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Video: Raymond Ibrahim Lecture at CPAC: The Past and Present Persecution of Christians

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Video: Raymond Ibrahim Lecture at CPAC: The Past and Present Persecution of Christians by Raymond Ibrahim On September 13, I spoke at CPAC-West in Reno, Nevada. My 25-minute presentation, which follows, was titled "The Persecution of Christians: Past, Present, and Future": Read more of this post ISIS: The Latest Phase Of The Jihad by Raymond Ibrahim The best way to understand the Islamic State (ISIS) is to see it as the next phase of al-Qaeda. All Sunni Islamic jihadi groups—Boko Haram, ISIS, Taliban, al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda, even Hamas—share the same motivations based on a literal and orthodox reading of Islamic history and doctrine: resurrecting a caliphate (which existed in various forms from 632 to 1924) that implements and spreads the totality of sharia, or Islamic law.

"Turkey and Azerbaijan Ban Armenian Chess Champion" - and - " Huawei Wants the World's Next Trojan Horse to Be Chinese" From The Gatestone Institute

In this mailing: Gordon G. Chang: Huawei Wants the World's Next Trojan Horse to Be Chinese Sezen Şahin: Turkey, Azerbaijan Ban Chess Champion Huawei Wants the World's Next Trojan Horse to Be Chinese by Gordon G. Chang  •  September 30, 2019 at 5:00 am          A refusal to grant a third waiver to Huawei, the world's largest telecom networking equipment manufacturer and second-largest smartphone maker, would be the right move for the United States. After all, why should President Trump allow our companies to help Beijing steal the world's data and remotely control devices connected to the internet? On Tuesday, China's Communist Party will celebrate the 70th anniversary of its coming to power. This is not a happy time for the communists, however, as their economy, the primary basis of their legitimacy, is crumbling. In addition, the thought of licensing technology from Huawei is nothing short of hideous. The Chinese company, founded in 1987, was built on stolen Cisco Systems technology, and from all indications has never stopped stealing. Why should we pay China for tech it criminally took — and is still taking — from us? Unfortunately, these two companies [ZTE and Huawei] despite Trump's reprieves, have continued to engage in unacceptable behavior. ZTE has almost certainly violated its settlement agreement with the U.S, by installing Dell equipment in Venezuela, and Huawei is currently under investigation for additional instances of intellectual property theft. It is, therefore, time to impose "death sentences" on the pair of Chinese giants, in other words, cut both of them off from U.S. technology. More fundamentally, why should we have any contact with Huawei? Trump's instincts are to cut off all dealings. "We are not going to do business with Huawei," the president said on August 9, "It's much simpler not doing any business with Huawei." So, let's not do business with Huawei. "For China, trade with the United States is viewed as a bonanza to acquire — steal — American technology and bilk our people out of hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of jobs. Any compromise with Beijing would, in the long-run, be to America's disadvantage." — Brandon Weichert, tech expert, publisher of The Weichert Report. We did not win the Cold War by enriching the Soviet Union. We should not try to enrich China now. China's Huawei Technologies, founded in 1987, was built on stolen Cisco Systems technology, and from all indications Huawei has never stopped stealing. Why should we pay China for technology it criminally took — and is still taking — from us? Pictured: Huawei's Bantian campus in Shenzhen, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) Rob Strayer, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Cyber and International Communications Policy, told reporters in Brussels on September 26 that the Trump administration is unlikely to grant another 90-day blanket waiver for transactions with China's Huawei Technologies. A 90-day waiver from Commerce Department prohibitions, the second granted, will expire November 19. A refusal to grant a third waiver to the Chinese company, the world's largest telecom networking equipment manufacturer and second-largest smartphone maker, would be the right move for the United States. After all, why should President Trump allow our companies to help Beijing steal the world's data and remotely control devices connected to the internet? Continue Reading Article Turkey, Azerbaijan Ban Chess Champion by Sezen Şahin  •  September 30, 2019 at 4:00 am          The tournament that three-time Armenian chess champion, Maria Gevorgyan, was invited to attend -- and from which her invitation was subsequently withdrawn -- was the 2019 Sivas Buruciye Chess Open, which was held August 19-24. In a letter of complaint to the Lausanne, Switzerland-based International Chess Federation (FIDE), MP Mkhitar Hayrapetyan... demanded that FIDE take action.... The investigation is still ongoing. The solution to the persecution of Armenians in Turkey and Azerbaijan lies in the victory of critical thinking and human rights over dogma and political corruption in those countries. For there to be a chance of this happening, however, Turkey and Azerbaijan should be governed not by dictatorships that spread hate-filled propaganda, but by people who participate in a true democracy with equal human rights for all. The banning of three-time Armenian chess champion, Maria Gevorgyan, from an international tournament in Turkey -- due to pressure by the Azerbaijani delegation -- highlights the discrimination and persecution that Armenians continue suffer in Turkey and Azerbaijan. Pictured: Gevorgyan in 2014. (Image source: Chesspics/Wikimedia Commons) The banning of three-time Armenian chess champion, Maria Gevorgyan, from an international tournament in Turkey -- due to pressure by the Azerbaijani delegation -- highlights the discrimination and persecution that Armenians continue suffer in Turkey and Azerbaijan. The tournament that Gevorgyan was invited to attend -- and from which her invitation was subsequently withdrawn -- was the 2019 Sivas Buruciye Chess Open, which was held August 19-24. In a recent interview with Gatestone, Gevorgyan recalled how she learned, ten days before the event, that she was no longer welcome to attend: "While I was talking about the tickets and other arrangements with a Turkish organizer, he sent me a WhatsApp message informing me that he had been told by Azerbaijani players that they would not participate if an Armenian player was there. He then announced that my tickets and accommodation were being canceled." Continue Reading Article

Days Before Ukraine Whistleblower Complaint Was Declassified, Leftist Intelligence Agents Changed Disclosure Form Rules Proving That President Trump Was Set Up

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Days Before Ukraine Whistleblower Complaint Was Declassified, Leftist Intelligence Agents Changed Disclosure Form Rules Proving That President Trump Was Set Up by Geoffrey Grider The anti-Trump complaint also made several false claims that have been directly refuted and debunked. The anti-Trump complaint also made several false claims that have been directly refuted and debunked. With each passing day, the stink of this pathetic and easily disproved impeachment attack on President Trump rises higher and higher. Now we find out that mere days before the Ukraine whistleblower complaint was declassified, the rules for whistleblowing were changed from the complainant having to have witnessed it first hand, to now only having had to have 'heard it' from a second or third hand party source. The newly-revised 'Disclosure of Urgent Concern' form was uploaded on September 24, 2019 at 4:25 PM, and with the revisions, the Ukraine whistleblower could now file a complaint based on having zero first hand evidence of any kind. If you grew up watching Martin Scorsese movies about the Mafia, then you know what happened here. It's called a setup, just like what King David did to Uriah to cover his tracks with Bathsheba. "And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die." 2 Samuel 11:14,15 (KJV) As we told you yesterday, the move by the Democrats to cancel the vote of 63,000,000 Americans with impeachment of the president is an act of civil war, and if we treat it as anything but, you and I will lose in the final outcome. If that's what you want, then by all means don't protest, stay silent, and allow the these evil people who are perpetrating this crime against us to prosper. But if you are a patriot, if you're one of the 63 million who voted for Trump, now is the time to rise up. Tomorrow will be too late, and the enemies of America will have won. Intel Community Secretly Gutted Requirement Of First-Hand Whistleblower Knowledge FROM THE FEDERALIST: Between May 2018 and August 2019, the intelligence community secretly eliminated a requirement that whistleblowers provide direct, first-hand knowledge of alleged wrongdoings. This raises questions about the intelligence community’s behavior regarding the August submission of a whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump. The new complaint document no longer requires potential whistleblowers who wish to have their concerns expedited to Congress to have direct, first-hand knowledge of the alleged wrongdoing that they are reporting. The brand new version of the whistleblower complaint form, which was not made public until after the transcript of Trump’s July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and the complaint addressed to Congress were made public, eliminates the first-hand knowledge requirement and allows employees to file whistleblower complaints even if they have zero direct knowledge of underlying evidence and only “heard about [wrongdoing] from others.” The internal properties of the newly revised “Disclosure of Urgent Concern” form, which the intelligence community inspector general (ICIG) requires to be submitted under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA), show that the document was uploaded on September 24, 2019, at 4:25 p.m., just days before the anti-Trump complaint was declassified and released to the public. The markings on the document state that it was revised in August 2019, but no specific date of revision is disclosed. The complaint alleges that President Donald Trump broke the law during a phone call with the Ukrainian president. In his complaint, which was dated August 12, 2019, the complainant acknowledged he was “not a direct witness” to the wrongdoing he claims Trump committed. A previous version of the whistleblower complaint document, which the ICIG and DNI until recently provided to potential whistleblowers, declared that any complaint must contain only first-hand knowledge of alleged wrongdoing and that complaints that provide only hearsay, rumor, or gossip would be rejected. “The Intelligence Community Inspector General cannot transmit information via the ICPWA based on an employee’s second-hand knowledge of wrongdoing,” the previous form stated under the bolded heading “FIRST-HAND INFORMATION REQUIRED.” “This includes information received from another person, such as when an employee informs you that he/she witnessed some type of wrongdoing.” If you think that wrongdoing took place, but can provide nothing more than second-hand or unsubstantiated assertions, the Intelligence Community Inspector General will not be able to process the complaint or information for submission as an ICWPA,” the form concluded. Markings on the previous version of the Disclosure of Urgent Concern form show that it was formally approved on May 24, 2018. Here is that original Disclosure of Urgent Concern form prior to the August 2019 revision: THIS IS THE ORIGINAL FORM UNALTERED WHICH WILL NOT ALLOW THE UKRAINE WHISTLEBLOWER TO MAKE THIRD-PARTY ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT. Here is the revised Disclosure of Urgent Concern form following the August 2019 revision: THIS IS THE CHANGED FORM WHICH WILL NOW ALLOW THE UKRAINE WHISTLEBLOWER TO MAKE THIRD-PARTY ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT. The Ukraine call complaint against Trump is riddled not with evidence directly witnessed by the complainant, but with repeated references to what anonymous officials allegedly told the complainant: “I have received information from multiple U.S. Government officials,” “officials have informed me,” “officials with direct knowledge of the call informed me,” “the White House officials who told me this information,” “I was told by White House officials,” “the officials I spoke with,” “I was told that a State Department official,” “I learned from multiple U.S. officials,” “One White House official described this act,” “Based on multiple readouts of these meetings recounted to me,” “I also learned from multiple U.S. officials,” “The U.S. officials characterized this meeting,” “multiple U.S. officials told me,” “I learned from U.S. officials,” “I also learned from a U.S. official,” “several U.S. officials told me,” “I heard from multiple U.S. officials,” and “multiple U.S. officials told me.” The repeated references to information the so-called whistleblower never witnessed clearly run afoul of the original ICIG requirements for “urgent concern” submissions. The change to the “urgent concern” submission form was first highlighted on Twitter by researcher Stephen McIntyre. The complainant also cites publicly available news articles as proof of many of the allegations. “I was not a direct witness to most of the events” characterized in the document, the complainant confessed on the first page of his August 12 letter, which was addressed to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the respective chairmen of the House and Senate intelligence committees. Hearsay is generally inadmissible as evidence in U.S. federal and state courts since it violates the constitutional requirement that the accused be given the opportunity to question his accusers. The anti-Trump complaint also made several false claims that have been directly refuted and debunked. While the complaint alleged that Trump demanded that Ukraine physically return multiple servers potentially related to ongoing investigations of foreign interference in the 2016 elections, the transcript of the call between Trump and Zelensky shows that such a request was never made. The complainant also falsely alleged that Trump told Zelensky that he should keep the current prosecutor general at the time, Yuriy Lutsenko, in his current position in the country. The transcript showed that exchange also did not happen. READ MORE

Prophecy Update - Rock Harbor Church - 9/28/19

In this mailing: Con Coughlin: Rouhani Has Exposed the Futility of European Diplomacy Amir Taheri: Tehran's 'We Did, We Didn't' Game Rouhani Has Exposed the Futility of European Diplomacy by Con Coughlin  •  September 29, 2019 at 5:00 am          The reality of the delusional approach adopted by Mr Macron and other European leaders was, though, brutally exposed the moment Mr Rouhani arrived in New York. Instead of showing any sign of seeking to repair Tehran's strained relationship with the West and its allies, he instead indulged in an orgy of self-justification in which he sought to portray his country as an innocent victim of Western aggression rather than accepting, as is really the case, that Iran was the primary instigator of the latest escalation in tensions. "The security of our region shall be provided when American troops pull out." — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, UN General Assembly, September 25, 2019. This will have made for uncomfortable listening for all those European leaders who still believe that the best way to resolve the global crisis with Iran is by trying to save the nuclear deal. The reality is that, so long as Tehran remains committed to its hostile stance towards the West, there is little prospect of having a constructive relationship with Iran. The utter futility of European attempts to keep faith with the flawed Iranian nuclear deal has been brutally exposed in the wake of the uncompromising approach adopted by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during the UN General Assembly. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) The utter futility of European attempts to keep faith with the flawed Iranian nuclear deal has been brutally exposed in the wake of the uncompromising approach adopted by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during the United Nations General Assembly. In the build-up to the UN's annual jamboree of global networkers, there had been much speculation that, against a background of mounting tensions in the Gulf over Tehran's aggressive conduct, the forum might provide an opportunity to re-establish a dialogue with the ayatollahs. To this end French President Emmanuel Macron has, in particular, been actively trying to broker a diplomatic rapprochement between Tehran and Washington, to the extent it was even suggested that a bilateral meeting might be possible between US President Donald Trump and Mr Rouhani. Continue Reading Article Tehran's 'We Did, We Didn't' Game by Amir Taheri  •  September 29, 2019 at 4:00 am          For four decades, the mullahs have successfully practiced their "do-and-deny" tactic thanks to the indulgence, not to say cowardice, of Western leaders and the pathetic anti-Americanism of some Western pseudo-intellectuals. Western anti-American intellectuals who become apologists for the mullahs are victims of their inability to conceive of a situation in which, while America may be bad, its adversary may be worse. Then we had America versus the Third Reich. Later, America vs. the Soviet Empire, vs. the Vietcong and Khmer Rouge, vs. the Afghan Taliban, vs. Saddam Hussein. In every case, even if America was not the shining city on the hill, its adversary at the time was much worse. Apologists for the Islamic Republic do not do it a service. By endorsing its illusions and shielding it against deserved criticism, they encourage its worst tendencies -- tendencies that could cost Iran and the region more than they imagine. For four decades, Iran's mullahs have successfully practiced their "do-and-deny" tactic thanks to the indulgence, not to say cowardice, of Western leaders and the pathetic anti-Americanism of some Western pseudo-intellectuals. Pictured: Iran's "Supreme Leader" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (left) and President Hassan Rouhani. (Image source: khamenei.ir) How to take credit for a mischief you have committed but do not wish to own up to? This is the dilemma Tehran apologists face when discussing the latest shenanigans in the region, including missile and drone attacks on Saudi oil installations. On the one hand they want to take credit for the attacks and cast the Khomeinist regime as a mighty power capable of giving as good as it takes in a duel against the American "Great Satan." They try to cast Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as the little Tom Thumb taking on Donald Trump as the giant of the folk tale. On the other hand, they try to cast Iran as an innocent victim, highlight the sufferings of babies supposedly left without powdered milk and old women running out of medication. Continue Reading Article

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