Gizmodo, by Victoria Song: France just scored what it’s characterizing as a major victory in the battle to curb online hate speech—one that potentially carries significant implications for privacy and free speech online. After several meetings between Facebook CEO Mark…
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Wednesday July 31st, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power – power to oppress others.The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.” Eric Hoffer, (1902-1983) American author, philosopher, awarded Presidential…
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Tuesday July 30th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith…
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Monday July 29th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy…
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Friday July 26th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.” Friedrich August von Hayek, (1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974. Source Reference Famous Friedrich August…
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Thursday July 25th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.” Charles-Louis De Secondat, (1689-1755) Baron de Montesquieu. Source: The Spirit of the Laws, 1748. Source Reference Charles-Louis De Secondat Quote
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Wednesday July 24th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.” Alan Paton, (1903-1988) South African author, anti-apartheid activist. Source Reference Alan Paton Quote
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Tuesday July 23rd, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“Fidelity to the public requires that the laws be as plain and explicit as possible, that the less knowing may understand, and not be ensnared by them, while the artful evade their force.” Samuel Cooke, (1709-1783) Pastor of the Second Church…
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Monday July 22nd, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn, (1918-2008) Russian novelist, Soviet dissident, imprisoned for 8 years for critizing Stalin in a personal letter, Nobel Prize…
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Friday July 19th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.” Dorothy Thompson, (1894-1961). Source: Ladies Home Journal, May 1958 . Source Reference Dorothy Thompson Quote
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Thursday July 18th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe … Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. – From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their…
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Wednesday July 17th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, (1804-1864) American writer. Source Reference Nathaniel Hawthorne Quote
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