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“In spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves…” Kenneth Clark
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Replying to @DurhamWASP
“At this point I reveal myself in my true colours, as a stick-in-the-mud, I hold a number of beliefs that have been repudiated by the liveliest intellects of our time…” Sir Kenneth Clark
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We’ve literally been invaded by a foreign army bigger than our own, but we’re far-right for having a problem with this!! 😡
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The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word… T.S. Eliot, born 26th September 1888
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The @SerieA relegated their biggest club for a whole lot less cheating than City How big are your balls @premierleague …..
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Pep should feel betrayed, he deserves better.” Does he fuck. He’s not some naive, tortured genius. Only a halfwit wouldn’t have known what was going on - and he has previous.
Pep Guardiola has every right to feel betrayed by those he trusted. He deserves better - but this verdict means all of his Man City trophies will now forever be tarnished, writes JACK GAUGHAN trib.al/yYwY6OA
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Yusef Lateef, The Blue Yusef Lateef [1968] Atlantic Like It Is Musicians inc. Yusef Lateef – tenor sax, flute… Blue Mitchell – trumpet Sonny Red – alto sax Kenny Burrell – guitar Cecil McBee – bass Bob Cranshaw – electric bass Roy Brooks – drums Hugh Lawson – piano
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Bertie rather neatly summing up the national mood
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Ikram should have been dismissed as a judge a long time ago.
🚨NEW: Judge Tan Ikram CBE, the judge who denied Danny Tommo bail and said he was "satisfied there is a real possibility of an immediate custodial sentence", has a history of being placed in politically motivated cases. . Sentenced a man to 20 weeks in jail for posting a racist joke in a WhatsApp chat. . Let off the OnlyFans girl who threw milkshake at Nigel Farage. . Let off two women for terrorism charged after glorifying 7 October massacre. . Was himself given a disciplinary after liking a post on LinkedIn that stated Israel was a terrorist state. Although obviously not a crime, it did bring into question his impartiality. . He was given a CBE by Boris Johnson in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to judicial diversity. He has spoken out about what he sees as the problems due to the lack of ethnic diversity in the police and the judiciary.
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“The way we see the past determines the future. There is no future for those who do not know where they come from, for those who do not have the memory of what made them what they are.” Dominique Venner
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Cc. Man City
Manchester City have been found guilty on almost all of the charges relating to breaches of the Premier League’s financial regulations. The sanctions have not been decided, with all possibilities remaining on the table, and City are expected to appeal. @SamLee and @David_Ornstein join @mjshrimper in a live episode of the The Athletic FC podcast here ⬇️ piped.video/watch?v=TOgBSGd_…
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/7049721…
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I have avoided social media for days due to illness, but I cannot stay silent in the face of this absolute heresy, born out of the pits of hell itself! This is not merely an eccentric interpretation of Christianity. It is a profoundly perverse distortion of the biblical witness concerning the person of Jesus Christ. The claim that the Blessed Virgin Mary “assigned Jesus male at birth” fundamentally misrepresents both Scripture and the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation. Mary did not determine, construct, or assign the sex of Christ. Before His conception, the angel Gabriel declared: “You will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.” Luke 1:31. Likewise, St Matthew records the angel saying of Mary: “She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.” Matthew 1:21. Christ’s identity as the Son is therefore proclaimed before His birth. The language of the Gospel is not that Mary inspected her newborn child and imposed an identity upon Him. Rather, the child conceived by the Holy Spirit is repeatedly and unambiguously identified as the Son. And the assertion that Christ was resurrected as His “true transgender self” is even more extraordinary, because it directly contradicts the resurrection narratives. The risen Christ is the same Jesus who was crucified. He tells Thomas to see His hands and place his hand into His side. He eats with His disciples. He identifies Himself with the body that suffered upon the Cross. Christian orthodoxy confesses not the abandonment of Christ’s created humanity but its resurrection and glorification. As the Nicene Creed declares, the eternal Son “was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man.” The Incarnation is not raw material upon which every contemporary ideology may impose itself. Jesus Christ is not a blank canvas upon which ungodly clergy may paint whatever anthropology happens to be fashionable in their generation. He is the eternal Son of God, incarnate in history, born of the Virgin Mary, crucified under Pontius Pilate, bodily raised from the dead and ascended into glory. A priest is ordained to proclaim that faith, not reinvent its central figure to fit their personal ideology! There is also something seriously pastorally irresponsible about presenting speculation as though it were Christian revelation. People experiencing questions concerning sex or gender deserve compassion, dignity and serious pastoral care. They do not need clergy rewriting the person of Christ in order to validate a modern unbiblical theory. The Church’s answer must be both charitable and truthful. We do not need to demean transgender people in order to say unequivocally that Jesus Christ was not transgender. Scripture gives no warrant whatsoever for that assertion, no matter how much any cleric tries to portray it. Nor did Mary “assign” Jesus anything. She received Him. She bore Him. She named Him according to the command of God. And on Easter morning it was not some newly discovered identity that walked out of the tomb. It was Jesus Christ Himself, the crucified and risen Lord, bearing in His glorified body the wounds of Calvary. Christian ministers are custodians of a faith received, not authors of a faith invented. When clergy begin remaking Christ in the image of contemporary culture, the proper response of the Church is not embarrassed silence. It is to remove that cleric, and return to the apostolic proclamation: “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” Hebrews 13:8. Christ does not require updating. The Gospel does not require ideological reconstruction. And the risen Lord does not require us to manufacture an identity for Him that neither Scripture, the Apostles, the Creeds nor the historic Church ever knew. Preach Christ as He has been revealed. Anything else may be fashionable ideology… But it is not, and never will be, the apostolic faith!
Episcopal priestess says Mary assigned Jesus male at birth, but he was trans. And when he was resurrected, he came back as His true, transgender self.
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Mary did not assign a gender to Jesus. Mary was told before his birth that Jesus would be a male. Luke 1:30-31 – "But the angel said to her, 'Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.'" biblegateway.com/passage/?searc…
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Ed Miliband just pledged £88 million of our money to Gaza at the UN. Here is what he didn't mention. UNRWA, the agency receiving our money, had nine staff confirmed as participants in the October 7 massacre. The UK paused funding. Then quietly resumed it. Today Miliband sent £88 million more without mentioning October 7 once. The New York Times documented Hamas skimming $1 billion in UN aid for tunnels and weapons. US federal investigators found Hamas diverts up to 25% of aid directly to its fighters. Qatar, who co-hosted today's UNGA meeting with Miliband, bankrolls Hamas leadership from Doha. This month Trump's ambassador accused Miliband of "Jew hate" after he filmed himself claiming Israel blocked medicines from Gaza. Israel's Foreign Ministry called it outright lies. He posted the video anyway. He has the intelligence. He has read the reports. He knows where the money goes. He chose to send it anyway and call it humanitarian. Our £88 million. His conscience. Their tunnels. Ed Miliband is a very dangerous idiot to have any power whatsoever.
The humanitarian situation in Gaza is dire. Today at #UNGA, the UK, Jordan and Qatar brought together partners to focus attention on the need for humanitarian access and healthcare. The UK is taking further action, pledging £88m for humanitarian and early recovery support.
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The CPS are yet to announce the name and charges against the boat pilot responsible for bringing illegal migrants to Britain on this boat. They’re also yet to announce the name and charges against the people who owned or supplied the boat. The one person we have seen named and charged is the man accused of trying to stop human trafficking by slashing a boat before it was returned to France to reuse. How have we reached a point where the person damaging the boat appears to be facing consequences, while those responsible for human trafficking across the Channel have not been publicly named or charged?
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“We're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside looking out.” John Zorn Masada, Beeroth [1999] John Zorn - alto sax Dave Douglas - trumpet Greg Cohen - double bass Joey Baron - drums
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The slaughter of migrating birds in Lebanon (and across the Mediterranean) is an international disgrace. The hunters do it for kicks! No other reason. The only people who seem to be doing anything about it are the heroes at @CABS_REPORTS - who are deserving of your support!
🚨 In the central Lebanese mountains, illegal shooters are targeting protected species like honey buzzards, hobbies, and Levant sparrowhawks. In just a few days, our field teams documented nearly two dozen shot migratory birds at critical mountain passes.
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Can we do this in Britain, please?
Bus users in Singapore will now be fined for playing music out loud The fines range from around $400 to $4000
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This video inadvertently explains why it feels like America and Britain are reaching the end of the road: 1. The Enlightenment completely erased the Bible from the history of the West. 2. Instead of God, the Ten Commandments, the Covenant, the family, and the nation, we get all this insipid propaganda about how everything right and good was born in Athens. 3. Problem is neither America nor Britain can survive without the Scriptures that gave them life—any more than you or I could survive without air. 4. So this video, like all the academic books on which it is based, urges us to keep flying blind, upside down, and backwards. 5. *But it doesn’t work.*
holy shit i asked claude to make a video on western civiization
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Muslim Paedophile preying on little children in the park - GRANTED BAIL Danny Tommo slashes an empty migrant boat and hurts nobody - DENIED BAIL This isn't a justice system worth the name We have a two tier system that actively discriminates against us
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I'd like to apply for a loan please. How much? £88m For what purpose? I plan on giving it to a terrorist organisation to help fund their recovery. Why would you do that? I need to votes of third world terrorist supporting chromosome abundant Gazatards.
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