Monday, August 29, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 29 August 2022
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 07:28)
Orwell Put on Hold? Department of Homeland Security Disbands "Governance Disinformation Board"DHS Folds Disinformation Board After Criticism Over Threat to Free Speech by Wall Street Journal (Dustin Volz)Part II (07:28 - 11:38)
Google Takes Sides on Abortion: Company Says It Will Label Abortion Providers in Search Functions — And That Means Leading Users Away from Crisis Pregnancy CentersGoogle Says Maps, Searches Will Identify Clinics That Provide Abortions by Wall Street Journal (Meghan Bobrowsky)Part III (11:38 - 25:40)
A Parable of the Liberal Ethos and Postmodern Party Culture: Finland’s Prime Minister in Controversy after Videos Emerge of Her Participation in Partying ScandalWhat the Controversy over Finnish Prime Minister's Dancing Videos Reveals about Women Leaders by USA Today (Alia E. Dastagir)In Finland, a Partying Prime Minister Draws Tuts, and Cheers by New York Times (Katrin Bennhold)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, August 29, 2022. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:12.1 | from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, every once in a while, when government does a dumb thing, it gets caught at it and |
| 0:19.2 | eventually has to correct it. |
| 0:21.1 | Now, you would have thought that one big blunder would have been corrected |
| 0:24.4 | some time ago and in order to understand this we have to go back to earlier this year |
| 0:29.5 | when the Department of Homeland Security announced that it was establishing what it called the |
| 0:34.5 | Disinformation Governance Board. Now almost immediately there was enormous |
| 0:39.2 | outrage coast to coast because this was in effect the Biden administration fulfilling the dark |
| 0:45.5 | prophecies of the novelist George Orwell in the middle of the 20th century when he talked |
| 0:51.0 | about officials speak. |
| 0:53.0 | Now, you remember his novel 1984, or at least many of you do, |
| 0:57.0 | when a part of the central evil of the evil system |
| 1:01.0 | was an official ministry of truth undertaken by a totalitarian government. |
| 1:06.5 | Now let's be clear, it is not fair to talk about the United States and its government |
| 1:11.2 | as totalitarian. It is to say that totalitarian governments |
| 1:15.3 | do in every way seek to have a Ministry of Truth |
| 1:18.4 | and constitutional republics that honor |
| 1:21.2 | the freedom of citizens, the freedom of thought, and the freedom of speech |
| 1:24.7 | profoundly do not. |
| 1:27.2 | Alejandro Meyorkas, who is the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, |
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