My mother's birthday is July 4th. On Mon, Jul 4, 2022, 6:56 AM is when I first shared "The Entrapment Controversy" with this list. On Mon, Jul 4, 2022, 6:56 AM <cypherpunks-request@lists.cpunks.org> wrote:
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1. Re: Coronavirus: Thread (grarpamp) 2. Re: Coronavirus: Thread (grarpamp) 3. Cryptocurrency: WarOnCash - Banks Ratchet Up Restrictions and Tracking (grarpamp) 4. Cryptocurrency: Cypherpunk Holdings Sells All, Saylor Buys TFD (grarpamp) 5. The Entrapment Controversy (Gunnar Larson)
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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2022 04:50:31 -0400 From: grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> To: cypherpunks@cpunks.org Subject: Re: Coronavirus: Thread Message-ID: < CAD2Ti2_zN6vu57ZD2k5V5umBjV9qdM45fdS+jcr4881_J+oXfw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
The State's goal with its Plandemic, and Politician Media FUD, was to alienate you from anything and everything that competes with the State, including religion...
https://nypost.com/2022/07/03/us-religious-leaders-explain-why-faith-in-god-...
https://www.justfacts.com/news_covid-19_anxiety_lockdowns_life_destroyed_sav...
US religious leaders explain why faith in God hit lowest level ever, say COVID made it worse By Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News July 3, 2022 5:48pm Updated The new poll showed that 81% of Americans believe in God, which is a six-point drop from 2017. The new poll showed that 81% of Americans believe in God, which is a six-point drop from 2017. Getty Images Originally Published by: Fox News
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A new Gallup poll shows that Americans’ faith in God has hit an all-time low.
And four Christian faith leaders said that a variety of factors, including young people filling their lives with things besides God and anxiety from coronavirus lockdowns, have contributed to the decline.
The poll showed that 81% of Americans believe in God, which is a six-point drop from 2017 and represents the lowest percentage Gallup has ever recorded. The biggest drop in faith in terms of age groups was a 10% decline in 18- to 29-year-olds who say they believe in God.
Bart Barber, pastor of First Baptist Church of Farmersville in rural East Texas and president of the Southern Baptist Convention, told Fox News Digital that more and more people in the United States have “not only no connection to faith congregation but also really no time in life to stop and contemplate anything spiritual.”
“Even some of the people who identify themselves as Christians and say they believe in God and have accepted the gospel, for a lot of them, church and contemplation and worship have been squeezed out by the schedule in their lives,” Barber explained.
Rev. Lawrence R. Rast Jr., president of Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and a former Lutheran pastor, told Fox News Digital, “People are continuing to search and continuing to think about the larger questions, but the lack of dedicated spaces and time set aside for that leads to the chaos that we see around us presently.”
Young people are the demographic that Catholic Bishop Robert Barron, bishop-designate of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester and founder of Word on Fire, “worries about the most” because they have “inherited the attenuation of religious practice” that is prevalent in society. The poll reported the biggest drop in faith in terms of age groups was a 10% decline in 18- to 29-year-olds who say they believe in God.The poll reported the biggest drop in faith, in terms of age groups, was a 10% decline in 18- to 29-year-olds who say they believe in God.Getty Images/iStockphoto
“When I was a kid, my parents took it for granted that we’d be brought to mass, we’d be taught the ways of prayer, we learned about the saints. They just immersed us in that world,” Barron recalled. “Well, when you don’t immerse people in that world, you say things like, ‘Oh, it’s up to you, you decide what you want to do when you’re 16.’ You lose all that. And then we’re surprised that young people are adrift and young people have lost their sense of purpose and meaning?”
Bishop Thomas J. Bickerton, president of the Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church, told Fox News Digital that, in some ways, the poll is not surprising because churches have lost multiple generations of parishioners by not “nurturing” young people in the faith.
“We’re missing two or three generations of people who aren’t steeped in the rhythm or the liturgy of the church. They are not involved in the relationships in the church. They are doing other things,” Bickerton said. “For me, the practice of my faith is what steeps my deepened belief in God, and if you get generations that aren’t in church practicing the rhythm of worship or practicing their faith, there’s no surprise they are now doubting whether or not God exists.” Start your day with all you need to know
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The lack of relationship building and practicing of church traditions that has contributed to the decline in the belief in God was severely exacerbated by the coronavirus lockdowns across the United States, the faith leaders said.
“I’ve talked to a lot of young people who say, ‘You know, all through this COVID thing, I’ve come to doubt whether God exists or what my relationship with God is,” Bickerton said, adding that people approaching him with questions about struggling to keep their faith is an “everyday occurrence.”
“You cannot underestimate the power of relationships,” Bickerton added. “So I think isolation has bred that sense of doubt.”
Barber recounted a situation during COVID lockdowns that “moved the needle” for him when a grandmother in his congregation urged him to reopen the sanctuary because her son was struggling with depression after losing his father and was in a “bad place” mentally and emotionally without access to worship.
“COVID, when you throw that in, people are even more isolated and people are also removed from church,” Barber said. “COVID accelerated these things that were already trends before that.”
A study conducted by conservative think tank Just Facts concluded that stress and anxiety caused by coronavirus lockdowns will destroy seven times more years of life than lockdowns saved, and several studies have shown that alcoholism, drug use and suicides noticeably increased during the pandemic.
“You see it on almost every level where if there is not the opportunity for engagement with the community or if there’s a purposeful rejection of engagement with the community. Whichever form that might take, folks try and fill that void in some way or another,” Rast said. “So higher instances of self-harm, higher instances of suicide, real issues with mental well-being that people are facing, and how do you address those? Well, oftentimes folks self-medicate, and so we’ve seen a real increase in that regard as well.” Christian church leaders said that a variety of factors, including young people filling their lives with things besides God and anxiety, is the reason behind the drop.Christian church leaders said that a variety of factors, including young people filling their lives with things besides God and anxiety, are reasons behind the drop.Getty Images
Barron said that the pandemic “had a huge impact,” including a “very negative impact on young people” that he has seen “close-up.”
“The religious practice, prayer, going to mass, going to a religious service, as that fades away, the convictions are going to fade away,” Barron said. “They have to be embodied, they have to be practiced.”
Multiple faith leaders who spoke with Fox News Digital placed some blame for the declining belief in God in the United States on churches themselves.
Barron told Fox News Digital that churches deserve some blame because they have stopped “challenging” young people.
“We try to make religion too user-friendly,” Barron said. “We try to make it too accommodating to the culture. No. We speak out of the ancient tradition, which has been initiating people into the mystery of life and path and meaning for millennia.
“And if we just adopt the hand-wringing stance and apologetics then we’re just caving into the culture, and young people are going to say, ‘The heck with you,’ and they’re going to find it uncompelling and uninteresting. Stop dumbing down the faith.” While the Gallup poll is cause for concern among church leaders, some of the faith leaders showed optimism for the future.While the Gallup poll is cause for concern among church leaders, some of the faith leaders showed optimism for the future.Getty Images/iStockphoto
Rast told Fox News Digital he believes various scandals in churches around the country have contributed to people drifting away from their faith.
“I think that has given any number of people a permission to themselves to say, ‘If this is what the church is all about, if this is what Christianity is all about, if this is what belief in God results in, then who needs it?’”
Bickerton said young people in the church have become disillusioned by not seeing what they hear in church on Sunday being practiced on Monday.
“I think replacing God with other things is definite, but I also believe the church is at fault at that point because the younger generation is pretty vocal about saying they’ve grown weary of what they hear on Sunday is not what they experience on Monday from the people who sit in the pew,” Bickerton explained.
“The living out of our faith is not just a journey in a worship service, it’s an encounter in the world. And the younger generation wants to see how faith is lived out in the culture. And when it’s not, when there’s inconsistency from the people in the church. It casts a great deal of doubt within them about, ‘Does this faith really matter?’”
While the Gallup poll is cause for concern among church leaders, some of the faith leaders who spoke to Fox News Digital expressed optimism for the future, including Rast. He pointed out that the percentage of people who believe in God in the United States is still higher than polling shows in European countries.
“When you take the longer view, the truly remarkable thing is that, even with the recent Gallup poll indicating just over 80% of Americans believe in God, that’s really quite a striking number comparatively speaking to the rest of Western culture.”
Barber explained that his optimism for the future comes from his studying of history and his belief that atheism does not provide the answers that people who leave the faith are looking for.
“There have been a whole lot of times in the history of Western civilization where societies have been disillusioned by the idea of religion in general or Christianity in specific and have turned away from the idea of God or from the practice of a faith saw in their parents or grandparents by deciding to choose differently for themselves,” Barber said.
“But I’m encouraged by the fact that, after times like that, repeatedly, over and over again, in cycles of history, people have been growing disillusioned with life without God because there are profound questions in life for which atheism just doesn’t provide good answers.
“So I remain optimistic,” Barber added. “I’m a long-term optimist and a short-term realist about the situation with regard to people and their faith in the United States right now.” Filed under
Coronavirus god polls religion 7/3/22
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Message: 2 Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2022 05:01:11 -0400 From: grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> To: cypherpunks@cpunks.org Subject: Re: Coronavirus: Thread Message-ID: < CAD2Ti281LHZzWReKs0ZdzJexG8ESQFjVqAJx6O3rXjdA2WpFUQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Biden and his bureaucrats lies about COVID, a ruinous venture...
Remember Biden’s ‘summer of freedom’ and victory over COVID? No wonder his credibility’s shot
https://nypost.com/2022/07/03/remember-bidens-summer-of-freedom-and-victory-...
By James Bovard July 3, 2022 3:51pm Updated President Joe Biden speaks during an event on COVID-19 response and the vaccination program at the South Court Auditorium of Eisenhower Executive Office Building July 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Last July 4, President Joe Biden proclaimed victory over COVID. Alex Wong/Getty Images More On: joe biden
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Last July 4, President Joe Biden proclaimed victory over COVID: “Thanks to our heroic vaccine effort, we’ve gained the upper hand against this virus. We can live our lives. We are closer than ever to declaring our independence from a deadly virus.” A few weeks later, Biden promised that people who got vaccinated would not get COVID.
Since last July 4, COVID has killed more than 400,000 Americans. More than 55 million have been diagnosed with the virus, and there have probably been tens of millions of unconfirmed or unreported cases.
Biden has been more successful decimating freedom than ending the pandemic. The wreckage of his COVID promises explains much of the collapse of Biden’s credibility and approval ratings.
Government coverups paved the way to Biden’s pratfalls. In May 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ceased keeping track of almost all “breakthrough” COVID infections among vaccinated individuals unless they resulted in hospitalization or death. Last July, a COVID outbreak affecting more than 500 vaccinated individuals in Provincetown, Mass., hit the headlines.
On Aug. 5, CDC chief Rochelle Walensky formally confessed: “What [COVID vaccines] can’t do anymore is prevent transmission.” Prior to that admission, the Biden administration even refused to disclose the number of “breakthrough” infections that had occurred among White House staff.
On Aug. 11, the Mayo Clinic revealed that the efficacy of the Pfizer COVID vaccine had fallen to 42% — a stunning collapse after early boasts of 95% effectiveness in safeguarding people against infection. Biden responded to the failures by repudiating his 2020 promise not to make vaccines mandatory. President Joe Biden speaks about the Covid-19 response and the US vaccination program in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, July 6, 2021.President Biden speaks about the COVID-19 response and the US vaccination program in Washington, DC, July 6, 2021.SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images
Biden dictated Sept. 9 that all health-care workers and any American working for a company employing more than 100 people must get vaccinated. Biden told viewers: “Recent data indicates there’s only one confirmed positive case per 5,000 fully vaccinated Americans per day.” That wildly inaccurate statement was the linchpin of his calculus of compulsion. Biden issued the equivalent of a declaration of war on 80 million unvaccinated Americans, portraying them as Public Enemy No. 1.
A month later, Biden boasted that thanks to his mandate, there were only “67 eligible Americans who aren’t vaccinated.” The White House Press Office added a correction to the transcript: “[million].”
Biden’s pandemic policy ignored the natural immunity that protects people after they recover from the virus. A major Israeli study revealed that people who had COVID-19 had far better protection against the Delta variant than people who received multiple COVID vaccine injections. COVID vaccines can offer some protection for the elderly and people with compromised immunity, but Biden wildly oversold them to justify seizing more power. see also long covid biden administration Biden administration announces plan to tackle long COVID
Following the “summer of freedom,” Biden promised in December “a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated” and declared that “almost everyone who has died from COVID-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated.” Wrong again. Two months earlier, the CDC ceased publishing data showing soaring deaths among the fully vaxxed because the data “might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective,” The New York Times revealed early this year.
Even though almost two-thirds of the US population was fully vaccinated, COVID cases exploded late last year and soon exceeded a million new cases a day. The CDC later admitted that almost half the COVID deaths in early 2022 were among the fully vaxxed.
On Jan. 13, the Supreme Court struck down Biden’s vaccine mandate for Americans working for large companies, though it narrowly upheld the health-care-worker mandate. Biden’s prerogative to forcibly inject average Americans was obliterated. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Capitol hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 20, 2021.Dr. Rochelle Walensky and Dr. Anthony Fauci testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, July 20, 2021.J. Scott Applewhite/Pool via REUTERS
As the president’s credibility faded, Team Biden became more aggressive in suppressing criticism. On March 3, Biden’s surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, demanded that social-media companies report to the feds anyone who posted “misinformation” regarding COVID. The odious Disinformation Governance Board was tasked with targeting COVID misinformation, among other suppression targets. Biden’s own false statements on COVID are exempt from the hit list.
The CDC recently estimated that that almost 200 million Americans (60% of adults and 75% of children) have already been infected by COVID. The CDC continues to report more than 100,000 new daily cases, and the White House forecasts up to 100 million new COVID cases in the coming fall and winter. What was the point of the last 18 months of Pandemic Security Theater?
America cannot afford any more Biden victories over COVID. The most honest thing the president said slipped out by accident Dec. 27: “There is no federal solution” to COVID-19. Biden’s debacles confirm the axiom of historian John Barry, author of “The Great Influenza.” Barry warned: “When you mix politics and science, you get politics.”
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Message: 3 Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2022 05:16:30 -0400 From: grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> To: cypherpunks@cpunks.org Subject: Cryptocurrency: WarOnCash - Banks Ratchet Up Restrictions and Tracking Message-ID: <CAD2Ti29KzHCG=2EUd+E+PMWvhZysjfAKV2tFy91zGVqP= 6E9nQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
https://twitter.com/jacski/status/1542682049466626050 Control of money is HERE! PULL OUT.
The great reset remember when that was a conspiracy theory and it was laughed at?
Right.. Anyone reading this. It’s absolutely essential you look into Bitcoin. PERMISSIONLESS money The system is starting to squeeze you like a Boa constrictor snake and it won’t stop.. We don’t need the their system! Think bigger think #Bitcoin
Anything over $10k is flagged as “suspicious “. I got asked when I withdrew $10k. I lied and said it was for a car. They even quizzed me about the car.
This is a low-key way of bringing in the #cashban
Wait until cash 💰 is phased out by 2025, and replaced with a CBDC,then you’ll know all about control.
Y'all don't understand. When you deposit YOUR money, you're giving the bank an UNSECURED LOAN. This is why they can make you jump through hoops to get it back. It, legally, isn't your money any more once they have it. This is from a US Supreme Court case. Likely the same in OZ.
Same in the UK too. And they can use your money for a bank bail in, then issue you with worthless shares
Fractional reserve lending. They don’t have the money. Get ready for the shitshow.
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Message: 4 Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2022 06:53:46 -0400 From: grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> To: cypherpunks@cpunks.org Subject: Cryptocurrency: Cypherpunk Holdings Sells All, Saylor Buys TFD Message-ID: <CAD2Ti28YRbyGM9qiGBDKnsY3sU5eJwx+69+Ysoh6h3D9ip= XmQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Earning themselves some laughing stock, HODL-Corp performs classic buy-high sell-low capitulation maneuver at major $20k support level, alienating almost $7M out of play from the next untimeable turnup ramp. As many wish... their self-inflicted bankruptcy, to be a fine remedy for appropriating and abusing the cypherpunk name.
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/06/28/investment-firm-cypherpunk-hold...
https://stockhouse.com/news/press-releases/2022/06/28/cypherpunk-holdings-an...
Meanwhile, Saylor buys the dip... https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1543281124494958592
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Message: 5 Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2022 06:55:08 -0400 From: Gunnar Larson <g@xny.io> To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org> Subject: The Entrapment Controversy Message-ID: <CAPc8xwNw33YA_-+7LqKD9E5neWMW= EQoG3E+miG+XFzNoQ6sEg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Author: Roger C. Park Title: The Entrapment Controversy Source: Minnesota Law Review Citation: 60 Minn. L. Rev. 163 (1976).
212 Highlights by Brody Larson:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rhPWgd_OniZVLeJIlieDBx5VNC2chenn/view?usp=d...