Santee Cooper Seeks State OK to Dive Deeper in Debt
- By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
State-owned utility Santee Cooper’s debt load is projected to grow by more than a half-billion dollars under a proposal that a legislative committee likely will rubber-stamp today.
The utility’s board of directors in a special meeting Thursday approved asking the state Joint Bond Review Committee (JBRC) to allow the utility to sell up to $350 million in revenue obligation bonds. Last week’s board meeting was held the same day The Nerve revealed that the Berkeley County-based utility in recent years had approved millions in economic development spending while being mired in debt.
The 10-member JBRC is scheduled to meet later this morning.
Abolishing the ‘United’ States: A Radical Approach to Teaching
- By Eagle Forum
It’s as radical as it sounds.
As parents and taxpayers discover more about what is taught in many local schools, national education leaders’ extremism continues to be exposed. The new evidence? Fox News correspondent Aishah Hasnie’s recent report1 that the U.S. Department of Education has recommended Abolitionist Teaching Network2 resources for schools as they prepare to reopen in the fall.
Abolitionist Teaching is a new concept to the public at large.
Most people have never heard of the Abolitionist Teaching Network because it was not created until July of 2020. Dr. Bettina Love,3 a Professor in Education at the University of Georgia, has been touted and awarded over the past few years in the world of higher education, Black queer feminist scholarship, and liberation for students of color. Now she has inroads with the Biden administration’s Department of Education, as recently explained by Stanley Kurtz4.
Media Ministry Offers 'Lifeline' to Fearful Afghans as Taliban Kill Christians
- By Christian Newswire
EASTON, Md. -- An "unstoppable" media ministry in the Middle East is proving to be a lifeline for isolated Christians in Afghanistan, as the resurgent Taliban go door-to-door, executing believers who refuse to renounce their faith.
Taliban militants are even pulling people off public transport and killing them on the spot if they're Christians or considered ethnically "unpure," according to shocking reports from Middle East media ministry SAT-7 (www.sat7usa.org).
"We're hearing from reliable sources that the Taliban demand people's phones, and if they find a downloaded Bible on your device, they will kill you immediately," said SAT-7 North America President Dr. Rex Rogers. "It's incredibly dangerous right now for Afghans to have anything Christian on their phones. The Taliban have spies and informants everywhere."
North Greenville University spotlights 2021 Service Award recipients
- By LaVerne Howell - NGU
North Greenville University (NGU) honored all employees who reached a service milestone anniversary during calendar year 2021 on Wednesday, August 11, at a chapel service for all faculty and staff. The university currently recognizes staff members’ years of service at five-year increments. The award is based on two criteria: an employee’s eligibility status and their service date.
Some 59 honorees from across campus marked service milestones in 2021.
Georgia Lawmakers Back Overturning Roe
- By Georgia Right to Life (GRTL)
NORCROSS, Ga. -- Georgia Right to Life (GRTL) today praised four state lawmakers who joined more than 300 colleagues from 34 other states in petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.
"Those who value the sanctity of human life and the Personhood of every pre-born child are grateful for the courage shown by these GRTL PAC endorsed legislators in taking a public stand against the un-godly, horrendous ruling that has claimed the lives of more than 62 million innocent children," said GRTL President Ricardo Davis.
The legislators: Rep. Charlice Byrd (Woodstock), N. Stanley Gunter (Blairsville), Philip Singleton (Sharpsburg), and Tyler Paul Smith (Bremen) added their names to an amicus brief filed with the court that says Roe is "egregiously wrong."
Taxpayers Are Getting Ripped Off and Congress Does Nothing
- By Stephen Moore
Milton Friedman used to quip that, in Washington, if a government program is working, Congress says we need to spend more money on it. And if a government program is failing, Congress concludes we are not spending enough money on it.
We are seeing that in spades with the unemployment insurance program that has been looted by fraud for nearly 18 months and has become a poster child of everything gone wrong in government (already) under President Joe Biden.
CNBC recently investigated the ransacking of the unemployment insurance program and was told by Michele Evermore, a senior policy adviser for unemployment insurance: "What we're seeing now is really terrifying. Fraud has gotten so big." She wasn't exaggerating.
US Embraces a Diversity China Fears
- By Pat Buchanan
The first returns from the delayed census of 2020 are in, and they have made for celebratory headlines in the mainstream media.
Big takeaway: Between 2010 and 2021, the white American population declined in real and relative terms, with more deaths than live births, as the white share of the U.S. population fell from 63% to under 58%.
As The Washington Post reported, between 1990 and 2020:
Black Americans held at roughly 12% of the population. Hispanics doubled their share from 9% to almost 19%, and Asians went from less than 3% to more than 6%.
Nite Line Guest Line-up for August 23-27, 2021
- By Nite Line Press Release
Nite Line broadcasts live Monday through Friday on WGGS-TV from 8 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. The program features local and/or nationally known guests who share their testimonies and talent. Our goal is to be an inspiration to our viewers as well as inform them of Christian and community events in the upstate.
Monday, August 23, 2021: Pastor Nathan Bland welcomes Pastor Adam McCauley from Clothed with Power Ministries in Greenville, South Carolina. Tonight Pastor McCauley discusses his ministry and how to effectively share The Gospel with others. This program features music by Christopher Simms.
Extralegal Secret Prison System in Dubai -- Run by Chinese State Security
- By Christian Newswire
WASHINGTON -- China Aid Association releases detailed information about a black jail, an extralegal secret prison system run by Chinese state security, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) highlighted in a breaking AP report. Wu Huan, political asylum seeker and her fiancée Wang Jingyu, was forcibly detained for days by Chinese Consulate officials in the first evidence of a black jail operating outside of China's borders.
When faced with an increase in persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) due to his posts on social media, Wang Jingyu purchased an Emirates Airline ticket from Istanbul to Dubai to New York on April 5, 2021. However, when he arrived in Dubai for transit, he was inexplicably arrested by Dubai police. During this process, officials from the Chinese Embassy in Abu Dhabi and the Chinese Consulate-General in Dubai visited Wang in prison multiple times.
New Feel-Good Collection of Poetry Published by Greenville Author
- By Jayne Jaudon Ferrer
Jayne Jaudon Ferrer thought timing was right to offer something positive
GREENVILLE, SC – POEMS TO LIFT YOU UP AND MAKE YOU SMILE has just been published by Parson’s Porch & Company. A collection of 100 classic and contemporary poems especially selected for their upbeat perspectives, feel-good scenarios, and humor, the book features the work of poets across the U.S., Canada, England, and Ireland and was compiled by Greenville resident Jayne Jaudon Ferrer.
POEMS TO LIFT YOU UP AND MAKE YOU SMILE is an anthology of work featured on the website www.YourDailyPoem.com, founded by Ferrer in 2009 to show the diversity and appeal of poetry and, most of all, to dispel the notion that poetry is boring. Nearly 4000 poems by more than 700 poets are archived on the site, which delivers a daily poem via email to subscribers all over the world.
The Afghanistan Dilemma
- By Mike Scruggs
The Whisper of Sun Tzu
in Kabul, Afghanistan
From July to October 2010, I wrote a series of 13 articles on the Afghanistan War. I am not going to repeat the whole series, but an updated review of some of the highlights is necessary for public understanding of past and potentially tragic current events.
Afghanistan is a landlocked mountainous country at the crossroads of South and Central Asia. Its most important borders are with Iran and Pakistan, but it also borders Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and even has a small border with China.
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the United States, which killed over 3,000 people, American, British, and Allied troops of 36 other nations became involved in defeating the radical Islamist allies of al-Qaeda and bringing peace and stability to Afghanistan. The security of the United States and many nations depended on the success of their mission, but it would not be an easy one. Many empires, nations, and alliances in the past have found Afghanistan to be a hellish trial.
Speaker Pelosi and the U.S. Capitol Sergeant at Arms Crush Trample the First Amendment by Arresting Peaceful Pro-Life Advocates on the Steps of the U.S. Capitol
- By Christian Newswire
WASHINGTON -- Speaker Pelosi and the U.S. Capitol Sergeant at Arms Crush trample the First Amendment by Arresting Peaceful Pro-Life Advocates on the Steps of the U.S. Capitol.
This after Congresswoman Bush was allowed to camp out and protest on the steps for days calling for a moratorium on evictions.
Speaker Pelosi is making it clear she will only allow speech she approves of and supports at the United States Capitol Building. This is clearly unconstitutional and discriminatory.
Members of Stanton Public Policy/Purple Sash Revolution were leading a peaceful demonstration in support of the Hyde Amendment. Following yesterday's arrests, Stanton Public Policy Center is discussing all options with their legal team.
The Council on Foreign Relations (C.F.R.) – “Deep State” Devils in Disguise! – Part 1
- By W.H. Lamb
The year 2021 is the 100th anniversary of the founding of The Council On Foreign Relations, an organization that has long been considered by “those in the know” as the true “power behind the throne” of U.S. politics. This immense power has been exercised by the CFR over that entire century, including especially within the Biden Administration (and within ALL presidential administrations since 1921 to a lesser or greater degree). As William Jasper wrote in the June 7, 2021 issue of the New American magazine: “The CFR does indeed wield unparalleled influence in political, financial, business, media, and academic circles, and is regularly showered with accolades by ‘the great and the good’. It is the public face, the brain trust, and the central nervous system of what critics refer to as “the Deep State”.
Santee Cooper Deep in Debt, Still Spending Millions on Ecodevo Projects
- By Rick Brundrett - The Nerve
Santee Cooper’s electric customers are on the hook for billions in debt payments, but that hasn’t stopped the state-owned utility from spending millions in recent years on economic development projects.
The Nerve’s review of utility records provided recently under the state’s open-records law found that from May 2018 through May of this year, Santee Cooper approved a total of more than $28 million in economic development grants and no-interest loans. The beneficiaries included companies, county and municipal governments, and economic development groups.
SALTY SEZ – Media Hypnosis
- By Ray Simmons
Just about everyone understands how propaganda is used in the advertising business. Items are touted for their advantages, which are often exaggerated in the process. The lady using the product is ravishingly beautiful, trying to have prospective customers think they too will be more beautiful if they use the product. We elders can remember the roving snake doctors propagandizing their cure-all remedies as they traveled from town to town with their magic potions.
Stop the Left's Radical "For the People" Act!
- By The John Birch Society
URGENT: Chuck Schumer has filed cloture on S. 2093, while the Senate voted 50-49 to discharge S. 1 from committee. This means Senate Democrats will try to pass the “For the People Act” when session resumes in a few weeks. The so-called “moderate” Senator Joe Manchin is negotiating with other Democrats to pass an amended version of this blatantly unconstitutional bill. The Senate is the primary obstacle to enacting S. 1/ H.R. 1/ S. 2093; tell your senators to oppose any version of this bill!
As the bill numbers suggests, the "For the People Act" is a top priority for Congressional Democrats. Additionally, now that Democrats control the House, Senate, and White House, a possibility exists that this bill could pass and be enacted.
The Delta Variant Pushes a Broken Country Closer to the Edge
- By Neil Patel
How does a once-great country become the complete mess America is today? The honest answer is we are all at fault. It's as easy for the left to blame conservatives as it is for the right to blame liberals. It's easy for the elites in cities to say Americans aren't working as hard as they used to and are getting fat off too much fast food. It's easy for regular Americans to look at the hypereducated urban elites and feel like they've sold out and left America behind to pursue profits in foreign markets. The problem is all of this is true.
Who Lost America's Longest War?
- By Pat Buchanan
In April, President Joe Biden told the nation he would have all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack ever on the continental United States.
Given the turn of events of the past week, that 20th anniversary may be celebrated by a triumphant Taliban, now on the cusp of victory over the Americans and their Afghan allies, with gruesome public executions of their surrendered and captured enemies.
Sept. 11, 2021, could see U.S. Marines and diplomats fleeing Kabul to escape the retribution of the Taliban whom we ousted in 2001.
Making the Unvaccinated Pay!
- By The John Birch Society
For the unvaccinated, it’s feeling a bit lonely out there. With increased pressure coming from all corners to just get the jab, advocates are ratcheting up pressure to strip away additional liberties from those who choose not to get inoculated.
This is a classic Communist tactic of dividing the people to distract them from what is really going on.
We’ll look into this and offer some perspective and ways you can help in today’s episode of Analysis Behind the News, where we provide the perspective and the plan to help restore American liberty and independence.
The Present American Crisis
- By Mike Scruggs
The March of Marxist Revolution
“We are actually witnessing a Communist overthrow of the United States in real time.” - James Simpson, author of Who Was Karl Marx?
The United States is experiencing a rampage of revolutionary Marxist inspired social chaos and lawless political disorder. The destruction of property, political order, and many lives seen in over 600 massive, organized riots in 220 American cities by Black Live Matter and Antifa in the last 18 months is only the tip of the iceberg. Black Lives Matter and Antifa are certainly Marxist led and inspired movements, but they are supported by billions of dollars from newly woke big corporations, Big Tech billionaires, and institutional funding. Many more continue to succumb to their bullying protection racket. The new “woke” Marxist ideology and hateful and unforgiving “cancel culture” and obsequious political correctness dominate the social ethic of most of the education, media, and entertainment establishments. It thoroughly dominates the thinking, policies, and actions of the “Biden” Administration—which should more rightly be called the Obama Third Term Administration—and almost every Democrat politician.
Chris Cuomo Should Resign
- By Tim Graham
Color me shocked that Gov. Andrew Cuomo knuckled under to demands he resign after a devastating report detailing his sexual harassment of 11 women. But it was not quite as shocking as reading a Washington Post report that CNN's top star Chris Cuomo was still moonlighting (or daylighting) as one of his top political advisers.
Chris Cuomo should follow his big brother's example and resign. This CNN situation should be seen as untenable. Chris made a promise not to do this again. Back in May, he said, point blank, "It will not happen again. ... It was a mistake because I put my colleagues here, who I believe are the best in the business, in a bad spot." He claimed, "I know where the line is," but he never demonstrated that he did.
Faith-Based Documentary 'ENDS OF THE EARTH' Comes to Movie Theaters Nationwide for a Two-Night Only Cinematic Event on October 18 and 21
- By Christian Newswire
NASHVILLE, Tenn. , Aug. 10, 2021 -- From Change Media and Mission Aviation Fellowship, the inspirational documentary ENDS OF THE EARTH will debut in movie theaters nationwide for two nights this October. The film weaves together past and present stories about the incredible lengths pilots, missionaries and local believers go to in order to bring the love of Jesus to isolated communities.
Watch the trailer for ENDS OF THE EARTH here.
Fathom Events and Collide Media Group partner to present this unique event in U.S. cinemas on Monday, Oct. 18 and Thursday, Oct. 21 at 7:00 p.m. local time (both days). The film will also be released to churches the same day as the theatrical release through Fathom's Faith Content Network. Audiences in both cinema and churches will get to experience an exclusive panel discussion featuring members of Mission Aviation Fellowship following the event.
Cancel Culture and Wokeness Will Destroy Our Country
- By Star Parker
The enabling tool of what we call "cancel culture" or "wokeness" is language.
People are put in categories to which names are assigned, and this supposedly captures who they are and what should be done with them politically.
Unfortunately, the whole business of racial identification and categorization is not about advancing the quality of the human condition and human dignity but about progressive politics.
The left puts people in racial categories as instruments toward their political agenda.
Christian Orphanage Invaded and Destroyed
- By Christian Newswire
MIANGO, Nigeria -- Sunni Muslim Fulani Herdsmen invaded the Christian orphanage in Miango, Nigeria and burned every building. The 147 children and staff evacuated a few hours before the August 2, 2021 attack. The children were made orphans in previous attacks by Sunni Muslim terrorists such as the Boko Haram.
As Fulani herdsmen advance in the Miago and Jos areas they destroyed 500 homes, 5 churches and killed 68 Christians. Many were wounded. Nigerian law prohibits anyone from owning a firearm in Nigeria, but oddly the Fulani had weapons exactly like those of the army.
News and video of the attack is located at: https://religiousfreedomcoalition.org/2021/08/05/watch-nigerian-orphanage-attacked/
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SOURCE Religious Freedom Coalition
Informed Consent Action Network's Attorneys Challenge DOJ Mandatory Vaccination Opinion
- By Christian Newswire
AUSTIN, Texas -- Following a recent opinion written from the Department of Justice claiming that federal law permits mandating an emergency use vaccine, non-profit Informed Consent Action Network's attorneys issued a response disputing the conclusion in this opinion.
On July 26, 2021, at the request of the White House, the DOJ's Acting Assistant AG released an opinion claiming the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, Section 564 permits mandating an emergency use vaccine. Section 564 states that for all emergency use products, i.e. unlicensed medical products, individuals must be informed of "the option to accept or refuse administration of the product."
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