TRUMP PAUSES EVICTIONS, FORECLOSURES AS REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO CORTEZ CALLS FOR RENT "SUSPENSION"

TRUMP PAUSES EVICTIONS, FORECLOSURES 

AS REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO CORTEZ 

CALLS FOR RENT "SUSPENSION"

BY LUIS MIGUEL

SEE: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/35172-trump-pauses-evictions-foreclosures-as-aoc-calls-for-rent-suspension;

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President Trump announced on Wednesday that the Department of Housing and Urban Development will temporarily suspend all home foreclosures and evictions through the end of April due to coronavirus.

Speaking in a press conference from the White House, the president said he was working with HUD Secretary Ben Carson on the policy.

“HUD will suspend all foreclosures and evictions until the end of April,” President Trump said.

The move was not very different from actions being pushed by avowed democratic socialist Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and her progressive allies.

In a seeming allusion to the Trump administration’s plan to send most Americans a check, which is part of an estimated trillion-dollar stimulus plan that would surpass the cost of Barack Obama’s 2009 program, Ocasio-Cortez asserted that merely giving citizens money isn’t enough — the government should suspend payment of rent, mortgages, and student loans.

“What people are dealing with is a liquidity issue,” the first-term congresswoman told 1010 WINS. “While cutting checks is an important part of an equation, I don't think it's going to help if it's the only action that’s taken. We need to take a look at mortgage, rent and student loan payment suspension to give people that buffer time.”

The lawmaker said “bold action” is needed to address the strain on the economy — a strain the government itself has provoked by restricting business operations in the wake of the virus.

Of course, on the one hand, we have the public health concern, but the second is an economic concern. We really need to take very bold action right now to make sure that we protect our moms and pops, our local restaurants, small businesses and also everyday people: freelancers, hourly workers whose incomes are getting cut back dramatically and in an unprecedented fashion and I believe we need to take a lot of action to pass those folks through.

The stimulus package being worked out by the White House and Congress would inject cash into affected industries, including $50 billion for the airline industry.

Ocasio-Cortez, however, said she would rather see money go to the development of public transportation — a common left-wing cause.

“I personally think that it's much more worthwhile for us to bail out our public transportation than the airline industry.... That investment in public infrastructure hasn't happened,” she argued. “I support federal funds to MTA and I personally would like to see the MTA be free or extraordinarily reduced.”

Ocasio-Cortez isn’t alone. Her former chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, leader of New Consensus (the group that authored the Green New Deal), laid out an ask list of coronavirus responses that includes rent and mortgage suspension and a $2,000 monthly living stipend for every American.

Universal Basic Income (UBI), the idea that the government should give all citizens a monthly check just for being alive, has been gaining traction in progressive circles. Its proponents view the coronavirus situation as a way of gaining public support for the idea — and they see President Trump’s proposed stimulus as a validation of their doctrine.

In fact, former Democratic presidential contender Andrew Yang, who made UBI one of the chief tenets of his campaign, said he has been in touch with the White house about incorporating direct cash assistance into a federal COVID-19 response.

Chakrabarti claimed the action needed from the federal government should parallel national mobilization efforts from the Great Depression and World War II.

Fittingly, President Trump declared on Wednesday that he is invoking the Defense Production Act, calling himself a “wartime president.”

“It can do a lot of good things if we need it,” he said at the White House. “We’ll have it all completed, signing it in just a little while.”

The act is described by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as “the primary source of presidential authorities to expedite and expand the supply of resources from the US industrial base to support military, energy, space and homeland security programs.”

The president is using the act to gain more authority to increase the manufacture and distribution of emergency medical supplies, including masks, ventilators, and respirators.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that the Defense Department will make up to five million masks available from U.S. strategic reserves.

“The first 1 million masks will be available immediately,” he said.

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SEE ALSO:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-progressives-coronavirus-relief

DUE TO CORONAVIRUS, PHILADELPHIA COPS WON'T ARREST BURGLARS OR CAR THIEVES

Philly Police Stop Low Level Arrests And Told Not To Jail Non Violent Crimes

DUE TO CORONAVIRUS, PHILADELPHIA COPS WON'T ARREST BURGLARS OR CAR THIEVES

BY DANIEL GREENFIELD

SEE: https://cms.frontpagemag.com/point/2020/03/due-coronavirus-philly-cops-wont-arrest-burglars-daniel-greenfield-0; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes: 

Go rob and steal all you want. The cops can't stop you. 

Beginning Tuesday as an attempt to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, Philadelphia police will delay arrests in crimes ranging from narcotics to theft to prostitution, Commissioner Danielle Outlaw informed commanders Tuesday.

Instead, suspects will be temporarily detained while officers can verify their identification. If they are not deemed a threat, they will be released and a warrant will be prepared for a future arrest. A detective will then submit an arrest affidavit to the district attorney’s office for approval.

The crimes will include all narcotics offenses, thefts, burglary, vandalism, prostitution, stolen cars, economic crimes, such as bad checks and fraud, and any existing bench warrants, she said in an internal memo obtained by the Inquirer. “The warrant will be served at a later time, as conditions dictate.”

The memo states: “If an officer believes that releasing the offender would pose a threat to public safety, the officer will notify a supervisor, who will review the totality of the circumstances and utilize discretion, in the interest of public safety, in determining the appropriate course of action.”

Sounds like a plan.

I'm sure that the burglars breaking into your home will then, afterward, happily turn themselves in to be arrested. At the moment, in any case, it's open season for criminals robbing stores, stealing cars, breaking into homes, and other "non-violent offenses".

I'm sure this will in no way lead to a crime wave that will make an even more dangerous city even more so.

It will however, encourage businesses to shut down and empty their stock. Or get guns. Except that shooting a robber isn't a non-violent offense, but the same guy breaking into a store is a non-violent offense.

Maybe Escape From New York should have been renamed, Escape From Philadelphia.
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https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/35167-philadelphia-releasing-burglars-non-violent-perps-to-stop-covid-19

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP INVOKES NATIONAL DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP INVOKES NATIONAL DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT

CLOSES BORDER WITH CANADA

THE CORONAVIRUS IS DESTROYING THE GLOBALIST NEW WORLD ORDER AS WE KNOW IT

THE CORONAVIRUS IS DESTROYING 

THE GLOBALIST NEW WORLD ORDER 

AS WE KNOW IT 

★★★ A NEW CONSERVATIVE AGE IS RISING ★★★ The Coronavirus is DESTROYING the Globalist NEW WORLD ORDER as We Know It; there really is no way around that! We’re going to take a look at precisely what globalism is, what the latest impact that the virus has had on globalist structures, and see how the biggest victim of this virus is nothing other than globalism itself. I think you’re going to love it.

PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL SEND AMERICANS CHECKS IN THE MAIL

PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL SEND AMERICANS CHECKS IN THE MAIL 

CHINA "RATCHETING UP THREATS" TO CUT OFF U.S. DRUG SUPPLY~CLINTON & OBAMA ADMINISTRATIONS ALLOWED CHINA TO MONOPOLIZE THE DRUG MARKET

CHINA "RATCHETING UP THREATS" 

TO CUT OFF U.S. DRUG SUPPLY 

Gillian Turner reports China is threatening to plunge America 'into the mighty sea of the coronavirus' by imposing controls on the export of pharmaceuticals to America.

China Threatens to Cut Off Medicine, Throw America into ‘Mighty Sea of Coronavirus’

BY JOHN HAYWARD

SEE: https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/03/13/hayward-china-threatens-to-cut-off-medicine-throw-america-into-mighty-sea-of-coronavirus/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

An article in China’s state-run Xinhua news service last week threatened to impose restrictions on medical exports so the United States will be “plunged into the mighty sea of coronavirus.”

The Xinhua piece, published on March 4 and entitled “Be Bold: The World Owes China a Thank You,” was largely composed of standard Chinese Communist Party propaganda about how the world stands in awe of China’s amazing response to the coronavirus outbreak. Naturally, it neglected to mention how the virus ran wild in the first place because of Chinese bureaucratic incompetence and cover-ups.

The Chinese have become as determined to wipe the first months of the coronavirus from the pages of history as they are to keep anyone from remembering Tiananmen Square. The Xinhua article made a point of noting that China has leverage over the U.S. and Europe because it can restrict the supply of medicines that were unwisely outsourced to China in the heyday of globalism. 

The Chinese paper explicitly threatened to do so if Americans and Europeans continue criticizing its response to the coronavirus or act too slowly to lift travel bans and other restrictions the Chinese government dislikes, but then cushioned the threat in the Communist Party’s usual creepy way by insisting China is filled with so much “love” for the world that it would never harm the people of other countries, or even “insult” them the way China has been “insulted” during the coronavirus epidemic. 

One of the insults harped on by Xinhua was Walter Russell Mead’s February 3 op-ed for the Wall Street Journal entitled “China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia,” a piece that prompted Beijing to expel Wall Street Journal reporters and begin complaining incessantly that Mead’s piece was insulting and racist. According to Xinhua’s March 4 editorial, Mead, his column, and the entire Wall Street Journal publication are now “infamous.”

Although most commentary has focused on the “mighty sea of coronavirus” threat, the Xinhua piece is also interesting as an early example of the Chinese Communist propaganda crusade to portray the coronavirus as originating in the United States and claim it was brought to Wuhan by the U.S. Army. Xinhua muttered darkly on March 4 about Americans “returning from Wuhan, China” right before the outbreak exploded and complained it was therefore hypocritical and insulting for the U.S. to impose travel bans on China.

The article was noticed and partially translated by Fox News on Friday in light of the Food and Drug Administration’s announcement that at least one unspecified drug useful for treating coronavirus patients is currently in short supply because the components for the drug cannot be obtained readily enough from China.

“In other words, they threatened to kill us, and we’re all sort of standing back like, ‘Oh, you know it’s not a big deal.’ It’s a terrifying situation,” Tucker Carlson of Fox News said on Wednesday.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) warned in a Fox News interview on Thursday that “about 80 percent of the active ingredients” in some vital drugs come from abroad, “and the overwhelming majority of that 80 percent are manufactured in China.”

Rubio and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich elaborated on China’s leverage over the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, and other sectors of the American economy, in an op-ed for Fox:

For years, China has enticed American multinational corporations with access to its markets in exchange for off-shoring and sharing intellectual property. Americans watched as Beijing captured critical portions of global supply chains, including in pharmaceutical drugs and medical equipment. Today, up to 80 percent of the active pharmaceutical ingredients in American drugs are sourced abroad.

Now, in the face of a pandemic, the absence of domestic capacity in critical medical sectors has critically endangered both the U.S. public health system and our economy. The inability to quickly increase the production of key supplies, such as surgical masks, medical gowns, respirators and pharmaceutical drugs limits our ability to mitigate the worst effects of the disease in this emerging crisis and in any future pandemic.

It is unacceptable that China holds this much leverage over America’s public health and economy, both essential components of our national security. For this reason, we propose that the U.S. take action to expand our production capacity while global supply chains are in flux and the global economy teeters on the edge of recession.

Rubio and Gingrich suggested encouraging and incentivizing American corporations to bring manufacturing capacity back from overseas, especially from hostile areas like China, taking advantage of the current chaos in global markets to implement measures that might have seemed unacceptably risky or painful in calmer times.

“America must make rebuilding our domestic supply chain a priority of its own,” they wrote, comparing their recommendations to Beijing’s deliberate strategy for capturing the biomedical industry.

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SEE ALSO:

https://gellerreport.com/2020/03/china-threatens-sea-of-corona.html/; 

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The country that brought Wuhan Virus into the world is now threatening us with it. It’s time to reverse the leftist sellout of America that has put Beijing in charge of our drug supply chain.

Related: ‘Buy American’ — White House Confirms Executive Order That Will End Medical Supply Chain Reliance On China


China's Xinhua News just posted a piece titled "Be bold: the world owes China a thank you", which says if China imposes restrictions on pharmaceutical exports, US will be "plunged into the mighty sea of coronavirus". https://t.co/us3QJB7kIa

— Yanzhong Huang (@YanzhongHuang) March 4, 2020





CHINA THREATENS TO THROW AMERICA ‘INTO THE MIGHTY SEA OF THE CORONAVIRUS.’

China is threatening to wreak havoc on America’s drug supply amid the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. Thanks to our globalist elite and especially missteps during the Obama-Biden administration, Beijing has the power to do just that.

By Christian Whiton, National Interest

China is threatening to wreak havoc on America’s drug supply amid the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. Thanks to our globalist elite and especially missteps during the Obama-Biden administration, Beijing has the power to do just that.

IN AN ARTICLE IN XINHUA, ONE OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY’S MOUTHPIECES, BEIJING THREATENED THAT IT CAN IMPOSE PHARMACEUTICAL EXPORT CONTROLS AFTER WHICH AMERICA WILL BE “PLUNGED INTO THE MIGHTY SEA OF CORONAVIRUS.”









Unfortunately, Beijing isn’t bluffing about this capability.

As Rosemary Gibson, co-author of “China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine,” testified to a congressional commission last summer, China has a dominant role in the manufacture of the generic drugs that comprise 90 percent of what Americans take.

The critical vulnerability isn’t just in finished drugs, but what are called active pharmaceutical ingredients, some 80 percent of which America now imports. Most of these come from Red China.

Even finished drugs from other sources are dependent on China. Another major source of generic drugs is India, and 80 percent of that country’s drug ingredients come from China.

There are many culprits behind this betrayal, but some deserve special mention.

Foremost is the globalist cabal that exported our industries to China in the name of “free trade.” As Gibson also reports, within four years of passage of the Clinton-era law giving China unfettered access to U.S. markets and WTO membership, “the last penicillin fermentation plant in the U.S. closed; China’s vitamin C cartel forced the closure of the last U.S. production facility, and the last aspirin manufacturing facility ceased business because of predatory pricing by Chinese firms.”

The Chinese government has used its favorite playbook to make the world dependent on its drugs: protecting and subsidizing domestic manufacturers to undersell American competitors, aided by Chinese industrial espionage. Indeed, biotechnology is one of ten categories of Beijing’s “Made in China 2025” industrial strategy which has driven so much of its theft of intellectual property and dumping of goods at below-market prices to kill U.S. businesses.

Among the globalists, the former Obama-Biden administration is particularly culpable for putting America at risk. During the eight years of that administration, then-Vice President Biden was often the frontman for responding to the increasing number of foreign outbreaks to which America has been exposed.

During the H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic in 2009, Biden incorrectly addressed the public about the outbreak, “I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places right now… It’s that you are in a confined aircraft. When one person sneezes, it goes everywhere through the aircraft.”

Speaking about the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak, Biden recently said, “I was part of making sure that pandemic did not get to the United States, saved millions of lives.” In fact, the Obama administration admitted people known to have the disease to America.

Are we to believe that amid all of this attention to outbreak that Biden and his globalist colleagues didn’t know of America’s growing inability to make even the most basic pharmaceuticals? Throughout the Obama-Biden administration, our dependence on China got much worse.

Last month, Biden criticized the Trump administration’s response to Wuhan coronavirus. Initially, he slammed the president’s unprecedented decision to stop flights from China: “This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia–hysterical xenophobia–and fearmongering.”

Later he flip-flopped to accusing Trump of not doing enough, imagining if he were president that, “I would be on the phone with China making it clear we are going to need to be in your country. You have to be open. You have to be clear. We have to know what’s going on.”

Of course, Beijing’s unwillingness to allow anything of the sort is a reason their coronavirus has spread far and wide. Oddly, Biden and his fellow globalists remain sanguine about China and their ability to influence its communist government. Last year, he said of China, “they’re not bad folks,” and “they’re not competition for us.”

Of course Biden was not alone, and neither were the Democrats. The House of Bush was always fond of the myth that economic engagement of China, evidently on terms favorable to Beijing, would turn an adversary into an ally. The myth lives on. Bob Zoellick, who was George W. Bush’s trade kingpin, has been an outspoken opponent of Trump’s effort to end U.S. dependence on China, lamely claiming, “You can’t contain China.”

To fix this medical vulnerability, Trump should apply gradually increasing, permanent tariffs on Chinese drugs and ingredients. He should also establish a strategic reserve of drugs by requiring the Defense Department and Veterans Affairs to buy only drugs that are 100 percent made in America. This domestic demand would create domestic supply.

Trump should also press drug companies to start a crash program to achieve supply chain independence from China. If would be great if he could achieve this through an appeal to patriotism. If not, he should use the Defense Production Act of 1950 to force the issue.

It’s time to reverse the globalist sellout of America that has put Beijing in charge of our drug supply chain.

Christian Whiton, a senior fellow at the Center for the National Interest, is the author of Smart Power: Between Diplomacy and War. He was a State Department senior advisor during the George W. Bush and Trump administrations.

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SEE ALSO:

https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/03/arming-china-its-bill

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NORTH CAROLINA: AMID CORONAVIRUS, GOING TO CHURCH IS A MISDEMEANOR, WHILE RESTAURANTS, LIBRARIES STILL ALLOWED

NORTH CAROLINA: AMID CORONAVIRUS, GOING TO CHURCH IS A MISDEMEANOR, WHILE RESTAURANTS, LIBRARIES  STILL ALLOWED

SEE: https://reformationcharlotte.org/2020/03/14/amid-coronavirus-going-to-church-a-misdemeanor-in-nc-while-restaurants-libraries-still-allowed/; 

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Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order in North Carolina today limiting mass gatherings to no more than 100 people while also closing public schools.



Executive order 117 states that “to help protect the health and well-being of North Carolinians, I [Governor Roy Cooper] hereby prohibit mass gatherings in the State of North Carolina.”

However, according to the executive order, “a mass gathering does not include normal operations at airports, bus and train stations, medical facilities, libraries, shopping malls and centers, or other spaces where more than one hundred persons are gathered. It also does not include office environments, restaurants, factories, grocery stores or other retail establishments.”

While it is understandable that medical facilities and airports would be exempt, but one can only wonder why restaurants and libraries would be exempt from the mandate, but not churches.

Hundreds of churches across North Carolina meet regularly on Sunday mornings with more than 100 people and, according to the executive order, violations “may be subject to prosecution” and “punishable as a Class 2 misdemeanor.”

The full text of the executive order is below:

CALIFORNIA: DESPITE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, ORGANIZERS VOW TO BRING A GAY PRIDE FLESH FESTIVAL TO LOS ANGELES IN 2020

CALIFORNIA: DESPITE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, ORGANIZERS VOW TO BRING  A GAY PRIDE FLESH FESTIVAL TO LOS ANGELES IN 2020

SEE: https://reformationcharlotte.org/2020/03/16/despite-covid-19-pandemic-organizers-vow-to-bring-a-gay-pride-flesh-festival-to-los-angeles-in-2020/; 

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While the recent pandemic of the coronavirus is shutting down churches and other organized events around the globe, gays are promising that despite the outbreak, to bring a gay pride march to Los Angeles at some point in 2020.



Sane people would look at the crisis and, at the behest of medical experts, avoid unnecessary contact with the public until the pandemic has eased — and that isn’t expected to happen for a while. However, organizers of Los Angeles annual gay pride festival — a flesh festival where infectious diseases are already far more prevalent than in the general population — are promising that even though it may be delayed, there will be a gay pride march in 2020.

The LA Pride event is one of the largest in the nation and was scheduled for June 12-14 for 2020. However, they are already looking at other dates.

“In the coming weeks and months, we will make sure that the spirit of Pride is not forgotten,” the organizers said in a letter to Los Angeles homosexuals. “We are still working out all the details, but we can guarantee that LA’s LGBTQ+ community — and the entire world — will not get through 2020 without a Pride celebration to remember.”

It should be noted that a “community” that is already at a much higher risk for infectious diseases is unscathed by the outbreak but churches, Christians, and others who are taking precautions to stay clean and avoid the outbreak are the ones being affected the most. This is seriously a world that is under the judgment of God as so many are under a delusion of false security.

INSTEAD OF FIGHTING INFECTIOUS DISEASE, CDC WASTES $ MILLIONS ON TRANSGENDER BEAUTY PAGEANTS & GUN CONTROL

CDC BURNS THROUGH TAX DOLLARS

SEE: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/11/cdc_ceners_for_damaged_credibility_142622.html

In 2007, Sen. Tom Coburn’s fiscal audit of the agency discovered vulgar expenditures including CDC syphilis prevention funds spent to host a “safe-sex” event with a porn star, CDC HIV/AIDS prevention funds spent on a transgender beauty pageant, and $45 million in CDC funding spent on conferences featuring prostitutes, protests and beach parties.

INSTEAD OF FIGHTING INFECTIOUS DISEASE, CDC WASTES $ MILLIONS ON TRANSGENDER BEAUTY PAGEANTS & GUN CONTROL

SEE: https://reformationcharlotte.org/2020/03/17/instead-of-fighting-infectious-disease-cdc-wastes-millions-on-transgender-beauty-pageants-and-gun-control/; 

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As Americans, as a freedom-loving society, it’s difficult to fathom and comprehend the current health crisis we’re facing right now. With Americans on lockdown, barely able to leave our homes, we’ve trusted our government to protect our freedoms — after all, that’s what our government was designed to do.



Instead, our government has failed us — time and time again, demonstrably so. Our government which should be using our tax dollars for no other purpose but to protect our freedoms and uphold our constitutional rights, has, instead, been wasting our tax money on frivolous pet causes for special interest groups.

Chief among those, LGBTQ activist groups.

It has been revealed in a recent report released at Real Clear Politics that the United States Center for Diseased Control (CDC) has, instead of studying and fighting infectious diseases, been wasting money on transgender beauty pageants, safe-sex events featuring a sex-video star, and pushing gun control. Real Clear Politics reports,


At nearly $7 billion, CDC’s annual budget is more than 200% larger than it was two decades ago. On top of that, a shady big business lobbying group called Corporate Friends of CDC has raised hundreds of millions of supplemental dollars — which raises serious conflict-of-interest issues. In 2007, Sen. Tom Coburn’s fiscal audit of the agency discovered vulgar expenditures including CDC syphilis prevention funds spent to host a “safe-sex” event with a porn star, CDC HIV/AIDS prevention funds spent on a transgender beauty pageant, and $45 million in CDC funding spent on conferences featuring prostitutes, protests and beach parties.



Despite the flood of money, the agency been caught flat-footed on outbreak after outbreak. They squander untold millions on other health threats in favor of pushing gun control and nanny state hobby horses (TV violence, helmet laws, video games, anti-bullying campaigns and explicit sex education, for example). CDC has one primary job — disease control — but has managed to botch it without ever learning from past failures.


As Americans, we should be outraged by this. But sadly, we’re not — and likely, we’re numb to this kind of wasteful and frivolous spending. But right now, we’re feeling the effects of our government’s unconstitutional actions, activism, and wasteful spending like never before.

Let’s be clear, this isn’t a problem that Donald Trump or any other president is going to fix. This is how our society now operates. This is considered “normal” among rank-and-file Americans who pay outrageous taxes to big government operations to fund the nanny-state we now live in. We, as a society, have come way too far in our dependence on government. And while we still consider ourselves a free nation, the truth is, we’re not. And we’re finally getting a taste of what socialism will look like if we keep going in this direction.

Hopefully, Americans will wake up — but this is the time that Christians should be proclaiming the sovereignty of God over all things and learn to trust in Him instead. This is not to say we shouldn’t be active in government — we should. But let’s remember that Jesus’ Kingdom is not of this world. Let’s long for His return.

THE AMERICAN LEGION GIVES BIG PUSH FOR VETERANS TO PRACTICE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION

EDITOR JEFF STOFFER:

SEE: https://mrmagazine.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/an-advocate-and-a-voice-for-veterans-the-american-legion-magazine-stands-behind-their-membership-a-mr-magazine-memorial-day-weekend-special-interview/

THE AMERICAN LEGION GIVES BIG PUSH 

FOR VETERANS TO PRACTICE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 

SEE: https://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/newsletters/2020/newsletter20200316.htm; 

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In a 2020 three-part series titled “Mysteries of the Mind,” The American Legion magazine tells veterans they should practice transcendental meditation if they feel stressed, saying that TM “can help veterans confronting PTSD.” Writer of the article, American Legion magazine editor Jeff Stoffer, enthusiastically adds:


Those who practice TM say the key to unlocking clear thought and function, no matter the situation, is to spend 20 minutes twice a day deliberately thinking about nothing, allowing the brain to essentially have a mind of its own. . . . Transcendental meditation, as a treatment for veterans diagnosed with PTSD, is not a New Age fad.


The American Legion has a strong influence throughout the world. According toThe American Legion magazine website,


The American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic veterans organization. Focusing on service to veterans, servicemembers and communities, the Legion evolved from a group of war-weary veterans of World War I into one of the most influential nonprofit groups in the United States. . . . Today, membership stands at nearly 2 million in more than 13,000 posts worldwide.


Stoffer’s article does nothing but offer praise and accolades for meditation and downplays those who have concerns about it:


TM should not be ruled out because of any stereotypes or cultural biases. . . . Some skepticism is based on a perception that TM is a religious activity or has a specific spiritual or ideological bent. “To the contrary, we have found people becoming more understanding of their religion, more at peace with their god,” [brain-scientist Tony] Nader says. “We used to say that if religion is to invite God to your home, TM can be like cleaning your home.” . . .

“You’re not changing how you think. You’re not changing politics. You can be a Republican. You can be a Democrat. You can be Catholic, Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim – it doesn’t change you. You’re still who you are. Your mind is just in a better place. It doesn’t change you. It changes your physiology. It changes your mind. It changes how you deal with everything else.”


It is most unfortunate that Stoffer’s article gives no warning of the potential dangers in practicing meditation. His one-sided, biased view will no doubt convince many American Legion readers (veterans) to give it a try. And if they take Stoffer’s word for it, they’ll probably never research the matter and discover the real dynamics behind meditation. Stoffer’s article claims that meditation “doesn’t change you,” but admits it “changes your mind.” What a contradiction! If something changes your mind, it does change you. And as we have witnessed within Christianity with contemplative prayer (a “Christianized” eastern-meditation practice), meditation alters the way one thinks about God, sin, salvation, and just about everything in life itself—and, biblically speaking, not for the good.

The American Legion magazine’s motto is “For God and Country Since 1919,” but we do not believe the God of the Bible would agree with its efforts to turn veterans into eastern-religion meditators.

If you know a veteran, perhaps you might consider giving them a copy of Ray Yungen’s booklet, Meditation! Pathway to Wellness or Doorway to the Occult?. If you want to give a copy of this booklet to a veteran and cannot afford to purchase the booklet, e-mail us at editors@lighthousetrails.com, and we will send you a free copy to give to your veteran friend or relative.

The following list of the possible results from meditating is derived from the various sources we used to compile our booklet on mindfulness meditation:


insomnia
fear
hypersensitivity to light and sound
anxiety
difficulty eating
panic and paranoia
psychosis
seizures
mania
visual hallucinations
unable to function or work
a loss of sense of identity
psychotic depression
elevated mood and grandiose delusions
unrestrained behaviors (sexual and violence)
pain
confusion and disorientation
feelings of emptiness and ennui (listlessness, dissatisfaction)
depersonalization
impairment of social relationships
cognitive, perceptual and sensory aberrations
disempowering
causes passiveness and compliance (even when those are negative responses to certain situations)

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SEE:

AUDIO: https://www.legion.org/sites/legion.org/files/legion/audio/

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