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CMP’s Eighth Abortion Video Describes “Intact Fetuses” as Being “Born Alive”

BY Raven Clabough

SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/21471-cmp-s-eighth-video-describes-intact-fetuses-as-being-born-alive; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

On Tuesday, the Center for Medical Progress released an eighth video in a series of undercover videos highlighting the barbarity of fetal organ harvesting by Planned Parenthood. Tuesday’s video shows StemExpress’ CEO Cate Dyer discussing the sales of “intact specimens,” which are “likely to be born-alive infant[s],” and highlights the magnitude of StemExpress’ demand for fetal parts.

Several revelations have come out of the release of these videos by CMP, many of which reveal illegal, as well as immoral and unethical, practices by the hands of Planned Parenthood and StemExpress, a California-based company that partnered with Planned Parenthood to supply human blood, cells, and tissue products to biomedical researchers. Videos have featured Planned Parenthood officials admitting to altering abortion procedures to procure fetal tissue, as well as the sale of fetal tissue for profit. A video last week also revealed that StemExpress did not always obtain consent from mothers to use their fetal tissue, a practice that Fox News notes would be “a serious ethical breach.”

In Tuesday’s video, a CMP buyer inquires about “intact specimens,” to which Dyer responds, “Oh yeah, I mean, if you have intact cases, which we’ve done a lot, we sometimes ship those back to our lab in its entirety.”

Live Action News notes that Planned Parenthood leadership has admitted that the chemicals used to kill fetuses during abortion procedures are not used in tissue procurement cases, and therefore, intact fetuses/infants are likely to be born alive.

The latest video also underscores just how demanding the biomedical industry has been.

In the video, Dyer laments that the company cannot seem to obtain enough fetal livers to keep up with demand. The undercover CMP actor asks what number would make StemExpress “happy.”

“Another 50 livers a week,” Dyer responded. “We’re working with almost, like, triple-digit-number clinics, and we still need more.”

The undercover video series has successfully breathed life back into the anti-abortion movement and placed Planned Parenthood’s funding at the forefront of political debates as they have collectively captured the brutality of this particular industry from which Planned Parenthood profits.

The eight released tapes include secretly recorded comments from executives of Planned Parenthood and StemExpress, undercover footage from clinics — including footage of fetal tissue being handled by workers, footage of fetal tissue from aborted pregnancies, and on-camera interviews with Holly O’Donnell, a former StemExpress procurement technician.

In a video released on August 19, O’Donnell, who appears in a total of three videos, recalls encountering “fetuses” that still had beating hearts.

In last week’s video, O’Donnell provided graphic details about the treatment of intact fetuses, regardless of whether they have a heartbeat. “Usually they want both hemispheres intact with the brain stems, which usually doesn’t happen,” O’Donnell said. “They’ll take like a 70 percent intact or an 80 percent intact … and you have to contact them and see if that’ll be ok.”

The former technician went on to describe how her supervisor so callously referred to the beating heart of a gestated fetus as “cool.”

“Want to see something kind of cool?” O’Donnell says her supervisor asked her. She continued, “And she has one of her instruments and she just taps the heart and it starts beating … and I’m sitting here and I’m looking at this fetus and its heart is beating and I don’t know what to think.”

O’Donnell goes on,

It had a face, it wasn’t completely torn up. And its nose was very pronounced. It had eyelids and its mouth was pronounced and then, since the fetus was so intact, she said, “OK well this is a really good fetus and it looks like we can procure a lot from it. We’re going to procure brain.”

The moment I heard that I thought, that means we’re gonna’ have to cut the head open.

And she takes the scissors and she makes a small incision right here [points to her chin] and goes, I would say to maybe a little bit through the mouth and she says, “Can you go the rest of the way?” And I didn’t want to do this. And she gave me the scissors and told me I had to cut down the middle of the face.

The video also includes recordings from the heads of other prominent procurement companies who partner with Planned Parenthood, including Novogenix Laboratories, LLC, Executive Director Dr. Ben Van Handel, who admitted, “There are times when after the procedure is done that the heart actually is still beating.”

In response to public outcry following the release of CMP’s videos, StemExpress announced it would be severing ties with Planned Parenthood, but critics wonder if it’s just a little too late for that.

Shockingly, Planned Parenthood released a statement on August 4 wherein it claimed that the “extremists” who released the videos are in fact the ones who have a “total lack of compassion and dignity,” not, of course, the ones cutting open the faces of living fetuses.

Planned Parenthood executive vice president Dawn Laguens has defended the Planned Parenthood officials captured in the video, claiming they were in fact engaging in “standard medical practice to review tissue to ensure the health and safety of patients.”

Laguens insisted, “Planned Parenthood’s medical providers and staff are the best in the country,” adding, “We have the highest professional standards, and we take swift action if we are ever aware of an instance where those standards aren’t being met.”

Public reaction to the videos has compelled lawmakers in Washington to attempt to defund Planned Parenthood, so far with no success. Conservatives are now eyeing the upcoming Continuing Resolution as a means by which to defund the organization, which is the country’s largest abortion provider.

According to David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, there are four more videos to release, “give or take,” and it is his intention to release them once a week to maintain the political firestorm that has resulted from the videos. That schedule would ultimately take the Planned Parenthood debate right to the deadline for the Continuing Resolution.

Daleiden emphasizes that his intentions behind releasing the videos in this manner are to allow the public the proper amount of time to absorb and analyse all that the videos expose. “For a topic this complex and multilayered, it’s important that each piece of evidence have a chance to be examined individually and so the current presentation format is geared towards that,” Daleiden told Politico.
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Planned Parenthood Baby Parts Vendor ABR Pays Off Clinics, Intact Fetuses “Just Fell Out”

FULL FOOTAGE: Planned Parenthood Baby Parts Vendor Advanced Bioscience Resources

FULL FOOTAGE: Planned Parenthood Pacific Southwest Dr. Katharine Sheehan

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RHODE ISLAND UPRISING AGAINST HPV GARDASIL VACCINE MANDATE SWEEPS STATE

Uprising Against HPV Vaccine Mandate Sweeps Rhode Island

BY ALEX NEWMAN

SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/21470-uprising-against-hpv-vaccine-mandate-sweeps-rhode-island;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Rhode Island health bureaucrats are facing an uprising among parents, lawmakers, and even some doctors after issuing a deeply controversial vaccine mandate last month. Unless it is reversed, the decree purports to require that all 7th grade students, generally about 11-years old, be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted disease (STD) prior to starting school in September. Despite making headlines nationwide amid growing protests and public outrage about what critics say is an attack on parental rights, state officials reportedly have no plans to back down on the HPV shot. Neither do activists, though, and state lawmakers are already vowing to take action.

Leading the public outcry against the mandate is the recently formed grassroots group Rhode Islanders Against Mandated HPV Vaccinations. In a statement to The New American, Aimee Gardiner, co-leader of the organization, said the goal was to protect parental and civil rights. “Mandating a vaccine that is attached to school attendance that is not a public health threat or transferable in the classroom is not okay,” she said. “It is bad public policy, and it is a bad use of power from the Rhode Island Department of Health.”

The campaign, which seeks to have the governor overturn the mandate, uses the Twitter hashtag #NOHPVmandateRI. Gardiner explained that the public was not even informed about the mandate, except in an announcement on the health department’s website, “which is not a place of regular checking for any average citizen.” Most citizens found out about it either from threatening letters sent by schools, or from recent media reports surrounding the growing statewide movement to quash the mandate. Outrage is still growing.

“This vaccine strikes people in different ways,” Gardiner continued. “Many are upset that this is a sexually transmitted disease and the Department of Health is mandating it. That crosses the line with personal and family values and points of appropriate discussions, as many parents feel an STD conversation is not needed at 11 years old.”

Citing U.S. government data, Gardiner also noted that the Gardasil vaccine in question has three times more reported adverse reactions than all other vaccines combined. Numerous deaths and permanent disabilities have been reported following administration of the vaccine. Gardiner also said that there is no proof that the vaccine has stopped a single case of cervical cancer, and that the shot has not been around long enough to know what the long-term side effects might be.

“The Department of Health says it has no plans to reverse the mandate,” she continued. “However, we also have no plans of stopping our efforts until the mandate is reversed.”

Last week, about 100 members and supporters of the group, including three doctors and four state lawmakers, held a rally and press conference at the Cumberland Public Library ahead of a presentation by health bureaucrats on the vaccine mandate. The outraged crowd, mostly concerned parents, carried hand-made signs with slogans such as “my child, my choice,” “no mandate,” and “it’s a family’s choice, not the government’s,” showed pictures published online by local media outlets and activists.

Among those speaking was Dr. Mark Brady, who told the crowd that the vaccine mandate “smacks of paternalism” and that the health department “cannot demonstrate a clear and present danger from the virus.” Another doctor, Christopher Black, told the crowd that he did not want his patients, children, or friends’ children to be part of an “experiment.” “Who is going to back us up when something goes terribly wrong?” he asked.

Others spoke out against adverse reactions to vaccines suffered by their own children. Dr. Stephen Petteruti, for example, said his stepson suffered temporary blindness after a vaccination, which has still not been investigated,The Valley Breeze reported. Local mother Michelle Rennick, meanwhile, described as many as 10 different diseases that afflicted her daughter after receiving the controversial HPV vaccine. Taxpayers have paid out around $3 billion to victims of vaccines or their families, because U.S. lawmakers granted vaccine makers immunity from having to pay damages owing to injuries or deaths caused by their products.

On August 25, the Coventry School Committee unanimously adopted a resolution by committee member James Pierson opposing the mandate. Citing medical ethics on informed consent and more than a dozen lawmakers who are opposed to the mandate, at least one of whom was in attendance, the resolution calls on Democrat Governor Gina Raimondo and health bureaucrats to reverse the decree. Only one other state and the District of Columbia have similar mandates, the resolution added. Every parent who spoke at the Coventry meeting was opposed to the mandate. Other local school authorities are expected to follow suit.

State health bureaucrats, though, citing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), claim that the HPV vaccine they mandated is safe and will protect the young children from the Human Papilloma Virus. “The bottom line is that HPV is the most sexually transmitted disease in the U.S.” argued Tricia Washburn, chief of the immunization office at the Rhode Island Department of Health, last month. “We are interested in protecting the public health. We feel it shouldn’t be treated any differently than any of the other vaccines recommended by the CDC.”

Of course, the CDC is currently facing its own vaccine-related scandals after a whistle blower, senior CDC epidemiologist Dr. William Thompson, revealed that he helped the federal agency unlawfully conceal data linking the MMR vaccine to drastically increased rates of autism — especially in black children. Doctors and U.S. lawmakers are demanding a formal investigation of the dangerous fraud, and accountability for those responsible for the deception. But so far, nothing has been done.

Unlike most states, Rhode Island currently mandates all CDC-“recommended” vaccines for children in schools. But nationwide, concerns about the “recommendations” are spreading like wildfire — particularly considering that the number of “recommended” vaccines from the unconstitutional bureaucracy has ballooned from 10 shots before age six in 1983 to almost 40 before age six today.

In response to the growing uproar against the HPV mandate in Rhode Island, health bureaucrats emphasized that parents could still use legally protected religious or medical exemptions to opt their children out of the vaccine. But critics such as Gardiner say that is not acceptable. “The parents have the right to make the choice for their family, and if they feel it is not appropriate for their family, they should be able to simply say no,” she said, adding that the religious exemptions are tracked within the educational system. The mandate applies to children going into seventh grade in both government and private schools.

Some lawmakers, though, are planning a legislative counter-attack that could rein in the bureaucracy and its trampling of parental rights. Republican State Representative Justin Price, for instance, vowed to file legislation that will “put the power back in parents’ hands.” He also wants to add a philosophical exemption that would allow more parents to opt out their children, in addition to requiring that parents receive more information on the vaccines to assist in obtaining informed consent.

Another lawmaker, State Representative Sherry Roberts, accused the health department of going too far. “This disease is not an airborne contagion that puts students in the classroom at risk,” she said in a statement quoted in media reports. “The decision to vaccinate 11-year olds against a sexually transmitted disease should be left to the parents and legal guardians of those children.” Activists also vowed to push for legislation entirely removing the power of state health officials to mandate vaccines.

As The New American magazine has been reporting for years, countless doctors and health professionals around the world have long questioned both the safety and efficacy of vaccines. Even the package inserts warn of potentially fatal and debilitating reactions to the shots’ contents, some of which are manufactured using aborted babies. Either way, though, the decision on whether or not to vaccinate children must remain with parents and doctors — not bureaucrats. Anything less is an assault on medical ethics, liberty, parental rights, and common sense.

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Rhode Island Mandates HPV Vaccine For Seventh-Graders

Department of Health Director Confronted About Mandatory HPV Vaccines In Rhode Island!

REPORTER’S UPDATE FROM INFOWARS WHO CONFRONTED R.I. HEALTH DIRECTOR

PUBLIC OUTRAGE

SCHOOLED! Government Bureaucrats Get OWNED by Anti-Vaxxers (08/17/15 – Cumberland, RI)

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MICROSOFT EXPANDS SECRECY IN UPDATES & INSTALLS SPYWARE IN WINDOWS 10 & NOW WINDOWS 7 & 8 WITH NO DISCLOSURES

Microsoft Increases Secrecy;

Expands Spyware to Windows 7 and 8

BY C. Mitchell Shaw

SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/computers/item/21455-microsoft-increases-secrecy-expands-spyware-to-windows-7-and-8;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

The Windows 10 update that turns your PC into a portal for spying on you was just the beginning of what Microsoft is doing. As more and more people begin to adopt Windows 10 — whether by buying a new PC or via Microsoft's "free" upgrade — the Redmond Giant is building on that foundation to further violate users' privacy and liberty.

In what may be one of the most confusing moves the software empire has ever made, Microsoft has begun rolling out updates for Windows 10 that contain none of the release notes users have been accustomed to. Now the description of the update simply says, "This update includes improvements to enhance the functionality of Windows 10." With so little information, users are left to wonder what the update does and how important it is. Since many (most) users have updates set to install automatically, these "secret recipe" updates are especially troubling. This is a new policy for the company, which has said that the only updates that will include release notes are those the company decides warrant them. That means that the functions of the vast majority of updates will be unknown to most users. Microsoft points out that the updates can be searched on the company's knowledge base, but this requires that users make note of the filename of the update (for instance, KB 3081424) and search it on the knowledge base.

In previous versions of Windows, these release notes were delivered to the user along with the update. This allowed users to have at least some idea what was going on with their PCs. As it stands now, users have to take the time to search for that information — if they can even find it. Even though Microsoft claims that nothing has really changed in the level of information that is provided about updates, the reality is that the changes are like night and day. For instance, here is the description of the KB 3081424 update for Windows 10, which was rolled out on August 5:

This update includes improvements to enhance the functionality of Windows 10.

Windows 10 updates are cumulative. Therefore, this package contains all previously-released fixes (see KB 3074683). If you have installed previous updates, only the new fixes that are contained in this package will be downloaded and installed to your computer.

There is virtually no information about what this update does to a user's PC. All he can know is that Microsoft says it will "enhance the functionality of Windows 10." Compare that to the description Microsoft offered for the KB 3075851, which was sent to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users at about the same time as the KB 3081424 update was sent out for Windows 10:

This article describes an update that contains some improvements to Windows Update Client in Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. This update also resolves an issue in which certain Windows Update operations fail when you install Windows Update Client for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: July 2015 (3065987) on Windows 7 Embedded editions.

As Joel Hruska wrote for extremetech.com, "That's dry, but descriptive. If you have an issue with Windows update failing while running Windows 7 Embedded Edition, KB 3075851 applies to you. If you don't, it doesn't." In other words, the description tells the user enough about the update that he can make an informed decision about whether to apply it. That's a lot more information than, "This update includes improvements to enhance the functionality of Windows 10."

To make matters worse, Microsoft seems to be rolling out updates to Windows 7 and 8 that bring them into line with the "spyware" elements of Windows 10. Because Microsoft's Services Agreement and Privacy Policy apply to all products and services offered by Microsoft, it looks as though the company is expanding its spying to include Windows 7and 8. The New American covered the specifics of these agreements in a previous article. According to hakspek.com, "new updates that are being deployed to all Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 machines will turn their computers into a big piece of spyware, just like" Windows 10. As the article explains:

The updates in question are KB3075249 and KB3080149. If installed, these updates are known to report your data back to Microsoft servers, without user interaction. KB3075249 Microsoft Update adds telemetry points to "consent.exe" in Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, allowing for remote monitoring of everything that happens within the operating system. KB3080149 ensures that all "down-level devices" receive the same updates and treatment as Windows 10 boxes get.

So, now that Microsoft has convinced some 50 million users to "update" to Windows 10 (with more than 14 million of them doing it in only the first 24 hours the download was available), it seems to have its sights set on those who have heeded the warnings about Windows 10 being spyware. By sending these Windows updates — many of which will be downloaded and installed by default — Microsoft is expanding its spyware empire.

Of course, some users will refuse the KB updates in question. But doing so may leave their systems unstable and unable to receive future security patches. Windows users who value any degree of privacy will find themselves caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. Many are opting out of Windows altogether. Some are going the way of Mac, but many are looking at the advantages offered by Open Source software and the Linux operating system. A previous New American article discussed the tools that are available through Open Source and Linux to close the door on surveillance by both overreaching government agencies and nosy corporations. Microsoft clearly fits into that latter category. It's easy to see why more and more users are opting for the security, privacy, and liberty offered by Linux.

[In the interest of fairness, the writer of this article has been a Linux user for several years and does not use any Microsoft products or services. This article was written on his System76 Bonobo Extreme running Ubuntu 14.04 using LibreOffice 4.2.]

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WINDOWS 10 IS SPYING ON YOU

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IRINA BOKOVA: BULGARIAN COMMUNIST & UNESCO BOSS MAY LEAD U.N.

QUOTES FROM WIKIPEDIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina_Bokova

“Irina Bokova is the daughter of the communist-era politician Georgi Bokov, editor-in-chief of Rabotnichesko Delo, the official newspaper and organ of the Bulgarian Communist Party. By descent Bokova is Bulgarian from Macedonia. Bokova is a graduate of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Subsequently, she worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, eventually becoming Minister in the winter of 1996–1997. She was a member of the Bulgarian communist party until 1990. In 2009, while most of the Bulgarian media was supportive of Ms. Bokova’s future role at the helm of UNESCO, some raised questions about her past as a daughter of a member of the totalitarian communist elite. Bulgarian-born German writer Iliya Troyanov criticised Bokova’s election as Director-General of UNESCO in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, calling it “a scandal,” in light of Bokova’s father’s communist past.”
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UNESCO IS BEHIND COMMON CORE IN THE UNITED STATES; OF COURSE THE OBAMAS LOVE A FELLOW SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST

Bulgarian Communist and UNESCO Boss Irina Bokova May Lead UN

BY ALEX NEWMAN

SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/item/21469-bulgarian-communist-and-unesco-boss-irina-bokova-may-lead-un-video

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

According to an April 2015 piece published in the establishment-controlled Financial Times, current UNESCO boss Irina Bokova (shown) is considered to be the front runner to serve as the next secretary-general of the United Nations.

Apparently her candidacy is acceptable to the Obama administration, the Kremlin, and other key players. Plus, she’s the right gender, and she comes from Eastern Europe, and in this day and age of collectivism and identity politics, those traits are considered important for leadership.

But who is Bokova, and why might the establishment hope to see her lead what I and many others often ridicule as the “dictators club.” Well, for one, she’ll fit right in, just like she fit right in at Putin’s “Victory Day” celebrations in May as the Soviet National Anthem blared in the background and communist hammer-and-sickle flags flapped in the breeze.

The first thing you need to know about Bokova is that she is a Bulgarian Communist Party operative with deep ties to the mass-murdering regime that once enslaved her homeland. In fact, the UNESCO chief is even what is known as a “red-diaper baby” — a child born to devoted communist parents.

Bokova’s father, aside from being a communist politician and Politburo member in the savage regime ruling over the “People's Republic of Bulgaria,” was also editor-in-chief of the Bulgarian Communist Party’s official propaganda organ, known as Rabotnichesko Delo.

Estimates suggest that the brutal dictatorship slaughtered somewhere between 100,000 and 250,000 people, among them, dissidents, Christians, and many others. The real numbers could be even higher. In Statistics of Democide: Democide and Mass Murder since 1900, political science Professor R.J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii put the body count racked up by the Bulgarian communists at around 222,000. Many more were ruthlessly tortured and persecuted.

Despite those atrocities, Bokova herself was an enthusiastic youth member of the Bulgarian Communist Party, later becoming an adult member and even serving in various capacities within the brutal dictatorship. Because of her intimate and myriad links to the regime, and her communist fervor, Bokova was given the special privilege of studying at the mass-murdering Soviet regime’s elite Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

Bokova remained within the Communist party after it rebranded itself the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) following the apparent collapse of the communist terror regime. Despite the name change to gain access to U.S. and European Union taxpayer-funded benefits, the ruthless party, which is still in charge today, remains dominated by the same cut-throats of yesteryear.

Bokova served two terms in the Bulgarian Parliament as a member of the rebranded Communist Party, and went on to serve as the foreign minister for Prime Minister Zhan Videnov, another communist operative and former agent for the savage Bulgarian branch of the KGB.

Bokova’s current job, director-general of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), was secured with support from Obama. It also ought to raise concerns, though, and not just because the selection drew widespread condemnation from survivors of communist Bulgarian gulags, who called the decision “shameful.”

However, while it was certainly shameful, it was not surprising. The scandal-plagued UN organization, which is seeking to become the global education ministry and impose its “World Core Curriculum” on all of humanity, was such a hot-bed of communists, criminals, dictators, Islamists, mass-murderers, and anti-American radicals that the Ronald Reagan administration withdrew U.S. membership in it.

Bokova’s bid to lead the UN is, unsurprisingly, being celebrated as an opportunity to give Third World autocrats a bigger voice in “global governance,” as humanity is prepared for what globalists refer to as their new, “multi-polar” world order. Bokova’s job will be to facilitate that transition.

However, for Americans and the billions of victims of communism around the world, Bokova’s candidacy and frontrunner status offer an excellent opportunity to expose the UN and its member regimes for what they are: a threat to humanity and human liberty.

As awareness of this threat grows across the United States and the world, humanity should work to disband the UN and prosecute all of the communists who escaped unpunished after the apparent collapse of the Soviet Union.

For the sake of liberty, prosperity, and common sense, it is time for the UN and Bokova to be exposed and stopped.

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BLACK, GAY REPORTER MURDERS STRAIGHT, WHITE JOURNALISTS~OBAMA’S CONTRIVED & LEGITIMIZED RACE WAR~MEDIA BLAME THE GUN, PUSH FOR GUN CONTROL

LIBERALS’ CONTRIVED RACE WAR & GUN GRAB

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BLACK, GAY REPORTER MURDERS STRAIGHT, WHITE JOURNALISTS~MEDIA BLAME THE GUN

SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/black-gay-reporter-murders-straight-white-journalists-media-blame-gun/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

On Wednesday, America met a deeply evil human being: Vester Lee Flanagan II, also known as reporter Bryce Williams.

Williams murdered two people while they were live on air on WDBJ in Virginia: reporter Alison Parker, and cameraman Adam Ward. After the murders, he went on the run – and while he was on the run, he tweeted out his rationale for the killings, accusing Parker of making “racist comments” and Ward of going “to hr on me after working with me one time!!!” He then posted video to his Facebook and Twitter pages of himself shooting both at point-blank range.

Williams is black. Parker and Ward were white.

Williams is gay. Parker and Ward were straight.

None of which would be relevant, except that Williams specifically cited his identity as a factor in the killings. In a 23-page rambling letter sent to ABC News, Williams wrote that the Charleston church shooting in June should have provoked a race war: “Why did I do it? I put a deposit for a gun on 6/19/15. The Church shooting in Charleston happened on 6/17/15…What sent me over the top was the church shooting…You want a race war (deleted)? BRING IT THEN YOU WHITE …(deleted)!!!” According to ABC News, he claimed he had “suffered racial discrimination, sexual harassment and bullying at work,” that he had “been attacked by black men and white females,” and that he had been “attacked for being a gay, black man.”

Williams marinated in his self-appointed victimhood status. He filed a lawsuit against his Tallahassee, Florida employer, WTWC – a lawsuit settled out of court. He filed a complaint with the with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against WDBJ after his firing – a complaint the EEOC dismissed. According to WDBJ station manager Jeff Marks, Williams was “an unhappy man” with a “reputation as someone who had been difficult to work with… looking out for people to say things that he could take offense to.”

Had a white straight man killed a black gay man, released first-person tape of the shooting, and then unleashed a manifesto about being victimized by affirmative action and anti-religious bigotry from homosexuals, the media would never stop covering the story. They’d be eager to report that shooter’s motives with all the attendant politically correct hullaballoo about the racism and homophobia of the United States more broadly. We would hear about white supremacy (reprehensible Black Lives Matter leader Deray McKesson actually jumped the gun, thinking the shooter was white, and tweeted, “Whiteness will explain away nearly anything”).

We would hear excoriations of the Republican presidential candidates for their failures to stand with the Black Lives Matter movement–and their opposition to same-sex marriage. In similar circumstances, the entire political and media establishment determined that the Confederate flag was somehow to blame for Dylan Storm Roof’s brutal slaying of nine people at a historically black church; just last week, the media tried to blame Donald Trump’s anti-immigration stance for two thugs beating up a Hispanic homeless man in Boston.

But Bryce Williams’ self-described victim status, even while murdering innocents, will merit no rethinking of the divisive politics in which he apparently bathed. We won’t have a conversation about whether pushing a perennial picture of victimhood for blacks and gays in the most black-friendly, gay-friendly country on the planet could drive supposed victims to violence. We won’t talk about whether the Democratic Party’s takeover by the Black Lives Matter crew has encouraged some people to believe that only black lives matter, since only black lives are in danger – and even then, only some black lives matter, namely those killed by white people. Instead, we will be assured that Bryce Williams is an outlier by the same people who blamed Sarah Palin for Jared Lee Loughner shooting Gabrielle Giffords.

It is true that statistical outliers should not be used to club entire movements into submission. But leftists protesting at the linkage between Williams and their favored political causes have no ground on which to stand – they consistently blame conservatives for outlier events with no statistical basis. Moreover, Williams’ violence is part of a larger trend, not of black men killing white people (that still happens disproportionately, but the numbers are down), but of black men using supposed American racism as a rationale for violence more generally, and of gay people using supposed American homophobia as a rationale for violation of others’ rights.

Some in the media are actually going beyond delinking Williams from his politics – they’re defending Williams’ perverse worldview, questioning whether evil, racist, homophobic America created him. Columnist Wonder Womanist at Gawker wrote, “I can understand him being frustrated with racial discrimination at his job but it was not worth throwing his life over… RIP to the victims even though they may have been racist.”

Kay Steiger at ThinkProgress took Williams’ self-serving narrative at face value: “One part of the document included the phrase ‘Suicide Note for Friends and Family’ and detailed discrimination he experienced as a gay, black man.”

But most of the the media will swivel to gun control, following the lead of the White House and Hillary Clinton, both of whom called for heavier gun control laws – even as both push for the release of criminals from prisons, a crackdown on law enforcement, and a racially divisive narrative of the country pitting black against white, all for political gain.

All of these policies will do nothing to stop Bryce Williamses — in fact, they will make Bryce Williamses more common. Teaching Americans that they aren’t victims would be a great way of battling evil – most victims aren’t evil, but virtually all evil people think they are victims, and thus justify their violence. But teaching Americans that they aren’t victims would undercut the Democratic message that all minorities are victims, and thus require bigger government. And that message, and its attendant political success, must take precedence over the building of a more inclusive, more understanding country.

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BRYCE WILLIAMS IS A PRODUCT OF THE CONTRIVED RACE WAR

The awful truth about today’s shooting

SEE: http://www.infowars.com/newsletter-content/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

The awful truth about the tragic shooting today of reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward is that they are both victims of the contrived race war that has gripped America.

In a fax sent to ABC News, the gunman states that the shooting was a revenge attack for the Charleston massacre, his contribution to the “race war”.

On his own Twitter account he also said he targeted Parker because of her “racist comments” towards him.

And yet what did Deray McKeeson, the de facto leader of ‘Black Lives Matter’ tweet before the identify of the shooter was even known? Before the bodies were even cold?

He blamed the shooting on white people. In the very minutes after news of this horrific incident broke, the figurehead of Black Lives Matter was exploiting the tragedy for political points scoring.

Then he had the nerve to retweet other people who decried those using it for political points scoring.

Same with Hillary Clinton and an army of other leftists. Before the gunman had even been caught, Clinton was using the tragedy to go after the Second Amendment.

This contrived race war – which has been legitimized by the Obama administration – is emboldening extremists on both sides of the equation.

The leftist media blamed all white people in the aftermath of Charleston.

So am I going to blame all African-Americans for what Bryce Williams did? No.

But when you create an environment, as the leftist media has done, when violence targeting innocent people is a justified response to claims of institutionalized racism – this is what happens.

We saw it with Ismaaiyl Brinsley – the guy who shot two NYPD cops in the head as part of a Black Lives Matter revenge attack.

And now the next Dylann Roof will see Bryce Williams’ violent rampage as a legitimate excuse for his form of revenge. The cycle never ends.

When are we going to stop allowing this race war narrative to divide us and tear at the fabric of our society?

When is the Black Lives Matter movement going to acknowledge black on black violence as part of the problem, just as several African-American voices have done in recent days?

When are we going to focus on how we can fix police brutality by having a rational national conversation about it that isn’t poisoned by race baiting.

Until that day comes, we’re going to see many more Dylann Roofs and Bryce Williams’ – and the victims won’t be black supremacists or white supremacists.

The victims will be innocent people. The victims will be churchgoers in Charleston. The victims will be and Adam Ward and Alison Parker.

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COULD THERE BE KEVLAR UNDER THAT SUIT?

HILLARY CLINTON EXPLOITS VIRGINIA SHOOTING TO CALL FOR GUN LEGISLATION

Attacking the Second Amendment is a major component of campaign

SEE: http://www.infowars.com/clinton-exploits-virginia-shooting-to-call-for-gun-legislation/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Within hours of the fatal shooting in Virginia of two television station employees, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called for anti-gun legislation.

Attacking the Second Amendment is a major component of Clinton’s campaign.

“I will do whatever I can. I am not afraid of this fight. I am not backing off from this fight because it has gone way too far in one direction and we need to get back to some balance,” she told an audience of college students in Las Vegas recently.

On Wednesday Clinton ally Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy criticized Bernie Sanders for voting against the Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act.

“Bernie Sanders is no progressive when it comes to guns,” Malloy said.

Democrats will use the tragic shooting in Virginia to renew calls for draconian gun legislation.

Following the 2013 defeat in the Senate of legislation calling for background checks, Obama and the Democrats have pushed hard to kick start the issue.

The White House admitted using executive authority to restrict access to guns and Obama declared his commitment to imposing gun laws, including requiring background checks for sales online and at gun shows.

The Obama administration has reacted to the incident under the banner of “gun violence,” code for anti-gun legislation.

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SHOOTER SAYS MOTIVATION FOR ON AIR ATTACK WAS VICTIM MAKING “RACIST COMMENTS”

Gunman tweets out sickening videos of attack

SEE: http://www.infowars.com/shooter-says-motivation-for-on-air-attack-was-victim-making-racist-comments/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

The gunman responsible for the live on air shooting of reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward said part of his motivation for the attack was Parker making “racist comments.”

The suspect, identified as Vester Flanagan, otherwise known as Bryce Williams, was a disgruntled ex-employee of news network WDBJ.

In an extraordinary series of tweets, which included point of view videos Flanagan posted of himself shooting Ward and Parker, the gunman said that Parker had made “racist comments”.

“They hired her after that?” Flanagan subsequently tweeted.

Twitter suspended the account within minutes of the tweets being posted.

Flanagan also sued the NBC network for racism.

The gunman later shot himself following a police manhunt.

THE ACTUAL SHOOTING OF ALISON PARKER

ALEX JONES: NEWS SHOOTING IS ESCALATION OF RACE WAR

Will shooter turn out to have been on psychotropic drugs?

SEE: http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-news-shooting-is-escalation-of-race-war/

Anti-Gunners Will Attempt To Capitalize on VA News Shooting
TRYING TO PUT A GUILT TRIP ON GUN OWNERS WHO WANT TO PROTECT THEMSELVES UNDER SECOND AMENDMENT

Secrets of The Virginia News Shooter Revealed

RIP WDBJ REPORTER ALISON PARKER – BEST TRIBUTE VIDEO

Published on Aug 27, 2015

The life of Alison Parker, in her own words

Reporter Alison Parker was 24. A “rock star” reporter who loved Mexican food, whitewater kayaking and dark television characters such as Walter White on “Breaking Bad.”

“The most radiant woman I ever met,” in the words of a colleague.

Photographer Adam Ward was 27. Engaged to be married. Vivacious and funny, the sort of person you never saw without a smile, as one college friend said.

On Wednesday morning, Parker and Ward, both employees of Roanoke, Virginia, TV station WDBJ, were shot to death while doing a live report from a shopping district near Moneta, Virginia. The person they were interviewing, Vicki Gardner, executive director of the Smith Mountain Lake Regional Chamber of Commerce, was shot in the back and underwent surgery.

Ms Parker was secretly dating WDBJ7 reporter Chris Hurst. The couple were together for nine months and he tweeted following her death “it was the best nine months of our lives. We wanted to get married. We just celebrated her 24th birthday.”

“She was the most radiant woman I ever met. And for some reason she loved me back. She loved her family, her parents and her brother”, he said.

Mr Ward was engaged to a producer at the station. His fiancée, Melissa Ott, was on her final day working in the control room when she witnessed the horrific attack unfold.

According to Ms Parker’s Facebook page, she lived most of her life outside of Martinsville, Virginia. She attended Patrick Henry Community College and graduated from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia in December 2012.

SHOOTER: OBAMA KILLING DRONE

Published on Aug 27, 2015

The shooter wanted to provoke racism & division for political purposes, encourage people to use racism as an excuse for personal failures he was turned into an Obama drone acting on the hatred he has been fed

Essential Intel On WDBJ Shooting
KILLER DEFIANTLY WORE PRO OBAMA BADGE WHILE ACTING AS A REPORTER

Was VA News Shooting Staged To Distract From Hillary’s Crimes? Video of Shooting Appears to Be Staged Too!

KILLER INTIMIDATED OTHER REPORTERS;

DISCIPLINED BY NEWS COMPANY FOR OPENLY PARTICIPATING IN PARTISAN POLITICS WHILE ON THE JOB

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JEB BUSH: ASIANS (NOT HISPANICS) ABUSE “NOBLE CONCEPT” OF BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP

Jeb Bush: Asians Abuse “Noble Concept”

of Birthright Citizenship

BY WARREN MASS

SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/21468-jeb-bush-asians-abuse-noble-concept-of-birthright-citizenship;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:


Former Florida governor and presidential candidate Jeb Bush was asked at a McAllen, Texas, news conference Monday if he thought his use of the term  “anchor baby” might harm him among Hispanic voters. Perhaps concerned that it could, he said when he used the term, he meant to apply it mostly to Asians.

The issue of “anchor babies” — babies born in the United States to mothers who are here illegally in order to secure birthright citizenship for them — became a prime issue in the presidential campaign when candidate Donald Trump called for ending the practice when he revealed his immigration plan on August 16.

The Washington Post and AFP quoted a statement Bush made on Monday to reporters at McAllen’s Palenque Grill:

What I was talking about was the specific case of fraud being committed where there is organized efforts — and frankly it’s more related to Asian people — coming into our country, having children in that organized effort, taking advantage of a noble concept, which is birthright citizenship.

By choosing to hold a press event just nine miles from the Mexican border and by speaking intermittently in Spanish and referring to the fact that his wife is Mexican American, Bush evidently sought to contrast his immigration policies with the plan that Trump outlined last week. Bush’s defensive posture was likely a response to two videos released by the Hillary Clinton campaign last week and on Monday that sought to link Bush’s immigration plan with Trump’s — specifically seizing on Bush’s use of the term “anchor babies.”

During the McAllen conference, Bush addressed the Clinton charges head on:

My background, my life, the fact that I’m immersed in the immigrant experience — this is ludicrous for the Clinton campaign and others to suggest that somehow I’m using [anchor babies as] a derogatory term. And by the way, I think we need to take a step back and chill out a little bit as it relates to the political correctness, that somehow you have to be scolded every time you say something.

After defending himself against Clinton’s charges, Bush went on the offensive against Trump:

Mr. Trump’s plans are not grounded in conservative principles. The simple fact is that his proposal is unrealistic. It will cost hundreds of billions of dollars. It will violate people’s civil liberties. It will create friction with our third-largest trading partner that is not necessary.

Despite the Clinton campaign’s assertions, Bush and Trump have expressed contrasting views on immigration. Trump’s plan specifically calls for “ending birthright citizenship for the children born in the United States of parents who are here illegally.” As we have noted, Bush does not object to birthright citizenship in principle, and described it as “a noble concept.” Unlike many conservatives and constitutionalists — he does not dispute the loose interpretation of the 14th Amendment that applies a right granted to freed slaves whose ancestors lived in the United States for generations to aliens who come into the United States for the primary purpose of giving birth here.

Where Bush apparently draws the line, however, is the practice that has become common among Asian women called “maternity tourism.” AFP reported that last March, U.S. authorities raided dozens of locations in Los Angeles suspected of offering “maternity tourism” services for pregnant Chinese women who want to give birth in the United States in order to secure U.S. citizenship for their children.

The report cited a statement from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that some Chinese women have paid more than $50,000 for such services. 

A Chinese woman able to afford $50,000 to travel to the United States to give birth is obviously in a different category from an impoverished Mexican woman, and is almost certainly motivated by different reasons. While those from south of the border most likely come here illegally to escape poverty and seek a better life in America, the Chinese “maternity tourism” client is far from poor. Furthermore, not all of them are here illegally, and many possess valid tourist visas. This suggests that unlike women from Mexico or Guatemala, who intend to use their “anchor baby” as a steppingstone to gain immediate citizenship for themselves, the Chinese women having babies in America may be thinking more long-term, preparing their children for eventual permanent migration to the United States.

It is impossible for a citizen of China to attain the level of affluence required for “maternity tourism” unless they are well connected with the communist government. This suggests several possible explanations, including whether the Chinese government is grooming these new U.S. citizens as future overseas business managers who will not require the usual visas to work in the United States — or even for future espionage activities.

Whatever motivations the Chinese “maternity tourists” and their handlers in the Chinese government might have, Bush has spoken out against the practice. However, this still places him very far away from several other GOP candidates — including Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, and South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham — who would end birthright citizenship entirely.




Related articles:

Trump Gives New Life to Bill on Birthright Citizenship

Trump Is Right on Ending Automatic Citizenship for Anchor Babies

Time Magazine Cover Story Asks: Does the Constitution Still Matter?

"Maternity Tourism" Business Booming in California

Senators Vitter and Paul Seek Closing of Anchor Baby "Loophole"

State Legislators for Legal Immigration Ask Congress to Reconsider Intent of 14th Amendment

Constitutionality of Anchor Babies Questioned

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EDUCATION IS TRULY DANGEROUS –TO TYRANNY!~REAL TRADITIONAL EDUCATION, NOT COMMON CORE

EDUCATION IS TRULY DANGEROUS —

TO TYRANNY!

BY John F. McManus

SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/21457-education-is-truly-dangerous-to-tyranny; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

It isn’t necessary to explain that Hitler’s Nazi regime amounted to extreme totalitarianism. The leaders of the so-called “Master Race” considered huge numbers of human beings unworthy, even unworthy of life itself. But not all were to be exterminated. Some were needed as workers to produce goods and some were forced to become servants for the Nazi leaders.

In 1959, journalist William Shirer authored The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a monumental 1,200-page study detailing much about Europe’s experience with the Third Reich. Shirer laid out the attitude of Hitler and his chiefs about virtually everything in his remarkable work. He, of course, pointed to several varieties of horror practiced by the regime, and what he reported about education is especially revealing.

Hitler’s right-hand man, Martin Bormann, explained the Nazi thinking with regard to the already conquered Slavs in a 1942 letter sent to a fellow Party member. In part, it stated: “Education is dangerous. It is enough if they can count up to 100…. Every educated person is a future enemy.” Heinrich Himmler, the dreaded leader of the secret police, wrote that half of the conquered Czechs would be forced to become “workers.” Those from the educated class were “intellectuals” and they were to be “eliminated.”

As for the conquered Poles, Hitler himself stated that they were “born for low labor…. There can be no question of improvement for them. It is necessary to keep the standard of life low in Poland and it must not be permitted to rise.” Addressing the potential problem of Polish priests, Hitler stated, “… they will preach what we want them to preach. If any priest reacts differently, we shall make short work of him. The task of the priest is to keep the Poles quiet, stupid and dull-witted.”

Why bring this up in 2015? Simply because the education being supplied to America’s youth parallels what was given to the people conquered by Nazi Germany, even what many living in Germany were provided.

In December 2013, statistics compiled by the 34 member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) ranked America’s teenagers as follows: 31st in math; 24th in science; and 21st in reading. Each of these rankings was worse than it had been over the preceding three years. Each continues to sink.

So what have the nation’s educrats done to address the continuing slide? They gave America’s students Race to the Top, Outcome Based Education, Goals 2000, and No Child Left Behind. None of those programs helped to reverse the downward trend. Now they have produced Common Core, which is being resisted by many because it, too, will not bring improvement. It will lead even more surely to the kind of uneducated worker bees sought in years past by the Nazi regime.

Education actually is dangerous for utopians or tyrants. An educated individual is a “future enemy” to a would-be totalitarian. On the other hand, he or she poses no threat to free people living in a free country.

To learn more about how America’s education system became such a failure, we recommend reading Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children. Veteran educator Samuel Blumenfeld teamed up with journalist Alex Newman to warn all Americans, especially American parents, about the need for radical change in teaching the young. Without radical change, including removing federal involvement from education (where it has no constitutional authorization), the ratings will sink further and the students coming out of the system will be ill-prepared to revitalize what was once the finest educational system in the entire world.

If you want your children or grandchildren to receive a classical education similar to our Founding Fathers, we highly recommend FreedomProject Education (FPE). An affiliate of The John Birch Society, FPE provides a full Kindergarten to 12th Grade curriculum from top teachers via the Internet. The best part? It’s 100% free of Common Core!

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TED CRUZ’S RALLY FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

OPENING REMARKS

KEYNOTE SPEECH

HEROES PANEL

NAGHMEH ABEDINI, WIFE OF

AMERICAN PASTOR JAILED IN IRAN

FOLLOW UP COMMENTS; PART 1

PART 2

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DELAWARE 501C3 PASTOR ISSUES PSYCHOLOGICAL ADVICE TO OTHER PASTORS~ANALYZED & CRITIQUED FOR ORDINARY CHRISTIANS, JUST TO CLARIFY

TOBE WITMER, PASTOR,

LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH,

NEWARK, DELAWARE www.lbcde.org

HAS THE DEVIL PINCHED

CHURCH STINKERS’ BOTTOMS?

“Several Things To Help Pastors

Enjoy Church Services“

SEE: http://www.thepastorsheart.org/2015/08/several-things-to-help-pastors-enjoy.html; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes. This blog’s comments follow each section in bold blue type.

The title of this blog entry may seem very strange to laymen, but I would guess will hit a cord among pastors. There are many distractions that can rob a pastor from enjoying the very church services into which he has invested much thought and effort. I would like to give you several thoughts that I am continually preaching to myself in this area:

1. Rest in the fact that this is God’s church, not yours.
What I mean by this is, sometimes we feel like all the expectation is on us to perform and make some great thing out of this group of believers. We bear an unnecessary burden of thinking that it all depends on us and every service must be “super” and above average. If, and when that does not happen (because it doesn’t) we blame ourselves and consider ourselves failures. Well, listen up “bud” – that ain’t your church! This is God’s church, and more specifically – it is Jesus’ church. He is the Head, and He is the leader of it to succeed, fail, or do “average”. Relax – the buck does not stop with you.

Blog Comments:

Yes, it is true that pastors are not the center of the universe (egotistical control freaks), nor responsible for the outcomes of services. Although self-defined as “emerging” and/or “reformed”, they may think of themselves as “missional leaders” as a result of the heretical influence of Drucker, Hybels, Warren, Keller, Piper, and Tripp, all of whom have incorporated the “business model” of doing church along with the metrics of church performance.

Christ is the head, not the pastor. But being the head, Christ also is not responsible for, or the cause of, success, failure, or average outcomes. The body of Christ, the church members, are given the liberty in Christ to determine that. See: Colossians 1:18-“And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.” See: Ephesians 5:30-“For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.” See: Ephesians 4:4-“There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling”. Ephesians 4:12-“For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ”. Ephesians 4:16-“From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.” SEE: 1 Corinthians 12:12-“For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.”

Any pastor (shepherd/servant) who cannot discern the body of Christ in a biblical way can readily and justifiably be accused of being patriarchal if not abusive.

2. Rest in the fact that God is working, so you don’t have to manipulate the work.

What I mean by this is that early in the senior pastorate, I felt like I needed to control the “aura” of any given service by pumping the people up or having a theatrical moment, or interjecting myself artificially during the song service to “get the people more stirred, etc.”. I felt like I could make or break how good a service was and how much the people would get out of it. I have seen other pastors straining to artificially create something by passionate words, brow beating, church self-promotion, etc. At best this is arrogant, at worst it is blasphemous against the work of the Holy Spirit.

We would do well to consider Psalms 84:2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. God is alive and working in the place of corporate worship and we don’t need to manipulate the service to make it “more so”. I think our part is to communicate that clearly to the people and then to allow God to be God. We all should be coming to the services to meet corporately with God and expect no less. If the attention is on the “super” pastor or the “super” music or the “super” church we have, or the “super” service – we are missing the boat and participating in plastic worship. Pastors, rest in the fact that God is working in hearts. He really is doing a work that you cannot manipulate. His sovereign evangelism and sanctification is something that works THROUGH us, not by us.

Blog Comments:

Aside from the fact that this particular pastor is still shedding tears during his prepared sermons, which is a form of manipulation to some, and belies his explanation above, a long line of open air preachers, tent revivalists, TV evangelists, charismatic/pentecostal healers, and other hucksters have delivered the message of the gospel with mixed results.

But for those cutting edge pastors who now use the internet, publish books, and have media covered grandiose conferences, retreats, events, and rallies, the packaging is more important than the watered down message. Success is measured by growth, i.e., growth of reputation, income, numbers, and ministries. Man pleasing, casual “come as you are” dress, fun and entertainment is the vehicle to catch and keep the attention of those post modern media saturated eyes and ears at most church activities. Staging and manipulation are keys to all this. That includes everything from rock style contemporary music, loud bands, giant screens, movies, bursting into tears at select times, skits, dancing, acrobatic acts, motorcycle stunts on stage, colorful props, sound and lighting changes, people being slain in the “spirit”, demons being driven out, etc. All carefully crafted to produce desired effects.

Today’s typical pastor is a business entrepreneur, always checking the effects and results, modifying the packaging and the product too. If that means cutting out anything offensive, such as doctrine, sin, hell, and/or repentance, so be it. To do otherwise, these pastors would have to admit to, and repent of, all that the emerging church gurus have prescribed for a long time is just not biblical.
Having been robbed of true worship by hirelings, no wonder the people have grown weary of, but resigned to plastic worship. They didn’t create this. Pastors have! And the next church will be as bad or worse! Worshipping in spirit and truth has been almost totally lost in America’s churches.

3. Believe that you are called, gifted, and used by God.
I have no idea how many times I have run back to this chapter in the pastorate: 2 Corinthians 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Imagine – you and I are “able ministers”. That is such a consolation when you feel like your ministry is worth about 2 cents. Whether we see results or accolades is not the truth – the truth is, we have the ability to minister for God through the calling and gifts He has bestowed on us. Our ministry really changes hearts and lives no matter to what extent we ever see it.

So, when I prepare my sermons, when I stand in that pulpit, when I reflect on how I “did” last Sunday – let me look through the lens that I am ministering with supernatural gifts that do not fail.

Blog Comments:

Many pastors truly are not even worth 2 cents. If you are a 501C3 tax exempt church pastor, you may have been “able” at one time, that is, before your church applied for tax exemption with the IRS. After that, government replaced Christ as Lord, and because of that, you have been told in no uncertain terms every year that you may not do or say certain prohibited things in your church. If you feel like your ministry is worthless, blame the IRS; but you are not allowed to do that. If the “spirit gives life” and not the “letter”, terminate the tax exemption status, and free yourself and your congregation from bondage.

Secondly, reflecting on your effectiveness is indeed fruitless and none of your business! It’s not all about you exclusively. The entire body of Christ ministers with supernatural gifts, not just you because you happen to have a seminary degree.

4. Come to the services to see the living God yourself.
You are not the one man show at church. Jesus is the one man show. When we consider that we are coming to seek and worship the “living God” in corporate worship, we must not think that is for everyone except the pastor. No, you are coming to engage with the God who is alive also. The song service is not a segue to your show – it is time to sing in the Spirit. It is time to lift up Jesus in your own heart. Stop staring at the schedule to see what comes next – consider the words of the hymn from your heart. Listen to the song leaders comments (God works through him also). Listen to the choir’s worship instead of focusing on sister Jean who is off key. That choir isn’t singing better or worse for your resume’s sake. They are not singing for YOU. Focus on the God they are singing to and about. You are not a better or worse pastor because your song service is primo or pitiful. You didn’t come to the service to build yourself up – you came to see the living God. One thing that helped our pastors with this was moving off of the platform onto the front row during services. We are no longer the zoo exhibit, but are part of the congregation engaging in worship ourselves.

Blog Comments:

It is really blasphemous to say: “Jesus is the one man show”, although the intent is understood. Unfortunately for him and his audience, it does demonstrate that this pastor himself views a typical church service as more of a “show”, than a worship time. The phrase “segue to your show” is an admission and declaration that pastors in general these days do in fact see their service as a show.

It is not biblically possible to “see the living God yourself”, especially from a fundamentalist point of view. This hints at a proclivity towards Catholic contemplative mysticism. Such can be seen in examples such as Tim Keller offering classes at his church on contemplative mysticism and spiritual formation, and John Piper with Beth Moore practicing the “silence” waiting for a “fresh” word from Jesus.

It should be common practice for the congregation to make “discerning” Berean style reviews of what has transpired during a service. Of course, criticisms of mistakes, errors, or inadvertent occurrences should be overlooked by the pastor(s) and the congregation. What should not be overlooked are serious theological and/or biblical errors or heresies, rudeness, insults, or other offensive mannerisms, gestures, appearance, or actions from pastors and ministry heads. The pastor(s) should be open to criticism from discerning persons because pastors have a greater public responsibility. If they are too thin skinned and sensitive to criticism on important issues, they should consider leaving the ministry, instead of defaulting to accusing the other person of faults, or driving the person out of the church. Godly criticisms do not diminish a pastor’s ministry.

5. Allow the details to be the details and not the main thing on your mind.
I am a detail guy. I go a bit crazy when the lights aren’t on properly, the sound has feedback, there is no centerpiece in front of the pulpit, etc. One of my favorite sayings to staff and helpers is “God is in the details”…but an equally popular saying is “The devil’s in the details”. That can certainly be true when we are in a service worshiping and leading worship and the only thing we can focus on is the fact that the piano mic is not on or the projector isn’t working correctly.

I think we need to come to the place where we give a certain allowance to details not being exactly right in, well, ANY service. We are not working with professional ushers, sound system techs, etc. – there will be things not quite right. I have made the mistake on many occasions to feel negative feelings toward people who I thought should do better, only to realize that they were doing their best – but things “happen”.

As pastors, we must strive for excellence and to remove stumbling blocks that interrupt or distract from the message – but ultimately, God WILL sanctify His people despite incorrect details. I struggle with this, but it is the truth. If I am so “peeved” by the details that I preach with a bad attitude, then I am grieving the Holy Spirit that wants to use me. That will never do.

Blog Comments:

Some pastors are perfectionistic, especially those who went to fundamentalist colleges and seminaries. You can tell by their neat appearance: dry cleaned and pressed suit, recent and short haircut, polished shoes, somewhat up to date tie, and always the three, four or five points of the handkerchief in the breast pocket.

Upon entering the sanctuary, they immediately make a laundry list of everything and everybody not in accordance with protocol. That sets the stage for either pent up hostility towards the offenders, or actual calling out prior to the service or sermon. Yes, it is very important that all words sung or spoken be heard by all, but visible irritation on the part of the all important pastor is just rudely authoritarian in nature and appearance. So the latter cancels out any trim and proper outward appearance he might have had.

6. Deflect the “stinkers” that answer to Jesus for how they talk to you.
In every church there are “stinkers” that seem bent on saying exactly the wrong thing to irritate you before or after you preach. I believe the devil is pinching their bottom or something to say that thoughtless, heartless, distracting, hurtful comment to pull you away from clear ministering. They say rude things about how long you preach; they correct something that you said; they tell you something they don’t like about the church; they complain about some foolish thing or another. Deflect it – don’t engage in it. I have burned myself time and time again by responding to these comments in a sarcastic or defensive way. It does not work – nothing works. That person will stand before the Lord for their resistance and hurtfulness to the ministry and God’s servant. Plain and simple – let God deal with them and give them no energy. You are not the problem pastor – they are. It is not “lording” to know that God did not engift or call those people to lead and teach the flock – He called YOU. You must own and embrace this authority and service and like Nehemiah, ignore the Sanballots and Tobiahs to do God’s great work.

I am certainly not condoning deflecting or ignoring valid complaints or concerns. I am talking about the guy who thinks his spiritual gift is “criticism”. He oozes negativity and discouragement like a nasty burn oozes puss. Deflect and do not engage.
Blog Comments:

Let’s face it; pastors in general react badly and childishly when it comes to either discerning individuals or critics. Because of their inflated egos, they reject both as not originating with God, since in practice, they would prefer to believe they are the only ones gifted, by nature of their “special calling” and seminary degrees. You can see it on their faces and behavior: pouting face, angry face, one eyebrow jerked high above the other, refusal to acknowledge, outright shunning, walking away. After all, if what I just preached or taught is of the Holy Spirit, do these critics/discerners really think I said something wrong, out of place, or heretical? How dare they!
If this is a consistent pattern from your people, a pastor like this should seriously consider in prayer whether they are just inarticulate timid people making such comments, who, if you actually gave them a chance, might have something genuinely important to convey. It is presumptive and hurtful to judge such people as being resistant and hurtful to ministry, directed by the devil, not having spiritual gifts as important as yours, etc. It is especially judgmental and hurtful to relegate them to a “no energy”, “condemned by God already” category. Because you arrogantly presume to be the one and only “God’s servant”, you have sinned grievously by proclaiming, which is not a quote from scripture, but this pastor:

“You must own and embrace this authority and service and like Nehemiah, ignore the Sanballots and Tobiahs to do God’s great work.” (SEE: Nehemiah 4:6-8)

If you’re alienating saved people, you may be grieving the Holy Spirit!

7. Don’t worry about results.
Now, some will disagree on this point, and I am willing to allow them to be wrong. One of the great joys that I have had in ministry is not to look at “the numbers” week by week. We only publish the average attendance once a year at our annual meeting. Why? Because being results oriented is a HUGE distraction to actual God-ministering. It is trellis work and not vine work. When the numbers are up you think, “Well, look at that – I am really doing something for God.” When the numbers are down you think, “That’s it, I’m a failure, I want to quit.” Man of God, listen to me – that is garbage. Stop looking at the numbers. *I must credit Dr. Dan Davies with this thinking.

The same is true with responses to the invitation. Let me blow your mind a moment. I live on the North East coast and hardly anyone responds physically to the invitation. When I go preach at different places – people come forward in plenty. I really don’t know if it is our geographical location or the mindset of our church – but people don’t usually walk the aisles. This really troubled me for some time and I even had a pastor recommend that I use the deacons to come forward and “prime the pump” so others would come…..Long sigh here for Arminian manipulation………

Men, the work of sanctification is not “decisionism”, but rather the change in hearts and lives as the work of God “untwists” people’s minds long-term to conform them to Christ. Sometimes, invitation calls (as emotional as they can get) are really replacements for the true repentance of the heart that isn’t the business of any person seeing you walk forward to an “altar”. Over the years we have seen real and lasting growth spiritually in our people though they are not big on walking an aisle. We must believe in God’s living work of changing the heart, and not put our trust in the physical response/ result of seeing people come at a man-method invitation. But…we are just men and want to see those results for our own validation that we are a “good pastor”. We must focus on faithfulness and the final “well done” rather than present results. When I can free my mind from those man-made expectations – then I can enjoy preaching the life-changing Word of God without trying to make more people come forward to please my immature heart or the voices of my critics.

Well, I have written much but I hope this will be a blessing to some of my pastor friends and enlightenment for laymen. Let’s get back to enjoying our church services again and engaging with the living God who occupies the pillar and ground of truth.

Blog Comments:

Trying to analyze people is psychoheresy. It is not the business of pastors to ascertain a person’s spiritual state or motives, unless asked to do so.
Certain places like liberal Delaware are as cold and unsocial as possible. Displays or gestures of friendliness and courtesy are actually deemed threatening. So walking aisles for these might be offensive. Some are fearful of standing out. Eastern states where liberalism, large immigrant populations, Catholicism, and apostate churches exist, are ignorant of conservative values, our founding documents, primarily due to the secular humanist public education system, and a small Christian conservative presence and voice.

All of these should be no excuse when one wants to humbly give God all the glory. However, these may have reservations because of many factors. Could it be the pastor’s admitted sins of arrogance and exaggeration that befuddle the people? Or might the leadership not be sending a clear sound? (SEE: 1 Corinthians 14:8-9), constrained by that IRS 501C3 again?
In any case:

Matthew 10:32-33″Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.”

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CONFORMED: TO CHRIST OR THE WORLD?

CONFORMED: TO CHRIST OR THE WORLD?

Published on Aug 24, 2015

There are only two leading spirits in the world; The Holy Spirit and the spirit of antichrist. The Spirit of truth or the spirit of error. One of them is conforming each of us.

IF YOU ARE IN DENIAL, YOU DON’T WANT TO HEAR THE TRUTH!

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RED DAWN 2015 EXPOSED~THIS TIME IT’S THE ENEMY WITHIN~FEMA DETENTION “FUN” CAMPS FOR MANDATED “COMMUNITY SERVICE”

RED DAWN 2015 EXPOSED~THIS TIME IT’S THE ENEMY WITHIN

WOULDN’T YOU LIKE THE COLLECTIVIST CAMARADERIE OF

AN ADULT FEMA DETENTION CAMP?

Hillary Clinton Calls For Re-Education Camps
March, 2015:

Hillary Wants Fun Camps, FEMA Domes, Nuclear War

They Live, We Sleep: A Dictatorship
Disguised as a Democracy

Published on Aug 26, 2015

All is not as it seems. In this week’s vodcast, John W. Whitehead looks back on John Carpenter’s iconic film ‘They Live’ and examines the striking parallels between Carpenter’s nightmarish vision of reality with the current, perilous state of America.

Read Whitehead’s full commentary at:
https://www.rutherford.org/publicatio…

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ABORTION PROTESTS ACROSS USA: TENS OF THOUSANDS PRAY AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLINICS~SATANISTS TRY TO DEFEND MURDER OF BABIES, BLAME “THEOCRATIC AGENDA”

Planned Butcherhood: Ripping Organs from Babies with Beating Hearts

Tens of Thousands Pray at Planned Parenthood Clinics to Protest Abortion

SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/21452-tens-of-thousands-pray-at-planned-parenthood-clinics-to-protest-abortion; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Tens of thousands of pro-life supporters engaged in prayerful protests at Planned Parenthood abortion clinics across the country on Saturday. During the nationwide prayer events, which took place from 9 to11 a.m. local time, an estimated 50,000 to 75,000 people gathered in front of more than 350 Planned Parenthood facilities located in 47 states.

USA Today interviewed Mark Harrington, the national director of Created Equal, one of the organizations coordinating the prayer protests, who said:

We don’t believe this will be solved in Washington D.C., or the state legislatures. This will be solved in local communities when they take ownership over their own communities. That’s why we are trying to empower local organizers and pro-life organizations.

Monica Miller, the director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, one of the groups participating in the event, told USA Today that although there have been thousands of individual protests against Planned Parenthood, this is the first time she knows of there were hundreds of demonstrations on the same day.

“We want to draw attention to the injustice of legalized abortion,” said Miller. “The American public needs to be awakened to the atrocity of what is happening to innocent unborn children.”

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider, performing 327,653 abortions in a recent year, according to the organization’s 2013-2014 annual report. It has become the subject of increased controversy recently after undercover videos recorded by the Center for Medical Progress. One video showed Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, discussing the harvesting of body parts of aborted babies. In the second video, Mary Gatter, the medical director at the Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley (California) Planned Parenthood affiliate, is seen in discussion with undercover investigators who posed as officials with a biotech company that served as a middleman to sell aborted baby body parts to universities and other research facilities.

Planned Parenthood was quick to respond to critics and Eric Ferrero, a vice president of the organization, said in a statement:

These rallies are meant to intimidate and harass our patients, who rely on our nonprofit health centers for basic, preventive health care. The people behind these protests have a clear political agenda: They want to ban abortion, and block women and men from accessing basic reproductive health care.

Those who have been active in the pro-life movement immediately will see several fallacies in Ferrero’s statement, including:

• It is difficult to see how a group of people standing well back from Planned Parenthood’s private property on public sidewalks, engaged in prayer barely above a normal conversational level, can “intimidate” or “harass” a patient driving past them into the facility’s parking lots, which generally are located several hundred feet away from those who are praying.

• While it is true that the pro-life people taking time out of their day to pray in front of Planned Parented want to ban abortion — just as abolitionists of the 19th century wanted to ban the awful practice of slavery — they never “block” anyone from accessing “basic reproductive health care.” In fact, the demonstrators cannot and do not even block anyone from obtaining an abortion, which those who value human life would only consider to be “healthcare” in the sense that Dr. Joseph Mengele, in his capacity as a physician at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp, provided “health care” to his victims there.

• As for any genuine healthcare, following his failed attempt to have Planned Parenthood defunded earlier this month, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) pointed out that any other health service (other than abortion) that Planned Parenthood offers is “already done by another government agency” or by community health centers. The issue here is not whether the federal government should be funding other health services (constitutionally the federal government should not be doing so); it is simply that the the fedearl government does not have to fund Planned Parenthood in order to fund basic health services for women.

“We have 9,000 community health centers,” said Paul. “There is no reason for one penny ever to go to Planned Parenthood.”

This writer and his wife, who have been active in the pro-life movement almost as long as there has been a pro-life movement, joined a group of more than 500 people engaged in prayer who had formed a long line on the sidewalks on either side of and across the street from Planned Parenthood’s large facility in Fort Worth, Texas. Without exception, the prayer warriors followed the law to the “T” and respected the property rights not only of Planned Parenthood, but of adjacent medical buildings and the large hospital across the street. We noted with much irony that a facility engaged in the callous taking of human life has ensconced itself among medical facilities dedicated to preserving life and health, as if it were just another respectable medical practice. Its large sign bearing the Planned Parenthood name in unabashed letters at least two-feet high seemed to mock the neighboring medical practices. Such effrontery could only be attributable to the widespread ignorance of exactly who and what Planned Parenthood is. Knowing what regularly occurs at that facility, we could not help being flooded by a sad emotional reaction, lamenting how our once-Christian society is sinking to the depths of the Roman Empire at its lowest level.

We were offered signs to hold up that had served double duty for use at the annual National Life Chain that is held on the first Sunday in October across the nation. The signs carry a number of messages in both English and Spanish, including: “Abortion Kills Children”(El Aborto Mata Niños”), “Abortion Hurts Women,”and “Pray to End Abortion.” Because our signs had been recycled from the National Life Chain, printed on the backside were guidelines and a code of conduct formulated for that event, but that also applied to Saturday’s prayer protest — including asking the demonstrators to maintain a quiet, prayerful demeanor, to not engage any counter protestors, and to respect all private property.

The event went on peacefully for two hours, with small groups of people quietly praying among themselves. We joined a nearby family with young children in their prayers. Though the organizers had notified the Fort Worth police in advance about the event, not one police car drove past, probably because the police were familiar with these pro-life events and knew from past experience that pro-lifers are peaceful people who don’t cause trouble.

We learned afterwards that these prayer vigils were held all across the country, and among the cities where prayer protest took place were St. Paul, Minnesota; Aurora, Illinois; Houston, Texas, Plano, Texas; Falls Church, Virginia; Columbus, Ohio; Toledo, Ohio; Lincoln, Nebraska; Washington, D.C., Lansing, Michigan, Boston, Massachusetts, and Worcester, Massachusetts.

Related articles:

HHS Claims States Cannot Cut Funds to Planned Parenthood

Margaret Sanger: Pioneering Advocate for Eugenics

Ex-Planned Parenthood Director Details Sales of Aborted Baby Parts

Black Pastors Want Bust of Margaret Sanger Removed From Smithsonian

Conservatives Eye Spending Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood

As Planned Parenthood Sells Baby Parts, It Schemes to Avoid Legal Consequences

Rand Paul Continues Battle Against Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood’s Grisly Practices Worse Than Massive Abortion

Feds Investigating Cecil the Lion’s Killer — but Planned Parenthood Still in Clear

Senate Fails to Pass Legislation to Defund Planned Parenthood

Cecil the Lion Ranks Higher Than Planned Parenthood’s Baby Holocaust

Calls to Cut Funding to Planned Parenthood Increasing

Second Planned Parenthood Video Emerges

Reactions Vary to Video on Baby Parts Sales

Black Market Profiteering: Planned Parenthood Sells Aborted Baby Parts

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THE SATANISTS DEFENDING DEATH

BACKED BY THE EUGENICISTS;

“ILLUSTRATING THE ‘THEOCRATIC AGENDA’ IMPOSED UPON FEMALE BODIES”

COUNTER PROTEST: “WATER BOARDING” DROWNING WITH SIMULATED BREAST MILK

Satan Worshippers Show Support For Planned Parenthood – Counter Protest In Support Of Baby Murder

SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/satan-worshippers-show-support-planned-parenthood-counter-protest-support-baby-murder/;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Satan worshipers launched a counter-protest against pro-lifers outside the Detroit and Ferndale, Michigan Planned Parenthood locations Saturday.

Clad in black robes, members of the Satanic Temple of Detroit drenched bound women with milk, simulating water-boarding to “illustrate the theocratic agenda imposed upon female bodies.” The milk symbolized breast milk, one of the protest organizers explained on Facebook.

The group attached a symbol of their temple to the American flag and held up a sign that read, “America is not a theocracy. End forced motherhood.”

At one point during the protest, a man claiming to be a sheriff unsuccessfully attempted to move the Satan worshippers along.

Members of the Satanic Temple drew inspiration for their “political theatre” from the nationwide anti-Planned Parenthood protests Saturday. Tens of thousands showed up to protest Planned Parenthood at over 300 locations across the country after a series of undercover videos revealed the abortion giant was harvesting and selling fetal organs and tissue.

The pro-life protesters hope to end Federal taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood, which currently receives over half a billion dollars per year. Michigan state senators, some of whom appeared at the protests Saturday, have launched their own bill to defund the organization.

“The Satanic Temple strongly opposes the promotion of misinformation and believes that all people are entitled to make informed decisions about their health, family and future without coercion,” says the group’s web site. “We consider our action a form of worship; the rejection of tyranny is an affirmation of selfhood. So long as perverted theocratic systems of power attempt to manipulate our communities and distort truths for political gain, we will rebel.”

Satan worshipers believe that “Satan is representative of the eternal rebel, enlightened inquiry and personal freedom,” proclaims the Satanic Temple’s web site.

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TRANSGENDER MADNESS: ANCHORAGE ALASKA ALLOWING BOYS TO USE GIRLS’ BATHROOMS & LOCKER ROOMS

Transgender Madness: Anchorage Schools Allowing Boys to Use Girls’ Bathrooms, Locker Rooms

SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/transgender-madness-anchorage-schools-allowing-boys-use-girls-bathrooms-locker-rooms/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

In yet another indicator that Alaska is not immune from the insanity that has gripped much of the rest of the nation, the Anchorage school district is implementing a directive from its “Compliance/Equal Employment Opportunity Office” mandating that boys (or girls) who prefer to use the restrooms or locker rooms of the opposite sex be allowed to do so.

Announced in the Compliance/Equal Employment Opportunity Office’s “Administrative Guidelines: Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students and Employees,” dated July 20, 2015, the Anchorage school district is now accommodating any child who wants to share a bathroom or locker room with an opposite-sexed student.

This policy appears to be compulsory. In fact, the “guidelines” state that “staff should not require a transgender or gender nonconforming student/employee to use a separate, nonintegrated space unless requested by the individual student/employee.” This mandate is underlined. In other words, even if a little girl, or her parents, objects to a boy using shared shower space with that girl, those objections are ignored and the preferences of the child with the sexual disorder/perversion are honored.

Effectively, the Anchorage school district is saying, “To Hell with the privacy rights of a child of the opposite sex who wishes to avoid being ogled by her perverted classmate.”

Incredibly, the Equal Opportunity Office also provides that:

Any transgender or gender nonconforming student/employee who is uncomfortable using a shared restroom or locker room regardless of the reason; shall, upon request, be provided with a safe and non-stigmatizing alternative. This may include, for example, addition of a privacy partition or curtain, use of a nearby private restroom or office, or a separate changing schedule.

There is much more to Anchorage’s new “Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students” policy than this, including eliminating compulsory “sex-segregated facilities.”

This transgender madness will only end if concerned citizens like you engage and speak boldly, unapologetically, and publicly about why such policies are detrimental to our community. If your efforts fail and the schools ignore you, yank your children out of their system and place them in alternative schooling, such as private or home schools.
Read more: http://joemiller.us/2015/08/transgender-madness-anchorage-schools-allowing-boys-to-use-girls-bathrooms-locker-rooms/#ixzz3jnMyAQyk

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ROB BELL’S “EVERYTHING IS SPIRITUAL TOUR” EXPOSED FOR MYSTICISM, PANENTHEISM, HERESY, & GNOSTICISM

THE BIBLE REDEFINED

ACCORDING TO ROB BELL
THE “COSMIC ONENESS” OF HELL DAMNING HERESY

Insider’s View of Rob Bell’s Stop in San Francisco for “Everything is Spiritual Tour”

SEE: http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/newsletters/2015/newsletter20150824.htm; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

LTRP Note: We post this because it is important for people to understand what the deception looks like that young Christians are being saturated with through individuals such as Rob Bell. Bell’s tour, Everything is Spiritual, is panentheistic in nature but disguised in some Christian vernacular.
Bear in mind, Rob Bell isn’t the only one who is bringing this “new” progressive spirituality to young people today. There is a deluge of “hip” “relevant” leaders out there who are changing the way young Christians think, moving them away from biblical Christianity. It’s happening in our churches, in our colleges and seminaries, on the radio, and in para-church organizations.
By L. Sharp

Photo taken by L. Sharp at the 2015 Everything is Spiritual Tour

On Aug.10, 2015, Rob Bell made his final stop on his whirlwind 31-city “Everything is Spiritual Tour,” which began in Los Angeles (6/24) and ended in San Francisco (8/10). In 2006, he had done the same tour, but nine years later, his 2015 talk brought people more clearly into the “cosmic One-ness,” that “One Community Personality/Personhood” that Bell claims the universe has been moving forward towards for the past 13 billion years. The main thrust of the 2-hour monologue was not exactly what Bell had advertised on his website: “On the Everything is Spiritual Tour . . . Bell make(s) surprising connections between the universe you’re living in and the life you’re living, showing how science and spirituality are long lost dance partners . . . ”
2-Hour Monologue with Whiteboard
The 2,500-capacity theater was nearly full. Prior to the 8:30 pm start time of Bell’s 2-hour monologue, there were alcoholic drinks served in the rear, and about 30% of the 2,500 were millennials (under 30), but a majority were in their mid-30s to mid-40s. Bell hopped on stage with his usual dramatics and pulled out his black marker (with ensuing oohs and aahs from the audience). It seemed most of the crowd had either seen Bell’s 2007 DVD “Everything is Spiritual” or had been aware of his previous 2006 tour, where his marked-up whiteboard became its own sensation amongst Bell followers.
Bell began by affirming the crowd by telling them: “I’m so glad you came . . . you probably were told you were a heretic because you came, but I’m glad you are here!” He then pulled out his infamous black marker and progressively moved on the whiteboard from left to right: starting from one black point (which he claimed was the “Big Bang” that created the universe 13 billion years ago) to particles, to atoms, to molecules, to cells, to human beings, where he, at the end of the talk and at the far right of the whiteboard, drew a CIRCLE WITH PEOPLE IN IT (Author’s note: this is the “cosmic One-ness”).
Bell then defined his terms. He said:

Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of energy. We all exchange more than words with each other . . . We are made of the same substance as rocks and stars . . . We are an exotic cocktail living on this planet . . . We live in this universe which is a self-transcending reality . . . For 13 billion years, this universe has been:
1) Increasing in complexity
2) Increasing in depth (layers of community)
3) Increasing in unity
An example of increasing depth (layers of community) is when birds share a “community brain,” that only emerges when birds fly together as flocks. It is called “epi-phenomenon.” Humans are “epi-phenomenon.”
Since the universe has been increasing in unity over billions of years [evolution], this is why we all know deep down that loneliness is not the direction the universe is headed. Racism is the failure to bond with others of the same or like essence. It is not the direction the universe has been going for 13 billion years [Loud applause and cheers ensued after this comment].
The universe has been moving forward for billions of years . . . Jesuit scientist and priest Pierre Teilhard De Chardin said: “Progress is the soul of the universe.”
Why has the universe been moving forward? What is at work bringing the whole universe forward? LOVE.
Love is the force, the spirit driving everything. Love is to orient yourself towards another in a way that is self-transcendent . . . it helps you see the world more complexly, more completely . . . new things emerge between you and the one you love, that transcends the two of you . . .
one plus one equals infinity
God is love . . . Jesus didn’t just talk about his death and the cross, etc. When Jesus talked about the Kingdom of God expanding, around you, within you . . . was Jesus talking about the universe moving forward, moved by LOVE?
Is the universe done after 13 billion years, or is the whole thing still moving forward and are there new realities or layers that are yet to unfold? What would that be? The next new layer would emerge if people bonded with other people of like/same substance. Is there something that WE, when we bond properly, causes EMERGENCE, an unfolding of a new layer (of community)? New layers always contain properties of the previous layer . . . So, this new layer will have a personality and a personhood . . .
ARE WE FORMING SOMETHING TOGETHER, WITH A SINGULAR PERSONALITY AND PERSONHOOD?
The first Christians kept talking of Christ as an animating energy, an energy universal, as a personal,cosmic Christ . . . a universal human body . . . Were they talking of us forming a NEW SINGULAR BODY? A NEW HUMANITY?
LOVE is the force that drives everything . . . Love is lining yourself up to the universe’s expansion, openness . . . Become more aware of the moments where you can stay in the groove of LOVE . . . Don’t stay in the constant fear of the EGO . . . If you are afraid people are going to call you a heretic, you will not LOVE . . . You will become dangerous when you don’t let the fact they call you a heretic close you up to LOVE . . .
What is present in you, in embryo, genetic form, that is yet to EMERGE? When you become your true best self, others can then become their true best selves . . . .

My Comments
Bell’s main point was that “LOVE” (which he defines in New Age terms as: transcending the ego or self, to bond with others of like/same substance (or energy)), has been driving, and is driving the universe’s and humanity’s forward progress. In other words, man has been spiritually evolving, and progressing, and we have to all connect our unique energies (since Bell claims we are all basically atoms of energy put together in a human form), to cause this new “cosmic One-ness” to emerge.
According to Bell, the emergence of this “cosmic One-ness” has yet to be seen, since we haven’t evolved or progressed far enough yet . . . Bell makes this future “cosmic One-ness” sound so noble. Bell said earlier in describing LOVE between two people: One plus one equals infinity . . . When we are alone, we have two eyes. In relationship with one person, we have four eyes . . . We then can see more complexly, more completely, what we couldn’t see alone . . .
Bell’s main point is that humanity must be interconnected . . . Loneliness is not the will of the universe . . . the universe cannot move forward if there are solitary people who do not jump on the bandwagon of this “cosmic One-ness.”
What are the implications for biblical believers who are not convinced of Bell’s “cosmic One-ness”? Clearly, as Bell said, these types of people will hinder the entire universe from moving forward, from progressing. According to Bell, solitary biblical believers, need to let go of their self or ego and become of the same like/same substance or energy of others who are part of this “cosmic One-Ness” that is emerging. The universe is moving in this direction. We cannot be alone . . . we must become part of this “cosmic One-ness.” If we do not “wake up” to our true destiny as part of this emerging new “cosmic One-ness,” then we are hindering the progress of the entire universe. And, we are also hindering others from becoming who they were meant to be, as the universe or “god” intended.
As bible-believing Christians, we must continue to stand on the truth of the Bible that shows us that there is no “cosmic One-ness,” but rather a last-days one-world religion is on the forefront that will be ruled by the Antichrist. We must warn others to not join with this last-days delusion, despite feeling more and more marginalized.
We can stand firmly on the Bible’s truth as our foundation, amidst this pressure to move towards this “Cosmic One-ness.” Rob Bell is just one of the heretical proponents that the Enemy has used to infiltrate, to snare, and to deceive God’s people (especially young people) in these last days of apostasy we are in. We are not alone. God is with us. And God has preserved a remnant in these days that is still standing on God’s Word, committed to His truth.
Rob Bell’s 2015 Everything is Spiritual Presentation: (Click here if you cannot view this video.)

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CHRISTIAN & MISSIONARY ALLIANCE EXPOSED FOR PROMOTING/PRACTICING CONTEMPLATIVE MYSTICISM & SPIRITUAL FORMATION