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KAITLIN BENNETT ATTACKED BY ANTIFA OUTSIDE TRUMP RALLY~COPS REFUSE TO CHARGE, ARREST PERSONS WHO ASSAULTED HER & HER CAMERAMAN, STOLE & DAMAGED EQUIPMENT
Attack filmed on tape, but police haven’t made any arrests
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Kaitlin Bennett was attacked last night by Antifa activists outside President Trump’s rally in Lexington, Kentucky – and so far police haven’t made any arrests.
Even more shocking, the police told Bennett after the attack on Monday night that she had the responsibility to “turn and go the other way” if she encountered them again.
Kaitlin Bennett (in the pink wig on the right) was attacked by an anti-Trump protester near Trump’s rally in Lexington, Ky. The man wrestled microphone from her and threw it. She says police did not detain or arrest him. #antifapic.twitter.com/sJFzj5AYnn
The police also claimed they couldn’t make any arrests because they didn’t witness the assault, even though the attack was filmed on video – and there were plenty of witnesses with cameras in the vicinity.
Here’s video of the @lexkypolice admitting they made no arrests because their hands are tied & lying that they didn’t witness the assault. They also told me I have a responsibility to “turn & go the other way” if we see him again, but they dont have a responsibility to arrest him pic.twitter.com/MOGpZka6og
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Delta Air Lines will now show two movies containing gay sex and other ‘homosexual content’ during in-flight viewings after pro-LGBT critics complained about the scenes being deleted.
The outcry targeting the in-flight versions of the movies “Rocketman” and “Booksmart” prompted the airline to issue a statement claiming it wants its entertainment to “reflect on the diversity of the world.”
“Studios often provide videos in two forms: a theatrical, original version and an edited version,” said a Delta spokesman. “We selected the edited version and now realize content well within our guidelines was unnecessarily excluded from both films.”
“We are working to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”
The controversy began after “Booksmart” director Olivia Wilde slammed the airline for removing a lesbian hookup scene she describes as a “scissoring sequence,” among other scenes.
— They muted or cut the word “vagina.” VAGINA.
— They removed Molly’s entire scissoring sequence. (No scissor emoji?! Thread for another time…)
— They Molly’s masturbating and UTI story (it didn’t end well).
— They cut the porn moment in the Lyft (our Oscar clip).
During Wilde’s tweetstorm on the subject, she urged all airlines that value “inclusivity” to stop working with the “third party company” that greenlit the edited versions.
In accordance with Wilde’s suggestion, Delta ensured their “third party” editors are now aligned with “diversity and inclusion.”
“We value our inflight entertainment options as a means to reflect the diversity of the world,” said Delta. “We are reviewing the processes of our third-party editing vendors to ensure that they are aligned with our values of diversity and inclusion.”
Delta’s statements were also a response to an Entertainment Weekly editor calling out the airline for removing “almost every gay reference or scene” from the Elton John biopic “Rocketman,” including a “chaste kiss.”
On @Delta today discovered that #Rocketman is stripped of almost every gay reference or scene that @eltonofficial fought to keep in the film’s mainstream release, including a simple chaste kiss. This is good context but it’s still frustrating. https://t.co/4CY4Tl8PHh
This brings to mind major U.S. airlines recently caving to China’s demand to change how they list Taiwan as an independent country on their booking websites in a move the White House described as “Orwellian nonsense.”
Last summer, booking sites of American Airlines, Delta, and United Airlines only used Taipei’s airport code and city instead of direct references to Taiwan as a country.
“United Airlines has begun to roll out changes to its systems to address China’s requirements,” said a United Airlines spokesman. “United abides by and respects local laws and regulations in all markets and jurisdictions where we operate and conduct business.”
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The ten worst countries for Christians are North Korea, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Sudan, Eritrea, Yemen, Iran, and India.
Hmmm. With the exception of North Korea, Eritrea (partially) and India, there is something all those countries have in common. What, oh what, could it possibly be? Vernon Brewer doesn’t mention what it is, and in that circumspection he is in the broad mainstream. But will ignoring and denying the problem make it go away? Unlikely.
The estimated 64 million Christians in India are a tiny proportion of the population, comprising less than five per cent. The government is led by a Hindu nationalist party, BJP, which believes Hinduism is integral to Indian identity. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a militant nationalist group associated with BJP, has stated it wants to see all Christians gone from India by the end of 2021. Thousands of nationalist attacks against Christians take place every year with no consequence for the perpetrators.
“Vernon Brewer: Over 245 million Christians are persecuted around the world – Some are being killed,” by Vernon Brewer, Fox News, November 2, 2019:
…It’s easy to go about our lives and forget that in places like Nigeria, Iran and North Korea being a Christian can often lead to death. After all, for the most part, persecution for our faith isn’t something most of us face….
According to Open Doors’ 2019 World Watch List, over 245 million Christians experienced high levels of persecution in 2018. That’s more than the entire population of Brazil — the sixth-most populous country in the world.
The persecution these men, women, and children face varies. Some are denied jobs, disowned by their families, or thrown out of their communities. Others face imprisonment and unspeakable physical abuse. Some are forced to literally run for their lives. And at least 4,305 Christians died last year, simply for choosing to follow Jesus.
That means approximately 11 believers will die today. Eleven died yesterday. And 11 more, give or take, will die tomorrow.
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November 5, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — The National Abortion Federation (NAF) has announced that its new president and CEO is Katherine Ragsdale, a lesbian Episcopal “priest” and longtime abortion activist.
“Abortion providers are some of my personal heroes and modern-day saints,” Ragsdale said when the news was announced. She had been NAF’s interim president and CEO since September 2018.
“For decades, Katherine Ragsdale, a false prophet, has been trying to put religious vestments on child-killing,” Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life and president of the National Pro-Life Religious Council, told LifeSiteNews. “She led the ‘Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights’ (now the ‘Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice’), which actually provides rites of blessing for parents about to kill their children, and for the facilities in which the blood is shed.”
That group also provides “Scripture studies that attempt to say exactly the opposite of what Scripture says about what God thinks of the shedding of innocent blood,” explained Pavone.
Fr. Pavone said it’s not surprising that NAF chose Ragsdale to lead it.
“It actually reveals one of the greatest weaknesses of the abortion industry: science is not on their side, logic is not on their side, and history is not on their side,” he explained. “They ran out of arguments a long time ago to try to justify abortion. So now, all they have left is to disguise it in ‘spirituality.’”
“They try in vain to take the stigma out of abortion — but that effort continues, and that is what this new development represents,” he said.
In an April 2019 speech at a Kentucky Reproductive Freedom Fund fundraiser, Ragsdale claimed that the Bible says nothing about abortion and that it’s dishonest and manipulative to call the human in the womb a “baby.”
“‘One inch from life,’ they say while showing a picture of a Gerber baby,” Ragsdale said of pro-life advocates who oppose partial-birth abortion. The audience laughed.
“Apart from ‘one inch from life’ being a lie, the Gerber baby image is a lie,” she continued. “And actually, using the word ‘baby’ is a manipulative lie.”
However, comments made by abortionists affiliated with NAF paint a different picture. Undercover video from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) taken at a NAF conference shows abortionists saying the work they do is “killing,” complaining about how “difficult” it is to tear apart a fetus, and lamenting that they’re not given a place to discuss the “heads that get stuck that we can’t get out.”
Late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart, meanwhile, told a BBC reporter this year, “I think that it is a baby, and I use [the word] with patients.”
“And you don’t have a problem...with...killing a baby?” the reporter hesitantly asked.
“I have no problem if it’s in the mother’s uterus,” Carhart responded without flinching.
Planned Parenthood is suing CMP over the videos showing its participation in the trafficking of baby body parts. The state of California is also prosecuting the pro-life journalists of CMP while those they exposed walk free. NAF has also brought a lawsuit against CMP; it is suspended pending the outcome of other litigation.
Fr. Pavone has for decades helped former abortionists and their staff “deal with the wounds abortion inflicts on them.”
“A big part of their healing is to dig themselves out of the many layers of lies that they told themselves to justify the killing they carried out,” he said. “Those lies take many forms: rationalization; intellectualization; and here, in the example of False Prophet Ragsdale’s leadership, ‘spiritualization.’ And the lies by which spiritual and biblical language attempt to justify murder are among the most damaging to those who fall captive to them.”
NAF’s previous CEO and president, Vicki Saporta, brought in a salary of $392,018 in 2017, according to the organization’s publicly available tax records.
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A new report on the Biden-Burisma influence-peddling scheme shows just why Democrats want to impeach President Trump for his phone call to Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky, during which Trump asked his fellow head of state to probe the corruption scandal.
John Solomon revealed yesterday that Hunter Biden and his pals at Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian gas company that employed him, met with State Department officials in 2015 and 2016. One of those meetings occurred a month before Biden’s father and the Obama administration’s point man on Ukraine, Vice President Joe Biden, pressured the country to fire its top prosecutor, who was investigating Burisma.
Thus, a new probe of the company might well provide corroborating evidence that the vice president — the Democrats’ top candidate for president in 2020 — did indeed move against that prosecutor to protect his son.
The latest from Solomon thoroughly refutes the willfully naive refrain from the hate-Trump media that “there is no evidence” the Bidens did anything wrong, and that Trump’s claims to the contrary have been “repeatedly discredited.”
The Meetings
Citing documents uncovered with a Freedom of Information Request, Solomon reported that Burisma tried to persuade U.S. officials to undermine Ukrainian Prosecutor General Victor Shokin’s probe into the natural gas company, which hired Hunter Biden and placed him on its board despite his complete lack of knowledge about energy and Ukraine and sordid history as an out-of-control dope fiend.
In February 2016, “a U.S. representative for Burisma Holdings sought a meeting with Undersecretary of State Catherine A. Novelli to discuss ending the corruption allegations,” internal memoranda state. Three weeks before that, Ukrainian authorities had raided the home of Burisma’s founder, Mykola Zlochevsky.
But Solomon’s dive into the department’s files divulged something even better:
Hunter Biden’s name, in fact, was specifically invoked by the Burisma representative as a reason the State Department should help, according to a series of email exchanges among U.S. officials trying to arrange the meeting. The subject line for the email exchanges read simply “Burisma.”
“Per our conversation, Karen Tramontano of Blue Star Strategies requested a meeting to discuss with U/S Novelli USG remarks alleging Burisma (Ukrainian energy company) of corruption,” a Feb. 24, 2016, email between State officials read. “She noted that two high profile U.S. citizens are affiliated with the company (including Hunter Biden as a board member).
“Tramontano would like to talk with U/S Novelli about getting a better understanding of how the U.S. came to the determination that the company is corrupt,” the email added. “According to Tramontano there is no evidence of corruption.” ...
At the time, Novelli was the most senior official overseeing international energy issues for State.
The Novelli-Tramontano confab was set for March 1, 2016, the e-mails show, but records don’t show whether the two actually met, Solomon reported.
In Steps Hunter
Meetings that did occur included one between Hunter Biden and a top State Department official in 2015, Solomon reported.
On May 22, 2015, Hunter Biden emailed his father’s longtime trusted aide, Blinken, with the following message: “Have a few minutes next week to grab a cup of coffee? I know you are impossibly busy, but would like to get your advice on a couple of things, Best, Hunter.”
Blinken responded the same day with an “absolutely” and added, “Look forward to seeing you.”
The records indicate the two men were scheduled to meet the afternoon of May 27, 2015.
The State Department records also indicate Hunter Biden met Blinken in person for lunch on July 22, 2015.
Another meeting was between Hunter Biden’s business partner Devon Archer and Secretary of State John Kerry, Solomon reported. Young Biden, recall, served on Burisma’s board with Archer. Biden and Archer were partners in an investment firm, Rosemont Seneca.
Archer, Solomon reported, “secured a meeting on March 2, 2016” with Kerry, although the memos don’t state the reason for the meeting.
That meeting is important not only because it shows a direct link between Bursima’s American legmen, the Obama administration, and thus, the vice president, but also because Kerry’s stepson, Christopher Heinz, was a partner in Rosement Seneca.
But Heinz, Solomon reported, wisely bailed out of the Burisma business and ended his business relationship with Biden and Archer because of it.
The Firing
Here’s the summary timeline of Biden-Burisma by Solomons’ reckoning:
• Burima Holdings hired Biden and Archer in spring 2014, just about the time Britain began looking into Burisma for activities dating back to 2010. Money began pouring into an outfit called Rosemont Seneca Bohai in May 2014. “Hunter Biden received payments from it.”
• In the summer of 2015, Hunter Biden contacted a top State Department official.
• “In September 2015, then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt gave a speech imploring Ukrainian prosecutors to do more to bring Zlochevsky to justice.”
• By early 2016, Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin “authorized a court-ordered seizure of Zlochevsky’s home and other valuables, including a luxury car. That seizure occurred on Feb. 2, 2016.”
• Also in February 2016, Burisma reps contacted the State Department to end Shokin’s probe.
• In early March, Hunter Biden’s pal Devon Archer met with Kerry.
• “Within a few weeks of Tramontano’s overture to Novelli and of Archer’s overture to Kerry, Vice President Joe Biden took a stunning action, one that has enveloped his 2020 campaign for president in controversy.”
That action is now well known. Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees if then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko didn’t fire Shokin, a move that Biden bragged about publicly.
Shokin told Solomon and ABC News, and swore in a deposition, that he was fired because he would not stop the Burisma probe. “In fact, Shokin alleges, he was making plans to interview Hunter Biden about his Burisma work and payments when he got the axe.”
Coons is the junior senator from Delaware and is a member of the Appropriations Committee. Braun is the junior senator from Indiana and is a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee.
CAUCUS WILL HAVE EQUAL NUMBERS OF REPUBLICANS & DEMOCRATS WHO MUST ARRIVE AT 100% CONSENSUS TO DO ANYTHING
RINOs Join Democrats in Congress to Push Climate Hoax
Despite being ridiculed as a “hoax” by President Donald Trump on the campaign trail, liberal Republican members of Congress are quietly working to convert enough GOP lawmakers on the man-made global-warming hypothesis. The goal: To make drastic “climate action” possible. Alex Newman joins Dr. Duke Pesta to discuses his recent article on this topic.
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Despite being ridiculed as a “hoax” by President Donald Trump on the campaign trail, liberal Republican members of Congress are quietly working to convert enough GOP lawmakers on the man-made global-warming hypothesis. The goal: To make drastic “climate action” possible. Lobbyists for Big Climate — an alliance that includes billionaire globalists, Big Oil, the mega-banks, and more — expressed optimism that easing Republican opposition could pave the way for “strong” legislation combating the gas humans exhale (CO2). But with Trump withdrawing from the United Nations “Paris Agreement,” it appears that critics of climate alarmism and pseudo-science currently have the upper hand.
In the U.S. Senate, Senator Mike Braun (R-Ind.), who was just elected in 2018, is leading the way in pushing the catastrophic global warming message. In recent months, he formed a “Climate Solutions Caucus” with radical “progressive” Democrat Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.). Not surprisngly, both have received major campaign funding from Big Oil including ExxonMobil. “When Chris approached me here a few weeks ago, I was able to do it without reservation,” Senator Braun boasted during a conference call announcing the new, bipartisan “climate solutions” alliance. “I’ve got four children.... I’ve got grandchildren and I think this, more than anything else, has that legacy concept to it.” He said he would be using his position on various subcommittees to push the agenda.
Describing himself as a “life-long conservationist,” Braun said he was “proud” to join with Coons, who has a disastrous 11-percent ranking on The New American's U.S. Constitution-based Freedom Index. “For too long, Washington has been paralyzed by partisan gamesmanship, unable to have productive conversations about our changing climate,” he said, though in the most recent election he led voters to believe he was a Trump-supporting conservative. “Through this caucus, we can have real conversations about protecting our environment, securing American’s energy future, and protecting American manufacturing jobs.”
Senator Coons, meanwhile, insisted that was working on finding “solutions” to “real problems” that supposedly face America and the world. “Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and in order to tackle it, we must act in a bipartisan way,” he said in the announcement. “I’m proud to launch the first Senate Climate Solutions Caucus with Senator Braun to take the politics out of this important issue and lay the foundation for real, meaningful solutions that can be signed into law.” How it would be possible to take politics out of lawmaking was not clear, nor did Coons explain where he believed the Constitution granted any authority for the policies he is promoting.
In a joint piece published in the online publication The Hill, the two climate alarmists provided more details about their new caucus. “We recognize the simple reality that climate policy is too serious to ram through Congress on a partisan basis,” they said, calling on both parties to work together. The alliance aims to bring together an equal number of senators from each party, operating on the “consensus” principle, which means the outfit will only act when all members agree. They said the group will meet regularly and will include “experts from across the political spectrum.”
Also high on the agenda is the development of federal “economic incentives” to force Americans to slash emissions of CO2, an essential gas known to scientists as the “gas of life.” Of course, true experts, such as physicist Dr. William Happer of Princeton and the U.S. National Security Council, have long warned that the Earth and its vegetation are starving more carbon dioxide. “CO2 will be good for the Earth,” Happer told The New American magazine at a 2016 climate conference in Phoenix, Arizona, that brought together leading scientists and experts in various fields to expose the lies and alarmism. “If you look at geological history, CO2 levels are unusually low right now, it’s very seldom that they’ve been this low.
That is why farmers pump the gas into their greenhouses — plants typically operate best with four to five times the current atmospheric concentrations of CO2, Dr. Happer explained. True experts also know that human emissions of CO2 make up a fraction of one percent of all the greenhouse gases present naturally in the atmosphere. As Happer put it, it is “pretty clear that we're not going to see dangerous climate change” from humanity's insignificant CO2 emissions.
Part of the justification for the “climate action” being demanded by the new Senate alliance is supposed sea-level rise. “Studies have indicated that in less than 50 years, nearly 7,000 Delawareans could see their homes destroyed by flooding caused by rising sea levels,” the Senate duo said, without actually citing any studies.
However, The New American magazine recently interviewed the sea-level reviewer for UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Stockholm University's Dr. Nils-Axel Morner. And he said the whole idea of dangerous sea-level rise was a fabrication by the UN and the pseudo-scientists more interested in globalism than the climate. "There is no rapid sea-level rise going on today, and there will not be,” said Dr. Morner, citing observable data after studying sea levels around the world for over five deacdes. “On the contrary, if anything happens, the sea will go down a little.” He warned the UN that there report contained significant errors, but they refused to correct it. And so, he resigned his position.
A number of well-known “Republicans In Name Only” (RINOs) are expected to join the bandwagon as soon as they think they can get away with it politically. According to Braun, Senator Lisa Murkowski, a radical liberal Republican from Alaska who serves as chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, intends to become part of the caucus. Braun did not give other names, but a handful of well-known RINOs are considered potential allies to the climate caucus. Ironically, Senate Republicans just a few years ago produced a report exposing the lawless “Billionaires Club” behind the totalitarian “green” movement.
In the House, meanwhile, a small but growing number of squishy Republicans are raising the white flag, calling for “market-based solutions” and other such nonsense to deal with the supposed threat of humanity's carbon-dioxide emissions. In 2016, Liberal Republican Representative Carlos Curbelo of Florida, who voted constitutionally just one-third of the time and was promptly removed by voters, joined forces with radical leftist Democrat Representative Ted Deutch to create the “House Solutions Caucus.” Because Curbelo was defeated, new RINOs were needed. And so Representative Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) picked up the baton.
Still today, just a handful of Republicans have joined the House version of the “Climate Solutions Caucus.” Among the Republicans who have defied their base and their oaths of office to promote the man-made warming hypothesis and unconstitutional federal policies to supposedly deal with it are Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), Mark Amodei (R-Nev.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Penn.), Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Brian Mast (R-Fla.), Don Bacon (R-Neb.), Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), Peter King (R-N.Y.), Tom Reed (R-N.Y.), Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), David Joyce (R-Ohio), Jack Bergman (R-Mich.), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), Rob Woodall (R-Ga.), David Schweikert (R-Ariz), and Denver Riggleman (R-Va.).
A Rockefeller-funded AstroTurf group styling itself the Citizens' Climate Lobby, which works to get Republicans onboard to make it seem “bipartisan,” celebrated the news of the new Senate alliance in a news release about it. “This caucus will serve as an incubator where productive dialogue can lead to strong bipartisan climate legislation,” claimed Citizens’ Climate Lobby Executive Director Mark Reynolds. “For any climate solution to be enacted and upheld, it has to have buy-in from both sides of the aisle.”
Polls show Republicans overwhelmingly reject the man-made global-warming hypothesis, which paints the “gas of life” as a dangerous pollution. However, the GOP establishment has long been at odds with its base, always ready to stab grassroots conservatives in the back whenever the opportunity arises. Trump won the election by campaigning to blow up the UN's “climate” schemes and calling climate alarmism a “hoax” to benefit Communist China. But if voters do not hold their elected representatives accountable and keep the electorate informed, the powerful special interests swarming around Washington, D.C., will win. Americans who celebrated what they thought was the death of the climate hoax must continue to fight.
is good context but it’s still frustrating. 
