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under the assumption that the USDA Organic certification still holds the
value it began with.
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USDA MORE INTERESTED IN MAKING NOTHING DOWN MORTGAGES IN "RURAL" AREAS
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The jihadist state of Iran is now recognizing Jerusalem as the
permanent capital of “Palestine.” This is no surprise, as Iran cut all
ties with Israel after the 1967 Six-Day War, has been furiously
advancing Palestinian propaganda, and finances Hamas (despite temporary
political fallouts over Syria), Hizballah, Islamic Jihad and other
jihadist organizations dedicated to obliterating the State of Israel. Ayatollah Khamenei has stated:
The modern-day pharaoh is represented by the US, the
Zionist regime and their accomplices in the region, who seek to create
wars in our region, and this is plotted by the US.
This typifies Palestinian propaganda. The truth is that Khamenei
leaves out important facts: that the entire region was conquered through
bloody jihad, and that Israel has been fighting since its birth in 1948
for its very existence. The Palestinians and surrounding jihadist
states do not accept a Jewish state, period, on any terms.
“Iran votes to declare Jerusalem ‘capital of Palestine'”, by Olivia Beavers, The Hill, December 27, 2017:
Iran declared Jerusalem the “capital of Palestine” on
Wednesday following a parliamentary vote, according to the country’s
semi-official Fars news agency.
Iran’s announcement to recognize the holy city as the “Palestinian
capital forever” comes in direct response to President Trump’s decision
to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
“It comes in response to the recent U.S. decision to recognize
Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in hopes of dealing a blow to Muslims,”
said Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, according to Turkey’s Anadolu news
agency.
The bill reportedly passed easily, with 207 “yes” votes from the 290-member Parliament.
Iran has long been a fierce proponent of a future Palestinian state.
Iran cut relations with Israel, which unified the city under its control
after capturing east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Trump broke precedent on Dec. 6 when he announced that the U.S. would
recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and begin the process of
moving its embassy there from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
While the White House said that the move doesn’t specify the
boundaries of the Israeli capital, the decision appeared to take sides
in a fight in which both Israelis and Palestinians lay claim to the
eastern side of the city.
The announcement, which largely pleased Israel’s leadership, ignited
protests across the Muslim world, as well as widespread backlash among
other countries, including close allies like the United Kingdom.
Last week, an overwhelming majority of countries voted against the
U.S. in passing a nonbinding resolution at the United Nations that
declared Trump’s Jerusalem decision “null and void.” Thirty-five nations
abstained from the vote……
CALIFORNIA MAKES LGBT COURSE MANDATORY IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Owen Shroyer presents a video produced by Fox News that details how
California has made a LGBT course mandatory in Elementary School as part
of the left's youth-indoctrination agenda.
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Boston businessman Finny Kuruvilla is preparing to open a four-year college in
the city that focuses on conservative Christian values, a move that will contrast
with the majority of American colleges that have become institutions of liberal
indoctrination.
NBC Boston reports, “He hopes to eventually enroll about 300 students in the liberal arts school, with tuition of only $9,000 a year, a fraction of what most private colleges charge. The school would operate out of an office building with no student housing. Kuruvilla says the school’s stated mission will be to ‘prepare students to serve Christ, the church, and the world.'” An investment fund manager with a Ph.D. and medical degree from Harvard, Kuruvilla promises to spend $30 million of his own money to fund the school.
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What is wrong with Christian Higher Education today?
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The Palestinian Authority’s rift with the U.S. is growing
deeper, according to Israeli media outlets. PA President Mahmoud Abbas
president has come to see U.S. President Donald Trump as “a lost cause,”
according to the Times of Israel.
Abbas is unglued and will not be comforted. Why? because America exercised its right to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in keeping with Jewish history of its land. This naturally does not bode well for Palestinian interests, as their primary goal is to obliterate the Jewish state. The world still has not come to grips with the fact that appeasement of jihadists just does not work. The more they are appeased, the more empowered and emboldened they become.
According to a report aired by Channel 2 news, Abbas was
“not only closing the door, but throwing away the key” on the chance of
any future Palestinian-American relations.
Now the “White House is reportedly looking for a Palestinian liaison other than Abbas.” Congratulations to the White House in attempting to maintain its honor in getting along, but its dream is rather unlikely, unless the PA changes its charter to accept Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.
“Reports: PA President Mahmoud Abbas Instructs Staff to Sever Ties With U.S.”, Breitbart, December 25, 2017:
The Palestinian Authority’s rift with the U.S. is growing deeper, according to Israeli media outlets. PA President Mahmoud Abbas president has come to see U.S. President
Donald Trump as “a lost cause,” according to the Times of Israel. The PA leader reportedly instructed his staff to sever all ties with
US diplomatic officials at every level, including relations between the
Palestinians and American diplomats posted at the U.S. Consulate in East
Jerusalem. The White House is reportedly looking for a Palestinian liaison other than Abbas.
Last week, the Palestinians announced they would not meet with U.S.
Vice President Mike Pence, who was scheduled to arrive in the region.
Pence visited U.S. soldiers posted in Afghanistan instead.
According to a report aired by Channel 2 news, Abbas was “not only
closing the door, but throwing away the key” on the chance of any future
Palestinian-American relations.
A White House official who was interviewed by the Times of Israel
said in response to the Channel 2 report: “Apparently, the outlet that
has reported this hasn’t been paying attention over the past several
months. As we have said over and over again, we will not impose a peace
deal. That is not news. We anticipated a cooling off period and remain
as committed to peace as ever and are working hard on our plan, which we
will present when the time is right.”
The Palestinians, according to Channel 2, have no plans to lift their boycott of the U.S.
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan has stated that “London is a
beacon of tolerance, acceptance and diversity”, and for that precise
reason an official visit by U.S. President Donald Trump would “not be
welcomed”.
Of course Khan is playing the so-called “diversity” card, which has become synonymous with boosting Islamic supremacists; otherwise, you’re “Islamophobic.” Infidels must remain inferior in this view. Here are some reasons why Khan is shivering in his boots at the thought of anyone actually accepting Donald Trump, and so is fervently resisting Trump’s visit to the UK:
Khan has endorsed anti-Semites, defended 9/11 terrorists, and defended an al Qaeda member.
Khan has played the victimology narrative to the point of cautioning Westerners to play by the rules of Islamic supremacists, so as to not upset them to the point of joining jihadi groups.
Khan has no place being the Mayor of London.
David Kurten, the “elected member of the London assembly who issued the formal questions to Khan questioning his behaviour over Trump,” rightfully slammed Khan, stating that “Sadiq Khan’s latest outburst that President Trump is ‘not welcome’ in London is well beyond his pay grade and flies in the face of courtesy.”
“‘Not Welcome’: London’s Muslim Mayor Repeats Calls to Cancel Trump Visit”, by Oliver JJ Jane, Breitbart, December 26, 2017:
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has stated that “London is a
beacon of tolerance, acceptance and diversity”, and for that precise
reason an official visit by U.S. President Donald Trump would “not be
welcomed”.
Khan made the statement in written responses to questions from a
member of the London Assembly, in which he was asked what he would do to
make President Trump “feel welcome” when the anticipated visit comes in
2018.
Stating he had “previously called on Theresa May to cancel her
ill-judged offer of a state visit to President Trump”, the mayor made
clear he feels a visit by President Trump would be against the
“interests and security of Londoners”. Khan said :”It is clear that any
official visit here would not be welcomed.”
Referring back to recent retweets by President Trump of three videos
purporting to show acts of Muslim violence, Mr. Khan remarked: “Many
Brits who love both America and Americans, as I do, will see recent
comments made by President Trump as hardly in tune with the special
relationship between our two countries.”
Apparently, without irony, the mayor said it was because “London is a
beacon of tolerance, acceptance and diversity” that the visit by
President Trump should not go ahead, remarking that Trump is “completely
incompatible with the values Londoners hold dear”.
While it has not been made clear precisely which security concerns
concern Mr. Khan about a visit from the U.S. president, the Mayor had
earlier in 2017 shrugged off the threat of terrorism as merely being
“part and parcel” of city life. Mayor Khan has also presided over an
astonishing rise of acid attacks in London, which has led to the city
being crowned the acid attack capital of the world.
David Kurten, the elected member of the London assembly who issued
the formal questions to Khan questioning his behaviour over Trump, said
the mayor was exceeding his remit by getting involved in global
politics, when in reality “his job is simply to run London’s transport
network and police, but since he took office he has used his position to
grandstand on international issues as though he were a Head of State.
He is not.”
Slamming Khan’s counterproductive stance towards the United States
and President Trump, Kurten told Breitbart London: “Since Donald Trump
became President, London’s Mayor has become increasingly hostile to one
of the best and most Anglophile Presidents there has ever been. Instead
of building a good relationship and welcoming his offer of putting
Britain at the front of the queue for a trade deal, he has snubbed him
with a series of personal insults.
“Sadiq Khan’s latest outburst that President Trump is ‘not welcome’
in London is well beyond his pay grade and flies in the face of common
courtesy. It is also hypocritical: he is willing to host the ambassadors
of countries which have a travel ban on Israeli citizens at a reception
at City Hall, but hurls insults at President Trump who has highlighted
the horrors of Islamism and wants to protect his own citizens from
violent jihadis…..
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Vietnam is launching a cyber army to fight an “information war” against those with the “wrong views” on the Internet in a crackdown on political dissent.
The communist country wants to tighten influence over public opinion and stamp out critics of the government.
“In every hour, minute, and second we must be ready to fight proactively against the wrong views,” said Lieutenant General Nguyen Trong Nghia, the deputy head of the military’s political department.
The cyber army, known as Force 47, currently has 10,000 members ready to fight in the Internet’s “information war.”
“The Central Party Committee of the People’s Army of Vietnam has therefore acknowledged that besides the conventional military, which is the core of the national defense task, there should also be forces ready for warfare not only in the ground, sea and air arenas but also in cyberspace and in the universe,” reported Vietnam’s Tuoi Tre News.
Vietnam isn’t alone in this endeavor; the world’s elites have long understood the importance of controlling public opinion to lead the masses into narrow viewpoints that benefit the status quo at the expense of individual thought.
And the best way to keep people enslaved is to convince them that they’re not enslaved; make them believe their “opinions” are simply their own and not what the government wants them to believe.
In this system, there’s no room for heightened consciousness, self-thought or basic human tenants, such as masculinity, that threaten those in power.
“There is a very logical reason why coercive power prefers secrecy and deception: if the goal is to exploit and dominate others (without suffering the natural consequences of doing so), then transparency and honesty are not an option,” wrote Joseph Plummer in his book Tragedy and Hope 101. “As such, the basic template of coercive power (often hidden, always deceptive, and exercised in the name of something other than itself) is common throughout history.”
“They realized ‘there was a problem of the theme’ being projected and stopped the film, before deciding to repatriate the children to their school, next to Langon.”
In contrast, French officials don’t seem to have a problem with Muslims blocking traffic for full-blown prayer sessions:
They even tried to charge former French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen with “inciting hatred,” a crime in France, for speaking out against the street prayers.
“It is an occupation of part of the territory [of France], suburbs where religious law is applied [by migrants],” she said in 2010. “Sure, there are no armored vehicles, no soldiers, but it is an occupation nonetheless and it weighs on residents.”
France’s history was woven with Christianity, yet officials today have no problem vilifying it in favor of “secularism,” all while giving Islam a free pass.
This doesn’t bode well for France’s future, especially as it faces a tourism collapse.
“The recent wave of terrorist attacks is why so many tourists are shunning Paris, but the terror threat does not explain everything,” said tourism official Valerie Pecresse. “Tourists spend less time in Paris than they do in London. They spend less here.”
“This is because the quality of the services on offer has massively deteriorated.”
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In a continuing legal battle between the Trump administration and two illegal alien teenage girls represented by the ACLU, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled on December 18 that the administration couldn’t block the teens, who are in federal custody, from getting taxpayer-funded abortions. The teenagers are being held by authorities because they entered the country illegally. Vice News reported that Chutkan initially also refused to allow the teenagers, called “Jane Poe” and “Jane Roe” in court documents, to immediately get an abortion. However, her ruling would not have taken effect for 24 hours, in order to give the Trump administration time to appeal the decision and continue the court battle, which could continue for days or even weeks. Chutkan subsequently lifted the 24-hour stay, just hours after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which represents both Poe and Roe, requested an end to it on December 19.
In court filings, reported Vice News, Poe’s lawyers said they approached the Trump administration about their request to remove the stay but hadn’t heard back as of the morning of December 19. “It’s literally a matter of every day counts,” the judge had acknowledged, according to the ACLU’s request.
Roe and Poe are currently being held by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a program of the Administration for Children and Families, an office within the Department of Health and Human Services. A sponsor has volunteered to take care of Roe, but no one has offered to sponsor Poe.
After Chutkan’s initial ruling on December 18, the Trump administration quickly filed a notice of appeal as well as a request to lengthen the stay in Roe’s case for at least two weeks. While Roe is approximately 10 weeks pregnant, the Trump administration says Poe is 22 weeks pregnant. Lawyers for the Trump administration wrote, “The government has strong and constitutionally legitimate interests in promoting its interest in life, in refusing to facilitate abortion, and in not providing incentives for pregnant minors to illegally cross the border to obtain elective abortions while in federal custody. Those interests would be irreparably undercut if Ms. Roe was granted the relief she seeks.” Brigitte Amiri, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, said in a statement: “We are pleased that these two young women are able to finally get the care they need. But the government’s policy is still in place. These two cases show how the government continues to abuse its power by denying abortion access.”
Scott Lloyd, who assumed the position of director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in March, had operated under a new policy put into place by the Trump administration that requires him to sign off on all major medical care. Before taking the position at ORR, Lloyd, who is an attorney, worked for the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal and charitable organization that plays a leading role in the pro-life movement.
However, the ACLU is not happy with that policy and asserted in a court document that it “grants ORR a veto power over a minor’s abortion decision, erects numerous hurdles to a minor’s ability to obtain unbiased counseling about pregnancy options and prompt pregnancy dating, regardless of whether they will ultimately decide to terminate or carry to term their pregnancy, and imposes significant hurdles.”
In another twist in these cases, reported Vice News, it was revealed during a December 19 court motion that Roe is not 17 years old, as was previously thought, but 19. Since she is legally an adult, lawyers for the administration pointed out, Roe should be in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security — not the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
A December 18 Politico report observed that since the beginning of this legal battle, government lawyers have also argued that the teens are free to return to their home countries or to seek to be released to the custody of a sponsor, but federal officials should not have to take any action to facilitate an abortion. Of course, since Roe was subsequently found to be an adult, only Poe would require a sponsor. Politico also quoted a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, who said:
A pregnant minor who has entered the country illegally has the option to voluntarily depart to her home country or identify a suitable sponsor. HHS-funded facilities that provide temporary shelter and care for unaccompanied alien minors should not become way stations for these children to get taxpayer-facilitated abortions.
That statement makes clear that the government is not, as the ACLU asserts, continuing “to abuse its power by denying abortion access.” The Trump administration is wiling to allow minors to return home or seek sponsorship, where in either circumstance they would be able to make abortion decisions free of government interference. The administration objects only to requiring the taxpayers, many of whom object in conscience to abortion, to pay for these procedures.
A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump's administration to allow two pregnant immigrant teenagers in US custody to obtain abortions.US District Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled on Monday that the Republican administration can't prevent the 17-year-old girls from exercising their right to an abortion.Both girls, who are 10 and 22 weeks pregnant, arrived in the country as unaccompanied minors and are being held in federal shelters, though it is not known precisely where.The American Civil Liberties Union went to court on behalf of the two girls, as it did in the case of a third 17-year-old girl who was able to obtain an abortion in October following a high-profile court fight.The judge's temporary restraining order marked the latest chapter in a legal dispute with the Trump administration over whether minors who are illegal immigrants have the right to seek an abortion during their detention.Earlier this year, the office in the Health and Human Services Department that oversees the shelters prohibited the two girls from taking steps to facilitate an abortion without its direct approval.One teen is about 10 weeks pregnant, and the other is now about 22 weeks pregnant, Chutkan said. She 'is quickly approaching the limit for abortion in the state where she is being detained,' the ACLU argued in its lawsuit.Lawyers for the government made clear at a court hearing earlier Monday that the administration would not allow her to have an abortion, Chutkan said in her ruling.The administration appealed the judge's ruling as it applied to the teenager who is 10 weeks along. It did not seek to stop the teenager who is about 22 weeks pregnant from having an abortion.Late Monday, an appeals court in Washington said the teenager who is 10 weeks along in her pregnancy must wait at least another day to have an abortion so that the court has more time to consider the case.Scott Lloyd, the head of the HHS office that oversees the shelters, said in an email that facilities under HHS 'should not be supporting abortion services pre or post-release,' but rather 'life-affirming options counseling.'Chutkan said the HHS office continues to claim 'ultimate authority to unilaterally veto the reproductive choices of the unaccompanied minors in its custody.'The federal appeals court in Washington ruled for the third teenager in October, and her abortion took place without the administration asking the Supreme Court to step in.That teenager is being held in Texas, where minors need either their parents' consent or a judge's approval for an abortion.The other two girls are in states where minors don't need consent, the ACLU said, but it has refused to identify the states or say where the teens are from.
