Day: May 10, 2016

OBAMA’S RADICAL LGBT LEGACY: HIS APPOINTMENTS OF GAYS & PERVERSE REGULATION CHANGES

Barack Obama’s Radical LGBT Legacy – An Immoral ‘Transformation’ of America

SEE: http://americansfortruth.com/2016/01/13/barack-obamas-radical-lgbt-legacy-an-immoral-transformation-of-america/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Anti-Christian lobby group HRC tallies Obama’s long list of pro-homosexual and pro-transgender “accomplishments”

Another Dubious Obama LGBT "First": Barack Obama is obviously the first U.S. President to turn the White House--the people's house--into a symbol of homosexual-bisexual-transgender activism. The rainbow has been appropriated by the LGBTQ movement as the symbol of their sin movement.

Two More Dubious Obama LGBT “Firsts”: Obviously, Barack Obama is the first U.S. President to turn the White House–the American people’s house–into a symbol of homosexual-bisexual-transgender activism. (The rainbow has been appropriated by LGBTQ activists as the symbol of their de facto sin movement.) Obama is also the first president to sit for a photo-shoot for a homosexualist magazine, OUT Magazine, in its December 2015 issue.
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Summary of President Obama’s Commitment to LGBT Equality [the homosexual-bisexual-transgender agenda]

Note to AFTAH readers: the following is a list of President Barack Obama’shomosexual-bisexual-transgender agenda “achievements,” produced by Human Rights Campaign, the world’s most powerful and well-funded LGBT lobby organization. [See the original HRC report on PDF HERE.] Even close followers of Obama’s socially left agenda will be surprised by the magnitude of his LGBT record. We have bolded some of the more important Obama actions–note especially #28 and #33 in which Obama undermined the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), thus accelerating the legal momentum for legalized same-sex “marriage.”
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HRC reports:
“Summary of President Obama’s Commitment to LGBT Equality”
LGBT-inclusive Legislation Signed Into Law (3):

  1. Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act – Signed October 28, 2009.
  2. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010 – Signed December 22, 2010
  3. Violence Against Women Act – Reauthorization signed March 7, 2013

Openly- LGBT Federal Judicial Appointees (15):

  1. Todd Hughes Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  2. Nitza Quiñones Alejandro Judge, District Court for the Eastern District of PA
  3. Pamela Ki Mai Chen Judge, District Court for the Eastern District of NY
  4. Michael Fitzgerald Judge, District Court for the Central District of CA
  5. Darrin Gayles Judge, District Court for the Southern District of FL
  6. Judith Levy Judge, District Court for the Eastern District of MI
  7. Michael McShane Judge, District Court for the District of OR
  8. Alison Nathan Judge, District Court for the Southern District of NY
  9. Paul Oetken Judge, District Court for the Southern District of NY
  10. Staci Michelle Yandle Judge, District Court for the Southern District of IL
  11. Emily C. Hewitt Chief Justice, United States Court of Federal Claims
  12. Elaine Kaplan Judge, United States Court of Federal Claims
  13. Joseph H. Gale Judge, United States Tax Court
  14. Albert Lauber Judge, United States Tax Court
  15. Robert Pitman Judge, District Court for the Western District of TX

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Openly LGBT Federal Ambassadorial Appointees (7):

  1. Daniel Brooks Baer, U.S. Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Served 9/10/2013 to present.
  2. John Berry, Ambassador to Australia, Served 9/9/2013 to present
  3. James “Wally” Brewster, Jr., Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Served 11/22/2013 to present.
  4. James Costos, Ambassador to Spain and Andorra, Served 8/22/2013 to present.
  5. Rufus Gifford, Ambassador to Denmark, Served 8/15/2013 to present.
  6. David Huebner, Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, Served 12/4/2009 to 1/17/2014.
  7. Ted Osius, Ambassador to Vietnam, Served 12/10/2014 to present.

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Policy / Regulation Changes (111):

  1. In March 2009, the Obama Administration added the United States to a UN General Assembly resolution calling for an end to criminal penalties based on sexual orientation or gender identity, a measure that former President Bush had refused to sign.
  2. In April 2009, the President announced a new, five-year outreach and prevention project called Act Against AIDS, which targets populations most at risk.
  3. In June 2009, President Obama issued LGBT Pride Month proclamations, the first since 2000, and held the first-ever Pride events at the White House.
  4. In June 2009, President Obama issued a Presidential Memo directing federal agencies to extend whatever benefits they could, under existing authority, to the same-sex partners of federal employees.
  5. In June 2009, the State Department reversed a Bush Administration policy that refused to use a same-sex “marriage” license as evidence of a name change for passports.
  6. In June 2009, the State Department extended numerous benefits to the partners of Foreign Service officers, including diplomatic passports, access to overseas medical and training facilities, inclusion in housing allocations, and access to emergency evacuation.
  7. In July 2009, Administration officials testified in support of the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act, which would extend spousal benefits to the partners of federal workers, including health insurance and insurance benefits.
  8. In September 2009, an Administration official testified in support of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  9. In October 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) adopted a regulation ending the ban on HIV-positive visitors and immigrants.
  10. In November 2009, an Administration official testified in support of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in the U.S. Senate.
  11. In January 2010, the Office of Personnel Management added gender identity to the equal employment opportunity policy governing all federal jobs.
  12. In February 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services awarded$900k grant for the creation of a national resource center on LGBT aging issues to Services & Advocacy for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Elders (SAGE).
  13. In March 2010, the Census Bureau overturned the Bush Administration’s overbroad interpretation of the Defense of Marriage Act and agreed to release data on married same-sex couples along with other demographic info from the 2010 Census.
  14. In March 2010, the IRS clarified that domestic partners (and their children) can be designated beneficiaries for VEBA funding/payment purposes.
  15. In June 2010, President Obama published a Presidential memo directing the extension of additional benefits to the partners of federal workers, including travel and relocation assistance, child care subsidies and certain retirement benefits.
  16. In June 2010, the Office of Personnel Management published a final rule allowing same-sex domestic partners of federal employees to apply for long term care insurance, and to take funeral and sick leave to care for a domestic partner.
  17. In June 2010, the Department of Justice issued an opinion clarifying that the criminal provision of the Violence Against Women Act related to stalking and abuse apply equally to same-sex partners.
  18. In June 2010, the Department of State revised the standards for changing a gender marker on a passport, making the process less burdensome for transgender people.
  19. In June 2010, The Department of Labor issued guidance clarifying that an employee can take time off under the FMLA to care for a same-sex partner’s child, even where the partner does not have a legal or biological relationship to that child.
  20. In June 2010, President Obama issued a second memo directing federal agencies to extend whatever benefits they could, under existing authority, to the same-sex partners of federal employees.
  21. In July 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services revised its funding guidance around abstinence-only-until-marriage sex education programs, requiring that recipient programs are inclusive of and non-stigmatizing toward LGBT youth, and mandating that they include only medically-accurate information.
  22. In July 2010, the President launched a National AIDS Strategy with key goals to lower the number of new HIV infections, increase the number of people receiving care, and reducing racial disparities.
  23. In October 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services awarded a $13.3 million grant to the LA Gay and Lesbian Center to create a model program supporting LGBT and questioning youth in the foster care system.
  24. In October 2010, the White House held a summit on school bullying and formed an interagency working group to look at ways to address this pervasive problem, including in regards to LGBT youth.
  25. In January 2011, the Justice Department proposed regulations to implement standards proposed by the federal Prison Rape Elimination Commission to reduce sexual abuse in correctional facilities, including standards regarding LGBT and intersex inmates.
  26. In January 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services regulations requiring all hospitals receiving Medicaid and Medicare to prohibit discrimination in visitation against LGBT people went into effect.
  27. In February 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services rescinded provisions of a Bush-era rule which allowed health care providers to refuse to provide any health care service or information for a religious or moral reason.
  28. In February 2011, The Department of Justice announced that it would stop defending lawsuits brought against Section 3 of DOMA because the President and Attorney General believed the provision was unconstitutional.
  29. In March 2011, at the request of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a lengthy report detailing the range of areas in which more research is needed on LGBT health needs.
  30. In March 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sent a number of recommendations to the White House for policy and regulatory changes that HHS could undertake to improve the health of LGBT people, including: collection of LGBT health data.
  31. Guidance for states on including LGBT families in federal welfare programs, and
  32. Guidance for states on protecting the financial resources of a same-sex partner when his or her partner enters long-term care under Medicaid.
  33. In June 2011, the Department of Justice filed its first brief implementing its decision to stop defending lawsuits brought against Section 3 of DOMA in federal court, acknowledging the federal government’s role in discrimination against gays and lesbians.
  34. In June 2011, the Department of Veterans Affairs published a directive establishing a policy of respectful delivery of healthcare to transgender and intersex veterans in all VA healthcare facilities.
  35. In June 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued guidance clarifying that state Medicaid agencies have the authority to provide same-sex couples with equal access to the financial and asset protections available to opposite-sex couples when a partner enters a nursing home or care facility.
  36. In June 2011, the Department of Education held the first-ever LGBT Youth Summit. At that event, Secretary Duncan announced guidance to schools nationwide making clear that right of gay-straight alliances (GSAs) to form and meet in public schools is protected under federal law.
  37. In June 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services awarded a grant to Heartland Alliance in Chicago to create the first-ever resource center for LGBT refugees being resettled in the United States.
  38. In June 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services publicly committed to collecting data on sexual orientation and gender identity in federal health surveys and laid out a timeline for identifying the best ways to collect quality data on LGBT people and including the appropriate questions in surveys.
  39. In June 2011, the Administration supported a first-ever UN Human Rights Council resolution condemning violence and discrimination against LGBT people.
  40. In September 2011, the Social Security Administration announced that it would no longer issue “gender no-match” letters to employers during the clearance process for potential employees. This change protects transgender applicants from being unnecessarily outed to potential employers by the SSA.
  41. In September 2011, the Office of Personnel Management issued additional guidance to federal managers regarding the equal treatment of transgender workers.
  42. In October 2011, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) adopted a policy “strongly encouraging” companies contracting with the agency to have nondiscrimination policies protecting LGBT employeesand other workers in place.
  43. In November 2011, the Internal Revenue Service formally announced that medically necessary treatments related to gender transition are deductible for income tax purposes.
  44. In December 2011, President Obama issued a memorandum creating a strategy for U.S. government agencies to combat LGBT human rights abuses internationally.
  45. In December 2011, then-Secretary of State Hilary Clinton made an historic speech on LGBT human rights in Geneva.
  46. In January 2012, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued regulations recognizing LGBT families for federal housing programs, …
  47. Prohibiting discrimination against LGBT people in accessing federally-insured mortgage loans, and …
  48. Requiring HUD grantees to abide by LGBT-inclusive state and local antidiscrimination laws.
  49. HUD also announced it would conduct the first-ever nationwide study of LGBT housing discrimination.
  50. In March 2012, U.S. Customs and Border Protection published a proposed rule that will expand the definition of family to include domestic partners for the purposes of processing the family when re-entering the U.S. from abroad.
  51. In April 2012, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that the U.S. will recognize marriages for immigration purposes regardless of a subsequent gender transition.
  52. In April 2012, the EEOC published its decision in Macy v. Holder which found that gender identity discrimination in employment is a form of sex discrimination and prohibited under Title VII.
  53. In May 2012, the Department of Justice published final regulations creating national standards aimed at eliminating sexual abuse in America’s prisons, jails, and local detention facilities as mandated by the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). These standards directly address the needs of LGBTI and gender nonconforming prisoners.
  54. In June 2012, the Internal Revenue Service published guidance specifically addressing the unique filing issues faced by same-sex couples, and clarified that eligibility for the adoption tax credit.
  55. In July 2012, the Administration on Aging published clarifying guidance that LGBT older adults should be included as a population with a “greatest social need” for purposes of Older American Act programs and funding.
  56. In July 2012, the Office of Personnel Management published a final rule extending the presumption of insurable interest annuity to families of same-sex federal employees.
  57. In August 2012, the Federal Aviation Administration released new certification procedures eliminating burdensome, additional psychological testing for transgender pilots.
  58. In January 2013, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released a report responding to the Institute of Medicine’s report concerning the health of LGBT populations in the country. The NIH report specified that the research needs of the LGBT community span a number of institutes, centers, and offices within NIH and shows that NIH understands the breadth of health needs and disparities that impact LGBT people across the lifespan.
  59. In February 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services published implementing regulations for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the context of coverage availability.
  60. In June 2013, the Social Security Administration announced a new policy modernizing and standardizing the process for changing the gender designation in Social Security records. This new policy allows transgender people to maintain their privacy and prevents unnecessary outing to Social Security staff and to healthcare providers. Under the revised policy,transgender people are able to change their gender on their Social Security records by submitting either government-issued documentation that reflects a change, or certification from a physician that confirms that they have received clinical treatment for gender transition.
  61. In June 2013, the Office of Personnel Management published guidance on the extension of benefits to same-sex spouses allowing all legally married same-sex spouses of federal employees to apply for health insurance, life insurance, dental and vision insurance, long-term care insurance, retirement, and flexible spending accounts.
  62. In July 2013, the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services published guidance that all immigration visa petitions filed on behalf of a same-sex spouse will now be reviewed in the same manner as those filed on behalf of an opposite-sex spouse.
  63. In July 2013, the Department of Education and the Department of Justice resolved a discrimination claim filed by the National Center for Lesbian Rights on behalf of a transgender student in California who had been excluded from rooming with male peers on an overnight field trip and barred from using male restrooms. The government reached an agreement with the school district that it will treat the transgender student as male and revise its policies to ensure that all students are free from discrimination based on sex stereotypes as well as provide training to personnel and students.
  64. In August 2013, the Department of Defense announced that it would extend all spousal benefits to same-sex spouses of service membersregardless of where the couple was married or where they currently live.
  65. The Department of Defense will provide additional leave days for those service members who wish to get married and need to travel to another state in order to do so.
  66. In August 2013, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service issued a ruling that all lawfully-married same-sex couples, regardless of where they live, will be recognized for federal tax purposes.
  67. In August 2013, the Department of Health and Human Services issued guidance to Medicare providers directing them to allow beneficiaries to access skilled nursing care in the same facility as a same-sex spouse, regardless of where the couple lives.
  68. In June and August 2013, the Social Security Administration issued guidance on the implementation of the Windsor decision. The Social Security Administration will process the claims of same-sex spouses domiciled in states that recognize same-sex marriage. For married same-sex spouses who are domiciled in states that do not recognize same-sex marriage, the Social Security Administration has stated that they will hold the claims.
  69. In September 2013, the Department of Labor issued guidance clarifying that the terms “spouse” and “marriage” in Title I of ERISA and in related regulations includes same-sex couples legally married in any state, regardless of where the couple currently lives. This guidance ensures that same-sex spouses have access to important protections under employer health insurance, retirement, and pension plans.
  70. In September 2013, the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board published an interim rule providing that the board will look at the state of celebration of a marriage to determine the marital status of Thrift Savings Plan participants.
  71. In September 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) issued guidance encouraging states to look to the state of celebration when determining marital status for eligibility purposes.
  72. CMS also issued guidance clarifying that the premium tax credits designed for the purchase of health coverage through the insurance exchanges are available to married same-sex couples, regardless of where they live.
  73. In September 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published guidance clarifying that state programs are no longer prohibited from recognizing same-sex marriages for purposes of Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
  74. In September 2013, the Internal Revenue Service issued guidance to employers and employees addressing the process for amending tax returns to correct overpayments of employment taxes for 2013 and earlier years for certain same-sex spouse benefits and certain remunerations paid to same-sex spouses.
  75. In September 2013, the Department of Defense issued guidance extending Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) coverage to same-sex spouses of military members and retirees. The military’s SBP allows retired service members to designate their spouses, and in some instances their minor children, as beneficiaries to their military pension. This allows the spouse or children to continue to receive a portion of the military pension upon the veteran’s death. Military retirees who were married to a same-sex spouse on or before June 26, 2013 may now have spousal coverage under the SBP.
  76. In September 2013, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced that it will no longer deny marital benefit claims because a “spouse” or a “surviving spouse” is not a person of the opposite sex.
  77. Service members may also designate a same-sex spouse as a beneficiary for a number of programs including the Service Members Group Life Insurance (SGLI), the Veterans’ Group Life Insurance (VGLI), the Post Vietnam-era Veterans Assistance Program (VEAP), and the Montgomery GI Bill.
  78. The VA also has announced that individuals with a same-sex spouse, living in a state that recognizes same-sex marriage will be considered married for the purposes of the Home Loan Guarantee Program.
  79. In November 2013, the Office of Personnel Management published final regulations recognizing the children of federal employees’ same-sex domestic partner as stepchildren for purposes of federal benefits, allowing these children to receive coverage.
  80. In January 2014, the S. Customs and Border Patrol announced a proposed regulatory change expanding the meaning of “members of a family residing in one household” for the purposes of the customs declaration form, which must be completed prior to reentry to the United States. The policy change will ensure that children of same-sex parents are recognized as members of the family regardless of adoption status.Also, the proposed change will acknowledge individuals in committed relationships, for example long-time companions, and couples in civil unions or domestic partnerships, within the definition of “family.”
  81. In April 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published guidance providing that Medicare will begin same-sex marriages for determining entitlement to or eligibility for Medicare.
  82. In May 2014, the Departmental Appeals Board at the Department of Health and Human Services issued a ruling in an administrative challenge brought by the ACLU, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights determining that Medicare’s policy of categorically excluding coverage of sex-reassignment surgery is unreasonable and contrary to contemporary science and medical standards of care.
  83. In May 2014, the Administration on Community Living (ACL) at the Department of Health and Human Services published guidance directing all ACL programs to recognize same-sex spouses who were lawfully married in any state, territory, or foreign jurisdiction as family members regardless of where the couple is currently residing. For purposes of Older Americans Act (OAA) programs, this policy will ensure that same-sex spouses are recognized by the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities as well as the Administration on Aging. These spouses will now be recognized and have access to critical caregiver support programs and will be recognized as “family” within the definition of the OAA.
  84. In June 2014, the Department of Labor published a proposed rule revising the definition of “spouse” for purposes of the FMLA to extend eligibility to all spouses, including same-sex, regardless of where they live.
  85. In June 2014, the Office of Personnel Management announced it was removing the exclusion of transition-related health services for Federal Employee Health Benefits plans (FEHB).
  86. In July 2014, President Obama signed an executive order protecting the employees of federal contractors from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
  87. In July 2014, President Obama signed an executive order protecting federal employees from discrimination on the basis of gender identity.
  88. In August 2014, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published new guidance directly addressing application of the HUD Equal Access Rule to emergency shelter and continuum of care programs, affirming important protections available to same-sex couples and their families seeking emergency shelter and other assistance from programs receiving HUD funds.
  89. In August 2014, the Department of Labor issued official guidance and enforcement protocols clarifying the reach of the federal non-discrimination laws enforced by the Department and ensuring full protection for transgender individuals who work for federal contractors and subcontractors covered by these laws.
  90. In September 2014, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed two historic lawsuits challenging cases of discrimination against two transgender people, which is the first time the EEOC has used the protections of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to bring lawsuits challenging discrimination based upon gender identity.
  91. In October 2014, the Department of Education implemented regulations requiring campus crimes based on a person’s gender identity to be compiled and published, in addition to national origin, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and disability.
  92. In December 2014, the Department of Education released guidance clarifying that transgender students may enroll in single-sex classes and activities based on their gender identity.
  93. In December 2014, the Department of Justice released guidance prohibiting federal law enforcement officers from profiling based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
  94. In December 2014, the Department of Justice announced it would no longer assert that gender identity is not covered Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination, consistent with the EEOC’s decision in Macy v. Holder.
  95. In February 2015, the Department of Labor published revised regulations to ensure that all married same-sex couples could access benefits under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) regardless of state of residence.
  96. In February 2015, the State Department appointed a Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons with the specific goal to, “reaffirm the universal human rights of all persons, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.”
  97. In February 2015, the White House released the 2015 National Security Strategy (NSS) that specifically mentions, for the first time, the need to protect LGBT human rights as an objective of U.S. national security.
  98. In February 2015, the S. Agency for International Development (USAID) presented a new toolkit for integrating LGBT rights into the Europe and Eurasia (E&E) region. The goal of this toolkit is to create positive impact in development work, which will align with the Obama administration’s vision to promote LGBT rights as human rights around the world.
  99. In May 2015, the FDA published draft guidance revising the deferral on gay and bisexual male blood donors from a lifetime ban to a 12 month deferral period. Although HRC acknowledges that this policy change will allow some gay and bisexual men to become blood donors, it will continue to prevent sexually active gay men and bisexual men having sex with men from donating.
  100. In June 2015, the Department of Defense announced that it will extend nondiscrimination protections to LGB troops by updating the Military Equal Opportunity program to include sexual orientation as a protected class.
  101. In July 2015, the Department of Defense announced the establishment of a working group to study lifting the ban on transgender military service, allowing transgender service men and women to serve openly.
  102. In July 2015, the Department of Justice confirmed that married same-sex couples would receive all federal benefits regardless of state of residence and directed agencies to take steps to implement the landmark Supreme Court decision Obergefell v. Hodges.
  103. In July 2015, the EEOC published its decision in Baldwin v. Foxx which found that sexual orientation discrimination in employment is a form of sex discrimination and prohibited under Title VII.
  104. In August 2015, the Obama Administration appointed the first openly transgender White House Official, Raffi Freedman-Gurspan.
  105. In September 2015, the Obama Administration nominated the first openly gay Secretary of the U.S. Army, Eric Fanning.
  106. In September 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights proposed a regulation that provides explicit protections from discrimination on the basis of sex stereotyping and gender identity in healthcare and insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
  107. In September 2015, the White House held the first Community Bisexual Policy Briefing.
  108. In October 2015, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) published a report calling for an end to dangerous so-called “conversion therapy” for minors.
  109. In October 2015, the IRS published proposed regulations clarifying the definitions of “spouse”, “husband”, and “wife” in the tax code to ensure equity for same-sex couples, and clarified that legally married same-sex couples would be recognized by the tax code regardless of their state of residence.
  110. In November 2015, the White House announced support for the Equality Act, a bill to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, credit, education, public accommodations, federally funded program, and jury service.
  111. In November 2015, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced new guidance that will help to ensure transgender individuals have equal access to HUD-funded emergency shelters.

LGBT Appointees (overall) (250+):
The HRC report only links to the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund Presidential Appointments website (https://www.victoryfund.org/our-work/presidential-appointments); we have reprinted their list below (note: according to the site, it was last updated June 26, 2013):
LGBT Appointments in the Obama-Biden Administration
To date [June 2013], the Obama-Biden Administration has appointed more than 250 openly LGBT professionals to full-time and advisory positions in the executive branch; more than all known LGBT appointments of other presidential administrations combined.
* Nominated and Senate-confirmed
** Nominated but not Senate-confirmed
*** One-year recess appointment: nominated but not Senate-confirmed
Italics indicate an appointee who has left the administration.

 
Executive Office of the President
Miguel A. Ayala Deputy Director of Communications, Council on Environmental Quality
Trent Bauserman Associate Director for Legislative Affairs, Council on Environmental Quality
Anthony Bernal Director of Scheduling/Trip Director, Dr. Jill Biden, Office of the Vice President
Jeremy Bernard Social Secretary, The White House
Michael P. Botticelli** Deputy Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy
Pamela Coleman Director, Outreach and Recruitment, Presidential Personnel Office
Grant Colfax Director, White House Office of National AIDS Policy
Ashlee Davis Staff Assistant, Office of Presidential Personnel, The White House
Monique Dorsainvil Deputy Director of Advance and Special Events, Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs
Mark A. Doumet Chief of Staff, Office of the White House Counsel
Carlos Elizondo Residence Manager & Social Secretary to the Vice President & Dr. Biden, Office of the Vice President
George Fistonich Policy Assistant, Office of National AIDS Policy
Shin Inouye Director, Specialty Media, Office of Communications, The White House
Peter Kaldes Director, International Economic Affairs, National Security Staff
Brad Kiley Director, Office of Management and Administration, The White House
Kei Koizumi Assistant Director for Federal Research and Development, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Jeffrey Lerner Regional Director, Office of Political Affairs, The White House
Denise Maes Director of Administration, Office of the Vice President
Greg Millett Senior Policy Advisor, Office of National AIDS Policy, The White House
Dave Noble Special Assistant to the President, Office of Presidential Personnel, The White House
Diana Noyes Researcher, Office of the White House Counsel, The White House
Gautam Raghavan Associate Director, Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, The White House
Ellie Sue Schafer Director, White House Visitors Office, The White House
Campbell Spencer Regional Director, Office of Political Affairs, The White House
Everette Stubbs Deputy Director, White House Visitors Center, The White House
Nancy Sutley* Chair, Council on Environmental Quality
Kamala Vasagam Special Assistant to the President, Office of Presidential Personnel, The White House
Frederick Loo Wong Staff Assistant, Office of Presidential Personnel, The White House
Brian Bond Deputy Director, Office of Public Engagement, The White House
Ebs Burnough Deputy Social Secretary, Office of the First Lady, The White House
Brook Colangelo Chief Information Officer, Office of Administration
Jeffrey Crowley Director, Office of National AIDS Policy, The White House
Michael Gottlieb Associate White House Counsel
Kathleen Hartnett Associate Counsel to the President and Special Assistant to the President, The White House
Karine Jean-Pierre Regional Director, Office of Political Affairs, The White House
Matthew G. Lawrence Press Assistant, Office of the United States Trade Representative
Zach Liscow Staff Economist, Council of Economic Advisers
Anthony Macri Office of Public Affairs, The White House
Ryan Metcalf Assistant to the Ambassador, Office of the United States Trade Representative
Alison Nathan Associate Counsel to the President, The White House
Zachary A. Portilla Assistant, Office of Presidential Personnel, The White House
Moe Vela Director of Operations, Office of the Vice President
William Woolston Staff Economist, Council of Economic Advisers
 
Presidential Boards and Commissions
Roberta Achtenberg Commissioner, United States Commission on Civil Rights
Cornelius Baker Member, Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
Praveen Basaviah
Bruce Bastian Member, President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
David C. Bohnett General Trustee, Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Douglas Brooks Member, Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
Bruce Allen Carter Member, National Council on the Arts
John Coppola* Member, National Museum and Library Services Board
Humberto Cruz Member, Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
Fred Eychaner General Trustee, Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Chai Feldblum* Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Brenda S. “Sue” Fulton Member, Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy
Robert Greenwald Member, Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
Michael E. Guest Member, National Security Education Board
Steve Gunderson Commissioner, President’s Commission on White House Fellows
Tom Healy Member, J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
Michael Horberg Member, Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
Ejay Jack Member, Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
Jack Jackson Member, Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
Billie Jean King Member, President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition
James Kolbe Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Reginald Lewis Member, Commission on Presidential Scholars
Susan Lowenberg Member, United States Holocaust Memorial Council
Robert M. Saltzman Member, Commission on Presidential Scholars
Kenneth Tolson Member, President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Hector L. Vargas, Jr. Commissioner, President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
George B. Walker, Jr. Member, President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Nancy L. Wilson Member, President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Phil Wilson Member, Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
Fred Davie Member, President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Michael Fleming Member, Council for Community Solutions
Harry Knox Member, President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Mark Perriello Member, Presidential Rank Review Board
 
Department of Agriculture
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TARGET STORES: IT’S MORE THAN JUST BATHROOMS~IT’S THEIR RADICAL SUPPORT OF PERVERSION

It’s Not Just About Bathrooms: Why My Family Won’t Be Shopping at Target Stores Anymore

SEE: http://americansfortruth.com/2016/05/02/its-not-justaboutbathrooms-why-my-family-wont-be-shopping-at-target-stores-anymore/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

In addition to allowing men in female restrooms, Target backs radical LGBT “Equality Act”; boasts 100% perfect score on HRC’s rigged “Corporate Equality Index”

target-3Folks, today I sent the following letter to Target using their onlineContact Form. — Peter LaBarbera, AFTAH
TAKE ACTION: Contact Target at 800-440-0680 or using theirOnline Contact Form; and sign the AFA “Boycott Target” petition if you plan to join the boycott. If you do, make a point of going into your local Target store or calling the manager to explain why you and your family will no longer shop there. 
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TARGET: 100% Pro-Homosexual-Transgender Agenda: Target boasts online of its “perfect” ranking on HRC’s rigged “Corporate Equality Index.” The biased LGBT “Index” punishes corporations for giving to pro-family causes–and rewards them for funding “gay” and “transgender” groups and events. This graphic is taken directly from the Target website.
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Why My Family Won’t Be Shopping at Target Stores Anymore

May 2, 2016
By Peter LaBarbera
WARNING: offensive descriptions of horrifying transsexual “sex reassignment surgeries”
Dear Target,
My family and I are joining the Target boycott and will no longer shop at your stores. It is preposterous that all Target stores now allow men to use female restrooms—a sex predator’s dream. Girls have the basic right not to have their private spaces invaded by men, for ANY reason.
My family has done a LOT of shopping at Target over the years, but no more. One of my five children even worked at Target–but now I will not allow my two teenage kids to apply for a job there given Target’s leftist, politically correct corporate policies. Target has chosen to be contemptuous of common sense and Americans who are motivated by faith, decency and traditional morality. So we in turn choose to no longer support Target with our consumer dollars.
Another reason for our decision is that Target supports the radical LGBT “Equality Act”–HR 3185–which I have relabeled the “Criminalizing Christianity Act.“ This federal legislation would destroy religious liberty and freedom of conscience by elevating homosexual and transgender activism above religious liberty in U.S. law. Until Target stops supporting this anti-faith bill—which would specifically override the Religious Freedom Restoration Act–I will encourage others to boycott your stores.
Target would be smart to reassess its escalating capitulation to the LGBTQ Lobby–including its boasting of a “100 percent” score on the woefully-biased “Corporate Equality Index”(CEI) created by the Human Rights Campaign (the world’s largest “gay”/transgender lobby organization). HRC’s rigged “CEI Index” directly punishes any corporation that gives to pro-family causes by taking points away for doing so. Meanwhile, it awards points to companies like Target that make large donations to LGBT groups and “gay pride” events—and for engaging in pro-homosexual advertising. As a guide for consumers, the “Corporate Equality Index” is a sham; scoring a “100 percent” on it is nothing to brag about. In fact, it signals that Target is a company hostile to faith, Judeo-Christian morality, and freedom of conscience.
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Mocking Genuine Civil Rights and the Past Suffering of African Americans: Homosexual activist and Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin comparesbeing against allowing gender-confused men into female restrooms to racist Jim Crow laws that banned Blacks from “Whites Only” bathrooms. Why does Target brag about its awards [see graphic at top] from HRC, which insults African Americans with such spurious comparisons–and smears Christians as “haters” and “bigots” merely because they oppose homosexual “marriage.”

Most Americans are unaware that Human Rights Campaign has a history of anti-Christian and anti-conservative bigotry—equating sincere Christians and Americans who know right from wrong and oppose homosexual “marriage” with “haters” and “bigots.” HRC President Chad Griffin even compares being against letting cross-dressing men into public female restrooms to racist Jim Crow laws that once denied Blacks the use of segregated, “Whites Only” restrooms. This insulting and ridiculous analogy belittles the past suffering of African Americans and mocks genuine civil rights. Why does Target champion Human Rights Campaign given HRC’s extremist record and ugly rhetoric?

We urge Target to change its one-sided advocacy and stop supporting radical legislation like the Criminalizing Christianity Act (“Equality Act”). Instead, Target should at the very minimum adopt a neutral corporate posture on controversial moral issues like homosexual “marriage” (which people of faith–or no faith–have a right NOT to celebrate or participate in as small business owners).
One of the criteria for a corporation like Target getting a perfect 100% score on HRC’s skewed “Equality Index” is that it pays for body-disfiguring, transsexual “sex reassignment surgeries” (SRS) as part of its employee “health insurance” plan. Two of these horrific SRS operations are:
  • a gender-confused man having his penis cut apart and turned into a makeshift “vagina”; and
  • a gender-confused woman having her healthy breasts cut off so she can appear like a flat-chested man.
Former transsexual Walt Heyer, author and founder of SexChangeRegret.com, urges men NOT to go through with radical "Sex Reassignment Surgery" as he did.

Former “male-to-female: transsexual Walt Heyer, author and founder ofSexChangeRegret.com, urges men NOT to go through with radical “Sex Reassignment Surgery” as he did.
These procedures are so grotesque that it is offensive even to describe them in public. And yet we as consumers are expected to help pay for them in the name of “equality”! Our hearts go out to the men and women who think that destroying their natural body is the road to happiness. Former male-to-female transsexual Walt Heyer—founder of www.SexChangeRegret.com—urges against going through with SRS operations like he once did. I believe that most Americans, like me, do NOT want their consumer dollars to subsidize these radical “transgender” operations when they go shopping.
Until Target abandons radical sex- and gender agendas like funding transsexual “surgeries” in the guise of “health care”–and allowing grown men to enter restrooms occupied by young girls and women–we will avoid spending our hard-earned dollars at Target. And we will encourage others to do the same.
Sincerely and Respectfully,
Peter LaBarbera
Americans For Truth
www.AmericansForTruth.org
P.O. Box 5522
Naperville, Illinois 60567-5522

OHIO HOTELS HOST “CLAW” HOMOSEXUAL “LEATHER” PERVERSION FEST

WARNING: OFFENSIVE; NOT FOR CHILDREN

Holiday Inn Cleveland-South and Embassy Suites Hotels in Independence, OH Host ‘CLAW’ Homosexual ‘Leather’ Perversion-Fest – Features ‘Fisting’ Class

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Hotels now openly host vile homosexual sadomasochistic events; “Fisting A to Z” workshop features “hands-in” demonstration–in conference room; CLAW “charity” funds LGBT groups

WARNING: Graphic descriptions and revolting photos of horrifying homosexual perversions–after page jump. Not for children. 
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Profiting Off Perversion: Twitter announcement for CLAW annual sadomasochistic deviance sex event. Note both Holiday Inn Cleveland South (Phone: 216-524-8050) and Embassy Suites [Rockside] -Independence, OH (Phone: 216-986-9900) are listed as hosting this orgiastic event celebrating the most vile sexual perversion invented by mankind.

 “A good man will be ashamed to speak of what many wicked men are not ashamed to do.”—Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the New Testament Book of Ephesians, Chapter 5:3-14

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TAKE ACTION: Contact the Holiday Inn-Cleveland So (216-524-8050); ask for Gen. Manager Tom Moore. Call Holiday Inn’s parent company, International Hotel Group, at 800-621-0555. Also contact the Embassy Suites-Rockside hotel at 216-986-9900. [Embassy Suites is owned by Hilton: call them 800-362-2779; online form HERE]. Lastly, contact the Westin Cleveland Downtown — the host of next year’s (2017) CLAW leather convention: phone: 216-771-7700; ask for Gen. Manager Bob Megazzini].
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By Peter LaBarbera, AFTAH exclusive
Summary: Part One:
  • Two Cleveland hotels, Holiday Inn Cleveland-South and Embassy Suites, both in Independence, OH, jointly sponsor homosexual “leather weekend” conference called CLAW. Holiday Inn also hosted the deviance celebration last year;
  • CLAW rented the entire Holiday Inn hotel, for three days, April 28-May 1–even closing the bar and restaurant (like the rest of the hotel) to the public for this private perversion-fest;
  • CLAW celebrates the most extreme and vile sexual behaviors invented by sinful men–including Fisting, Rimming, Scat, Watersports (involving urine), Master-Slave “relationships,” and a twisted “Puppy” fetish in which men become human “dogs” for their “masters.” This is sexual anarchy and as sick and satanic as it gets;
  • One CLAW workshop, “Fisting A to Z,” instructs homosexual men on how to “fist”–a bizarre and dangerous sadomasochistic perversion in which a man inserts his hand and forearm into the rectum and lower colon of his fisting partner [see below];
  • The “fisting” workshop advertised a “hands-in” demonstration–i.e., the disgusting act apparently was performed in the Holiday Inn conference room advertised for the session [see below];
  • CLAW, like other homosexual male “leather” conventions, features deviant-sex orgies–and apparently not just in hotel rooms–which the poor maids are forced to clean up;
  • Another CLAW workshop, titled “Down in the Brown,” was about the “scat” fetish–essentially eroticizing poop (feces). It was held in the Embassy Suites Con 1 meeting room [see below]
  • The non-profit CLAW calls itself a “charity” and raises money for homosexual activist groups like GLSEN, PFLAG and Equality Ohio.
  • Next year’s CLAW is advertised as being held at the Westin Cleveland Downtown [Phone: 216-771-7700; ask for Gen. Manager Bob Megazzini]
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‘Fisting’ Perversion Class at the Holiday Inn: Page from the CLAW (Cleveland Leather Annual Weekend) website shows a “Fisting A to Z” class at the annual deviance sex celebration. Note (circled in yellow) the host Holiday Inn Cleveland South – Independence, OH as a sponsor of CLAW. A hotel employee described the private sadomasochistic all-hotel event to a caller as an “All Men’s Leather Convention.” Click to enlarge.
One of the features of post-Sexual Revolution and LGBT-friendly America is that the most vile misbehaviors invented by mankind increasingly are committed out in the open–with the full cooperation of corporations, which profit off of the organized perversion. Apparently no deviant behavior act or group is too vile not to be accommodated by big businesses in sexually “liberated” America.
Such was the case in Cleveland over the weekend, where an event featuring the most heinous deviant sex-fetishes ever conceived–including “fisting”–was not only hosted but sponsored by the Holiday Inn Cleveland South, in Independence, Ohio. The annual event is called CLAW: Cleveland Leather Annual Weekend–and it drew mostly homosexual “leathermen” from across the country and beyond. (The same Holiday Inn hotel sponsored last year’s CLAW, drawing around 1,500, according to organizers.)
CLAW organizers rented the entire Holiday Inn hotel–with 363 rooms–closing it to the public for three days. The event was co-hosted by the nearby Embassy Suites Cleveland-Rockside. These hotels allowed some of their meeting rooms and (I suspect) pools to become orgy spaces—-as the above graphic for the CLAW 2016 “Fisting A-Z” class held in a Holiday Inn conference room above shows. (“Fisting” is a bizarre fetish invented by homosexual men in which a man inserts his hand and forearm into the rectum and lower colon of his “partner.”
The “Fisting A to Z” class advertised a “hands-in” (as opposed to a “hands on”) demo (demonstration), held in the Hercules 277 meeting room at the Holiday Inn Cleveland South. Here is the “class” description:

Fisting A to Z
In addition to covering the basics of a fisting session and fisting play parties, we will cover as many letters of the alphabet as time allows — Anatomy, Breathing, Cleaning, Dildos, Eating and so forth.
And we will have a hands-in demo.

The CLAW “leather weekend” is one of several homosexual BDSM (Bondage & Discipline, Dominance & Submission, Sadism & Masochism) events of a similar nature across the country. Every Memorial Day weekend homosexual “leathermen” and “bears” (older, larger, hairy homosexual men–yes, they have their own “pride” flag) descend on a swank hotel in Chicago–this year the Congress Plaza Hotel–for “International Mr. Leather”–also taking over entire hotels for their perverse goings-on. [See AFTAH story on IML 2007.]
Like the anti-Christian, nun-mocking “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” CLAW bills itself as a charity, and the annual CLAW event has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for a variety of groups, including homosexual activist organizations like GLSEN (Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network)-Northeast Ohio, Equality Ohio(the state’s leading homosexual lobby group) and P-FLAG (Parent, Friends and Family of Lesbians and Gays).
I think it is safe to say that even today, the average American would be stupefied by the über-deviance on display at such homosexual “leather” events. It is a far cry from the sanitized “gay wedding” images–two guys in tuxedos–that have come to represent the dominant “gay civil rights” narrative advanced by the liberal media. Here, for example, is a Twitter photo of a booth for “Paddle Daddy” and “Jim Support”–two of the “leather”-oriented vendors at the CLAW event. The banner shows a man “fisting” another man:
CLAW_2016_Twitter_Fisting_Banner_JimSupport_PaddleDaddy_booth
Heinous Deviance on Display at the Holiday Inn-South Cleveland: “Paddle Daddy” and “Jim Support” 
booth at the Cleveland CLAW 2016 convention hosted by Holiday Inn and Embassy Suites includes 
banner showing a man “fisting” another man. Next to the headline, “Fist. [F–k]. Rim.” it shows a man 
inserting his hand and forearm up the rectum of his male “fisting” partner.. Tweet is from @JimSupport, 
based in Palm Springs, CA. Click to enlarge.

Remember that the “gay” movement is a sexual “liberation” movement, and the practitioners of such horrifying perversions are the most “liberated” homosexuals on the planet, at least in their own depraved minds. “Gay leathermen” have been a fixture of “out and proud” homosexual “communities” (e.g., San Francisco) for decades, and it appears that fisting–although clearly on the “gay” fringe–is alive and well. There are many sites and even organizations devoted to this truly bizarre and twisted act.

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Pervert Logo: The logo of the Chicago homosexual perversion club “M.A.F.I.A.”–Mid America Fists in Action, “an organization dedicated to promotion of and instruction in the art of Handball or Fisting.”
Men Become “Obedient” Dogs
But “fisting” was just one of the vile misbehaviors celebrated at CLAW. As this writer witnessed covering the sadomasochistic 2014 “Up Your Alley” street fair in San Francisco, a growing fetish for edgy homosexual men is for one man to play-act–or rather “live”–as the dog “puppy” of another man, his “master.” Here is a description of the CLAW workshop “Puppy for the Outsider,” followed by a screenshot of the CLAW website of same:
Class Title: Puppy for the Outsider
Presenter: Sir Justin St. Clair, author of Bark!
Room: Ballroom III (Holiday Inn)
Description: This is a roundtable discussion about the foundations of the pup community. Unlike a typical Puppy 101, this class gives the participants some guidelines as to how to approach pups as someone outside the community. Topics discussed are: where puppies fit in the greater leather community, the meaning of puppy protocol (as opposed to leather protocol), and how to approach a puppy.
And here is the description for the CLAW “Puppy 201” class:
Puppy 201: Obedience
Presenter: Sir Justin St. Clair
Room: Ballroom III
“Description: The Obedience class begins with an interactive discussion around the reasons for obedience and the barriers to obedience. Using some of the idease learned, volunteering participants choose roles and engage in a hands-on learning session.”
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Note the phrase “pup community.” If you can have a “community” built around the sin of homosexualism (“gay community”) and consensually violent and degrading sex (“leather community”)–then why not a community for human dog-slaves? (And don’t forget the Fisting Community…) I mean, let’s celebrate diversity, right?! Who are you to judge? and all that. But I digress.
OK, you’ve read the CLAW workshop descriptions. Now, let’s put an image to it. Here is a photo I shot in San Francisco in 2014 of some young men who are the “puppies” of their older, bearded uniformed “master” (remember, pro-LGBTQ sexual leftists consider this to be “progress”):
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As Fyodor Dostoevsky observed, “If there is no God, then everything is permitted.”
Men Become Animals: Book by CLAW "Puppy" presenter Sir

Men Becoming Animals? Nothing saysdegrading like a man who decides to live his life as another man’s “dog.” Above is book cover by CLAW “Puppy” presenter Sir Justin St. Clair. Sexual libertines consider this “progress.”
At right is the cover of the book by CLAW presenter “Sir” Justin St. Clair. Here is an introduction to his book, Bark!:

“The idea of humans taking on the persona of animals for rituals and for pleasure dates back thousands of years. There are many subcultures in the world today that have been enjoying taking on the persona of human pets for decades in this country, just behind the scenes of what society accepts. In the past 10-15 years, there has been a human-puppy revolution happening. While it was first overtly noticeable in the deeply sexual, gay leather community, people from every walk of life are deriving pleasure from letting go of the cares of this world and taking on the care-free persona of an animal. Within the past several years, the concept has even made its way into prime-time TV, although generally with a negative connotation.”

Playing with poop as a turn-on?!
As you can see from this article, one difficulty in fighting homosexualism and the array of “queer” perversions is that many things done in the name of “gay liberation” are so grotesque–and, indeed, satanic–that it is difficult even to discuss them. Take this CLAW 2016 workshop on the “scat” fetish, “Further Down in the Brown,” held in the Embassy Suites Hotel’s Conference Room 1. It was led by a proud pervert who calls himself “Piglet” (homosexual men who engage in such deviant behavior call themselves “pigs” and their orgies “pig sex”). Believe it or not, this is all about eroticizing feces (poop). The class description is as follows:

“A continuing discussion on the rarely discussed fetish of scat. What is it? How to get started in it? How to meet others into it? The course is designed both for existing players and those new to the scene.”

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So it seems now there is also a “Scat Community.” I think these human BDSM aficionados owe the real (animal) pigs an apology–because, although I am no pig expert, it must be true that pigs’ mating habits cannot come close to the filth exhibited by the “gay” perverts who venture every year to CLAW.
Linda Harvey, president of the Christian pro-family group Mission America, based in Columbus, Ohio, had this to say about CLAW:

“Deviance abounds this week-end at the Holiday Inn and Embassy Suites in suburban Cleveland, and Ohio is supposed to yawn. As an advocate for healthy behavior, Christian values and strong families, Mission America stands firmly against events like the CLAW men’s leather event, and we are appalled that the Holiday Inn is playing host to bondage, chains, sexual activity involving human waste products, and other aspects of male homosexual sado-masochism. Such events should be banned from all public accommodations in America.”

To read Harvey’s column in WND.com on the debauched CLAW event, go HERE. Below is my personal tweet on one of the lessons from uber-perversion events like CLAW:
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Next: Part Two: “Rimming” and PrEP and “Truvada Whores”

“DRAG QUEEN” AMBROSIA STARLING GOES AFTER JUSTICE ROY MOORE~AMONG ACTIVISTS PUSHING FOR HIS REMOVAL

Starling

Starling

‘Drag Queen’ Ambrosia Starling 

Among Activists Pushing for Removal 

of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore

BY HEATHER CLARK
SEE: http://christiannews.net/2016/05/09/drag-queen-ambrosia-starling-among-activists-pushing-for-removal-of-alabama-chief-justice-roy-moore/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A male entertainer who presents himself as a woman is cited as being among those pushing for the removal of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, also known as the Ten Commandments judge.
As previously reported, Moore was suspended from the bench last week and now faces possible removal after the homosexual advocacy groups Southern Poverty Law Center, People for the American Way, the Human Rights Campaign, and a drag queen who goes by the name Ambrosia Starling, pressed the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC) to take action against Moore for his defense of marriage in the state.
“The JIC has chosen to listen to people like Ambrosia Starling, a professed transvestite, and other gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals, as well as organizations which support their agenda,” Moore said in a statement on Friday. “We intend to fight this agenda vigorously and expect to prevail.”
According to reports, Starling has participated in and hosted a number of public protests against Moore, including those calling for his removal. He told reporters this past week that he views his drag attire as “armor” to “do battle” for the community.
“As an entertainer, I look at my drag as the armor that I put on to go out and do battle for my community,” Starling said. “I feel like it’s time to put on a public face for my community and get everyone’s attention to what’s important, not only to me but to the community. This is how I do it.”
Moore had mentioned Starling last month in remarking about the complaints that had been lodged to the JIC by homosexual activist groups.
“This person (Starling) and some of the people around her, would have been said to have a mental disorder-gender identity disorder according to the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association,” he said.
Starling characterized Moore as a “bully” on Saturday in speaking with AL.com, which asked him about Moore citing Starling as being among the activists seeking to have him removed.
“Every bully cries hardest when he’s been punched in the nose,” he said.
HISTORY OF THE CASE
As previously reported, in 2013, two lesbians in the state sued Gov. Robert Bentley, Attorney General Luther Strange and Mobile County Probate Judge Don Davis—among others—in an attempt to overturn Alabama’s marriage amendment after one of the women was denied from adopting the other woman’s child.
In January 2015, U.S. District Judge Ginny Granade ruled in favor of the women, prompting Moore to send a memo to probate judges throughout the state, advising that they are not required to issue “marriage” licenses to same-sex couples as he believed that Grenade’s ruling only applied to the two women.
“[N]othing in the orders of Judge Grenadae requires Alabama probate judges to issue marriage licenses that are illegal in Alabama,” he wrote. “Pursuant to … the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Alabama probate judges are not subject to those orders because the probate judges are not parties or associated with any party in those cases.”
“[T]he injunction and the stay or the lifting thereof can only apply to the sole defendant, the Alabama attorney general,” Moore said. “I urge you to uphold and support the Alabama Constitution and the Constitution of the United States to the best of your ability. So help you God.”
Moore also wrote a letter to Gov. Robert Bentley, urging him to “uphold and support the Alabama Constitution with respect to marriage, both for the welfare of this state and for our posterity.”
“Be advised that I will stand with you to stop judicial tyranny and any unlawful opinions issued without constitutional authority,” he stated.
Bentley issued a statement soon after, vowing to fight to defend Alabama’s Sanctity of Marriage Amendment.
“The people of Alabama elected me to uphold our state Constitution, and when I took the oath of office last week, that is what I promised to do,” the governor said. “The people of Alabama voted in a constitutional amendment to define marriage as being between man and woman. As governor, I must uphold the Constitution.”
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER FILES COMPLAINT
But the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a judicial ethics complaint against Moore over his letter to Gov. Bentley, and the homosexual activist group Human Rights Campaign (HRC) submitted 28,000 petition signatures to the JIC calling for Moore’s removal.
As confusion ensued over Moore’s letter to probate judges, one judge, John Enslen of Elmore County, asked the full Alabama Supreme Court for further guidance. In March 2015, six of the nine judges of the Alabama Supreme Court released a historic order halting the issuance of same-sex “marriage” licenses in the state. Moore recused himself from the matter and was not included in the order.
“As it has done for approximately two centuries, Alabama law allows for ‘marriage’ between only one man and one woman,” the 148-page order read. “Alabama probate judges have a ministerial duty not to issue any marriage license contrary to this law. Nothing in the United States Constitution alters or overrides this duty.”
In January, Moore sent another letter reinforcing the full court’s order six months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.
“Until further decision by the Alabama Supreme Court, the existing orders of the Alabama Supreme Court that Alabama probate judges have a ministerial duty not to issue any marriage license contrary to the Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment or the Alabama Marriage Protection Act remain in full force and effect,” he wrote on Jan. 6.
But he also noted that his order does not weigh in on how June’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling has impact on the Alabama Supreme Court’s directive, leaving the matter in the hands of the rest of the court.
“I am not at liberty to provide any guidance to Alabama probate judges on the effect of Obergefell on the existing orders of the Alabama Supreme Court. That issue remains before the entire court, which continues to deliberate on the matter,” Moore wrote.
STARLING’S ‘REMOVE ROY MOORE’ RALLY

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Days after Moore’s issuance of the letter, Starling hosted a “Remove Roy Moore” rally on the steps of the Alabama Supreme Court, where he made judicial complaint forms available to attendees in his push to have Moore removed from the bench. (Rally video posted below report.)
“What I am looking for is 50 people to take the long and laborious time to sit down and fill these complaint forms out, have them notarized in front of a legal notary and have them registered today,” he declared to those gathered.
Starling later led the crowd in a chant of “Sinners hate; God does not,” flanked by Unitarian Universalist clergy, leaders of atheist groups and members of the homosexual activist Human Rights Campaign.
“When we were in Sunday School, they told me Jesus loves all the little children,” he said. “Red and yellow, black and white, gay and straight, day and night—all are precious in His sight.”
“Now if you decide to take it upon yourself to shove hate and discrimination in the mouth of God that is for you to answer for,” Starling told the crowd. “Because the God that I know, the God who guides me, the God who has whispered in my ear and saved me from being attacked … loves all of us.”
JUDICIAL INQUIRY COMMISSION FILES ETHICS CHARGES FOLLOWING COMPLAINTS
On Friday, the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC) announced that it had filed ethics charges against Moore as a result of the complaints, and suspended the chief justice while he faces a trial before the Alabama Court of the Judiciary.
“The Judicial Inquiry Commission has no authority over the Administrative Orders of the Chief Justice of Alabama or the legal injunction of the Alabama Supreme Court prohibiting probate judges from issuing same-sex marriage licenses,” Moore said in a statement.
Moore had been removed from office in 2003 after SPLC co-founder Morris Dees took issue with Moore’s display of the Ten Commandments on the state Supreme Court grounds, arguing that the chief justice “placed this monument here to acknowledge the sovereignty of God over the affairs of men.”
Moore firmly defended his decision to place the Ten Commandments in the courthouse, stating, “Without God there can be no ethics.”
He was reelected as chief justice in 2012.

SADIQ KHAN, THE NEW MUSLIM MAYOR OF LONDON, HAS TIES TO TERRORISTS

London Elects Muslim Mayor: Churchill Comes Out of His Grave! Don Boys, Ph.

SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/london-elects-muslim-mayor-churchill-comes-out-of-his-grave-don-boys-ph/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
Sadiq Kahn, New Moslem Mayor of London
On Oct. 19, 1739, Great Britain declared war against Spain in what is called the War of Jenkins’ Ear! This war drove Spain into an alliance with France, an alliance that was a threat to England for ninety years.  At the announcement, bells rang out from the London churches and the crowds thronged the streets shouting their approval. The Prime Minister looked down upon the jubilant English mob and remarked, “They are ringing their bells now, but soon they will be wringing their hands.” He called it right.
Church bells are ringing throughout London as the people celebrate their demonstration to the world of their tolerance, kindness, and courage and their rejection of racism, bigotry, and nationalism.  London, one of the world’s oldest and greatest cities has just elected a Muslim as their mayor! They will soon be wringing their hands but it will be too late. In fact, it is already too late. England is no longer England. Unknown to most people, major parts of London are almost 50 percent Muslim! London will soon be known as Londonistan, and we are watching the twilight of the British Empire and the dawning of a new caliphate.
 Winston Churchill, whose leadership saved Britain and Europe from the Nazis (with some help from America), commented on Islam in his 1899 book, The River War: “How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries [dedicated followers]! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live….Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.” Churchill called it right long before others.
The above-quoted passage appeared in The River War when it was first published as a two-volume set in 1899, but the passage was removed when the book was condensed into one volume and republished in 1902. Political correctness even in those days! Cowards are always with us.Bottom of Form
London’s new mayor Sadiq Khan, whose family emigrated from Pakistan, will run the city of 8.6 million people.  It is astounding that Khan won, especially after his ties to Islamic extremists were revealed. When Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron revealed those ties on the Parliament floor, he was shouted down by chants of “racist!” But few asked if his charges were true–which they were! It seems truth doesn’t matter to the leftists of the world.
Most people, and I mean most people of the world, are so uneducated, unprincipled, or uncaring that they rush to be among the first to accept any false, failed, or foolish ideology whether it be same-sex “marriage,” transgenderism, Black Lives Matter, environmentalism, redistribution of wealth, freebies for the poor, political correctness, men in women’s restrooms, affirmative action, etc. I think the world is insane or in the total control of the wicked one. London citizens have just demonstrated that warm feelings are more valuable to them than warranted facts.
Khan was successful in defending notorious Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan’s right to visit England. Moreover, Khan supported the usual leftwing causes including same-sex “marriage” as a Member of Parliament. He is opposed to Britain leaving the European Union. He also had connections with confessed terrorist Babar Ahmad who spent time in a U.S. prison before being returned to England.  
Khan was charged by critics as unfit to be London’s Mayor after it emerged that he had described moderate Muslim groups as “Uncle Toms,” suggesting that they are subservient to Whites.  Khan obviously thinks moderate Muslims are not true Muslims since they are so moderate. In other words, he advocated for a more extremist Islam. Additionally, there have been numerous charges of anti-Semitism against him and the Labour Party. Yet, Londoners showed how broad-minded they are and chose him as their leader!

That massive rumble you hear is Winston Churchill charging out of his grave, but alas, even Churchill would not be able to save his beloved island again. Modern politicians who worship Churchill dead would revile him living and would not follow him even to the men’s room. They sure would not follow him to victory for their English culture, civilization, and country by defeating the Islamization of Britain. They don’t feel strongly about anything important and lasting.
 When Hitler was raging across the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg in early May of 1940, the new Prime Minister told the House of Commons that “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” There was talk of compromise and capitulation to Hitler, but Churchill said to his cabinet on May 28, 1940: “I am convinced that every man of you would rise up and tear me down from my place if I were for one moment to contemplate parley or surrender. If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground. That doesn’t sound like weepy, wimpy, wobbly modern-day politicians, but a warrior.
 A few days later Churchill had to prepare his people for a possible Nazi invasion and the fall of France, he declared, “… we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender….” But the British decided they would rather switch than fight. They will be wringing their hands soon to no avail.
 Londoners have swallowed the Kool Aide and are destined to strangle on it and it seems American officials are standing in line for their serving.
 And America will no longer be America!
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London Elects First Muslim Mayor, Sadiq Khan

BY HEATHER CLARK
SEE: http://christiannews.net/2016/05/07/london-elects-first-muslim-mayor-sadiq-khan/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
LONDON — Residents of London have elected the city’s first ever Muslim mayor, choosing to elect the Labor Party’s Sadiq Khan over the Conservative Party’s Zac Goldsmith 56 to 43 percent.
Goldsmith had been characterized as being “negative” and “dirty” for alleging that Khan had ties to Islamic terrorists. Khan accused Goldsmith of trying to frighten voters and cause division in a city that is inhabited by over a million Muslims.
“The Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith repeatedly attacked Sadiq Khan as someone who had fraternized and shared platforms with Muslim extremists,” reports Al Jezeera. “Sadiq Khan and Labour’s response was very angry, they said that the Conservatives were playing a subtle and even not so subtle, Islamophobic and racist campaign.”
Prime Minister David Cameron had also expressed concerns, alleging that Khan had shared a platform with an ISIS supporter, to which Khan replied via Twitter, “Disappointed PM has joined Zac Goldsmith’s divisive, dog-whistling campaign. I’ve fought extremism all my life.”
Some Conservative Party members believe that the arguments over Khan’s religion are what led to Goldsmith’s defeat.
“I was supportive of the whole campaign apart from one element and that one was where it seemed to attribute radical tendencies to people of orthodox religious views,” said Assembly Member Andrew Boff.
“I think that is a complete misunderstanding of the patchwork of faiths there are in London, and has the potential to alienate people and say that people who do have orthodox religious views, conservative religious views, are for some reason not welcome and won’t be listened to,” he opined.
Khan has dubbed himself “the British Muslim who will take the fight to the extremists,” and is a former human rights attorney who has also once served as a member of Parliament. According to reports, he was sworn in on the Koran by the Queen in 2009.
“The palace called me and said, ‘What type of Bible do you want to swear on?’ When I said the Koran, they said, ‘We haven’t got one.’ So I took one with me,” he told the New Statesman.
Khan was sworn in on Saturday during a multi-faith ceremony at the Southwark Cathedral, an Anglican house of worship in the city. He received a standing ovation from those gathered, including professing Christians.
“This election was not without controversy, and I am so proud that London has today chosen hope over fear and unity over division,” Khan said. “Fear does not make us safer, it only makes us weaker, and the politics of fear is not welcome in our city.”
Britain First candidate Paul Golding, however, is stated to be among those who turned their back during Khan’s speech, and a member of his staff shouted, “Britain has an extremist mayor!”
The party released a statement decrying the increase of Muslims in the area.
“[A]s became blatantly obvious with the election of Labor’s Islamist mayor, there is an increasingly shrinking number of Britons left in the capital overall and far too many Muslims,” it said. “Britons make up less than 45% of the capital and at least half of those who remain will be the ‘trendy’ leftwing chattering class types, the gormless liberals and bigoted white socialists in areas such as Camden, Islington etc.”
“With such a small and rapidly declining pool of voters to appeal to we rightly said this election was London’s ‘Last Stand’ and the prospects of major gains, even with major resources, were slim.”
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Khan Defeated Millionaire Jew
SEE ALSO:

London’s new Muslim mayor calls moderate Muslims “Uncle Toms”


London’s new Muslim mayor defended al-Qaeda member


UK: Conservatives unapologetic for highlighting Muslim London mayor’s ties to jihadis


Pakistan’s ruling party hails Muslim London mayor’s win over “millionaire Jew”


Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Muslim Elected Mayor of London

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/05/robert-spencer-in-frontpage-muslim-elected-mayor-of-london; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

In FrontPage this morning I discuss whether the election of Sadiq Khan is a triumph of multiculturalism or of Islamic supremacist deception – or both:
Sadiq Khan MP at Westminster, London, Britain - 11 Oct 2012
Labour Party candidate Sadiq Khan, a Muslim, has been elected mayor of London, and the international Left is thrilled. “Son of a Pakistani bus driver, champion of workers’ rights and human rights, and now Mayor of London. Congrats, @SadiqKhan. –H,”tweeted Hillary Clinton. Likewise happy are Islamic supremacists worldwide: members of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), the party of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the majority party in the nation’s National Assembly, held up a sign emblazoned: “Heartiest Congratulation [sic] to Sadiq Khan 1st Muslim Mayor of London who defeated millionaire Jew Zec [sic] Goldsmith.”
Those two messages summed up the dichotomy that characterizes the response to Sadiq Khan, and his own associations and intentions. Khan himself has written about the necessity to “ensure that the perception of Islam is not tainted by those with extremist views.” But his concern about this “taint” is relatively newly-minted: back in 2004, Khan spoke at a gender-segregated event entitled “Palestine — the suffering still goes on.” Also on the bill was Daud Abdullah of the Muslim Council of Britain; who once led a boycott of Holocaust Memorial Day; Ibrahim Hewitt, the chairman of Interpal, which the U.S. Treasury Department has designated a “global terrorist” organization for funneling money to Hamas; Muslim leader Azzam Tamimi, who has called for the destruction of Israel and its replacement with an Islamic state; Muslim cleric Suliman Gani, who has echoed the Qur’an (4:34) in saying that women should be “subservient” to men; Ismail Adam Patel of Friends of Al-Aqsa, who has claimed that “Hamas is no terrorist organization”; and Church of England cleric Stephen Sizer, who has blamed Israel for the 9/11 jihad terror attacks.
Khan and his supporters have cried foul at Khan’s being held responsible for the views of these men. Their hypocrisy is evident, however, since the Left’s various dossiers against foes of jihad terror rely heavily on guilt by association, and then, even more tendentiously, on guilt by association built upon its earlier smears of others. Nonetheless, Khan’s appearance at that long-ago event should really only cause concern if Khan holds such views.
Does he? In a 2009 interview with Iran’s state-controlled Press TV, Khan criticized the British government for working with moderate Muslim organizations, saying: “I wish we only spoke to people who agree with us. I can tell you that I’ve spent the last months in this job speaking to all sorts of people. Not just leaders, not just organizations but ordinary rank and file citizens of Muslim faith and that’s what good government is about, it’s about engaging with all stakeholders. You can talk about articles in the newspapers about what an organization might get but the point is you can’t just pick and choose who you speak to, you can’t just speak to Uncle Toms.” The “Uncle Toms” in question were the Quilliam Foundation, which is a declared foe of Islamic “extremism.”
The Conservative Home website lists other problematic aspects of Khan’s record, summarized by Raheem Kassam at Breitbart:
  • A letter to the Guardian in the wake of the 7/7 terrorist bombings on London, blaming terrorism on British Government policy;
  • His legal defence of Zacarias Moussaoui, a 9/11 terrorist who confessed to being a member of Al Qaeda;
  • His chapter in a book, entitled ‘Actions Against the Police’ which advises on how to bring charges against the police for “racism”. This is the same police force that Mr. Khan as London mayor would exercise authority over;
  • His defence of Islamist extremist Azzam Tamimi. When Dr. Tamimi told a crowd that the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed would “cause the world to tremble” and predicted “Fire… throughout the world if they don’t stop”, Mr. Khan, who shared a platform with him, dismissed the threats as “flowery language”;
  • His platform-sharing with Suliman Gani, a south London imam who has urged female subservience to men, and called for the founding of an Islamic state.
All this raises genuine concerns that as mayor of London, Khan will be less than energetic in protecting Londoners against jihad terrorism, or challenging Muslim communities in the U.K. to clean house. But when Khan’s opponents in the UK raised these and other concerns, they were excoriated as “racist.” Even the clueless and compromised dhimmi David Cameron was accused of “racism” for noting Khan’s hospitable attitude toward Islamic supremacists and jihadists.
This is the way these things always work nowadays: if you dare to mention that there are reasons to believe that a Muslim may be involved in jihad activity or, as in this case, clearly positive toward jihadists, it’s your fault, and a clear sign of “racism” and “Islamophobia,” even if the charges are accurate.
Leftists and Islamic supremacists have used such charges for years, and have succeeded in stigmatizing any discussion of how jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and make recruits among peaceful Muslims as “bigotry” — which is why such discussions are so seldom pursued, and never in mainstream fora.
And so this Reuters story is all about how the wicked Conservatives are “unapologetic” for raising Khan’s ties to “extremists.” Reuters publishes no articles about the possible implications of Khan’s ties to “extremists.” The only concern is how “racist” the Conservative Party is.
In this environment, London marches happily into its brave new multicultural future, led by its Muslim mayor. Let’s hope it doesn’t blow up on them. But it probably will.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL’S VIEW OF ISLAM 
& ITS FOLLOWERS; MAYOR KHAN’S ISLAMOPHOBIA CAMPAIGN

BY DAVID CLOUD
LONDON ELECTS MUSLIM MAYOR (Friday Church News Notes, May 13, 2016, www.wayoflife.orgfbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – 


For the first time in history, a Muslim has been elected mayor of London. Sadiq Kahn, son of a Pakistani immigrant taxi driver, was elected by a wide margin and sworn in at an interfaith ceremony at the Anglican Southwark Cathedral. Instead of plainly condemning Islamic terrorism in his acceptance speech, Kahn took a swipe at Donald Trump for his reasonable stand against unvetted Muslim immigration, implying that this is evidence of Islamophobia. Kahn says, “I’ll work with London universities to ensure that anti-Semitic or Islamophobic preachers of hate are not welcome” (“I know how discrimination feels,” Times of Israel, Apr. 26, 2016). But there is no such thing asIslamophobia. It was invented by Muslim propagandists to harass and ultimately shut the mouths of their opponents. A phobia is an unreasonable fear, but fear of Islam is not unreasonable, as its own history and most authoritative teachings prove. His talk of promoting interfaith harmony aside, by targeting “Islamophobia” as one of his chief priorities, Kahn demonstrates that he doesn’t want the British people to examine the truth about Islam. In contrast, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill wrote the following in the 1899 two-volume edition of The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan: “How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries [followers]! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities … but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith” (The River War, vol. 2, pp. 248-250).


OBAMA’S EXPENSIVE/LAVISH TRIPS: RIYADH TWO DAY VISIT COSTS A TOTAL OF $3.16 MILLION

Riyadh
Hotel and Motorcade Costs for Obama’s 
Two-Day Riyadh Visit Total $3.16 Million
Ritz-Carlton stay alone cost $2 million
BY ELIZABETH HARRINGTON
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:



President Barack Obama’s two-day trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, last month cost taxpayers over $3.1 million in hotel and motorcade costs alone, according to contracts released by the State Department.



In what some described as a “futile” trip, the president met with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries on April 20 and 21.



The president required three hotels, including a $2 million stay at the Ritz-Carlton. Rooms for security and the “VIP delegation” were also booked at the Four Seasons Hotel Riyadh at Kingdom Tower totaling$200,000, and the Courtyard Marriott totaling $240,000.



Three limousine companies were also booked, including contracts worth $240,000 to Al Salem Transportation and Tourism Company and $240,000 to SMSA Express Transportation company.



A third contract to Dala International also totaled $240,000.



The State Department issued no-bid contracts for lodging and transportation, citing security needs. The government also said it is difficult to find a reliable car service in Riyadh because women cannot drive in the majority Muslim country.



“Transportation is a very difficult issue in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” the State Department said. “There are restrictions that prevent women from driving here and that means that vehicle rental services with drivers are in high demand.



“Additionally, due to a program to reduce the expatriate workforce and create more jobs for Saudi citizens, the Saudi government deported many workers, the greatest number of which were drivers (however Saudis have not taken those jobs).”



“Since the driver pool is limited, we’ve had experience with other companies bringing in drivers from outside of Riyadh and they don’t actually know the city,” the agency continued. “Dala has been able to provide drivers from Riyadh and they know the city. This is very critical for our operations since we’re supporting victors who also don’t know Riyadh.”



Obama held a private two-hour meeting with King Salman during the trip, which did little to smooth over the “deep rifts” between the two leaders, the New York Times reported.



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Pressure Builds On Obama Administration To Declassify 9/11 Report

Published on Apr 21, 2016





(Aired April 21, 2016)

As President Barack Obama wraps up his trip to Saudi Arabia, there's new controversy surrounding a bill in Congress that's designed to force the Saudi government to answer for any role it might have played in the September 11th attacks. Washington, D.C. bureau reporter Geoff Bennett filed the following report.

President Barack Obama huddled with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Wednesday, during a trip aimed at easing tensions between Washington and Riyadh.

One reason for the tensions: a bill in Congress that would allow victims of the September 11th attacks to sue Saudi Arabia.

The legislation is sponsored by Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn along with Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York.

“It's very simple,” Schumer told reporters Tuesday. “If the Saudis were complicit, if the Saudi government was complicit in terrorism then they should pay the price for two reasons. One, to recompense the families. They'll never get their loved ones back, but at least some measure of justice. But second, it sends a warning to future governments: If you're complicit in terrorism, you're going to pay the price and the trial will determine that.”

Saudi Arabia has long denied having any connection to the 9/11 attacks, although 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens.

The legislation essentially would lead to the Saudis having to prove their denials in an American court. The Saudi government is warning it will sell nearly $1 trillion in U.S. assets if the measure becomes law. President Obama opposes the bill, too.

"The concern is simply this: It could put the United States and our taxpayers, service members, diplomats at "significant risk" if other countries were to adopt a similar law,” said White House press secretary Josh Earnest.

Meanwhile, a growing number of lawmakers are demanding that the government release 28 heavily redacted pages of a 14-year-old congressional investigation into the September 11th attacks.

The 28 pages are locked away in a secure room in the basement of the U.S. Capitol. Since they remain classified, only members of Congress can read them. But families of 9/11 victims say they have a right to know what secrets those pages hold.

"We can’t get a full understand of what’s going on in our country now with terrorism unless we know what happened prior to 9/11 and how it came about and how the network existed and how the money was being transferred," said Terry Strada in an interview with CNN. Strada is the national co-chair of the advocacy group 9/11 Families and Survivors United for Justice Against Terror. 

Strada says she supports the Senate bill because if the declassified report details possible Saudi links to the September 11th plot, she wants the right to pursue Saudi Arabia in court.






























			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	
		
	

		
		
MARINE CORPS CHIEF CALLS CHATTANOOGA JIHAD ATTACK “TRAGIC & NEEDLESS”~FAILS TO SAY “OUTRAGE”, “INFAMY”, OR “NEVER AGAIN”
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						





MARINE CORPS CHIEF CALLS CHATTANOOGA JIHAD ATTACK “TRAGIC & NEEDLESS” 



BY ROBERT SPENCER



SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/05/marine-corps-chief-calls-chattanooga-jihad-attack-tragic-and-needless; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:







Tragic and needless, yes. But is that the first thing that Gen. Robert Neller would have said about, say, Pearl Harbor? Or the Battle of Midway? Maybe, but would he have been so circumspect about naming the enemy, and isn’t it likely that his talk would have been more about determination and resolve to fight on to final victory, rather than a platitude-filled paean to community harmony?



How about the words “outrage” and “infamy” and “never again”? Those might have been more refreshing, and reassuring.



Neither the word “tragic” nor the word “needless” appear in FDR’s speech to Congress on December 8, 1941, the day after the Pearl Harbor attack.



The excerpt of Gen. Neller’s address here, as well as this Chattanooga Times Free Press article, betrays no awareness that the Chattanooga jihad massacre was one episode in a long war, a war that is ongoing, and not some random “tragic” incident. And that attitude in itself only ensures that there will be more Chattanoogas, as the steps that could and should be taken to prevent more such incidents will not be taken, because they will not be deemed necessary, or worse, will be branded “Islamophobic.”



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“Top Marine Corps general visits Chattanooga,” by Shelly Bradbury, Chattanooga Times Free Press, May 7, 2016 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):





The top general of the U.S. Marine Corps visited Chattanooga on Friday for the city’s first Armed Forces Day parade since five service members were killed in a July 16 terrorist attack last year.



Gen. Robert Neller, commandant of the Marine Corps, said he felt honored to attend the event and hoped his presence served as a “thank you” to the Chattanooga community.



“The events that took place last July 16 were tragic and needless, but I think out of that came a recognition that the relationship between this community and the military is as strong as ever,” he said. “And as tragic as the loss of those Marines and that sailor were, the only thing that could be worse is if we didn’t have communities like Chattanooga that are willing to support their military and provide great young men and women to serve.”



Neller watched the parade from an elevated podium on Market Street. Under a breezy, blue sky, he saluted and waved as local students, veterans, patriotic groups and bands marched past.



People lined Market Street, lifting cell phones and craning to see. Some wore red, white and blue, others donned T-shirts that declared, “Nooga Strong.” Kids sat on the curb, waving American flags and diving for candy thrown from floats….



			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
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ABOVE: MIKEY WEINSTEIN, PRESIDENT OF FFRF








EXCERPT: DAN BARKER and ANNIE LAURIE GAYLOR are co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and co-hosts of Freethought Radio. A former minister and evangelist, Dan became a freethinker in 1983. His books,Just Pretend: A Freethought Book for Children and Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher To Atheist (1992) are published by FFRF. Other books include Godless (Ulysses Press, 2008), The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God (Pitchstone Publishing, 2011), Life Driven Purpose: How an Atheist Finds Meaning, Pitchstone Press (2015) and GOD: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction (Sterling Publications, 2016). A graduate of Azusa Pacific University with a degree in religion, Dan now puts his knowledge of Christianity to effective freethought use. A professional pianist and composer, Dan performs freethought concerts and is featured in FFRF’s musical CDs, “Friendly Neighborhood Atheist,” “Beware of Dogma,” and “Adrift on a Star.” He joined FFRF’s staff in 1987, serving as public relations director. He was first elected co-president in November 2004, speaks widely and has engaged in more than 100 debates about religion.



Annie Laurie Gaylor, a third-generation freethinker, co-founded FFRF with her mother Anne Gaylor as a college student in 1976. She served as editor of Freethought Today, FFRF’s newspaper, from 1985 to 2009. Her book, Woe to the Women: The Bible Tells Me So, first published by FFRF in 1981, is in its 4th printing. In 1988, FFRF published Betrayal of Trust: Clergy Abuse of Children, the first book documenting widespread sexual abuse by clergy. Her 1997 anthology, Women Without Superstition: ‘No Gods, No Masters,’ is the first collection of the writings of historic and contemporary women freethinkers. A 1980 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Journalism School, she was an award-winning student reporter and recipient of the Ken Purdy scholarship. After graduation, she founded, edited and published the Feminist Connection, a monthly advocacy newspaper, from 1980-1985. She first joined the FFRF staff in 1985. She has been co-president since 2004. In the late 1970s, her student protest ended commencement prayers at the UW-Madison. She has been plaintiff in or overseen many state/church lawsuits and actions by FFRF. Dan and Annie Laurie have appeared on a variety of TV news shows, including “Oprah,” “O’Reilly,” “Good Morning America,” Univision, CNN and FOX news segments, CBS Evening News and ABC World News Tonight.



ACTIVIST GROUP SUES HOUSE CHAPLAIN & SPEAKER FOR REJECTING ATHEIST INVOCATION IN U.S. CONGRESS 



BY HEATHER CLARK



republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:




Congress Prayer


A painting of the first prayer in Congress in September 1774. 


Artist: T.H. Matteson, 1848.







MADISON, Wisc. — A professing atheist group that seeks to separate God from government has filed a lawsuit against the chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as the speaker of the House, after the co-president of the Godless group was prevented from delivering an atheist invocation before Congress.



Dan Barker, the co-president of the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), filed the suit on Thursday—the National Day of Prayer. It names Patrick Conroy, Speaker Paul Ryan and members of Conroy’s staff as defendants.



According to FFRF, Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, had sponsored Barker to deliver the invocation as a Congressional guest in February 2015. Conroy’s office notified Barker that all guest chaplains must be “ordained by a recognized body in the faith in which he/she practices” and must present a copy of their ordination certificate as proof. He also advised that the invocation must address a “higher power.”







“This is a substantive requirement—not a mechanical or check-the-box requirement,” Conroy advised. “For example, I do not invite member-recommended individuals who have obtained an Internet-generated ordination to serve as guest chaplains, even if they hold deep and long-standing religious beliefs.”



Barker had formerly served as a minister in California, being ordained in 1975, but proclaimed his atheism in 1984 and no longer is affiliated with any Christian denomination. He still uses his ordination, however, as a means to officiate weddings.



Believing that this was sufficient, Barker consequently submitted his ordination certificate to Conroy’s office. In regard to addressing a “higher power,” he provided Conroy with the text of his planned invocation, stating that he believes there is no higher power than “we, the people of these United States.”



But Conroy was not convinced that Barker qualified under the rules about guest chaplains, and the matter remained outstanding for nearly a year when Conroy advised Barker in January 2016 that he was denying his appearance because he has “announced his atheism publicly” and is not a true “minister of the gospel.”



“Daniel Barker was ordained in a denomination in which he no longer practices,” an email from Conroy’s office outlined.



Barker now alleges that Conroy has violated his rights by prohibiting him from delivering an invocation. He specifically contends that the rejection is a violation of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which states that the government must not “substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion” unless there is a “compelling government interest” in doing so.



The FFRF co-president also says that the Congressional policy violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by preferring religion over non-religion, as well as Article VI, Section III of the U.S. Constitution, which states that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office.” He takes issue with the fact that the vast majority of the prayers delivered before Congress are Christian.



“We take some satisfaction in filing this lawsuit on the National Day of Prayer, an unconstitutional law enacted at the behest of Billy Graham in 1952 requiring the president to issue an annual proclamation exhorting citizens ‘to turn to God in prayer, at churches,'” Barker said in a statement.



His wife, co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor, acknowledged to reporters, “This is a hard case to take and win. We know that.”











			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
FACEBOOK CENSORING CONSERVATIVE NEWS USING CHINESE & GERMAN METHODS: WHY FACEBOOK & ZUCKERBERG HATE TRUMP
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						





Zuckerberg Lauds Socialism With China’s Internet Censorship Czar




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LEARNING THE STASI METHOD:











WHY FACEBOOK & ZUCKERBERG HATE TRUMP 



Published on May 9, 2016





Alex Jones talks with Joe Biggs and Lee Ann McAdoo about how facebook has been caught actively censoring conservative news from appearing in the News Feed.













Facebook’s Zuckerberg meets China’s propaganda chief



Published on Mar 21, 2016





Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to trying bit by bit to re-enter the world’s largest internet population — China.
Bruce Harrison joins me now in the studio.
Bruce, what was Zuckerberg’s latest move in his charm offensive to reintroduce Facebook to China?


Well, we don’t have too many details.
According to China’s Xinhua News, he met with China’s chief of propaganda, Liu Yunshan, in Beijing. Xinhua said Liu praised Facebook’s technology and management methods.


Bruce is this a sign China may be warming to Facebook… or other similar foreign companies… even as the government there tightens internet censorship?


Liu is an important person to meet in that regard,… but Zuckerberg never commented directly during his trip about Facebook doing business in China. It’s one of the few markets where Facebook is unavailable because of government censors… that advocate online content publishers should “promote core socialist values.”


Zuckerberg was visiting Beijing for the China Development Forum. The state-sponsored conference brings together top business executives and the country’s ruling elite. The Facebook CEO spoke positively about China’s long-term job prospects.


“…but in general we’re seeing a huge constraint around the world on the number of good engineers that are graduating from universities and I think this is something that China has got really right by emphasizing for a long time.”


Zuckerberg shared the stage with Jack Ma, the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group.


“In the past thirty years, China been having the wonderful time. We have to pay the price. For the wonderful time you have to pay the price, for the terrible time you also pay the price.”


Beijing blocked Facebook in 2008, a year after it launched in China. To get back into China’s online sphere, Zuckerberg also met with China’s internet policy chief and President Xi Jinping last fall. 















Stasi Censorship: Merkel Wants Facebook to Police Open Borders ‘Hate’



Published on Sep 27, 2015





Chancellor Merkel has asked Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, to step up policing of ‘hate’ posts for the German version of the social media site. Merkel is particularly concerned with German citizen’s disapproving posts of her handling of the migrant crisis deeming all criticism as xenophobia.


We also cover the German government’s hiring of an ex-Stasi agent to patrol Facebook which occurred before the most recent meeting with Zuckerberg.


Last, we cover an article by Jake Anderson at ANTIMEDIA regarding a different name for the new world order…the “deep state.”


Sources:


http://www.infowars.com/german-school…


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/article…


http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/…


http://theantimedia.org/forget-the-ne…


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Zuckerberg Admits To Censoring Anti-Migrant Posts



Published on Sep 30, 2015





Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was caught discussing the censorship of anti-migrant posts at the United Nations development summit Saturday while speaking with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.


According to CNBC, the pair were picked up by a hot mic after Merkel confronted Zuckerberg on social media posts critical of “the wave of Syrian refugees entering Germany.”
http://www.infowars.com/mark-zuckerbe…















Facebook Admits To Omitting Conservative Topics



Published on May 10, 2016





Employees who worked as “curators” for Facebook’s trending topics section, which can bring significant attention to news stories, regularly didn’t include stories trending among political conservatives, according to a Monday report from Gizmodo.
http://www.infowars.com/report-facebo…















Can Fascist Facebook Rig Election To Stump Trump?



Published on May 10, 2016





Former Facebook Workers admit to Routinely Suppressing Conservative News. Facebook trending news engages in bias against so-called “conservative” news sources such as the Drudge Report, Breitbart, Newsmax, the Washington Examiner and Infowars in favor of establishment sources, including The New York Times, CNN and the BBC, according to former contractors.


It’s employees also sent out in-office poll asking what “responsibility” Facebook has to stop a Trump presidency. Do we really want one social media outlet to have that much power?















Facebook’s List of Authorized News Sites Includes Communist State-Run Media, The Onion



Also includes many left-leaning publications



SEE: http://freebeacon.com/issues/facebook-news-sites-communist-onion/





			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
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ABOVE: OBAMA WITH LESBIAN ELLEN DEGENERES ON HER SHOW



OBAMA INCLUDES “TRANSGENDER” MOMS 



IN MOTHER’S DAY PROCLAMATION 



SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/president-obama-includes-transgender-moms-in-mothers-day-proclamation/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:







U.S. President Barack Obama found just the right occasion to once again underscore his support for the LGBT community as he included transgenders as a new class of mothers in his 2016 Mother’s Day proclamation, WND reports.



“On Mother’s Day, we celebrate those who are first to welcome us into the world,” Obama said as the nation marked the occasion on Sunday.



“Performing the most important work there is, mothers – biological, foster, or adoptive – are our first role models and earliest motivators. They balance enormous responsibilities and shape who we become as adults, their lessons guiding us through life.”



Obama went on: “Regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status, mothers have always moved our nation forward and remained steadfast in their pursuit of a better and brighter future for their children.”



It was the first time that Obama included the phrase “gender identity” in his Mother’s Day proclamation, according WND.



It was not included in his 2015 proclamation where he only gave a shout-out to mothers who are “married or single, LGBT or straight, biological, adoptive, or foster.”



In 2014, Obama’s made no mention of sexual preference or gender identity at all in his Mother’s Day announcement.



The President’s inclusion of transgenders as a new class of mothers could add fuel to the raging controversies concerning transgender issues.



The latest of such controversies was the decision taken by the Obama administration to expand alternative sexual lifestyles to the college campus. This came about after the Department of Education launched a website which critics say is dedicated to “shaming” Christian colleges that follow biblical principles rather than a leftist social agenda.



The “shame list” posted online by the Department of Education features colleges that have sought exemptions to Title IX requirements that provide special treatment to transgenders.



Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice threatened North Carolina with financial penalties, claiming that a new “anti-transgender” bathroom privacy law it adopted violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Defenders of the law said it only sought to protect women and children from being confronted by male intruders inside women’s restrooms.









			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
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GUN SALES SET RECORDS, LIKELY TO CONTINUE 



BY BOB ADELMANN



SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/23123-gun-sales-set-records-likely-to-continue; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:







According to the FBI, more than two million gun-purchase background checks were conducted in April, 400,000 more than in April a year ago. In fact, every month since last May, background checks have set new records, putting 2016 on track to beat 2015 for the number of checks conducted by the National Instate Criminal Background Check System (NICS).



In its report the FBI noted that there is no direct one-to-one correlation between background checks and gun sales, but it’s close. Especially if one tracks the performance of stocks of Sturm Ruger & Co. and Smith & Wesson in the last 12 months. They are up 39 percent and 56 percent respectively, and their stocks’ performance is likely to continue as long as the threat to the Second Amendment continues.



In the past Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democrat Party’s nominee for president in November, has tried to soften or backtrack on her position on gun controls. But no longer. They are now the centerpiece of her campaign to capture the White House.



She was never more blatant than when she announced last month that she would take on the “gun lobby” from her “very first day in office,” while reiterating many of her previous intentions to restrict further Americans’ Second Amendment-protected rights. Many of them remain couched in terms that appear on the surface as reasonable, including concerns about people with mental health issues or a history of stalking. Said Jennifer Baker, the point person following Clinton’s campaign for the National Rifle Association (NRA), “[Clinton] lies about the issue in a way to make it seem reasonable, to really advance a radical gun-control agenda.”



Perhaps the most egregious of those lies is Clinton’s continued statement that 90 people a day, or 33,000 people a year “die from gun violence in our country.” But a careful look — avoided by the national coronation media — reveals that though the real number of gun-related deaths was, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 32,888 in 2013, the latest year for which information is available, only 11,208 died in homicides, while most of the rest were suicides. But 33,000 sounds better, the media continues to report it as true, and so the lie becomes truth.



Clinton is not shy about her plans once in the White House. On October 5 she told her supporters, “I will push hard to get more sensible restraints.… We must expand background checks for gun shows and online sales, and close the current loophole that negates the need for a background check after a 3-day waiting period [often characterized by her as the “Charleston Loophole”]. I will also repeal legislation that shields gun manufacturers, distributors and dealers from liability suits.”



And she wants to change, by executive order, the definition of “dealers” to anyone who sells a “quantity” of guns. Depending on her definition, that could include anyone who sells just one firearm in a year, bringing the full weight of the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agency (the ATF) to bear on every gun “dealer” in the country. There would be fees, unannounced visits, and sanctions for violating any of its various and increasingly complicated rules. And of course, every such dealer would be on the ATF’s national registry for life.



In 2014, Clinton made clear her target: every gun owner in the country. The Wall Street Journal reported in May of that year that Clinton said, “We’ve got to rein in what has become an almost article of faith that anybody can have a gun anywhere, anytime. And [in a burst of elitism] I don’t believe that is in the best interests of the vast majority of people.”



She wants to reinstate her husband’s “assault weapons ban” because, since that ban expired in 2004, “we now have, once again, police deaths going up around the country, and in large measure because bad guys now have assault weapons again.”



She wants to expand the definition of a domestic abuser so that he/she is prohibited from buying or owning a firearm by adding those names to the NCIS database.



Potential gun buyers, and those adding to their existing caches, have also noted that the Veterans Administration has already started adding names of those with “mental disabilities” to that database. The Social Security Administration, singing off the same sheet of music, just announced similar rules, which would include anyone on disability who has a “mental disorder” listing on his records, whose checks go to a third party because he cannot handle his own finances.



This is opposed by the NRA who responded, “Financial acumen, even if related to an underlying issue … has no necessary relationship to a propensity for violence, and it’s not a sufficient basis to strip persons of their inalienable right to self-defense.” Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has opposed the proposed Social Security rule for the same reason: “It appears that, just like the VA, SSA’s regulatory action will not require the government to first prove that the individual is a danger to self or others.”



Clinton has also admitted that Australian-style gun confiscation “is worth considering” in her war against guns and gun ownership in the United States, and has told donors that the Supreme Court got it “wrong” about the Second Amendment in its recent decisions, that the right to keep and bear arms is not an individual right. Implied of course is that, given the opportunity, she will nominate as many Supreme Court justices as time will give her in support of that position.



So Americans are buying guns. The perception that the flow of potential terrorists pouring through the country’s porous borders might be armed and dangerous with plans to wreak havoc here, as they have abroad, only adds to the concerns of Americans waking up to the threat that they will be unable to defend themselves. As noted by Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation:



These record-setting firearm sales will continue all the way to Election Day. If Hillary Clinton wins, firearm sales will really go through the roof. Gun owners and people concerned about personal security have lost trust in the political class to protect their rights.

			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	
		
	

		
		
MEDICAL ERRORS THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN U.S.
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						

MEDICAL ERRORS THIRD LEADING CAUSE 



OF DEATH IN U.S.



Published on May 7, 2016





A new Johns Hopkins study shows that ‘medical errors’ in hospitals and other health care facilities are incredibly common and may now be the third leading cause of death in the United States — claiming 251,000 lives every year, more than respiratory disease, accidents, stroke and Alzheimer’s.


“Moreover, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn’t require reporting of [medical] errors in the data it collects about deaths through billing codes, making it hard to see what’s going on at the national level.” And another element of harm that is often overlooked is the number of severe patient injuries resulting from medical error. Some estimates would put this number at 40 times the death rate, or every year in the US, there are 10 million severe injuries as a result of medical errors.


Experts claiming the safety and effectiveness of vaccines represent a system that kills 3 million Americans per decade and severely injures 100 million Americans.


http://www.infowars.com/new-holocaust…













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“We are burying a population the size of Miami every year from medical errors that can be prevented.” —Leah Binder, The Leapfrog Group







Study: Medical Error is the Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.



BY Marco Cáceres



SEE: http://www.thevaccinereaction.org/2016/05/study-medical-error-is-the-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-the-u-s/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:









Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States, according to a new study published in the medical journal BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal).1 The study, co-authored by Martin Makary, MD, professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and research fellow Michael Daniel, also of Johns Hopkins, defines medical error as:





an unintended act (either of omission or commission) or one that does not achieve its intended outcome, the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended (an error of execution), the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim (an error of planning), or a deviation from the process of care that may or may not cause harm to the patient.





In their analysis, Dr. Makary and Daniel found that medical error claims approximately 251,000 lives annually, surpassed only by heart disease (614,348) and cancer (591,699) as the deadliest killers and well ahead of respiratory disease (147,101), accidents (136,053), stroke (133,103), Alzheimer’s (93,541), diabetes (76,488), influenza and pneumonia (55,227), kidney disease (48,146), and suicide (42,773).



Dr. Makary was quoted by The Washington Post as saying, “It boils down to people dying from the care that they receive rather than the disease for which they are seeking care.”



The Post article also quoted Frederick van Pelt, MD of healthcare consultancy The Chartis Group of Chicago, IL, who noted that medical error also accounts for a large number of “severe patient injuries.” According to Dr. Pelt, “Some estimates would put this number at 40 times the death rate.”



If accurate, such estimates would put the number of severe injuries due to medical error in the U.S. at more than 10 million per year.



The number of deaths that Dr. Makary and Daniel attribute to medical error are significantly higher than previous estimates by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which the Hopkins researchers acknowledge as the most commonly cited. In their study, Dr. Makary and Daniel point to a 1999 IOM report which “describes an incidence of 44,000-98,000 deaths annually.”1



But Dr. Makary and Daniel say the IOM study was “limited” and “outdated” and was not “based on primary research conducted by the institute but on the 1984 Harvard Medical Practice Study and the 1992 Utah and Colorado Study.”



The Makary/Daniel numbers, however, are significantly lower than the 440,000 deaths attributed to medical error by The Leapfrog Group of Washington, DC in its 2013 Hospital Safety Score survey.



While the Leapfrog survey uses the term “hospital error” and, therefore, may have a broader definition of “medical error” than the study by Dr. Makary and Daniel, it is still worth noting. The bottom line is that an awful lot of Americans are needlessly dying at the hands of those who are charged with caring for them when they are ill or injured. According to the president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group, Leah Binder:





We are burying a population the size of Miami every year from medical errors that can be prevented. A number of hospitals have improved by one or even two grades, indicating hospitals are taking steps toward safer practices, but these efforts aren’t enough. During this time of rapid health care transformation, it’s vital that we work together to arm patients with the information they need and tell doctors and hospitals that the time for change is now.3





So what is the solution? According to Joseph Mercola, DO, there may not be an easy solution. Dr. Mercola has advised to “simply minimize your interactions with the conventional system.” He does not believe the “system” offers very much in terms of “prevention or treatment of chronic disease” anyway. He says, “More often than not, conventional strategies in no way shape or form address the underlying cause of your disease.”4



Given the high number of deaths and injuries being caused by the medical system in our country, the basis for Dr. Mercola’s counsel does not appear to be unfounded.







































			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
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POLICE SEARCHING FOR “PEEPING TOM” 



WHO RECORDED GIRL 



IN TEXAS TARGET DRESSING ROOM



BY HEATHER CLARK



republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:





FRISCO, Texas — Police in Texas are searching for a young man who recorded a girl as she was changing her clothes in a Target dressing room.



According to reports, the incident occurred at approximately 7 p.m. on Tuesday night at the Frisco location. The girl told her parents that a man was peeking over the wall with a cell phone as she was getting changed in the dressing room.



Her parents told store employees, but the man had already left the building. However, surveillance cameras were able to capture him on camera.







The suspect appears to be in his late teens or early 20’s and has dark hair and a slim build. He was wearing a red t-shirt, blue jeans and a baseball cap. Police are now seeking the public’s help to identify the individual.



“With the phones where you can do anything you want,” parent Melanie Arbet told Fox 4 News, “it’s kind of scary.”



As previously reported, just last week, a Florida woman chased a convicted voyeur as he fled his local Target store when she recognized him from a previous encounter at the grocery store.



Candace Spivey of Yulee told reporters that she was shopping in the bikini section when she was approached by Jeffrey Polizzi, who asked, “Shouldn’t we make sure it’s not too, like, sheer or clear?” He was later charged with reckless driving after frantically fleeing the scene.



On April 23, a man from Missouri was arrested at the Brentwood Target after he allegedly recorded a woman trying on a swimsuit. Matthew Foerstel now faces a charge of invasion of privacy, a felony, over the incident. He had spent a year in jail in 2013 after filming an 11-year girl as she was partially nude in the dressing room of another department store.



Gerry Wagoner, writing for Fulcrum7, says that Target’s new restroom and dressing room policy poses a problem in that it increases the chances that such incidents will occur, leaving women and young girls feeling violated.



“The left will insist this has nothing to do with letting transgender people use the rest room of their choice, but here’s why they’re wrong: Some guy decides to wander into the ladies’ dressing area. An employee sees him. Does the employee stop him? How does the employee decide? Maybe the guy doesn’t look transgender, but is that the test? Who has defined it? And if anyone does define it, who’s to say activists won’t change the definition next week?” he said.



Over a million Americans have signed a pledge not to shop at Target until it changes its policy to ensure the safety and privacy of women and children. Some who have objected to the store policy state that they are not as concerned about “transgendered” persons as they are about pedophiles and voyeurs who will see an opportunity to act upon their illicit desires.









			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
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ARMY CAPTAIN SUES OBAMA 



OVER WAR POWERS 



BY STEVE BYAS



SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/23119-army-captain-sues-obama-over-war-powers; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:







“My conscience bothered me. When I was commissioned by the President in May 2010, I took an oath to ‘preserve, protect, and defend’ the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war….  How could I honor my oath when I am fighting a war, even a good war, that the Constitution does not allow or Congress has not approved?”



These are the words of Army Captain Nathan Michael Smith (shown in inset), who has filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., against President Barack Obama. Captain Smith is challenging the president’s decision to deploy additional special operations forces to the Middle East, to combat ISIS.



The legal challenge was filed one day after a Navy SEAL was killed in combat in Iraq, the third since a coalition, led by the United States, began its military campaign against the “Islamic State” in 2014.



Smith actually supports military action against ISIS, calling them “an army of butchers.” But he believes it is unconstitutional for a president to go to war without authorization from Congress. And Smith contends that it is a violation of his own oath to the Constitution to fight such a war, without that authorization.



The lawsuit complaint states, “Captain Smith suffers legal injury because, to provide support for an illegal war, he must violate his oath to ‘preserve, protect and defend’ the Constitution of the United States,” citing an 1804 Supreme Court decision, Little v Barreme. In that case, the court ruled, “A commander of a ship of war of the United States, in obeying his instructions from the President of the United States, acts at his peril. If those instructions are not strictly warranted by law, he is answerable in damages to any person injured by their execution.”



The Little case arose from the undeclared war with France during the presidency of John Adams. Congress gave Adams authority to seize ships sailing to France. Adams, however, ordered the capture of vessels coming from France, as well. After George Little seized a Danish ship coming from a French port, acting under the authority of President Adams, he was sued for damages. Chief Justice John Marshall opined that Captain Little could be sued for damages in the case. In plain words, Adams had exceeded the authority given him by Congress, which opened Little to legal jeopardy. This case provides a precedent for Smith to challenge Obama’s actions today.



Smith’s lawsuit contends that Obama’s actions in the Middle East have demonstrated a “pattern of lawlessness.”



Deployed to Kuwait as an intelligence officer at Camp Arifjan, Smith works in the headquarters of the Combined Task Force — Operation Inherent Resolve, which oversees the entire U.S. and Coalition counter-ISIS campaign in Iraq and Syria. While observing U.S. military operations at close range, Smith stated that he was happy to see attacks upon ISIS. But noting opposition to the operation back in the United States, he began to ask himself, “Is this the Administration’s war, or is it America’s war?”



The Constitution tells us that Congress is supposed to answer that question, Smith said, “but Congress is AWOL.”



Obama has relied on the Authorization for Use of Military Force, or AUMF, passed in the aftermath of the attacks of September 11, 2001, and a second act of Congress, the 2002 Iraq Authorization for Military Force (“2002 Iraq AUMF”) as the legal basis for air strikes in the region and now, for placing ground forces into the region.



Even members of Obama’s own Democratic Party are now expressing concern, as the president has now sent 250 additional soldiers — boots on the ground — into potential combat. Senator David Kaine said at a recent hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, “I am deeply concerned about the legal basis for this war, both domestic and international.”



In a 14-page complaint, Captain Smith cited the 1973 War Powers Act, which stipulates that when the president introduces armed forces into hostilities, “or into situations where hostilities are imminent, he must …  get approval from Congress within sixty days to continue the operation.” According to the War Powers Act, this authorization must come either in the form of a declaration of war, or specific statutory authorization. If not, he must “terminate the operation within thirty days after the sixty day period has expired.”



Because President Obama has failed to obtain the approval of Congress for his war against ISIS in Iraq or Syria, within the 60 days, and has also not terminated the war, the complaint argues the war “therefore is illegal.”



The complaint also cites the president’s failure to follow the “Take Care clause” of the Constitution. In Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution, the president is required to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” As a result of this failure by the president to “take care” that the War Powers Act be “faithfully executed,” Captain Smith has been unable “to determine whether he can reconcile his military actions as an officer with his oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.” The complaint notes, that in the past, presidents have published an opinion, prepared either by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, or by the White House Counsel, to “justify” similar military actions, but Obama has not done so.



Another argument used by the Obama White House is that he has constitutional authority to conduct the war as “commander-in-chief,” citing Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution. Smith’s complaint, however, contends that such authority “does not override the War Powers Resolution’s requirement that the president must obtain the consent of Congress within the time specified by the Resolution before committing the country to on-going war.”



It is unfortunately common for Americans to refer to the president as the “commander-in-chief,” but that title is restricted to his role over the armed forces of the United States. In that role, the president and his subordinates are bound by the Constitution of the United States and the statutes of Congress. Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution is quite clear: “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.” Among those powers “herein granted” by the Constitution to Congress, found in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution is the power to declare war. Once Congress has declared war, the president then has legal authority to conduct that war as “commander-in-chief.” He has no independent power to go to war on his own, without prior authorization from Congress. And the president has no more authority over individual American citizens as “commander-in-chief” than any other American.



In a letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, Madison explained why this is so important. “The Constitution supposes, what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care vested the question of war in the Legislature.”



The delegates at the Constitutional Convention clearly agreed with Madison. When Pierce Butler offered a motion to vest the power to “make war” in the hands of the president, his motion did not even get a second.



In an attempt to justify its present course of action, the Obama administration is arguing that he is using the authorization of force resolutions used in the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq. But ISIS did not even exist during those wars, rendering that argument specious.



Presidents of both political parties have clearly exceeded their constitutional authority for decades in this area. Captain Smith’s lawsuit is needed to rein in the executive’s disregard for the constitutional requirement that only Congress can declare war. And Smith is also correct for the practical reason he alluded to. For a war to be “America’s war,” that war has to have authorization by Congress. Otherwise, it is simply the war of whatever person happens to be occupying the White House. In a republic, rather than a monarchy, that is the way it should be.

			

		

		
		

			
							

		


	

		
	

		
		
HYPOCRITICAL PAY PAL, APPLE LECTURE NORTH CAROLINA, BUT DO BUSINESS IN LGBT HOSTILE COUNTRIES
		
		
 

	
		
		
					

			
		

						

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Hypocritical PayPal, Apple lecture North Carolina, but do business in countries far more hostile to sodomites



SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/hypocritical-paypal-apple-lecture-north-carolina-do-business-in-countries-far-more-hostile-to-sodomites/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:







The Washington Times – Thursday, April 7, 2016



PayPal drew a line in the sand when North Carolina enacted a law prohibiting people from using the restrooms of the opposite sex, but critics say that line got washed away on the shores of Malaysia, a nation that consistently ranks among the least LGBT-friendly in the world.



The company canceled its plan to build a global operations center in Charlotte after the passage of HB2, which CEO Daniel Schulman called discrimination against the transgendered. He noted that the move would cost North Carolina 400 well-paying jobs.



But Malaysia’s Penal Code 187 — which punishes homosexual conduct with whippings and up to 20 years in prison — did not stop PayPal from opening in 2011 a global operations center there that it estimated would employ 500 workers by 2013.



“We chose Malaysia because of its highly skilled, globally competitive and multilingual workforce, in addition to a world-class business environment and technology infrastructure,” John McCabe, senior vice president for global operations, said at the time.



But PayPal is not an isolated corporation, nor is Malaysia an isolated country.



Whether it’s Apple opening stores in Saudi Arabia or American Airlines looking to dominate the Cuban travel market, many of the companies that have threatened to cut business ties to North Carolina over its bathroom bill are eager to do business in countries with regimes far more repressive of gays (and everyone else).



PayPal’s international headquarters are located in Singapore, where sexual contact between males is punishable by up to two years in prison, and even littering can be punished by flogging. The company has a software development center in Chennai, India, where same-sex marriage is prohibited.



Matt Sharp, legal counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, said PayPal’s actions internationally speak louder than its words at home.



“They’ve got a political agenda that they’re trying to push in the U.S. But it definitely does not line up with what their actions are saying around the world in places like Malaysia and others,” Mr. Sharp said.



Apple is among the other major corporations that have taken to the pulpit to lecture North Carolina for its sins despite doing business with anti-gay foreign regimes. CEO Tim Cook was one of several high-profile tech CEOs who signed a letter to Republican Gov. Pat McCrory calling on him to repeal the legislation.



“We are disappointed in your decision to sign this discriminatory legislation into law,” the letter reads. “The business community, by and large, has constantly communicated to lawmakers at every level that such laws are bad for our employees and bad for business.”



But, as Mr. Sharp points out, that has not stopped Apple from opening stores in Saudi Arabia, where gay people are regularly executed in public and cross-dressing is also a criminal offense. Pro-gay and trans advocacy are illegal, as is every religion except Islam.



“We’ve seen the same thing with Apple and some of these other companies that are fine doing business in Saudi Arabia and other countries that are extremely oppressive of the LGBT community,” Mr. Sharp said.



North Carolina Rep. Robert Pittenger noted that PayPal also provides its payment services in countries where restrooms are the least of the transgender community’s worries.



“PayPal does business in 25 countries where homosexual behavior is illegal, including 5 countries where the penalty is death, yet they object to the North Carolina Legislature overturning a misguided ordinance about letting men in to the women’s bathroom?” said Mr. Pittenger, a Republican, in a statement. “Perhaps PayPal would like to try and clarify this seemingly very hypocritical position.”



‘No comparison’



If PayPal is worried about the well-being of its gay employees and customers, then Malaysia may not be the best place to set up shop.



The 2013 Spartacus Gay Travel Index, which rates the “most dangerous countries for homosexuals to visit and live in,” ranked Malaysia the 142nd-least-gay-friendly nation in the world — tied with countries such as Nigeria, Kenya and Pakistan.



A spokeswoman from PayPal did not respond to questions about how anti-gay laws in Malaysia affected the company’s decision to build an office there. But she said PayPal’s canceled expansion in North Carolina reflects the company’s “deepest values and our strong belief that every person has the right to be treated equally, and with dignity and respect.”



“These principles of fairness, inclusion and equality are at the heart of everything we seek to achieve and stand for as a company,” the spokeswoman said. “And they compel us to take action to oppose discrimination.”



Responding that there’s “simply no comparison” between the laws in North Carolina and Malaysia, Mr. Sharp said PayPal should take action to oppose discrimination abroad, as its domestic rhetoric calls those values a central component of its corporate mission.



“If they are serious about this, I think they ought to be pressuring some of these international countries that they’re working in to provide real protection against punishment and imprisonment that’s happening in other countries,” Mr. Sharp said. “Especially internationally, they’re focused on the money.”



Free markets, free people?



Deena Fidas, director of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Workplace Equality Program, said PayPal’s approach to gay rights abroad can help the plight of gays and the transgendered.



“Businesses are going to be making strategic decisions based on a variety of factors, and the fact that they’re not ceasing operations in other locales doesn’t diminish this very important moment where they’re sending a very clear message,” Ms. Fidas said.



“The reality is that right now, at any given moment, businesses are expanding in locales that have some problematic laws on the books for the LGBT community,” she added. “But what we’ve found is the private sector can be a bastion in an otherwise unwelcoming climate.”



A lot of expanding into locales that offer gays an unwelcoming climate is occurring among corporate critics of North Carolina’s bathroom bill.



A spokeswoman for American Airlines, which has its second-biggest hub in Charlotte, called such laws “bad for the economies of the states in which they are enacted.” And the National Basketball Association, which has scheduled next season’s All-Star Game for Charlotte, said it is “deeply concerned that this discriminatory law runs counter to our guiding principles of equality and mutual respect.”



However, both corporations are eager to do business in China — American operates flights to Beijing and Shanghai; the NBA played two exhibition games in China before this season and will play two more this fall in the basketball-crazy country.



In addition, earlier this spring, American Airlines made clear that it plans to use its Miami hub for business in communist Cuba, petitioning for 12 of the 20 available daily flights to the Cuban capital and requesting flights to five other Cuban cities.



China, Cuba anti-gay laws



While neither China nor Cuba criminalizes homosexuality as a form of bourgeois decadence, as each did during the Cold War era, gay rights are severely limited.



Both nations have constitutional provisions defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, a holy grail far beyond what America’s religious conservatives can hope to pass in 2016.



In both countries adoption by gay couples is banned, and anti-discrimination laws operate on the basis of sex, race, religion and other categories but do not protect the transgendered. Cuba’s anti-discrimination laws do cover gays, but only in some fields.



Also, both countries are still officially one-party dictatorships that routinely arrest and beat anti-government protesters, limit the activities of dissidents and restrict depictions of homosexuality.



The official China Television Drama Production Industry Association posted new regulations stating that “no television drama shall show abnormal sexual relationships and behaviors, such as incest [and] same-sex relationships.”



Some “progress” does happen though.



In 2010 Malaysia’s Film Censorship Board revoked a ban on depicting gay people in movies — but under the stipulation that the films “portray good triumphing over evil and there is a lesson learned … such as from a gay [character] who turns into a [straight] man.”



When asked by The Washington Times for comment, American Airlines responded with a statement that criticized discrimination against gays and with a link to a statement last year extolling its high Corporate Equality Index rating from the Human Rights Campaign.



Neither statement addressed the question about its business ties to China and Cuba (or even mentioned either country by name) or their consistency with what American says are its values.



Spokespeople for Apple and the NBA did not immediately respond to requests for comment.



But if the marketplace can alleviate the plight of minorities around the world — as some laissez-faire economists have argued and Ms. Fidas says — then are American, the NBA, PayPal and others doing gay and transgendered people in North Carolina a disservice by threatening to curtail business activities in that state?



“The push-pull is that businesses can both leave in the face of lagging lawmakers, and they can also blunt the force of some of these anti-LGBT bills” by staying, Ms. Fidas said.



But Mr. Sharp’s interpretation was less generous. He said the business community’s reaction in North Carolina is just the latest example of corporate hypocrisy — pointing out the speck in the eyes of other Americans while ignoring the planks in their own.



“It’s sort of two-sided — one set of rules for the United States and another set of rules internationally,” he said.