PEGGY NOONAN: FACEBOOK CONNED REPUBLICANS. BREAK THEM UP.

MUST READ: PEGGY NOONAN WROTE AN OP-ED IN THE WSJ SAYING FACEBOOK CONNED CONSERVATIVE MEDIA PUNDITS IN 2016 INTO BUYING THAT FACEBOOK WAS ON THEIR SIDE. NOW THEY MUST BE BROKEN UP AND REGULATED.

I EDITED FOR LENGTH AND ADDED MY OWN THOUGHTS.

Noonan says, that in 2016, she was invited by Mark Zuckerberg’s office to a meeting, along with 17 other conservative media pundits, to "allegedly" combat systemic anti-conservative political bias at the company. Instead, what they did was turn Republicans against each other and conned them all.

According to a Facebook employee who planned the meeting, part of the goal was to bring in a group of conservatives who were certain to fight with one another.

They made sure to have libertarians who wouldn’t want to regulate Facebook, using the line that a private company can do what it wants, and partisans who would.

Another goal was to make sure the attendees were “bored to death” by a technical presentation after Zuckerberg and Sandberg had addressed the group. Another goal was to uncover new ways to hamstring the right on Facebook.

The power went out, and the room got uncomfortably hot. But the meeting served its purpose.

Afterward, Glenn Beck, one of the invitees, wrote an glowing essay about the meeting, praising Zuckerberg. “I asked him if Facebook, now or in the future, would be an open platform for the sharing of all ideas or a curator of content. Without hesitation, with clarity and boldness, Mark said there is only one Facebook and one path forward: ‘We are an open platform.’”

So the whole meeting was a set-up to co-opt the Right. Never were pawns so happily used.

In the face of today's anti-trust talk to rein in the power of Big Tech -- Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple are spending tens of millions of dollars to build a D-Day army of lobbyists.

Break them up. Regulate them. Declare them to be what they’ve so successfully become: once a pleasure, now a utility.

It all depends on Congress, which has been too stupid to move in the past and is too stupid to move competently now. That’s what’s slowed those of us who want reform, knowing how badly they’d do it. Do it incompetently, but do something.

Why are Republicans so slow to lead? Josh Hawley says “the dominance of big tech” is a “big problem.” They “may be more socially powerful than the trusts of the Roosevelt era, and yet they still operate like a black box.”

He’s right.

But I read about lobbyists coming at Republican congressional leaders and I think, it’s going to be like Mr. Zuckerberg’s meeting with the conservatives in 2016. A tech god will give them some attention, some respect, and they’ll fold like a cheap suit.

If they are as stupid and unserious as their critics take them to be, they will go to the meeting and be used. They should say no and hit send.

This notion that Facebook is an open, neutral platform is almost like a religious tenet inside the company. When new recruits come in, they are treated to an orientation lecture who tells them Facebook is an entirely new communications platform for the 21st century, as the telephone was for the 20th.

If that’s true that Facebook is to the 21st century at the telephone was to the 20th — and I think it pretty much is — then right there is the argument that it’s a utility, and therefore subject to regulation.

I don’t believe the government should be telling Facebook what it can and can’t post (e.g., forcing it to have a quota of conservative posts). But I do think that the government has to take seriously the monopolistic role Facebook plays in the public discourse.

It’s not just Facebook. YouTube is like this too. If YouTube doesn’t like what you’re doing, they can ban you, or demonetize you. And then where are you?

This is likely to fall disproportionately on conservatives, but there’s no guarantee that certain kinds of progressives won’t feel the pressure some day. Americans should ask themselves whether they want the values of Silicon Valley to control the major means of discourse.

Standard conservatives and libertarians are arguing, on principle, that the state has no business telling private businesses what to do, even if it disadvantages conservatives. I can admire their sticking to principle, but this is an example where free-market dogma doesn’t match reality.

The Silicon Valley bigs are gathering all kinds of personal data, and exploiting it for profit. There has never been a business like this one, one that poses such extraordinary dangers of personal and political liberty. This is not merely about freedom of expression. Facebook, Google, and the others are heavily involved in "behavior modification."

Don’t you realize that all of this is going to be used against you, sooner or later?

Clinton’s Telecommunications Act of 1996, along with Reagan’s repeal of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, totally upended the rules that had kept America’s broadcast industry competitive, and would have presumably done the same for cable and internet.

Consolidation (monopolization in new dress) has been the name of the game ever since, which effectively killed local radio, local newspapers, diversity in the music industry and journalism across the board. At the same time it allowed big conglomerates to effectively take over TV and radio, newspapers, and entertainment in general, as well as cable and social media.

This is not just a problem for America, these companies pose a global threat. They have more power and influence than any past Pope, Chinese emperor or Ottoman sultan ever had. This will be a test of every state in the world on how to deal with this massive problem.

You can’t have a free market without a policeman. If the government does not protect competition and prevent or break up monopolies, it leads straight to Oligarchy. Which is where we are now. Monopolists get really seriously big time rich. Then they buy Congress and the government. Which is what they've done. Then they own us all.

HEY PEGGY NOONAN, WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US ALL THIS IN 2016? BECAUSE IT DIDN'T AFFECT YOU THEN AND YOU DIDN'T CARE OR HAVE THE FORESIGHT TO SEE IT. WE KNEW IT WAS COMING. YOU DID NOT. WE LIVE IT EVERYDAY.

On June 2, one week before Peggy Noonan's op-ed, President Trump tweeted: "Peggy Noonan, the simplistic writer for Trump Haters all, is stuck in the past glory of Reagan and has no idea what is happening with the Radical Left Democrats, or how vicious and desperate they are. Mueller had to correct his ridiculous statement, Peggy never understood it!"

Looks like he goaded her into finally writing something constructive!

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/facebook-peggy-noonan-imperious-twerp-mark-zuckerberg-caesar/

TEENAGER CJ PEARSON LOST HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH GRANDPARENTS OVER POLITICS.

TEENAGER CJ PEARSON SAYS HE HAS LOST HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS LIBERAL GRANDPARENTS OVER HIS CONSERVATIVISM.

CJ PEARSON: "For five years I have made a name for myself as a proponent of conservatism and a supporter of President Trump. A young, black male with a set of principles that count as a rarity within the community from which I hail.

For the past five years I have watched as my relationship with my grandparents deteriorated. Bonds which I believed to be life-long are fading for no reason other than my politics.

I come from a house divided. Not only by political ideology and affiliation, but by generation. Both my grandparents – who have raised me since birth – are proud, card-carrying Democrats.

My grandparents grew up in a time in which blackness inherently meant liberalism, or leftism. A time when the color of their skin dictated their politics. We no longer live in such a time.

I refuse to allow the box that society put them in to hold me captive as well. Trump supporters are brutalized in public. Right-leaning personalities are targeted on social media. People are struggling to make ends meet because of liberal intolerance.

But for everything gained – from opportunity to notoriety – it has not come without a hefty price. The single biggest casualty is my relationship with two people who I love more than anything: my grandparents."

WHILE SAD, THE 2016 ELECTION EXPOSED THE TRULY INTOLERANT PEOPLE FOR WHO THEY REALLY ARE. TURNS OUT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE WAS A LIE!

COURAGEOUS PEOPLE LIKE CJ, WHO STAND UP AND SPEAK OUT REGARDLESS OF WHAT OTHER HUMANS THINK, ARE MY HEROES.

REAL RELATIONSHIPS BEAT SUPERFICIAL POLITICALLY CORRECT PANDERING EVERY DAMN DAY.

HOW THE DAYCARE FRAUD SCAM REALLY WORKS IN MINNESOTA.

Minnesota, remember the daycare fraud investigation from Fox 9 that revealed suitcases full of cash were leaving the Minneapolis airport for North Africa and the Middle East? Many wondered just how the daycare fraud is perpetrated. Here's what I learned:

1) The so-called "working" parents will apply for daycare assistance for each child. That amounts to a benefit of roughly $1,000 per month, per child. That means a family with 4 children will receive a daycare benefit of $4,000 per month or $48,000 per year, paid for by Minnesota taxpayers.

2) Another "community" member will open a daycare facility. They will hire the MOTHER of the 4 children as an "employee."

3) The mother will work at the daycare facility for minimum wage for a maximum of 25 hours per week caring for HER OWN CHILDREN so that she can prove she is "working" and qualifies for daycare assistance.

4) The daycare facility will bill the state $4,000 a month for caring for her 4 children - and pay the mother $400 a month in income for caring for HER OWN CHILDREN - and pocket the rest. Often, much of that money will be sent back to their country of origin. Some critics believe the parents receive additional kick-backs for their participation. Or, sometimes, there aren't ANY children AT ALL...the facility is empty...and the state is billed for non-existent children.

5) Because the mother works only 25 hours a week, she is still entitled to free healthcare through Medicaid or ObamaCare, free food stamps, cash assistance, daycare assistance and subsidized housing for up to 10 years. Meanwhile, Minnesota-born citizens wait in line.

6) The daycare facility will often build a kitchen and call it a "restaurant" and hire workers (mothers of more children who receive free daycare) to feed all the families.

7) The daycare facilities are not open to "everybody" and are often full.

8) If the family has subsidized housing, the low wage she is being paid at the "daycare" facility will ensure they are qualified to continue to receive subsidized housing or Section 8 FOREVER.

9) New refugees are trained in on the scheme when they arrive and are taught how to manipulate and maximize the system. This is an international scam - which has been going on in Australia and the UK for over a decade. Minnesota spends $13 billion on welfare benefits every year, and some $250 million of that is just on daycare assistance alone.

10) Ilhan Omar and Keith Ellison, as well as the Democrat and Republican leadership in Minnesota, are ALL complicit in the scheme. Lawmakers refuse to investigate and avert their eyes. Left unchecked, welfare fraud will bankrupt Minnesota.

BTW, IT'S NOT JUST DAYCARE FRAUD. Foodstamp, PCA and housing fraud too. Here's some more truth about refugee housing privilege in Minnesota:

Refugee public housing residents in Minneapolis will no longer need to pay their normal monthly rent when they travel to their homelands. Instead, they will pay only $75 per month to hold their public housing units for their return. Meanwhile, native-born, low-income Minnesotans, who are on waiting lists for public housing, will just have to wait.

Abdi Warsame, a City Council member, who was born in Somalia and trained in London, told the board that refugees having to pay rent when they want to save to travel to their homelands is an unfair burden. Refugees receive federal Supplemental Security Income, which is halted when they leave the United States. The most common reasons for their travel abroad include visiting families left behind or participating in the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims are expected to make at least once.

The Minneapolis Housing Agency board now has two members from the refugee community: Mohamud Tamir and Abdullahi Isse. Wait a minute. I thought refugees were fleeing persecution. Why would they want to vacation in their homelands and how can they afford a $3,000 flight home?

Here's what a Facebook friend who worked for the Minneapolis Public Housing authority says:

"Taxpayers are paying for it in a way. The refugees often have decent paying jobs, enough so that they paid maximum public housing rent of $500 or thereabouts. Once they reached maximum rent they could stay as long as they liked and make even more money and their rent was capped at $500. So they occupy what is supposed to be low income housing, their rent is not market rate, they are taking an apartment away from a true low income family that needs it and we subsidize it (and then they get to pay $75 a month to hold that unit for them when they leave the country.) Saw it with my own eyes."

Nice huh? Come here to Minnesota as a "refugee" from another country and you get rent capped at $500, you can live there forever and then pay $75 a month to keep your unit while you fly home to visit relatives, in the country you had to flee because of "so-called persecution," on $3,000 flights. Minnesota - how did we become so stupid?

WHY PRESIDENT TRUMP HELD AN IFTAR DINNER AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

I've heard many people complain that President Trump held an Iftar dinner at the White House for Ramadan and that he shouldn't have. Here's my point of view on that, if anyone is interested. I'd love to have a discussion about this and hear all sides.

For the second year in a row, President Trump invited Foreign Ambassadors and Diplomats who work with Muslim-Majority countries on behalf of America to an Iftar dinner at the White House. He thanked them for their service and their support of America. He did not invite CAIR, or the terrorist groups the Muslim Brotherhood or Hamas, or any of the other American "Islamic" institutions. In fact, CAIR, and their mouthpieces like Ellison, Omar and Tlaib, were upset they did not receive an invitation!

How effective of a President, or a person, do you think he'd be if he told every one of the 1.7 billion Muslims in the world that he thought they were all terrorists and hated them all?

Is that what people want? I believe when we take that position - we look like the radical extremists ourselves. It's ridiculous. I get the Koran argument. I've read it but most people have not. Most Muslims in the 3rd world can't even read! They are being coached.

I believe anti-Semitism is a HUGE growing threat due to open borders, infiltration and radicalization. But, historically, the Jewish people have been persecuted by EVERYBODY - including Christians - not just Muslims. We can't ignore that truth. And every group has persecuted and conquered every other group since the beginning of time. Anyone who has truly studied history knows that for a fact. The problem is - America's schools DON'T TEACH THE TRUTH.

The modern day Islamic extremist movement is a real threat to US ALL that has been ignored and enabled by the past three administrations. The radicalization is a real threat that the media is paid to cover up. Why? Because the GOP wants cheap refugee labor and the DNC wants votes.

But, kids are not born terrorists. They are not forming these opinions on their own - they are being led by EVIL PEOPLE WHO HAVE INFILTRATED OUR COUNTRY. We need to change the leadership. Hitler was an evil German - not all Germans were evil. The KKK were evil Democrats and Christians. Not all Democrats and Christians are evil.

I believe people need to spend their time educating their neighbor on the radical extremists who are a threat to us all -- and keeping the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR out of America and out of office. Right now, in Minnesota, we have a growing threat from the most extreme sect of Islam - Salafi. Why is no one talking about that?

Every group has an extremist element whose goal is to destroy us all. I believe President Trump is well aware of the threat and proceeding the best way he knows how to protect America. And he knows it's NOT by calling all 1.7 billion Muslims in the world terrorists.

Also, some of the people I admire most converted from Islam to Christianity. Like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Shahram Hadian, Ramin Parsa and Nabeel Qureshi.

As Ayaan Hirsi Ali says: "There is ONE Islam, unreformed, but three sets of Muslims: Medina, Mecca, and reformers. The first group are the extremists and fundamentalists, the second the great mass of Muslims who just want to live their lives in peace, and the third are reformers."

"There is no conspiracy. The Medina will kill you if you leave Islam. These are the people who want me dead. Right now, the Medina have the upper hand. By Medina I don’t just mean the renegades—Islamic State, al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab, non-state actors and movements—but large groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, and more importantly, the nation-states of Qatar, Turkey & Iran. They are the core centers of Sharia Law. Their rule is marked by violence, intimidation and aggression."

The people who converted from Islam to Christianity didn't do that on their own. Somebody helped them. Somebody educated them and cared enough about them to share God's word and share the joy of LIVING FREE in America. That's something we all can do.

If you think my point of view has merit, please share it with your family, friends and congregation. We can all make a difference.

ILHAN OMAR INDOCTRINATES YOUNG GIRLS IN MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS

MINNESOTA: Here's a photo array and video clips of Ilhan Omar's recent visits to the public schools in her district. Parents were not allowed to attend. Notice there is NO diversity in the room. All the little girls are 100% covered. This is my district, Minnesota's CD5.

This is what she hopes to model for ALL of Minnesota's young women. Think it can't happen here? Sharia Law, and the veil, was forced on Iran's women in 1979. It took just 10 years to make it happen. They've been struggling ever since then, over 40 years, to be free.

Here's what two female Muslim reformist icons that I admire, and follow on Twitter, had to say about her visit. Their words. Not mine:

SHIREEN QUDOSI: "As a Muslim reformer, my concern is less with Ilhan Omar and more so with the debilitating chaos, controversy, and polarizing communication breakdown she brings. If you’re not allowed to be present as a parent, you have every right to remove your kid from the audience. That is what Islamists do: they create chaos because they thrive in chaos. Is Ilhan Omar practicing taqiyya? This is honestly sick. Be warned America. Be very warned. Your values, your culture, your America is circling the rim."
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RASHA AL AQEEDI: "I'm not disturbed by idolizing a young politician. I'm disturbed by 6-10 year old girls in full adult hijabs. Not even the strictest form of Sharia requires children to cover their hair. It's dangerous to indoctrinate little girls with the burden of modesty at such a young age or equate their sense of value to their overt Muslim appearance."

LADIES, IF THAT DOESN'T WAKE YOU UP, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL.

-Peggy Traeger Tierney

Schools featured: St Louis Park High School, Anne Sullivan Community Elementary School and St Anthony Middle School.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1122137793768108032

CARDINAL SARAH ON THE WEST'S FATAL REJECTION OF GOD AND SCRIPTURE

REGARDLESS OF YOUR FAITH - OR LACK OF - THIS IS A MUST READ EXCERPT FROM CARDINAL SARAH'S INTERVIEW ON THE WEST'S FATAL REJECTION OF GOD:

CARDINAL SARAH: I, a son of Africa, allow myself to address the West. The Church is the guardian of civilization. I am convinced that western civilization is passing at present through a mortal crisis. It has reached the extreme of self-destructive hate.

The West is blinded by science, technology, and the thirst for riches. The lure of riches, which liberalism spreads in hearts, has sedated the peoples. At the same time, the silent tragedy of abortion and euthanasia continue and pornography and gender ideology destroy children and adolescents. We are accustomed to barbarism. It doesn’t even surprise us anymore!

I want to raise a cry of alarm, which is also a cry of love. I do so with a heart full of gratitude for the Western missionaries who died in my land of Africa and who communicated to me the precious gift of faith in Jesus Christ. I want to follow their lead and receive their inheritance!

The spiritual crisis involves the entire world. But its source is in Europe. People in the West are guilty of rejecting God. They have not only rejected God. Friedrich Nietzsche, the spokesman of the West, has claimed: “God is dead!" From this comes the total rejection of fatherhood.

Western people are convinced that receiving [history] is contrary to the dignity of human persons. But civilized man is fundamentally an heir, he receives a history, a culture, a language, a name, a family. This is what distinguishes him from the barbarian.

The real cause of this refusal to claim their inheritance and this refusal of fatherhood is the rejection of God. From Him we receive our nature as man and woman.

The crisis of the Church is above all a crisis of the faith. Some want the Church to be a human and horizontal society; they want it to speak the language of the media. They want to make it popular. They urge it not to speak about God, but to throw itself body and soul into social problems: migration, ecology, dialogue, the culture of encounter, the struggle against poverty, for justice and peace.

These are of course important and vital questions before which the Church cannot shut her eyes. But a Church such as this is of interest to no one. The Church is only of interest because she allows us to encounter Jesus. We are tempted to think that our action and our ideas will save the Church. It would be better to begin by letting her save herself.

Gender ideology is a Luciferian refusal to receive a sexual nature from God. Thus some rebel against God and pointlessly mutilate themselves in order to change their sex. But in reality they do not fundamentally change anything of their structure as man or woman.

The West refuses to receive, and will accept only what it constructs for itself. This revolt is spiritual at root. It is the revolt of Satan against the gift of grace. Fundamentally, I believe that Western man refuses to be saved by God’s mercy. He refuses to receive salvation, wanting to build it for himself.

The “fundamental values” promoted by the UN are based on a rejection of God that I compare with the rich young man in the Gospel. God has looked upon the West and has loved it because it has done wonderful things. He invited it to go further, but the West turned back. It preferred the kind of riches that it owed only to itself.

Christians must be missionaries. They cannot keep the treasure of the Faith for themselves. How can we do nothing when so many souls do not know the only truth that sets us free: Jesus Christ. The goal of evangelization is not world domination, but the service of God.

Don’t forget that Christ’s victory over the world is the Cross! It is not our intention to take over the power of the world. We want that each and every soul be saved by Christ. The Church has received the mandate to proclaim salvation, which is a supernatural reality. A just society disposes souls to receive the gift of God, but it cannot give salvation.

Only Jesus saves us from sin. A society inspired by the Gospel protects the weak against the consequences of sin. Conversely, a society cut off from God quickly turns into a dictatorship and becomes a structure of sin, encouraging people toward evil. That is why we can say that there can be no just society without a place for God in the public sphere.

A state that officially espouses atheism is an unjust state. A state that relegates God to the private sphere cuts itself off from the true source of rights and justice. A state that pretends to found rights on good will alone, and does not seek to found the law on an objective order received from the Creator, risks falling into totalitarianism.

Freedom is essentially a tending toward what is good and true. The truth is meant to be known and freely embraced. A freedom that is not itself oriented and guided by truth is nonsensical. Error has no rights. Revelation is the breaking in of divine truth into our lives.

Modern man hypostatizes his freedom, making it an absolute to the point of believing that it is threatened when he accepts the truth. However, to accept the truth is the most beautiful act of freedom that man can perform.

Western man is afraid of losing his freedom by accepting the gift of true faith. He prefers to close himself up inside a freedom that is devoid of content. The act of faith is an encounter between freedom and truth.

I think that the crisis of the priesthood is one of the main factors in the crisis of the Church. We have taken away priests’ identity. We have made priests believe that they need to be efficient men. Of course, there are social factors: the crisis of the ‘60s and the sexualization of society, which rebound on the Church. The roots of this crisis are spiritual. A priest who does not pray or makes a theatre out of the sacraments, especially the Eucharist, a priest who only confesses rarely and who does not live concretely like another Christ, is cut off from the source of his own being.

We, the bishops, bear a large share of responsibility for the crisis of the priesthood. Have we been fathers to them? Have we listened to them, understood and guided them? Have we given them an example? Too often dioceses are transformed into administrative structures. There are so many meetings. The bishop should be the model for the priesthood. But we ourselves are far from being role models.

The place of a priest is on the Cross. When he celebrates Mass, he is at the source of his whole life, namely the Cross. Celibacy is a concrete means that permits us to live this mystery of the Cross in our lives. Celibacy inscribes the Cross in our very flesh. That is why celibacy is intolerable for the modern world. Celibacy is a scandal for modern people, because the Cross is a scandal.

I want to encourage priests. I want to tell them: love your priesthood! Be proud to be crucified with Christ! Do not fear the world’s hate! I want to express my affection as a father and brother for the priests of the whole world.

Today the Church is living with Christ through the outrages of the Passion. The sins of her members come back to her like strikes on the face. Some have tried to instrumentalize these sins in order to put pressure on the bishops. Some want them to adopt the judgments and language of the world. Some bishops have caved in to the pressure.

We see them calling for the abandonment of priestly celibacy or making unsound statements about homosexual acts. Should we be surprised? The Apostles themselves turned tail in the Garden of Olives. They abandoned Christ in His most difficult hour.

We must be realistic and concrete. Yes, there are sinners. Yes, there are unfaithful priests, bishops, and even cardinals who fail to observe chastity.

With regard to homosexual behaviors, let us not fall into the trap of the manipulators. There is no “homosexual problem” in the Church. There is a problem of sins and infidelity. Let us not perpetuate the vocabulary of LGBT ideology. Homosexuality does not define the identity of persons. It describes certain deviant, sinful, and perverse acts. For these acts, as for other sins, the remedies are known. We must return to Christ, and allow him to convert us.

I think we are at a turning point in the history of the Church. The Church needs a profound, radical reform that must begin by a reform of the life of her priests. Priests must be possessed by the desire for holiness, for perfection in God and fidelity to the doctrine of Him who has chosen and sent them. Their whole being and all their activities must be put to the service of sanctity. The Church is holy in herself. Our sins and our worldly concerns prevent her holiness from diffusing itself.

How could I not emphasize the threat posed by Islamism? Muslims despise the atheistic West. They take refuge in Islamism as a rejection of the consumer society that is offered to them as a religion. Can the West present them the Faith in a clear way? For that it will have to rediscover its Christian roots and identity.

To the countries of the third world, the West is held out as a paradise because it is ruled by commercial liberalism. This encourages the flow of migrants, so tragic for the identity of peoples. A West that denies its faith, its history, its roots, and its identity is destined for contempt, for death, and disappearance.

But I would like to point out that everything is prepared for a renewal. I see families, monasteries, and parishes that are like oases in the middle of a desert. It is from these oases of faith, liturgy, beauty, and silence that the West will be reborn.

We must create places where the air is breathable, or simply where the Christian life is possible. Our communities must put God in the center. Amidst the avalanche of lies, we must be able to find places where truth is not only explained but experienced. In a word, we must live the Gospel: not merely thinking about it as a utopia, but living it in a concrete way.

The Faith is like a fire, but it has to be burning in order to be transmitted to others. Watch over this sacred fire! Let it be your warmth in the heart of this winter of the West.

“If God is for us, who is against us?” (Rom 8:31). In the disaster, confusion, and darkness of our world, we find “the light that shines in the darkness” (cf. Jn 1:5): He who said “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life” (Jn 14:6).

FACEBOOK'S 2020 ELECTION INTERFERENCE SCHEME

Facebook's new scheme is to admit in writing, in your Support Inbox, that they made an error, that your post DOES NOT violate community standards, but still send you to Facebook jail with no recourse. They are calling this a "technical glitch."

That way they have a paper trail for the court that makes it look like they being responsive and unbiased against conservatives. However, you are still locked out of your account and unable to post. This is a deceptive bait and switch marketing practice which violates FTC regulations. One of many they employ.

The next time you are sent to Facebook jail, document the process and the comments in your Support Inbox, as well as your inability to post, with screenshots and video. Ted Cruz is holding Senate hearings. Devin Nunes is filing lawsuits. If you don't know how to do this, ask. It's important.

NOTE: Screenshots below show how Peggy Traeger Tierney on Facebook was blocked on 4/11 for 30 days for a pro-Israel post, Facebook then admitted in writing they got it wrong, but still won't let her post and refuse to respond to her requests for a review.

She drove down to Facebook in Iowa, a 3 hour drive, and they refused to even take her file of complaints for review. The guard at the gate told her to make a second account because Facebook will DO NOTHING to help! She has audio tape of this encounter.

When she reported the problem online, ten days later Facebook finally responded, calling it a "technical" problem. Wait until all conservatives experience the same "technical problem" before 2020. This is no joke, folks. They are stripping our rights away to win in 2020. Election interference of the highest kind.

The other tactic they are using is to "recycle" old violations to fill your inbox with numerous complaints so they can banish you for repeat violations. They are actually citing people for posts they 'REMOVED' before, reinstating the posts and then charging you with a second violation.

Last Saturday, April 20, Peggy Traeger Tierney received a warning in her Support Inbox that she violated standards against nudity. Odd, because she hasn't been able to post for two weeks. The "violation" refers to a post from July 2018 arguing against gays being put to death in Iran, with a photo of a protester in Iran carrying a sign, which Facebook said violated their standards and REMOVED 9 MONTHS AGO. Yet, somehow, the REMOVED photo has been recycled as a current violation? See what they are doing? If this happens to you, screenshot that process as well.

If we don't stand up for ourselves, NOBODY will. Peggy Traeger Tierney is working on a video of all this harassment to educate everyone on what's really going on. 

My experience welcoming President Trump to Minnesota.

"Hi everybody. I went to Burnsville to stand with fellow patriots to welcome President Trump to Minnesota. Across the street were protesters, totally organized by the Muslim Brotherhood (CAIR), holding mostly "I stand with Ilhan" signs. It was a peaceful gathering -- although several of the protesters were wearing masks and we couldn't see their faces -- which I found disconcerting because that's illegal in Minnesota at a public gathering. The police did nothing.

After Trump arrived, and we were waiting to leave, I walked over to listen to the head of CAIR, Jaylani Hussein, who was going to give an announcement about the next protest he had planned for the day. I walked up to a woman who appeared to be a liberal activist, who was carrying a sign that "All are Welcome" in America. She had, disgustingly, spent the morning pointing to a group of nice teenage boys, who supported Trump, calling them all "rapists." She was a white liberal woman -- approximately 40 years old.

I asked her if I could ask her a question. She said sure. I said are you aware that a dozen immigrants from the Congo, who just crossed the border and are being detained in Texas, are under observation for Ebola? I said are you aware that WHO has declared the Congo ground zero for the biggest outbreak of Ebola ever recorded and are concerned it will become a global health crisis and epidemic? This is on top of TB, measles and mumps outbreaks in Texas detention centers.

I politely asked her if she would welcome those folks in her home without a health examination and why she thinks it's OK to expose the people of Texas to a danger like this? Ebola has a 50-90% mortality rate. She immediately called me a "stupid bitch" and put her sign right in front of my face. Her associates surrounded me in protection and started yelling at me.

I left and walked over to listen to Hussein speak. He was rallying the troops to get over to the U of M by 5:30 to protest Jeff Sessions who was speaking at Carlton today. Hussein told his followers to tell former Attorney General Jeff Sessions that "Sessions was not welcome" in Minnesota or America!Hussein also told his followers to walk in pairs back to their cars to protect themselves from possible harm from Trump supporters. Not kidding.

A reminder, CAIR is the front group in America, for the extremist Muslim Brotherhood Party and Hamas. They pretend to be a civil rights group - they are anything but.

The woman from earlier came over to me, laughing, and held a small flag in front of my face and said: I STOLE YOUR FLAG. Seriously. She was positively giddy. She had reached into my bag and stolen my little flag. She then told me to 'GET OUT OF THERE' -- that I was not welcome. I informed her that I was an American and had no intention of leaving. I began filming Hussein's speech. She repeatedly tried to block me from doing that so I moved a dozen feet away and finished filming.

After Hussein was done speaking, I went up to her and asked her to give me my flag back. She did. She had ripped it. I asked her why she ripped the American flag if she loved America. She laughed and said it was ripped when she stole it.

Then I asked her for her name. She gave it to me. Meghan Casey https://www.facebook.com/beholdthesidhe. I checked her FB profile and she campaigned for Conley -- a Hennepin County Commissioner who won in District 4. Meghan even posted pictures of the teenage boys at the rally on her FB page and called them "current racists and future rapists." She called them out as boys from the Burnsville wrestling team.

This is defamation. I reported her post to Facebook and they did nothing. Then I sent her post to the coaches of the Burnsville High School Wrestling Team. These are sick, sick people. I already knew that. But I wanted to make sure that you did, too."

-Peg

ANTI-SEMITE ILHAN OMAR SAYS SHE'S TIRED OF AMERICANS TERRORIZING MUSLIMS AND TREATING THEM LIKE SECOND CLASS CITIZENS! SHE SAYS AMERICA VIOLATES HER BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS!

ANTI-SEMITE ILHAN OMAR SAYS SHE'S TIRED OF AMERICANS TERRORIZING MUSLIMS AND TREATING THEM LIKE SECOND CLASS CITIZENS! SHE SAYS AMERICA VIOLATES HER BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS!

Speaking at a fundraiser for the Muslim Brotherhood (HAMAS-CAIR) in Los Angeles, Ilhan Omar said Muslims in America are mistreated, that President Trump caused the New Zealand mosque attack, and that Islamists should raise hell and make people uncomfortable:

“We will not be bullied, we will not be threatened, we will not be terrorized. Many of us know that New Zealand isn’t a one-off incident. Many Muslims were holding their breath and waiting for something like this to happen. Many of us knew that this was going to happen because we have a world leader in the White House who publicly says Islam hates us. Who fuels hate against Muslims."

"It doesn’t matter how good you were if you can’t have your prayer mat and take your 15 minute break to go pray in a country that was founded on religious liberty. It doesn’t matter how good you are if you one day find yourself in a school where other religions are talked about, but when Islam is mentioned, we are only talking about terrorists and if you say something you are sent to the principal’s office.”

“So, I say, raise hell. Make people uncomfortable. Because here’s the truth, for far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen and frankly I am tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it.”

I'M TIRED OF THE PRIVILEGED AND PROTECTED RELIGION CLAIMING VICTIM HOOD. I'M TIRED OF HER CONVENIENTLY FORGETTING 9/11, THE HOLOCAUST, THE 121 RADICAL ISLAMIC TERROR GROUPS AROUND THE WORLD, THE GROWING ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE AND AMERICA AND THE GLOBAL CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE -- OVER ONE MILLION CHRISTIANS MURDERED BY ISIS.

I'M TIRED OF HER FORGETTING THAT WOMEN AND GAYS HAVE NO RIGHTS IN SOMALIA, THERE IS NO SCHOOL IN SOMALIA AND SOMALIA HAS PROVEN IT IS UNABLE TO GOVERN ITSELF FOR 59 YEARS. YET SHE SOMEHOW THINKS SHE SHOULD CHANGE AMERICA AND REMAKE IT IN HER IMAGE? KENYA IS EVEN BUILDING A WALL ALONG THE BORDER WITH SOMALIA TO KEEP OUT AL SHABAAB TERRORISTS.

I'M TIRED OF HER MAKING REPEATED ANTI-SEMITIC AND ANTI-AMERICAN REMARKS AND THEN HIDING BEHIND THE EXCUSE OF NAIVETE. THEN WHEN EXPOSED, TURNING THE NARRATIVE AROUND AND CLAIMING SHE IS THE VICTIM.

EVERYTHING SHE SAID IS A LIE. WATCH HER BODY LANGUAGE. SHE IS A TROJAN HORSE OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD - AND NOT ON AMERICA'S SIDE.

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OMAR, ERDOGAN, NEW ZEALAND, SOMALIA, THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND MINNEAPOLIS FAITH LEADERS. THE TIES THAT BIND.

OMAR, ERDOGAN, NEW ZEALAND, SOMALIA, THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND MINNEAPOLIS FAITH LEADERS. THE TIES THAT BIND.

On September 18, 2017, Ilhan Omar flew to New York City to hold a closed-door meeting with the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The press were banned from the meeting and it was almost entirely unreported. Since then, photos of the meeting surfaced on social media.

Erdogan is the defacto head of the Muslim Brotherhood Party whose self-proclaimed goal is to rebuild the Ottoman Empire and install totalitarian Sharia law throughout the world. The extremist Muslim Brotherhood Party was the inspiration for al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden's attack on 9/11. Why would Erdogan be meeting with a relatively unknown politician from Minnesota back then?

One local Minnesota paper that covers the Somali community did receive access to the Erdogan-Omar meeting. That publication is the relatively obscure Tusmo Times, a Somali paper that covers the Twin Cities metro area. Abdirahman Mukhtar, its founder and editor, wrote a story in the Somali language discussing the meeting. For reasons unknown, the piece has since been deleted by the Tusmo Times. However, a copy of the report was obtained from archive.org’s Wayback Machine.

Speaking to the Tusmo Times, Omar said that she met with Erdogan for about an hour and that the two discussed issues involving Omar’s native Somalia and issues for Somalis in Minnesota. The two also discussed investment and trade between Turkey and Somalia. The meeting ended with Erdogan asking Omar to voice her support for Erdogan. Omar not only met with Erdogan, but also with the Turkish prime minister and other senior Turkish officials.

The day the story was posted, Omar tweeted about her meeting with Erdogan, linking to the now-deleted Tusmo Times piece.

When news of the meeting surfaced, she immediately received fierce blowback on several social media platforms for propping up Erdogan, considered a ruthless dictator:

“Did you ask Erdogan about the jailed journalists? How about the 100 thousand innocent people he jailed in Turkey. Did you discuss the atrocities of the Armenian Genocide and his refusal to recognize them? What the hell is wrong with you?? He’s a DICTATOR,” critics replied.

The Erdogan-Omar meeting came on the heels of a major incident in Washington, D.C. involving the Turkish delegation. A few months earlier, Erdogan appeared to order his bodyguards to brutally attack protesters outside a Turkish diplomatic compound in the U.S. capital.

A similar incident occurred in New York just days after the Omar-Erdogan meeting, when Erdogan’s security detail roughed up demonstrators protesting Erdogan’s crimes against the Kurds.

The Erdogan-Omar meeting occurred one year following a supposed failed coup attempt, in the summer of 2016, against Erdogan. Critics, like me, believe that Erdogan faked the coup in order to round up and imprison all of those who were opposed to his extremist regime.

Erdogan weaponized the coup attempt to fire or imprison thousands of academics, police, military, faith leaders, journalists, students, and democracy activists. Over the course of Erdogan’s presidency, Turkey has abandoned its secular founding and has transitioned into an aspiring Islamist theocracy that supports terrorist groups throughout the Middle East and greater Islamic world.

Although Omar has not spoken out much about the politics of her homeland, Somalia remains a ruthless dictatorship that abuses the rights of its citizens. Omar, however, continues to endorse candidates for president there, as if the largely failed state is representative of a liberal democracy. While at the same time she fundraises for terrorist groups and blames America for all of Somalia's problems.

One month after her meeting with Erdogan, Omar thanked Turkey for delivering aid to Somalia after a series of bombings in Mogadishu by the home grown terrorist group call al-Shabaab. Somalia's Al-Shabaab has attacked neighboring Kenya so often that Kenya is building a WALL along the entire border of the two countries.

Erdogan’s administration has continuously bailed out the corrupt dictatorship in Somalia, providing its leadership with military support, economic aid, and even food rations when necessary. In late 2017, Turkey opened up a large military base in Somalia and has since given weapons and aid to Somali soldiers.

After the New Zealand shooting, while the world was told to destroy all video footage of the massacre, Turkey's President Erdogan did just the opposite.

Within 24 hours, Erdogan had compiled the footage into a number of campaign ads to air 24/7 on Turkish TV. He used the horrific footage at his campaign rallies to rile his extremist base ahead of elections on 3/31. He inspired a Turkish citizen to launch a terror attack on a Netherlands' tram. Later, we learned that the shooter was a friend to Turkey and Pakistan and had spent weeks there in 2017. Why? To rehearse? Was this all a planned event in order to re-elect Erdogan and give the New Zealand PM an excuse to confiscate guns?

Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, Ilhan Omar spent the day tweeting about how America is the cause for all of the terrorist acts committed by Somalia's al-Shabaab group and that Obama & Trump have both targeted innocent Somalians with drone strikes. Then she calls a meeting of her faith leaders and posts a picture of them "in these trying times." Know who else was at that meeting? The same Shiekr she brought to meet Erdogan in 2017. What exactly were they discussing? What will they be preaching to their followers this weekend? The same lines Erdogan is preaching to his in Turkey?

There are no coincidences in my world.

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/omar-met-erdogan/

NEW ZEALAND MASSACRE: ANOTHER DEEP STATE ENGINEERED DIVERSION

This has been a horrific month for Democrats so far. Jussie Smollett indicted on 16 felony counts. Ilhan Omar sanctioned for anti-Semitism. Mueller team falling apart. Dozens of Democrat donors indicted for college admissions bribery scheme. AOC investigated for campaign finance fraud. Manafort receives light sentence for crimes having nothing to do with Trump and NO collusion. Wall being built and national emergency stands, in spite of obstruction from both parties.

The Governor of Virginia's old yearbook reveals him in blackface after he announces he's in favor of terminating live babies after birth. CNN and Washington Post sued for $250 million for defamation by Covington Catholic kids. Cohen falls apart on the stand. Avenatti loses everything and Judge tosses Stormy's lawsuit. New Mexico compound Islamic extremists charged with terrorism. Kirsten Gillibrand outed for protecting a male aide who was abusing her female staff.

Texts show Michelle Obama tried to intervene in Jussie Smollett case. Declassified transcripts of testimony from Lisa Page show Obama obstructed justice in Clinton probe. Transcripts from Bruce Ohr show Fusion GPS committed perjury and the FBI wrongly investigated the NRA based on a fake Russia story. Transcripts from Peter Strzok show Mueller knew of Strzok's plan to take down the President & said nothing.

Counties all over the U.S. are defying Democrat attempts at gun control with their own "gun sanctuaries." Polls show Trump is making HUGE strides with the black & Hispanic communities due to policies that are putting people back to WORK and giving them real hope. Instagram (owned by Facebook) is caught removing & censoring Donald Trump Jr.'s posts. Facebook is caught removing & censoring Zero Hedge posts. A whistleblower provides documents to James O'Keefe which prove Facebook harasses and censors conservatives. 

A team comes to Minnesota to investigate Ilhan Omar's marriage to her brother for immigration fraud. Feds begin criminal investigation into Facebook for data sharing practices with Apple, Microsoft and more -- and two senior Facebook executives mysteriously leave while Facebook goes dark for a day.

So what happens? John Podesta, the DNC/Clinton/Obama long-time fixer, goes to New Zealand a week ago for a "Progressive Conference," leaves and, suddenly, a mass shooting happens at a New Zealand Mosque in a country with some of the strictest gun laws. The media call the shooter a right wing "white supremacist" shooter, who live streams it on Facebook, blames black conservative Candace Owens and writes a manifesto that sounds like something Christopher Steele or Jussie Smollett would write. Immediately, Twitter is filled with left-wing pundits blaming Donald Trump for Islamophobia and calling for gun control. 

49 people are murdered so that we look the other way. Sick. This is what they do. Every. Single. Time.

Direct quotes from the New Zealand shooter's "manifesto" that politicians and the media are spinning as right-wing. They lie. 

1) Conservatism is corporatism in disguise. I want no part of it.

2) Conservatism is dead, thank god. I am an eco-fascist by nature.

3) The nation with the closest political and social values to my own is the People’s Republic of China.

4) Dear god no I don't support Donald Trump.

5) Conservatives are milquetoast civic nationalist boomers.

ELCA hires non-Lutheran, progressive Democrat, Michelle Obama advisor to head refugee program

The ELCA's Lutheran Refugee Resettlement agency hired a progressive Democrat, non-Lutheran, and Michelle Obama's former policy Director, as its new President. That tells you all you need to know.

ELCA's Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS) is one of the largest refugee resettlement agencies in the United States along with Catholic Charities. It was originally founded in 1939 and partners with Lutheran resettlement organizations including ones in Twin Cities and St. Cloud.

These resettlement "charities" make over $6,000 profit per refugee they resettle in America. It's a huge profit center for the ELCA and the Catholic Church. President Trump's policies, limiting migration from nations that sponsor terror, have put a huge damper in their financial statements. The ELCA alone boasts of bringing 379,000, mostly Muslim, refugees to America - which translates to $2.2 billion in total revenue.

Krishani O’Mara Vignarajah will be the first non-Lutheran to lead the religious organization in the nonprofit’s 80-year history. LIRS board chairman Michael Rinehart defended the decision saying:

“In the wake of unprecedented challenges to U.S. refugee resettlement and immigration policy, the LIRS mission — to protect, embrace, and empower those we serve — is more crucial now than ever. Her background as a refugee herself could also be very valuable in her work and leadership on refugee issues."

The new president Krishanti O’Mara Vignarajah has extensive experience in Democrat politics even before her role as a policy director with Michelle Obama. She worked as a senior adviser under former Democrat presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. She ran for the Governor of Maryland in 2018 and lost.

If you don't want your church or Synagogue to bring refugees to America who share Ilhan Omar's philosophies, please tell your Pastor, Rabbi, or Priest and your congregation. If not us, who?

Five of the top nine resettlement agencies (VOLAGS) in America are Christian non-profits: Catholic Charities, ELCA Lutheran Social Services, World Relief Corporation, Church World Service, and Episcopal Migration Ministries. The other four are Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, International Rescue Committee, US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, and the Ethiopian Community Development Council.

The primary VOLAGs in Minnesota are:

-Catholic Charities

-International Institute of Minnesota

-ELCA Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota

-Minnesota Council of Churches: Refugee Services

-Arrive Ministries