🇸🇪🇺🇸 Swedish Home Guard Trains With U.S. Army Green Berets - The Home Guard units are modern combat units with a main responsibility to protect, guard and monitor #Swedish territory and also provide support to society in times of crisis. @Forsvarsmakten pic.twitter.com/avdnxSWb3f
— US Spec Ops Europe (@US_SOCEUR) April 16, 2021
This is what global mass-hysteria looks like. Crying #Swedish female police officers take a “Kaepernick-knee”, holding signs saying “White Silence Is Violence” in front of thousands of ppl at today’s #BlackLivesMatter protest. Video Source :@SamnyttSimon pic.twitter.com/jQIHmJ4qD4
— BasedPoland (@BasedPoland) June 3, 2020
What were all these things about? Why, personal autonomy. Their central slogan was ‘I can do what I like with my own body and nobody can stop me. How dare you tell me what I can do with it?’
The paradox, well understood by Aldous Huxley, is that the person who proudly yells this battle cry also meekly accepts that in return he must surrender his mind, his privacy and his wealth to the power of the parental state.
In Michael Booth’s book, it all came together in an intentional, deliberate pattern. These things are connected. And it is the absence of the Christian conscience which makes them possible, and which is their enemy and rival. The new all-powerful parental state, the war against the married family, the scorn for conscience, the loud demand for personal autonomy and the rage against those who suggest it is in any way limited by morality or law, are all one cause, reborn in the West since the collapse of the USSR and advancing fast on all fronts. I saw it in Moscow and after my return from there, but instinctively. As so often, my instincts were right, and it has taken long years for my understanding and knowledge to catch up with them.
Catholic-Lutheran dialogue was under the spotlight in the Vatican on Monday as Pope Francis met with the head of the...
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Monday, May 4, 2015
Vatican Radio spoke to the Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala, Antje Jackelén, who is the first female head of the Church of Sweden, after her meeting with Pope Francis on Monday.
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Pope Francis on Monday met with the first female head of the Church of Sweden and Archbishop of Uppsala Antje Jackelé...
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Monday, May 4, 2015
Pope Francis on Monday met with Queen Silvia of Sweden.See our story at the link: http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/04/27/pope_francis_meets_queen_silvia_of_sweden/1139917
Posted by Vatican Radio - English Section on Monday, April 27, 2015
Do environmentalists and governments hold back sustainable lifestyles
Tom Levitt and Kara Moses, The Ecologist
Misguided images of sacrifice may be putting people off living more sustainable lifestyles. But reversing that may require policymakers to start encouraging wider metrics of success and happinessWho wants a sustainable lifestyle? Well actually quite a lot of people, apparently. Far from being a niche concept, a major new study on sustainability from the UNEP says the idea is ‘misunderstood as a rich nation choice’.
While the desire to enjoy western living standards is strong, the study picks out a range of sustainable living ideas being developed across the world. It says one of the biggest barriers to more people achieving them may be how we celebrate and communicate these ideas.
Most definitions of sustainable lifestyles talk about three key areas; minimal environmental impact, not undermining the carrying capacity of resources (i.e. using only those that are renewable or replaceable over time) and helping people interact with the communities and places in which they live.
But, as the UNEP study points out, 'people will only change their lifestyles in exchange for a better one', so perhaps a fourth point could be just as important: making them desirable...
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