No kidding. Sweden announced Nord Stream 2 was attacked. Obviously, there was an explosion, and obviously, that explosion was sabotage.

What is most remarkable is the unified reaction of the United States of America civilian, military and intelligence services leadership. For six years now everything bad that happens in the world is blamed on Russia. This incident is no different.

The preponderance of this propaganda leads one to believe the Democratic Party is living in the midst of the Cold War, and official Washington wants war with Russia. In fact, official Washington is openly talking about direct U.S. conflict with Russia.

A new months ago, President Joe Biden said he “would end” Nord Stream 2 if Putin invaded Ukraine. He said we would “make it happen.” So when the big bang happened beneath the sea, it was all “Russia, Russia, Russia.”

Former CIA Director John Brennan said so. Former Gen. David Petraeus said so. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said so. Petraeus went so far as to game out how the United States could sink the Russian Black Sea fleet in retaliation for the use of tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. A pipeline in the Baltic Sea became the catalyst for tactical nuclear strikes and war in the Black Sea. Please explain.

For his part, virtually every word Joe Biden has spoken since Russia started moving military assets toward Ukraine has been provocative, insulting and dangerous. The weak and mentally incompetent president has bluffed his way through decades of his Senate occupation and now retreats to his “behind the gym” approach to deal with Vladimir Putin.

The general U.S. response has been madness. The America public is told by the Washington leadership and the media that Russia blew up its own pipeline for some nefarious reason. No one in a leadership position that matters has suggested Russia could have simply refused to sell oil to northwestern Europe and keep its pipeline investment intact. An obvious alternative would be to simply close the valves, also keeping its pipeline intact. Why damage what you just paid to create?

Since Russia is not an economic power, and since Russia depends upon the revenue from the sale of hydrocarbon fuels, how could it possibly be in its own interest to destroy its economic cash cow?

Before Biden, the U.S. was an energy exporter capable of providing lifesaving hydrocarbon fuels to Germany in such a crisis. Biden took care of that strength on day one.

Clearly, Russia does not gain from the attack upon its pipeline. Equally clear, then, is the reality that the Biden administration leadership is lying to the American people.

Why? What is the motive?

The Germans and their neighbors in Europe face a winter without adequate electrical power.

As noted, the Russians lose vital economic income from the sale of natural gas.

Consider the fact Joe Biden, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and the entire Democratic Party have made clear their goal is to eliminate all carbon emission sources as soon as possible. Mandates are being issued almost daily, from the elimination of gasoline engines to the rebuilding of entire cities with the singular purpose of achieving energy efficiency.

Driven by fear of carbon, which is the most common element on Earth, the climate change cultists are willing to restrict the growing of food to feed 8 billion people. The climate cult changes to agricultural practices would leave half that population of 8 billion without food. Only a cult would advocate starving 4 billion people to save humanity.

Climate change is characterized by these people as an “existential threat” to humanity and that, in their tiny, malfunctioning minds, means everything must be done yesterday to save the world.

Obviously, the destruction of much of Europe’s hydrocarbon supply is a major benefit to the carbon alarmists and the climate cultists. The loss of Nord Stream 2 is as big as Joe Biden’s abandonment of the Keystone pipeline and the multitude of federal regulations to block oil and natural gas production in the United States.

Worldwide, socialist leaders are promoting climate control “solutions” with one thing in common: Each would require massive political consolidation.

For starters, we can no longer have nations. Independent nations might opt for expensive hydrocarbon fuels. So there must be a world government and that world government must be able to impose uniform solutions. We would not take a vote on “existential threat” solutions.

Occasionally, major international events have more than one purpose. In this case, the orchestrated U.S. response to Nord Stream has been to blame Russia and talk up nuclear war.

What would a nuclear war mean to humanity? Chaos. Chaos on a scale that required a worldwide response, done on a crisis schedule, without the niceties of discussion, public consideration, voting, or nations. The solutions would be akin to the restrictions during the international test case imposed upon society during COVID. Do what you are told by government authority to do, or else. You must surrender all your personal freedoms guaranteed by God or you will be driven out into the desert and left to die.

Socialists throughout the world have been writing about and talking about the necessity of eliminating nations since the end of World War II. After eight decades of advocacy, planning, rewriting of history, and the destruction of social order based upon morality and individual achievement, we may have reached the climax. Joe Biden uses the one-world euphemism “transition.” He means a transition from national government to world control.

The destruction of Nord Stream 2 and Joe Biden’s prediction it would be destroyed by the United States are not accidents.

Whenever someone attempts to examine the actions of leaders, those leaders and their companies do not debate, or reason together. They instead dismiss the entire subject as a “conspiracy theory” or its contemporary equivalent, “misinformation” or “Russian disinformation.”

That dismissal is both insulting, and “disinformation.”

Fact: The people of Russia and the people of northwestern Europe do not benefit from the destruction of Nord Stream 2. The resulting chaos only benefits those people pursuing a “transition” agenda.

© 2022 WND Mike Pottage-All rights reserved.

China claims the existence of the state-controlled Three Self churches demonstrates its tolerance of Christianity, but the communist government wants all other Christian congregations to disappear, warns International Christian Concern, which assists persecuted Christians around the world.

Gina Goh of ICC writes that like Thanos in Marvel’s “Avengers” movies, the Communist Party would like to snap its fingers and make a huge portion of the population disappear.

The Chinese Communist Party reported in 2018 that China has 40 million Christians. But Goh says that because of “the discrete nature of underground churches, some experts believe that the actual number of Christians falls between 80 million and 100 million.”

That concerns Beijing, she said.

For one thing, the CCP has only about 89 million members.

“Your Party is your God versus one loving and just God, Sino-centrism versus ‘evil foreign influence,’ and socialism versus universal principles,” she writes.

The CCP “cannot afford to see its regime threatened by any mass of people it feels like it cannot control.”

Even if there’s no plan for revolution.

Last month, the government launched a new campaign against house churches called “Return to Zero.”

Its goal is to dissolve any churches not “sponsored” by the government under President Xi, who has targeted Christians in underground churches with threats and torture.

The CCP’s Central Committee has appointed a “Central Leading Group for Inspection Work” to coordinate the attacks.

The plans include absorbing house churches into Three-Self churches.

Already, government agents have gone to many house churches and warned they will be prevented from gathering unless they join the state church.

“For those large networks of house churches, the government’s attitude is to firmly strike and destroy them,” a Chinese source told ICC.

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President Donald Trump has decided to cease cooperating with what he sees, not incorrectly, as a Beltway conspiracy that is out to destroy him.

“We’re fighting all the subpoenas,” Trump said Wednesday. “These aren’t, like, impartial people. The Democrats are out to win in 2020.”

Thus the Treasury Department just breezed by a deadline from the House Ways and Means Committee to deliver Trump’s tax returns.

Thus the White House will invoke executive privilege to deny the House Judiciary Committee access to ex-White House Counsel Don McGahn, who spent 30 hours being interrogated by Robert Mueller’s team.

Thus the Justice Department is withholding from the Oversight Committee subpoenaed documents dealing with the decision to include a question on the 2020 Census about citizenship status.

Across the capital, the barricades are going up figuratively as they did physically in the 1960s and ’70s. Once more, it’s us against them.

Cognizant of the new reality, Trump seems to be saying:

These House investigations constitute a massive political assault, in collusion with a hostile media, to destroy my presidency.

We do not intend to cooperate in our own destruction. We are not going to play our assigned role in this scripted farce. We will resist their subpoenas all the way to November 2020. Let the people then decide the fate and future of the Trump presidency – and that of Nancy Pelosi’s House.

In response to Trump’s resort to massive resistance, Rep. Gerald Connolly said: “A respect for the limits of your branch of government, a respect for the role of other branches of government, is sort of the oil that makes the machinery work. … Absent that this breaks down. And I think we’re definitely seeing that.”

Connolly is not wrong. But the requisite mutual respect between the Democratic House and the Republican White House simply does not exist. It broke down a long time ago.

The campaign of 2020 is on. And the stakes are huge. Not only are the first and second branches of government in play, so, too, is the third, the Supreme Court. Many Democrats, refusing to accept the success of the 50-year conservative long march to capture the court, are determined to pack an expanded court with liberal justices to overturn the conservatives’ victory.

With Republicans having won two presidential elections in 20 years with fewer popular votes, Democrats are also resolved to rewrite the Constitution and abolish the Electoral College.

Not only ex-convicts but felons in prison must now be allowed to vote, says Bernie Sanders, even if that means the Boston Marathon bomber.

Under the Sanders reform, if someone murders you, he is still entitled to an absentee ballot. The right to vote is apparently more sacred than the right to life. Truly, this is the divination of democracy.

Trump’s defiance of House subpoenas will fire up his base, which sees the world as he does and has never cottoned to what President Gerald Ford cherished as “the politics of compromise and consensus.”

Whatever may be said about the “deplorables,” they are not obtuse. They do not believe that people who call them racists, sexists, nativists and bigots are friends and merely colleagues of another party or persuasion.

Trump’s defiance of subpoenas, however, will force the more moderate Democrats to join the militants in calling for hearings on impeachment in the House Judiciary Committee, which is where we are headed.

The media are already salivating over the possible removal of a president they have come to loathe more than their great nemeses of the 20th century – Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon.

And the media will reward those who echo the call for impeachment.

This week, two more Democrats running for president, including Sen. Kamala Harris, came aboard. Soon, the House will capitulate to the clamor and the stampede will be on.

The problem for Democrats?

Attempting to overturn the election of 2016 and remove a president who has the passionate support of a third of the nation will sunder the Democratic Party base as surely as it will unite the Republicans.

Should impeachment succeed, a wound would be inflicted on the American body politic that would take years to heal.

In the longer run, however, the question being raised today goes to the long-term health of the republic itself.

America surely does not lack for diversity. Its diversity – racial, religious, cultural, ethnic, ideological, political – is visible and ever-growing. What is missing is the concomitant of unity.

Moreover, it is the more racially, culturally, religiously, ethnically and ideologically diverse of the parties, the Democrats, that seems the more splintered than a Republican Party that is supposed to be afflicted with the incurable and fatal disease of Trumpism.

The questions raised by the present state of our politics, which might fairly be described as an American civil war without arms, are these: How does a nation so divided stand united in the world?

And if it cannot stand united in the world, how long does it remain a great nation?

Copyright © 2019 Patrick J. Buchanan WND-All rights reserved.

Those words were Ernest Hemingway’s response to a question of what the most compelling story he could write in six words would be. Yes, many thoughts can be brought to my mind at those six words, but I think I am archaic and old-fashioned, living longer than I would like, in a world I hardly recognize – and I am only 60.

I am sickened by the daily parade of wickedness that has taken over the hearts and spirits of much of this country, if not the world. I am ashamed to be governed by representatives, such as Gov. (Dr.) Ralph Northam, D-Va., and those like him who can tolerate the infanticide.

States that already have liberal exceptions for the murder of the unborn, and even newborn infants, and others considering the same “rights” stand and cheer for death. It’s surreal. Now the United States Senate has defeated a bill protecting live-born aborted babies.

It seems such a short time ago. 1973. I was a freshman in an all-girls Catholic high school in Maryland. Those were the ’70s, free love, rock ‘n’ roll. We were no strangers to Planned Parenthood.

They did provide us with birth control pills without the knowledge of our parents. Interestingly, the clinic was in a poor area downtown, making it a bit more difficult for the girls in my sphere to access. (We know now that Margaret Sanger, the mother of Planned Parenthood, had intended abortions to be easily accessible primarily to blacks to limit the births of black children.)

I had friends who had abortions during those years. One girl had several. I heard that after she married she was never able to get pregnant, and I often wonder if she thought of those babies she might have held.

These were never planned pregnancies. Frightened girls were assured it was a simple procedure. Just a few hours. You go on with your life. The story back then was the cells could not feel pain; it was just tissue, like a cyst.

Then, in 1984, the movie “The Silent Scream” came out and was shoved out of the public view as fast as it possibly could be. No internet then. Those who saw it, never forgot. You watched the ultrasound as the fetus backed away from the suction tube, tried to hide, tried to scream. Horrifying.

No one ever wanted to see the pictures of aborted infants. The media would not show them. There’s a reason for that. It is sickening to see tiny, bloody arms and legs, torso, head. Then of course there’s a reason for the uproar against ultrasounds prior to abortion – again, it is hard to deny your own eyes and ears. Hear the heart beating, see a tiny baby, very much alive. A tiny person in every sense of the word.

Choosing to abort after viewing an ultrasound is every bit premeditated murder. There is the saying “Every abortion stops a beating heart.” So we can understand why the proponents of abortion want women to remain ignorant. There is money to be made. So even with the knowledge that the unborn can feel pain, and their organs can be harvested for financial gain, our wicked representatives declare it is a “woman’s right”! What about the female infant? What of her rights?

We are speeding down the slippery slope. Now we are at the point where a (pediatrician) politician (Dr. Northam) has no problem with abortion at any month, and is actually recorded in a radio interview declaring he is OK with killing a newborn, likely squirming, crying, cold and shocked by the strange bright new world it has just entered from the warmth and darkness of his mother’s womb.

A full-term birth, something Dr. Northam had undoubtedly witnessed many times, makes it all the worse. And now, those with voices, such as his, decide whether the child lives or dies. What if the newborn could speak, rather than cry? What if the infant could say, “Let me live!”

What then would these masters of the universe (the girl/woman and the doctor) decide? What is the verdict? Life or death? At this point, I am sure New York is considering the release of Kermit Gosnell, abortionist, convicted of murdering aborted live infants. Acquit him? Give him a license and let him get back to work?

I cannot keep quiet. How can this be? What person in his or her right mind cannot be tortured by the very thought of such an act? Have we grown so cold and callous that this is meaningless? If that be true, all life is meaningless, worthless for many.

We are like the beasts, perishing. And for the most part, that seems to be what we are witnessing in the world today. Yet, let’s not forget the pleas for the beasts! Even dogs and cats are given more consideration, as we are bombarded with constant reminders and request for donations to help the plight of animals at the hands of cruel, heartless humans.

There are those who would fight to keep a cat alive and yet encourage the abortion of a human infant. Supposedly, that which separates mankind from animals is the conscience and sense of morality. Very few animals kill their own young. Think about that.

There was a movie in 1973, “Soylent Green,” which portrayed a future wherein those over a certain age were mandated by the authorities to check in at a planned death clinic to be euthanized. There were very few jobs, and the people were dependent on food doled out by the authorities called “soylent green.” It’s campy, but worth a watch, starring Charlton Heston with Edward G. Robinson (in his last role).

But looking at society today, what happens, what is the consequence, when an entire generation of people, a taxpaying workforce, is missing from a nation? For 60,000,000-plus babies have been killed by abortion since 1973.

It makes it easier to see what’s coming: the fully accepted legal practice of (assisted) suicide and eventually, forced euthanasia of those deemed elderly and/or disabled by the ruling class.

Things are going to get much worse. I don’t see this ship turning around. If you agree, now would be the perfect time to seek the LORD.

For whoever finds me, finds life,
And obtains favor from the LORD;
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul;
All those who hate me love death. (Psalm 8:35-36)

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” (Psalm 53:1)

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah 5:20)

Karyn Rochford lives in southern Virginia and has had numerous editorials and opinion articles published by local newspapers and internet news outlets. She self-published “Lessons In The Garden” in 2014.

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Scripture tells us, “… if a man is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore such a one in the spirit of meekness, watching yourselves, lest you also be tempted” (Galatians 6:1).

Mario Cuomo, governor of New York, recently celebrated and signed into law the radical “Reproductive Health Act” he promoted with Hillary Clinton. This allows full-term, unborn babies to be aborted by even non-doctors for any reason up until the moment of birth. Totally viable, developed children in the birth canal face the death penalty, although New York prohibits it for criminals, while doctors and nurses who refuse to do abortions now find their jobs in jeopardy.

Mr. Cuomo, a “Catholic,” lives with a woman outside of marriage and is endorsing sinful, barbaric behavior contrary to biblical teaching and upheld by authentic Christians and people of other religions worldwide, in addition to being expressly prohibited by the Roman Catholic Church.

Regardless of motivation or manipulation, he’s involved in grievous transgression, needs prayer and someone to restore him to moral sanity. To think that baby boys and girls 7, 8 and 9 pounds delivered early, cooing and crying can be exterminated or simply abandoned on a table to die is an incomprehensible injustice.

My Manipulated Friend

My wife and I have had a very dear friend of decades who was manipulated and caught in this same area of serious deception. Because the time of passive Christianity – when pastors and people aren’t “salt and light” as Jesus directed but instead sit on the sidelines, silent on moral issues – must end, I asked Corrine if we could share her story to help educate and awaken multitudes. What follows is her experience in her own words.

I was raised in a large, church-attending family, but at an early age I began resisting parental and church guidance. Being raped at age 12 preceded three years of teenage rape by my employer. These sad events coupled with my promiscuous lifestyle resulted in my having five abortions, three performed illegally at what I was told were women’s “health care clinics.”

I was taught that abortion was wrong, but I rationalized that “If abortion is legal, then it must be OK.” The abortions resulted in depression and a feeble suicide attempt as my conscience bothered me, but not enough to avoid the widely available procedure. Many girls I knew or met in the clinics, like me, were using abortion as a form of birth control.

The counseling and procedures were the same in each abortion clinic where girls who had prior abortions talked about them as insignificant. We were given birth control pills after the procedure, which promoted more promiscuity. While demonstrating the procedure on a plastic model of an empty uterus, the preborn baby was described as “tissue” or like a “blood clot being removed.” “It’s like having a wart removed! Here today, gone tomorrow.

I hemorrhaged after one abortion and, if I had gone home, I would have died. Before the fifth abortion at 11-weeks, in an attempt to quell my nagging conscience, I asked if I could see the “tissue” when finished. The personnel looked at each other quizzically, then complied with my request.

After the abortion, the nurse approached me with gauze in her hand. “See, it’s only tissue!” Lifting my head, I peered into her palm and underneath the small blood clots I noticed what looked like tiny fish bones. Pointing to them I asked her what they were, and she quickly folded the gauze, saying abruptly, “Oh, probably just an early formation of a rib cage” before pitching the blood-spattered gauze into the trashcan.

My soon-to-be husband Rick and I met each other in the waiting room where I tearfully lamented, “I saw ribs! I saw our baby’s ribs!” I withdrew emotionally for hours that turned into days. The image of our child’s tiny rib cage confronted me with the truth about what we had done, and it haunted me perpetually.

Thank God for people who faithfully share the Gospel! A few months later, Rick and I responded to the Good News, repented of our sins and accepted God’s merciful gift of forgiveness to start a new life in Christ. There still were residual effects of what I had done, and when people mentioned abortion, the pain resurfaced.

Rick and I were married in a Christian church. Pregnancy eluded us, which was a painful reality. My doctor expressed serious doubt that I could conceive and stated that if I did, I would most likely miscarry due to the scar tissue and other related issues.

Then one day while reading my Bible I came upon the story of Abraham’s wife, Sarah, who at age 90 miraculously conceived Isaac! After a church service I asked my pastor to pray that I would be healed of infertility from the abortions. He compassionately inquired of how many abortions, and I painfully admitted “Five.”

This pastor counseled me regarding God’s mercy, and we prayed together that God would heal me and free me from ongoing guilt and pain. Thanks be to God because that same evening, Rick and I conceived our first son!

Still struggling with remorse at times, I wondered what my aborted children would’ve looked like and what they could’ve become. Guarding my thoughts, meditating on Scriptures and studying factual pro-life literature provided to me, God guided me in the healing process.

The truth would come out about the clinics that lied to me and to scores of naïve and desperate girls and women. The deception, prior to seeing these truths, preceded a second time of my near death, if it had it not been for God’s miraculous intervention.

Once while driving, blinded by tears and a cloudy mind, thoughts of despair and hopelessness brought me to a point of considering plowing into a large trash dumpster on the road. Just before it happened, I sensed a still small voice say to me, “Are you going to kill another one?” I knew this was the Lord’s voice reminding me that I was pregnant with my third child!

On our journey, Rick and I have experienced ongoing revelation of God’s love, mercy and grace. We’ve also been blessed beyond measure with not just one … two … three … four … five … six … but seven children as gifts from God after experiencing the loss of our little ones prior to our growing family!

As our longtime friend and pastoral guide Larry Tomczak says, “Here’s the deal”: The most repeated verse in all the Bible, stated 26 times in Psalm 136 alone, “His mercy endures forever.”

We’ve experienced His grace in a phenomenal way and encourage everyone to believe it and join with millions awakening to the abomination of abortion-on-demand that must once and for all be stopped in our generation.

Abortion is a money-making enterprise for Planned Parenthood and those involved. The tragic reality that our taxpayer money is channeled to them in subterfuge is a national disgrace and abomination before God.

We should all be grateful to God and support with our prayers and finances crisis pregnancy centers, adoption and those raising money to adopt; along with voting only for politicians who uphold the sanctity of human life. No matter how clever abortion marketing and deceptive terminology, the abortion industry continues to foster the genocide of generations.

May we be intentional in looking for and steering those pondering abortion to crisis pregnancy centers with compassionate servants spreading Christ’s message and Corrine’s to rescue multitudes.

Copyright © 2018 Larry Tomczak WND-All rights reserved.

Every time a tragic shooting happens, it takes about five minutes for renewed cries of “Gun control!” to come echoing down the line. The loudest cries come when the softest targets are hit – most poignantly schools, which are notoriously gun-free zones and therefore attractive to nutcase criminals.

After the horrific school massacre in Parkland, Florida last February, a reader sent me a link to an essay entitled “What did we think was going to happen?”

The author of this piece (who calls himself “El Borak”) essentially argues school shootings will never end. Not because guns are too available; not because teachers aren’t armed; not because Trump is in office. No, shootings will continue because there’s nothing to stop them. There are no longer any social barriers to control behavior.

“We purposely tore down every protective social wall that humanity spent the previous five millennia constructing,” notes El Borak. “No one ever thought to ask why they were constructed in the first place. Because no one ever thought.”

Point by point, this writer highlights the old-fashioned fuddy-duddy ideals leftists so eagerly dismantled – and what happens as a result:

We built a culture that promotes confusion. We tore down all barriers related to morality, especially sexual morality. We started with serial monogamy and hookup culture and moved right into married gays and bent genders. Now after 12 years of sex education our kids don’t even know what sex they are. We purposely tore down every protective social wall that humanity spent the previous five millennia constructing. No one ever thought to ask why they were constructed in the first place.

Because no one ever thought. We built a culture that promotes unresolvable interpersonal conflict. No more are we one nation under God; we are not under God at all, nor are we a nation. We are but intersectionalities of aggrieved classes, competing for the most oppression points by demonizing our fellow citizens for the original sin of being born white or male or straight or with two legs. We have set an entire generation against itself with manufactured claims of oppression. Did we truly not think that some of them would take up arms against the others or that a few would seek to destroy the many? We did not think at all.

El Borak points out the generation of “angry, bitter, drug-addled, under-developed aspiring rappers who don’t know who they are and never learned how to deal with life’s most common setbacks” that resulted from the progressive desire to eradicate those old-fashioned fuddy-duddy morals that once underpinned our nation.

Yes, the whole column is well-written, and I urge you to read it in its entirety; but one thing in particular caught my eye. In offering personal (as opposed to societal) solutions to raising kids who aren’t “angry, bitter, drug-addled, under-developed aspiring rappers,” he states: “Homeschool or die.”

The inflexibility of this startled me. Homeschool or die? I mean, you’ll never find a bigger supporter of homeschooling than yours truly – but “homeschool or die”? That seems a bit extreme.

But El Borak doesn’t see it that way. “Homeschool or die,” he states. “I don’t want to hear why you can’t do it. In three decades as a homeschooling parent, I’ve heard your excuse. Either it’s important enough to you that you work through your roadblocks, or it’s not. Your choice.”

There are many people who lament the homeschooling trend, arguing we can better fix schools by getting involved rather than withdrawing. To this I counter: Twelve years (the years your kids are in school) will pass in a flash. You can spend those 12 years battering your head against the brick wall, futilely arguing for change. Or, you can simply keep your kids home and educate them yourself – not just with the academics they need, but with the moral compass that is necessary for adults to function in society. Let’s face it, most homeschooled kids do not turn out as “angry, bitter, drug-addled, under-developed aspiring rappers.” They become leaders.

Parents who are committed enough to homeschool usually emphasize personal responsibility and accountability – and this is the lack which is turning society on its head. Most people put the dearth of accountability firmly in the camp of liberals.

“The final failure of accountability for the left is a failure of moral organization, while for the right it is a failure of personal character,” notes Daniel Greenfield in an essay called “Gun Control, Thought Control, and People Control.” He continues, “The right asks, ‘Why did you kill?’ The left asks, ‘Who let him have a gun?’, ‘Who didn’t provide him with a job’ and ‘Who neglected his self-esteem?’ … The only possible answer to reactive behavior is to find the thing being reacted to and condemn it.” (Emphasis added).

Greenfield continues: “This is the society that the left is creating, a place filled with as many social problems as there are people, where everyone is a lab monkey except the experts running the experiments, and where no one has any rights because freedom is the enemy of a system whose moral code derives from creating a perfect society by replacing the individual with the mass. It is a society where there is no accountability, only constant compulsion. It is a society where you are a social problem and there are highly paid experts working day and night to figure out how to solve you.”

Now we learn that Common Core, forcibly implemented nine years ago in public schools with promises to improve student achievement, has proven to be a wildly expensive scam and a failure. Or wait, maybe it wasn’t a failure after all. If the goal was to produce stupid, brainwashed students who would unthinkingly vote the straight socialist ticket, then it’s been a brilliant success.

And progressive lawmakers still try to paint homeschoolers as child abusers since, of course, parents must only be interested in hiding the bruises, right? Predictably, California is taking the lead in this attitude, with attempted legislation that would require home visits, interviews and other government oversight.

No one will ever admit the obvious: Homeschooling parents are raising children who will lead our nation, not destroy it. Why is this obvious? Because while everyone else’s kids are wandering around aimlessly, lost and confused, homeshooled kids were taught using a map and a compass.

Homeschool or die? Maybe this guy is onto something.

Copyright © 2018 Patrice Lewis WND–All rights reserved.

The Aging, Sagging Fruits of Feminism

Patrice Lewis shares lament from single woman longing for life’s milestones

Ain’t feminism great? It’s opened so many doors for women. No longer held back by the male patriarchy, women are free to compete in the most cut-throat professions, to seek the most prestigious careers, to run for the highest political offices. Women today are far more educated, well-read, erudite and independent than their sad, sorry sisters of 50 years ago. Wonderful, isn’t it?

Feminists got what they wanted, but – and I know this comes as a shocking surprise – they aren’t happy.

Yet happiness, according to many progressive sources, was never a goal of feminism. Instead, feminism is meant to increase women’s “control, self-respect and privacy” and construct women as “healthy, independent and assertive.” Some saw women’s liberation as an “oppressed people raising their consciousness toward something that is the other side of anger, something bright and smooth and cool.” Feminism allows women to reach their “full potential.”

Dismissing as flawed a 2006 study that determined a “traditional” model (with primary male breadwinner) made women happier, Pamela Haag noted in the Huffington Post: “But, more to the point, the [study’s] headlines blame feminism for not achieving a goal that wasn’t feminism’s to begin with. It’s like saying pole vaulting has failed to solve the health-care crisis.”

And there you have it, folks. Feminism was never meant to make women happy!

I supposed this is good, because feminists sure aren’t (happy, that is). They got what they wanted – independence – and it appears they don’t like it. They remain bitter, vitriolic, angry, hostile and “insane” (that adjective was my husband’s contribution).

They have figuratively and literally divorced themselves from the benchmarks of womanhood: Husband, children, domesticity, hearth, home. They chose instead to concentrate on their education, their careers, and their eternal and imaginary fight against male dominance.

But once in a while, the façade of unified “sisterhood against the patriarchy” cracks, and a glimpse of naked raw emotion oozes out.

Consider this heartbreaking essay by a feminist named Aimée Lutkin entitled “When Can I Say I’ll Be Alone Forever?” in which she mourns her “strange single purgatory”:

I don’t know that it really matters why I’m single, nor am I particularly interested in the eternal back and forth over who has it better: couples, singles, the hardworking polyamorous – we all suffer and benefit from our respective situations. … Looking ahead, if I really am riding this train to the end of the tracks, I don’t see any of the grand events in my future that help ground and timeline human existence, the events being in love provides. After my best friend got married she told me she cried all the next day, overwhelmed by the outpouring of affection from everyone she knew. She deserves it all, but years later, still single, I’ve realized that there will be no similar ceremonious acknowledgment of my life or my relationships with friends and family. Until I’m dead, I guess, but that won’t be very fun for me. Anchoring my existence without the signposts of commitment, or children, is a lot of work, and sometimes I feel myself giving up on it, drifting off into a gray directionless space in danger of floating completely away.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but this strikes me as a lament for the very things feminists purport to be against: the warmth of domesticity, the love of a good man, the legacy of children.

“It’s obviously not a ‘good life,’ as Aimée is miserable,” notes Lee Jackson with deadly precision.

The feminist worldview she still espouses and advocates for is leading her to the grave lonely and childless. Marriage and children are indeed ‘anchors’ of existence, giving meaning, purpose and focus outside one’s own thoughts. She instinctively knows what she’s missing, yet cannot find it. Keep your daughters from the poison of feminism so they don’t end up in the same state as Miss Lutkin. Your progressive worldview will never love and cherish you, no matter how committed you may be to it. It will never hug your leg tightly and say ‘I love you, mommy.’ It won’t be there to hold your hand in your old age. The fruits of feminism are loneliness, bitterness and a lasting heartache that Merlot and cats can never fill.

So what happens when a feminist ages?

Many of us fondly remember the sagging cheeks and silver hair of our grandmother. She baked us treats, read us stories on her lap, lavished us with affection and kissed us goodnight in the guest bed on those cozy sleepovers when Mom and Dad went off on a special overnight trip.

But elderly feminists – if they’ve stayed pure to the ideal that women need men like fish need bicycles – have no such reputation. Their sagging cheeks and silver hair frames a bitter mouth and angry eyes. They’ll somehow blame the “patriarchy” for their lifetime of spinsterish solitude, while envying the younger feminists who are out marching the streets for free abortions. But they can’t join the march because they can’t move fast enough with their walkers, particularly so soon after their hip replacement.

So they’ll stay home and stew, lamenting the fact that no one remembers or respects their sacrifices while still bitterly lambasting the traditionalist women turncoats who are honored and loved and cared for by their families and children.

But who cares? With a lifetime of sisterhood under their belts, these aging feminists can take solace in their supposed solidarity. Arguing against the need for happiness as an outcome of feminism, Pamela Haag concludes: “I pull out Gloria Steinem’s 1973 essay, ‘Sisterhood,’ from my private archive. She wrote, ‘I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.’ Cool. That beats happy any day.”

Have at, sister. I’m glad you found what you were looking for.

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Ted Malloch has served on the executive board of the World Economic Forum. He’s held an ambassador-level post in the United Nations. He’s worked in international capital markets on Wall Street and held a senior position in the U.S. State Department.

So he understands globalism because he used to live and work among globalists. And during a recent appearance on The Alex Jones Show, he shed some light on how globalists operate.

“To some degree, I would say if you want to understand globalism, you need to get at the spiritual bearings, the spiritual underlying currents in globalism, which is not only relativistic, but it’s a divorce, a great divorce, from religion and from any notion that there is a God who exists or that you can know Him personally,” explained Malloch, author of “Davos, Aspen, and Yale: My Life Behind the Elite Curtain as a Global Sherpa.”

Noting the low percentage of western Europeans who follow any religious tradition anymore, he added, “They would like to move the rest of the world away from their traditional bearings, from their traditional cultures, from their traditional scriptures.”

The goal is to replace those traditions with whatever the globalists want people to believe.

“Who will be in charge then? Unelected bureaucrats who we call ‘experts’ – really aren’t that expert – who pull over on the rest of the population what they want to do,” Malloch said.

“And there’s no democracy left in the end, there’s no faith left in the end. There’s just one gray monolithic state.”

People are mistaken if they believe globalists want more diversity, according to Malloch. After all, if they liked diversity, they would embrace the differences between European countries. But they only want to homogenize Europe and make it “one color of gray,” in Malloch’s words.

The former globalist insider believes it’s important to teach schoolchildren about Western civilization, lest its memory be submerged.

“In the case of Europe, they’ve actually lost touch with their foundational ethos, their entire cultural ethos, the foundations of Western civilization, which is actually Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian,” he lamented. “They’ve lost it….

“It’s the place where all innovation has been centered, where technology started, where we had the basis of economics, the foundation of law – all of these things were rooted in that Western culture, and we want to just wash our hands of it.”

Not only do globalists want to attack the pillars of Western civilization, but they are “radically against the family,” according to Malloch.

“There are now 17 leaders of European countries and the EU who have no children,” he revealed. “What does that tell you?”

However, Malloch sees hope on the horizon as nationalistic movements sprout up all across Europe.

“I think we see this movement in Europe now,” he said. “It’s very strong in eastern Europe, it’s obviously very strong in Britain. There are elements in every single European country. I think the European elections are proving this, will prove it next year in Italy. All these countries are moving back to their own nationhood…. The world is moving away from this New World Order back to an order that has more to do with states and has to do with national localities.”

Of course, Donald Trump’s election to the U.S. presidency signaled that many Americans were also tired of globalism and ready to return to America-first nationalism. Malloch explained the full meaning and implications of Trump’s historic victory in his book “Hired: An Insider’s Look at the Trump Victory.”

Malloch believes the world will shift even more radically towards nationalism in Trump’s eight years in office – and yes, he believes Trump will serve eight years.

“The whole world is changing to realign with the presidency of Donald Trump…. I think we’re in a new morning for America, but it’s going to be a bumpy ride, and the rest of the world is going to have to learn to live with President Trump.”

However, the globalists are not going down without a fight, Malloch warned. They are still major players on the world stage, with vast resources at their disposal. Malloch expects them to try to work through international organizations to achieve their goals, but given that Trump has pulled the U.S. out of many of these institutions, Malloch is hopeful the organizations will be defunded and delegitimized.

Nevertheless, the battle between globalism and national sovereignty will rage on, with no real end in sight.

This is an ongoing battle; this is something that’s going to last our lifetimes,” he said. “It’s not a short-term episode, so we have to be prepared to do that.”

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During a period in church history from A.D. 100 to 314, literally thousands and thousands of courageous Christian men, women and even children sealed their fate with their blood.

Secular historians agree that there were 10 great persecutions against the church, 10 major attempts to wipe out Christianity, starting with the wicked Caesar Nero and ending with Diocletian. Believers were fed alive to wild animals. They were taken to Roman arenas for sport. They were torn apart. They were tortured. They were burned at the stake.

Diocletian thought he was so successful in obliterating Christianity from the face of the earth that he actually had a special medal struck, which was inscribed with these words: “The Christian religion is destroyed and the worship of the [Roman] gods restored.” Needless to say, Diocletian was wrong. Instead of becoming weaker during this time of persecution, the church actually grew stronger. Instead of being destroyed, it became a lean, mean preaching machine. Persecution can have that effect.

In a way, persecution will separate the genuine from the fake. If you are a true follower of Jesus, you won’t back down if a little persecution comes your way. And if God allows it in your life, he will give you the strength to face it.

History tells us of a great hero of the Christian faith, Polycarp, who was the pastor of the church in Smyrna. He was martyred on Saturday, Feb. 23, A.D. 155. The public games were taking place, and the city was overrun with people. The crowds were whipped into a frenzy, and someone cried out, “Let Polycarp be searched for!”

Knowing this, Polycarp could have easily escaped, but he had a dream the night before in which he saw the pillow under his head on fire. When they came and arrested him, he asked for the privilege of having a final hour to spend with the Lord in prayer.

When Polycarp entered the Roman arena, God spoke to his heart and said, “Be strong, Polycarp, and play the man.” The Roman proconsul gave him a choice: either curse the name of Christ and make a sacrifice to Caesar, or die.

Polycarp said, “For eighty and six years have I been his servant, and he has done me no wrong, and how can I blaspheme my King who has saved me?”

The proconsul threatened him with being burned at the stake, and Polycarp replied, “You threaten with the fire which burns for a time, and is quickly quenched, for you do not know the fire which awaits the wicked in the judgment to come and in everlasting punishment. But why are you waiting? Come, do what you will.”

The crowds went crazy, pouring in with firewood and kindling. They wanted to nail Polycarp to the stake because they were afraid he would flee.

Polycarp said, “Let me alone as I am: for He who has given me strength to endure the fire will also enable me, without your securing me by nails, to stand without moving in the pile.” There Polycarp stood as they set the wood around him on fire. Amazingly, the fire did not harm him. It came right up to him and would not burn him. He sang praises to God. Finally they couldn’t take it anymore, and they thrust him through with spears.

That is called persecution. That is called courage.

You may think, “I could never do anything like that.” But Jesus promised that if you are delivered up to be persecuted, he will give you the words to say under such circumstances (see Matthew 10:18–20). He will give you the courage to make your stand.

Understand, if you are living a godly life, then you will be persecuted in some way, shape, or form. Jesus said, “‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you” (John 15:20 NKJV).

If you are a true believer, you will face persecution in some fashion. The word persecute means “to be chased down, driven away, and pursued.” The good thing about it is that persecution can help you grow strong spiritually.

I read a story about codfish that were being shipped from the East Coast to the West Coast. The problem was that the fish arrived spoiled. The fish were frozen and sent off, but were still mushy to the taste. They tried sending the fish alive, but they arrived dead. Then they sent them alive with one change.

In the tank with the live cod, they included their mortal enemy, the catfish. By the time the cod arrived, they were alive and well, having run from the catfish the entire journey. The people who ate it said it was the best cod they had ever tasted.

God may put a catfish in your tank, so to speak, to keep you alive and well spiritually. Maybe he will allow some kind of persecution to keep you on your toes. Maybe you will be the brunt of other people’s jokes. Maybe it will be the loss of a job. Maybe it will be the loss of friends.

Persecution causes us to cling more tightly to Christ and reminds us of two very important things: 1) we are children of God, and 2) this world is not our home.

I do believe that persecution will intensify as we get closer to the Lord’s return. I have found that people who say they are so liberal and open-minded seem to be very much closed to the idea of the Gospel.

In this day and age, it seems as though people can believe anything but the Gospel. Everything is fine except the Gospel. Why? Because it really bothers people when you say that Jesus Christ is the only way to the Father.

If you are a Bible-believing Christian, you can say no less. Jesus himself said that he was the way, the truth and the life. If we really believe it and really proclaim it, then we will face persecution.

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