VIDEO: Trump Touts ‘Rocket Ship’ Recovery Amid Surprise Job Rebound

VIDEO: Trump touts U.S. job rates, calls for shift in coronavirus strategy to end all lockdowns


President Donald Trump touted a nascent economic comeback Friday, as a resurgence of 2.5 million jobs were added in May, marking what could be a turnaround from the economic hemorrhaging caused by the COVID-19 shutdown.

“We’ve been talking about a ‘V.’ This is far better than a ‘V.’ This is a rocket ship,” Trump said in the Rose Garden, surrounded by members of his administration.

The “V” was a reference to an economy that could bounce back to where it was before the nationwide quarantine and accompanying economic free fall, as opposed to a “U”-shaped recovery, where it would take the economy longer to fully come back, or an “L”-shaped recovery, in which the economy would not recover for an extended period of time.

The nation’s unemployment rate is still at 13.3%, about 10 percentage points higher than the February rate before the lockdowns. But it’s down from 14.7%, after wide speculation the jobless numbers could hit 20%.


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Trump said the best is yet to come, because many states—including California and New York, which represent a huge part of the nation’s economy—remain closed. He stressed the economy was rebounding despite the “China plague,” referring to the coronavirus pandemic that originated in Wuhan, China.

“This was an important day, because this shows what we’ve been doing is right,” the president said. “The reason it’s been and is so good is because the body was strong. Our body was so powerful that we could actually close our country, save millions of lives, stop people very early on from China from coming in.”

Trump said the country is moving forward on developing a vaccine for the coronavirus and credited the states of Florida and Georgia for reopening relatively quickly, while encouraging more states to do the same.

“It’s extremely important to remember that many of our states are closed or almost closed,” he said. “Some of the big ones, New York, New Jersey, they’ll start. They’re starting now to get open, I hope.”

Trump signed the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act, a new bipartisan bill that gave more flexibility to employers to access government loans established by the original Paycheck Protection Program that was established in an earlier aid package. The program was designed to avoid laying off employees and to keep their businesses afloat.

As he was signing the new legislation, a reporter noted that unemployment increased 0.1% for African Americans and by 0.5% for Asian Americans.

“Excuse me. I’d like to sign this bill,” Trump said.

The president briefly addressed the unrest in the streets across the nation arising from the death of George Floyd, the black man who died in police custody on May 25, setting off ongoing demonstrations and rioting.

Invoking Floyd, the president stressed that an economic comeback is good news for the entire country.

“Hopefully, George is looking down right now and saying, ‘There’s a great thing happening for our country,’” he said.

Employment soared in the leisure and hospitality industries by 1.2 million jobs, the White House said. That was a sector among the hardest hit as people were homebound by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. The construction industry added 464,000 jobs. Education and health services added 424,000, the retail trade added 368,000, and manufacturing added 225,000 jobs.

There were 15.3 million people on temporary layoff in May, in addition to almost 5 million people who had temporarily lost their jobs, but were counted as employed but “not at work for other reasons,” according to the White House breakdown of the Labor Department’s numbers.

The expectation is that as more states reopen, the trend will continue that laid-off workers will get their jobs back.

The number of Americans moving from “not employed” to “not in the labor force” actually remained about the same, at 4.4 million from April to May, in line with the average 12 months before March, according to the White House.

“We’ll go back to having the greatest economy anywhere in the world, nothing close, and I think we’re going to have a very good upcoming few months,” the president said. “I think you’re going to have a very good August, very good July, but a spectacular, maybe spectacular September.”

Average weekly work hours increased for private sector employees by 0.5% to 34.7 hours—which is the highest level since 2006. Further, 73% of small businesses are now open again, which is up from the pandemic low of 52%.

“The only thing that can stop us is bad policy,” Trump said. “Frankly, left-wing, bad policy of raising taxes and Green New Deals.”

COLUMN BY

Fred Lucas

Fred Lucas is the White House correspondent for The Daily Signal and co-host of “The Right Side of History” podcast. Lucas is also the author of “Tainted by Suspicion: The Secret Deals and Electoral Chaos of Disputed Presidential Elections.” Send an email to Fred. Twitter: @FredLucasWH.

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BROOKLYN: Muslim migrant slashes cop in neck, probed for links to jihad terror groups

“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4)

“Man who slashed Brooklyn cop in neck probed for terror links: sources,” by Wes Parnell, Rocco Parascandola, Graham Rayman and Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, June 4, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A man shot by police after he slashed an officer in the neck in Brooklyn is being investigated for possible links to terrorism, police sources said Thursday.

The suspect, 20-year-old Dzenan Camovic, has no criminal history — but the Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating his background, sources said, and whether he is linked to ISIS or other terror groups….

Camovic is an immigrant, possibly from Bosnia, officials and neighbors of the suspect said.

All three of the cops wounded in the clash with Camovic were also immigrants, Mayor de Blasio said….

Federal agents on Thursday raided Camovic’s home on E. 22nd St. near Newkirk Ave. in Flatbush — roughly a mile from the fracas — as stunned neighbors looked on.

“I was shocked to hear that he stabbed a police officer and then they shot him and he’s still alive, it’s amazing,” said neighbor David Song. “He seemed so quiet and like a nice guy. I don’t know what made him come out like that. He never seemed angry.”

The suspect, 20-year-old Dzenan Camovic, has no criminal history — but the Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating his background, sources said, and whether he is linked to ISIS or other terror groups.

Camovic was critically wounded by police gunfire late Wednesday night after slashing Officer Yayonfrant Jean Pierre in the neck in what de Blasio called an “absolutely unprovoked attack.”…

The two shot cops were identified by authorities as Officers Randy Ramnarine and Dexter Chiu….

A relative of the suspect, who declined to give his name, said terrorist ties are out of the question.

“Absolutely not,” the relative said.

“I have the utmost respect for law enforcement, but it’s easy to accuse a Muslim of terrorism. It’s the first offense that comes to mind when someone mentions Muslim. He might have been attacked yesterday. He could have been provoked, and he might have mentioned, like anyone would mention, God. He might have said Allah, but no one knows. I just hope law enforcement will do their due diligence.”…

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VIDEO: Where is the media outrage on these deaths and shootings?

All Americans were rightly sickened by the brutal death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week, President Trump says. “My administration is fully committed that, for George and his family, justice will be served. He will not have died in vain.”

Four days ago, another African-American man was killed, this time gunned down while standing outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, California.

Dave Patrick Underwood isn’t a household name. His death didn’t make nearly as many headlines. But his life mattered, too, and his murder should sicken every American.

Underwood was a law enforcement officer in the Federal Protective Service. He and a colleague were standing guard when the gunshots came, killing Underwood and sending his fellow officer to the hospital in critical condition. Oakland’s interim police chief says the shooting was most likely an attack that deliberately targeted uniformed officers.

All across America, violent domestic terrorists have exploited the real hurt and pain felt by thousands of peaceful protesters. The need to save innocent lives and protect our most vulnerable communities from these criminals should be obvious to every peace-loving citizen. Yet media talking heads and opportunistic politicians would rather keep exploiting fear instead of solving the problem and restoring order. That’s unacceptable.

“If a city or a state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them,” President Trump said in an address last night.

Ending domestic terrorism shouldn’t be a partisan issue that Democrats leave to Republicans. Neither should loudly supporting the thousands of decent, brave law enforcement officers who put themselves on the line every night to keep us safe.

Violence against police officers is an affront to everything America stands for. Stories about the assaults against them over the past week need to be told, even if corporate media executives decide that it isn’t the “right” narrative to push:

How does any of this help our nation heal from the tragedy in Minnesota?

It doesn’t. No American, from any community, should ever feel unsafe on our streets—and that includes those who risk their lives to protect us. The rule of law applies to everyone, from bad cops who abuse their power to violent rioters who attack the police.

President Trump wants justice for all, with no exceptions. The actions he announced last night will bring order to our streets and get us closer to making sure that happens.

Vox chooses to lie about the President instead of shining a light on violence.

WATCHPresident Trump’s address to the country last night

Is it anti-democratic for Israeli MKs to be required to pledge loyalty to the state?

Contrary to what critics might argue, pledges of loyalty are mandated by western political tradition. Opinion.


After the last Israeli election and before the installation of the current unity government, the Joint Arab List offered to support the Blue and White Alliance in forming a minority government and excluding PM Netanyahu and the right-wing block. In return, it was offered among other things the chair of the Knesset Labor, Welfare and Health Committee, which provides assistance for disabled IDF veterans and victims of terrorism.

This proposed deal struck many as incongruent, if not Kafkaesque, considering that some Joint List members have praised terrorists, engaged in anti-Zionist rhetoric, and demanded an Arab “right of return” intended to outnumber Jews in the Jewish state. The empowerment of those members who deprecate the country they were elected to serve begs the question of whether the current MK pledge “to bear allegiance to the State of Israel and faithfully to discharge my mandate in the Knesset” adequately reflects a commitment to national values.

The left opposes the concept of loyalty oaths, while the right has in the past demanded them as a condition for citizenship. The Knesset debated loyalty oaths in 2010 and penalties for treason in 2011 to much international consternation. Loyalty and seditious speech remain issues; and patriotism in government – if nowhere else – is relevant when any parliamentarian expresses support for those who engage in terror.

Uproar ensues whenever Israelis debate national loyalty or penalties for sedition, which critics claim weaken democracy. But such measures are neither anti-democratic nor uncommon. They do not contravene the principles establishing Israel as a Jewish nation in the ancient homeland while guaranteeing the rights of all citizens.

Leftists condemn Israel’s Jewishness as exclusionary, but they will not similarly criticize forty-seven Muslim-majority states (including twenty-two Arab nations) where Islam is the official religion, while ethnic and religious minorities are often persecuted, denied equal status, or excluded from privileges of citizenship.

While Israel is certainly a democracy, she is also a national homeland founded upon Jewish values and historical antecedents. Opponents have argued that mandatory oaths would compromise the rights of non-Jewish Israelis and often cite the U.S. Constitution as the gold standard for comparative precedent. The analogy is misdirected, however, because the Constitution does not prohibit mandatory declarations to promote loyalty or restrictions to protect national security.

Indeed, American courts have upheld speech restrictions during wartime and have affirmed mandatory oaths. And the Supreme Court has periodically let stand limited restrictions on civil liberties during times of national emergency.

Governmental authority to safeguard public health and welfare by limiting certain speech has long been recognized under American law. Writing for the Supreme Court in “Shenk v. U.S.,” for example, Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1919 observed that free speech does not include the right to “falsely shout fire in a theatre…”

The Supreme Court has also upheld speech limitations when necessary to preserve public order. However, government’s ability to restrict the content of speech is generally subject to “strict scrutiny”– the highest standard of judicial review – which is used to evaluate statutes or executive orders pertaining to content, but not those affecting the time, place, or manner of speech.

The earliest American laws regulating speech were the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, which were enacted to restrain or prevent anti-government agitation during an undeclared naval war with France. Though most such statutes expired by their terms, the “Alien Enemies Act” remained in effect to permit the apprehension and deportation of hostile resident aliens with little or no due process.

The U.S. government also has the power to demand declarations of loyalty. As a condition for naturalization, for example, immigrants must execute a detailed pledge stating:

“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me G-d.”

In addition, loyalty oaths are constitutionally required for government service and are arguably broader in scope than the Knesset oath provided in the Basic Laws. Specifically, Article VI, Clause 3 of the Constitution requires that:

“The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”

Swearing to “be bound…to support this Constitution” requires one to embrace all inalienable rights and values included in it. A similar affirmation is required for U.S. military personnel, who must swear to defend the Constitution.

Thus, contrary to what critics of required affirmations or speech restrictions might argue, both are mandated by western political tradition.

The need to restrict or compel speech is greatly influenced by particularized national experiences. Loyalty pledges in the US – an immigrant nation – are required for naturalization, government office, or military service, while anti-sedition laws address national threats during wartime or civil emergencies.

Israel exists in a perpetual state of the extraordinary, facing constant threats from without and within. In deprecating speech requirements or restrictions altogether, critics would apply a higher standard to Israel than to other democracies.

Considering the history of western speech regulation (including European hate-speech laws) and Israel’s unparalleled existential concerns, the issue is not whether it can require declarations of allegiance, but whether it should and, if so, what form they should take. And in crafting appropriate oaths – even if only for elected officials – it seems no less reasonable to acknowledge Israel’s raison d’etre as a Jewish homeland than for the American citizenship pledge to demand affirmation of the Constitution and by implication its values.

Those who oppose such oaths based on the belief that Israel should be “bi-national” (i.e., not Jewish) conveniently ignore Mideast demographic realities. Muslim and Arab states comprise the regional majority and none are multinational. Whereas bi-nationalism may have been a utopian ideal of intellectual theoreticians like Ahad Ha-am (Asher Ginsberg) during the pre-statehood period, it is just as unworkable in the Mideast today as it was in the Balkans a century ago.

Western governments clearly have a history of demanding loyalty, but the formula and scope of any pledge must perforce be weighed against the essential freedoms of democracy.

Those who question whether similar goals could be served by laws discouraging seditious speech should also look to the American experience for example. Members of Congress would face serious consequences for abetting enemies-of-state during wartime, irrespective of the daunting judicial standard for validating governmental speech restrictions. Openly supporting Germany during World War II or the USSR during the Cold War from the chambers of Congress would have been unthinkable. And yet some politicians in Israel have felt free to praise terrorists.

It seems that freedom of speech is actually broader in Israel than the U.S.

Though governmental intrusion should never be taken lightly, there is little doubt that democracies often enact laws to promote loyalty and punish seditious or hateful expression. And while mandatory oaths or speech restrictions may or may not be advisable, their implementation is a political question, not a legal one.

The availability of civil liberties is what distinguishes Israel from its neighbors and thus should be maintained. But democratic tradition suggests that, at the very least, these rights can be preserved even when elected officials are held to a higher standard of conduct.

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UPDATED VIDEO ANTIFA Training: ‘One good body shot could potentially give you all the time in the world to run away’

We released a video yesterday exposing Antifa’s violent objectives when dealing with their opposition.

Now, we are launching our second #EXPOSEANTIFA installment featuring members training for combat and instructing others how to cause the most damage on the streets.

You can watch our latest video HERE.

Here are a few statements from Antifa members in our latest video:

Chris, Antifa Fight Instructor: “If you get a good liver or kidney shot, it’s pretty much crippling them. They’re going to be doubled over and in a lot of pain. If you break one of the floating ribs, which are small and right down here. Those are also very painful, it’s hard to move after that, to catch a breath. So, one good body shot could potentially give you all the time in the world to run away while they’re doubled over in pain, or really put a beating on them after that if you really want to make it personal.”

Chris, Antifa Fight Instructor: “We just kind of wanted to, in this space, reframe the idea of self-defense as not simply, you’re being acted upon by an aggressor. But it’s kind of a decision you make to fight back. In a lot of ways to say, I am human, and I occupy this space and I will not be fucked with.”

Chris, Antifa Fight Instructor: “Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, if that doesn’t knock them out, then yeah. The nose, the eyes, poke the eyes… Absolutely.”

Chris, Antifa Fight Instructor: “We call this a safe space to practice aggression. Not aggression against one another, but really just a space that, if you want to or if you want to challenge yourself, to kind of work on harnessing that kind of energy.”

This video further proves how structured Antifa is, it is an international organization with sophisticated admission requirements and paramilitary physical training.

Project Veritas will continue to expose them, especially since they have been designated as a domestic terrorist organization by President Trump. We call upon Brave Insiders to take a stand and record Antifa as they continue to plan violence across our country.

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Islamic State Celebrates the George Floyd Riots: ‘O Allah, burn them’

Once again we see Islamic State jihadis failing to realize what every non-Muslim politician in the U.S., Canada, and Europe knows: that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam and actually twists and hijacks its peaceful teachings. As with all ISIS communications, the celebrations of the riots are expressed wholly and solely in Islamic terms. Despite this, establishment counterterror analysts such as the Useful Idiot Max Abrahms will continue to insist that ISIS is un-Islamic.

“Sick ISIS thugs celebrate George Floyd riots as ‘divine retribution for treatment of Muslims,’” by Jon Lockett, The Sun, June 1, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

JUBILANT ISIS thugs are hailing the bloody George Floyd riots as ‘payback for the treatment of Muslims’.

They have been rejoicing at the outbreaks of violence across the US on the anonymous chat app Telegram.

Some twisted channels have been covering non-stop footage of the riots dubbing them a ‘civil war’ and calling for them to rapidly escalate.

One pro-ISIS user even called on muslims in the U.S. to buy guns for ‘self-defense’ reasons claiming they may be targeted during the unrest.

Another post used the hashtag #AmericaBurning and the text: ‘The anarchy in the U.S. is continuing.

‘Many police vehicles are being burned in Philadelphia, Dallas, and Los Angeles.’

Some sick ISIS supporters are calling the worrying riots and protests as ‘divine retribution.

Another chilling message read: ‘You are waking up this morning to news of the destruction of America, the dismantling of its States, and civil war.

‘May Allah give them them a taste of what they did to the Muslims in Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, and Palestine, and may be save the Muslims there from all evil.’

Another wrote: ‘The American civil war: dozens of security force vehicles were destroyed in the riots.’…

News of the sickening posts were revealed by monitors from The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

They revealed the channel Iraq News posted: ‘Praise be to Allah, the American people are rising against their government.

‘Destruction, fragmentation. America is burning. On the other hand, there are powerful storms, floods, and earthquakes….

‘Rejoice at the infidels. This is the state of those who attack Muslims and the Religion of Allah.’

Another warped ISIS supporter posted photos of the riots writing: ‘O Allah, burn them like they burned the lands of the Muslims.’…

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Brooklyn lawyer who threw Molotov cocktail into police cruiser is activist for ‘Palestinian’ jihad

And now she has brought “Palestinian” jihad tactics to the riots in the U.S. Here is some agitprop Urooj Rahman wrote in 2016 for the “Palestinian” jihad.

“Woman identified by sources as Brooklyn lawyer accused of tossing Molotov cocktail at NYPD cruiser used Bud Light bottle for incendiary device: photo,” by Rocco Parascandola and John Annese, New York Daily News, May 31, 2020:

One of the two Brooklyn lawyers accused trying to torch an NYPD cruiser in Brooklyn used a Bud Light bottle stuffed with a rag as a Molotov cocktail, according to a photo obtained Sunday by the Daily News.

Urooj Rahman, 31, was snapped in a picture holding a black and white striped scarf close to her face with one hand and the potentially fiery bottle with another as she prepared to toss it out of the passenger-side window of a van.

Rahman and Colinford Mattis, 32, a corporate lawyer and member of Community Board 5 in East New York, were charged with the attempted attack Saturday night on an empty police cruiser parked outside the 88th Precinct station house in Fort Greene.

Rahman hurled the bottle, which was filled with gasoline, into the cruiser. But the Bud Light Molotov cocktail failed to ignite, law enforcement sources said….

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While Anarchists Fail, Americans Prevail

On Christmas Eve in 2009, 60 Senate Democrats voted for Obamacare, which was finally voted on again by the House, passed and enacted into law on March 23, 2010. It was only two months into Barack Obama’s first term when they magically produced the exhaustively detailed, 2,300-page bill. But it turns out it wasn’t magic.

The leftists in Congress (Democrats all) had been working on their long-yearned-for Socialized Medicine for decades, just as they’ve worked––even harder––for the past four years to topple candidate and then President Donald J. Trump, who has so far succeeded in overturning, reforming, even eviscerating just about everything liberals/leftists/regressives have fought for, given money to, taught their children, and voted for over the past 60 years.

What we’ve learned from their treachery is that Democrats always have backup plans, contingency strategies waiting in the wings, almost as if they are counting on failure.

SO MANY PLANS, SO LITTLE TIME

Plan A was to utilize all the seditious and traitorous bad actors Barack Obama had put into the highest positions of Justice, State, Intelligence, et al––the FBI, the CIA, the DNI, the DOJ, on and on—in order to fabricate malicious stories about the president, wiretap his phones, enact sting operations on his advisers, and enlist the fake-news media to prove that candidate and then President Trump colluded with the Russians to win the 2016 election.

Result: Failure.

Plan B was to flood the airwaves––and the country––with the framing of the president’s first choice as National Security Advisor, Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, by 37 (and counting) crooked Obama Officials. In May 2020, the Justice Department dropped all charges against Flynn, but a leftist federal court judge has placed the matter on hold leading to the speculation that he is hoping that a Biden Justice Dept. will revive it. Nevertheless….

Result: Failure

Plan C was to enlist lawyer Michael Avenetti to claim that his client, call girl Stormy Daniels, had an affair with the president, a claim she has since denied –– “it never happened.” Once again the anti-Trump forces relied on the craven fake-news media to lend the accusation credibility.

Result: Failure.  

Plan D was to accuse the president of asking the Ukrainian president to look into the corruption of Presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter when Biden was VP of the U.S., a travesty that Patricia McCarthy spells out extensively, concluding, “If anyone needed to be impeached, it was virtually all of the top dogs of the Obama administration: Holder, Lynch, Rice, Power, Comey, McCabe, et al. and of course Biden as well.”

Result: Failure

Plan E was to impeach the president, supposedly for the same call to the Ukrainian president, an effort historian Victor Davis Hanson calls a coup that relied on at least 10 false premises, including phony whistleblowers who relied on “secondhand water-cooler gossip;” no finding by a special counsel of any felony, collusion or obstruction; the absence of bipartisan support; no high crimes or misdemeanors; the chronic lying of “hyper-partisan” prosecutor Cong. Adam Schiff, et al. This perversion of justice began on Jan. 16, 2020 and concluded on Feb. 5, 2020 with the president’s total acquittal.

Result: Failure

All these crashing failures were designed to be smashing successes that resulted in the removal of President Trump from office. But as I’ve both said and written on many occasions, Democrats are simply not that smart.

WHAT A COINCIDENCE!

Just as the impeachment failure was ending in February, whaddaya know? March indeed came in like a lion with the Chinese virus aka Covid-19. And there, front and center, ostensibly helping the president through this crisis, were old-time leftists Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, significantly concealing their affiliations with the vaccine fetishist Bill Gates and The Clinton Foundation. Check it out here and here.

In addition to citing doomsday mortality numbers that never materialized, their prescription for “flattening the curve” was a virtual shutdown of America:

  • Mandatory sheltering in place,
  • Closing non-essential businesses––except for the gay swingers’ clubs that Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer deemed highly essential,
  • Non-negotiable requirement to wear masks and gloves,
  • Closing all pre-schools to universities,
  • Shutting down all entertainment, sports, restaurants, parks, et al,
  • Forbidding the attendance at any house of worship
  • Cessation of all elective surgeries,
  • Closing of all airports, on and on.

Quick question: Why was there not one micro-question from any media outlet about Bill Gates’ deep involvement with the Netflix docuseries PANDEMIC, which debuted January 22, 2020, right before the Chinese virus hit?

Result: Failure

Plan F is what I call the mini-Martial Law we’ve experienced as a result of the corona virus, sort of a dress rehearsal for what the deranged and depressed Democrats still had left in their Depose-Trump, Destroy-America arsenal. Suffice it to say that the attempt by the Doctors of Doom to shut down America and destroy its economy earned the following evaluation:

Result: Failure

RUNNING OUT OF TIME

As the country began to open up and the Stock Market started to zoom upward, and as it became crystal clear to even the most rabid partisan that Joe Biden’s cognitive impairment was worsening, Democrat desperation––as evidenced by the irrational behavior and statements of their bought-and-paid-for media whores––escalated precipitously. No one who follows this circus should be surprised at what followed.

Plan G was the well-orchestrated plan––in the works for decades––either to create a false-flag incident that would mobilize radical leftwing forces to wreak their typically destructive havoc, or a genuine incident that would inspire outrage and anger from the entire public and political spectrum.

That incident took place on May 25, 2020, when 46-year-old George Floyd from Minneapolis, MN, a black man accused of passing a counterfeit $20 bill, was handcuffed and thrown face down to the ground while white police officer Derek Chauvin––who had 18 complaints against him––pressed his knee to Floyd’s neck, cutting off circulation to his carotid artery while Floyd gasped “I can’t breathe” and pleaded for his life. All this while two other officers helped to restrain Floyd and a fourth stopped onlookers from intervening.

The claim, of course, was that this was a direct result of the systemic racism of police departments throughout the U.S., an accusation writer Heather MacDonald thoroughly disproves. “For the record,” she states, “based on 2019 statistics, the chance of an unarmed black being killed by police is about 1 in every 4 million. There were 10 such incidents in 2019, and as many as half of these involved attacks on police or resisting arrest.”

Quick question: Where is the TIME magazine Person of the Year cover for the individual who took the iPhone video of this incident? Where is the nomination for this person to receive the Nobel Prize? Where are the non-stop lionizing interviews on TV?

What followed is the anarchy and chaos of the last several days and nights with the brazenly anti-Americananti-Semitic and racist Antifa and Black Lives Matter rampaging through American cities and suburbs, destroying businesses, stealing multimillions of dollars of goods, burning cars, defacing monuments, shooting people, throwing the Molotov cocktails and bricks left for them in strategic spots by their fellow thugs, and generally giving the world an up-close, three-dimensional picture of what clinicians call sociopaths and psychopaths.

To me, the entire spectacle has the distinctly noxious whiff of Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action, as spelled out by writer Scott S. Powell, who explains that, “The modus operandi of OFA comes right out of Obama’s support and sympathy for Marxism and his background as a left-wing community organizer. It’s a combination of agitation and propaganda––much like old-style Soviet agitprop, and Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. For Alinsky, the rules start with an ends-justifies-the- means quest for power, which can entail lawbreaking, deception, and concealing the true revolutionary agenda…”

Powell quotes Paul Sperry who presciently wrote in the New York Post: “Obama has an army of agitators––numbering more than 30,000––who will fight his Republican successor at every turn of his historic presidency…and command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House.”

“His OFA Washington HQ is now the nerve center that coordinates 250 offices nationwide,” Sperry continued, “which together with its Chicago-based sister organization, the Community Organizing Institute (COI), are planning to facilitate the “training [of] more than 2 million youths in Alinsky street tactics” and carry out plans “to stage 400 rallies across 42 states to attack Trump and Republicans over ObamaCare’s repeal.”

From the looks of things today, it’s clear that they put Obamacare aside for the bigger fish of national chaos and destruction.

It took a few days to coordinate pushback from the White House, but now it is apparent that the rampant thuggery is almost under control––except in the epicenter of horrific leadership, New York City and New York State. In most other places, people are exulting as more and more stores and restaurants open for business, as neighbors pitch in to repair the anarchists’ damage, and as the Stock Market continues a steady climb. Of this plan, too, it can be said:

Result: Failure

EYES & EARS

It was a good thing that the anxiety this uproar called kept people riveted to their TVs for over a week. It meant that millions upon millions of people throughout the U.S. were actual eye-witnesses to the acting-out behavior, destructive impulses, and arrogant attitudes they teach their children never to evince or emulate.

And they all realized that every single politician supporting this thuggery––EVERY.SINGLE.ONE––was a Democrat! It was a guide to tell them who NEVER to vote for in November.

With a Republican White House, Senate and House, President Trump will bring Americans the prosperity, jobs, infrastructure, foreign-policy pacts, and 21st century marvels of innovation they deserve! Unlike the pitiful record of chronic failure the Democrats have produced, we will once again be able to say:

Result: Success!

Mass gatherings — OK. Mass — not OK

If you can remember that long ago, the only protesters defying Covid-19 lockdowns in the United States were small crowds of roughnecks from flyover country waving flags and brandishing placards at State capitals.

Nonetheless, petty incidents like this still outraged bioethicists and public health experts. Writing in PennLive, a Pennsylvania blog, four of them, including the nationally-known bioethicist Art Caplan, argued that those protesters were freeloading on the sacrifices made by people who observed lockdown restrictions.

They had little sympathy for them if they fell ill with the coronavirus: “If the protesters can’t be persuaded that they are wrong and their behavior is dangerous, they should own up to their political commitment and sign and carry a pledge stating they decline all medical care to treat Covid-19, should they fall ill if resources are being rationed.”

That was then.

Now, crowds of tens of thousands have gathered to protest the appalling tragedy of the death of George Floyd in cities across the country. Most of them are ignoring social distancing. Hospitals can expect a gigantic spike in coronavirus cases.

So are these protesters freeloaders? Nope. They’re heroes – according to 1,300 public health and infectious diseases experts, along with community stakeholders. Lockdown critics may deserve to die without ventilators, but protesters against racism should be encouraged, praised and supported. The public health response “must be wholly different from the response to white protesters resisting stay-home orders”.

“White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to Covid-19,” they write. “As public health advocates, we do not condemn these gatherings as risky for Covid-19 transmission. We support them as vital to the national public health and to the threatened health specifically of Black people in the United States.”

This is a “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” moment for these American experts, the triumph of virtue-signalling over virtue. States should “prepare for an increased number of infections in the days following a protest [and should] provide increased access to testing and care for people in the affected communities, especially when they or their family members put themselves at risk by attending protests.”

A few weeks ago, violating curfews was a crime. Now it’s almost a patriotic duty.

Art Caplan even had the cheek to give a thumbs-up to the protests despite the danger. “I’m not sure they’re gonna be socially distant– that’s pretty hard in a demonstration, so I get that,” he told WGBH in Boston. “But you should be doing all that you can, and remember: it isn’t just making the group sick, it’s bringing it home, the virus.”

In other words, even though 100,000 Americans have died of Covid-19, we’re cool with a lot more of them dying.

For many Americans — already suspicious of self-righteous experts — this is sure to confirm their misgivings.

Over the past three months the economy has been trashed, millions have lost their jobs, lives have been turned upside down – on the advice of experts. In the reassuring words of an Australian expert:

Our leaders and senior public health officials are receiving some of the best medical and public health advice that is available, informed by people who have been working on the possibility of this very scenario for years. I would appeal, therefore, to all commentators that we trust in our leaders, noting that they are being advised by some of the best experts in the world.

Rather than showcasing the experts’ repudiation of racism, this letter exposes their irresponsibility. It undermines the strategy of compulsory social distancing and lockdowns. Its message is that quarantine regulations are, and probably always were, political – you’re allowed to ignore them if you support the right cause.

This is sure to infuriate people who lost their jobs (not essential) or who were prevented from going to church (not essential). But you can have rallies to protest racism (essential). Mass gatherings but not Mass. What a great election year slogan! What are these guys smoking? Are they really working for President Trump?

And one more thing.

All of those experts should fall on their knees and pray fervently for a spike. If there isn’t one, that means that their draconian policies were a gigantic con. Maybe they’ll end up looking for work along with the 35 million people whom they helped to put out of a job.

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Michael Cook

Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet. More by Michael Cook.

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Islamic Republic of Iran stands with Antifa and BLM, calls American law enforcement ‘vicious dogs’

It is significant that jihadist Iran would come out in solidarity with Antifa and Black Lives Matter. Friendship between Leftists and Islamic supremacists (the red-green axis) is an alliance of mutual convenience. Their accord is really about their mutual goal to destroy America by subversion. Back in 2017, Ayatollah Khamenei hailed Black Lives Matter, and in July 2016 Arab social media gloated over the slaughter of policemen in Dallas. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan also called for the murder of police in the name of Islam, and he invoked the Quran. The communist-rooted Black Lives Matter states on its own website:

We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.  We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).

What better group for jihadists to ally with in trying to tear down America? Yet racism against blacks is endemic in the Arab world; black slavery persists in Libya, Mauritania, Sudan and Algeria. Women are also deemed to be inferiors in Islam, and under Islamic law, homosexuals are to be murdered. All of these causes — gay rights, women’s rights, black rights — Leftists merely pretend to care about, either for votes or for more nefarious reasons.

“Iran’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement of support to violent rioters burning down homes and businesses throughout the United States” and declares “the world is standing with you.”

Not according to Nestride Yumga, an American citizen originally from Africa who said this about BLM: “Black Lives Matter is a joke. You are the racists.

“Iran Tells Leftist Rioters: ‘The World Is Standing with You,’” by Frances Martel, Breitbart, June 1, 2020:

Iran’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement of support to violent rioters burning down homes and businesses throughout the United States this weekend, asserting on Monday, “the world is standing with you.”

“The world has got heard your outcry over the state oppression,” ministry spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi said at his regular briefing on Monday. “The world is standing with you. The American regime is pursuing violence and bullying at home and abroad.”

“We are greatly regretful to see, along with people across the world, the violent scenes the U.S. police have recently unfolded. We deeply regret to see the American people, who peacefully seek respect and no more violence, are suppressed indiscriminately and met with utmost violence,” Mousavi continued, demanding police “stop violence against your people and let them breathe.”

Elsewhere, the Iranian Foreign Ministry posted a statement online claiming falsely that “vicious dogs” were attacking peaceful Americans on city streets, citing a remark by President Donald Trump claiming that said dogs would greet anyone breaching the White House fencing. There is no evidence of widespread use of police dogs during the current round of arson and looting this weekend.

“Failed [sic] to keep its promise of stopping wasting money [sic] on foreign adventurism and embattled in a Covid-19 [Chinese coronavirus] crisis of its own making, U.S. regime now employs army, vicious dogs and ominous weapons to intimidate protesters,” the ministry said, adding the U.S. should “listen to its people and change its bankrupt policies.”….

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NYC: Obama analyst who got Hamas-linked CAIR scholarship and Soros fellowship gurantees bail for bomb-throwing lawyer

All the forces arrayed against free society are coming together in these riots.

The Soros Fellowship is here. And here yet again, note that the New York Post refers to Hamas-linked CAIR as “an organization that critics call anti-Israel and supportive of terrorism but which describes itself as “America’s largest Muslim civil liberties organization.” That’s much better than most establishment media coverage, which usually goes only with how CAIR describes itself. But the Post’s Bob Frederick misleads when he suggests that CAIR’s unsavory ties are only allegations of its “critics.” CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named not by “critics,” but by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim “Honest Ibe” Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush in 2017 called for the overthrow of the U.S. government. CAIR’s national outreach manager is an open supporter of Hamas.

Why the silence on all that, Mr. Fredericks?

“Ex-analyst under Obama guarantees bail for alleged bomb-throwing lawyer,” by Bob Fredericks, New York Post, June 4, 2020:

A former intelligence analyst who worked in both the State and Defense departments during the Obama administration guaranteed bail for a New York lawyer who allegedly firebombed an NYPD vehicle — calling her “my best friend.”

Salmah Rizvi, an NYU Law grad who now works for the prestigious DC firm Ropes & Gray, helped secure the release of fellow lawyer Urooj Rahman by agreeing to be a suretor for her bail during a bail hearing in Brooklyn federal court Monday, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

“Urooj Rahman is my best friend and I am an associate at the law firm Ropes & Gray in Washington, DC. I earn $255,000 a year,” Rivzi told the judge, who sprang Rahman over prosecutors’ objections.

Rizvi’s intelligence work for the feds involved “focusing primarily on sanctioned finance operations,” according to her bio on Ropes & Gray’s website, which also touts her pro bono legal work.

She “maintains an active civil rights and human rights pro bono practice, focused on prison reform, LGBTQ equality, and immigration. She represents asylum seekers at various stages of litigation,” it says.

Her LinkedIn page says she worked for the feds from May 2008 to August 2013.

She also worked as a legal intern for the NYCLU from September 2014 to May 2015, and for the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan from September 2015 to January 2016, according to the page.

Her bio at the Islamic Scholarship Fund added that “her high-value work would often inform the President’s Daily Briefs.”

The group gave Rizvi a law school scholarship sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an organization that critics call anti-Israel and supportive of terrorism but which describes itself as “America’s largest Muslim civil liberties organization.”

Colinford Mattis and Rahman are accused of driving around near the 88th Precinct stationhouse in Fort Greene on Friday night and early Saturday and trying to pass out Molotov cocktails to crowds protesting the death of George Floyd who were clashing with police.

Shortly before 1 a.m., Rahman allegedly got out of the minivan that Mattis was driving and tossed one of the firebombs into an empty cop car near the stationhouse.

They were arrested nearby and charged federally with causing damage with fire and explosives to a cop car.

Prosecutors decried Rahman’s release during Monday’s hearing.

“We don’t believe this is the time to be releasing a bomb-thrower like the defendant into the community,” argued federal prosecutor Ian Richardson….

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BREAKING VIDEO: Project Veritas Journalist Infiltrates and Exposes Antifa

Project Veritas has been investigating a Big Tech giant for months.

However, in light of the facts facing our country, we are postponing our Big Tech release temporarily to expose the domestic terrorist organization known as Antifa.

A Veritas journalist infiltrated and recorded Antifa members.

After going through a detailed approval process to be accepted into the secretive radical group, our journalist recorded antifa members describing just how violent they are.

You can watch the video HERE.

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump announced he is designating antifa as a terrorist organization.

Following the president’s tweet, Attorney General William Barr said: “The violence instigated and carried out by antifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly.”

A few statements made by radical antifa members to our undercover journalist in their secretive meetings illustrate the group’s willingness and desire to engage in violent activity:

Nicholas Cifuni, Antifa Member: “Practice things like an eye gouge, it takes very little pressure to injure someone’s eyes.”

Nicholas Cifuni, Antifa Member: “Police are going to be like: ‘Perfect, we can prosecute these [Antifa] f**kers, look how violent they are.’ And not that we [Antifa] aren’t, but we need to f**king hide that sh*t.”

Nicholas Cifuni, Antifa Member: “Consider like, destroying your enemy. Not like delivering a really awesome right hand, right eye, left eye blow you know. It’s not boxing, it’s not kickboxing, it’s like destroying your enemy.”

Ashes, Antifa Member: “The whole goal of this, right, is to get out there and do dangerous things as safely as possible.”

Antifa is an organized and well-funded group that is attempting to sow chaos in American cities. As patriotic citizen journalists, we must expose them for who they really are.

While these events continue to unfold in our cities, Project Veritas will push forward with investigations into these radical fringe groups across our country, and we will expose the chaos they intend to unleash.

Stay tuned, more bombshell revelations are coming soon.

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Guns, Police and Fear: How Antifa is Changing the Face of America

Reports on the ground indicate that intelligence given to President Trump – that Antifa has used the unrest over the killing of Geroge Floyd by a policeman to instigate a violent insurrection – is correct.

There are, of course, other elements involved, specifically the looters who have joined Antifa and delight in smashing and burning anything in their way (and taking free stuff).

In the following report, we break down

  • What Antifa wants for America
  • How Antifa Plans to Get What They Want
  • How Antifa has sparked the loss of confidence in the government to keep Americans safe and how everyday Americans are arming themselves
  • The future of the police and our country

What Antifa Wants

Antifa is an extremist movement that demands nothing less than the destruction of America and its democratic system of government.

Put succinctly by Clarion’s National Correspondent Shireen Qudosi:

What would the country look like if their agenda was met? The details listed in the manifesto of the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement (part of the Antifa movement) below:

This poster, available for sale by an Antifa group, sums it up:

How Antifa Plans to Get What They Want

Antifa, like their “counterparts” on the Far Right, wants to stoke a race war to hasten the disintegration of America. They prey on the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, which has peaceful and violent elements.

Antifa thrives on stoking violence and instigating within the BLM movement and inventing propaganda in the name of BLM to instill fear and hate.

As journalist Laura Logan points out:

Rebel News reporter Anna Slatz, who has been covering the unrest in Washington, D.C., watched firsthand and recorded how peaceful protests turned violent after Antifa showed up after dark (however, it should be noted that due to a 7 p.m. curfew in the city, any protester on the street at night was most likely looking to participate in violent activity).

The following is a taste of the typical modus operandi of Antifa:

Based on the disinformation campaigns like the one above and others, Antifa’s strategy seems to also include getting the police to do their “dirty work.” For example, Antifa tries to provoke the police to the point where the police end up being accused of using “excessive force” or killing a rioter (whether on purpose or accidentally, it doesn’t matter to Antifa, as long as the police officer is white and the victim is black).

Once this happens, they will let the mainstream media (who has largely given them a pass) as well as Democrat politicians and celebrities (who have been paying their bail) continue working for them as they have by condemning the police and calling for the dismantling of police forces.

How Antifa has sparked the loss of confidence in the government to keep Americans safe and how everyday Americans are arming themselves

It is ironic to note that, in all but one city where the riots are occurring, Democrats — who largely share the belief of many of the protesters that American society is racist to its core — are running the show.

The Democrat mayors also largely subscribe to the “venting” philosophy. Most have made the decision to let violent protesters riot, loot and burn and told their police departments to stand down.

Antifa, which is highly organized at the local level in terms of calling the shots at the riots (and supplying rioters with bricks as well as incendiary devices), has noted the decisions of the mayors and taken advantage of them.

This has made the American public terrified as they see the violence getting closer to home.

Indeed, one Clarion source reported a 50-person lineup at a local gun store in an upscale neighborhood on Long Island:

As gun sales in May were reported to be 80 percent higher than they were in May of last year, people are noting how the police have failed them:

Another tweeted: “This is a sign that people are exercising their constitutional rights. It’s also a sign that New York’s leadership has utterly failed the people and deserves to be thrown out of office in unforgiving disgrace.” @BrianDeanWright

The future of the police force in America

While positive moments were recorded during the protests of police and peaceful demonstrators giving support to each other, news came that at least five police officers had been shot in St. Louis alone.

One, a black father, grandfather and 38-year-old retired veteran of the force, David Dorn, was left to bleed out on the street until he died. Another is in critical condition after being shot in the head.

Journalist Tucker Carlson correctly wondered what would be the long-term effect on the police force:

“How many more nights like this can we take? How many more nights like this before no one in America will serve as a police officer?” Carlson asked. “It’s not worth it. The people in charge hate you. The job doesn’t pay enough. At that point, who will enforce the laws? Who will be in charge?”

Carlson also lambasted “politicians, celebrities, corporate leaders, clergy, news anchors, professional athletes, almost every person in this country that we were raised from childhood to look up to and respect … [for] siding with the people burning police stations,”

Carlson continued:

“So the question is, how did murdering David Dorn advance the cause of racial justice? … No one explains, Biden didn’t. Meanwhile, Biden’s staff continued to send money to the rioters. Other Democrats followed in perfect sync.”

Carlson also had sharp words for CNN host Don Lemon and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., for dismissing law enforcement and, in Tlaib’s case, supporting a post calling for the defunding of the police.

Watch the full clip:

There is one thing we know with certainty about the current situation: Extremists have permanently changed the face of America. The riots of 2020 will be a watershed moment in our country’s history. There is no going back to the “old normal.” The question is, will we be able to go forward?

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The Way of Christ is Not Violent

America needs Jesus. No greater reminder of that fact can be seen than the recent protests in the streets of the nation.

The anger against what happened to George Floyd in Minneapolis last week is justified. The violence and looting that came in the wake of protests is not.

A white officer kneeled on the neck of a black man in his custody until he was dead—while being recorded on video by numerous bystanders. But protests turned violent and destructive, and now they are taking place in major cities all over the nation.

In an editorial in The Wall Street Journal (6/1/20), Robert Woodson opines, “Riots Invite Crime, Not Justice.” He adds, “Blacks end up suffering more when hostility to police makes it impossible to maintain urban order.”

Long-term positive change can be effected through peaceful means. I think, for instance, of the peaceful African-American lady who, with God’s help, led the peaceful wade-ins at Fort Lauderdale beaches in the early 1960s.

She was the late Eula Johnson, and I interviewed her in her home in 1991—30 years after the event. I was delighted to learn that she was a regular viewer of the televised Christian services of the late Dr. D. James Kennedy, for whom I worked.

Here’s what happened. Fort Lauderdale is known for its lush beaches and relaxed lifestyle. Before 1962, however, blacks were not allowed on the beaches.

They were allowed one little strip of beach, in Dania (five miles south of Fort Lauderdale), to which they had to be ferried. But they couldn’t go to the more popular beaches in the area.

One Sunday on the 4th of July, after they attended church, Eula Johnson and Dr. Von Mizell (a local physician—just the second African-American doctor in Fort Lauderdale) concluded that it was time that their community have access to those beaches too.

She told me, “We decided …to celebrate a little more independence than what we were enjoying. People were talking about independence—I felt like we had no independence. We would do our best to try to obtain some independence that we would have a right to celebrate the 4th of July.”

So she, the doctor, and a couple of others walked to the beach. Word of their bold march preceded them. Eula said, “And we could hear them broadcasting over the radio, ‘Negroes are lounging at the municipal beach in Fort Lauderdale.’ When we looked up, we saw [opposing] crowds. The ambulances were out there. Policemen were out there. The fire department was out there.”

Despite the sea of angry white faces, thankfully, no violence took place. Eula, then president of the NAACP-Broward, continued going to the beach with other blacks. And so the city of Fort Lauderdale sued her for fear of losing valuable tourist dollars. And in deciding the case, U.S. District Judge Ted Cabot not only ruled in Eula’s favor, but with a single decision, he struck down all of Fort Lauderdale’s Jim Crow laws.

What was the source of Eula’s strength? She said, “God was with me. I take my strength from the Spirit of God. God is big enough to handle it.”

While Fort Lauderdale sued her in the 1960s, later, it gave her a key to the city.

Today, one of the beachfront state parks in Fort Lauderdale where Eula was not allowed to be is now named the “Dr. Von D. Mizell-Eula Johnson State Park.”

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who did more than any single person to peacefully work toward making America become more color-blind, once said that America’s problem is not with its creed—that all men are created equal. It’s that we have not been living up to that creed.

His niece, Evangelist Alveda King, told me in an interview that we could solve much of the racial conflict in this country if we would just accept what the Bible teaches: “You go to Acts 17:26, ‘Of one blood God created all people to live together on the earth.’ Now, if we are separate races, we cannot possibly be brothers and sisters. So, we have to see ourselves as one race, one human race, created by God, and we’re supposed to live together in this world as brothers and sisters. So, that’s a fundamental truth that America has not yet embraced.”

Her Uncle Martin preached: “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

MLK also declared, “Nonviolence is not a symbol of weakness or cowardice, but as Jesus demonstrated, nonviolent resistance transforms weakness into strength and breeds courage in the face of danger.”

Positive, long-lasting change comes from doing the right thing by God’s help—not from stealing television sets from Target while claiming to “demand justice” for George Floyd. God is the key to true healing in America.

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Mysterious stacks of bricks at riot sites: A closer look

According to reports, in cities around the US bricks are being delivered to riot locations and used to destroy property.

We decided to take a closer look and here’s what we found.

Mysterious Stacks of Bricks Are Being Delivered to Numerous US Cities – More Evidence Riots Are Organized

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