Month: July 2025

The corrupt Biden clan only worship and support what laws, technology or conditions will create power and control for them.  If it means playing the Catholic or Christian card for a few sound bites, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will do it.  Hitler quoted scripture several times as Biden and Kamala have done, thinking they can control the Christian voters.  If it means screaming ‘count every American vote’ they will do it, knowing completely that counting all votes is counting millions of illegal and fabricated votes. Dominion voting systems were created to steal elections and change the votes, and their use and theft of elections have already been tracked back to Obama and Biden in 2012, stealing Florida and stealing yet again the win from Berny Sanders in the Democrat primaries. Now the election fraud, planning and frankly treason, appears to go deeper to elected DEMOCRAT officials getting large payments to look the other way as Trump votes were destroyed and changed.  What Democrat elected officials were involved and getting kickbacks? Now, Trump attorney Sydney Powell has filed a lawsuit against Gov Kemp in Georgia for doing a deal with dominion and promoting voter fraud.  This is only one of many, growing lawsuits exposing the DEM – Biden, witches brew of dominion/Smartmatic, pay offs, fraud, felonies and treason.  Expect as the lawsuits simmer and cook in the caldron, many more elected officials will float to the top of the brew, exposing their felonies and payoffs. Thank our Lord, that President Trump is a fighter, man of God and stands for our Constitution, law and honor.  If he would have submitted to the criminal take over, threats and endless media assaults, the DEMOCRAT traitors would not only steal the hugely won election from Trump and the American people, but be able to put into aggressive action the final take over meant to destroy our Constitution, Christian heritage, freedoms, capitalism and power in the world. Remember, the endless soundbite games and lies of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, acting all shocked that anyone would question their faith in one of the debates.  After all they are Catholics, so they implied.  Never mind, that both have lived immoral and un Christian lives, supporting all kinds of abortion, gay marriage, rights packages at the expense of states for illegal aliens, voting for all legal, illegal and criminals, defunding of Police departments, destroying our oil and fracking industries on and on. Almost every dictator I can think of quoted a few scriptures and pretended that God was on their side.  Adolph Hitler said he was doing God a favor by taking on the Jews who rejected Christ.  He knew how to work the religion card, along with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. What, you think only the DEMOCRAT left and media whores can call Trump Hitler?  The real truth is that the DEMOCRAT left of today, with their dementia laden poster child Joe Biden obedient and sold out media, completely reflects the principles of Hitler.  Their violent supporters, BLM, ANTIFA and other DEMOCFRAT anti Trump groups have been burning down American cities the whole year, while threatening to do way more if Trump prevails and is in another 4 years. Remember in Nazi Germany, the same thing occurred.  Jewish businesses were attacked, and burned, then people were just taken away in the middle of the night. Trump has already won this election in a huge way and God is answering the believing prayers of millions of Christians.    Watch justice unfold and the DEM – criminal left unravel. © 2020 Laurie Roth – All Rights Reserved E-Mail Laurie Roth: drljroth@aol.com Source: America and Trump are Fighting the Nazi Party and Hitler All Over Again – News With Views

 “Tapi! was created as a way to examine the erasure of indigenous spiritual practice in favour of the dominant religions of Christianity and Islam.” – Jim Chuchu

Tapi! is a short documentary that explores a formative moment in the life of a young Kenyan ritual healer, Jackson, who is one of the last practitioners of the ritual healing practice called utapishi (‘tapi’). The leaders of the local Christian church are not happy with the influence of the ritual and decide to take Jackson to court. Tapi! continues Director Jim Chuchu’s  exploration of African and black spiritualities, in this case the post-colonial erasure of indigenous ways of believing.  Written and directed by Jim Chuchu, the film received its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

The Global Search for Education is pleased to welcome Jim Chuchu Director of Tapi!

“What does it mean for a people to lose their gods?” – Jim Chuchu

Jim, what was your inspiration for creating Tapi!? 

Tapi! was created as a way to examine the erasure of indigenous spiritual practice in favour of the dominant religions of Christianity and Islam. This particular phenomenon is one of many ways in which old systems of knowledge on the continent are being set aside in a way that echo the troubling colonial frameworks that set out to ‘civilize’ or ‘modernize’ people of colour and their cultural practices. The modern influence of colonial histories in Africa is substantial and difficult to pin-point, but I think it is imperative to keep a continuous and close watch on this influence on present-day African societies.

What are the main takeaways you want for the audience on your story?

I hope that there are several different takeaways for different audiences. For non-African audiences, I hope that the film allows them to consider the still-unraveling effects of European and American history on the people of Africa. These troubled histories are not often taught to young people growing up in those societies, and the resulting unawareness creates room for new generations of citizens in the Global North to enact new oppressions, oblivious of the historical contexts into which they fall.

For African audiences, I hope that the film prompts some reflection on our contemporary ideas of African spirituality, and the interruption of indigenous spiritualities that was the result of colonial disruption and violence, and the separations caused by slavery. What does it mean for a people to lose their gods?

“Tapi! explores the idea of a broader framing of ‘queer’ that expands beyond the contemporary understanding of queerness as a framework of sexuality and gender identity to a wider frame that includes otherness, and ways of being that include indigenous spirituality and mysticism.” – Jim Chuchu

How difficult was it to get your innovative film made? How are audiences responding?

Tapi! explores the idea of a broader framing of ‘queer’ that expands beyond the contemporary understanding of queerness as a framework of sexuality and gender identity to a wider frame that includes otherness, and ways of being that include indigenous spirituality and mysticism. Otherness of all kinds, including those related to sexuality and gender identity, are treated with suspicion in Kenya, and the socio-cultural forces of conformity are deeply entrenched in the ways that Kenyans police public ways of being. Because questioning of religion, and exploration of queerness and otherness are sensitive topics in Kenya, the production of Tapi! faced one or two challenges along the way.

First, the Kenya Film Classification Board – to whom all film scripts are submitted for approval before production – asked us to strike out any mention of queerness in the script, highlighting the ways in which this state agency takes active steps to curtail cultural expression that explores topics deemed sensitive. I find this disappointing because the stifling of cultural conversations makes it difficult for societies to build consensus around the very important questions of identity and membership.

Second, casting for the film was a tricky proposition because at one point during the shoot, several extras expressed strong reservations around the thematic areas explored by the film, causing us to change our shooting schedule and drop several scenes. Thankfully, the main cast of the film were deeply committed to the story, allowing us to complete the production.

In terms of distribution, we were happy that the film was chosen to screen at the 2020 edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, which allowed us to reach a wider audience than we could locally. Our inclusion in the We Are One Global Film Festival further widened our reach, and we were very honoured to have one of our works be a part of an unprecedented global film event. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are yet to hold a screening of the film locally, so we are looking forward to a time in the future when we are able to gather an audience for physical screenings once more.

“A key question raised by the pandemic has been: what does holistic artistic practice look like in a world where the effects of increasing pressure on resources are more readily apparent?” – Jim Chuchu

How have you as a filmmaker been affected by the pandemic and in what ways are you responding? What are you working on next?

The pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have halted ongoing productions at the Nest Collective, in part because filmmaking at the scale we usually do would flout the state guidelines on social distancing and public gatherings. Additionally, some of our productions required travel, both out of town and beyond the national border. These have had to be recalibrated significantly because of border closures globally and movement restrictions. 

On a more positive note, the pandemic has caused us as a collective to critically analyze the frameworks of our artistic practice going forward. A key question raised by the pandemic has been: what does holistic artistic practice look like in a world where the effects of increasing pressure on resources are more readily apparent? How do we equip our audiences with grounding knowledge that recognises and soothes growing anxieties, while fronting new and fresh ideas for forward movement? How can we all transition, together, towards more sustainable ways of being, recall the ones we used to know, and reinforce the ones we already engage in?

These are questions I am looking forward to tackling in the years to come and in any forthcoming productions.

C.M. Rubin with Jim Chuchu

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By Carole Hornsby Haynes   November 11, 2020

It was 400 years ago today, November 11, 1620, that 41 Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact on board the Mayflower as it lay anchored in the harbor of what is now Provincetown.  With the change in the calendar in 1752, the date now corresponds to November 21.

A compact is a covenant for which the Pilgrims as children of the Protestant Reformation held a Biblical view.   The American Bar Association noted in 1978:

“The document represents the application to the affairs of civil government of the philosophy of the church covenant which was the basis of Puritan theology.  This theology found in the Scriptures the right of men to associate and covenant to form a church and civil government and to choose their own officers to administer both religious and civil affairs.”

Later editions of Pilgrim laws identified the Compact as a preamble, which would indicate they functioned under a covenant of self-rule.  A precursor to the U.S. Constitution, the Compact was essentially the cornerstone of self-government under God which has made America unique among nations.   It was the signing of this document that brought unity in the midst of discontent and mutiny aboard the ship.

Calvin Coolidge said in 1920:

“The compact which they signed was an event of the greatest importance. It was the foundation of liberty based on law and order, and that tradition has been steadily upheld…. It was democratic, an acknowledgment of liberty under law and order and the giving to each person the right to participate in the government, while they promised to be obedient to the laws.”

Mayflower Compact Day was once a calendar event, remembered by school children across the land.  Even though it is no longer remembered, its legacy lives on in our nation. 

It is significant that this momentous day coincides with the national honoring of our veterans. Shouldn’t we also celebrate the birth of self-governance in America?

With the attempted coup that is threatening the very existence of this “Great Experiment”  in self-government, it is altogether befitting to remember the roots of our Constitutional Republic and once again to place it on our national calendar of important dates. 

“In a society where the press is not holding those who govern accountable, we will have no chance to learn the truth.” – Alexander Nanau

On November 30, 2015, a fire broke out at Bucharest’s Colectiv nightclub.  The free concert celebrating metal band Goodbye to Gravity’s latest album featured a pyrotechnic display during the performance. A spark from one of the fireworks caused the fire to spread quickly, soon engulfing the entire room. Twenty six people died on-site.  A further 38 died in hospitals around Romania and neighbouring countries.  Protests against the government’s lack of regulation erupted, leading to the government’s resignation.

Collective is a Romanian documentary film directed and co-written by Alexander Nanau. It was featured at the Venice Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival and this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film has been submitted by Magnolia Pictures and Participant for the 2021 Academy Awards (Best Documentary).  The Romanian Film Center/CNC Romania recently confirmed that Collective will be Romania’s official Oscar entry for Best International Feature.  In the film, Nanau follows the crack team of journalists at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched politicians and moguls in the wake of the Colectiv nightclub fire.

The Global Search for Education is pleased to welcome Alexander Nanau.

“A young generation took to the streets against the corrupt authorities and the corrupt political class. It felt like change was coming.” – Alexander Nanau

Alex, in your own words, can you please explain to us what happened on November 30, 2015?

The Collectiv club fire should not have happened or, even if it happened, it should not have cost so many lives. The Collectiv club in Bucharest was a popular club where there were a lot of concerts. But one of the main reasons why so many people died on the spot is that the Romanian fire department allowed the club to function even though there were no fire exits. What we realized and what the film is about is the aftermath of that. Many more people, thirty-seven in total, continued dying after the fire in hospitals.  The Romanian government, together with doctors and the health-care system, lied to everybody that they were capable of treating burn patients when they actually couldn’t take care of their patients because they didn’t have burn units. They refused to fly the young burn patients out of the country into burn clinics where they could have been rescued. Our film takes a look at the journalistic investigation after the fire that uncovered more information, including the mass manipulation by the Romanian authorities.  The government claimed that Romania was as well prepared as a country like Germany to take care of patients. They journalists found out that the company that was producing disinfectants for about 350 Romanian hospitals was diluting the disinfectants. This meant that not only these burn victims, but hundreds to thousands of Romanian patients over the last ten years were infected by hospital bacteria because the disinfectants were diluted. It is a bit like The Third Man which was made into a film with Orson Welles, where he was selling diluted penicillin. 

So the Romanian government refused to get some of these burn victims out of the country and into other hospitals where they could have been treated?

Yes, their discourse was we have a great health care system, we have the best specialists, we can treat these patients as well as the German health care system, there won’t be a better treatment for them than in Romania. It’s the kind of behavior that we see today around the world where the populistic discourse leads to death. We always ask ourselves “why did you do that?” And then we find out it’s because by keeping patients in the country they can spend the money in an illicit way, and actually steal it.

“We realized we were witnessing a story that goes into the heart of the relationship between citizens and those in power.” – Alexander Nanau

The CEO of the pharmaceutical company Hexi Pharma that was diluting the disinfectants ends up losing his life. What was the cause of death?

He had a car accident. He was alone in his car and he drove into a tree.

The timing of your movie is very relevant with the COVID-19 pandemic and world leaders needing to address better health care systems and better health safety measures. What specific parallels do you see between the story of the Colectiv nightclub fire and what’s going on right now worldwide with the coronavirus pandemic?

I think that the important thing is the lack of responsibility of those that govern the lives of the citizens that elected them. Secondly, it’s about corruption. The journalistic investigation in the film moves like a thriller which leads us to the facts.  We discover that everything is linked to corruption and to laundering  money from the health care system. Another link to the pandemic is that at any time something like a fire, or a virus or any other disease can suddenly impact all our lives and that’s the point where we realize how much we depend on the functioning of the societies we live in. In a society where the press is not holding those who govern accountable, we will have no chance to learn the truth. 

“People have reacted very emotionally and have said, “oh, it’s like it is in our country, it’s not just a Romanian story.” – Alexander Nanau

Your film illustrates the fallout of societies that do not function properly.

Yes, I think there is also the link between the universality of the Collectiv story and what’s happening to all of us right now, and that’s the total loss of humanity. These people are not human anymore. We started to make the film because we saw a turning point in Romanian society. A young generation took to the streets against the corrupt authorities and the corrupt political class. It felt like change was coming.  When we started to dive into the whole corruption and revelation we were shocked to realize the level of the lack of humanity amongst these decision makers to a whole nation that was traumatized by this event. They knew they would send victims to their death because they knew about the infections in Romanian hospitals due to the diluted disinfectants. 

What key element of this real life story inspired you to tell it? What has been the audience reaction to this story so far, of those that you have screened this movie to and those who have seen this movie? 

It was the fact that we saw there was a change in the street. A new generation wanted to claim back their society from a corrupt political class.  Once we started, we realized we were witnessing a story that goes into the heart of the relationship between citizens and those in power.  We wanted to understand how the relationship between power and citizens works, and the point of view of investigative journalists seemed the best point of view to tell it through, to understand this relationship, to understand how information flows from the power towards the citizens, and how citizens can react to it, and how citizens can take care of, or protect, or influence their own community and society. People have reacted very emotionally and have said, “oh, it’s like it is in our country, it’s not just a Romanian story.” 

Could you elaborate a little more on “the change in the streets?”

After the fire, we had mass demonstrations that were actually the biggest demonstrations since the Revolution in ’89, and it was just young people demonstrating against the corrupt political class and demanding a change. Demanding the government to step down and to have a politically independent government until reelections. 

What do you want audiences to take away from this movie? 

Normally I don’t make the films with an idea in my head as to what I want people to take away. I think that the most important question for me is, “how do I influence the community or society I’m living in? And what kind of society do I want to live in? And am I courageous enough to be true to myself and to stand up when I see corruption or when I see something really bad and wrong happening? Making this film is like holding a mirror in front of my face and asking myself if I’m bold enough to be myself and to stand up to things that I believe in, and to be a better human being. 

What’s next for you? What are you working on now, in terms of future projects? Is there anything you’ve got your eye on right now that you’re planning?

Yeah, there are two, three projects that we’re developing but I never talk about projects when they’re in development. I’m superstitious, let’s say. Regarding Collective, the film will be released by Magnolia Pictures and Participant, in theaters and on VOD, on November 20^th, and it will be released at the same date in the UK and France and Europe. It is now up for the European Film Academy Awards and, most probably, it will also try to run with all the other documentaries for the Academy Awards in the United States.

Thank you Alex

(Dallin Agatone contributed to this article)

C.M. Rubin and Alexander Nanau

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Strict lockdowns have devastated millions of families’ incomes while failing to bring success in suppressing covid mortality.

Source: Lockdowns Haven’t Brought down Covid Mortality. But They Have Killed Millions of Jobs. | Mises Wire

“I really love to create a world that is so similar to the real one.” –   Shahrbanoo Sadat

Afghan Director Shahrbanoo Sadat won a prize at the Director’s fortnight in Cannes in 2016 for her film debut, Wolf and Sheep, a story about shepherd children living in the mountains of central Afghanistan.  In 2019, Sadat directed a sequel. It is called The Orphanage and it follows the life of one of the children from her original film Quodrat. Like Wolf and Sheep, Sadat shot The Orphanage in Tadjikistan. Quodrat is now a teenager played again by Quodratollah Qadiri. The story takes place in Kabul during the 1981 Russian occupation.  Both Quodrat’s parents are dead. The young man is obsessed with Bollywood movies.  Arrested for selling cinema tickets on the black market he is made to live in a Soviet-run orphanage.

Behind the safe walls of the orphanage, the world Quodrat once knew is changing as the Mujahideens start the civil war. 

The Global Search for Education is pleased to welcome Shahrbanoo Sadat.

“I don’t use the script on set and my actors improvise all the time.” –  Shahrbanoo Sadat

Shahrbanoo, you’ve spoken about your desire to show the everyday stories of Afghanistan, an Afghanistan that the world doesn’t really know.  How much of your own personal experiences growing up in a village in Afghanistan influence your storytelling?

I started filmmaking with cinema vérité. I completely fell for it.  Those two words, reality and truth, have always been with me since that time. I adore observational cinema. It’s strange to me why I shifted to fictional cinema rather than documentary. Although I don’t hesitate to borrow elements from documentary cinema whenever I need them. I see myself as a kind of free daughter of cinema vérité. I really love to create a world that is so similar to the real one.  Maybe that’s why I invest a lot of time in casting. I don’t use the script on set and my actors improvise all the time. I think casting is a very important part of my work. If the right people are cast, then the wheels are on the road.

Afghanistan has no cinema industry, but in the eyes of international filmmakers it is always a darling. Filmmakers in other countries have premieres in major film festivals like Cannes and Berlin. They even receive Academy Awards like the short film last year. I personally never ever relate with such movies. They have things in common. They are cliches. The story stays on the surface. They just reproduce the same picture the world has already seen from Afghanistan, i.e. another third world country in a war with poor people who suffer from it. The story line never goes anywhere else. Oh no! It goes. The other direction is making heroes out of people, especially the women who are fighting for their families and their societies. I am a hard core critic about such movies. I think my obsession with showing real life by showing everyday life comes from that, at least a big part of it.

I want to make Afghan movies for international audiences including Afghan people. I think Afghanistan is a rich county in terms of stories and it deserves to be portrayed better. Afghanistan may have its own cinema one day. Maybe in the next 50 years? But for sure, I am just talking about such movies. That is a film that has a completely Afghan identity and that has an Afghan soul.

The Orphanage follows the life of one of the children (Qodrat) in Wolf and Sheep (which won a top prize at Cannes in 2016). What inspired you to make the sequel?  

Everything was planned before shooting my debut film, Wolf and Sheep. I met my friend Anwar Hashimi in 2008 and he told me about his idea of writing his life story. He didn’t feel confident enough doing it on his own as he didn’t see himself as a writer. We made a deal.  He would write 8 pages every day and email them to me the next day. He did this for one year.   I collected 800 pages of his text. When I read them my mind totally blew up. I didn’t know he could write so beautifully. I think he didn’t realize either. I fell for his text. It was written so simply but at the same time it was so poetic, so political, so personal and so honest. I told Anwar immediately that I wanted to make five films out of it. Maybe because his text was about five chapters of his life. Anwar accepted and I started my pentalogy project. At the moment, I am working on the third part and two more are on their way.

I got very good feedback about the work from people and festivals all around the world but not in Afghanistan. Ordinary people liked it a lot but critics and filmmakers didn’t like it. They didn’t like the Bollywood part which I personally liked a lot. They think my films are not Afghan enough because I don’t shoot inside Afghanistan. Honestly, I don’t care about their opinion. I know I am going in the right direction.

“I want to make Afghan movies for international audiences including Afghan people.” –  Shahrbanoo Sadat

Why did you decide to cast Quodratollah Qadiri, now a teenager, in the role again?  What do you think are some of the important lessons we learn through Quodrat’s eyes as your history of Afghanistan unfolds?

I considered more than 20,000 children in different high schools in Kabul in a year. I found other children but I couldn’t find my main role. Then I thought about Qodrat, my child actor from my previous film. I traveled to central Afghanistan and I visited him. He had grown up like magic beans. Even his voice had changed. I couldn’t recognize him in the beginning. After I talked to him, I was sure he should play Qodrat again. And then I cast Sediqa, the other child actor from Wolf and Sheep. She played the role of the “girl in the dream” in the Bollywood parts of the movie.

Lessons? Qodrat is not really a classic main character. He is there and we are there because of him and that’s it. He opens the door for us to be able to observe that world. I wanted to show the life of children in that period of time and how the war surprised them so suddenly. 1989 was a very political year in the history of Afghanistan. It was the year the Soviets left Afghanistan after almost 10 years. It was the year when the Afghan government started peace negotiations with Mujahideen. It was the year Mujahideen felt more confident after the Soviets left and dared to attack Kabul more and more until the government collapsed in 1992 and they took Kabul. The peace negotiations between the USA and the Taliban are taking place right now. The country is on the edge again and there is a huge risk that the Taliban will rule the country and make Afghanistan into an Islamic emirate. USA forces are leaving Afghanistan. Many Afghans have left the country. No one can really see any future.

I think Afghanistan is a rich county in terms of stories and it deserves to be portrayed better.” –  Shahrbanoo Sadat

How do you feel about that? Do you believe the recent ceasefire will have any impact on women’s rights?

I believe not only women but the entire country will go down with that ceasefire. I am absolutely against it. Anyone with a brain should be against it. Afghanistan experienced the Taliban between 1996-2001. Everyone knows their mentality. They want one thing and that’s an Islamic emirate. With that one single thing, human rights, freedom of speech, civilization, modernity, education, everything vanishes. God! They cannot even talk properly. They have no sense of how to engage in a conversation. They only speak about what they want and they do not want to listen. Watch their videos. The US is giving them credit by accepting all their conditions. The Afghan government is not part of that negotiation. The negotiation is between the US and the Taliban. The US wants to leave and hand the country to the Taliban. 

How difficult is it to get funding for important movies like The Orphanage? 

The Orphanage and my debut film, Wolf and Sheep, both got finance through international funding and the European fund system as I am working together with a German/Danish producer. We have been working with co-production and we could get money from there as well.

There is no funding system or any state fund in Afghanistan. The importance of  culture and cinema are invisible to many people there. At the moment, I am the only filmmaker from Afghanistan who lives there and is still carrying an Afghanistan passport.  I am able to finance my movies through international funding in Europe and all over the world. Afghanistan hardly produces even one film per year. Filmmakers are making mostly short films or documentaries with their own budgets. I am really grateful that I have the chance to work with international producers and crews. And I think co-production MUST be the solution for Afghan filmmakers. There is a cultural mafia in Afghanistan that makes everything very hard, especially for the ones who are not part of it. 

Where can audiences see Wolf and Sheep and The Orphanage now?

The Orphanage is almost global via Mubi.  Wolf and Sheep is on Amazon for those living in England.  It’s also online for people in Denmark. It’s on DVDs and in libraries for people living in Germany.  When I finish the pentalogy, I can put the five films on YouTube or Netflix or any other platform that is accessible to the public. And then there’s google. If the film is premiered or played in a country, people can find it somewhere on the internet. 

(Photos are courtesy of Virginie Surdej)

C.M. Rubin and Shahrbanoo Sadat

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I find it incredibly outrageous and hypocritical now, after Democrats have spent three years and 40 million taxpayer dollars trying to prove Donald Trump stole the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton through voter fraud and collusion with Russia — and after ALL OF THAT, there was never an ounce of evidence to be found — that they’re now saying the idea of voter fraud on the part of Democrats is simply “impossible.”  “Outrageous,” they say.  “How DARE you imply anything improper was done anywhere in this election!”  They have the nerve to assert they hold such moral “highground” that they would never stoop to such tactics.  Friends, over this past year, it has become ABSOLUTELY clear and plain for anyone with eyes to see that the Democrats are ABSOLUTELY corrupt to the core — haters of God, nothing but sheer disdain for America and our Constitution and with a seriously unbridled hatred for Donald Trump.

I’m compiling this message on November 6th — three days after election day.  As of this time, no “winner” has yet been declared, but the mainstream media outlets are showing their extreme Left-wing bias again as they are sickeningly “rooting” for Joe Biden on every TV newscast, in every mainstream newspaper and on every network radio channel. Not to mention the ongoing censorship and lies on most all social media and internet search engines.  They’re all CLEARLY “chomping at the bit” to get the “go ahead” to pronounce Biden the “winner.”  They can’t hardly wait.  The fake news and lying media in this country have been complicit in all of this, and should be held as accountable for election tampering as those who, I believe, have been working for months now, filling out fake ballots and stockpiling them in warehouses, preparing them to be “dumped” into the official record as needed.

And for those of you who think Fox News is our “fair and balanced” “savior,” you need to open your eyes.  Because this so-called “conservative” news network has been compromised for many years.  You DO realize that it is now part of the Disney Corporation, don’t you?  Yes, Disney, which has worked tirelessly for years to indoctrinate young children with subtle — and not-so-sublte — Leftist ideologies and propaganda.  They promote witchcraft, the occult, earth-worship, and worse.  Disney has also become infamous in recent years for their highly-promoted “Gay Days,” which openly celebrate sodomy, “framing” that abomination in a colorful, “kid-friendly” way so as to recruit more little children into hell.

Some may consider this trivial, but I don’t: on election night, Fox News featured photo images of the two candidates as they tallied the electoral votes.  Constantly on the screen was an image of a happy, smiling, lovable Joe Biden on top;  beneath that photo was an image of Donald Trump — probably the worst photo of him ever taken, showing him scowling, snarling and looking like the meanest, ugliest “villain” you’ve ever seen.  Those hosting the broadcast on election night were clearly disgusted every time they were FORCED to “call” a state for the president.  Their Left-wing bias was also clearly obvious when, early on in the evening, they called the state of Virginia for Biden, with only 1% of the vote counted there and the president UP by more than a 2-to-1 margin.

At 3:00 am Wednesday morning, all the battleground states suddenly stopped counting as it was getting a little scary for the Democrats.  It was looking like Donald Trump was going to win re-election.  Notably, all of these states are governed by Democrats.  Then, at 4:30 in the morning, counting began again, but suddenly — immediately — Joe Biden was ahead in all those states, by tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of votes.  So while Americans slept, SOMEBODY pulled the “old switch-a-roo.”

How did this happen?  Citizen reporters and poll watchers have released videos taken in the middle of the night showing vans pulling up to polling places in each of these states — workers unloading crates of ballots and carrying them inside.  In multiple states, it’s been reported that thousands of mail-in ballots were suddenly “found” — but not ONE of those mail-in ballots that mysteriously appeared were for Trump.

For example, they “found” 138,000 votes in Michigan and 120,000 votes in Wisconsin between 3:00 and 4:30 am — and NOT ONE vote for Trump was found in any of those.  In Wisconsin, 41,206 MORE votes were counted than there are registered voters… so far.  They’re not finished yet.

Now, let’s go back to October 24th — just ten days before election day.  Joe Biden was addressing his followers on live video as he read from a written statement.  He stated, “We’re in a situation where we have put together, and you guys did it …for President Obama’s administration before this… We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”

I’ve stated before that those on the side of Satan ALWAYS tell us what they’re going to do, what they are planning, BEFORE they do it.  It seems to be a “rule” for them — they have to show their hand ahead of time, but usually, their statements are cloaked in mystery.  In this case, he clearly said what he said.  There’s no doubt, and you can still find this video all over the internet.  (I’m amazed it hasn’t been banned and scrubbed from existence by now, but it’s still there).  Of course, the fake “fact checkers” immediately came out and said Biden “misspoke” and his comments were taken out of context, and what he REALLY meant to say was that they put together a system to make sure voter fraud did NOT take place.  Really?  The man is READING a written statement right in front of him!  I believe he slipped up (how many times has THAT happened?) and actually told us the truth.

On Wednesday, courts ruled that Republican poll watchers must be allowed to supervise the remaining ballot counts in the battleground states.  Yet city police, county sheriffs and election boards across the country have defied these court rulings and have NOT allowed oversight of ballot counting.  In some cases, the counting continues yet today, behind closed doors.  Windows covered over with cardboard.  Poll watchers that HAVE been allowed to be present have been told to stay 30 to 100 feet away from the workers — forced to see whatever they’re able to see — with binoculars!   One poll watcher in Philadelphia observed multiple workers dumping ballots in a large trash container in the corner of the room.  When he was told by election officials there he could not video tape these activities, he was forcibly removed from the facility.  All this is in defiance of court orders.

In Wisconsin, one person reported that they were standing in line to receive their ballot and the man in front of them was questioned by poll workers.  They said, “our records show that you requested a mail-in ballot.  Did you not receive it?”  He replied, “Yes I received it, but I never filled it out.”  They then handed him a ballot and he proceeded to vote.  In other instances, postal workers have come forward stating they’ve been ordered to hand-stamp mail-in ballots with the postmark “November 3rd” even though they arrived days later, so that those “late” ballots — that are now hitting post offices in all the battleground states by the pallet load — can still be counted.  There are also countless instances where the signatures on the election sheets do not match the signatures on the voter registration forms, yet these are never questioned.

Rumors are circulating that the OFFICIAL mail-in ballots contained a “watermark” — and if copied to produce additional “fake” ballots, that watermark would not reproduce.   Therefore, it would be easy to identify fake ballots in the system.  I don’t know if that’s true or not, but maybe we’ll see in the coming days and weeks.

President Trump’s legal team has started litigation in many states, and he absolutely should.  Yet even when the courts have ruled in his favor regarding poll watchers and vote counting, the city, county, state and other election officials have thumbed their noses at those courts and defied the rulings — continuing the questionable ballot counting, ALWAYS in favor of Joe Biden.

It is sheer insanity to believe that this election was not fraudulent.  Two days before the election, Donald Trump had 57,000 people at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.  One day before the election, 27,000 attended his rally in Kenosha, Wisconsin.  Some say that rally attendance has nothing to do with people actually following through and voting.  But I have BEEN at Trump rallies.  The people there are patriotic Americans, and enthusiasm has been through the roof.  God is always honored at Trump rallies.  Every one opens with prayer, and references — not just to God, but to JESUS CHRIST — are prevalent throughout the events.

When I went to vote, I arrived at my polling place at 6:30 in the morning.  Polls opened at 7.  The large parking lot at our municipal center was already packed, and the line of people standing in the early-morning cold stretched to the end of the parking lot.  By the time the doors opened, the line of people stretched OUT of the parking lot, down the street and out to the highway.  There was an incredible amount of enthusiasm for this election.  Were all those standing in line with me voting for Trump?  Of course not.  But compare a Trump rally, with 57,000 people in Butler, Pennsylvania (a town of 12,000 people) to a Biden rally in a major metropolitan area, with EIGHT to TWELVE people (which was typical).  In Texas, days before the election there was a Trump car-parde that stretch for 97 MILES.  You tell me which voters were most enthusiastic and likely to vote.

Understand this:  I do NOT “worship” Donald Trump.  I am often frustrated by his gruff language and I’m upset that he was not able to “drain the swamp” as he promised, bringing justice to those who continue, even to this day to commit treason and sedition against our country.  But never before in my lifetime have I witnessed a president so hated, without reason, and so persecuted at every turn, every single day by Leftist God-haters, Socialists, Marxists, Communists, New World Order Globalists and career politicians on both sides.

I wish he would have done more to defund Planned Parenthood.  I wish he would have had the courage to state that sodomy is unnatural and an abomination.  I wish he would have “locked her up!”   I wish he would have done a lot of things that he didn’t accomplish.  But look at all he DID accomplish for America — and all that IN SPITE of constant, daily attacks from every single direction.  The last four years, I believe, were a “reprieve” — a last chance for America to repent of it’s apathy and for the Church to rise up and take back the ground the devil has stolen.  But we failed.  Don’t blame Trump for the stuff that never got done.  Look in the mirror.  What did WE do to push back against the forces of darkness when we had the chance?  I’ll tell you what we did:  we kept our mouths shut, we self-quarantined, we wore our masks, like compliant fearful sheep.

This election is absolutely the most important America will ever see.  Because if Trump is not re-elected, it WILL be because of massive corruption and massive voter fraud at every level.  I haven’t even gotten into all the various other things the Democrats used to create their “most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,” such as the computer software known as “The Hammer.”  (Look it up — you will be stunned).  Yes, if Trump loses this, we all lose.  America will have become a third-world “banana republic.”

What’s worse, we’ll then be handed over to the New World Order Globalists and Communist China.  Mandatory masking will never go away.  Vaccines will absolutely be mandatory.  You will not be allowed to travel, buy or sell without them, or most likely, even leave your home — or the internment camp they place you in.  Churches will be closed and forced underground.  The first and second amendments will only be the first and second parts of our Constitution to be sliced and diced.  Mark my words.

This is a battle for our nation and the freedom we have enjoyed for so long, by the grace of Almighty God.  Perhaps saddest of all, 47% of professing evangelical Christians did NOT bother to vote in this election — on par with all previous elections.  That equates to about 48 MILLION votes.  Do you think that might have made a difference?

2nd Corinthians reminds us, “…where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”  That’s the Holy Spirit, folks.  The same Holy Spirit, the same Jesus, the same GOD that the Leftist demons spit upon daily.  The same Christ that they HATE and rage against with a seriously unreasonable hatred.  This is a spiritual battle.  It may be playing out today in “American politics” but if you don’t clearly see the marked difference between those with the Holy Spirit of God and those with the spirit of Satan, the spirit of anti-Christ, then I question your salvation.  This isn’t so much about Trump as it is about a CHOICE between good and evil, between God and Satan.  Between liberty and enslavement.  Between life and death.  If the Democrats steal this, THERE WILL NEVER BE ANY LIBERTY IN AMERICA AGAIN.  This is our last chance at survival.  We need to ALL be on our knees in prayer right now, and we better all be prepared because I fear this spirital battle is about to be played out in the physical realm.  The true remnant of God will not forsake Him — or our nation.  Patriots WILL rise up to defend it, and given the viciousness of our wicked opponents, it’s not going to be pleasant.  May justice and righteousness prevail.

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Legal questions surrounding the Biden family’s business deals with a Chinese energy conglomerate almost certainly will follow Joe Biden into the White House should the former vice president ultimately win the disputed election, good government groups predict.

“These issues are not going to go away with a Biden presidency,” Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, told The Daily Signal.

The FBI reportedly opened an ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden, the former vice president’s son, and unnamed business associates for possible money laundering in connection with a joint venture with CEFC China Energy, the Chinese conglomerate.

What looks like a weaker Republican majority in the Senate may not bode well for oversight, and Fitton said he wouldn’t be optimistic about accountability.

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But, he added, even the Justice Department under a Biden administration doesn’t mean zero accountability.

“If an investigation starts, it’s not easy to shut it down,” Fitton said. “Joe Biden would face significant political pressure if he tried to shut down the investigation. It wouldn’t be easy.”

With the FBI investigation already commenced, it likely would go forward aggressively under a second Trump administration.

The Daily Signal interviewed Fitton and others for this report before Election Day. Major media outlets called the Nov. 3 election for Biden, but President Donald Trump has alleged fraud in key states and his reelection campaign has taken legal action.

CEFC China Energy, which has links to the Chinese Communist Party, paid Hunter Biden at least $5 million in 2017, according to a Senate report.

This was after his father completed a second term as vice president under President Barack Obama.

However, in December 2013, when his father was vice president, Hunter Biden notably accompanied him on Air Force Two to China and met with another business associate not related to CEFC. That trip doesn’t appear to be the subject of the FBI’s current probe.

>>> Commentary: Hunter Biden Emails, Texts Raise Questions That Need Answers

“Joe Biden would be 100% compromised as commander in chief to our greatest enemy,” said M.A. Taylor, director of “Riding the Dragon,” a documentary film narrated by investigative journalist Peter Schweizer.

The film outlines the financial relationship between the Biden family and the Chinese government that grew during Joe Biden’s vice presidency from 2009 through 2016.

“I don’t see a lot of accountability from Congress, censors in social media, or the press blackout,” Taylor told The Daily Signal, referring to social media’s suppression of stories by the New York Post about the content of files found on Hunter Biden’s laptop computer.

“He would be the least vetted president we’ve ever seen,” Taylor said. “The media is compromised. Nobody trusts Big Tech anymore. Nobody trusts the press anymore.”

If Biden governs in a way that is favorable to China, it could have long-term consequences, Taylor added:

Fortunately, the government never stays in one party’s hands for very long; but in two years, this could do long-term damage to the United States. Just because you punish a president, China [still] could expand its influence and build more islands in the South China Sea. So the damage could be permanent, even down the road.

Hunter Biden, 50, has a law degree from Yale. In May 2017, he formed the company SinoHawk with his uncle James Biden and partner Tony Bobulinski to do business with CEFC, the Chinese conglomerate. The plan was for SinoHawk to invest $10 million from CEFC in energy and infrastructure projects in the United States and around the world.

Although the SinoHawk-CEFC joint venture stopped in August 2017, Hunter and James Biden reportedly kept working with the conglomerate.

In September, two Senate committees—Finance and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs—issued a joint oversight report that found CEFC had wired Hunter Biden at least $5 million beginning Aug. 7, 2017. The Senate report flagged some of the wire payments for possible criminal financial activity:

On Aug. 4, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment (US) LLC, a subsidiary of Ye Jianming’s CEFC China Energy Company that listed Gongwen Dong as its director, sent Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco, a payment for $100,000. This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity.

One of the investment entities of CEFC Infrastructure Investment is reportedly Shanghai Huaxin Group, a Chinese state-owned enterprise ‘engaged in petroleum products.’ That company is owned by CEFC Shanghai International Group Ltd., which is controlled by Shanghai Guosheng Group, another state-owned enterprise. According to reporting, CEFC Shanghai was a CEFC subsidiary linked to the aforementioned corruption allegations involving the head of the China Development Bank.

Bobulinski, in a statement Oct. 22 to reporters and in a recent interview with Tucker Carlson of Fox News Channel, said Joe Biden was “the big guy” in an email that apportioned stakes for partners in the joint venture. The email said it would mean 20% equity for Hunter Biden and 10% for “the big guy.”

The Biden campaign has said that Joe Biden never held equity in his son’s companies. But the campaign frequently gave sketchy explanations about the authenticity of the emails.

One document shows James Biden’s share increased from 10% to 20%, which Bobulinski told Carlson he concluded was a way to mask Joe Biden’s continuing 10% share.

Possibly a larger issue has to do with millions of dollars from Chinese donors to the University of Pennsylvania’s Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, said Tom Anderson, director of the government integrity project at the National Legal and Policy Center.

The center filed a complaint about the donations with the U.S. Department of Education in May.

“We don’t have enough information yet to say if he is compromised,” Anderson told The Daily Signal, referring to Joe Biden.

The Biden Center received $70 million from Chinese donors since 2017, with $22 million of it from anonymous donors, according to the National Legal and Policy Center’s complaint. The complaint asks the Education Department to force the University of Pennsylvania to disclose more information about the donors.

Anderson noted that many staffers for the center likely will join the new Biden administration.

“It’s an incubation for corruption,” Anderson said. “Staffers at the Biden Center are future administration officials and could feel beholden to these donors. That’s how guys get compromised.”

Source: Questions About His Son and China Could Follow Biden to White House

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His promises will flood America with millions more desperate people from all over the world.

This interview with energy and resources specialist Dell Erickson of Minneapolis, Minnesota presents a harsh picture of America’s future that Biden expects to bequeath to Americans and our children.

The sheer numbers will shock you and the consequences will make you shrink as to the future for your children.

Mr. Erickson, please give us an idea of what our country faces as Joe Biden opens the borders to unlimited immigration:

“Immigration in the U.S. is more about the nature of this country and the Powers transforming it,” Erickson said. “It’s all about numbers.”

“I begin with immigration numbers, then immigration policies, and finally representation as the foundation of this Nation. We study the sources of immigration, effects of any Biden amnesty, and mathematically determine the implications for voting and representation, plus redistricting.

“The numbers are current or close approximations. Assumptions are as identified. Also, it is imperative to note that all lawful, amnestied immigrants, and illegal aliens, ‘refugees’, even tourists can have an instant citizen child and the child overtime, can lawfully bring its entire family to the U.S. On average they each bring 3.5 – 5 or more family members. Some 10 – 15. American citizens have no say in the matter.”

Representation in Congress

“Congress (the House) has 435 members,” said Erickson. “Congressional representation determines Federal policies, practices, rules, laws, power and control, and money flows to and from the states. The more representatives of a type, the greater the power. The House is balanced by the Senate. The catchphrase is the House “proposes”, the Senate “disposes”.

“In divided, balanced, situations, as now, the President assumes great power, power that is only restricted by the Constitution and only then if courts contest a matter. Like the President’s political party, the Attorney General is unlikely to contest the President since the AG is of the same political party. Analogously, for the States and municipalities. Others may entertain a lawsuit, but they require standing –and money!”

Changes in representation is called: redistricting.

Current U.S. population:

335,000,000
335,000,000 / 435 = 770,100 population for each representative. Note the dilution.

Immigrants and their children (2019.): 62,000,000 / 770,100 = 80.5 members of congress representing immigrants. House seats are taken from other locations. ~19% of total.

1900 U.S. population: 76,000,000
76,000,000 / 435 = 175,000 per seat.

1800 U.S. population: 5,300,000
5,300,000 / 435 = 12,200 per seat.

Determining additional representatives by immigration sources & numbers.

DACA: 800,000, assume 3.5 family members each = 2,800,000 + 800,000 = 3,600,000 total immigration, one time, not yearly.

DREAM Act-like legislation; assume 2,000,000 and family of 3.5x = 7,000,000 + 2,000,000 = 9,000,000 immigration, one time, not yearly.

Legal annual immigration. 1,000,000 3.5x family = 3,500,000 + 1,000,000 = 4,500,000 per year, every year.

Refugees. 80,000, assume family of 7x = 560,000 + 80,000 = 640,000 per year. If “refugees” at 250,000 (a ‘fair’ number?) then 1,750,000 + 250,000 = 2,000,000 every year.

Illegal aliens. Assume 50% have non-U.S. family and they each have family 4x = 11,000,000 x 4 = 44,000,000 +11,000,000 = 55,000,000 one time, over several years.

H visa family (many types). 500,000 stay per year, assume family 4x = 2,000,000 + 500,000 = 2,500,000 every year.

Student visas. 700,000 who become illegal aliens, assume % illegal overstayers of 45% (315,000), family 4x = 1,260,000 per year + 315,000 = 1,575,000 every year.

Lottery. 85,000, family 4x = 340,000 every year.

Birth Tourist visas. 33,000 per year. Assume family 5x, 165,000 + 33,000 = 198,000 yearly.

Illegal alien birth industry. 300,000 per year. 5x, 1,500,000 + 300,000 = 1,800,000 per year.

TOTAL Biden/Harris amnesty results:

One time, arrive over several years:

3,600,000 -800,000 (already here) = 2,600,000
9,000,000 -2,000,000 (already here) = 7,000,000
55,000,000 -11,000,000 (already here) = 44,000,000

Total: 67,600,000 – 13,800,000 = 53,800,000 new immigrants in-country.

Yearly Additional:
1,000,000 => 4,500,000
250,000 => 2,000,000
500,000 => 2,500,000
315,000 => 1,575,000
85,000 => 340,000
33,000 => 198,000
300,000 => 1,800,000

Total: 12,913,000 per year

You can see from Erickson’s research that our country will become a massive refugee camp. Where the 1,000,000 legal immigrants enjoy entry, it actually turns out to be 4.5 million people as to their offspring.

The 250,000 turns out to be 2.0 million. The 500,000 illegals turns out to be 2.5 million with their birthrates. The 300,000 anchor babies grow to 1.8 million annually with their mothers and further children, year after year.

Biden will accelerate those numbers with his amnesties to the point where we will not be able to water, feed, work, educate, medicate or provide for THAT many people—along with our own citizens.

Do you understand that 335 million people today need over 1 billion meals per day? That’s three square meals a day! What happens when we have to feed 440 million as shown in the video below?

What’s going to happen? As Black, White and Hispanic Americans dwindle, we will see this country become dominated by Kenya, Ethiopia, Damascus, India, China, Pakistan and most other third world countries that flood their citizens into America.

Is that what you want for your children? Because if you do, it’s coming. If you don’t, what are you doing as a citizen to stop it?

“America’s immigration policies have launched us into a risky experiment never tried by a modern-day country,” said Dan Stein, director of the Federation of American Immigration Reform, based in Washington, DC. “What remains to be seen is if this country has the capacity to accommodate and assimilate an unending wave of mass immigration. Failure to do so will result in a balkanized, fragmented, strife-torn, overpopulated, and dysfunctional country.”

Suggestions:

Distribute these two videos to all your networks to visually show them what’s coming for their children, too:

Share these videos all over America:

In a five minute astoundingly simple yet brilliant video, “Immigration, Poverty, and Gum Balls”, Roy Beck, director of www.numbersusa.ORG, graphically illustrates the impact of overpopulation. Take five minutes to see for yourself:

“Immigration by the numbers—off the chart” by Roy Beck

This 10-minute demonstration shows Americans the results of unending mass immigration on the quality of life and sustainability for future generations: in a few words, “Mind boggling!” www.NumbersUSA.org

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