Pope Francis met with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the Vatican Saturday morning. It was their first meeting since the president’s election on 3 February. The orderly development of “a civil, pluralistic society requires” that the “authentic spirit of religion”…
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Poland Bans Sunday Trading
Thursday January 11th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsThe conservative Law and Justice government in Poland has taken a decidedly regulatory approach toward Sunday shopping. On Sunday, November 24, the government approved a law to ban Sunday trading within the next three years. If the law passes parliament,…
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Thursday January 11th, 2018 in Prophetically Speaking“The death of media influence has been greatly exaggerated.” Thomas Sowell (1930- ) Writer and economist, May 30, 2006. Source Reference Thomas Sowell Quote
View This Article →Shanghai Database can Recognize 2 Million People Instantly
Wednesday January 10th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsShanghai police recruited some high-tech assistance for catching criminals—an artificial intelligence system that can instantaneously identify any of the nearly 2 million faces in its database. The artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm called Dragon Eye uses China’s national database of 1.3…
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Wednesday January 10th, 2018 in Prophetically Speaking“Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.” Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Source Reference Oscar Wilde Quote
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Pope Francis: Religion should not be confined to ‘Personal Conscience’
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Tuesday January 9th, 2018 in Prophetically Speaking“My business is to bring my aspirations to conform to fact, not to try to harmonize fact with my aspirations.” Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895). Source Reference Thomas Henry Huxley Quote
View This Article →Review of 30 Studies: Sugar-Sweetened Beverages cause Weight Gain
Monday January 8th, 2018 in Briefings, Natural Knows BestA new review of the latest evidence on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), which includes 30 new studies published between 2013 and 2015 (and none of them industry sponsored), concludes that SSB consumption is associated with overweight and obesity, and that countries…
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Commercialism Conflicts with Sunday Rest
Monday January 8th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsChristmas Eve fell on Sunday this year. That is one of Germany’s traditional shopping days, but it also clashed with the German Constitution’s provision that recognizes Sunday as a day of rest. Bakeries, kiosks, and shops in train stations have…
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Monday January 8th, 2018 in Prophetically Speaking“The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to limit what the federal government could do. Any interpretation of a provision of the Bill of Rights as a grant of federal power is ipso facto wrong.” L. A. Powe, Jr….
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Cardinal Marx: Only Well-formed Conscience Can Decide Morality.
Friday January 5th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsGerman Cardinal Reinhard Marx has stated that decisions about sexual morality must be discerned according to a well-formed conscience, respecting “the interplay of freedom and responsibility.” The chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference said in a new interview that a…
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Friday January 5th, 2018 in Prophetically Speaking“No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.” H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American…
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Eurasia Group: “Big, Unexpected Crisis in 2018”
Thursday January 4th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence Briefings2018 could see a geopolitical crisis on the scale of the financial crash a decade ago, Eurasia Group has warned in its annual outlook. Describing global political challenges as “daunting,” the New York-based political risk consultancy said the world is…
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