GOOD SIGNS! Watch: Pro-Life Activists Rally in PA, Stand Up to Bullying by Democrat Brian Sims Hundreds of pro-life activists gathered outside the Elizabeth Blackwell Center Planned Parenthood facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where disgraced Democrat state Rep. Brian Sims recorded himself as he bullied a woman and teens praying in front of the clinic. The pro-life leaders invited Sims to attend the rally, but he did not make an appearance. “We will not back down!” shouted Lila Rose, president of Live Action, to the crowd that rallied against Sims and the treatment he delivered to the pro-life activists. “We will not stop showing up, we will not stop praying outside abortion clinics!” Rose recounted how Sims made “sexist and racist” remarks at the pro-life protesters, threatened to dox the underage girls praying outside the abortion clinic, and mocked their Christian faith. She called upon him to resign from office. “This is unfit for someone in public office,” she said. “We will not stop showing up … we will not stop standing up for life.” While the pro-life leaders called upon Sims to resign from office, they also extended their forgiveness and prayers for his conversion. Dr. Monique Ruberu, an OB/GYN and Sidewalk Servants leader for 40 Days for Life, countered the common pro-abortion argument that the procedure is “safe.” “Abortion is never safe,” she said. “At least one person is guaranteed to die. The other is left wounded, at best.” Ruberu also urged the activists to continue their “loving, peaceful, prayerful presence” in front of abortion clinics. “We are here to love … even those who persecute us,” she said to the crowds. “Above all, we are Christians, and we believe that massive, unbelievable conversions are possible,” she said, adding she was asking God for a “Saul-to-Paul” conversion for Sims. Judie Brown of American Life League also hosted the rosary on the pro-life group’s Facebook page as the rally in Philadelphia progressed, dedicating it to Sims’ conversion. Founder of Relationships Matter Toni McFadden told the activists that her painful abortion led her to conversion and to God. Ultimately, the father of her aborted baby became her husband and they now have four children. Ashley Garecht, mother of the teens who were threatened with doxing by Sims, said her family raised over $160,000 at GoFundMe for a pro-life non-profit in Philadelphia after Democrat Sims’ harassment. Tina Whittington of Students for Life of America told those present at the rally they “stand up to the bullies” in their everyday activities as pro-life activists. Abby Johnson, founder of And Then There Were None, a ministry that helps abortion workers leave the industry, observed to the activists the Planned Parenthood facility at which Sims recorded his harassment has failed 13 out of 23 health inspections. The clinic was cited for failing to report child sex abuse and for improper storage of the bodies of aborted babies: Pro-life actress Patricia Heaton responded to Live Action’s Alison Centofante’s report on the failed inspections: “We will not win this fight in Congress … we will not win this fight in the White House …we will win it right here on the sidewalks,” Johnson, whose transformation from Planned Parenthood director to pro-life activist is recounted in the film Unplanned, continued. Last week, Sims, who identifies himself as an “LGBTQ activist” and is Pennsylvania’s first openly gay lawmaker, videotaped himself as he berated a woman who was praying the rosary outside a Planned Parenthood facility. Two weeks earlier, he recorded himself as he offered donations to Planned Parenthood if his supporters could help him identify the pro-life teens who were praying in front of the clinic. After the uprising over his treatment of the woman and the teen girls, Sims recorded another video of himself attempting to justify his actions by stating they were caused by what he claims are “the insults, the slurs, the attacks, and the racism that those protesters aim mostly at young girls going for clinical care.” “What I should have shown you was protesters gathered together to pray at, not to silently pray for, people coming in and out of Planned Parenthood, as they intercepted them and harassed them,” he continued. “I also know that two wrongs don’t make a right, especially on the front lines of a civil rights battle,” Sims said. “I can do better and I will do better, for the women of Pennsylvania.” Watch the entire event:
Seattle-area district school board instructs teachers to give Islamic blessings By Dorothy Cummings McLean | https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/s...-instructs-teachers-to-give-islamic-blessings dieringer school district, first amendment, freedom of conscience defense fund, muslim prayer, public schools, ramadan, transgender lessons, washington state SEATTLE, Washington, May 10, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― As Ramadan began, a public school board urged teachers to assist Muslim pupils in adhering to the annual Muslim fast. According to the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund (FCDF), Dieringer School District in Washington state has asked teachers to follow guidelines set by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) about Muslim pupils’ religious practices during school hours. “In March, CAIR submitted an ‘Informative Letter on Upcoming Islamic Holidays and Religious Accommodations’ to Superintendent Judy Martinson,” the FCDF reported. “Martinson enacted the letter as official district policy when she distributed the letter to school principals, who in turn circulated the letter to all teachers and staff.” CAIR lawyer Amanda Misasi had asked that teachers not schedule “tests or important assignments” on two Muslim holy days, Eid Al-Fitr and Eid Al-Adha, that these holidays be added to school calendars, that fasting students be allowed to spend the lunch period in the library, and that teachers welcome Muslim students to the classroom during Ramadan by wishing them “Ramadan Mubarak” (i.e. “Have a blessed celebration”) or “Ramadan Kareem” (i.e. “May Ramadan be generous to you”). Misasi also requested facilities for in-school prayer. “In addition to supporting Muslim students during Ramadan, you can also support Muslim students in your school by accommodating their need for prayer year-round,” she wrote. “One or two of which will typically occur during school hours, depending on the time of year.” Daniel Piedra, FCDF’s executive director, believes that the instruction to bless Muslim students is a violation of the First Amendment. “By urging teachers to bless Muslim students in Arabic, the District is running roughshod over the First Amendment’s mandate of government neutrality toward religion,” he wrote. “A school district would never order teachers to ‘welcome’ Catholic students during Easter with ‘He is risen, alleluia’! Singling out Muslim students for special treatment is blatantly unconstitutional.” Contacted by a concerned parent, FCDF sent a letter to Martinson saying several of CAIR’s suggestions “implicate serious constitutional questions.” Creating an official “Ramadan Policy” has a “primary effect of advancing religion,” it said. Quoting the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, FCDF reminded Martinson that a public school “shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. … ” “The Establishment Clause prohibits schools from singling out one religious sect for preferential treatment; the Free Exercise Clause forbids schools from burdening a student’s sincerely held religious beliefs,” the organization explained. “The tension between these two prohibitions, as well as the sensitive First Amendment concerns in public schools, has created significant confusion about what educators may and may not do.” Educators cannot give impressionable children the idea that the school promotes one religion over another, the organization reminded the superintendent. “School officials must ensure that no policy or practice ‘conveys a message that a particular religion, or a particular religious belief,’ is ‘favored’, ‘preferred’, or ‘promoted’ over other beliefs,’” FCDF wrote. “Moreover, families condition their trust on public schools to educate their children ‘on the understanding that the classroom will not purposely be used to advance religious views that may conflict with the private beliefs of the student and his or her family.’” While objecting with relative mildness to some of CAIR’s requests, FCDF strongly critiqued the idea that teachers should greet Muslim students with “Ramadan Mubarak” or “Ramadan Kareem” “This recommendation exposes the district to serious government liability under the First Amendment,” the group wrote. “Exchanging Islamic greetings with Muslim students impermissibly advances and promotes a religious message,” it explained. “In cases involving state participation in religious activity, a relevant question is whether an objective observer — here, a non-Muslim student — would perceive the Ramadan Policy’s encouragement of religious greetings as a state endorsement of prayer in public schools.” FCDF is also concerned by CAIR’s history of anti-Semitism. “This case is yet another attempt by CAIR to infiltrate uninformed school districts so it can advance its subversive agenda,” wrote Daniel Piedra. “CAIR must not be allowed to indoctrinate impressionable schoolchildren under the guise of ‘diversity’ and ‘cultural awareness.’ FCDF is committed to keeping CAIR out of our America’s public schools.” FCDF indicated that it would begin legal proceedings against the school board if it did not withdraw its “Ramadan policy.”
What is being allowed and promoted in the nations who've given up their sovereignty and.....souls: Culture-Enrichers vs. the Spitting Teacher Posted on May 11, 2019 by Baron Bodissey This is a tale of two videos from Vienna. The first is an edited, pixelated, and sanitized version of the second. The story concerns a teacher at school in Vienna whose classroom was full of belligerent, abusive, violent migrants. After a long series of deliberate provocations by the young thugs, the teacher reacted by spitting in the face of one of them. After that it was determined that he did not “meet the teaching qualifications” required by the school, and he was let go. If it were not for a viral video of what happened, the incident might have ended there. However, the existence of the video meant that the Austrian media had to report on the “spitting teacher”, pre-digesting the events and presenting them in such a way that the violent migrants became puir wee bairns who had been victimized by the teacher. The first video below shows an MSM report with snips from the edited and sanitized video, along with interviews and commentary about what happened. The second video is an unedited copy of the original viral video. Many thanks to MissPiggy for translating the first video, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling. Video #1: https://bit.tube/play?hash=Qmcu1DdD1h6pXZu4455XVYUcvXtkvUDk7HRvVGH9xQWx55&channel=251530 Video #2 (needs no translation): Our Hungarian correspondent László, who tipped us to the second video, sends his take on what happened at the HTL Ottakring School: Poor Vienna, how I liked it twenty years ago; I am so sad about losing it. For us Hungarians they are almost like our brothers. We call the Austrians our “brothers-in-law” (sógorok). I think this is an example of the next stage of the local Islamic conquest: the transference of guilt and power. In this process the kafirs get the guilt, the muslims get the power in exchange. The muslims bully someone out of their soul and body and the bitter reaction of that kafir victim (who in this case indeed looks like a cornered dog in the videos) then becomes the pretense and justification for the further violent “backlash”. Nothing new; this is the old Pallywood game. Reading the Austrian media, this is exactly what happened here: their headlines highlighted how this teacher was violent and spat on the “innocent migrants” (who cannot even be named, but everybody knows who they are), implying that this is “the cause of one altercation”. After all, do not you find it suspicious that now the entire Austrian globalist mainstream media is loudly talking about a violent story involving migrants? They used to hide these stories. It is not just Strache — he could not possibly unbend the warped evil Marxist media in such a short time. It is all about the guilt turned back on the good old Austrians: “He, the Austrian teacher” (note, also an authority figure from a Marxist point of view), “provoked those poor bastards — so he had it coming.” And this moral of the story is aired by loudspeakers for all the new dhimmis of Vienna so that they know their place. This means that now a lot of Austrians will think twice before they dare to physically protect themselves and others against muslims. So the educational power of the story goes deep down into the nervous system and muscles of the inhabitants of Vienna, weakening them in their ability to fight back — speaking from a kinesiology perspective. In general, I noticed that muslims shape the actual “physical” battlefield in advance with psychological and political methods before they enter it and start to really attack on a bigger scale, and the above is just one example of these methods. Now many mohammedans got the green light in Vienna; the hunting season has been officially opened. Note that Islam has not even been mentioned in the German media. The highest conceptual level they can grasp and talk about is “migrants”. So even if they manage to talk about it, they are missing the root cause. https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/05/culture-enrichers-vs-the-spitting-teacher/#more-48266
Thank God for the Muslims. The purge of God from our public educational system has to come to an end and it will because Muslims will not allow what Christians have in this regard. I am hopeful about this because it sets the precedent that these groups will not be denied the right to worship God in the public square. This notion that our children are going to be indoctrinated and lose their Christian faith does nothing but instill animosity and fear between us. Rather, it should open up a discussion among us as believers and I am hopeful that this situation will do just that. We already know that Islam will not prevail over Christ. The schools in this area (greater Seattle) already spend a disproportionate amount of time studying Islam comparatively. I actually think this is a good thing in a sense. Our children need to understand Islam as well as Judaism to be able to defend their faith and defend Christendom. If our Children are in danger of indoctrination it is because parents are not doing their jobs to share the faith with their children. We are not baptizing, attending Mass regularly, praying as a family, fasting as a family, observing Lenten fasts, and engaging others in open discussion and debate as to why the Faith is the Truth. Sanitizing the public space as these groups wish to do is not the answer to our problems. Mark my words, it will only serve to create an equally violent reaction against it.
Abandon the church and reason and the result will be racist nationalism, pagan worship of ancient god's, Islam and brutality. This edited video is a good example of IMO how the powers that be are deliberately creating and manipulating these events to foment that brutality and try to remake the world. They know what this will bring. The authorities of the school abandoned the teacher long ago for the rights of the student regardless of his beliefs. They know well that migrants and Islam will be blamed and are encouraging hatred of it. What other reaction can there be when reason is abandoned for secular humanism.
Where is the MSM on this and why are they not reporting it? https://popularresistance.org/us-judge-strikes-down-texas-anti-bds-law/ US Judge Strikes Down Texas Anti-BDS Law By Middle East Eye. April 30, 2019 Federal judge says law violates country’s freedom of speech, which is protected under first amendment A US federal judge has struck down a controversial Texas anti-boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) law, saying it violates freedom of speech under the country’s first amendment of the constitution. The judge, Robert Pitman, delivered an injunction to strike down Texas’ law late on Thursday, saying in his opinion that it forces “public debate through coercion rather than persuasion”. The law ran into legal trouble when Bahia Amawi, a speech pathologist, was not allowed to sign a contract extension with Pflugerville independent school district – a public school district near the state’s capital Austin – unless she pledged to not boycott Israel. Amawi, along with the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), sued the state to get the law overturned. “This is a complete victory of the First Amendment against Texas’s attempts to suppress speech in support of Palestine,” said Gadeir Abbas, one of CAIR’s attorneys. “The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today welcomed this afternoon’s landmark victory in CAIR’s First Amendment lawsuit on behalf of Bahia Amawi,” CAIR said in a statement shortly after the ruling. “Every single ‘No Boycott of Israel’ clause in every single state contract in Texas has today been stricken as unconstitutional. The Attorney General of Texas is no longer permitted to include or enforce ‘No Boycott of Israel’ clauses in any state contract,” the statement added. According to the statement, Amawi was driving when she heard the news. She pulled over to side of the road and said: “God is great”. “Arabic-speaking schoolchildren in Texas have been deprived of critical services from Bahia Amawi for almost this entire school year because of this unconstitutional law,” said CAIR National Litigation Director Lena Masri. CAIR-Austin’s Executive Director Maira Sheikh said: “Bahia Amawi has been an inspiration to the Muslim community and all advocates for free speech in Texas.” Texas’s law is known as the Anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions law (Anti-BDS). Passed and signed into law in May 2017, it was touted by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. “I am proud to have commemorated Israel’s Independence Day by signing into law Anti-BDS legislation in Texas,” Abbott said in a news release. “As Israel’s number one trading partner in the United States, Texas is proud to reaffirm its support for the people of Israel and we will continue to build on our historic partnership. Anti-Israel policies are anti-Texas policies, and we will not tolerate such actions against an important ally,” he added. CAIR’s statement said it is challenging similar laws in the US states Maryland and Arizona.
Not to disparage the idealistic attempts at, at least, civility.....at whatever expense....that the "openness" of our northwestern states wish to enforce upon their own, nor the "re-education" of the citizens of the EU countries, there are certain core realities to be learned, esp. by the easiest to be "enculturated", the youth and inexperienced, ignorant of history. To reflect on the truth offered by Pope Benedict when he attempted such an equal podium for expression of sharing and comparing is very instructive and might serve to jar the idealistic out of any enclosed bubble, limited by its own ordered "type" of culturally allowable expression. I mean if they still have the courage to allow themselves to face the historical and ongoing agendas involved in taking that mile when offered the inch of naivety. The exception of the well intentioned shouldn't establish the rule that always comes by force from the emboldened aggressors in the market place, taking advantage of freedoms, who are willing to fight to the end to establish their own rule. This article points out that it isn't the secular culture that has willfully forgotten its Christian roots that causes the harshest kind of control by those attempting to conquer w/ their ideological rule but rather it's those martyred historical Christian communities of true faithfulness, simply expressing their charitable way of loving the God of Love who have felt the reality of standing equally firm w/o intending any harm to the others in the majority. And it will be such "all inclusive" secular communities, when awakened to their loss and wish to again practice, who will initiate the usual brutality of force by those whose behavior they excused for too long. Pope Benedict was right about Islam at Regensburg. The world owes him an apology. ........ "Pope Benedict spoke about a discussion, a dialogue, “carried on - perhaps in 1391 in the winter barracks near Ankara - by the erudite Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus” on the subject of Islam, the threat of which, in the form of the Ottoman Empire, was forcefully before him. It is recorded that the Emperor, whom Pope Benedict described as “an educated Persian on the subject of Christianity and Islam,” asked, “Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” The pope noted that the comment was recorded sometime “during the siege of Constantinople between 1394 and 1402.” The pope also noted that the Emperor spoke with “startling brusqueness, a brusqueness that we find unacceptable.” But it is obvious that the emperor was also a man in a position to speak from personal experience. Since his talk, Pope Benedict has heard the constant accusations, endlessly repeated by the western press, that his “offensive” remarks, his “blunder” about Islam, caused the violence that followed. But what did he say? He called quietly for a return to the supremacy of reason in religious discourse, and he politely asked Muslims to abjure violence. ..... “The emperor, after having expressed himself so forcefully, goes on to explain in detail the reasons why spreading the faith through violence is something unreasonable. Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul,” Pope Benedict said. He quoted Paleologus: “God…is not pleased by blood - and not acting reasonably (σὺν λόγω) is contrary to God’s nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death...” Given the images burning like acid into our minds now, how mild, how utterly calm and reasonable do the words now seem. And how plainly wicked the demands that he retract and apologize because of the “offence” they had caused Muslims: how feigned and deceitful, how self-serving the manufactured “outrage”. ....... One photo stands out this week, of a boy, about eight years old, reported to be the young son of one of the “Islamic State” terrorists, dressed in a blue Polo For Kids t-shirt, plaid checked summer trousers, what look like Birkenstocks and baseball cap, proudly holding up a decapitated head. Heads must be heavy, since the little boy needs two hands to hold it up by the hair. The Sydney Morning Herald, that carried the photo, with the boy’s face pixeled out, ran the caption, “A boy believed to be Australian Khaled Sharrouf’s son holds the decapitated head of a soldier. From Khaled Sharrouf's Twitter account.” One does not usually imagine an apocalyptic dystopia featuring so many name brands. In the face of this terrifying modern resurgence of the ancient threat, of such gross and unnatural barbarities, it is getting harder for western intellectual liberals to continue echoing the old mantras. The hard truth must be faced eventually, even by the most determined; not everyone in the world thinks the same way we do, holds the same values, has the same goals. Not every culture is of equal value. Not all men are equally “right” in what they believe. And if the message of the photos and videos were not getting through our thick western skulls, we have today a direct warning from the leader of the ancient Christian community that has been decimated by ISIS. The Chaldean Catholic Church traces its heritage to St. Thomas, the doubting Apostle of Christ. A few days ago, we all saw the headline saying that, for the first time in 1600 years, Mass was not being said in the ancient Christian town of Mosul because all the Christians, all the Chaldean Catholics, had been either killed, expelled or kidnapped, to be sold later into chattel slavery. Speaking from his exile in the dubious and perhaps temporary safety of the northern Iraqi town of Erbil, the head of this lost and grieving community, Archbishop Amel Nona, the Chaldean Catholic Archeparch of Mosul, told us quite bluntly, and without the niceties required by Pope Benedict’s civilized academic audience, that the time for indulging our comfortable liberal fantasies is over. “Our sufferings today are the prelude of those that you, Europeans and Western Christians, will also suffer in the near future,” said the archbishop in an interview with Corriere della Sera. “I lost my diocese. The physical setting of my apostolate has been occupied by Islamic radicals who want us converted or dead. But my community is still alive. “Please, try to understand us. Your liberal and democratic principles are worth nothing here. You must consider again our reality in the Middle East, because you are welcoming in your countries an ever growing number of Muslims.” He warns us, “Also, you are in danger. You must take strong and courageous decisions, even at the cost of contradicting your principles.” ....... The archbishop continues: “You think all men are equal, but that is not true: Islam does not say that all men are equal. Your values are not their values. If you do not understand this soon enough, you will become the victims of the enemy you have welcomed in your home.” https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/...gy-to-pope-benedict-over-his-remarks-on-islam
CAIR is HAMAS in America....IOW, a backer of terrorism. One of CAIR's unspoken objectives is the Islamifidation of America. CAIR was founded in 1994 by Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmed, who had ties with the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), which was established by the terrorist organization Hamas. ...... CAIR is a Muslim-American outfit whose key officials were convicted of passing money to Hamas and Hezb'allah, two terrorist organizations dedicated to jihad (holy war) against Israel. Is CAIR a RICO case? ....... CAIR influences government policy, individuals, and private businesses by aggressive lawsuits, threats of civil rights litigation, boycotts, demonstrations, and propaganda promulgated by the politically correct liberal news media. It was the fear of lawsuits by CAIR that prevented our military from expelling Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, even though they knew of his un-American leanings. Owing to CAIR's threats of anti-discrimination lawsuits, an overly sensitive military failed to weed out a traitorous Islamic jihadist in its midst, and Hasan killed 12 soldiers and wounded 29. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/02/is_cair_a_rico_case.html Muslim Rep. Rashida Tlaib praises Muhammad at Hamas-CAIR reception, says he would fight Trump https://gellerreport.com/2019/01/tlaib-muhammad-trump.html/
Well, we need to work within the confines of our government and unless the US Constitution is changed it should be upheld. I don't agree with your statement, "This notion that our children are going to be indoctrinated and lose their Christian faith does nothing but instill animosity and fear between us." I think that if this Seattle school district followed the law and Superintendent Judy Martinson did not move on the request sent to them from CAIR this would have never gone public. Therefore, Martinson is the cause of any repercussions that come from this. I absolutely believe that parents have a valid concern about their children being indoctrinated if a school district implements these requests of CAIR which would make a statement to the children attending these schools that their principal and teachers etc. hold the Muslim religion with a higher regard than any other religion. In addition, I know plenty of people who have done everything humanly possible to pass the Faith on to their children and yet their children have fallen away from the Faith. So, I don't agree with the following statement of yours either, "If our Children are in danger of indoctrination it is because parents are not doing their jobs to share the faith with their children." The following story is recent also and it seems like a very good idea and I think that it would still fit within the confines of our constitution. Obviously, if everyone accepted Christ as their savior and truly followed him the world would be far better off but until that happens this idea seems very positive. Rabbi wounded in synagogue shooting urges Trump to bring 'moment of silence' back to schools By Caleb Parke | Fox News |May 2 | https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-rabbi-synagogue-moment-silence Rabbi wounded in California synagogue attack urges introduction of a moment of silence in public schools Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein thanks President Trump at the National Day of Prayer Service in the White House Rose Garden. The heroic rabbi who was wounded in the California synagogue shooting last Saturday said President Trump is supportive of reintroducing a "moment of silence" back into public schools. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who wasn't on the official schedule, was invited by Trump to the podium at the service for the National Day of Prayer. As Trump stated: “There was no one who expressed the horror and beauty of what you represent better than you did.” Goldstein, with bandages on his hands, recalled the horrific moment the shooter entered his synagogue. And he said one thing that will help the healing is bringing back the moment of silence in school. "Children [are] not growing up with values that our Founding Fathers started," he said. "Something seems fundamentally wrong when there's a generation of kids growing up doing what they're doing." HERO ARMY VET DESCRIBES LOOKING INTO EYES OF CALIFORNIA SYNAGOGUE SHOOTER AS HE RUSHED TO STOP HIM One person died in the shooting. "Just five days ago, on Saturday morning, I faced evil in the worst darkness of all time right in our own house of worship, right at Chabad of Poway," Goldstein said to the faith leaders gathered in the Rose Garden. "I faced him and I had to make a decision: Do I run and hide or do I stand tall and fight and protect all those that are there?" President Donald Trump looks on as Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, survivor of the Poway, Calif synagogue shooting, speaks during a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May 2, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) DR. RONNIE FLOYD: 'OUR NATION NEEDS PRAYER TODAY MORE THAN EVER BEFORE' He recalled the words of his Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, who taught him "the way we react to darkness is with light." "It was that moment that I made a decision, that no matter what happens to me I was going to save as many people as possible. I should've been dead by now based on the rule of statistics. I was in the line of fire, bullets flying all the way, my fingers got blown off, but I did not stop. The rebbe taught me, as a soldier of God, you need to stand tall and stand fast do what it takes to change the world." TRUMP: 'VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM AGAINST PEOPLE OF ALL FAITHS MUST END' “My life has changed forever,” he continued, “but it changed so that I can make change, and that I can help others learn how to be strong and mighty and tall. Many have asked me, ‘Rabbi, where do we go from here? How do we prevent this?'" "My response is what the Rebbe [said] when President Ronald Reagan was shot. The Rebbe said we need to go back to the basics and introduce a Moment of Silence in all public schools," the rabbi said to applause. "So that children from early childhood on can recognize that there is more good to the world, that they are valuable, there is accountability and every human being is created in God’s image. If something good will come out of this terrible, terrible horrific event, let us bring back a Moment of Silence to our public school system … ” ENTIRE BIBLE BEING READ ON STEPS OF US CAPITOL AHEAD OF NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER The rabbi ended by thanking Trump for his response as a "mensch par excellence." President Donald Trump looks on as Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, survivor of the Poway, Calif synagogue shooting, speaks during a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May 2, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Goldstein turned to Trump: "Mr. President when you called me I was at home weeping. You were the first person who began my healing. You heal people in their worst of times and I'm so grateful for that. You have helped me bring great honor to Mrs. Lori Kaye..." Trump called him a "great man" with "beautiful words." MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATS WANT TO REMOVE 'GOD' FROM OATH OF OFFICE "He said this is my greatest moment in life," Trump added. " To go from darkness to the White House." Goldstein was accompanied by congregants and fellow heroes of the attack, Oscar Stewart, the combat veteran who chased the shooter from the synagogue; and Jonathan Morales, the off-duty border-patrol agent who took up the chase and managed to shoot the attacker’s car several times. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The president asked both men to share a few words. Like his rabbi, Morales quoted the Rebbe and asked his audience to increase in mitzvah observance and acts of goodness and kindness. Following the rabbi’s emotional remarks, the president thanked him, saying that "truly your courage and grace and devotion touches every heart and soul in America."
Again, one would think the MSM would be all over this since it is backed by terrorists and yet here they are fighting to uphold rights to freedom of speech in TX. Something doesn't add up.
I'm no fan of BDS in general and CAIR in particular, but I have to go with the judge on this one. Flip this around: how would you feel if New York State implemented a law that said that if you were employed by any agency of the state, you had to sign a statement supporting the state's laws on "reproductive freedom"? I don't want the state telling me who I can and cannot support. I DO support the state requiring all state agencies (but not the individuals in the agency) to refrain from supporting BDS activities and organizations. IOW, the state couldn't require someone to sign an anti-BSD pledge as was this case, but it could require that the state universities could not adopt BDS policies.
.. Me either. I agree with you and I think each of these groups have a right to a voice in the public square in the US and that includes college campuses. Not that the college should support them or take a side officially in any way but the students should be afforded a level playing ground to have their cause heard. Deny groups this right (regardless of the cause) and eventually they will become violent. I was very happy to hear that this was overturned, I don't care who was ultimately responsible for it. It needed to be done. It's about as anti American as it gets IMO to require something like this for employment.
May 11, 2019 | https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...daddy_shortage_brings_on_heavy_rationing.html In Cuba, socialism's sugar-daddy shortage brings on heavy rationing By Monica Showalter Looks as if socialist Cuba is in for another of what its communist officials will euphemistically call "a special period." Here's the Associated Press report: The Cuban government announced Friday that it is launching widespread rationing of chicken, eggs, rice, beans, soap and other basic products in the face of a grave economic crisis. Commerce Minister Betsy Díaz Velázquez told the state-run Cuban News Agency that various forms of rationing would be employed in order to deal with shortages of staple foods. She blamed the hardening of the U.S. trade embargo by the Trump administration. Economists give equal or greater blame to a plunge in aid from Venezuela, where the collapse of the state-run oil company has led to a nearly two-thirds cut in shipments of subsidized fuel that Cuba used for power and to earn hard currency on the open market. The Cuban regime is yelling again about a U.S. 'embargo,' which is complete nonsense, given that not only is there no embargo, but even when there was one, it excluded food and medicine. A few communist officials engaged in acts such as dissident torture have earned themselves some U.S. sanctions of late. But that's hardly an embargo. In reality, the problem is money. The Cuban socialist regime imports nearly all its sustenance, which takes money — $2 billion, according to the AP report. The communists in charge make all decisions about what is to be bought and brought into the country, and somehow they can't buy anything now. That's a function of the fact that the regime used to get a lot of money from the international sugar-daddy nations it needed to prop itself up, such as Russia at one time, and then Venezuela, whose oil earnings up until recently did the job. Not only has Cuba lost Russia as a big sponsor (there is reason to think Russia still helps a little), but it's lost Venezuela, which used to ship 100,000 barrels of oil daily to the communist regime, something the Castro dictatorship would then sell at full price on international markets. You didn't think the regime would use that oil to supply Cubans, did you? The Cubans have also lost Algeria, as I noted here. And they've lost once-socialist Brazil, noted there, too. While Russia and Venezuela get all the press, plenty of other players have been on hand to help keep the regime afloat and Uncle Sam tweaked. They're gone now. They've crashed out on their own, seen their dictatorships thrown out, or decided they don't want to annoy President Trump anymore. Which is a big problem for the ruling Castro family dictatorship. With no sugar daddies, they are sunk. And it's obvious they know this, given their assurances to the press that it won't be all that bad. And one can hope Cubans take inspiration from places such as Algeria and rise up to get rid of this failure. After all, why should any country need sugar daddies at all? Normal countries don't, and pre-communism Cuba didn't, but these guys do. It points to an even more fundamental problem: sustainability. The fact is that under communism, Cuba produces virtually nothing of value itself. The AP piece has some excellent quotes from ordinary Cubans showing that they do know what's really wrong: Manuel Ordoñez, 43, who identified himself as a small business owner, said the new measures would do nothing to resolve Cuban's fundamental problems. "What the country needs to do is produce. Sufficient merchandise is what will lead to shorter lines," he said. What did Cuba do to its small business–owners once the Obama administration left power and there was no need to put on a Potemkin show of Havana Spring? Trashed them, of course, with taxes, driving them out of business, blaming them as hoarders and wreckers, jailing a few, confiscating the earnings of others, shaking still others down. It's been a hard, nasty, little reported slog for these tiny businesses, even as Cuba took great press for permitting them just a few years ago. The Cuban quoted was trying to tell the AP that Castro's on-again, off-again permit of free enterprise, even in tiny amounts, is what might make Cuba a normal country, and we all know that Cuba largely shut that down. Socialism wins, of course, but the people can't eat. Don't expect anyone in the Bernie Sanders orbit to think that one through. But it's obvious to the rest of us that sugar-daddy-free socialism cannot provide anything like a standard of living for people on its own merits, and now Cuba is going to get it. One can only hope this leads to an Algeria-intensity revolt on an utterly failed regime and an utterly failed economic model as the well deserved result. *** Edited to add: Cuba begins widespread rationing due to shortages May 11, 2019 / 2:04 PM / AP | https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cuba-w...taple-foods-due-to-shortages-economic-crisis/ Praying that things get better in Cuba soon.
Gunmen burn down church during Mass and kill six people, including priest, in Burkina Faso, reports say https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-af...l&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking
More 'Heartbeat' Abortion Bans Advancing in South, Midwest State governments are on a course to virtually eliminate abortion access in large chunks of the Deep South and Midwest If a new Mississippi law survives a court challenge, it will be nearly impossible for most pregnant women to get an abortion there. Or, potentially, in neighboring Louisiana. Or Alabama. Or Georgia. The Louisiana legislature is halfway toward passing a law — like the ones enacted in Mississippi and Georgia — that will ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, about six weeks into a pregnancy and before many women know they're pregnant. Alabama is on the cusp of approving an even more restrictive bill. State governments are on a course to virtually eliminate abortion access in large chunks of the Deep South and Midwest. Ohio and Kentucky also have passed heartbeat laws; Missouri's Republican-controlled legislature is considering one. master.m3u8 Their hope is that a more conservative U.S. Supreme Court will approve, spelling the end of the constitutional right to abortion. "For pro-life folks, these are huge victories," said Sue Liebel, state director for the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion advocacy group. "And I think they're indicative of the momentum and excitement and the hope that's happening with changes in the Supreme Court and having such a pro-life president." For abortion rights supporters, meanwhile, the trend is ominous. Said Diane Derzis, owner of Mississippi's sole abortion clinic, the Jackson Women's Health Organization: "I think it's certainly more dire than it ever has been. They smell blood and that's why they're doing this." Already, Mississippi mandates a 24-hour wait between an in-person consultation. That means women must make at least two trips to her clinic, often traveling long distances. Other states have passed similar, incremental laws restricting abortion in recent years, and aside from Mississippi, five states have just one clinic — Kentucky, Missouri, North and South Dakota, and West Virginia. But the latest efforts to bar the procedure represent the largest assault on abortion rights in decades. Lawmakers sponsoring the bans have made it clear their goal is to spark court challenges in hopes of ultimately overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. Those challenges have begun. Derzis' attorneys are scheduled to go before a judge on May 21, seeking to prevent Mississippi's heartbeat law from taking effect July 1. A judge in Kentucky blocked enforcement of that state's heartbeat ban after the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit on behalf of the clinic in Louisville. Similar legal action is expected before bans can take effect in Ohio and Georgia, where Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed the latest heartbeat bill into law Tuesday. Kemp said he welcomed the fight, vowing: "We will not back down." Georgia's ban doesn't take effect until Jan. 1. But the impact was immediate. An abortion clinic operated by The Women's Centers in Atlanta began receiving anxious calls from patients soon after Kemp signed the law. Many callers had plans to travel from outside the state for abortions. Georgia's heartbeat ban would have a wider impact because the state has 17 abortion clinics — more than the combined total in the other four Southern states that have passed or are considering bans. "On a typical day we will see people from North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina — all over the region," said Dr. Lisa Haddad, the Atlanta clinic's medical director. "And my thought is we're not going to see those people coming here because they assume it's already illegal in Georgia." Dr. Ernest Marshall, co-founder of Kentucky's last remaining abortion clinic in Louisville, said in an email that banning abortions before most women know they're pregnant would "have a disproportionate impact on poor women and communities of color throughout the South." Advocates for abortion rights expect judges to halt enforcement of any new bans while lawsuits work their way through the courts. That could take years. "These laws are blatantly unconstitutional," said Elisabeth Smith, chief counsel for state policy and advocacy for the Center for Reproductive Rights, which also has filed suit over Mississippi's ban. "But if they were allowed to go into force, they would have devastating consequences for the residents of all of these states." If heartbeat bans are upheld, many women who are poor and have limited means to travel would have few options other than to try to terminate their own pregnancies, Haddad said, possibly using abortion drugs purchased online. Others would have to drive or fly across multiple states, said Elizabeth Nash, a state policy analyst for the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights. "People would go to Florida, people would continue to go to Memphis," Nash said. "How many states do you have to cross before you can access abortion services? It exacerbates all the issues we've already seen around taking time off from work and having the money to travel." Proposed heartbeat bans failed to pass this year in several Republican-led states, including Texas. There, GOP lawmakers lost ground to Democrats in the 2018 elections, and some abortion foes were wary after courts struck down prior abortion restrictions in the state. Such efforts also fell short in Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. Alabama lawmakers postponed until next week a vote on a proposal that would make performing nearly all abortions a felony. The measure has passed the state House, and the Senate suspended debate Thursday amid a heated dispute over whether exemptions for rape and incest should be stripped from the bill. "You can't put a price on unborn life," Eric Johnston, president of the Alabama Pro-Life Coalition, said Wednesday, as a legislative committee heard testimony on the state's proposed ban. "What you have to do is protect the people that live in this state and that includes unborn children." But Jenna King-Shepherd told Alabama lawmakers she believed the abortion she had at age 17 allowed her to finish college. She said her father, a part-time Baptist preacher furious about her pregnancy, drove her to the abortion clinic because he trusted her to make the right choice. "I'm not asking you to support access to abortion," King-Shepherd said. "I'm only asking you to let women, their families, their physicians and their God make this decision on how they want to start their families in private and trust them to do that." https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/na...at-Abortion-Bans-South-Midwest-509800251.html
"When communism comes again everything will happen.”, Conchita Gonzalez in 1965. Benedict Peters: Beware of China’s new colonialism By Benedict Peters | Fox News | https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/benedict-peters-beware-of-chinas-new-colonialism Related: Italy throws its support behind China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Fox News reporter Amy Kellogg discusses how Italy threw its support behind China’s Belt and Road Initiative America is slowly awakening to the growing menace of China’s plans for economic supremacy. In 2013 Chinese President Xi Jingping launched an international investment program that became known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Under a new mantra to connect the global economy, China began investing heavily in foreign infrastructure projects in over 60 countries that account for 60 percent of the world population and 30 percent of global gross domestic product. From 2013 to 2018 China made an estimated nearly $614 billion worth of investments in countries participating in BRI. Morgan Stanley predicts China’s overall expense from BRI could reach $1.3 trillion over the next decade. NEWT GINGRICH: CHINA WANTS TO REPLACE AMERICA AS THE GLOBAL SUPERPOWER -- HERE'S WHAT WE MUST LEARN President Xi considers BRI an opportunity to share China’s model for economic growth with the developing world. Geopolitical rivals are concerned BRI investment programs will deepen China’s political influence and military expansion. Is BRI a lifeline for the developing world, or economic imperialism? In Africa, it is clear that China’s campaign of foreign investment is a new form of colonialism. The continent, where I live and work, is ground zero. When BRI launched in 2013, it prioritized regional development projects in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe. Italy became the first major industrialized nation in the Group of Seven to join BRI, despite opposition from the U.S. and the European Union. U.S. officials are right to be concerned about the expansion of an infrastructure network that leaves crippling debt, faulty construction and project mismanagement in its wake. The Center for Global Development published a study of 23 countries participating in BRI and found 10 to 15 are in danger of debt distress. Other high-profile cases in Sri Lanka and Pakistan are examples where BRI projects left the local governments in severe debt and incentivized officials to appeal to China for debt forgiveness. When countries fall deep enough into debt, China will offer to renegotiate the terms of the debt in exchange for strategic assets or preferential treatment. Last November, Moody’s Investor Service warned that nations benefiting from BRI are at risk of losing control of strategically important infrastructure, natural resources and other important assets if they fail to pay back their Chinese creditors. This is a major concern in Africa, where Chinese financing paved the way for essential infrastructure projects. When countries fall deep enough into debt, China will offer to renegotiate the terms of the debt in exchange for strategic assets or preferential treatment. In 2015 China promised $60 billion in grants and commercial loans to finance economic development projects in Africa. African leaders were eager to accept the financial assistance and as a result, China holds 14 percent of sub-Saharan Africa’s total debt stock and is the largest owner of public debt in Africa. Public financing programs can often be a useful tool for local governments to build projects that generate economic growth. But an over-reliance on Chinese financing is saddling Africa with greater debt, leaving the continent at a strategic disadvantage in the future. Developing nations of the world are understandably attracted to China’s deep pockets and “no strings attached” political doctrine for infrastructure investment. U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton has called attention to China’s strategic push in Africa and around the globe, but the U.S. must do more to re-establish itself as an alternative to China. More specifically, America must present developing nations with a viable alternative to BRI. Congress bolstered the development finance capabilities of the U.S. through the BUILD Act, which authorized the creation of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (USDFC). The USDFC will consolidate the existing U.S. development finance institutions and provide new investment capabilities and financial tools to promote U.S. investment in the developing world. The timing of the BUILD Act could not be more appropriate. The financial downsides of BRI are coming to light, just as China’s expansion reached the United States’ doorstep with major investments in the Caribbean. The USDFC will be operational in the coming months. The new agency has an opportunity to expand the footprint of U.S. investors by positioning America as a more attractive option for infrastructure investment support. As a businessman working in all parts of Africa, I can assure you that business leaders in Africa are eager to partner with the U.S. to provide a better model for the developing world. China is running a rampant campaign of new colonialism through the developing world. The U.S. must do something more to present a viable investment alternative for government leaders participating in BRI. The American people and government policymakers are waking up to this growing problem. I just hope it is not too late. Benedict Peters is a businessman, entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Aiteo Group, the largest indigenous energy company in Nigeria.
Eyeing Iran, US Sending More Patriot Missiles to Middle East May 12, 2019 3:45 pm | http://matzav.com/eyeing-iran-us-sending-more-patriot-missiles-to-middle-east/ Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has approved a new deployment of Patriot missiles to the Middle East, an American official told Reuters on Friday, in the latest US response to what Washington sees as a growing threat from Iran. The decision further bolsters US defenses and comes after the Trump administration expedited the deployment of a carrier strike group and sent bombers to the Middle East following what it said were troubling indications of possible preparations for an attack by Iran. The US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, declined to say how many Patriot batteries would be deployed. The Patriot missile defense system is made by Raytheon Co. and is designed to intercept incoming missiles. The decision to send Patriot missiles to the region would mark a reversal of sorts, coming just months after the Pentagon removed several Patriot batteries from the Middle East. Last year, officials described the withdrawal of the Patriots as part of a broader effort to adjust US military deployments globally, as the Pentagon sought to prioritize military challenges from Russia and China. Rising tensions Tensions between Iran and the United States have escalated sharply in recent weeks. The United States has effectively ordered countries worldwide to stop buying Iranian oil or face US sanctions, which Washington says are aimed at completely choking off Iranian crude exports. Washington last month blacklisted Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group. US officials say they have detected troubling indications that Iran could be preparing a military response. US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, say one of the pieces of intelligence indicated Iran had moved missiles on boats. One of the officials said the particular missile observed was perhaps capable of launching from a small ship. The officials also noted growing concerns about the threat from Iran-backed Shi’ite militia in Iraq, which have long avoided any confrontation with US troops under the shared goal of defeating Islamic State, a Sunni militant organization. In an advisory posted on Thursday, the US Maritime Administration (MARAD) said that since early May there had been an increased possibility of Iran or its regional proxies taking action against US and partner interests. Reuters and Algemeiner Staff
FACEBOOK is the "face" for the NWO goals. There must be a conservative answer to them, but now it would seem too late....at least for current elections. FB is now controlling elections by deliberately shutting down voices of truth. Their definition of "misinformation" is anything that interferes with their materialist, globalist ideology. Facebook Shuts Down Pro-Populist Italian Pages Before EU Elections Facebook has shut down 23 major populist Italian pages with 2.5 million followers just two weeks before the European elections. According to Italian media, the majority of the pages supported the populist parties La Lega (The League) and the 5-Star Movement (M5S) — who currently govern Italy in a temporary coalition. Facebook has justified its dramatic move by claiming that the sites shared fake news, so-called “hate speech”, and “divisive content” regarding immigrants, vaccines, and Jewish people. Facebook used information from a report produced by a left-progressive NGO called Avaaz, which deals with “human rights” and environmental campaigns. “We thank Avaaz for sharing its research so we could investigate,” said a Facebook spokesperson. “We are committed to protecting the integrity of the EU elections and around the world. We have removed a series of false and duplicate accounts that violated our policies on the subject of authenticity, as well as several pages for violation of the policy on changing the name.” “We have also taken action against some pages that have repeatedly spread misinformation. We will take further measures if we find other violations,” the spokesperson warned. In its report, which was presented to Facebook on May 3, Avaaz said it had identified 14 Italian networks on Facebook comprising 104 pages and six groups, with a total reach of 18.2 million followers. This week, Facebook took punitive action against 23 pages in these networks, with a total of 2.46 million followers and 2.44 million interactions over the last three months. Facebook has also reportedly “weakened” pages that spread content with allegedly false news, presumably making them less visible to Facebook users. The technical motivation for the closing of the pages is linked to name changes: it is claimed they initially suggested themes that did not seem to allude to political parties or movements, but later changed the theme. Among the closed pages are “We want the 5-star Movement in government”, which had 129,000 followers and almost 700,000 interactions in three months, “Beppe Grillo for President”, “Lega Salvini Sulmona” — which had 307,000 followers” — “Lega Salvini Premier Santa Teresa of Riva”, and “We Are 5 Stars.” The most active page in support of the Lega party was among those closed, just as polls are showing that the Lega is currently the party with the most support among Italians for the upcoming elections. Facebook’s efforts in Italy to influence the European elections are just the tip of the iceberg, Italian media noted. According to the Italian daily La Repubblica, on May 2 Facebook opened a “war room” in Dublin devoted full time to the European electoral campaign, with 40 teams of engineers, scientists, researchers, threat specialists, and experts for each country. There are 500 people working on the elections, with the assistance of 21 supposed “fact-checkers,” operating in 14 different languages. https://www.breitbart.com/europe/20...o-populist-italian-pages-before-eu-elections/ Is Facebook Discriminating Against Conservative Fundraisers Too? https://pjmedia.com/trending/is-facebook-discriminating-against-conservative-fundraisers-too/
