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"North Korean diplomats attempted to recover the body of Kim Jong Nam this week and demanded an immediate cremation, in an apparent bid to prevent Malaysian authorities from identifying the cause of death. The Malaysians rejected the request.
The assassination came as a recently published book by this writer, iWar: War and Peace in the Information Age, called for waging an information warfare campaign that would use the estranged brother of Kim Jong Un as a replacement leader.
Since taking power in 2011 following the death of his father, Kim Jong Un has ruled with an iron grip while carrying out ruthless purges of perceived opponents. As many as 300 officials have been killed in the purges, including Kim's pro-China uncle, Jang Sang Taek.
Kim Jong Nam, 45, at one time was considered the heir to the late Kim Jong Il, but he ran afoul of the Pyongyang communist family dynasty after his 2001 arrest in Japan for entering the country using a false passport to visit Tokyo Disneyland.
As the Wall Street Journal noted in an editorial, Kim Jong Nam was viewed as a threat to the Kim Jong Un regime because of past comments criticizing the North Korean system. "North Korea should pay attention to reform and openness. If it continues like this, it cannot become an economic power," Jong Nam was quoted as telling a Japanese newspaper in 2011.
Jong Nam also opposed the dynastic communist system, which he said "does not fit with socialism and my father was against it."
He also was close to his uncle Jang, who was executed in 2013, allegedly for corruption but more likely for his close ties to the Chinese. Jong Nam's support for Jang is an indication he favored the reform communism of China over the Stalinist North Korean model.
North Korea's regime is engaged in what the United Nations Commission on Human Rights several years ago called crimes against humanity. The regime uses systematic torture, mass extermination camps, and other ruthless means against the North Korean people in a bid to maintain its grip on power.
The book iWar called for the United States to adopt a policy of regime change in North Korea. "North Korea is an enemy because it has armed itself with nuclear weapons and missiles while repeatedly threatening to use those weapons against the United States and its allies," the book stated. "The center of gravity for North Korea is the Kim dynasty."
The policy calls for providing North Korea with large numbers of information systems, such as computers and smart phones. The wiring of the police state initially will be limited by regime controls, but eventually North Korean citizens will find ways to circumvent the electronic controls. Once that takes place, information operations will be able to penetrate the totalitarian system, expose the horrors and crimes of the regime, and lead to reform and ultimately the ouster of the Kim regime.
"The program will include coopting Kim Jong Nam, the out-of-power brother of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un, and conducting information operations that will seek to install the brother as a replacement for the current leader," the book states.
Any link between the book's publication Jan. 3 and the assassination of Kim Jong Nam in Malaysia six weeks later is speculative.
The connection should not be discounted, however, considering Kim Jong Un's ruthlessness and paranoia. Since taking power, Kim has sought to eliminate challenges to his rule. Kim Jong Nam, as a family member of the ruling Kim dynasty, represented a threat to the dictator's quest for unrivaled power in Pyongyang.
Bruce Bechtol, a former Defense Intelligence Agency specialist on North Korea, said the regime targeted Kim Jong Nam because he criticized his brother's rule. The regime issued a "warrant" to kill Jong Nam in 2012, he said.
"I think this was a window of opportunity; he was outside of Chinese territory and thus the Chinese could not protect him; he was without any of his own personal bodyguards, which is curious; and he was in a very confused setting," Bechtol said. "Thus, this was the perfect window of time for the North Korean agents to take him out."
Greg Scarlatoiu, executive director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, said the killing appears linked to North Korean hereditary leadership.
"The assassination of Kim Jong Nam ensured that another hereditary transmission of power would not happen in the foreseeable future," he said.
The assassination also appears intended as an intimidation tactic for other North Korean leaders.
"It also sent a stark message to senior North Korean officials inside as well as outside North Korea: Now that even Paektu blood has been spilled, no one, absolutely no one is safe," Scarlatoiu said.
Mount Paektu is considered the spiritual home of North Koreans. The ruling Kim family, beginning with communist North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, then Kim Jong Il, and currently Kim Jong Un regard the "Paektu blood line" as the dynasty's legend.
South Korea's intelligence chief told lawmakers in Seoul this week that Kim Jong Nam had been under threat for years, and that an earlier assassination attempt in 2012 was thwarted by Chinese police."

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"Norma McCorvey, whose legal challenge under the pseudonym "Jane Roe" led to the US Supreme Court's landmark decision that legalised abortion but who later became an outspoken opponent of the procedure, has died. She was 69.
McCorvey died at an assisted living centre in Katy, Texas, said journalist Joshua Prager, who is working on a book about McCorvey and was with her and her family when she died. He said she died of heart failure and had been ill for some time.
McCorvey was 22, unmarried, unemployed and pregnant for the third time in 1969 when she sought to have an abortion in Texas, where the procedure was illegal except to save a woman's life.
The subsequent lawsuit, known as Roe v Wade, led to the Supreme Court's 1973 ruling that established abortion rights, though by that time, McCorvey had given birth and given her daughter up for adoption.
Decades later, McCorvey became an evangelical Christian and joined the anti-abortion movement. A short time later, she underwent another religious conversion and became a Catholic.
"I don't believe in abortion even in an extreme situation. If the woman is impregnated by a rapist, it's still a child. You're not to act as your own God," she told The Associated Press in 1998.
After the court's ruling, McCorvey lived quietly for several years before revealing herself as Jane Roe in the 1980s. She also confessed to lying when she said the pregnancy was the result of rape.
Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, she remained an ardent supporter of abortion rights and worked for a time at a Dallas women's clinic where abortions were performed.
Her 1994 autobiography, I Am Roe: My Life, Roe v. Wade, and Freedom of Choice, included abortion-rights sentiments along with details about dysfunctional parents, reform school, petty crime, drug abuse, alcoholism, an abusive husband, an attempted suicide and lesbianism.
But a year later, she was baptised before network TV cameras by a most improbable mentor: The Reverend Philip "Flip" Benham, leader of Operation Rescue, now known as Operation Save America. McCorvey joined the cause and staff of Benham, who had befriended her when the anti-abortion group moved next door to the clinic where she was working.
McCorvey also said her religious conversion led her to give up her lover, Connie Gonzales. She said the relationship turned platonic in the early 1990s and that once she became a Christian she believed homosexuality was wrong.
She recounted her evangelical conversion and stand against abortion in the January 1998 book Won by Love, which ends with McCorvey happily involved with Operation Rescue.
But by August of that year, she had changed faiths to Catholicism and had left Operation Rescue. Though she was still against abortion, she said she had reservations about the group's confrontational style.
McCorvey formed her own group, Roe No More Ministry, in 1997 and travelled around the US speaking out against abortion. In 2005, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge by McCorvey to the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling.
In May 2009, she was arrested on trespassing charges after joining more than 300 anti-abortion demonstrators when President Barack Obama spoke at the University of Notre Dame. In July 2009, she was among demonstrators arrested for disrupting Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination hearing.… when she got pregnant a third time she decided to have an abortion. She said she couldn't afford to travel to one of the handful of states where it would have been legal.
In I Am Roe, she said her adoption lawyer put her in touch with Texas lawyers Linda Coffee and Sarah Weddington, who were seeking a woman to represent in a legal case to challenge the state's anti-abortion statute. She gave birth to the "Roe" baby in June 1970."

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"the philosophy of “separation of church and state,” a phrase that comes from a letter from Thomas Jefferson to a church in Maine that was worried the government might infringe on Christians’ right to worship freely. The only commentary on the subject in the Constitution and Bill of Rights comes from the “Establishment Clause” in the First Amendment, which says “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” These folks must also be unaware that our Congress opens every session and most days with group prayer, usually Christian but sometimes Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or other faiths. The Constitution is comfortable with government expression of religious faith – it just demands that Congress not pass a law that gives preference to one faith over another and that Congress do NOTHING to prohibit the free exercise of faith."

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"Even seemingly innocuous garments like jeans are often produced using a laundry list of toxic chemicals, including perfluorochemicals, phthalates and azo dyes. It's not only man-made materials that are the problem, however. Even conventionally grown genetically engineered (GE) cotton is problematic due to the cotton industry's heavy use of hazardous herbicides and insecticides, including some of the most hazardous insecticides on the market.

Choose organic cotton, organic hemp and/or wool items, ideally colored with non-toxic, natural dyes whenever possible. Organic fabrics will not be genetically engineered and subject to this onslaught of toxic exposures. And, while this will not solve all of the environmental problems related to the garment industry, it's a step in the right direction. If you really want to make a dent in the problem, give more thought to what you buy in the first place and curb your consumption."

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Elizabeth wrote:Susan Cox Powell has been missing since December,2009... still no news of her whereabouts. If she is alive, she could be being held somewhere against her will. :( A reward of eleven thousand dollars is officially offered, and I am prepared to offer a further five thousand American dollars for information which leads to her safe recovery... alive and well.

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"A preliminary report shows the murder of Kim Jong-nam was carried out with a highly toxic chemical known as VX nerve agent, Malaysian police say.
The police said swabs were taken from the eye and the face of a North Korean national by the chemistry department of Malaysia.
VX nerve agent, or S-2 Diisoprophylaminoethyl methylphosphonothiolate, is a chemical classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations.
Kim, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, died after being assaulted at Kuala Lumpur International Airport last week while preparing to board a flight to Macau."

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"VX nerve agent: What to know
A clear, amber-coloured, oily liquid which is tasteless and odourless.
The most toxic of the known chemical warfare agents, a drop of VX on your skin can be fatal. It can kill a person within minutes.
Works by penetrating the skin and disrupting the transmission of nerve impulses.
It can be disseminated in a spray or vapour, or used to contaminate water, food, and agricultural products.
VX can be absorbed into the body by inhalation, ingestion, skin contact, or eye contact.
Clothing can carry VX for about 30 minutes after contact with the vapour, which can expose other people.
Exposure to a low or moderate dose of VX by inhalation, ingestion or skin absorption can cause symptoms like a runny nose, eye pain, blurred vision, drooling and excessive sweating, chest tightness, rapid breathing, increased urination, confusion, drowsiness, weakness, nausea, or vomiting.
Its official chemical name is S-2 Diisoprophylaminoethyl methylphosphonothiolate and it is banned by the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention."

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Vice President Mike Pence Calls for Permanently Banning Taxpayer Funding of Abortions.

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"Kim Jong-nam succumbed to a second attack on his life earlier this week, years after pleas for his life to be spared went unheard by his younger sibling.
According to officials briefed by Lee Byung-ho, the director of the South's National Intelligence Service; the North Korean ruler received a letter in 2012 from his half-brother asking him to withdraw a standing order for his assassination.
Mr Lee said an assassination attempt was made against Kim Jong-nam that same year.
"This is not a calculated action to remove Kim Jong-nam because he was a challenge to power per se, but rather reflected Kim Jong-un's paranoia," Mr Lee was quoted as saying.
"We have nowhere to go, nowhere to hide. We are well aware that the only way to escape is suicide," Kim Jong-nam said in the letter to Kim Jong-un, one of the officials said.
Both South Korean and United States officials believe the deadly attack carried out on Kim Jong-nam at Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur airport was the work of North Korean assassins.
The eldest son of Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-nam was hidden from public view for years because his father and actress mother were not legally married.
Although hidden away he was loved by his father, as Kim Jong-nam's aunt and guardian Song Hye Rang wrote in a memoir called The Wisteria House. Kim Jong-nam moved to Russia with his mother when he was eight years old, and spent most of his childhood going back and forth between international schools in Moscow and Geneva.
At 18, he finally returned to North Korea, when he was expected by some to eventually succeed his father.
This scheme was abruptly halted when Kim Jong-nam was caught with his family at a Tokyo airport in 2001 using a false Dominican Republic passport.
He said the family wanted to visit Tokyo Disneyland. All four were deported and went back to North Korea via Beijing.
The incident saw an embarrassed Kim Jong-il cancel a trip to China, and served as a catalyst for his eldest son to be ejected from the family.
Kim Jong-nam spent his remaining days travelling between Beijing, Malaysia, Singapore and spending much of his time in the Chinese territory of Macau.
He reportedly had at least six children, and several different wives.”

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The last people remaining at a Dakota Access pipeline protest camp prayed and set fire to a handful of wooden structures on Wednesday, hours ahead of a deadline set by the Army Corps of Engineers to close the camp.

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"17-year-old transgender boy completed an undefeated season Saturday by winning a controversial Texas state girls wrestling title in an event clouded by criticism from those who believe the testosterone he's taking as he transitions from female to male created an unfair advantage.

The family of Mack Beggs has said he would rather be wrestling boys, but state policy calls for students to wrestle against the gender listed on their birth certificates. So the junior from Euless Trinity beat Chelsea Sanchez 12-2 in the 110-pound (50kg) weight class to improve to 56-0 and earn the championship."


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Vice President Mike Pence Calls for Permanently Banning Taxpayer Funding of Abortions.
I was like a million insane feminists cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

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An acquaintance of mine who was there denies these reports. He writes the following:
"At Standing Rock they are trying to bore under the Sioux Indians sacred ground and drinking water when they were supposed to run the pipe around Bismarck. The oil magnates decided to violate centuries old treaty rights of the Sioux and burrow their poison pipe under sacred Sioux burial grounds and rivers and lakes where the oil will eventually leak and poison their water for centuries (the oil has arsenic and benzene in it from fracking). The water protectors and earth defenders are standing their ground and have fought bravely against company security forces (police?) who have assaulted the water protectors (Lakota Sioux) with water canon laced with mace, rubber bullets (shooting people on their knees praying), concussion grenades (that blew a girls arm nearly off) , wild dogs and very terrible and brutal means...I was on the Standing Rock and witnessed all this and brave and courageous prayerful Sioux standing their ground. America is ashamed of itself..trust me.
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22 Feb 2017
The last people remaining at a Dakota Access pipeline protest camp prayed and set fire to a handful of wooden structures on Wednesday, hours ahead of a deadline set by the Army Corps of Engineers to close the camp.

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"The case arose in 2013 because of the actions of then Mayor of Houston, Annise Parker, who instructed the city financial officer to give legal status and recognition to so-called same-sex “marriages” for city employees and to provide benefits to same-sex “spouses” of employees at the expense of Houston taxpayers. This was in clear violation of the Texas Marriage Amendment in the Texas Constitution.
Mayor Parker’s edict occurred before the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision allowed homosexuals to be legally “married.” The Court’s decision was an exercise of raw judicial power in order to advance the homosexual agenda of creating moral anarchy in society. It had no legal basis in the U.S. Constitution. The concept of homosexual “marriage” is a mirage because it is a lie, foisted upon the American society by five unelected justices.
Marriage was established by God. “For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall become one flesh” (Genesis 2:24). Jesus reaffirmed this in Matthew 19:4-5. The Obergefell ruling is in direct violation of God’s law and standard for marriage and as such must be opposed by elected officials in lower positions of authority, as they interpose themselves between the citizens from wicked rulings by higher authorities in order to prevent the citizens from being forced to violate God’s law. The Obergefell decision is a perversion of God’s standard for marriage.
This Pidgeon v Parker case was won initially in state district court in Harris County. The City of Houston appealed the decision to the 14th Court of Appeals, comprised of all Republican judges. The initial trial court decision in favor of Woodfill’s plaintiffs, Pastor Jack Pidgeon and Larry Hicks, was reversed by the appellate court. This reversal effectively expanded Obergefell to include taxpayer-funded benefits. This led to Woodfill’s appeal for a rehearing before the Texas Supreme Court on the grounds that the appellate court’s ruling infringed upon taxpayers’ religious liberties and upon Tenth Amendment State’s Rights.
It was the well-reasoned dissent by Supreme Court Justice John Devine, to the initial denial of the Texas Supreme Court, which caused a public outcry over this denial, that led Atty. Gen. Ken Paxton to file an Amicus Brief with the Supreme Court which was signed by Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.
Additionally, I filed an Amicus Brief which was signed by 70 Republican legislators, statewide officials, and leaders of various Texas conservative organisations.
The written opinion in Pidgeon v Parker is expected to be issued by June of this year.
Jared Woodfill is to be commended for pressing this case to the Texas Supreme Court. He had been advised to drop the case after the 14th Court of Appeals overruled the state district court’s favorable ruling. Jared knew that this case had the potential to limit the scope of the Obergefell “same-sex” marriage decision and even lead to Obergefell being overturned on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jared Woodfill has proven that he has a lion’s heart: “The righteous are as bold as a lion” (Proverbs 28:1)."

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"Americans love chicken. Whether from factory farming or organic free range chicken, we eat an average of 84 pounds of it per person per year. However, nutrition experts from Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) are now warning that grocery stores and factory farming are bringing you meat contaminated with chicken feces.
Scientists from the PCRM were surprised at just how common it was to find contaminants on grocery store chicken. For the study, chicken products from 15 U.S. grocery store chains in 10 cities were tested for E. coli bacteria as evidence of fecal contamination.
E. coli plus toxic chemicals and viruses found in store-bought chicken
Some of the chicken products from each store chain and city tested positive, and overall, 48 percent of the samples tested positive for E. coli. In addition to feces, store-bought chickens have tested positive for toxic chemicals and even “superbugs” that are resistant to antibiotics.
Chicken is often treated with chlorine as part of the factory farming process in an attempt to clean it. However, the addition of this chemical only adds to the potential contaminants and carcinogens on grocery store chicken.
In poultry farms and during transportation, chickens defecate freely and are often standing in feces. Feces can also be released from the intestines during slaughter. This makes the presence of contaminants common during the processing of chicken meat.
Nearly all grocery stores and brands tested positive for toxins
Chicken meat is often rinsed with chlorinated water and inspected for visible contamination. However, factory farms and plants that process a high volume of chicken are clearly missing some of the fecal matter, as evidenced by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine study.
Chicken brands tested included Foster Farms, Gerber’s Poultry, Piggly Wiggly, Nature’s Promise, Open Nature, Publix, Red Bird Farms, Sanderson Farms, Wild Harvest Natural, Safeway O Organics, Springer Mountain Farms, Pilgrim’s, Eating Right, Harris Teeter, Harvestland, H-E-B, Smart Chicken, Roundy’s, Safeway, Super G, Supervalu, Hill Country Fare, Perdue, Murray’s and Covington Farms.
The grocery store chains tested included Fry’s, Albertsons, Dominick’s, Giant, Harris Teeter, Kroger, Pick ‘n Save, H-E-B, Jewel-Osco, Piggly Wiggly, Publix, Winn-Dixie, Ralphs, Randalls and Safeway.
Despite risk, U.S. Department of Agriculture standards are being reduced
Among the samples tested, chicken with skin on or off seemed equally at risk for contamination. Antibiotic-free chicken samples and conventional samples were both found to be contaminated at around the same levels.
Over 8 billion chickens are slaughtered each year in the U.S. However, instead of ramping up inspection procedures for factory farming, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is planning to decrease standards and measures for keeping consumers safe from contaminants. This is despite chicken feces being found in over half of the chicken sold in stores across the U.S.
Favor organic free-range chicken over factory farming
These findings underscore the importance of thoroughly rinsing raw chicken under running water before cooking to remove contaminants. Doing so can help to clean off what the processing plant may have missed.
Of course, purchasing higher quality organic free-range chicken – from a local farmer instead of mass produced products – will greatly reduce your odds of exposure to contaminants. In addition, be sure to cook chicken until it reaches an internal temperature of at least 165 F to ensure food safety.
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http://www.pcrm.org/nbBlog/do-your-chic ... 9s-in-them
http://www.pcrm.org/health/reports/feca ... n-products
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VOM contacts study weather patterns carefully in order to choose the best time to launch gospel balloons into North Korea. The winds must be just right to ensure that the balloons and their precious cargo of gospel literature reach populated areas.

Although North Korea is one of the most restricted and isolated nations on earth, VOM contacts continue to find unique ways of spreading the gospel there. One effective method involves launching helium-filled weather balloons carrying gospel tracts and New Testaments into the country.

By including a GPS transponder in the balloons, Christian workers can even track their paths and see where the precious gospel payload lands.We also use radio broadcasts to reach into North Korea over the airwaves. The North Korean government often tries to jam our signal, but by repeatedly changing frequencies we have been able to continue sharing the Good News.

In a nation where owning a Bible is only a dream for most Christians, these radio broadcasts are of immeasurable value. North Korean defectors in South Korea read the Scriptures over the air in a slow, deliberate manner so listeners can write down passages of God’s Word themselves. These handwritten verses are likely the only Bibles that many North Koreans will ever have."

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Jon Huntsman Jr. former Governor of Utah and son of a chemical industry billionaire has been given one of the most tense jobs in the world: US ambassador to Russia.

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From Robert Spencer: " Facebook and Twitter are censoring Jihad Watch as "hate speech," in accord with assurances they recently gave to the European Union that they would stop tolerating such speech. Now, I do not accept and will never accept the idea that reporting on jihad activity and Sharia oppression constitutes "hate speech," but that is, of course, the longstanding claim of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Muslim groups in the West, and has been uncritically adopted by the Left, with which Facebook and Twitter are so firmly aligned. In reality, what constitutes "hate speech" is a subjective judgment. The label itself is a tool in the hands of the powerful, enabling them to control the discourse and silence dissenters to their agenda. That is ultimately what this is about: the purveyors of the Big Lie always have to shut down those who tell the truth, because they are aware that their whole enterprise rests on a lie and is deeply threatened by the truth. They can only put their lie across by constant repetition and relentless persecution of those who tell the truth. The truth-tellers, in contrast, need not resort to censorship against the liars, for they are confident that the truth, if given a fair hearing, will be obvious and compelling.

The good news in all this is that despite this choking-off of referrals from Facebook and Twitter, Jihad Watch's overall readership is growing. Apparently many people who used to come to the site from Facebook and Twitter are finding different avenues. That is very important in general: free people must not accept this censorship, which is a desperate lashing-out of a discredited and weakening political and media elite against an inexorably growing populist revolution. If Facebook and Twitter shut out the truth, then we have to, in large numbers, shut out Facebook and Twitter. That is certainly what I am going to do: while each Jihad Watch post automatically goes up on Facebook and Twitter (for as long as that will last), I will never personally go to either one again. And despite the ever-decreasing platform for those who dissent from the socialist, globalist, internationalist agenda of these sinister and authoritarian elites, there is every reason to be confident. They have all the money and all the power and all the platforms, and even so, Brexit was voted in, Trump was elected, and much, much more is to come. There is, after all, one weapon they do not have on their side, and that is why, for all their intermediate success, they are doomed to failure: that weapon is, of course, the truth.

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS."

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"The makers of Disney's new Beauty and the Beast movie have included a "gay character and love scene" between Gaston and his male sidekick, LeFou, according to the BBC. The movie hits theaters March 17.
"LeFou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston. He's confused about what he wants," director Bill Condon told Attitude magazine. "It's somebody who’s just realising that he has these feelings. And [LeFou] makes something really subtle and delicious out of it. And that’s what has its payoff at the end, which I don't want to give away. But it is a nice, exclusively gay moment in a Disney movie."

In response, American Family Association is encouraging all its friends to take a stand, by signing an open letter of protest to Disney, and by joining AFA in co-producing a godly family Film, The Pilgrim's Progress.

Take Action Now!
And please share this important message with your friends and family members.
Tim Wildmon, President
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"Abortion Activists Kill Baby Jesus in Graphic Abortion on Virgin Mary Outside Catholic Church.

Pro-abortion activists staged a gross and disgusting publicity stunt outside a local Catholic Church. The protest was meant to draw attention to the nation’s pro-life laws on International Women’s Day — as if killing baby girls in abortions somehow advances the cause of women. As part of International Women’s Day (March 8), feminist protestors simulated a bloody abortion on a woman dressed as the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, outside the cathedral in Tucuman, Argentina.
In the mock abortion in front of the cathedral, a young woman is wearing a white dress, a blue veil, and a crown of flowers. She is also wearing what appears to be a rosary around her neck.
She is sitting on a chair with her legs spread and several “abortionists” wearing pink “pussy” hats are removing and dismembering a bloody fake baby from her vagina. Fake blood and body parts cover the street."

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"Soldiers at Paris' Orly airport who shot dead a man who tried to grab their female colleague's weapon heard him say he was ready to die for Allah.
The incident triggered a major security alert that caused travel chaos today local time.
It came as France remains on high alert following a series of jihadist attacks that have claimed more than 230 lives since January 2015.
Prosecutors said they had opened an anti-terror investigation.
"Put your weapons down. I'm here to die for Allah. In any case people are going to die," the man told three patrolling soldiers, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said, giving an account of the attack.
A cousin of the attacker was also detained, as well as his father and brother, Mr Molins added.
Flights were halted at Orly for several hours, with incoming flights diverted and thousands of passengers stranded at Paris' second-largest airport, but normal service resumed mid-afternoon.
France goes to the polls on April 23 in the first round of a two-stage presidential election in which security is one of the main issues on voters' minds.
Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux said the attacker, who he named as Ziyed Ben Belgacem, was "known to the police and intelligence services".
He said the suspect was also linked to an attack on police just north of Paris earlier the same day in which an officer was slightly wounded.
At the airport, the 39-year-old man knocked the soldier to the ground and grabbed at her rifle, a senior military source said.
Two other soldiers with her then opened fire, killing him, the source said.
No-one else was injured.
According to an eyewitness, the man had at one point grabbed the female soldier by the neck.
"The man took a soldier hostage, he was holding her by the neck and he was threatening two other soldiers with the woman's rifle," the traveller said.
The incident took place at about 8.30am local time in the south terminal. About 3000 people were evacuated from the building.
Franck Lecam, a traveller bound for Tel Aviv, said he heard "three or four shots" as he was queueing to check in.
Addressing reporters at the airport, Mr Le Roux said Belgacem had tried "but not succeeded" in his bid to grab the soldier's rifle.
He said the same man was also suspected of opening fire on police during a routine traffic inspection in the northern Paris suburb of Garges-les-Gonesse about 7am. One officer suffered minor head injuries.
He was thought to have stolen a car and driven to Orly, Mr Le Roux said.
Sources close to the investigation said Belgacem had committed several armed robberies and was investigated for radicalisation in 2015, although he did not feature on the list of those thought to pose a high risk.
He lived in an apartment in Garges-les-Gonesse, which was searched by investigators after the airport incident.
Air traffic to Orly was suspended and all incoming flights rerouted to Paris' main Charles de Gaulle airport, north of the city.
Passengers in the western terminal were kept inside the building, which reopened at around 1200 GMT. Operations resumed soon afterwards at the southern terminal, where the incident occurred.
Elite police teams secured the airport and searched it for explosives but none were found.
The shooting took place on the second day of an official visit to Paris by Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate, which was unaffected.
France remains under a state of emergency after a series of terror attacks, including the November 2015 massacre in Paris and a truck attack in Nice last July.
In mid-February, a machete-wielding Egyptian man attacked a soldier outside Paris's Louvre museum before being shot and wounded.
The soldiers on patrol at Orly airport belong to Operation Sentinelle, a force of 7,000 troops deployed in the capital and other cities after the January 2015 attacks in Paris.
On Thursday, a letter bomb exploded at the Paris offices of the International Monetary Fund, injuring a secretary who suffered burns to her hands and face.
French President Francois Hollande called that incident an "attack", saying it showed the country was "still targeted".
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"The advertisement talks about hazelnuts and a hint of cocoa, but neglects to mention refined palm oil and a massive dose of sugar. Sugar and Palm Oil Do Not Make for a Healthy Breakfast, an infusion of sugar is not part of a balanced diet. In fact, eating sugar triggers natural opioids in your brain and may be as addictive as cocaine to some people.
Sugar increases your risk of disease, tricks your body into gaining weight and may trigger behavioral changes.The second ingredient making the news is palm oil,
Health Effects of Refined Palm Oil Called Into Question
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), akin to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, recently released a study finding the chemical contaminants that result from refining vegetable oils (including palm oil), may increase your risk of cancer.
The substances causing concern included: glycidyl fatty acid esters (GE), 3-monochloropropanediol (3-MCPD), and 2-monochloropropanediol (2-MCPD) and their fatty acid esters. When refined at approximately 200 C (392 F), palm oil and palm fats had the highest number of contaminants, including GE.
No tolerable or safe levels have been set for GE as the group found sufficient evidence it is genotoxic and carcinogenic.
Palm oil is the cheapest vegetable oil, costing $800 per ton, compared to $845 for sunflower and $900 for rapeseed.8 Ferrero uses 185,000 tons each year, so switching could increase costs between $8 to 22 million annually.
Although the World Health Organization and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization also flagged refined palm oil with the same risk, they did not recommend banning the ingredient. The palm oil industry, valued at $44 billion, has found a vocal and passionate supporter in Ferrero.
Without prompting, and following the release of the study, a large supermarket chain in Europe decided to boycott processed palm oil. Barilla has also eliminated it from their products.
It isn't the effects of palm oil that are in question, but rather what happens to the oil during the refining process to remove the color and neutralize the smell. considered and evidence-based research demonstrates significant negative effects on health. For instance, when vegetable oils are heated they become unstable, producing large numbers of dangerous oxidation products, including aldehydes associated with lung cancer.
Vegetable oils also have large amounts of biologically active omega-6 fats that lowers the ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fats in your body, which may trigger cardiovascular disease, asthma, cancer, obesity and rheumatoid arthritis.
When you eat foods high in omega-6 fats it increases the amount of inflammation in your body, contributing to the development of the illnesses listed above. The less omega-6 fats you eat the less omega-3s you need to maintain a healthy balance. An imbalance of omega-6 fats increases your risk of cancer, even without the additional toxic load of GE molecules from the refining process.
According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), glycidol has been classified as a 2A carcinogen. In the IARC monograph they state:
"Glycidol is probably carcinogenic to humans (Group 2A). In making the overall evaluation, the Working Group took into consideration that glycidol is a direct-acting alkylating agent that is mutagenic in a wide range of in-vivo and in-vitro test systems."

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