CHRISTMAS DAY: DON’T FORGET THE PAIN AND SORROW

CHRISTMAS DAY: DON’T FORGET THE PAIN AND SORROW
BY DEVVY KIDD
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By: Devvy
December 25, 2016
NewsWithViews.com
“I
hold the precepts of Jesus, as delivered by himself, to be the most
pure, benevolent, and sublime which have ever been preached to a man.”
Thomas Jefferson to Jared Sparks, November 4, 1820
Today
is the big day. Christians around the world are celebrating the birth
of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Lots of cheer, the Christmas tree,
gifts and too much snow in many places. I hope everyone is able to be
with their loved ones this day. Family is what makes our lives worth
living, at least for me. Of course, our troops are still not home, but
I’m not going to use this column for any commentary on the war. Just
wish to say God bless our troops and their families. I also wish to
send God’s blessings to everyone and hope this day brings joy in your
heart.
Know
one of the things I think about today? I think about the Blessed Mother
and her pain of bringing forth a child into the world knowing that one
day she would see her son die in the most horrific manner because that
is what Almighty God intended:
John
3:16-17 (KJV) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world;
but that the world through him might be saved.
Mary
must have treasured each day with Jesus as He grew to manhood. The pain
the Blessed Mother went through as she watched her son die a slow agonizing
death must have been beyond what most of us can imagine. As I mother,
I cannot even imagine such pain and sorrow. When my daughter had surgery
(three times), I just sat there like a lump praying to God that He keep
her safe through the operations. The agony of Mary bringing forth the
savior of the world for you and me knowing the outcome. How can we not
weep to think of it?
Our
Heavenly Father promised us through his son, Jesus Christ, that if we
lived by his commandments and repented of our sins, our reward when
we leave this human body would be greater than any earthly riches. As
I am fond of saying, eternity is a long time.
God
commands us not to sin: Kill, lie, cheat, steal, commit adultery, worship
false gods, honor our parents and so on. Unbelievably, today’s modern
pastors of these mega social houses called churches who make millions
of dollars personally, care no more about saving souls than they do
about an ant on the sidewalk. This may offend some, but I’ve read a
load of material on Rick Warren and Joel Osteen (who gives me major
creep factor) and I wonder what Bible they preach from? I see these
IRS sanctioned churches of all denominations who have allowed themselves
to be silenced and instead, preach feel good rhetoric instead of what
each of us must do to enter the Kingdom of God. Heaven forbid they should
chastise their congregation and remind them of God’s commandments and
the price they will pay for ignoring them!
For
those who admire Rick Warren, I say to you, beware
of this wolf cloaked in “good works
“:
“Best-selling
author, social activist and megachurch pastor Rick Warren described
the social gospel supported by many of the mainline churches as “Marxism
in Christian clothing. [W]e don’t need to care about redemption, the
cross, repentance. All we need to do is redeem the social structures
of society and if we make those social structures better the world will
become a better place,” explained Warren as he described the beliefs
behind those who support the “social gospel,” in his interview
with Beliefnet.com, which was posted Monday. “Really in many ways
it was just Marxism in Christian clothing,” he criticized.”
We
don’t need to concern ourselves with redemption, asking God to forgive
our sins? We don’t need to care about the cross where Christ met the
most horrible death? The cross is the symbol that has given hope to
billions for over two thousands years by reminding us of Jesus’ sacrifice
for us. What shocking words from a pastor.
I
would say given the state of the world and our republic, that mankind
has failed miserably in keeping God’s Commandments. We are all sinners,
but we can ask for God’s forgiveness. He knows what is really in your
heart no matter how you try to fool Him.
I
know people have great hope following Donald Trump’s election, but I’m
sorry, 2017 is going to be a rocky one – especially
the economy
. Millions will cry, “Please God, help me with the
rent or my car payment or just some money to buy food for my children!”
It’s natural to ask for God’s help, but I am wondering what He thinks
about these same people who ignore His commandments and then expect
a miracle on demand?
 If
we desire God’s blessings can we expect them if we lie, cheat, steal,
kill unborn babies in the womb, use His name as a curse word, wallow
in the filth of sexual deviancy, sleep around like dogs on the street
and worship mega pastors who lead their flocks astray? Can we expect
God’s blessings by picking and choosing which of his commandments we
like even though the act of disobedience brings the stain of sin upon
our soul? Can we expect God’s blessings by forgetting His gift to the
world, His son, Jesus Christ – except when we want something material?
I
know secularists in this country disparage people of faith and that
my questions are most likely considered corny. The good news is, I really
don’t care. Secularism is a system of political or social philosophy
that rejects all forms of religious faith and worship. Those who believe
in nothing are but one heart beat away from eternity. I would not wish
to be in their place.
We
dearly love our spouses, parents, children and good friends, but God’s
love above all is what we seek through his son, Jesus Christ. I believe
that’s what today is all about, isn’t it?

FRANCE PROSECUTING HATE SPEECH TO PROTECT MUSLIM MIGRANTS

 French Mayor To Be Charged With Hate Crime For Decrying "Replacement" of White People 

French Mayor To Be Charged With Hate Crime For Decrying “Replacement” of White People

“91 per cent of the children are Muslims”

BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON

SEE: http://www.infowars.com/french-mayor-to-be-charged-with-hate-crime-for-decrying-replacement-of-white-people/; 

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A French Mayor will be tried
on hate charges for complaining about the fact that white Christians are
being replaced with foreign born Muslims in his town.
Robert Menard, an ally of Marine Le Pen’s National Front party, said that the number of Muslims in his city was a “problem”.
“In
a class in the city centre in my town, 91 percent of the children are
Muslims. Obviously, this is a problem. There are limits to tolerance,”
Menard told French news channel LCI back in September.
On France’s first school day, Menard,
who is the mayor of southern France town Beziers, also warned that the
country was witnessing “the great replacement” of white Christians with
Muslim immigrants.
“I just described the situation in my town,” Menard told AFP. “It is not a value judgement, it’s a fact. It’s what I can see.”
The trial is set for March 8 in Paris.
The Mayor’s comments are similar in nature to those made by right-wing Dutch leader Geert Wilders, who was found guilty
of “inciting discrimination” after asking a room full of supporters if
they wanted “more or fewer Moroccans” in the Netherlands.
Over
the last 18 months, Europe has suffered a number of devastating terror
attacks carried out by Islamic terrorists in the aftermath of a migrant
wave that has seen millions of Muslims pour into the continent.
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France: Jewish scholar prosecuted for hate speech for criticizing Islamic anti-Semitism

 BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/12/france-jewish-scholar-prosecuted
-for-hate-speech-for-criticizing-islamic-anti-semitism; 
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 Is truth a defense? The Qur’an depicts the Jews as fabricating things 
and falsely ascribing them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); claiming that 
Allah’s power is limited (5:64); loving to listen to lies (5:41); 
disobeying Allah and never observing his commands (5:13); disputing and 
quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); 
staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance 
(2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own 
interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people
 and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy 
or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved 
people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); 
slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing 
the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping
 their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in
 committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly 
(4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath 
(2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more.
 

“Leading Jewish Scholar Prosecuted in France for Alleged anti-Muslim Remarks,” JTA, December 20, 2016:

One of the world’s leading historians on the Jewish
communities in Arab countries is being prosecuted in France for alleged
hate speech against Muslims.

The Morocco-born French-Jewish scholar Georges Bensoussan, 64, is due
to appear next month before a Paris criminal court over a complaint
filed against him for incitement to racial hatred by the Collective
Against Islamophobia in France, the group recently announced on its
website.

The complaint, which leading French scholars dismissed as attempt at
“intimidation” in a statement Friday, was over remarks about
anti-Semitism by Muslims that Bensoussan, author of a definitive 2012
work entitled “Jews in Arab Lands,” made last year during an interview
aired by the France Culture radio station, the Collective said.

The Collective based its complaint on two remarks by Bensoussan.

“Today, we are witnessing a different people in the midst of the
French nation, who are effecting a return on a certain number of
democratic values to which we adhere,” read the first quote flagged.

The second quote cited read: “This visceral anti-Semitism proven by
the Fondapol survey by Dominique Reynié last year cannot remain under a
cover of silence.” Conducted in 2014 among 1,580 French respondents, of
whom one third were Muslim, the survey found that they were two times
and even three times more anti-Jewish than French people as a whole.

“Besides, with the animosity toward the French nation, there will be
no integration as long as we will not be rid of this ancestral
anti-Semitism that is kept secret (…) as an Algerian sociologist, Smain
Laacher, very bravely said in a film that will be aired on France 3,
‘it’s disgraceful to keep in place this taboo, knowing that in Arab
families in France and beyond everybody knows but will not say that
anti-Semitism is transmitted with mother’s milk,” the quote continued.

At least 12 people have been murdered in three attacks by suspected
jihadists from France on Jewish targets in that country and in Belgium
since 2012.

The anti-Islamophobia collective called Bensoussan’s statements
“dangerous and in line with far-right rhetoric” targeting Muslims.

But three prominent French writers and historians — Jacques Tarnero,
Yves Ternon and Michel Zaoui – disputed the allegations, calling the
complaint against Bensoussan “scandalous.”

The cautions taken against Bensoussan “are part of a strategy of
intimidation intended to censure any lucid statement, any form of
criticism,” they wrote in a statement they published online last week….

 
 
 

OBAMA’S VENOMOUS SPITE & BETRAYAL: US DELEGATION ABSTAINS ON UN CONDEMNATION OF ISRAELI “SETTLEMENT” EXPANSION

 THE TRAITOR OBAMA
US DELEGATION ABSTAINS ON UN CONDEMNATION OF ISRAELI “SETTLEMENT” EXPANSION 
BY ROBERT SPENCER
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Obama’s long anti-Israel record now reaches its culmination: a
betrayal of our ally at the United Nations. Obama is doing all he can to
make Trump’s task as difficult as he possibly can.
Even Paul Ryan said:
“Today’s vote is a blow to peace that sets a dangerous precedent for
further diplomatic efforts to isolate and demonize Israel.” Indeed: that
was the point.


“US abstains in key Israel vote, clearing way for condemnation of settlements,” Fox News, December 23, 2016:

A “shameful” abstention by the U.S. in a United Nations
vote Friday allowed passage of a resolution condemning Israeli
settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank.

The UN Security Council resolution was put forward by four nations a
day after Egypt withdrew it Thursday under pressure from Israel and U.S.
President-elect Donald Trump. Failure by the U.S. to veto the measure
was seen as a double-cross of America’s key Middle Eastern ally, and
attributed directly to outgoing President Barack Obama, who has had
chilly relations with Israel throughout his eight-year tenure.

Reaction from U.S. Republicans and Jewish leaders around the world was swift and sharp.
“It was to be expected that Israel’s greatest ally would act in
accordance with the values that we share and that they would have vetoed
this disgraceful resolution,” said Israel’s Ambassador Danny Danon. “I
have no doubt that the new U.S. administration and the incoming UN
Secretary General will usher in a new era in terms of the UN’s
relationship with Israel.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., blasted the Obama administration for undermining America’s historic Middle East ally.
“This is absolutely shameful,” Ryan said. “Today’s vote is a blow to
peace that sets a dangerous precedent for further diplomatic efforts to
isolate and demonize Israel.”

Minutes after the vote, Trump took to Twitter to express his opposition.
“As to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th,” Trump tweeted.
The measure was adopted with 14 votes in favor, to a round of
applause, after U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power abstained. It is the
first resolution the Security Council has adopted on Israel and the
Palestinians in nearly eight years.
“The resolution is too narrowly focused on settlements when we all
know, or all should know” there are other factors that contribute to the
conflict between Israel and Palestinians, Power said in an explanation
for why the U.S. chose to sit on the fence, which ensured passage of the
resolution
The Obama White House, under heavy pressure from the Israeli
government and its supporters to veto the resolution, kept everyone
guessing until the vote whether it would stop shielding Israel from
council resolutions and permit it to pass by abstaining.
The resolution, warning that Israeli settlement expansion is
“steadily eroding the two-state solution and entrenching a one-state
reality,” calls on Israel to “immediately and completely cease all
settlement activity in occupied territories, including East Jerusalem.”
It repeated the longstanding UN position that all settlements on land
Israel conquered in 1967 are illegal under international law.
A senior Israeli official accused the U.S. of a “shameful move” after
learning that it did not intend to veto the text, the BBC reported.

The U.S., which has veto power as one the council five permanent
members of the council, has traditionally sheltered Israel from
condemnatory resolutions. But the Obama administration has long made
clear its opposition to Israeli settlement-building in occupied
territory and there had been speculation that in its final month it
might allow a resolution against settlements to pass at the U.N.
A senior Israeli official told The Associated Press: “President Obama
and Secretary [of State John] Kerry are behind this shameful move
against Israel at the U.N.


“The U.S. administration secretly cooked up with the Palestinians an
extreme anti-Israeli resolution behind Israel’s back which would be a
tail-wind for terror and boycotts and effectively make the Western Wall
[the Jewish holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem] occupied Palestinian
territory.”


Most of those critical of the move by the U.S. painted it as a stab in Israel’s back delivered by Obama.
“This last minute political maneuvering is shameful,” said Ric
Grenell, former spokesman for the U.S. Mission to the UN and a Fox News
contributor. “It is inconsistent with the long standing U.S. policy that
no country or organization should be dictating solutions on the two
parties.

“Today’s abstention by the Obama Administration will make it harder
to find a peaceful solution because it imposes outside positions on
Israel without letting them negotiate directly,” he added….

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 OBAMA
BACKSTABS ISRAEL
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By

Attorney Rees Lloyd
December 25, 2016

NewsWithViews.com

A
widely distributed political cartoon shows Barack Hussein Obama embracing
Raul Castro, the totalitarian Communist leader of Cuba, and the Ayatollah
leading the fascist Islamic Republic of Iran. It is one of the best
evidences of Obama’s self-promoting hypocrisy and Machiavellian duplicity.
This
is especially true since it was published on another
day which will live in infamy” — Dec. 23, 2016. That is the day
on which the United States, two days before Christmas, by order of Barack
Hussein Obama, aided and abetted the Muslim dominated United Nations
General Assembly, fascistic Islamic theocracies, and overt Islamic terrorist
organizations like ISIS, al-Queda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Palestine
Liberation Organization, in adopting a resolution condemning Israel
in the Israel-Palestinian conflict and declaring as a matter of international
law (since U.N. resolutions have that status) that Jews have no right
to settle outside of the 1948 borders of Israel, forbidding them to
live even in the “Jewish Quarter” of Jerusalem.
Eight
years of Barack Hussein Obama ruling by race in the U.S. and by pro-Islamist
policies in the world, has come to this disgraceful end of his presidency
in the U.N.
If
anyone needed further proof that Obama — America’s first and hopefully
last Affirmative Actiion President who was elected not because of his
achievements but because of, not in spite of, his race — is an
utter con-man who deceived Americans as to what he really is at his
progressive liberal neo-socialist anti-American core in which it is
and always has been “all about him.”
The
duped and deceived by Obama include in particular Israel supporting
American Jews, secular and observing, who voted for him despite his
utter lack of achievement and contributed millions in support of his
elections in a percentage almost as high as American blacks who voted
by race (96% in 2008; 93% in 2012).
Note
that Obama waited until after the 2016 election — that is, after American
Jews had contributed their financial support all but exclusively to
Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party — to reverse American policy
by abandoning Israel by “abstaining” on the resolution condemning
Israel in the U.N.
Indeed,
the Machiavellian hypocrisy is blatant— the U.S. vetoed the same
resolution in 2011 when Obama was running to be re-elected in 2012.
Now, when Obama’s term is ending and he cannot run again, Obama reverses
the U.S. position of 2011 and stabs Israel in the back.
Thus,
Obama betrays and makes dupes of all Americans who believed him, and
in him, including the American Jews whose millions in campaign contributions
helped to elect him twice when in both campaigns Obama gave assurances
that U.S. unwavering relationship in support of Israel would not change
if he was elected.
Further,
while Obama issued the order to “abstain” and thus effectively
support the Muslim UN attack on Israel, Obama claims his disgraceful
decision was taken with the support of Democrat Party leaders Hillary
Clinton, who ran in 2016; John Kerry, who ran in 2004, and Joe Biden,
who now says he will run for President, again, in 2020. Thus, they,
too, and the Democrat Party which they lead, are guilty.
But
it is Obama who issued the order and owns this disgraceful decision
to align the U.S. with the totalitarian Islamic theocracies in the U.S.
and to weaken Israel. This despicable decision is further evidence,
if any was needed, that Obama is not only the “First Black U.S.
President” he is also the “Worst U.S. President.”
Now
that his presidency has ended and he can’t run again, watch Obama campaign,
overtly and as well as covertly, to be elected Secretary General of
the U.N. He will be able to tell the Muslim nations which have numerical
superiority in the General Assembly to remember how he sided with them
in his presidency, from his “Apology For America Tour” and
kowtowing to Islam “Cairo Speech” in the beginning of his
presidency in 2009, to the U.S. action in the U.N.on Dec. 23, 2016.
 President-elect
Donald Trump denounced this anti-Israel dirty deal of Obama and the
U.N. and promised that American policy will change on July 20, 2016,
when he is inaugurated as President. Not a minute too soon.
This
shameful overt anti-Israeli U.N. action, which manifestly strengthens
and supports totalitarian Islamic governments and Islamic terrorist
organizations, and weakens Israel — the only democracy and America’s
only true ally in the Middle East — is an infamous betrayal of America
as well as of Israel.
It
should be the last straw for “We, the People” of America
regarding the value of the U.N. as presently constituted; and regarding
“the value,” first and foremost, of Barak Hussein Obama
and his “historic election as the first black president,”
as well as “the value” of Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Joe
Biden, and the other leaders of the Democrat party who supported and
are responsible for this disgrace in the U.N.
FOR
GOD AND COUNTRY FOREVER; SURRENDER TO TYRANNY—NEVER!

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SEE ALSO:

Netanyahu Says ‘No Doubt’ U.S. Behind UN Vote on Settlements 

http://the-trumpet-online.com/netanyahu-says-no-doubt-u-s-behind-un-vote-settlements/ 

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 Netanyahu: We cannot & will not accept Security Council resolution on settlement building 

“FRIENDS DON’T TAKE FRIENDS 

TO THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL”

 Published on Dec 26, 2016

Israel
has suspended its multimillion dollar contribution to a number of
United Nations bodies and is reevaluating its relationship with the
organization, after the UN Security Council passed a resolution on
Israeli settlement construction.

 

CRESTFALLEN: THE ALLEGED RISE AND FALL OF “HOPE” FOR THE OBAMAS AS THEY LEAVE OFFICE & ALL THOSE PERKS

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 PERSONALLY HURT, 
BUT JUST DRY TEARS!
CRESTFALLEN: THE ALLEGED RISE AND FALL OF 
“HOPE” FOR THE OBAMAS AS THEY LEAVE OFFICE & ALL THOSE PERKS
A LONG HISTORY OF DELIBERATELY DENYING 
HOPE TO AMERICANS 
WHAT MICHELLE “FEELS” AFTER BEING REJECTED:
IN THE DUMPS AFTER $35 MILLION OF TAXPAYER MONEY SPENT ON VCATIONS

 Lump Of Coal Christmas

Michelle Obama’s Christmas Lump of Coal

BY MICHELLE MALKIN

SEE: http://www.ammoland.com/2016/12/michelle-obamas-christmas-lump-coal/#axzz4ThPxZnc8; 

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USA –   -(Ammoland.com)-
Just what we all need to ring in the Christmas season: Un-merry
millionaire Michelle Obama belly-aching about the burdens and sacrifices
of public life with billionaire Oprah Winfrey.

“There’s
nowhere in the world I can go and sit and have a cup of coffee,” Obama
lamented. It’s a frequent grievance. In September, she told InStyle
magazine: “My hopes are to recapture some of the everydayness, some
anonymity. … (I)t will be nice to open up the paper, look at the front
page, and know that you’re not responsible for every headline.”

And back in June, again with Oprah, the first lady griped that living in the spotlight was like “living in a cave.”

Complain, complain, complain. What a way to make the most of your last six months in the grand and glorious White House.

For the past eight years, Obama has traveled to every corner of the planet on the taxpayers’ dime [including multiple trips to Hawaii].
She has splurged in Spain, traversed the Great Wall of China, tangoed
in Buenos Aires, skied in Aspen, lolled in Martha’s Vineyard and feasted
in Marrakesh. Thanks to her public position and celebrity, she has been
bestowed “fashion icon” status — donning a $12,000 custom-made
Atelier Versace gown at her final State Dinner last month after
enjoying two terms clad in Givenchy, Gucci, Jason Wu, Vera Wang,
Caroline Herrera and other haute couture stars whose designs are
unattainable to ordinary women in America.

Count your blessings much, Mrs. Grinch? Nope. All Barack Obama’s bitter half really wants to do, she told Winfrey, is “drop into Target. I want to go to Target again.”

Funny that. The last time Obama shopped at Target, she turned the outing into a fake news narrative to stoke racial division
in America. It is worth reminding the public about the noxious lie one
last time before the grumbling FLOTUS leaves office because I consider
her exploitation of the incident a perfect metaphor for the Obama years —
faux populism bolstered by elitist Hollywood enablers, and then
cynically transformed into a phony social justice crusade for crass
political gain.
Back in 2012, you may remember, Obama sat down
with David Letterman in one of her endless, popularity-enhancing pop
culture appearances. She bragged about her ability to shop incognito at
Target (does she get a secret commission every time she mentions the store?)
and told a warm and fuzzy story about helping a fellow customer who
didn’t recognize her. The shopper innocently asked Obama to retrieve
laundry detergent from a high shelf.

“I reached up, ’cause she was short, and I reached up, pulled it down,” the first lady recounted, and the shopper joked, “Well, you didn’t have to make it look so easy.” Obama beamed as she told Letterman: “I felt so good” doing an everyday good deed. Letterman’s audience cheered at the “first ladies, they’re just like us!” theater.

Just
a few years later, however, the encounter morphed into a tall tale of
rampant racism, which she cunningly reshaped for People Magazine in 2014
during the aftermath of the Ferguson, Missouri riots and Black Lives
Matter protests.
“Even as the first lady,” she moaned, “not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me” at a Target store “was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf.” The headline of the article? “The Obamas: How We Deal With Our Own Racist Experiences.” ABC News added that Michelle Obama claimed such “incidents are ‘the regular course of life’ for African Americans and a ‘challenge’ for the country to overcome.”
Last
year, Obama persisted in plying and fine-tuning her false narrative at
Tuskegee University’s commencement ceremony — decrying the “sting” of “daily slights” she blamed on racism, including unnamed “clerks who kept a close eye on us in all those department stores.”
Now,
as she walks away with sky-high poll ratings, a glittering Rolodex, and
government benefits for life, this incredibly blessed and privileged
woman has the audacity to claim that “we” are “feeling what not having hope feels like,” as she whined to her well-heeled gal pal, Oprah Winfrey.
So put upon. So downtrodden. So oppressed. To borrow one of Mrs. Woe-Is-Me’s own favorite phrases:

Bye, Felicia!

You and your manufactured miseries won’t be missed.
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Trump Pushes Back at Michelle Obama’s No Hope Comment

 
 

PRIME MINISTER ORBAN: “2017 WILL BE A YEAR OF REBELLION; AMERICA WHAT IS YOUR MESSAGE”?; “LET’S MAKE HUNGARY GREAT AGAIN!”

 
HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER ORBAN: 
“2017 WILL BE A YEAR OF REBELLION; 
AMERICA WHAT IS YOUR MESSAGE”?; 
“LET’S MAKE HUNGARY GREAT AGAIN!”
BY CHRISTINE WILLIAMS
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has praised the
victories of the populist Five Star Movement in the Italian referendum
and the election of Donald Trump in the United States, claiming these
developments are just the beginning of the “rebellion”.

Orbán is referring to the taking back of Western countries from
Leftist globalists who have flooded Europe with Muslim migrants who are
responsible for an unprecedented wave of crime throughout Europe,
including widespread sex assaults. In July, Orban stated that migrants were “poison” and “not needed”:

Orban said the migration and foreign policy plans of the
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump were “vital” for
Hungary…. the US Democrats
supported migration as well as what he described as “democracy export”,
while Hungary – like Trump – opposed both, “making it clear where
Hungary’s interests lie”….The Democrats’ foreign policy is bad for
Europe, and deadly for Hungary,” he said. “The migration and foreign
policy advocated by the Republican candidate, Mr Trump, is good for
Europe and vital for Hungary.”

“Orbán Declares 2017 the ‘Year of Rebellion’”, by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, December 21, 2016:

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has praised the
victories of the populist Five Star Movement in the Italian referendum
and the election of Donald Trump in the United States, claiming these
developments are just the beginning of the “rebellion”.

The Hungarian leader, who is known to be outspoken in expressing his
opinions on mass migration and the migrant crisis claims a kinship with
rising populist leaders and movements across Europe and the United
States.

Mr. Orbán said his party Fidesz was a “self-made story … about ten to
twenty, or thirty guys coming from somewhere, rising up, fed up with
the world that surrounds them” who wanted to change it.

He claimed to see the same attitude in President-Elect Donald J.
Trump, saying in an interview with Hungarian news site 888.hu that Trump
had what he called a “self-made man mentality.” He went on to add,
“Self-made figures are people who themselves are successful, who do not
begin a sentence with ‘I know people,’ but say, ‘I’ve done that.’ ”

For the Hungarian prime minister, 2016 isn’t the end of the populist
rebellion against globalism and the elites. Asked if he thought the
anti-globalist sentiment would spread he said, “I am convinced that 2017
will be a year of rebellion. Whether they [the globalists] put down the
rebellion or not, that’s another story.”

Orbán cited the victory of the Italian opposition in the recent
referendum and said that despite the defeat for anti-mass migration
candidate Norbert Hofer in the Austrian presidential elections, the
rebellion was growing.

“Next year will be elections in Germany, the Netherlands, France. A
lot of things can happen,” he said. Mr. Orbán said there were two
rebellions going on, one was a revolt of the working and middle class
which led to Brexit and the victory of Donald Trump and the other “…is a
kind of national rebellion.

“The ‘United States of Europe’ advocates, by being stealthy,
encroachments on the sovereignty of individual nations using the issue
of asylum.

“All of this is surrounded by political correctness, containment,
intellectual rebellion against stigma. The rebellion started in 2016,
will be even more enhanced in the future. Therefore, I say that 2017
will be a year of rebellion,” he said.

When asked if he thought it was contradictory for a ruling government
to declare themselves rebels, he said, “The real freedom fighters are
the people.”

He went on to add, “If we believe in Hungary, the Hungarian people,
one inside the other, then we are facing a bright future,” adding that
children should be taught “not to seek the easy way, but go their own
way even when it seems difficult, then the country can be great again.

“America, what is your message? Let’s make Hungary great again!”

 

UK: HEAVILY ARMED POLICE GUARD CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL NATIVITY SCENE

 
UK: HEAVILY ARMED POLICE GUARD CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL NATIVITY SCENE 
BY CHRISTINE WILLIAMS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

So much for peace on earth and goodwill to all. Who would have
thought only two decades ago that a nativity scene would need heavily
armed guards? The guards at Canterbury Cathedral situation demonstrates
an inherent clash of values.


Christianity is already virtually wiped out in the middle east by
jihadist thugs and its well on its way on Western soil, unless
Westerners have a change in attitude and wake up.

“So much for peace and goodwill to all men: Machine gun police guard
Canterbury cathedral and its nativity scene as security is stepped up
across the UK in the wake of attack on Berlin”, by Rebecca Camber, Liz
Hull and Andy Dolan, Daily Mail, December 20, 2016:

Within the hallowed grounds of one of the most famous
Christian buildings in England, the traditional Christmas nativity scene
should have been a place of peace and tranquillity.

But yesterday crowds who gathered to appreciate the sacred scene at
Canterbury Cathedral were confronted by the fearful sight of armed
police bearing assault rifles patrolling the manger where the figure of
Baby Jesus lay.

The extraordinary image offers a chilling glimpse of Britain braced
for a possible terrorist attack just days before Christmas in the wake
of atrocities in Berlin and Turkey.

Security was stepped up dramatically around the UK yesterday after a
total of 12 people were killed and 58 injured when a truck was driven
into crowds at a Christmas market in Berlin, hours after a Russian
Ambassador was assassinated in Turkey on Monday night.

Within hours of the carnage which Islamic State claimed
responsibility for, police in Britain responded by throwing a ring of
steel around potential major targets including the Changing of the
Guard.

In an unprecedented move, Scotland Yard announced that roads around
Buckingham Palace would be closed to vehicles from today and additional
barriers placed around the guard movements over the next three months.

The measure was described as a ‘necessary precaution’ to protect the
substantial number of military personnel and huge crowds drawn to the
spectacle which takes place daily between 10.45am and 12.30pm.

Elsewhere in the country, other forces dispatched scores of officers
to Christmas markets in towns and cities to prevent a copycat attack….

Police say there is no intelligence to suggest an attack in Britain
is imminent.But there are fears that the call from ISIS could lead to a
lone wolf attack from any of the 400 militants who have returned here
from fighting in Syria or Iraq……

 

PRINCE CHARLES URGES BRITS AT CHRISTMAS TO REMEMBER “WHEN THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD MIGRATED FROM MECCA TO MEDINA”

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PRINCE CHARLES URGES BRITS AT CHRISTMAS TO REMEMBER “WHEN THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD MIGRATED FROM MECCA TO MEDINA”
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

According to Islamic tradition, when Muhammad migrated from Mecca to
Medina, he wasn’t just “seeking the freedom for himself and his
followers to worship.” He became at that point for the first time a
political and military leader as well as a religious one. He began for
the first time to get Qur’anic “revelations” exhorting Muslims to wage
war against unbelievers.

Just as Charles is ignoring the historical context and circumstances
of Muhammad’s hijrah, so now he is also ignoring the manifest fact that
all too many Muslim migrants are not “seeking the freedom…to worship,”
but are coming to Europe to conquer and Islamize the land, emigrating,
after Muhammad’s pattern, “for the sake of Allah” (cf. Qur’an 4:100).

Charles also says: “We are now seeing the rise of many populist
groups across the world that are increasingly aggressive towards those
who adhere to a minority faith.” This is the familiar “Muslims are the
new Jews” theme. This is a common Leftist talking point. Many, many
others have made this claim before Chomsky, including Noam Chomsky; Bernie Sanders; the notorious non-Muslim Islamic apologist Karen Armstrong; Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist at The Atlantic who some time ago interviewed Barack Obama about why he won’t call Islamic terrorism Islamic; liberal media pundit Reza Aslan; Muslim Brotherhood-linked Congressman Keith Ellison; Nicholas Kristof, one of the New York Times’ Mideast pontificators; Canadian Muslim leader Syed Sohawardy; and Philadelphia chapter leader of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Jacob Bender. Many others have repeated it.
The blazingly brilliant Daniel Greenfield takes it apart in this video.
The idea that Muslims are the new Jews is put forward by the Left,
but it also has opponents on the Left. In 2014, as part of his ongoing
awakening to the nature and reality of the jihad threat, Bill Maher noted:

Jews weren’t oppressing anybody. There weren’t 5,000
militant Jewish groups. They didn’t do a study of treatment of women
around the world and find that Jews were at the bottom of it. There
weren’t 10 Jewish countries in the world that were putting gay people to
death just for being gay.

Indeed. Further, no one is calling for or justifying genocide of
Muslims. No individual or group opposed to Islam is remotely comparable
to the National Socialists. Not that facts have ever gotten in the way
of a good meme.
Maher isn’t alone on the Left in having pointed out the absurdity of
likening opposition to jihad to the lead-up to the Holocaust. The late Christopher Hitchens also refuted this idea when writing a few years ago about the notorious Ground Zero Mosque proposal:

“Some of what people are saying in this mosque
controversy is very similar to what German media was saying about Jews
in the 1920s and 1930s,” Imam Abdullah Antepli, Muslim chaplain at Duke
University, told the New York Times. Yes, we all recall the
Jewish suicide bombers of that period, as we recall the Jewish yells for
holy war, the Jewish demands for the veiling of women and the stoning
of homosexuals, and the Jewish burning of newspapers that published
cartoons they did not like.

“Prince Charles Urges Brits To Think Of Muhammad This Christmas, Speaks Out Against ‘Aggressive Populism,’” Breitbart London, December 22, 2016:

Britain’s Prince of Wales has spoken out on national
radio in an appeal for persecuted Christians and minorities across the
world, but the Royal also moved to criticize “populist groups”.
Speaking on Thought for the Day,
a short early morning slot on BBC Radio 4 dedicated to faith issues,
the son of Britain’s reigning Monarch urged listeners to think of
persecuted religious figures — singling out Jesus Christ and Muhammad —
this Christmas. He said:

Normally at Christmas we think of the Birth of our Lord
Jesus Christ. I wonder though if this year we might remember how the
story of the nativity unfolds, with the fleeing of the holy family to
escape violent persecution. And we might also remember that when the
prophet Muhammad migrated from Mecca to Medina he was seeking the
freedom for himself and his followers to worship.

Whichever religious path we follow, the destination is the same – to
value and respect the other person, accepting their right to live out
their peaceful response to the love of God.

The future King spent much of his short radio appearance discussing
the persecution of Christians without going so far as to name the main
source of this persecution — radical Islam. Referring to “insidious
forms of extremism… which aim to eliminate all types of religious
diversity”, the Prince also mentioned the Yazidis who are coming under
extreme persecution from Islamic State, Jews who have been leaving
Europe in record numbers to escape Islamist persecution, and the Muslim
Ahmadis who are treated as apostates by many mainstream Muslims.
Speaking of his recent interactions with persecuted Christians, Prince Charles said:

In London recently I met a Jesuit protest from Syria…. He
told me of mass kidnappings in parts of Syria and Iraq and how he
feared that Christians would be driven en masse from the lands described
in the Bible. He thought it quite possible there would be no Christians
in Iraq in five years.

While he was speaking to promote the receiving of asylum seekers into
Europe, the Prince also criticized what he called “populist” movements.
Britain’s Guardian newspaper claimed
of the comments: “His address will be seen by some as a veiled
reference to the election of Donald Trump in the US, the rise of the far
right in Europe, and increasingly hostile attitudes to refugees in the
UK”.
The Prince said, implying a relationship between Europe’s growing
pro-borders movement with European Fascism of the last century:

We are now seeing the rise of many populist groups across
the world that are increasingly aggressive towards those who adhere to a
minority faith. All of this has deeply disturbing echoes of the dark
days of the 1930s.
I was born in 1948, just after the end of World War Two, in which my
parents’ generation had fought and died in a battle against intolerance,
monstrous extremism and an inhuman attempt to exterminate the Jewish
population of Europe.
That nearly 70 years later we should still be seeing such evil
persecution is, to me, beyond all belief. We owe it to those who
suffered and died so horribly not to repeat the horrors of the past….

MERKEL TRIED TO FORCE UNIONS TO HIRE MUSLIM MIGRANTS AS TRUCK DRIVERS

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MERKEL TRIED TO FORCE UNIONS TO HIRE MUSLIM MIGRANTS AS TRUCK DRIVERS
BY PAMELA GELLER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

You could not make this up if you tried.

Clueless Angela Merkel tried to TRAIN migrants as LORRY DRIVERS ahead of Berlin attack

ANGELA MERKEL tried to force German trade unions to accept
asylum seekers as lorry drivers in a bitter row shortly before the
Christmas market tragedy in Berlin.

The Express, December 22, 2016:

Angela Merkel pressured trade unions to take on refugees as lorry drivers before the terror attack

Twelve people were killed and 48 others injured when a man suspected
of being an asylum seeker and part of the Islamic State terrorist group
drove into a Christmas market in the country’s capital.

Up to £84,000 (100,000€) have been offered to find the 23-year-old
Tunisian Anis Amri, who is believed to be armed and dangerous.

But as the country mourns the tragedy ahead of the festive season, it
was revealed that Merkel had put massive pressure on unions to speed up
the process in which unskilled refugees could be trained as lorry
drivers.

The
German leader said in September companies should “consider hiring and
training refugees as lorry drivers” while they are awaiting their asylum
procedure as there is a “big shortage of lorry drivers in the country.”
She said that the plan was to get a change in the
rules to make it cheaper for them to apply for a licence, with the plan
for them to pay just £420 (500€) to swap a Syrian driving licence for a
German one.
Unveiling the plan she said: “We all need to be
ready to implement practical solutions. We have only recently discussed
in the Cabinet the possibilities of allowing a Syrian driving licence to
be converted to a German one for 500€.
Same type of lorry used in the attackCATERS

Merkel wanted Syrian drivers to be able to buy a German licence for £420

“And
of course not every refugee will have 500 EUR, so what we want to do is
set up a loan program where they can borrow the money. Then when they
have been working, they can pay the 500€ back. At the end of the day,
lorry drivers are needed all over the place.”
The Organisation of German Professional Lorry Drivers (BDBK) led the opposition to the plan.
At the time, BDBK chairman Wolfgang
Westermann said: “We give a definite no to use refugees as lorry
drivers. Professional lorry drivers need a thorough and qualified
education. You cannot let everyone drive off in a 40-ton lorry.”
The GPS data of the highjacked lorry used in the
Christmas market attack allegedly showed the difficulties for an
untrained person learning to drive such a lorry.
Police by the Brandenburg gateAFP

The supposed perpetrator of the Berlin attack, Anis Amri, is still at large

The
manager of the Polish transport company which owns the lorry, said that
the alleged perpetrator most likely did not have experience behind the
wheel.
Ariel Zurawski said: “The GPS data suggests that somebody first needed to practice his driving.”
He explained that GPS data show that the lorry was driving in an “uncontrolled manner.”
 

DEMOCRATS ARE IN HELL AND WANT TO TAKE AMERICA WITH THEM

DEMOCRATS ARE IN HELL AND WANT TO TAKE AMERICA WITH THEM 
 
Published on Dec 22, 2016

Desperation
and hubris. It is all the Democratic Party has left after being shown
the door by the American people. Not the Russians, not a majority of
racist angry white male voters, and not fake news. The Democrats did
this to themselves with the sycophantic assistance of the media saddled
with firm directives coming from the DNC and the treasonous divide and
conquer subversion of George Soros.

Now, in the face of that
defeat. The world fully sees the bitter arrogance and cult like focus of
the shattered Democratic Party. Powerless yet still attempting to push
safety over a cliff.

Donald Trump won 3,084 of the United States
3,141 counties or county equivalents in the American heartland. And it
doesn’t matter how arrogantly the Democrats belittle America’s heartland
anymore. For eight long years Washington D.C. had disconnected itself
from this massive base. And now, it is the Democrats that are paralyzed
by their own reckless clawing avarice.

CASE CLOSED! TRUMP WAS RIGHT~OBAMA’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS A FAKE

CASE CLOSED! TRUMP WAS RIGHT~
OBAMA’S BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS A FAKE 
 
Published on Dec 22, 2016

The
evidence is conclusive. Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a forged
document. Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse holds an urgent press
conference revealing forensic evidence that proves once and for all that
Donald Trump was right about Obama’s birth certificate. The document is
a fraud. Share this video with those who refuse to accept the
undeniable evidence that Barack Obama is a Ghost President.

OBAMA’S SPITE: PLACES VAST MAJORITY OF ARCTIC OCEAN “INDEFINITELY OFF LIMITS” TO DRILLING

OBAMA’S SPITE: PLACES VAST MAJORITY OF ARCTIC OCEAN “INDEFINITELY OFF LIMITS” TO DRILLING
BY BOB ADELMANN
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

The joint U.S.-Canada statement
issued by the White House on Tuesday permanently blocked 115 million
acres of the Arctic Ocean — including all of the Chukchi Sea and the
vast majority of the Beaufort Sea — from energy development.
Said the
statement:

Today, President Obama and Prime Minister
Trudeau are proud to launch actions ensuring a strong, sustainable and
viable Arctic economy and ecosystem … free from the future risks of
offshore oil and gas activity….
Today … the United States is designating
the vast majority of U.S. waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as
indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing, and Canada will
designate all Arctic Canadian waters as indefinitely off limits to
future offshore Arctic oil and gas leasing.

Early reactions to the statement were predictable: This is the
pronouncement of a petulant child throwing spikes in front of the Trump
administration’s bus.
As Stephen Moore, one of Trump’s transition team
members, laughingly told Lou Dobbs on Fox News Tuesday night: “Trump
will repeal this on Day Two!”

Randall Luthi, president of the oil industry group National Ocean
Industries Association, said “The arrogance of the decision is
unfathomable, but unfortunately not surprising.”

Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski’s response was slightly more
measured: “President Obama has once again treated the Arctic like a
snow globe, ignoring the desires of the people who live, work, and raise
a family there. I cannot wait to work with the next administration to
reverse this decision.”

Erik Milito, of the American Petroleum Institute (API), was equally optimistic about overturning Obama’s pronouncement:

Blocking offshore exploration weakens our
national security, destroys good-paying jobs, and could make energy
less affordable for consumers.
Fortunately, there is no such thing as a
permanent ban, and we look forward to working with the new
administration on fulfilling the will of American voters on energy
production.

A closer look at the statement, however, reveals a much more
dangerous strategy being employed by the White House. It’s not an
executive order, but is based instead upon a law passed in 1953
regarding continental shelf development. Called the Outer Continental
Shelf Lands Act, it is an act “to provide for the jurisdictions of the
United States over the submerged lands of the outer Continental Shelf,
and to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease such lands for
certain purposes.” Deep within the act is the power granted to the
president to unilaterally withdraw any of those lands at any time:

The President of the United States may,
from time to time, withdraw from disposition any of the unleased lands
of the outer Continental Shelf.

Climate-change lawyers have scoured the act for any provision
allowing for the reversal of such action and finding none are
celebrating Obama’s statement as permanent and beyond the reach of the
incoming president to do anything on Day Two or thereafter. A senior
White House official said the Obama administration is “quite confident”
that the decision could not be unwound by Trump and that efforts to do
so would require congressional action followed by years of litigation.

President Bill Clinton placed a temporary ban on developing certain
offshore areas, which was reversed in 2008 by President George W. Bush.
But that ban was temporary and this one is permanent.

Obama can be chided for an act that appears infantile, in retaliation
for Trump’s victory over Clinton last month. It can be characterized as
a last-minute rebuff to the incoming administration’s determination to
open presently off-limits areas to energy development. It can be
construed as a final bone to be tossed to environmentalists who remain
adamant in their belief that all natural resources such as oil, natural
gas, and coal must remain in the ground “where they belong.” Some have
concluded that this is Obama’s final attempt to secure a permanent and
lasting “legacy” for his administration.

What President Obama has likely done, however, is to leave a legacy
of obstruction, intending to damage America’s ability to become energy
self-sufficient. That’s the legacy that is most likely to endure.

CONGRESS: OBAMA FIRED SCIENTIST TO ADVANCE “CLIMATE” AGENDA

 Congress: Obama Fired Scientist to Advance “Climate” Agenda
CONGRESS: OBAMA FIRED SCIENTIST TO ADVANCE “CLIMATE” AGENDA 
BY ALEX NEWMAN
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

The Obama administration fired a top scientist, intimidated other
staff, censored important information from Congress for political
reasons, and waged “a reckless and calculated attack on the legislative
process itself,” U.S. lawmakers concluded in a blistering new report
about Obama’s scandal-plagued Department of Energy.
All of it was done in order to advance Obama’s controversial
“climate-change” agenda, according to congressional investigators. It is
time for some serious changes in management at the U.S. Department of
Energy, members of Congress declared. But even that is not nearly enough
to remedy the damage unleashed by Obama via the unconstitutional
bureaucracy.

The shocking revelations about the Obama administration’s lawless attempts to pursue its “global-warming” regulatory regime at all costs were exposed in a congressional staff report
released this week by the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and
Technology. According to the document, a top Energy Department (DOE)
scientist, Dr. Noelle Metting, was fired from her job for providing
honest and accurate information to Congress beyond the pre-approved
“talking points” provided by Obama’s minions at the bureaucracy. The
firing had a chilling effect on other scientists and staff, of course.
Lawmakers were outraged. 

“The Committee concludes that the DOE placed its own priorities to
further the President’s Climate Action Plan before its Constitutional
obligations to be candid with Congress,” the lawmakers said in the
report’s executive summary. “The DOE’s actions constitute a reckless and
calculated attack on the legislative process itself, which undermines
the power of Congress to legislate. The Committee further concludes that
DOE’s disregard for separation of powers is not limited to a small
group of employees, but rather is an institutional problem that must be
corrected by overhauling its management practices with respect to its
relationship with the Congress.”

The latest scandal to rock DOE began with a piece of legislation
introduced by liberty-minded Congressman Paul Broun (R-Ga.) to
investigate the impact of radiation on human health. The bill, known as
the “Low Dose Radiation Act” of 2014 (H.R. 5544), would have required
the DOE to use funds it already had to review the science on low-dose
radiation and its effects. Among other reasons why such an effort was
called for, lawmakers said, was because the out-of-control regulatory
bureaucracies were operating on the unproven and likely false assumption that, because high doses of radiation are harmful, low doses must also be.

Rather than working to figure out whether its assumptions on the
alleged dangers of low-dose radiation were justified, however, the Obama
DOE preferred to waste the tax money appropriated to it by pushing
global-warming hysteria. “Instead of working to understand the value of
the [Low Dose Radiation Research Program] LDRRP for emergency
situations, DoE Management engaged in a campaign to terminate research
programs that could divert funds from the president’s Climate Action
Plan,” the report explains. Basically, Obama wanted the tax money to
promote his increasingly discredited warming alarmism, not to do what
the American people wanted as expressed through their elected
representatives — and his minions were apparently willing to break the
law to do it. 

And so, the Obama administration set out to derail the bill in likely
violation of the Anti-Lobbying Act, fire the scientist in question, and
intimidate all of the other agency employees into going along with the
White House agenda. Indeed, Energy Department e-mails handed over to the
House Committee as part of the investigation revealed that the Obama
agency was involved in a “premeditated scheme by senior employees” to
“squash the prospects of Senate support” for Congressman Broun’s
legislation and for the Low Dose Radiation Research Program,
investigators concluded.  

In a 2014 briefing for lawmakers about the program, Dr. Metting, who
led the program, provided information that went beyond what her
superiors wanted Congress to know. And so, Obama officials “removed Dr.
Metting from federal service for allegedly providing too much
information in response to questions posed by” lawmakers, according to
the report. Investigators later found that her removal from federal
service was “retaliation” by Obama officials because the scientist
“refused to conform to the predetermined remarks and talking points
designed by Management to undermine the advancement of” Broun’s bill.

And it gets even worse. According to the report, the House Committee
also discovered that Obama’s DOE leaders “failed to exercise even a
minimal standard of care to avoid chilling other agency scientists as a
result of the retaliation against Dr. Metting for her refusal to censor
information from Congress.” In other words, it seems that Obama’s
minions at the DOE wanted to make sure that everyone else got the
message loud and clear: Promote the Obama line and do not give Congress
information it seeks, or lose your job. Other members of Obama’s cabinet even launched witch hunts against federal scientists who disagreed with the imploding climate alarmism.

Lawmakers expressed outrage about the DOE antics. “Instead of
providing the type of scientific information needed by Congress to
legislate effectively, senior departmental officials sought to hide
information, lobbied against legislation, and retaliated against a
scientist for being forthcoming,” Science, Space and Technology
committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) said in a statement. “In this
staff report based on lengthy record before the committee, much has been
revealed about how senior level agency officials under the Obama
administration retaliated against a scientist who did not follow the
party line.”

In the future, though, that has got to stop, Smith continued. “Moving
forward, the department needs to overhaul its management practices to
ensure that Congress is provided the information it requires to
legislate and that federal employees and scientists who provide that
information do so without fear of retribution,” explained the committee
chief, who has long been critical of the Obama administration’s
“global-warming” antics (and especially the pseudo-treaty known as the
“Paris Agreement” that Trump vowed on the campaign trail to “cancel”
upon taking office). Smith and the GOP majority could, of course, defund
the department entirely.

The Energy Department has been embroiled in scandal practically for
Obama’s entire time in office. Perhaps the most well-known scandal
involved the Obama administration showering tax funds on its “green” cronies in sham companies such as Solyndra. The “solar panel” company received half of a billion U.S. dollars from taxpayers, then declared bankruptcy. Among the chief beneficiaries of the Obama administration’s lawless
Solyndra scam were Goldman Sachs, whose executives were Obama’s largest
campaign donors in 2008, as well as George Kaiser, another leading
Obama fundraiser. Taxpayers were left holding the bag.

Similar examples of Obama’s “green” cronyism abound, and drew outrage from Congress.
“The failure of several companies that received loans under the
program, including Solyndra’s August 2011 bankruptcy, led to the loss of
hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds,” explained a 2012
letter from lawmakers to Obama blasting the schemes. “The newly-obtained
documents show that senior members of the administration were aware of
substantial risks to taxpayers and objected to the way the funds were
being distributed. They were overruled.” 

Most recently, the Obama Energy Department has come under fire for
refusing to provide the names of the department’s “climate” scientists
to President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team. Critics of the Obama
administration and its long record of manipulating data to promote outlandish global-warming alarmism suggested that DOE leaders fear a widely anticipated “swamp draining” may end up holding fraudsters accountable. Trump
vowed to stop the “climate” scam and has long referred to the man-made
global-warming theory as a “hoax” and even bovine excrement.
 

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry, a Republican who
forgot the name of the department when providing a list of agencies he
would seek to abolish as president, is set to serve as Energy Secretary
in
the incoming Trump administration. So it is possible that lawmakers
will get their wish on reforming management at the massive bureaucracy,
which has close to a $30 billion yearly budget, more than 10,000
employees, and almost 100,000 contractors. But even wholesale management
reforms are not nearly enough to deal with the problems caused by
Obama’s lawlessness and his pursuit of a radical anti-Constitution
agenda. More serious efforts are needed.

The U.S. Constitution does not delegate any authority to the federal
government to meddle in energy markets, push global-warming alarmism,
hand tax money to cronies (“green” or otherwise), or any other such
activities. Therefore, the Energy Department and virtually all of its
functions are unconstitutional, with the exception of maintaining
America’s nuclear arsenal, a task that could easily be folded into the
Defense Department. Americans should keep pressing Congress to abolish
the entire department, and several more along with it, as the damage on
America inflicted by Obama is reversed. 

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As Climate Theories Implode, Obama & Co. Launch Witch Hunt

The Real Green in Fedgov’s “Green Energy”

The Effects of Low-dose Radiation

Fukushima: Just How Dangerous Is Radiation?

EPA Boss Urges School Kids to “Bug” Parents on Green Agenda

With Ice Growing at Both Poles, Global Warming Theories Implode

Obama Seeks to Protect UN Climate Regime From a President Trump

To “Save Our Planet,” Obama Tramples Congress and Constitution

Climate Alarmists Have Been Wrong About Virtually Everything

ISLAM-MUSLIMS: INCOMPATIBLE WITH 21ST CENTURY HUMANITY

ISLAM-MUSLIMS: INCOMPATIBLE WITH 
21ST CENTURY HUMANITY
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
By Frosty
Wooldridge
December 23
, 2016
NewsWithViews.com
This
week, Muslims killed nine and wounded 48 in a truck attack in Berlin,
Germany. Another Muslim executed a Russian diplomat with eight shots
to his back at point blank range. German authorities reported they
thwarted two planned attacks in the past week.
For
the past four decades, Muslims in all Western countries continue their
prime directive dictated by the Quran: “Convert or kill all
non-believers.”
Their
methods: 9/11 mass murder attacks. Also, lone wolf attacks. They infiltrate
governments with their operatives, i.e., Barack Obama and his 10 Muslim
aides in the White House, hijra or “seeding” host countries
with Muslim immigrants to eventually install Sharia Law. They employ
beheadings, be-handings and honor killings that terrify women worldwide.
Muslims kill gays, and kill anyone who remains an infidel or non-believer.
Worse, you never know which Muslim will kill at what time or place.
When
confronted with reality, Muslims kill the truth, they kill the truth
messenger and they kill anyone who disagrees with them.
Will
it take a Paris, France slaughter once a week to help civilized leaders
to deport all Muslims? Will it take a Brussels, Belgium airport bombing
once a month to convince leaders to rid their countries of Muslims?
How about a Nice, France barbaric attack at weekly intervals to finally
help all Western countries to come to the simple conclusion: Muslims
and Islam—Incompatible with 21st century humanity.
Notice
1.5 billion “moderate” Muslims do nothing to stop the
terror. They don’t speak up. They do not condemn. They don’t
lead their religion out of the Dark Ages. Muslim mosques all over
Europe store weapons while imams instigate terror attacks. Worse,
they spew incredible hate toward all other religions.
In
the USA, Muslims commit barbaric acts regularly. Whether it’s
honor killings of women or female genital mutilation or arranged marriages
or threats to gays—the US State Department and FBI counter terrorism
agencies remain on full alert to stop Muslims from terrorizing America
24/7.
But
they can never stop lone wolf Muslim killers. That’s why we
face another Orlando, Florida slaughter or a San Bernardino or more
Ohio State University stabbings.
That’s
why Muslim Barack Obama jumped the Syrian migrant level into the USA
by 339 percent in the month of December. He wants as many violent
Muslims to enter America before his time in the power ends. (Source:
Fox News, December 21, 2016, Hannity)
Muslims
don’t make any bones about it: they expect to conquer America
or die trying. Muhammad gave them 72 virgins as a sexual reward in
heaven for their jihad.
“When
the sacred months have passed, then kill the infidels wherever you
find them. Capture them. Besiege them. Lie in wait for them in each
and every ambush but if they repent, and perform the prayers, and
give zacat then leave their way free.” Quran Chapter 9:5
In
2002, John Muhammad, the Beltway Sniper, lay “in wait”
for various infidels and killed 17 of them. Since then, from Boston
to San Bernardino—Muslims carried out killing sprees.
“When
Allah revealed to the angels, ‘Truly I am with you. So, keep
firm those who have believed. I will strike terror into the hearts
of those who have disbelieved. So, strike them at the necks and cut
off their fingers.’” 8:12
Remember
the Muslim who beheaded his co-worker Colleen Hufford in Moore, Oklahoma
on September 26, 2014? The liberal media claimed Jah’Keem Yisreal
committed workplace violence instead of jihad.
Islam’s
dictates become painfully real for individuals who suffer death or
injury whether the Boston Marathon bombers or
White Cloud, Minnesota mall knife-wielding Muslim or the Fort Hood
killer Major Hassan pretending to be a U.S. Army officer.
“Men
are the protectors and maintainers of women because Allah has made
one superior to the other and because they spend to support them from
their means. Therefore, righteous women are obedient and they guard
in the husband’s absence what Allah orders them to guard. And,
as to those women from whom you fear disobedience, give them a warning,
send them to separate beds, and beat them.” 4:34
Why
aren’t feminists in all countries demonstrating to stop all
Muslim immigration? How do first world women accept Muslim men who
force their women into black bags and stone them to death for being
raped? How about the 20,000 honor killings annually in Muslim dominated
countries? Anyone got a problem with that ritual?
How
do you defend from such barbarism in the 21st century?
Since
we already suffer 3.3 million Muslims within our country, we must
defend against them harshly and effectively.
Solution:
we Americans demand all Muslim immigration stopped. We as a people
must deport any Muslim or Muslim organization that advocates Sharia
Law. Start with C.A.I.R. and the Islamic Society of America, Muslim
Brotherhood and others. We must monitor all mosques with mandated
video coverage. We must deport anyone who espouses individual or collective
violence toward our citizens. Ban the Burka or hijab that destroys
a woman’s right to her individuality. Deport or jail any Muslim
imam who speaks or organizes anyone toward violence. Do not allow
Muslims into the military, period.


Mandate
that any Muslim that commits female genital mutilation, an honor killing
or arranged marriage to be jailed and deported after time served.
 In
other words, make America so harsh against this violent, barbaric
and incendiary religion—that they repatriate themselves back into
their own countries—where they can practice their barbarism without
consequences.
Historian
Adnre Servier said, “Islam was not a torch, but an extinguisher.
Conceived in a barbarous brain for the use by a barbarous people,
it was, and it remains, incapable of adapting itself to civilization.
Whatever it has dominated, it has broken the impulse toward progress
and checked the evolution of society.”


Final
solution: Islam mandates a violent political-economic-religious system
diametrically opposed to a free republic and in violation of our U.S.
Constitution. Demand the prohibition of Islam in America. Enforce
the McCarren-Walter Act of 1952.

TEXAS MEGA-CHURCH TURNS CHRISTMAS PRODUCTION INTO CIRCUS-LITERALLY!

 
TEXAS MEGA-CHURCH TURNS CHRISTMAS PRODUCTION INTO CIRCUS-LITERALLY! 
BY HEATHER CLARK
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 HOUSTON — A megachurch in Texas 
recently turned its annual Christmas production in its worship center 
into a circus—literally, complete with a ringmaster, tricks and 
trapezes.

The Second Baptist Church of Texas, led by Dr. Ed Young,
Sr., presented “Christmas Under the Big Top” at its Woodway campus from
Friday to Tuesday, with tickets ranging from $10 to $25. The 90-minute
drama centered on a storyline about a fictional effort to save a
financially-struggling circus by putting on a Christmas show.

In addition to much singing and dancing, the program also
featured a Stomp-like trash can drumming peformance, and plenty of
circus tricks, from juggling to acrobatics to Cyr wheel spinning. Styles
of music varied from traditional to big band, to hip-hop and rock. A
segment of the production also included a living nativity, and a brief
message about life’s “distractions” from the meaning of Christmas was
delivered near the conclusion.

“The days of the traveling, family circus may be long gone,
but don’t tell that to the Robichauxs,” a description of the
storyline outlined on the Second Baptist website.
“For four generations, they have captivated the hearts and minds of
young and old alike with their high-flying antics and death-defying
stunts. But times are changing, and the patriarch, Arthur Robichaux,
must find a way to keep the circus alive in the midst of today’s
ever-changing entertainment landscape.”

“At his wit’s end, Arthur considers throwing in the towel
when his son, Max, surprises him by coming home for Christmas. Can
Arthur and Max save their beloved family circus?” it asks.

Second Baptist also released a video
promoting the event, inviting viewers to “[c]elebrate the true meaning
of Christmas with us.” The video featured clips from previous
performances, including fire-breathing and unicycling.

“For the past five years, Second Baptist Church has shared
the story and joy of Christmas with over 100,000 people across Houston,
featuring live music, dancing, aerobatics and so much more,” the
announcer states. “Come be a part of this Houston holiday tradition as
we celebrate the birth of Christ and take you on a new adventure.”

Luke Benward of Disney’s “Good Luck Charlie” and “Girl Meets
World” was one of the stars of the show, along with his father Aaron,
known for being one-half of the 1990’s CCM duo Aaron Jeoffrey.

Many praised the presentation as being quality entertainment.

“It’s not quite Cirque du Soleil, but it’s way (way, way) bigger than any church show I’ve ever seen,” one blogger commented.

“This was truly a magical celebration with a beautiful
message,” another said. “The show was full of non-stop entertainment
from the musical numbers to the acrobats. I loved the drumline and the
ariel dancers just took my breath away!”

However, others believe that such concepts are a far cry
from the Church in Acts, and are a distraction from the core functions
of the Church—even if outside of the normal service hours.

“‘Christmas Under the Big Top’ is another example of the
Church focusing on entertainment rather than the purposes which our Lord
established for His Church,” David Whitney, pastor of Cornerstone
Evangelical Free Church in Pasadena, Maryland, told Christian News
Network. “When Jesus said, ‘I will build My Church and the gates of Hell
will not prevail against it,’ did He have a circus in mind?”

He said that the Church seems to have “lost its way on the
road to the Heavenly City and instead has taken the side road to
Hollywood,” noting that the command of Christ was to make disciples
through preaching and teaching—not to amuse.

“The commission Christ gave His disciples was to go make
disciples of all nations. That disciple-making task involves the
preaching of the Word of God, administering the ordinances and
conducting public worship,” Whitney explained. “When the Church loses
this focus, it becomes simply one more entertainment venue vying for the
time and treasure of an audience.”

“In 1 Corinthians 14:23 Paul asks the question regarding
speaking in tongues, ‘What will the non-Christian think when he comes in
our midst?’ I guess the answer in Houston is, they would think the
Church is a circus,” he said.

Second Baptist Church did not respond to a request for comment.

(View the production here.)

 

ALABAMA GOVERNOR INTERVIEWS SUSPENDED CHIEF JUSTICE ROY MOORE FOR U.S. SENATE SEAT

 
ALABAMA GOVERNOR INTERVIEWS SUSPENDED CHIEF JUSTICE ROY MOORE FOR U.S. SENATE SEAT  
BY HEATHER CLARK
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The office of Alabama
Gov. Robert Bentley has confirmed that Bentley interviewed suspended
state Chief Justice Roy Moore for a potential congressional seat this
week.


The seat would replace U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, who was
selected by President-elect Donald Trump to serve in his cabinet as
attorney general.


“He would consider it an honor if appointed to the office of
U. S. Senate,” Moore’s wife, Kayla Moore, told the Montgomery
Advertiser.


Bentley spokesperson Yasamie August told the outlet that
Moore was “one of the top picks” from a survey sent to the Alabama
Republican Executive Committee, which consists of 400 members. The
survey asked members last month to submit a nomination for Sessions’
seat.

“The person who replaces Senator Sessions must uphold the
Constitution, value the rights of the Second Amendment, the rights of
the states, support pro-life issues, implement a strong national
security policy, support domestic job creation and, most importantly,
always put Alabama first,” the instructions read.

In addition to Moore, Bentley interviewed seven others,
including U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville; Senate President Pro Tem
Del Marsh, R-Anniston; Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur; Sen. Cam Ward,
R-Alabaster; Sen. Bill Hightower, R-Mobile, and Sen. Trip Pittman,
R-Montrose. House Ways and Means Education Chairman Bill Poole,
R-Tuscaloosa, was also interviewed as well.

After Bentley selects a replacement for Sessions, the matter will then go up for a public vote.
 As previously reported, Moore is currently appealing his suspension from the Alabama
Supreme Court for allegedly instructing probate judges not to issue
same-sex “marriage” licenses months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling
of Obergefell v. Hodges.

Moore asserts that his memo was only a status update
advising that his colleagues had not yet rescinded an order from March
2015 that prohibited judges from issuing the licenses. He says he
specifically noted that his words did not weigh in on Obergefell.

“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 on Jan. 6.

The Alabama Court of the Judiciary (COJ) did not believe
Moore and found him guilty of ethics charges, contending that he had
told judges to act contrary to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling. But
because the COJ did not have the required unanimity to remove Moore from
the bench, it therefore voted to suspend Moore for the remainder of his
term.

Moore says that the punishment is wrongful as it was a crafty way to get around not having the mandated unanimity for removal.

“It’s a de facto removal,” he stated in October. “To have
the Court of the Judiciary say that we can’t remove you because we
didn’t have the votes, but we can suspend you for two-and-a-half years
nearly (the rest of Moore’s term), that’s completely improper.”

“It has to be reversed for the sake of the judges and
justices in our state or we’re going to warp the law and just let them
skip over a unanimous vote for removal and say they can remove you for
the rest of your term,” Moore opined.

This week, eight judges filed an amicus brief in support of Moore, echoing his sentiments about the suspension.

His case is expected to be heard next year by a special appeals court.

 

NANNY STATE SHOCK: CALIFORNIA BILL WOULD STRIP PARENTAL RIGHTS

NANNY STATE SHOCK: CALIFORNIA BILL WOULD STRIP PARENTAL RIGHTS 
BY SELWYN DUKE
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

A new bill introduced in the California Senate promises to guarantee
“children’s rights.” But it really amounts to eviscerating parents’
rights and empowering the state — to raise your kids in its own image.
And with 38-million-strong California being a trendsetter, the
legislation’s success could mean it would soon appear in a government
near you.

Dubbed the “Bill of Rights for the Children and Youth of California,” the measure was, InfoWars Jon Rappoport tells us,

Introduced by the notorious [Dr.] Richard
Pan, the mover and shaker behind the mandatory vaccination law in CA —
[and] this new one, SB18, is a grab-bag of generalities basically giving
over care of children to the State.
Catch the flavor of the wording. It
emerges like swamp gas: “The Legislature finds and declares that all
children and youth, regardless of gender, class, race, ethnicity,
national origin, culture, religion, immigration status, sexual
orientation, or ability, have inherent rights that entitle them to
protection, special care, and assistance, including, but not limited to,
the following: The right to parents, guardians, or caregivers who act
in their best interest. The right to form healthy attachments with
adults responsible for their care and well-being. The right to live in a
safe and healthy environment. The right to social and emotional
well-being. The right to opportunities to attain optimal cognitive,
physical, and social development. The right to appropriate, quality
education and life skills leading to self-sufficiency in adulthood. The
right to appropriate, quality health care.”
As if all these outcomes could be delivered to children on a silver platter.
And the State would make it so.

The state’s victory is in the vagueness. For example, what
constitutes a child’s “best interest”? Will this mean exposing him to
explicit sex education, including the “transgender” agenda; to
“tolerance training” relating the “all values are equal” notion that
“truth” is relative; and to “freedom” from necessary discipline? These
things are in fashion, after all.

Second, how can the “right” to “emotional well-being” be guaranteed
when even adults often have trouble achieving such? And how can liberals
claim to be guarantors of it? Studies have shown
they suffer from mental illness (and what is thus labeled) more often
than conservatives do, a phenomenon I observed during my many years
working with children. I virtually never saw a youngster from a
conservative home diagnosed with “ADHD,” for example, and this is no
surprise. As family psychologist John Rosemond has pointed out, ADHD
behavior is simply typical toddler behavior extended into later
childhood by permissive (read: liberal) parenting.

And what is proper “social development” and what would
“opportunities” to attain it be? Would this involve encouraging early
dating; exposure to (corruptive) popular culture; interaction with a
“diverse” set of peers, where one bad apple can spoil the bunch; and
inculcation with globalist ideas to create good little “citizens of the
world”?

There’s also another agenda here. As the website Modern Alternative Health points out,
“Most likely, the state defines ‘optimal cognitive, physical, and
social development’ as occurring within the public school system. Pan
has not been shy about his opposition to homeschooling, and this point
may be used to remove or severely restrict the right to homeschool.”

No doubt. Statists are unanimous in their opposition to homeschooling; the Big Brother governments in Germany and Sweden,
which persecute homeschoolers, are good examples. And why is no
mystery. Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle stated, “Give me a child
until he is seven and I will show you the man” and Abraham Lincoln
observed, “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be
the philosophy of government in the next.” Of course, the philosophy of
the school room today cannot be the philosophy of government tomorrow
unless you get students in the schoolroom in the first place.

Yet what’s truly dangerous about SB18 is, again, it’s vagueness,
which gives bureaucrats great latitude to interpret its provisions as
they see fit. Just consider the following provision:

(b) It is the intent of the Legislature
in enacting this act to expand and codify the Bill of Rights for
Children and Youth of California created by Assembly Concurrent
Resolution No. 80 (Res. Ch. 101, Stats. 2009), to establish a
comprehensive framework that governs the rights of all children and
youth in California, outlines the research-based essential needs of
California’s children, and establishes standards relating to the health,
safety, well-being, early childhood and educational opportunities, and
familial supports necessary for all children to succeed.

Modern Alternative Health analyzes this passage thus:

This point basically sums up what they’ve
said so far. This law doesn’t do anything, except give them permission
to create standards and programs to enforce those standards. We won’t
know exactly what they’re going to come up with or to what extent
they’ll enforce them until after this law is passed.
It is not acceptable to pass a law like
this that has such vague and sweeping implications with poorly-defined
parameters. Especially not in California, where parental rights have
been stripped increasingly over the last 5 years.

The bill continues in this open-ended vein, stating in SEC. 2 that it
is “the intent of the Legislature … to enact appropriate legislation to
accomplish all of the following”: “Develop and put forth research-based
policy solutions,” “Determine the amount of revenue and resources,” and
“Identify and obtain the revenue and resources … necessary to ensure
that the Bill of Rights for Children and Youth of California, in its
totality, is applied evenly, equitably, and appropriately to all
children and youth across the state.”

What will these “research-based policy solutions” be? How much will
this agenda cost and how will it be paid for? The government doesn’t
say, but apparently has carte blanche with the “solutions” and a blank
check with the budget. It’s as with Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi infamously saying
about ObamaCare, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out
what’s in it.” Except in this case you’ll keep finding out, again and
again and again, as the “solutions” continuously change and the price
tag ever grows with SB18 measures that can morph like the shape-shifting space alien in The Thing.

And who may cash in on this pot of gold? Most suspicious is that one
of the entities behind the bill is The Silicon Valley Community
Foundation, Jon Rappoport informs,
“a non-profit that has assets of $7.3 BILLION” and “runs 1800
philanthropic funds.” It has a list of big-money corporate partners,
too. As he also writes, “For some reason, this huge Foundation is
pushing a children’s bill of rights that … will eventually make the
State the top-dog controlling force over all children in California. You
can bet these corporate partners will reap profits. Beyond that, this
is their version of a MASSIVE social engineering program.”

It’s the state’s version, too. The good news is that the bill is
still in its early stages and wouldn’t take effect until 2022, so
there’s still some chance to scuttle it if people fight hard. And
hopefully they will because, with SB18, the red flags are everywhere.
The only telling promise we haven’t yet heard is, “If you like your
child, you can keep your child.”

BOOMERS’ SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS BEING GARNISHED FOR UNPAID STUDENT LOANS

BOOMERS’ SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS BEING GARNISHED FOR UNPAID STUDENT LOANS
BY BOB ADELMANN
 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued its report
on student loan repayments on Tuesday, revealing that 114,000 Americans
age 50 and over had their Social Security checks garnished (the GAO
calls them “offsets”), including 38,000 over age 65. In total the
government recovered $171 million from this group last year, putting
many of them into poverty.

Under the law, students loans cannot be washed away in a bankruptcy,
with rare exceptions. When a loan goes into default, the government has
the power to reduce a person’s Social Security checks by up to 15
percent, or about $140 every month.

That’s enough of a reduction to push some Social Security beneficiaries below the official poverty level of $990 a month.

In other words, the promise of the student loan program — that
workers with new degrees and better skills would help the economy by
making them more productive, allowing them to obtain better paying
jobs — is instead impoverishing an increasing number of those borrowers
who bought the line.

The GAO reports that the student loan program has loaned $1.3
trillion to borrowers. Now, however, the Department of Education, which
oversees the program, is caught trying to balance the needs of the
borrowers increasingly defaulting and the taxpayers who are on the hook
when they do.

Liberal politicians have gotten into the act, specifically Senators
Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Upon reading
the report, McCaskill stated, “The growth [in the number of seniors
defaulting on student loan debt] is stunning. I believe this is the tip
of the iceberg of what may be to come if we don’t work harder on the
problem.”

Warren called the garnishments “predatory” and said that she would offer legislation next year to end them altogether.

These, it must be said, are the typical responses to problems created by the politicians themselves.

Of the $140 taken from their checks, 70 percent goes to fees and
interest, with the remaining 30 percent being applied to the outstanding
balance. This guarantees that many Boomers will die long before their
student loans are paid off.

This is another example of the unintended consequences of a
government program allegedly designed to help people but winding up
hurting them instead — while also exceeding the bounds and limits set by
the Constitution. Nowhere in that document is there mention of any
powers given to the national government to offer student loans to young
people seeking better opportunities.

But the new reality leaves an increasing number of Boomers
impoverished and creates an increasing risk to taxpayers backstopping
student loan defaults.

NEW YORK TIMES’ FAKE NEWS THAT ELECTORAL COLLEGE WAS CREATED TO PROTECT SLAVERY

NEW YORK TIMES’ FAKE NEWS THAT ELECTORAL COLLEGE WAS CREATED TO PROTECT SLAVERY 
BY STEVE BYAS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

In its zeal to abolish the Electoral College, the New York Times has chosen to repeat the falsehood that the institution was created to protect the interests of the slave-holding states.

In a December 19 article entitled “Time to End the Electoral
College,” the newspaper argues that the Electoral College is an
“antiquated mechanism” for electing the president. And of course in
support of its position, it makes the usual arguments, such as that
Americans would prefer to elect the president by popular vote. “For most
reasonable people, it’s hard to understand why the loser of the popular
vote should wind up running the country,” the Times insists.

Taking that sentence apart, the writer insinuates that anyone who
favors keeping the Electoral College is not a “reasonable” person.
Second, the writer implies that Democrat Hillary Clinton, the Times’ preferred candidate, won
the popular vote. Considering that candidates — including Clinton — are
not campaigning to win the popular vote, but rather the Electoral College vote,
the “popular vote” is not necessarily indicative of what it would have
been if the candidates were trying to win it. After all, a football game
plan would be quite different if field goals counted four points
instead of three, or if total yardage were the way a winner was
determined, rather than touchdowns, field goals, and safeties. Besides
all that, it takes a majority of the electoral vote to win the presidency, not just a plurality. Clinton did run first in the popular vote, but she did not
win a majority of the popular vote. If the country opted to go to a
popular vote system, one would think that we would want a candidate who
actually won a majority of that vote, that is, if the “will of the
majority” is considered so important to detractors of the Electoral
College, such as the New York Times.

And what’s this about “running the country?” Certainly, the president
of the United States is a powerful figure, but he or she is not given
the power in the Constitution to “run the country.” The president is the
chief executive of the U.S. government and the commander-in-chief of
the armed forces, but that person has no more power to tell a private
citizen what to do than anyone else. There are fortunately still many
things that happen in our society that neither the president nor any
governmental person, at any level has any authority to decide. However,
the desire for a president chosen by national popular vote is
quite compatible with the modern drift toward an imperial presidency.
Witness how many civilians routinely refer to the president as “my
commander-in-chief,” even though that term refers only to the
president’s role in command of America’s armed forces.

But perhaps the worst argument made by the Times in its
denunciation of the Electoral College — and really about the founding of
the country itself — is that the Electoral College was created to
perpetuate the institution of slavery. The newspaper calls it a “living
symbol of America’s original sin.”

The Times argues, “When slavery was the law of the land, a
direct popular vote would have disadvantaged the Southern states, with
their large disenfranchised populations. Counting those men and women as
three-fifths of a white person, as the Constitution originally did,
gave the slave states more electoral votes.”

The reality is that the creation of the electoral vote system was to
protect states with smaller populations from domination by states with
larger populations. The writer of the Times’ editorial is
either historically ignorant, or is deliberately deceptive. Virginian
James Madison was among the leaders at the Constitutional Convention in
bringing forth a plan for congressional representation that would give
more votes in Congress to the more populated states, replacing the
system then in use by the Articles of Confederation, in which each state
had one vote in Congress, regardless of its population.

The proposal was, in fact, called the “Virginia Plan.” It would have
created a two-house legislative branch, with both houses chosen
according to a state’s population. At the time, Virginia was by far the
most populous state, with 747,610 persons counted in the first federal
census of 1790. Even if the slave population had been subtracted from
this count, Virginia still had 454,983 persons, far greater than
Massachusetts, the next most heavily populated state with 378,787.

Yet, the Times falsely asserts that “a direct popular vote
would have disadvantaged the Southern states.” But the two largest
states, Virginia, which had almost 300,000 slaves, and Massachusetts,
which had none, both favored the Virginia Plan in the early days of the
convention. Clearly, slavery had little to do with the Great Compromise,
which created one house (the House of Representatives) wherein a
state’s number of representatives would be determined by population.

Another common misunderstanding, repeated by the Times, is
that the Constitution counted slaves as three-fifths of a “white
person,” and that this provision “gave the slave states more electoral
votes.” The apportionment of representatives in the House of
Representatives was determined by all persons — not just voters — living
in a state, which would include all legal residents, whether man, woman
or child, citizen or non-citizens, white or black, who were living
within the borders of a particular state. The states with large slave
populations wanted all the slaves counted, so as to give
themselves a greater representation in the House of Representatives. In
contrast, it was the states with smaller numbers of slaves (only two
states had no slaves at the time of the first federal census) that
objected to counting any of the slaves.

So the Three-Fifths Compromise was not to give the slave states more
representation, but rather to reduce some of the impact of counting
larger slave populations found in the South. And it is also important to
note that the wording of the Constitution was not “three-fifths of a
white person,” but rather three-fifths of non-slaves. At the time of the
Constitution’s adoption, there were thousands of free blacks, whose numbers were not fractionalized by that compromise.

What does all this have to do with the Electoral College?

Under the Constitution, no national elections were contemplated — not
for Congress, and not for the president. Because the government created
by the Constitution was to be a federal republic, the states were
expected to elect both the Congress and the president.
The selection of the president by electors followed the pattern of the
people in the states electing members of the House of Representatives
and the state legislatures of each state choosing the members of the
Senate. Each state would be entitled to two U.S. senators, regardless of
its population, and each state would be allowed to choose a number of
representatives, according to its population determined after each
decennial federal census.

The delegates did not want Congress to choose the president because
this would make him a creature of that body, and would lessen his
ability to check its power. Therefore, the delegates created a system
wherein the states would choose electors who would then choose the
president. How many electors would each state receive? It was
determined, in keeping with the Great Compromise earlier in the
Convention, that each state legislature could choose, by whatever method
they so determined, a number of electors equal to their combined
numbers of representatives and senators. The electors would not meet as a
national body, but rather in their state capitals. The term “Electoral
College” was a later invention. Over the course of time the system has
evolved, and today presidential electors are chosen by state popular vote, and not by a national
popular vote. The election of the president is just as democratic as
the election of the House of Representatives, or the election of the
Senate. In short, it is a good example of the form of government created
by the Constitution: a federal republic.

Writing in the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton
described the system devised for electing the president through
electors, though not perfect, as “excellent.” He stated, “The mode of
appointment of the Chief Magistrate of the United States is almost the
only part of the system, of any consequence, which has escaped without
severe censure, or which has received the slightest mark of approbation
from its opponents.”

And it had nothing to do with slavery.

LIBERALS STOCKPILING GUNS, AMMO IN PREPARATION FOR “TRUMP APOCALYPSE”

LIBERALS STOCKPILING GUNS, AMMO IN PREPARATION FOR “TRUMP APOCALYPSE” 
 Anti-Trump left joining gun clubs out of fear of Trump!
BY JAMIE WHITE
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

The election of Donald Trump has prompted panicked liberals
to stockpile guns and ammunition in anticipation of “societal collapse.”

Lara
Smith, national spokesperson for the Liberal Gun Club, says her
organization has seen a “huge” rise in enquiries since November’s
election and a 10% increase in paid members.
US gun sales hit
record levels in October amid fears a Hillary Clinton election victory
would lead to draconian gun control measures.

The election of Donald Trump, who was backed by the National Rifle
Association early on, was thought to bring an end to panic buying.
Shares in gun manufacturers even dropped by as much as 18% following his
victory.
Instead, FBI background checks for gun transactions
soared to a new record for a single day – 185,713 – during the Black
Friday sales on 25 November, according to gun control news site The Trace.
Since
November’s election, 28-year-old nursing student Clara has started
going to gun ranges and is shopping around for a semi-automatic pistol.
“I’ve been seeing the way that Trump’s election has mobilized a lot of the far right and given them hope,” she said
to BBC, claiming that neo-Nazi activity is on the rise. “Things are
already escalating and they will continue to do so and me not engaging
or being prepared to defend my friends by force… isn’t going to stop
people from being attacked or harassed.”
Ironically, liberals are
beginning to realize that guns are a reasonable measure of defense, even
though their belief that a Trump presidency endangers their lives is
mistaken.
Indeed, they probably believe they should be able to buy up all the guns they want while also demanding the disarmament of white people.
Considering the deluge
of death threats from liberals that President-elect Trump received with
no repercussions, the idea of liberals suddenly buying up guns is a
concerning development.

JUDAS GLENN BECK MAKES ANTI TRUMP ALLIANCE WITH FAR LEFT

JUDAS GLENN BECK MAKES ANTI TRUMP ALLIANCE WITH FAR LEFT

Glenn Beck Exposed as Obama Agent 

 Published on Apr 26, 2014

Alex
takes on the Leftist media that is cowardly attacking patriots across
the country and the plan to demonize those who lean towards patriotism. http://www.infowars.com/judas-goat-gl…

Judas Goat Glenn Beck Works For Obama and CFR 

Published on Apr 26, 2014

Judas Goat Glenn Beck Colludes With CIA and CFR to Take Down Patriot Movement
Glenn
Beck, who fancies himself a libertarian, is working with corporate
media insiders and a former CIA employee who flaunts his membership in
the globalist Council on Foreign Relations. The objective of this group
at the very heart of Beck’s operation, now readily apparent following
the Cliven Bundy standoff, is to portray the Nevada rancher as a racist
zealot, a member of a dangerous and outlaw sovereign citizen movement,
and inseparable from violent and conspiracy crazed “militia” domestic
terrorists. Beck’s campaign mirrors that of the Obama administration,
Eric Holder’s Justice Department and the liberal media intelligentsia.
MORE
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD “VIOLATED LAW” SAYS TEXAS

PLANNED PARENTHOOD “VIOLATED LAW” SAYS TEXAS 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 

breitbart.com

The State of Texas gave Planned Parenthood the boot on Tuesday
saying it would no longer allow it to participate in the Medicaid
program in the Lone Star State. The agency supervising the program
ripped the abortion provider for its stated violations of state and
federal law and ethics, including deviating from acceptable medical
standards and procedures to procure research samples, and stated “a
willingness to charge more than the costs incurred for procuring fetal
tissue.”

A notice letter from the Office of Inspector General of the Texas
Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) sent to Texas Planned
Parenthood affiliates on December 20 stated, “you are not qualified to
provide medical services in a professionally competent, safe, legal and
ethical manner under the relevant provisions of state and federal law
pertaining to Medicaid providers.”

The OIG writes the Texas Planned Parenthood affiliates saying, “The
basis for your termination and the termination of your affiliates stems
from an extensive undercover video obtained by the Center for Medical
Progress at the Planned Parenthood Gulf Freeway facility in April 2015,
which contains evidence that Planned Parenthood violated state and
federal law. The evidence arises from detailed discussions with the
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s staff. In addition, the United States
House of Representatives’ Select Investigative Panel (House
Investigative Panel) uncovered evidence consistent with and supportive
of this termination.”

The Investigative Panel referred the evidence it found to the Texas Attorney General on December 1, 2016, as reported by Breitbart News.

The OIG says the “unedited video footage indicates that Planned
Parenthood follows a policy of agreeing to procure fetal tissue,
potentially for valuable consideration, even if it means altering the
timing or method of an abortion. These practices violate accepted
medical standards, as reflected in federal and state law, and are
Medicaid program violations that justify termination.”

The OIG said that the undercover video taken at Planned Parenthood
Gulf Coast in Houston “reveals numerous violations of generally accepted
standards of medical practice.” They detail the examples in their
letter saying the violations include:

  1. a history of deviating from accepted standards to procure samples that meet researcher’s needs;
  2. a history of permitting staff physicians to alter procedures to
    obtain targeted tissue samples needed for their specific outside
    research;
  3. a willingness to convert normal pregnancies to the breech position to ensure researchers receive intact specimens;
  4. an admission that “we get what we need to do to alter the standard
    of care where we are still maintaining patient safety, still maintaining
    efficiency in clinic operations, but we integrate research into it”;
  5. an admission that Planned Parenthood gets requests for “information
    from our study sponsor on what data they need that is not our standard
    of care,” and that you provide what is needed by creating a separate
    research protocol or template that can include medically unnecessary
    testing; and
  6. willingness to charge more than the costs incurred for procuring fetal tissue.

It is a violation of the law to sell fetal remains for profit. The
sale or purchase of human fetal tissue is a felony punishable by up to
10 years in prison or a fine of up to $500,000 (42 U.S.C. 289g-2), as
previously reported by Breitbart News.

The damning letter of the OIG also stated that “HHSC-IG has evidence
that you engaged in misrepresentations about your activity related to
fetal tissue procurements, as revealed by evidence provided by the House
Investigative Panel.”

As reported
by Breitbart Texas, the OIG sent the final notice letter to: Planned
Parenthood Gulf Coast, Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas/Planned
Parenthood of North Texas, Planned Parenthood in San Antonio and Cameron
and Willacy Counties, and the Planned Parenthood South Texas Surgical
Center. The letter has been attached below.

The OIG of the HHSC issued an order in October 2015, banning Planned Parenthood from participating in Medicaid programs, as reported
by Breitbart Texas at the time. The action notified Planned Parenthood
that its affiliates in Texas would have their Medicaid participation
cut-off for alleged Medicaid violations. The letter also called for the
end to funding by state and local taxpayers of other abortion providers.

Last fiscal year (FY2015) Planned Parenthood affiliates across Texas received $4,223,598.69 in Medicaid funding.

The termination of Planned Parenthood’s enrollment in Texas means, as
set out in the OIG’s letter, that Planned Parenthood’s contract with
the Texas Medicaid program is “nullified on the effective date of the
termination.”

Breitbart News reported on August 4, 2015, that “A video just released by
the Center for Medical Progress taken undercover in Texas shows a
Planned Parenthood research director discussing the sale of whole intact
aborted babies to a company that resells them to medical researchers.”
The video was of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast’s Director of Research
Melissa Farrell. PPGC is a mega-abortion facility located in Houston.
One of the claims that Farrell makes on the tape is that PPGC in Houston
has more revenue from research proceeds than all the other Planned
Parenthood facilities combined.

Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick publicly condemned the video, and asked Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson to conduct an investigation, as reported by
Breitbart Texas. Anderson never brought an indictment against the
mega-abortion provider; instead, the grand jury indicted the undercover
videographers David Daleiden and Susan (Sandra) Merritt for felony tampering with a government record (a false drivers license). Daleiden was also indicted for the misdemeanor charge
of offering to buy fetal tissue. The charges were later dismissed by a
judge. Anderson lost her election in November 2016 after she had
offended pro-lifers and jailed a rape victim in order to guarantee her
testimony at trial, as reported by Breitbart Texas.

Planned Parenthood may appeal the Medicaid enrollment termination if
it files a written request with HHSC-IG asking for an administrative
hearing on or before the 15th day after they received the final notice
of termination. If HHSC-IG does not receive a timely written response
from them by that date, the final notice of termination will be
unappealable.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD FACING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION BY TRUMP’S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

PLANNED PARENTHOOD FACING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION BY TRUMP’S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 By 
        NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri 
Posted 1:00 AM EasternDecember 22, 2016
     Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter 
        to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey referring 
        four Planned 
        Parenthood affiliates in California and three fetal tissue brokers 
        for investigation and possible criminal prosecution. While the current 
        Attorney General Loretta Lynch isn't budging on the Obama administration's 
        disregard for the unborn, many believe that after the January 20 inauguration 
        of President Donald Trump there will be legal action against those involved 
        in the sordid practices of Planned Parenthood.
Following
the investigation of Planned Parenthood as the result of the release of
a series of videos by citizen journalist David Daleiden and the Center
for Medical Progress (CMP), the U.S. Senate’s Judiciary Committee
obtained additional evidence revealing that Planned Parenthood, its affiliates,
and the fetal tissue traffickers have violated the federal ban on buying
and selling the body parts of unborn babies.
Moreover,
the Judiciary Committee discovered that Attorney General Loretta Lynch
and the Department of Justice are refusing to enforce the federal fetal
tissue trafficking statute, failing to prosecute even one entity under
the law, despite substantial evidence of a criminal conspiracy.
The
Committee’s investigation found that the following entities engaged in
the purchase and sale of baby body parts for profit: “I don’t
take lightly making a criminal referral. But, the seeming disregard for
the law by these entities has been fueled by decades of utter failure
by the Justice Department to enforce it,” Grassley said. “And,
unless there is a renewed commitment by everyone involved against commercializing
the trade in aborted fetal body parts for profit, then the problem is
likely to continue.”

StemExpress, LLC;
Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc.;
Novogenix Laboratories, LLC;
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte;
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles;
Planned Parenthood Northern California; and

Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest.
The
Senate Judiciary Committee also found evidence of conspiracy between Planned
Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates, since PPFA knew about
the violations and changed oversight procedures in order to allow the
violations to continue. The Judiciary Committee’s findings are available
in a Majority
Staff Report
published this month.
Planned
Parenthood Mar Monte is the largest Planned Parenthood affiliate in the
nation, operating 33 facilities in California and Nevada and taking in
over $96 million annually. The four affiliates referred for prosecution
represent over $263 million in annual revenue.
“Life
Legal Defense Foundation looks forward to the confirmation of Senator
Jeff Sessions as [President Donald Trump’s] new U.S. Attorney General,”
stated the group’s executive director, Ms. Alexandra Snyder. “Senator
Sessions currently sits on the Judiciary Committee and we anticipate that
he will thoroughly investigate Planned Parenthood’s activities and prosecute
the affiliates to the fullest extent of the law.”
If not
for David Daleiden’s videos, Congress would not have initiated investigations
into Planned Parenthood’s business model that includes profiting from
the sale of fetal organs and tissues. We would not have seen firsthand
the cavalier and callous manner in which the abortion industry discusses
the dismemberment of innocent human beings.
“Daleiden’s
heroic efforts to expose the multi-billion-dollar corporate abortion industry
have not come without a great personal cost. He continues to battle four
separate lawsuits filed against him by some of the very entities that
are on the prosecution referral list,” noted Life Legal’s press statement.
Life
Legal represents David in three lawsuits filed by StemExpress, the National
Abortion Federation, and Planned Parenthood. All of the Planned Parenthood
affiliates referred for prosecution are plaintiffs in the lawsuit, as
is StemExpress. Another Planned Parenthood affiliate, PP Gulf Coast in
Texas, is also a plaintiff and was referred for prosecution by the House
Select Panel investigating Planned Parenthood’s role in the fetal tissue
trade.
While
Hillary Clinton served as the Obama administration’s Secretary of
State, Planned Parenthood, which is now in the midst of a gruesome scandal,
had gone to Mrs. Clinton with their hats in their hands requesting and
receiving millions and millions of taxpayer dollars from foreign policy
agencies over the past few years, according to a news
reports
on Thursday.
As the
nation’s top diplomat, Mrs. Clinton attacked government policies
that ban federal funding of abortion overseas. As a result, the United
States Agency for International Development (USAID), a major bureau within
the State Department, funneled upwards of $100 million to Planned Parenthood
and its international affiliates between 2010 and 2012, according to the
Government
Accountability Office
. Pro-abortion organizations received up to 20
percent of the half-billion dollars received from taxpayers unbeknownst
to the 52 percent of Americans who claim they are pro-life.
 “Mrs.
Clinton knew darn well that federal
funding of abortions
is prohibited even under Obamacare which was
passed in 2010. Yet, here we see money from the State Department —
hardly a healthcare agency — channeling money to the liberal-left’s
greatest achievement which is the killing of unborn and defenseless babies,”
said former police officer and corruption investigator Iris Aquino.
Hillary
Clinton has reportedly received close to $70,000 in campaign contributions
from Planned Parenthood and its employees. Clinton has spoken to Planned
Parenthood on a number of occasions. In 2014, Clinton was honored with
the organization’s Margaret Sanger award. One of the biggest cover
ups in U.S. history is the racism of Sanger and her ideology some compared
to 1930’s European fascism.
Also,
arguably one of the most liberal courts in the nation which is in the
city of Los Angeles gave Stem Express — which has been identified
as a company that procures body parts of aborted infants from Planned
Parenthood — a temporary injunction forbidding the release of more
videos obtained by undercover journalists from the Center for Medical
Progress. CMP had recorded conversations with Stem Express officials at
a meeting in a public restaurant during which the unborn babies’
body parts were discussed.

CHRISTIANS WARN UPCOMING “SHACK” MOVIE DEPICTING GOD AS WOMAN COULD “FAR OUTWEIGH” HARM OF THE NOVEL

 
CHRISTIANS WARN UPCOMING “SHACK” MOVIE DEPICTING GOD AS WOMAN COULD “FAR OUTWEIGH” HARM OF THE NOVEL 
BY HEATHER CLARK
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 Christian leaders who have issued warnings about William P. 
Young’s bestselling novel “The Shack,” which portrays God as a woman and
 espouses universalist beliefs, state that if the scheduled national 
film release is faithful to the text of the book, its distribution could
 “far outweigh” the harm already done to souls through the printed page.

“If the film is a faithful portrayal of the events and the
theology of the book, then every Christian should be gravely alarmed at
the further advance of beliefs that smear the evangelical understanding
of the truth of the Bible,” James B. DeYoung, author of “Burning Down the Shack: How the ‘Christian’ Bestseller is Deceiving Millions” and an acquaintance of Young, told Christian News Network.

As previously reported,
“The Shack,” released in 2007, is stated to have sold approximately 20
million copies and has been translated into 39 languages. In 2013,
Lionsgate Entertainment obtained the rights to turn the book into a
film, which is now scheduled to be released in March 2017 and is
currently being promoted nationwide.

“The Shack” tells the story of a man named Mackenzie “Mack”
Phillips who faces a crisis while on a family vacation as his youngest
daughter Missy is abducted and presumably killed in an abandoned shack.
Years later, the grieving father receives a note from “Papa,” who
tells Phillips that it has “been a while” and to meet up at the shack
the following weekend.

Reluctantly, Phillips returns to the site, where he meets
the Godhead, portrayed as what Young calls a “fat black woman,” a young
Asian woman named Sarayu, and a carpenter named Jesus. Together, they
seek to help Phillips deal with his faltering faith and to learn to
forgive.

The film features Octavia Spencer as “Papa,” who is asked
blatantly by Phillips, played by Sam Worthington, “Where were you when I
needed you?” Sumire Matsubara plays the Holy Spirit, portrayed in the
book as Sarayu.

Schimmel“Young’s
pretentious caricature of God as a heavy set, cushy, non-judgmental,
African American woman called ‘Papa’ (who resembles the New Age Oprah
Winfrey far more than the one true God revealed through the Lord Jesus
Christ—Hebrews 1:1-3), and his depiction of the Holy Spirit as a frail
Asian woman with the Hindu name, Sarayu, lends itself to a dangerous and
false image of God and idolatry,” Joe Schimmel, pastor of Blessed Hope
Chapel in Simi Valley, California and host of the documentary
“Hollywood’s War on God,” told Christian News Network.

Schimmel preached a message at his church entitled “The Shack and the Seduction of the Church,” which he is currently making available as a warning to Christians.

DeYoungDeYoung
says that he knew Young well prior to the book’s release, and
personally witnessed Young’s slide into universalism—a belief that
everyone will eventually go to Heaven, and that any punishment will only
be temporal.

“In 2004, [Young] prepared and released a 103-page document
for our M3 Forum in which he rejected his ‘evangelical paradigm’ and
embraced universal reconciliation (UR),” he explained. “He has never
renounced the particulars of universal reconciliation, [and] he refuses
to say that other world religions are in error in their assessment of
Jesus as the unique Son of God.”

Schimmel noted that Young has made similar statements in
public interviews, denying that God will pour out his wrath on
unrepentant sinners, as well as the fact that Christ took God’s wrath as
the substitutionary atonement for the wicked.

“Tragically, these heresies are reflected in the aberrant
fictional theology presented in The Shack. These are not mere trivial
matters but strike at the very heart of God’s character and the gospel
that saves our eternal souls,” he said.

Schimmel warned that such depictions, much like the children of Israel who forged a golden calf, create a god in man’s image.

“Jesus warned of a time, after His ascension, that some of
His servants would conclude that He was delaying His coming and would
also live wicked lives (Luke 12:45). Sadly, as we await our Lord’s
return from heaven, many are guilty of fashioning images of God that
they find more accommodating to their desires and chosen lifestyles and
calling these gods ‘Yahweh,’” he said.

Young encouraged Christians to ask themselves key questions about the film’s content.

“My word to the viewers of the movie ‘The Shack’ is this: If
they confess to be Christians, they should pay close attention to the
statements made by the actors and ask themselves: Does this theology
agree with the Bible and Christian doctrine? Or, is it more in line with
the old distortions of the truth that Christians have identified as
heresy as early as the Council of Constantinople in 533?” he said.
“Contrary to UR, 2,000 years of Church history cannot be wrong.”

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Thirteen Heresies in The Shack (From Joe Schimmel)

by Dr. Michael Youssef

1. God the Father was crucified with Jesus.

Because God’s eyes are pure and cannot look upon sin, the Bible says
that God would not look upon His own beloved Son as He hung on the
Cross, carrying our sins (Habakkuk 1:13; Matthew 27:45).

2. God is limited by His love and cannot practice justice.

The Bible declares that God’s love and His justice are two sides of
the same coin — equally a part of the personality and the character of
God (Isaiah 61:8; Hosea 2:19).

3. On the Cross, God forgave all of humanity, whether they repent or
not. Some choose a relationship with Him, but He forgives them all
regardless.

Jesus explained that only those who come to Him will be saved (John 14:6).

4. Hierarchical structures, whether they are in the Church or in the government, are evil.

Our God is a God of order (Job 25:2).

5. God will never judge people for their sins.

The Word of God repeatedly invites people to escape from the judgment of God by believing in Jesus Christ, His Son (Romans 2:16; 2 Timothy 4:1-3).

6. There is not a hierarchical structure in the Godhead, just a circle of unity.

The Bible says that Jesus submitted to the will of the Father. This
doesn’t mean that one Person is higher or better than the other; just
unique. Jesus said, “I came to do the will of Him who sent me. I am here
to obey my Father.” Jesus also said, “I will send you the Holy Spirit” (John 4:34, 6:44, 14:26, 15:26).

7. God submits to human wishes and choices.

Far from God submitting to us, Jesus said, “Narrow is the way that
leads to eternal life.” We are to submit to Him in all things, for His
glory and because of what He has accomplished for us (Matthew 7:13-15).

8. Justice will never take place because of love.

The Bible teaches that when God’s love is rejected, and when the
offer of salvation and forgiveness is rejected, justice must take place
or God has sent Jesus Christ to die on the cross for nothing (Matthew 12:20; Romans 3:25-26).

9. There is no such a thing as eternal judgment or torment in hell.

Jesus’ own description of hell is vivid … it cannot be denied (Luke 12:5, 16:23).

10. Jesus is walking with all people in their different journeys to God, and it doesn’t matter which way you get to Him.

Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no one will come to the Father but by me” (John 14:6).

11. Jesus is constantly being transformed along with us.

Jesus, who dwells in the splendor of heaven, sits at the right hand
of God, reigning and ruling the universe. The Bible says, “In Him there
is no change, for He is yesterday, today, and forever” (Hebrews 11:12, 13:8; James 1:17).

12. There is no need for faith or reconciliation with God because everyone will make it to heaven.

Jesus said, “Only those who believe in me will have eternal life” (John 3:15, 3:36, 5:24, 6:40).

13. The Bible is not true because it reduces God to paper.

The Bible is God-breathed. Sure, there were many men through 1,800
years who put pen to paper (so to speak), each from different
professions and different backgrounds, but the Holy Spirit infused their
work with God’s words. These men were writing the same message from
Genesis to Revelation.


 
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