Eastern Approaches—Alex Thomson
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Alex Thomson of ukcolumn.org. Geopolitics, Christianity, education, constitution.
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Forwarded from ResistingTheLies (DJ)
Islanders have raised concerns over food supplies and potential shortages following changes in freight delivery. 

The fears emerged amid claims Scottish Government-owned ferry operator, CalMac, gave around two weeks notice over planned changes, which sources say could lead to chilled, fresh and frozen food bound for Raasay being left outside rather than inside a cold storage shed on the Isle of Skye before being shipped.

Sources have told the Herald that crucial early deliveries of food would not be accepted on the island if it was left outside.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23737903.island-food-shortage-fears-calmac-freight-changes/
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When Scripture speaks of the trumpet sounding, it's the goes-right-through-you sound of a shofar (ram's horn) or salpinx that's meant, not something you can play a Händelian obbligato on.

t.iss.one/survivethejive/5325
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"The Scottish Parliament is like a kindergarten project with leaves glued on paper ... Portcullis House is a crematorium save for the belching smoke, and Westminster tube station reminded me of a chicken processing factory."

ukcolumn.org/video/a-glimpse-into-cities-architecture-planning-and-control-with-leon-krier
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"More likely is that the professional conservatives themselves are the ones that gave the kiss of death to the churches’ traditional civic role. Imitating the Left, it is their lobbies and law firms (ostensibly “Christian” or not) that eclipsed the churches and drove them from active public engagement — or gave them the excuse to run away."

stephenbaskerville.substack.com/p/who-neutered-the-churches
I attended the same sheikh's lecture of the same title delivered a week later in Rotterdam.

The key lesson for me from his honest Qur'ānic scholarship on this topic is that the fundamental disagreement between thinking scriptural Muslims and thinking scriptural Christians is not even the unitarian-trinitarian question but rather the question of how man is just with God.

Sheikh Imran's persuasion within Islam can accept Trinitarian Christians as brethren, and will castigate other Muslims who are more dismissive of Christians (on the basis that Allāh is seen in the Qur'ān blessing and favouring Rūm, which is Byzantium, when that empire unambiguously worships Jesus as God); and they can accept a position quite close to that of the Old and New Testaments on the question of whether Christ died on the cross; but they reject as abhorrent and repugnant to the character of God the notion that His death paid the vicarious penalty for sinners.

youtube.com/watch?v=lDdGDe3uai0
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Forwarded from Late Stage Ireland
Media is too big
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Former Sinn Féin voter confronts Aengus Ó Snodaigh.

"Bobby Sands would be ashamed of you now for what you're doing, selling out the Irish people."

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Today's annual GCSE results indicate that most British institutions wilfully recognise a fail as a pass.

sarahplumley.substack.com/p/gcse-scandal-2023
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(Settings cogwheel —> Subtitles —> German (auto-generated)>>English)

Suddenly not so scary Stasi boss addresses the East German “parliament”, four days after the Wall fell.

The interruption at 2’15” that doesn’t get picked up by the autotranscript is: “Not everyone in this Chamber is your ‘comrade', you know."

youtube.com/watch?v=ynb9nYLLSGQ
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What was called the "milk run" in my parents' day:

"The business model of McKinsey is wild — it’s a cartel, but the product that they monopolize in order to restrict supply and drive up prices is smart people. McKinsey’s secret sauce is that they have figured out how to strip these smart, young, idealistic people of ethics over the course of a few years and turn them into stone cold killers on behalf of capital ... McKinsey claims that when it advises companies, governments, NGOs, etc. “we don’t do policy, we do execution.” That allows them to work for anyone while sidestepping any questions of conscience or morality."

tobyrogers.substack.com/p/is-mckinsey-and-company-the-deep
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Forwarded from Nick Plumeridge
This pastor deserves a prize.
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