By Cliff Kincaid One powerful New Age group working through the U.N. is World Goodwill, a project of the Lucis Trust, an occult Theosophist group in charge of the United Nations’ Meditation Room. Theosophy teaches that man can become God through mystical experiences, and can even perform miracles. Its original publishing house was named Lucifer Publishing and was changed in 1924 to “Lucis Publishing.” I visited the headquarters of World Goodwill, noting books on the shelves that included several by Russian mystic Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891), Mikhail Gorbachev, and the influential The Coming of the Cosmic Christ by Matthew Fox. A United Nations flag greeted visitors.
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Best Selling Theologian Matthew Fox Challenges Trump and MAGA with his new book
News provided by iUniverseSep 19, 2024, 08:48 ET OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE “Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election” by Matthew Fox "Trump & The Maga Movement as Anti-Christ" is both a theological exploration and a call to action for all those concerned about the future SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Matthew Fox, a spiritual theologian and author of over 40 books, has released his latest project in order to help keep Trump out of the White House in the 2024 election. The book invokes the ancient and biblical archetype of the antichrist as an "epitome for evil" and recognizes this as Christian nationalism, climate change denial, the "compulsion to control women's bodies" and the "effort to kill democracy." In "Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election," Fox names 18 elements of the MAGA movement that he considers to "carry antichrist energy" including the "Big Lie," Project 2025, and the blasphemy of Trump's "God Bless the U.S.A. Bible." Fox wrote the book with a wide audience in mind, and hopes it is embraced by voters concerned with spirituality, politics climate change and social justice. Fox wrote the book with a wide audience in mind, and hopes it is embraced by voters that are concerned with spirituality, politics and both ecological and social justice. Post this"Previously, the right wing employed apocalyptic language like "the antichrist," said Fox, "but this book turns the tables on the right wing and fundamentalists and employs the archetype as a name for evil as found in faux Christianity like Christian nationalism and the cult of Trump." While visiting a medieval cathedral in Orvieto, Italy, Fox stood before a fresco by Luca Signorelli entitled "The Preaching of the Antichrist." On seeing it, his response was, "it feels like Donald Trump." Fox relates the story of how Sigmund Freud was so taken by this fresco that he returned to study it three times. By including Freud, no friend of religion, who was also profoundly affected by the same early 16th century fresco, Fox hopes to incorporate secular thinkers and humanists in his call to arms. The book includes ten paintings, including Signorelli's and also that of St. Hildegard of Bingen, who painted the antichrist in the 12th century and associated it with "greed that tears institutions to pieces." "The purpose of the book is to help keep Trump out of the White House," said Fox. "Voters need to truly see the corruption of right-wing politics in America that saw the January 6 effort to kill a fair election through violence urged on by a sitting president, now running for president again, plus the corruption of a once-supreme court and the far-right religious theocrats who made it what it is." "Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election" By Matthew Fox ISBN: 9781663265265 (softcover); 9781663265272 (electronic) Available at MatthewFox.org, iUniverse, Amazon and Barnes & Noble About the author Matthew Fox, an Episcopal priest, is author of 43 books on culture and spirituality including Original Blessing, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, A Spirituality Named Compassion, and The Reinvention of Work. His honors include the Abbey Courage of Conscience Peace Award (other recipients include the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks and Maya Angelou), the Gandhi-King-Ikeda Award from Morehouse College, Atlanta, the Tikkun Ethics Award and the International Sufi Humanities Award. To learn more, please visit http://www.matthewfox.org. Media Contact Ziggy Goldfarb, iUniverse, 4803067065, [email protected] The “Joy” of Killing Trump and Destroying America By Cliff Kincaid As a natural disaster threatens Florida, by the name of Hurricane Helene, a series of man-made disasters are already underway in America as a whole. Conservative activist David Bossie has released a new film, “Trump Saves America,” but it was in production as Trump almost lost his life – not once but twice. When Jonathan T. Gilliam, a 20-year U.S. Navy SEAL, said the obvious – that the Democratic Party wants Trump dead – Fox Business host Stuart Varney promptly censored him by cutting off his microphone and dismissing the claim as a “conspiracy theory.” As Kelleigh Nelson has noted, in a column examining the Democratic Party’s rhetoric, what is happening to Trump is the inevitable result of a coordinated campaign to frame Trump as a “threat” to democracy and target him for death. Biden himself put a “bullseye” on Trump before the first assassination attempt. Another big question in the world as a whole: who will save the world from the approaching apocalypse? We called it the “final solution” for America and Israel in our book on the Red Jihad. Israel is fighting for its survival but America is barely hanging on. Don’t think that genocide is reserved for the Jews. In one of my recent programs on my new Rumble channel, military veteran Jimmy Pera described in detail how the Biden/Harris Administration facilitated the Taliban terrorist takeover of the entire country. Pera was involved in the effort to save Americans and Afghans. I was forced to find an alternative voice on Rumble when Google’s YouTube terminated my account, eliminating almost 500 pro-American videos. Please follow my new channel and subscribe. In this regard, a “Rescue the Republic Rally” is being held in Washington D.C. on September 29th, 2024. A diverse line-up, including Jordan Peterson, Senator Ron Johnson, and RFK Jr., has been announced, designed to protect our First Amendment rights. As Bossie indicates in his new film, Trump does indeed have a rescue mission. If he can survive, perhaps the country can survive as well. Watch his new film and help those of us who have tried to avoid the censorship by starting our own channels on outlets like Rumble. Meanwhile, Trump just announced something we all know is true – that the terrorist regime in Iran has been trying to kill him. However, Trump has now been personally briefed on some of the threats. It seems a little late. In this regard, we have learned that that an American recruiting foreign mercenaries for Ukraine, Ryan Routh, tried to take him out as well. Then we were faced with the odd spectacle of Ukraine president Zelensky showing up at an American arms factory in Pennsylvania, trying to drum up votes for Kamala Harris. Based on their treatment of would-be assassin Ryan Routh, who traveled to and from Ukraine, it looks like there may have been complicity by the government of Ukraine in the second assassination attempt. Routh’s son, also an anti-Trump activist, was arrested on child porn charges, a development some suggest may be an effort to keep him quiet about his father’s activities. A New York Times story about how Zelensky is demanding missiles and permissions to strike “deep Into Russia” indicates where we are heading. If a Biden/Harris decision to allow these missile strikes happens before election day, a war between the United States and Russia could break out in a matter of weeks and the November 5 election could be cancelled. As geopolitical analyst J.R. Nyquist told me on an ASI TV show, America is vulnerable to a nuclear attack from Russia. Despite the odds against him, on my new America’s Survival TV show on Rumble, Bible prophecy expert Richard Palmer predicts that Trump will return to the White House, and he’s been saying this for years, even before the assassination attempts. I am a journalist, not a Bible prophecy expert, but Palmer’s publication, The Trumpet, has been right on target with many of its reports, including the book, “America Under Attack,” about our current circumstances. We are faced not with incompetence but a deliberate design, in which global forces are determined to eliminate Trump from the political scene and reduce America and Israel to rubble. Meanwhile, the Financial Times, a globalist publication, has announced that, during his address to the United Nations, Joe Biden made a “plea for democracy.” This is the guy who put a bullseye on Trump’s head before the first assassination attempt. As wars continue in Europe and the Middle East, Hezbollah has fired a missile at Tel Aviv in the deepest strike yet in the war to the north of the Jewish state involving Lebanon. The Hezbollah strike was designed to destroy the Mossad HQ in central Israel. All of this is occurring as the United Nations crafts a “Pact for the Future” that envisions a world government financed by global taxes. I wrote about that in my 1997 book on the U.N. In this context, another United Nations “peacekeeping operation” in the Middle East known as UNIFIL has been exposed as a fraud. It was “created by the Security Council in March 1978 to confirm Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, restore international peace and security and assist the Lebanese Government in restoring its effective authority in the area?” That is from the official United Nations language. In fact, the country is dominated by Hezbollah. Coincidentally, I received an email from the Washington Post advertising a new article titled, “How to bring more joy into your life,” echoing the campaign of “joy” being waged by Kamala as she is showered by endorsements from the likes of Taylor Swift and Oprah. The Post is a despicable publication, much like the Financial Times, which conceals the true nature and state of world events. It earned Pulitzer Prizes for fake Russia-gate stories. If you want joy, as I have learned through four decades of work exposing liberal media bias, you must ignore the Big Media and seek alternatives, like I have done with Rumble.
Source: Shapiro office Is Zelensky a Russian Agent? By Cliff Kincaid I always considered myself to be an astute judge of character, able to spot communist agents working in an undercover capacity to influence domestic and world events. I thought Vladimir Putin never gave up his communist beliefs, drummed into him before he joined the KGB. I still think he’s the major villain in the Russia/Ukraine war. But now I am convinced that Ukraine President Zelensky is also a villain. He may be worse than that. He may be a Russian agent. The reason is that Zelensky has inserted himself into the U.S. presidential election, on the side of “Comrade Kamala,” by appearing in swing state Pennsylvania, cheering on local workers making ammunition for the war. He was joined by Democrat Senator Bob Casey, running for re-election, and the Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro. It was a disgraceful event that Zelensky, if he were a true patriot, would never have had anything to do with. Shapiro’s office released photos of Zelensky arriving in Pennsylvania and holding meetings with Shapiro and Casey and other Democrats. His bizarre appearance at this factory convinces me that this war is only costing the U.S. money (over $175 billion so far) and the lives of Russians and Ukrainians, and that Zelensky is not sincere about wanting to win the war. The war has become a partisan issue that makes money for special interests. What’s worse, Zelensky doesn’t seem to realize that the Democrats do not want him to win, but just to generate arms sales that benefit some American workers. The location was the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Lackawanna County. If ever there were an example of the U.S. military industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned about, this was it. But having a foreign leader visit the ammunition plant is beyond disgraceful. He is either stupid or a Russian agent eager to keep the war going for Moscow’s benefit. After all, the war gives Putin a chance to exercise even more dictatorial control over his nation. A local Republican, Rep. Dan Meuser, told Newsmax that the Democrats “did a disservice to Zelensky and Ukraine by making it such a partisan event.” He has been a strong supporter of the war against Russia. “There were no Republicans invited,” Meuser said. “I was not invited, and it’s just outside my district by about 15 miles. It's a little bit shameful that they would do that in such a serious issue, but unfortunately, that's how they're operating.” In other words, from his perspective, the Democrats are trying to generate votes by courting the workers supplying Ukraine with weapons. I think the workers are smarter than that. I think they would rather be making weapons for the U.S. military, to safeguard America. But Meuser is wrong. Democrats can’t solely be blamed. Zelensky was an active participant. Back in 2022, Meuser had joined a bipartisan Congressional briefing with Zelensky, declaring “It’s clear there is bipartisan consensus in the House and Senate to support Ukraine with weapons and impose even tougher sanctions on Putin.” It’s difficult to see how Meuser can forgive Zelensky for climbing into bed with the Democrats. However, the event does in fact demonstrate that the Democrats are the “war party” on this matter, since Trump has repeatedly stressed that he wants to settle the war on peaceful terms, to limit the suffering and carnage. Rather than spend billions on Ukraine, it makes sense to me to spend the money on what Trump proposed as an “Iron Dome” for America, like that guarding Israel against missile strikes, but on a national basis for America and modeled after Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative. Reagan’s SDI only resulted in a few ABM sites, able to protect our citizens against limited nuclear attack. Geopolitical analyst J.R. Nyquist discussed this on a recent episode of my new America’s Survival TV show on Rumble. Meanwhile, Politico has run a story about the latest Trump would-be assassin, Ryan Routh, revealing that he traveled back and forth to Ukraine and was monitored by U.S. agencies which did nothing to stop him. The publication claims he “fell through the cracks,” which is a laughable excuse. Equally sinister, Ukraine did nothing to stop him, either. Politico said, “One DHS official reportedly knew Routh traveled to Ukraine, though there’s no indication that the FBI ever investigated him upon his return and during his years-long and at times bombastic campaign to drum up support for Kyiv. It’s also unclear if federal law enforcement was aware he wrote a self-published book that appeared to call for Trump’s assassination.” What is clear is that “federal law enforcement” is implicated in this and the previous attempt on Trump’s life. Now, on top of this second attempt to terminate Trump, Zelensky shows up in Pennsylvania, to meddle in the presidential election, obviously fearful of a Trump victory. He has made groups of conservatives and Republicans for Ukraine look foolish. I suppose it’s possible for Ukraine to change course, to dump Zelensky and admit his dalliance with Kamala and the Democrats was a mistake. The time is late. By the same token, the Russians should dump Putin. He is a real villain as well, determined to bring back the Soviet/Russian empire. But probably neither scenario is possible, making the Trump approach the only realistic option for the United States. What I do know is that further U.S. military involvement in this war is nonsensical, especially when the Russians have all the nuclear weapons and Ukraine has none. Remember that Ukraine turned their nuclear weapons over to Moscow when Democrat Bill Clinton made the arrangement for them to do so. Under these circumstances, Zelensky’s visit to the ammunition plant makes no sense at all. The Democrats got Ukraine into this weak position in the first place. He is putting his faith in an Administration that made the war possible, when Biden said a minor “incursion” into Ukraine by Russia might be tolerated. Now Zelensky is seen begging the Democrats for more weapons of war, interfering in the presidential campaign in the process. He has lost his sense of purpose and must be replaced. He is not serving America’s interest or that of Ukraine. He has emerged as Russia’s best friend, continuing a war that could easily escalate into Russian nuclear strikes on America and supervising an intelligence service that should never have permitted Ryan Routh into the country in the first place. Ukraine should have jailed him. With Zelensky in charge, the war against Russia is a lost cause that can only spark fears of a world war, at a time when the homeland is defenseless against a Russian nuclear strike and the Middle East conflict is escalating.
Secretary Blinken’s Call with UN Secretary-General Guterres
09/14/2024 02:15 PM EDT Office of the Spokesperson The below is attributable to Spokesperson Matthew Miller: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ahead of the UN Summit of the Future and the 79th session of the UN General Assembly’s High-Level Week. Secretary Blinken and Secretary-General Guterres discussed the renewed opportunity the Summit of the Future presents for Member States to recommit to the principles of the UN Charter. The Secretary voiced U.S. support for achieving a Pact for the Future – a Summit roadmap for strengthening the UN. As UNGA High-Level Week approaches, the Secretary and Secretary-General discussed the importance of mobilizing collective action to address global challenges. Secretary Blinken reiterated the United States’ UNGA priorities: working together to address conflict and crises, revitalizing an overstretched humanitarian system, and fostering a more inclusive and effective UN. The Secretary thanked the Secretary-General for his many efforts in preparing for a productive High-Level Week. Get Ready for World War III By Cliff Kincaid It pains me to say it, since I have supported Ukraine, but the latest attempted assassination of Trump looks like a coordinated White House-Ukraine attack, using another patsy, now being dismissed as a whacko. Instead, the evidence indicates he was a CIA operative who was financially supported by the Deep State and was assigned to kill Trump, paving the way for more long-range missile attacks on Russia, instigating World War III. National security expert Mike Waller told me in a telephone conversation earlier this week that the plan to supply long-range missiles to Ukraine, to be used against Russia, could be justified by Putin to strike the source of those weapons – the United States, incinerating millions of American in a nuclear explosion. Under the international rules of war, if the United States is the source of those weapons to Ukraine, it can be a candidate for retaliation. That’s why Trump is constantly warning of a World War. In one of my latest videos, journalist Jim Simpson talks about the thousands of Russians and Chinese coming into America. What he accurately calls a “manufactured crisis” through a border invasion in his new book could easily turn nuclear. It doesn’t matter that Russia started the war. What matters is that Russia has thousands of nuclear weapons and Ukraine doesn’t. Under Bill Clinton, Ukraine turned its nuclear arsenal over to Russia. That was a stupid move by Ukraine. Democrats in power do stupid things, especially in foreign policy. It looks like another stupid move was letting Ryan Routh into Ukraine to recruit mercenaries for the fight against Russia. Authorities in Ukraine could have denied him entry. Instead, they let him operate freely. Supporters of Ukraine are now saying he was a rogue operator without official support. Yet he traveled back and forth, spending thousands of dollars on international travel and currently living in Hawaii in a home valued at nearly one million dollars. He was previously an unemployed construction worker. He became a lobbyist for Ukraine on Capitol Hill, wearing a suit and tie. All of this has been captured in photos and videos. And the CIA and FBI did not know? Who’s kidding whom? The American people are not stupid. It has all the earmarks of an intelligence operation designed to eliminate the one candidate who wants to end the war. During the presidential debate, ABC’s David Muir asked Trump if he wants Ukraine to win. This is not an NFL football game. This is a real conflict costing thousands if not millions of lives. Now, Trump has been targeted again. Ryan Routh looks like one of the operatives used and manipulated by U.S. intelligence agencies and determined to be a “whacko” by the media when caught. For the second time, a “whacko” has been identified, even though in the first case we still don’t know anything about his overseas accounts. I suspect he was expecting a payment in an overseas bank account for completing the hit on Trump. He failed. Routh also failed, but he is clamming up. Ukraine has been strangely silent, too. Equally significant, a new Scott Rasmussen poll finds 28 percent of Democrats think America would be better off if Trump had been killed. This is a group campaigning for office based largely on the abortion issue, now framed even by the liberal pope in terms of constituting an “assassination,” where the unborn baby is murdered through chemicals or torture, tearing these innocent children apart limb from limb. Even the liberal pope understands the definition of murder. I am surprised the percentage in favor of Trump’s demise is not higher. If you believe in assassinating an innocent unborn child, why not Trump? A large segment of the America people are in favor of killing their babies and the opposition candidate. We are living in a sick society where most people cannot even comprehend the depth of the evil in their midst. It is a society in which most people have abandoned God. By so doing, parents are consigning their kids to a living hell, now called the United States of America, where assassination attempts on a Republican candidate for president are tolerated as business as usual. Meanwhile, Republicans on Capitol Hill are lost in their own scandals. I see that the disgraced Tennessee Rep. Mark Green of the Homeland Security Committee is making appearances on Fox News, acting offended that he doesn’t know anything from the Biden/Harris officials about the latest attempt on Trump’s life. This guy is a piece of work, caught in a messy divorce in which wife Camilla Green accuses him of having an affair with a 32-year-old woman after being corrupted by his time in Congress, warning that Congress is a cesspool of “power and adoration.” Before he went to Congress, he was considered a Christian conservative. His wife wrote, “He is living life greatly deceived. I have offered reconciliation, and he wants nothing of it and has insisted on a divorce. Satan has rewritten our marriage in his mind.” House Speaker Mike Johnson should boot him out of Congress. Didn’t they expel a member for lying? If anything, the Democrats are more corrupt. A recent fundraising letter from Maryland Governor Wes Moore, who lied about his military service in a stolen valor incident, asked for money to promote a Democrat for a local office, based on the fact the Republican opponent “has even spoken out against IVF coverage for same-sex couples.” In other words, the Republican favors traditional marriage between a man and a woman. He wants kids to have a mommy and a daddy. This is now the radical position. Hence, Catholic churches are being burned own in America and statues of the Virgin Mary are being beheaded. Traditional Catholic teaching is an obstacle to their New Age New World Order. The Democrat position is that children should be created in laboratories, delivered by surrogates, and then raised by two male homosexuals or lesbians. And the taxpayers ought to pay for it, in the name of equity, of course. As Green’s wife said, Satan is running wild. He is spitting in our faces.
Mysterious fire (August 30, 2024) destroys rectory at St. Anthony Shrine in Emmitsburg, Maryland, burning and seriously injuring one Catholic priest Emmitsburg, Maryland, is not a big city but is the home to the shrine associated with Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born Catholic Saint and a strong pro-life advocate. Mother Seton Catholic School is also in Emmitsburg. Pope Blasts Baby-Killing Policies of Harris
By Cliff Kincaid Since President Trump has survived an assassination attempt, the fact that the liberal “commie” Pope has called abortion the “assassination” of an innocent unborn child is significant. The use of this term implies a calculated plan to kill someone. It means the mother is not absolved of responsibility for the deliberate crime of murder. It means the abortionist is only part of the plot. Perhaps I was wrong about Pope Francis. I always thought he was a Marxist. If you didn’t hear about the pope’s remarks, take a look. As noted by CBS News and other media, Francis “reiterated the Catholic Church's position that abortion is murder.” The pope said, “Whether you like the word or not, it is a killing. It is an assassination, and on this we should be clear.” It’s not “reproductive health care” or “freedom,” as Harris calls it. Frankly, I had never heard the word “assassination” used in the context of abortion. But it fits. It goes without saying that it’s murder. But an assassination? That implies something like what happened to Lincoln and JFK – a cold-blooded murder, designed and devised for the specific purpose of killing someone. It is almost what happened to President Trump. Since assassinations of a political nature are subject to investigations about the nature of the plots, looking at possible conspiracies, perhaps the same should be done with the matter of the massacre of the unborn, whose body count has surpassed one billion dead babies since Communist Russia legalized the practice. Who is behind this campaign of assassination? It’s the communists, the same people we thought had captured the thinking of the pope. Has the pope changed? Perhaps. But he is also reaffirming Catholic teaching about the value of human life. It’s true he placed his comments about assassinating the unborn in the context of criticizing both U.S. presidential candidates, saying Harris is “the one who kills children” and Trump is “the one who throws away migrants.” But his remarks about Trump make no sense, since there is a Border Wall around the Vatican and the pope doesn’t welcome “migrants” into his city-state. Trespassers into the Vatican are deported. All that Trump is doing is protecting the sovereignty of the United States, in the same way the Pope protects his own people. It’s blatant hypocrisy for the pope to criticize Trump for something he does. Francis is trying to straddle the political fence, leaving the choice to the American people to decide between the baby-killer and Trump. He claims both are against life. Trump’s position on abortion is not ideal, since he has moved left, but it is clearly superior to the baby-killing policies of Kamala Harris. Hence, the official Catholic recommendation on November 5 must be to vote for Trump over Harris. Such a position will leave liberal Catholics confused and demoralized. The liberal media are already perplexed. How could the pope NOT endorse Kamala Harris and the Democrats? Perhaps the pope, in addition to gaining a deeper understanding of the Catholic teaching he is supposed to safeguard, read the great book Witness, by the former communist Whittaker Chambers. It also had a big impact on Ronald Reagan. In that classic, Chambers described how he became pro-life and left communism when he came to the realization that his pregnant wife was having a baby with an independent life and soul and that the child was not just property, to be disposed of when inconvenient. “Philosophically speaking, I am in favor of the right to life,” declared Argentinian President Javier Milei, incorporating Catholic teaching in his comments. “Beyond that, there is a scientific justification to be had. It’s the fact that life begins at conception, it’s at that very instant that a new being begins to evolve with its own unique DNA,” Milei said. “Beyond that, there is a matter of mathematics,” he explained. “Life is a continuum with two quantum leaps: birth and death. Any interruption in the interim is murder.” This seems to be the pope’s position. Even more significant than the use of the term “murder,” however, the pope uses the term “assassination.” That means the pope is prepared, presumably, to use the resources of the Vatican to pursue what the anti-communist Pope John Paul II called the “Culture of Life.” He made an alliance with Ronald Reagan to fight communism. Has Pope Francis had a Damascus Road conversion, away from Marxism? That is the hope. What we should do, as Catholics and non-Catholics, is demand exposure of the conspiracy against life, as reflected in the assassination campaign against the unborn, and demand prosecution of the abortionists and the mothers who seek to kill innocent human life. This may sound harsh to some, but when one billion human lives have been snuffed out, what is the alternative? Do the innocent unborn deserve anything less than a defense of their human rights under God to live?
The 10 Harris Lies Moderators Let Slide at the ABC Debate
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/09/11/the-10-harris-lies-moderators-let-slide-at-the-abc-debate/ source excerpt Abortions After Birth Don’t Happen? The issue of infanticide cropped up during the debate, as Trump cited comments made by a former Virginia governor about allowing babies born alive during birth to die—a position Trump called “execution after birth.” Davis responded to Trump’s comments on abortion by saying, “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born.” It is true that during a 2019 interview, then-Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, said, if a baby is born alive during a botched abortion, “I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother” about the child’s future. His comment was not an outlier. In 2013, a lobbyist representing the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, Alisa Lapolt Snow, testified before the Florida House of Representatives that even if a baby is alive, breathing on a table, and moving, “We believe that any decision that’s made” about administering treatment to the newborn “should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician. … That decision should be between the patient and the health care provider.” Whistleblowers have noted abortionists regularly allowed children to be born alive, then die by neglect. Jill Stanek, who served as a nurse at Christ Hospital in the Chicago area, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2020: In the event a baby was aborted alive, he or she received no medical assessments or care but was only given what my hospital called ‘comfort care’—made comfortable, as Governor Northam indicated. One night, a nursing co-worker was transporting a baby who had been aborted because he had Down syndrome to our Soiled Utility Room to die—because that’s where survivors were taken. I could not bear the thought of this suffering child dying alone, so I rocked him for the 45 minutes that he lived. He was 21 to 22 weeks old, weighed about half a pound, and was about the size of my hand. Some accounts are more gruesome. Multiple employees accused “Texas Gosnell” abortionist Douglas Karpen of twisting the heads off live babies after birth. Yet the Democratic ticket has not lifted a finger to require infant lives be saved. In 2019, then-Sen. Harris voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which requires abortionists to provide potentially lifesaving care to babies born during botched abortions. There is no federal requirement to provide medical care to an infant born during an abortion. As governor of Minnesota, vice presidential candidate Tim Walz signed a bill that removed a requirement that abortionists “preserve the life and health of the born alive infant.” Although only eight states currently require that the data be reported, official statistics show 277 babies were born alive during abortions. Pro-life advocates Gianna Jessen and Melissa Ohden survived botched abortions. Only eight states require abortionists to report infants born alive during a botched abortion (Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas.). Two states—Walz’s Minnesota and Gretchen Whitmer’s Michigan—repealed those requirements. Abortionists are not known as for being conscientious about reporting their own botched abortions. Have We Forgotten the 1st Purposes of Government?
GLC Weekly (2024-09-11) By Thomas W. Jacobson, Global Life Campaign You may be surprised at the original purposes of civil government. Did you know that the first purpose of civil government is to exercise lawful authority, delegated by God, in civil and criminal matters of righteousness and justice? It is to represent God in such matters and render justice on His behalf. And did you know that, inseparable from this purpose, is the second purpose: to protect innocent human life and render justice for human bloodshed? That is why our nation’s Founding Fathers declared: “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life …” (Declaration of Independence, United States). And why every State in the USA enacted laws prohibiting abortion during the 1800s. We have forgotten the first purpose, and chosen to be selective about the second purpose. Yet we innately know that police, military, courts, and government officials should always act to protect human life. Let’s start at the beginning. When Cain murdered his brother Abel, God Almighty intervened directly, for their father Adam had no governmental authority to render justice (Genesis 4:3-12). By the 10th generation, “the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. . . . (T)he earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence” (Genesis 6:5. 11). “But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. . . . Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time. Noah walked with God” (Genesis 6:8-9). Therefore, the LORD brought a Great Flood to destroy everyone on the earth, but saved Noah and his family to give humanity a new start (Genesis 6—8). After the Great Flood, the LORD God did a most gracious and benevolent act: He delegated some of His authority to mankind to encourage good, punish evil, and render justice, especially for innocent human bloodshed at any stage of life. The LORD God said: “Surely I will require your lifeblood … from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man. Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed, for in the image of God He made man” (Genesis 9:5-6). Generations later, when the LORD God brought His people Israel out of bondage in Egypt, one of His first acts was to give them His Law through Moses. All of His Law is founded upon the 10 Commandments, including His command: “You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13). This included prohibiting murder of children in the womb or sacrificing newly born children. In fact, child sacrifice was a deeply imbedded practice of the nations whose land God chose to give to Israel, and He used Israel to render judgment by annihilating them. When the 10 tribes of Israel were committing the same evils 500 years later, the LORD brought Assyria to conquer and remove them; and when Judah later began doing the same, the LORD brought Babylon to conquer and remove most of them. We in the United States have committed much greater evils, sacrificing 65 million babies. In this presidential election, all four leading candidates for president and vice president have spoken in favor of abortion – in favor of authorizing the murder of innocent babies in their mother’s womb. Donald Trump reluctantly changed his position on abortion in his effort to gain more votes, and JD Vance is standing with him; but taking this position does not appear to come from a conviction in their hearts, but due to political pressures. On the other hand, Kamala Devi Harris and Timothy Walz believe aborting one’s own children is a “health care,” “reproductive freedom,” a civil “right,” without limits. It seems that none of the four candidates knows the first core purpose of civil government; Trump and Vance don’t fully know the second purpose; and Harris and Waltz have totally rejected both God-ordained purposes. When Donald Trump was president, he did more to protect the sanctity of human life from conception than any other president in our lifetimes. It is sad to see him shrink from that noble position. I hope he and Senator Vance are open to being persuaded of the righteousness of his former position, and choose to retake that position. President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Governor Tim Walz are all committed to restoring Roe v. Wade as the law of the land in the United States, to guarantee a so-called “right” to sex with anyone and “right” to abortion nationwide, overriding opposing State laws. Here are some of their statements at the Democratic National Convention: Harris: “A harm against any one of us [except babies in the womb] is a harm against all of us. . . . Donald Trump . . . took away reproductive freedom [to abort babies]. . . . Women . . . being forced [!?!] to carry a pregnancy to term. . . . When Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom [to abort babies], as President of the United States I will proudly sign it into law. . . . In this election, many other fundamental freedoms are at stake . . . the freedom to love who you love openly with pride.” [pro-immorality, pro-LGBT] [TJ clarifications in brackets] Walz: “We protected reproductive freedom [sex outside marriage, abortion] because in Minnesota we respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make. And even if we wouldn’t make those same choices for ourselves, we’ve got a golden rule: Mind your own damn business. . . . (T)his is a big part of what this election is about: freedom! [to have sex outside marriage & abort babies]. . . (W)e’ll build a country where . . . health care [to include abortion] and housing are human rights, and the government stays the hell out of your bedroom.” [TJ clarifications in brackets] _____________ PRAY that we as Americans would regain our true identity and convictions, which were anchored in faith in God and trust in the Bible as the Word of God and source of Truth, and included understanding and upholding the first purposes of civil government in order to preserve life, liberty and happiness within the good and perfect will of God. For the LORD, the sacred gift of life, and remembrance of the babies, |