Saturday, September 24, 2022

GOP leadership: First legislation after midterms is to repeal funding for 87k new IRS agents - Nicholas Ballasy

 

by Nicholas Ballasy

Their comments were made while unveiling their Commitment to America agenda in Monongahela, Pa.

 

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy and House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik vowed Friday that their first action as leaders of the chamber if the GOP wins the majority in November would be to repeal the funding President Biden signed into law to hire as many as 87,000 new IRS agents.

McCarthy and Stefanik made the public promise at an event in Monongahela, Pa., in which they made public their overall agenda — titled Commitment to America — should Republicans control the House next year. 

The $80 billion in spending for the agents is part of the Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act that President Biden recently signed. The bill includes expanded Obamacare subsidies, a new 15% minimum corporate tax and more than $380 billion in climate-related funding.

"On our very first bill, we're going to repeal 87,000 IRS agents," said McCarthy, of California. "Our job is to work for you, not go after you. Our job is to make America stronger."

Stefanik, of New York, told Just the News exclusively that repealing the new IRS funding would be the first order of business.

"That is day one, because I will tell you, these IRS agents were hired by the Biden administration to go after you, the taxpayer, the mom and pop small businesses, the hardworking families, the seniors," she said. "And think about, we could use more Border Patrol agents, we could use more police officers on our streets. There are a lot more important priorities that we should be focused on."

Stefanik also said the House GOP would seek to "dismantle every aspect" of the Inflation Reduction Act.

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise said at the event in Monongahela the 87,000 IRS agents should be replaced with Customs and Border Protection agents to handle the crisis on the southern border.

Biden and the IRS commissioner have said the new IRS funding would be used to ramp up tax collection from wealthy Americans.


Nicholas Ballasy

Source: https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-gop-leaders-say-repealing-funding-87k-irs-agents-first-bill-gop-majority

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Mark Zuckerberg, wife sued over alleged 2020 election funding fraud - Ben Whedon

 

by Ben Whedon

CRA has asked the IRS to terminate the tax exempt status of three voting rights groups in connection with the alleged scheme.

 

The Center for Renewing America (CRA) hit Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, his wife, and three voting rights groups with legal complaints over an alleged effort by which they improperly channeled roughly $500 million in a bid to influence the 2020 presidential election.

CRA alleges, according to Fox Business, that the Zuckerbergs sent the money to the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), and National Vote at Home Institute (NVAHI), which in turn moved the money to Democrat leaning areas aiming to move competitive states into President Joe Biden's column. Former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe was reportedly Zuckerberg's point man on the effort.

A House Republican investigation into CTCL's use of the funds found that the vast majority of the so-called "Zuckerbucks" were spent on get out to vote and voter registration efforts. Republican lawmakers have since moved to ban the use of private funds in elections, in part as a response to the controversy.

The conservative think thank told the outlet "[i]t is beyond disgraceful to imagine federal taxpayers subsidizing the partisan preferences of billionaires who easily could have given to a Democrat super PAC in 2020."

"But, of course, then they would not have been able to take a tax deduction, so they disguised the political nature of their donations and shuffled them through 'charitable' intermediaries, making ordinary Americans foot the bill," the statement further read.

CRA has asked the IRS to terminate the tax exempt status of CTCL, CEIR, and NVAHI as well as to deny any income tax deductions the Zuckerbergs made for their contributions to them.

A spokesperson for Zuckerberg denied the complaint's allegations and cited a unanimous decision from the Federal Election Commission that determined donations to the CTCL and CEIR were apolitical, Fox Business noted.


Ben Whedon

Source: https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/mark-zuckerberg-wife-sued-over-alleged-2020-election-funding-fraud

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Protestors clash with Revolutionary Guard in northern Iran, torch IRGC base: reports - Caitlin McFall

 

by Caitlin McFall

Protests takeover partial control in Oshnavieh in northern Iran after clashing with guardsmen

Protestors clashed with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in northern Iran Friday night, during which one of its military bases was allegedly torched, according to information obtained by Fox News Digital.

Men and women marched through the streets of Oshnavieh in western Iran late Friday into the early hours of Saturday, cheering as they allegedly took control over parts of the city.

Videos posted to social media showed thousands of demonstrators taking to the streets in violent protest as buildings were set ablaze, including an IRGC base, according to opposition leaders. 

The Iranian government has yet to comment on the partial takeover in northern Iran, and it remains unclear what happened to the IRGC forces at the base in Oshnavieh.

DEADLY PROTESTS IN IRAN CONTINUE FOR A 9TH DAY: ‘DEATH TO THE DICTATOR’


 

The destruction comes as nationwide protests continue for a ninth day in nearly 140 cities, in every one of Iran’s 31 provinces following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in police custody. 

She was reportedly arrested, beaten and possibly tortured for violating Iran’s strict dress code laws and wearing her hijab too loosely.

Iranian forces have claimed she was not mistreated and died of a heart attack. 

"The protests have turned into a nationwide uprising," Ali Safavi, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran, told Fox News Digital. "It is the eruption of the Iranian people’s pent-up anger in response to 43 years of suppression, corruption, and plunder."

Protesters make fire and block the street during a protest over the death of a woman who was detained by the morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran.

Protesters make fire and block the street during a protest over the death of a woman who was detained by the morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran.  (Associated Press)

IRAN PROTESTS: ARMY VOWS TO 'CONFRONT ENEMY'

Safavi said these demonstrations stand out from other uprisings, like the 2019 protests over gas prices which left 1,500 dead in the bloodiest protest in the Islamic Republic's history because this time, women are taking a leading role.

"Over the past 40 years, tens of thousands of women have been executed for their political views and affiliation with the MEK," he added in reference to the Iranian opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK), whose aim is to overthrow the regime. "This is a watershed moment in the struggle of the Iranian people for freedom and democracy."

Safavi also pointed out that the majority of people taking part in the nationwide protests are millennials and Gen. Z populations, which means they have never known life inside Iran without autocratic rule.

FILE - In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, protesters chant slogans during a protest over the death of a woman who was detained by the morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran, Sept. 21, 2022.

FILE - In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, protesters chant slogans during a protest over the death of a woman who was detained by the morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran, Sept. 21, 2022.   (AP Photo, File)

"It is time for the world community to discard its policy of appeasement and rise to support the people of Iran," he said. 

Safavi told Fox News Digital that Iranians are now "rejecting the Shah’s dictatorship and religious tyranny" and are "demanding the establishment of a democratically elected republic based on the separation of religion and state and equal rights for women, ethnic and religious minorities."

As of Friday night, Iranian news outlets were reporting that some 35 people have been killed in the protesting across Iran. But according to MEK officials in Iran, roughly 140 have been killed and 5,000 arrested. 

Fox News Digital could not independently verify the reported death and arrest figures. 


Caitlin McFall is a Fox News Digital reporter. You can reach her at caitlin.mcfall@fox.com or @ctlnmcfall on Twitter.

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/world/protestors-clash-revolutionary-guard-northern-iran-torch-irgc-base-reports

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Biden Administration Standing Idly By While Iran's Mullahs Advance to Nuclear Bomb - Majid Rafizadeh

 

by Majid Rafizadeh

The Biden administration has -- been ignoring a joint statement issued by the UK, France and Germany admitting that Tehran "has no credible civilian need for uranium metal R&D and production, which are a key step in the development of a nuclear weapon."

  • [M]ore than a year and half of negotiations seems to have benefited no one except the ruling and Islamist mullahs of Iran. The endless negotiations seem simply to have bought time for the mullahs, so that they could comfortably advance their nuclear program to their highest level ever. Not only has the Biden administration seen no urgency to change its disastrous path, it is actually redoubling efforts to for Iran talks, presumably after America's mid-term election on November 8.

  • The Biden administration has even been ignoring a joint statement issued by the UK, France and Germany admitting that Tehran "has no credible civilian need for uranium metal R&D and production, which are a key step in the development of a nuclear weapon."

  • The Biden administration needs to make it plain to Iran's ruling mullahs that if Tehran advances its nuclear program further, severe military, political, diplomatic and economic options against Iran are on the table.

  • Economic sanctions, which will cut the flow of funds to the Iranian regime and the terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, must be imposed as well. The Biden administration also needs to stand firm against countries such as China, which are violating US sanctions by buying oil or trading with the Iranian regime.

  • It must be made unmistakably clear to the Iranian regime that the United States will not allow Iran's current regime, a designated state sponsor of terrorism, to arm itself with nuclear weapons and emerge as yet another global nuclear threat, in the Middle East, in Europe and throughout South America.

It must be made unmistakably clear to the Iranian regime that the U.S. will not allow Iran's current regime, a designated state sponsor of terrorism, to arm itself with nuclear weapons and emerge as yet another global nuclear threat, in the Middle East, in Europe and throughout South America. (Image source: iStock)

The Biden administration implemented its agenda to revive the Obama nuclear deal after US President Joe Biden assumed office in January 2021. Now, more than a year and half of negotiations seems to have benefited no one except the ruling and Islamist mullahs of Iran. The endless negotiations seem simply to have bought time for the mullahs, so that they could comfortably advance their nuclear program to their highest level ever. Not only has the Biden administration seen no urgency to change its disastrous path, it is actually redoubling efforts to for Iran talks, presumably after America's mid-term election on November 8.

Iran's regime, which has long claimed that it is not seeking to develop nuclear weapons because of the Supreme Leader's reported "fatwa" forbidding such an act, has now changed its tone and is bragging that it has currently the ability to build a nuclear bomb. Kamal Kharrazi, Iran's former foreign minister, pointed said to Al Jazeera recently that "It's no secret that we have become a quasi-nuclear state. This is a fact. And it's no secret that we have the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb." He added, "In the past, and within just a few days, we were able to enrich uranium up to 60%, and we can easily produce 90% enriched uranium. But what we want is a Middle East without any nuclear weapons" – most likely meaning just their nuclear weapons, not anyone else's.

Some Iranian leaders have also admitted that the regime's nuclear program was always designed to manufacture nuclear weapons. Former deputy speaker of the Iranian Parliament Ali Motahari, for instance, disclosed in April:

"From the very beginning, when we entered the nuclear activity, our goal was to build a bomb and strengthen the deterrent forces but we could not maintain the secrecy of this issue."

In addition, the former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Fereydoon Abbasi-Davani, was the first Iranian official to acknowledge that his work was part of a "system" designed to develop nuclear weapons. "When the country's all-encompassing growth began," he said, "involving satellites, missiles and nuclear weapons, and surmounted new boundaries of knowledge, the issue became more serious for them."

Throughout several rounds of the Biden-led negotiations between the P5+1 world powers and the Iranian regime, the ruling mullahs clearly bought time and sped up their nuclear program, increasing its uranium enrichment from 20% to 60%, conducting uranium metal research and development and production, and adding additional centrifuges.

In June, the day after reaching an agreement to extend the monitoring mechanism of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by reinstalling surveillance cameras inside some of its nuclear sites, the ruling clerics announced that they would not allow the agency to see images from the devices. Now, even according to the IAEA, the Iranian regime has enough enriched uranium to build an atomic bomb.

The Institute for Science and International Security already warned in 2021:

"Iran has enough enriched uranium hexafluoride (UF6) in the form of near 20 and 60 percent-enriched uranium to produce enough weapon-grade uranium, taken here as 25 kg, for a single nuclear weapon in as little as three weeks. It could do so without using any of its stock of uranium enriched up to 5 percent as feedstock. The growth of Iran's stocks of near 20 and 60 percent-enriched uranium has dangerously reduced breakout timelines."

The mullahs have also made it clear that they have no desire to answer the IAEA's questions about uranium particles found at three undeclared nuclear sites. The UN agency warned in addition that the Iranian leaders have "not provided explanations that are technically credible in relation to the agency's findings at those locations... The agency remains ready to engage without delay with Iran to resolve all of these matters."

In spite of all these exhibits of malign intentions and more, the Biden administration has yet to change its path or take any tangible action to prevent what the US Department of State itself has called the worst state sponsor of terrorism, from advancing its nuclear program and becoming a nuclear state.

The Biden administration has even been ignoring a joint statement issued by the UK, France and Germany admitting that Tehran "has no credible civilian need for uranium metal R&D and production, which are a key step in the development of a nuclear weapon."

The Biden administration needs to make it plain to Iran's ruling mullahs that if Tehran advances its nuclear program further, severe military, political, diplomatic and economic options against Iran are on the table.

Economic sanctions, which will cut the flow of funds to the Iranian regime and the terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, must be imposed as well. The Biden administration also needs to stand firm against countries such as China, which are violating US sanctions by buying oil or trading with the Iranian regime.

It must be made unmistakably clear to the Iranian regime that the United States will not allow Iran's current regime, a designated state sponsor of terrorism, to arm itself with nuclear weapons and emerge as yet another global nuclear threat, in the Middle East, in Europe and throughout South America.

 
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a business strategist and advisor, Harvard-educated scholar, political scientist, board member of Harvard International Review, and president of the International American Council on the Middle East. He has authored several books on Islam and US Foreign Policy. He can be reached at Dr.Rafizadeh@Post.Harvard.Edu

Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18925/iran-advance-nuclear-bomb

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Judge rules Arizona’s ban on abortions can be enforced, setting up legal showdown before election - John Solomon

 

by John Solomon

Ruling means clinics in Arizona will have to stop providing abortions or face criminal charges absent an appeal.

 

An Arizona judge ruled Friday that a century-old law banning most abortions in the key battleground state can be enforced, setting up a legal showdown in the shadows of the midterm elections. 

Pima County Superior Court Judge Kellie Johnson‘s ruling means clinics in Arizona will have to stop providing abortions or face  criminal charges and residents will have to travel to other states to get the procedure. 

An appeal is expected.

Johnson lifted an injunction blocking the 1901 abortion ban that had been in place since the 1970s when the Rowe v. Wade decision legalized abortion nationwide.

The U.S.  Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe this summer made lifting the injunction a legal requirement, the judge said. 

“The court finds that because the legal basis for the judgment entered in 1973 has now been overruled, it must vacate the judgment in its entirety," Johnson wrote.

Arizona Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich was quick to celebrate the ruling. "We applaud the court for upholding the will of the legislature and providing clarity and uniformity on this important issue. I have and will continue to protect the most vulnerable Arizonans," he wrote on Twitter.

Democratic Arizona gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs lamented the judge's decision and framed her campaign as one to restore reproductive rights. "Like many Arizonans, I'm mourning today's decision out of Pima County upholding the 1901 abortion ban," she wrote in a statement. "This outcome is the product of a decades-long attack on reproductive freedom, and we now must turn our anger into motivation to win in November & restore our fundamental rights."


John Solomon

Source: https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/judge-rules-arizonas-ban-abortions-can-be-enforced-setting-legal-showdown

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Nonprofits Violate IRS Rules to Wage a Legal War for Illegal Aliens - Daniel Greenfield

 

by Daniel Greenfield

America doesn’t just need a wall on the border, we need a wall in our tax code.

 


[Order David Horowitz’s and John Perazzo’s new booklet: “Internal Radical Service: Abuse Of Taxpayer Dollars To Advance Leftwing Causes Illegally And Unconstitutionally”: CLICK HERE.]

Three of the migrants who were flown in by Gov. DeSantis to Martha’s Vineyard filed a lawsuit against the Florida governor claiming that they were somehow lured to the sanctuary island.

The lawsuit is completely baseless since the “false promises and false representations” that the migrants would get “employment, housing, educational opportunities” were actually copied by Florida from a brochure put out by the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants.

It’s Massachusetts and the elites of Martha’s Vineyard who refused to honor their promises.

The lawyers representing the migrants, Yanet Doe, Pablo Doe, and Jesus Doe, are from the Boston chapter of Lawyers for Civil Rights. The national organization was created at the behest of JFK and RFK and funded by the Ford Foundation making it an obviously partisan group. Despite its partisan agenda, it functions as a 501(c)(3). As do many other leftist lawfare groups.

Internal Radical Service by David Horowitz and John Perazzo discusses how nonprofits are defrauding “taxpayers into subsidizing an illegal invasion of the United States” because “of the collusion of the White House and the I.R.S. in supporting this subversion of the American immigration system.” The pamphlet reveals how the tax code has become corrupted with  nonprofits facilitating the invasion every step of the way. Including through immigration lawfare.

Lawyers for Civil Rights represents the migrants and Alianza Americas, a “migrant-led” group which has received millions from George Soros. Alianza also operates as a 501(c)(3) despite not only lobbying for illegal aliens, but repeatedly engaging in political advocacy, including denouncing Trump and Republicans, and cheering Biden and Democrat victories.

Soros’ Open Society Policy Center, a 501(c)(4), provided $150,000 in funding in 2020 to Alianza to “support policy advocacy on immigration”. Soros, a top Democrat donor who allegedly immigrated to this country under false pretenses, is a major funder of illegal alien activist groups. One of the projects funded by Soros is “Notifica – Deportation Defense”, a smartphone app that alerts lawyers of illegals. Unlike conservative free speech apps, Apple has not removed Notifica from its app store. Also funding it was the Justice Department.

The organizations behind it, United We Dream and National Immigration Law Center, are C3s.

As discussed in the Freedom Center’s new pamphlet, Internal Radical Service, tax regulations specifically state that “exempt purposes may generally be equated with the public good, and violations of law are the antithesis of the public good”. They clearly lay out that, “violation of constitutionally valid laws is inconsistent with exemption under IRC 501(c)(3)” and that “planned activities that violate laws are not in furtherance of a charitable purpose”.

Promoting illegal migration is plainly the “antithesis of the public good” and a violation of basic border and national security. But C3’s remain major players in the illegal alien pipeline.

And some of the lawfare is coming from almost fantastically wealthy left-wing groups.

The ACLU, which appears to have assets approaching a billion dollars, has repeatedly filed lawsuits on behalf of illegal aliens and policies that maintain open borders. The Southern Poverty Law Center, whose endowment was recently estimated at over $700 million, has its Immigration Justice Project setup. And local litigation is further backed by gargantuan foundations like the Ford Foundation with assets of over $17 billion.

The sheer scale of immigration litigation is massive and much of it is carried on by non-profits like the American Immigration Council, a C3 founded by the Immigration Lawyers Association, the National Immigration Law Center, a C3, the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, a C3, and the National Immigration Justice Center from the Heartland Alliance, another C3 at whose shelters migrant children were allegedly forced to scrub toilets with their bare hands.

Heartland scored the “fourth-highest amount of federal dollars for housing” illegal minors and was first scrutinized after “an employee was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a minor”. Originally founded by Jane Addams, a co-founder of the ACLU and the NAACP, the Heartland Institute conducts refugee resettlement and works with migrants. The Institute brings in around $20 million a year and has been involved in multiple immigration lawsuits.

The Immigrant Defenders Law Center is a C3 as is the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, established by the Conference of Catholic Bishops, HIAS, formerly known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society before dropping its Jewish identity, and the International Refugee Assistance Project which, along with its offices in Muslim countries, has a program to provide legal aid to open borders migrants invading the United States.

The National Lawyers Guild, which has an extensive Communist history, has its National Immigration Project. So do most leftist litigation-oriented non-profits like Democracy Forward, chaired by Clinton lawyer Marc Elias, a 501(4)(c), which interfaces with a number of immigration lawfare groups. Even the NAACP which sued the Trump administration over the end of the DACA program illegally legalizing illegal aliens, is in the immigration litigation racket.

There are also numerous local counterparts like the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and specific demographic groups like Al Otro Lado and the Haitian Bridge Alliance beyond counting.

Many immigration lawfare nonprofits first received 501(c)(3) status in 2018 or 2019 indicating that the organization and deployment of these groups was closely connected to Trump taking office. But even under Biden, they continue to operate in order to facilitate the illegal alien invasion and the demographic transformation of the country into a leftist political fiefdom.

But immigration lawfare is no longer confined to conventional non-profits.

New York State has provided millions to fund the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project, California plunged $35 million into its Immigration Services Funding, and Nashville hijacked $1.8 million from federal relief funds to fund the Tennessee Immigration and Refugee Rights Coalition and Tennessee Justice For Our Neighbors.

Government funding of immigration lawfare is so widespread that the Vera Institute of Justice, co-founded by a Soros trustee, claims that there are “more than 50 publicly funded local and state deportation defense programs nationwide”.

Academic institutions, many of them nonprofits, have immigration lawfare built in like the Maryland Carey Law Immigration Clinic which embeds a deportation defense machine into the university’s law school, and the Immigration Justice Clinic at Cardozo Law School.

Law schools are becoming just another mobilization center for immigration lawfare on the U.S..

In The New Leviathan, David Horowitz first warned of a massive leftist network that has since become even vaster and also more specialized, branching out into very specific areas as part of a larger master plan for destroying America. Immigration lawfare now encompasses public-private partnerships between governments and nonprofits, universities and virtually every major leftist litigation and civil rights group in the country.

The millions of illegals invading America have their counterpart in the many millions of dollars being spent on the hundreds of groups that are doing everything from organizing caravans and flights, to cashing in on housing them to waging a ruthless legal war to protect the invasion.

Writing of the way that the IRS has allowed open borders nonprofits to operate, Horowitz and Perazzo conclude in Internal Radical Service that it’s impossible to read the tax code “without concluding that the Internal Revenue Service itself is not only derelict in its duty but has operated with criminal intent to violate its own statutes, indeed its own mission – and on a massive scale.”

The scale of the invasion is a testament to the scale of the leftist subversion of our government.

As Horowitz wrote in Internal Radical Service, “The I.R.S. is the patron saint of a movement to break America’s immigration laws.”

Illegal aliens not only invade our country, violating our borders and our laws, but they are the pawns of a vast network of leftist nonprofits who flout the “public good” and “violations of law” in the tax code, and then once here file lawsuits to rob taxpayers of even more money.

America doesn’t just need a wall on the border, we need a wall in our tax code to end criminal nonprofits who operate with the purpose of subverting our laws and destroying our nation.


Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/nonprofits-violate-irs-rules-to-wage-a-legal-war-for-illegal-aliens/

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Sneaking anti-Semitism into school curricula - Pandra Selivanov

 

by Pandra Selivanov

The new ethnic studies program has an anti-Israel slant that is at odds with facts about Israel’s history and its ongoing hopes for peace.

 

Critical race theory has been gaining momentum since 1996 when Johnnie Cochran used it to free O.J. Simpson. The corrosive idea that American culture and institutions are systemically racist and oppressive has invaded universities and workplaces and even public schools. There was a brief respite when President Donald Trump stopped companies from holding training on “white privilege.” States began to ban critical race theory. Parents fought it in their local schools.

The proponents of critical race theory, however, are determined to indoctrinate America’s youth in their ideology. In California, critical race theory has been rechristened “ethnic studies” and has broadened its line of attack. In addition to white people, ethnic studies have added Jewish people and the Jewish homeland of Israel to the list of racist and oppressive entities. The anti-Israel and anti-Jewish curriculum includes strong support for Palestinians, including classroom decorations such as a Palestinian flag and a drive to honor “Palestinian mothers with children in Israeli jails.”

Image: Anti-Israel protest in California. YouTube screen grab.

The most rudimentary research on “Palestine” uncovers the fact that there never was a country of Palestine. It was a designation Romans used for Judea. Then, after World War II, British Christians drew a map based on their perceptions of the Bible and set borders for the state of Palestine. Now, Islamists demand all Jews depart from the land that they consider a trust that Allah gave to the Muslim people.

Seeking a compromise, Israel has proposed two-state solutions to the Palestinians. The Palestinians have always rejected the very idea of sharing the land with the Jews, the people who have been in that land for over 5,000 years and whose Bible—the oldest religious text still in use and the basis for the Koran—identifies as the people to whom God decreed the land of Israel rightfully belongs.

Under California’s mandated ethnic studies, in addition to learning reading, writing, and arithmetic, schools will instruct children to pity Palestinians and hate Jews. The greatest irony of this misbegotten ideology is how it avoids the basic truth that, if Palestinians wanted peace with Israel, there would be peace, and if Israel really didn’t want to share the land with the Palestinians, they could have wiped out all the Palestinians long ago.


Pandra Selivanov is the author of The Pardon, a story of forgiveness based on the thief on the cross in the Bible.

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/09/sneaking_antisemitism_into_school_curricula.html

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Italy on track to elect first right-wing prime minister since World War II, first female to hold the office - Emma Colton

 

by Emma Colton

Italian political candidate Giorgia Meloni told supporters in 2019, 'I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am Christian'

Italy's parliamentary election on Sunday is expected to make history as a right-wing candidate who campaigned on a nationalist platform is expected to become the country’s first female prime minister. 

Italians will head to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament and determine who will govern the country next. Polls forecast the country’s Brothers of Italy party will take 25% of the vote on Sunday, and elect party leader Giorgia Meloni as the country’s first female prime minister. 

"I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am Christian," Giorgia Meloni told supporters in central Rome at a now-viral rally moment in 2019, according to France 24. "No one will take that away from me." 

The Brothers of Italy party is described as a conservative and right-wing populist political party that has seen a meteoric rise in popularity since 2018, when it just received 4% of the vote, Reuters reported. 

FROM FRINGE LEADER TO FRONT-RUNNER: ITALIANS SET TO ELECT FIRST FEMALE PRIME MINISTER

Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party, takes a selfie during a rally in Duomo square ahead of the Sept. 25 snap election, in Milan, Italy, September 11, 2022.

Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party, takes a selfie during a rally in Duomo square ahead of the Sept. 25 snap election, in Milan, Italy, September 11, 2022.  (Reuters/Flavio Lo Scalzo)

Political commentators have described the Brothers of Italy party as "neo-fascist," and Meloni’s potential win would notch the country’s most right-wing government since World War II. 

Meloni has campaigned on a platform of cracking down on illegal immigration by rolling out a blockade to patrol the Mediterranean, cutting taxes, and protecting traditional family values. 

She argues the European Union is too bureaucratic but has said she wouldn’t push for any "Italexit," and depicts herself as a staunch backer of NATO. She rallies against what she calls LGBT "lobbies" and promotes a "Christian identity" in Europe.

"My greatest desire is to lift up, to lift our nation up again from decline," Meloni, 45, told Reuters in a recent interview.

ITALY'S POPULATION MAY SHRINK BY 11 MILLION PEOPLE WITHIN 50 YEARS, STUDY SHOWS 

Leader of the Brothers of Italy party, Giorgia Meloni arrives in her car to attend a political rally in Rome, Italy January 23, 2018. Picture taken January 23, 2018.

Leader of the Brothers of Italy party, Giorgia Meloni arrives in her car to attend a political rally in Rome, Italy January 23, 2018. Picture taken January 23, 2018.  (Reuters/Remo Casilli)

Analyst Luigi Scazzieri of the Centre for European Reform told Voice of America that Meloni’s rise in popularity is credited to her policy and economic views, as well as her "down to earth" approach to voters. 

"In part it's about her policy platform, her socially conservative views, her economic views — which are also quite social in a way in terms of, for example, raising people's pensions or benefits," said analyst Luigi Scazzieri of the Centre for European Reform.

MILAN AIRPORT DOGS SNIFF OUT 30 POUNDS OF COCAINE HIDDEN IN WHEELCHAIR

Photo shows skyline of Rome, Italy.

Photo shows skyline of Rome, Italy.  (iStock)

"But it's also in large part due to her own personal appeal. And I would single out here, for example, her way of talking, which is very down to earth. It’s very effective in connecting with ordinary voters," Scazzieri added. "Finally, she also benefits from not having been anywhere near government for the past 10 years, and so she can credibly say that she represents something new."

Meloni’s chief election rival is Enrico Letta, 56-year-old leader of the Democratic Party, Italy’s main center-left force.


Emma Colton 

 
Source: https://www.foxnews.com/world/italy-expected-elect-right-wing-candidate-countrys-first-female-prime-minister

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Elderly pro-life volunteer in Michigan shot after 'heated conversation,' pro-life group says - Emma Colton

 

by Emma Colton

The elderly Michigan woman was going door-to-door discussing a ballot proposal on abortion

 

An elderly pro-life volunteer in Michigan was shot in the shoulder while canvassing a neighborhood to discuss an abortion ballot proposal, according to the Right to Life of Michigan. 

The "victim said that she was shot in the back/shoulder while leaving a residence during a heated conversation, and that the man who shot her was not a part of her conversation," the pro-life group wrote in a press release Saturday. The unidentified woman is 83-years-old, according to police, though the Right to Life of Michigan identified her as 84 years old in the press release. 

The woman was canvassing a neighborhood in Lake Odessa to discuss the state’s vote on Proposal 3, which would protect abortion access in the state. The state will vote on the proposal on Nov. 8 on the general election ballot. 

"The victim does not know the identity or motive of her shooter. The victim is still recovering from her gunshot wound and wishes to remain anonymous while the criminal investigation proceeds," the Michigan Right to Life press release stated. 

ZERO ARRESTS IN AT LEAST 17 JANE'S REVENGE ATTACKS ON PRO-LIFE ORGANIZATIONS


 

Michigan State Police told Fox News Digital Saturday that the elderly woman was shot after a "verbal altercation while she was passing out pamphlets." 

LETTER SIGNED BY RADICAL ABORTION GROUP JANE'S REVENGE DECLARES ‘OPEN SEASON’ ON PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS

The victim drove herself to the Lake Odessa Police Department after she was shot in the shoulder, according to state police. She was then taken to an area hospital, where she was treated and released. 

Screenshot of Michigan State Police Headquarters. (Google Maps)

Screenshot of Michigan State Police Headquarters. (Google Maps) (Google Maps)

The Michigan State Police is investigating the incident and the case remains open. 

PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CLINICS STILL BEING TARGETED BY VIOLENCE, 3 MONTHS AFTER SUPREME COURT LEAK

"We’re glad the victim is recovering, and our volunteers will continue knocking doors on Proposal 3," Right to Life of Michigan official Chris Gast told Fox News Digital on Saturday. 

The incident comes just months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which ended the recognition of a constitutional right to abortion.

Emma Colton

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/us/elderly-pro-life-volunteer-michigan-shot-heated-conversation-pro-life-group-says

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'Europe Should Be Grateful to Erdoğan' - Burak Bekdil

 

by Burak Bekdil

Turkey is once again blackmailing the U.S. that "it would further deepen its defense cooperation with Russia if Congress blocks its request to buy 40 F-16 Block 70 fighter jets from the U.S."

  • Erdoğan is bringing NATO member Turkey more and more into Russia's orbit.

  • Turkey is once again blackmailing the U.S. that "it would further deepen its defense cooperation with Russia if Congress blocks its request to buy 40 F-16 Block 70 fighter jets from the U.S."

Turkey's Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is bringing NATO member Turkey more and more into Russia's orbit. Pictured: Erdoğan meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on September 16, 2022. (Photo by Alexandr Demyanchuk/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

"Europe Should Be Grateful to Erdoğan": The quote is the praise Russian dictator Vladimir Putin bestowed upon Turkey's Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Translated into realpolitik, what Putin is saying is: "Russia is grateful to Erdoğan's anti-Western ideology." He is right. Erdoğan is bringing NATO member Turkey more and more into Russia's orbit.

Erdoğan is overtly challenging the alliance of which his country is a member. Here is a brief account of how Erdoğan steered Turkey further away from Western interests, in favor of his Eurasian adventurism, in just a couple of months:

  • In early July, Erdoğan told a group of top party executives that Putin, during a meeting in Tehran, suggested a deal in which Turkish drone maker Baykar, whose chief engineer is Erdoğan's son-in-law, cooperates with Russia. "Putin told me that he wants to work with Baykar," Erdoğan said.
  • At the end of July, a Russian state-owned company was caught transferring money to a subsidiary that is building a $20 billion nuclear power plant on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, thereby alleviating concerns that the project could be delayed by war sanctions. Rosatom Corp. sent around $5 billion to the Turkey-based builder, formally known as Akkuyu Nuclear JSC.
  • The beginning of August. Putin proudly announced that the trade between Russia and Turkey doubled in the first five months of 2022, and had surged 57% in the last year.
  • After a face-to-face meeting with Putin in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Erdoğan said that Turkey would now pay Russia in rubles for its natural gas purchases. Meanwhile, Erdoğan happily accepted Putin's invitation to join the September meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Uzbekistan. The SCO, launched in 2001, consists of Eurasian member states and declares its mission as combating radicalism and other security concerns in China, Russia and four ex-Soviet Central Asian republics.
  • As part of the Sochi deal, Erdoğan announced, five Turkish banks adopted Russia's Mir payments system, another blow to Western sanctions on Russia. Turkey had earlier abstained from joining the U.S. and Europe's sanctions on Russia after it invaded Ukraine.
  • In a joint statement after the Sochi summit, Erdoğan and Putin "reaffirmed their determination to act in coordination and solidarity in the fight against all terrorist organizations in Syria." Shortly after that statement, the Turkish government stepped up its lethal drone attacks against U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in northern Syria ahead of a threatened full-scale invasion. A Turkish drone attack was reported to have killed four people in a town on the Syria-Turkey border.
  • Dmitri Peskov, Putin's spokesman, said that "Military-technical cooperation between the two countries is permanently on the agenda, and the very fact that our interaction is developing in this sensitive sphere shows that, on the whole, the entire range of our interrelations is at a very high level."
  • A few days after Peskov's opaque statement, Dmitry Shugayev, the head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, said that a contract had been signed to deliver a second shipment of the S-400 missile system to Turkey, with the production of some components to be localized [some parts made locally] in Turkey. Now that is a real challenge.

Turkey had earlier been expelled from the U.S.-led, multinational partnership that builds the F-35 fifth-generation fighter jet, and been taken under the scope of the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act.

The Russians are talking about a second S-400 contract, but this may not exactly be what is taking place. The original contract involves two systems. There is no need for a second agreement for a second system. But the Russians would not be entirely fabricating fake news. The original S-400 contract, at $2.5 billion, involves the Turkish acquisition of two systems. Turkey has so far received the first system but has abstained from activating it, fearing further U.S. sanctions. The second system has not been delivered yet. The TASS agency is reporting it as if it is a new deal but sources are telling this correspondent that the new deal is about the localization of some parts production for the second system.

A senior defense procurement official also told Gatestone that "there is progress in talks for the localization of the second system." That is new news. It also has propaganda mission. Russians are happy to create a new crack, via Turkey, within the NATO alliance. And Turkey is once again blackmailing the U.S. that "it would further deepen its defense cooperation with Russia if Congress blocks its request to buy 40 F-16 Block 70 fighter jets from the U.S."

This plan might make sense to Russia and Turkey, but it does not to the Western civilization to which Erdoğan claims Turkey belongs. To put it simply, more and more Erdoğan's Islamist Turkey simply does not belong where Erdoğan claims it belongs.

When will the West, please, wake up to this shift?


Burak Bekdil, one of Turkey's leading journalists, was recently fired from the country's most noted newspaper after 29 years, for writing in Gatestone what is taking place in Turkey. He is a Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18856/erdogan-turkey-russia

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Thursday, September 22, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg hit with legal complaints over alleged attempt to influence 2020 election - Thomas Catenacci

 

by Thomas Catenacci

Zuckerberg's alleged actions were 'beyond disgraceful,' the Center for Renewing America said

FIRST ON FOX: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, his wife and three voting rights groups were hit Thursday with legal complaints alleging malfeasance related to activities surrounding the 2020 election.

The Center for Renewing America (CRA) filed two complaints — the first against Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan and the second against the groups Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) and National Vote at Home Institute (NVAHI) — Thursday morning with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). 

The complaints, obtained by FOX Business, allege that Zuckerberg and the three groups were involved in a scheme to inject nearly $500 million into the 2020 election in order to "throw it" to President Biden. Biden ultimately defeated former President Donald Trump, winning key swing states Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Zuckerberg hired former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe to spearhead the effort, according to the CRA. Plouffe allegedly funneled most of the hundred-million-dollar grants from the couple to Democratic-leaning jurisdictions in swing states via the three tax-exempt voting rights groups ahead of the November 2020 election.

FACEBOOK PARENT SETTLES SUIT IN CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA SCANDAL

Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies during a Senate hearing on April 10, 2018. (Alex Wong/Getty Images / Getty Images)

"It is beyond disgraceful to imagine federal taxpayers subsidizing the partisan preferences of billionaires who easily could have given to a Democrat super PAC in 2020," the CRA said in a statement shared with FOX Business. 

"But, of course, then they would not have been able to take a tax deduction, so they disguised the political nature of their donations and shuffled them through 'charitable' intermediaries, making ordinary Americans foot the bill," the CRA continued.

ZUCKERBERG MILLIONS WON'T BE PART OF MID-TERM ELECTIONS, SAYS IT WAS A 'ONE-TIME' THING

The CRA noted that federal law prohibits individuals from making donations intended to illegitimately aid one political party over another.

The complaints said the IRS must deny any personal income tax exemptions collected by Zuckerberg and Chan for their donations to the CTCL, CEIR, and NVAHI during the 2020 election cycle. The CRA also requested that the IRS terminate the tax exemptions of the three groups.

election worker

An election worker looks at a ballot during a hand recount of presidential votes on Nov. 15, 2020, in Marietta, Georgia. (John Amis/Atlanta Journal and Constitution via AP)

"We leave to the Service to determine whether there is enough evidence to sustain a criminal investigation into Chan or Zuckerberg for tax fraud," the CRA complaint stated. 

"Nevertheless, at the very least, it is incumbent upon the IRS to recoup what is likely a false tax deduction on a roughly hundred-million-dollar order of magnitude: an unlawful taxpayer subsidy running to support Democrat electioneering purposes."

The CRA added that it's "rubbish" to suggest that Zuckerberg and Chan hired Plouffe to help local governments on a non-partisan basis.

The CRA is a conservative policy group headed by former senior Trump administration official Russ Vought. The organization's mission is to "renew a consensus of America as a nation under God with unique interests worthy of defending."

Facebook, the CTCL, CEIR and NVAHI didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.


Thomas Catenacci

Source: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/mark-zuckerberg-hit-legal-complaints-alleged-attempt-influence-2020-election

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Key congressman says Hunter Biden was 'operative for foreign influence,' belongs in jail - Charlotte Hazard

 

by Charlotte Hazard

California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa alleges "free pass" for president's son on tax evasion, signals GOP probe of undisclosed lobbying for foreign clients.

Alleging that Hunter Biden "clearly" acted as "an operative for foreign influence" who failed to disclose foreign earnings and clients, an influential congressman is questioning why it has taken four years to decide whether to prosecute President Joe Biden's son.

"It's surprising that he didn't go to jail," California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa said Monday on the "Just the News, Not Noise" TV show.

Before the 2020 presidential election, damaging revelations from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop began surfacing in independent media outlets, leading to allegations of wide-ranging misconduct by the president's son, including alleged tax evasion, money laundering, business dealings with entities tied to China's ruling communist regime, undisclosed lobbying for foreign clients and trading on his father's name and foreign policy clout to secure overseas business.

Establishment media outlets and major social media platforms attempted to ignore, censor or discredit the laptop story during the 2020 campaign, while, according to recent whistleblower reports, the FBI's Washington Field Office sought to block criminal investigation of the allegations. Mainstream legacy outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post belatedly acknowledged the authenticity of the laptop long after the 2020 election was decided.

"[W]hen you deliberately don't disclose income — even in the thousands of dollars, much less the millions of dollars — that's a crime," said Issa. "It's a felony. And usually, at best, you get to pay compensation and plead to a crime in lieu of maybe going to jail. That's not the case [with Hunter Biden]. He appears as though he's getting a free pass, and just paying now what he should have paid years ago.

"And the reality is, the laptop also reveals that this was a man making millions but always in financial trouble ... [with] ex-wife payments, child support payments and, quite frankly, his drug addiction."

If Republicans gain a majority in the House in the midterm elections, one of the issues surrounding Hunter Biden they will look at, Issa revealed, is whether the president's son benefited from selective enforcement of the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Obscure and rarely enforced with criminal penalties over the last half-century, the measure was weaponized during the Trump administration by a politically biased Department of Justice, according to Issa and other critics, to target Trump associates such as Paul Manafort and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn in an effort to extract incriminating testimony against Trump.

"Hunter Biden was an operative for foreign influence, and did use or at least appears to have used his father and others for that game," the California Republican continued. "Meaning he lobbied, and when you lobby and you don't disclose that, you've committed a crime. So one of the things we're going to look at is this selective prosecution and whether this law needs to either be scrapped or real teeth to be put into it so that it's consistent in prosecution. Which unless they prosecute Hunter Biden, certainly it wasn't."

In a "60 Minutes" interview Sunday night, Joe Biden was asked if he thought his son's foreign business dealings created a conflict of interest. 

"There's not a single thing that I've observed at all that would affect me or the United States relative to my son Hunter," the president replied. 

"I love my son, number one," Biden later said. "He fought an addiction problem, he overcame it, he wrote about it."

Hunter Biden's attorney has not responded for comment.


Charlotte Hazard

Source: https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/tueskey-congressman-says-hunter-biden-was-operative-foreign-influence

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'Profits ahead of children?' Medical center hides pediatric transgender procedures after exposure - Greg Piper

 

by Greg Piper

Tennessee politicians pledge investigation of Vanderbilt hospital after videos reveal doctors bragging how lucrative breast and genital removals are, warning resistant colleagues they'll face "consequences."

 
 

Health care settings that advertise surgical and hormonal procedures for gender-confused youth as young as 13 are throwing their offerings down the memory hole, following exposure by critics of such procedures for children.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center took down the pages for its transgender clinic and pediatric counterpart after conservative author Matt Walsh posted videos Tuesday of its officials calling the clinics financially lucrative and warning that resistant VUMC employees would face "consequences" for not participating.

Tennessee Republicans responded with horror. "We should not allow permanent, life-altering decisions that hurt children or policies that suppress religious liberties, all for the purpose of financial gain," Gov. Bill Lee said in a statement to Just the News. 

He called for "a thorough investigation" of pediatric procedures and religious discrimination at VUMC, a legally distinct entity from the university. Asked what that means, spokesperson Casey Sellers said Lee's office has "shared concerns" with Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti. "A number of questions have been raised, and Tennesseans deserve answers," she said.

State Rep. William Lambert retweeted Walsh's announcement that they and Sen. Jack Johnson met to hash out legislation to "shut down Vanderbilt’s child gender transition program and ban the practice in the state."

September is the second consecutive month for a children's hospital that performs so-called "gender affirming" procedures to scrub its website after outside scrutiny.

Boston Children's Hospital removed a 17-year-old minimum age for male patients to receive vaginoplasties, raising it to 18 but claiming that it only offered consultations to 17-year-olds, National Review reported. It claimed to have never offered "gender affirming hysterectomies" to minors, as suggested by a video with its logo, but only adults.

"These surgeries make a lot of money," the VUMC adult clinic's primary care provider, Shayne Taylor, said in an LGBTQ Health Grand Rounds lecture in November 2018, just months after the clinic opened: $40,000 for double mastectomy and "several thousand" a year for "routine hormone treatments."

 

 

She cited a "gross underestimate" from another gender clinic for a male-to-female vaginoplasty, $20,000, which doesn't include hospital stay, postoperative visits or anesthesia. "I think that's just the surgeon's piece of it," maybe 10%, she said. 

A female-to-male phalloplasty "could be up to $100,000," Taylor said, citing the clinic's surgeon Julian Winocour, who allegedly claimed phalloplasties alone fully fund some clinics. "And that is, like, a fraction of the surgeries that we're doing," which cost even more because "they require a lot of followups." Winocour's VUMC email bounced back when asked to confirm this anecdote.

Traces of Taylor have disappeared so quickly that search results still bring them up. At least three of her employee pages are now off-limits, and her 2018 lecture — posted to the Vanderbilt Program for LGBTQ Health's Facebook page — apparently came down within hours of Walsh posting the videos late afternoon Tuesday. Other links simply redirect.

While VUMC "probably has to accommodate" employees who assert conscientious objection to participating in transgender procedures, "it is not without consequences and it should not be without consequences," Ellen Clayton, who has appointments in both pediatrics and law, told the 2019 LGBTQ Health Grand Rounds, equating objections with "religious beliefs."

 

 

 

"If you don't want to do this kind of work, don't work at Vanderbilt," Clayton said. Her 2019 event was taken down from the program's Facebook page Wednesday afternoon after Just the News viewed the intact video. 

Asked if she was speaking casually about shunning employees who opt out of transgender procedures, or suggesting they lose their professional licenses, Clayton told Just the News "I do not think it is a good idea to respond to questions about this story" but said she wasn't under investigation or seeking legal counsel.

One video from 2020 explicitly mentions pediatric treatment. "We have some individuals who have started gender affirming hormones" — already on puberty blockers — "at 13 or 14 to be more like their peers," the unidentified speaker says, even though the presentation screen says "consider starting as early as 14." 

The speaker continues that "fertility preservation and consent are very important to discuss prior to any initiation." The pediatric clinic removed "pubertal blockers" and "gender affirming hormone therapy" from the services it advertises to children in the past month, Walsh said.

 

 

The Tennessee Legislature "can and will act to correct this next session and I will lead that fight" to end transgender hormone treatments for minors and threats to religious objections, said Rep. Jeremy Faison, the GOP caucus chair. "This type of child mutilation should be illegal and soon will be in TN," Lamberth tweeted.

Congressional Republicans from Tennessee joined the chorus.

"There is nothing healthy about mutilating the bodies of minor children. We need an investigation into VUMC putting profits ahead of children immediately," Sen. Marsha Blackburn tweeted and Rep. John Rose agreed.

The controversy may even play into the Arizona Senate race. President Trump-endorsed venture capitalist Blake Masters' campaign tweeted a video about Sen. Mark Kelly's support for "transgender drugs and surgeries on kids" without parental consent, showing young women with double mastectomies.

 

The new president of the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy arm, located 10 minutes from VUMC, also denounced the practices.

VUMC sent Just the News the same statement it posted Wednesday morning and didn't answer queries, including followup questions about Taylor's emphasis on the profitability of the procedures, evidence for its claims from the now-removed clinic pages, and how it's protecting conscientious objectors from retaliation.

It claimed "social media posts and a video ... misrepresent facts about the care the Medical Center provides to transgender patients," which started because they are "a high-risk population for mental and physical health issues and have been consistently underserved by the U.S. health system."

The medical center provides "family-centered care to all adolescents in compliance with state law and in line with professional practice standards and guidance established by medical specialty societies," it said, alluding to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, whose revision of standards has provoked sharp debate among clinicians.

The statement said VUMC won't treat minors "related to transgender care" without parental consent "and never refuses parental involvement in the care of transgender youth who are under age 18."

An archive of VUMC's pediatric transgender clinic page seems to presume that parents have already given consent. It requires "a letter from a mental health provider and informed consent" from the child before starting puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones.

Employees whose "personal or religious beliefs do not support gender-affirming care" are allowed to opt out without discrimination, VUMC said.

 

Greg Piper

Source: https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/profits-ahead-children-medical-center-hides-pediatric-transgender

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