PROJECT VERITAS UNMASKS #DEEP STATE : IRS OFFICIALS SAYING “YOU SHOULD GIVE INCREASED SCRUTINY” TO CONSERVATIVES

PROJECT VERITAS UNMASKS #DEEP STATE : IRS OFFICIALS SAYING “YOU SHOULD GIVE INCREASED SCRUTINY” TO CONSERVATIVES 
“I don’t give a s**t if that is a crime”

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Officials at the IRS in Austin and DC spill the beans about the 2013 IRS Lois Lerner scandal, targeting conservative non-profits, celebrating potentially illegal activity, and admit “mistakes were made.”

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IRS Tax Examiner: Target Conservative Groups Because They Are “… just f***ing fronts for the Koch brothers.”
Deleting IRS Emails is “… so cool… [conservatives] could not hold any evidence against… ” Former IRS Commissioner John Koskinen “…I don’t give a s**t if that is a crime.”
IRS Attorney on Lerner Scandal: “All that stuff we saw in the news, yeah mistakes were made.”
IRS is Comfy Gig, Democratic Socialist of America Gets “… a lot of paid time off and sick days” to Use for Activism
Contempt for America: “Unfortunately, I am not allowed by the bylaws of my union to go against the Constitution.”

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UPDATE: Sep 25, 2018, 2:36 PM | Project Veritas attorney Ben Barr submitted this complaint to the Department of Justice regarding the findings of this investigation.
(Washington DC) Project Veritas has released the fourth story in a series of undercover reports which unmask the Deep State. This report features two Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials who candidly discuss the IRS’s unfair treatment of conservative non-profit groups. The two officials in the report are Thomas Sheehy, an IRS tax examiner and member of the Austin Democratic Socialists of America in Texas, and Jerry Semasek, an IRS attorney in Washington, DC.
The Austin Democratic Socialists of America is a socialist group that works to advance ‘progressive issues’ in Austin, Texas.
Flagrantly Targeting Conservative Groups
Sheehy boasts about and appears to justify former disgraced IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, who was mired in scandal for losing tens of thousands of emails regarding the Lois Lerner controversy. The Lois Lerner controversy occurred in 2013 and involved revelations showing that the IRS unfairly scrutinized conservative groups.
SHEEHY: “John Koskinen. He got a lot of flak for giving increased scrutiny to these Tea Party groups. Conservatives got really mad at him, he was so cool though because he deleted all the emails, so they could not hold any evidence against him.”
Sheehy continues:
SHEEHY: “Yeah, I don’t give a s**t if that is a crime for doing that because… you should give increased scrutiny to those groups because a lot of them are just f***ing fronts for the Koch brothers or whatever.”
Mistakes Were Made
In a separate meeting, attorney Semasek discloses to Project Veritas multiple times that “mistakes were made,” during the 2013 scandal when conservative non-profits were targeted when applying for tax-exempt status.
SEMASEK: “… you know what, for what it’s worth, on the record, I know people in Tax Exempt Government Entities. All that stuff we saw in the news, yeah mistakes were made”
Attorney Semasek, who worked for the IRS during the 2013 scandal, continued:
SEMASEK: “… The law requires that an organization can’t be political, it can’t be partisan to be tax exempt… Those employees in Cincinnati Ohio started to separate them and put them in a pile. And it turns out that they were like the Tea Party group of people. And I think they did, like Lois Lerner and maybe some of her employees were more liberal leaning or Democrats so I don’t know if they disallowed them, but they required them to produce more documentation to try to prove that they weren’t partisan.”
He repeated that mistakes were made:
SEMASEK: “… and that was bad. I think, from what people tell me, that really know about, there were mistakes made, but the problem with what happened… And again, there were mistakes made, and I think probably some people that were advised against conservative groups did make some mistakes.”
Socialist Abuses Work Benefits
Sheehy, like individuals featured in the previous reports in this series, is also a member of a political activist group. Sheehy implies that he abuses his work benefits, including paid time off and sick days in order to engage in socialist activism for Austin Democratic Socialists of America.
SHEEHY: “I will say, I just really like the benefits. I get a lot of paid time off and sick days. So, like, for DSA stuff, I can just honestly… I will just stay late for a period. So, I will just call in for the next day.”
SHEEHY: “I mean, as long as like the manager doesn’t find out and you don’t explicitly say “hey I’m calling in sick to do Democratic Socialist of America work” then I mean like yeah. You know, you just gotta, you just gotta like sort of manage, you know, when and where you’re like doing, like, the work you do.”
More Democratic Socialists of America at IRS
Sheehy reveals there are more socialist activists at the IRS, referring to a friend of his who works on national communications for the Democratic Socialists of America, as well as writing bylaws for the political organization.
SHEEHY: “My friend Chris, like he does a lot of like tech stuff. He even runs the f**kin’, I was looking over his shoulder once at the electoral forum and I noticed that he actually is on the national social media working group. So, he helps run the national twitter account. He also runs our local twitter account. He also is one that does all the bylaws and stuff…. he also works for the IRS.”
Sheehy remarks about his disdain for the Constitution of the United States.
SHEEHY: “Unfortunately, I am not allowed by the bylaws of my union to go against the constitution.”
JOURNALIST: “Would you?”
SHEEHY: “Yeah.”
Deep State Unmasked
This is the fourth release in a series Project Veritas began publishing in September 2018 unmasking corrupt actors in the federal government. Project Veritas will publish more undercover video of federal employees shedding light on the Deep State resistance.
Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe added:
“As our deep state investigation continues to unfold, four government agencies have responded resulting in the removal of two federal employees from their job duties. Stay tuned to see which Government Agency we unmask next.
See the other videos in this series:
See the responses and statements made by government agencies following these stories’ publication.

PRESIDENT TRUMP SPEAKS AT U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY

PRESIDENT TRUMP SPEAKS 
AT U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
Donald Trump spoke at the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday morning. President Donald Trump‘s Tuesday speech at the United Nations General Assembly marked a shift in tone on NK as he moved away from rhetoric and expressed praise for dictator Kim.
“I would like to thank chairman Kim for his courage and for the steps he’s taken, though much work remains to be done,” Trump said. “I also want to thank the many member states who helped us reach this moment.” The U.N. General Assembly laughed at Trump within the first minute of his speech before the body, after a particularly lofty brag about his administration’s accomplishments.
“In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country,” Trump said.

Trump Silences The Laughter At The UN

The hornet’s nest of globalists swarming within the United Nations assembly laughed openly at President Donald Trump after he informed the assembly of his administration’s America first progress in just two years.

The reaction didn’t stop Trump from zeroing in on his Administration’s aggressive stance towards the Iranian regime’s threat to peace.

Trump to UN: “We Reject the Ideology of Globalism”

BY ALEX NEWMAN
SEE: https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/30174-trump-to-un-we-reject-the-ideology-of-globalism?vsmaid=1217&vcid=3987republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
In his second speech to the United Nations, President Donald Trump delivered a stinging rebuke to globalism and “global governance,” calling on responsible nations everywhere to defend their national sovereignty from all attacks. The U.S. president also ridiculed key globalist institutions such as the disgraced UN “Human Rights Council” and the Orwellian “International Criminal Court.” Instead of globalism, Trump called for patriotism. Instead of global governance, he touted unique nations protecting their own cultures, traditions, and sovereignty. Obviously, the globalists and tyrants in the room were not amused. Some even laughed out loud, literally. But if Trump plays his cards right, he and the American people will have the last laugh.  
After blasting various globalist institutions and schemes, including UN bureaucracies and the mass migration agenda, Trump got to the point. “America is governed by Americans,” he said. “We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism.” Trump gave a powerful nod to nations, too, noting that everyone in the room was the emissary of a “distinct culture, a rich history, and a people bound together by ties of memory, tradition, and the values that make our homelands like nowhere else on Earth.” That is why “America will always choose independence and cooperation over global governance, control, and domination,” he said, vowing that the United States would respect the right of all nations to pursue their destiny without telling them how to “live or work or worship.”
“We only ask that you honor our sovereignty in return,” he said.
Trump profusely praised patriotism — and the concept of nationhood itself — as one of the foundations for progress, peace, freedom, magnificent art, scientific breakthroughs, and prosperity. “The whole world is richer, humanity is better, because of this beautiful constellation of nations, each very special, each very unique, and each shining brightly in its part of the world,” the president explained in a dramatic contrast to his predecessors globalist rhetoric. “Sovereign and independent nations are the only vehicle where freedom has ever survived, democracy has ever endured, or peace has ever prospered. And so we must protect our sovereignty and our cherished independence above all.”
Urging other nations to pursue their own unique futures, Trump also outlined a powerful vision for America among the constellation of nations. “As for Americans, we know what kind of future we want for ourselves. We know what kind of a nation America must always be,” he said. “In America, we believe in the majesty of freedom and the dignity of the individual. We believe in self-government and the rule of law. And we prize the culture that sustains our liberty -– a culture built on strong families, deep faith, and fierce independence. We celebrate our heroes, we treasure our traditions, and above all, we love our country.”
But beyond globalism, there are other threats to national independence, too, Trump warned. “Around the world, responsible nations must defend against threats to sovereignty not just from global governance, but also from other, new forms of coercion and domination,” Trump continued. At the top of his list was energy, a jab at the stranglehold that Moscow has acquired over certain European nations — “former” communist Angela Merkel’s Germany in particular — due to their dependence on Russian oil. “In America, we believe strongly in energy security for ourselves and for our allies,” he said, adding that America was now the largest energy producer and was ready to export those resources. Trump also blasted OPEC for “ripping off the rest of the world.”   
Among other accomplishments, Trump celebrated concrete actions taken by the U.S. government in defense of American sovereignty since he took office. For instance, speaking of the dictator-dominated UN “Human Rights Council,” which is literally made up of mostly tyrants and Third World autocrats, Trump said it was a “grave embarrassment to this institution, shielding egregious human rights abusers while bashing America and its many friends.” It refused any reforms despite repeated warnings, he said. And so, the United States took what Trump described as the “only responsible course”: “We withdrew from the Human Rights Council.”
The U.S. president also lambasted the self-styled “International Criminal Court,” saying the U.S. government would provide no support or recognition to the body. “As far as America is concerned, the ICC has no jurisdiction, no legitimacy, and no authority,” he said. “The ICC claims near-universal jurisdiction over the citizens of every country, violating all principles of justice, fairness, and due process. We will never surrender America’s sovereignty to an unelected, unaccountable, global bureaucracy.” The U.S. government has never ratified the agreements creating the global kangaroo court, and yet it continues to pretend like it can put Americans on trial. In recent weeks, the administration warned that any effort to prosecute an American in the discredited “court” would be met with firm resistance, including criminal prosecution and sanctions against all involved.
Going a step further, the president blasted some of the crucial mechanisms used by the Deep State to advance its globalist agenda. On the mass importation of Islamic immigrants into the West by the UN under the guise of humanitarianism, for example, Trump highlighted an alternative long touted by genuine humanitarians and critics of open borders. “I commend the people of Jordan and other neighboring countries for hosting refugees from this very brutal civil war,” Trump said, referring to the ongoing war in Syria. “As we see in Jordan, the most compassionate policy is to place refugees as close to their homes as possible to ease their eventual return to be part of the rebuilding process. This approach also stretches finite resources to help far more people, increasing the impact of every dollar spent.” Estimates suggest it costs 20 to 50 times more to “re-settle” a refugee in America or Western Europe than to keep him or her close by.
On the massive illegal immigration swamping the United States and Europe — a key vehicle that even national leaders have said is aimed at undermining nationhood and national identity — Trump also spoke out, calling “uncontrolled migration”  a threat to national sovereignty, security, and prosperity. “We recognize the right of every nation in this room to set its own immigration policy in accordance with its national interests, just as we ask other countries to respect our own right to do the same — which we are doing,” he said, adding that the U.S. government would not participate in the UN’s new “Global Compact on Migration” that aims to globalize migration policy and flood the West with endless numbers of migrants. “Migration should not be governed by an international body unaccountable to our own citizens.”
Pointing to the imploding and brutal socialist regime enslaving Venezuela and its murderous Cuban sponsors — some two million victims have already been forced to flee the starving but oil-rich nation — Trump also slammed statism, socialism, and communism as a threat to everything decent and good. “Virtually everywhere socialism or communism has been tried, it has produced suffering, corruption, and decay,” Trump warned, calling on the nations of the world to condemn Venezuela’s oppressive rulers. “Socialism’s thirst for power leads to expansion, incursion, and oppression. All nations of the world should resist socialism and the misery that it brings to everyone.”
On trade policy, Trump vowed that globalist “free trade” agreements would no longer be allowed to continue facilitating the looting of America. Blasting “discredited ideologies,” Trump said America would support fair and reciprocal trade. “The United States will not be taken advantage of any longer,” he warned assembled government leaders. “For decades, the United States opened its economy — the largest, by far, on Earth — with few conditions…. Yet, other countries did not grant us fair and reciprocal access to their markets in return. Even worse, some countries abused their openness to dump their products, subsidize their goods, target our industries, and manipulate their currencies to gain unfair advantage over our country. As a result, our trade deficit ballooned to nearly $800 billion a year. For this reason, we are systematically renegotiating broken and bad trade deals.” He touted the new U.S.-Mexico trade deal and the South Korea-U.S. deal as examples.
Trump took direct aim at the communist Chinese regime’s “trade” machinations, too. “Countries were admitted to the World Trade Organization that violate every single principle on which the organization is based,” he said. “While the United States and many other nations play by the rules, these countries use government-run industrial planning and state-owned enterprises to rig the system in their favor. They engage in relentless product dumping, forced technology transfer, and the theft of intellectual property. The United States lost over 3 million manufacturing jobs, nearly a quarter of all steel jobs, and 60,000 factories after China joined the WTO. And we have racked up $13 trillion in trade deficits over the last two decades.”
“But those days are over,” Trump said. “We will no longer tolerate such abuse. We will not allow our workers to be victimized, our companies to be cheated, and our wealth to be plundered and transferred. America will never apologize for protecting its citizens.” As part of that, Trump spoke of massive new tariffs he is imposing on Chinese imports, saying, “China’s market distortions and the way they deal cannot be tolerated.” Among the measures being implemented are stronger controls over threats to national security from foreign investment in sensitive industries and sectors. In recent months, Trump has also threatened to blow up the architecture of globalist “free trade,” too, although so far those threats have not materialized in reality.   
However, for whatever reason, the president also gave several subtle nods to globalism. For instance, he spoke of working with the “Gulf Cooperation Council,” an emerging European Union-style regime on the Arabian peninsula that fits neatly into the Henry “New World Order” Kissinger vision of globalist regional governments merging into a global order. Trump also praised the alleged UN work that supposedly helps people “build better lives,” as if other organizations or churches could not do far better for a fraction of the cost. But despite that, Trump vowed to keep working to change the way UN contributions are assessed. He said he would work toward a “voluntary” system of contributions rather than “assessed” ones so that the U.S. government can “target American resources to the programs with the best record of success.” He did not specify which programs those might be.  
On the wars and neoconservatism, his speech likely left something to be desired for non-interventionists, as well. Speaking of Syria, he called for the “the United Nations-led peace process be reinvigorated.” And he threatened to intervene in Syria if Assad used chemical weapons, despite massive amounts of evidence showing the previous attacks were likely false flags orchestrated by globalist-backed al-Qaeda forces waging war on the Assad regime. Finally, Trump sounded like he was being persuaded to bang the war drums against Iran again, suggesting neoconservative John Bolton, a member of the global government-peddling Council on Foreign Relations who now serves as Trump’s National Security Advisor, played a large role in writing parts of the speech.
But Trump concluded his speech much like it began — with a rousing defense of sovereignty and nationhood, as well as a call for nations and peoples to be thankful to God. “So together, let us choose a future of patriotism, prosperity, and pride,” he said. “Let us choose peace and freedom over domination and defeat. And let us come here to this place to stand for our people and their nations, forever strong, forever sovereign, forever just, and forever thankful for the grace and the goodness and the glory of God. Thank you. God bless you. And God bless the nations of the world.”
Obviously, globalists everywhere — especially within the establishment media and the within the globalist institutions of “global governance” at the UN and beyond — were furious with the speech. Some could barely contain their rage. Others acted as if it was a joke, with some attendees at the speech actually laughing when Trump touted his administration’s accomplishments. But regardless of what globalists and the establishment want, elections and opinion polls around the world show that patriotism is rising as globalism becomes increasingly toxic and discredited with the people. Americans and all those who value liberty must remain active to build on the momentum.
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SELECTED ARTICLES FROM LIGHTHOUSE TRAILS RESEARCH ABOUT CONTEMPLATIVE MYSTICISM, DECEPTION, APOSTASY, NEW AGE PRACTICES, UNIVERSALISM

LIGHTHOUSE TRAILS RESEARCH ARTICLES SEPTEMBER 2018
SEE: https://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/newsletters/2018/newsletter20180924.htmrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

To Lighthouse Trails:

Walk to Emmaus logoWalk to Emmaus logo from the Upper Room website (used in accordance with the US Fair Use Act for the purpose of critique, review, and education)

I’m grateful to God for helping me come across your site tonight! I found out the Walk to Emmaus was demonic when I went on the walk this last weekend. It was the most horrible thing I’ve been through in my life. I believe God was protecting me while I was there. I thought I was going on a restful retreat. That’s what my church convinced me of anyway. I was in total hurt and shock by the end of the first day! I begin to agonize to leave the place. Too much to list here what went on while I was there.
Anyway, my church has segregated themselves from me because I refused to give my “happy testimony” about the walk. They think I’m a problem now. Much more to the story. I came home Sat. night feeling like I had just come home from the pits of hell. Everyone else that went said they had a great experience . . . weird. I don’t get it, and they seem different than the people I knew and cherished before the walk. I’m saddened by all this . . . my eyes have definitely been opened to the huge scale deception that’s taking our churches by storm! I didn’t even know any of this about this gigantic scheme until I went on the walk! I knew it was the last days. I knew about NWO [new-world order]. But I didn’t know about this particular infiltration.
Thank you for your work! My prayers are with you!!
Kayla
LTRP Comment: The following is a short article Lighthouse Trails previously wrote about Upper Room’s Walk to Emmaus with a mention of Tres Dias.

Walk to Emmaus and Tres Dias – A Walk to Deception

The Walk to Emmaus is a program put on by Upper Room Ministries. Upper Room promotes Spiritual Formation (i.e., contemplative spirituality), and if you want to understand the dynamics of Walk to Emmaus, then understanding the spirituality of Upper Room will help you:

“The Walk to Emmaus is an adaptation of the Roman Catholic Cursillo Movement, which originated in Spain in 1949.”-  from the Walk to Emmaus website
Walk to Emmaus is widely spread. It is estimated that over half a million persons have experienced a Walk to Emmaus weekend and today the Movement counts more than 300 communities distributed all over the United States as well as all over the world.1

Mantra Meditation is promoted at Upper Room Ministries also:

“Mantra — The word comes from Sanskrit. Its two-syllabus mean: man or mind and tra or deliverance. A mantra is sound vibration that is intended to deliver the mind from distractions and a focus on the material world. A mantra is repeated like a chant and has a spiritual effect associated with the physical vibration. A mantra can be as simple as one syllable ‘OM’ or as more complicated such as, ‘OM SRI RAM JAI RAM JAI JAI RAM’.” From the Upper Room website (link now removed)

Tres Dias is an offshoot of the Cursillo Movement and should be avoided as well.
List of places that do Walk to Emmaus
The Walk to Emmaus (The Upper Room) website
Chrysalis Walk to Emmaus
Book Alert: Soul Feast by Marjorie Thompson
Please Contemplate This by T.A. McMahon (Berean Call)
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Welcome to the New (Contemplative) Christianity – Just Breath In . . . Breath Out
Pastor Ken Shigematsu showing Christians how to practice one form of contemplative prayer. (photo from a 2-second clip of the Charisma video; used in accordance with the U.S. Fair Use Act)

The acceptance of contemplative prayer has hit an all-time high in the church. And is it any wonder? Christian media, Christian publishers, pastors, mission societies, Bible societies, authors, radio hosts, youth leaders, women’s group leaders, and Christian ministry leaders are all promoting it more than ever.  The video below that was posted on Charisma Magazine’s website on September 10th is yet another example of how Christian media (Charisma being one of the most popular Christian magazines today) is doing their part to get masses of Christians  involved with contemplative prayer (remember our recent article on YWAM’s goal to get all YWAMer’s doing contemplative prayer).
The Charisma article titled “The Ancient Spiritual Prayer Today’s Church Fails to Practice” states: “[Pastor] Shigematsu offers an easy step-by-step guide on how to do contemplative prayer in this video.”
The pastor who is featured on this video is Pastor Ken Shigematsu. Shigematsu is the author of God in My Everything: How an Ancient Rhythm Helps Busy People Enjoy God (2013) and Survival Guide for the Soul (2018, foreword by Ann Voskamp). In what he calls a “spiritual ecosystem,” Shigematsu provides a who’s who of New Age sympathizers and Catholic mystics in God in My Everything, that includes Thomas Merton, Evelyn Underhill, Kathleen Norris, Marva Dawn, Basil Pennington, Richard Rohr, Gerald May, Dorothy Bass, Parker Palmer, Joan Chittister and many of the usual evangelical/Protestant suspects such as Dallas Willard, Eugene Peterson, Richard Foster, Ruth Haley Barton, and Gary Thomas. In that book, Shigematsu makes no apologies for encouraging Christians to practice various meditation exercises to help calm the mind.
Survival Guide for the Soul is a continuing saga of his earlier book God in My Everything with gleanings from many of the same sources but also added to the mix is contribution from mystics such as David-Steindl Rast, Henry Nouwen, Walter Brueggemann, Thomas Keating, Anne Lamott, John Ortberg, and Dorothy Day.* In Survival Guide, Shigematsu boasts that “The spiritual direction movement is growing, and there are now more than six thousand spiritual directors under the banner of Spiritual Directors International, most of whom serve in North America” (ch. 9, endnote #15). The spiritual direction movement is one of the outgrowths of the contemplative prayer/Spiritual Formation movement (i.e., every contemplative Christian needs a spiritual director to guide and direct his or her esoteric experiences to help  avoid any dangerous altercations with devils and demons, which Richard Foster says can occur when practicing contemplative prayer).
If you are someone who is aware of the dangers and the true panentheistic, interspiritual nature of contemplative prayer, you have probably noticed that contemplative spirituality has moved from its infancy stage in the church to what appears to becoming the norm. Because the “big” guys in Christianity (e.g., Rick Warren, Christianity Today, YWAM, Charisma, Focus on the Family) are pushing fast forward to get the church through this mystical paradigm shift and the “little guys (e.g., Lighthouse Trails, The Berean Call) are written off as negative, divisive, and only worthy of being ignored and seen as being out of sync, contemplative spirituality (which encompasses all things emergent) will become the “new” Christianity, and all one has to do to get there is  . . .  breath in  . . . and breath out.

To see the video on the Charisma site, click here. 
*Most of the names mentioned in this article can be found on the Lighthouse Trails Research Project blog and in many of our published resources. Just use the blog’s search engine to look up the names.
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The Christian of the Future-by Ray Yungen
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Some Thoughts Worth Considering 
on “Pub Theology”

LTRP Note: Recently, a father called us very concerned about the growing popularity of “Pub Theology.” He asked if we had any information about it. The late Larry DeBruyn wrote the following article in 2009 and gave permission for Lighthouse Trails to post it. Since 2009, Pub Theology has indeed increased greatly in popularity, especially among evangelical millennials. Type “Pub Theology” (in quotes which narrows the results) into Google, and it comes up over 43,000 times! DeBruyn’s article offers some valid (and Scriptural) advice and insight on Pub Theology.
“EMERGENT INEBRIATES: Some Thoughts on Pub Theology”
By Larry DeBruyn
As he begins to rip into “a screaming guitar solo,” a band member sarcastically yells out at the audience, “Let’s go to church boys!”[1] Welcome to Pub Theology. As the reporter describes it, Pub Theology is “a Sunday night show that’s one part church and one part party.” Among other posters on the barroom walls, one alludes to the final verse of the biblical chapter on love. It reads, “Faith, Hope, Love and Beer” (The biblical text reads, “But now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love” 1 Corinthians 13:13, NASB).
Being “shaggy-haired, body-pierced and colored with assorted body art,” members of the Sunday evening pub rock group double as members of a mega-church’s “worship team” on Sunday mornings. Confessing to love both Jesus and rock ‘n’ roll, band members will burn through a pack of cigarettes and exhort the audience to visit the bar and buy beer during Sunday night “church.” Initially skeptical about hosting Pub Theology on Sunday nights, the bar owner now admits the band has turned an otherwise dead night into a profitable evening.
Regarding this new outreach–the mega-church’s ministerial staff approve of doing Pub Theology–one of the band’s members says: “We want to be sincere and authentic and be who we really are, whether that is wearing jeans and a T-shirt or having a beer. I think that is real” he continues, “and I don’t think it is wrong or that God is unhappy about that.” Relates another band member: “I can drink a beer and smoke a cigarette and play some of my favorite songs and hang out with my friends and maybe meet someone and tell them about Jesus.”
Interestingly, most of the band members were raised in religious homes. In fact, two of its members are former PKS (That’s an acronym for “preacher’s kids.”). Having been a former pastor, their father has now become the band’s “roadie” (That’s a term which refers to the managers and technicians traveling with the band.). The members account for the band’s existence and approach to ministry for reason of their holier-than-thou Wesleyan upbringing–you know, “I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I don’t go to R-rated movies, I don’t dance.”
On this point, and as a rebellious child of the 60s who too was raised in the legalistic environment of Western Michigan, let me say that I understand and somewhat sympathize with the band members’ rejection of legalism. But all rebels ought to be cautioned that, “rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry” (1 Samuel 15:23). Yet God doesn’t make Christians from the outside in, but rather from the inside out. Though one’s Christianity is defined by inner faith not outer works, Paul did write that Christians are God’s “workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10). So we must not assume the opposite attitude from legalism, that of antinomianism (i.e., that God’s grace cancels out any need to obey His moral and spiritual law). For as Paul asked: “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?” (Romans 6:1-2). Contradicting antinomianism the writer of Hebrews orders us to, “Follow . . . holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled” (Hebrews 12:14-15).
Nevertheless, the casual and alcoholically lubricated atmosphere of Pub Theology raises an important issue, for as the reporter asks, “Does Pub Theology produce any lasting effects, or is it just a casual encounter with church in a bar—a spiritual one-night stand?” All the band’s claims of “doing ministry” notwithstanding—they do field questions about Christianity from the audience and callers-in, give inebriated individuals rides home, and have even seen one rescued drunk baptized a few days later in their church—Pub Theology shows every symptom of being a carnal “one-night-stand.” (Note: I do not use the word spiritual.)
First, Pub Theology is not church. If it is, then where’s the reading of Scripture, the apostles’ teaching, prayer and observance of the Lord’s Table? (Acts 2:42) But on this point, we can be certain that the band will avoid any impression of being too “churchly or preachy.” But beer steins are no substitute for communion cups. In fact, to the true church, the apostle Peter announced that, “the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries” (1 Peter 4:3).
Second, Pub Theology is not theology. Reportedly, the band’s opening song was Joan Osborne’s one-hit wonder, “What if God was one of us?” The lyrics add, “Just a slob like one of us.”[2] Imagine . . . God being a slob like the rest of the inebriated crowd at the bar. Given such a humanizing of God, what we’re dealing with is not Pub Theology, but pub idolatry. “And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things” (Romans 1:23). Do you think Joan Osborne’s lyrical questions in any way resemble or affirm the great Christological passages of the New Testament? (John 1:1 ff.; Colossians 1:15-17; Philippians 2:5-11). By the way, these cited passages are comprised of theological statements extracted from early Christian hymns. Would the pub theology band sing them? I’d think they’d estimate that the lyrics of these biblical hymns are far too dogmatic, stodgy, and preachy for the “boys” at the bar!
Third, Pub Theology is not Christian outreach. To attain a “spiritual” end, it employs carnal, fleshly, and worldly means. But the apostle Paul wrote to the Ephesians, “And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:18-19). If the song “What if God was one of us?” gives any indication, probably none of the other music the band plays includes “psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs.”
The apostle Paul would not have employed carnal means to attain spiritual ends. You can’t fight fire with fire. He wrote:

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God.  (2 Corinthians 10:3-5; compare Galatians 5:21 where Paul labels “drunkenness” a work of the flesh).

So we conclude: Given the atmosphere surrounding Pub Theology, the description of love as it exists on a poster at “Sunday-night-church-in-a-bar” might be parodied to read: Now abide these four, “faith, hope, love, and beer,” but the greatest of these is beer!
Pastor Larry DeBruyn
Used with permission from Larry DeBruyn in 2009. Larry DeBruyn passed away in 2017.
Original posting – October 5, 2009
ENDNOTES
[1] Unless otherwise noted, all quotations are taken from Robert King, “Faith, Hope, Love, Beer,” The Indianapolis Star, September 27, 2009, A1, A14. Article may be viewed online. See Faith & Values, Robert King, “Pub Theology conveys Christian message in Broad Ripple,” IndyStar.com, September 27, 2009, http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009909270384.
[2] Lyrics online at: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/onehitwonders/ifgodwasoneofuslyrics.html.
Photo from bigstockphoto.com; used with permission.
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Key Players and Buzz Language 
of the Social-Justice “Gospel”

The following two lists are from Mary Danielsen’s booklet,The Dangerous Truth About the Social-Justice “Gospel” (see article below). It’s good to be aware of both the names and the language. (see video clip at bottom of these lists)

Some Key Players in the Social Gospel Movement*

Bill Hybels
Bono
Diane Butler Bass
Greg Boyd
Henri Nouwen
Ian Morgan Cron
Jim Wallis
Joan Chittister
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Leonard Sweet
Lynne Hybels
N.T. Wright
Phyllis Tickle
Richard Foster
Richard Niebuhr
Richard Rohr
Rick Warren
Ron Sider
Shane Claiborne
St. Thomas Acquinas
Thomas Merton
Tony Blair
Tony Campolo
Tony Jones
Walter Rauschenbusch

Some Buzz Words in the Social Gospel Movement

Activist
Awakening
Biphobia
Christian Palestinianism
Colonialism/Imperialism
Common Ground
Conflict Resolution
Consumerism
Cultural Relevance
Dialogue
Distribution of wealth
Diversity
Environmental Stewardship
Ethnocentrism
Faith-based initiative programs
Feminism
Gay
Gender identity
Homophobia
Islamophobia
Justice
Missional
Multiplicity
Politics of Jesus
Progressive Christians
Progressive politics
Reconciliation
Red Letter Christians
Revolution
Social gospel
Social justice
Solidarity
Stewardship renewal
Tolerance

*Most of these names can be found on our site. Just type a name into our search engine on either the blog or the research site.
Below is a 10-minute video clip of one of Roger Oakland’s “Emerging Church lecture series.”

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Rob Bell’s ‘Love Wins’ Revealed ‘Startling’ Multitudes of People Backing Universalism: Professor

BY STOYAN ZAIMOV
SEE: https://www.christianpost.com/news/rob-bells-love-wins-revealed-startling-multitudes-of-people-backing-universalism-professor-227433/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
A modern Christianity professor and author who opposes universalism admitted that he was “startled” by how many people came out supporting the belief following Rob Bell’s 2011 book, Love Wins.
Michael McClymond, the author of The Devil’s Redemption: A New History and Interpretation of Christian Universalism, said in an interview with The Gospel Coalition posted last week that ever since he was a student he has been engaged with biblical studies on the topic of salvation.
“Several years ago what really surprised me was not Rob Bell’s book, Love Wins (2011), with its well-worn and hackneyed arguments. Instead, I was startled by the multitude of people I thereafter encountered holding that universalism was biblical and evangelical teaching,” said McClymond, who teaches at Saint Louis University in Missouri.
Bell is the founder and former pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Michigan, and has attracted significant controversy over his questioning of the traditional understanding of eternal punishment.
Although he is often associated with the term by critics, Bell has in the past insisted that he is not a universalist.
“No, if by universalist we mean there’s a giant cosmic arm that swoops everybody in at some point whether you want to be there or not,” Bell said back in 2011.
“That violates the laws of love and love is about freedom, it’s about choice, it’s about do you want to be there? Because that’s what would make it Heaven,” he added.
When it comes to the exclusivity and inclusivity of Christ, Bell said, “I think what happens is, especially for followers of Jesus, is there are sort of His exclusive claims that are often at the expense of the other things that He says … be careful because I’m doing something for everybody.”
He added: “How exactly that pans out, that’s God’s job.”
As he has in previous interviews on the subject, McClymond said that Christian universalism has grown in certain pockets of the church, however.
“The point I wish to make is that universalism is the way that many religiously believing people — and contemporary academic theologians especially — would like for the world to be. The world as we might wish it to be is one in which God’s grace extends to all persons without exception, and all persons freely and positively respond to it,” the professor argued.
When it comes to people who are tempted toward universalism, he said: “Human salvation is inherently a good thing, and thus salvation for all — if it turned out that way — would not be something that any Christian would or should object to. The New Testament calls on believers to share the Good News and to evangelize among all nations, and to do so under the most difficult of circumstances.”
He added, however, that as a theological author, he would “shudder at the thought of giving anyone false hope and false comfort, which in the book of Jeremiah is a distinguishing mark of the false prophet.”
“Beginning with God’s command to Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree in the garden, the whole of Scripture contains a message concerning ‘two ways’ — a way leading to life or reward, and another way leading to death or punishment. Because this idea of the ‘two ways” is so deeply rooted in the Bible, I would say that a church congregation that is Bible-preaching and Bible-reading will simply not entertain the idea of universalism,” he added.

BIG TECH HAS DEFINED CONSERVATISM AS “HATE SPEECH”~CONTINUES CENSORING MORE INDIVIDUALS & BUSINESSES


Big Tech Has Defined Conservatism as "Hate Speech"
BIG TECH HAS DEFINED CONSERVATISM AS “HATE SPEECH” 

How to silence your political opposition using this one simple trick

BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/big-tech-has-defined-conservatism-as-hate-speech/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
By corralling basic conservative opinions and beliefs under the umbrella of “hate speech,” social media giants have invented a new ploy to censor conservatives while claiming they are not censoring conservatives.
Nationalism, patriotism, populism, and Christianity are all now being treated as “hateful” by Big Tech.
These companies then engage in a form of legalese where they assert they are not banning people for their personal or political opinions, but because of violations of terms of service.
But the truth is that merely holding and expressing nationalist, populist, patriotic or Christian opinions and beliefs is deemed a “violation” because such beliefs have been subjectively defined as “hateful”.
For example, PayPal announced it was banning Infowars last week because Infowars had “promoted hate and discriminatory intolerance”.
In real terms, this meant that we had opposed the teaching of transgenderism to young children in schools and criticized political Islam.
Alex Jones was also de-platformed by every major Big Tech firm over spurious claims of “hateful” content that were never specifically quantified.
As the leaked Google meeting video illustrates, since November 2016, Big Tech vowed to use its vast power to squelch a movement that Silicon Valley elitists convinced themselves is based on “racism,” “xenophobia” and “extremism”.
By broadening the definition of “hate” to include any argument that challenges far-left progressive dogma, Big Tech has created an environment where the expression of any criticism of sexual lifestyles or belief systems, even if it doesn’t target individuals, can be defined as “harassment” or “hateful”.
This new definition has also been cemented with the aid of Democratic lawmakers like Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL), who demanded Facebook and YouTube ban Alex Jones and Infowars for ‘offensive’ and ‘hateful’ content for weeks before it happened.
The “hateful” tag also just happens to be very similar to the “harmful” term utilized by the Communist Chinese government to justify its purge of dissident content.
“China has shut down more than 4,000 websites and online accounts in a three-month campaign against “harmful” online information,” reports ChannelNewsAsia, adding that examples of “harmful” behavior include “spreading rumours” and spreading “improper values”.
Just like the term “hate,” these terms are so vague that virtually anything could be defined as “harmful” or “improper,” which in this case includes dissidents who criticize the government on social media.
Now we see the emergence of “hate facts,” where conservatives can accurately quote crime statistics about minority groups which are provably true, yet publicly sharing such facts becomes a bannable offense because they could be seen to portray minority groups in a negative light.
Tommy Robinson was suspended by Twitter for accurately pointing out that up to 90% of grooming gang culprits in the United Kingdom come from Bangladeshi or Pakistani communities. Despite this being an objective fact, merely expressing it became verboten because it contradicted with the progressive narrative that immigration can only ever be positive.
Mastercard also terminated its agreement with Robert Spencer over vague, non-defined claims that Spencer had posted “illegal content” and promoted violence, an assertion backed up with no actual examples whatsoever.
In reality, Spencer’s crime was to oppose radical Islam, the most violent belief system on the planet.
Until prominent conservatives and Trump administration officials realize that Big Tech is overtly hostile to the mere expression of basic conservative beliefs and is busy creating an environment where they will become increasingly less tolerable, the silencing of voices on the right will only accelerate.
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FINALLY: Executive Order To Investigate Big Tech
Brittany Pettibone Reports:
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Jack Dorsey of Twitter Confronted In Front Of Congress
 by Laura Loomer
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PayPal Dumps Alex Jones; Still Handles SPLC

BY R. CORT KIRKWOOD
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
PayPal finally joined other Big Tech giants in attacking Alex Jones and his Infowars empire, dumping the conservative conspiracy theorist from its site.
The leftist Internet purchasing platform, which handles buying and selling goods online, targeted Jones because he retails “hate speech.” This, we are told, violates PayPal’s policies.
The money-changing giant joined Apple, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter in waging war against Jones. The generalissimo in charge of the campaign was CNN’s senior media writer, Oliver Darcy.
No Policy Violation PayPal’s notice gave Jones 10 days to find a new vendor to handle payments, The New York Times reported. “PayPal handles all transactions, including credit cards, for the Infowars online store.”
Yet Paypal admitted Jones did nothing wrong. “PayPal said it had made its decision not because of any policy violation but because Infowars’ ‘promotion of hate and discrimination runs counter to our core value of inclusion.’”
Said PayPal, “Our values are the foundation for the decision we made this week.”
PayPal, it seems, has joined the other tech giants in a war to destroy Jones.
As The New American reported in multiple articles, Facebook and YouTube banned Jones, followed by Twitter, which had suspended him for only seven days after his tussle with leftist Darcy and Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Capitol Hill. That dust-up provoked Apple into dropping Jones’s Infowars app from its store. Before, Apple had stopped Jones from hawking his wares on iTunes.
Leading this charge was Darcy, an owlish fellow terrified into speechlessness when Jones confronted him on Capitol Hill. Darcy had harassed Facebook officials about Jones, repeatedly demanding answers to questions he had no business asking.
Questionable Groups Still On PayPal With Jones gone, PayPal can now concentrate on other organizations that use its platforms to raise money to peddle hatred, violence and murder.
Black Lives Matter chapters across the country raise money on PayPal. Yet BLM activists have waged an ideological war against police. A police officer in Baton Rouge sued BLM after someone at a BLM rally hit him in the head with a rock. A judge dismissed the suit on a technicality, but BLM was, ultimately, the organizer of the rally where the policeman was injured.
Another “charity” for which PayPal handles donations is Planned Parenthood, the federally-subsidized baby-killing operation. The organization retails extremist rhetoric to vilify those who oppose the mass murder of the unborn. PP performs some 321,000 “terminations” annually.
As well, PP sold fetal remains to two companies that pled guilty to retailing the macabre goods on the international market, and the House Select Panel on Infant Lives found that PP ran a major wholesale operation to profit on the fetal remains.
PP repeatedly lied to deny the truth. And its leftist allies helped.
PayPal Helps Fund SPLC Hate Another of PayPal’s beneficiaries is the Southern Poverty Law Center, the discredited leftist hate group that recently settled a defamation claim because it had falsely accused a Muslim of being an “extremist.” The settlement included a confession of wrongdoing and retraction.
SPLC’s record of smearing what it terms “extremists” is a long one. Two of its recent victims, as The New American reported, were Robert Spencer, who runs the Jihad Watch website, and David Horowitz.
Beyond them, however, SPLC’s smear of the Family Research Council (FRC) led to violence.
Relying on the SPLC’s designation of FRC as an anti-gay “extremist" organization, a terrorist walked into FRC's headquarters in Washington, D.C., and opened fire. The shooter told authorities that he relied on SPLC’s designation to choose FRC, and that he planned other attacks against conservatives.
Beyond that, SPLC has stashed nearly $100 million in offshore tax-free bank accounts.
A visit to the SPLC’s donation page shows that PayPal still handles the hate group’s donations, despite its long record of hate speech and smearing of conservatives, and ultimately, a “report” that encouraged a terrorist to attack a mainstream Christian group.
Perhaps PayPal should ban BLM, PP, and SPLC given that their “promotion of hate and discrimination runs counter to [their] core value of inclusion.”

GLOBALISTS & COMMUNISTS CONVERGE AT DAVOS SPONSORED TECH SUMMIT IN CHINA

The Summer Davos opened in the Chinese city of Tianjin on Wednesday. The theme of this annual meeting is “shaping innovative societies in the fourth industrial revolution.” During the summit, policymakers and business leaders will primarily focus on helping developing countries adopt revolutionary technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning while mitigating potential risks associated with them.
GLOBALISTS & COMMUNISTS CONVERGE AT DAVOS SPONSORED TECH SUMMIT IN CHINA 
BY WILLIAM F. JASPER
President Donald Trump has initiated a new round of tariffs on China, in response to what he has described as “economic aggression” against the United States by the Beijing regime. Meanwhile, top leaders of the U.S. and global business, technology, and banking communities were in China last week celebrating with the communist aggressors.  From September 18-20, the World Economic Forum (WEF) held its 12th Annual Meeting of the New Champions, under the theme, “Shaping Innovative Societies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” in Tianjin, China. The WEF has become a leading evangelization chorus for a New World Order, a globalist scheme for world government that has become the shared vision of billionaire elites at Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google, as well as their corporate counterparts in China.
Listed as “partners” for the event were such western corporate giants as Allianz, Bain & Company, Bank of America, Barclays, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BlackRock, BP, Chevron, Cisco, Citi, Credit Suisse, Dell Technologies, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Facebook, GE, Goldman Sachs, Google, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Morgan Stanley, PayPal, PepsiCo, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Thomson Reuters, UPS, Visa, Volkswagen, and Zurich Insurance Group. Joining them in this venture were Chinese titans Alibaba, Dentsu Group, China Minsheng Investment Group, Hanwha Energy Corporation, Huawei Technologies, Tsinghua Holdings Co., and more.
The three-day confab featured dozens of presentations, speeches, and panels on a wide range of topics by some of the world’s notables in science, technology, business, finance, education, culture, and politics. Notably absent from the WEF program, however, were any presentations dealing with China’s religious persecution, imprisonment of political dissenters, torture, genocide, censorship, internet policing, Orwellian surveillance, cyber espionage and sabotage, intellectual property theft, and numerous other totalitarian features of China’s communist dictatorship. That’s not surprising. After all, we wouldn’t want unnecessary mention of such embarrassing, mundane matters to sour the melodic clink of champagne glasses and the ka-ching of cash registers, would we?
Emperor’s New Clothes
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang kicked off the conference with a keynote speech and then sat down on stage for a question and answer session with WEF founder and chairman Klaus Schwab. The questions from Schwab and other participants were beyond polite, revealing an audience of cowards and sycophants unable and/or unwilling to muster a single challenging question concerning the 800 pound gorilla in the room that everyone pretended not to see: Communist China’s relentlessly oppressive Gestapo State and its continuing horrendous violations of human rights. This was an “Emperor’s New Clothes” moment, but there was no guileless child in attendance to point out the naked truth to the willfully blind adults.
The closest Li got to a challenging question was a timid query about China’s progress on “IPR,” meaning intellectual property rights. This gave him an opportunity to launch into a rhapsody about China’s innovation, government reform and “contributions to the progress of humanity.”
“As China embraces the world with open arms,” Li Keqiang expounded grandiloquently, “we also welcome entrepreneurs, scientists and people in other sectors around the world to participate in China’s development with an open mind, so that together, we can make joint contributions to the progress of humanity. Let me reassure you that China is firmly committed to protecting IPR, as we know that innovation is supported by ideas, which generates property rights.”
That all sounds very nice and undoubtedly soothes whatever consciences the WEF elites have, but Chinese leaders have been mouthing the same nothings for decades, always promising to reform, but never delivering. As James Murphy reported for The New American on June 21 and 22, (see here and here), new reports from federal agencies and intelligence officials show that, far from reforming, Beijing is doubling down on many of its most troubling trade practices and forms of economic aggression. He quotes a recent U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission report that notes “China appears to be conducting a campaign of commercial espionage against U.S. companies involving … human infiltration to systematically penetrate the information systems of U.S. companies to steal their intellectual property, devalue them and acquire them at dramatically reduced prices.” He cites also a 200-page report issued in March by the Office of the United States Trade Representative detailing the unfair and underhanded trade policies of the Chinese government.
Naturally, the American “mainstream” news media were either AWOL on the WEF summit, or were complicit in presenting it, essentially, as rip-and-read PR releases from China’s Communist Party propagandists.
Among the articles CNBC carried on the Tianjin conference, for instance, was one titled “Everyone could learn from China’s tech policies, World Economic Forum says,” by CNBC staff writer Evelyn Cheng. “The World Economic Forum is looking to China for ideas on how governments can appropriately regulate the technologies of the future,” Cheng writes. “The organization, which runs the annual conference of world leaders in Davos, Switzerland, announced Wednesday it is launching a hub in Beijing for government officials, businesses and academics to come up with suggestions for future policies on developments such as artificial intelligence.”
“The group in the communist country will mark the third location of the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which opened in San Francisco in March 2017,” Cheng reports, noting that a WEF hub was opened in Tokyo in July, and another is scheduled to open in Mumbai, India, in October.
“We can’t use 20th century models for 21st century technology,” Murat Sonmez, head of the WEF’s Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, said in an interview with CNBC. “We have a lot to learn from China as well,” he said. “China represents a huge opportunity for the rest of the world to see what’s coming.” A lot to learn from China’s mass-murdering, genocidal, police state communist overlords? That is “what’s coming,” according to the WEF planners”? And we should happily embrace this 21st Century model?
Like most of the rest of the “journalists” reporting on the WEF event, Cheng does not reveal even the slightest glimmer of concern that the economic movers and shakers of the western world are head-over-heels in love with China’s totalitarian model of government. She makes little effort to temper this infatuation with readily available facts regarding the dystopian “future” that is already a reality in the People’s Republic of China.
Cheng, apparently, has some inkling of this reality, but any sensible inclination she might have in the direction of concern about the impact of omnipotent government on human freedom, is obviously overcome by a sense of duty to conform to the party line. “While China is one of the most controlling states in the world,” she writes, “the national government has let some sectors such as internet companies thrive relatively unrestricted.”
China is indeed “one of the most controlling states in the world,” but the remainder of the sentence following that clause is doubly deceptive. First of all, for the many uninformed readers who are unfamiliar with life in China, it seems to imply that internet usage there is “relatively unrestricted.” However, surely Ms. Cheng is fully aware of the draconian internet censorship imposed by the Great Firewall of China.
The Communist Party-run government allows certain internet companies to “thrive relatively unrestricted” because they are “National Champions” that are given special treatment in order to serve the state. Many of these privileged corporations are state owned enterprises (SOEs), which means they are literally extensions of the communist government. Besides being shielded from competition, they are lavishly funded, exempted from many taxes and regulations, and assisted by all the agencies of government. Other Chinese companies may officially not be  SOEs and may advertise themselves as “private,” but have close ties, nonetheless, to the Communist Party power structure and enjoy assistance, exemptions, and privileges not available to truly private companies in a genuine free market. Besides, in China’s opaque economy, it is impossible to know what the actual relationships are among corporate leaders and government officials. Thus, Chinese internet giants Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, Sina, QQ, and Taobao — all ostensibly private companies –are protected from foreign competitors, who are blocked from operation in China. Tencent’s Pony Ma Huateng, Alibaba’s Jack Ma, Baidu’s Robin Li Yanhong and other Chinese tech billionaires will continue to enjoy their privileged status as long as they continue to serve the Party. Should they step out of line, they would soon learn the truth of the old adage, “Today’s peacock, tomorrow’s feather duster.” Over the past several years, a string of princelings and peacocks have disappeared into Chinese prisons. Some have even been executed. Such are the perils that go with being a “National Champion” in Communist China. Heedless of these perils, the corporate elites of the WEF continue to eagerly embrace the ideas of central planning and government-corporate collaboration at the heart of China’s despotic system.
In 2017, President Xi Jinping became the first Chinese head of state to attend the World Economic Forum’s annual big bash in Davos, Switzerland. This year, in its pivot to Asia, the WEF also held a conference in Hanoi with ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) September 11-13. The extravaganza was hosted by the Communist government of Vietnam, which rivals China both in repressive prowess and in its eagerness to have western companies and governments build the economic and technical bases that they are already using against us, and that they intend to weaponize against us even further in the future.
Next week, the WEF will be holding its Sustainable Development Impact Summit in New York City, September 24-25. The WEF summit has been deliberately timed to promote the United Nations schemes for global control and to undercut President Trump’s agenda when he addresses the UN General Assembly. According to the WEF website, “The second annual Sustainable Development Impact Summit takes place in New York on 24-25 September to drive solutions for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Paris Agreement on climate change.” It has also announced it will be using the event to push for the UN Global Compacts for Migration and on Refugees.
President Trump, of course, is out of step with the WEF elites on all of these issues. So, expect the WEF to use the two-day event as an opportunity to marshal a huge contingent of “experts” who will flood the Fake News channels and op-ed pages with condemnations of Trump’s America First agenda, and propaganda in favor of the UN’s program for “global governance.”
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KAVANAUGH AND LAST-MINUTE ACCUSATIONS~DEMOCRATS PULL OUT 
ALL THE STOPS 
BY JOSEPH KLEIN
Democrats are pulling out all the stops and enabling salacious last-minute accusations against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh in order to sink his candidacy. Now that Christine Blasey Ford has finally agreed to testify this Thursday at an open hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding her charge that Judge Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a long-ago high school party, these new charges have suddenly emerged from left field.
On Sunday, a former classmate from Judge Kavanaugh’s time at Yale accused the Supreme Court nominee of exposing himself to her at a party. The New Yorker has just published an article written by Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer, based on information that was reportedly sent to at least four Democratic senators. The article recounted a claim by Deborah Ramirez, a Yale classmate of Brett Kavanaugh’s, concerning “a dormitory party gone awry.” As the article acknowledged, however, “her memories contained gaps because she had been drinking at the time of the alleged incident.” The article goes on to say that in her initial conversations with The New Yorker, Ms. Ramirez was “reluctant to characterize Kavanaugh’s role in the alleged incident with certainty.” It was only after “six days of carefully assessing her memories and consulting with her attorney” that Ms. Ramirez was suddenly able to pinpoint Judge Kavanaugh as having committed an unsavory act, even though she admitted being “foggy” at the time. The New Yorker article also noted that the magazine “has not confirmed with other eyewitnesses that Kavanaugh was present at the party.”
Meanwhile, the ever-present Michael Avenatti, attorney of porn star Stormy Daniels, tweeted that he had information from anonymous sources that Judge Kavanaugh and his friend had “targeted” women with drugs and alcohol at parties to facilitate “gang rape.” 
Haters of Judge Kavanaugh are turning the process of Senate confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee into something worse than a travesty. His opponents in the Senate have transformed their “advise and consent” function into a campaign of no-holds-barred character assassination.


While Judge Kavanaugh weathers these latest accusations, which he adamantly denies, his real test will be on Thursday, assuming that Christine Blasey Ford will follow through on her agreement to testify at an open hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Her attorneys stalled for a week before making the announcement that Ms. Ford would testify despite certain “unresolved” issues. Among the issues Ms. Ford’s attorneys have raised was the refusal of the committee to subpoena one of the purported witnesses, Mark Judge, who Ms. Ford reportedly claims was involved in the alleged incident, as well as “who on the Majority side will be asking the questions, whether senators or staff attorneys.”
A week has already gone by since Ms. Ford went public with her story in an interview with the Washington Post while Ms. Ford and her attorneys stalled for time. They raised one procedural issue after another while claiming that the committee majority was “bullying” Ms. Ford. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-I) has bent over backwards to accommodate Ms. Ford’s preferred scheduling for her appearance. He extended the deadline several times for her to come to a decision on whether to testify at all. He had offered various options for her to testify publicly or privately or to be interviewed by committee staff in her home state of California, whichever setting would make her more comfortable. However, in Senator Grassley’s e-mail thanking Ms. Ford for finally agreeing to a time certain for her testimony, Senator Grassley correctly reminded her attorneys that “the committee determines which witnesses to call, how many witnesses to call, and what order to call them and who will question them. These are non-negotiable.”
While the negotiations with Ms. Ford’s attorneys for her testimony were underway, Democrats were sitting on the latest allegations, ready to pounce as soon as Ms. Ford’s accusation was about to be heard. Some Democrats are already using the Ramirez episode to push anew for a fresh FBI investigation and to postpone Thursday’s scheduled hearing.
Ideally, if the Democrats cannot apply enough pressure to force a withdrawal of Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination through their relentless campaign of character assassination, they want to push any Senate votes until after the midterm elections at the earliest. Then they will claim that the newly elected senators should be involved in the confirmation decision. In the meantime, Judge Kavanaugh’s adversaries in the Senate, the mainstream media and progressive circles continue to bludgeon Judge Kavanaugh in the court of public opinion. All of their stratagems are an obvious attempt to buy time in order to persuade any wavering senators that Judge Kavanaugh is too tainted by sexual assault charges – whether proven or not – to sit on the Supreme Court.
Proof does not matter to those wanting to bring Judge Kavanaugh down at any cost. Regarding Ms. Ford’s accusation, they know that the proof so far is non-existent, aside from Ms. Ford’s own assertions contained in her confidential letter given to Senator Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, last July, and in her Washington Post interview. While a redacted version of Ms. Ford’s letter has been published, Senator Feinstein has refused to date to give even Senator Grassley a copy of the completely unredacted version. The FBI has already conducted 6 background checks, no federal crime is alleged, and there is no forensic evidence to investigate after 30 years at a site that Ms. Ford cannot even identify.
What we do know so far tends to undercut the credibility of Ms. Ford’s accusation. Ms. Ford cannot corroborate her decades-old charge of sexual assault against Judge Kavanaugh. Whatever corroboration Ms. Ford was hoping for from “witnesses” she claimed were at the alleged party is non-existent. The individuals she reportedly named in her unredacted confidential letter given to Senator Feinstein have either denied being at such a party or do not recollect what Ms. Ford has alleged. Moreover, by her own admission to the Washington Post, Ms. Ford “said she does not remember some key details of the incident.” She does not remember, for example, where it happened, how the party came together in the first place, or how she got home after the alleged incident. She believes the alleged incident occurred during the summer of 1982, but reportedly could not be more precise on the day or even the month of the party.
Afraid that Ms. Ford’s sexual assault allegation could be readily challenged and anxious to establish some sort of pattern of sexual misconduct beyond this single alleged incident, the Kavanaugh haters have latched onto Ms. Ramirez’s story.
The New York Times published an op-ed column last week by a psychiatrist, Richard A. Friedman, who cited neurological science to conclude that Ms. Ford’s claim that she has “a vivid memory of an attack that took place when she was 15” is “credible.” The reason, he wrote, is that “memories formed under the influence of intense emotion — such as the feelings that accompany a sexual assault — are indelible in the way that memories of a routine day are not.” The only problem with Dr. Friedman’s thesis is that Ms. Ford has apparently forgotten such key details surrounding the alleged sexual assault as when and where it happened and how she got home. Moreover, when Ms. Ford finally told someone about the incident in any detail some 30 years later in 2012, during a couples therapy session with her husband, she did not name Judge Kavanaugh specifically, according to the therapist’s notes that Ms. Ford had provided to the Washington Post in connection with her interview. The Washington Post reported that the therapist’s notes it reviewed “do not mention Kavanaugh’s name but say she reported that she was attacked by students ‘from an elitist boys’ school’ who went on to become ‘highly respected and high-ranking members of society in Washington.’”
Ms. Ramirez’s story is even less credible. It took an attorney and six days of very belated reflection to help revive her memory of an incident she claimed happened while she herself was very drunk.
Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), one of Judge Kavanaugh’s fiercest critics who told men to “shut up” regarding Ms. Ford’s allegations, said she doubts Judge Kavanaugh’s credibility because of “how he approaches his cases.” Aside from mischaracterizing the constitutional textualist reasoning underlying Judge Kavanaugh’s opinions, she is saying that she does not believe Judge Kavanaugh’s denial of the sexual misconduct allegations lodged against him because of the opinions he wrote that she does not like. Such circular “reasoning” would be amusing if it were not so emblematic of what one writer called “Kavanaugh Derangement Syndrome.” Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is also suffering from the same syndrome. She said Thursday regarding Ms. Ford: “I believe her because she is telling the truth and you know it by her story.”
Ms. Ford’s supporters are exploiting the “Me Too” movement to declare Judge Kavanaugh guilty simply because Ms. Ford is a woman who has made what they call, without any corroborating evidence to date, a “credible” charge. The same would presumably be the case for Ms. Ramirez. They argue that since the Senate Judiciary Committee is not a criminal judicial trial, but rather a legislative hearing for confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee, the normal burden of proof shouldered by the accuser should not apply. Judge Kavanaugh should have to prove that he is not guilty, they are in effect insisting. This is another case of Kavanaugh Derangement Syndrome.
Let’s assume for the sake of argument that the normal burden on the prosecution in a criminal case – to prove the accused’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt – is not applicable regarding the charge against Judge Kavanaugh since he is not a defendant in a criminal trial. However, that should not flip the burden of proof onto Judge Kavanaugh altogether. Judge Kavanaugh is being subjected to charges of a criminal nature that could not only deprive him of a seat on the Supreme Court for which he is otherwise eminently qualified. Ms. Ford’s unsubstantiated accusation can completely destroy Judge Kavanaugh’s life by causing irreparable damage to his reputation for integrity and good character and to his career, which he has built up during decades of public service. His family’s lives have been completely upended. Placing the burden on Judge Kavanaugh to prove that he was not involved in an uncorroborated incident from years ago, about which even his accuser does not recall key details, turns the fundamental constitutional principle of due process upside down. Ms. Ford should have the burden to prove her accusations by at least a preponderance of all the evidence presented.
This charade must come to an end. No more extensions for Ms. Ford to come forward and testify. If Ms. Ford does not follow through with her agreement to testify in an open Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this Thursday and do so upon the conditions set by the committee, she should go home while the committee proceeds to an immediate vote on Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination. If Ms. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh do testify, the senators deciding on whether to confirm Judge Kavanaugh as well as the American public following the testimony must remember one cardinal rule. In a nation guided by fairness and law, a person is innocent until proven guilty. Sadly, many of Judge Kavanaugh’s haters have thrown that rule aside.
If Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination is pulled as a result of the smears and character assassination, President Trump should immediately nominate someone on his short list such as Amy Coney Barrett and the Senate Republican majority should then push through the new nominee’s confirmation as soon as possible. Delay is not an option.
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Another Witness Denies Kavanaugh Accuser’s Claim, 

as Testimony Is Set for Thursday

EXCERPTS:
“One of Ford’s excuses for the delay was that she is claustrophobic and fears flying and must drive or take the train from California.”
“Shockingly, Grassley not only permitted Ford’s attorney to control when Ford would testify, but also surrendered the right to control the hearing itself, as the Times reported: “While the negotiations over Dr. Blasey’s testimony seemed to gain momentum, they could still falter over the details, which include who will question her.””
“Keyser’s attorney answered: “Simply put, Ms. Keyser does not know Mr. Kavanaugh and she has no recollection of ever being at a party or gathering where he was present, with, or without, Dr. Ford.””
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Who Will Testify First? Kavanaugh or His Accuser?

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STOP APPEASING THE DEMOCRATS

Appeasing an aggressor invites only more aggression.

EXCERPT:
“But in the face of this naked ploy to bork Kavanaugh and derail the confirmation process for partisan advantage, the Republicans seem to be reverting to their customary preemptive cringe. All the Dems have to do is squeal “sexism” and Republicans start negotiating and offering concessions. Of course, after each concession comes another demand.”
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THE FEMINIST CULT OF VICTIMHOOD

Protesters play political dress-up to deny reality.

BY DAWN PERLMUTTER
SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271385/feminist-cult-victimhood-dawn-perlmutterrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Christine Blasey Ford is the latest poster child in the feminist cult of victimhood. She achieved that status by claiming she was physically attacked at a high school party by Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh three decades ago. She immediately became the perfect useful idiot whose false memories and false allegations are being fully exploited to postpone the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh. She is the latest symbol of oppression among anti-Trump women activists. Instead of characteristics like honor, integrity and courage, feminist heroines must first and foremost be victims, real or imagined.
The current feminist movement has become a cult of angry miserable women recruited by the guru of man hating misery Hillary Clinton. There are certain predisposing factors that facilitate recruitment into cults. These factors typically include: a desire to belong, impaired capacity for critical thinking, disillusionment, dissatisfaction, idealism, lack of self-confidence and a desire for meaning in one’s life. Thousands of vulnerable unhappy women were ripe for recruitment into the cult of women activists. Now thoroughly indoctrinated in anti-Trump hatred they have been brainwashed, organized and unleashed on the public. Their goal is to destroy the Trump administration, their strategy is resistance and their tactics are accusation, disinformation, and extortion. Christine Blasey Ford’s attempt to politically assassinate Kavanaugh can be likened to the Manson cult followers who were sent out to start ‘Helter Skelter’, an apocalyptic race war initiated by murdering influential white people.
Cults often like to create a recognizable visual identity. This is often accomplished with uniform clothing that functions as a recognizable symbol of the group. The latest popular outfit of women’s rights activists are full length scarlet robes and puritanical white bonnets. Always seeking attention these women have hung up their Women’s March ‘pussy hats’ to dress up as characters from ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. Groups of feminist protesters have been dressing in creepy cult-like ankle-length red dresses and cloaks, red gloves and white bonnets during protests in courthouses, government building and other public places. The uniforms signify their new-found identity and purpose in life in their Anti-Trump sisterhood.
The red cloak cult uniforms are the same costumes worn in Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel-turned TV series The Handmaid’s Tale. The novel is set in a near-future theocratic dictatorship called the Republic of Gilead, where the North American population is significantly decreasing. It is a patriarchal religious society that imposed severe limits to freedom and women’s rights in an effort to increase fertility rates. There is a strict caste system and women are the property of and subordinate to their husband, father, or head of household. They are not allowed to vote, hold a job, read, possess money, or own anything, among many other restrictions. Handmaids sole function is to have babies and they are forced to participate in ritualized rape ceremonies. Red robed protesters equate the Trump Administration to the fictional Republic of Gilead and cite the Handmaid’s Tale as a cautionary tale about what happens when women lose their reproductive rights.
Women activists around the world are wearing the red robes as a visual symbol for women’s rights, abortion rights and the fight against policies and politicians they accuse of restricting those rights. In the U.S. their primary target is the Trump administration. They have specifically targeted Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh. On September 4th a dozen activists dressed in handmaids’ uniforms stood outside Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing room to protest his ‘anti-abortion, anti-healthcare, and anti-women views,” noting that he is an “extremist ideologue who, if confirmed to the Supreme Court, will take away women’s basic rights.” These statements and others including Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations clearly demonstrate that many of these women have trouble distinguishing reality from fiction.
Feminists love symbolism especially if they can wear it. It makes them feel important, sophisticated and of course makes playtime more fun. The Handmaids Tale is chock full of symbolism. The clothing, language and iconography from the book and TV series support all their favorite grievances; class, race and gender discrimination, subjugation of women, reproductive rights, a tyrannical religious patriarchal society and much more. Fortunately, part of their protests involves remaining silent as a method to give the demonstration more impact and to symbolize that women of the future may not have a voice. The positive thing about these silent protests is that the rest of us do not have to be subjected to their big mouths, illogical arguments, slogans and vulgar comments, all of which were on full display at the Women’s Marches. Another benefit of the red robe uniform is that it covers the women. We are not exposed to 200-pound middle aged women squeezing into a handmade giant vagina outfit or parading around topless with slogans written across their naked chests.
These privileged neurotic women seem to have an endless amount of spare time to whine, complain and design new protest costumes. They are like real life Barbie dolls that can’t wait to wear the hottest new protest outfit. Perhaps while sewing their daughter’s latest princess costume they decided they wanted to play dress up also. Because that is what children do. Live in make-believe worlds, engage in magical thinking and are always looking for imaginary monsters under their bed. They invent stories to support their fantasy oppressions regardless of whose life they ruin. They crave attention the way drug addicts crave heroin and they get recruited into cults to give their boring lives meaning.
While these so-called feminists are playing dress up to symbolize fake oppression based on Hollywood fiction, real women are forced to wear robes, cover their heads and keep silent. In real life the handmaids robe is called a burqa, niqab, abaya, chador or hijab and women are forced to wear it every day of their life not just during protest playtime. If they take it off they are beaten, blinded, doused in acid, mutilated and murdered. These women are living under real patriarchal tyrannies, not some futuristic Hollywood novel. Feminist protesters get to go home and take off the uncomfortable restrictive costumes that they wore for three hours while millions of women do not have that freedom of choice.
While Christine Blasey Ford is seeing a therapist over her imaginary rape, there are hundreds of victims of refugee rape gangs, honor violence and sexual trafficking that suffer real trauma from real rape, torture and slavery. Some of these horrors have been detailed in The Refugee Rape Gangs of Sweden and Hijab Shame: Rape, Murder and Loss of Face. Christine Blasey Ford is the epitome of the modern feminist movement, she is a selfish neurotic privileged child. Women in the cult of victimhood all seem to suffer from arrested development and are thoroughly enabled by the liberal press who similarly prefer fiction to reality. The liberal media has published dozens of articles on the handmaid’s protests describing them as “one of the most powerful current feminist symbols of protest” encouraging their infantile grievances. The same liberal media is fully supportive of Christine’s delusions yet refuse to report on Muslim rape gangs, female genital mutilation, child marriages, honor killings and lack of basic human rights for fear of being politically incorrect.
Christine Blasey Ford’s 1995 dissertation was entitled ‘Measuring Young Children’s Coping Responses to Interpersonal Conflict’. Interesting topic since it appears that she is dealing with her own childhood coping mechanisms. As a psychologist she should know that there is a significant distinction between repressed memories in cases of alleged sexual abuse and false memories. She apparently is just one of the many women activists in the feminist cult of victimhood who invent past trauma and hurl accusations as a method to seek attention and relief from their own unhappiness. These perpetual victims always blame their misery for what they think some man did to them or what the world owes them. President Trump represents every man that disappointed them; their husband, boyfriend, father, brother, son, boss, therapist, teacher, etc. They project all their bitter, angry, bottomless black pit of discontent onto President Trump because his policies compel them to grow up, face reality, take responsibility and contribute to society.
Handmaid protesters are part of a larger organization called the Handmaids Coalition. The coalition is a collection of activist groups that have staged women’s rights protests while wearing the red cult uniforms. Their Facebook page just updated its profile picture to a large pink button that reads “I believe Christine Blasey Ford”. The page claims that Christine has received death threats and had to hire private security. This increases her victimhood street cred which gives her more status in the cult. Subsequently the Handmaids Coalition created a fund to cover her security expenses. These delusional feminists continue to portray Christine Blasey Ford as a victim while refusing to acknowledge the harsh realities of real victims of rape and human trafficking. Ironically, the Handmaids Coalition motto is ‘fighting to keep fiction from becoming reality’, which effectively summarizes their philosophy of life and the problem with it.

TRUMP PLANNING MASS ARRESTS, MILITARY TRIBUNALS FOR DEEP STATE TRAITORS

EMERGENCY REPORT: Trump Planning Mass Arrests, Military Tribunals for Deep State Traitors

NEW WORLD ORDER: 

The Main Goal of THE Deep State

With Project Veritas exposing the Deep State through the infiltration of the radical leftists at the Democratic Socialists of America, we explore the Deep State’s end goal: a New World Order in in this episode of Analysis Behind the News.
eMERGENCY REPORT: TRUMP PLANNING MASS ARRESTS, MILITARY TRIBUNALS FOR 

DEEP STATE TRAITORS

Comey, McCabe, Clinton and Obama in the administration’s crosshairs

BY MIKE ADAMS
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/emergency-report-trump-planning-mass-arrests-military-tribunals-for-deep-state-traitors/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
As the documents cited here clearly show, President Trump is planning to carry out mass arrests of deep state traitors, including Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, James Comey and even Barack Obama.
This is fully covered, with accompanying documentation from the U.S. Federal Register, in the links and video below. (This author is fully supportive of this effort to save America and arrest the traitors.)
The confirmation of Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court is the key to getting this done in a timely manner, which explains why the deranged Left is going to such outrageous extremes to fabricate false allegations against Kavanaugh and stage coordinated, well-funded protests to try to block the U.S. Senate from confirming him.
Once Kavanaugh is on the court, it will add the necessary support for constitutional “emergency powers” that concentrate power in the executive branch of government (currently headed by President Trump) during times of war and national emergencies.
FACT: The United States has been operating under a state of declared war since September, 2001, following the 9/11 attacks.
FACT: The United States has been operating under a declared national emergency, signed by President Trump, since December 20, 2017 (see proof document, below).
In this detailed video analysis, I lay out the evidence for President Trump’s plan to issue mass arrests of deep state traitors, then try them for treason under military tribunals. This is justified and lawful because the acts being committed against the United States of America by deep state traitors are acts of treason during a time of declared war. It is no coincidence that President Trump has deliberately funded the U.S. Pentagon with its most massive budgets ever conceived. This is because the Pentagon has agreed to run the military arrests of deep state traitors, under the direction of the Commander-In-Chief, President Trump.
President Trump, I believe, has decided to go to bat for America and utterly destroy the anti-American deep state crime ring that has been working for years to destroy this nation and end its national sovereignty. This will be Trump’s legacy. He may not even run for re-election after 2020, since his entire plan to arrest the traitors and restore the rule of law in America will require him to step aside once certain goals are accomplished (see detailed explanation below).
Note that in order to accomplish this, President Trump will need to declare temporary martial law. He will need our support during this time to maintain order and civility across the nation as the arrests and trials of deep state traitors are under way. We should all expect mass violence and chaos from the Left, which is following the “Rules for Radicals,” a blueprint for communist revolts and violent overthrow attempts of governments.
See the documents for yourself… this is all posted on the U.S. Federal Register government website
Here are the links to the documents cited in this comprehensive video:
Document #1Executive Order 13818, signed December 20, 2017. “Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption”
This document specifically describes the crimes of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, James Comey and Robert Mueller under the “corruption” section, alluding to the Uranium One scandal and Obama’s multi-billion dollar money laundering operation that handed nuclear weapons capabilities to Iran. It says that the executive order targets, “any foreign person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General… to be a current or former government official, or a person acting for or on behalf of such an official, who is responsible for or complicit in, or has directly or indirectly engaged in… corruption, including the misappropriation of state assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain, corruption related to government contracts or the extraction of natural resources, or bribery…”
This describes precisely what Clinton, Comey, Mueller, Obama, Brennan, McCabe and others carried out under the Obama regime. These are more than just felony federal crimes; they are acts of treason against the United States of America, carried out during a time of declared war.
From that document, here is President Trump’s declared national emergency:
I therefore determine that serious human rights abuse and corruption around the world constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.
Document #2Executive Order 13618, signed July 6, 2012 by President Obama. “Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions”
This executive order grants the President absolute control over all U.S. media, including internet tech giants (social media), news networks and news websites. It specifically names:
…communications that support Continuity of Government; Federal, State, local, territorial, and tribal emergency preparedness and response communications; non-military executive branch communications systems; critical infrastructure protection networks; and non-military communications networks, particularly with respect to prioritization and restoration…
Document #3Executive Order 13825, signed March 1, 2018. “2018 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States”
Although much more difficult to read, this document essentially establishes the preservation of the government’s right to prosecute crimes of treason and deep state collusion against America, all of which may be prosecuted via military tribunals under existing U.S. law.
This would allow deep state traitors to be arrested by military police and subjected to military trials run by the Pentagon, completely bypassing the corrupt court system which has been deliberately stacked with complicit deep state traitors and “resistance” judges.
To accomplish this, President Trump must announce temporary martial law
For the record, I wholly support this effort to arrest and prosecute the thousands of deep state traitors who have become a cancer upon America. Were you aware that James Comey was a communist? John Brennan, of course, has remained a communist for his entire adult life, and Barack Obama was a radical Muslim who despised America and worked every day to undermine it through a variety of nefarious means (including allowing U.S. military encryption technology to be captured by Iran via the U.S. drone “GPS spoofing” incident).
For starters, Barack Obama personally authorized the illegal “spygate” spying on Trump campaign officials. Barack Obama also allowed China to hack 21 million U.S. military personnel records, effectively dumping the entire U.S. Pentagon database into the hands of Communist China.
For a full, detailed explanation of Obama’s treasonous crimes against America, watch this extremely important video from REAL.video (it has been banned from YouTube for obvious reasons):
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Brennan, Andrew McCabe, Loretta Lynch, Peter Strzok and a long list of other traitors have been conspiring for years to destroy America from within and see it replaced with a communist regime run by authoritarian globalists. Tech giants like Apple, Google and Facebook are all part of the plan, which is exactly why you’ve seen every one of them working closely with China to roll out authoritarian techno-tyranny infrastructure systems that plan to enslave every citizen of the world, making them powerless and obedient to a globalist technocracy that runs the “one world government.”
Trump’s plan to rescue America from the globalists will require temporary martial law
In order to halt this global dictatorship and defend America against traitors who are working to destroy it, President Trump must carry out the following actions:
1) Achieve the release of the declassified, unredacted deep state documents from within the FBI and DOJ that will reveal the full extent of deep state treason against America. (The FBI and DOJ are currently stalling this effort, furthering their treason against America and proving they have a lot to hide.) Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff and Warner have already committed acts of treason in calling on the FBI and DOJ to defy this presidential order.
2) Invoke the national emergency powers which are constitutionally granted to the executive branch of government. (Technically, this already happened in 2017.)
3) Invoke President Obama’s executive order 13618 and seize control of Google, Facebook, CNN, Washington Post and the New York Times to halt the treasonous lies, coordinated election fraud and political coup attempt which is being run by all these traitors of America.
4) Use all controlled communications channels to publicly declare the details of the crimes (and criminal actors) which have been committed against America. Disclose everything to the America people about how their country had been overrun and destroyed from within.
5) Order military police to find and arrest thousands of deep state traitors who have been deliberately undermining America from within. This will include hundreds of people inside the FBI and DOJ, plus hundreds more in the State Department and other agencies. Arrests must also include traitorous, corrupt federal judges who have deliberately undermined America by, for example, blocking Trump’s constitutional travel ban to protect America from enemy terrorists. Many traitors will attempt to flee the country, of course, and they will need to be located and brought to justice like former Nazi war criminals.
6) Issue an executive order demanding national voter ID for all future elections. No longer will America tolerate democracy being stolen by the votes of illegals who are granted voting rights by California and other complicit, anti-America states or cities.
7) Suspend elections during the military tribunals, but lay out a timeline for the restoration of elections and nationwide voting (with voter ID in place) to restore the rule of law and give America back to the American people.
8) Deploy the U.S. military along the southern border. Use the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build the wall.
9) Promise to resign the presidency once the rule of law is restored in America, signaling to the American people that Trump plans to hand over power to the next elected President within a reasonable time period. Americans will rightly be concerned about martial law morphing into a military dictatorship. Trump needs to assure the American people that his job is to destroy the deep state, restore the rule of law, then get out of the way and retire as the greatest U.S. President in history — the President who saved America from traitors and communists.
The American people will not tolerate a permanent military dictatorship in America, but they will tolerate temporary martial law needed to drain the swamp, arrest the traitors and restore the rule of law.
During this time, by the way, the entire FBI likely needs to be disbanded and rebuilt from scratch. The agency’s credibility has been utterly destroyed by the actions of James Comey, Peter Strzok and others.
Watch the full video explaining all this in detail:

ACTIVISTS CALL FOR NEED TO ADDRESS NORTH KOREAN HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES

FILE - Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division, attends a press conference in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, March 12, 2015.
FILE – Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia division, attends a press conference in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, March 12, 2015.
ACTIVISTS CALL FOR NEED TO ADDRESS 
NORTH KOREAN HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
BY STEVE MILLER
SEE: https://www.voanews.com/a/korean-human-rights-and-unification/4584410.htmlrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
South Korean President Moon Jae-in claimed success following his three-day summit in North Korea last week, where he was able to secure agreements from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on a variety of inter-Korean projects and revitalize denuclearization talks. However, as the president openly speaks about a new era of peace and prosperity, absent from the discussion has been the North’s human rights abuses.
A 2014 United Nations Office of Human Rights’ Commission of Inquiry report found “systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations” in North Korea that in many instances constituted crimes against humanity.
“The gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a state that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world,” it added, calling North Korea a state that “seeks to dominate every aspect of its citizens’ lives and terrorizes them from within.”
In a statement, South Korea’s presidential office said President Moon will relay the outcomes of the third inter-Korean at the 73rd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and plans to work closely with the international community to develop a new vision of peace and prosperity on the Korean peninsula.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pose for photographs on the top of Mt. Paektu, North Korea, Sept. 20, 2018.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pose for photographs on the top of Mt. Paektu, North Korea, Sept. 20, 2018.

Moon’s office added South Korea is ready and willing to assume “key roles on the major issues facing the international society such as peace and security, human rights, development, and humanitarian assistance, and climate change; we would like to increase the cooperation with UN and global society.”
Human rights not part of current discussions
But human rights advocate tell VOA that while positive steps toward peace, reconciliation, and eventual reunification of the peninsula are positive, human rights discussions are not part of the agenda.
Despite the agreements reached between the South and North outlined in the April Panmunjom and September Pyongyang Declarations, Executive director Greg Scarlatoiu with the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea said human rights policies aren’t involved in Seoul’s approach to reconciliation with the North.
“There is absolutely no mention of North Korea’s abysmal human rights violations,” said Scarlatoiu.
Phil Robertson, Deputy Asia director for Human Rights Watch, did note one exception, “the important humanitarian reunification between the separated families.”
South Korea’s Ministry of Unification administers the Council on North Korean Human Rights and “works closely together with other agencies.” The ministry said it will “establish the basic plan for the promotion of human rights in North Korea, and its implementation plan, and carry out relevant policies systematically.”
In an email to VOA, the unification ministry writes, “The government places emphasis on human rights in the notion of universal value and ethnicity, and strives to continuously improve the quality of life for North Koreans.”
“The [Pyongyang] Joint Declaration of September contains numbers of agreements on inter-Korean exchanges and easing military tensions. If the agreements are well carried out, it will contribute to not only the improvement of inter-Korean relations and peace settlement on the Korean peninsula, but also the improvement of human rights of North Korean people,” the message said.
Pressure needed
But rights advocates say more needs to be done and suggest increased international pressure is needed to ensure that in future discussions with North Korea, human rights issues are discussed.
Robertson said that in talks with North Korea, “There has to be a larger context.”
Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch, talks to journalists during a press briefing on a project titled "Nothing for Our Land," July 17, 2018, in Yangon, Myanmar.

Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch, talks to journalists during a press briefing on a project titled “Nothing for Our Land,” July 17, 2018, in Yangon, Myanmar.

When you talk about “long-term prosperity and peace… getting the North Korea – South Korea issue and Korean reunification right is the key element,” but with a history of severe human rights violations on the peninsula, said Robertson, “Human rights can’t just be left off the table.”
Scarlatoiu added that avoiding such topics at the start of negotiations makes it difficult to raise them later.
“I don’t know how president Moon is going to move to a position where he raises human rights concerns, after giving all of these speeches lauding the leader of North Korea for his accomplishments,” he said.
While the Ministry of Unification can’t identify specific agenda items for future inter-Korean talks, it said “through the [Panmunjom] Declaration, the government (together with the North) has agreed to endeavor to resolve the humanitarian issues that resulted from the division.”
The unification ministry said the government will “find practical measures to enhance human rights of North Koreans,” although the ministry gave no details on how it plans to achieve that goal.
Robertson asserts there has been a lack of advancement in addressing North Korean human rights issues by the South Korean government.
“The North Korean human rights act was passed by the South Korean Parliament two years ago,” said Robertson, “and still two years later, we have no real progress on implementing key aspects of that law.”
“The ultimate measure of reconciliation, peace, and unification of the Korean Peninsula is going to be the impact it has on the Korean people living in the South and in the North,” said Scarlatiou, adding that those goals should not sacrifice attention to human rights.
Lee Ju-hyun contributed to this report.

REPORT: SCALIA ACOLYTE TO OVERSEE MUELLER PROBE

Report: Scalia Acolyte to Oversee Mueller Probe

REPORT: SCALIA ACOLYTE TO OVERSEE MUELLER PROBE

Noel Francisco has argued against government overreach in political investigations

BY KIT DANIELS
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/report-scalia-acolyte-to-oversee-mueller-probe/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Noel Francisco, a Scalia acolyte who has argued against government overreach in political investigations, is expected to oversee the Mueller probe, taking it over from outgoing Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein.
Francisco, the Solicitor General, is the fourth-ranking official at the Justice Dept. and was confirmed for the position in Sept. 2017 by the Senate, which voted mostly along party lines.
Previously, in 1997 Francisco worked as a clerk for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who he referred to as his “dear mentor.”
Francisco is also a member of the Federalist Society, which was tapped by President Trump to provide recommendations for filling court vacancies during his presidency.
Scalia was likewise a member of the society.
Francisco also worked for a private law firm in which he argued cases before the Supreme Court, including the 2016 case Zubik v. Burwell in which Francisco contended that Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate infringed upon religious freedom.
“Although Mr. Francisco has remained mum on the Mueller probe he now stands to inherit, he has argued against government overreach in political corruption investigations,” reported the Washington Times. “He even blasted frequent Trump sparring partner and ex-FBI Director James Comey for “heavy-handed” tactics in the bureau’s probe of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican.”
“Mr. McDonnell’s conviction was vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016.”

FREE ALEX JONES RALLY GAINS INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION

Free Alex Jones Rally Gains International Attention

MUST SEE!

Alex Jones Speech 9/22/18 | #FreeAlexJones Rally [Full Video]

FREE ALEX JONES RALLY GAINS INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION

Patriots took over downtown Austin, Texas to support free speech

SEE: https://www.infowars.com/free-alex-jones-rally-gains-international-attention/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
American patriots gathered in downtown Austin, Texas on Saturday to speak out in defense of Alex Jones and to denounce Big Tech censorship in general.
Below is a video of the rally compiled by Russia Today:
Watch Alex Jones’ full speech below:
Powerful! Alex Jones and Patriots Declare War on Communist China, Big Tech Censors and The Deep State

Following the rally, Owen Shroyer and the Infowars Army went down to world famous 6th Street to spread the word about internet censorship, Donald Trump and more.

TURKEY: DOCUMENT REVEALS PASTOR BRUNSON’S REAL “CRIME” IS “CHRISTIANIZATION”

TURKEY: DOCUMENT REVEALS PASTOR BRUNSON’S REAL “CRIME” IS “CHRISTIANIZATION” 
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/09/turkey-document-reveals-pastor-brunsons-real-crime-is-christianizationrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
An American citizen, Pastor Andrew Brunson, is facing up to 35 years in a Turkish prison on fake “terrorism and espionage related charges.” Brunson’s witnesses were not even listened to, amid “wild conspiracies, tortured logic, and secret witnesses, but no real evidence to speak of.” Most recently, Mehmet Erdoğan, a deputy for the Turkish ruling party, accused Brunson of being “a former U.S. marine in charge of looting Iraqi gold during the 2003 U.S. invasion.”
The truth, long suspected, has now emerged. The real “crime” of Brunson was “Christianization”:
The pastor’s daughter Jacqueline Furnari declared….Turkey finally charged him when they handed down an indictment….In this indictment, my father’s crime is named as ‘Christianization,’ essentially equating it to terrorism and espionage and it is, for the most part, based on secret witnesses’ testimony.”
Religious freedom does not exist in Turkey, or in any other majority-Muslim country, for that matter. In addition, Turkey has no place in NATO, as it is an oppressive regime. Its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has dreams of a revived Ottoman Empire. Earlier in the year, Erdogan declared bloody jihad on the Kurds, and dispatched thousands of Turkish soldiers with tanks and artillery to “decimate” them. Right before this, 90,000 mosques prayed Qur’anic conquest prayers, calling on Muslims to be “ruthless against unbelievers” and for victory against the Kurds. Still, Erdogan insists that it is “Islamophobic” to equate Islam with violence.
Note that astute Westerners oppose “Islamization” because of the human rights abuses committed in the name of Islam. Now compare and contrast this with Turkey’s use of the word “Christianization” as an indictment against Brunson. Brunson’s daughter responds to the charges in this way: “I’ve really come to realize that God is in complete control and he has a plan and this is all for his word. He is worth everything that my family has gone through.”
Two months ago, President Trump threatened to impose “large sanctions” against Turkey in response to Pastor Brunson’s imprisonment. The Trump administration continues to push for Brunson’s release.
“Daughter: U.S. Pastor Imprisoned in Turkey for Terrorism by ‘Christianization’”, by Edwin Mora, Breitbart, September 21, 2018:
U.S. NATO ally Turkey’s indictment against American pastor Andrew Brunson deems “Christianization” as his terrorism-related crime, the preacher’s daughter declared during a religious liberty panel discussion at the 2018 Values Voter Summit on Friday.
The pastor’s daughter Jacqueline Furnari declared, “A year and a half after his initial detention [in October 2016], Turkey finally charged him when they handed down an indictment — 62 pages. In this indictment, my father’s crime is named as ‘Christianization,’ essentially equating it to terrorism and espionage and it is, for the most part, based on secret witnesses’ testimony.”
Brunson, charged with terrorism and espionage in connection to the failed coup attempt in July 2016, is facing 35 years in Turkish custody.
In July of this year, Turkish authorities released him from jail and placed him on house arrest after he served two years behind bars.
Turkey detained Brunson in October 2016 in the wake of the failed attempt to overthrow Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime. Ankara accused the pastor of helping individuals who allegedly participated in the insurrection.
At the time of his arrest, North Carolina-native Brunson was running the Resurrection Church in the Turkish city of Izmir.
Furnari noted that there is no physical evidence against her father. She stressed that her family’s faith in God remains strong despite her father’s ordeal in Turkey.
“I’ve really come to realize that God is in complete control and he has a plan and this is all for his word. He is worth everything that my family has gone through,” she said, adding, “The entire last two years has really shown that these are just baseless charges. It’s a sham trial, and my dad is being used as a bargaining chip and suffering for Jesus Christ.”…..

BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION PROPOSES ALLOWING ADVANCED DEMENTIA, PARKINSON’S PATIENTS TO BE STARVED & DEHYDRATED TO DEATH

BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION PROPOSES ALLOWING ADVANCED DEMENTIA, PARKINSON’S PATIENTS TO BE STARVED & DEHYDRATED TO DEATH
SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/british-medical-association-proposes-allowing-advanced-dementia-parkinsons-patients-starved-dehydrated-death/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Plans to allow doctors to end the lives of patients with severe dementia or other degenerative diseases have been proposed by the British Medical Association (BMA).
A recent court ruling allowed doctors to remove “clinically-assisted artificial nutrition and hydration” from some patients with the family’s agreement.
These proposals go much further. The BMA wants to extend it beyond those who are minimally conscious and dying imminently to patients with more common conditions, even where they could continue to live for years.

‘Chilling’

The document says the rules should apply to patients with recognised degenerative conditions such as advanced dementia, Parkinson’s or Huntington’s disease or stroke patients with “rapidly progressing brain injury”.
Spinal muscular atrophy patient Sian Vasey, 62, described the BMA’s proposals as “the most chilling thing I have ever heard”.
She said: “If I reach the point where I can’t eat, drink or talk then I am in trouble.
“It is already the case that I can’t feed myself. If the talk goes I would have to rely on somebody to speak for me. It’s a nightmare.”
She added: “Often people are admitted to hospital unable to speak or move, but they get better. Under these rules, many will not have a chance to get better.”

Cover-up

The proposals have also been slammed by doctors.
Professor Patrick Pullicino called the BMA’s plan “terrible”.
Under the proposals, doctors would be instructed to report that a patient died as a result of their original condition, rather than from having their nutrition and hydration removed.
Prof Pullicino said this “directs doctors to falsify death certificates. It tells doctors to put down the pre-existing condition and not that they died of dehydration.
“It will totally conceal the statistics of patients who are being dehydrated to death.”

‘Euthanasia by stealth’

Care Not Killing’s Dr Peter Saunders said the plan was a recipe for “euthanasia by stealth”.
He said: “There are conceivably tens of thousands of patients in England and Wales who are vulnerable to the use and abuse of this guidance.
“It will be almost impossible to work out what has happened in a given case and there are no legal mechanisms in place for bringing abusers to justice.”

Terrifying ordeal

The recent Supreme Court ruling which gives doctors the power to end a patient’s life without court approval has also been heavily criticised.
Nikki Kenward was in a ‘locked-in’ state for five months, unable to move anything except her right eyelid, but eventually made a major recovery and returned home.
She explained that, had the ruling been in place before her terrifying ordeal, “it could have been me that faced death by dehydration and starvation”.
She said the Supreme Court’s decision puts “unacceptable power in the hands of doctors and relatives”, and displays “a callous disregard for human life”.

UN REFUGEE CHIEF DENIES MIGRANT CRISIS, DECLARES MASS MIGRATION “SOURCE OF PROGRESS & PROSPERITY”

UN REFUGEE CHIEF DENIES MIGRANT CRISIS, DECLARES MASS MIGRATION 
“SOURCE OF PROGRESS & PROSPERITY”
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/09/un-refugee-chief-denies-migrant-crisis-declares-mass-migration-source-of-progress-and-prosperityrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Debate in Europe framing illegal immigration from the third world as a problem is “dangerous”, the United Nations (UN) refugee chief has warned, insisting that the mass movement of peoples has been “a source of progress and prosperity since people first began to migrate”.
Despite the chaos in Europe, including jihad attacks, Muslim rape gangs, attacks on women, no-go zones and Sharia patrols, the rise in anti-Semitism that even Angela Merkel attributes “to people of Arab origin,” Filippo Grandi perpetuates a blatant lie in service of his unwavering globalist, utopian fantasy.
After Grandi met with U.S. State Department officials during the Obama administration in April 2016, the State Department immediately followed up with a media release, reaffirming the U.S. “commitment to resettle at least 10,000 Syrians in FY 2016 and increase the total number of resettled refugees from around the world to 100,000 by the end of FY 2017.” Then back in January, Grandi restated his Marxist view that for “‘wealthy states, especially European states, resettling large numbers of refugees on a scale like that seen at the height of the migrant crisis is perfectly doable.”
“UN Refugee Chief Denies Migrant Crisis in Europe, Declares Mass Migration a ‘Source of Progress and Prosperity,’” by Virginia Hale, Breitbart, September 22, 2018:
Debate in Europe framing illegal immigration from the third world as a problem is “dangerous”, the United Nations (UN) refugee chief has warned, insisting that the mass movement of peoples has been “a source of progress and prosperity since people first began to migrate”.
“Distorted” political debate on the subject has led to Europe becoming “obsessed” with a migrant crisis that “does not exist”, Filippo Grandi said, urging EU politicians to stop squabbling “over a few boats” [of illegal immigrants].
In an interview published in the German press Thursday, he dismissed plans backed by Austria and Italy among other member states which would see asylum processing offshored and immigrants blocked from reaching European soil.
“As the United Nations High Commissioner [for refugees], I cannot support a proposal that would deprive people of the right to seek asylum in Europe. There are people who have very pressing reasons for asking for protection in EU nations,” he told Handelsblatt.
Speaking with the German daily, Grandi denounced recent comments by Interior Minister Horst Seehofer branding the massive immigration influx which resulted from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to open the border as having become “the mother of all problems”.
“Migration has been a source of progress and prosperity since people first began to migrate,” claimed the Italian, stating that the tendency of politicians to frame the phenomena as a “major problem” was “unfortunate” because it boosts the argument of people opposed to mass, third world migration….