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"THE NEW & BETTER 'NAFTA'"??? DUKE PESTA: USMCA OVERRIDES THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
President Trump's desire to accomplish something major as president has resulted in the near-passage of the dangerous USMCA. Dr. Duke saysTrump has "caved into progressive Democrats. You have given them what they wanted."
Dr. Duke points out that during the Democrats press conference, they never once talked about actual trade -- rather, they focused on issues like open borders and environmentalism, and this should scare you because now we have one more centralized authority telling us what we can and can't do in regards to these issues.
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Exposing the Democrats' USCMA Changes
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the United States Mexico Canada Agreement “infinitely better” than the original negotiated deal, once the Democratic working group got its claws into it. So let’s take a look at what they did.
We predict that the Deep State globalists will use the USMCA as a way to usher in a similar union here in North America. The North American Union will eventually sweep away your God-given rights and replace them with world government-approved rights that can be revoked at any time. The United Nations Charter is a great example of this.
If socialist Democrats, the socialist government of Canada, and Mexican Marxist and Leninist politicians all support the USMCA, it cannot possibly be a win for America or beneficial to America’s independence and national sovereignty.
Please contact Congress now and let them know to stop the USMCA and save American independence.
Action Items:
1. Contact Congress to tell them to stop the USMCA: https://www.votervoice.net/JBS/campai...
2. Watch Rep. Pelosi’s USMCA news conference: https://youtu.be/lUpEhojoGjA
3. Subscribe to our news alerts: https://www.jbs.org/e-newsletter
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Mexico Leaks USMCA True Purpose
After House Speaker Pelosi’s news conference on the United States Mexico Canada Agreement, representatives from the three countries met in Mexico to sign the updated agreement. While Pelosi, her working group, and other supporters of this agreement will positively spin all these changes, they won’t tell you the true purpose of the agreement. And it’s not about getting a better deal, either.
However, believe it or not, the President of Mexico has revealed the USMCA’s true purpose on more than one occasion. Just after yesterday’s signing ceremony, he said, “With development cooperation, which will be possible with this agreement, the unity of the Americas, the unity of our continent, the unity of all countries, the peoples of our America, the America that saw Abraham Lincoln born and of the America that saw Benito Juarez born, we have this agreement with North America, without turning our backs on our America.”
Unity of our continent. The three North American countries are about as far apart in their governing systems as they could be. But after the USMCA, they will be much closer. The North American Union will be one step closer with the passage of the USMCA.
Please contact Congress now and let them know to stop the USMCA and save American independence.
Action Items:
1. Watch Rep. Pelosi’s USMCA news conference: https://youtu.be/lUpEhojoGjA
2. Contact Congress to tell them to stop the USMCA: https://www.votervoice.net/JBS/campai...
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USMCA: WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU
USMCA Exposed: Towards a North American Union
Following the United States, Mexico, and Canada’s signing of the “progressive” Protocol of Amendments to the USMCA, on December 10, 2019, The New American’s Christian Gomez exposes how the actual purpose of the trade scheme is to integrate the region into a North American Union (NAU).
"Even though President Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed the USMCA last year, it has yet to be implemented. Thankfully, this means that the U.S. Congress can still reject the deal. The USMCA is an expansion of NAFTA and will lead us to an EU styled North American Union (NAU)."
"A NAU would further integrate the economies of Mexico, Canada, and the United States, stripping the U.S. of major political decisions and demolishing our sovereignty. With momentum building for a swift passage of the USMCA, it is up to us to educate our peers and Congress."
Globalist Companies Pushing USMCA
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce announces the creation of the “USMCA Coalition” as its largest lobbying effort to convince both Congress and the American people to support the USMCA to economically integrate North America into a “trading bloc” like the European Union.
A gang of seven was arrested in the German city of Augsburg outside the Christmas market, for the brutal beating death of an off-duty firefighter. He was beaten so violently that he died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. The main perpetrator was a teen who has Turkish and Lebanese citizenship.
The character of Western countries has been changing since open immigration policies led to a massive influx of Muslim migrants from countries where the rule of law is lacking. Germany, Sweden, the UK, and France, among others, have been plagued by Muslim gang violence which will only grow as long as appeasement and irresponsible immigration policies continue.
A followup article from the German publication Bild about a candlelight vigil was entitled: “He came as a savior and went as an angel.” Many innocent people have lost their lives to a strain of violence which is endemic in many Muslim countries, but has now come to the West. “Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said: ‘The terrible attack has shaken many people in Augsburg and beyond.'”
“Seven arrests after deadly beating attack,” translated from “Sieben Festnahmen nach tödlicher Prügel-Attacke,” by Jakob Mell and Karl Keim, Bild, December 11, 2019:
Augsburg – Arrests after the deadly bat attack in Augsburg!
The criminal police have caught the alleged chief offender (17) of the Friday night attack. Meanwhile, officers also arrested the six suspected accomplices. One of them has asked for BILD-Informationen to be with his lawyer at the police station.
According to BILD-Informationen, the main perpetrator is a 17-year-old of German of Turkish and Lebanese nationality. Another one of those who were arrested (17) is Italian.
According to the investigation, a firefighter (49) was attacked and killed by seven young men during an argument with the group in the middle of the city. Together with his wife and a friendly couple, the victim was traveling on the Königsplatz when they came across the group.
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Never mind that, after getting caught up in “transgender” ideology and having “sex change” surgery, a teen had a change of heart and recently said, “I feel as if I have ruined my life.” There are still those encouraging childhood sexual identity confusion, with the latest being a Chicago photographer promoting cross-dressing among boys.
The woman, Kitty Wolf, “is offering young boys the opportunity to have their pictures taken dressed up as their favorite princess, saying, ‘the more photos of boys playing princess we put out there,’ the more "normal" it will become,'” reports the Blaze.
On the website for her new endeavor, she recalls how discouraging it was to see “boys being told that princesses are ‘just for girls’ or that liking princesses and especially dressing as one somehow makes them weak, inferior or not boys.”
“They’re told it’s not manly, or macho, or normal,” Wolf continues. “This leads boys to feel ashamed of their interests, confused, sad, and lonely.”
“I simply feel that a child’s imagination should not be limited by their gender,” Wolf argues. “Therefore, our goal here is to show these boys and world that it is perfectly acceptable for boys to admire and even dress like princesses. I want to show them it’s ok for boys to dress up as their heroes, even if that means they’re twirling around in a ball gown.”
Do note that Wolf uses the term of choice among those operating not intellectually but emotionally, saying, “I feel” instead of telling us what she thinks. And deeper thought reveals some fallacies underlying her argument.
First, should a child’s imagination be limited by anything? If not, would Wolf’s set accept a boy’s obsession with guns? Because it’s common now for “fashionable” soccer-mom types to forbid such things. Going further, would they accept a boy’s white supremacist, KKK- or Nazi-oriented, or serial killer-like play? The point is that everyone “limits” where children’s imaginations may go — it’s just a matter of what standard is applied.
Once realizing this, that there’s no such thing as value- and limit-free child-rearing (nor should there be), one should ask: Why assume that with boys there’s something wrong with “masculine messaging”? They are the masculine sex, after all.
This rash assumption, accepted on faith and as dogma, fails to respect the Chesterton’s fence principle. Propounded by philosopher G.K. Chesterton, he stated that in “the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle.”
Imagine there is “a fence or gate erected across a road,” he explained. “The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: ‘If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.’”
The point is that everything exists for a reason; it may be a good reason or a bad one. But until we discover it, we have no business destroying the thing.
Yet is there any indication that our social-engineering-mad enemies of tradition have thought deeply about what they’d tear down? Perhaps some psychologist somewhere, sometime, said a given innovation was an imperative, and ignoring millennia of accumulated wisdom a fallacy became a fashion. So let’s perform the examination necessary here.
Abusing the language along with the children, many today subscribe to the “gender”-neutral (“sex” is the proper term) child-rearing fad. Thus do we occasionally even see parents refusing to divulge the sex of their toddler, saying they don’t want to put him in a “gender straitjacket.”
Yet raising children is, by definition, all about categorizing, molding, and limiting. Note here that just as psychologists define “gender dysphoria” — the belief that you’re one sex stuck in the body of the other — they also define “clinical lycanthropy,” the sense that you’re really an animal trapped in a human body. Despite this, we still pigeonhole children by putting them in clothing and teaching them language, manners, and the whole range of human norms. We don’t refrain from limiting a child with a “species straitjacket” because he may one day conclude he’s a ferret.
So is it possible that just as we give a child a species-specific upbringing because he’s a human and not an animal, we should also give a boy a sex-specific upbringing because he’s male and not female? Is it possible that what has been dismissed as “sex stereotyping” was born of the recognition of the given sex’s characteristic strengths, weaknesses, and psychological needs and serves to cultivate those strengths and mitigate those weaknesses by, in part, satisfying those needs?
Note: That the sexes are innately different is not theory, but fact, as the splendid Norwegian documentary The Gender Equality Paradox (below) illustrates.
In other words, just as we might provide a math prodigy with much different interest-specific opportunities and tutelage than a music prodigy, sex-specific child-rearing (a.k.a. common sense) merely reflects the recognition of — and desire to augment — each sex’s positive natural inclinations.
Perhaps agreeing would be the site Activist Mommy, which, commenting on Wolf’s claims, wrote, “The only thing that leaves little boys confused is being encouraged to dress up like a princess.” This is no joke — and bigger boys are affected, too. Just consider teenager Nathaniel, who had his genitals removed as part of a “transition” just after his 18th birthday. Now 19, he calls the surgery a “Frankenstein” mutilation that has “ruined” his life.
Note that Nathaniel is one of many people experiencing “sex-change regret” and that the suicide rate among Made-up Sexual Status individuals, regretful or not, is very high.
This is why blithely tearing down fences, bull-in-a-china-shop style, is an intolerable act. Sometimes it means tearing down psyches, childhoods, futures, and lives.
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Planned Parenthood, the leading abortion provider in the United States, is set to open up 50 new clinics at Los Angeles-area high schools. Set to open within the next three years, the new clinics were announced on Wednesday and will be operated in cooperation with the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Los Angeles County Department of Health.
At least five of the new clinics are already opened at schools in Los Angeles.
Funded by an initial investment of $10 million from Los Angeles County and $6 million from Planned Parenthood, the clinics will offer birth-control options, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, and pregnancy counseling. At least for the time being, abortions will not be offered at the school clinics.
California law allows minors to consent to some medical services, such as receiving birth control and mental health counseling, without a parent’s consent or knowledge. School personnel will not have access to any health records the clinic keeps.
The clinics will reportedly be staffed by two public health officials who are trained by Planned Parenthood to give counseling and, likely, abortion referrals. A Planned Parenthood nurse practitioner will be on the premises once per week.
The 50 schools were selected because they are largely in low-income neighborhoods that lack similar facilities — so, literally, the most vulnerable population Planned Parenthood could find.
According to Barbara Ferrer, the director of the L.A. County Department of Health and a former high-school principal, the new school-based clinics grew from conversations about how to stem the area’s alarming rise in sexually transmitted diseases such as gonorrhea and chlamydia in the high-school population.
Sue Dunlap, the president of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, expects protests about the clinics from pro-lifers in the community but she seems confident she is ready for them.
“I do anticipate, as this becomes public, we will have very normal and healthy debate around sexuality and schools and what it is to be engaged in family communication around a healthy adolescence,” Dunlap said.
Per Planned Parenthood’s usual modus operandi, the clinics will be named in an innocuous way as to hide their inner workings. The new clinics will be called “wellness centers,” since they will, allegedly, provide more than routine medical services. “We want to support their general well-being, the ups and downs of being a teen.”
But pro-life advocates believe that the new clinics are simply a way to catch more vulnerable youth and compound bad decisions on their part with another bad decision — to have an abortion.
“Planned Parenthood has been targeting younger and younger girls, through their version of sex education, beginning as early as elementary school, which encourages people to make bad choices, partly because Planned Parenthood profits from crisis and from selling abortions to those same students,” said Kristan Hawkins, the President of Students for Life.
“This is a marketing ploy by the nation’s number one abortion vendor,” Hawkins said. “There is a conflict of interest in allowing Planned Parenthood into schools in any form to market their deadly business, knowing that they will make millions from the students who won’t know until it’s too late that Planned Parenthood does not care about women. They care about money.”
It’s probably no coincidence that Planned Parenthood picked a California district to unveil this new program. In addition to being one of the most leftist states in the union, the state also mandated last October that public colleges must offer students abortion medication. That law is set to take effect in 2023. It’ll be convenient for the universities if the Los Angleles schools pilot program expands to the public colleges by then.
2019 has been a year of mixed blessings in the decades-long war over abortion in the United States. While Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Missouri have all passed laws with serious restrictions on abortions, other states such as New York and Vermont have passed bills removing pretty much any restriction on the practice up until the time of birth. The news that California is allowing Planned Parenthood into high schools is a reminder that pro-abortion forces are not simply going to go away without a fight.
As for California, one wonders if organizations offering alternatives to abortion will also be allowed in these 50 schools. If it’s a matter of “choice,” after all, shouldn’t a choice be offered to those vulnerable students?
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Hillsong Phoenix is hosting Alpha Conference 2020 on January 30-31, complete with a Catholic mass. Speakers include Sarah Shin of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Francis Chan, Kelvin Walker of the Christian & Missionary Alliance, Catholic priest James Mallon, and contemporary worship leader Matt Redman. The conference opens on Friday morning with a Catholic mass in which a wafer of bread will become the actual body and blood of Jesus and will be worshipped as Jesus by the participants, according to official Catholic doctrine. Alpha is an interdenominational evangelistic program that was birthed in the 1990s at Holy Trinity Brompton Anglican Church in London, England, from a charismatic “revival” in which people experienced “massive electricity going through” their bodies, were thrown across rooms by spiritual forces, howled, laughed like hyenas, lay on the floor with their feet in the air, and were “drunk.” The Alpha course includes a “Holy Spirit Day” with the objective of bringing the participants into a charismatic experience, including teaching them how to speak in “tongues.” Alpha is helping to build the end-time, one-world “church.” Developer Nicky Gumble, vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton, says, “Alpha runs in every arm of the Church. It’s growing the fastest in the Catholic church. ... What unites us is infinitely greater than what divides us. ... In every different part of the body of Christ--Presbyterian, Baptist, Lutheran, non-denominational, Catholic, Pentecostals, Bulgarian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox--Alpha crosses all divides” (“The Alpha Course: An International Phenomenon,” WillowCreek.org, March 2012). Hillsong is a network of churches and an influential producer of contemporary worship music. It began at Hills Christian Life Centre in Sydney, Australia, and has branched out to start churches in London, New York City, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and other cities. Popular Hillsong songs include “Oceans,” “Shout to the Lord,” “Stronger,” “This Is Our God,” and “Mighty to Save.”
