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Numerous global leaders decried nationalism that is undoing
the global world order at the World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland.
Globalist leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French
President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, Indian PM
Narendra Modi, and Brazilian President Michel Temer railed against
nationalism, populism, and “protectionism” during the summit.
When asked about the rise of nationalism in Europe, Merkel called it a “poison.”
“I hope it is not going to grow, but it is a poison,” she said Wednesday.
“Germany wishes to be a country that lends its contribution in
the future to solve the problems of the world together, we think that
shutting ourselves off and isolating ourselves will not lead us into a
good future. Protectionism is not the proper answer.”
The globalists don’t want “protectionism” because it’s just
another way for nations to exercise their national sovereignty against
“globalization.”
“Let us not be naive…globalization is going through a major crisis,” Macron told the audience at the WEF.
“Everything is being fragmented. We have societies made up of
nomads. There are more and more people who think getting out of
globalization is the right option,” he added.
This rhetoric is nothing less than veiled language against nationalism, self-determination, and national sovereignty.
“We know all too well that we live in a world where isolation
trends are gaining ground, however, we all know that protectionism is
not a solution,” said Temer, who has a 6% approval rating in Brazil.
.@MichelTemer
anuncia que Brasil ha solicitado la entrada en la OCDE. Afirma que el
proteccionismo o el aislacionismo no es una solución. Muestra su apoyo a
un orden internacional basado en normas y la OMC y su compromiso con el
Acuerdo de París #wef18#Temerpic.twitter.com/BWjajRKi1B
India’s Prime Minister even claimed protectionism is worse than terrorism.
“Forces of protectionism are raising their heads against
globalization, their intention is not only to avoid globalization
themselves but they also want to reverse its natural flow,” Modi said.
“Many countries are becoming inward focused and globalization is
shrinking and such tendencies can’t be considered lesser risk than
terrorism or climate change.”
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The Trump administration imposed new sanctions Wednesday targeting North Korea’s weapons programs. A press release
from the U.S. Department of the Treasury states that “nine entities, 16
individuals, and six vessels” have been sanctioned in an attempt to
deter Pyongyang’s missile, chemical and nuclear weapons programs. “Today’s sanctions target agents of the Kim regime financing or
otherwise supporting North Korea’s WMD programs and other illicit
businesses,” the press release says. “As a result of today’s action, any
property or interests in property of the designated persons in the
possession or control of U.S. persons or within the United States must
be blocked, and U.S. persons are prohibited from dealing with any of the
designated parties.”
According to Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin, North
Koreans operating primarily in China and Russia are among the 16
individuals accused of aiding Kim Jong Un’s government.
“Treasury continues to systematically target individuals and
entities financing the Kim regime and its weapons programs, including
officials complicit in North Korean sanctions evasion schemes,” Mnuchin
said. “Pursuant to UN Security Council Resolutions, the U.S. government
is targeting illicit actors in China, Russia, and elsewhere who are
working on behalf of North Korean financial networks, and calling for
their expulsion from the territories where they reside.”
Approximately 11 representatives with Korea Ryonbong General
Corporation were named for supporting Pyongyang’s military-related sales
believed to aid, among other things, North Korea’s chemical weapons
program.
“Many of these individuals are located at Ryonbong representative
offices in China near the China-North Korean border, where they support
the regime in a variety of ways,” the press release adds.
The other 5 individuals were said to be linked to North Korea’s
financial networks while several businesses in China were sanctioned for
importing and exporting tens of millions of dollars worth of goods to
and from North Korea between 2013 and 2017.
President Trump in recent months has accused both Russia and China of helping Pyongyang skirt sanctions.
Trump in December tweeted that China had been “caught RED HANDED” after satellite imagery appeared to show Chinese vessels aiding North Korea.
Caught RED HANDED – very disappointed that China
is allowing oil to go into North Korea. There will never be a friendly
solution to the North Korea problem if this continues to happen!
DELAWARE’S ASSISTED SUICIDE BILL HB160BEING VOTED ON~
IS LIFE MORE PRECIOUS THAN MONEY?
OR IS IT CHEAPER TO KILL THAN TO CARE?
Dying patients need love, not help to kill themselves, with Michael Brescia M.D. 6/14/16
Croton-on-Hudson, New York. June 14, 2016. Dr. Brescia’s passion for
medicine comes from his exceptional sensitivity for the human
condition. Dr. Brescia’s storied career spans decades of seemingly
miraculous developments in patient care, bio-medical sciences and
technology. He is renowned for his contribution to the creation of the
Brescia-Cimino Fistula, the most common means utilized for hemodialysis
over the last 40 years, making this life saving treatment available to
millions. He was instrumental in securing full accreditation for
Calvary Hospital in the 1960s and has been the driving force behind many
of its most successful initiatives including The Palliative Care
Institute, The Center for Curative & Palliative Wound Care, and its
Hospice, Home Care, and Nursing Home Hospice. Calvary’s Inpatient
service and Outpatient Clinic are models for national and international
palliative care programs.
DR. BRESCIA
Dr. Brescia is a kidney doctor with decades of experience with treating
life-threatening illness. He has developed breakthough technologies
that took “terminal” out of thousands of people’s diagnosis. With
assisted suicide laws relying heavily on correct diagnosis and
prognosis, which are so often wrong, how can we risk a person’s life on a
guess?
Stephanie Packer was denied coverage for life saving cancer treatment but offered a prescription of Death Pills for only $1.20.
Dear John,
Imagine getting a letter from your insurance company stating that they
will cover your death pills or a “lethal jab” but not the treatment you
need to live.
…That’s exactly what happened to Stephanie Packer, who was denied coverage for life saving cancer treatment but offered a prescription of Death Pills for only $1.20.
…And Randy Stroup, a 54 year old man in Oregon who was denied treatment for prostate cancer but offered Suicide as a “palliative care” plan.
…And Barbara Wagoner of Oregon, whose insurance company decided to pay for death pills but not for the treatment needed to save her life.
Why? Because it’s cheaper to kill you than to care for you.
High-quality pain management and palliative care can be complex and certainly more expensive than the lethal dose of drugs that House Bill 160 (HB160) would legalize.
If assisted suicide is legalized in Delaware, it becomes a dangerously appealing means of medical cost control.
Dr. Callister: “As much as insurance companies want to come
across as your friend, it’s a lot cheaper to grab a couple drugs and
kill you than it is to provide life saving therapy.”
It gets worse…
HB 160 forces physicians to LIE on a patient’s death certificate so the life insurance isn’t affected.
That’s right. HB160 states that “The death certificate must list the underlying terminal illness as the cause of death,” (line 95) when in fact, assisted suicide was the cause of death. This protects physicians, not patients. HB160 offers zero accountability.
HB160 would also keep the public in the dark about the prevalence of
assisted suicide and would ensure that suicide providers operate in
secrecy with NO OVERSIGHT from any public health authority.
“Every time they ask a
physician to prognosticate on life expectancy… it’s usually
wrong.” -Dr. Bescia, Kidney Disease Expert and Co-inventor of
Cimino-Brescia Fistula Hemodialysis
HB160 makes assisted suicide a “medical
treatment” under law, using a slippery definition of “terminal disease”
that could apply to something as easily treated as diabetes.
Yes, diabetes.
By definition it’s an “incurable and irreversible disease.” which, if untreated, could lead to death within six months. HB160 does not indicate whether “incurable and irreversible” disease means a disease that can’t be treated.
A treatable disease is considered terminal? That’s a problem!
Randy Stroup, a 54 year old man in Oregon, was denied treatment for prostate cancer but offered Suicide as a “palliative care” plan.
Physicians
have a responsibility to provide life giving care. Everyone deserves to
have their dignity and worth affirmed and valued. HB160, however, in
the recently proposed amendment, fabricates a way for people with disabilities to give “informed consent” to assisted suicide if a social worker says the patient understands.
We’re talking about people who can’t legally sign a contract, decide
where they live, or make their own medical decisions – YET – if they
have a “terminal” illness, they can “choose” assisted suicide as long as
a social worker confirms that the patient “understands” the treatment.
It doesn’t even require approval of a guardian, as would corrective surgery or palliative treatment.
Life is worth protecting and defending regardless of our state of health or medical prognosis.
Life Is Worth the Fight,
Nicole Theis
President, Delaware Family Policy Council (Eph 6:13)
More Stories:
When Oregon resident, Jeanette Hall, had less than a year to
live, she asked her cancer doctor for the pills to commit suicide. Dr.
Kenneth Stevens got to know her better and inspired her to consider
treatment. The tumor just “melted away” and now — 15 years later —
Barbara Wagonner’s insurance company decided to pay for death pills but not for the treatment needed to save her life.
JJ was diagnosed with glioblastoma, the most aggressive form
of brain cancer. He fought for his wife, his son, and his life.
Born without arms, John Foppe speaks to a way of life beyond
independence, namely inter-dependence: Together we are more. Assisted
suicide sells everyone short, so in times of illness or disability, he
encourages us to “step into life!”
You don’t discourage suicide by assisting suicide. “Every
suicide is tragic – whether you’re old or young, healthy or sick, your
life is worth living,” says Luke Maxwell, 19, who survived an attempt to
take his own life.
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ROCKFORD, Ill. —A former pediatric nurse in Illinois has filed a complaint with
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) after she felt forced out
of her job when her employer allegedly told her that she could not keep her
position if she wouldn’t be willing to provide referrals for abortions and morning-
after pills.
Sandra Rojas had been working for the Winnebago County Health
Department for 18 years, when in 2015, she was informed that her unit
was being merged with women’s health under the new administration. According to Rojas, nurses were required to be trained in referring
women for abortions, and helping them obtain Plan B. When Rojas advised that the mandate conflicted with her religious
convictions, she says that she was told that she could not work at the
department without the training, and was offered a temporary job as a
food inspector. “The new administrator basically showed her the door, saying, ‘Unless
you willing to do this and participate, you can’t work here,’” attorney
Noel Sterett of the law firm Mauck & Baker told OneNewsNow.
Rojas refused the food inspector position and resigned from her job
in 2015. She filed a lawsuit against her former employer a year later,
seeking damages under the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act.
“Nursing is more than just a job; it is a noble calling to protect
life and do no harm,” Rojas, a Roman Catholic, told reporters at the
time. “There is something terribly wrong when you are forced out of your
job on account of your commitment to protect life.”
The Winnebago County Health Department disputes one of the facts in
the lawsuit, as it claimed in legal documents that Rojas had been
offered a full-time job as a nurse at River Bluff Nursing Home, but
rather chose to resign. Rojas now works at Walter Lawson Children’s Home
in Loves Park.
Sterett told the Rockford Register Star that a complaint has also now
been filed with HHS so that the department can “decide whether to open
an investigation.” “Federal law prohibits government officials from discriminating
against medical professionals who cannot in good conscience participate
in abortion,” he said in a statement on Jan. 16. “Those that compel
pro-life doctors and nurses to act contrary to their conscience should
not qualify for federal funds. We have filed this complaint to inform
the HHS of what is happening so that it can take action.”
“Pro-life nurses shouldn’t be forced to perform or assist in abortion
procedures,” also remarked Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) Legal
Counsel Denise Harle, who is serving as co-counsel in the case. “It’s
illegal, unethical, and a violation of Rojas’ rights of conscience … to
require her to participate in the taking of an innocent life. An
individual’s conscience and commitment to the Hippocratic Oath to ‘do no
harm’ is often what draws health care workers into the medical field.
We’re hopeful that the HHS will quickly resolve this injustice.” As previously reported,
HHS announced on Thursday that it is creating a new Office of Civil
Rights division focused on protecting the right of conscience and
religious freedom. “The Conscience and Religious Freedom Division has been established
to restore federal enforcement of our nation’s laws that protect the
fundamental and unalienable rights of conscience and religious freedom,”
the department said in a statement.
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HHS ANNOUNCES CREATION OF “CONSCIENCE & RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DIVISION” TO PROTECT RIGHTS OF MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS
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In this Fox article,
Edward K. Glassman, my long ago Harvard classmate, author of Dow 36,000
(predicting Dow at that level by 2005), and current director of the
George W. Bush Institute, extolls our free market medical system. The
first reader to comment agrees that we have a “ free market” system, but
thinks that “ profit based healthcare” should be “outlawed.” Another
reader thinks that we actually have “socialized medicine.”
So what do we have? I think the most apt description would be crony
capitalist medicine, one in which powerful special interests conspire
with government officials to create legally mandated monopolies, with
the specific goal of thwarting free market competition.
Here is how it actually works:
1. Most people wonder why there are no visible prices in
medicine. You only find out what the charge has been after the service
has been delivered. There actually are prices, controlled prices, but
you aren’t supposed to know what they are. Each year a committee of the
American Medical Association recommends a set of prices to Medicare. The
committee is dominated by medical specialists, so specialists tend to
do particularly well. Medicare is actually run, not by government, but
by private insurance companies, and these companies adopt these prices
for private insurance purposes as well.
Congress further sweetened this price controlled system for hospitals
by requiring Medicare to pay more for the same service if provided by
hospital employees. This has inevitably led to local hospitals buying
out most of the surrounding private medical practices, which has in turn
created local medical service monopolies that feed patients to the
hospital for its more costly services.
2. These monopolies are further sweetened for doctors by legally
barring nurses, chiropractors, four year trained naturopathic doctors,
and other health professionals from using the full extent of their
medical training. In this way, the supply of medical services is
constrained, which further raises prices.
3. Notwithstanding all the preceding, it is not the American Medical
Association, which is itself financed by a monopoly in medical coding
granted by the US government department of Health and Human Services,
nor the hospitals, nor the medical doctors as a group that actually run
the medical system. The top spot is reserved for the drug companies,
which in turn share their largesse with the AMA, doctors, medical
journals, media companies, and especially with politicians. In return,
drug companies are granted a series of powerful monopolies, monopolies
that are drive up the cost of medicine and, given the employer role in
healthcare, destroy jobs, raises, and economic opportunity as well.
First, drug companies claim a legal monopoly when they patent a drug.
The drug research may have been done by the government or by a
university using government money but it doesn’t matter. The grant of
monopoly stands.
Then the drug company takes the patented medication through the FDA
approval process ( average cost of $3 billion over what can easily be a
decade). Drug companies do not object to this ordeal, because the stiff
price both eliminates any competition from unpatentable treatments and
also flows into the salaries of FDA employees, who consequently tend to
take a friendly view of drug companies and zealously guard the legal
exclusivity of their products.
FDA enforcement includes armed raids and threats of a lifetime in
jail for any producer who makes medical claims without permission. Even
cherry and walnut growers have been threatened. The agency takes the
position that for producers to make health claims for these heavily
researched and very healthy “ superfoods,” they must first turn them
into drugs through the drug approval process.
The end result is a narrow supply of licensed drug treatments that
are often highly toxic and rarely cure anyone, both because curing the
patient would end the gravy train, and also because drug side effects
inevitably lead to the prescription of more drugs. If a treatment is
safe, effective, and cheap, it is immediately purged from the medical
system as “unapproved,” not “ standard of care,” when in effect its real
defect is that drug companies cannot make billions from it.
For example, people who have acid reflux are more often than not
suffering from a lack of stomach acid, not too much of it. The resulting
incomplete digestion is the source of the problem. They could cure it
with acid supplements costing pennies, but nobody will ever tell them
about this or suggest testing their acid production. Similarly, patients
with frightening heartbeat irregularities are rarely told that they
need more magnesium, a very cheap mineral, although they may need it in
IV or transdermal form for the same reason ( lack of stomach acid is
interfering with absorption of the mineral). Instead, reflux patients
are given expensive prescription acid blocking drugs that pose a risk to
the entire immune system, and have been linked to pneumonia, other
infections, bone loss, and many other medical calamities, while heart
patients are put on prescription blood thinners that can themselves
cause life threatening internal bleeding as well as bone loss and other
problems.
No, this is not a free market system nor anything remotely close to
one. In a genuine free market system, prices reflect the decisions of
consumers. Producers who solve significant problems are rewarded with
high prices and profits. High prices and profits in turn attract lots of
competition. The competition not only prevents monopoly. It also
improves quality and very importantly increases supply, which is the
only sustainable way to reduce prices. Consumers then get better
medicine and ever lower prices. Producers dislike competition, and
therefore try to buy government help in manipulating or fixing prices.
This is more easily accomplished in medicine, because it can all be done
under the guise of government “ protecting” consumers when actually the
consumers are being fleeced and impoverished.
There are many honest and dedicated medical professionals sincerely
devoted to the healing arts. But they are trapped in a system that can
more accurately be described as a crony capitalist nightmare.
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Republican leaders in Congress are once again plotting with
Democrats to stab the American people and the U.S. Constitution in the
back, on multiple key issues. Under the guise of getting “something” in
exchange for providing amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants (and
future Democrat voters) in Obama’s illegal Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) program, the establishment wing of the GOP is pushing a
radical longtime goal of the bipartisan Deep State: mandatory national biometric ID cards for all Americans. Privacy and liberty are under serious threat, critics warned. The Orwellian national ID scheme, known as “E-Verify,” is ostensibly
aimed at making it harder for illegal immigrants to find work in the
United States. Basically, as part of the program, which would become mandatory under the bill,
every employer would be forced to buy a scanner and use it to check the
legal work status of potential employees. On top of that, every worker
would be forced to have a biometric ID issued by the federal government
in order to be able to legally work. Without this national ID, employers
would not legally be able to hire somebody. But in reality, illegal immigrants are typically paid under the table
anyway — many of them simply work as day laborers and get paid in cash
at the end of the day. In light of that fact, the unconstitutional plot
to mandate national ID will do little to prevent unscrupulous employers
from continuing to hire illegal immigrants, off the books. What the
scheme will do, though, is force all law-abiding Americans to carry an
unconstitutional national ID with all their information on it, including
sensitive biometric data, just to be allowed to work. It will also give
the feds a key new tool to monitor and control people.
There is a reason the leadership of both parties have supported the effort for many years. Indeed, even Obama, who did his best to help the United Nations flood America with Third World immigration under various guises,
firmly supported the national ID plan, calling for a package containing
it to be sent to him so he could sign it as quickly as possible. But
now, instead of a Big Government liberal program to track Americans, the
plot is being marketed as an ostensibly “conservative” measure to
supposedly boost “border security” and limit illegal immigration.
A previous version of the scheme was actually sponsored by ultra-leftist open-borders advocate Senator Chuck Schumer
(D-N.Y.). But with the GOP in firm control now, the controversial
national ID provision most recently surfaced in the Republican-backed “Securing America’s Future” Act (H.R. 4760).
Sponsored by Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), the chairman of the
House Judiciary Committee, the bill has some 70 cosponsors less than two
weeks after being introduced. And already, organizations such as
NumbersUSA that portray themselves as pro-America, anti-amnesty are
expressing a willingness to cave on amnesty as long as the national ID
and E-Verify become law.
Unsurprisingly, the establishment media is celebrating the grand
bargain of national ID plus amnesty, too. “Republicans win with E-Verify
as it gives them cover for approving amnesty for the Dreamers with the
hard right base,” wrote Jake Novak at CNBC, as if only the “hard right”
base was opposed to amnesty (even Democrats used to publicly oppose
illegal immigration and amnesty not too many years ago). “The added plus
for the GOP is that pushing for E-Verify will prove they’re not the
slaves of their service industry corporate donors.”
Of course, Representative Goodlatte, who scores a measly 60 percent on The New American
magazine’s Freedom Index based on the constitutionality of his voting
record, did include some provisions that would likely please
conservatives. Presumably, though, those elements of the bill are
intended to be exploited as a way to pass the otherwise unpalatable
amnesty and national ID contained within the legislation.
Among the measures that would be popular with advocates of reducing
the tide of immigration is a curtailing of “chain migration.” The
process essentially allows newly naturalized citizens to bring an
unlimited number of foreign relatives to the United States. Some 10
million have arrived under the program just in the last decade, and with
the next round of amnesty, the numbers could surge even higher. Trump
and other advocates of immigration reform, as well as an overwhelming
majority of Americans, have long demanded an end to chain migration, but
to no avail.
The Goodlatte bill also ends the widely ridiculed and highly
unpopular “Diversity Lottery.” That scheme, also enormously unpopular
with Americans, randomly imports 50,000 people each year from
“underrepresented” countries, handing them a Green Card so they can move
to America if they win the “lottery.” The program came under renewed
scrutiny last year after a jihadist “Diversity Visa” winner from
Uzbekistan murdered eight people in a terrorist attack in New York.
Trump has also been highly vocal about ending the “Diversity Lottery,”
which he said should be replaced with a merit-based program.
On the flip side, the Securing America’s Future Act offers a dramatic
boost in the number of foreign workers that companies can import each
year to compete for jobs with Americans. According to an analysis of the
bill cited in media reports, the measure would increase the number of
foreign workers brought in by 45 percent, meaning 55,000 additional
immigrants each year on top of those already coming in. In all, under
the bill, the United States would still see close to a million new,
legal immigrants each year. The bill also expands the H-2C program,
allowing about a million temporary workers to come into the United
States and compete with Americans in the food and agriculture
sectors.
Finally, the Goodlatte legislation would authorize and begin funding
the construction of a physical barrier — parts of which may be an actual
wall, as promised by Trump — on the southern U.S. border with Mexico.
The relevant provisions of the bill would also increase the use of
technology and other “tactical infrastructure” on the border to help
stem the flow of illegal immigration into the United States. And, the
bill would add thousands of additional Border Patrol agents to help
bring the border area under control. However, aside from the amnesty provisions, which have prompted
outrage from Trump’s supporters who believed his campaign pledges that
there would be no amnesty, the national ID component is also drawing
fire from critics. In an e-mail to supporters and members of the
non-profit Campaign for Liberty (C4L), former congressman and GOP
presidential candidate Ron Paul sounded the alarm. The implications of
imposing a national biometric ID on Americans are extremely serious, he warned. “The statists want to control you,” Paul wrote. “Just think about it …
Gun ownership. Employment history. Family and friends. Purchasing
habits. Health records. Travel. Religious beliefs. Past political
contributions. Just imagine all these records and more on EVERY American
citizen stored in a massive national database right at a federal
government bureaucrat’s finger tips.”
“Under the statists’ National ID scheme, you’d be forced to carry
around your National ID card, tied to this massive database, chock-full
of biometric identifiers like fingerprints and retina scans,” he added.
“Without this ID, you won’t be able to legally hold a job — or likely
even open a bank account or even board a plane!” And unless the American
people rise up, the nightmarish scenario is “about to become reality,”
Paul warned.
The alleged “security” being pursued in the legislation doesn’t even
target any border, continued the former Republican congressman from
Texas who became a hero to countless conservatives, constitutionalists,
patriots, and libertarians. “Instead, it’s meant to create an all-out
police state within them,” he warned. “The truth is, this is exactly the
type of battle that often decides whether a country remains free or
continues sliding toward tyranny.” Indeed, Paul has been sounding the
alarm on this issue for years, including when Obama and a coalition of RINOs tried to ram it through. Among other concerns, Paul, also a medical doctor, suggested that it
would only be a matter of time until the rogue bureaucracies in
Washington, D.C., were using the national biometric ID regime and the
massive data collected to ensure that Americans “don’t go anywhere, read
anything, eat anything, or drink anything they think we ‘shouldn’t be
allowed to.’” And with all of Americans’ information in a convenient
government database — including potentially retina scans, finger prints,
and even the vein structure in an individual’s hands — enforcing total
tyranny would become simple. The push to force Americans to carry unconstitutional national ID
cards with biometric information comes amid a similar push at the global
level by the United Nations. As The New Americanreported in 2015, UN Agenda 2030, also known as the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),
purports to mandate that governments provide “legal identity for all,
including birth registration.” And already, the UN is working with
contractors to issue biometric identification cards and build databases
to store the information. The globalist World Bank is also plotting to foist biometric identification systems on humanity. And both globalist organizations are leading the drive toward a “cashless society.”
With as many as 30 million illegal immigrants in America, dealing
with illegal immigration is essential to the nation’s future. As the
Obama administration and the UN have all made clear, importing millions Third World immigrants with alien cultures and values is crucial to “fundamentally transforming” the United States. It is also key to breaking down the nation-state and what remains of Western civilization and Christendom, national leaders have explained.
However, the schemes being discussed in Congress not only do not deal
with the problem, they provide amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants
in exchange for a totalitarian and unconstitutional national ID scheme.
Obviously, that is not going to cut it as far as Trump supporters and
Republican voters are concerned.
For the sake of liberty and the Constitution, Americans must press
Congress to go back to the drawing board and start over — using the
Constitution, common sense, and the “America First” principles
articulated by President Trump as their guide.
Related articles: Globalists and UN Push Mandatory Biometric ID for All Congress Pushes Obama-backed National Biometric ID for Americans “Smart Cities” to Spy on You in Ways Orwell Never Imagined Orwellian Nightmare: Data-mining Your Kids Biometric ID Scheme for 1.2 Billion Indians Meets Resistance Will Microchip Implants in Humans Become Mandatory? U.S. Military Seeking Implantable Microchips in Soldiers Obama & Co. Want National Biometric ID Obama’s Internet ID Plot Being Tested in Two States Candidate for Fla. Governor Gets Self Arrested to Fight REAL ID Ohio Refuses to Enforce REAL ID Standards UN Agenda 2030: A Recipe for Global Socialism Hungarian PM: Mass Migration a Plot to Destroy Christian West UN, Socialist International, Obama Design U.S. Refugee Resettlement
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E-Verify: Biometric National ID Masked As Immigration Control
The E-Verify mandate that the GOP is pushing as an immigration solution
is actually a biometric National ID card. Dreamers get a pass,
Americans get a National ID and controls on movement & employment.
It’s HR4760 “Securing America’s Future Act of 2018 “
GOP Offers “Work Control” E-Verify
Instead of Border Security
Welfare will remain a right, but work will be a privilege granted by the
federal government if the GOP rams through E-Verify as a compromise.
“Work Control” will fail for the same reasons “Gun Control” has failed.
Michael Savage – NO national ID Card – Slams Sen. Schumer and Bill O’Reilly –
“Over My Dead Body”
The Senate is working toward a ghastly compromise on immigration reform
that includes a biometric national identification card for all
Americans. The stated purpose of this national ID, which an employee
must present before getting a job, is to prevent undocumented workers
from being employed. Back in December I warned that a national ID is the
inevitable conclusion of the anti-immigration movement. The failure of
E-Verify to catch 54% of undocumented workers is only accelerating the
call for a national ID.
A national ID hurts American workers while pretending to help them.
First, every worker would have to ask permission from the federal
government to get a job. American workers shouldnt have to beg or plead
to anybody to get permission to work. Being employed should be a private
agreement between an employer and employee. Period. The government
should get out of the way.
Second, carrying around government papers with biometric identification
on it conjures up images of a more technologically savvy Oceania or East
Germany. No thanks.
Third, the system will exclude millions of legal workers by accident and
fail to catch the majority of undocumented immigrants. For instance, if
E-Verify were instituted nation-wide 3.6 million Americans would be
denied employment each year and have to visit the Social Security
Administration to correct their records. The employer either fires them
or delays training. Will a biometric ID card make this system better?
How does that help American workers?
Fourth, it will cost businesses up to $800 to buy a scanner. Or as
Senator Chuck Schumer says, employers can just go down to the DMV.
Senator Schumer doesnt know squat about running a business. The last
thing an employer wants to do is spend time at the DMV when he could be
spending it improving his business. And all this during an economic
slump!
Fifth, it would treat every American like a criminal by requiring them
to enter their most intimate and personal data into a government
database. One of the benefits of not having committed any crimes is that
my information is not in a government record office. Id like to keep it
that way.
Caller: National ID Control Grid Already Here
Caller “goattree” says look at the back of your driver’s license. And
its about to get worse with Smart Cities, 5G, driverless cars, and a
National biometric ID to “stop undocumented workers”
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From FreedomProject Media: Despite blasting federal overreach in education and making
other statements sure to delight conservatives and constitutionalists,
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos continued to mislead Americans on
Common Core last week. Indeed, despite the dumbed-down national
standards still being in place in almost every state, DeVos (shown)
falsely claimed that Common Core was “dead” at the Department of
Education.
After going over the history and how the Obama administration bribed
state governments to impose Common Core, DeVos noted that education
performance did not improve. “Then, rightly, came the public backlash to
federally imposed tests and the Common Core,” she said in a speech
titled “Bush-Obama School Reform: Lessons Learned” last week. “I agree —
and have always agreed — with President Trump on this: ‘Common Core is a
disaster.’ And at the U.S. Department of Education, Common Core is
dead.” Except it’s not dead. In fact, like Frankenstein, the Common Core
zombie marches onward, eating out the brains of millions of
government-school victims — all with help, approval, funding, and
support from the federal Leviathan behind the curtain. So, while DeVos’
speech publicly lambasting the havoc unleashed by the feds in education
sounded great, it does not come close to reflecting reality.
In the real world, under ESSA, GOP leaders and Congress conspired to
give the Education Secretary the power to approve or deny states’
standards — an idea even more unconstitutional than the Department of
Education itself. In any case, Common Core standards and minor
variations on them are all being rubber-stamped by DeVos’ Education
Department, just as Obama and his co-conspirators intended when they
created ESSA and purported to mandate “college- and career-ready”
standards (read: Common Core). To read the rest of the article, click here. ________________________________________________________
Betsy DeVos Falsely Claims Common Core is Dead Alex Newman & Dr. Duke Pesta Expose
Published on Jan 24, 2018
Despite
blasting federal overreach in education and making other statements
sure to delight conservatives and constitutionalists, U.S. Education
Secretary Betsy DeVos continued to mislead Americans on Common Core last
week. Indeed, despite the dumbed-down national standards still being in
place in almost every state, DeVos falsely claimed that Common Core was
“dead” at the Department of Education.
After going over the
history and how the Obama administration bribed state governments to
impose Common Core, DeVos noted that education performance did not
improve. “Then, rightly, came the public backlash to federally imposed
tests and the Common Core,” she said in a speech titled “Bush-Obama
School Reform: Lessons Learned” last week. “I agree — and have always
agreed — with President Trump on this: ‘Common Core is a disaster.’ And
at the U.S. Department of Education, Common Core is dead.” | Article: http://bit.ly/2rDyDD7
April 27, 2017: What happened to Common Core? On Monday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos
said that Common Core is dead: “There’s isn’t really any Common Core
anymore, and each state is able to set the standards for their state,”
Ms. DeVos said on Fox News. “They may elect to adopt very high standards
for their students to aspire to and to work toward. And that will be up
to each state.”
Conservatives Erupt over Betsy DeVos Announcement: ‘Common Core Is Dead’
FACEBOOK, GOOGLE & TWITTER WORK WITH COMMUNIST CHINA TO CREATE
“GLOBAL SOCIAL SCORE”
Published on Jan 22, 2018
Alex
Jones exposes how major American social media sites are working with
Communist China to create a social score ranking system that will
dictate your place in a surreal, socialist utopia.
Google’s mob “tolerance” encouraged “crowd-sourced harassment” to condemn employees
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(Natural News) Earlier
this week, former Google employee James Damore filed a lawsuit against
his former employer on the grounds that the company, among other things,
is extremely hostile towards white heterosexual males. There are a
number of notable allegations made
in the lawsuit, but perhaps the most significant one has to do with
Google’s habit of encouraging employees to enforce unwritten norms by
specifically targeting and harassing those who break away from them.
“[Google] relies on crowdsourced harassment and ‘pecking’ to enforce
social norms (including politics) that it feels it cannot write directly
into its policies,” the lawsuit states. If this is true, then Google
could be in a whole lot of trouble. Harassment in the workplace is
already a serious matter, but a company that encourages its employees to
harasses others based on their political beliefs is on an entirely
different level.
But this is only the beginning. According to the lawsuit, Damore’s
memo that he published last year criticizing Google prompted another
employee to step forward and post the following quote: “I’m a queer-ass
nonbinary trans person that is fucking sick and tired of being told to
open a dialogue with people who want me dead. We are at a point where
the dialogue we need to be having with these people is ‘if you keep
talking about this shit, I will hurt you.”
In 2015, Google manager Adam Fletcher wrote that he would “never,
ever hire/transfer” conservatives that he considers to be holding
hostile points of views. Fletcher added that he would refuse to hire
individuals with right-leaning viewpoints even if they were a perfect
fit for the company or if the decision not to hire him or her impacted
the rest of the Google team. To conclude his hostile, anti-conservative
rant, Fletcher stated that “there are always social consequences.”
(Related: Google insiders have warned that “outright censorship” of the Internet is Google’s top priority.)
Google employees have even discussed the election of President Donald
Trump and what they intend to do about it. “Get in touch with your
friendly local Antifa,” one employee advised another. “I won’t say
violence has no place, but if you are going to be doing anything risky, I
can’t overemphasize” the importance of working with people thinking
about the same kinds of scenarios. “We are only powerful if we
organize,” the Google employee said.
Clearly, there are a lot of things that go on behind closed doors at
Google that we would never have known about had James Damore decided
against filing a lawsuit. But as terrible as these allegations are,
Google’s blatant anti-conservative bias is on full display not only
within the company, but outside of it as well.
To give just one example out of the dozens that currently exist, last year, the conservative educational website PragerU filed a lawsuit against Google,
claiming that the company censors its content on YouTube because of the
fact that their videos tend to be more conservative than liberal. For
those who are unaware, Google has owned YouTube since November of 2006.
PragerU has claimed that more than 30 of its YouTube videos have been
labeled as “inappropriate,” even though they are all highly educational
and based entirely on facts. Nevertheless, YouTube’s attempts to
suppress PragerU’s content have resulted in the company not being able
to collect ad revenue, as well as some users with certain parental
settings not being able to watch. (Related: Google blacklisted Natural News and removed an astonishing 140,000 pages from its index.)
Google is proving to the entire world that they are not only against
people with conservative points of view, but that they are also against
the freedom of speech and the First Amendment. They are attacking our
liberty on multiple different levels, and conservatives need to speak
out against it in order to put this political censorship to an end once
and for all.
Read Intolerance.news for more coverage of left-wing discrimination, oppression and intolerance.
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WASHINGTON —The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has
rescinded an Obama-era rule that banned states from excluding the abortion
giant Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid program.
“HHS’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is issuing
new guidance to state Medicaid directors restoring state flexibility to
decide program standards. The letter issued today rescinds 2016 guidance
that specifically restricted states’ ability to take certain actions
against family-planning providers that offer abortion services,” HHS
outlined in a press release on Friday.
As previously reported,
in September 2016, the HHS issued a notice of proposed rulemaking,
advising that intended to amend the Code of Federal Regulations to read,
“No recipient making sub-awards for the provision of services as part of
its Title X project may prohibit an entity from participating for
reasons unrelated to its ability to provide services effectively.”
Title X was enacted in 1970 under the Public Health Service Act and
authorizes the Office of Population Affairs to oversee the disbursement
of federal funds for the purpose of assisting organizations that offer
“family planning” services. States distribute the capital to
reproductive and women’s health organizations as they see fit.
In recent years, a number of states have sought to defund the
abortion giant Planned Parenthood after granting the organization funds
for years, stating that they do not wish to assist groups that provide
abortion services, even if the funds will not be directly used for
abortion.
But the Obama administration contended that stripping abortion
facilities of funding results in undesired births, and that such
locations are important because they provide contraceptives.
“Reducing access to Title X services has many adverse effects. Title X
services have a dramatic effect on the number of unintended pregnancies
and births in the United States,” HHS said at the time. “For example,
services provided by Title X-funded sites helped prevent an estimated 1
million unintended pregnancies in 2010 which would have resulted in an
estimated 501,000 unplanned births.”
It finalized the rule in December 2016. Planned Parenthood decried this week’s move by the Trump
administration to restore the status quo prior to what it was before the
Obama-era prohibition. “The law is clear: it is illegal to bar women from seeking care at
Planned Parenthood. Long-standing protections within Medicaid safeguard
every person’s right to access care at their qualified provider of
choice,” Dawn Laguens, the executive vice president for the Planned
Parenthood Action Fund, said in a statement. Religious freedom advocacy groups, however, applauded the move as being commendable.
“Medicaid dollars should go to local community health centers serving
women—not the scandal-ridden billion-dollar abortion industry. In
contrast to the Obama administration’s policy designed to reward the Big
Abortion lobby, this rule empowers state legislatures to allocate
Medicaid funding for women’s health,” Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF)
legal counsel Elissa Graves said in a statement.
HHS also explained that its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is
similarly rolling out a proposed rule to enforce 25 conscience
protections already enshrined in law, which pertain to medical
professionals who object to participating in abortions, sterilizations
or physician-assisted suicide.
“America’s doctors and nurses are dedicated to saving lives and
should not be bullied out of the practice of medicine simply because
they object to performing abortions against their conscience,” OCR
Director Roger Severino said in a statement. “Conscience protection is a
civil right guaranteed by laws that too often haven’t been enforced.”
“Today’s proposed rule will provide our new Conscience and Religious
Freedom Division with enforcement tools that will make sure our
conscience laws are not empty words on paper, but guarantees of justice
to victims of unlawful discrimination,” he remarked.
As previously reported,
HHS likewise announced on Thursday that it is creating a new OCR
division focused on protecting the right of conscience and religious
freedom.
“The Conscience and Religious Freedom Division has been established
to restore federal enforcement of our nation’s laws that protect the
fundamental and unalienable rights of conscience and religious freedom,”
the department said in a statement.
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FORT WORTH, Texas —Prosperity preacher Kenneth Copeland recently
acquired a Gulfstream V private jet, which his staff says is “debt free” because
of the donations of his followers. The announcement has drawn both applause
and outrage.
Copeland’s organization announced on Jan. 12 that the 81-year-old took possession of the jet, which he purchased from actor, comedian and gospel songwriter Tyler Perry. “[T]he Holy Spirit confirmed to Brother Copeland that the Gulfstream V was the plane the Lord had set aside for KCM,” claimed Charlie Bollinger, who identified as a volunteer Elite CX Team Leader. “Right away discussions began, and Brother Copeland developed a wonderful personal relationship with the seller, Christian businessman and moviemaker Tyler Perry.”
“Soon a contract was signed, a cash deposit was paid, and the aircraft was brought to Dallas for a very thorough pre-buy inspection process, which [was] wrapped up in November,” he continued. “And praise God, it was actually during Thanksgiving week that the purchase was completed, the title was signed, and thanks to the CX Team, the cash was in the bank to mark it paid in full!”
The Elite CX Team is a group of Copeland supporters who purpose to assist the prosperity preacher financially with his stated projects. Copeland points to a 2002 “prophecy” given by friend Keith Moore of Faith Life Church in Branson, who stated that the Lord was going to raise up wealthy supporters to back Copeland.
“Thus saith the Lord: I am rallying and raising up support to you. It will far surpass all you have previously seen or known,” Moore said. “I’m joining to you new partners who are very strong financially, and they will obey Me. I’m prospering your longtime partners with supernatural increase and they will obey Me.”
Copeland opined in a video posted to YouTube that he believed that the prophecy was coming to pass with the purchase of the Gulfstream V.
While it is unclear as to how much was paid for the jet, Bollinger notes that another $2.5 million is desired to upgrade the avionics in light of soon-coming FAA standards, and that the ultimate goal is to raise $17 million, which will include constructing a hanger for the plane.
“[E]arlier this year when the CX leadership team met to pray and hear from the Lord, the word we heard was harvest. Yes, harvest, harvest, harvest!” he wrote. “The Lord reminded us that, through our CX Team giving, together we have sown into KCM a Citation X, a state-of-the-art HD TV truck, and now we’ve sown a Gulfstream V—all of which are producing a bountiful harvest for every single team member.”
As previously reported, in 2015, Copeland asserted on his television broadcast, “The Believer’s Voice of Victory,” that he flies on a private jet to avoid being bothered by “demon” passengers.
“Oral [Roberts] used to fly airlines,” he said. “But even back then it got to the place where it was agitating his spirit—people coming up to him, he had become famous, and they wanted him to pray for them and all that. You can’t manage that today [in] this dope-filled world, and get in a long tube with a bunch of demons. And it’s deadly.”
While he said that he didn’t want to fly with a “bunch of demons,” moments later, Copeland contended that he needed a private jet to help reach the lost.
“We’re in soul business here. We’ve got a dying world around us. We’ve got a dying nation around us,” Copeland proclaimed. “We can’t even get there on the airlines.”
Last month, in the midst of a series on “supernatural wealth transfer,” his organization posted to social media the exhortation to make the faith confessions, “The wealth of the sinner comes to me now,” “The Lord is increasing me more and more,” and “I call in the harvest on every seed sown.”
The announcement of the purchase of the Gulfstream V has generated mixed reaction, with some praising God for the plane and others lamenting that the money was not used to help the poor and hungry.
“My Father God is raising me to become like the Elite CX Team partners, moving His kingdom forward through prosperity. Hallelujah!” one commenter wrote.
“I am so happy it is here. I know God is going to use you and the plane to bless so many people. I am praying and believing for finances for the hanger and the runway,” another stated.
“Reminds me of the man who said, ‘I will pull down my barns and build bigger ones,’” a third wrote, referring to Christ’s words in Luke 12. “And, oh yes, whilst half the world goes to sleep each night with an empty stomach. Keep on your blindfolds all you gullible people who give to this scam. What a shame.”
“So somehow sowing the Gospel of Christ crucified and reaping a harvest of righteousness has become sowing money into an organization and reaping a harvest of sweet vehicles for said organization and its leader?” another asked. Jesus said in Luke 12:15, “Take heed, and beware of covetousness, for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.”
‘Prosperity Preacher’ Kenneth Copeland
giggles over GV plane:
Controversial televangelist Kenneth Copeland was all smiles on the tarmac near his Fort Worth, Texas mega church as he took delivery of his new $3million Gulfstream V private jet. ‘This is a big deal, this is a big plane’ he says in a video posted on his ministry’s website, before grinning into the lens and asking viewers, ‘do you see this? do you see this? I hope so, you bought it. You and Jesus.’ Copeland, who is the head of the Kenneth Copeland Ministries and has his own TV show, bought the jet off Tyler Perry. The Gulfstream V, also known as the GV (pronounced Gee Five), introduced in 1997, was one of the first long range private jets. It can travel up to 6,000 miles without refueling. It is also fast. But the speed and range come with a pricetag, the GV can start with a base price of $3,700,000, but custom upgrades cost in the tens of millions.The most popular GV carries 14 passengers comfortably, that has club style seatingfor 4 in the front, 2 more club seats and a couch in the middle and then four more seats in a ‘conference’ set up in the rear of the plane. This configuration also carries a crew of four other GV owners include actors Jim Carrey and John Travolta, as well as rapper Soulja Boy. In a thank you note posted with the video, a follower writes, ‘First, the Holy Spirit confirmed to Brother Copeland that the Gulfstream V was the plane the Lord had set aside for KCM. Right away discussions began, and Brother Copeland developed a wonderful personal relationship with the seller, Christian businessman and movie-maker Tyler Perry. ‘Dressed in a bomber jacket, Copeland prays on the video, chuckling as he thanks God for the ‘partners’ (as he calls church members) who followed him and paid for the plane.He and his wife Gloria tour the interior and pose for photos. The video ends with a bible passage.Kenneth Copeland isn’t the first mega minister to ask his flock to pay for a private plane. In 2015, Reverend Creflo Dollar raised funds to buy a $70million G650. At first his request for $300 donation from each follower was met with outrage. Later the church decided that the plane was necessary for Creflo’s ministry work. And in 2016, Copeland and fellow televangelist Jesse Duplantis defended their use of private planes on Copeland’s TV show ‘Believer’s Voice of Victory’.On that show Copeland called flying commercial getting in ‘a long tube with a bunch of demons’.Copeland made headlines in 2013 when an outbreak of measles at the flagship Eagle Mountain mega church near Fort Worth Texas threatened the whole congregation.In public appearances and on his TV shows Copeland questioned the value of vaccinations, citing links to autism.Copeland won’t be flying his G5 just yet though, because it needs about $2.5million worth of upgrades before it is ready.Then the church is trying to raise another $17million for ‘the construction of a new hangar, upgrading the existing runway, and purchasing special GV maintenance equipment’. AutoNews- Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic…
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Surah al-Fath is the 48th chapter of the Qur’an. It promises Muslims
who wage jihad much material reward: “Allah has promised you much booty
that you will take and has hastened for you this and withheld the hands
of people from you – that it may be a sign for the believers and He may
guide you to a straight path” (48:20).
It also contains this command:”Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah;
and those with him are ruthless against the unbelievers, merciful among
themselves” (48:29).
This is the message that the Turkish government is giving to its
soldiers as it sends them against the Kurds. It’s interesting in light
of the fact that Islamic apologists in the West routinely insist that
such verses apply only to seventh-century situations, and not to today
in any way, shape or form. The Diyanet didn’t get the memo.
“‘Conquest’ prayers performed across Turkey’s mosques for Afrin operation,” Hürriyet Daily News, January 21, 2018:
Special “conquest” prayers were held across all of
Turkey’s 90,000 mosques on Jan. 20 and Jan. 21 for the victory of the
country’s military, which launched a cross border operation in Syria’s
northwestern Afrin region on Jan. 20 against the Syrian Kurdish People’s
Protection Units (YPG).
“Sessions will be held after the isha prayer tonight [Jan. 20] and
the morning prayer [on Jan. 21] due to Operation Olive Branch,” said
Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) head Ali Erbas in a message sent
on Jan. 20 to all offices of muftis and religious officials across the
country.
“The Surah Conquest [Surah al-Fath] will be cited during the special
sessions to pray for the victory of our heroic security forces, who have
launched an operation against terrorist groups that threaten our nation
and our peace,” Erbaş added….
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This is not about cutting food money, contrary to the lies of Husam Zumlot and others. The UNRWA has multiple links to jihad terror. It is a viciously corrupt and dishonest organization,
bent on enabling the jihad against Israel and willing to lie brazenly
in the process. Every penny of U.S. aid should be withheld from the
UNRWA, permanently.
“US State Department withholds additional $45 million from UNRWA,” Times of Israel, January 19, 2018:
The United States will not provide $45 million that it
had pledged last month to the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees,
Reuters reported a State Department spokesman as saying Thursday. The announcement came days after Washington withheld a separate $65
million, arguing that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) needed a “fundamental re-examination.” The money was meant for food aid as part of the West Bank/Gaza Emergency Appeal led by UNRWA last month.
The funds had originally been pledged by State Department Comptroller
Eric Hembree in a December 15 letter to UNRWA Commissioner-General
Pierre Krähenbühl, Reuters said.
“The United States plans to make this funding available to UNRWA in
early 2018,” the letter said. “An additional letter and contribution
package confirming this contribution will be sent by or before early
January 2018.” Explaining the decision to withhold the cash, State Department
spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters Thursday that the $45 million
was not a guarantee. “At this time, we will not be providing that, but that does not mean —
I want to make it clear — that does not mean that it will not be
provided in the future,” Nauert said.
“Money coming in from other countries needs to increase as well to
continue paying for all those refugees,” she said, adding that the UN
agency needed to reform.
On Wednesday, Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit charged that the US
decision to freeze the funding was aimed at wiping out the whole issue
of Palestinian refugees.
“This decision affects the education and health of Palestinians and
aims to eradicate the question of refugees,” Gheit said at a conference
in Cairo about Jerusalem.
Washington is the largest contributor to the UN agency. UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness warned Wednesday that “this
dramatically reduced contribution results in the most severe funding
crisis in the history of the agency.” Hanan Ashrawi, a senior member of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, said the freeze amounted to “cruelty” toward an “innocent
and vulnerable population.” The Palestinian envoy to Washington, Husam Zomlot, said, “Palestinian
refugees and children’s access to basic humanitarian services, such as
food, health care and education, is not a bargaining chip but a US and
international obligation.”…
Democrats admit that they need the 3.6Million “Dreamers” plus extended
family or they won’t have a future. In “Sanctuary State” California,
police are refusing to enforce immigration and the California Attorney
General is threatening employers with up to $10,000 fines for
cooperating with ICE. DACA is NOT a law and the fraud has implications
for the future of America.
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra discusses reports
that wide-spread federal immigration raids may be planned soon in
Northern California, at a news conference Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018, in
Sacramento, Calif. Becerra warned employers that they must comply with a
new California law that limits their cooperation with immigration
officials.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra warned employers Thursday
of legal repercussions if they assist federal immigration officials in
an impending crackdown in the sanctuary state, The Sacramento Bee
reported.
Under a new state law – the Immigration Worker Protection Act –
employers and businesses could face fines of up to $10,000 if they
provide employee information to U.S. Immigration Customs, Becerra said. Read more
57.9% of Illegals Caught at U.S.-Mexico Border in FY17 Not Mexican; From 111 Other Countries
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(CNSNews.com) – Only 42.1 percent of the “deportable aliens” that the
U.S. Border Patrol apprehended along the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal
2017 were citizens of Mexico, according to data collected by U.S.
Customs and Border Protection. A significant majority—57.9 percent—came from 111 other countries.
In
fact, during fiscal year 2017, the Border Patrol apprehended deportable
aliens along the U.S.-Mexico border who came from 84 countries that are
not in the Americas.
In fiscal 2017, according to U.S. Customs
and Border Protection, the Border Patrol apprehended a total of 310,531
“deportable aliens” in all 20 Border Patrol sectors. (These include nine
sectors along the Southwest Border with Mexico, eight along the
Northern Border with Canada, and three along the nation’s Coastal
Border.)
Of the total 310,531 “deportable aliens” the Border
Patrol apprehended, 303,916 (or about 97.9 percent) were apprehended in
the nine sectors along the Southwest Border with Mexico.
Of these
303,916 deportable aliens apprehended along the Southwest Border,
175,978 (or 57.9 percent) were citizens of countries other than Mexico
and 127,938 (or 42.1 percent) were citizens of Mexico.
The top
three countries that ranked after Mexico for having their citizens
apprehended as deportable aliens along the U.S.-Mexico border were
Central American countries. These were Guatemala (65,871), El Salvador
(49,760) and Honduras (47,260), which ranked second, third and fourth.
But India ranked fifth.
In fiscal 2017, the Border Patrol apprehended along the Southwest Border 2,963 deportable aliens who were citizens of India.
In
fact, the Border Patrol apprehended more citizens of India in its nine
sectors along the U.S.-Mexico border than citizens of Brazil (2,621) or
Ecuador (1,429), which ranked sixth and seventh for having deportable
aliens apprehended on the Southwest Border.
The Peoples Republic
of China ranked eighth, with the Border Patrol apprehending 1,364
Chinese citizens along the Southwest Border in fiscal 2017.
That
put China ahead of Nicaragua, which ranked ninth. The Border Patrol
apprehended 1,057 Nicaraguans along the Southwest Border in fiscal 2017.
Among
the Top 41 countries whose citizens were apprehended by the Border
Patrol along the Southwest Border, 21 were not in the Americas.
In
addition to India (2,943) and China (1,364), these included Nepal
(647), Bangladesh (564), Romania (433), Pakistan (224), Albania (49),
Vietnam (49), Somalia (48), Sri Lanka (48), Kosovo (45), Turkey (35),
Nigeria (28), Ghana (14), Afghanistan (14), Saudi Arabia (14), Israel
(11), Jordan (10), South Korea (10), France (9), and Hungary (9).
Notably,
the deportable aliens from Nepal (647), Bangladesh (564), Romania (433)
and Pakistan (224) that the Border Patrol apprehended along the
Southwest border in fiscal 2017 exceeded those apprehended from Columbia
(196), Dominican Republic (181), Cuba (147), Venezuela (73) and Haiti
(57).
Additionally, the Border Patrol apprehended deportable
aliens who are citizens of nations outside the Americas more often at
the U.S.-Mexico border than at the Northern Border or the Coastal
Border.
For example, while the Border Patrol apprehended 2,943
Indian citizens at the Southwest Border, it apprehended only 168 at the
Northern Border, and 24 at the Coastal Border. Similarly, the Border
Patrol apprehended 1,364 Chinese citizens at the Southwest Border, but
only 32 at the Northern Border and 17 at the Coastal Border.
The
Border Patrol apprehended 647 Nepalese at the Southwest Border, but
only 1 at the Northern Border and none at the Coastal Border. It
apprehended 564 Bangladeshis at the Southwest Border, but only 9 at the
Northern Border, and 1 at the Coastal Border.
The Border Patrol
apprehended 433 Romanians at the Southwest Border, but only 13 at the
Northern Border and only 4 at the Coastal Border. It apprehended 224
Pakistanis at the Southwest Border, but only 9 at the Northern Border
and none at the Coastal Border.
According to the Department of
Homeland Security an apprehension is: “The arrest of a removable alien
by the Department of Homeland Security. Each apprehension of the same
alien in a fiscal year is counted separately.”
According to DHS,
the term “deportable aliens” includes “any alien illegally in the United
States, regardless of whether the alien entered the country by fraud or
misrepresentation or entered legally but subsequently lost legal
status.”
“Grenell, who was nominated to be the ambassador to Germany in September 2017, will be the highest-rankingopenly gay government official in US history, reporting directly to the Secretary of State, if his position is confirmed by the Senate.”
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“I send my congratulations to the Log Cabin Republicans on the celebration of your 40th anniversary,” wrote President Trump in his letter to the LGBT Republican group. “We are a Nation founded on the undeniable truth that all of us are created equal. We are equal in the eyes of our Creator. We are equal under the law. And we are all equal under our Constitution.” “No matter the color of our skin or our sexual orientation, we all live under the same laws, salute the same great American flag, and are made in the image of the same Almighty God. As we write the next great chapter of our Nation, we reaffirm our commitment to these fundamental truths and will work to ensure that all Americans live in a country where they feel safe and where their opportunities are limitless,” the president concluded. “Melania joins me in sending our best wishes during this special milestone.” A picture of the letter was posted to the Log Cabin Republicans’ official Twitter account on Wednesday, while Richard Grenell, President Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Germany, announced on Twitter that he’s “waited a long time to have a GOP President with this kind of leadership.” Grenell, who was nominated to be the ambassador to Germany in September 2017, will be the highest-rankingopenly gay government official in US history, reporting directly to the Secretary of State, if his position is confirmed by the Senate. __________________________________________________
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WASHINGTON —The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
announced on Thursday the creation of a new division in its Office for Civil Rights
(OCR) focused on protecting the right of conscience and religious freedom.
“The Conscience and Religious Freedom Division has been established
to restore federal enforcement of our nation’s laws that protect the
fundamental and unalienable rights of conscience and religious freedom,”
the department said in a statement.
“The creation of the new division will provide HHS with the focus it
needs to more vigorously and effectively enforce existing laws
protecting the rights of conscience and religious freedom, the first
freedom protected in the Bill of Rights,” it added.
The protections most likely pertain to those who have objections to
participating in abortions and those who have religious convictions
about “gender reassignment” treatments and procedures. The division
would enforce existing laws, such as the Church, Coats-Snowe and Weldon
Amendments.
As previously reported,
in August 2016, a number of states, as well as the Christian Medical
and Dental Association, filed suit against HHS under the Obama
administration after it released a rule that was perceived as requiring
any doctor who accepts Medicare or Medicaid to provide “transgender”
related services regardless of their religious objections. Services
would include hormone replacement, mastectomies and hysterectomies. A federal judge halted the enforcement of the rule,
writing, “Plaintiffs will be forced to either violate their religious
beliefs or maintain their current policies which seem to be in direct
conflict with the rule and risk the severe consequences of enforcement.”
Roger Severino, the director of OCR, stated on Thursday that his
office would investigate any complaint surrounding the violation of the
conscience rights of medical professionals. He advised that there had
been 34 complaints submitted since the election, and that the creation
of the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division was the result of last May’s executive order from President Trump.
“Federal law protects the freedom of Americans and their
organizations to exercise religion and participate fully in civic life
without undue interference by the federal government. The executive
branch will honor and enforce those protections,” the order read in part.
Abortion advocacy groups and others decried the news, asserting that
the move was a step backward for the nation and that it legalized
discrimination.
“This announcement marks the Trump administration’s latest step
toward turning the Department of Health and Human Services into a place
where backwards ideology rules, and science, ethics, and concern for the
well-being of all Americans are non-existent,” Ilyse Hogue, president
of NARAL Pro-Choice America, said in a statement. “This administration has taken a very expansive view of religious
liberty,” Louise Melling of the ACLU also told NPR. “It understands
religious liberty to override anti-discrimination principles.”
However, during an event on Thursday announcing the new HHS
division, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-CA, opined that the
protection of religious freedom was a step in the right direction,
noting that under the Obama administration, people of faith were
expected to conform to the government’s views.
“This department’s silent refusal to defend our rights sent a very
clear message: Now is not the time for freedom. It is time for you to
conform,’” he said, speaking of the HHS under Obama. “What a difference
one year makes.”
Sen. James Lankford, R-OK, also noted that the First Amendment right
to free exercise of religion is misunderstood as some wrongly believe it
only pertains to worshiping in a church building.
“It’s the ability to have a faith and live your faith wherever you
are,” he explained. “If you have a faith and you can only practice it in
your certain place of worship, you don’t have real religious freedom.”
“Laws protecting religious freedom and conscience rights are just
empty words on paper if they aren’t enforced,” Severino also said in the
press release. “No one should be forced to choose between helping sick
people and living by one’s deepest moral or religious convictions, and
the new division will help guarantee that victims of unlawful
discrimination find justice.”
“For too long, governments big and small have treated conscience
claims with hostility instead of protection, but change is coming and it
begins here and now.”
Trump Becomes First President To Speak At A March For Life Rally in 45 Years Alex Jones presents video footage of President Trump speaking in
Washington D.C. at the 45th annual March For Life Rally, fulfilling yet
another one of his many campaign promises.
President Trump addresses March for Life Participants and Pro Life Leaders Jan 19, 2018 In the White House Rose Garden
Lawmakers and academics in the Lone Star State are on edge after the
mass-murdering Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was exposed trying to buy
influence and shape the narrative at the University of Texas and other
American educational institutions. Indeed, operating through front
groups, the regime in Beijing is now making its influence felt in
education worldwide. Critics say it must be exposed and stopped. The latest shoe to drop in the controversy over Communist Chinese
infiltration of U.S. schools came last week. Under pressure from
lawmakers and pro-liberty voices, the University of Texas at Austin announced that
it would not be accepting funding from the CCP-linked “China-United
States Exchange Foundation,” a registered foreign agent known for trying
to spread the murderous regime’s propaganda.
In a letter to Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), UT-Austin President Greg
Fenves vowed that the school would “ensure that the receipt of outside
funding does not create potential conflicts of interest or place limits
on academic freedom and the robust exchange of ideas.” Fenves expressed
concerns that accepting funds from the CUSEF would, indeed, limit
academic freedom and ideas.
In fact, even before lawmakers got involved, the CUSEF was already
under fire by university faculty for its role in promoting Communist
Chinese propaganda on campus at an event in November. And the outfit is
funded by “a high-ranking Chinese government official with close ties to
a sprawling Chinese Communist Party apparatus that handles influence
operations abroad,” according to media reports. It is led by another ChiCom operative.
DHS threatens crackdown on sanctuary cities amid immigration debate Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) weighs in on reports that Homeland Security
Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen asked federal prosecutors to see if they can
file criminal charges against sanctuary cities for refusing to cooperate
with federal deportation efforts.
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Speaking to the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 16,
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen (shown) said that DHS
has asked federal prosecutors to consider the possibility of bringing
criminal charges against leaders of so-called sanctuary cities. Such
cities refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities by
honoring detainer requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) to hold detainees in their custody who are in this country
illegally until ICE agents can apprehend them. “The Department of
Justice is reviewing what avenues may be available,” Nielsen told the
committee. Nielsen’s statement reinforced what the acting ICE director, Tom
Homan, said during a January 2 appearance on the Fox News Channel’s Your World With Neil Cavuto,
namely, that politicians should be held “personally accountable” for
crimes committed by illegal immigrants. “We’ve got to start charging
some of these politicians with crimes,” Homan said.
Homan said previously in a statement to the Washington Times
last July that he wanted to see local officials charged as complicit in
human smuggling if they shielded illegal aliens through their sanctuary
policies.
Though neither Nielsen nor Homan mentioned a specific plan for
bringing criminal charges against officials in so-called sanctuary
cities who refuse to comply with 8 U.S.C. 1373 (the federal law that
says local government officials may not interfere with communications
between their entity and ICE regarding the immigration status of
detainees) they might consider charging such officials with “misprision
of felony.” 18 U.S. Code § 4 defines “misprision of felony” as follows:
Whoever, having knowledge of the actual
commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States,
conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some
judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United
States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
three years, or both.
In order for an official to be charged with “misprision of felony”
for failure to turn over an illegal alien, the alien must be guilty of a
felony. Not all illegal aliens are felons, but some are. In addition to
being charged with non-immigration-related crimes that are felonies, an
alien who has been legally removed from the United States commits a
felony if he reenters the country illegally one or more times.
Since the number of aliens who have illegally reentered the United
States again after being deported is considerable, pursuing “misprision
of felony” charges against officials in sanctuary jurisdictions should
certainly be considered an option.
President Trump issued an executive order (13768, “Enhancing Public
Safety in the Interior of the United States”) a year ago this month to
deny some federal grants to so-called sanctuary cities, but U.S.
District Judge William Orrick for the Northern District of California
blocked the order provisionally last April. The parts of that order that
Orrick objected to fell under Section 9: “Sanctuary Jurisdictions. It
is the policy of the executive branch to ensure, to the fullest extent
of the law, that a State, or a political subdivision of a State, shall
comply with 8 U.S.C. 1373.”
8 U.S.C. 1373 states, in part:
Notwithstanding any other provision of
Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or local government
entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any
government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the
Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the
citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any
individual.
The order went on to state the penalty for noncompliance:
In furtherance of this policy, the
Attorney General and the Secretary, in their discretion and to the
extent consistent with law, shall ensure that jurisdictions that
willfully refuse to comply with 8 U.S.C. 1373 (sanctuary jurisdictions)
are not eligible to receive Federal grants, except as deemed necessary
for law enforcement purposes by the Attorney General or the Secretary.
Orrick issued a permanent injunction on November 20 in response to
lawsuits filed by the city and county of San Francisco and Santa Clara
County, in California.
“The Counties have demonstrated that the Executive Order has caused
and will cause them constitutional injuries by violating the separation
of powers doctrine and depriving them of their Tenth and Fifth Amendment
rights,” U.S. District Judge William Orrick for the Northern District
of California wrote in his order.
As we observed in our article about Orrick’s original ruling in
April, while it is true that the Constitution vests spending powers in
Congress, Orrick’s reliance on the 10th Amendment to justify his ruling
is novel, at best. The amendment reads: “The powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
We noted that the 10th Amendment has long been cherished by strict
constitutionalists in matters involving states’ rights. However,
Orrick’s statement that the amendment “requires that conditions on
federal funds be unambiguous and timely made” appears to be a product of
his own imagination — not the 10th Amendment. Furthermore, the Trump
executive order does not authorize any spending, but merely restricts
how federal funds may be used.
It would make more sense to claim that the 10th Amendment does not
authorize federal grants to local jurisdictions at all — rather than to
assert that it prohibits the federal government from denying those
grants.
As stated previously, Trump’s executive order, “Enhancing Public
Safety in the Interior of the United States,” was issued to enforce
compliance with a federal law: 8 U.S.C. 1373. The Trump administration
has appealed Orrick’s decision blocking that order to the 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals, but there has been no ruling on that appeal as
we write.
FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA: SCHOOL FORCES KIDS TO SIT THROUGH SEX CHANGE SEMINAR
A government high school in Virginia forced children to sit through an
assembly promoting gender confusion, genital mutilation in “sex-change”
surgeries, and other absurdities. Parents, students, and even teachers
were shocked. Now, the school is under fire, with the powerful
non-profit Family Research Council (FRC) sounding the alarm.
Parents were not informed in advance, according to a horrified teacher
who asked to remain anonymous. The children were apparently not given an
opportunity to opt out of the indoctrination session, either, the
gender ideologist’s comments suggested.
The program, held at George Mason High School in the Northern Virginia
city of Falls Church, featured well-known gender-confusion advocate Amy
Ellis Nutt. Among other absurdities, Nutt told the children that those
who “assign” their “gender at birth” — doctors who examine their anatomy
— might have gotten it wrong. | Article: http://bit.ly/2mOELm3
A government high school in Virginia forced children to sit through
an assembly promoting gender confusion, genital mutilation in
“sex-change” surgeries, and other absurdities. Parents, students, and
even teachers were shocked.
Parents were not informed in advance, according to a horrified
teacher who asked to remain anonymous. The children were apparently not
given an opportunity to opt out of the indoctrination session, either,
the gender ideologist’s comments suggested.
The program, held at George Mason High School in the Northern
Virginia city of Falls Church, featured well-known gender-confusion
advocate Amy Ellis Nutt. Among other absurdities, Nutt told the children that those who “assign” their “gender at birth” — doctors who examine their anatomy — might have gotten it wrong.
During her bizarre speech, Nutt lectured the students on her book Becoming Nicole. According
to summaries of the book, it tells the story of a biological boy who
claimed to be a girl, took puberty-suppressing hormones, and then was
castrated at age 17 as part of a “gender reassignment” surgery. Nutt
told the children she attended the castration.
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Mohamed Noor, the Muslim cop in Minneapolis who shot an unarmed woman, Justine Damond, had been fast-tracked onto the force
so that the Minneapolis police could showcase their “diversity.” Now it
looks as if the Portland, Maine Police Department was trying to do the
same thing with Zahra Munye Abu. After the shooting of Justine Damond,
there should have been a searching reevaluation of the wisdom of hiring
police officers based on their religion and ethnicity rather than their
merit. But of course there was not. And so Muslim police officers keep
being hired because they’re Muslim, not because they’re competent police
officers, and here we are again.
“Portland police officer whose hiring made history is put on leave after arrest in Massachusetts,” by Matt Byrne, Press Herald, January 16, 2018 (thanks to the Geller Report):
A 24-year-old Portland police officer has been charged
with five misdemeanors, including assault and battery, after being
arrested Saturday night at a concert venue in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Worcester police said Zahra Munye Abu, of Portland, is also facing
charges of trespassing, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and
disturbing the peace.
Abu caused a disturbance while attending a Ja Rule and Ashanti
concert at the Palladium Nightclub on Main Street, said Worcester police
Sgt. Kerry F. Hazelhurst.
“The nightclub was hosting several live musical acts,” Hazelhurst
said in an email. “She was (given) several opportunities to leave and
refused. Eventually she was placed under arrest.”
Worcester police would not provide more details about the incident,
and members of Abu’s family declined to comment when contacted by phone
at their home.
Portland Police Chief Michael Sauschuck said Abu has been placed on
administrative leave with pay pending a review of the matter….
Abu is a high-profile member of the Portland police force because she
is the first member of Maine’s Somali immigrant community to become a
police officer in Maine.
She was born to Somali parents in a Kenyan refugee camp and has lived
in Portland since she was 2 years old. She graduated from Deering High
School in Portland and studied criminal justice and women-and-gender
issues at the University of Southern Maine.
If convicted, Abu faces a maximum penalty of up to 2½ years in a
county jail on the assault and battery and the resisting arrest charges.
Each of the other charges include less severe maximum penalties.
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While running for governor of New Jersey, Democrat Phil Murphy (shown) was asked what he would do about the state’s overwhelming pension crisis, and he waffled: there’s “no easy answer,” he said. He added that the state would have to do something about the problem. Said Murphy, “The state has to stand up for its side of the bargain. Period. If the state doesn’t, there’s no use in having [any further] discussion.” Murphy was inaugurated as the New Jersey’s 56th governor on Tuesday and promptly forgot all about the pension tsunami about to engulf the state. Instead he offered both a “wish list” and a “to-do list” for his supporters and Democratic legislators in attendance. His “wish list” contained the usual collection of liberal promises, while his “to-do” list is what he wants the state legislature to bring to his desk within the next 30 days.
His “wish list” was a rehash of his campaign promises — long on generalities but short on specifics — including legalizing marijuana, protecting illegal immigrants from ICE, providing free tuition at the state’s community colleges, eliminating “tax breaks” that large corporations are allegedly unfairly enjoying, investing state funds in more costly “green energy” projects, and paying for it all by raising taxes on those few millionaires still residing in one the country’s highest-tax states.
He was much more specific with his “to-do” list. He ordered the state’s liberal and heavily Democratic legislators to get off the snide and send him six bills within the next 30 days, each of which, said Murphy, “will be met with a signing ceremony.” Their marching orders from Murphy included new funding for “women’s health” and Planned Parenthood, raising the minimum wage in the state to $15 an hour, mandating “equal pay” for women, requiring employers in the state to provide paid sick leave to their employees, passing laws removing barriers to having illegals vote, and, of course, additional attacks on the state’s more than three million law-abiding gun owners.
He mentioned not a word about the state’s pension crisis, which has been brewing for years and accelerating nearly exponentially. It’s not that Murphy doesn’t know about the crisis or its extent and potential for bankrupting the state. In 2005, acting New Jersey Governor Richard Codey convened a commission to study “the problem,” naming Phil Murphy as its head. In its conclusion, that study urged the state in no uncertain terms to end immediately all “pension holidays” (the skipping of payments to the state’s five pension plans for a period of time), to avoid actuarial “gimmicks” commonly used to make those liabilities appear to be smaller than they actually are, and to eliminate borrowing to pay the state’s contributions. It also recommended a series of reforms, including an end to pension “spiking” (by which employees can sweeten their final payouts as they approach retirement), and raising the age at which plan beneficiaries could retire with full benefits. That last recommendation, which was never implemented, would have raised the full-benefit retirement age from 55 to 60.
So Murphy cannot claim ignorance. He is also certain to know of the accounting chicanery that took place last year, i.e., using the state’s lottery program to help pay the state’s pension contributions. But it was chicanery taken to level of audacity rarely seen even in states as corrupt as New Jersey. Instead of demanding that the lottery’s annual $1 billion proceeds flow into the pension funds’ coffers, the legislature actually transferred the entire program into those coffers and then declared that the future value of those annual proceeds (happily and likely generously estimated at more than $13 billion) was now an asset, reducing (on paper at least) the amount of the unfunded liability.
Moody’s Analytics was not impressed: “The lottery transfer does not change the state’s weak [and] steeply rising pension contribution schedule. [Even after the transfer] there remains considerable risk that the state will be unable to afford rapidly growing pension contributions.”
Also not impressed were two senior fellows at the Manhattan Institute, who just released their study of New Jersey’s pension problems. In January, well before Murphy neatly demurred on even mentioning them, the authors concluded: “It is highly unlikely that New Jersey will generate enough new revenues to meet its pension obligations without severely hobbling the rest of the state’s budget. At the same time, allowing its pension system to continue to accumulate debt by not contributing adequately to it will push New Jersey toward a potentially catastrophic failure of its government pensions.”
At the moment, those five government pension plans have the lowest funding ratio of any state in the union, with a liability estimated to be $124 billion. Those plans are only 30-percent funded currently and declining with each passing day.
But Murphy’s term is for only four years, and if he wins reelection, his tenure ends in eight years. Those plans will likely remain in place, continuing to threaten pensioners who still think they will be getting their benefits, and threatening the state with bankruptcy if it tries to fund them properly. But Murphy will be long gone, proving once again the old adage: Politicians come and go, but the unfunded promises they make live long after them.
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Pope Francis has conferred the title of “Commander of the Pontifical Equestrian
Order of St. Gregory the Great” on Lilianne Ploumen, a Dutch politician and vocal
agitator for abortion rights. Last year, Ploumen founded a pro-abortion
organization called She Decides, which offers funding and support for
international NGOs that provide, facilitate or campaign for abortion.
In an email to the Catholic Herald, Ms. Ploumen said that she was “very honoured” by the pontifical medal, which was sent via the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs last month. In an interview with Dutch radio, Ploumen said she views the honor as a sign of the pope’s progressivism, as well as acknowledgement for her work in supporting abortion rights. Ms. Ploumen said that the award came after much personal investment in contacts with the Vatican, which she defined as “lobbying.” “Yes, because you know, the Vatican, especially under prior popes, had a rather rigid attitude when it came to the rights of girls and women,” she said.
The Order of St Gregory the Great was founded by Pope Gregory XVI in 1831, under the patronage of Pope St Gregory I. It is bestowed on those who have distinguished themselves in public service or given support to the Church.
During the investiture ceremony, the prelate sponsoring the candidate recites a formula noting that membership in the Pontifical Order of St Gregory the Great “is conferred as a reward for services to the Holy See and the Church on gentlemen/ladies of proved loyalty who must maintain unswerving fidelity to God, the Supreme Pontiff, the Holy See and the Church.” “Becoming a Knight/Dame does not merely mean receiving a title of honour—even though it is well deserved—but fighting evil, promoting good and defending the weak and oppressed against injustice,” the rite continues. The approval of candidates for this high honor must be given by the pope himself. The Vatican press office has confirmed that the honor was indeed awarded to Lilianne Ploumen, but insists that it was not meant to signal approval of her pro-abortion activities.
On Monday, Paloma García Ovejero, deputy spokesperson of the Holy See Press Office, said the medal was part of an exchange of honors between delegations after she took part in an official state visit to the Vatican last year of Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima.
“The honor of the Pontifical Order of St. Gregory the Great received by Mrs. Lilianne Ploumen, former Minister of Development, in June 2017 during the visit of the Dutch Royals to the Holy Father, responds to the diplomatic practice of the exchange of honors between delegations on the occasion of official visits by Heads of State or Government in the Vatican,” García said.
“Therefore, it is not in the slightest a placet [a mark of approval] to the politics in favor of abortion and of birth control that Mrs. Ploumen promotes,” she added. According to the National Catholic Register, abortion is just one area where Ploumen’s public advocacy departs from Catholic moral teaching. As “a radical supporter of homosexual rights,” Register correspondent Edward Pentin states, Ploumen “urged homosexuals to disrupt Mass in a Dutch cathedral after an openly homosexual man was denied Holy Communion” in 2010. Last September, Ploumen also gave a prominent address at the LGBT’s Core Group at the United Nations. For his part, Pope Francis has been an outspoken critic of abortion, calling it a “very grave sin” and a “horrendous crime.”
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The Holy See Press Office Botched Its Handling of the Ploumen Story
The Dutch government plans to fund safe abortions in developing countries to cover gaps as “pro-life” Donald Trump pulls the plug. Lilianne Ploumen, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, talks about the goals and the financing of the fund.
“SHE DECIDES” (NOT GOD)
The Netherlands & Belgium commit $73M to Women’s Rights & Health at GCF Hamburg
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BOURBON, Mo. —Some parents at a middle school in Missouri have expressed
objection after a survey from the state Department of Mental Health asked
students about their so-called “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.”
The Missouri Student Survey, also known as the Safe and Drug Free
Schools and Communities Survey, is sent to schools every other year to
understand the issues that students face, from bullying to drug use
to suicide. Children grades 6-12 complete the survey, and are informed
that they may leave any questions blank that make them feel
uncomfortable.
This year, the survey also asked students about whether they consider
themselves to be heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual or “other,” and if
they identify as transgender. It stated that the questions were being
asked to “better understand the health and healthcare needs of people
with different sexual orientations.”
“Do you consider yourself to be transgender? This is when your gender
identity (how you feel) is different than how your body is (your
anatomy),” one question read in part, and also allowed the answer of
“prefer not to respond.”
The questions upset some parents, who spoke with local television station KMOV about the matter.
“It’s inappropriate subject matter for sixth graders to be answering questions on,” said parent Shane Burns.
“To me, anybody asking my 11-year-old daughter if she likes girls or
boys and if she [identifies as] transgender, … if it’s not coming from
me [as their parent], that’s just perverted,” also remarked parent
Courtney West.
Following the controversy, Brian Witt, the principal of Bourbon High
School and Middle School, sent a letter to parents to advise that he did
not like the questions either, and that he has requested that the
Department of Mental Health not ask such questions of his students in
the future.
“School districts are not provided with the survey questions prior to
giving the survey to students,” he outlined. “This year, there were two
questions on sexuality included in the survey. When I was made aware of
the questions, I contacted the Department of Mental Health and asked
for those questions to be removed from the survey.”
Witt said that the Department agreed to remove the questions from future surveys submitted to his schools.
He also explained that parents will receive prior notice of the
survey in the future, and that administrators will “be diligent in a
request to review any future survey content from the Missouri Department
of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Missouri Department of
Mental Health.”
