EIGHTY PRO-LIFERS PICKET CATHOLIC AWARD TO MARTY WALSH by Willam Cotter
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Eighty supporters of the Right To Life gathered on the sidewalk of U.S. Route One, in the Town of Norwood this evening, to protest Catholic Memorial School giving an award, named after a Catholic saint, to U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh. Inside the Four Points Sheraton Norwood, Walsh was awarded the Blessed Edmund Rice Medal—named after the Founder of the Irish Christian Brothers—by Catholic Memorial during the school’s Spring Gala
fundraiser.A longtime proponent of legal, unrestricted and publicly funded abortion, Walsh once said he hoped to make Boston a “safe city” for abortions, should Roe v. Wade be overturned. A NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts award recipient, Walsh was the first Bay State mayor to be endorsed by the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts.
The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council said “abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.”
I n a demonstration organized by the Massachusetts Pro-Life Coalition—an alliance of nine pro-life organizations—more than 80 supporters of the Right To Life protested peacefully, prayerfully and legally on the sidewalk outside the hotel. The picket lasted from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.
The Coalition characterized the demonstration as “a tremendous success, far exceeding the expected turn-out, which indicates growing indignation in the Catholic community over the sycophancy of corrupt Catholic institutions towards pro-abortion political figures.”
Massachusetts Pro-Life Coalition spokesman William Cotter, the President of Operation Rescue Boston, made the following comment: “Faithful Catholics have lost patience with elite Catholic institutions who prize power, money and celebrity over fidelity to Catholic principles. Catholic Memorial has signaled, clearly, that Christian morality will not stand in the way of the school’s fundraising priorities.”
“Catholic Memorial has betrayed the Faith which the school professes in its very name. The leadership of CM ought to be ashamed about this scandalous award, but that would require, at least, the vestigial remains of a Catholic conscience.”
The Massachusetts Pro-Life Coalition, founded in 2017, brings together Operation Rescue Boston; Mass Resistance; the Massachusetts Alliance to Stop Taxpayer Funded Abortions; the Pro-Life Legal Defense Fund; the Boston Church Militant Resistance Chapter; the Boston Chapter of Helpers of God’s Precious Infants; American University Women for Life; the Massachusetts Family Institute; and the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts.
Contact: William Cotter
(774) 287-0751
editor@orboston.org
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After the Steal, It’s Crazy for Trump Supporters to Support an Article V Constitutional Convention by Janine Hansen
After the Steal,
It’s Crazy for Trump Supporters to Support an Article V
Constitutional Convention
By Janine Hansen, Eagle Forum National Constitutional Issues Chairman, director@nevadafamilies.org, 775-397-6859
Because of the 2020 election Trump supporters have lost faith in the operation of our Constitutional Republic. Understandably, we saw massive election fraud, corrupt judges, and a crooked Congress confirming the steal.
Our Constitutional Republic stands at a crossroads. Now more than ever our activism is critical. BUT, we cannot allow ourselves to be used to further undermine and destroy our U.S. Constitution.
For decades before her passing, Phyllis Schlafly valiantly fought a dangerous threat to our Constitution, an Article V “convention for proposing amendments” or as we would call it a Constitutional Convention. There are almost no rules for the convention in Article V of the Constitution. Exceptions are: that after 34 states have made application for a Convention that Congress “shall call a Convention” and that the amendments passed by the Constitutional Convention become part of the Constitution when ratified by three fourths of the several states or by Conventions in those states.
This ratification by the states seems like a safeguard to a run-away Constitutional Convention, but is it? In the original Constitutional Convention, the only national precedent we have, the ratification process was changed from a unanimous requirement in the Articles of Confederation to only nine states required in the New Constitution. In other words, they changed the ratification process in the original Constitutional Convention before they sent it out to the states to be ratified. The Constitution itself in Article V does not prohibit changing the ratification process. Could that happen now? In the political environment in which we find ourselves with no regard for truth or the sacredness of our fundamental constitutional processes like elections, what might we expect?
If the delegates at the Constitutional Convention felt that they could not get their many new amendments passed by enough states, they could change the number of states required to ratify their multiple amendments. Consider how many Red states there are and how many blue states there are. Are there enough states, either red or blue to equal three fourths of the states that could agree on any amendments? So it is logical in order to achieve the ratification of all the new amendments that the ratification process would have to be changed, lowered as to the number of states required.
Another important question is: who sets the rules for the Convention? Pro-convention groups like Convention of States claim that “the states would set the rules”. How? Congress calls the Convention sets the time and location and then Congress would set the rules. Does that give you comfort knowing the Pelosi and Schumer would be deciding the rules for a Constitutional Convention and who controlled the gavel?
Numerous times while in the U.S. Senate, former Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah had a set of rules for a Constitutional Convention passed by the U.S. Senate. These rules always contained a provision that the votes accorded to the states would be according to the Electoral College. In other words, if your state has 8 Congressmen and 2 Senators then your state would have 10 votes out of 538 at the Constitutional Convention. Radical California would have 55 and New York would have 29. Most conservative Red states have much smaller populations and therefore much smaller representation.
How would the delegates to the Constitutional Convention be chosen? Well there is no guidance in Article V and we don’t really know. Under the “necessary and proper clause” of the U.S. Constitution, it would appear as if Congress would determine how to select delegates. Proponents of the Convention of States claim that the State Legislatures will choose the delegates as in the original Constitutional Convention. Do you have full confidence in your State Legislature to choose delegates who would represent you and stand solidly behind our Constitutional Republic? Having worked in my own Nevada Legislature for decades I would say, they have about as much integrity as the U.S. Congress. That’s downright scary to consider putting our sacred Constitution in the hands of compromised and corrupt politicians who are supposed to fix it. You can bet that the first thing to go would be our Right to Keep and Bear Arms, next our Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech and Assembly.
The FAMILY, FAITH and UPBRINGING of DAVID LIVINGSTONE by Dr. Peter Hammond
On 19 March 1813 David Livingstone, the best friend Africa ever had, was born in the industrial town of Blantyre, 8 miles from Glasgow, in Scotland.
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The Fighting Missionary
The hero of the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington, described Dr. David Livingstone as “The fighting parson.”
The Friend of Africa
Jacob Wainwright, who had been rescued from slavery by Dr. Livingstone, described him as: “The friend of the African.”
Practical Christianity
American journalist and explorer, Henry Morton Stanley, described Dr. Livingstone as: “A truly pious man, a man deeply imbued with real religious instincts. His religion… is of the true, practical kind, never losing a chance to manifest itself in a quiet, practical way, never demonstrative or loud. It is always at work, if not in deed, by shining example.”
An Example of Excellence
Stanley described his attitude when he first arrived in Africa: “as prejudiced against religion as the worst infidel…” However, the example of David Livingstone, who had truly left all to follow Christ, converted Stanley. It is not so much what you say, but what you do that counts. Action is eloquence. David Livingstone said what he meant. He meant what he said and he did all he promised. He was true to his word.
Inspiring
David Livingstone was hailed in his lifetime as the greatest missionary explorer of all time. As one contemporary journalist described it: “the Christian’s Faith in God is strengthened by the author’s very survival of every imaginable danger. The abolitionist is inspired by the prospect of stopping the slave trade. Medical men are intrigued by Livingstones approach to disease and the value of his treatment for fever…” The incredible courage and sacrifices of David Livingstone inspired multiplied hundreds of men and women to dedicate their lives to Missions in Africa. What can we learn about the family and upbringing of David Livingstone, to understand his Faith, courage and vision?
Born in Blantyre
David Livingstone was born on 19 March 1813, in the industrial town of Blantyre, 8 miles from Glasgow. Today the largest city in Malawi is called Blantyre, in honour of the birthplace of David Livingstone.
The Father
His Father, Neil Livingstone, was a dedicated Christian who had met his future wife, Agnes, when he was apprenticed to a local tailor. He won the hand of the tailor’s daughter and became a tea salesman so that he could travel and preach the Gospel, distributing Evangelistic tracts to his customers door-to-door. Neil also taught at Sunday school and was a zealous member of a local Missionary Society, persistently promoting prayer meetings and Missionary causes. David Livingstone later wrote concerning his Father: “He deserved my lasting gratitude and homage for presenting me from infancy with a continuously consistent pious example.”
Strict Standards
Neil Livingstone was also a strict disciplinarian who sought to bring up David in the fear of the Lord. At age 9, David was challenged to learn the longest chapter in the Bible: Psalm 119 (all 176 verses) off by heart in order to receive a copy of the New Testament. Because Neil had seen the ravaging effects of alcoholism, he was a teetotaller and persuaded his son to follow his example in abstaining from alcohol, for life.
The Mother
David’s mother, Agnes, was a gentle, small and delicate woman whose compassionate kindness and loving nature served as a counter-balance to her husband’s strict and austere rule. It was said that her son, David, inherited her remarkably bright eyes. Agnes instilled in her family, a scrupulous concern for cleanliness and immaculate appearance. Later, Henry Morton Stanley commented on the immaculate standards of David Livingstone to his men as they began their epic 999-day expedition across the Congo: “Dr. Livingstone shaved every day of the 4 months, I was with him in the field and you will shave every day!”
The Napoleonic Wars
David was born during the last years of the ruinous Napoleonic wars which devastated Europe. The economic impact of the 25 years of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars had left many unemployed in Britain and an economically depressed environment.
The Family
The Livingstones lived a very frugal lifestyle on a minuscule budget. The Livingstone family lived in a single room, ten feet by fourteen feet. Two baby boys had died in their infancy, David had one older surviving brother, John. Another brother, Charles and two sisters, Janet and Agnes were born after David.
The Home
There was neither hot nor cold running water in the tenement building and David had to walk many times a day down the tightly curved, brick staircase to fetch water from the pump in the yard and heave it back up the stairs and along the corridor of the 3rd floor to their room. The Livingstones shared their tenement with 24 other families. At night mattresses were pulled out from under the parents’ bed which was set into a recess in the wall. Privacy was non-existent and the family cooked, ate, sewed, studied and slept in that single room.
A Passion for Reading
David Livingstone borrowed extensively from the local library, particularly books on travel and science. William Wilberforce’s Practical Christianity had a major impact on his life and clearly influenced his life-long crusade against the slave trade. Sitting by the banks of the River Clyde, engrossed in a book, young David was startled to hear the desperate cries of a young girl and her baby brother drifting in a boat towards the weir of the old Mill. David immediately plunged into the icy waters and rescued them from disaster.
The Cotton Mill
At age 10, David began his full-time employment, 14 hours a day, 6 days a week, for the next 10 years at the Monteith and Company Cotton Spinning Factory. He was to be a piecer, to repair broken threads in spinning frames. David’s day began at 5:30 am every morning as the bell was rung. Work would begin at 6am and continue until 8pm. The workers in the cotton mill had to work in tremendous heat and humidity. Steamed temperatures of 80 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit were considered ideal for the production of thread.
Physical Training
Every day, David would have to walk an average of 34 km, much of this in crawling, or stooping position, amongst and under the machinery, or balancing over it. One can imagine what tremendous physical training this was for his later transcontinental expeditions throughout Africa. Piecers received constant beatings from their supervisors to keep them moving through such long shifts, despite fatigue and exhaustion.
Hunger for Knowledge
Yet, David used his first week’s wages to purchase Ruddiman’s Rudiments of Latin. David managed to read in the factory by balancing his book on a portion of the spinning jenny so that he could catch sentence after sentence as he rushed by at his work. In this way, he maintained fairly constant study undisturbed by the roar of the machinery. Less than 10% of the children who worked in the Cotton Mills ever learned to read or write. David not only learned to read and write, he taught himself Latin, Greek and Hebrew. After work, he would attend a night school, 8 pm to 10 pm. Then he returned home to study, often until midnight. His mother frequently had to take his books away before he would go to sleep.
Conversion
At age 12, David Livingstone came under intense conviction of sin and experienced a radical conversion to Christ. He wrote: “In the glow of love that Christianity inspired, I resolved to devote my life to the alleviation of human misery.” He wrote: “That the Salvation of men ought to be the chief desire and aim of every Christian.” He made a resolution that he would give to the cause of Missions all that he might earn beyond what was required for his subsistence.
Perseverance
At age 13, he attended an extra Latin class. When all the other students gave up, he alone remained in the class and the school teacher cancelled the lessons, not seeing the overzealous son of a tea merchant as worthy of his attention. David continued to learn Latin on his own.
The Grandfather
David’s grandfather, Neil Livingstone Senior, also had an impact on the upbringing of David. He had been a tenant farmer on the island of Ulva, off the West coast of Scotland. He was evicted by the English to open up the area for a vast sheep farm. He passed on what he had heard from his grandfather: “I have searched most carefully through all the traditions of our family and I never could discover that there was a dishonest man among your forefathers. If therefore any of you, or any of your children, should take to dishonest ways, it will not be because it runs in our blood… I leave this precept with you; be honest!“
Thomas Burke
Another man who influenced David Livingstone was Thomas Burke, an old soldier who had fought in the Napoleonic Wars who would ring his bell to shatter the peace and quiet of Blantyre every Sunday morning to rouse the people to attend his early morning Prayer meeting. Burke was abrupt, direct and challenging. The Livingstone family faithfully supported him.
David Hogg
Another man who impressed David Livingstone was David Hogg, who from his deathbed challenged the young boy: “Now lad! Make religion the everyday business of your life and not a thing of fits and starts; for if you do not, temptation and other things will get the better of you!”
The Free Church
1832 was a special watershed year for the Livingstone family. Neil Livingstone, dissatisfied with the spiritual life of the Church of Scotland, changed his church membership to the Free Church. This required the Livingstones to walk to Hamilton, a nearby village for their Sunday worship services. Although they received many invitations to dine with families of the congregation, they chose to carry their own food and not impose upon the limited resources of the other families of the congregation, which they knew were also struggling financially. After Sunday lunch, the Livingstone family were treated to their one luxury, a barley sweet each. The Livingstones never accepted any hand-outs. They worked for everything they had.
Setting the Captives Free
The Free Church in Hamilton were strong supporters of Missions. In 1833, William Wilberforce’s lifelong crusade against slavery was successful. Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire, by an act of Parliament. This inspired an ever greater vision for Missions. Those who had been freed from physical slavery, now needed to be freed from spiritual slavery. Missionaries were needed to go to the ends of the earth!
Revival Fires
Books and tracts from the Revival movement sweeping America reached Scotland and created much excitement and deepening of spiritual life and vision. David Livingstone received a pamphlet written by Karl Gutzlaff, of the Netherlands Missionary Society. In it, Gutzlaff appealed for medical missionaries to go to China. David was inspired by how a medical missionary could be much more effective in converting the lost. He had learned enough Latin to be able to understand most medical terms. He was remarkably well-read and easily would pass the University entrance requirements. His chief obstacle would be a lack of finances.
University
Through great determination, he saved most of his money during the next 18 months to be able to put himself through Medical school and Theological College. At the age of 23, David set out on foot to begin his Theological and medical studies in Glasgow. From 1836 to 1838, he benefited from the best Theological and medical training available at that time. Each weekend he would walk back home to Blantyre. Although he was frequently offered lifts in a horse and cart, David would refuse, preferring the 4-hour long walk, often in the snow, in order to strengthen his muscles for his career in Missions.
London Missionary Society
In his second year at college, David applied to the London Missionary Society. David’s Father was concerned that his son’s application had omitted important facts. Therefore, without David’s knowledge, Neil Livingstone wrote to the LMS Board informing them of his son’s diligence in attending lectures, refusing offers of a lift to town, his refusals of secure teaching posts offered, of his early quest for Latin proficiency and of his hard work, sacrificial lifestyle and dedication to study.
Marriage Concerns
In response to the question on whether he was married or engaged, David wrote: “unmarried; under no engagement relating to marriage, never made proposals of marriage, nor conducted myself so to any woman as to cause her to suspect that I intended anything related to marriage; and so far as my present wishes are concerned, I should prefer going out unmarried, that I might be without that care which the concerns of a family necessarily induce and give myself wholly to the work.”
Probation
Eight months after his application, David was finally invited to London, 30 August 1838, for an interview. After the second interview in September, the Directors accepted Livingstone on probation. He was placed under the mentorship of Rev. Richard Cecil who described David as having: “sense and quiet vigour; whose temper is good and his character substantial.”
Failure Does Not Need to be Final
However, at his first preaching opportunity, David froze in the pulpit and abruptly declared: “Friends, I have forgotten all I have to say!” and hurried out of the pulpit. The Directors of the London Missionary Society seriously considered rejecting his candidacy. However, a wise man pleaded hard that his probation should be extended. At future preaching engagements, he proved himself a capable and energetic communicator.
Integrity
One lady in Ongar, wrote of David Livingstone: “I never knew anyone who gave me more the idea of power over other men, such power as our Saviour showed while on earth, the power of love and purity combined.”
Uncommon Christians
During his studies, David wrote to his sisters, urging them: “to seek to be uncommon Christians, that is eminently holy and devoted servants of the most High… let us seek and with the conviction that we cannot do without it, that selfishness be extirpated, pride banished, unbelief driven from the mind, every idol dethroned and everything hostile to holiness and opposed to the Divine Will crucified; that Holiness to the Lord may be engraved on the heart and evermore characterise our whole conduct. This is what we ought to strive after; this is the way to be happy; this is what our Saviour loves, entire surrender of heart. May He enable us by His Spirit to persevere until we attain it!”
Focused on God’s Kingdom
It was noted that David earnestly sought first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. He steadfastly sought the Lord’s will for his life and he persevered through every problem. David Livingstone was described as an idealist, an eccentric bookworm loner. He took his task and calling most seriously. Whatever he did he performed thoroughly. His character was uncompromising. He was inflexible in his adherence to his word.
Knowledgeable
Dr. Risdon Bennet, of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, described David Livingstone as: “Pure and noble… simple, modest, unassuming and self-reliant…” Dr. Bennet wrote that he was “struck with the amount of knowledge that Livingstone had already acquired of those subjects which constituted the foundation of medical science…”
Redirected to Africa
David Livingstone’s plans to be a medical missionary to China was frustrated when the Opium War erupted. The LMS declared China closed. It was at that opportune time that LMS Missionary Robert Moffat conducted speaking engagements in London. He inspired David Livingstone as he spoke of: “The smoke of a thousand villages where no Missionary has ever been.” David switched his focus from Asia to Africa.
Crusade Against Slavery
While attending a meeting of the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and for the Civilisation of Africa, in Exeter Hall, on 1 June 1840, Livingstone heard Thomas Foxwell Buxton speak of the Importance of Commerce and Christianity to defeat the slave trade in Africa. Africans would only be saved from the slave trade when they had an alternative to selling their own people to pay for the beads, cloth, guns and trinkets that they coveted.
Doctorate
During his final medical exams, David Livingstone argued with the Board who were not convinced about the usefulness of the stethoscope. Despite Livingstone’s unorthodox views, he qualified with a Licentiate of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, November 1840.
Departure
On a bleak November morning, 1840, in Blantyre, the Livingstone family rose at 5 am and the 27-year-old David read Psalm 121 to his family. He then read Psalm 135. The family bowed in prayer and then Neil walked his son to the Glasgow docks and saw his son embark on his great African adventure.
Ordained
On 20 November 1840, David Livingstone was ordained as a Congregational Missionary in the Albion Street Chapel. On 8 December, he set sail in the George for Cape Town, South Africa.
Against All Odds
David had experienced little childhood or adolescence. In his upbringing, he had little, or no play, or recreation. Against all odds, he had already achieved far more than would have been thought humanly possible for someone born into such a poverty-stricken and disadvantaged background. To achieve what he had, Livingstone had had to be decisive, goal-orientated and inflexible. As time went on, he became less and less flexible and showed little or no patience for those with lower standards of devotion to Christ and His Great Commission.
Let the Earth Hear His Voice
To those who said that the work at home must be completed thoroughly before any Missions be engaged in abroad, Livingstone responded: “All men have the right to hear God’s Word. No nation ought to hoard the Gospel like a miser!”
Through Tempestuous Seas
Livingstone described his three months journey to Cape Town: “Our little vessel went reeling and staggering over the waves as if she had been drunk. Our trunks perpetually breaking from their lashings, were tossed from one side of the cabin to the other, …huddled together in glorious confusion… imagine if you can a ship in a fit of epilepsy.” David befriended Captain Donaldson and learned all that he could concerning the quadrant and the sextant, frequently staying up until past midnight to take lunar observations and work out directions using the stars. As the ship rocked and reeled over the perilous seas, Livingstone studied Theology. Finally, a raging storm split the foremast of the ship and they had to put into Rio de Janeiro to have it repaired. He also acquired quinine bushes from his hikes. This proved to be most fortuitous as he later developed his treatment for Malaria from it.
Ministry in Brazil
David described battling profusely to refuse bottles of liquor that were offered to him from all sides in Brazil. The Brazilians expressed shock that any Englishman should refuse alcohol, for many of his fellow countrymen and seamen had continually disgraced themselves in the streets of Rio by intoxication. David handed out Gospel tracts at the notorious Waterfront Bar and narrowly escaped with his life as 20 drunk, angry sailors assaulted him. He engaged in ministry at the local hospital and witnessed raging drunken delirium. He shared the Gospel with a dying French sailor and urged him to trust in Christ alone for eternal Salvation.
The Cape of Good Hope
On 17 March 1841, Livingstone sighted the majestic Table Mountain as the George edged into Table Bay. Thus, began one of the most incredible Missionary careers of the best friend Africa ever had.
Dr. Peter Hammond
Frontline Fellowship
P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725
Cape Town South Africa
mission@frontline.org.za
www.FrontlineMissionSA.org
House Democrats cancel looming embarrassment by Paul Driessen
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The Treasured Tools of Tyrants by Dr. Peter Hammond
Great Repression
All over the world we are seeing courageous individuals responding to The Great Reset with Great Resistance. We have seen Great Repression seeking to crush the Resistance, not only in Canada, but also in Australia, New Zealand, in Europe and the United States and in South Africa. What are the tools and tactics of tyrants? How can we best recognize, resist and respond to repression? “He is conceited…he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and arguments that result in envy, quarrelling, malicious talk, evil suspicions.” 1 Timothy 6:4.
Blame-shifting and Bulling
The tools of tyrants include: boycotts and blacklisting, blame shifting and bulling, censorship and character assassination, discrediting, demonizing, distracting, defunding and de-platforming, excluding and economic warfare, fake news and false flags, gossip and gas-lighting, lies and libel, sanctions and slander, intimidation and interference, toxic terminology, threats and terrorism, propaganda and psychological warfare, revolution and repression. “While they promise them freedom, they themselves are slaves of depravity…” 2 Peter 2:19
Repressive Rule
In Canada we have seen Justin Trudeau using all of these favorite tools of tyrants against those who disagree with him. After almost 2 years of repressive rule in which the state claimed the power to determine who could work, when they could work, how they could work, where they could work, what they needed to wear, whether they were allowed to worship or not, and even what chemicals had to be injected into their body, there was rising Resistance. Instead of responding to the growing outrage over government overreach and intrusion into the everyday lives of communities, congregations, families and individuals, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doubled down with even more repressive rules crushing working class people such as the truckers. “Justice is turned back and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street and equity cannot enter.” Isaiah 59:14
Gossip and Gas-lighting
When tens of thousands of people rose up in the Freedom Convoy to demand the end of medical tyranny, vaccine mandates and the masquerade madness, with hundreds of thousands of Canadians across the country coming out in enthusiastic support for their initiative, Trudeau responded with one of the favorite tools of tyrants. He slandered the truckers and their supporters as: right wing extremists, racists, misogynists, white supremacists, science deniers and Nazis! “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil… Who justify the wicked for a bribe and take away justice from the righteous man!” Isaiah 5:20-23
Slander is the Tool of the Loser
As Socrates observed: “When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.” British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher would often repeat this quote when her opponents resorted to ad hominem arguments and slander. As in soccer, you’re meant to play the ball not the man. To kick a fellow player rather than the ball is to be guilty of a foul. In any debate, one should deal with the issue, not attack the individual with whom we are having the disagreement. “He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God?” Micah 6:8
Character Assassination
Rather than addressing the issues being protested against by the Freedom Convoy, Justin Trudeau chose to character assassinate the protesters and then blame shifted by hypocritically accusing the truckers of interfering with the economy and people’s everyday lives! After two years of suffocating the economy and people’s everyday lives with the lockdown lunacy, masquerade madness, covid cult, salvation by vaccination mandates, it is incredible that Trudeau could have the audacity to blame the very people who were trying to open up the economy and bring freedom back to everyone’s daily lives, for the very policies he had been enforcing! “…’Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Therefore the wrath of the Lord is upon you.'” 2 Chronicles 19:2
Sanctions and Economic Warfare
Trudeau mobilized his minions to persuade go fund me to freeze the money raised to support the freedom convoy and then to prevent give send go from forwarding the funds raised for the protesters. Sanctions and economic warfare are popular tools of tyrants. “You shall not steal.” Exodus 10: 15
Communist Chinese Connection
Then we saw Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau emulating the Communist Chinese dictatorship that he has expressed such admiration for. Declaring a state of emergency, he mobilized his police to bully and bludgeon the peaceful protesters in the streets of Ottawa, freeze their bank accounts, confiscate their vehicles, threaten to take away their children and place them under state-controlled welfare and have their pets assigned to shelters where they could be euthanized! Not content with arresting the peaceful protesters, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government were determined to destroy the lives of not only the protesters but also of those who supported them, even with small donations. “Their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.” Isaiah 59:7
Harassment and Threats
The details of those who have given donations to the freedom convoy were published online leading to much harassment and threats being unleashed upon simple working class people and entrepreneurs. “You shall not covet … ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilment of the Law.” Romans 13:8-10
Pervasive Propaganda
All of this was made possible by the pervasive propaganda which demonized simple working class people who wanted their lives back. Fake news enabled Trudeau’s tyranny. False flags were also used to distract from the primary message of the thousands of truckers and hundreds of thousands of their supporters. Words were weaponized and terminology made toxic. Canadians were warned that the word Freedom is subversive and is code for white supremacy and right-wing extremism. “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.” Galatians 5:1
Using George Orwell’s 1984 as a Manual
It would appear that liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada has used George Orwell’s 1984 as a manual rather than recognizing it as a warning of tyrannical tools and tactics to be avoided. George Orwell warned of the dangers of totalitarian government and the subversion of language, where the Ministry of Truth (Minitruth) deals with lies and propaganda, demonizing the opponents of the state, making them unpersons/vaporizing them and ensuring that their message and identity disappear down the memory hole. The Ministry of plenty (miniplenty) deals with rationing and ensures starvation. The ministry of peace (Minipeace) deals with war and the ministry of love (Minilove) deals with torture to ensure subservience and obedience from the masses. “The way of peace they have not known and there is no justice in their ways; they have made themselves crooked paths; whoever takes that way shall not know peace.” Isaiah 59:8.
Double Standards and Hypocrisy
In the name of democracy the peaceful protests of many tens of thousands of Canadians were suppressed. In the name of Law & Order, the rule of law was suspended and effective martial law enforced. Those who normally trumpet tolerance crushed dissent and outlawed freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom of worship, freedom of opinion and freedom of the press. Even journalists were warned not to cover the police actions and journalists were attacked and arrested. “Who will rise up for Me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for Me against the workers of iniquity?” Psalm 94:16
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Major problems identified in the data adjustments applied to a widely used global temperature dataset
Evaluation of the Homogenization Adjustments Applied to European Temperature Records in the Global Historical Climatology Network Dataset, which was recently published in the scientific journal, Atmosphere by Professor Willie Soon, et al
A new climate science study, involving a panel of 17 experts from 13 countries, has just been published in the scientific journal, Atmosphere. The study looked at the various data adjustments that are routinely applied to the European temperature records in the widely used Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN) dataset over the last 10 years.
The GHCN monthly temperature dataset is the main data source for thermometer records used by several of the groups calculating global warming – including NOAA, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).
These thermometer records can vary in length from decades to over a century. Over these long periods, the temperature records from individual weather stations often contain abrupt changes due to local factors that have nothing to do with global or national temperature trends. For example, changes in the location of the weather station, the types of thermometers used or the growth of urban heat islands around the station.
To try to correct for these non-climatic biases, NOAA, who maintain the GHCN dataset have been running a computer program to identify abrupt jumps in the records using statistical methods. Whenever the program identifies an abrupt jump it applies an adjustment to remove that jump from the station’s record. This process is called temperature homogenization. Until now, most scientists have assumed the process is generally working correctly.
In this new study, the authors analyzed thousands of different versions of the dataset downloaded over 10 years. They studied the homogenization adjustments for more than 800 European temperature records. They found that these adjustments changed dramatically every day when NOAA re-ran their computer program.
The authors found that only 17% of NOAA’s adjustments were consistent from run to run.
Furthermore, by compiling historical records known as station history metadata for each of the stations, they were able to compare the adjustments applied by NOAA’s computer program to the documented changes that were known to have occurred at the weather station. They found that less than 20% of the adjustments NOAA had been applying corresponded to any event noted by the station observers – such as a change in instrumentation or a station move.
The findings of the study show that most of the homogenization adjustments carried out by NOAA have been surprisingly inconsistent.
Moreover, every day, as the latest updates to the thermometer records arrive, the adjustments NOAA applies to the entire dataset are recalculated and changed. As a result, for any given station, e.g., Cheb, Czech Republic, the official homogenized temperatures for 1951 (as an example) might be very different in Tuesday’s dataset than in Monday’s dataset.
The study itself was not focused on the net effects of these adjustments on long-term climate trends. However, the authors warned that these bizarre inconsistencies in this widely-used climate dataset are scientifically troubling. They also are concerned that most researchers using this important dataset have been unaware of these problems until now.
The authors conclude their study by making various recommendations for how these problems might be resolved, and how the temperature homogenization efforts can be improved in the future.
Details on the study
Evaluation of the Homogenization Adjustments Applied to European Temperature Records in the Global Historical Climatology Network Dataset
by Peter O’Neill, Ronan Connolly, Michael Connolly, Willie Soon, Barbara Chimani, Marcel Crok, Rob de Vos, Hermann Harde, Peter Kajaba, Peter Nojarov, Rajmund Przybylak, Dubravka Rasol, Oleg Skrynyk, Olesya Skrynyk, Petr Štěpánek, Agnieszka Wypych and Pavel Zahradníček
Atmosphere 2022, 13(2), 285; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13020285, PDF file
A link to the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Studies: https://www.ceres-science.com/
The Terraforming of America by Scott Faulkner
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The Power to Declare War by Dr. Lee Button
Dr. Lee Button explains the power to declare war under the U.S. Constitution. This is from a weekly show that aired in New Hampshire and hosted by the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/shurtleffhal/episodes/2022-01-28T15_15_03-08_00
For information on the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies, please visit their website http://www.nhccs.org
Refuting Left-Wing “Virtue Signaling” Lawn Signs by Darrell Pack
I am disturbed by the evil and dishonesty of these signs. Since they have never in my own knowledge been responded to, I will in the hope that people will not be deceived. Worse, is when you find this in front of a Christian household, a pastor’s household, or even a Church.
In this house, we believe: As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15
Love is Love: Sex is not Love.
No, Love is not Love. The Bible distinguishes types of love. They are communicated through four Greek words (Eros, Storge, Philia, and Agape) and are characterized by romantic love, family love, brotherly love, and God’s divine love. Many Languages have multiple words for Love. In Arabic there are 11. But in the context of this yard sign, it is referring to sex. In particular, it refers to what people do because it feels good. Sex is not love. In fact, not only is it about self-gratification, but it is also often used as violence against others as in the case of Rape. In the last several years, within the midst of this same group of people, there has been a concerted effort to normalize sexual relations between adults and children. This is one of the worst-case examples of false moral equivalency perpetuated by the morally bankrupt people who would display this disgusting sign in their yard.
Black Lives Matter: All Lives Matter in the eyes of the Lord.
Black Lives Matter has become a rallying cry for the Marxist Left. In the words of the founders of BLM, they are trained Marxists., This slogan was created to divide us based on race. This is a group that calls for reparations based on the evils of Slavery, yet most people in America, even at a time when it was prevalent, did not own slaves. Additionally, these same people say and do nothing about the slave trade which is still in existence to this day. While it is impossible to know, according to the Thomas Reuters Foundation, in 2018 there were more than 40 million people in the world in Slavery. These organizations do nothing but undermine a country that outlawed slavery more than 156 years ago.
No Human is Illegal: But their actions often are.
So why is the left so intent on bringing people illegally into the country? Because that is how they support politicians with a socialist agenda. People who believe in Liberty understand that this is a way to break down traditional American values and worse, traditional family values because with people illegally coming across our border are rapists, drug cartels, terrorists, and criminals. They are not here to assimilate. While many people are in search of a better life, this creates a dangerous environment for those innocent people as well. If America is so bad, why are those people taking such great risks to get here? Why is the Left (Socialists and Marxists) trying to change it?
Science is Real :But they do not follow Science.
This is to perpetuate the idea of manmade climate change and false pandemic protections on our nation. It is not science to say that science is settled or prevent proper research and challenges to scientific theory. Yet they silence opposing voices, including some of the top scientists in the world if they disagree with the leftist political organizations. Science is ever-changing and never settled; however, some people will ignore science when it comes to gender. They ask everyone to be accepting of gender dysphoria as if it is a legitimate and sensible point of view. Science says it is a dangerous mental disorder that often leads to suicide even after gender reassignment surgeries and therapies. They attempt to make it illegal to challenge this view, yet they claim science is real. One thing is for sure. Hypocrisy is real. They ignore the science that contradicts the Leftist narrative. Real science is not created by consensus. Consensus is not created by the limited samples of leftist political organizations.
Woman’s Rights are Human Rights Well, Human Rights are Women’s Rights.
Following this logic, a baby in the womb is not human with rights. This is even more hypocritical if the baby aborted is a female. Let’s face it, if we were talking about human trafficking (like what happens at our open borders) conservatives would be in agreement, but considering their position that no person is illegal, this is not what they are talking about. The truth is that this is about abortion. Abortion is inconsistent with Christianity. Psalm 139: 13-16 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful; I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. Perhaps this would be more honest if the sign read abortion is a Human Right. This is actually listed in the UN Charter of human rights. In actuality, that is what this means. Anyone who is properly educated in the origin of rights knows that this cannot be a right because it is exercised at the cost of another individual’s rights. If those on the left were to say exactly what they mean, their ideas would be rejected by most, at least by intellectually honest and thinking people.
Kindness is everything Kindness without truth is not kindness. It is deception.
If you are in Unity but not in Truth, you are united against Christ.
Darrell Pack is the hosts Restore the Intent Constitution Study Group in Alton, NH and is the owner of Lakes Region Cabinet Company.
Don’t Ignore This Warning by Mike Rothfield of Foundation of Applied Conservative Leadership
H. L. Mencken once said, “For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”
Mencken’s words aptly apply to a “Convention of States,” also known as an “Article V Convention,” “Constitutional Convention,” — or as I have known it for 30 years, the “Con Con” — the cure-all hoax to “fix the federal government” that takes root among some grassroots activists every time a Democrat occupies the White House.
It offers the quick fix and masks a danger worse than any Socialist proposal to the Biden or Pelosi agenda.
Promoters of this terrible idea would have you believe the answer to all that ails us is clear — all we have to do is pass new amendments at a Constitutional Convention to limit what the federal government can do.
They’ll tell you this solution is simple, and contrary to the belief of some “fearful” nay-sayers, nothing bad will happen.
First of all, the Constitution already does this… which politicians and courts too often ignore.
How will new “rules” change that? They won’t. If you cannot force change now, (and you CAN… that is what FACL teaches you, but it takes time, effort, and organization) you will not force change then.
Worse, the Con-Con itself will be manned by career politicians (from Red and Blue states) and Leftists (at least from Blue states). Once assembled, they will do as THEY please, not as you or I please. No “rule” will prevent it. History shows again and again that conventions write and rewrite their own rules.
The arguments are so absurd for a Con-Con, I struggle to try to be fair to the sincere but misguided folks who promote the agenda.
If you’re receiving this email, chances are you’ve been actively fighting FOR liberty legislation and AGAINST threats to liberty at the state level for a while now.
So it should be obvious to you that state legislators are at least as big a threat to your liberty as their federal cohorts… if not more so.
One only need examine what the states have done in response to COVID-19 to get a sense of how little they can be trusted with your liberty.
After all, it was Governors — Democrat AND Republican — who forced businesses to close, robbed children of over one year of their lives, and authorized jailing mothers, fathers, grandmothers, and grandfathers for trying to open their businesses so they could pay rent and put food on the table.
And most state legislatures — Democrat AND Republican — refused to do a single thing about it.
Despite that, the “Convention of States Project” would have you believe these very same turncoat state politicians can, and should, be trusted to open up the U.S. Constitution for alterations at a convention.
To be sure, there are some limited-government champions in states across the country.
But they are not in the majority. If they were, you wouldn’t have to work so hard to kill bad bills and pass good ones!
What’s more, these few champions of liberty will likely not even be invited to a convention.
In fact, some states have already made clear their intention to send the very same State House and Senate leadership that you struggle against every legislative session.
Can a convention really be limited?
In recent years, Con-Con promoters have spent millions of dollars from wealthy donors to enlist a team of so-called “experts” to reassure conservatives that a convention will be safe because it will be “limited,” and delegates will be “forced to follow rules” their own state legislators will set.
They go on to insist the rules of the convention itself will bind them down further and will likely follow Mason’s Manual, which is currently used in most states.
This includes Nebraska, where Con-Con operatives recently succeeded in bringing their resolution back from the dead by “suspending the rules” and vote trading.
You see, the resolution was nearly dead in committee, so an attempt was made to usurp the normal process. When that attempt failed to garner the required votes, it was fully dead under the rules.
So the bill sponsor, Republican Senator Steve Halloran, traded some votes and agreed to support some Big Government legislation if opponents of the convention would agree to vote to break the rules and bring his Convention of States resolution back to life.
Yes, the bill sponsor voted to GROW the government so he could maybe one day LIMIT the government — and he broke the rules to do it!
And they were able to do that under Mason’s Manual, the legislative procedure most argue would be used at a convention.
In Kansas, a state which also uses Mason’s Manual, Con-Con politicos have been frustrated by the State Constitution, which requires a voter-ratified two-thirds majority to pass this type of legislation, a threshold they have never been able to achieve.
So Convention of States insiders conspired with the Kansas Senate President, Ty Masterson (also a Republican) — in direct violation of the State Constitution and the will of the people of Kansas — to “deem” the resolution passed if a simple majority was achieved (it wasn’t). This is the same trick-play Nancy Pelosi uses in Washington.
If Convention of States Project political operators and their own hand-picked bill sponsors can’t be trusted to follow the rules, just how can you expect anyone to follow so-called “rules” convened to rewrite the Constitution?
It defies all logic!
What they did in just those two states is a perfect example of the vote trading and rule breaking that will happen if a convention is called and your fundamental rights are on the line.
And it will not be conservatives trading and cheating then… it will be the hard-Left, bankrolled by George Soros and others. In fact, they also fund groups calling for a Con-Con (for Left-wing purposes).
(Mark Meckler founder of Convention of States with Joanne Blades of the Soros funded MoveOn.Org)
Let’s take a look at the Red Fox Four Score on this issue.
*** More money/people: -1
Both sides will raise some money on this issue, but it can (and does) divide liberty activists into opposing camps, leaving support for vital projects that can actually advance liberty or thwart Big Government in the lurch.
The fact is, Convention of States is overwhelmingly funded by a handful of wealthy donors, not grassroots donations. Consistent conservative leaders who oppose the Con-Con risk alienating some of our own donors who, in honest frustration and fear, have been taken in by the Con-Con hype and happy-talk.
*** Help friends: -3
This is where it gets painful. Good legislators who support great causes get wrapped up in these fights, become a danger to liberty, and then can’t be trusted as a bill champion on vital legislation.
And good legislators who do not support the Con-Con are branded as enemies by convention supporters. This further waters-down what was already a very small “champion” universe.
*** Hurt enemies: -5
No liberal has ever lost his or her seat over this issue — this is almost exclusively a fight within the conservative movement. If the Left ever sees the very real opportunity to seize power at a convention, this might change.
And tax-and-spend Republicans love this issue because they can cover up the truth of their liberal voting records by focusing on their support of “limiting” government, and then they don’t have to worry as much about primary election problems.
*** Policy Ratio: -10/0
If it passes: -10. This is speculative, but Congress already tries to openly ignore the Bill of Rights. This gives Big Government lackeys the opening to repeal what they don’t like, edit what suits them, and pass things like packing the courts, ending the electoral college, and installing a Universal Basic Income.
There is no upside to a convention. The dangers of a runaway convention are very real, especially since the media and billionaire Leftists like George Soros WILL be involved.
(Does anyone really believe hard-core Leftists will simply walk away dejected and consider themselves down for the count if a Con-Con is called?)
If it fails, then nothing happens. There is NO upside to this battle for conservatives, except to stop it in order to protect our liberties from frustrated “friends.”
*** SCORE: -19 to -9 — one of the worst scores I have ever seen for a serious proposal.
Whenever Democrats take control of the federal government, going all the way back to President Jimmy Carter, their cries for a convention reach a fever-pitch.
They’ll tell you they don’t support either side in D.C., but then celebrate when Big (federal) Government RINOs like Senators Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio proclaim their support!
There is no doubt that D.C. is broken.
Federal government power has far exceeded its constitutional authority.
But it can’t be fixed by sending a bunch of modern-day politicians to a convention so they can modify (or do away with) our founding document.
The states have allowed the federal government to become the behemoth it is today.
They have done so by accepting Big Government federal “mandates” just so they can get their hands on more federal taxpayer dollars.
States need to get their own houses in order and start fulfilling their own constitutional duties.
They can shrink the federal government — right now — by refusing to accept and spend federal taxpayer dollars on unconstitutional Big Government programs.
To sum up, there is no way to predict what constitutional amendments the delegates to a convention might adopt.
The only Constitutional Convention in U.S. history — in 1787 — went far beyond its mandate. Charged with amending the Articles of Confederation to promote trade among the states, the convention instead wrote an entirely new governing document. A convention held today could set its own agenda too.
Now, if America’s leaders looked like Washington, Madison or Henry, maybe, maybe it might be OK (though even Patrick Henry opposed the final product, even AFTER the Bill of Rights was added).
But as the late Supreme Court Justice Warren E. Burger said, “[T]here is no way to effectively limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention. The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda. Congress might try to limit the Convention to one amendment or one issue, but there is no way to assure that the Convention would obey. After a Convention is convened, it will be too late to stop the Convention if we don’t like its agenda.”
It is past time for this harebrained scheme to die and for all limited-government advocates to band together and clean up their own local and state governments.
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