Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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✝️ DAILY DEVOTIONAL, February 1, 2021
S.C.I. Mystery Cases – The Right Garden – Jane Olivor
S.C.I. Mystery Cases is a cop show out of Hong Kong. The two leads are Chief of SCI, Bai Yutong, and criminal psychologist, Dr. Zhan Yao. Chief Bai Yutong’s sister, Bai Quintang, has just returned to police headquarters from the states, accompanied, as always, by twin monks. She is introduced to the medical examiner and immediately becomes obsessed with him. But her extreme personality comes from childhood trauma, when she was kidnapped and then shot, as the child of a VERY rich family.
S.C.I. Mystery Cases – We’re OK – Joshua Radin
SCI Mystery Cases is a cop show out of Hong Kong. This video shows the relationship between supporting characters – a magician and his boyhood friend and genius novice policeman. Bullied by the magician as a child, the bullying continues when they meet again when the magician claims to have stolen the boy’s underwear during a magic show. Then the magician pickpockets the boy’s housekeys, reads his diary and gets his comeuppance when the boy locks him in.
From Rush: “VPKommie: Fired Coal Miners Can Work Reclaiming Abandoned Land Mines”… I thought a ‘land mine’ was something that blew up… well, that idea conforms to the definition…VP Kommie: Fired Coal Miners Can Work “Reclaiming Abandoned Land Mines”
Heels up harris only experience with mining is when willie brown was strip mining her 🙂
Catch the Wave
By Pastor Ricky Kurth
As I write these words, the cause of Christ has suffered yet another embarrassing setback, as yet another prediction for the Rapture has come and gone without fulfillment. The damage that has been done is far too extensive to fully document in this brief space, but you’ve all heard the stories. The faith of sincere believers has been shaken. Some who spent their life savings to warn the world of the end are now left to pick up the pieces of their shattered financial lives. And since the media referred to the man who made this prediction as a “Bible scholar,” unbelievers now have yet another reason to scoff at Christianity, laugh at the Bible and Bible teachers, and dismiss anyone who tries to share anything from the Bible with them.
In the past, those who have tried and failed to date the Lord’s coming have sought to account for their failure in two ways. Some have explained that the date they set was accurate, but that the Lord’s coming was a “spiritual” coming. Others have scrambled to cover themselves by admitting to a miscalculation, and setting yet another date. The Bible teacher behind this latest debacle has resorted to both excuses, and now warns that the end will come in October.
Thankfully, we serve a God who proved He can bring good out of bad when He took the worst thing that ever happened, the crucifixion of Christ, and turned it into the best thing that ever happened, the salvation of our souls. And so we trust that you will join us in prayer that the disillusioned followers of this discredited ministry will now begin to question its leader, and that grace believers everywhere will be able to use this sad event to lead these brethren to an understanding of the truth.
There is something we can learn from all this. Christians who believed that the Lord was coming on May 21st were spurred to live for Him as never before, enthusiastically telling their friends and loved ones to be ready. While this failed prediction has no doubt left some questioning if the Rapture will come at all, we who “love His appearing” still believe that we should be “looking for that blessed hope” (II Tim. 4:8; Titus 2:13). With that in mind, may each of us catch the wave of this misguided enthusiasm, and may His coming find us all busily redeeming whatever time we have left in the service of the Christ that loved us, and gave Himself for us.
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/catch-the-wave/
2 Timothy 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
To the Reader: Some of our Two Minutes articles were written many years ago by Pastor C. R. Stam for publication in newspapers. When many of these articles were later compiled in book form, Pastor Stam wrote this word of explanation in the Preface:
“It should be borne in mind that the newspaper column, Two Minutes With the Bible, has now been published for many years, so that local, national and international events are discussed as if they occurred only recently. Rather than rewrite or date such articles, we have left them just as they were when first published. This, we felt, would add to the interest, especially since our readers understand that they first appeared as newspaper articles.”
To this we would add that the same is true for the articles written by others that we continue to add, on a regular basis, to the Two Minutes library. We hope that you’ll agree that while some of the references in these articles are dated, the spiritual truths taught therein are timeless.
Earlier on Sunday on the Resistance thread, someone linked to rapper Tom MacDonald who tells truth about the BS going on with the Fascists.
Through the Tom MacDonald videos I found another rapper who also takes on the left BS.
His name is Struggle Jennings. He did a song with Caitlyn Curtis called……”God We Need You Now”. Wow!
Please listen to it…..you won’t be disappointed. And share it with as many as possible.
Was a great song and gal in video had a terrific voice and would be Sundance approved – her puppet strings were visible ?
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ZZ Top’s “Eliminator” is one of the most famous hot-rods ever. Wonder why?
Most people don’t realize it but the street racers usually have a agreement worked out with the cops. For decades politicians have occasionally tried to “do something” about street racing. They’re never successful, get bored and then move on to more attractive political objectives. Meanwhile, if you know where to look late at night, some serious street-racing is taking place. The deal with the police is this: Don’t become too visible, race in times when nobody’s around, and don’t get killed or, even worse, kill someone else. The racers know this, the cops know this and so, if I stay up late enough, off in the distance I’ll often hear the distinctive sound of high compression seriously built motors winding out . . .
I don’t know if the ZZ Top guys were street racers (althouth I strongly suspect they were), but they sure capture the ethos in these videos. Long may they wave!
Yeah about 3:30 am boeing freeway 3 lanes 3 cars lots of cars blocking it up behind 😉
Turbocharged Lamborghinis about 3AM on the 610 in Houston. Even the truckers cooperated, lining up across lanes to see the show. Just getting to hear a turbo Lambo in full cry is well worth staying up for.
One of my favorite verses for times like these:
Philippians 1:28
And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, at that of God.
Thank You.
I know this doesn’t really fit into my usual Monday’s to-fer but, dayammm, is this cool! I mean, really, ZZ Top’s been channeling John Lee Cooper for decades now so it’s high time that he channeled them. Oh, my goodness me. Boogie c’hilin . . . Do me a favor? TURN IT UP!!!
Living in a cold wilderness.
Having been a winter warrior I have spent quite a bit of time in wilderness when it is cold. I mean sub zero cold all the time. From the Green Mountains of Vermont, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, to mount Shasta in Washington, Burrow Alaska, Dumbas Norway, and in the Alps in various countries.
What I know is that the silence and beauty of a wilderness in the winter cannot be reproduced. It has it’s own striking stark beauty. It brings one closer to God.
But there is something else, something that happens to the mind when you live for extended periods in such conditions. Every move must be planned. Everything you do will be harder and more dangerous than during the warmer seasons. Get lost and you could die. Traverse across the wrong mountain at the wrong place at the wrong time and your in an avalanche. Have the ice break while crossing a body of water and you could die. Even going to the bathroom when it is -30 is a chore that one plans. Let alone getting out of that warm sleeping bag to begin the day in the darkness.
Everything one does is more difficult and happens slower and so has to be planned to make it happen as efficiently as possible. Body heat is your lifes blood and losing it hurts. Calories are the fuel that fire the bodies furnace. Both are in limited supply. And those facts focus the mind to the tasks at hand, no matter how simple they seem, in a way that is unique to those that have lived in such conditions. It is something that is impossible for anyone to really explain I guess. You just have to do it. And I’m glad I did.
I know what you mean, Rah…about that indescribable “sound” of silence while snow blankets your world. It is a beautiful soft silent sound! Although I have lived most of my life in the South, (Texas and NC), I was born in upstate New York, in Niagara Falls area. I grew up living through those amazing “lake effect” snowfalls, where when we went to bed, there would be NO snow on the ground, and when we woke up…there was 3 feet! We kids would bundle up and go outside to play. Boots, mittens, hats, gloves would pile up on the radiators to dry, until we would head back out for round 2 of playing.
Pipes would freeze, and would have to be unfrozen! Going out to the store was just something you got used to doing, in feet of snow. We kids also rarely had snow days, because that kind of weather was so common. We just worked around it. Here in NC, just the mere mention of “Maybe-Snow”, sends folks out to the stores in droves to stock up! Yet, life goes on up there in Buffalo area per usual–albeit a bit of planning!
But, the sound of a snow blanketed landscape is, as you say cannot be reproduced. I appreciated your post, because it immediately took me back to that “sound of silence”. Thank you!
I have been blessed to xcountry ski FOUR days in Nebraska last week. Never before have we had such abundant snow (10″) that lasted all week. Time alone. Stillness. Whiteness. Time with God. Beauty that takes your breath away. Such miraculous, creative beauty only a God who loves you would give.
Dress warmly and embrace the snow 🙂
“What I know is that the silence and beauty of a wilderness in the winter cannot be reproduced. It has it’s own striking stark beauty. It brings one closer to God.”
Then you will appreciate this verse!
Psalm 147:17 KJV
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
Just say’n… 😉
“mount Shasta in Washington”
Two states too high… 😉
Your right. I was up Shasta but also topped Mt. Rainer. Got them mixed up. We flew across the US in a C-141, rigged in flight, and jumped in at Ft. Stewart. The next day started the climb. I was in March as I remember. Two days after we set up camp to do some training near the summit of Rainer 3 climbers died in an avalanche on the east face. The got ahold of us on the guard net on the PRC 77 and we were ordered off the mountain because conditions were expected go get worse.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen ?
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
The 50th Psalm Septuagint / Psalm 51 KJV
To Ponder
Let me ponder on the Lord Jesus as the salt of the earth:
1. As the salt that gives savour to this life.
2. As the salt that keeps mankind from decay, which would otherwise be rotten through its history.
3. As the salt of my own life.
From “The Prologue from Ochrid” by Saint Nikolai (Serbian-born Bishop who reposed in the USA and was a former prisoner in Dachau) for today, January 19th Orthodox Church Calendar and February 1st civil or commercial calendar.
THE CALL OF GOD
“For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel.” 1 Cor. i. 17
Paul states here that the call of God is to preach the gospel; but remember what Paul means by “the gospel,” viz., the reality of Redemption in our Lord Jesus Christ. We are apt to make sanctification the end-all of our preaching. Paul alludes to personal experience by way of illustration, never as the end of the matter. We are nowhere commissioned to preach salvation or sanctification; we are commissioned to lift up Jesus Christ (John xii. 32). It is a travesty to say that Jesus Christ travailed in Redemption to make ME a saint. Jesus Christ travailed in Redemption to redeem the whole world, and place it unimpaired and rehabilitated before the throne of God. The fact that Redemption can be experienced by us is an illustration of the power of the reality of Redemption, but that is not the end of Redemption. If God were human, how sick to the heart and weary He would be of the constant requests we make for our salvation, for our sanctification. We tax His energies from morning till night for things for ourselves – something for ME to be delivered from! When we touch the bedrock of the reality of the Gospel of God, we shall never bother God any further with little personal plaints.
The one passion of Paul’s life was to proclaim the Gospel of God. He welcomed heartbreaks, disillusionments, tribulation, for one reason only, because these things kept him in unmoved devotion to the Gospel of God.
Oswald Chambers
February 1st Devotional
Scenes Beyond the Grave – Marietta Davis
Chapter III – City of Peace
3:4
Again with harps tuned in unison of harmonic praise, and in the ascending octave, they chanted a hymn to their Maker’s name. My guide urged me to unite in the animating song of redemption. I could not join them, being absorbed in the contemplation and glory of this long-sought home of rest. When they closed that sacred hymn, my guide, touching my lips again with the wand of light, bade me mingle, a companion, with the members of this divine abode.
Being after being pressed mine, immortal lips, and seemed anxious to fold me in their arms. As a soul, new-born, they caressed me, after looking up in thankfulness to their Redeemer and their Lord.
“And is this Heaven?” my spirit said. “Are these happy souls those who once struggled in forms of clay? Are these immortal visages, radiant with the glory of this adoring mansion, the spiritual countenances of those I have before seen in careworn life? And where has fled that age and decrepitude, ye parent spirits?”
Often have I listened to you, my earthly teacher, while laboring to convey to the understandings of your audience, some faint idea of your conceptions of immortal life. Often I have discovered manifest grief when in spirit you appeared to realize that upon most minds all was but an ineffectual effort. And then I have asked, can heaven be thus glorious? is not the picture too highly wrought? and may man, if he attain to that blest aboded, bask in the sunbeams of such supreme delight? And be assured, the highest thoughts of man fail to approach the reality and the delights of that heavenly scene.
To be continued…
This for the truckers 😉
St. Faustina wrote in her diary, “At the same time, I saw a certain person [Father Sopocko] and, in part, the condition of his soul and the ordeals God was sending him. His sufferings were of the mind and in a form so acute that I pitied him and said to the Lord, “Why do you treat him like that?” And the Lord answered, For the sake of his triple crown. And the Lord also gave me to understand what unimaginable glory awaits the person who resembles the suffering Jesus here on earth. That person will resemble Jesus in His glory. The Heavenly Father will recognize and glorify our soul to the extent that He sees in us a resemblance to His Son. I understood that this assimilation into Jesus is granted to us while we are here on earth. I see pure and innocent souls upon whom God has exercised His justice; these souls are the victims who sustain the world and who fill up what is lacking in the Passion of Jesus. They are not many in number. I rejoice greatly that God has allowed me to know such souls. (604)”
Mornin’ infidels!
Mornin’ WeeWeed
Afternoon DI!
Good Afternoon, WeeWeed!
That’s a dead-on target appropriate meme in the ‘toon.
Yep, lots of children are failing because of Overblown Covid Scare Lockdowns, but that’s certainly not making enough headlines.
Afternoon Bari!
Stressed parents…
Tom MacDonald: “Hate speech” is not the same as “speech you hate.”
Verse of the Day for Monday, February 1, 2021
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“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
Galatians 6:9 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Be My Voice – I am a CHILD – not a CHOICE!!!
I just saw a news item on TV, about a Uber driver in Colorado who demanded his passengers put masks on; the couple refused, so he stopped the drive. The man punched or touched his shoulder on the way out, so he dialed 911 and the police came.
The most telling part was a few seconds of the Uber driver expressing his disgust/incredulity over people not wearing masks in the situation. “After all this time…”, as if not submitting to mask wearing becomes LESS CREDIBLE with time, instead of, obviously, the reverse; he apparently thinks he should naturally get more hysterical with time, when dealing with perfectly healthy people also. He also said, “We’re all in this together”, while not showing any willingness to see the other peoples’ point of view, or their legitimacy; what he means, then, is “We’re all in this for my hysteria”.
That Uber driver should have been arrested; so should the police, if they arrested the passengers standing up for themselves. They are throwing away our freedom, and the truth about the covid19 virus, and giving false legitimacy to the Insane Left perpetuating the hysteria.
COVID has turned out to be boogeyman the left has been seeking for 50 years. Some calamity that justifies tyrannical government control over everything you do. Overpopulation and global warming just didn’t pack the fear factor the left needed to let them force their boots down onto the face of the public but a disease has that right combination of unseen menace and general ignorance to make it work.
As usual, the left won’t let go or stop on their own and only mass disobedience will force them back. It has been a year since the Wuhan flu grabbed control over the world and the public has to know by now that the fatality rates are similar to normal flus (indeed, normal flu deaths are now designated as COVID to boost the numbers).
This is now a test on just how passive and pathetic the public has become. The left will gauge their ability to push ever more dictatorial control on whether the public continues to obey. Even with all the flagrant hypocrisy of leftwing politicians ignoring their own laws, there is no spontaneous, mass disobedience. This is like the fairy tale of the emperor without clothes only the little boy who shouts “he’s naked” is clubbed and dragged off the street by the royal Antifa and the crowd does nothing.
Every new administration needs its Shakespearean parallels. GW Bush, even to those who didn’t like him, became Henry V (briefly) after 9/11. I’m nominating Dogberry of Much Ado About Nothing to be Biden:
https://abardseyeview.com/which-shakespeare-character-is-president-biden/
And Mistress Overdone, the brothel keeper in Measure for Measure, to be Kamala Harris:
https://abardseyeview.com/what-shall-become-of-me-measure-for-measure-mistress-overdone-and-kamala-harris/
Just say’n… 😉
Cannot beat
common sense… 😉
Honestly, reclaiming our privacy, control over OUR data AND our votes is a priority.
You guys, LOL. You can get your frustrations out and put companies on notice you’re not having it anymore. Let them know we are not sheep.
Had fun.
At least you can biiiitch out the data collectors. I called to find out what insurance plans were offered for various things and one company wouldn’t even tell me WHAT their insurance covers until I provide name, address, phone, zip code, and on and on PLUS.
Emphasis on zip code.
I said WHAT? You don’t describe WHAT you cover until you data mine me?
And you jack up that price depending on zip code?
Obviously they DO, and yet when I SAID they do he started denying it since obviously that can get them “cancelled.”
I said for WHAT do you need all that. WHY do YOU not tell ME what you’re selling until you data mine? I said do you robocall, sell to third parties and otherwise use and profit from data from people just trying to get estimates?
NO estimate? Not even a range? Not even a description of what your coverage entails and plan options?
I call YOU for information about YOUR company and YOU use it as an opportunity to over collect information.
Information is the key thing they’re all selling and buying right now, and they USE it against the public for everything including election stealing.
I said yeah baby, whenever companies go through complications rather than transparency it is a RED FLAG.
Too many hoops to jump through to get an estimate, and basically their model was to force you into jumping through so much red tape before you get an “offer” that it’s VERY hard to just move on at that point.
Also bonus data mining the heck out of you.
Hung the F up too.
Please join me in at least making sure every person you talk to doing invasive data mining gets an earful so they KNOW that loses business, pisses people off and we are NOT taking it anymore.
That gets the word to these companies we are NOT accepting this anymore and the FIRST companies that come along with legit protection of the public are going to make trillions.
Big corporations are on the dark side now. It is what it is. Let them have it so they KNOW we know.
If your company is legit YOU are transparent to ME up front BEFORE I give you ANYTHING. And even then quit using my info. and buying politicians.
Actually the insurance company needs to know the jurisdiction in which you live because insurance laws vary by state or municipality. Some of those states and municipalities restrict what insurance companies can offer and have regulations that define those coverage limits.
Yes costs vary by state / municipality. Why? Because claims & costs vary by state / municipality.
Remember insurance is a bet – the insurance company is betting that you won’t have $ claims that exceed your $ premiums. So they want to collect information so that they can assess the odds and price accordingly. They also want to know if you have a negative history of not paying premiums on time or making excessive claims. Unfortunately, lots of people do… That makes them a higher risk for the insurance company….so they charge higher premiums to offset that risk.
We have undergone a communist takeover of this country. I have a thread at the Homeland Security Forum on Cultural Marxism. The thread lays out 100 year old conspiracy to turn this country over to a Marxist dictatorship.
“I will take cultural Marxism for $400, Alex.”
“This man believed the means to a Marxist revolution was the long march through the institutions.”
“Who is Antonio Gramsci?”
Jake Sullivan are you listening? Don’t import this garbage. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/moe-gender-identity-issues-gender-dysphoria-culture-wars-14086710
FTA:Judges without a shadow of a doubt declared that the coronavirus was “created by a criminal elite that rules the world.”
https://verietyinfo.com/argentinaeng/peruvian-court-ruling-pandemic-created-by-bill-gates-george-soros-and-rockefeller-family/
Israel delivers second Iron Done battery for the US. This is a game changer in terms of defense against incoming missiles and rockets.
The Party are vandalizing United States property. What are you prepared to do about that? Listen up, campers! You are not prepared to do anything about that until you revere the homeschool and respect the authority of the five professional guilds: Theology, Medicine, Military Arts, Law, Pedagogy.
The Party say they are preparing United States property for global governance by experts. That is a load of horsefeathers. They are guarding United States property so they can keep defacing it without interference by United States citizens, who own United States property.
The Party grip and encircle United States property so they have something worthwhile to vandalize. The Party are not giving up. They are conservatives. Observe how they scream when Americans come to claim their property and protest The Party’s vandalism of it. Rome did not fall. Romans moved Rome out of the grasp and reach of vandals.
The issue is authority. Vandals recognize none. To stop The Party vandalizing their property, Americans must remove their property from vandals’ grasp and reach. To have that ability, to be prepared for that task, Americans must preserve and protect true authority. Having true authority on their side prepares Americans to take their property beyond the grasp and reach of vandals.
True authority is, firstly, the homeschool and, secondly, the five professional guilds. Revere and respect those, Americans, and you will be prepared to do what you must do. There is no other way to be prepared for that task, fun as it is.
Courts will not help you. Legislatures will not help you. Executive authorities will not help you. The Constitution will not help you. It is a piece of paper. Only true authority will help you. True authority is your reverence for the homeschool and your respect for the five professional guilds. The more you have of that authority, the more you are prepared to do what is needful. The less you have of that authority, the more you are unprepared to do what is needful.
Just say’n… 😉
Silver in your possession, now…
Just say’n… 😉
You’ll wish you had some
in your own possession.
Update
ent to the doctor today and they removed the cath in my penis. Still have the super pubic cath but getting that cath out of my hooter was a big relief! Will be plugging the superpubic to start peeing as normal. In a week, if I am peeing as normal, the doc will remove the superpubic cath.
Pushing the water. Already have had a tiny bit of flow without the plug when sitting on the toilet. So am hopeful that this time it will work.
Friend of mine died from COVID Saturday. Ron and his wife both contracted it. She was well enough to go home after 3 days. Ron went into the ICU and was in for almost three weeks. Finally on Thursday they put him on a ventilator. He passed late Saturday morning. Ron and my neighbor Steve grew up together and were like brothers.
Wishing you well, rah. Sorry about your friend. Hope the other side is bringing him immense joy… and may his wife and friends find comfort.
The history of the Lodge hat…goes all the way back to the history of the fez.
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and his family as they seek to lead America back to You. Also, we pray for Angels to protect and support our Sundance as he works for justice and peace.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Sorry….I’m late tonight. 🙁
I’m happy for you to show up at all. :). Thank you.
Ad rem we pray at 9p no matter what… your attention to helping us post is a bonus and much appreciated
Amen.
Amen
Amen…
Amen. Lord have mercy on us sinners, and all Patriots and freedom loving people around the world. And I pray for the health of my eldest who was persuaded to take an experimental vaccine. Lord, heal and protect her, I pray
First name so I may add her to our prayer list, if you are comfortable sharing.
Happy birthday, Sundance. I remember when this was just a gleam in your eye, and there were less than 50-60 of us sitting in the Treehouse. Congrats on what you and your team have done.
Ah yes. Remember the dancing smillies with baloons? 😀
I came by later… but there aren’t even words for the comfort I have found at the Treehouse
Merkel wants a uniform WuFlu standard across the EU. Why not a standard wage too? https://www.dw.com/en/angela-merkel-calls-for-standard-covid-measures-across-the-eu/a-56299692
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