Category: Education

Affirm America Podcast: Turning Point USA Amfest Interviews

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The Settlement Project representatives, Marquis Van De Mark and Jack Ashworth attended Turning Point USA’s America Fest from December 16-19, 2023 in Phoenix, AZ. They interviewed several of the youth that attended the event. Learn more about the event and watch the interview videos here. Affirm America Podcast affirms the American ideals of faith, family and freedom. They discuss current events, news, politics and religion. Join them for relevant topics in news, commentary and discussion. 

Settlement Project Speeches and Events in the San Francisco Bay Area, November 2023

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The Universal Peace Federation (UPF) hosted a seminar on Education for the 21st Century: Challenges, Moral Dangers, and Innovation from 10 am until noon, at the Bay Area Family Church, and later that evening The Alameda County Committee of Restoration (ACCOR) held a graduation ceremony for graduates of its 10-week course on the US Bill of Rights, in the home of Michael and Monika Kellett. Dr. Kaufmann offered the Keynote address in the morning seminar and graduation congratulatory remarks and speech content in the evening ceremony.

Settlement Project Speech at UPF Seminar: Toxic Polarization in America: What’s To Be Done?

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This particular gathering focuses on media, perhaps as in part responsible for our current shameful ugliness, as well as on ways media might contribute toward needed healing. My first premise is that our world is full of  noble, courageous, journalists ready to give their lives to honor truth-telling for the sake of a better world. Although I admire honorable journalists and am grateful for the indispensable service they offer, I myself try to avoid them and have as little to do with them as possible. 

The Path to Violence, and the Responsibility of the Citizen.

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There are now two active, world-level wars cursing our planet, the Russia-Ukraine War, and the Israel-Hamas War. These are happening during a period in which the perennial symbol for the harmonization of international differences, the United States of America has sunk into unimaginable internal strife in which the US government is holding political prisoners, and efforts are being made to imprison opposition party political candidates. Imprisoning political opposition is the characteristic of primitive, unstable dictatorships.

On Addiction by Frank Kaufmann

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The problem with addictions is that they eventually erase the adequate functioning of conscience in the host bodies they inhabit and ultimately control.

A clear marker in this descent to becoming subhuman is the juncture at which the sanctity of human life is rejected in favor of satiating the blinding demands of an addiction.