Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi calls the plan a "stupid notion that would be nothing more than a waste of taxpayer dollars".

US President Donald Trump is seeking $152m (£115m) to reopen the infamous Alcatraz prison as part of his proposed budget for the 2027 fiscal year.

Located near San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, the site, also known as The Rock, was once regarded as one of America’s most notorious prisons, but has served as a tourist attraction in recent years.

The budget request is seeking money “to rebuild Alcatraz as a state-of-the-art secure prison facility”, with funds covering the first year of costs.

The plan has been met with scepticism by a number of politicians in California, with questions raised about the final cost of the project and the challenges of running Alcatraz as an active prison.

The maximum security facility was closed in 1963. As a tourist site, it is currently run by the National Park Service.

  • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    There’s a webpage by a former fundamentalist on … would Evangelicals recognize the antichrist?

    Then he goes through the Christian & Jewish prophecies…

    Here’s 1 from Book of Daniel, ch 11: notice the explicit mention of strongholds/fortresses…

    36 “The king will do as he pleases. He will exalt himself and consider himself greater than any god, and he will utter monstrous blasphemies against the God of gods. He will prosper only until the period of wrath is over, for what has been determined must take place. 37 He will show no respect for the gods his ancestors worshipped, or for the god women worship — he won’t show respect for any god, because he will consider himself greater than all of them. 38 But instead, he will honor the god of strongholds; with gold, silver, precious stones and other costly things he will honor a god unknown to his ancestors. 39 He will deal with the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god. He will confer honor on those he acknowledges, causing them to rule over many and distributing land as a reward.

    That’s from CJB, which obviously Benjamin L. Corey doesn’t use, but I find it less-overinterpreted, cleaner to the source material, & usually giving a clearer-view into the warnings…

    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+11&version=CJB

    The antichrist page is https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/ with its section on fortresses…

    Please keep in mind that

    1. any time your continuum/soul is trying to communicate MEANING to you, that communication must go through your unconscious-mind and it will distort the message, as it is acting as a “lens”… AND

    2. the more your unconscious-mind’s assumptions are strong, the more-distorting they are of the message. I complain about modern bibles over-interpreting/distorting the messages, but Daniel himself was distorting the message, because he was re-mapping it onto his local geopolitics, instead of letting it pertain to countries which had no basis in his world ( & Daniel was among the best of the visioneers )

    3. humankind’s history is cyclical: the biblical prophecies about the “towering monster, with steel teeth & clay feet” kind of thing actually refers to end-of-Age empire, strong, but decaying/rotted/corrupt … which happens to match BOTH The Roman Empire AND The US’s Empire.

    So, there’s a kind of double-refraction going-on, which has to be managed, too.

    Do see it for the brilliant warning it was, though: there’s stuff in Daniel ( about the “tribulation” ), & in Rev ( about “armageddon” ) which exactly pertains to what’s unfolding, now…

    I’d prefer it be called The Great Filter, because that’s what it is, functionally: it filters-out all the won’t-grow-up world-species, force-extinguishing 'em all.

    The American Indians called it The Great Purification, & have been knowing about it for the last 9-10 centuries.

    Anyways, when one sees through the appearances, to know what actually is usable, then the warnings of the past sometimes forearm one, re the pending changes.

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