Looking for Support

~ Clarissa

Ukraine was forced into a terrible prisoner exchange today that benefited not a single Ukrainian.* It’s mega hot. I’m forced to close under-enrolled courses at work. We went to get school supplies but I mistakenly printed out the list for Preschool 3 instead of Grade 3 and noticed it only after filling the cart. My foot is swollen again because of the heat and me running around like a crazy monkey.

If anybody has positive news or funny jokes, please share because I’m running low.

* Obviously, I support the release of Gershkovich and Whelan but the rest of the list are all Russians, and that’s like getting spat in the face. We have children stolen from their families and beaten in captivity. We have POWs being tortured but who cares? But what can we expect from that bastard Jake Sullivan, you know?

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      1. I have been seeing this in my parish, which has nearly doubled in size in two years. Not slowing down either. Our bishop says it is happening right across his entire diocese, but he didn’t know about other jurisdictions or dioceses, apart from rumor. The next church census isn’t until 2030, and I’ve been frantically trying to get real information about how widespread, how big, this is. This is the first time I’ve seen somebody try for real data on it, and it’s so exciting! They looked at 20 parishes across 15 states and in six jurisdictions, and found *the same trend*– right down to the age groups involved, the crazy influx of young men… it seems to depart, maybe, from our local parish’s trends only in that more of ours seem to be married people with young kids.

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          1. Exactly!

            My own attempts to pin it down have been broader, shallower, and hampered by lack of access to real data. But my general impression is that nearly every Orthdox jurisdiction outside the GOA is busting seams right now, that this is also true of conservative Catholic parishes (though not Catholicism as a whole), and that it’s nothing to do with any kind of outreach from the churches themselves. Rather, it’s something going on out there in the broader culture that is driving the under-40 crowd *into* liturgical churches in huge numbers.

            I still have so many questions about this. It is all I can do to restrain myself from grilling our catechumens about it.

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  4. Didn’t know this about digital money:

    На самом деле понятие “грязные юани” возникло в Китае несколько лет назад. И речь не про юани, введенные в Китай конкретно из России. Это вообще любые юани, каким-либо образом замешанные в нелегитимных сделках…

    оказывается, что финансовый контроль от Народного банка Китая отслеживает всю систему транзакций на несколько порядков в глубину. Для него “грязные наличные юани” – это прошедшие через множество электронных счетов деньги, с которыми хотя бы на одном этапе было совершено (и доказано юридически) мошенничество или преступление, например: взятка, непоставленный товар, преднамеренное банкротство, обман в сфере услуг, неоплата налогов и т.д.

    …

    Как я и написал выше, цифровой след отслеживается на несколько порядков транзакций (не знаю, на сколько). По сути, получив честно пару десятков тысяч юаней через кошельки Чжифубао или Вэйбао от кого-либо за какие-либо реальные услуги (за те же консультации или инспекции), их можно лишиться, если среди этих юаней часть будет иметь криминальное, по мнению властей, происхождение.

    Юани будут заморожены или изъяты, причем не обязательно все деньги, полученные от “деньгодателя”, а именно та часть, которая отслежена как криминальная. То есть, если среди 10000 юаней 3000ю – первоначальный источник средств взятка, а 7000ю – зарплата, то изымут только именно эти 3000 юаней. При этом вы можете оказаться в этой цепочке совершенно случайно.

    More about Chinese order here re Как устроен китайский вокзал. Very interesting for me.

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  5. Writing in on a Saturday from a small town in England.

    When I drove to work on Thursday (about 30 miles, mostly on A roads which bypass the villages, so not many houses), I was looking at flags.

    The UK isn’t a huge flag-waving nation, the Euro football tournament is over and the Olympics doesn’t really generate much nationalist fever, so the numbers are fairly low.

    Anyway, I saw 5 business advertising flags, 2 Ukraine flags, 1 England flag and 1 Union Jack.

    I can’t promise that the new UK government will support Israel (though at least Starmer is more likely to do so than that racist supporter of terrorists Corbyn), but at least there is still some public support for Ukraine.

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