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Wednesday, January 22, 2020

IN DEFENSE OF MICHELLE MALKIN'S RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH

IN DEFENSE OF MICHELLE MALKIN'S
RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH
Will we stay silent while a public university assaults the First Amendment?
BY JOSEPH KLEIN
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Conservative commentator and author Michelle Malkin’s right to free speech has been under consistent vicious attack -- most recently at the publicly funded University of Maine. The College Republicans student group at the university, which had invited Ms. Malkin to speak, was forced to scurry around at the last minute to find a suitable forum outside the university campus for her talk. This was all set into motion when the University of Maine stripped the College Republicans of their status as an official student organization after their “faculty adviser”, political science professor Amy Fried, quit because she disapproved of Michelle Malkin’s conservative views. As a result, the College Republicans could no longer use the campus facilities to host the speech. No official recognition means no student government funding and no complimentary rooms or meeting spaces on campus, which the College Democrats continue to enjoy without interruption during this presidential election year.  
Three off campus venues then proceeded to reverse their agreements to let the University of Maine College Republicans use their facilities for Michelle Malkin’s delivery of her speech. First, Portland Sheraton at Sable Oaks in South Portland cancelled, after being informed by the university that the University of Maine College Republicans were not an official student group on campus. Then the Gendron Franco Center in Lewiston and Martindale Country Club in Auburn followed suit, succumbing to pressure from self-appointed censors of free speech. Ms. Malkin was finally able to speak last Friday night to a standing-room-only crowd at Sabattus Town Hall. “It’s flabbergasting,” Ms. Malkin said, “that it took four different venues to find a place for peace-loving patriots to gather.”
Jeremiah Childs, vice president of the University of Maine College Republicans, pointed out what was at stake in standing up to the Left and exercising the right of free speech in the face of their bullying. “The Left intended to shut down the State of Maine,” he said. “I think we all proved that they can’t do that. We will not be silenced.”
Michelle Malkin provided Breitbart News a statement prior to her Friday night appearance, which included the following: “It is especially important to support young people defying university bullies and political mafia bosses. They have the most at stake.”
It would do well to note that even the leftist ACLU has declared on its website that,
Restrictions on speech by public colleges and universities amount to government censorship, in violation of the Constitution. Such restrictions deprive students of their right to invite speech they wish to hear, debate speech with which they disagree, and protest speech they find bigoted or offensive.
These are nice words, but one can’t help from wondering: Where was the ACLU when the University of Maine took away the College Republicans’ official student club status at the university after their faculty adviser resigned her position because she did not like the views of the speaker the College Republicans group chose to invite? 
Amy Fried, the faculty adviser-turned censor, is a leftist columnist as well as a professor. She tweeted recently that the indicted Lev Parnas’s interview with Rachel Maddow supplied a “smoking gun” against President Trump. Ms. Fried was not exactly objective when serving as the College Republicans’ faculty adviser. Her pretext for resigning was apparently Michelle Malkin’s refusal to explicitly disavow a group of America First nationalists led by the controversial far-right activist Nick Fuentes. Professor Fried tweeted: “Reality: I didn't want to be associated with a group that invited a speaker who a conservative group took off their speakers bureau due to her praise of Holocaust denier.”
Nick Fuentes and his American First nationalist group have indeed engaged in despicable anti-Semitic tropes and Holocaust “revisionism” that deserve nothing but condemnation. Ms. Malkin has tried to walk a fine line, neither wholeheartedly embracing their views nor denouncing them in unambiguous terms as other conservative thinkers have done.  
“I do not agree with every last thing they’ve said or written or published or tweeted or thought with their inside or outside voices,” Michelle Malkin told an audience at UCLA last November, referring to the America First nationalists. “But I will not disavow any of them and I will not join the de-platforming witch hunters who hypocritically call themselves free speech and culture warriors.”
Malkin’s ambiguous stance towards Nick Fuentes and his America First group has drawn criticism not only from the Left, but also from some of her admirers. For example, in “A Letter to Michelle Malkin,” published in the pages of this magazine last December, one such admirer, Vanessa Jones, urged Ms. Malkin to “stand up to Nick Fuentes” as much as she has stood up against Fuentes’ critics in mainstream conservative circles for being too soft on immigration.
Jones’ article was full of praise for Malkin and for all her great work. It simply asked her to distance herself from Fuentes, for whom it appears she has a serious blind spot. But the answer to such a blind spot must not be censorship.
Writing an open letter to Michelle Malkin for the purpose of trying to persuade her with well-reasoned arguments is one thing. Shutting down her right to free speech is quite another. And this Stalinist act affects not only Malkin, but all of us.
The University of Maine, a public university, violated Ms. Malkin’s First Amendment right of free speech and the students’ First Amendment right to hear her speak on campus. The university administration should have immediately appointed a replacement faculty adviser, which would have permitted the College Republicans to host Ms. Malkin on campus. If that was not possible to accomplish in time, the administration should have made up for the disruption that the politically biased faculty adviser’s sudden resignation caused by at least working with the College Republicans to find a suitable off-campus site for the event. Instead, it informed one facility that had originally agreed to host the event, the Portland Sheraton at Sable Oaks, that the University of Maine College Republicans were not an officially recognized student group at the university, causing the hotel to cancel.
“As a Nation we have chosen a different course—to protect even hurtful speech on public issues to ensure that we do not stifle public debate,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in a decision involving the protection of speech of an extremely offensive and hateful nature (Snyder V. Phelps, 131 S. Ct. 1207 (2011)). The Supreme Court has also made it clear that the First Amendment precludes adoption of content-based regulations or viewpoint-based restrictions.
The publicly-funded University of Maine blatantly violated the Supreme Court’s most fundamental edicts protecting First Amendment rights. There should be consequences so that this does not happen again. And all Americans who care about the right to free speech must stand up for Michelle Malkin in this narrative, confront the totalitarians who are shutting her down, and call out the weak-kneed conservatives who are cowardly standing on the sidelines in silence.

MORMON FLAGSHIP BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY TO ALLOW SAME-SEX COUPLES IN BALLROOM DANCE COMPETITION

BYU will allow same-sex couples to ballroom dance

Shall We Dance? BYU To Allow Same-Sex Dance Partners In Ballroom Contest

New national dance rule allows same-sex and 

gender neutral couples to participate in competitions

The National Dance Council of America changed its definition of "couple" so that same-sex and gender neutral couples could compete, and one couple is rejoicing knowing they can dance together.
WHO LEADS THEN?
MORMON FLAGSHIP BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY TO ALLOW SAME-SEX COUPLES 
IN BALLROOM DANCE COMPETITION
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It has been confirmed that Brigham Young University — the Mormon flagship university — will, for the first time, allow same-sex couples to participate in its national Dancesport ballroom competition. Historically, the Latter-Day Saints have rejected the cultural influence of homosexuality and has in previous years forbidden same-sex couples from participating in the competition. However, this year, Tyler Keith Wilson, a competitor who has always had a female partner in previous years, will this year, instead, dance with another man.
Gross.
Bob Blank, who is somehow affiliated with the competition posted on Facebook,
NEWSflash: BYU, the host of the USA’s Amateur Ballroom/Latin Nationals, announced a change in the formerly unsanctioned US Amateur Dancesport Nationals, being held in Provo in March. The BYU participation in the event originally limited participation to m/f couples only.
Travis Tuft of the Senior Competitor’s Commission told WorldSCDC today: “It was confirmed that the National Championships at BYU has received full sanction by the NDCA and will follow all rules in the NDCA rulebook. This includes no exclusion of same sex couples.”
The National Dance Council of America (NDCA) is the organization that sets the standards and definitions for recognized dance competitions and a recent change in the rules now allows same-sex couples. Katie Davidson, secretary of BYU Ballroom Dance confirmed that BYU would also be following the new change allowing same-sex couples to dance.

Wilson, who is a homosexual ballroom dancer for BYU posted on his Facebook page that he was overjoyed by the change and ecstatic that he would now be able to dance with a gay partner instead of with a woman.

Not that the Mormon religion was ever a part of the Christian faith, but it should be abundantly clear that God has completely given them over to the lusts of their hearts.

SECOND BERNIE SANDERS AIDE: "GUILLOTINE THE RICH"; REPUBLICANS GO TO THE NEW GULAG FOR "RE-EDUCATION"

(INSET: Still from Project Veritas undercover video) Democratic presidential hopeful Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders speaks on stage at "First in the West" event in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 17, 2019. (Photo by Bridget BENNETT / 30240120A / AFP) (Photo by BRIDGET BENNETT/30240120A/AFP via Getty Images)
'I'll Straight Up Get Armed': SECOND Bernie Staffer Threatens Violence Against Trump Supporters
SECOND BERNIE SANDERS AIDE: 
"GUILLOTINE THE RICH"; REPUBLICANS GO TO THE NEW GULAG FOR "RE-EDUCATION" 
BY R. CORT KIRKWOOD
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Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has a problem: campaign staffers who want a communist revolution and Soviet-style tyranny should the “socialist” from Vermont win the presidency.
Last week, as The New American reported, Project Veritas released two videos of Sanders campaign staffer Kyle Jurek, who promised burning cities and dead cops if Sanders loses, and, if he wins, the execution of moderate liberals and a Soviet-style gulag for Trump supporters.
Jurek, who toils in Iowa for Sanders, thinks the gulags were good for the Russian people and would work well here, too.
Martin Weissgerber, a Sanders campaign aide in South Carolina, agrees but would go much further, he told an undercover PV reporter (video below).
He promises to murder the rich if Sanders is elected.
Soviet Union Not Horrible Unhappily for Sanders, the PV video exposed the truth that crazed, communist radicals are deeply involved in the senator’s campaign.
First on Weissgerber’s agenda, and presumably Sanders’, is overturning representative government by dissolving the House and Senate, then permitting Sanders and his Cabinet to run the country.
But that plan makes sense given Weissgerber’s upbringing and his view of the Soviet Union, which he apparently imbibed with his mother’s milk.
“I think I was radicalized from the day, first day I was born,” he said:
My dad, is a Marxist. Like, straight-up from Belgium.... He took part in Paris ’68 and all that, which is really cool.... I’ve always made it, I’ve always been unapologetic about it since I was younger, I always said, you know I’m a Communist.... In my house, we had, you know Das Kapital, Engels, and Marx and all that sh*t.... I’m a Communist that believes in direct democracy, direct communes on everything. Pretty much, Anarcho-Syndicalism. Unions everything. I hope, but I don’t know how effective that is in addressing climate change, for instance.
Weissgerber’s mother is a radical leftist too, but in any event, a college education incubated his love for the Soviet Union. “That’s what I studied in college, I studied Russian his– ... Soviet history,” he continued. “I became the resident Marxist.... But, yeah, I’m all about the complete seizure of the means of production, nationalizing everything.”
Weissgerber’s professors, apparently, did yeoman’s work brainwashing him: “I only learned this sh*t in college when I started studying the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was not horrible.... I mean, for women’s rights the Soviet Union — I think — the most progressive place to date in the world.”
A few people, like the 20 million people Stalin murdered, might disagree.
Guillotine the Rich That small detail aside, Weissgerber offered a unique take on the gulag:
The first Gulag that was opened; have you heard about Belomorkanal? They dug a canal; the plan was, in 1922, I think, to dig a canal from the White Sea all the way to Saint Petersburg — a long way, if you look on a map — and, the whole point — it was going to be called the Belomorkanal, and I read — I spent a whole semester actually studying primary accounts from the Belomorkanal. The whole point of the Belomorkanal, there were no machines allowed. They forced the people to dig with shovels and hoe the whole canal, right? You should see the people writing about their time at the Belomorkanal. There’s this one guy, he was a thief from Georgia who had been captured. He was sent to the Belomorkanal to work and in his writing, like “I reject all thievery, I reject that past life.” He said, capitalism made me into this thief, because when there’s poor people, there’s going to be crime. He said, “I went to the Belomorkanal and I worked.” He became a shock worker, which is what they call the leading workers, people who always met the quota and exceeded the quota ... and, like people came from America to work at the Belomorkanal for the Soviet project, the communist project. It was a beautiful thing.
That beautiful thing called the gulag wasn’t the Soviet Union’s only contribution to the world: “Leave it to the Soviets to make the most badass f***ing, most effective gun in the world ... AK [47] ... the destroyer of imperialism and colonization ... that’s why I want to get it tattooed on me.”
With that positive review, the AK-47 will undoubtedly figure in his plan to punish the rich by seizing their wealth and, ultimately, executing them.
But Weissgerber has something else in mind, too: hard labor, gulags, and the guillotine.
“Let’s force them [billionaires] to build roads ... rebuild our roads, rebuild our dams, rebuild our bridges,” Weissgerber said. “Let’s force them to do that.”
Like Jurek, Weissgerber thinks the gulags “were founded as re-education camps,” and that Republicans must be sent to them.
Then again, re-education might take too long.
Weissgerber’s in a hurry to build a new society:
I’m already on Twitter, following numerous groups around the country that are ready to organize yellow vest protests.... I’m ready to start tearing bricks up and start fighting.... I’ll straight up get armed, I want to learn how to shoot, and go train. I’m ready for the f***ing revolution, bro.... I’m telling you. Guillotine the rich.”
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‘I’LL STRAIGHT UP GET ARMED’: 

SECOND BERNIE STAFFER THREATENS VIOLENCE AGAINST TRUMP SUPPORTERS

‘I’m ready for the f---ing revolution,’ he says

BY JAMIE WHITE
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New undercover video from Project Veritas shows a second Bernie Sanders field organizer threatening to arm up for a coming civil war against conservatives and mass-execute the wealthy.
Weissgerber, an avowed “radicalized communist,” also discussed taking part in a violent Maoist-style communist revolution to send conservatives to “re-education camps” and “guillotine the rich.”
“I’ll straight up get armed,” he said. “I want to learn how to shoot and go training. Leave it to the Soviets to make the most badass fucking, most effective gun in the world.”
“What will help is when we send all the Republicans to the re-education camps,” he continued. “Can you imagine Mitch McConnell? Lindsey Graham?”
“Let’s force them to build roads, re-build our roads, re-build our dams, re-build our bridges. Let’s force them to do that.”
Weissgerber confessed that Bernie Sanders-inspired socialists descended upon Washington D.C. to vie for the levers of power.
“What Bernie did was, he inspired people, he created a movement that started to flood Washington,” Weissgerber said. “Democratic socialists are running all over – there are so many democratic socialists running in 2020.”
Weissgerber also admitted he would organize “Yellow Vest”-style protests in America should President Trump be re-elected.
“I’m already on Twitter, following numerous groups around the country that are ready to organize Yellow Vest protests. I’m ready. I’m ready to start tearing bricks up and start fighting,” he said.
Weissgerber has deleted his social media accounts following the release of Project Veritas’ Part 3 exposé.

Project Veritas has released new footage of Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Filed Organizer Kyle Jurek admitting to the free education program ruse to initiate reeducation camps on Americans he would deem “Nazis”.
Martin Weissgerber, a field organizer out of South Carolina, discussed overthrowing the American governmental system to pave the way for Sanders to unilaterally implement socialism and climate change policies.
“So, do we just cease – do we just dissolve the Senate, House of Representatives, the Judicial Branch, and have somebody like Bernie Sanders and a cabinet of people make all the decisions for the climate?” he posed to the undercover PV journalist. “I mean, I’m serious.”

SOUTHERN BAPTIST CULTURAL MARXISM VIDEO AT ERLC WEBSITE BUTCHERS SCRIPTURE TO PROMOTE DIVISION

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SOUTHERN BAPTIST CULTURAL MARXISM VIDEO AT ERLC WEBSITE BUTCHERS SCRIPTURE TO PROMOTE DIVISION
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A new video posted at the website of the Democratic Wing of the Southern Baptist Convention, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), ruthlessly butchers the Scripture to promote its Cultural Marxist agenda.
Featuring Mika Edmonson, a radical leftist who is a contributor to the Gospel Coalition and regularly promotes racial division, the video makes several outrageously false claims about the Bible.
Terms like “cultural Marxism” and “social justice warrior” don’t need to be defined to be effective.
They are labels, weaponized to designate certain people as dangerous to the gospel.
Their intended audience knows precisely “who” they mean more than precisely “what” they mean.
— Mika Edmondson (@mika_edmondson) September 13, 2018
When people call me a cultural marxist, I know their fundamental categories are economic and political….NOT theological.
— Mika Edmondson (@mika_edmondson) March 29, 2019
Anti-racism is also NOT Marxist, Liberal, Reverse-Racism, a personal agenda, Progressive Political Agenda, Identity-Politics driven, a victim-mentality, white guilt-driven, unforgiveness, unAmerican, gospel-undermining, a slippery slope, unchristian, or unbiblical. https://t.co/2Gk0HBRzYa
— Mika Edmondson (@mika_edmondson) December 8, 2017
Edmondson called for the Social Gospel in the pages of The “Gospel” Coalition, venerating the woman-using sex trafficker and homosexual, Dr. Martin Luther King, in the article, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Gospel’s Social Demands. That should sufficiently speak for who Edmondson is and his aberrant brand of Rauschebusch theology.
In the video (posted below), Edmondson claims that “the kingdom of God has always been a multicultural kingdom…”
“The kingdom of God has always been a multicultural kingdom…”
Edmondson starts with a false premise and damnable lie. “Multiculturalism” – a synonym for Cultural Marxism – is sometimes known as well as cultural pluralism. The concept is a thought arisen out of the Frankfurt School of Marxism and has largely been disseminated as a common thought through the American public school system of the 20th Century.
Multicultural holds that ethnic or cultural identity is essential to human flourishing, asking people to maintain their sense of group identity and reject individual expression. Multiculturalism also rejects the long-held American traditional value of being a melting pot, in which people come together irrespective of their group ethnic or cultural identities.
Countless 18th, 19th, and early 20th-century sociological studies lauded America’s melting pot culture with being responsible for its unique success and human flourishing (although the term itself did not technically exist until 1908, the principle endured long before). Due to the rise of multiculturalism philosophy, racial disharmony in the United States has come to an all-time high. Thanks to the multicultural concept of being a “mosaic” over a “melting pot,” identity politics has driven a wedge between ethnic groups in the United States and even within churches, most tragically.
The Bible does not teach that God is creating a multicultural kingdom. The Bible teaches that God is creating a monocultural kingdom that transcends ethnic identity.
God is actually merging all the different cultures into one culture through the Gospel.
Galatians 3:28-29 says, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
The message of multiculturalism says to cling to ethnic identity. The New Testament tells us to shirk our ethnic identity for an identity to be found in Christ alone.
Likewise, the Bible explicitly teaches that God is merging all cultures into one.
1 Peter 2:9 says, “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”
God is accomplishing this by saving people out of their various tribes and tongues and nations and bringing them into a singular tribe, tongue, and nation under Christ. Revelation 7:9 says, “After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb…
Oddly for a supposed scholar, Edmondson conflates the “catholicity of the church” with the “diversity of the church.” This could not be further twisted than what Edmondson has made it.
Catholicity refers to a widespread uniformity that is universal in its scope. Diversity is given up for the sake of catholicity. This is a major category error ont he part of Edmondson. Catholicity is accomplished by diverse people giving up their distinctions and coming together under one particular banner of identity.
Although Edmondson points to Abraham and God’s promise that “all the nations of the Earth shall be blessed” (Genesis 22:18), he overlooks the reality that God is bringing nations together to be grafted into one tree (Romans 11:11-31).
This is not a promise of multiculturalism, but a promise of multiculturalism’s demise.
Edmondson engages in a subtle bait-and-switch throughout the video. While God’s kingdom indeed consists of people from every culture, nation, and identity, those individuals are forsaking those past identities for union with Christ in a singular Christian nation.
Don’t buy the propaganda the ERLC is selling. It’s not biblically astute. It’s theologically ignorant.

UN THROWS CASH AT NORTH KOREA TO FIGHT "GLOBAL WARMING"

UN THROWS CASH AT NORTH KOREA 
TO FIGHT "GLOBAL WARMING"
BY ALEX NEWMAN
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A United Nations agency led by a Communist Chinese agent is sending large amounts of American taxpayer money and Western know-how to the mass-murdering dictatorship ruling North Korea, official UN documents show. Officially, at least, the cash and training is supposed to help the brutal regime in Pyongyang fight alleged man-made “climate change” and access even more UN money. But in reality, analysts suggested the UN funding would almost certainly be used to prop up dictator Kim Jong Un's savage tyranny and lavish lifestyle.
The initial funding will be almost a million dollars, but that round of funds is supposed to help the regime unlock even more going forward. The decision to fund North Korean oppression with Western tax dollars was made last month by the UN “Green Climate Fund” (GCF). The outfit, often ridiculed by critics as the Green Climate Slush Fund to subsidize Third World kleptocrats, is a wealth-transfer mechanism that claims it supports “developing countries” responding to “climate change.” “GCF helps developing countries limit or reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapt to climate change,” it says online.
As part of that, the GCF approved a program known as “Readiness and Preparatory Support for Capacity Building of NDA (National Designated Authorities) and establishment of a National Strategy Framework for engagement with GCF in the DPRK.” The confusing and deliberately verbose title serves to conceal a simple agenda: Prop up the mass-murdering dictatorship with Western money, technology, and expertise under the guise of battling the mythical bogeyman known as “man-made global warming.”
According to the dictatorship's request for funds, which has been published online by the GCF, activities under the project will involve developing a “package of training and capacity building exercises.” These training programs will help support the regime to “better coordinate and manage GCF and other climate finance,” and to “better engage with GCF and providers of climate finance.” In other words, a team of UN bureaucrats will be teaching Kim's minions how to keep the “climate finance” loot flowing from Western taxpayers to his regime.
The lead ministry dealing with the program in Pyongyang will be the Ministry of Land and Environment Protection, according to the regime's submission. The 43-page document, filed in the summer of 2019, explains that North Korea needs more help preparing to access “climate finance,” and so, the regime will be working with the UN to help “address” the “barriers” that currently exist to accessing even more “climate” loot. Other ministries that will receive support under the plan include those in charge of agriculture, electronic industry, urban management, fisheries, emergency management, and even “academic institutions.”
Leading the scheme on the UN side will be the scandal-plagued UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Last summer that controversial agency, one of the UN's largest, was brought under control of the Communist Chinese dictatorship in Beijing, a very close ally — if not an outright puppet master — of the Kim regime enslaving the people of North Korea, when it managed to get its candidate elected to run the FAO by UN representatives. According to diplomatic sources, Beijing was able to secure enough votes for its candidate, Qu Dongyu, using a combination of bribery and threats. It was the fourth UN agency that fell under Communist Chinese control.
Before that, the UN FAO was run by Brazilian communist Jose Graziano, a close ally of disagraced Marxist leader Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva, the former Brazilian president who was jailed for looting the public to help fellow communists and his bank account. Like Qu, Graziano also used FAO funds to help out his communist buddies around the world. In fact, in 2017, Graziano, infamous for persecuting journalists who exposed him, helped the communist regime of Evo Morales in Bolivia secure access to “climate funding” via the “Green Climate Fund.” That scheme was worth $250 million.
In North Korea, the UN FAO, ensuring “diverse perspectives” by ensuring “equal representation of men and women,” promised not to ignore the current UN sanctions that have been slapped on the regime. However, the UN agency vowed to seek “sanctions exemptions” to facilitate the infusion of cash and know-how. Other UN agencies such as the World Intellectual Property Organization have come under fire for violating UN sanctions by transferring sensitive, dual-use technologies to the regime. But here, the FAO vowed to stay in “compliance.”
Explaining why the FAO was chosen to lead the project on the UN side, documents reveal that the Communist Party-controlled UN agency has spent decades providing “development assistance” to the North Korean regime. Ironically, one of the areas where FAO has been helping Pyongyang is “food security.” But literally millions of North Koreans have died from famine and hunger-related diseases since the mid-1990s — almost unique in the modern world— as the regime and its leader feasted at the expense of that nation's enslaved population.
Incredibly, the regime attributes declining agricultural productivity not to communism and the inherent failures of central planning. Instead, the regime's functionaries claimed that “climate change” was to blame. In the real world, though, agricultural yields are increasing worldwide, which is to be expected. Obviously, with CO2 (plant food) concentrations rising and the planet getting slightly warmer, largely as a result of natural causes, crop yields should be growing, not contracting. But not in North Korea, apparently.
Establishment-minded analysts trying to put a positive spin on all this sounded almost too ludicrous to be believed. Columnist John Burton, formerly with the establishment Financial Times, claimed that “the problems North North Korea is experiencing due to climate change are also due to the fact that it sits next to much bigger producers of greenhouse gas emissions,” namely, Communist China.
But the only example of these problems cited was “yellow dust” — basically soil dust mixed with Chinese pollution, which was made worse not by CO2 emissions, but by communists in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan drying up the Aral Sea. Records of “yellow dust” go back thousands of years.
Almost incredibly, Burton goes on to celebrate the unimaginable poverty caused by communism in North Korea. “Paradoxically, North Korea's economic backwardness is another advantage,” claimed Burton in the Korea Times column pushing for Trump to end some sanctions as part of a "Green New Deal" for North Korea. “It does not yet have an extensive fossil fuel-based infrastructure. That makes it easier to turn to renewables to power future growth if the planning is right.” Yes, the fact that North Koreans are literally starving and living in stone-age conditions is great because, if Kim plans right, he can use “renewables” if he ever decides to allow his miserable slaves to access a little electricity.
Members of the Green Climate Fund's board of directors represent a variety of governments, including more than a few brutal dictatorships. Among the regimes represented are oil-rich Islamic theocracies such as the regimes ruling Iran and Saudi Arabia, along with more than a few socialist governments from Europe and Latin America. Analysts have described it as a “slush fund” to bribe Third World regimes into getting on board with the UN's global agenda — more “global governance,” more power for the UN, global taxes, and global wealth redistribution. Obama illegally funneled billions of American dollars to the GCF, in flagrant violation of federal law.
Of course, this is hardly the first time the UN has funneled American money to Pyongyang, helping to prop up one of the most brutal and totalitarian regimes in all of human history. The UN Development Program (UNDP), for instance, helped build the Pyongyang Semiconductor Factory in the 1980s. According to both U.S. and South Korean government sources cited by the Nuclear Threat Initiative in Washington, D.C., the regime uses that plant to produce electronic components for missiles, many of which are aimed at U.S. forces and American allies.
Under the guise of fighting “global warming,” the UN has been getting away with all sorts of criminal activities — extorting Western taxpayers, expanding its power, bullying industry, further infringements on liberty and free markets, brainwashing children with “climate education,” and so much more. Once again, allowing communists running UN agencies to transfer Western wealth to their mass-murdering allies can be added to the list. For the sake of Americans and Koreans, it is time for Congress and President Trump to step in and end these schemes now.
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