FRANKLIN GRAHAM SAYS WE CAN NOT REMAIN SILENT – THE EQUALITY ACT IS A DANGEROUS THREAT TO OUR NATION

Franklin Graham, President of the Bill Graham Evangelistic Association, sent out emails and notices on other media today about a very dangerous piece of legislation—the Equality Act. He wrote, The Biden Administration has said they want to pass this within their first 100 days. I cannot say this more emphatically—for people, for businesses, and for ministries of faith, the Equality Act is a threat to life as we know it in our nation today. It’s a real game-changer.

The House has already passed this legislation one time previously, so it will likely pass in the House again before moving on to the Senate. We need you to contact your congressmember and U.S. senators and ask them to vote NO. I also encourage you to let the White House know about your strong opposition to this bill. The progressive Left is zealous about this issue and will pull out all the stops to try to make it the law of the land.

• The Equality Act designates schools, churches, and healthcare organizations as “public accommodations.” With this, schools, churches, and hospitals could be forced to accept the government’s beliefs and mandates about sexual orientation and gender identity. That would be highly intrusive and incredibly far-reaching. It will threaten everyday speech where people can be fined or lose their jobs for using the wrong name or pronouns.

• The Equality Act will legislate that we allow boys in girls’ sports, boys in girls’ locker rooms, men in women’s shelters, and men in women’s prisons. It will force teachers and students to publicly pretend that a biological male is a female. Schools will be encouraged or mandated to instruct first, second, and third graders that they can choose to be a boy or a girl, or neither, or both, making biological sex (and science) a relic of the past.

• The Equality Act will use the force of law across all 50 states to strip Christian and other religious ministries of their right to hire people of shared faith to pursue a shared mission. Can you imagine a Christian organization being forced to hire people hostile to its deeply held beliefs who have no passion for its beliefs, teachings, and mission? That doesn’t work.

• The Equality Act will strip health professionals of their rights of conscience. It will force doctors and medical professionals who long to do no harm to engage in gender transition treatments such as hormone-blocking, cross-sex hormones, or surgery. It is obvious that a Catholic or faith-based hospital should not have to perform gender transition surgeries that go entirely against all they believe.

https://thedcpatriot.com/%e2%80%8bfranklin-graham-says-we-can-not-remain-silent-the-equality-act-is-a-dangerous-threat-to-our-nation/

What I Learned at the Aspen Ideas RE$ET Festival Sponsored by Mastercard, PayPal, and Prudential in Partnership with Bloomberg

Aspen Ideas: RE$ET, a virtual symposium of experts and thought leaders designed to "give voice to the bold ideas" for "building an equitable economy," took place earlier this week. If you're in the target demographic—people who enjoy giving and receiving PowerPoint presentations—the entire 10-hour program is available online for your enjoyment.

On the other hand, don't bother. Three hours is more than enough to make the average viewer wish they were rewatching the Democratic primary debates instead, which were interesting and informative by comparison. At least the candidates disagreed on some issues. The Aspen-approved experts rarely did, while deploying many of the same talking points.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a "challenge" but also an "opportunity" for progress, just like World War II and the race to put a man on the moon. Those challenges-turned-opportunities epitomized the greatness that America should endeavor to achieve again by building back better using "mutualistic public-private partnerships."

As the economist Mariana Mazzucato explained during an afternoon breakout session, re-actualizing American greatness will require "a mission-oriented approach to stakeholder capitalism." What does that mean, exactly? Better to let the expert explain it herself: "We must seize the moment to set a direction for change, catalyze innovation across the economy aimed at societal challenges." Now you know.

Like any worthwhile gathering of experts, the virtual conference consisted of plenary sessions and breakouts. Panel discussions were interspersed with short videos highlighting "changemakers," as well as interviews with non-experts to give viewers a sense of what "Main Street" is thinking.

Martin Muoto, for example, is making change via his role as founder, managing partner, and CEO of "a family of social impact real estate funds" called SoLa Impact. In the short video clip, Muoto demonstrated his talent for cramming an obscene amount of woke corporate jargon into a single sentence. "We really are resetting the framework for how we execute compassionate capitalism with intention, with inclusion, and with sustainability," he said, expertly.

The man-on-the-street interviews were equally compelling. Uncredentialed commoners were asked to weigh in on a variety of topics, such as structural inequality, sustainability, and trade. In most cases, their thoughts, suggestions, and admissions of white privilege were no less insightful than those of the credentialed experts.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/aspen-ideas-reset/

Once-secret FBI informant reports reveal wider-ranging operation to spy on Trump campaign

Goal was to find "anyone" inside GOP campaign tied to Russia who could be get dirt "damaging" to Clinton, newly declassified memos reveal.

Once-secret reports show the FBI effort to spy on the Trump campaign was far wider than previously disclosed, as agents directed an undercover informant to make secret recordings, pressed for intelligence on numerous GOP figures, and sought to find "anyone in the Trump campaign" with ties to Russia who could acquire dirt "damaging to Hillary Clinton."

The now-declassified operational handling reports for FBI confidential human source Stefan Halper — codenamed "Mitch" — provide an unprecedented window both into the tactics used by the bureau to probe the Trump campaign and the wide dragnet that was cast to target numerous high-level officials inside the GOP campaign just weeks before Americans chose their next president in the November 2016 election.

Among the revelations, the memos make clear that:

Almost immediately after the FBI opened a Russia collusion probe on July 31, 2016 narrowly focused on the foreign lobbying of a single Trump campaign aide named George Papadopoulos, agents pressed Halper for information on more than a half dozen other figures, including future Attorney General Jeff Sessions, foreign policy adviser Sam Clovis, campaign chairman Paul Manafort, economic adviser Peter Navarro, future National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and campaign adviser Carter Page.

Halper provided significant exculpatory evidence to the FBI — including transcripts of conversations he recorded of targeted Trump advisers providing statements of innocence — that was never disclosed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that approved a year of surveillance targeting the Trump campaign, and specifically Page.

While current FBI Director Chris Wray has insisted the bureau did not engage in spying on the Trump campaign, Halper's taskings include many of the tradecraft tactics of espionage, including the creation of a fake cover story (he wanted a job at the Trump campaign), secret recordings, providing background on targets, suggested questions to ask and even contact information for potential targets.

But the memos' most explosive revelations are the sheer breadth of the FBI's insufficiently predicated dragnet targeting the Trump campaign, and the agents' clearly stated purpose of thwarting any Trump campaign effort to get dirt from Russia that could hurt his Democratic rival.

"Given the Trump campaign's desire to hire the CHS as an advisor, the CHS is in a perfect position to ask CD direct questions about the Trump campaign's alleged ties to RF," one memo noted. "The team provided the CHS with several open source articles about the Trump campaign."

Brock, the former FBI executive, said Wray's and Comey's effort to avoid using the word spying in the Russia case were simply semantics.

“What they are doing is using preferred definitions,” he said. “When we employ the investigative techniques used against Carter Page to break the laws of another country and steal their secrets, it’s okay to call it spying. When we use those same techniques against a U.S. citizen, it’s called an investigation."

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/once-secret-fbi-informant-reports-reveal-wide-ranging

Maoist Monster: Biden Aide Says Pandemic, Which Has Ravaged the Nation, Was the 'Best Thing That Ever Happened' to Biden

Joe Biden’s senior advisor Anita Dunn said that the coronavirus was “the best that ever happened” to Joe Biden, alluding to the impact of the pandemic on the voting public.

The remark will appear in Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, which will hit the bookstores on March 2. It’s the first major book released on the 2020 presidential contest. The Guardian obtained a copy prior to publication and found the quote. “It was, the authors add, a necessarily private comment that ‘campaign officials believed but would never say in public.'”

Washington Examiner:

That private thinking reflects what many political analysts said at the time, that the rampant pandemic undermined then-President Donald Trump’s solid economic achievements and standing in national and battleground state opinion polls.

But the comments could be seized on by Biden’s critics that his campaign used the suffering of the public in the opportunistic pursuit of power.

Dunn was appointed co-chair of Biden’s transition team and served as interim press secretary during that time. Her name may be familiar to many on the right. In 2009, a video clip of the then-White House communications director surfaced where she expressed admiration for Chinese Communist mass-murderer Mao Zedong, calling him “one of my favorite political philosophers.” She left her position a month later.

Keep that quote in mind whenever you listen to Biden’s pious words about how awful it is that the coronavirus has claimed so many lives.

Associated Press:

“We often hear people described as ordinary Americans. There’s no such thing,” he said Monday evening. “There’s nothing ordinary about them. The people we lost were extraordinary.”

“Just like that,” he added, “so many of them took their last breath alone.”

A president whose own life has been marked by family tragedy, Biden spoke in deeply personal terms, referencing his own losses as he tried to comfort the huge number of Americans whose lives have been forever changed by the pandemic.

He probably should have thanked the families of all those dead Americans for giving him the presidency. Biden was dead in the water before the pandemic hit. It wasn’t until the Democratic/Media complex began their daily pronouncements of death and incompetence that his numbers began to rise.

But Dunn’s reported comment points to what became the dominant theme of the election. As the pandemic capsized Trump along with the economy Biden, through a much more cautious approach to campaigning and basic public health concerns, appealed to voters as the right man to manage a recovery.

Trump sought to hammer Biden for “hiding in his basement” – a reference to Biden’s decision to rarely leave home in Wilmington, Delaware, instead campaigning virtually while the president held rallies and ignored public health guidelines. But such attacks did not hit home.

It’s hard for an opponent to hit a moving target. It’s even harder to hit one that goes into hiding. Biden’s strategy was dictated as much by his low energy as it was any grand design and Trump was never quite able to get him in the open to engage in a day-to-day war where Biden would be forced to constantly defend himself.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/02/25/maoist-monster-biden-aide-says-the-pandemic-which-has-ravaged-the-nation-was-the-best-thing-that-ever-happened-to-joe-biden-n1428215

Leaked Emails Confirm UN Gave Names of Dissidents to CCP

Leaked emails prove that, contrary to United Nations denials, UN human-rights officials did in fact give the names of Chinese dissidents to the communist regime in Beijing before those activists were set to testify in Geneva against the Communist Chinese Party’s abuses.

In fact, it appears from the leaked documents that the practice of handing over names of Chinese dissidents to the dictatorship was viewed as a “usual practice” by all involved. The whistleblower told The Epoch Times that it continues to this day, despite UN denials.

Chinese communist authorities used the names received from the UN to prevent the dissidents from leaving China. At least one dissident identified by the UN and detained by the CCP before leaving for Geneva, Cao Shunli, died while in detention.

If the dissident expected to embarrass Beijing at the UN was already abroad, the CCP frequently threatened or even kidnapped and tortured the person’s family, according to UN whistleblower Emma Reilly, who first exposed the scandal.

Critics of the regime whose names were handed over by the UN included activists concerned about Tibet, Hong Kong, and the Islamic Uyghur minority in Western China—all of which are being targeted by the CCP for various reasons.

In February of 2020, The Epoch Times reported on the scandal, and on the retaliation faced by Reilly for attempting to expose and halt the practice. Reilly’s case at the UN is ongoing. She remains employed there but is under “investigation.”

Prominent human-rights organizations around the world have slammed the UN practice for endangering the lives of dissidents and their families.

In comments to The Epoch Times, Reilly described it as “criminal” and even argued that it made the UN “complicit in genocide.”

For years, the UN denied that its agents were providing the names of dissidents to the CCP.

Thanks to leaked e-mails about the practice, however, it is now clear that the UN misled its member governments and the press surrounding the scandal.

One of the explosive emails in question was sent on Sept. 7, 2012, from a diplomat at the CCP’s Mission to the UN in Geneva requesting information on Chinese dissidents set to testify at the UN Human Rights Council.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/emails-confirm-un-gave-names-of-dissidents-to-ccp_3711143.html

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How else do you expect us to wake up the sleeping masses, when they refuse to look at all the evidence we complied over the previous 3 years? Oct 2017 to Oct 2020

Only way was to put the crims in the drivers seat so the normies could see the world turning to shit for themselves

Our task is spreading truth so the sleeping masses can slowly wake up.

Facebook Pledges $1 Bn In News Investments Over 3 Years

Facebook on Wednesday pledged to invest at least $1 billion to support journalism over the next three years as the social media giant defended its handling of a dispute with Australia over payments to media organizations.

Nick Clegg, head of global affairs, said in a statement that the company is willing to support news media while reiterating its concerns over mandated payments.

"Facebook is more than willing to partner with news publishers," Clegg said after Facebook restored news links as part of a compromise with Australian officials.

"We absolutely recognize quality journalism is at the heart of how open societies function – informing and empowering citizens and holding the powerful to account."

Clegg defended the US social media giant in a blog post titled "The Real Story of What Happened With News on Facebook in Australia."

The social media platform came under fire after it blanked out the pages of media outlets for Australian users and blocked them from sharing any news content, rather than submit to the proposed legislation.

Clegg contended in his post that at the heart of the controversy is a misunderstanding about the relationship between Facebook and news publishers.

News groups share their stories at the social network, or make them available for Facebook users to share with features such as buttons designed into websites, Clegg noted.

Facebook drove some 5.1 such "free referrals" to Australian news publishers last year, worth an estimated 407 million Australian dollars, according to Clegg.

"The assertions repeated widely in recent days that Facebook steals or takes original journalism for its own benefit always were and remain false," Clegg said.

"We neither take nor ask for the content for which we were being asked to pay a potentially exorbitant price."

Clegg said that to comply with the law as originally proposed in Australia, "Facebook would have been forced to pay potentially unlimited amounts of money to multi-national media conglomerates under an arbitration system that deliberately misdescribes the relationship between publishers and Facebook."

He maintained that in blacking out all news in the country, "we erred on the side of over-enforcement" and acknowledged that "some content was blocked inadvertently" before being restored.

https://www.ibtimes.com/facebook-pledges-1-bn-news-investments-over-3-years-3151594

Pashinyan Clings To Power And Claims “Military Coup” As Army Demands His Resignation

On February 25th, the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces issued a statement demanding Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation.

It came to this after Pashinyan fired the Chief of General Staff over a comment that the Russian Iskander missiles weren’t the reason Armenia lost the war against Azerbaijan.

“The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia expresses its strong protest against the dismissal of the First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Armenia for short-sighted and unjustified reasons, which was carried out without taking into account the national and state interests of the Republic of Armenia, based only on personal and ambitious feelings.

The Prime Minister and the Government of Armenia are no longer able to make adequate decisions in this crisis and fateful situation for the Armenian people.

The Armenian Armed Forces have long patiently endured “attacks” aimed at discrediting the Armed Forces by the current government, but there is a limit to everything.

The Armed Forces of Armenia fulfilled their duty with honor, fought shoulder to shoulder with their people against the enemy.

In connection with the current situation, the armed forces of Armenia demand the resignation of the Prime Minister and the Government of the Republic of Armenia, while warning them to refrain from using force against the people whose children died defending their Homeland and Artsakh.

The army has always been with the people, just as the people are with the army.”

This was published in a familiar field for Pashinyan – on Facebook.

He immediately started moving, calling for his supporters to take to the streets and claimed that this was a “military coup” attempt.

Pashinyan during a live broadcast on Facebook about the dismissal of the Chief of the General Staff of the Armenian Armed Forces:

“The situation is very difficult. You know that I made a decision to remove the Chief of the General Staff and his first deputy. I will announce the reason for these decisions in the square. The most important task now is to preserve civil and people’s power.”

Artsakh President Arayik Harutyunyan, who is now in Yerevan, made a statement:

“I advise all sides to show composure and sanity, otherwise our defeat will deepen and become even more fatal. Enough, how much blood we have shed, now is the time to soften the crisis and take the path of long-term development and strengthening.”

Harutyunyan added that he is ready to fulfill a mediating mission in overcoming the political crisis in Armenia.

Police are being sent to Republic Square in Yerevan.

https://southfront.org/pashinyan-clings-to-power-and-claims-military-coup-as-army-demands-his-resignation/

Turkish Arms Trafficker Suspected Of Supplying Sarin To Syrian Militants Dies In Mysterious Circumstances

A Turkish arms trafficker who supported militants in Syria and even fought along them early in the conflict has died, Topwar.ru reported on February 24.

The outlet said Heisem Topalca, also known as the “Ghost Commander,” has been smuggling arms to militants in Syria since the outbreak of the war in 2011.

“On February 10, at about 9 pm, a passenger car in which Topalca was with several escorts collided with a truck with license plate 06 KH 8433 on the road near the [Turkish] city of Konya, near the village of Merdivenli,” Topwar wrote describing the accident which claimed the life of Topalca. “After interrogating the truck driver, the police released him, and the bodies of the dead were buried the same day in Hatay province.”

The real name of Topalca is reportedly “Heisem Kassap.” In Syria, the trafficker came to be knonw by his nom de guerre “Abu Salah.”

Topalca was wanted by Turkish authorities for a number of criminal cases. Several arrest warrants were issued against him, yet he was moving freely within Turkey and along the border with Syria.

According to Ahval News, Topalca was suspected of supplying Sarin gas to Syrian militants in Idlib. The Sarin supplied by him may have been used to stage the chemical attack in the town of Khan Shaykhun on April 4 of 2017.

From 2011 to 2014, Topalca made a total of 873 tribes to Syria, where he worked with the Free Syrian Army and the al-Nusra Front [now known as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham]. Topalca was possibly involved in the activities of the Turkish secret service in Syria.

The circumstances surrounding Topalca’s death indicate that he may have been murdered in order to prevent him from revealing anything related to his work in Syria.

https://southfront.org/turkish-arms-trafficker-suspected-of-supplying-sarin-to-syrian-militants-dies-in-mysterious-circumstances/

Senator Rand Paul DESTROYS Crazy Dr. Rachel Levine Over Hormone Therapy to 3-Year-Olds

Crazy Dr. Rachel Levine testified before the US Senate on Thursday morning.

Dr. Levine is Joe Biden’s pick as Assistant Health Secretary. She could become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

Democrats will cheer the transgender’s promotion and completely ignore her failed track record.

Rachel Levine has a work history of failure and illegal practices so the pick makes sense.

Levine made an order forcing nursing homes to accept infected COVID patients, killing thousands of people in Pennsylvania, while she secretly took her mom out and put in Suite in Hershey Motel.

Rachel Levine supported the Black Lives Matter protests and riots while shutting down small businesses across Pennsylvania for months. Her policies were then ruled by a judge to be unconstitutional.

On Thursday Rachel Levine refused to answer Dr. Rand Paul’s questions about hormone therapy to 3-year-olds.

That’s when Rand Paul went off!

Senator Rand Paul: “Let it go into the record that the witness refuses to answer a question. The question is a very specific one. Should minors be making these decisions?…these ou’re willing to let a minor take things to prevent their puberty, and you think they get back?… You have permanently changed them… There’s no long term studies. We don’t know what happens to them. We should be outraged that somebody is talking to a 3-year-old about changing their sex.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/must-see-video-senator-rand-paul-destroys-crazy-dr-rachel-levine-hormone-therapy-3-year-olds-video/