Traffic cones and barrels are spying on you — what are they hiding?
Covert construction cones have been noticed by highway drivers.
A person who took a recent viral video caught something suspicious about several barrels next to a highway: They were watching him.
When a citizen pulled off to the side of an Arizona highway, he saw yellow barrels that are seemingly inconspicuous, but upon closer inspection, he saw they had slots carved out for multiple camera lenses.
The cameras tucked in the barrel were pointed in both directions and had a power source plugged into them that the man in the video claimed "just goes off in the distance."
Support for the LGBTQ+ lifestyle is in free fall: Poll
Republicans and an increasing number of independents are hitting the brakes on the rainbow train.
The cultural obsession with — and corresponding private-public support for — all things non-heterosexual is waning, having apparently reached its zenith sometime earlier this decade.
NewGallup pollingshows that support for homosexual "marriage," non-straight relations, and so-called transgenderism is collapsing.
Whereas in 2023, 71% of American adults said that homosexual "marriages" should be valid — up from 27% in 1996 — that number has since dropped to 65%.
Gallup started asking Americans in 2021 whether "changing one's gender is morally acceptable." That year, 46% of respondents said "yes," but this year, only 38% of Americans said the same.
Just 5% of Republicans and 42% of independents said that "changing one's gender" is morally acceptable.
...there has been a precipitous decline in the proportion of students identifying as "transgender" and "non-heterosexual," as detailed in a study last year from the University of Buckingham's Centre for Heterodox Social Science.
The AI boom is turning public meetings into crime scenes:
Americans opposing data centers have been arrested, removed, and monitored for ordinary political speech.
Big Tech companies helped censor Americans during COVID. Now many of the same interests pillaging rural America for surveillance data centers want to suppress debate over their next great project. This time, they are not merely trying to censor speech. They are helping create the pretext to criminalize it.
Federal and state law enforcement should have their hands full with real threats... Yet last week, Wired obtained documents showing a coordinated effort among the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis, and roughly 80 regional fusion centers to monitor supposed anti-tech and anti-data-center violence.
...the idea that data-center opponents have created a domestic threat requiring this level of federal coordination is absurd. It is gaslighting dressed up as intelligence work.
It is disgraceful to watch law enforcement silence Americans on behalf of Big Tech.
In short, the AI backlash hasgrown immenselyover the past year or so...
According to a newHeatmappoll, at least seven in ten Americans would oppose a data center being built near their home. That’s a seismic shift from last September, when a similar poll found only 42 percent of Americans were opposed.
Case in point, a planned data center in the broader Salt Lake City region in Utah, backed by Canadian businessman and TV personality Kevin O’Leary, will overtake a swathe of land twice the size of Manhattan — while only generating 2,000 permanent jobs.
Worse yet, the region is already facing a water crisis, a dire environmental predicament that could be made far worse by the development.
The Roots of Pride: Celebrating Rebellion Against God
June is considered LGBTQ+ Pride Month in the United States, Canada, and many other nations. Throughout the month various activities, including Pride Parades, will be taking place in celebration and honor of the LGBTQ+ community and sexual diversity. But this celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride points to something the Bible warns against time and time again—and it is not just sexual immorality.
As the name suggests, at the heart of Pride Month and other Pride celebrations and even the idea of Pride is the sin of pride... But God “opposes the proud” (James 4:6)...
Pride comes from a rebellious heart that rejects the benevolent authority of the Creator. A proud person ultimately claims to know better than God and his Word and believes that inventing our own rules and celebrating our own choices, achievements, and desires is greater than what God has commanded in his Word. It’s a movement that puts the focus squarely on us rather than on God.
Humanity’s first sin was really an example of pride... Deceived by the serpent, Eve believed God was selfishly withholding equality that she wanted, so she took the fruit and ate before offering it to Adam, who also ate. At the heart of their rebellion was pride in their own thinking and lust after what they wanted. But it broke creation (Romans 8:22) and brought death and the curse into what was, moments before, a “very good” creation (Genesis 1:31).
Pride is the root of all sin. Pride puffs one up with a false sense of independence. Proud people always feel that they can live independently from God and from other people. Proud people feel entitled to do what they want when they want to.”
The battle over marriage and gender being waged right now in the church is about much more than the institution of marriage or the binary nature of gender. It is ultimately about pride. Will we allow God, our Creator and Judge, to be our authority, or will we exalt our own beliefs and opinions (or those of our sinful culture) above God and his Word? Will we elevate ourselves to judge and dishonor God, like Eve, thinking he is capriciously withholding something good from us?
Over this next month, rainbow-colored flags will flutter in parades, and many people will adorn rainbow-themed attire to celebrate Pride. But these individuals are not truly celebrating sexual diversity. They are celebrating rebellion against God (ironically, while using the rainbow, a symbol God already gave meaning to in Genesis 9:8–17).
