delta // Independent

US announces new 60-day eviction ban that would protect millions of Americans // Guardian

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Encore of Revival: America, May 3, 2021

Books deals are the Democrats’ new excuse for hostile takeover. Publisher employees attack Pence over a book deal, now the whole Supreme Court needs an investigation commission because they get book deals. Of course there are other details. Of course there are problems that need fixing. But, some people are angry that an election doesn’t mean total domination. They aren’t only attacking a former Vice President from an administration they couldn’t control, nor are they only attacking the only Supreme Court that can hold them in check; they are attacking the idea that anyone can write a book—they are attacking free speech.

And, they don’t have the power to change the Supreme Court. If they try, their ability to change the Court will be decided by the Court—which always rules in favor of itself.

While Democrats bark up a tree of books, rich and greedy people are buying up land. Locals are freaked out. And, it seems the rich want to buy the world without anyone knowing. At one point, Zuckerberg told some Hawaiian locals that he’s sorry. No, he isn’t. He’s back at it. Another billionaire drew attention buying buildings in a small Colorado town. Locals are freaked out. Shouldn’t we all be?

Maybe we shouldn’t. Space travel continues. That’s funded by billionaires too. So, when we get to space, we won’t need to worry about billionaires buying up the land on Mars. They think they already own it, you see.

Trump

Thousands of supporters join staff at Mike Pence’s publisher in campaign against book deal // Guardian

Law

Supreme Court’s Ethics Problems Are Bigger Than Coney Barrett // Bloomberg

Supreme Court takes up major case over right to carry guns outside the home // CNBC

Washington as Usual

Monopoly & Big Greed

Zuckerberg Gobbles Up Another Big Chunk of Hawaii Beachfront // Yahoo News

Billionaire Is Buying Up Small Colorado Town—and Locals Are Freaked // Yahoo UK Finance

Space

With another human spaceflight success, SpaceX turns toward flying private citizens to space // MSN News

NASA’s ‘mole’ tried to dig into Mars. It didn’t go as planned. // Mashable

Perseverance rover just made oxygen on Mars // CNN

Pandemic

Concert at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood marks return to large-scale events in Los Angeles // Yahoo News

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Encore of Revival: America, November 21, 2016

Liberal leaders’ ill preparation of their voters should be cause enough for suspicion. Ongoing disappointment is one of the best-kept secret evils of the two-party system. If Liberal leaders truly cared so much for their voters as their never ending empathy implies, they would have made sure that Liberal voters were ready for the inevitable losses associated with bipolar politics. But, they didn’t. Why?

Ill preparation from Liberal leaders isn’t the biggest cause for question.

The Republican compromisers in Congress over-reached. For decades, they have condescended and lectured their voters on “why having a majority means they must lose”. They didn’t seem to realize that, while Left-wing voters were sissified and setup for dismay this past election, Right-wing voters were strengthened and beat into confidence. As Tolkein writes of Morgoth, “his cunning overreached his aim; his words touched too deep, and awoke a fire more fierce than he designed.” Had the Republican Congress not passed so many Liberal laws on the Bush agenda–stiff FDA rules, the added bureaucracy of DHS, Common Core and centralized education, the Patriot Act, to name a few–the Religious Right would have gladly accepted his brother as the likely-to-lose nominee.

But, this raises the deeper question that Liberal voters also are just now considering: Why do Republican politicians, ostensibly controlled by so-called “Big Wall St. Money”, vote for Liberal ideas against the will of their voters? Wouldn’t that indicate that the so-called “Big Wall St. Money” wants Liberal things to happen? Given the evidence in plain sight, Liberal voters have every reason to question their own political talking points because those points all agree with “Big Wall St. Money”. It’s only a matter of time before they finish mourning their first failure and realize what they already knew.

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