Revelation 1:9-20 - The Reality of Accountability

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China-Iran Deal: Something to Fear

 

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In this mailing: Soeren Kern: China's Threat to Free Speech in Europe Alan M. Dershowitz: Yale Fires Psychiatrist for Diagnosing Unseen Patients China's Threat to Free Speech in Europe by Soeren Kern  •  March 31, 2021 at 5:00 am       The current standoff is, in essence, about the future of free speech in Europe. If notoriously feckless European officials fail to stand firm in the face of mounting Chinese pressure, Europeans who dare publicly to criticize the CCP in the future can expect to pay an increasingly high personal cost for doing so. "As long as human rights are being violated, I cannot stay silent. These sanctions prove that China is sensitive to pressure. Let this be an encouragement to all my European colleagues: Speak out!" — Dutch lawmaker Sjoerd Sjoerdsma. "It is our duty to call out the Chinese government's human rights abuses in Hong Kong and their genocide of the Uighur people. Those of us who live free lives under the rule of law must speak for those who have no voice." — Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith. "Beijing's strategy is to simply crush and silence any global opposition to its atrocity by inflicting crushingly punitive measures on anyone who speaks out. A very concerning development." — Adrian Zenz, German scholar. "It is telling that China now responds to even moderate criticism with sanctions, rather than attempting to defend its actions in Hong Kong and Xinjiang." — China Research Group. "For far too long the EU has believed in the illusion of a middle ground." — Lea Dauber, Süddeutsche Zeitung. "In plain language: Beijing wants to decide who in Europe can talk or write about China." — Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "Beijing's sanctions against the UK and EU — targeting MPs, academics, even legal groups — show the regime of Xi Jinping will not tolerate dissent from anyone, anywhere." — Sophia Yan, China correspondent for the Telegraph. "Beijing's message is unmistakable: You must choose. If you want to do business in China, it must be at the expense of American values. You will meticulously ignore the genocide of ethnic and religious minorities inside China's borders; you must disregard that Beijing has reneged on its major promises—including the international treaty guaranteeing a 'high degree of autonomy' for Hong Kong; and you must stop engaging with security-minded officials in your own capital unless it's to lobby them on Beijing's behalf." — Matt Pottinger, former deputy White House national security adviser, Wall Street Journal. (Image source: iStock) China has imposed sanctions on more than two dozen European and British lawmakers, academics and think tanks. The move comes after the European Union and the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on Chinese officials for human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang region. China contends that its sanctions are tit for tat — morally equivalent retaliation — in response to those imposed by Western countries. This is false. The European sanctions are for crimes against humanity, whereas the Chinese sanctions seek to silence European critics of the Chinese Communist Party. The current standoff is, in essence, about the future of free speech in Europe. If notoriously feckless European officials fail to stand firm in the face of mounting Chinese pressure, Europeans who dare publicly to criticize the CCP in the future can expect to pay an increasingly high personal cost for doing so. Continue Reading Article Yale Fires Psychiatrist for Diagnosing Unseen Patients by Alan M. Dershowitz  •  March 31, 2021 at 4:00 am       "[I]t is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement." — Principles of Medical Ethics, American Psychiatric Association. [Dr. Bandy] Lee herself has a long history of such unprofessional conduct. She previously diagnosed President Trump, whom I believe she also never met, as being psychotic. Lee's resort to diagnosis rather than dialogue is a symptom of a much larger problem that faces our divided nation: our unwillingness to debate issues and our willingness to resort to ad hominems and diagnoses instead of reasoned argumentation. Lee is part of that problem, not its solution. So is [Professor Richard] Painter. Shame on them. Despite her violation of ethical and professional rules, I did not call for Lee to be fired. I simply advised Yale of her actions and asked them to investigate these violations. Yale decided to fire her not because of what I said, but because of what she did. Lee is now suing Yale and blaming me for having caused her to be fired. She credits me with far more power than I have. I simply exercised my freedom of speech right to correct her falsehoods and to ask Yale to investigate her misuse of her credentials. Pictured: Alan Dershowitz speaks in the United States Senate during impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, on January 27, 2020. (Photo by Senate Television via Getty Images) Should Yale have fired Dr. Bandy Lee, the psychiatrist who diagnosed someone she had never even seen -- actually me -- as suffering from "psychosis" because of my views on the constitutional rights of President Donald Trump? She claims I caught the psychosis from Trump. Her evidence: that I used a word -- "perfect" -- months before he used it! Lee has never met me, never examined me, never seen my medical records, never even spoken to anyone close to me. Yet she was prepared to offer a diagnosis of "psychosis' which she attributed to my being one of President Trump's "followers." (I am a liberal Democrat who did not vote for Trump.) Indeed, she went even further, diagnosing the severity and spread of "shared psychosis' among "just about all of Donald Trump's followers!" Continue Reading Article

Turkey's Quest To Build An Islamic Superpower

 

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In this mailing: Bassam Tawil: Terrorists All Set to Win Palestinian Elections Judith Bergman: What China's Communist Party Wants: Its New Five-Year Plan Terrorists All Set to Win Palestinian Elections by Bassam Tawil  •  March 30, 2021 at 5:00 am       [A]s far as most Palestinians are concerned, Barghouti is actually a "hero" who deserves to become president because of his convictions for terrorism. The message the Palestinian leadership is sending to its people is: A Palestinian convicted of financial corruption is nowhere near as worthy of public office as one who murders Jews and masterminds terrorist attacks. [I]t would be no surprise to see several Palestinian terrorists, including Barghouti and Sa'adat, in the next Palestinian parliament. Hamas and the PFLP, whose members are planning to run in the parliamentary election, have, incidentally, been officially designated as terrorist organizations by the US, the European Union, Canada, Israel and Japan. A terrorist convicted of murdering Jews is far more popular than a candidate who graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, such as former PA prime minister Salam Fayyad. The US, EU, and other countries need to make financial aid to the Palestinian conditional on not electing terrorists. This condition should be presented to the Palestinians before, not after, the election. This should not be a difficult task. All the international community has to do is remind the Palestinians of the three conditions set by the Quartet in 2006 for recognizing a Palestinian government: that all members of a future Palestinian government must be committed to non-violence, recognize Israel's right to exist and accept previous agreements signed between Israel and the Palestinians. By turning a blind eye to terrorists who plan to participate in the Palestinian elections, the international community is legitimizing terrorism as well as pulling the rug out from under all the Palestinians and other Arabs not affiliated with terrorist groups and who might be hoping that the US would lead them to better lives and peace in the region. As far as the Palestinian Central Elections Commission is concerned, Marwan Barghouti's role in murdering five Jews is not a "crime or felony against honor or integrity." Therefore, not only will he be allowed to contest the election, but as far as most Palestinians are concerned, Barghouti is actually a "hero" who deserves to become president because of his convictions for terrorism. Pictured: A poster of Barghouti at the campaign office of a group supporting his election, in Ramallah on March 3, 2021. (Photo by Abbas Momani/AFP via Getty Images) The Palestinian Central Elections Commission (CEC) recently announced that any Palestinian who wants to run in the upcoming general elections "must not be convicted of a crime or felony against honor or integrity." That is, of course, unless the "crime" includes murdering a Jew or involvement in terrorism. The announcement aims to prevent Mohammed Dahlan, an arch-rival of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, from presenting his candidacy for the presidential election, set to take place on July 31. Continue Reading Article What China's Communist Party Wants: Its New Five-Year Plan by Judith Bergman  •  March 30, 2021 at 4:00 am       The Chinese Communist Party's overarching strategy for the next five to fifteen years, apparently, is to accelerate China's rise by becoming an innovation superpower, technologically independent of the West and dominating global tech. One of the great causes of tension between China, the US and other Western countries is how the CCP carries out its goal of becoming a dominant technological power -- by using deception and theft. Chinese theft of US intellectual and other property was happening on "a scale so massive that it represents one of the largest transfers of wealth in human history." — Christopher Wray, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation, July 7, 2020. The plan calls for the acceleration of "national defense and armed forces modernization," and aims to "speed up weapons and equipment upgrading and the development of intelligentized weapons and equipment". The Chinese Communist Party's overarching strategy for the next five to fifteen years, apparently, is to accelerate China's rise by becoming an innovation superpower, technologically independent of the West and dominating global tech. Pictured: Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, at the closing session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People on March 11, 2021 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) Since General Secretary Xi Jinping became leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2012, he has spoken repeatedly of the "Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of Chinese nation". This statement translates into China's ambition of becoming the world's greatest power by 2049, thereby surpassing the US as the economic, political and military leader of the world, as pointed out by Michael Pillsbury in his 2015 book, The Hundred Year Marathon. Continue Reading Article