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"Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said Thursday that she plans to sign a sweeping, unprecedented bill requiring insurers to provide free abortions for their customers, including illegal immigrants.
“The ability to control our bodies and make informed decisions about health are critical to providing all Oregonians the opportunity to achieve our full potential and live productive, thriving lives,” the Democratic chief executive said in an email. “Attempts to deny access to contraceptives and family planning are an attack on all Oregonians, particularly women of color, low-income and young women.”
The $10.2 million bill, which cleared the state House and Senate with no Republican votes, also comes as a badly needed boost for Planned Parenthood’s Oregon affiliate, which helped write the measure and pushed for its passage as it struggles to keep its doors open.
Democrats said the bill would ensure equal access to abortion, but several Republicans said they didn’t understand why the legislation was necessary, given that Oregon already has the least-restrictive abortion laws in the nation.
“We don’t need to do this. This is Oregon,” Republican state Rep. Mike Nearman said during the House floor debate. “There [are] no legal restrictions on anyone’s right to get an abortion. You can get an abortion at any time for any reason. Even sex selection.”
About $500,000 would be designated for the estimated 22,873 women who would be eligible for the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s Medicaid program, “except for their immigration status.”
Republican state Rep. Bill Post said he was “heartbroken” by the vote and predicted the bill would increase the number of abortions in Oregon by at least 3,000 each year.
Mr. Nearman said the bill shows that Oregon has moved from allowing abortion to advancing it.
“Now I guess the only thing we have left is to promote it,” Mr. Nearman said. “We need to make sure that more health care providers are forced to provide it.”
Despite its lack of abortion restrictions, four Planned Parenthood facilities have closed in Oregon in the past few years as the number of procedures continues to decline. In Oregon, the number of abortions dropped by 15 percent from 2011 to 2014, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
Across the border in Northern California, three Planned Parenthood facilities closed June 30, part of a shutdown in which a total of 10 health care centers ceased operations in four other states: Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico and Wyoming.
As clinics close and clients dwindle — Planned Parenthood’s annual patient visits have dropped nationally in the past four years from 3 million to 2.4 million — the organization has fought to keep its role from becoming purely symbolic.
The downturn comes with Planned Parenthood’s annual half-billion dollars in federal funding in peril as President Trump and congressional Republicans ramp up calls to defund the 100-year-old organization.
Democratic state Rep. Pam Marsh said the Oregon bill “ensures that cost alone will never keep a woman from receiving services, regardless of citizenship status, ability to pay or gender identity,” but also sends a message to the Trump administration.
“The bill also plants a clear flag: Regardless of any possible federal action to come, the state of Oregon will protect reproductive health care rights for all residents,” she said in an op-ed.
The measure includes a religious exemption for Catholic-sponsored insurance company Providence Health Plans, but Republicans said they still expect the number of abortions to rise.
“Will House Bill 3391 increase or decrease the number of abortions in the state of Oregon? If it will decrease the number, then sign me up. But I’m afraid we all know that’s not the case,” Republican state Rep. Werner Reschke said during floor debate. “The number will inevitably increase.”
Democrats argued that the bill would save the taxpayers money by providing “no-cost contraception to 18,600 women in Oregon who lack that benefit,” thus reducing accidental pregnancies.
“Increasing access to contraception and pregnancy services in Oregon has been paying off by reducing unintended pregnancies,” Oregon Senate Democrats said in a statement. “The state’s abortion rate is nearly half what it was in recent decades, dropping from 15,700 in 1980 to 8,600 in 2015.”
Laurel Swerdlow, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon advocacy director, framed the issue as one of equal opportunity to a constitutionally guaranteed right.
“Rights don’t matter if you can’t access them,” Ms. Swerdlow said in a statement. “Every Oregonian — no matter where they live or how much money they make or who provides their health insurance — deserves access to the health care they need.”
To make good on Ms. Swerdlow’s claim that “who provides their health insurance” shouldn’t matter, the state will offer Providence Health’s customers a separate benefit giving them abortions and contraception for free.
Meanwhile, Liberty Pike, spokeswoman for Oregon Right to Life, called the bill’s passage upsetting and predicted that it would result in more late-term and sex-selection procedures.
“Oregon taxpayers already pay for almost 50 percent of abortions in the state of Oregon, and this bill will undoubtedly increase it,” she said in a video.
Gayle Atteberry, executive director of Oregon Right to Life, accused the Democratic majority of “working to reward one of their primary campaign supporters, Planned Parenthood, which stands to financially benefit from HB 3391-B.”
“This terrible legislation is just another example of how Oregon’s largest abortion provider’s only real concern is for their financial bottom line,” said Ms. Atteberry."

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Published on Jun 28, 2017
A guy films one tree in a Forest. The result is an array of wildlife that shows how busy the forest is and how important this one tree is in the life of all the creatures surrounding it.

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"Christian cake shop owner from Colorado detailed the nasty threats he, his wife and his daughter continue to receive over his decision five years ago to not bake a wedding cake for a gay couple.

“In all of this, the threats against me or disparaging comments, the worst part is that I have to answer the phone so they’re not threatening my wife or my daughter when they pick it up,” Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, told Fox News. “They don’t wait to see who’s on the phone. You pick up the phone, they’re already talking.”

The hell began for Phillips and his family in 2012 when he declined a request from Charlie Craig and David Mullins, a gay couple who wanted him to make a cake for their wedding."

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"Fellow Pro-Life American,

Pro-life investigators David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt need your help right away.

These courageous pro-life heroes changed the national conversation on abortion in 2015 when they exposed Planned Parenthood's illegal cash-for-baby parts crime ring.

But now, in retaliation for bringing the truth to light, Sandra and David are facing 15 felony charges under California's eavesdropping statute!

We can't take this lying down.

We must strike back twice as hard, which is why I am asking you today to sign the National Petition to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, urging him to investigate Planned Parenthood!

David and Sandra worked so hard to gather evidence of Planned Parenthood's illegal trade in baby body parts. Now they are looking at felony criminal charges and David is facing civil lawsuits filed by giants in the abortion industry: Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation.

Life Legal is funding David and Sandra's legal defense, but we need your help today to take the next step in this fight by urging Attorney General Sessions to investigate Planned Parenthood.

It all starts with your signature on this national petition.
David and Sandra caught Planned Parenthood employees on camera negotiating prices for baby body parts -- a federal felony.

They got them on the record confessing to manipulating their abortion procedures to "preserve" the most marketable parts of children's bodies.

They recorded conversation after conversation proving that Planned Parenthood profits on both sides of abortion by charging women for their "services" and then selling the remains of their murdered children to the highest bidder.

And how has Planned Parenthood responded?

They have dispatched their pro-abortion ally, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, to do their dirty work by threatening to throw David and Sandra in jail.

And if we don't come to their aid, Planned Parenthood is going to get away with it. Please sign the petition to demand AG Sessions investigate and charge Planned Parenthood for their criminal acts.

Planned Parenthood is a massive, $1 billion per year organization. They kill over 300 THOUSAND innocent children every year. That's equivalent to the entire population of Pittsburgh.

For them, abortion is big business. And when that business is threatened, they fight back.

Their goal is to make an example of David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt. They want to scare off any future would-be investigators who would blow the whistle on their horrific and ghoulish practices.

Planned Parenthood wants to destroy their opposition and silence the truth.

Well, here at Life Legal, we believe, as Jesus said, that the truth will set you free. With your signature today, we can ensure that the truth prevails and that hundreds of thousands of babies are set free.

Please sign the national petition right away.
Thank you for supporting David, and God bless you.

Sincerely,

Alexandra Snyder
Executive Director
Life Legal Defense Foundation"

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"Is it okay for naked men to flaunt their completely exposed bodies in front of young children as they march down the street during pride parades? Summer is a time when all sorts of groups hold parades all over America, and even if we disagree with what certain groups have to say they still have a First Amendment right to say it. But nowhere in the U.S. Constitution is there a right to public nudity. Every year completely naked and nearly naked men participate in these parades in cities all over America, and we never hear of anyone getting arrested.

For example, during New York City’s recent annual pride parade many people marched without any clothes on at all…

Hundreds of thousands of people watched marchers in colorful fancy dress – and in some cases no clothes at all – at the Big Apple’s NYC Pride Parade.

Is this legal?

Can we just take our clothes off and march down the street nude in New York City any time we want now?If not, why weren’t people getting arrested? Of course, out on the west coast things are even worse. During the recent parade in San Francisco, an entire organisation known as “the Body Freedom Lovers” proudly marched completely naked…"

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"Tim Gill megadonor bankrolling the LGBT movement and its allies in the Democratic Party says he will continue to “punish the wicked” who hold traditional views about sexual morality.

Despite the legalisation of gay marriage in all 50 states, tech millionaire Tim Gill said he is not satisfied with the movement’s progress. He plans to use his immense wealth, corporate influence and political network to target red states with laws protecting religious people who disagree with the LGBT movement’s worldview.

“We’re going into the hardest states in the country,” Mr. Gill said, according to an interview published by Rolling Stone June 23. “We’re going to punish the wicked.”

Mr. Gill said his effort to block religious-freedom bills in Southern states has already paid off.

Last year, the Gill Foundation rallied more than 100 corporations, including Coca-Cola, Google and Marriott, behind a front group called Georgia Prospers. Threatening to pull business out of the state, the coalition successfully lobbied Republican Gov. Nathan Deal into vetoing a Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

“You can get money from outside, but the state has to own it,” Mr. Gill said of the strategy.

Mr. Gill is a software programmer who made his fortune during the dot-com boom and has since poured more than $400 million into advancing the LGBT movement.

The Rolling Stone article recounts a May 2016 meeting in Manhattan attended by Mr. Gill, other prominent gay-rights donors and then-Vice President Joseph Biden.

At the time, Mr. Gill said he was focused on defeating then-North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican, in his reelection bid. Mr. McCrory had signed a state law regulating public restrooms, locker rooms and other intimate facilities on the basis of biological sex. Opponents of the legislation said it discriminated against transgender people.

The strategy in North Carolina mirrored the one employed in Georgia. Companies ranging from Paypal to the National Basketball Association pulled commerce out of the state to pressure lawmakers into repealing the bathroom bill.

Mr. McCrory would go on to lose the race narrowly to the state’s attorney general, Democrat Roy Cooper, who also attended the Manhattan donor meeting.

At the time, Mr. Gill called the race a “must-win.”

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"… government-funded, politically correct, medical sex change clinic for people with gender dysphoria,” stated Heyer.
“Gender dysphoria, the common diagnosis for one who feels at odds with his or her birth gender, develops from prolonged anxiety and depression. People are not born that way,” he wrote, adding that it is largely based on strong feelings, while noting that feelings can change over time.
“The military is expected to prepare its members in warfare: to kill, destroy, and break our enemies,” he continued. “The most important factors in preparing a strong military are not hormone therapy, surgical sex changes, or politically correct education.
“We need psychologically fit, emotionally sound, highly trained troops to protect our nation from its enemies,” he added.
Heyer proceeded to note that countless veterans are homeless or suffering sub-par health care at the hands of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and questioned where the money for sex-change operations for military recruits would come from and why it should be a priority above other important things.
On top of the high cost of gender transition — Heyer put the cost at up to $130,000, not even counting the costs of a sex-change reversal that some will inevitably seek — he pointed out that the change from being a man to a woman or vice-versa is only “cosmetic” and can lead to countless other psychological problems, is often regretted by some of those who go through the process and sadly ends in suicide attempts for roughly 40 percent of the transgender population.
“Beyond the financial cost, there’s the question of the service member’s military readiness during their transition or detransition, as the process often comes with a great deal of anxiety and emotional instability,” he noted.
He also noted his own experience living as a woman for eight years before accepting his birth gender. He now runs a website called SexChangeRegret.com,and a blog, WaltHeyer.com.
“As a person who lived the transgender life for eight years, I can attest that assisting, affirming, or paying for hormone therapies and genital mutilation surgeries would not have strengthened our military,” Heyer concluded. “They would only have brought adverse long-term consequences, both for individuals and for our armed forces as a whole.”
So there you have it, straight from the mouth (or keyboard) of a former transgender military veteran who disagrees with the progressive push of transgenderism for all on the taxpayer dime."

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"One bridal shop in Pennsylvania just found that out the hard way, after the owners stated that supporting same-sex weddings was against their Christian beliefs. Instead of respecting that religious belief or simply taking their business elsewhere, “tolerant” militant gay and lesbian activists made a sick move: They harassed and made threats against the shop owners and their families.
According to The Christian Post, a lesbian couple from West Pittston, Pennsylvania, entered W.W. Bridal Boutique earlier this month.
That fact alone isn’t particularly newsworthy, except for one detail. The same-sex couple was reportedly from the town of Bloomsberg, which is an hour away.
Google business listings show significantly more bridal shops in the couple’s home town. Since W.W. Bridal Boutique was already known to militant gays because of a similar controversy in 2014, it’s more than likely that this couple may have sought out the W.W. Bridal specifically to create a controversy… and that’s exactly what happened.
An employee at the boutique politely informed the lesbian couple that “our faith doesn’t let us believe in same-sex weddings.”
Outraged by somebody else’s beliefs, the couple reportedly ranted on Facebook about the shop’s decision.That’s when the store’s employees, including co-owner Victoria Miller, began feeling unsafe.
Angry phone calls began reaching the owners. A voicemail provided to the media by a pastor and friend of the shop owners revealed the threatening tone of the calls.
“You stupid f****** bigots. We are coming for you and your family,” a man declared in the voicemail, which was obtained by The Christian Post.
“We are going to tear your shop a part and make you feel as bad as you have made people feel. You f****** bigot scum. You are going down and so is all your employees and their families. You’re done!” continued the caller.
Rich Penkoski, the pastor who is assisting the owners, explained that things have taken a menacing turn.
“They went through this in 2014 but this one for some reason is getting worse,” he explained to the Post. “They got a message from somebody today named Danny that said they have a ‘few surprises’ for them. That is kind of what prompted this.”Those threats have forced Victoria Miller and other people involved in the business to close the store, at least temporarily. For the time being, the store is unable to accept walk-in traffic and is working with customers on an appointment basis only. “We have provided formalwear for our customers from all walks of life, including the LGBTQ community. We have always served everyone with respect and dignity,” Miller explained to the left-leaning Huffington Post. “It is just this event, a same-sex marriage, which we cannot participate in due to our personal convictions.” “We simply ask that we be given the same ability to live our lives according to our convictions,” she added.
People — whether they are gay, straight, Christian or agnostic — shouldn’t face threats and intimidation over their personal beliefs.Under the guise of “tolerance,” leftists have become the bullies that they claims to despise. Attacking Christians for politely explaining their beliefs is not progress, and it isn’t very American. The pursuit of happiness means that you are free to try to live your life as you wish, but it has never meant that other people are obligated to bend to your views and support the same goals as you. For instance, a Muslim grocery store owner should be completely free to only carry halal food and not sell pork if he so wishes… and on the other side of the coin, customers are free to buy their groceries somewhere else if they feel the selection is lacking. If a lesbian couple was frustrated with their experience at a particular shop, the best response would be to shop elsewhere — perhaps at one of the dozens of other bridal shops in the area. Forcing beliefs on people with threats and intimidation is the opposite of freedom, the opposite of real diversity, and the opposite of “choice.” Ironically, liberals seem to have forgotten what those words mean."

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"Peterson first tackled C-16, which bans discrimination or harassment on the basis of gender identity or expression in Canada. The professor suggested that the legislation could open the floodgates for prosecuting people for not using the correct gender pronouns.
“The provincial legislation is extremely wide ranging and seems to mandate, for example, the use of the pronouns that a person chooses as a required part of human discourse, normative discourse, with the possibility of penalties if you fail to do so,” said Peterson. “Now the activists who’ve been pushing for this legislation claim that there would be no prosecutions for such things but when, in the Canadian senate, an amendment was proposed to make that clear, the federal Minister of Justice refused to entertain the amendment.”
Peterson asserted that, although he is not progressive, students and professors do not discriminate against or mistreat him.
“My courses were regularly rated as among the highest,” noted the professor. “The University of Toronto is not a particularly politically correct institute. So most of the students are there to receive an education, to work hard.”
Peterson stated that while the University of Toronto sent him 2 “warning letters” regarding his very vocal opposition to gender-neutral pronouns, the school “came around pretty quickly” after public outrage.
“The university reacted reasonably intelligently, I would say, because they allowed me to have a debate with my opponents and we publicized that on YouTube,” said the professor. “I would say that my relationships with the administration at the University of Toronto and certainly with my fellow faculty members is at least amicable … and the students are fine.”
Peterson objected to the left-wing assertion that diversity increases productivity and even revenue in the workplace, insisting that there was no scientific analysis that proved these theories.
“HR departments are often full of postmodern neo-Marxist types who are equity and diversity oriented beyond all reasonableness,” said Peterson. “And they make the assumption that diversity — this is a VERY offensive assumption — that diversity in opinion and performance is a consequence of diversity of race and ethnicity.”
“You’d think that that would be an argument that’s absolutely abhorrent to [post-modernists], but the post-modern neo-Marxists are not known for their coherence.”
“Harvard seems perfectly willing to sacrifice freedom of association to their hypothetical commitment to equity and so forth,” said Peterson, referring to the university faculty committee’s recommendation to ban single-gender groups. “I think it’s absolutely reprehensible…there’s just no excuse for the universities to adopt that sort of stance with regard to the private lives of their students and if Harvard continues to do such things, they’re going to tarnish their brand irreparably.”
The professor discussed his new project, which will allow students to copy-paste course syllabi into a website and learn how neo-Marxist the course content will be.
“It will give you a thumbs-up if it’s a course you should take because it actually has educational content or a thumbs-down if it’s just a matter of postmodern indoctrination,” said Peterson. “We’re hoping that if we inform consumers, you know, incoming university students and their parents, then perhaps we could drive the enrollment down in these disciplines by 75% over the next five years.”
The professor said that ranking universities by dedication to truth vs. social justice could help consumers make the right decisions.
“New York University professor Jonathan Haidt has done some of that with his Heterodox Academy,” said Peterson, noting that the University of Chicago received 1st-place for its dedication to truth whereas Brown University scored highest for commitment to social justice. "
“The problem is, people might say ‘who cares about what happens in universities?’ continued the professor. “But that’s a very short-sighted perspective because for better or worse the universities train the people who run organizations and if the universities are indoctrinating people and also the lower echelons of the education system, increasingly, then there’s going to be spillover into the general population very, very rapidly.”

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"Twenty-six crew members were aboard the MV-22 Osprey when it was involved in a "mishap" about 4:00pm (AEST) yesterday, US authorities said.
The search for the crew members continued throughout the night but was called off this morning.
"Operations have now shifted to recovery efforts," a statement from the III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF).
"The next of kin for the three missing marines have been notified."
The III MEF said recovery efforts would continue "as the sea state permits" with assistance from the Australian Defence Force.the Osprey aircraft had launched from the USS Bonhomme Richard and was conducting "regularly scheduled operations" when it "entered the water".
Twenty-three people were rescued within an hour, including one marine who was taken to Rockhampton Hospital. The aircraft had been in Queensland as part of the Talisman Sabre joint training exercise between Australian and United States military forces, which ended on July 25. The Osprey is a tilt-rotor aircraft that takes off and lands like a helicopter, but flies like an aeroplane.
They have been involved in a series of high-profile crashes in recent years.
In December, five crewmembers of an Osprey had to be rescued after their craft conducted a shallow-water landing off Okinawa after a training mishap in which a rotor blade cut a refuelling hose, according to the Marine Expeditionary Force.
In January, three US soldiers were injured in the "hard landing" of an Osprey in Yemen."

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"Weekly Bible study classes are being held at the White House, and some Trump administration officials — including Vice President Pence, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos — join when they are in town, according to a story on the Christian Broadcasting Network. (See video below.)

The classes are led by Ralph Drollinger, founder of D.C.-based Capitol Ministries, which lists the following as its mission on its website:

The BHAG (Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal) of Capitol Ministries is to deliver the Gospel to every public servant, in every capitol every year! Since our founding in 1996 our vision has not changed: to evangelize elected officials and lead them toward maturity in Christ. We stay away from politics and concentrate on the hearts of leaders. Our above purpose statement reflects this. . . .

CBN reported that DeVos, Sessions, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price have been among the participants, and that President Trump has been invited and receives a copy of each week’s Bible lesson."

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"North Korea continues to taunt the world into a nuclear World War III.
And it just became even more disturbing because Japanese intelligence discovered that North Korea has technology that no one thought they had. Kim Jong Un is poking the world bear right now. He might be crazy by nearly everybody’s standards, but he’s certainly not dumb. Jong Un seems to be defying several nations’ wishes while simultaneously taunting them into making the first strike. Why would North Korea do this? Well, one theory is that they’re trying to force China into choosing sides. If they can fool their biggest ally into thinking that they’re the victims, North Korea thinks they’ll have leverage. The only problem is that China was one of the 15 nations who agreed to sanction against North Korea. But instead of being furious at their ally, they take it out on the United States – and specifically President Trump – by threatening to attack Guam. And why would they attack Guam with nuclear weapons? They have developed technology to miniaturise nuclear weapons to send with missiles that have a range farther than any nation had expected. Breitbart reports:

“A GRIM MILESTONE APPEARS TO BE PASSING, AS BOTH U.S. AND JAPANESE INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS BELIEVE NORTH KOREA HAS DEVELOPED THE TECHNOLOGY TO MINIATURIZE NUCLEAR WARHEADS AND FIT THEM INSIDE LONG-RANGE MISSILES, YEARS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE.
JAPAN’S ANNUAL DEFENSE REVIEW, RELEASED ON TUESDAY MORNING, DESCRIBED THE THREAT FROM NORTH KOREA’S NUCLEAR MISSILE PROGRAM AS “ACUTE.”
“IT IS CONCEIVABLE THAT NORTH KOREA’S NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM HAS ALREADY CONSIDERABLY ADVANCED AND IT IS POSSIBLE THAT NORTH KOREA HAS ALREADY ACHIEVED THE MINIATURIZATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND HAS ACQUIRED NUCLEAR WARHEADS,” THE WHITE PAPER WARNED.
“SINCE LAST YEAR, WHEN IT FORCIBLY IMPLEMENTED TWO NUCLEAR TESTS AND MORE THAN 20 BALLISTIC MISSILE LAUNCHES, THE SECURITY THREATS HAVE ENTERED A NEW STAGE.”
ACCORDINGLY, THE BBC REPORTED THAT JAPAN HAS BEGUN ITS FIRST CIVILIAN AIR-RAID DRILLS SINCE THE END OF WORLD WAR II, EVIDENTLY STEPPING UP A PROGRAM REVEALED EARLIER THIS YEAR WHICH TAUGHT CIVILIANS IN CERTAIN TOWNS HOW TO DEAL WITH AN ERRANT NORTH KOREAN TEST MISSILE (OR PERHAPS A WEAPON FIRED AT AMERICAN MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN JAPAN) FALLING IN A POPULATED AREA.
“WE’RE TOLD TO HIT THE GROUND OR HIDE BEHIND THE WALL, BUT WILL THAT REALLY HELP? WILL THAT REALLY PROTECT US IF A MISSILE REALLY FALLS HERE, I WONDER?” ASKED ONE JAPANESE CITIZEN INTERVIEWED BY THE BBC.
THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTED ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON THAT U.S. ANALYSTS AT THE DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REACHED SIMILAR CONCLUSIONS ABOUT NORTH KOREA’S CAPABILITIES IN A CONFIDENTIAL ASSESSMENT PREPARED LAST MONTH.
THE DIA REPORT ALSO RAISED THE OFFICIAL ESTIMATE OF NORTH KOREA’S NUCLEAR INVENTORY CONSIDERABLY, FROM THE HANDFUL OF BOMBS HYPOTHESIZED BY MOST EARLIER ANALYSES TO ALMOST 60 NUCLEAR DEVICES.
THE REPORT’S AUTHORS BELIEVE SOME OF THESE DEVICES ARE SMALL ENOUGH TO BE DELIVERED BY INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE.
AS THE WASHINGTON POST NOTES, NORTH KOREA CLAIMS IT HAS SUCCESSFULLY TESTED SUCH MINIATURIZED DEVICES, ALTHOUGH THEIR CLAIMS WERE GREETED WITH WIDESPREAD SKEPTICISM AT THE TIME.
THE MISSING PIECE OF THE ICBM PUZZLE FOR NORTH KOREA WOULD APPEAR TO BE RELIABLE HEAT SHIELDING TO PROTECT THE WARHEADS FROM RE-ENTRY, A TECHNOLOGY PYONGYANG IS CLEARLY WORKING HARD TO DEVELOP.
A NEW POLL FROM THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS RELEASED ON MONDAY FOUND 90 PERCENT OF AMERICANS “REJECT THE IDEA THAT NORTH KOREA SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO PRODUCE NUCLEAR WEAPONS,” 75 PERCENT SEE THE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM AS A “CRITICAL THREAT FACING THE UNITED STATES,” AND 62 PERCENT WOULD SUPPORT USING AMERICAN TROOPS TO DEFEND SOUTH KOREA FROM A NORTH KOREAN ATTACK.”
Kim Jong Un’s actions are incomprehensible because he knows every nation would be against him, and yet he still persists. It makes one think that he has ulterior deceptive motives."

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I subscribe to Joel Skousen's weekly World Affairs Brief. Today, 8/11/2017, as I read thru it, 3 unrelated statements caught my attention. First off, I have reasons going back many years for considering these statements absolutely correct/true. And second, I think it is very important that Americans and other Westerners as well be aware of these truths. So here they are:

"Of course, in reality, the US facilitated nuclear weapons technology to Russia, who passed it along to China in order to create future enemies for conflict creation purposes. Russia and China passed along nuclear weapons technology to their respective allies, India and Pakistan."

"In all previous modern wars, globalist advisors have been in place to implement heavy restrictions on the military’s ability to win the war. Patton was slowed down and highly restricted during WWII in order to make sure the Russians gained control of all of eastern Europe and half of Germany. Vietnam was a disaster of rules of engagement and sellouts that prolonged the war for years. When the Air Force bombing of Hanoi finally brought the North Vietnamese to the Paris Peace talks, ready to capitulate, Henry Kissinger gave it all away at the table."

"From historical experience, I believe it is extremely unlikely that they will allow Trump to have a real American victory against a real enemy. That would give Trump a decided rise in popularity which the PTB certainly do not want. They want him out of office at the next election or sooner."

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Do you have any idea what just happened?


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Crazy Vegas Judge Loses it when he won’t Worship Her!


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http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen3 ... index.html

"Radical sexual-transgender program is being pushed on young elementary school children by their teachers.

Texas MassResistance parents in Austin aren’t just standing around. They’re taking action! They’ve organized a public meeting this Saturday for parents and citizens to explain exactly what’s happening, where it’s coming from, and how they can mobilize to stop it. They’ve formed a local parents’ group to coordinate everything. These Texas MassResistance parents are special! They are well organized, smart, and pretty fearless. They’re definitely not intimidated by the unhinged liberals. They are doing what parents everywhere should be doing – rallying the community to confront the destructive, insane ideas being fed to children.

Not surprisingly, the liberals in Austin are fuming mad that parents would challenge their control of schoolchildren. They’ve responded with a torrent of hate and intimidation tactics. But the parents aren’t backing down at all.

The horrific “Welcoming Schools” program
At issue is an extremely offensive LGBT program called “Welcoming Schools” that is funded and pushed into schools by the national homosexual organization “Human Rights Campaign.” In collaboration with the city’s liberal school officials, it’s now in 24 elementary schools in Austin. But it’s also being implemented in schools across the country.

“Welcoming Schools” is an intense program for elementary school teachers to train them how to effectively introduce homosexual and transgender concepts into the minds of very young children. It uses psychological reconditioning techniques to cause children to accept and internalize cross-dressing, “gay” families, homosexuality and lesbianism, and a range of other LGBT behaviors. It also encourages children to question their "gender". It includes well-crafted strategies such as role-playing, games, videos, and discussions."

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"Guam has posted emergency guidelines to help residents prepare for any potential nuclear attack as North Korea threatens to fire missiles at the US Pacific territory.
Do not look at the flash or fireball - It can blind you," it said. "Take cover behind anything that might offer protection."
If caught outside, it says to "remove your clothing to keep radioactive material from spreading."
It suggests having an emergency plan and supply kit and a list of potential concrete structures near home, work and school to serve as fallout shelters.
The fact sheet advises people to not scrub or scratch the skin, use soap, shampoo and water but avoid hair conditioner because it binds radioactive material.
It also advises parents to stay where they are and wait for instructions, even if they are separated from their children.”

http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-n ... feca5d2fde
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Elizabeth wrote: August 12th, 2017, 5:43 am http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen3 ... index.html

"Radical sexual-transgender program is being pushed on young elementary school children by their teachers.

Texas MassResistance parents in Austin aren’t just standing around. They’re taking action! They’ve organized a public meeting this Saturday for parents and citizens to explain exactly what’s happening, where it’s coming from, and how they can mobilize to stop it. They’ve formed a local parents’ group to coordinate everything. These Texas MassResistance parents are special! They are well organized, smart, and pretty fearless. They’re definitely not intimidated by the unhinged liberals. They are doing what parents everywhere should be doing – rallying the community to confront the destructive, insane ideas being fed to children.

Not surprisingly, the liberals in Austin are fuming mad that parents would challenge their control of schoolchildren. They’ve responded with a torrent of hate and intimidation tactics. But the parents aren’t backing down at all.

The horrific “Welcoming Schools” program
At issue is an extremely offensive LGBT program called “Welcoming Schools” that is funded and pushed into schools by the national homosexual organization “Human Rights Campaign.” In collaboration with the city’s liberal school officials, it’s now in 24 elementary schools in Austin. But it’s also being implemented in schools across the country.

“Welcoming Schools” is an intense program for elementary school teachers to train them how to effectively introduce homosexual and transgender concepts into the minds of very young children. It uses psychological reconditioning techniques to cause children to accept and internalize cross-dressing, “gay” families, homosexuality and lesbianism, and a range of other LGBT behaviors. It also encourages children to question their "gender". It includes well-crafted strategies such as role-playing, games, videos, and discussions."
Satan at work and it's :ymsick: :ymsick: :ymsick:

Why aren't the teachers fighting back against this criteria they're expected to teach? Why don't they say no to such brainwashing of innocent children? I guess they don't mind having their own kids taught this evil?

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Elizabeth wrote: August 12th, 2017, 7:19 am "Guam has posted emergency guidelines to help residents prepare for any potential nuclear attack as North Korea threatens to fire missiles at the US Pacific territory.
Do not look at the flash or fireball - It can blind you," it said. "Take cover behind anything that might offer protection."
If caught outside, it says to "remove your clothing to keep radioactive material from spreading."
It suggests having an emergency plan and supply kit and a list of potential concrete structures near home, work and school to serve as fallout shelters.
The fact sheet advises people to not scrub or scratch the skin, use soap, shampoo and water but avoid hair conditioner because it binds radioactive material.
It also advises parents to stay where they are and wait for instructions, even if they are separated from their children.”

http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-n ... feca5d2fde
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What is the possibility of the US in destroying missiles before reaching their destination? I thought they had heat seeking technology.

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"The Catholic faithful in Guam led prayers for peace on Sunday in the shadow of North Korean missile threat, with the western Pacific island’s archbishop appealing for “prudence” amid an escalating war of words between the US and Pyongyang.
The largely Catholic territory should pray for a “just resolution of differences, and prudence in both speech and action”, said Archbishop Michael Byrnes, echoing a flurry of international calls for US President Donald Trump to show greater rhetorical restraint.
A “prayers for peace” lunchtime rally in the capital Hagatna drew around 100 people.
But despite Guam having become the centre of a threatened showdown between the United States and nuclear-armed North Korea, many said they were unfazed.
“I am really not scared because if it’s our time to die it is our time to die,” added Sita Manjaras, 62, a retired teacher from Tamuning.
Father Mike Crisostomo said their response to the threat was to have faith and pray.
“This goes to show to the other worlds, to the other nations and the countries, that Guam maybe small, our faith and our trust is big,” he said.

http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/a-ner ... caff17e42a
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http://www.gopusa.com/?p=28673?omhide=true

"The sermon was just about to begin Sunday morning as Emmanuel Fleming walked up the steps of South Austin’s Friendship Baptist Church accompanied by his three young children.
It was at this West Side church that Fleming sought to turn over a new leaf. He served as an usher here. His children, all under the age of 10, were baptized here. And on Sunday, his life was cut short here.
Around 11:15 a.m., two gunmen wearing bandanas ran toward the broad wooden doors of the church and opened fire in the direction of Fleming and another man, Michael Swift, 46, who was visiting the church, police and witnesses said.
The men attempted to take cover behind a nearby retaining wall as Fleming cried for his children to take cover inside the church, witnesses said.
The children made it to safety, said the Rev. Reginald Bachus. Fleming was taken to Stroger Hospital and Swift was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. Both were pronounced dead, police said.
“They were on their way up the steps to the church, and two men ran up from Jackson (Boulevard) and basically unloaded on them,” Bachus said.
“It’s just hard for me to believe that something like this could happen on a Sunday morning,” he added. “Two young men on their way to church. … I think that’s the hardest part for me to grasp.”
The shooting turned what had been a morning of prayer and worship at the church into a day of heartache and disbelief.
In the moments before the shooting, the congregation of more than 100 people was in the middle of singing a hymn, according to a senior member who said she’s attended the church for 40 years and teaches Bible school.
When Fleming’s children burst through the doors, gunfire could be heard only feet away, prompting members, including seniors and children, to drop to the floor as one of Fleming’s children repeatedly cried, “I want my dad!”
“The pastor was just about to get up and we heard about seven shots — bang-bang-bang-bang,” said the church member, who didn’t want to be named because she was concerned for her safety. “Everyone hit the floor, even the kids. It’s a shame the kids know how to hit the floor like that, but it’s a good thing they did.”
Later Sunday, detectives scanned the scene where more than a dozen yellow evidence markers were placed on the sidewalk and stairs leading up to the doors of the church. A Chicago White Sox hat, a white garment, a notepad and blood also marked the scene.
Church member Bruno Carter, of Humboldt Park, who witnessed the ordeal from just outside the church, said two suspects, bandanas across their faces, ran from the gas station across the street, past the bell tower and took aim at the victims.
“The kids were partially in the door, and they heard the gunfire and their father was telling them to get in,” Carter recalled.
As investigators snapped pictures and scrawled notes, Carter and other members struggled to comprehend the brazen act of violence.
“It seems like the more people march and carry signs — and the more churches bind together to say ‘Stop the violence’ — the more they disregard it and just continue to kill,” Carter said.
The two gunmen fled in a silver or gray SUV headed south, officials said. Deputy Chief Al Nagode said the Chicago Police Department is dedicated to finding and arresting those responsible.
“The victims were going to church; two individuals came up and fired their weapons, striking the individuals,” Nagode said.
“We are extremely close with our faith-based organizations over there,” Nagode said. “It certainly is a troubled area, and we dedicate a tremendous amount of resources to it … in an attempt to help the community out in any way we can.”
Bachus said there will likely be a vigil at the church Monday."

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David Horowitz :
"Israel, forever in peril, has experienced new rounds of terrorist attacks over the past few weeks. This endless cycle of violence has but one cause: the unrelenting hatred that the Arabs have of Israel, the Jewish State and Jewish people. The world remains silent, even ignorant of the facts, but this cancer of Jew Hatred must be called out.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center spends every day defending the unequivocal right of Israel to exist as the homeland for the Jewish people and our mission and goal is to use our bullhorn to call out the Jew Haters for what they are: Islamofascists.
The fight for Israel’s survival has many fronts and one of the most critical is the war of ideas—the propaganda war over Israel’s right to exist. Frankly, this is a war that we have been losing for almost a half of a century. It is also a war that we must win for Israel to survive.
As the courageous Dutch politician Geert Wilders recently said, "If Israel falls, the West falls. And if it falls, we will be next.” HorowitzFreedomCenter.org

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White nationalists are flocking to genetic ancestry tests. Some don’t like what they find

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White nationalists are flocking to genetic ancestry tests. Some don’t like what they find

It was a strange moment of triumph against racism: The gun-slinging white supremacist Craig Cobb, dressed up for daytime TV in a dark suit and red tie, hearing that his DNA testing revealed his ancestry to be only “86 percent European, and … 14 percent Sub-Saharan African.” The studio audience whooped and laughed and cheered. And Cobb — who was, in 2013, charged with terrorizing people while trying to create an all-white enclave in North Dakota — reacted like a sore loser in the schoolyard.

“Wait a minute, wait a minute, hold on, just wait a minute,” he said, trying to put on an all-knowing smile. “This is called statistical noise.”

Then, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, he took to the white nationalist website Stormfront to dispute those results. That’s not uncommon: With the rise of spit-in-a-cup genetic testing, there’s a trend of white nationalists using these services to prove their racial identity, and then using online forums to discuss the results.

But like Cobb, many are disappointed to find out that their ancestry is not as “white” as they’d hoped. In a new study, sociologists Aaron Panofsky and Joan Donovan examined years’ worth of posts on Stormfront to see how members dealt with the news.

It’s striking, they say, that white nationalists would post these results online at all. After all, as Panofsky put it, “they will basically say if you want to be a member of Stormfront you have to be 100 percent white European, not Jewish.”

But instead of rejecting members who get contrary results, Donovan said, the conversations are “overwhelmingly” focused on helping the person to rethink the validity of the genetic test. And some of those critiques — while emerging from deep-seated racism — are close to scientists’ own qualms about commercial genetic ancestry testing.

Panofsky and Donovan presented their findings at a sociology conference in Montreal on Monday. The timing of the talk — some 48 hours after the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. — was coincidental. But the analysis provides a useful, if frightening, window into how these extremist groups think about their genes.

Reckoning with results

Stormfront was launched in the mid-1990s by Don Black, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. His skills in computer programming were directly related to his criminal activities: He learned them while in prison for trying to invade the Caribbean island nation of Dominica in 1981, and then worked as a web developer after he got out. That means this website dates back to the early years of the internet, forming a kind of deep archive of online hate.

To find relevant comments in the 12 million posts written by over 300,000 members, the authors enlisted a team at the University of California, Los Angeles, to search for terms like “DNA test,” “haplotype,” “23andMe,” and “National Geographic.” Then the researchers combed through the posts they found, not to mention many others as background. Donovan, who has moved from UCLA to the Data & Society Research Institute, estimated that she spent some four hours a day reading Stormfront in 2016. The team winnowed their results down to 70 discussion threads in which 153 users posted their genetic ancestry test results, with over 3,000 individual posts.

About a third of the people posting their results were pleased with what they found. “Pretty damn pure blood,” said a user with the username Sloth. But the majority didn’t find themselves in that situation. Instead, the community often helped them reject the test, or argue with its results.

Some rejected the tests entirely, saying that an individual’s knowledge about his or her own genealogy is better than whatever a genetic test can reveal. “They will talk about the mirror test,” said Panofsky, who is a sociologist of science at UCLA’s Institute for Society and Genetics. “They will say things like, ‘If you see a Jew in the mirror looking back at you, that’s a problem; if you don’t, you’re fine.'” Others, he said, responded to unwanted genetic results by saying that those kinds of tests don’t matter if you are truly committed to being a white nationalist. Yet others tried to discredit the genetic tests as a Jewish conspiracy “that is trying to confuse true white Americans about their ancestry,” Panofsky said.

But some took a more scientific angle in their critiques, calling into doubt the method by which these companies determine ancestry — specifically how companies pick those people whose genetic material will be considered the reference for a particular geographical group.

And that criticism, though motivated by very different ideas, is one that some researchers have made as well, even as other scientists have used similar data to better understand how populations move and change.

“There is a mainstream critical literature on genetic ancestry tests — geneticists and anthropologists and sociologists who have said precisely those things: that these tests give an illusion of certainty, but once you know how the sausage is made, you should be much more cautious about these results,” said Panofsky.

A community’s genetic rules

Companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe are meticulous in how they analyze your genetic material. As points of comparison, they use both preexisting datasets as well as some reference populations that they have recruited themselves. The protocol includes genetic material from thousands of individuals, and looks at thousands of genetic variations.

“When a 23andMe research participant tells us that they have four grandparents all born in the same country — and the country isn’t a colonial nation like the U.S., Canada, or Australia — that person becomes a candidate for inclusion in the reference data,” explained Jhulianna Cintron, a product specialist at 23andMe. Then, she went on, the company excludes close relatives, as that could distort the data, and removes outliers whose genetic data don’t seem to match with what they wrote on their survey.

But specialists both inside and outside these companies recognize that the geopolitical boundaries we use now are pretty new, and so consumers may be using imprecise categories when thinking about their own genetic ancestry within the sweeping history of human migration. And users’ ancestry results can change depending on the dataset to which their genetic material is being compared — a fact which some Stormfront users said they took advantage of, uploading their data to various sites to get a more “white” result.

J. Scott Roberts, an associate professor at the University of Michigan, who has studied consumer use of genetic tests and was not involved with the study, said the companies tend to be reliable at identifying genetic variants. Interpreting them in terms of health risk or ancestry, though, is another story. “The science is often murky in those areas and gives ambiguous information,” he said. “They try to give specific percentages from this region, or x percent disease risk, and my sense is that that is an artificially precise estimate.”

For the study authors, what was most interesting was to watch this online community negotiating its own boundaries, rethinking who counts as “white.” That involved plenty of contradictions. They saw people excluded for their genetic test results, often in very nasty (and unquotable) ways, but that tended to happen for newer members of the anonymous online community, Panofsky said, and not so much for longtime, trusted members. Others were told that they could remain part of white nationalist groups, in spite of the ancestry they revealed, as long as they didn’t “mate,” or only had children with certain ethnic groups. Still others used these test results to put forth a twisted notion of diversity, one “that allows them to say, ‘No, we’re really diverse and we don’t need non-white people to have a diverse society,'” said Panofsky.

That’s a far cry from the message of reconciliation that genetic ancestry testing companies hope to promote.

“Sweetheart, you have a little black in you,” the talk show host Trisha Goddard told Craig Cobb on that day in 2013. But that didn’t stop him from redoing the test with a different company, trying to alter or parse the data until it matched his racist worldview.

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http://www.newsweek.com/zimbabwe-presid ... ers-651326

"Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has said that people who murdered white farmers during a government-sanctioned purge in the 2000s will never be prosecuted.

Mugabe’s government has taken further steps to reduce white influence in Zimbabwe. The government introduced an indigenization law in 2010 that required foreign-owned companies to sell a majority stake to local black Zimbabweans, though it has not been widely implemented.

The president has also spoken out against white residents of Zimbabwe owning land. “We say no to whites owning our land, and they should go,” Mugabe told supporters in 2014. “They can own companies and apartments...but not the soil.”

Earlier in 2017, Mugabe said he was aware of 73 white commercial farmers still operating in the northeast province of Mashonaland East. “We are going to take those farms and re-distribute them to our youths,” said Mugabe at a rally in April, speaking in the local Shona language, News 24 reported.

Mugabe has been in power in Zimbabwe since the end of the country’s war of independence in 1980 and is the world’s oldest non-royal head of state. The governing ZANU-PF coalition has put him forward as its candidate in the 2018 elections, meaning that Mugabe would remain in power until at least the age of 99 if he won the vote and survived the duration of another term in office."

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