"INTERNATIONAL MR. LEATHER": AFTAH REACHES OUT WITH TRUTH TO DEVIANT HOMOSEXUALS AT CONVENTION IN CONGRESS PLAZA HOTEL, CHICAGO

AFTAH Reaches Out with Truth to Deviant Homosexual ‘International Mr. Leather’ Convention at Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago

BY PETER LA BARBERA

SEE: http://americansfortruth.com/2016/06/02/aftah-reaches-out-with-truth-to-deviant-homosexual-international-mr-leather-convention-at-congress-plaza-hotel-in-chicago/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

“They invent ways of doing evil…” (Romans 1:30)
“Repent…and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out…” (Acts 3:19, NIV)

WARNING: graphic and offensive descriptions of vile homosexual acts

TAKE ACTION: Corporations Profiting Off Perversion: The homosexual perversion celebration known as “International Mr. Leather” (IML) 2016 was sponsored in part by Miller Lite Brewing Co. (312-496-2700), and Orbitz, a subsidiary of Expedia. Contact Orbitz at (844) 663-2266. Contact Expediaat 800-319-4834. To reach Chicago’s Congress Plaza Hotel, which hosted IML, call 312-427-3800 or email:reservations@congressplazehotel.com.

And Please Pray: …for Lee, Eamon, Allen, Brendan and Alex–five men who attended IML and who discussed the Gospel and morality with us Saturday night outside IML.

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By Peter LaBarbera, AFTAH Exclusive

Part One

Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) held a peaceful Christian truth outreach against the homosexual “International Mr. Leather” (IML) conference Saturday night (May 28, 2016), across the street from the Chicago’s Congress Plaza Hotel, which hosted the perversion-fest.

Every year, on Memorial Day weekend, IML draws thousands of mostly homosexual “leathermen” from all over the world to a swank Chicago hotel to party, celebrate sadomasochistic deviance and practice some of the most heinous sexual acts invented by men–as well as everyday sodomies. In concert with IML, several orgiastic dance parties such as the “Black & Blue Ball” (sponsored in part by Miller Lite) are held in various Chicago venues. Here is the banner we used in our truth outreach:

Congress Plaza Hotel Profits Off Perversion

Homosexual “Mr. Leather” conference glorifies vile & dangerous behaviors

Protesting Perversion and Sharing the Gospel: AFTAH President Peter LaBarbera (left) and Rob share truth Saturday night outside the Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago, as it hosted the annual “International Mr. Leather” homosexual perversion-fest. The banner reads, “Congress Plaza Hotel Profits Off Perversion: Homosexual ‘Mr. Leather’ conference glorifies vile & dangerous behaviors.” The smaller yellow sign is taken from Acts 3:19: “Repent…and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out…” The two men had many interesting conversations with IML attendees, in a spirit of civility. Click to enlarge.

My compatriot Rob and I walked through the IML “Leather Market” Saturday [more on that in the next article], then stood across the street from the Congress Plaza Hotel on the city’s famed Michigan Avenue for about five hours, leaving at midnight. The fact that we were not angrily shouting at the attendees softened the reaction to our message, although there was plenty of hostility to us.

A man named Lee wearing a “golden shower” t-shirt–that’s slang for the perverse fetish in which a man urinates on (or in) another man (or men) for sexual pleasure–approached us and we began bantering back and forth with us on various points of morality and theology. A smart, fast-talking man and an agnostic of sorts, Lee said he embraced homosexuality several years ago after being married and having children. He strongly opposed our message that homosexual behaviors are immoral but he appreciated our non-confrontational, friendly tone and several times stepped between us and IML attendees who might have harassed us or worse.

Strangely, Lee took it upon himself to serve as our “protector” throughout the night. At one point he even laughingly yelled “bad homos” to some people gathered across the street at the hotel who were shouting chants against us. Here he can be seen on the right with his perverse t-shirt; that’s a “Sister of Perpetual Indulgence” drag queen in the center behind the autho:

An IML attendee named Lee (at right) took it upon himself to protect AFTAH’s two Truth emissaries from overly hostile homosexual activists. In the cap holding the sign is Peter LaBarbera. Behind him–the man in drag with white face and a cross–is a member of the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” a homosexual “troup” of drag-queens who mock Catholic nuns and Christianity in general while raising funds for various “gay”-related causes. See the Sisters’ wicked “Hunky Jesus” contest–mocking the Resurrection and held every Easter Sunday in a San Francisco. Click to enlarge.

We had many people praying for our protection at the IML outreach, so Rob and I took Lee’s presence as an answer to those prayers. Please pray for Lee and the others with whom we had discussions, including this wretched soul of a man wearing only a diaper and a leather harness:

Satan Is Laughing… But we wanted to cry: this young man (“Eamon”) wearing a diaper and a leather harness walked across the street from Congress Plaza Hotel with some others, and spoke briefly with AFTAH’s Peter LaBarbera. Pray for this lost soul, that God in His mercy will rescue him from the ravages of deviance and exploitation.

I spoke briefly with this pitiful fellow in a diaper–I think he said his name is Eamon–and urged him to read the Gospel of John in the New Testament. My heart was breaking as I tried to tell him above the surrounding noise that God has a better plan for his life, that He does not want to see people–made in His image–degraded and exploited. But Eamon was obviously drunk or high on something so I’m not sure if he will even remember our encounter. Pray that somehow the Lord in His infinite grace and mercy will rescue him.

Disease Follows Depravity: Poster warns IML attendees of the increased risk for meningitis among “gay and bisexual men.” In the last year there have been two meningitis outbreaks among homosexual and bisexual men in Chicago, causing the city’s Department of Public Health to urge “sexually active men who have sex with men
 (MSM) living with HIV, as well as MSM who have anonymous sex partners or use ‘hook up’ apps to identify sexual partners, to get vaccinated” to prevent the disease. Of course, hyper-promiscuous events like IML celebrate the very reckless behaviors that puthomosexual men at extra risk in the first place. See this CDC site linking to other government reports detailing STD risks for “gay and bisexual men.”

Last year 17,000 men (and a smattering of women) attended IML, according to organizers. As the granddaddy of indoor “leather” events [see our story on a smaller “CLAW” “leather” event in Cleveland], this is a huge event costing millions of dollars to put on. Looking out at these men, some young and fit, some older and fat (they call themselves “Bears”), I wondered, how many, had they taken a different path, would be husbands and fathers, with wives and children–as opposed to reveling in sexual debauchery with a bunch of horny guys jacked up on drugs and drinking?

Though the Libertine Left scolds, “Who are you to judge?” and the world says, “Live and let live,” we as followers of Christ can and must judge that America’s descent into sexual sin and perversion is a great travesty. Our national heritage is being jettisoned as millions of Americans pursue “lifestyles” that put their eternal souls in jeopardy. Yet where is the Christian Church to respond to such “LGBT” deviance celebrations, and to offer a better way of living through Christ?

For the most part, in Chicago at least–but I suspect in most major cities–the Church has taken a “hands off” approach to the very active “gay” subculture–whether it’s fighting for Truth in the Culture War or simply ministering the Gospel with love, humility and compassion outside perverse sin-celebrations like IML.

Shame on us.

Buried conscience?

What was interesting is that several of the homosexual men we witnessed to had not fully buried their conscience and acknowledged that “International Mr. Leather” was celebrating all sorts of heinous and degrading behaviors. Or at least they took pains to let us know that they were not “into” some of the more extreme behaviors celebrated at this deviant homosexual event–like “fisting,” watersports (urine “sex play”) and “puppy play” (see below).

Pointing to the hundred or so “leathermen” and friends standing under and around the canopy of the Congress Plaza, a man named Allen said, “This is debauchery!” Allen ended up having a long conversation with Rob, who ably and patiently shared biblical truth with him.

Meanwhile, Lee, our self-appointed “protector,” told me several times that although he was wearing a t-shirt (from an IML vendor called “Dungeon Beds”) advertising the depraved BDSM “fetish” of urination orgies (aka “Watersports”), he really wasn’t “into that.” He just “liked the t-shirt,” or so he claimed.

(By the way, “BDSM” stands for Bondage & Discipline/ Domination & Submission/ Sadism & Masochism but many who identify with this “lifestyle” now call it “kink.” In other words, “kink” is the new “gay,” a simple and more appealing word that masks a lot of sexual perversion. Reprobates are constantly looking for ways to “mainstream” their behaviors, to lessen their internal guilt.)

So despite the moral pollution filling the corner of Congress Parkway and Michigan Avenue in Chicago, there was conviction that came from being told the truth. Deep down, I am convinced that many men who identify with the faux-masculine homosexual “leather” scene understand that they are practicing behaviors that God abhors, or at least that are wrong. You can see this from the names chosen for their “leather” products and the homosexual “leather bars” they frequent:

• Nasty Pig (perversion-enabling clothing, IML vendor) -[Note: as I wrote previously, an apology is due here to real (farm) pigs, who are not perverts!]
• Cell Block – Leather bar in Chicago
• Dungeon Beds – Another wicked vendor at the IML “Leather Market”
• Fort Troff: sells sodomy-facilitating equipment (again with the pig-defaming imagery)

“Natural” homosexuals and proud perverts

On the other hand, I do not want to give you a false impression that potential Christian converts were abundant at IML. Most of the men with whom we shared biblical truth with were proud “perverts”–or at the very least confident in their “gay” identity. One man, Alex, who told me he is voting for Trump, asked me if I “chose” to be heterosexual. When I said no and started to explain the difference, he said neither did he choose his homosexuality.

In other words, to Alex homosexuality was his “natural” state from his boyhood (when I asked he said he was not molested). When I had returned home, I regretted that I had not shared this Bible verse with him about not trusting your feelings:

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9, King James Version)

Another man who came across the street to engage with us was Brendan, a proud atheism apologist and enthusiast of “fisting”–a BDSM perversion invented by homosexuals in which a man inserts his hand and forearm up the rectum and colon of his deviant “sex partner.” I was shaken by how a seemingly intelligent young man like Brendan–who says he reads the AFTAH website–could avidly engage in such a vile and dangerous act.

Brendan extolled the bizarre and depraved act and pointed to his red “fisting” leather wristband (something like this)–the equivalent of the homosexual male “hanky code” dating back to the early 1970s in which a red hanky signals a devotee of “fisting”: worn in a man’s left pocket it designates the “fister”; in the right pocket, the “fistee.” Please pray for Brendan.

By the way, sickening “gay” inventions like “fisting” and “rimming” (mouth to anus) have spread to the lesbian and straight worlds–something “gay” and “leather” activists often affirm to exonerate themselves–as if that makes such revolting acts right. Anything to dull the conscience.

Men living as “dogs”

In another AFTAH photo-story we will expose some of the twisted goings-on at IML, based on our tour of the “Leather Market,” where perversion peddlers sold their wares, such as whips, chains, dildos (fake penises), bondage masks, etc. It was open to the public for the four days of IML; attendees were asked to pay a “suggested” $10 donation to go through it.

The first thing I noticed as different from the last time I walked the floors of the IML “Market” several years ago were the “dogs.” Dozens and dozens of human “puppies”–mostly young men–walking around with doggie masks and tails–often chained to another–usually older–man, their “handler.” Here is one “puppy” on a dog leash held by his older “handler”:

Paganism in Action: Man with his human “puppy” on a leash poses for photo at International Mr. Leather in Chicago. What could be more degrading than a man disassociating himself from his own humanity? And if the older man at right sodomizes his “pup,” is that some kind offaux bestiality? Click to enlarge.

What can one say to a grown man who disassociates from his God-given humanity to become the “puppy” of another man? Ditto for sadomasochistic human “slaves” and anyone eroticizing human degradation? Remember that in the realm of LGBT “liberation,” the men at International Mr. Leather–fisting and felching and rimming and urinating on one another–and becoming “dogs” on a leash–are the most “liberated” people on the planet! Ever-ready to promote the latest godless sexual fad, “progressives” in the media and academia are deathly afraid even to point out how warped and preposterous it is for a man to put on puppy “paws,” a dog mask and a tail to become the canine “pet” of another man.

Analyzing this nutty fetish further: since when does the owner of dog have “sex” with him? Is this fantasized, play-acting “bestiality”? (“Puppy Play” adherents deny that, but bestiality porn was sold by at least one IML vendor.)

Media will mainstream this, too

America’s left-wing media, having countenanced and then fueled the “Gay” Revolution, now enforce its bizarre Tolerance Code by not stating the obvious, even if that means no judgments of anti-human fads like homosexual “puppy play.” [See this curiously neutral Esquire piece bySarah Rense, who writes benignly: “[Human] Pups exist in a natural, more simplistic state.”]

We see this PC-conscious omission throughout the media, Hollywood, academia and public health establishments–in a much more serious arena–when it comes to public health and reckless homo-promiscuity. America’s opinion-molders simply refuse to condemn even the most egregious behaviors that cause disease outbreaks in the homosexual male subculture–be it meningitis (see above), syphilis, HIV, hepatitis, etc.

Even as reports of various sex-diseases striking “men who have sex with men” (MSM) proliferate, year after year, nobody in authority recommends the obvious: that there should be a public campaign (like the anti-cigarette-smoking ads) to discourage men and boys from engaging in these destructive behaviors.

Logo for Chicago-based “Mid America Fists in Action,” a homosexual “fisting” club.

Moreover, a sane and healthy society would shut down venues like “gay” bathhouses (e.g., the Steamworks bathhouse inChicago’s “Boystown” homosexual neighborhood) that cater openly to anonymous MSM promiscuity and perversions. (In the IML’s “Official Guide,” Steamworks advertised “Invasion Lights Out Night” May 26: “Fisting Demos from M.A.F.I.A.,” which stands for “Mid America Fists In Action“; see logo at right.)

Indeed, modern liberals are much more apt to bash and mock “judgmental Christians” than proud perverts–no matter what twisted acts crawl out from under the expanding LGBTQQIAPP (LGBTQueer) umbrella. Political correctness has become so absurd that it is impossible to parody. And its enablers are too arrogant and brain-dead, morally and spiritually speaking, to back away from the Orwellian nightmare they helped to create.

Regular folks amidst the sexual chaos

But all is not lost. There are still many millions of Americans whose brains are not so addled by leftist ideology that they cannot recognize evil and the abandonment of common sense when they see it. Very few Americans are even aware that there is something called the “leather community” (with its own black-and-blue“pride” flag!). Similarly, few are aware of the awful practices that go on between men in what is euphemistically called the “gay community.” Perhaps if they knew, they’d warn their sons to stay away from it.

I have heard more than a few stories over the years from–dare I say normal and wholesome–parents who inadvertently came into contact with a large, public homosexual celebration, forcing them to suddenly shield their kids from it. [See AFTAH’s article on Walmart’s Sponsorship of the 2015 New York City “Gay Pride Parade”; Walmart is again sponsoring the NYC “gay” parade this year.]

Take the innocent family members below, who were walking down Michigan Avenue Saturday afternoon when they came upon the IML homosexual-deviance convention, spilling out into the public sidewalk:

“Daddy, why is that silly man wearing a mask?” A normal American family with dad, mom and children passes by the Congress Plaza Hotel on Saturday as IML attendees spill into the nearby sidewalk. Note the man in the mask at right. AFTAH observers saw dozens and dozens of men with bare buttocks exposed at IML–both inside the hotel and out. See other photos below of indecent IML attendees talking on the sidewalk outside the hotel. Click to enlarge.

Here are the sorts of bizarrely indecent scenes that this family or any passer-by would come upon–in front of the Congress Plaza Hotel on popular Michigan Avenue around Memorial Day:

This is a Man…who wants to be a “woman.” America is now coming to grips with the radical “transgender” agenda. But if gender-confused men like this can receive “rights” and corporate accommodations based on their perverse and DNA-denying “gender identity,” how long will it be until “human pups” demand their own “rights” based on their deviant desires and self-identity? Click on photos to enlarge.

Or this:

“Mommy, why aren’t those men wearing pants?” Two young men–each with his bare buttocks exposed in public–stand outside the Congress Plaza Hotel. The man at right is wearing only a blue jockstrap and running shoes. In the background is the transsexual from the photo above. Note that the men’s clothing, or lack thereof, facilitates the reckless and casual male promiscuity–i.e., quick sodomitic penetration (e.g., on a dance floor or in a bathhouse)–fostered by IML and throughout the homosexual “leather” subculture. Yet Chicago public health officials, like their counterparts across the United States, refuse to close down anonymous sex venues like the Steamworks bathhouse in Chicago’s “gay” Boystown district. Nor will they simply urge “gay” men in the strongest terms to stop being promiscuous. Steamworks was heavily involved in the IML’s long weekend of hedonistic activities, including hosting a “Fisting Demos” night on Thursday with the Chicago “Fisting in Action” group M.A.F.I.A. 

NEXT: Part Two: International Mr. Leather and the new “Scooby Sexuality” (homosexual human “puppies”).

LOUISIANA POLITICIAN CALLS WORDS OF DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE "LIES"

NORTON: DECLARATION "NOT TRUE"

VIDEO:

Politician Calls Declaration of Independence’s Words a “Lie”

BY SELWYN DUKE

SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/23319-politician-calls-declaration-of-independence-s-words-a-lie; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Nothing could be less controversial than having schoolchildren learn a passage from the Declaration of Independence, right? Guess again. Because a recently proposed Louisiana bill requiring just that was shelved last week after a lawmaker implied it was racist and characterized it as a “lie.”

Breitbart reports on the story, writing that state Representative Barbara Norton (D; shown) "led the charge against HB 1035, a measure that would require local school boards of education to have students in grades four to six recite a specified section of the Declaration of Independence after the current daily period of silent prayer or meditation and the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.” The bill was introduced by State Rep. Valarie Hodges (R), and the passage the children would have recited follows:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Apparently, though, Rep. Norton is no fan of lofty ideals. Here’s what she had to say (video below) while agitating against the bill:

Representative Hodges, I’m not really sure what your intent is, but one thing I that I do know is, all men are not created equal. When I think back in 1776, July the 4th, African-Americans were slaves. And for you to bring a bill to request that our children will recite the Declaration, I think it’s a little bit unfair to us, to ask those children to recite something that’s not the truth. And for you to ask our children to repeat the Declaration, stating that all mens are free, I think that’s unfair. In 1776 Dr. King was not even born. African-Americans were in slavery. So since they were in slavery in the Declaration of Independence day, we were all created equal? We were not created equal because in 1776, July the 4th, I nor you nor any of us were born, nor was Dr. King born, so we were in slavery. And to have our children to repeat, to repeat, again and again documents that were not even validated, I don’t think that that’s fair because we’re teaching them a lie.

Tragically, Norton’s reasoning ability and grasp of history are as wanting as her grammar. While she cited Martin Luther King twice, she apparently knows little about him because he called the principles of the Declaration “magnificent words” in his “I Have a Dream” speech. Norton also clearly doesn’t grasp the obvious distinction between being created equal by God and being treated equally by man.

Norton’s complaint also reflects the general leftist idea that things born of antebellum America are invalid. But if tolerance for slavery disqualifies ideas, we’re going to have a problem because slavery was once ubiquitous throughout the world — until finally outlawed by European civilization. We couldn’t cite Aristotle, Plato, Socrates or other ancient Greeks because the Greeks practiced slavery. We couldn’t study Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Confucius, or Sun Tzu because the Romans and ancient Chinese practiced slavery. Why, slavery is still present in Africa today.

So following Norton’s “logic,” we’d have to dispense with virtually all of the past. It’s the kind of thinking that gives you French Revolutionaries starting history anew in 1789 or the Khmer Rouge and their “Year Zero.”

Norton also complained that the Declaration was “not even validated,” which might have been her way of saying that we hadn’t yet lived up to it. But that’s always the case with the loftiest ideas — people don’t live up to them. As I explained in 2004:

Let's say that there was a standard of morality that was the Truth, and by this I mean the very embodiment of perfection. How then could mere human beings, imperfect as they are, ever hope to live in accordance with it? They couldn't of course. This tells us something very important: while the failure to live up to a standard isn't in and of itself proof of it being the Truth, the ability to do so is most certainly proof that it cannot be.... It's ironic, but anyone who can truly practice what he preaches isn't practicing anything worth preaching.

So Norton is confusing the validity of beliefs with the virtue of believers. But beliefs don’t have to be “validated” (to take the term literally) by believers; they stand on their own merits.

It’s hard to imagine that all of the above could escape Norton were her mind not clouded by emotion. She would do well to worry less about the sins and prejudices of the past and examine her own prejudices. As for the Louisiana Legislature, the majority Republican chamber ought to be ashamed of itself for not laughing Norton’s inane remarks right out of Baton Rouge.

OBAMA HOSTS CUBAN BORDER GUARD VISITS~PAUL RYAN DEMANDS INVESTIGATION OF OBAMA'S IRAN DECEPTION~OBAMA BLAMES CONSERVATIVE MEDIA FOR WHITE ANGER

Obama Administration Hosts 

Cuban Border Guard Visits

Trips to Coast Guard facilities raise security concerns

BY BILL GERTZ

SEE: http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-administration-hosts-cuban-border-guard-visits/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

The Obama administration is hosting visits to U.S. Coast Guard facilities by Cuban Border Guard officials as part of its policy of seeking closer ties with the communist government in Havana.

The visits are raising concerns among officials and security analysts that closer ties with Cuba will benefit aggressive Cuban intelligence operations in the United States that have been underway for decades.

A delegation of Cuban officials arrives this week for visits to Coast Guard bases in Florida and Alabama following an earlier visit two months ago.

The Department of Homeland Security, which arranged the visits, refused to provide details of the Cuban delegation. But a spokeswoman said they are part of an exchange program.

“These visits represent professional exchanges between the U.S. Coast Guard and the Cuban Border Guard to discuss issues of mutual interest such as at-sea rescue operations,” DHS spokeswoman Gillian Christensen told the Washington Free Beacon, without elaborating.

Cuban officials on March 18 visited three Coast Guard port facilities in the south, including one near Mobile, Alabama. The group also toured an oil refinery in Alabama, according to a Coast Guard spokeswoman.

A State Department official said the Cuban Border Guard tours of Coast Guard bases are an outgrowth of the president’s pro-Havana tilt. “‎The administration’s new policy of engagement has enabled U.S. agencies to discuss and coordinate on topics of mutual interest as we work to normalize relations.”

The official referred further questions to the Cuban government. A Cuban Embassy official did not respond to email requests for comment.

Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Comdr. David French sought to play down the security concerns posed by the exchange by saying the service holds similar visits with many nations.

“The U.S. Coast Guard recently met with a Cuban delegation at Coast Guard sector Key West as part of the continued professional exchange between the Coast Guard and the Cuban Border Guard,” he said, declining to discuss past sessions or future visits.

President Obama traveled to Cuba in March as part of what the White House has called his rejection of “the failed, Cold War-era policy” of isolating the communist regime in Havana.

Alexandria Preston, a Coast Guard spokeswoman, said the March visit was arranged by Coast Guard headquarters as part of the International Port Security program.

The Cubans were given public information briefings and presentations about Coast Guard operations in Mobile followed by a question and answer session on the Maritime Transportation Security Act, she said. At the refinery, the Cubans were given a briefing and tour by the refinery’s security officer.

Cuba’s Border Guard troops are part of the Cuban Interior Ministry that directs the Intelligence Directorate, the political police, and an intelligence service modeled after the Soviet-era KGB intelligence service. The Border Guard in the past has been involved in liaisons with the U.S. Coast Guard.

Cuba’s intelligence services also cooperate with Russian intelligence services.

International drug traffickers are known to use Cuban waters and airspace to evade U.S. drug interdiction efforts.

The visits have raised concerns among security officials about Cuba’s role in conducting aggressive intelligence activities in the United States.

“Cuba—with historic, deeply held KGB connections—continues to command an enormous intelligence capacity and network to spy on America,” said Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.), a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

“Hosting Cuban government officials and delivering them to ‘tour’ American national security facilities—as well as critical infrastructure sites in the United States—proves that this administration naively believes that Cuba has changed,” Pompeo said. “It has not. And its espionage against the United States continues.”

Adm. Kurt W. Tidd, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, made no mention of the Border Guard-Coast Guard program during a Wednesday meeting with reporters at the Pentagon.

Tidd said a Cuban military medical team toured the Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort during a port visit to Haiti in September. In January, Southcom co-hosted a Caribbean Nations Security Conference with 18 nations represented, including Cuba for the first time.

“The island of Cuba sits directly astride principal north-south trading routes. Those trading routes also happen to be smuggling routes and Cuba has concerns about illicit trafficking,” Tidd said.

Engagement with Cuba will take time and the pace likely will be driven by the Cuban regime “because they’re not prepared for that degree of openness, frankly, and I think it will take [time] to get to that point.”

An FBI report two years ago warned that Cuban intelligence agents are targeting American academics for recruitment as spies.

“The Cuban intelligence services (CuIS) are known to actively target the U.S. academic world for the purposes of recruiting agents, in order to both obtain useful information and conduct influence activities,” the Sept. 2, 2014 report says.

Cuban intelligence seeks out academics as agents because the Havana government lacks the funds to provide cash to recruits. “Therefore, the CuIS have perfected the work of placing agents that includes aggressively targeting U.S. universities under the assumption that a percentage of students will eventually move on to positions within the [U.S. government] that can provide access to information of use to the CuIS,” the report said.

A key objective is “influencing American and Cuban-American academics, to recruiting them if possible, and to converting them into Cuban intelligence agents,” the FBI said, adding that students also face recruitment.

“Unfortunately, part of what makes academic environments ideal for enhancing and sharing knowledge also can assist the efforts of foreign intelligence services to accomplish their objectives,” the FBI said. “This situation is unlikely to change, but awareness of the methods used to target academia can greatly assist in neutralizing the efforts of these foreign intelligence services.”

Fred Burton, a Stratfor analyst, stated in a recent report that CIA and FBI agents will be closely monitoring Cuban intelligence activities following the resumption of U.S.-Cuba diplomatic ties.

“U.S. intelligence agencies are well aware of the Cuban threat,” Burton stated, adding that “the threat is real … and in a world full of hidden threats, there is no such thing as a friendly intelligence service.”

U.S. intelligence agencies also were fooled for years by a long-term Cuban spy in the Defense Intelligence Agency, Ana Montes, who supplied U.S. intelligence secrets to Cuba, including the identities of four American spies. Montes, who spied for Cuba from 1984 until her arrest in 2001, also was blamed for disclosing to Cuba the location of a clandestine U.S. Army base in El Salvador. The disclosure led to the 1987 death of Army Green Beret Sgt. Gregory Fronius, who was killed in El Salvador during an attack by pro-Cuban insurgents.

Cuba also has close ties to North Korea, as disclosed by the seizure in July 2013 of a North Korean ship found to be illegally carrying Cuban military jets and missile guidance components. North Korea was hit with Treasury Department sanctions but Cuba was not sanctioned as part of the Obama administration’s policy of seeking closer ties.

Disclosure of the Cuban visits to the United States comes as a leading Cuban dissident, José Daniel Ferrer García, said political repression on the island located 90 miles from Florida is increasing as opposition to the regime is growing.

“We make advances, then the regime represses us and we have to take steps back,” Ferrer told reporters in Washington this week.

“But the best thing we see is the change in the mentality of the people,” he added.

Ferrer said he expects “periods of more repression” and that dissidents could take to the streets in pro-democracy protests like those in Poland in the 1980s.

Ferrer cautioned American businesses to be wary of setting up subsidiaries in Cuba.

“The Castros never negotiate for a win-win,” he said. “They have a sick need to win and for the rest to lose.”

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House Speaker Demands Investigation Into Obama Admin’s Iran Deception

State Department censored video of press briefing about secret Iran talks

BY ADAM KREDO

SEE: http://freebeacon.com/national-security/house-speaker-demands-investigation-obama-admins-iran-deception/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) is calling for an immediate investigation into recent disclosures that the Obama administration censored public video of a State Department briefing about secret discussions with Iran, according to comments provided to the Washington Free Beacon.

Ryan, a vocal critic of the administration’s diplomacy with Iran, accused the White House of misleading Congress and the American people about the nature of last summer’s comprehensive nuclear agreement.

The disclosure on Wednesday that an unnamed State Department official ordered portions of a December 2013 press briefing about secret negotiations with Iran to be cut reinforces the need for full investigation into the administration’s deceptions surrounding the deal, Ryan said.

“This admission proves once again that the White House intentionally misled the American people about the Iran deal,” Ryan told the Free Beacon on Thursday. “If they truly care about transparency, the administration should investigate who requested this selective editing and why.”

State Department Spokesman John Kirby admitted on Wednesday that officials gave a direct order to delete portions of the briefing, which was conducted by former spokeswoman Jen Psaki and focused on the administration’s secret outreach to Iran early in the presidency.

Kirby revealed “that a specific request was made to excise that portion of the briefing.”

However, he maintained that the administration does “not know who made the request to edit the video or why it was made.”

The administration will not conduct a further investigation into the matter, even though interviews with State Department officials could not determine why this information was withheld from the public.

“The recipient of the call, who is one of the editors, does not remember anything other than that the caller was passing on a request from somewhere else in the bureau,” Kirby told reporters. “I see little foundation for pressing forward with a formal investigation.”

The administration also will not make an attempt to determine the name of the official who gave the order to delete the briefing.

Foreign policy experts who spoke to the Free Beacon speculated that the video might have been deleted to insulate Psaki, the State Department spokesperson at the time, from accusations that she deceived reporters about the administration’s diplomacy with Iran.

One senior congressional source who has worked closely on the Iran nuclear issue accused the administration of trying to sweep this lie “under the rug.”

“The Obama administration was caught in a lie, and now they’re trying to sweep it under the rug,” the source said. “Americans deserve to know who ordered this damning footage to be cut from the record.”

The administration’s behavior is consistent with other attempts to mislead congressional officials about the nature of the Iran deal.

The White House has been engulfed in a growing scandal over efforts by senior National Security Council figure Ben Rhodes to create a pro-Iran propaganda effort inside the West Wing.

The effort, which included outside nonprofit groups and prominent academics, was aimed at creating a so-called “echo chamber” to promote the Iran nuclear agreement.

The senior congressional aide who spoke to the Free Beacon said that the administration continues to violate the law with its efforts to suppress information about the nuclear agreement.

“This [behavior] should come as no surprise from an administration that repeatedly withheld critical information about the Iran deal from Congress, and even broke the law by failing to submit the secret side agreements,” the source said. “The fact is this deal was sold to the American people on a lie that’s finally starting to unravel.”

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Obama Blames Right Wing Conservative Media for Anger of White Americans

BY SUZANNE HAMNER

SEE: http://freedomoutpost.com/obama-blames-right-wing-conservative-media-for-anger-of-white-americans/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Like many Americans in this nation, the time for Hussein Soetoro to leave office cannot come soon enough. If members of Congress followed the Constitution, the totalitarian dictator would have already been removed from office and serving a sentence after facing impeachment and a criminal court. The man speaks so many lies and stirs the pot of racism and division in this nation all the while blaming the division on citizens. It has gotten to the point that people are angry; and, it is going to get worse.

On par for the megalomythomaniac, he has done nothing to stir the pot of racism in this nation – it is the fault of "conservative" right wing talk shows and naturally, the Republicans. Speaking in Elkhart, Indiana, the egotistical dictator "accused 'right wing' talk radio and cable channels like Fox News of angering white people in America about the economy...." He claims the economy is doing well under his administration. However, the majority of Americans would disagree.

As Breitbart reported:

During his speech, Obama decried Republicans who campaigned on stopping "welfare queens" complaining about "makers and takers" and even referred to Mitt Romney's 47 percent comment.

 "Their basic message is anti-government, anti-immigrant, anti-trade, and let's face it — it's anti-change," Obama said, accusing them of lying just to oppose him.

"What they are saying just isn't true," he said, before launching his own attempt at "mythbusting" narratives from conservative media.

Obama complained that people failed to recognize that he was succeeding in improving the economy, cutting the deficit, and cutting spending.

Since when does cutting the deficit equate to increasing the debt? With the way the District of Corruption calculates "cutting spending," cuts from necessary elements of government occur while wasteful spending on "teaching prostitutes how to use a condom" receives yearly funding. Once again, Republicans are run over by the Soetoro bus as he engages in stellar abundant lying fashion to discredit the Republican majority.

This man lies and lies and lies on top of more lies. He couldn't tell the truth to God himself with his life on the line. Funny that Democrats, especially this one, accuses Republicans and conservative of being "anti-government, anti-immigration, and anti-trade" when it is not the case at all. Yet, no matter how often it is explained, no Democrat, liberal, communist or socialist gets it.

No one is anti-government. What many are is for an anti-totalitarian, anti-police state, anti-spying government. Conservatives want a government that follows the law – the Constitution. Remember that piece of brilliant prose submitted to King George declaring this nation's independence from England? How is wanting our government to follow the Constitution being "anti-government" when it is one of the documents that established our republic? It's not being anti-government at all – it is being pro-limited government.

How is wanting to follow constitutionally established immigration law being "anti-immigration?" It isn't; however, Democrats can gain a new voting bloc through the "freebies" given to illegal alien invaders that taxpayers fund. Conservatives are pro-legal immigration.

And for goodness sake, why is it that Americans wanting an equitable trade agreement with foreign nations to prevent the united States from running a trade deficit detrimental to this nation are considered "anti-trade?" For decades, inequitable trade agreements with other nations have benefitted those nations at the expense of the citizens of this nation. Those individuals sent to represent the citizens of this nation, as well as men occupying the office of the president, have catered more to foreign nations, cared more about foreign nations' citizens, and cared more about being "friends" when it comes to trade agreements than looking out for the interests of this nation first.

If all of this means being "anti-change," then so be it. For the change that is offered by the Democrats, RINOs, Democrat Socialists, liberals and Communists amounts to nothing less than totalitarian oligarchic government where an iron fist rules not governs. Along with this totalitarian government comes massive surveillance, a police/military state, eradication of God-given rights, theft of all types of property, impoverishment, eradication of Christianity, enslavement, and misery, except for the political elite, the wealthy, the famous and the corporations.

Hussein Soetoro claimed this is the story being broadcast every day on cable news channels and "right wing radio" reaching people in cars, bars and VFW halls. He stated summarily that repetition of these stories leads one to believe them. "It's no wonder people start thinking big government is the problem," His Dictatorness stated.

"White Americans think that reverse discrimination is as big a problem as discrimination against minorities," this cretin argued.

Discrimination is discrimination. And yes, blacks discriminating against whites is a big problem. But, who actually scratched that healing wound, making it itch and bleed? The community organizer did through his continual campaigning, rock star style behavior while occupying the Oval Office, and support of black, criminal thugs over police in justifiable incidences of shootings.

Big government is the problem. At this point in time, no individual can go through the day without committing about three felonies based on law and pseudo-law enacted by government agencies through rules and regulations governing every aspect of life. Bit government is a problem when one cannot turn around without paying some sort of fee to government, violating some ordinance, law, or "rule," and find government agents on their property when making improvements.

Big government stifles free enterprise and the free market system. It inhibits entrepreneurs starting businesses and current business owners. His Dictatorness believes government is the answer to everything, like most Democrats, and Republicans, most, are right behind him. Yet, this nation prospered more under less interference by the government than it is now with "big government" and big brother watching.

Breitbart continues:

Obama argued they were wrong, since black unemployment was still twice as high as white unemployment and Hispanic women earned 55 cents for every dollar earned by a white man.—Obama warned voters against listening to Trump's political argument.

"The one thing I can promise you is if we turn against each other based on divisions of race and religion—if we fall for a bunch of okey-doke just because it sounds funny or the tweets are provocative, then we're not going to build on the progress we started."

And here is the crux of his ranting – jabbing Donald Trump. Unfortunately for Hussein Soetoro, these problems existed before Trump hit the political scene to run for president on the Republican ticket. But, the 36-hour memory sheep will buy all his hay and march right into the pack of wolves only to be eaten, as is his plan. He lies claiming to be the "unifier" while working to divide this nation along every line possible to keep the people from uniting, getting behind the Constitution, and pulling his dead backside out by his Armani suit.

His "divide and conquer" plan, formulated by his puppeteers, has divided this nation in order to turn this country into third world nation governed by totalitarian communist principles. That is the "progress" he started and one the elite needs to be completed soon.

Based on percent of population, more blacks are in jail than whites and more blacks are unemployed than whites. However, blacks are committing more crimes in proportion to the percent of population than whites. The way the government calculates unemployment is deceptive. Still, having a man in the Oval Office who appears to be black has left black Americans far worse off than before his tenure. Of course, none of his policies have anything to do with that because it has to be race, nothing else. None of the increasing government usurpations, including Obamacare, have anything to do with it. No, it is strictly race because if it isn't, one has to conclude this disparity was instigated by a supposed black man against black Americans.

And, let's not focus on the problems surrounding black communities that include gangs, drugs, destruction of the family unit by Democrats, and idolization of the "thug" lifestyle and culture. When solid, good role models for young blacks are demonized and characterized as "Uncle Toms" or "sell-outs," it pushes these impressionable young people to role models who glamorize the thug culture and criminal behavior. Rap music glorifying misogyny, crime, and anti-social behavior doesn't help either.

Hussein Soetoro is doing what he does best – continual campaigning, stirring the pot of racism, division and dissent, continuing his rock star style occupation of the Oval Office, and stuttering accusations at Republicans, white America, Trump and anyone in opposition to the "change" of government from a republic to a totalitarian communist dictatorship. If the sheep continue to walk in the direction he is herding them, they will find that what they wanted is not what they wanted after all. But, by then, it will be too late.

Yes, white America is angry, but not for the reasons this mythomaniac believes. Moreover, it's not only white America that is angry. It sounds better though when stirring the pot to highlight only white American anger.

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