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Hier — 27 mars 2024Presse

It’s a Statue of Prince Philip. Really. But Now It Has to Go.

A much-reviled faceless statue in Cambridge, England, commemorating Philip’s time as a chancellor of Cambridge University has been ordered to be removed.

A statue of (allegedly) Prince Philip in Cambridge, England.
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What Meltdown? Crypto Comes Roaring Back in the Philippines.

Two years after the cryptocurrency market crashed, internet cafes for playing crypto-earning video games are opening and farmers have started harvesting virtual crops from the games for income.

Customers at an internet cafe in Quezon City, Philippines, can play games that reward players with cryptocurrency tokens.

What the Philippines Is Doing About South China Sea Tensions

Escalating tensions in the South China Sea, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. says, are not only a regional issue, but a global one.

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. of the Philippines and Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany this past week at the chancellery in Berlin.

Why Everything Changed in Haiti: The Gangs United

“The situation totally changed now, because the gangs are now working together,” a Haitian consultant said. Their unity forced the prime minister to resign.

Gang members this week in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It is unclear how strong the gangs’ alliance is or whether it will last.

Philippe de Gaulle, Admiral and Son of Charles de Gaulle, Dies at 102

His exploits in World War II and later in Algeria and Indochina were not enough for him to emerge from the shadow of his father, for whom a thousand streets in France are named.

Philippe de Gaulle accompanied his father, Charles, who was president of France at the time, on a trip to West Germany in 1962. The son spoke of General de Gaulle’s coldness toward him.

UN Aid for Gaza Is Turned Away Because of Scissors, an Official Says

One truck was turned away because it contained scissors in medical kits for children, a U.N. official said. Israeli authorities accused the official of lying.

A U.N. truck carrying aid to Deir al Balah in southern Gaza last week.

Taylor Swift’s Singapore Shows Stir Anger in Southeast Asia

The country is defending paying the pop star to play nowhere else in Southeast Asia. Thailand’s prime minister said the price was up to $3 million per show.

Ms. Swift’s performances are a boost for Singapore’s post-pandemic economic recovery.

Immigration Drives Male Population ‘Boom’ in Canada

The latest demographic data from Canada showed the male population increasing by 3.4 percent, while females grew by only 2.9 percent, the widest disparity between the sexes in almost half a century.

FDA Links 561 Deaths to Recalled Philips Sleep Apnea Machines

The FDA has said Philips is to pay a $400 million settlement over recalled sleep apnea machines linked to 561 deaths.

Philippines Ex-President Rodrigo Duterte Returns, Calling Successor a Cocaine User

The colorful former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, stepped up an already bitter feud with his successor Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday by accusing him of seeking dictatorial power.

Haiti Threatened by Armed Environmental Group

The country’s political crisis grew more volatile this week after an armed environmental brigade allied with a former coup leader began demanding the prime minister’s ouster.

Guy Philippe in Pestel, Haiti, in 2016, the year before his arrest and conviction in the United States on money laundering charges.

Monday Briefing: Ukraine Steps Up Sabotage

Plus the beloved cats of a Chilean prison.

A photo Russia released last month purporting to show the site of a derailed train.

What It Feels Like To Be the Target of China’s Water Cannons

The Philippines invited journalists on a mission to provide fuel to fishermen in disputed waters of the South China Sea amid tensions between Beijing and Manila.

China Coast Guard and maritime militia vessels using a water cannon towards a boat with Philippine officials on the way to reach the Scarborough shoal Saturday.

Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Deadly Bombing of Christians in Philippines

The Islamic State terror group has claimed responsibility for the lethal bombing of a Catholic Mass in the Philippines this weekend as worshipers celebrated the first Sunday of Advent.

Explosion at Catholic Mass in Philippines Kills 4 and Injures Dozens

The blast, which was claimed by the Islamic State, occurred in a restive area in the south that was the site of a devastating battle with an ISIS affiliate six years ago.

Police investigators on Sunday at the site of an explosion at Mindanao State University in the south Philippine city of Marawi.

Tsunami Warning Issued After 7.6 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Near the Philippines

Par : Amy Furr · Amy Furr
An earthquake hit Saturday just before 11:00 p.m. off the coast of the Philippines in Mindanao, igniting fears of a possible tsunami.

7.6-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Philippines but Tsunami Warnings Are Lifted

The authorities in Japan and the Philippines lifted tsunami warnings in coastal regions after ordering evacuations. Power failures near the epicenter were reported.

Return to Haiti of a Coup Leader Raises Concerns of More Turmoil

Guy Philippe, who helped lead the coup that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004, is back in the politically unstable country after serving time in a U.S. prison.

Guy Philippe, a leader of the 2004 coup in Haiti, is taken off a bus at Haiti’s National Police station, in Port-au-Prince, after he was deported from the United States on Thursday.

Kibbutz Nir Oz Welcomes Release of Filipino Caretaker of Murdered Israeli

Kibbutz Nir Oz, a small Israeli farming community that was brutally attacked by Hamas on October 7, issued a statement Friday welcoming the release of one of the Filipino nationals who worked on the kibbutz as a caretaker and was taken hostage by Hamas.

Earthquake in Southern Philippines Kills 7

The 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck near General Santos City, where hundreds were injured, and schools and shopping malls were closed.

The damaged ceiling of a shopping mall in General Santos City, Philippines, on Saturday, after an earthquake.

Leila de Lima, Duterte Critic, Is Released on Bail in the Philippines

Though she was never convicted, Ms. de Lima was detained for six years after she fiercely opposed the Philippine former president’s brutal war on drugs.

Leila de Lima before her hearing in Muntinlupa City, the Philippines, on Monday. The court granted her bail plea.

The Beached Philippine Ship That Is Angering China

After multiple maritime clashes, the Philippines invited journalists on a mission to resupply the Sierra Madre. A reporter for The Times was given rare access.

Ukraine Accuses Russia of Deadly Strike on Civilian Ship in Black Sea

The episode, which killed one and injured four others, comes amid a recent uptick in military activity and attacks in the Black Sea, a hot spot in the war between Russia and Ukraine.

A photo released by the Ukrainian authorities showed a damaged civilian ship flying the Liberian flag that Ukraine said had been hit by a Russian missile in the Black Sea region of Odesa.

Radio Journalist, ‘DJ Johnny Walker,’ Fatally Shot During Live Broadcast in the Philippines

A gunman shot and killed Juan Jumalon, known to his followers as D.J. Johnny Walker, while he was livestreaming his radio show on Facebook.

A police officer checked the room where a journalist, Juan Jumalon, was fatally shot during a live broadcast at his home in the southwest Philippines on Sunday.

How Long Will Divorce Remain Illegal in the Philippines?

A campaign in the Philippines that frames divorce as a basic human right is gaining momentum, despite systemic and religious barriers.

Janet Kristine Guevarra had to save more than a year’s wages to pay for an annulment.

Japan and Philippines, Wary of China, Look to Expand Military Ties

An agreement, driven by the shared view that Beijing increasingly poses a threat to the region, would give Tokyo access to bases and make it easier to conduct joint drills.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan, seated, at the presidential palace in Manila on Friday, where he met with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines.

Jaswant Singh Chail Is Sentenced in Windsor Castle Crossbow Case

Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, was convicted of treason. His intrusion on the grounds of Windsor Castle on Christmas morning 2021 was foiled by the police.

The crossbow Mr. Chail had in his possession when he was arrested.

Typhoon Koinu: Taiwan Prepares for Rain and Wind Ahead of Landfall

Weather officials in Taiwan on Tuesday declared a land warning and a strong wind notice for multiple cities.

A satellite image showing Typhoon Koinu approaching Taiwan on Tuesday.

Typhoon Koinu Moves Toward Taiwan

Forecasters in Taiwan expected Koinu, which formed over the weekend, to get stronger in the coming days.

To Fight Another Day

Politics

To Fight Another Day

The breathing room afforded by the Court should not give Christians a false sense of security.

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Lorie Smith, a Christian graphic artist and website designer in Colorado, center in pink, prepares to speak to supporters outside the Supreme Court. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

I tend to think of myself as a fairly strong communitarian, or at least an enemy of the rigid individualism that has afflicted certain strains of American thought since the middle of the 18th century. A society cannot be built on antisocial pillars. Yet even my skin crawls at the dehumanizing mass-man newspeak of the civil-rights branch of the left.

Charlie Craig and David Mullins, the litigious pair who dragged the baker Jack Phillips through court for half a dozen years over his unwillingness to participate in their gay wedding in 2012, take the form to a startling extreme in USA Today this week. 

You see, when the Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that these two men and the deferential agents of the Colorado government did Mr. Phillips a grave injustice, it did so only on the grounds that Phillips’s treatment was a blatant instance of religious persecution. 

When the Colorado Civil Rights Commission issued the vindictive instructions that Phillips must “change [his] company policies, provide ‘comprehensive staff training’ regarding public accommodations discrimination, and provide quarterly reports for the next two years regarding steps [he] has taken to come into compliance and whether [he] has turned away any prospective customers,” they did so merely because they despised his Christian faith. The Supreme Court thus overturned the commission’s verdict without taking a stance on the underlying issue.

Lorie Smith, a web designer who has been barred from the wedding market by the same “anti-discrimination law” that strung up Jack Phillips, thus brought her own case against the compelled-speech statute, hoping to score a broader victory. On Friday, the Supreme Court granted one, affirming the obvious fact that a man or woman cannot justly be forced to produce speech that contradicts his or her sincerely held beliefs.

Craig and Mullins write that this First Amendment liberty “greenlights discrimination” as they grumble about “the harm caused to LGTBQ+ individuals who are denied equal access to public accommodations.”

Never mind that no real harm can possibly be caused by the restriction of available bakeshop options by one. The term on which their argument hinges is a bothersome one: public accommodations.

It has its roots in the civil rights regime of 1964, which superimposed a new system on the longstanding United States Constitution. And it would be reasonable enough if it meant what it says; nobody will argue that the town should shut off a man’s public water for the crime of sodomy, much less for a simple fact like the color of his skin.

But this is not what public accommodation means in civil rights jargon. It means you. It means Jack Phillips, and anyone else who hopes to live some part of his life outside the four walls of his home. Whatever is intended by the letter of the law, the new regime in practice has made clear that operation in the public square—participation in the common life of society—requires compliance. You cannot opt out. You cannot plead conscience. State-enforced homosexuality is more than an edgy meme.

The overreach is justified by a good deal of fear-mongering about supposed harm. Craig and Mullins lay it on thick, but their melodrama is nothing compared to the dissent of Justice Sonya Sotomayor. The justice preaches that “invidious discrimination” is not one of “the values in the Constitution.” She worries that the resurrection of such practice “reminds LGBT people of a painful feeling that they know all too well: There are some public places where they can be themselves, and some where they cannot.… Ask any LGBT person, and you will learn just how often they are forced to navigate life in this way.” (Every Christian in America unavailable for comment.) She even makes an emotional appeal to the death of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old meth dealer who happened to be gay and was murdered by two drug-trade associates.

The activists attempt to contrast this harm with the rosy life of the people they persecute. Both the Craig-Mullins op-ed and a number of other early takes on the ruling note bitterly that Smith was never asked to design a website for a gay wedding. They take this to mean that no person was harmed, and it is difficult to read this conclusion as anything other than blind egotism. 

When Jack Phillips was forced to stop making wedding cakes altogether, he lost 40 percent of his business. A similarly sizable chunk of income is no doubt lost by a boutique web designer driven out of a massive sphere of the small-scale web design market. Yet it seems beyond these people’s moral capacity to put themselves in her shoes.

It is also worth noting that the radical front has framed itself (in this as in so many other battles) as David up against the reactionary Goliath. Never mind the long march through every institution, the unanimous endorsement of every cultural power, the outright criminalization of dissent. By sheer numbers, the claim is absurd. In each of these related cases, the persecuted artist has been represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, a scrappy legal outfit dedicated to an ethos of Christian liberalism; the activist complainants, meanwhile, have prosecuted their cases through the American Civil Liberties Union, a 1.8 million-member behemoth that has spent the last century using courtroom bullying to drag this country leftward. 

Even discounting the latter’s numerous affiliates, ADF has barely one-fourth the annual budget of the ACLU. With no sense of irony, the men who trampled on the rights and livelihood of a humble baker for nothing but their own smug self-interest and satisfaction groan that the ADF’s cases “advance conservative Christian power and privilege at the expense of everyone else, especially LGBTQ+, women, and racial and religious minorities.”

Plaintiffs like Craig and Mullins lost these cases not because the cards were stacked against them, but because their causes were so plainly unjust that even a stacked deck could not ensure their desired outcome. It is a thin safeguard, and the breathing room afforded by the Court should not give Christians a false sense of security. As Jack Phillips has learned, the next attacks will follow quickly.

The post To Fight Another Day appeared first on The American Conservative.

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