Acceleration: The Next Dangerous Stage

From Glenn Beck.com (Jan. 26):

For a long time, we treated political violence like a weather event: rare, localized, tragic--then over. But law enforcement and researchers have been warning for years about a mindset that is different from normal extremism. It's not "I want my side to win."

It's "I want the system to break."

This mindset has a name: accelerationism.

This is exactly what is happening in Minnesota right now. It's moved beyond peaceful protest; it's even moved beyond "mostly" peaceful protest. Things have begun to accelerate.

"Accelerationism"--right or left--has a recognizable logic. It is a rising ideology that believes society is corrupt beyond repair. Institutions are illegitimate. Chaos is a tool. Violence is an accelerant. That's not a theory. That is an observable ideological pattern across multiple movements and decades. The key change in the last several years is this: it's more connected than it used to be. It is not necessarily more disciplined It is not necessarily bigger in raw numbers. But it is more connected--more quickly mobilized--more capable of spreading tactics, targets, and narratives. Accelerationism is going mainstream. That changes the risk profile.

The second fact: The line between "protest" and "insurgent behavior" is being tested,

Protest is protected. Even loud, offensive protests that make you furious.

But there's a line that every stable society must defend, or it ceases to be stable. That line is crossed when groups begin to coordinate to obstruct lawful operations as a strategy. not an accident. They track or identify government personnel for intimidation. They build parallel communications networks specially designed to evade accountability. They justify targeting state actors as morally necessary.

Those are not theoretical markers. They are historically recognizable markers. When those behaviors appear. the question is no longer. "Is this a demonstration?" The question becomes: "Is someone trying to build veto power over law enforcement through fear?" Because once a movement believes it can control outcomes by making enforcement too costly--too dangerous--too politically 1'adioactive-then law becomes optional. And when law becomes optional, the next step is not persuasion. It's escalation.

The third fact: Cities become laboratories when enforcement is inconsistent

This is the part that's hard to say out loud, because it sounds like an insult to the city. It isn't. It's sociology. When you have an environment with deep political polarization. high distrust of institutions, uneven prosecution, activist ecosystems with strong NGO infrastructure. and a constant media feedback loop, those conditions don't automatically produce violence. But they do produce something else. They produce repeated stress tests. It is not "one riot." It is not "one clash." It is a series of probes. How fast can we mobilize?

What are police allowed to do?

Will prosecutors follow through?

Will federal authority pull back if we make it ugly enough?

Can we create martyrs?

Can we flood the zone with a narrative before facts catch up?

That is what "laboratory" means: not that everyone is guilty. but that the environment is ideal for testing the boundaries of the state. If the state responds with either overreach which manufactures recruits) or paralysis (which manufactures militias), then you have a recipe for replication. [read more]

Scary.  What did Van Jones say? Top down--bottom up--inside out. Is that what's happening now in Wisconsin? 

Who Funds the Groups Harassing ICE Agents in Minnesota? The Left's Premier Foundations and Dark Money Networks Have Given Millions, Records Show.

From Free Beacon.com (Jan. 14):

When the Trump administration sent some 2,000 immigration agents to the Twin Cities area, they were met by activists who trailed their movements and harassed them outside their hotels. The activists are members of radical groups that together have received millions of dollars from the Left's premier foundations and dark money networks, including George Soros's Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, the Tides Foundation, and the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a Washington Free Beacon review found.

At the center of the unrest is the Sunrise Movement, a left-wing group founded to fight climate change that has since directed its local chapters to fight the Trump administration. For Sunrise Twin Cities, that means tormenting ICE agents on the ground. The group holds in-person "action trainings" on how to "stop ICE & build a revolution." It also maintains a running list of the Twin Cities hotels housing ICE agents and organizes late-night "noise demonstrations" aimed at making it "impossible" for those hotels to operate.

Sunrise is bankrolled by a who's who of deep-pocketed left-wing organizations. Open Society Foundations has sent it $2 million since 2019, according to its grant database. Half of the money supported general "social welfare activities." The Ford Foundation contributed $150,000 in 2024 and $550,000 in 2025, while the MacArthur Foundation—the 12th-largest private charity in America—gave $250,000 in 2024, according to tax filings and grant disclosures. Sunrise says it generally rejects "checks that come with expectations of input on our strategy." It also says donations go to support its local chapters with "materials, housing, technology, food, travel, training expenses, and more."

Sunrise Twin Cities has collaborated with two other local groups to drive anti-ICE demonstrations: Unidos MN and Defend the 612.

Unidos, an "immigrant-led, BIPOC majority, multiracial, state-wide organization," leads a "rapid response" network through its affiliate group, Monarca. That network includes a 24/7 hotline that Twin Cities residents can call to report ICE activity. The group's trained "responders" are then dispatched to the area in an attempt to prevent ICE agents from making arrests. Like Sunrise, Unidos is backed by the Ford Foundation, which sent the group $400,000 in 2024. The left-wing dark money juggernaut Sixteen Thirty Fund sent Unidos $150,000 between 2021 and 2022, tax filings show. [read more]

Just the usual suspects funding the professional "protesters." Nothing organic. And when an agitator gets arrested following their advice (orders?) these funding groups probably won't help them.

According Bill O’Reilly on his First TV broadcast here are some more far-Left groups aiding chaos in Minneapolis: BreakThrough News, The People’s Forum, Party for Socialism of America, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee, Black Lives Matters chapters.

More on the agitators:

• I Got Inside the Signal Chats Used by Far-Left Extremists in Minnesota—Here’s What I Saw
• Who's Funding the Insurrection?
  
• ‘Grassroots’ anti-ICE campaigns funded by left-wing billionaire donors: sources
  
• Anti-ICE Activism Represents The Suicide Of Western Civilization
  

How Christianity Created the Hospital

From Breakpoint.org (Aug. 17, 2022):

Far from being an otherworldly religion, Christianity teaches both the importance and goodness of life in this world. In fact, from Jesus’ healing ministry to the work of modern missionary doctors, a consistent feature of the work of the Church in the world has been to care for the sick and needy, and not just point them to the life to come.

The early Church understood Jesus’ ministry to be a paradigm for their own work. So, just as Jesus set believers free from their bondage to sin, early Christians purchased slaves specifically to free them. Whereas Jesus used miraculous power to heal people from physical effects of the Fall, Christians used more ordinary tools to care for the sick and disabled. These activities are not merely good deeds in themselves but serve to advance the Kingdom. Though the Gospel is a message and must be proclaimed, the early Church saw works of mercy and preaching the Gospel as two sides of the same coin.

The first major epidemic faced by the Church was the Antonine Plague (A.D. 166-189). In fear of their lives, the Romans threw the sick out of their homes to die in the streets. Galen, the most prominent physician of the age, knew he could neither heal its victims nor protect himself. So, he fled Rome to stay at his country estate.

Recognizing that all persons were made in the image of God and that Jesus came to make all things new, body and soul, many Christians ran the other direction. They fought the Fall by tending to the sick, at risk (and often at the cost) of their own lives.

Since even basic nursing care can make a significant difference during an epidemic, Christian action saved lives. Their courage and self-sacrifice contributed to the rapid growth of Christianity. For example, when Irenaeus arrived in Lyon from Asia Minor, there were very few Christians. By the time the plague ended, there were 200,000 believers in Lyon.

The Plague of Cyprian, which took place the following century, was named after the bishop of Carthage who documented the epidemic. Dionysius of Alexandria, also a bishop, described what happened this way:

At the first onset of the disease, they pushed the sufferers away and fled from their dearest, throwing them into the roads before they were dead and treating unburied corpses as dirt…

But, he continued…

Most of our brother Christians showed unbounded love and loyalty, never sparing themselves and thinking only of one another. Heedless of danger, they took charge of the sick, attending to their every need and ministering to them in Christ.

From the earliest centuries, Christians embraced the medical theories and practices of the day. Contrary to stereotypes, the early Church did not attribute illness to demons, though they did recognize demonization as a real phenomenon. The real difference between Christians and physicians of the day was the willingness to risk death in order to treat the sick, convinced that if they died it would only mean a transition to a better life. The physicians, on the other hand, fled.

Christians also founded the first hospitals in history. By the late fourth century, there were hospitals in both the eastern and western halves of the empire. By the Central Middle Ages, hospitals and leprosaria (leprosy hospitals) could be found throughout most of the Christian world. When universities began granting medical degrees during the period, church-affiliated institutions continued to provide much of the care.

By the 18th century, the medical field had become increasingly professionalized and separate from the clergy. Though monasteries still provided care for the poor and nursing was almost entirely in the hands of sisters and nuns, professional physicians increasingly handled medical issues for those who could afford to pay. Clergy attended to the dying and contributed to discussions of medical ethics but had few other responsibilities for the sick.

However, medicine was an integral part of the modern mission movement of the 19th century. Because Christianity has always affirmed the importance of the body, hospitals soon followed wherever missionaries went. This is another way the Church has been essential throughout history. [source]

Globalism Is Satanic

From Caldron.com (Aug. 1, 2022):

A significant milestone occurred last Saturday in the ongoing cultural civil war in America.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene declared at a Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Tampa, Florida that not only is she a nationalist, she is a Christian nationalist, and that other conservatives should embrace the label.

The shrieking from the atheist media and the establishment church was shrill and immediate, of course. Newsweek, Time, MSNBC, the New York Times and many others have run hit pieces. The fear was palpable.

They are right to be afraid. The political cult that is cultural Marxism has advanced without adversary for decades through Western societies because its footsoldiers are fanatics and the milquetoast church leaders who should have fought back were too cozy, too careerist and too foolish to take it seriously.

Now we’re murderers.

Champagne communists like Pirate Pete don’t care about gay people or Indigenous people or Muslims or women. They love only themselves. They hate the gospel just as much, and they pretend concern for the ‘marginalized’ and oppressed of the world as a cudgel to wield against God and His people.

They are getting worried because there is an organized resistance forming to the cult of fake love taking over our societies. The movement against identity communism isn’t coming from the church establishment, however; those elite Sadducees who make good money as professional Christians using clever sophistry to compromise the faith and finding willing ears among those who still want a nice church to go to on Sunday but don’t want it to say anything that might offend their gay cousin.

The beginning of the rebellion against this demonic identity cult is coming from us peons in the pews, and it is scaring the purple-haired Marxists no end because they know it has the potential to roll back their century-long march through Western institutions.

So why Christian nationalism, then?

Well, largely because it’s the logical dialectical reaction to Satanic globalism. Jesus commanded us to be wise as serpents (Matthew 10:16), and have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but instead expose them (Ephesians 5:11).  So let’s do that.

Western Marxists are driven by a religious vision for humanity. They have a heaven they long for, but it is not celestial. It’s an earthly paradise that can only be achieved once the original sin of humanity has been redeemed.

No, not the original sin outlined in Genesis. The original sin of colonizing whiteness, of toxic masculinity, of stifling heteronormativity. Just as in the rambling original writings of Marx the labouring proletariat is oppressed by the property-owning bourgeoisie, in Western Marxism the bourgeoisie has been replaced by straight white men and the enslaved proletariat has been replaced by marginalized neurodivergent other-abled gender-non-conforming birthing people with special needs.

We can laugh at how ridiculous it looks when laid out plainly, but these people aren’t messing around. They’ve got a heaven on earth to realize, and you and I are getting in the way with all our plain speech, fact-based thinking and adherence to Scripture.

Western Marxists believe themselves to be the white saviours of all humanity. It is a political project as much as an ideological crusade. The same people who #BelieveAllWomen and #StandWithUkraine also love the United Nations and believe that Western imperialism is justified if it means just one more little girl in Pakistan can sit at the front of the class like her brother.

We Christians have underestimated the danger of ideological utopianism to our peril. The utopian political project has run like a crimson stain through atheist thinking since Thomas More wrote Utopia. Satan plays a long game. Its origins can be traced back even further to Plato’s Republic. The genocidal periods of Islamic expansion could even be included in the body count of utopianism given the earthly focus of the Mohammedan project to expand the Ummah across the world when a caliph is recognized.

Satan has long used the siren song of an earthly utopia to delude men into becoming ideological zealots. It drove forward the French Revolution and the Paris Commune a century later which then inspired Marx and Engels. It powered the firing squads and rape brigades of Bolshevism, the Einsatzgruppen of the Eastern Front and the Red Guards of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

This beast has claimed hundreds of millions of lives and the church in the West has watched it be incubated in our lecture halls and classrooms since the 60s and done nothing. Now the beast has a new form and it’s strong. Very strong. [read more]

Juvenile Court Hears Case of Teens in French Teacher Murder

From Daily News Planet.com (Dec. 2023):

On Monday, November 27, six French teenagers went on trial for their alleged roles in the 2020 beheading of their history and geography teacher.

The juvenile court, where the trial is being held until December 8, 2023, is having closed-door proceedings, with the participants and audience limited to only those people directly affected by the case.

The victim, Samuel Paty, 47, was a secondary school teacher in the Paris suburb Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. He was killed on October 16, 2020, by an 18-year-old Chechen refugee, Abdoullakh Anzorov, who was later shot dead by the French police. The murder occurred shortly after Paty showed caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed from the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo during a class on French free speech laws.

Six teens, who were 14 or 15 years old at the time, were charged with participating in the lead-up to Paty’s killing. Five of them are accused of criminal conspiracy intending to incite violence, allegedly identifying Paty to Anzorov in return for money. The sixth accused, a 13-year-old girl at the time, is charged with making false allegations about Paty, disproven by her not being present during the class.

Louis Cailliez, the lawyer for the Paty family, is focused on understanding the teenagers’ actions, which he called “unforgivable.” Antoine Ory, representing one defendant, expressed his client’s regret and apprehension about confronting Paty’s relatives. The accused teenagers, now high school students, did not anticipate that their actions would escalate to murder, expecting at worst social media censure or minor physical repercussions for Paty.

The case is part of a broader inquiry, including trials for eight adults planned for late 2024. The involvement of the minors in the sequence of events resulting in Paty’s death is a central issue in both the teen and adult trials.

Samuel Paty’s murder has brought renewed focus on jihadist violence in France. In October, another teacher, Dominique Bernard, was stabbed, reflecting the ongoing threat of radical Islamist violence. [source]

This is a good reason why a person might have Islamophobia.

Earth's rotating inner core is starting to slow down — and it could alter the length of our days

From Live Science.com (June 19, 2024):

A new study confirms that Earth's inner core has been rotating more slowly than usual since 2010. This mysterious "backtracking" could also end up slightly altering the planet's overall rotation, lengthening our days.

The heart of our planet has been spinning unusually slowly for the past 14 years, new research confirms. And if this mysterious trend continues, it could potentially lengthen Earth's days — though the effects would likely be imperceptible to us.

Earth's inner core is a roughly moon-size chunk of solid iron and nickel that lies more than 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) below our feet. It is surrounded by the outer core — a superhot layer of molten metals similar to those in the inner core — which is surrounded by a more solid sea of molten rock, known as the mantle, and the crust. Although the entire planet rotates, the inner core can spin at a slightly different speed as the mantle and crust due to the viscosity of the outer core.

Since scientists started mapping Earth's inner layers with detailed seismic activity records around 40 years ago, the inner core has rotated slightly faster than the mantle and the crust. But in a new study, published June 12 in the journal Nature, researchers found that since 2010, the inner core has been slowing down and is now rotating a bit more slowly than our planet's outer layers.

"When I first saw the seismograms that hinted at this change, I was stumped," John Vidale, a seismologist at the University of Southern California, Dornsife, said in a statement. "But when we found two dozen more observations signaling the same pattern, the result was inescapable."

If the inner core's rotation continues to decelerate, its gravitational pull could eventually cause the outer layers of our planet to spin a little more slowly, altering the length of our days the researchers wrote.

However, any potential change would be on the order of thousandths of a second, which would be "very hard to notice," Vidale said. As a result, we would likely not have to change our clocks or calendars to adjust for this difference, especially if it were only a temporary change.

This is not the first time scientists have suggested that Earth's inner core is slowing down. This phenomenon, known as "backtracking," has been debated for around a decade but has been very hard to prove.

In the new study, researchers analyzed data from more than 100 repeating earthquakes — seismic events that occur repeatedly at the same location — along a tectonic plate boundary in the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean between 1991 and 2023.

Each earthquake allowed scientists to map the core's position relative to the mantle and by comparing these measurements, the team was able to see how the inner core's rotation rate changed over time.

The new study is the "most convincing" evidence so far that backtracking has been happening, Vidale said.

It is currently unclear why the inner core is backtracking, but it is likely caused by either "the churning of the liquid iron outer core that surrounds it" or "gravitational tugs from the dense regions of the overlying rocky mantle," the researchers wrote.

It is also unclear how frequent backtracking is. It is possible that the inner core's spin is constantly accelerating and decelerating, but these changes likely happen over decades or longer. Therefore, longer data sets are needed to infer anything about long-term trends.

The inner core remains one of the most mysterious of Earth's hidden layers. But in recent years, new technologies are allowing researchers to learn more about the inner core, including that it is slightly lopsided, that it is softer than expected, that it potentially wobbles off Earth's axis and that it has a separate innermost core.

The study authors will continue to analyze seismic data to learn more about the heart of our planet and how it changes over time.

"The dance of the inner core might be even more lively than we know," Vidale said. [source]

More interesting science that mankind can't change just like mankind can't control global warming. Earth is just too massive for either control.

More on the core:

• Earth's Inner Core Is Mysteriously Changing Shape, Study Reveals
• Is Earth’s Core Rusting?

Denmark Doesn’t Deserve Greenland

From The Federalist.com (Jan. 21):

Last week, President Trump announced that the United States will acquire Greenland one way or the other.

Greenland is a self-governing territory of Denmark; it is the world’s largest island, with a small population of less than 100,000 inhabitants, mostly composed of indigenous people called Inuits.

Because Greenland sits at the intersection of three continents (Asia, Europe, and North America) and is rich in strategic resources, it has immense geopolitical importance.

The island is home to one of Earth’s largest uranium deposits. Uranium is essential for nuclear energy production, and it plays a crucial role in supporting nuclear power generation in the United States. Environmental groups oppose its extraction because they claim it may pollute the island’s environment, so Greenland imposed a ban on uranium mining in 2021.

In the same place where uranium is found on the island — the Kvanefjeld Mining Project on the southern side of the island — there are also vast deposits of rare earth minerals. These minerals form critical components for technologically advanced defense equipment, electric cars, and wind turbines. A sustainable supply of these minerals is vital to the U.S. defense industry.

On the island’s east coast, Greenland has large oil and gas reserves, which are still unexploited. So far, Denmark has not extracted any of these resources, while the United States would be able to make full use of them.

U.S. military presence in Greenland is of great geostrategic importance due to its proximity to Russia, providing early warning of missile launches from America’s principal adversary in the Arctic. Military installations on the island are the cornerstone of the development of the next-generation missile defense shield, called the Golden Dome. In fact, positioning missile interceptors on the island is a critical asset to counter Russia’s most advanced weapons. The island also plays an essential role in monitoring naval and submarine movements in the Arctic Ocean.

After the Trump administration expressed interest in acquiring the island, Denmark vehemently opposed U.S. plans, and Danes launched a grassroots boycott of American brands, targeting iconic companies such as Coca-Cola and Netflix.

This month, Denmark launched Operation Arctic Endurance, a military drill in Greenland involving several other European countries, including France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The objective of the exercise is to demonstrate readiness to defend the island. In response, the Trump administration imposed a 10 percent tariff on several countries participating in this operation. The tariffs take effect on Feb. 1 and last until an agreement for the purchase of Greenland is reached.

The European military exercise was unnecessary since the United States already holds a military base on the island. In 1951, the U.S. started the construction of the Thule Air Base in Greenland, which became America’s northernmost operational base. During the Cold War, the base was a key point in American aerospace defense.

In 2020, the United States changed the installation’s name to Pituffik Space Base, reflecting the native designation for the region. The base’s radar can detect and track ballistic threats, making it a sort of sentinel of the North. Its integration into the Golden Dome would give it the unique ability to detect, track, and intercept Russian missile threats faster than other radars, due to its central location in the Arctic region.

During his first administration, President Trump demanded that all NATO countries increase their defense spending to at least 2 percent of their annual gross domestic product. Because of Trump’s pressure, last year NATO members agreed to boost their defense spending to 5 percent of their GDP by 2035.

Until 2022, Denmark’s defense spending was just 1.36 percent of its GDP or lower going back to 2014, while U.S. defense spending has consistently exceeded 3 percent. Although Danish defense spending increased in the past three years, the U.S. remains the NATO country with the strongest military force, and U.S. ability to defend Greenland far exceeds Denmark’s.

One of Denmark’s arguments against U.S. control of Greenland is that the island is already part of NATO, so there is no need for it to be directly controlled by the United States. In fact, Denmark has been a member of NATO since 1949, and its territories, including Greenland, are also part of the alliance.

However, the island’s geopolitical relevance is disproportionate with respect to the global role of Denmark, a country of just 6 million inhabitants. During World War II, Nazi Germany invaded Denmark, forcing the United States to occupy Greenland to prevent it from falling under Hitler’s control. The United States should have kept the island; instead, it made a major mistake, returning it to Denmark after the end of the war.

There is no reason for Denmark to retain control of Greenland since it has failed to exploit its strategic mineral resources and was unable to protect it from Germany in WWII.

On the contrary, the United States has a vested interest in controlling an island that is an essential component of a multibillion-dollar defense system, which will give North America, and Greenland itself, enhanced security from the threats of other great powers.

For these reasons, U.S. control of Greenland is paramount to maintain American geopolitical leadership. [source]

Food for thought.