The 21st Century

Welcome to the 21st century. Here's your daily news digest for 8 December 2022.

The 21st Century
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Virginia Restaurant Refuses Service to Christians at Behest of LGBT Staff
Richmond, Virginia’s Metzger’s Bar and Butchery is openly bragging of its anti-Christian discrimination in the name of LGBTism and abortion.

Australia

Australia’s Major Airlines on Consumer Watchdog’s Radar as Ticket Prices Surge
Australia’s consumer watchdog has started to scrutinise local airlines after finding airfares have increased dramatically since early this ...
We will be reconciled with Aborigines when they tell us we are
We will be reconciled with Aborigines when they tell us we are. By Peter O’Brien. Other than in a financial context, ‘reconciliation’ has two meanings. You can become ‘reconciled to’ somethin…
Australia and the US talk China, nuclear-powered submarines and a ‘very cool-looking’ $1b aircraft
Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Defence Minister Richard Marles meet their US counterparts in Washington, discussing the rise of China in the Pacific as well as Australia’s defence “capability gap”.

International

New Zealand Shows Voice To Parliament To Affect All Laws Passed
“The failed New Zealand experiment with race-based co-governance demonstrates how the Voice to Parliament will be weaponised by inner-city activists to ensure race is the primary consideration of all major policy decisions,” said John Storey, Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs.
How New Yorkers took over the Democratic Party | The Spectator Australia
Start spreading the news. As party leadership for the upcoming 118th Congress shapes up, we now know that Democrats will have not only New Yorkers but Brooklynites as their top men in both the Senate…
Bibi’s Back: A Conversation With Israel’s New Prime Minister
‘How many leaders have come back from political death, not once, but twice? I’ve come back. The question is: what am I coming back for?’

Business, Finance & Investment

Doug Casey on the Struggle Between the Powerful Forces of Centralization and Decentralization
There is a struggle between two powerful forces: centralization and decentralization.
Dow, S&P Plunge Erases All Post-Powell Gains
...and it’s gone.
World Economy Heads for One of Its Worst Years in Three Decades
The world economy is facing one of its worst years in the three decades as the energy shocks unleashed by the war in Ukraine continue to reverberate, according…

Culture

Saudi Crown Prince Escapes Lawsuit After Biden Grants Immunity | The Libertarian Institute
A Washington, DC district court judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by the fiancé of murdered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Hatice Cengiz was seeking accountability for Saudi Arabia’s de facto head of state – Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – but the White House told the court to throw…
University hosts ‘Abolish the Family’ book talk
Sophie Lewis, an author and professor, spoke at UMass Boston on November 16 to discuss her book ‘Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation.’
Meloni administration yet to lift fines for unvaccinated | Free West Media
The new Italian right-wing government under Giorgia Meloni announced a change of course in Corona policy immediately after taking office and promised that there would be no more lockdowns. But she apparently does not want to change the criminalization of the unvaccinated, which was regulated by law…

Crypto & Blockchain

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Code is the answer - not more regulation and intermediaries
Heavy regulation is on the horizon for the crypto industry. However, is this going to help the innovations that can change everything for finance?
Apple Blocks Coinbase NFT Transfers Over In App Purchase Dispute
Coinbase has removed the ability to make NFT transactions on the Apple AppStore after Apple blocked the Coinbase app, which was due to the app not...

Postscript

Shamima Begum: ‘Groomed’ or ‘Indoctrinated’?
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) seems to have a short memory. Although it has only been a few years since the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) was defeated, from the tone of the BBC’s recent articles -- featuring a female jihadi’s returning to

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