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DUSTIN NEMOS: In this episode we explore the newly signed Executive Order on Blocking Property with Respect to Specified Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian Federation that will allow the Biden admin to target patriots and conservatives or anyone else who disagrees with them for asset confiscation and freezing.
Meanwhile, The Dems & Biden want to double your taxes - Anyone still brave enough to disagree ?
Also - Hatemongers in the Media continue to fan the Flames of division and hate using edited footage.
Just one month into the Pfizer #Covid19 vaccine study in adolescents, results have been released. Jefferey Jaxen breaks down the results of this “transparent” data published via press release.
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Texas MassResistance parents confront transgender activists trying to intimidate State Rep over his support for pro-family legislation.
“Save James” bills in Texas Legislature would stop ghoulish “sex-change” procedures on children. But LGBT activists demand these continue.
Protest and counter-protest outside Rep’s local office in suburban Dallas/Ft. Worth.
April 26, 2021
Facing the transgender mob outside of Rep. Stukey's local office. You can't mince words with those people.
The LGBT movement’s dark obsession with children has rarely been so blatant. Few pro-family groups are willing to openly confront that – but MassResistance is an exception!
As we’ve recently reported, Texas MassResistance has been lobbying hard for three important bills moving forward in the Texas Legislature (dubbed the “Save James” bills). These would stop “sex-change” procedures on children. People are outraged that children are being disfigured for life and sterilized to please a radical ideology.
The bills have been aggressively opposed by the LGBT movement as well as big business. Children’s “sex-change” treatments are a huge money-maker for big pharma and “gender clinics.”
One of the opposition’s more distasteful strategies has been to harass and intimidate legislators supporting these bills with loud “protests” by hideous transgender activists at the doors of their hometown local offices.
One target, Rep. Lynn Stuckey (R-District 64), has been a consistent conservative on pro-family issues. But when lobbyists noticed that he was starting to waver over pressure on these bills, they saw him as an easy target. So on April 21, a horde of transgender activists descended on his local office in Denton, TX (a northern suburb of Dallas/Ft. Worth), hoping he’d cave.
The transgender "protest" outside the local office of Rep. Stuckey in Denton. They hoped to intimidate him and his staff.
The usual LGBT dishonesty. In fact, the best way to protect "trans lives" and "trans youth" is to give them the psychological help they need, not cruelly mutilate their bodies.
Not surprisingly, they twist and distort the Bible. Her sign says: "Jesus Loves Trans Kids. Be like Jesus." (If you love trans kids, don't mutilate their bodies!)
But it didn’t quite work out the way they planned. Kevin Whitt, our Texas MassResistance Assistant Director, had caught wind of the demonstration and quickly organized a robust counter-protest just several yards away. The LGBT crowd was clearly rattled. Telling the truth about what they’re doing to children tends to have that effect on them, and our people were not afraid to do it!
Our group was fairly close to them, and definitely raining on their parade!
At one point, one of them came over to “dialogue” with our people. That is a common LGBT tactic when their opposition is resolute; they try to defuse our arguments and energy. But that didn’t work this time, either!
One of the transgender activists (right, wearing mask) came over to "dialogue" with us.
We weren't in to mood to "dialogue." Here is some of the interaction:
MassResistance: Why can’t you wait until these children are adults?
Trans activist: Because their emotional evolving is absolutely at stake.
MassResistance: No. Only an adult can make that choice. The ramifications are huge. It’s castration. It’s genital mutilation.
Trans activist: They’re not doing that surgery at the clinics in Texas.
MassResistance: Yes, they are doing surgeries on 14-year-olds. And that is a proven fact.
Trans activist: Top surgery?
MassResistance: Yes. In Austin. And other places.
Trans activist: OK. I care about it. Any surgery is significant. But I also believe that there are some things that are worth it.
MassResistance: There are people who suffer from identity disorders well into adulthood, and it’s not just a matter of surgery to fix that. Doing this to a child is nuts … Gender dysphoria is a real mental illness.
The police were standing nearby, but didn't need to get involved.
Our efforts were successful! We spoke with Rep. Stuckey’s office today. His staff told us that he is now solidly supporting all three “Save James” bills. We’re pleased that he got the message that the LGBT movement is the wrong group to listen to in Texas!
Final thoughts
Many pro-family people around the country believe that the transgender activists and their allies who fight against this kind of legislation are simply concerned, honest folks who have a misguided opinion on this issue. Our people often think that if we talk it through with them, they will see the truth.
Unfortunately, that is completely wrong. We’ve interacted with the other side many times over the years. They know full well what this does to children. They can see it themselves. And they certainly hear what we’ve been saying. But they don’t care. Their hatred of traditional values and their desire to be accepted by their friends is very powerful. They lie to themselves and to everyone else. And as we’ve all observed, many of the “activists” clearly have their own mental health problems that fuel that behavior. And they’re obsessed with “identity” and sexuality issues.
The only thing that’s effective is to stand up to them and never back down to their lies, anger, and hysteria.
Please help us continue to do our uncompromising work!
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So last week, we told you about those so-called “breakthrough cases.” It’s when fully vaccinated people contract COVID more than 14 days after their second shot. The nation’s top doc, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said he is taking these cases very seriously. The cases are popping up around the country, and there are many breakthrough cases right here in central Florida. The first thing somebody says to me is, you got the vaccine… how are you positive?
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The Pastor who grew up in Poland behind the Iron Curtain and escaped communism compared the actions of the Calgary police to that of the Soviets and Nazi Germany.
Polish Pastor and legal immigrant Artur Pawlowski kicked out Canadian law enforcement and health inspectors trying to shut down his Church’s Passover service. The police claim they were responding to a “tip” related to potential coronavirus lockdown violations.
The Pastor who grew up in Poland behind the Iron Curtain and escaped communism compared the actions of the Calgary police to that of the Soviets and Nazi Germany. During Pawlowski’s childhood, pastors and priests were arrested, and some were murdered. Many were tortured. Pawlowski warns he sees a repetition of history taking place.
In a video that went viral, the preacher repeatedly called the police “Nazis,” “Communists,” and part of the “Gestapo,” telling them they’re not welcome there and that if they wanna try shutting something, his Church down, to come back with a warrant.
“Police came to disrupt Church gathering! Gestapo came again to intimidate the Church parishioners during the Passover Celebration!!! Unbelievable!” wrote Pawlowski on his youtube channel.
At first, police and the health inspectors appear to push back, but Pawlowski was having none of it and demanded they leave for trying to enter his religious service without a warrant:
“I don’t want to hear a word. Out! Out! Out of this property immediately, until you come back with a warrant — out!”
Calgary Police said they had “concerns” that Pawlowski and his congregation “were not adhering to the government’s COVID-19 public health orders.” In Calgary, Churches are allowed to meet for in-person worship but at only 15 percent capacity, and face masks are mandatory.
After the police left, the pastor turned the camera on him and pleaded for fellow church people to not tolerate, but rather resist such acts of “intimidation”.
“Unbelievable. We’re living in a total takeover of the government with their thugs, goons, the brown shirts, the Gestapo wannabe dictators,” stated Pawlowski. “Coming to the church armed with guns and tasers and handcuffs to intimidate during Passover celebration? Well, I guess that’s what it is, they want to enslave us all like the Egyptians did. They want to be the Pharaohs of today, that’s what they’re doing. Unbelievable. People, if you don’t stand up, wake up, wow. I don’t know what will happen tomorrow.”
Watch the following video of the brave Pastor:
This is not the first time the state has harassed the pastor. As Canada devolves into an anti-Christian state indicative of all communist countries, Pawlowski has become a target. He has been harassed, fined, and openly threatened by the Islamic mayor of Calgary, Naheed Nenshi, Antifa, and other radical left-wing radical groups for preaching the Gospel in the streets and even for feeding the poor.
As previously reported at RAIR Foundation USA, Pawlowski electrified crowds with his moving and patriotic speech outside Ottawa’s parliament last summer. The Polish building developer-turned-preacher went to Ottawa to speak at a Canada day protest against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s corrupt government and encourage citizens to unite against communism.
Despite the attacks on Pawlowski by the Canadian government, he continues to fight for his country. “It is so important to stand for your beliefs. Make your presence known! Be vocal! Be vigilant! Be brave!” urged the Pastor.
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USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- We are watching a small group shredding the Social Compact that Americans have with their elected government.
In our compact, the U.S. government promises us protection from physical harm, both foreign and domestic, and protection of our inalienable rights. We may have given up some sovereignty to live our rightful lives while attempting to pursue happiness. But remember, the powers of our government are DERIVED FROM OUR CONSENT, and we may, at any time, alter this compact. Please see America’s Founding Documents.
At this time, conservatives, some moderates, and others find sufficient flexibility within the bounds of the Constitution to make changes that we might wish by peaceful means.
But right now, the Democrats are NOT satisfied with minor political changes, and the temporary power they hold. They want to ensure a permanent hold on their power, so they need to make massive political and social changes that will tilt the balance of power always towards their party.
The Democrats burdened us with unconscionable lies (Russia, Russia, Russia, etc.) designed to fool ignorant citizens into acting against their better interests, into voting against President Trump.#ad But because so many people understood the lies, and voted for Trump, a great amount of election rigging was required for the Biden win. This made it obvious to many that the election numbers were fake. When the numbers seem fake, citizens do not believe that elections are accurate, and they begin to lose their trust in government, which is required for stability.
Additionally, leading up to the election, big tech gave up their facade of honorable nonpartisanship and began silencing conservative thought and conservative writers like AmmoLand News’ own John Crump. Conservative activists who use their First Amendment to complain about the steal are further bullied into silence with charges of racism, threats of violence, and punishments that include loss of jobs.
As President Trump noticed that big tech was becoming a problem, he urged Congress to take preventive steps, but our Congress failed to act. Every time our government fails to protect our rights, our Social Compact unravels just a bit. The radical left has strained the First Amendment and is now moving to the next.
All may not be lost. Many conservatives are attempting to bypass big tech, while others are working on vote recounts and new voting protections. And while the Second Amendment is under attack, the Left knows that disarmament will fail in the U.S. It is a very poor option, as found out via U.N. attempts.
The UN has tried many times and has failed to disarm civilians in countries without a Second Amendment culture. Freedom IS a basic right that people understand. At this point, we don’t know what new firearms restrictions the Biden Admin will pass into law. The Left will try to go as far as possible to disarm us. the Second Amendment is a major part of the American Social Compact. It’s an important part, because it guarantees the safety of our families, and ensures that we retain control of our government. Remember, the Second Amendment is NOT about hunting or sporting arms. It is a protection against governmental tyranny. The power of civilian weaponry balances against the centralized power of the Federal Government, and the Left are jealous of every lost scrap of that power and control.
They can do a great deal legally to harm the Second Amendment and harass peaceful citizens. They can deprive the gun-owning community of legal access to the many things we need and are rightly entitled to. But can they actually disarm us? In the past, most American gun owners have refused to obey restrictive unconstitutional laws. Why would that change now?
What would happen if government agents surrounded our homes with force? Many would peacefully give up some of their weapons. Many would not.
Aaron Karp, a disarmament expert, and consultant to the U.N., and to their Small Arms Survey, has answers to that possibility. We quote from the fifth chapter in his book, Shadows of War, one of his many research papers. Using his knowledge of the many disarmament attempts guided by the U.N., he stated, “Coercive disarmament efforts often fail.” In his opinion, governments who choose that path almost always make a mistake.
We can say this a bit stronger, Forcible disarmament attempts in the U.S. will fail.
What about voluntary disarmament? Voluntary disarmament attempts in the U.S. will fail too.
Here’s why voluntary disarmament fails. We are not only expecting disarmament failure based on our knowledge of U.S. gun owners, but we are grounding our expectations on Karp’s suggestions for “preferred circumstances for effective civilian collection.” In other words, how should a government go about disarming its citizens voluntarily and successfully?
So, Democrats, listen carefully. Karp is on your side.
Among the least of these Karp’s preconditions are, “High public support for collection measures” and, “readily controlled international borders.” These just do not exist in America.
Karp’s most important suggestion is, “Public belief in state institutions to assure personal security.” {Please take some time for laughter here.} We all are aware that police are not legally bound to protect, but now we are certain that they cannot protect. This precondition certainly does not exist. The Democrats, and the liars in the media, have changed the norms of acceptable behavior towards our police, which now include defunding, mass disrespect, violence, and often murder. This will not change soon.
This leads us to another of Karp’s preferred circumstances for easy civilian disarmament: “widespread acceptance of government authority.” {Yes, you can laugh some more.} Does anyone have any ‘acceptance of government authority’ left? Justice is meted out or ignored based on political opinions. The ‘Due Process’ clause of the Fifth Amendment has been trashed.
Democrats, and their minions in the Main Street Media (MSM), have completely unraveled the American Social Compact! We should get some of our forfeited sovereignty back!
Karp explains that governments need to be seen as legitimate, and although governments may wish to gain control of weapons, “disarmament works best when preceded by restoration of state authority, not the other way around.”
Democrats and the Main-Stream-Media have for decades lied to the American public in order to get civilians to fear weapons, and thus give them up. That is not going to happen now. It’s easy to understand that whatever fear Americans might have had of the cold steel in the past, they are much more fearful of the ravaging mobs let loose upon them by power-crazed Democrats.
And because of those mobs, there are millions of new owners who made a thoughtful choice to purchase a firearm. Black Americans lead with a 58.2% increase in gun purchases from 2019 to 2020. Democrats and their media lapdogs created mistrust in government, and the fear of violence is biting them back. It sure makes me happy.
So when do we get back to normal? We probably don’t. We can’t safely find our way back to that comfort zone, as we ceded responsibility for some of the American Social Compact to politicians who just smile and nod at us. That normal no longer exists.
We must thank President Trump for exposing the Democrats for what they are. We are seeing their TRUE face.
We will not soon return to stability either, as the Democrats and MSM continue to incite violence against property, people, and institutions with the call of ‘systemic racism. Democrats have lied to their ignorant supporters so completely that many people believe that this is a racist nation and that it is the conservatives and gun owners who are the racists. And they may never learn the truth. We will need to deal with this.
We cannot trust this duty to others. Responsibilities do come with Freedom, and we can no longer ignore these lifelong responsibilities. You can no longer trust anyone else to do the right job on the school board, or in the classrooms. You must get involved, see to the day-to-day work of your party and government. That’s the way it is.
We are all now aware of how close we are to losing Freedoms in this generation, or the next. and we now fully understand the responsibilities and duties of the American Social Compact, as well as its benefits.
You have a duty & responsibility to the American social compact. So keep buying guns and ammo, wherever you find them and most of all stay very, very Dangerous!
About The Authors
Alan J Chwick has been involved with firearms much of his life and is the Retired Managing Coach of the Freeport NY Junior Marksmanship Club. He has escaped from New York State to South Carolina and is an SC FFL (Everything22andMore.com). AJChwick@iNCNF.org | TWITTER: @iNCNF
Joanne D Eisen, DDS (Ret.) practiced dentistry on Long Island, NY. She has collaborated and written on firearm politics for the past 30+ years. She has also escaped New York State, but to Virginia. JoanneDEisen@cs.com
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Is your child being indoctrinated by a teacher who signed this letter?
Earlier this month, over 17,000 teachers submitted an open letter to installed puppet Joe Biden asking him to shut down legislation that thwarts the anti-scientific transgender agenda for school children and teenagers.
The letter (embedded below) manages to bash President Trump and “conservatives” who do not believe children can consent to life-altering puberty blockers and self-mutilation. The letter is far from academic, accusing pro-children, pro-family laws currently in varying stages in state legislatures to be “anti-trans”.
Painting legislation broadly as “anti-trans” reminds this author of a quote from Frederick Douglass:
It is a frequent and favorite device of an indefensible cause to misstate and pervert the views of those who advocate a good cause.”
In part, the letter calls parents to be left out of the discussion about their child’s sexuality citing “privacy.”
School personnel should not be mandated to violate a student’s privacy by disclosing their sexual orientation or gender identity to the parents or guardians without the young person’s consent.”
Please read RAIR Foundation USA’s coverage of brave dad Robert Hoogland, whose then-six grader was “encouraged to change from a girl to a boy by her teachers.”
Further, watch RAIR’s exclusive interview with activist dad Chris Elston, whose arm was broken by Antifa as he carried signs that contradict the vision of the gender fluidity mob.
Written by Harper Keenan, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Research in Education, University of British Columbia, the letter was signed by “educators and scholars”. According to his biography, Keenan “is interested in those social issues that many adults find difficult to talk about with children – things like racism, gender, sexuality, and violence.”
Keenen founded the “Trans Educators Network,” which “consists of a listserv of transgender, genderqueer, and/or non-binary identified educators, primarily those working with PreK-12 populations across the United States…”
Is your child being indoctrinated by a teacher who signed this letter?
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Crime is rampant, the homicide rate has exploded to record levels, and the water is unsafe.
Like his father, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is a communist, which is precisely why Jackson, Mississippi is a crime-ridden, mismanaged, corrupt mess. Crime is rampant, the homicide rate has exploded to record levels, and the water is unsafe.
Lumumba became mayor in 2017, winning 93% of the vote. He has repeatedly bragged that he will make Jackson the “most radical city on the planet.”
Jackson’s current mayor has deep ties to the Marxist-Leninist / Maoist Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO). He is also connected to the Marxist-Leninist Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), according author and filmmaker Trevor Loudon, an expert on communist infiltration.
Chokwe Lumumba, The Revolutionary Father
In 2009, Lumumba’s father, who named himself Chokwe Lumumba, was elected Jackson City Councilman. He was also elected as Mayor of Jackson for a short period before his death in 2014.
The elder Lumumba was a known Marxist Revolutionary and radical attorney, who changed his name from Edwin Taliaferro to Chokwe Lumumba after the “Chokwe ethnic group of Central Africa and the Congolese revolutionary Patrice Lumumba.” A very influential school for Marxists was also named after Patrice Lumumba, which was “founded to help spread the gospel of communism in the developing world.”
Lumumba campaigned for a separate black nation within America, a communist strategy known as the Jackson-Kush Plan. This vision was a step towards global revolution.
“We have to abandon the traditional models of how we develop our cities,” the younger Lumumba told a progressive Netroots audience in August, 2018. We need to have a “solidarity economy,” he said, following in his father’s footsteps.
Crime in Jackson
But the utopian vision has not materialized in Jackson, where homicide and poverty is rampant. “2020 [was] the deadliest year ever…edging out previous all-time records set in 2018 and 2019,” according to the local NBC affiliate in January. “Most other major cities in the U.S. with populations several times larger than Jackson have far smaller homicide rates,” the article continued.
Chokwe’s radical sister Rukia Lumumba is the executive director of the “People’s Advocacy Institute.” Watch Rukia and her comrades discuss their work in emptying prisons, among other issues here:
It was reported in December that “[A]lmost two dozen current and former police officers are taking the city and department to federal court over harassment, racial profiling, and poor working condition allegations.” The lawsuit can be found here.
Jackson’s Residents do not have Adequate Drinking Water
In addition to rampant and escalating crime, Jackson has had major problems with providing safe drinking water for the citizens. The local news reports that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) “issued an emergency order to the city requiring it to address numerous deficiencies at its water treatment plants.”
The order was “kept under wraps for more than a year until exposed recently in local media”. Lumumba blames “environmental racism, divestment and white flight” for the water problems.
The media framed the crisis as a problem with infrastructure. This gave the communist mayor and his allies a pass for not addressing the long-standing problem.
There has not been a Republican mayor in Jackson for over 70 years.
Bernie Sanders Endorses Chokwe Antar Lumumba for Mayor
It should not come as a surprise that Lumumba endorsed crypto-communist Bernie Sanders for President in 2020. Bernie endorsed the young revolutionary for his June, 2021 re-election bid. Lumumba’s Republican opponent is Jason Wells, who is running on a law and order platform. It does not appear that Wells has support from the Republican Party.
The general election is to be held on June 8, 2021.
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All citizens of goodwill must start loudly challenging dangerous climate alarmism.
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden made numerous, outrageous, fact-void statements during the virtual “Leaders Summit on Climate” Thursday.
Without evidence of any such thing, Harris claimed that man-made global warming (or is it climate change?) is responsible for worsening storms along the Gulf Coast and California wildfires.
The communities hardest hit by climate change are the same communities harmed by wealth and gender inequality, toxic air pollution, and so much more.
Imagine if the mainstream media would scratch just a hair below the surface to challenge these ridiculous statements. Are there areas hit hard by “gender inequality”? And why would those areas be more likely to be victims of climate change?
Biden’s inane comments offered no reprieve. He droned on about “investments” in green energy, echoing the same failed policies from the Obama Administration. Further, he warned that the world must take immediate action to “avoid the worst consequences of a climate crisis.”
He said in part:
Scientists tell us that this is the decisive decade. This is the decade we must make decisions that will avoid the worst consequences of a climate crisis. We must try to keep the Earth’s temperature and — to an increase of — to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
And in order to stop disastrous consequences of manmade global warming, evidently, all citizens need to accept a global redistribution of wealth. This author wonders how many decades need to go by before democrats stop believing the “climate crisis” lie. All citizens of goodwill and elected representatives must start loudly challenging climate alarmism.
Watch:
Read More of RAIR Foundation USA’s Coverage on Climate Alarmism:
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Sources inside the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report to Understanding the Threat (UTT) that FEMA and DHS officials participated in a private webinar last Friday (April 9th) hosted by the designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) Hamas, doing business as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) which was attended by leaders of prominent U.S. Islamic jihadi organizations.
The purpose of this webinar was for these government officials to give precise details to the hostile U.S. Islamic Movement on how to obtain U.S. government grant money to structurally harden mosques and Islamic organizations, and, according to CAIR’s website, was entitled Protecting Muslim Community Centers and Mosques: The 2021 Nonprofit Security Grant Program and Safety and Security Federal Resources.
The two key government officials participating in this webinar and instructing leaders of the U.S. Islamic Movement were: Kerry Thomas, Director of Preparedness Grants Division (PGD) within Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Grant Programs Directorate (GPD); and Mark Silveira, Executive Officer, DHS/FEMA Grant Programs.
It should be noted that the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) was created in 1994 by the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee which is the designated terrorist organization Hamas in the United States.
In official court filings in the largest terrorism financing trial ever successfully prosecuted in American history – US v Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (“HLF”), Northern District of Texas (Dallas), 2008 – CAIR is identified as a member of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee (Hamas).
For more information that CAIR is Hamas click HERE.
If what sources are reporting is correct, UTT assesses this constitutes a direct and material support for terrorists, the government’s direct involvement in a conspiracy to overthrow the Republic – by the fact the U.S. Islamic Movement’s stated objective is the overthrow of the U.S. governmental system and aiding & abetting a terrorist organization, among other federal violations of law, which may include sedition and treason.
UTT requested an official response from FEMA/DHS to the following questions:
Is FEMA/DHS aware CAIR is a front organization for the designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) Hamas?
Did FEMA/DHS get an internal legal ruling from FEMA/DHS attorneys to materially support an organization directly tied to a designated terrorist organization? If so, can we get a copy of such an opinion?
Is it the new policy and intention of FEMA/DHS under the current administration to give material support to a designated terrorist organization?
The request was made Tuesday morning 4/13/21. DHS did contact UTT and stated they would provide a response, likely by close of business Tuesday, but UTT has received no official response to these questions as of today (4/15/21).
Sources also revealed the Biden regime is making changes to U.S. government grant program policies which will be significantly beneficial to the U.S. Islamic Movement, whose stated objective is to overthrow the U.S. government and replace it with an Islamic State governed by “Allah's divine law”/sharia.
Specifically, hostile Islamic organizations will be given grant money with no requirement of these organizations to share information they may have about hostile actors (jihadis) or activities inside the U.S. Muslim community, which is something Hamas/CAIR has been pursuing for quite a while.
The Grant Director for U.S.-based Hamas dba CAIR is Megan Fair, and UTT is following up to see if she coordinated this event.
The contents of the webinar are not available for public viewing as of yet, but apparently lasted approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
For more information on these and other National Security matters related to the U.S. Islamic Movement or the U.S. communist movement, go to UnderstandingtheThreat.com.
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“ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) is still holding and selling captive Iraqi Yazidi women as slaves, and now some of these slave sales are being carried out on the dark web.” It’s an old practice that did not begin with the Islamic State:
The seizure of Infidel girls and their use as sex slaves is sanctioned in the Qur’an. According to Islamic law, Muslim men can take “captives of the right hand” (Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 33:50). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful for you your wives to whom you have paid their dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses of those whom Allah has given you as spoils of war” (33:50). 4:3 and 4:24 extend this privilege to Muslim men in general. The Qur’an says that a man may have sex with his wives and with these slave girls: “The believers must win through, those who humble themselves in their prayers; who avoid vain talk; who are active in deeds of charity; who abstain from sex, except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or the captives whom their right hands possess, for in their case they are free from blame.” (Qur’an 23:1-6)
Muslim rape gangs in Britain are an extension of such practice.
In 2016, sex slaves of the Islamic State were being auctioned off in Saudi Arabia, and the practice goes far beyond Saudi Arabia. It’s historic:
Slave auctions have been going on in the Middle East and Africa for thousands of years. Despite energetic anti-slavery campaigns by European nations in the 19th and 20th centuries, slavery persists in parts of the Middle East and Africa. Most of the slavers are Moslems who invoke their scripture (the Koran) as justification for continued enslavement of non-Moslems…
“Murphy’s Law: ISIL Slaving Survives”, Strategy Page, April 17, 2021:
ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) is still holding and selling captive Iraqi Yazidi women as slaves, and now some of these slave sales are being carried out on the dark web. These are internet sites that are deliberately kept from being found and listed by Internet search engines, like Google. All manner of secretive business takes place on the dark web, much of it of a criminal nature. Access to dark web sites is difficult to obtain, but once the web ID is known the owners and users can sometimes be tracked down. At the very least the server (hard drive holding the web site data and connected to the web) can be seized or forced to disconnect because it is now known. Dark web sites are used by smugglers, especially people smugglers who are moving or literally selling captive women. In one early 2021 incident Turkish police were notified that a seven-year-old Yazidi girl was being offered for sale. Families often continue searching for enslaved children and have found that dark web auction sites will often offer women or girls. The slavers don’t care if kin of their captive made the highest bid just to get a child or young girl back. In this case the relatives contacted Turkish police to assist, fearing that they might robbed by the kidnappers when they went to deliver the money and get the girl. Police staked out the pickup location and arrested the Iraqi men who had captured the girl and brought her to Turkey to sell her for a higher price via a dark web auction.
Slave auctions have been going on in the Middle East and Africa for thousands of years. Despite energetic anti-slavery campaigns by European nations in the 19th and 20th centuries, slavery persists in parts of the Middle East and Africa. Most of the slavers are Moslems who invoke their scripture (the Koran) as justification for continued enslavement of non-Moslems, particularly women and girls. Islamic conservatives are responsible for most of the surviving slavery and they are now assisted by criminal gangs that specialize in moving illegal migrants to Western countries. Some of these migrants are enslaved women being sold into prostitution….
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Joe Biden is not a stupid man. He may believe crazy stuff but he certainly knows that raising taxes on the most productive members of society and their capital will choke off economic growth as the nation emerges from its self-inflicted, pandemic economic wounds.
With less growth and fewer jobs, Biden is fully aware of what his policies will do. But looking at the politics of Biden’s situation, you can see why he doesn’t feel he has a choice.
Unless Republicans shoot themselves in the foot, they are bound to win back at least one house of Congress. That telescopes Biden’s time to make good on the trillions of dollars in promises he made to every racial, ethnic, and gender identity group in America from four years to now less than two.
The more than $4 trillion he’s already sent out is just a downpayment. “Rebalancing the American economy,” as the New York Times likes to refer to Biden’s soak-the-rich plan, will cost at least double that amount in the long term. And the wrenching tax increases he needs to make it happen can only be found among the most successful Americans.
The proposal, to be announced ahead of Biden’s address to Congress next Wednesday, is an opening bid for Hill negotiations.
“For New Yorkers, the combined state and federal capital gains rate could be as high as 52.22%. For Californians, it could be 56.7%,” Bloomberg News reported.
The Dow closed down more than 300 points after the plans leaked.
Practically and politically, the White House needs buy-in from Congress to pay for social spending in the next phase of his plan to reshape the American economy, the American Families Plan.
Add to that personal and state income tax and you can see why the Dow fell so precipitously. Taxing 60 percent of someone’s wealth is not “fair” and it’s not “equitable.” It’s confiscatory and radically discriminatory. But it’s OK because the rich can “afford it.”
It’s not just capital gains that will be targeted.
Biden also is likely to raise more revenue from the wealthy by making changes to estate taxes.
Biden wants to change the so-called “stepped up basis” for accounting purposes, and value assets when they are passed on to an heir, not at their original cost.
The White House thinks that change could lead more individuals to liquidate assets before they die, allowing the IRS to tax them then instead of encouraging families to keep passing on them for more favorable tax treatment.
Those “assets” are usually the life’s work of the taxpayer. They are “passed on” in a family after the death of a small business owner. Taxing a small business out of existence is not fair or compassionate.
Once Biden’s tax plan is in place, he must hope that Kamala Harris can win in 2024 or the whole scheme could unravel. The short-term political popularity of raising taxes on the “rich” will evaporate once taxpayers realize the middle class will be next when the tax plan falls short of revenue expectations.
It’s likely that Biden and the Democrats will find a way to blame Republicans when that happens.
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On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that pregnant women receive a COVID-19 vaccine after a new study suggested it would be safe for them and for their babies. Of course, the CDC did not actually use such clear language, however. Instead, the agency resorted to woke transgender euphemisms.
“CDC recommends that pregnant people receive the COVID-19 vaccine,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the agency’s head, announced on Friday. “We know that this is a deeply personal decision and I encourage people to talk to their doctors or primary care providers to determine what is best for them and their baby.”
The CDC web page on COVID-19 vaccines and pregnancy repeatedly referred to “pregnant people,” as if men, as well as women, can get pregnant.
This language is far from new to those who have followed transgender activism. Transgender activists insist that “men” can get pregnant and breastfeed — or “chestfeed,” according to the latest lingo.
This is nonsense, of course. Only females can get pregnant, carry children, and (barring rare and unnatural hormone conditions) feed them at the breast. So, why insist on “people” instead of “women” who are pregnant or breastfeeding?
Some of those biological women identify as men, regardless of the fact that they are female from conception and down to the DNA in every adult cell in their bodies. A woman who is pregnant or breastfeeding can claim to be a man all she wants, but that does not mean that men get pregnant or naturally breastfeed.
Transgender activists not only call these women men, but aim to normalize the idea that men can become pregnant. This is an Orwellian redefinition of terms, and it’s dangerous.
Transgender activists claim that this language is “inclusive,” but it is intentionally confusing and destructive.
Transgender identity in medicine has caused real harm. In one particularly tragic case, a pregnant woman who identified as a man went to a hospital with abdominal pain. Because she identified as male and records listed her as male, doctors discounted the idea that she could be in labor. She did not receive the care she needed and her child died.
The transgender movement arguably does harm to the very people it aims to help.
Research shows that there are significant risks with sex reassignment surgery, including heart conditions, increased cancer risk, and loss of bone density. Children with gender dysphoria (the condition of persistently identifying with the gender opposite one’s biological sex) are extremely unlikely to continue in that condition after puberty. Many realize they are not transgender, but instead gay or lesbian — like detransitioner Charlotte Evans, who launched a network for formerly transgender people.
Biden, however, has rushed to embrace transgender ideology, particularly in medicine. He nominated a man who identifies as a woman — and who supported chemical castration for minors — to a key post at the Department of Heath and Human Services, and the Democratic-majority Senate confirmed him. The Biden HHS is trying to force Roman Catholic doctors to perform transgender surgeries against their consciences.
It is not surprising to see the CDC under Biden use euphemisms like “pregnant people,” given Biden’s radicalism on this issue. Yet it is important to note and counter this deceptive language.
Americans should celebrate the fact that COVID-19 vaccines are safe for pregnant and breastfeeding women. My wife is breastfeeding our daughter, and she and I just got Moderna vaccines. But the words the CDC uses to make this important announcement matter, and those words are confusing and destructive.
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A Puyallup, Wash., church has canceled an event featuring conservative speaker Charlie Kirk after antifa activists threatened to burn down all of its buildings and torch the neighbors’ properties too.
Motion Church planned an event with Kirk, the head of Turning Point USA and a Christian speaker, on May 2.
The church, in a community south of Seattle, ministers to the homeless, lost, and addicted people in addition to hosting regular services and events at the church for families, and those seeking to know Christ more.
But hosting Charlie Kirk was just a bridge too far for the antifa terror group.
On Friday, Motion Church Pastor Roger Archer posted a video announcing that he was being forced to cancel the May 3 event because “the soft targets of churches, the elderly, women, children, and law-abiding citizens are vulnerable to anarchists who live free of the fear of reprisal. [T]he cops don’t have the manpower to protect the several properties used by the church.”
It’s unclear how the terror threats were communicated to the church leadership, but Pastor Archer said the fact that the cops don’t have the manpower to help and the governor doesn’t have the political will to fight back means the church would have been left to the antifa arsonists and vandals of antifa and BLM.
What a state of affairs.
In the video, Archer said the threats targeted not just the church properties but the homes and properties around them.
Radical terrorist mobs, like the ones who rioted on Seattle’s Capitol Hill, they sprung into action. They sprung with threatening declarations.They vowed to not only burn our properties to the ground, they but also brought threats of physical threats against our church leadership, our neighbors, their property, and basically wreak havoc in our community – this precious community that we love.
I’m sitting here wondering what to do. What recent history has taught us is there’s an apparent lack of interest at the state level of leadership to protect decent, taxpaying citizens. Those terrorist mobs know that there is no consequence for their lawlessness.They have nothing to lose and nothing to fear.
Ultimately, the church had to rescind the offer to speak.
Therefore, it is for the safety of my precious city and our precious church people that I have heartbreakingly cancelled our event with Mr. Kirk. Our deepest apologies go out to Mr. Kirk and his organization. He deserves much better from our state leadership, but, unfortunately, this is where we are. I will not put soft targets in harm’s way. I will not subject our community to destruction. And since our governor will not protect us we must take this course of action.
This is a sad commentary of our state of affairs, however, this only makes me more determined to to love and lead our community in new and creative ways. I want you to remember this, Motion Church: Love always wins.
After enduring nearly a year of protests, freeway blockings, fires, takeovers, and threats, it seems Washington’s political class is incapable of standing against the domestic terrorists of antifa and BLM.
Once again, these antifa activists that harm the law-abiding in the Pacific Northwest pretend they’re anti-fascist, but are in reality the ones threatening violence, silencing free speech, and trading in terror.
PJ Media reached out to both Kirk and Motion Church for comment.
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In the aftermath of Tuesday’s conviction of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd, anti-police rhetoric has reached a fever pitch. A new Rasmussen Reports survey, released this week, has found that 63 percent of American adults are concerned that this “growing criticism of America’s police will lead to a shortage of police officers and reduce public safety in the community where they live.”
Thirty-seven percent told Rasmussen pollsters that they are “very concerned.”
They have good reason to be. During the 1919 Boston police strike, citizens there experienced a wave of hooliganism, strong-armed robberies, smashed store windows, and criminal activity, when the criminal element of the city realized there were was little to no police presence.
According to the Rasmussen poll, only about 10 percent expressed no concern at all about the negative effects on public safety of anti-police rhetoric.
The poll questioned 1,000 likely U.S. voters on April 13 and 14, asking, “How concerned are you that the growing criticism of America’s police will lead to a shortage of police officers and reduce public safety in the community where you live?”
U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) said last week, “Policing in our country is inherently and intentionally racist. I am done with those who condone government-funded murder. No more policing, incarceration, and militarization. It can’t be reformed.” Despite such vitriolic rhetoric, which is not unique to radicals such as Tlaib, a majority of black voters — 52 percent — also said that they are very concerned about the anti-police rhetoric.
Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) challenged Tlaib’s remarks during an interview with Fox News. “No fair-minded person believes that cops, many of whom are racial minorities, get up every day and go to work hoping for the opportunity to be able to hurt someone, including but not limited to people of color. That’s nonsense. But the ‘woke-a-reestas’ like the congresswoman, they really believe that. They really do hate cops, just because they’re cops. They really do want to defund the police.”
Kennedy added, “The ‘woke-a’reestas’ really do believe that when a cop shoots a criminal, it is always — every single time — the cop’s fault, but when a criminal shoots a cop, it is always — every single time — the gun’s fault. These folks really do have contempt for America.”
In a way, the hatred of police, as expressed by Tlaib, is based on a radical leftist view of the purpose of government. Whereas government’s purpose, according to Scripture and the Founders, is to protect our lives, our liberty, and our property, leftists see government as a tool to redistribute wealth and impose their radical vision. Obviously, if there were no police and no incarceration, then there would be no way for a person to defend his life, liberty, and property, except to defend it himself.
At the same time that radicals such as Tlaib wish to end policing and incarceration, they also call for more and more restrictions on the private ownership of firearms. With no police and no guns in the hands of private citizens, life would become intolerable, and the private economy would deteriorate. We can already see this happening in major cities of America. Who wants to open a business in, or even live in, a community in which life, liberty, and property is subject to frequent attacks by the mob?
Actually, those who call for the abolition of local police forces are not really calling for the abolition of all law-enforcement agents. What they are calling for is the nationalization of police. Local police departments are often harassed by the U.S. Department of Justice now. The end-game for these anti-police radicals is for all policing to be in the hands of the federal government.
Nationalization of police is always the goal of totalitarians. One of the first actions taken by National Socialist dictator Adolf Hitler was to nationalize the police forces of Germany. Anyone who has ever heard of Hitler’s Gestapo can understand that nationalization of police does not lead to less abuse of power by police, but more.
Certainly, any time a person is handed power and authority, as is the case with local police, there is a danger of abuse. However, the alternative to local police is not desirable, and procedures are in place to weed out the tiny minority of bad cops.
Hopefully, those who advocate removing police protection from the productive and law-abiding segment of society will be repudiated at the polls, as the Rasmussen poll indicates is a strong possibility.
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Kristen Clarke, President Joe Biden’s hard-left, anti-white nominee to run the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, is more than a black supremacist who would defund the cops.
The nominee for assistant attorney general peddled the lie that convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal is innocent, and she apparently thinks cops are comparable to Klansmen, an e-mail she sent in 1999 shows. Even worse, the e-mail suggests that she lied during her confirmation hearing when she said she was clueless about Abu-Jamal, a much-celebrated hero to the radical left.
Unearthed by the American Accountability Project, the latest on Clarke comes weeks after the AAP produced proof that Clarke helped organize a conference to defend cop killers that same year.
The e-mail by Clarke confirms a simple truth: Biden has nominated an anti-cop radical to help run the Justice Department.
The E-mail
The email, produced at AAP’s BidenNoms.com, included an unhinged rant by the late Amiri Baraka. Baraka was an anti-white, anti-American “poet” who spent his life in brooding resentment.
“Most American white men are trained to be fags,” the pro-Castro Baraka wrote in 1965, but anyway, Clarke forwarded Baraka’s bizarre offering to a professor, Manning Marable, who edited a radical magazine.
Among the gems Clark thought were fit for publication were these:
• “The Klan is now the Police, with Blue uniforms replacing the sheets and hoods.”
• “The corrupt racist Ludges, are petty Klan administrators, The ‘Kleagles’ of the bourgeois state’s ‘Klaven’, their courts, the midnight torch burning torture sessions, before the neck stretching and black corpse burning.”
• “Black Churches are still being burned by the sons and daughters of the Confederacy.”
Included in the piece — a long string of gibberish, false accusations, and racialist nonsense — was the inevitable defense of Abu-Jamal, who murdered Philadelphia cop Daniel Faulkner in 1982:
Mountains of evidence and testimony show clearly that Mumia is another Black scapegoat, another Lynch victim. The Kleagle, Judge [Albert] Sabo, who like traditional Kleagles, wears no hood, is the leading butcher of black people, by thinly disguised Lynch law.
In fact, “mountains of evidence” show that Abu-Jamal brutally murdered Faulkner, but anyway, Clarke wanted Marable to publish the piece and use it in a panel discussion on race and the death penalty
Always Backed Cop Killers
Two weeks ago, AAP passed documents to Fox News that showed Clarke, as a law-school student in 1999, helped organize an anti-cop, anti-law-and-order conference.
Conference organizers called murderers such as Mumia “political prisoners,” Fox reported of the revelatory documents.
Other so-called political prisoners were Assata Shakur (Joanne Chesimard), who murdered a New Jersey State Trooper 1973. The murderess escaped prison and is still on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List.
Another favorite of Clarke’s conference speakers and attendees was Susan Rosenberg, a member of the May 19th Communist Organization, that bombed the U.S. Capitol on November 7, 1983. Rosenberg was sentenced to 58 years in prison when she was caught with explosives. President Bill Clinton pardoned her.
Reported Fox, “multiple speakers at the conference referred to the death row inmates as ‘political prisoners,’ or ‘POWs.’”
One of them, of course, was Abu-Jamal, whom Marable actually believed was innocent because, he told conference attendees, he “never received a fair trial and was tried by a racist judge.”
At her confirmation hearing on April 14, Clarke claimed she knows nothing about Abu-Jamal and only provided “logistical support” for the conference. How she could be unfamiliar with Abu-Jamal given the piece from Baraka, which she sent to Marable, we are not given to know.
The claim raises obvious questions: Despite her ideological disposition, wasn’t Clarke curious about the high-profile Abu-Jamal after reading Baraka’s screed? Did she learn nothing about it despite being at Columbia Law School and in the ensuing 20 years, and, as president of the Lawyers’ Committee on Civil Rights Under Law, does she still know nothing?
Can she really be that out of touch, and if she is, what kind of assistant attorney general will she make?
That aside, Clarke’s record of racialist activities goes back to her college days. At Harvard, Clarke wrote that blacks are genetically superior to whites.
“Human mental processes are controlled by melanin — that same chemical which gives Blacks their superior physical and mental abilities,” Clarke believed. “Melanin endows Blacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities — something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards.”
In Newsweek last year, again, she advocated defunding the police.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
As for Abu-Jamal, few if any serious observers believe a conspiracy of racist cops, prosecutors, and judges framed him.
Still, the cop-killer has long been a cause célèbre for the radical left, including the usual Hollywood busybodies. Although Abu-Jamal dodged the hot squat when a judge overturned his death sentence, courts have repeatedly upheld the conviction.
Even if Clarke doesn’t support the cop-killer today, even if she were to disavow her association with advocates for revolutionary violence who think cop-killing terrorists are “political prisoners,” there remains her view of police.
Biden’s nominee to help run the Justice Department wants to defund them.
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Jihad Watch has reported repeatedly on Iran’s violations of the 2015 nuke deal. Iran has even admitted this. This is a slap in the face to all the countries that are in Vienna to discuss a renewed nuke deal. Iran will continue to brazenly violate any deal. Globalists will blindly ignore the Iranian regime’s deception, to their own detriment. What Marxists fail to grasp is that Iran will use them, but will never accept them as equals. The Sharia, in Iran’s view, is the highest authority. Any system of government that is not compliant with the Sharia is viewed as part of infidel territory (dar al harb) to be conquered. It is only a matter of time before the great divide appears in the red-green axis.
“Iran installed more advanced centrifuges at Natanz – IAEA,” Reuters, April 22, 2021:
Iran has installed extra advanced centrifuges at its underground uranium enrichment plant at Natanz that was hit by a blast last week, a report by the U.N. atomic watchdog on Wednesday showed, deepening Iran’s breaches of its nuclear deal with major powers.
The explosion and a power outage damaged an unknown number of centrifuges and Iranian state TV has shown footage of machines that it says were replaced there. Iran has blamed Israel for the explosion. Israel has not commented formally on it.
The International Atomic Energy Agency report was not clear on how many centrifuges are in use but it gave “up to” numbers of advanced machines installed at the plant that were higher than previously indicated. The report made no mention of the explosion or its effect on the plant’s activity.
“On 21 April 2021, the Agency verified at FEP that: … six cascades of up to 1,044 IR-2m centrifuges; and two cascades of up to 348 IR-4 centrifuges … were installed, of which a number were being used,” the IAEA report to member states said, referring to the underground Fuel Enrichment Plant at Natanz. The report was seen by Reuters.
According to a previous report, the IAEA verified on March 31 that Iran was using 696 IR-2m machines and 174 IR-4 machines at the FEP.
Wednesday’s report is the latest evidence that Iran is pressing ahead with the installation of the advanced machines, even though it is not allowed to use them to produce enriched uranium under the 2015 agreement….
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Israel is forced to be more vigilant since the Biden Administration took over. Trump kept Iran at bay via sanctions, and he commanded respect, even from enemies.
All this is happening while a so-called nuclear deal is being worked out, one with which Iran has never complied; nor will it ever. The goal of Iran (and its proxies) remains the obliteration of the State of Israel. Ditto for surrounding jihadists, including the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Hizballah, Fatah, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
“Israel retaliates after Syrian missile lands near nuclear reactor,” Reuters, April 21, 2021:
A Syrian missile exploded in southern Israel on Thursday, the Israeli military said, in an incident that triggered warning sirens near the secretive Dimona nuclear reactor and an Israeli strike in Syria.
An Israeli military spokesman identified the projectile as an SA-5 surface-to-air missile fired by Syrian forces against Israeli aircraft. He said it overflew its target to reach the Dimona area, 200 km (125 miles) south of the Syrian border.
The missile did not hit the reactor, exploding some 30 km (19 miles) away, the spokesman added.
The sirens that sounded overnight in the Dimona area followed weeks of heightened tension between Israel and Iran, a close ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, amid renewed global negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear programme.
For weeks, Israeli media have said air defences around the Dimona reactor and the Red Sea port of Eilat were being strengthened in anticipation of a possible long-range missile or drone attack by Iranian-backed forces.
In public remarks on Thursday’s incident, Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz said the anti-aircraft missile was fired from Syria during an Israeli strike there against “assets that could be used for a potential attack against Israel”.
Gantz said Israel’s anti-missile systems had attempted to intercept the SA-5 but were unsuccessful.
“In most cases, we achieve other results. This is a slightly more complex case. We will investigate it and move on,” he said. Israeli security sources said the missile exploded in mid-air.
In response, Israel launched further overnight attacks inside Syria, the military spokesman said, targeting several missile batteries, including the one that fired the SA-5.
Syria’s state news agency said the country’s air defence system intercepted Israeli rockets over the suburbs of Damascus “and downed most of them”. Four soldiers were injured and there was some material damage, it said…..
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The list of countries of concern that the Trump administration outlined in an executive order was based on the document devised by the former Obama administration. Despite the fact that it was Obama who set the foundation, it is Trump who is persistently criticized as being discriminatory against Muslims. Obama restricted visa waivers for seven Muslim-majority countries: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen. The restriction was based on security issues. But we didn’t hear any Leftist outcry about Obama being “racist” against Muslims or discriminatory.
This new bill is nothing but virtue-signaling, and wouldn’t even have stopped Trump’s bans, for they were not based on religion, but on security.
It just happens to be the case that among the world’s most egregious violators of human rights and hotbeds of terrorism are many Muslim countries. Does this new bill now mean that such countries when they are Muslim-majority are no longer dangerous? Does it mean that America should permit open immigration from any country, no matter how violent, as to not offend Muslims and the woke crowd?
As absurd as all this is, it is the premise of the irrational policies that are being instituted by the Biden administration. The administration is willing to put national security at risk as to not offend Islam. America continues a rapid descent downwards; Sharia tenets are being institutionalized, while the strictures and policies of Communism are being increasingly normalized.
“US House passes bill to prevent another ‘Muslim ban,’” by William Roberts, Al Jazeera, April 21, 2021:
The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that would limit the ability of any United States president to impose a travel ban on the basis of religion, a move that was welcomed by civil rights advocates as “a major step forward”.
The legislation, known informally as the NO BAN Act, comes in response to former President Donald Trump’s controversial “Muslim ban” that barred travel to the US from several Muslim-majority countries.
The bill, which must also pass in the US Senate to become law, was approved by a 218-208 vote in the House on Wednesday.
“The Muslim ban tore families apart, put lives on hold for years and labelled Muslims, Africans and other targeted people as threatening outsiders,” said Madihha Ahussain, counsel to Muslim Advocates, a US civil rights group.
“We must ensure that no president can enact discriminatory bans like this ever again and with the passage of the NO BAN Act in the House, we are taking a major step forward to ensuring that they won’t,” Ahussain said in a statement as the bill was passed…
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USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- The fabricated “epidemic of gun violence” is “so severe and so desperate”, and the need “to take action” to address it is so urgent, that Democratic politicians from Joe Biden to Chuck Schumer to Nancy Pelosi to state representatives, mayors, and city council members are using gun control as a lever to try and force the destruction of the Senate filibuster.
Of course, there’s not an “epidemic of gun violence,” and the tragedies that these politicians are using to justify their calls, would not – could not – have been prevented or mitigated by the gun control laws they are pushing. But why let reality get in the way of a good crisis? And it’s not that these politicians don’t know that they’re blowing smoke. They know all too well. They know that the proposals they’re putting forward are “mostly symbolic,” but that doesn’t matter to them, because they have other proposals waiting in the wings. They know that “gun crime” had plateaued in recent years after falling steadily for almost 3 decades. It only surged up over the past year, almost exclusively in large, Democrat-controlled cities, after politicians told police to stand back and let rioters and looters have their way, then turned around and slashed police budgets. The vast majority of the US has violent crime rates comparable to, or lower than, the UK or most European countries.
But crime isn’t the issue. Control is the issue, and the Democrats want total control.
If Democrats can take out the filibuster, killing the only tool already weak Republicans have of keeping a one-vote majority from riding rough-shod over them, they have no intention of settling for the “modest,” “reasonable,” “commonsense gun safety reforms” that they’re currently touting. Sure, they’ll pass deadly “red flag” laws (that abridge due process and compromise at least the Fourth and Fifth Amendments along with the Second), “universal (sic) background checks” (that criminalize private transfers and create a gun registration framework), and restrictions on “ghost guns” (that is gun parts), but then they’ll keep going.
They’ll not only prohibit the manufacture and sale of “assault weapons” and normal, or what they call in their world, “high-capacity” magazines, but they’ll also prohibit their transfer and possibly ban their possession altogether, requiring that they all be turned in or destroyed. California already passed a total ban on possession of “high-capacity” magazines, but that confiscation law has been blocked by the courts so far.
This isn’t some crazy conspiracy theory or the Chicken Little hype that comes from too many gun rights groups in their fundraising letters. This is over 40 years of experience researching, debating, and writing about gun control and politics, reading the current situation, and clearly seeing the true objectives.
Democrats are literally power-mad. They believed that they had a permanent lock on the strings of power back in 2016, but the American electorate disabused them of that mistaken notion. They then pulled out all the stops in 2020, managing to secure a narrow victory that many people still question, but they’re determined to lock up their hold on power this time no matter what.
The filibuster is all that stands between them and permanent control in Washington.
Once the filibuster is gone, Democrats will add DC and Puerto Rico as new states – with 2 new Democratic senators each – and they’ll add 4 more seats to the Supreme Court to negate the current conservative majority. Then, with a solid majority in both houses, they’ll push through more and more gun control. With a blatantly political Court to do their bidding, we’ll see Heller neutered, and every gun control scheme currently in the legal pipeline declared to be constitutional.
The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act will be repealed, opening the door for cities, states, and special interest groups to resume their war on gun companies using a weaponized judiciary to drive the civilian arms industry into bankruptcy.
Cap it all off with major new immigration reform, granting citizenship to the millions of people currently in our country and still pouring in illegally, and Republicans will lose any hope of ever regaining the majority in either house.
This is what Democratic leaders are currently pushing for.
What they intend to do with that consolidated power is genuinely frightening.
There was a time that Americans could identify as Republican or Democrat, “conservative” or “liberal,” “right” or “left,” and still genuinely believe that the United States of America was a special place worth preserving. The Republic was Reagan’s “shining city on a hill,” or Kennedy’s “Camelot,” founded on Jefferson’s “unalienable rights,” that despite its flaws, contradictions and tragedies, had firm principles to aspire and rise to. There was a time that Americans of every mainstream political stripe agreed that those principles and aspirations were something worth defending, even fighting and dying for.
Something has changed. Sometime in the past twenty years – maybe even less – the American consensus has faded to be replaced by ideology owing more to Marx and Engels than to Hume and Locke. (Do most Americans under 50 even know these names, aside from Marx?)
We like to think that even the most strident Democrat wants our nation to continue and our people to be prosperous and happy, but looking at what they are trying to do, and the lengths they’re willing to go to in order to get what they want, it’s hard to envision anything less than a repeat of the mistakes and failures of the USSR, played out right here in the USA.
This isn’t hype or bluster. This is clearly what Democrats are trying to do, and they’re getting closer every day.
There are currently just two or three Democratic Senators objecting to the idea of deleting the filibuster, but it’s quite possible that they could fold or a Republican or two could make a deal and jump the aisle, giving Dems the simple majority they need to change the rules. If that happens, the writing is on the walls. Remember the push for Obamacare back in 2010. Nancy Pelosi’s statement that “we need to pass the bill so we know what’s in it,” and the tremendous pressure brought to bear to get their caucus in line in support of the bill, in spite of massive protests at the Capitol and in state capitols around the country.
That was only a warm-up for what’s going on right now. This is the biggest opportunity Democrats have seen since Lyndon Johnson convinced them that they could lock up the black vote by passing the Civil Rights Act, even though it betrayed the founding principles and history of their party, and meant they’d have to publicly turn their back on their direct action wing, the KKK.
I have to admit that I’m stumped as to what the average Democrat thinks America should or could look like with this bunch of power-crazed vultures in total control, but I can pretty much guarantee that it won’t go well.
It’s easy to talk about banning certain guns and accessories, but enforcing such bans is a much bigger challenge. So I ask Joe Biden, Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, and the rest of the DC elites: How many Americans are you willing to kill or incarcerate for failing to comply with gun laws that have been shown to not actually save lives? How many Americans are you willing to see killed or incarcerated for one too many rounds in a magazine?
How many police officers are you willing to see killed or wounded trying to enforce laws that are “mostly symbolic,” but which millions of Americans believe are blatant violations of their God-given and constitutionally guaranteed rights?
The political divide is deep and getting deeper. Trust in the election process is almost completely destroyed. The balance of power in DC teeters on a single vote, making it very hard to advance any agenda. Rather than following the American tradition of working to build support for their ideas, and thus gain the majorities needed to advance them, Democrats are choosing to try and change the rules and rearrange the board.
Putting forward better ideas and selling those ideas to voters in order to win more seats in the next election, thus allowing you to advance your agenda, is just too slow, old-fashioned, and risky for this current crop of Democratic leaders. They demand change. Now. And they will justify any action that puts them on top. Many Republicans respond almost as poorly, by making ridiculous and unsubstantiated claims and engaging in the same sort of “Hooray for Our Side!” politics that the Democrats are guilty of.
Both the radical Democratic leadership and the benighted “business as usual” GOP establishment are playing with fire. Neither side seems to understand that pushing people to the extremes will breed more extremism. The radical Democrats want to defund the police and expect those same police to protect them and execute their gun confiscation orders. They turn a blind eye to “mostly peaceful” protests that burn cities down while expecting their Antifa shock troops to intimidate veterans of real wars of insurgency.
For its part, the GOP establishment whistles in the dark hoping they can make a deal with people who clearly intend to bury them.
By looking the other way, the establishment has given an opening to the fringes of their own parties. The investigations that should rightly be a bi-partisan affair have become the province of only conspiracy theorists. Meanwhile, guns are flying off the shelves, and ammunition isn’t even making it to the stores.
We seem to be living under the old Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.” Perhaps men and women of goodwill on both sides will join hands across the political aisles. Perhaps the American Experiment will emerge from this crisis stronger and more resilient and with better safeguards for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness than ever.
For now, the spoiled children have taken over the school and they’re doing their best to lock the doors to keep the adults outside. It’s tragic and terrifying.
Keep contacting your elected servants (Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121).
Pray for the Republic. And keep your powder dry.
About Jeff Knox:
Jeff Knox is a second-generation political activist and director of The Firearms Coalition. His father Neal Knox led many of the early gun rights battles for your right to keep and bear arms. Read Neal Knox – The Gun Rights War.
The Firearms Coalition is a loose-knit coalition of individual Second Amendment activists, clubs and civil rights organizations. Founded by Neal Knox in 1984, the organization provides support to grassroots activists in the form of education, analysis of current issues, and with a historical perspective of the gun rights movement. The Firearms Coalition has offices in Buckeye, Arizona and Manassas, VA. Visit: www.FirearmsCoalition.org.
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A woman who sat as an alternate juror on the Derek Chauvin trial told a local news station that she was concerned about “rioting and destruction” as well as people turning up at her house if they were angry at the verdict.
Lisa Christensen also revealed to KARE 11 how the riots that preceded the verdict were close to her house and that she routinely witnessed them after the trial had concluded for the day.
“When I came home, I could hear the helicopters flying over my house… I could hear the flash bangs going off,” Christensen said. “If I stepped outside, I could see the smoke from the grenades. One day, the trial ran a little late, and I had trouble getting to my house, because the protesters were blocking the interstate, so I had to go way around.”
Christensen said she had no idea she would be dismissed by the judge and not be a part of deliberations, something that happened “right before the 12 jurors were sequestered.”
The alternate juror said she was disappointed to be dismissed and that she would have found Chauvin guilty if she had been part of the final 12 jurors.
Judging by Christensen’s remarks, that guilty verdict would clearly have been influenced not primarily by the evidence, but by the threat of mass rioting and threats to her own personal safety.
“I did not want to go through rioting and destruction again and I was concerned about people coming to my house if they were not happy with the verdict,” she said.
The comments clearly suggest that members of the jury were swayed by the threat of nationwide civil unrest, violence and looting that would have undoubtedly occurred had Chauvin escaped any of the charges.
“This is the clearest picture yet of the terroristic intimidation jurors faced to ensure Chauvin was found guilty in what was fundamentally a rigged show trial,” comments Chris Menahan.
“That the trial was not moved out of Minneapolis is a sick joke but since Charlottesville this has become the new normal.”
Other individuals who testified in defense of Chauvin also had their homes attacked before the jury was sent away to reach a verdict.