Latter-day Saint leaders make ‘temporary’ changes to meetings, but mask debate still divides Utah worshippers
While many, if not most, Latter-day Saint wards (congregations) are requiring masks for attendees— and also livestreaming sacrament meetings — the letter stops short of mandating them. That has opened the door for heated debates between pro-maskers and anti-maskers, sometimes splitting wards, neighborhoods and whole towns. It has become a fraught religious and political battle with critics on every side.
“Wearing a mask violates my religious liberties,” Snell wrote in an email. “Whether or not anyone agrees with me, I have a deep spiritual conviction that wearing a mask is a satanic societal ritual meant to initiate us into a ‘new’ normal, or a new world order. … It is, in part, the mark of the beast spoken of in the Book of Revelation.”
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/11/12/latter-day-saint-leaders/
ECB Will Adopt Digital Currency
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde signaled that her institution could create a digital currency within years in what would be a dramatic change to the euro zone’s financial sector… Lagarde said Thursday during a virtual panel discussion hosted by the ECB. “If it’s cheaper, faster, more secure for the users then we should explore it.
Obama says rise of Trump was racist reaction to 'having a black man in the White House', blasts President for birtherism and says the rot set into GOP when McCain named Sarah Palin as running mate
- Barack Obama slams Republicans as xenophobic and paranoid in his forthcoming memoir
- 'A Promised Land' is out next week; CNN and New York Times obtained copies
- Obama, in the 768-page tome, reflects on how his historic election led to racial divisions in the country
- He claims Trump took advantage of that to win the presidency
- Obama also admits he smoked eight to ten cigarettes a day in White House
- He quit when Malia didn't like it
- He also writes about how the White House increased tensions in his marriage
- Book is first of two parts, part of the book deal he and Michelle Obama made
The Department of Health and Human Services has partnered with 60% of pharmacies and grocery stores such as Walgreens and Public across the US to distribute a future coronavirus vaccine.
On Monday the Utah Supreme Court heard arguments in a case where a woman claims she was 15 when leaders of a Jehovah's Witnesses chuch made her listen to a tape of her own rape.
President Trump raged that the 'medical deep state' conspired against him, pointing to Monday's sunny news about Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, which came six days after the presidential election.
Laser pointer-like device capable of guiding lightning to a safe target could be used to redirect bolts that turn forests into raging wildfires
- Scientists designed a small laser pointer to guide lightning to a safe target
- The device was developed with the goal of combating wildfires
- The beam traps and heats graphene microparticles in the ambient air
- This creates conditions for electrical breakdown and transmission
- The electrical discharge will then follow the path of the laser to the target
President-elect Joe Biden talked with Pope Francis Thursday morning, making him the latest world leader to ignore President Donald Trump's refusal to concede.
'Strangest fish in the Caribbean' is filmed WALKING along the sea floor on its fins
- Diver Mickey Charteris discovered the rare shortnose batfish in a muddy channel
- It was found in a channel called French Key Cut on island of Roatán, Honduras
- The creature walks slowly searching for prey like crabs and can swim with its tail
'Robot soldiers could make up quarter of British army by 2030s'
Investment in robot warfare at heart of UK’s planned five-year defence review
Air travellers to Canada now forced to submit COVID info online before entering country
Canada mandates travellers give COVID-19 info digitally or face fine.
Canada’s government is mandating that travellers provide COVID-19 information digitally through the ArriveCAN software when entering the country or face a fine of up to a $1,000.
New device puts music in your head — no headphones required
The lack of headphones means it’s possible to hear other sounds in the room clearly.
The technology uses a 3-D sensing module and locates and tracks the ear position sending audio via ultrasonic waves to create sound pockets by the user’s ears. Sound can be heard in stereo or a spatial 3-D mode that creates 360 degree sound around the listener, the company said… “Most people just say, ‘Wow, I really don’t believe it,’” she said.
“You don’t believe it because it sounds like a speaker, but no one else can hear it
https://apnews.com/article/new-tech-device-sound-beaming-noveto-38327ae5fe116080a5eaf2374eb0f5c8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=61&v=4zHxwUJR8dQ&feature=emb_title
TRUMP BOMBSHELL: Dominion software deleted over 2.7 million votes nationwide, switched over 500,000 from Trump to Biden
COVID-19 PLANDEMIC
https://thewildstuff.blogspot.com/2020/02/natural-medicine-versus-coronavirus.html
Archbishop Exposes the Great Reset in Letter to Trump
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency and the Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council, both within the Department of Homeland Security, issued a joint statement in which they declared this election 'the most secure in American history'. They added that there was no evidence of votes being changed, deleted or lost, or that the voting system across the country had been in any way compromised. Yet President Trump continued to push his unfounded fraud allegations on Thursday night as he took to favorite medium Twitter to claim 'Biden did not win, he lost by a lot!'
(WHERE WAS FAKE NEWS?)
More than half of Americans say it's likely they won't comply with another lockdown despite 61% believing that the virus is getting worse, a new Gallup poll shows.
The economy as we knew it might be over Says Fed Chairman Powell
Bernie Confirms He Would Accept Biden Labor Secretary Post
‘Mandatory vaccination is madness’: American doctor
'Mandatory vaccination puts the public health into the hands of convicted criminals in the pharmaceutical industry, while putting the financial and personal liability on the taxpayer,' Dr. Leland Stillman pointed out during the recent Truth Over Fear Summit.
Utah Valley Hospital strained by conspiracy theorists (TRUTH SEEKERS) trying to enter ICU
PROVO – Utah Valley Hospital says a handful of conspiracy theorists recently tried to get into their intensive care unit.
Hospital administrator Kyle Hansen told the Provo City Council this week that about five people have attempted to get inside because they question whether the ICU is as full as some say.
A few of them also brought video cameras.
"We have individuals trying to sneak into the hospital to visualize and videotape this themselves," Hansen said.
So far, it seems no one has been successful getting in.
Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, the state's
governor-elect and current top elections official, disputes claims of mass
voter fraud in the 2020 election.
Salt Lake Temple Square will be lit up for the holiday season, but its gates will be closed
'We respect the choice of the American people. We extend congratulations to Mr Biden and Ms Harris,' Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Friday at a regular daily briefing.
