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Published on Mar 9, 2017
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker Paul Ryan has used his weekly press
briefing to deliver a PowerPoint presentation about the Republican
health care bill that's moving through the House. Using a laser pointer,
the speaker clicked through a series of slides to illustrate problems
with the existing law and explain the GOP's solutions. Key committees
met through the night on the bill.
HHS Secretary Tom Price Explains President Trump's American Health Care Act After Repeal Of Obamacare
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This is great. Facebook hereby signals its virtue: it is standing
with Muslim women and presumably against Donald Trump and racist,
redneck yahoos everywhere. But where is Facebook’s concern for Aqsa
Parvez, whose Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it? Or Aqsa and Amina Muse Ali, a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab? Or the 40 women who were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab; or Alya Al-Safar, whose Muslim cousin threatened to kill her and harm her family because she stopped wearing the hijab in Britain; or Amira Osman Hamid, who faced whipping in Sudan for refusing to wear the hijab; or the Egyptian girl, also named Amira, who committed suicide
after being brutalized for her family for refusing to wear the hijab;
or the Muslim and non-Muslim teachers at the Islamic College of South
Australia who were told that they had to wear the hijab or be fired; or the women in Chechnya whom police shot with paintballs because they weren’t wearing hijab; or the women also in Chechnya who were threatened by men with automatic rifles for not wearing hijab; or the elementary school teachers in Tunisia who were threatened with death for not wearing hijab; or the Syrian schoolgirls who were forbidden to go to school unless they wore hijab; or the women in Gaza whom Hamas has forced to wear hijab; or the women in Iran who protested against the regime by daring to take off their legally-required hijab; or the women in London whom Muslim thugs threatened to murder if they didn’t wear hijab; or the anonymous young Muslim woman who doffed her hijab outside her home and started living a double life in fear of her parents; or the fifteen girls in Saudi Arabia who were killed
when the religious police wouldn’t let them leave their burning school
building because they had taken off their hijabs in their all-female
environment; or all the other women and girls who have been killed or
threatened, or who live in fear for daring not to wear the hijab?
Who is standing in solidarity with them? Do they have any place in
International Women’s Day? Those who taunt or brutalize hijab-wearing
women are louts and creeps, and should be prosecuted if they commit any
acts of violence. At the same time, the women who don’t wear hijab in
Muslim countries are far more likely to be victims of violence than
hijabis in the West. Who stands with them?
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Will Nike offer stoning supplies for adulterous Muslimas? Will Nike
offer a series of blades suitable for slitting the throats of Muslimas
who dare not to wear the hijab? Will Nike offer Klan hoods for racist athletes?
“Nike Has A New Product For Muslim Women: The ‘Pro Hijab,’” by Zahraa Alkhalisi, CNN, March 7, 2017:
PHILADELPHIA (CNN) — Nike will soon begin selling a performance hijab for Muslim women athletes. The head cover, called the “Nike Pro Hijab,” boasts a single-layer
pull-on design made from lightweight polyester in dark, neutral colors.
The fabric’s tiny holes will make it breathable while remaining opaque, a
requirement for hijab-wearing women.
Nike said it began developing the hijab after some Muslim athletes
complained about wearing a traditional head scarf during competition.
The design process took 13 months, and the final product will be available for sale in the company’s Spring 2018 season.
Nike said the hijab is already being worn by Emirati figure skater Zahra Lari.
“I was thrilled and a bit emotional to see Nike prototyping a Hijab,”
Lari said in a statement. “I’ve tried so many different hijabs for
performance, and … so few of them actually work for me. But once I put
it on and took it for a spin on the ice, I was blown away by the fit and
the light weight.”…
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President Donald Trump has
received a huge boost for his economic agenda with the news that the
U.S. created 298,000 new jobs after his first full month in office,
shattering expectations by a margin of over 100,000.
The total blasted through market expectations that around 190,000 new jobs would be created.
“The
report encompassed the first full month under President Donald Trump,
who has pledged to rebuild the nation’s aging infrastructure system,” reports CNBC.
The numbers bode well for President
Trump’s agenda of economic nationalism and his vow to reverse the
ravages of globalism by bringing jobs back home.
The
breakdown of the numbers is significant because it shows that the U.S.
is becoming less dependent on service sector jobs as Trump tries to
provide new incentives for companies to take on more construction and
manufacturing workers.
Goods
producers added 106,000 of the new jobs, with construction jobs swelling
by 66,000 – the most in 11 years – and manufacturing jobs by 32,000.
Claims for unemployment benefits are also at the lowest for 44 years, suggesting employers are confident about the future.
“Companies
employing 500 or more workers increased staffing by 72,000 jobs;
payrolls rose by 122,000 at medium-sized businesses, or those with 50 to
499 employees, the most in three years; while small companies’ payrolls
gained 104,000, an eight-month high,” reports Bloomberg.
The
news is sure to be heralded by President Trump, while the mainstream
media, which Trump has accused of acting as the opposition party, will
look to bury the figures as it continues to spin the narrative that his
embryonic administration is in turmoil.
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In an unusual move that comes amid intensifying efforts across
America to provide what critics call “medicine at gun point,” dozens of
schoolchildren were banned from attending class in Rochester, Minnesota,
for not proving they received a dizzying array of government-mandated
vaccines. The reported number of students removed from school began at
around 80, declining to about 60 soon afterward. The only alternative to
the mandatory vaccines for schoolchildren is for their parents to jump
through legal hoops to obtain an exemption. The controversial measure
was largely effective in ensuring widespread compliance with the vaccine
mandates, but critics are sounding the alarm about the threat to
freedom and medical ethics.
Among the myriad shots now being required by state officials in
Minnesota is one for chicken pox, which countless experts have
questioned or even lambasted as counter-productive. Also required is the
measles vaccine, which, according
to the federal government's own data, is far more likely to kill
American children than the disease it purports to protect against.
Failure to receive even one of the more than one dozen mandatory shots
resulted in the children being removed from class, according to press
reports. Like most state governments across America, Minnesota
authorities take their cues on vaccines from federal “recommendations”
developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
There are three routes for parents in Minnesota to escape the vaccine
mandates. One is to simply avoid the schools and homeschool instead.
Another is to receive an exemption from a healthcare provider for
medical reasons. And finally, the Minnesota Department of Health offers
parents a form on which they can claim a “conscientious objection” to
the vaccines. The form must be notarized and filed with authorities.
According to media reports, almost 400 students in Rochester Public
Schools are already exempt under the “conscientious objection” exemption
— an exemption now in the crosshairs of Big Pharma agents in the
legislature.
Enforcement of the state laws dealing with forced vaccination varies
between districts, with Rochester apparently taking the hardest line
yet. School officials in Rochester, though, argued that they had made
major efforts to make parents aware of the situation, sending out a
letter in January and another in February warning them to comply or face
consequences. The number of students not in compliance with the
mandates apparently dropped by more than half before dozens of children
were banned from school last week. Officials said they were working with
families to get the correct documentation and that children could
re-enroll as soon as their vaccine paperwork was in order.
The increasingly discredited establishment media, which counts Big
Pharma and vaccine manufacturers among its biggest-spending advertising
clients, virtually all celebrated the school district's controversial
decision. The articles about the removal of the students quoted a wide
array of pro-vaccine sources, but almost all failed to mention the
reasons why so many parents across America are becoming more skeptical
of vaccines. In editorials, newspapers in the state also cheered the
drastic measures, calling for other districts to use similar tactics.
When the concerns of parents were actually mentioned, media outlets
dismissed them out of hand.
But more than a few critics in the alternative media did sound the
alarm. Writing at NaturalBlaze.com, Dr. Gary Kohls, a medical doctor in
Minnesota, suggested that disinformation from the Rochester-based Mayo
Clinic and its crony cohorts in government and Big Pharma may have
played a role in the decision by school authorities. However, he warned
that advocates for such a scheme were doing so “without acknowledging —
or perhaps even being aware of — the large amount of recent
neuroscience-based evidence from scientists world-wide that should be
modifying the out-dated CDC mandates.”
“Big Pharma and the CDC have very profitably generated and then
propagated the myth that their over-priced and very poorly researched
vaccines are both effective and safe,” added Dr. Kohl, a retired
physician who had a 40-year family practice career and now tries to
sound the alarm on vaccine dangers. “The safety and efficacy of all
vaccines has been disproven (including the 270 new ones that the
industry is currently developing and planning to market), but the word
has not broken through to the large clinics like the Mayo Clinic.”
Commenting on the decision to remove children from school for
non-compliance with the federally backed vaccine mandates, Kohl used
harsh words to describe the scheme. “Sounds like police state tactics to
me,” he said, noting that everything the Gestapo did in National
Socialist (Nazi) Germany was technically legal under laws passed by the
Nazi-controlled Reichstag. “The school board is as dis-informed as most
health journalists are on this issue.” He suggested that media outlets
may some day be accused of being “an accessory to a crime” for helping
propagate what he called the “subterfuge” of the “safe and effective
vaccine.”
But the coercive measures are not limited to Rochester, or even the
United States. Just days before Rochester school officials began
enforcing the ban on unvaccinated children in the classroom, virtually
the same thing happened across the border in Canada. According to
Canadian news reports, almost 700 students in Windsor-Essex were
suspended from school due to incomplete vaccine records. “Although the
suspensions can last up to 20 days, we are hoping students will update
their records in a timely manner,” said Stacy Manzerolle, who runs the
“Healthy Schools” program there.
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) has for years been
helping to lead the fight against coercive vaccination and the
undermining of medical ethics, especially the escalating assault on the
time-honored principle of informed consent. “If the State can tag, track
down and force citizens against their will to be injected with
biologicals of known and unknown toxicity today, there will be no limit
on which individual freedoms the State can take away in the name of the
greater good tomorrow,” NVIC co-founder Barbara Loe Fisher was quoted as
saying.
But even as the Rochester school district's actions drew widespread
attention, controversy surrounding the safety and efficacy of vaccines
in general has again heated up, especially in light of President Donald
Trump's skeptical views. On the campaign trail, he suggested vaccines
were responsible for an “autism epidemic” among children. “People that
work for me, just the other day, 2 years old, beautiful child went to
have the vaccine and came back and a week later got a tremendous fever,
got very, very sick, now is autistic,” Trump declared in a GOP primary
debate.
And years before successfully running for president, he was making
similar statements. “Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped
with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes —
AUTISM,” Trump said on social media three years ago. “Many such cases!”
And in 2012, he made the same argument on Fox, saying that he had seen
people with a “perfectly healthy child” who went for vaccinations and
then, a month later, “the child is no longer healthy.” Big Pharma
minions were outraged.
In addition to Trump's statements, a new documentary called Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe
has been making waves across America. The explosive film was made with
help from Dr. Andrew Wakefield. The British doctor first reported
finding a link between autism and vaccines in the late 1990s, before
becoming the victim of what appears to be an unprecedented smear
campaign orchestrated by Big Pharma and the establishment media.
Eventually the prestigious medical journal that published his study
retracted it, but concerns never went away.
Among other information in the film: a confession by Dr. William
Thompson, a whistleblower from the U.S. government's CDC, who says the
feds deliberately concealed data showing a causal relationship between
the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine and autism. Essentially, the
documentary and the experts interviewed in it argue that there is an
“alarming deception” surrounding vaccines that has “contributed to the
skyrocketing increase of autism and potentially the most catastrophic
epidemic of our lifetime.”
As concerns grow across America about both the safety and efficacy of
vaccines, Big Pharma and the politicians it showers money on have been
waging a relentless counter-attack. Among the tactics: seeking to
curtail choice and informed consent while viciously demonizing all who
resist. California, for example, recently joined a handful of other states in removing non-medical exemptions to vaccines,
including religious exemptions. A similar scheme is being considered in
Minnesota as part of what critics have decried as an assault on freedom
and medical ethics.
And all of the efforts to use coercion to push vaccines are happening
despite the fact that Big Pharma lobbyists already convinced Congress
to protect vaccine manufacturers from liability. That means that
families of victims injured or killed by vaccines must be compensated by
taxpayers through a special vaccine court, putting taxpayers on the
hook for problems resulting from shots. Virtually no other industry
enjoys such a privilege.
Attacks on medical freedom and informed consent similar to what is
happening in America are underway outside of the United States, too —
particularly as more and more parents begin to question the safety and
efficacy of vaccines. In Australia, for instance, almost 150,000
families were cut off from childcare benefits for failure to obey
vaccine mandates. Many European governments are also cracking down on
resistors. In Africa, numerous
prominent doctors and religious officials have argued that the United
Nations was using a vaccine program to sterilize women.
But there is good news as well. For parents concerned about
increasingly disastrous “education” and moral instruction in schools,
along with the government's usurpation of power over their children's
healthcare decisions, there are a growing range of options. Aside from
the fast-growing homeschooling movement, burgeoning online schools such
as Freedom Project Academy, an affiliate of this magazine, offer parents
real choice — a good education, at a reasonable price, and without all
the federal and state mandates covering everything from health to sex
“education.”
As Big Pharma and the politicians doing its bidding step up their
attacks on parental rights and informed consent, the backlash is certain
to grow, and that means more options will likely be forthcoming for
concerned parents. Still, doctors and health experts urge parents to be
well informed on risks and benefits before making important medical
decisions for their children.
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Communist North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)
reported on March 7 that the nation’s launch of four missiles the
previous day was part of practice tests to hone its ability to strike
U.S. military bases in Japan. The four missiles were fired from a launch site on North Korea’s west
coast and traveled more than 600 miles across the country before
crashing into the Sea of Japan between Japan and the Korean Peninsula,
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a text message to local
reporters. During a White House press conference on March 6, a reporter asked
Press Secretary Sean Spicer for the White House’s reaction to North
Korea’s firing of the four ballistic missiles. Spicer replied:
The launches are consistent with North
Korea’s long history of provocative behavior. The United States stands
with our allies in the face of this very serious threat. The Trump
administration is taking steps to enhance our ability to defend against
North Korea’s ballistic missiles, such as through the deployment of a
THAAD battery to … South Korea.
The Japanese government said that three of the missiles splashed down
within Japan’s exclusive economic zone and within about 200 miles of
the coastline of Japan’s Akita prefecture. “These missile launches
clearly show that North Korea has developed a new threat,” Japan’s
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters. “We will collect information
and strongly protest to North Korea.”
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the launch of the four
missiles while “feasting his eyes on the trails of ballistic rockets,”
the KCNA reported in a statement that analysts quoted by the Washington Post called a “brazen declaration” of the country’s intent to strike enemies with a nuclear weapon if it came under attack.
“If the United States or South Korea fires even a single flame inside
North Korean territory, we will demolish the origin of the invasion and
provocation with a nuclear tipped missile,” said the KCNA statement.
The missiles fired on March 6 were “tasked to strike the bases of the
U.S. imperialist aggressor forces in Japan,” the statement continued.
The Post report cited Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East
Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of
International Studies in California, who said that North Korea had
previously tested the types of missiles launched on March 6, so the
apparent objective of the latest launches was not to see if they would
fly, but to test how quickly they could be set and deployed — which is
classic training for a wartime situation.
“They want to know if they can get these missiles out into the field
rapidly and deploy them all at once,” Lewis said. “They are practicing
launching a nuclear-armed missile and hitting targets in Japan as if
this was a real war.”
CNN reported on March 7 that there are currently about 54,000 U.S.
troops stationed in at least seven bases scattered across Japan, from
Misawa Air Base in the far north to Okinawa in the far south.
The report noted that these military bases in Japan cost the U.S. government about $5.5 billion in 2016.
Some reports have indicated that North Korea may have conducted its
missile launch in reaction to joint U.S.-South Korean military drills,
as well as the U.S. deployment of a THAAD battery to South Korea.
THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) is a U.S. Army
anti-ballistic missile system designed to shoot down short, medium, and
intermediate range ballistic missiles in their terminal phase using a
hit-to-kill approach. THAAD was developed to counter Iraq’s Scud missile
attacks during the Gulf War in 1991. The missile carries no warhead,
but relies on the kinetic energy of impact to destroy the incoming
missile.
U.S. officials said that the missiles launched by North Korea were
extended range SCUD missiles — the type that THAAD is designed to
intercept. However, THAAD would have difficulty intercepting four
missiles launched at the same time, unnamed analysts cited by the Post said.
The first parts of the THAAD system arrived the same day as the North
Korean missile launch at Osan Air Base south of Seoul, South Korea’s
Defense Ministry said.
The Post observed that North Korea’s launches coincided with
joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises on the southern half of the
Korean Peninsula that take place every year. North Korea has said in the
past that it views these exercises as preparation for an invasion of
the North.
Joshua Pollack, editor of the Nonproliferation Review, said in a statement cited by the Post
that these latest launches appeared designed to send a message to both
Trump and the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, who was visiting the
U.S. president when North Korea fired a medium- to long-range ballistic
missile into the Sea of Japan on February 12.
As we noted in an article following that missile launch,
Abe said that he expected the Trump administration to adopt a harder
line on North Korea. Speaking during a joint appearance with Trump in
Florida on the evening of February 11, Abe said: “North Korea's most
recent missile launch is absolutely intolerable.”
Trump also made a brief statement after the missile launch: “I just
want everybody to understand and fully know that the United States of
America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100 percent.”
After these latest missile tests by North Korea, Trump spoke by phone
with Abe and South Korea’s acting president, Hwang Kyo-ahn, on March 7.
“Both Japan and the U.S. confirmed that this North Korean missile
launch was a clear violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions and
was an obvious challenge to the region and the international community,”
Abe told reporters in Tokyo, repeating his assertion that the North
Korean threat had “reached a new stage.”
These latest sabre-rattling actions taken by communist North Korea
underline the perilous position the United States has taken since the
end of World War II that continues to put U.S. military personnel in
harm’s way. As noted by CNN, there are currently about 54,000 U.S.
troops in Japan. The reason we have those troops stationed there is that
following World War II, which was more than 70 years ago, the United
States forced Japan to adopt a new constitution that keeps it
permanently weak militarily. Article 9 of that constitution,
particularly, prevents Japan from building a potent offensive military
force.
As a result, the United States has maintained a large military force
in Japan since the war, ostensibly to defend Japan against an invasion
from Communist China.
Additionally, the United States keeps 25,000 troops in South Korea,
presumably to deter North Korea from invading the South. This is a
consequence of our government’s failure to achieve victory during the
Korean War (which we should not have entered, but having entered it, we
should have sought victory instead of a truce). The U.S. commander
during the early years of the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur, is
noted for having said: “War’s very object is victory, not prolonged
indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.”
However, when President Harry Truman relieved Macarthur of his
command on April 11, 1951 after MacArthur made public statements that
contradicted the administration's policies, the one military leader who
could lead our forces to victory was removed from the action.
The war dragged on until fighting was ended by a truce on July 27,
1953 that resulted in a military stalemate. However, no peace treaty has
been signed, and the two Koreas are technically still at war. The worst
consequence of abandoning the victory that MacArthur sought, and likely
could have achieved, was that the northern half of the peninsula was
left under communist control.
Today’s crises, which intrinsically involve the United States, are
the result of abandoning victory and leaving the communists in power in
North Korea. If the United States had maintained a non-interventionist
foreign policy since World War II, there would be no reason to maintain
any U.S. troops overseas. We not only have almost 80,000 troops in
harm’s way in Japan and South Korea, but the expense of maintaining
those troops is several billion dollars. That money could be better
spent on repairing America’s decaying infrastructure.
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UN Ambassador Nikki Haley Makes Statement
on North Korea 3/8/17
Published on Mar 8, 2017
Wednesday,
March 8, 2017: U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Nikki
Haley gives a statement at a joint press stakeout following an
emergency UN Security Council consultations on the DPRK on March 8,
2017. Transcript is available at https://usun.state.gov/remarks/7699.
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What next? A Brokeback Mountain version of Old Yeller? A transgendered Mickey Mouse? Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner starring in the father role in a remake of Swiss Family Robinson?
Don’t laugh, the above absurdities — and worse — are no doubt
percolating on the diversity/perversity menu at the Magick Queendom.
Not content with showing two 13-year-old boys kissing on The Fosters and the LGBTQ agitprop of The Real O’Neals
(the creation of virulently anti-Christian, foul-mouthed, homosexual
fanatic Dan Savage), the Disney-ABC Television Group is releasing its
live-action version of the classic fairytale Beauty and the Beast as a new milestone for “gay” advancement. It is being celebrated as Disney’s first film with an openly gay character. Queer hearts are all a twitter, it seems, over the news that Gaston’s
sidekick, LeFou (played by Josh Gad) is a flamboyant flamer who has a
crush on Gaston. The film’s director, Bill Condon, addressed the growing
buzz over the gay subplot at a press conference in Beverly Hills on
Sunday. “I talked before about how we translate this into live-action.
That means building out the characters. It’s also a translation to 2017,
you know?” Condon said, according to People magazine.
“And what is the movie about? What has this story always been about
for 300 years? It’s about looking closer, going deeper, accepting people
for who they really are,” Condon averred.
“And in a very Disney way,” he continued, “we are including
everybody. I think this is for everybody, and on the screen we’ll see
everybody. And that was important to me.” Yes, no doubt it is important
to Condon, who is openly homosexual and has made the mainstreaming of
perversion a major career goal. His 1998 film Gods and Monsters celebrated the life of homosexual James Whale, the director of the 1931 movie Frankenstein. He also directed the 2004 film Kinsey, which glorified the famous sex “expert” Alfred Kinsey. Of course, Condon ignored the extensive and heroic research of Dr. Judith Reisman that
exposed Kinsey not only as a fraud and an infamous pervert, but also as
a criminal who engaged in the most vile sexual abuse of young children,
including even infants.
“LeFou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another
day wants to kiss Gaston,” revealed Condon, in an earlier interview with
the homosexual magazine Attitude. The publication gushed that
the new children’s movie is “a treasure trove of gay secrets — and is
set to make history.” The magazine excitedly noted:
Disney’s live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast has
quickly become one of the most eagerly anticipated movies in history,
smashing records when its first trailer racked up more than 127 million
views in just 24 hours last November.
While the reimagined romantic classic,
featuring Emma Watson and former Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens, might
seem like the ultimate celebration of heterosexual love, it’s actually
harbouring a treasure trove of gay secrets — and is set to make history
with Disney’s first ever “exclusively gay moment” on film.
The article states that Attitude editor-in-chief Matt Cain “has welcomed the news as a landmark moment for LGBT representation.”
“It may have been a long time coming but this is a watershed moment
for Disney,” Cain says. “By representing same-sex attraction in this
short but explicitly gay scene, the studio is sending out a message that
this is normal and natural — and this is a message that will be heard
in every country of the world, even countries where it’s still socially
unacceptable or even illegal to be gay.” Only a First Step
Editor-in-chief Cain added: “It’s only a first step towards creating a
cinematic world that reflects the one in which many of us are now proud
to live. But it’s a step in the right direction and I applaud Disney
for being brave enough to make it — and in doing so hopefully helping to
change attitudes and bring about real social progress.”
In truth, this latest move with Beauty and the Beast
is but one of many steps along a strategic continuum that Disney has
been consciously plotting for a good number of years. The Disney
entertainment empire is a key player in the Rainbow Mafia, the
homosexual syndicate that has as its prime directive the “overhauling of
straight America.” That’s how homosexual strategists Marshall Kirk and
Hunter Madsen characterized their overarching subversive plan in their
1989 bestseller After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90’s. We described the Kirk-Maden game plan in considerable detail in “The Queering of America,” in the June 8, 1998 issue of The New American.
As we noted in that article, Disney “epitomizes the astonishing
transformation” among the large number of Fortune 500 corporations that
have jumped on board the politically correct bandwagon for LGBTQ rights.
In fact, that same year, lesbian activist Elizabeth Birch, then
executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest U.S. LGBTQ
lobbying group, praised Disney for its supposedly enlightened stance on
this crucial moral-spiritual-social issue.
“In the past few years,” we reported, nearly two decades ago, “the
company once synonymous with wholesomeness and quality family
entertainment has become a leading purveyor of perversion — and the
target of repeated campaigns by churches and religious organizations
offended by its scandalous productions. Who would have thought it
possible that the beloved Magic Kingdom would so soon after Walt
Disney’s passing turn into a Wicked Empire that: hires a convicted child
molester to direct a movie; recruits an open lesbian and an avowed
homosexual to top executive positions; publishes openly pro-homosexual
books directed toward youngsters; injects subliminal pornographic images
into its animated movies; produces a children’s animated epic with sub
rosa homosexual characters; and sponsors an annual homosexual
confabulation at Disney World that subjects unsuspecting families to the
rowdy and raunchy activities of hordes of deviants?”
We reported way back then:
In her keynote address to the 1998
University of California Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered
Association’s “Exposed!” conference, Elizabeth Birch triumphantly
revealed a deep, dark secret. First she asked furtively, “Is there any
press in the room?” Then she explained: “Okay, I’m gonna tell you —
’cause some of these conversations are very private — but when I said to
Michael Eisner, CEO of Disney, [that] ’30 percent of your employees are
gay,’ he said, ‘You are wrong, Elizabeth, it’s 40 [percent].'"
If 40 percent of Disney’s employees were “gay” in 1998, it’s a fair
bet that the LBGTQ meter would register quite a few points higher today.
The trend that was nurtured under CEO Eisner has been continued under
his successor, Bob Iger, the former president of ABC Television, who
took over as Disney CEO in 2005. Among other LBGTQ milestones at the
company are the 2014 episode of The Disney Channel kid's TV program Good Luck Charlie,
which introduced a lesbian couple and their toddler daughter, and the
2016 appointment of George Kalogridis as Walt Disney World’s first
openly gay president.
But back to Beauty and the Beast. Besides director Condon
and the LeFou character, there are additional LGBTQ “bonuses” that are
sending frissons of excitement through queerdom. Gaystarnews.com, for
instance, reports that the characters Gaston and Cogsworth are played by
real-life homosexual stars. In an article entitled “The gay secrets of
the new Beauty and the Beast movie — including Disney's first gay character and love scene,” the Gay Star News reports:
Luke Evans as Gaston
He’s starred in hits including Dracula Untold and The Girl On the Train.
But British actor Luke Evans has landed his highest profile role yet as the Beast’s love rival: the arrogant Gaston.
Luke makes no secret of the fact he is
gay, although he doesn’t tend to talk about his relationships in
interviews, so fewer people are aware of his sexuality than you might
expect.
"I don’t blast it from the rooftops because I’m a very private person," he told The Guardian last year. "And it doesn’t affect anything. But it’s life. This is who I am as Luke."
Sir Ian McKellen as Cogsworth
He’s already appeared in numerous blockbusters — the X-Men and Lord of the Rings franchises to name but a few.
Now Sir Ian, possibly the world’s best-loved gay actor, is to play Cogsworth, the talking clock.
Sir Ian came out as gay in 1989, at the
age of 49. Since then, through his work with Stonewall and beyond, he’s
become one of the world’s most powerful champions of LGBTI rights.
(Friday Church News Notes, March 10, 2017, www.wayoflife.org,
fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) -
"Disney continues to act as a major
social change agent by its attempt to normalize and glorify
homosexuality. Its new remake of Beauty and the Beast features a homosexual relationship. Movie directorBill
Condon says, “LeFou [a companion of Gaston] is somebody who on one day
wants to be Gaston [a muscular hunter who wants to marry Belle, the
‘beauty’] and on another day wants to kiss Gaston. He’s confused about
what he wants. It’s somebody who’s just realizing that he has these
feelings. And Josh makes something really subtle and delicious out of
it. ... at the end ... it is a nice, exclusively gay moment in a Disney movie” (“Beauty and the Beast Remake,” Christian Headlines,
Mar. 2, 2017). Fallen human nature has many “feelings” that are
powerful and “natural” but unlawful before God, but modern society
denies God and seeks to legitimize all human feelings through a
relativistic morality. Few men have had more influence on American
society and the modern global culture than Walt Disney. He pioneered the
American animation industry and captivated children’s hearts with
cartoon characters such as MickeyMouse
and Donald Duck. He took Hollywood fantasy to a new level of influence
with the building of Disneyland in California and Disney World in
Florida. Disney’s animated classics are filled with pagan and occultic
imagery such as witches and demons, sorcerers and spells, genies and
goblins, which is strongly denounced by Scripture. Like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings,
Disney cartoons present the false and damnable concept that there is
good and bad magic. Disney did not attend church, and there are no
churches on Main Street in Disneyland or Disney World, even though there
were churches on practically every main street in America when
Disneyland opened in 1955. Multitudes of Christian parents have unwisely
allowed Disney’s cartoons and movies to influence their children. When
Disneyland opened, Time
magazine featured Walt Disney on its cover and called him “the poet of
the new American humanism.” Indeed. The acceptance of Hollywood’s
“entertainment” by American churches over the past half century helped
paved the way for the wholesale apostasy that we witness today and the
destruction of morality in society at large" _________________________________________________________
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