EUROPEAN UNION DEFIES TRUMP, EMBRACES BLOODTHIRSTY MULLAHS, URGES “INCREASED BUSINESS WITH IRAN”~MOGHERINI & JOHN KERRY CONSPIRED ON IRAN DEAL, PROTECTING MIGRANTS

MOGHERINI & JOHN KERRY CONSPIRACY TO UNDERMINE TRUMP & USA EVIDENT:
“POLITICAL ISLAM” THE FUTURE OF EUROPE?
RIGHT AFTER TRUMP & E.U. DROPPED TARIFFS
EUROPEAN UNION DEFIES TRUMP, 
EMBRACES BLOODTHIRSTY MULLAHS, 
URGES “INCREASED BUSINESS WITH IRAN” 
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
The European Union had a choice between supporting Donald Trump or supporting the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who scream “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” aid international jihad terror groups, and brutally oppress their own people. For the EU, it was a no-brainer.
“EU slaps Trump in the face, urges ‘increased business with Iran,’” Associated Press, August 7, 2018 (thanks to Inexion):
The European Union’s foreign policy chief encouraged companies to do more business with Iran despite new U.S. sanctions, saying Tehran had upheld its commitments under the deal to limit its nuclear program.
Federica Mogherini told reporters Tuesday during her trip to Wellington, New Zealand, that it’s up to Europeans to decide whom they want to trade with.
“We are doing our best to keep Iran in the deal, to keep Iran benefiting from the economic benefits that the agreement brings to the people of Iran because we believe this is in the security interests of not only our region, but also of the world,” she said. “If there is one piece of international agreements on nuclear non-proliferation that is delivering, it has to be maintained.”
The United States reimposed stiff economic sanctions on Iran on Monday, ratcheting up pressure on the Islamic Republic despite statements of deep dismay from European allies, three months after President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the international accord limiting Iran’s nuclear activities.
Trump declared that the landmark 2015 agreement was “horrible,” leaving the Iranian government flush with cash to fuel conflict in the Middle East. Trump warned that those who don’t wind down their economic ties to Iran “risk severe consequences.” Business as usual for EU?
German car and truck maker Daimler AG on Tuesday said it was suspending its “very limited” activities in Iran. In early 2016 the company announced plans for local truck production and cooperation with an Iranian partner but those plans had not panned out in a weak market. A representative office “will not be continued,” the company said.
Iran accused the U.S. of reneging on the nuclear agreement, signed by the Obama administration, and of causing recent Iranian economic unrest.
European allies said they “deeply regret” the U.S. action.
Trump said in a statement, “We urge all nations to take such steps to make clear that the Iranian regime faces a choice: either change its threatening, destabilizing behavior and reintegrate with the global economy, or continue down a path of economic isolation.”…
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New EU Foreign Minister Federico Mogherini in a fond embrace with her friend in Paris back in August during Gaza ceasefire talks.

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Communist and Islamophile Federica Mogherini 

MOGHERINI: "POLITICAL ISLAM"
IS THE FUTURE OF EUROPE 
SEE OUR PREVIOUS POSTS:
EU Foreign Policy Chief Wants European Coast Guard 
to Protect Migrants
SEE: http://ntknetwork.com/eu-foreign-policy-chief-wants-european-coast-guard-to-protect-migrants/
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 Federica Mogherini said that she is most concerned with migrants’ 
rights, as Europe has been overwhelmed with foreigners pouring into the 
continent.
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DEMOCRAT SENATOR MURPHY: SOCIAL MEDIA MUST CENSOR “HATE SPEECH” TO MAINTAIN DEMOCRACY

DEMOCRAT SENATOR MURPHY: 
SOCIAL MEDIA MUST CENSOR “HATE SPEECH” TO MAINTAIN DEMOCRACY 
BY RAVEN CLABOUGH
Social-media platforms continue to violate free-speech protections under the guise of prohibiting so-called hate speech and enhancing security. And a Democratic senator is claiming that it is the role of tech companies to engage in such unconstitutional practices and crack down on controversial websites in order to maintain “democracy” in the United States.
Shortly after Facebook, Apple, Spotify, and Google suspended the accounts of Infowars’ Alex Jones and Twitter suspended black conservative Candace Owen, Twitter suspended the accounts of former State Department employee Peter Van Buren, Antiwar editorial director Scott Horton, and executive director of the Ron Paul Institute Daniel McAdams.
According to Zero Hedge, Horton was disciplined for using “improper language” against journalist Jonathan M. Katz, McAdams was suspended for retweeting Horton, and both of them were objecting to a quarrel between Katz and Van Buren that resulted in Van Buren’s suspension.
Media giants such as Google and Twitter are attempting to be more vigilant in regulating speech on their platforms after facing criticism over failing to prevent alleged interference from Russia during the 2016 presidential election. Media platforms are now using that as an excuse to engage in censorship of mostly conservative accounts.
Former U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage, who was largely responsible for leading his country to vote to leave the European Union in 2016, criticized the media giants in an op-ed published on Fox News on Tuesday.
“These platforms that claim to be ‘open’ and in favor of ‘free speech’ are now routinely targeting — whether by human intervention or not — the views and expressions of conservatives and anti-globalists,” he wrote.
Farage begrudged the notion that Russian interference hurts “US democracy” and claimed instead that it is interference from powerful corporations such as the media giants that is most concerning.
“The most avowed First Amendment, free speech defenders must surely be on the side of those — like me — who believe it is not within the gift of corporations to decide what is acceptable speech or not,” he continued, “especially when they harvest and sell data about all of us en masse as the underlying business model.”
But according to Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut (shown), it is indeed the role of tech companies to engage in this type of behavior, in order to advance the survival of American democracy, the Washington Examiner reported.
Murphy tweeted that private companies “shouldn’t knowingly spread lies and hate.” He used that justification to defend Apple’s, Facebook’s, YouTube’s, Pinterest’s, and Spotify’s decision to remove Alex Jones and his Infowars program from their platforms after citing violations of codes of conduct related to “hate speech.”
“Infowars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart. These companies must do more than take down one website. The survival of our democracy depends on it,” Murphy tweeted Monday.
Leaving aside the fact that America is a republic, not a democracy, one big question remains: Who should be responsible for determining what constitutes “hate speech”? In these cases, it is often liberal and leftist organizations labeling conservative or libertarian speech as hate. After all, true libertarians and constitutionalists recognize the sanctity of the First Amendment and refrain from censorship even in the face of truly controversial speech from their leftist counterparts.
The easy answer is that no one should be able to claim this responsibility. There is no proper criteria to determine what constitutes “hate speech” as it all depends on perspective, and it would be supremely unconstitutional to entrust such an impossible responsibility on individuals who will always be skewed by their own bias.
For this reason, the Founding Fathers did not leave us a “democracy” as Senator Murphy claims, since democracies are nothing more than mob rule, in which 51 percent can usurp the rights of the remaining 49 percent. Instead, they entrusted the people with a constitutional republic that relies on the rule of law to ensure that all individual liberties are protected, instead of just the will of the majority.
Unfortunately, too many of today’s liberals have either forgotten or chosen to ignore this reality and instead justify censorship of conservative voices in the war to preserve “democracy.” Somewhere along the way, they decided that the U.S. Constitution protects the right to not be offended rather than the right to free speech, and even worse, they’ve continually applied that fake right inequitably. Conservatives and Christians can be offended regularly but the minute a liberal, non-white, female, non-Christian, non-American is even mildly offended, the gloves come off and the accounts come down.
Farage is proposing a social-media bill of rights in countries throughout the world to prohibit such leftist censorship practices. He encourages all free-speech advocates to take a stance, even if they do not align with “right-wingers.” He contends, “Unless we take a stand now, who knows where it could end.”
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Ex Secret Service Agent, Dan Bongino: 
Sen. Chris Murphy Calls on Big Tech to Shutter 
Sites He Disagrees With 

JERRY FALWELL, JR. TO PEN POLITICAL BOOK WITH JIMMY CARTER, “GAY MARRIAGE” ADVOCATE & EVOLUTION ADHERENT

Jerry Falwell Jr., Jimmy Carter, and Liberty University ...
JERRY FALWELL, JR. TO PEN POLITICAL BOOK WITH JIMMY CARTER, “GAY MARRIAGE” ADVOCATE & EVOLUTION ADHERENT 
BY HEATHER CLARK
SEE: https://christiannews.net/2018/08/07/jerry-falwell-jr-to-pen-political-book-with-gay-marriage-advocate-evolution-adherent-jimmy-carter/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
LYNCHBURG, Va. — Jerry Falwell, Jr., the president of Liberty University, which hails itself as the world’s largest Christian university, says that he is writing a book with former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, the specifics of which have not yet been announced. Carter, who has publicly expressed his support for “gay marriage” and says that he believes in evolution, claims to be a born again Christian and teaches Sunday School in Georgia.
According to The Hill, Falwell announced that he was joining forces with Carter to write the book during the Washington premiere of Dinesh D’Souza’s film “Death of a Nation.”
“We just started working on it,” he said. “It’ll take a year, I bet.”
Falwell also shared the report on social media, writing, “I believe a political revolution is underway in our great nation. Instead of conservative v. liberal, the future will be progressive elites (think Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger, ⁦@HillaryClinton⁩, Hitler, Soros) v. freedom loving average Americans!”
As previously reported, Carter has raised eyebrows several times in recent years over his statements about Christianity, such as in 2015, when he told the Huffington Post that he believes Jesus would approve of same-sex “marriage,” and really, “any love affair.”
“I believe Jesus would. I don’t have any verse in Scripture,” he said. “I believe Jesus would approve gay marriage, but that’s just my own personal belief. I think Jesus would encourage any love affair if it was honest and sincere and was not damaging to anyone else, and I don’t see that gay marriage damages anyone else.”
“The earth is four billion years old, … but I don’t see a conflict there,” Carter also told reporters in 2016 during a visit to Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter, referring to the conflict between Christianity and evolution. “And as a scientist, I believe in evolution.”
Last year, he advised liberal op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof that he can’t judge whether or not someone is a Christian despite their doubts about Christ’s virgin birth and resurrection.
“One of my problems with evangelicalism is that it normally argues that one can be saved only through a personal relationship with Jesus, which seems to consign Gandhi to Hell. Do you believe that?” Kristoff also asked.
“I do not feel qualified to make a judgment. I am inclined to give him (or others) the benefit of any doubt,” Carter replied.
Despite his beliefs, Carter still refers to himself as a born-again Christian and teaches Sunday School at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. He spoke at a Liberty University Commencement in May, sharing his thoughts about global concerns such as human trafficking and the threat of nuclear war.
As previously reported, Falwell has been a vocal supporter of President Trump since January 2016, repeatedly asserting throughout Trump’s presidential campaign that the then-candidate bears the fruit of one being born again because of his characteristic good deeds.
“I’ve seen his generosity to strangers, to his employees, his warm relationship with his children,” he said on CNN’s “Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield” in February 2016. “I’m convinced he’s a Christian. I believe he has faith in Jesus Christ.”
Falwell contended that those who expressed concerns about Trump’s behavior were violating the “judge not” clause in Matthew 7:1.
“Jesus said, ‘Judge not, lest ye be judged. Let’s stop trying to choose the political leaders who we believe are the most godly because, in reality, only God knows people’s hearts. You and I don’t, and we are all sinners,” he said in an interview with the Liberty University newspaper in March 2016.
In October 2016, when some Liberty University students denounced Trump as being antithetical to Christianity after sexually-charged remarks surfaced from 2005, Falwell asserted that, in their immaturity of youth, they were wrongfully “ignoring” the teachings of Jesus on judging.
“Donald Trump does not represent our values and we want nothing to do with him,” one student had written in a circulated statement that generated over 1,000 signatures of support from students, faculty and alumni. “… He has made his name by maligning others and bragging about his sins. Not only is Donald Trump a bad candidate for president, he is actively promoting the very things that we as Christians ought to oppose. … We don’t want to champion Donald Trump; we want only to be champions for Christ.”
“This student statement seems to ignore the teachings of Jesus not to judge others, but they are young and still learning,” Falwell stated, in part, in response.
Falwell’s twitter account is predominantly filled with political posts, and on July 21, he retweeted the following remark from vloggers Diamond and Silk regarding allegations that Trump once had an affair with porn star Stormy Daniels: “We don’t give a freakin’ frying flipping fish about something that happened over 10 years ago. We didn’t vote for the pope, a priest or a pastor; we voted for a president. Our president did nothing wrong so leave him D [expletive] alone!”
John Jay, the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, once said, “Providence has given our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as privilege and interest, of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”
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SEE OUR PREVIOUS POSTS ABOUT CARTER’S APOSTASY:

“DEATH OF A NATION” MOVIE: D’SOUZA’S LATEST & HELL’S TRUMP DERANGEMENT~EXCELLENT REVIEWS BY CONSERVATIVES

D’SOUZA’S LATEST & HELL’S TRUMP DERANGEMENT 
BY GINA MILLER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
August 7, 2018



Dinesh D’Souza’s latest film, “Death of a Nation,” is another home run. We saw it this past Saturday in its opening weekend. It is outstanding and current, as all of his films are. In it, Mr. D’Souza presents the truth behind the Big Lies of the commie/fascist/Nazi/Ku Klux Klan/Democrat/”Progressive” collective with his in-depth research, interviews, and high-quality historical reenactments by actors who look impressively like the people they’re portraying.


Although I had heard radio audio of many of them, I had not seen most of the video clips he showed of insane Hell’s Media in their vicious reactions to Donald Trump winning the 2016 presidential election. They’re quite sobering to watch. The deranged hate from these people is stunning.


During much of the Obama administration, I wrote one or two columns a week, and in many of them I called for prayers that God would give our nation undeserved mercy, a reprieve from the inevitably despotic consequences of our nation’s broad embrace of all kinds of wickedness and corruption.


The Lord answered our prayers in a mighty way by preventing all the scheming and fraud of the communist Democrats to shove the criminal harpy, Hillary Clinton, into the presidency. I thank God He did not allow her to win! He gave us President Trump, and all the forces of Hell and its human servants are of one mind, unified in pure, lunatic hatred for him. We have not seen anything like it in our nation’s history.


Just as Islam is the photo-negative of Christianity, so was the treatment of Barack Obama (or whatever his name is) by Hell’s Media compared to their treatment of President Trump. The entire Left – politicians, media, Hollywood, academia – were all drooling dogs worshiping at Obama’s treacherous feet, giving cover to his every lie and lawless, anti-American scandal.


Those same people are now doing their worst to destroy President Trump, a man who has done none of what they falsely accuse him of doing, and certainly none of the corrupt, power-mad things Obama and others in his administration did. The breathtaking depth of corruption and criminality in the Obama intelligence agencies and the ensuing hoax of this seemingly interminable “Russia collusion” investigation are beyond measure. It’s clear that this Mueller guy is hell-bent on making a Donald Trump “crime” out of thin air.


In “Death of a Nation,” Mr. D’Souza lays bare not only the lies of these people who are baselessly, viciously attacking President Trump, but also the related lies of their comrades in history, including the Third Reich. And he wonders if America will again be saved as it was during the Civil War era.


The film’s presentation, its cinematography, sound, all of it, are excellent, and the music is glorious. It’s real, and it’s uplifting, but also a warning to those with eyes to see. Our nation is in a battle for its freedom and soul, and Mr. D’Souza is trying to impart the critical nature of our situation and the need that we all stand firmly for truth and righteousness in the United States, no matter how dear the cost of standing for what’s right and true. As with all of his pictures, you’ll applaud at the end. Go see it while it’s still on the big screen.
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‘Death of a Nation’ Movie Is a Masterful Win for Conservatism

MIKE CERNOVICH REVIEWS THE MOVIE

Prominent Conservatives Attend Screening of 

New D’Souza Film

Prominent conservatives attend a screening of Dinesh D’Souza’s latest film “Death of a Nation.” One America’s Jack Posobiec spoke with D’Souza and others about the film, and why Democrat policies have historically been dangerous.


IS TECHNOLOGY REWIRING OUR CHILDREN?

IS TECHNOLOGY REWIRING OUR CHILDREN? 
BY LISA SHAW
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
In most developed societies, technology and its devices are readily available and in use for all who will have them. The benefits of this progress have been many. However, there seems to be a dangerous growing epidemic that has been created as a result.
Every day we see it in stores, restaurants, and on the streets as we walk — people staring vacantly at the screens in their hands instead of interacting with those around them. And all ages seem to have access to the screens that blind them to the real world around them.
What are some of the dangers of this new way of living?
Baroness Susan Greenfield, a British research scientist whose work focuses on brain physiology, cautions that social media and video games may create a society of individuals with grossly underdeveloped mental and emotional capacities.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Greenfield stated, “What I predict is that people are going to be like three-year-olds: emotional, risk-taking, [with] poor social skills, weak self-identity and short attention spans.” The instant gratification of social media and video games, she asserted, would lead them to need “something every moment to distract them so they can’t have their own inner narrative, their own inner thought process.”
As validation of her prediction, the baroness mentioned a recent study by Harvard and Princeton Universities that discovered “students preferred to give themselves an electric shock rather than face 10 minutes alone simply thinking.”
Such startling and abnormal findings raise concern for our youth and should bring about action concerning the problem.
It is not uncommon for kids to have smart phones well before high school. In fact, according to PsychCentral, “56 percent of children between the ages of 10 to 13 own a smartphone. While that fact alone may come as a shock, it is estimated that 25 percent of children between the ages of 2 and 5 have a smartphone.”
The article aptly notes, “It should come as no surprise that smartphones and tablets have now replaced basketballs and baby dolls on a child’s wish list. Elementary school-aged children start asking, or let’s say begging, for these forms of technology before they can even tie their shoes.”
The devices, which are created to appeal to increasingly (and astonishingly) younger ages, and the unmonitored and easy access to the Internet can do unfathomable damage to children. Technology is all around us, and as it typically involves face-to-screen time instead of face-to-face time with real people, it promotes isolation — one of its central dangers. This is especially troubling for children and can cause countless side effects — two of which are the inability to interact with others and the inability to self-regulate.
In her blog on psychcentral.com, W. R. Cummings states in “The Negative Effects of Technology on Childhood Behavior”:
When screen time is idolized, face-to-face time with other people is devalued. Fresh air drops to the bottom of the priority list, and playing (and therefore learning) becomes a backup preference. The ideal overwhelmingly becomes to stare at a screen to be entertained.
Children are no longer forced to entertain themselves, but are now able to turn off the active parts of their brain to enjoy themselves. By no fault of their own, they’ve lost a huge piece of their ability to deal with boredom.
This cause-and-effect reaction makes learning in the classroom more difficult for kids, which causes frustration, self-doubt, and negative choices. They’re less able to use gained social skills to maintain conversations with their peers. This causes avoidance of peer interaction, inability to express emotion to others, and a desire to escape group activities.
The article then addresses one of the same concerns raised by Baroness Greenfield: that of instant gratification:
The biggest problem with technology in childhood behavior, however, seems to be the learned expectation that every need or want can be (and should be) met immediately. Instant gratification becomes the norm, instead of the treat.
Items can be bought with the click of a button.
Packages can arrive on the doorstep in twenty-four hours.
Entire seasons of TV shows can be watched in one sitting without having to wait each week for their arrival.
Games can be played at faster processing speeds than any toy could compare with.
Delaying gratification is a skill that a lot of children are no longer being forced to learn. When a kid can’t have what they want, or what they’re working for, right away, they become overwhelmed. Frustrated. Sad. Upset.
To counteract these attitudes, Greenfield suggests that children engage in activities with a beginning, middle, and end. Some examples are reading books, playing sports, and gardening in which the plant growth would not be hurried in contrast to “multi-tasking where everything happens all at once and you can go backward and forward in time in games.”
The negative effects of technology on children today are not necessary. If parents take responsibility by gaining knowledge, creating legitimate limitations, and setting right examples, a vibrant childhood does not have to be replaced with a lifeless virtual reality.

CENSORSHIP: ALEX JONES REMOVED FROM APPLE, FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, SPOTIFY~JUST BANNED BY ALL U.S. AIRLINES

GLOBALISTS ADOPTING THE CHINESE COMMUNIST MODEL OF SOCIAL CREDIT RATINGS
CENSORSHIP: ALEX JONES REMOVED FROM APPLE, FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, SPOTIFY 
BY JAMES MURPHY
SEE: https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/item/29727-censorship-alex-jones-removed-from-apple-facebook-youtube-spotify?vsmaid=434&vcid=3987republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
On Monday, tech giant Apple joined in on the censorship fun by removing five of six podcasts of Alex Jones and Infowars from their iTunes and Podcasts apps. Apple’s move was draconian, completely removing all of the shows on those five podcasts instead of singling out the more “offensive” ones.  
“Apple does not tolerate hate speech, and we have clear guidelines that creators and developers must follow to ensure we provide a safe environment for all of our users,” a company statement said. “Podcasts that violate these guidelines are removed from our directory making them no longer searchable or available for download or streaming. We believe in representing a wide range of views, so long as people are respectful to those with differing opinions.”
So, Apple is creating a “safe space” for news consumers, is that it? Then why is progressive The Young Turks show still available on the platform? Its hosts regularly disagree with conservatives and are certainly not always “respectful to those with differing opinions.” On election night of 2016, host Ana Kasparian referred to female Trump supporters as “dumb.” Both Kasparian and The Young Turks founder Cenk Uygur have loudly disagreed with Jones himself, with Uygur shouting in his face and Kasparian calling him a “fat f**k” at the 2016 Republican National Convention.
Not to be outdone, Facebook continued its war against Jones and his Infowars platform by banning four pages — the Alex Jones page; the Alex Jones Channel page; the Infowars Nightly News page and the Infowars page — belonging to Jones for allegedly violating the social network’s policy on “hate speech.”
Facebook claimed in a statement that the pages were removed “for glorifying violence, which violates our graphic violence policy, and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslim and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies.” The statement did not offer any specific violations.
As with Apple’s, Facebook’s decision is inconsistent. The social-media giant still allows many pages depicting and encouraging violence and racial animosity, such as Antifa pages calling for violence, a page called “Kill Trump,” and many pages dedicated to “hateful” speech against Christians, Jews, Americans, etc.
Google and its satellite company YouTube have stepped up their own censorship efforts by banning Jones’ channel. Try to go to Jones’ official YouTube page and you will only see the message, “This channel is no longer available. Unsubscribe if you would like to remove it.”
Spotify has also jumped on the censorship bandwagon by banning Jones and Infowars from their site, claiming that the Alex Jones Show violated its hate content policy, which prohibits content that “expressly and principally promotes, advocates or incites hatred or violence against a group or individual based on characteristics.”
All of these tech companies banning so-called conspiracy theorist Jones on the same day? It seems almost coordinated — a conspiracy, if you will.
Gateway Pundit does an excellent job in quantifying the damage done by these tech companies’ efforts to marginalize not just Jones, but conservatives in general. Beginning in January of 2017, traffic from Facebook to selected conservative news sites has dropped by 93 percent. That’s not coincidence. The giants in the liberal tech world realized that the election of Donald Trump had a lot to do with alternative news sources, and they have acted accordingly to get rid of that influence.
Infowars editor Paul Joseph Watson put it this way on Twitter: “This is the key point. 4 big tech firms all banned InfoWars within 12 hours of each other. This suggests collusion and PROVES that their terms of service are all arbitrary and bulls**t. Incredible”
Amazingly, Jones is still on Twitter — for now. Though, with Twitter’s policy of shadowbanning conservative voices, one has to wonder how long Jones will last there. In the wake of Jones’ banning by other social-media and tech sites, Twitter is facing enormous pressure to ban Jones as well.
Interestingly, Apple now has a large presence in the People’s Republic of China and is working closely with that government, which currently bans over 8,000 websites, including Google, Facebook, and YouTube. At least the communists are honest about it. They don’t want their people to see certain things, so they block them. In America and other western nations, the censorship is more insidious, as we are told such bans are all about restricting “fake news” and “hate speech,” even though these claims are observably false.
Make no mistake: These bans have little to nothing to do with so-called hate speech or fake news. The leftists who run these companies and the overlord leftists in the mainstream media and globalist circles who pressure these companies do not like the fact that Americans can now get their news and information without their spin on it. Alex Jones is nothing but the first domino here.
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PAUL JOSEPH WATSON: “THE PURGE”
A day that will live in infamy.
ALL SOCIAL MEDIA TECH GIANTS
COLLUDE IN ONE DAY TO STIFLE SPEECH

ALERT: They Did It To Alex Jones’ Infowars;

Who or What Is Next?

The Alex Jones Purge is Tommy Robinson Part 2!!!

THE PURGE: Here’s Why Liberals Will Lose 

the Online Culture War!!!

by Dr. Steve Turley

Alex Jones banned from all airlines! 

Jack Posobiec, Periscope Reports

Infowars purge is just the beginning

Ezra Levant of Rebel Media Reports:

PRO GAY CHURCH SELLS BUILDING, PLANS TO OPEN BREWERY IN NEW FACILITY, DONATE PROFITS TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD

PRO GAY CHURCH SELLS BUILDING, PLANS TO OPEN BREWERY IN NEW FACILITY, DONATE PROFITS TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD 
BY HEATHER CLARK
SEE: https://christiannews.net/2018/08/06/pro-gay-church-sells-building-plans-to-open-brewery-in-new-facility-donate-profits-to-planned-parenthood/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — The pro-homosexual Greater Purpose Community Church in California says that it has sold its former building and plans to open a public brewery in the now-closed Logos Bookstore in Santa Cruz. The brewery, which will also be used as meeting space for Sunday services, will donate part of the proceeds to Planned Parenthood, among other organizations.
“We decided to sell the building, because for us a church is a community and a movement,” leader Chris VanHall told NBC Bay Area. “It’s not brick and mortar.”
The former building had a large homosexual rainbow flag unfurled outside, and members marched in the recent Pride Parade, according to the publication Good Times. VanHall also had a “Happy Pride Month” rainbow frame on his Facebook profile photo for the month of June.
While looking for a new place to gather, VanHall’s rental agent mentioned the former Logos Bookstore and signed a lease agreement with former Logos Owner John Livingston to use the space as both a meeting place for Greater Purpose and a brewery and eatery.
“It’s more about community than anything,” Livingston told reporters. “I really like their approach.”
In the meantime, Greater Purpose is meeting in The Food Lounge, a restaurant and bar in the city. VanHall asked the owner of the lounge to keep the bar open, so members could have a beer while listening to his sermons.
“We have a glass of beer, glass of wine, and it’s a comfortable atmosphere where people can not only listen to a progressive take on theology, but they can also engage in conversation,” he said.
“They can have one or two. As a matter of fact, if they have two, my sermon’s always better,” VanHall jested.
He said that the former Logos Bookstore will be named the Greater Purpose Brewing Company. VanHall plans to revamp the location into space for manufacturing beer, mead and hard cider. The brewery will be open to the public, but on Sunday mornings, VanHall will use the facility for Sunday services before the brewery opens.
“We don’t want to dupe anyone. We don’t want to have this bar and, ‘Come on in and have a beer,’ and boom, you get a church service,” he explained.
VanHall said that he also plans to split profits from the brewery and donate part of the proceeds to local non-profit organizations, such as Planned Parenthood, which has an office upstairs.
“I thought to myself, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if a church could figure out a way to make a product where they split profits with local community service organizations?’ And we were like, ‘Hey, we love beer. We love making beer. Why not do a brewery?’” he outlined.
“A woman’s right to choose is something most churches are silent on or opposed to, but that’s not where we stand in the faith community,” Van Hall told Good Times. “We hope to be an absolute conundrum for people walking by. A church that serves beer and gives the profits away to places like Planned Parenthood is really exciting to me.”
World Religion News notes that Greater Purpose already hosts meetings open to all religions called “Faith on Tap,” during which participants have a drink while discussing how to raise money or volunteer to support local causes.
The late Anglican preacher J.C. Ryle once exhorted, “Controversy is an odious thing, but there are days when it is a positive duty. Peace is an excellent thing, but, like gold, it may be bought too dear. Unity is a mighty blessing, but it is worthless if it is purchased at the cost of truth. Once more I say, Open your eyes and be on your guard.”
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CALIFORNIA CHURCH TO MEET IN A BREWERY 

(Friday Church News Notes, August 24, 2018, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – 
The Greater Purpose Community Church of Santa Cruz, California, is building a beer brewery that will also serve as its meeting place. Pastor Chris VanHall says, “I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be great if a church could figure out a way to make a product where they split the profits with local community service organizations, we were like ‘hey, we love beer, we love making beer, why not do a brewery?’” He said that drinking a couple of beers “improves the sermon.” The church’s web site says, “[We] will embrace you regardless of your faith, personal life choices, race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, political preference, social status, or economic standing.” The profit from the church’s brewery will go to abortion provider Planned Parenthood. This is “The Shack” Christianity which is void of conviction of sin, repentance, and life-changing regeneration. Such things are labeled “bigotry and hate-filled theology” by The Greater Purpose Community Church.

PATRIOTS RALLY BEHIND INFOWARS AMID TECH’S TOTAL COMMUNIST CENSORSHIP~LIBERAL GLOBALIST ELECTION MEDDLING, COLLUSION TO SUPPRESS CONSERVATIVE SPEECH~CANDACE OWENS SUSPENDED BY TWITTER

ELECTION MEDDLING & COLLUSION BY SOCIAL MEDIA PURGING OF CONSERVATIVE SPEECH, LABELED AS “DEROGATORY, HATEFUL, DISCRIMINATORY”
PAMELA GELLER SLAMS SOCIAL MEDIA

FATWA, FACEBOOK, FREE SPEECH: 

Social media giants censor counter jihad conservatives

VIOLATION OF FIRST AMENDMENT BY GLOBALISTS & TECH GIANTS

Purged: Facebook Permanently Bans Infowars For "Hate Speech"
PATRIOTS RALLY BEHIND INFOWARS AMID TECH’S TOTAL COMMUNIST CENSORSHIP

Facebook, Google, Apple jump the shark in unprecedented crackdown of political discourse

Pro-First Amendment patriots are rallying behind Infowars and Alex Jones after authoritarian tech titans Facebook, YouTube, and Apple banned us from their platforms on the same day in a coordinated communist-style crackdown.
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PURGED: FACEBOOK PERMANENTLY BANS INFOWARS FOR “HATE SPEECH”

Apple also deletes podcasts as Big Tech censorship intensifies

BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON

SEE: https://www.infowars.com/purged-facebook-permanently-bans-infowars-for-hate-speech/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Facebook has permanently banned Infowars for using language that is derogatory towards Muslims, transgender people and immigrants in a shocking intensification of Big Tech’s censorship purge.
Facebook announced in a blog post that the four main Infowars pages were “unpublished for repeated violations of Community Standards and accumulating too many strikes.”
“More content from the same Pages has been reported to us — upon review, we have taken it down for glorifying violence, which violates our graphic violence policy, and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies,” states the post.










Facebook has permanently BANNED Infowars.

For unspecified “hate speech”. They didn’t even tell us what the offending posts were.

This sets a chilling precedent for free speech.

To all other conservative news outlets – you are next.

The great censorship purge has truly begun.


Facebook did not specifically state which posts or videos violated their policies or in what way.
The termination of the pages follows an intensive lobbying campaign by the likes of CNN and BuzzFeed to pressure Facebook into banning Infowars.



Last month, Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) also pressured Facebook to ban Infowars during a hearing into social media censorship on Capitol Hill.
Wikileaks responded to the news with a warning that the ban represents a “global anti-trust problem.”
“Infowars says it has been banned by Facebook for unspecified ‘hate speech’. Regardless of the facts in this case, the ability of Facebook to censor rival publishers is a global anti-trust problem, which along with San Francisco cultural imperialism, reduces political diversity,” said the whistleblower organization in a tweet.



In a related story, Apple also announced that it had removed the five main Infowars podcasts from its directory.
What we are witnessing is an ideological purge intended to re-define the very concept of free speech.
IMPORTANT click here to watch Infowars live. Also use this link to download the censored podcast: http://xml.nfowars.net/Alex.rss
If free speech does not include controversial/unpopular/offensive speech, it doesn’t exist.
A society in which free speech doesn’t exist is doomed to collapse into authoritarianism.
The argument that Facebook and other social media giants are “private companies” and can do what they like is also a complete misnomer.
Big Tech have formed a monopoly by swallowing up content and they are now working hand in hand with the establishment media and leftist politicians to silence independent voices.
Whether you love or loathe Infowars, this now confirms that Big Tech is working with legacy media and lawmakers to silence independent media.
In places like Russia, the government shuts down the press, in America, CNN, Apple and Facebook fulfil that role.
Please continue to pressure lawmakers into enacting real solutions to secure digital rights and free speech online by circulating our master guide to online censorship and signing our petition to uphold free speech.


Now that Facebook has banned Infowars, it will be very interesting to see which conservative news outlets and commentators speak out and which ones remain complicit in silence.

Whatever you think of Infowars, they’re coming for you next.

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The Real Reason Apple, Facebook, Spotify & YouTube Banned Infowars

THE REAL REASON APPLE, FACEBOOK, SPOTIFY & YOUTUBE BANNED INFOWARS

This is what election meddling looks like

BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON
SEE: https://www.infowars.com/the-real-reason-apple-facebook-spotify-youtube-banned-infowars/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Statement from Alex Jones: The EU is already fining Google and others if they don’t start censoring speech by calling it “hate speech” and/or “fake news.”

When our government doesn’t start fining them for violations of free speech, racketeering and trust/monopolistic behavior, that encourages other governments like China and the EU have influence over the free market of ideas.

But this situation also highlights the trust set up by mutli-national combines based in China and in Europe that’s stealing all of our rights and freedoms through a concerted effort.

Over two-and-a-half years ago, Matt Drudge came to our studio and warned of this attack on the First Amendment. That’s why they want alternative and independent media shut down.

They would’ve done all of this last year had Hillary gotten into the White House. Yet, due to Trump instead getting elected, this plan has been held off for about a year-and-a-half.

Now, it seems, they don’t fear Trump for whatever reason, and now they’re making their move.

But I don’t think President Trump has been compromised, but he’s compromising himself one way or another if his administration doesn’t make this the central issue.

Free speech is the central issue; this is the heart of the matter. This is the core. This is it.
Apple, Spotify, Facebook and YouTube all banned Infowars within 12 hours of each other, illustrating how last night’s purge was a coordinated effort and has nothing to do with these platforms enforcing “hate speech” rules.
Here are the real reasons Infowars is being purged by Big Tech:
– Infowars is widely credited with having played a key role in electing Donald Trump. By banning Infowars, big tech is engaging in election meddling just three months before crucial mid-terms.
– With the Infowars ban, Apple, Facebook, Spotify & YouTube (Google) have all now ascribed themselves the power to remove people & outlets from their platforms based on their political opinions. This power will be abused time and time again to meddle in elections.
– The ban also sets the precedent that the mere charge alone of having committed “hate speech,” with no specific examples even provided, is enough to memory hole an individual or group’s digital presence.
The ban is just part of a wider censorship purge that also use stealth censorship, shadow banning and algorithmic manipulation to hide and bury conservative content.
– Apple also chose to shut down Infowars after we repeatedly criticized them for working with and selling data to the Communist Chinese government. Just a coincidence, I’m sure.

Apple chose to shut down Infowars after repeated criticism of them selling data to and working with Communist Chinese government. Just a coincidence.

For conservative media outlets who don’t speak out because they don’t like Infowars, we have a message for you – you’re next.
Facebook banned Infowars after lobbying by both CNN and Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL). This isn’t “just a private company,” this is brazen political censorship.
This is the outcome of the left refusing to debate their ideas and simply no platforming their adversaries instead.
This is the modern day electronic equivalent of book burning.
This is throwing dissidents in the Big Tech gulag because their voices were becoming too loud and having too much influence.
This is the purge. This is election meddling and COLLUSION.
It will only intensify unless lawmakers act now to introduce a Digital Bill of Rights and treat social media giants as telecommunications companies who are forbidden by law from discriminating against people and media outlets based on their political opinions.
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SEE ALSO:

Candace Owens Swaps "White" For "Jewish" In Sarah Jeong Tweet, Gets Suspended
CONSERVATIVE BLACK WOMAN

CANDACE OWENS SWAPS “WHITE” FOR “JEWISH” IN SARAH JEONG TWEET, 

GETS SUSPENDED

She was immediately suspended from Twitter as a result

https://www.infowars.com/candace-owens-swaps-white-for-jewish-in-sarah-jeong-tweet-gets-suspended/

Candace Owens Banned on Twitter for Retweeting 
New York Times’ Sarah Jeong’s Racist Rants!!!
Candace Owens confronted by Antifa protestors 
at restaurant





GLAZOV GANG: THE TORTURE OF TOMMY ROBINSON

GLAZOV GANG: 
THE TORTURE OF TOMMY ROBINSON
This new Glazov Gang edition features Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His new book is The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS.
Robert discussed The Torture of Tommy Robinson, shedding disturbing light on how British jailers abused a courageous whistleblower on Muslim rape gangs.
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TERROR BY SHIPPING CONTAINER: CLARE LOPEZ-WHAT IS “GULFTAINER” & WHY SHOULD WE CARE?

TERROR BY SHIPPING CONTAINER

CLARE LOPEZ: WHAT IS “GULFTAINER” & 
WHY SHOULD WE CARE? 

Clare Lopez: What Is Gulftainer and Why Should We Care? from Thomas Hanson on Vimeo.

TERROR BY SHIPPING CONTAINER
BY J.M. PHELPS
SEE: https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2018/04/12/terror-by-shipping-container/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

Originally posted at American Thinker
Earlier this year, Clare Lopez, vice president for research and analysis at the Center for Security Policy, reported that Gulftainer seeks to acquire cargo container terminal leases for dozens of other ports in the United States.  Her alarming statement is holding true.
In a unanimous vote, the board of directors of Diamond State Port Corporation moved forward with preparations for a 50-year lease of the Port of Wilmington (Delaware) to GT USA Wilmington, a subsidiary of Gulftainer, on April 6, 2018.  Gulftainer has already acquired a 35-year lease in Port Canaveral, Florida, as reported by investigative journalists Mary Fanning and Alan Jones.
In their first occasional paper, Gulftainer’s co-ownership between the Emir of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the brother of Jafar Dhia Jafar, Saddam Hussein’s top nuclear scientist, is revealed.  In their second report, they expose a joint venture between Gulftainer and a Russian company that produces a cruise missile launch system called the Club-K – which appears identical to a standard 40-foot shipping container on the exterior.  This is immensely disturbing, as “we are only able to scan less than one percent of the incoming containers,” according to Van Hipp in The New Terrorism and How to Defeat It.
Inside any one of the 3,000 containers a ship could transport into our country, is there potential for a Trojan horse operation?  The answer is yes.  There’s always a chance one could find four or more cruise missiles armed with biological, chemical, electromagnetic pulse (EMP), nuclear, or conventional payloads.  Lopez asserts that “you would never know the difference between the Russian Club-K container cruise missile launch system and an ordinary standard ocean container.  They look exactly alike.”
With a new lease on the way in a Delaware port, Gulftainer is said to have gone through a vetting process performed by multiple federal Cabinet departments and federal agencies.  The corporation’s CEO, Peter Richards, claims that the deal is not a threat to national security, nor does it have any ties to Russia.
Similarly, the trepidation of Gulftainer’s ties to the United Arab Emirates were addressed by Richards.  He said, “I object to people lying about us.  I can’t believe people can be so simple-minded to believe the trash out there.”
Dr. Joseph King, a former U.S. Customs special agent and supervisor for 33 years, believes otherwise.  “To imply that it’s not a national security threat is not the least bit believable,” says King.  “If you’ve been to the ports, the operators are the ones who control everything.  It’s a myth to believe the government is there to enforce or control anything.  It’s ridiculous.”
He goes on to say “It’s a fallacy to think Customs and the Coast Guard are shoulder to shoulder at the front line, stopping and checking everything coming into the country.  It’s easily detectable.  Look at the amount of illegal aliens that come into the country.  Look at the amount of heroin and cocaine that comes into this country.”  He notes how the U.S. has spent billions of dollars trying to fight illegal immigration and drug-trafficking, yet we still haven’t been able to come even remotely close to preventing either problem.
If we can’t keep illegal immigrants and shipments of drugs from entering our country at rampant rates, are the American people supposed to believe we are capable of keeping out a 40-foot container housing hidden cruise missiles that can be deployed domestically or simply be held somewhere until one of our enemies decides to use it?
It makes sense that the person who does the hiring is the one who controls the port.  One of his responsibilities is hiring the I.T. people, for example.  This includes those who actually set up the I.T. system.  King says a certain number of foreign workers can be “brought in on H-1 visas – and be put in control.”  It raises the question: can we always trust this process?
King continues, “The fact of the matter is that you can bring in anything you want.  It can be controlled however you want if you’re the operator.  You can take a seal off the 40-foot container and replace it with another seal.  You can take a document number and change it around.  You can change a container from foreign to domestic.  Customs wouldn’t even take a second look at it.  This could include anything you want, whether it’s drugs, guns, people, or nuclear bombs.  The supply chain is ultimately controlled by the operator of the port, not by a U.S. government official or an American corporation.”
Apart from the Trojan horse possibilities that could wreak havoc in our country, the other end of the spectrum deals with intelligence-gathering.  Both the port in Florida and the port in Delaware are ideal places for intelligence-gathering, human and electronic, according to King.  “Regardless of whether it’s being used to bring in humans or nuclear weapons,” King concludes, “both are great places to be used as bases for intelligence operations.”
Before it’s too late, it’s time for our congressmen and our federal Cabinet departments and agencies to seriously consider and address all the possibilities.  The facts are beyond dispute.  There is an association among Gulftainer, Russia, and the potential for nuclear weapons entering the country unbeknownst to the American people.  Undoubtedly, there are many around the world who would love to bring America to her knees by taking advantage of the smallest crack in the system, so let’s sure up our ports and not give them an avenue to do so.
J.M. Phelps is a Christian activist and journalist based in the Southeastern U.S.  He is also editor and publisher of the website Lantern of Liberty.
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SEE OUR PREVIOUS POSTS:
https://ratherexposethem.org/2018/07/the-selling-of-americas-container-ports.html

https://ratherexposethem.org/2018/07/delaware-liberal-stupidity-leaves.html


ARGENTINIAN DOCTORS AGAINST THE ABORTION BILL: “I’M A DOCTOR, NOT A MURDERER”


ARGENTINIAN DOCTORS AGAINST 
THE ABORTION BILL: 
“I’M A DOCTOR, NOT A MURDERER” 
SEE: http://evangelicalfocus.com/lifetech/3724/Argentinian_doctors_against_the_abortion_Bill_Im_a_doctor_not_a_murdererrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
“Human life begins at conception and to destroy a human embryo means impeding the birth of a human being”, Argentinian Academy of Medicine says in a statement. AUTHOR Evangelical Focus BUENOS AIRES 03 AUGUST 2018 16:55 h GMT+1 
Argentinian doctors in one of the protests.
Hundreds of Argentinian doctors recently took the streets to protest against the abortion Bill that passed the lower house in June and will be debated on August 8. During the protests, many doctors held signs with the message, “I’m a doctor, not a murderer”. Some said they would rather go to jail than kill unborn babies in abortions. “How far are we willing to go to? Jail”, said Ernesto Beruti, chief of obstetrics at the Austral University Hospital. Even if the law is passed, “I’m not going to eliminate the life of a human being. The most important right is the right to live”, he added.   
LEGAL ABORTION AT 14 WEEKS 
Abortion is forbidden in Argentina, except in cases of rape, severe disabilities or threats to the mother’s life. However, the Bill proposes to legalize abortions for any reason up to 14 weeks of pregnancy, arguing that the measure will reduce women’s deaths. About 300 private and public hospitals across the country have shown their opposition to the legislation. Private hospitals denounce that the law would not allow them to opt out of performing abortions. Although individual doctors might be able to opt out, other confusing aspects of the law could make them vulnerable to prosecution and persecution for their beliefs. “Doctors can’t work under the threat of prison time”, said Maria de los Angeles Carmona, Head of gynecology at the Eva Peron public Hospital.   
MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS AGAINST THE BILL 
Argentina’s Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics Societies issued a statement, expressing concern that “doctors who refuse to perform abortions on moral grounds might suffer professional discrimination”. Additionally, objectors would have to register, and they are worried that could be used to “blacklist” them at hospitals. The highly respected Argentinian Academy of Medicine is also against the Bill: “human life begins at conception and to destroy a human embryo means impeding the birth of a human being”, the pointed out in a statement. “Nothing good can come when society chooses death as a solution”, the Academy said.   
LATE TERM ABORTIONS 
Opponents also warn it could open the way to widespread late term abortions, because it waives the 14-week limit in cases of rape or when a woman’s health is at stake. If the Bill is approved, Argentina will be the first nation to legalize abortion since a historic vote in Ireland to overturn its Eighth Amendment, which provided legal protections for unborn children. It would be one of the only nations in South America with legalized abortion on demand.
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UPDATE AUGUST 9, 2018:

Violence Erupts in Argentina After Plans 

to Legalize Abortion Rejected

SEE: https://christiannews.net/2018/08/09/violence-erupts-in-argentina-after-plans-to-legalize-abortion-rejected/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes from:
https://news.sky.com/story/clashes-in-argentina-after-plans-to-legalise-abortion-rejected-11466632

There was anguish among many of the supporters of abortion who had gathered as the vote took place

There was anguish among many activists when the result was announced
Supporters say dangerous abortions have killed thousands in the country – but politicians have voted against changing the law.

Protesters have lit fires and thrown bottles at police after Argentina’s senate rejected a bill to legalize abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.
Thousands of pro and anti-abortion protesters in rival colors gathered in heavy rain outside Congress in Buenos Aires as politicians debated the proposal for 15 hours.
Officers fired tear gas as some protesters reacted angrily to the result, setting up flaming barricades and throwing bottles at police in riot gear.
A woman hurls a bottle at police outside congress as protesters reacted angrily to the vote

Image:Violence broke out outside the country’s congress

Police arrested some pro-life demonstrators as violence broke out

Image:Police arrested some pro-life demonstrators as violence broke out

Meanwhile, at the city’s Metropolitan Cathedral, a “mass for life” was held in support of keeping laws unchanged.
President Mauricio Macri, who is against abortion, had already said he would sign the bill after the country’s lower house chose to support it – but senators voted it down 38 to 31.
Abortion is illegal in the South American country except in cases of rape or risks to a woman’s health.
Pro-choice activists held their green banners aloft as politicians voted

Image:Pro-choice protesters held their green banners aloft as politicians voted

Many women, most of them poor, have dangerous and degrading abortions every year – and activists estimate 3,000 have died since 1983.
Some resort to using a clothes hanger wire or knitting needle to break the amniotic sac inside the womb, others take toxic mixtures or herbs that can prove fatal.
A model of foetus was carried by anti-abortion protesters

Image:A model of fetus was carried by anti-abortion protesters

Anti-abortion activists celebrated the senate's decision

Image:Anti-abortion activists celebrated the senate’s decision

Supporters of the bill argued it would save lives, and the run-up to the vote sparked months of passionate debate and protest in the Catholic country.
Hundreds of doctors who opposed the bill had laid their white medical coats outside the presidential palace, while the pro-choice movement – in their signature green – held larger demonstrations and drew support from the likes of The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood and actress Susan Sarandon.
Amnesty International had told Argentinian politicians that “the world is watching”, and Human Rights Watch said the country had a “historic opportunity” to protect women’s rights.

TRUMP’S DEAR FRIEND, SPIRITUAL ADVISER & “PROPHETESS PASTRIX” PAULA WHITE SUES CRITIC & LOSES IN COURT BIG TIME

JEZEBEL ADVISING POTUS???
TRUMP’S DEAR FRIEND, SPIRITUAL ADVISER & “PROPHETESS PASTRIX” PAULA WHITE SUES CRITIC & LOSES IN COURT BIG TIME 
SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2018/08/04/paula-white-sues-critic-and-loses-in-court-big-time/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
This is just a courtesy public service announcement for pseudo-Christian celebrities who think that they can sue or intimidate their critics into silence…you can’t. It’s America. We can still criticize you (even if Facebook throttles us). Paula White just discovered that.
Several years ago, Ergun Caner – a Swedish-born, American-raised, English-only speaker who claimed to be a Turkish-born, Lebanon-raised, Arabic speaker – sued Jonathan Autry and Jason Smathers for copyright infringement when they took a video of his lies and posted them on Youtube. He lost in court and was ordered to pay their attorney fees. In similar fashion, Paula White sued Shirley Johnson for taking clips of White’s videos and posting them with accompanying criticism, which is acceptable under the Fair Use Doctrine. Unless someone takes another’s intellectual material in its entirety, for the purpose of profiting from it, devoid of commentary, criticism or education, it’s not an infringement of intellectual property rights. Almost everyone recognizes this when it comes to public officials, politicians, teachers, or celebrities of any type. A few evangelical celebrities, on the other hand, think they’re above the law.
Shirley Johnson used images and videos of White to criticize her prosperity-driven ministry. White sued Johnson, but the case was dismissed. Johnson counter-sued for emotional damages due to the impastor’s frivolous lawsuit and the judge ruled in favor of Johnson, granting her $13,707 in damages. Of that amount, $12,500 was for mental anguish and the rest was for her legal fees.
The legal trouble is not over for White, however, as Johnson filed a separate complaint against her for intentionally misrepresenting copyright law. That case is still pending, and it does not bode well for the prophetess.
The judge in the case that was decided said the following:
The Court now finds that the interests of justice require default judgment as the only effective remedy. Motion Defendants willfully failed to comply with the Court’s discovery orders. Lesser sanctions would be ineffective. Indeed, the Court balks at Motion Defendants’ suggestions to allow Johnson additional discovery, impose more monetary fines, or again push back the litigation calendar. (Doc. 171, p. 3.) Been there, done that—to no avail. Motion Defendants have made clear their refusal to comply with discovery orders, and they “richly deserve[] the sanction of a default judgment.” See Malautea, 987 F.2d at 1542. Their willful disregard of discovery orders has prejudiced Johnson and brought this action to a standstill for eighteen months. Motion Defendants’ obstreperous conduct warrants the sockdolager of default. See Nat’l Hockey League, 427 U.S. at 643 (“[T[he most severe in the spectrum of sanctions must be available to the district court in appropriate cases.”); Adolph Coors, 777 F.2d at 1543; (upholding default judgment when the defendants refused to turn over crucial documents from the get-go, claiming privilege, and the district judge “exhibited great sensitivity” to the defendants’ concerns)
As TechDirt points out, the judge actually said, “Been there, done that” in an official court ruling. And that’s funny, right there.
Pulpit & Pen would like to issue a word of encouragement to those who have been similarly threatened with a lawsuit over copyright infringement for criticizing false teachers (as we have been threatened many, many times). These people are all bark and no bite. When it eventually does go to court, as it did with Caner and White, the plaintiffs are usually penalized for not showing up, not providing discovery or making their case. Their hope is that you will simply give up and stop criticizing under threat of litigation. In our case, in spite of the multitude of threats (often from completely fake “legal departments” and law firms that don’t even exist), we have never actually been taken to court. Any decent attorney knows Fair Use law and their case can’t be won. And if a decent judge understands that what’s being attempted is suppression of free speech, like with the Caner-Smathers judge, they’ll dismiss it “with prejudice.”
Don’t give up. Protect your right to speak up and speak out.
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Chris Rosebrough of Fighting For The Faith on 
PAULA WHITE 
Twisting Scripture & Prescribing Meditation & Waiting For God To Speak “Softly” To You?
God Does NOT Promise to Speak to You Through a Still Small Voice
A JEZEBEL SPIRIT PUTS A DIFFERENT SPIN ON TEXT

LIBERALS STRIP PARENTAL RIGHTS: NEW YORK TO REQUIRE FLU SHOTS FOR PRESCHOOLERS; CALIFORNIA MOVES TO ELIMINATE VACCINE EXEMPTIONS FOR THE POOR ON WELFARE~FDA LICENSES NEW HEPATITIS B VACCINE DESPITE BIG SAFETY CONCERNS

World Health Organization Cover Up Over Four MMR Vaccine Deaths In SAMOA Exposed

LIBERALS STRIP PARENTAL RIGHTS

NEW YORK TO REQUIRE FLU SHOTS FOR PRESCHOOLERS; CALIFORNIA MOVES TO ELIMINATE VACCINE EXEMPTIONS FOR THE POOR ON WELFARE
BY JOSEPH MERCOLA, DO
Recent events again highlight the need for Americans to stand up for their right to know, and freedom to choose when it comes to medical risk-taking. The New York Court of Appeals not only has given the nod of approval to New York City’s health department requirement that all preschoolers must get annual flu shots, but the California legislature is also moving toward eliminating the personal belief vaccine exemption for families on welfare.
Aside from the loss of the human right to informed consent to medical risk-taking, these decisions are all the more incomprehensible considering the lack of scientific evidence supporting the safety and effectiveness of annual flu vaccination from cradle to grave and one-size-fits-all vaccination policies and laws. Again and again, we see vaccine policy built on lobbying dollars without real concern for human health and welfare.

Informed Consent to Medical Risk Taking Is a Basic Human Right

As noted by National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) president Barbara Loe Fisher in her Independence Day commentary on zero tolerance vaccine laws,1 “Today, we are witnessing the erosion of core values that our constitutional democracy was founded upon. One example is a public campaign led by the medical establishment to demonize and discriminate against anyone opposing zero tolerance vaccine laws that violate human rights in the name of public health.”
Informed consent is a basic human right in which a person has the ability to voluntarily accept or reject a treatment or medical procedure, including use of pharmaceutical products, after being fully informed of all possible risks and benefits. According to the University of Washington School of Medicine,2 “The most important goal of informed consent is that the patient has an opportunity to be an informed participant in her health care decisions.”
It’s a simple enough premise, but throughout history we’ve seen cases where informed consent was not only challenged but completely ignored, and this trend not only exists to this day, it has flourished in recent years, with cities, states and federal government pushing for mandatory vaccine laws with no ability to opt out. As noted by Fisher:3
There are only two laws that require American citizens to risk their lives. The first is a federal law, the military draft, which requires all healthy male adults to risk their lives in a war declared by the government to protect national security. The second is a state law requiring all healthy children to risk their lives in a war that doctors declared on microbes two centuries ago.
However, unlike adults who are NOT punished for following their conscience and refusing to fight in a war to protect national security, parents CAN be punished for following their conscience and refusing to risk their children’s lives in a war to theoretically protect the public health.
State sanctions include segregation and loss of the unvaccinated child’s right to a school education or permitting pediatricians to deny medical care to children if their parents refuse one or more government recommended vaccinations.
Two different laws that require healthy Americans to risk injury or death: one conscripting adults in what government clearly defines as an emergency military action; and the other conscripting children in a mandatory vaccination program that is not defined as an emergency military action but is operated like one.

New York City Gets Green Light to Require Annual Flu Vaccinations for Preschoolers

Case in point, June 28, 2018, the New York Court of Appeals unanimously ruled the New York City health department has the right to require flu vaccination for preschoolers. The requirement was initiated in 2013 by city public health officials.
Five families sued the health department in 2015 to have the requirement overturned and two lower court rulings agreed the city had overstepped its legal authority. This final decision by the Court of Appeals now cements the city’s legal right to require flu shots for children aged 6 to 59 months before they’re permitted to attend child care or preschool. In the decision, Judge Leslie Stein wrote:4
Undisputedly, there is a very direct connection between the flu vaccine rules and the preservation of health and safety. The rules challenged here do not relate merely to a personal choice about an individual’s own health but, rather, seek to ensure increased public safety and health for the citizenry by reducing the prevalence and spread of a contagious infectious disease within a particularly vulnerable population.
In response to the decision, New York City health commissioner Mary Bassett said:5
Vaccines save lives and are an effective public health tool to prevent the spread of disease. The severity of this past influenza season reminds us of how deadly influenza can be. The influenza vaccine is the best protection against seasonal influenza for everyone.
Children who receive the influenza vaccine are less likely to get sick, less likely to need medical attention and less likely to die from influenza. This decision will help us protect more than 150,000 children in city-regulated day cares and preschools across the city.

‘Vaccine-Before-Welfare’ Bill Moves Forward in California

Meanwhile, the California state Senate Committee on Human Services passed AB 19926 June 26—a controversial bill that eliminates the personal belief vaccine exemption for families on welfare. Already, welfare recipients are required by state law to be up to date on all government mandated vaccines or lose a portion of their welfare benefits.
AB 1992, authored by Assemblyman Kansen Chu, improves access to the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKS) program — a public assistance program that provides financial aid and services — for families whose children are not fully vaccinated or have difficulty proving that their children have received the required vaccinations.
Estimates suggest 4,000 families in California are not meeting the vaccine requirement for public assistance, and this bill would give families who want to vaccinate their children greater access to vaccination services.
The bill also lowers the monthly penalty for not being fully vaccinated from $130 to $50, extends the time that families have to produce vaccination records from 45 days to six months, and grants county welfare workers access to medical databases to determine whether the child has received the required vaccines in cases where parents cannot produce the records.
However, the bill also eliminates the personal belief exemption, which means welfare recipients would no longer have the legal right or ability to opt out of vaccine requirements. Candace Connelly testified before the committee, saying “her choice not to vaccinate her children shouldn’t preclude her from receiving benefits.”
According to a report by GV Wire,7 Connelly “objected to the 72 doses required in a child’s lifetime, noting the potential for vaccine injury. ‘Surely if parents have rights, one of them is to decide what gets injected into their children … I don’t believe I should have money taken out of my benefits because I don’t think that is a safe thing for my child.’”

AB 1992 Moves to Senate Appropriations Committee

Chu’s reasoning for including this provision in his bill is that the personal belief exemption from vaccines to attend public and private school was already removed by SB 277 in 2015.8 According to Chu, removing the personal belief vaccine exemption for welfare recipients simply makes the bill “comply with current law.”9 Sen. Janet Nguyen objected to the removal of the personal belief exemption.10
Sen. Connie Leyva also objected, saying “I believe requiring proof of vaccinations in order for someone to receive their benefits is unfair and unnecessary. We should not be basing it off their need, and not off of vaccinations.” Stefanie Fetzer, an advocate with Parents United 4 Kids, also commented:11
This is NOT a public health issue. Vaccination rates are high. There is no crisis mitigating such a heavy handed, totalitarian piece of legislation. Our legislators are testing the water. How far can they go? Can they withhold a parents’ ability to feed their children if the parents are unwilling to ignore their religious or personal convictions? Why are our legislators targeting this poor, minority community?
Fisher, on behalf of the NVIC, has also spoken out against the bill, saying,12 “It is cruel to withhold welfare benefits from families in need. NVIC opposes AB 1992 and any legislation that threatens Americans with punishment for making voluntary vaccine decisions for themselves or their children.”
Despite objections, the bill passed 4-0 out of the Senate Committee on Human Services. Leyva did not vote and Nguyen was not present during the voting; the remaining committee members, Scott Wiener, Steven Glazer, Mike McGuire and Anthony Portantino, voted in favor. A seventh member, Tom Berryhill also was not present. Next, AB 1992 will be reviewed by the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

Why the Lack of Concern for Vaccine Safety?

In a series of articles, the World Mercury Project questions the apparent disinterest of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Immunization Action Coalition (IAC) in improving vaccine safety, choosing instead to engage in smear campaigns against anyone who questions the conventional dogma and who counters false vaccine safety claims with scientific facts:13
“In the face of snowballing vaccine scandals—from fudged safety trials that use other vaccines as placebos, to persistent use of neurotoxic aluminum adjuvants, to the accelerated rollout of unproven vaccines that may be causing more problems than they solve—these and other vaccine advocacy organizations are not only turning a blind eye but are … beefing up public relations (PR) intended to stifle discussion …
Due to the well-funded medical-pharmaceutical-media apparatus that endlessly repeat the mantra that ALL vaccines are safe for ALL people ALL the time, it is nearly impossible to get a fair hearing for common-sense questions about vaccine safety, no matter how urgent such questions may be.”
In addition to the AAP and IAC, the World Mercury Project also singles out three organizations that are closely allied with AAP, all of which “frame their aims in terms of cementing vaccine infrastructure and funding,” according to the featured article:
  • The 317 Coalition, whose members include vaccine manufacturers. The coalition’s focus is to increase funding to Section 317 of the Public Health Service Act, the law that governs federal purchases of vaccines. Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine, is on the steering committee, as are the executive director and chief strategy officer of the IAC
  • Every Child by Two (ECBT), which promotes the mandatory use of vaccines to state and federal legislators, supports the elimination of all personal belief vaccine exemptions and generates “vaccine safety talking points.” Here, Offit is on the board of directors
  • The Adult Vaccine Access Coalition, the focus of which is to lobby for “necessary federal policy changes” to boost adult vaccination rates
According to the World Mercury Project,14 ” … [T]he AAP, IAC and … ECBT are among the leading actors propagating misleading assertions about vaccine safety. All three are also actively lobbying legislators to effectively jettison informed consent in favor of mandatory vaccines.”

Leading Vaccine Educators Are Bound by Conflicts of Interest

The AAP, IAC and ECBT were also the focus of an investigative report into the partnerships between the CDC and non-profits promoting vaccines15 published in the British Medical Journallate last year. In the paper, “The Unofficial Vaccine Educators: Are CDC Funded Non-Profits Sufficiently Independent?” BMJ associate editor Peter Doshi wrote:
[S]urvey data have documented that parental concerns over vaccination safety and timing are common, even among those whose children receive all recommended vaccines.
In 2015, a U.S. federal advisory committee warned that public confidence in vaccines cannot be taken for granted, and some prominent vaccine advocacy organizations are pushing for greater compulsion. But are these groups—which present themselves as reliable sources of information — providing the public with independent information?
The AAP, IAC and ECBT all receive funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and vaccine manufacturers. AAP is also on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which determines which vaccines should be added to the childhood and adult vaccine schedules.
At the same time, these three nonprofits are also actively lobbying for legislation aimed at removing religious and conscientious belief vaccine exemptions from state vaccine laws, which has been successful in some states like California.
This, despite the fact that federal law prohibits nonprofit organizations from using CDC or other federal agency money for lobbying efforts. According to Doshi, it’s unclear whether the CDC’s relationship with these three organizations has crossed into illegal territory, as he could not determine exactly how much money was received from the CDC and vaccine makers respectively.
But, as noted by World Mercury Project, “It is clear that when these … nonprofits receive grant money from CDC, those grants free up other monies for lobbying purposes.”
Doshi also notes that “These groups are so strongly pro-vaccination that the public is getting a one-sided message that all vaccines are created equal … regardless of the circumstances.” What’s more, their inherent bias and financial ties with the CDC and vaccine manufacturers completely undermine their ability to appraise CDC vaccine recommendations.
As it stands, there’s no one to counter and cross-check those recommendations because everyone involved is on the same pro-vaccine team. The drug companies manufacturing and selling vaccines have no incentive to look at safety issues either, as this would merely cut into profits and undermine the partial product liability shield given to them by the U.S. Congress in 1986 and the total immunity from vaccine injury lawsuits handed to them by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2011.
Besides, 9 out of 10 of the world’s leading drug companies spend far more money on marketing their drugs and vaccines than they do on research and development.16
Note: This article, which is excerpted from an article written by Dr. Mercola and originally published on www.mercola.com, was reprinted with the author’s permission. 
References:
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FDA Licenses New Hepatitis B Vaccine Despite Big Safety Concerns
BY  Rishma Parpia
SEE: https://thevaccinereaction.org/2018/08/fda-licenses-new-hepatitis-b-vaccine-despite-big-safety-concerns/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
In February 2018, the Advisory Committee on Immunizations Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) approved the recommendation for a new hepatitis B vaccine, Heplisav-B (HepB-CpG) targeting for adults over the age of 18.1 Heplisav-B is manufactured by Dynavax Technologies Corp. and the new vaccine is given in a two-dose series versus the three dose recommendation for Merck’s Recombivax hepatitis B vaccine licensed in 1986 and Glaxo Smith Kline’s Engerix-B vaccine licensed in 1989.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had twice rejected Dynavax’s application for licensure for Heplisav-B in the past four years because of safety signals.2 In Dynavax’s third attempt, the FDA granted the license in November 2017, despite unresolved safety concerns. Below is the sequence of events leading to licensure of Heplisav-B.
In 2013, the FDA rejected Dynavax’s license application for Heplisav-B for the first time due to the regulatory agency’s concern that the experimental vaccine’s new adjuvant, which was designed to boost immunogenicity, could lead to development of autoimmune disorders.3 
Heplisav-B differs from other licensed hepatitis B vaccines in that it contains a new synthetic adjuvant known as cytosine phosphoguanine 1018 (CpG 1018) composed of short synthetic DNA molecules.4
Hepatitis B vaccines previously licensed in the U.S contain alum adjuvants (aluminum salts), which stimulate a general inflammatory response.3 CpG 1018 is believed to stimulate a more specific inflammatory response by producing hepatitis B surface antigen-specific antibodies against the hepatitis B virus.3
According to an article published in Medscape, the first application by Dynavax Technologies for licensure of Heplisav-B vaccine was rejected by the FDA for the following reason:
Although safety analyses showed no statistically significant differences between Heplisav and the currently licensed hepatitis B vaccine Engerix-B (GlaxoSmithKline) in local and systemic solicited adverse events or deaths, there were numerically greater numbers of patients receiving Heplisav who had evidence of autoimmunity disorders, including thyroid disorders. The increases were not statistically significant, but advisory panel members said the safety database was too small to detect rare adverse events.3
At the time, Melinda Wharton, Deputy Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC stated,  “I don’t think the safety database is sufficiently large to support a recommendation for use in the general adult population, given that this vaccine contains a new adjuvant.”3
 In 2016, the FDA rejected a second application by Dynavax for licensure for Heplisav-B vaccine. That time the agency was concerned about an increased rate of cardiovascular events and deaths in people who had been given Heplisav-B vaccine versus Engerix-B.5
In a randomized clinical trial involving approximately 8,400 subjects, 5,600 study participants received Heplisav-B and 2,800 participants received Engerix-B.6 7 During the trial, approximately 14 subjects in the Heplisav-B group had heart attacks in comparison to one subject in the Engerix-B group.6 7 Taking into account that the Heplisav-B group was twice as large as the Engerix-B group, the risk for heart attacks was seven times higher for people who had been given the experimental vaccine.6
In an attempt to minimize the significance of the increased rate of serious heart complications, Dynavax argued that the higher number heart attacks recorded in the Heplisav-B group was due to the “fewer than expected” instances that occurred with the Engerix-B group.8
According to a press release by Dynavax in 2016:
The FDA’s Complete Response Letter (CRL) seeks information regarding several topics, including clarification regarding specific adverse events of special interest (AESIs), a numerical imbalance in a small number of cardiac events in a single study (HBV-23), new analyses of the integrated safety data base across different time periods, and post-marketing commitments. In the CRL, the FDA acknowledged that it has not yet completed its review of responses received from Dynavax in early October, including those pertaining to AESIs and the numerical imbalance in cardiac events. The responses included an extensive analysis that included independent expert consultation supporting our view that the imbalance was driven by an unexpectedly low number of events in the comparator arm. It would appear the Agency could not fully assess the responses in the current review period. In the CRL, there is no request for additional clinical trials and there are no apparent concerns with rare serious autoimmune events.9
In July 2017, the FDA’s Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) convened to re-evaluate the scientific evidence and make a decision on whether Heplisav B should or should not be approved for use in the U.S.6 A majority of the committee consisted of immunology and infectious disease professionals with only one cardiologist on the team, Milton Packer, MD, who is a Distinguished Scholar in Cardiovascular Science at the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.6
According to Dr. Packer, it was possible the strong inflammatory response induced by the Heplisav B vaccine’s novel adjuvant was causally related to the higher number of heart attacks in study participants who received the experimental vaccine. He said:
The advisory committee needed to consider whether it was biologically plausible for the new vaccine to cause heart attacks. The new adjuvant in the vaccine caused an inflammatory response of uncertain duration. We know that inflammation causes atherosclerotic plaques in coronary arteries to rupture—the event that triggers most heart attacks. So a causal link between the vaccine and heart attacks wasn’t out of the question. Most importantly, we needed to decide if the imbalance in heart attacks between the two groups could have been due to the play of chance. That was a great question, but one that was impossible to answer.6
Dr. Packer goes on to explain:
To know if the 7 -1 heart attack imbalance represented a real risk, we’d need comparative data in 50,000 people. The fastest way of obtaining that evidence would be through a post-marketing trial. But a post-marketing trial would be possible only if the vaccine was approved for public use.6
The FDA asked the committee to vote on whether there was reasonable evidence that Heplisav-B vaccine is safe. Twelve committee members voted in favor of the safety of the new vaccine, one voted against it and three abstained.6 Dr. Packer was one of those who abstained.6
Dr. Packer explains why he abstained:
Why did I abstain? Based on the available data, it was impossible for anyone to know if the increase in heart attack risk in the Dynavax group was real or spurious. So although the questions were fascinating and the discussions terrific, my vote wasn’t that complicated. There is a simple rule in life: if you don’t know, you should say you don’t know.6
Following the meeting, the FDA requested more information from Dynavax on its post-marketing study.6 Four months later, in November 2017, the FDA licensed Heplisav-B for use in the U.S, by adults over age 18. However, continued approval hinges on a post-marketing study that will compare health outcome results from people who have received Heplisav-B with those who have received Engerix-B.2
On the FDA website, the agency claims that “FDA regulations for the development of vaccines ensure their safety, purity, potency, and effectiveness.”10
However, the fact that Heplisav-B vaccine was approved for public use despite clear evidence in pre-licensure clinical trials that the new vaccine is associated with the development of autoimmunity, heart attacks and death calls into question the FDA’s commitment to adhering to its own regulations.

References:

1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Heplisav-B (HepB-CpG). CDC.gov Apr. 28, 2018.
2 
Lowes R. Heplisav-B Vaccine for Hep B Finally Wins FDA Approval. Medscape Nov. 10, 2017.3 Tucker M. FDA Rejects Novel Hepatitis B VaccineMedscape  Feb. 23, 2013.4 Dynavax Technologies Corp. Heplisav-BFDA.gov 2017.5 National Vaccine Support Group. Heplisav Hep B Vaccine Linked to Heart Attacks, Deaths.6 Packer M. Is the new Dynavax hepatitis vaccine safe? I couldn’t tell — and I was advising the FDAStatNews Aug. 4, 2017.7 Food and Drug Administration. FDA Advisory Committee Briefing Document – Heplisav-BFDA.gov July 28, 2017.8 Clarke T. Dynavax hepatitis B vaccine works; raises safety issues: FDAReuters July 26, 2017.9 Dynavax Innovative Immunology. Dynavax Receives Complete Response Letter from U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Biologics License Application for HEPLISAV-BDynavax Nov. 14. 2016.10 FDA. Ensuring the Safety of Vaccines in the United States. July 2011.



MORE CHILD SEX ABUSE CLAIMS ROCK THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

MORE CHILD SEX ABUSE CLAIMS 
ROCK THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 
Like a volcanic eruption, The filth hidden by those lurking in powerful places is bursting forth. The Catholic Church , well known for its history of child sexual abuse is now opening a new chapter on the open secretive abuse of its nuns. The underlings reflecting the culture of those at the top are falling. Whether it’s The District Of Criminals cherished Cardinal. Or CBS Executive Les Moonves or a growing list of prominent Hollywood actors and directors. The time to finally face their abuse has taken center stage. But they won’t go quietly, their wrath will unleash its terrible power on those that speak the truth,intensifying as we near the midterms.

Catholic priest arrested for soliciting sex from male undercover deputy

A Polk County church is in crisis mode, after their priest was arrested Tuesday and charged with soliciting oral sex from an undercover detective.
GRAND JURY REPORT IDENTIFIES MORE THAN 1,000 VICTIMS OF PRIEST ABUSE IN PENNSYLVANIA 
(Friday Church News Notes, August 24, 2018, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – 
A grand jury has concluded that more than 1,000 children were abused by Roman Catholic priests in six Pennsylvania dioceses alone over the last several decades. The report, the product of a two-year investigation, identified 300 abusing priests and lay “brothers” and found evidence of a systematic cover-up by senior church leaders in Pennsylvania and at the Vatican in Rome (“Report Identifies More Than 1,000,” Associated Press, Aug. 14, 2018). At a news conference, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said, “The cover-up was sophisticated. And all the while, shockingly, church leadership kept records of the abuse and the cover-up. These documents, from the dioceses’ own ‘Secret Archives,’ formed the backbone of this investigation.” The six dioceses represent only half of the Catholic churches in Pennsylvania. Most of the victims were boys. The Roman Catholic Church in America has paid over $2 billion to settle lawsuits against immoral priests. The Bishop Accountability organization said that more than 4,000 priests have been accused of abusing children (“US Church to Pay 12.6 Million,” AFP, Aug. 11, 2008). A conservative Catholic organization documented this wretched business in the fall/winter 2002 issue of the magazine Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, observing: “… the overwhelming majority of sexual abuse cases in the Catholic Church–about 90%–involve homosexual priests preying on teenage boys. The major media and the U.S. culture at large want to deny or spin the homosexual factor out of the scandal.” In a recent interview, Cardinal Raymond Burke said, “I believe that there needs to be an open recognition that we have a very grave problem of a homosexual culture in the Church, especially among the clergy and the hierarchy…” (“Cardinal Burke Addresses the Clergy Scandal,” Catholic Action for Faith and Family, Aug. 16, 2018). This is not a problem limited to America. In 2003, the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland agreed to pay $110 million to avoid further sex scandal litigation. In 2013, Pope Francis acknowledged that a “gay lobby” exists in the highest levels of Catholicism. “In the Curia, there are holy people. But there is also a stream of corruption. The ‘gay lobby’ is mentioned, and it is true, it is there. We need to see what we can do” (“Pope Francis,” CNN Belief Blog, June 11, 2013). The pope was referring to reports that appeared in Italian newspapers in 2012 based on leaks to journalists from Vatican insiders. La Repubblica said there are “high-level Vatican clergy involved in homosexual affairs.” Rome’s doctrine of “celibacy” is defiance to God’s Word and is a terrible farce. 

NEW YORK TIMES PROPAGANDIZES REAL HATE SPEECH: FOUL MOUTHED, RACIST NEW HIRE SARAH JEONG “REGRETS” SPEWING FILTH, HATRED, RACISM ON TWITTER~MAYBE NORTH KOREA IS HER PREFERENCE

MAYBE COMMUNIST NORTH KOREA 

IS HER PREFERRED COUNTRY

“In 2016, Jeong published a book-The Internet of Garbage, on online harassment and responses to it by media and online platforms. The book discusses active moderation and community management strategies to improve online interactions. 

Jeong was born in South Korea and moved to New York with her parents when she was three years old. She attended the University of California Berkeley and Harvard Law School, where she was editor of Harvard Journal of Law & Gender.”

ABOVE QUOTES FROM: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Jeong

"F*ck The Police": NYT's Newest Hire Also Hates Cops And Men... And The New York Times

““F*CK THE POLICE”: NYT’S NEWEST HIRE ALSO HATES COPS AND MEN… AND THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Times, in response, claimed to have known about the tweets – and said they were simply Jeong imitating racists

QUOTES: 
“Now, as the Daily Caller‘s Amber Athey reports, Jeong’s Twitter history also reveals hatred of cops and men.
The NYT claimed that Jeong was “imitating” the behavior of people who harassed her online, but this does not explain why she was tweeting “fuck the police” and encouraging people to “kill all men.”
A search for “cops” and “police” on Jeong’s Twitter reveals an extensive history of anti-cop sentiment and a lack of sympathy for police who are injured on the job.
In one tweet from 2014 she wrote, “let me know when a cop gets killed by a rock or molotov cocktail or a stray shard of glass from a precious precious window.
“Cops are assholes,” she said in 2015.
“If we’re talking big sweeping bans on shit that kills people, why don’t we ever ever ever ever talk about banning the police?” a tweet from 2016 asserts. –Daily Caller
“Sarah Jeong, who will be joining the New York Times editorial board in September, has expressed open disdain for white people in numerous tweets sent between 2013 and 2015. Jeong’s Twitter account is replete with racial insults against white people, whom she has described as “groveling goblins,” “bullshit,” “miserable,” and “dogs.” “Dumba** f***ing white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants,” Jeong wrote in November 2014. “Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster un the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins,” she wrote a month later.” (QUOTES ABOVE FROM: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/sarah-jeong-new-york-times-hires-writer-racist-past/
SEE OTHER ARTICLES:
http://the-trumpet-online.com/acceptable-racism/  
https://www.infowars.com/journos-defend-nyt-hires-anti-white-tweets-sarah-jeong-is-good-her-haters-are-bad/
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/sarah-jeong-new-york-times-bigot-for-the-left/
QUOTES FROM SECOND ARTICLE ABOVE:
Who is Sarah Jeong, this rabid anti-white bigot? Why, she’s the newest member of The New York Times editorial board. The Times hired her knowing that she has this staggering history of public racial hatred, but — get this — they’re saying she was forced to do it by racists. The more reasonable conclusion is that like many on the left, the Times sees nothing disqualifying about racial bigotry, as long as the bigotry is directed towards whites. The Times, one of the most important left-liberal institutions, is now giving its effective imprimatur to virulent anti-white bigotry. Of course the Times is not going to say that it’s good, exactly, but as long as one of its writers claims her own bigotry was really the fault of white bigots, she gets a pass.
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NEW YORK TIMES PROPAGANDIZES REAL HATE SPEECH: NEW HIRE SARAH JEONG “REGRETS” PROFESSING HATE FOR “DUMBASS F—ING WHITE  PEOPLE”~TIMES CANCELS HIRE
BY JOSHUA CAPLAN
SEE: https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/08/02/sarah-jeong-new-york-times-dumb-ss-f-ing-white-people/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

The New York Times is under fire after excusing Sarah Jeong, its newest editorial hire, for numerous anti-white sentiments — exposing the paper’s double standards when it comes to firing new employees over old, controversial tweets.

The New York Times‘ communications department announced on Wednesday that Jeong will be joining the editorial board as part of a “fab group of recent additions” to the paper’s opinions section in September.

In scores of tweets, Jeong — as an epic ironic troll without any underlying bigotry, of course — denigrates whites and compares them to dogs.
The reporter likened “dumbass fucking white people” sharing their opinions to “dogs pissing on fire hydrants.”

Dumbass fucking white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants

In another conversation, Jeong riffed on white people being “only fit to live underground like groveling goblins,” which snowballed into a witty rumination on whites smelling like dogs.

Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins

“but i don’t smell like dog when it rains!” you might protest. well you wouldn’t know, would you

“but i don’t smell like dog when it rains!” you might protest. well you wouldn’t know, would you
these are inconvenient truths but we should thoroughly examine them instead of giving into the PC lie that white people don’t smell bad

@sarahjeong I think you can be racist against white people but it doesn’t count as malice
@susie_c i mean, there clearly isn’t institutional racism, and in many cases, fear of white people doesn’t quite amount to racism

Jeong wrote in July 2014: “oh man it’s kind of sick how much I get out of being cruel to old white men.”

oh man it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men

“#CancelWhitePeople,” she declared in November 2014, midway through a thread mocking fans of NPR’s “Serial” podcast. “That must be really hard for you, having feelings about race,”  she taunted.

Wow today is full of white people having feelings about race
that must be really hard for you, having feelings about race. xoxo have a nice day

White ppl w/ feels @ @jaycaspiankang & @juliacarriew‘s criticisms, what r yr feels on Hae In’s brother discovering Serial after it came out
“Why no I don’t think Serial is implicitly about white ppl going all Kool-Aid Man into communities of color they know nothing about”

The Times and Jeong posted statements Thursday at noon expressing “regret” over her history of biting “satire” — but the paper declared she had passed its “thorough vetting process.”

Jeong escaped the fate of previous Times hires who were swiftly fired over old, controversial tweets.

I don’t care about sarah jeong’s dumb old tweets but it’s the Times themselves who set this standard

She will join the Times after a stint at The Verge, the technology news outlet owned by far-left Vox Media. The 30-year-old is the author of  The Internet of Garbagewhich“examines the many forms of online harassment, free speech, and the challenges of moderating platforms and social media networks.” Jeong was born in South Korea and grew up in California and North Carolina. During her time at Harvard Law School, she edited the Journal of Law & Gender. Her work has appeared in The Washington PostThe New York Times MagazineThe Atlantic and Motherboard.
As Jeong’s posts spread into wider circulation Thursday morning, waves of Blue Checkmarks came to her aid:

We are proud of the work that @sarahjeong has done at The Verge, which reflects her brilliance and empathy for everyone around her. All of us stand by Sarah; digging for old, out-of-context tweets in bad faith to drum up outrage is bad for the news and society at large.

Man, this @sarahjeong “controversy” is ridiculous. What has made her such an authentic writer over the years is the funny, smart, and original way she has used twitter. To use her clearly tongue-in-cheek tweets to now stifle her voice is so depressing.

For as long as I’ve known her, @sarahjeong has had the same attacks appear whenever she takes a deserved step in her career. It’s ridiculous. She is a very talented journalist and the exact kind of brilliant, savvy person who should be critiquing the powers of big tech.
Hm … @sarahjeong *says* she hates white people, yet she chooses to live in Portland, notoriously America’s whitest large city.

It’s really the hypocrisy that gets me.

This is where Andrew Sullivan is at now – sharing Gateway Pundit posts about Sarah Jeong being The Real Racist

.@nytimes & @nytopinion,

I’m a NYT reader and subscriber, unlike those calling Sarah Jeong a racist. I’m excited she’s joining, her reporting on litigation is top-notch, engaging and accurate.

Don’t screw this up.

Does the NYT know that @sarahjeong has a history of viciously dunking on white people on Twitter? She must be removed as the director of Guardians of the Galaxy 3.

To be clear, do you not know she is a racist, or just don’t care?
To be clear, she isn’t a racist and pretending otherwise is a disingenuous dog whistle and you should try to troll better.

TO COVER OR NOT TO COVER~DENMARK: MUSLIM WOMEN DEFY THE FACE VEIL BAN AS “ISLAMOPHOBIC” & “INTOLERANT”~SWISS CRAFT INOFFENSIVE POLITICALLY CORRECT PROPOSAL

TO COVER OR NOT TO COVER~
DENMARK: MUSLIM WOMEN DEFY THE FACE VEIL BAN AS “ISLAMOPHOBIC” & “INTOLERANT”~SWISS CRAFT INOFFENSIVE POLITICALLY CORRECT PROPOSAL
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/08/denmark-muslim-women-defy-the-face-veil-ban-as-islamophobic-and-intolerantrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
A group of women in Denmark is defying the face veil ban, referring to the ban as “racist” and “intolerant.” These women would not dare protest “intolerance” in an Islamic state. Islamic supremacist incursion into the West, disguised as women’s “rights” and an issue of “tolerance” and “racism,” while exploiting democratic freedoms, is nothing new. As the article indicates below:
To protesters and women who wear the veil, the ban looks like another sign that Denmark is betraying its long-held value of tolerance. “It’s not just about us fighting for the right to wear our niqab,” Sabina says. “It’s also about us fighting for right to live our lives as practicing Muslims in Denmark. We are saying to the government: we do not accept this form of racist, Islamophobic and oppressive politics.
It is well known — or should be — that the burqa and niqab are outward manifestations of the inferiority of women under sharia. These women should join the real heroes of women’s rights in Iran, who shed their hijabs in the streets.
Wearing of head coverings is enforced in sharia states because women are instructed in the Quran to cover themselves; this is true despite the regular insistence that the coverings are not a religious requirement. If a woman doesn’t wear it, she may be abused, and if she is, it’s her fault.
(Quran 24:31) And tell the believing women to reduce of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.
(Quran 33:59) O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused.
In Western democracies, women are equal to men. The burqa and niqab should be banned because of that, as well as on security grounds.
It is no accident that two issues in particular regularly appear in Western news outlets as contentious: the face veil and “Islamophobia.” Both of those issues can be manipulated into questions of “racism,” “tolerance,” “diversity,” and “multiculturalism” within the framework of democratic countries (which are viewed in traditional Islamic law as part of the House of War). The real issues involved, however, are the Islamic ideas of the supremacy of male over female (as manifested in the burqa, niqab, hijab, chador, etc.) and that Islam is superior and must not be insulted (“Islamophobia” accusations). Other Islamic practices cannot be so easily sold in the West, such as FGM, wife beating, forced underage marriage, the declaration of the supremacy of Islam over other faiths, etc.
The controversy over face veils, as well as that over “Islamophobia,” are really about declarations of the supremacy of Islam over Western societies and laws.
“‘Now It’s a Sign of Protest:’ Muslim Women in Denmark Defy the Face Veil Ban”, Karis Husdad, Time Magazine, August 2, 2018:
Sabina started wearing the niqab two years ago as a way to feel more connected to God. The face veil—a piece of fabric tied around the back of her head that only reveals her eyes—is a reminder of her identity and beliefs, she says. “I found it very beautiful,” the 21-year-old education student explains, sitting cross-legged on the floor of the women’s prayer room in Det Islamiske Trossamfund, a mosque in Copenhagen. “In the beginning it was a very spiritual choice.”
But starting this month when she wears her niqab in public, her act of devotion will also be an act of civil disobedience. She will be one of the Danish citizens defying the country’s ban on face coverings in all public places, which came into effect on Wednesday.
“Now it has also become a political choice for me,” says Sabina, who asked TIME not to disclose her last name out of concerns for her safety. “It is also a sign of protest.”
Sabina is a founder of Kvinder i Dialog (Women in Dialogue), an organization started by niqabis—women who wear the veil—that brings Muslim women affected by the ban into conversation with the larger Danish population through events, social media and public appearances. Their goal has been to dispel what they say are misconceptions about their choice to wear the veil: that niqabis are forced to wear the garment, don’t go to school or work, and are radicalized and pose a threat.
Now their aims have expanded to include standing their ground in Danish society. On the first day of the ban, the women led a public protest over their right to wear the veil. Hundreds of people of different religious and ethnic backgrounds congregated at Den Sorte Plads in Copenhagen’s Nørrebro neighborhood, donning niqabs, colorful scarves and flamboyant face coverings—a horse head, fake beards and lucha libre masks were spotted across the plaza—to challenge the enforcement of the ban. The crowd marched on local streets led by a sign that read “My clothes, my choice” and chanted “No racists in our streets!” as they locked arms around the Bellahøj police station. At the same time, across the country a protest took place in Aarhus, Denmark’s second biggest city.
Many in the crowd said taking to the streets seemed to be the only way to bring attention to the problem. “When I was a kid, no one talked about who you could be and how you could look and dress,” said Line Schmidt, 33, wearing a black balaclava with yellow translucent heart-shaped glasses.“It’s not the Denmark I know.”
To protesters and women who wear the veil, the ban looks like another sign that Denmark is betraying its long-held value of tolerance. “It’s not just about us fighting for the right to wear our niqab,” Sabina says. “It’s also about us fighting for right to live our lives as practicing Muslims in Denmark. We are saying to the government: we do not accept this form of racist, Islamophobic and oppressive politics.”…..

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SEE ALSO:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/08/swiss-government-caves-to-political-correctness-rejects-burqa-ban 

ROBERT SPENCER: TOMMY ROBINSON & BRITAIN’S ONGOING DESCENT INTO MADNESS

ROBERT SPENCER: TOMMY ROBINSON & BRITAIN’S ONGOING DESCENT INTO MADNESS 
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/08/robert-spencer-tommy-robinson-and-britains-ongoing-descent-into-madnessrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Future ages will see the UK’s persecution of foes of jihad terror as its darkest hour. My latest in FrontPage:
Britain’s darkest hour has followed its finest hour by 78 years.
Tommy Robinson has been freed from a stint in prison that he never should have been serving in the first place. The New York Times reported: “On Wednesday, the Court of Appeal ordered his release, pending a new hearing in his case. The court questioned the speed with which he had been tried and convicted, noting that it took five hours from the time of his arrest to a conviction.”
Indeed. Tommy Robinson was arrested, tried, and sentenced with a Stalinist rapidity, for the crime of calling attention not only to the Muslim rape gang crisis in the UK, but to the abject failure of British officialdom to deal adequately with that crisis, for fear of being charged with “racism” and “Islamophobia.”
Thus it was only just to free Tommy Robinson, and lessens the impression that Britain is becoming a police state in which it is illegal to criticize Islam and mass Muslim migration in Britain today. Britain is still on that road, but apparently in this case the May government was feeling too much pressure to keep Tommy in prison.
However, no one should get the idea that Theresa May’s government has suddenly decided to behave decently toward foes of jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others. Ezra Levant reported Thursday that “Tommy was physically and psychologically abused in prison. You can see it in his face. His appearance is shocking — he lost 40 pounds of weight in just two months. If he were to have stayed in prison much longer, I fear his very life would have been in danger.”
“I’m not a victim, I’m a target,” Robinson said in an interview with Levant, and the Mailonline reported that he said: “What they tried to do was to mentally destroy me. That wasn’t a prison sentence, that was mental torture.”
The treatment of Tommy Robinson in prison was unconscionable, and consistent with the British government’s determination to crush all resistance to its program of mass Muslim migration and capitulation to Sharia supremacists. The treatment of Tommy Robinson in prison was a demonstration of pure police state tactics.
Meanwhile, the establishment media defames him as “far-right” and as a “white nationalist.” Note the contempt and the vicious bias of the New York Times piece. This is Leftist propaganda disguised as a news story. Tommy is described as “anti-Muslim,” the universal label applied to those who oppose jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women, gays, etc. Was opposing the Nazis “anti-German”?
The Times also characterizes Robinson as a “far-right activist.” Anyone, no matter how socially liberal and how committed to the principles of secular, republican rule, is “far-right” for opposing jihad terror and Sharia oppression. There is no substance to the term other than to try to equate such opposition with Nazism.
The Times semaphores to its dwindling Leftist readership, if the point weren’t clear enough already, that Tommy is not to have their support, for he is supported by “former Trump aide Stephen K. Bannon but reviled by others who call him a violent purveyor of hate.” Who calls him a “violent purveyor of hate”? Hope Not Hate, a Leftist smear group akin to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Then there is the open libel that Robinson’s “divisive, anti-Muslim rhetoric has resulted in acts of violence,” he added, the most extreme of which occurred when a man, inspired by Mr. Robinson, rammed a van into a congregation of Muslims leaving a mosque in north London in January.”
In reality, there was no “inspiration” from Robinson, who never called for any attacks on mosques. The Times makes this connection based on a mass email that the perpetrator received, which itself did not call for or justify any violence. The Times rushes to connect Robinson to this incident, while it can never quite see the connection between Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” while killing people and the violent passages of the Qur’an.
And so Britain descends further into madness while the international media smears and defames one of its few remaining sane citizens. Will the free British people go quietly into the night?

GERMANY: AFD LEADER EXPLAINS HOW LEFTISTS ARE RUINING WESTERN SOCIETIES BY TRYING TO ACCOMMODATE MUSLIM MIGRANTS

GERMANY: AFD LEADER EXPLAINS HOW LEFTISTS ARE RUINING WESTERN SOCIETIES
 Alternative for Germany Party founding member Dr. Alexander Gauland gives stern speech in Parliament warning of a bleak future if things don’t change soon.
Creeping Islamization of Germany

AfD leader Alexander Gauland addresses 

Merkel in Bundestag

AfD Leader Gauland Runs Merkel Through A Meat Grinder Calling For Her Resignation

Fiery speech from AfD’s Alice Weidel 

as she faces Merkel in Bundestag 


BOAT MIGRANTS IN ITALY DOWN 80%, UP 350% IN SOCIALIST SPAIN

BOAT MIGRANTS IN ITALY DOWN 80%, UP 350% IN SOCIALIST SPAIN 
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/08/boat-migrants-in-italy-down-80-up-350-in-socialist-spainrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
The number of migrant sea arrivals in populist Italy, so far in 2018, is down 80 percent compared to last year, whilst surging by over 350 percent in the same period in socialist Spain.
In Ceuta, this was the scene described in the Daily Mail as migrants stormed in: They scrambled over ‘all of a sudden, with much violence,’ and some attacked police with quicklime they had in tubes and bottles. As a result, ‘more than a dozen police’ were injured with the substance, four of whom had to go to the hospital for burns to their faces and arms. Some of the migrants scaling the fences threw feces at police officers trying to hold them back
How likely are these migrants likely to “integrate” into Spain?
The Daily Star reported in February that Ceuta is now a slum that “is breeding ground for ISIS terrorists.” Spain’s Foreign Minister, however, has denied that his country is experiencing mass migration. He said: “We need new blood.”
Meanwhile, in nearby Italy, Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini vowed: “I promised to defend the borders and I am doing it with all my energy and all the means at my disposal.”
“Boat Migrants Down 80 Percent in Populist Italy, up 350 Percent in Socialist Spain,” by Liam Deacon, Breitbart, August 1, 2018:
The number of migrant sea arrivals in populist Italy, so far in 2018, is down 80 percent compared to last year, whilst surging by over 350 percent in the same period in socialist Spain.
Over 57,500 illegal migrants and asylum seekers have arrived in Europe by sea so far this year, compared to 112,375 over the same period last year, the UN Migration Agency said in a paper Tuesday.
And as the number of clandestine crossings fell, deaths in the Mediterranean Sea more than halved, falling from 2,240 to 1,111.
The significant fall is likely to be partly thanks to Italy’s new, populist government, which is fighting to end illegal crossings and to protect their borders. There were just 18,392 migrants arriving in Italy so far this year, 80.6 percent less than the same period last year.
However, Spain, which has a new socialist government, has become the new main arrival-by-sea country in the Mediterranean. More than 22,800 migrants have arrived there since the beginning of the year, with 1,866 since the 25th of July alone…..

US SLAPS SANCTIONS ON TWO TURKISH LEADERS OVER PASTOR BRUNSON’S DETENTION~ERDOGAN REMAINS DEFIANT

US SLAPS SANCTIONS ON TWO TURKISH LEADERS OVER PASTOR BRUNSON’S DETENTION~ERDOGAN REMAINS DEFIANT 
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Said Erdogan: “You cannot make Turkey take a step back with sanctions. They need to know the following: we are not tied with an umbilical cord to the U.S.”
Good. Rapidly re-Islamizing Turkey has not been a reliable ally of the United States for some time, and it is foolish to pretend otherwise. This sham alliance, and others as well, should be ended.
“US Slaps Sanctions on 2 Turkish Political Leaders Over Andrew Brunson’s Detention,” by Samuel Smith, Christian Post, August 2, 2018:
The Trump administration followed through on its threats to take action against Turkey over the detention of American Pastor Andrew Brunson by sanctioning two top government officials on Wednesday.
The U.S. Department of the Teasury’s [sic] Office of Foreign Assets Control announced that it has sanctioned Turkey’s Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gul and Minister of Interior Suleyman Soylu, both of whom lead agencies that are responsible for the arrest and imprisonment of the 50-year-old North Carolina native.
“Pastor Brunson’s unjust detention and continued prosecution by Turkish officials is simply unacceptable,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement. “President [Donald] Trump has made it abundantly clear that the United States expects Turkey to release him immediately.”
The sanctions come after Vice President Mike Pence and Trump vowed last week that they would slap “significant” and “large” sanctions on its NATO ally over Brunson’s detention. Pence made the promise during his keynote speech last Thursday at the State Department’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, a day after Brunson was released to house arrest after over a year-and-a-half in prison….
Brunson appealed to a Turkish court this week to be released from his home detention. However, his appeal was rejected on Tuesday.
Brunson, who has served as a church leader in Izmir for over two decades, was accused of having connections to an Islamic organization blamed for the 2016 coup attempt against the Erdogan government and was also accused of having connections to Kurdish militants. He has denied all charges. Many feel that he is being used as a political pawn to pressure the U.S. government to extradite Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen.
“We’ve seen no evidence that Pastor Brunson has done anything wrong and we believe he is a victim of unfair and unjust [detention] by the government of Turkey,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said on Wednesday. “As a result, any property or interest in property of both ministers within U.S. jurisdiction is blocked and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them.”
The sanctions against Gul and Soylu are pursuant to the executive order issued last December by Trump which states 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.”…
The Turkish government has claimed that it cannot intervene in Brunson’s case because it is being handled by the judicial system. Brunson has had three hearings so far in which only questionable secret witness testimony has been presented against him. His next court hearing is in October….
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom lists Turkey as a “Tier 2” country of concern for religious liberty.
“In 2017, the state of religious freedom in Turkey worsened. Proposed changes in the educational curriculum, an increase in government funding solely for Sunni mosques, and a lack of movement with respect to legal status and registration for non-Muslim communities have led Turkey on a downward trend,” a 2018 USCIRF report states, adding that the nation’s strict secularization prevents religious communities from obtaining full legal status.
“The majority of the other longstanding religious freedom concerns remain unresolved, including the return of expropriated minority properties, the delay in providing dual citizenship to Greek Orthodox Metropolitans so they can participate in the church’s Holy Synod, and equal funding for religious minority community buildings from the public budget.”
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned the U.S. on Sunday that it risks losing a “strong and sincere partner” if it continues pressuring it over Brunson.
“You cannot make Turkey take a step back with sanctions,” Erdogan declared. “They need to know the following: we are not tied with an umbilical cord to the U.S.”
On Wednesday, he claimed that “Turkey has no problems related to [religious] minorities.”
“Threatening language of the U.S. evangelist, Zionist mentality is unacceptable,” Erdogan told reporters. “We will continue on the path we believe in without the slightest concession to our freedom, sovereignty, or judicial independence.”
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