Transgender Veterans Still Waiting On VA’s Promise of Surgery Options

One year after Veterans Affairs officials announced they would take steps to provide gender confirmation surgeries for transgender veterans, no procedures have been completed and none are likely to be scheduled for months to come.

Department officials said they are still going through the rulemaking process, with no stated schedule for its end. VA does not currently provide any gender confirmation surgery options for veterans.

The long timeline following the high-profile announcement of the news last summer — during Pride month — has left some veterans advocates frustrated and worried that the promise may not even be fulfilled.

“The clock is ticking,” said Lindsay Church, executive director of Minority Veterans of America.

“I understand the reasons behind the delay and the desire to make sure it is implemented fully, so it can’t just be overturned by a later administration. But they haven’t even gotten to public comment yet. A half measure on this isn’t going to be enough.” (Read more from “Transgender Veterans Still Waiting On VA’s Promise of Surgery Options” HERE)

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The Second Amendment Is the Inalienable Right From Which All Other Rights Are Guaranteed

Let me begin with one of the many clear and present dangers emanating from the hopelessly corrupt Washington D.C.

The Democrats are coming for America’s children, not just warping their minds through grooming and sexual indoctrination at a young age, but damaging their health as well.​

​The title of this Food and Drug Administration (FDA) press release should enrage every sane and responsible American.

“Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccines for Children Down to 6 Months of Age”

Based on the scientific risk-benefit ratio for child vaccination, there are only two explanations for that decision.

Either U.S. government public health officials are dangerously incompetent and do not care if children are harmed or those officials are acting on the basis of political or financial motives and do not care if children are harmed.

First of all, a July 15, 2021, scientific article in the journal Nature stated unequivocally that:

“Studies find that overall risk of death or severe disease from COVID-19 is very low in kids.”

That is, the disease presents a very low risk to children. There are also reports that children are not a major factor in the spread of COVID-19 in households and schools.

Evidence is accumulating, however, that the COVID-19 vaccine risk to children exceeds the risk of the disease and that the U.S. government appears to be doctoring the data to justify FDA approval of the vaccines.

According to the June 1, 2022, scientific article “Serious Adverse Events of Special Interest Following mRNA Vaccination in Randomized Trials:”

“Combined, the mRNA vaccines were associated with an absolute risk increase of serious adverse events of special interest of 12.5 per 10,000 (95% CI 2.1 to 22.9). The excess risk of serious adverse events of special interest surpassed the risk reduction for COVID-19 hospitalization relative to the placebo group in both Pfizer and Moderna trials (2.3 and 6.4 per 10,000 participants, respectively).”

Among those serious adverse events is myocarditis, that is, dangerous, potentially fatal heart damage in young people, demonstrated in an April 22, 2022, scientific study involving 23 million northern European subjects.

Remarkably, with the sole exception of Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, all state governors endorsed the FDA recommendation, paving the way for possible COVID-19 vaccine mandates for 6-month-old infants.

This brings me to my point.

Whether a criminal is making a forced entry into your house or the FBI arrives at your home to forcibly inject something into your children’s bodies at gunpoint, Americans have, not just the right, but the obligation to defend themselves.

After the publication of my Restoring Liberty article “To Restore the American Constitutional Republic, the American Oligarchy Must Be Overthrown,” a county sheriff wrote to me and made the argument better than I could have:

“Too many generations have gone by with people living securely under what they perceived to be government protection. As an example of this, when I was Sheriff I used to teach an NRA home defense course for concealed carry. I would point out early in the instruction that it was not the responsibility of the sheriff’s office to defend citizens from home invasion or attack. It was always entertaining to watch the reaction of the students to that statement from their sheriff. To the natives, this was common knowledge. To anyone who was a transplant from a more urban environment, the shock on their face was easy to recognize. I would always repeat that statement until the hands would start shooting up and then I could explain that a free people armed with their rights are fully expected to defend themselves, their families and their property.”

That is, the purpose of the Second Amendment is to ensure that free citizens have the right to defend themselves from bodily harm whether that be from criminals or government tyranny.

There is no more chilling example of the lack of government protection than the Uvalde, Texas school shooting. Surveillance footage shows that for a critical 77 minutes when lives could have been saved, the police never tried to open the door to the classrooms at Robb Elementary School, where a gunman had students and teachers trapped.

Yet, in defiance of the Constitution and our inalienable right to self-defense, the Republican Party leadership is working with the Democrats to install “red flag” laws across the country, which violate, not just the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms, but the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition of illegal search and seizure and the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee of due process.

Even without federal legislation, we are witnessing the implementation of “red flag” laws, which the U.S. Supreme Court, just last year, declared unconstitutional in a 9-0 decision.

The Democrat Party’s U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia, Robin M. Meriweather, ordered that Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley not be allowed to possess a firearm or travel out of state, while he faces federal misdemeanor charges related to the so-called January 6, 2021 “insurrection,” arguably a Capitol breach instigated by federal officials themselves. Not surprisingly, Judge Meriweather served as a law clerk for Merrick B. Garland, presently occupying the position of U.S. Attorney General.

The Democrats, with the support of the Republican Party leadership, are now attempting to strip away what they consider the last obstacle to absolute tyranny, the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms.

We are on our own and we are already on the hill to die on.

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Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. He had a civilian career in international business and medical research. Dr. Sellin is the author of Restoring the Republic: Arguments for a Second American Revolution. His email address is [email protected].

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Oscar-Winning Hollywood Producer Accused of Raping Foreign Woman for Days, Flying, and Abandoning Her at a Small Airport

Police in the southern Italian city of Brindisi say the British woman who has accused Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis of brutal rape has injuries consistent with her allegations. “I was raped for days,” the woman told investigating prosecutor Antonio Negro, according to a summary of the arrest document relayed to The Daily Beast. “We were supposed to work together, but instead he raped me from Sunday evening to Wednesday.”

The woman, who Negro’s office says holds a British passport, was left last Wednesday before dawn by the director outside the Brindisi airport in the province of Puglia, which sits at the heel of Italy’s boot, according to her testimony to police. She says she did not have an airline ticket, but that he gave her money to buy one when the airport opened, according to the prosecutor’s office.

The prosecutor’s office says the woman was discovered cowering in a corner of the small airport by a flight attendant who immediately alerted authorities. “She was destroyed,” the attendant told police, according to the initial investigative document. “She spoke with difficulty.”

After an initial medical examination at the airport health clinic, she was taken to the hospital for treatment in line with Italy’s “pink protocol” for rape victims, which includes psychological counseling. The prosecutor’s office says she “suffered repeated non-consenting sexual assaults” including one so violent she was “forced to seek medical attention.”

That horrific event is apparently what led to the end of her ordeal, when she says Haggis drove her to the airport in the early hours of Wednesday. The medical examiner’s report says that she was left incapable of having sex from the violence. (Read more from “Oscar-Winning Hollywood Producer Accused of Raping Foreign Woman for Days, Flying, and Abandoning Her at a Small Airport” HERE)

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Global Sports Authority Incentivizes Child Sex Changes

The international governing body for competitive swimming, FINA, is facing criticism for a new policy that could incentivize children to pursue sex changes.

FINA’s new gender inclusion policy, enacted Sunday, requires transgender competitors who wish to compete in women’s events to have transitioned by age 12. 71.5% of FINA members voted in favor of the new policy, which will also apply to collegiate competitions sanctioned by the NCAA.

Voices on both sides of the transgender athlete debate criticized the new policy. LGBT rights advocates said the policy was effectively a ban on [transgenders] from competing in women’s events. Proponents claimed the policy was long past due, because biological men who transitioned to being female after beginning puberty have a competitive advantage over biological women also competing.

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WATCH: Clueless VP Harris Claims Abortion Aligns With Faith

There’s “nothing” about supporting abortion that conflicts with faith or would require anyone to “abandon” or “change” it, according to Vice President Kamala Harris, who warned of the impact of criminalizing the procedure, while arguing the government “should not have the ability to decide what an individual does with her own body.”

Asked about her work with activists on the issue of abortion and what Americans should expect in terms of executive action from the Biden administration if the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling is overturned, Harris called for patience in remarks on Friday.

“Well, let’s first wait and see exactly what the Court does, because that’ll give us a good idea of, frankly, what harm is going to result,” she said.

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‘The Last 17 Months. In One Picture’: Biden’s Bizarre Bike Fall Hilariously ‘Inspires’ Americans

Joe Biden’s fall from his bicycle Saturday in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, is inspiring Americans who regard the plunge as a metaphor for what has happened to the nation as a whole with Biden in the White House.

They’ve taken to social media to create countless memes featuring either pictures of Biden’s actual fall, along with doctored photos and even creative videos examining the event.

Among those voicing their reactions is Sebastian Gorka, a former official in the Trump administration and Fox News analyst, who succinctly stated: “The last 17 months. In one picture.”

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Dem Woman Convicted of Over 25 Counts of Voter Fraud

A former volunteer deputy registrar from southeast Texas pleaded guilty to 26 felony counts of voter fraud stemming from a 2018 local utility board election.

Monica Mendez of Port Lavaca has been convicted of “three counts of illegal voting, eight counts of election fraud, seven counts of assisting a voter to submit a ballot by mail, and eight counts of unlawful possession of a mail ballot,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office stated in a press release. . .

“Mendez ran a vote-harvesting operation on behalf of a subsidized housing corporation in order to influence the outcome of a utility board election,” Paxton’s office said. The felonies stemmed from eight mail-in ballots, the Texas Scorecard reported. . .

The Texas Scorecard reported that Mendez’s voter fraud felonies were conducted to benefit ALMS, asserting that the nonprofit “wanted to oust incumbents and take control of the board in order to cut water rates for its rental properties.”

Mendez’s conviction follows a number of election fraud scandals that have made headlines as of late. This month, Breitbart News reported that a former Democrat mayor from Arizona pleaded guilty to ballot harvesting. Last month, the results from a Compton, California, city council election were reversed after the victorious candidate was hit with bribery and voter fraud charges in an extremely close race. (Read more from “Dem Woman Convicted of Over 25 Counts of Voter Fraud” HERE)

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WATCH: Bill Clinton Makes Crazy Admission About UFOs and Aliens

Former President Bill Clinton looked into whether or not aliens were housed at Area 51.

The secretive military base in Nevada is the home of some of America’s greatest weapons developmental programs, and there are also plenty of conspiracy theories about little green men from outer space being there. . .

Clinton revealed during a recent interview with James Corden that he “sent people to Area 51 to make sure there were no aliens,” according to the New York Post.

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Google ‘Infiltrated by Religious Cult,’ Ex-Employee Claims in Lawsuit

Google has been accused of employing a large number of people belonging to an unusual religious group in California. The Fellowship of Friends is a group that believes most of us are living in a state of “waking sleep.”

According to the New York Times, the Fellowship of Friends is a “cult-like religious sect” that’s infiltrated Google. The group has reportedly gained a powerful position at the tech giant and has started to hire more members of the “cult-like sect.” The New York Times says the takeover has been happening for years. . .

The group is also known as Living Presence and the Fourth Way School. It has faced multiple damning accusations in the past and the new lawsuit accuses it of having a history of sex trafficking.

The Fellowship was founded by Robert Earl Burton in 1970. He predicted that civilization is doomed and his group aims to form a new civilization after the one we know now is over. (Read more from “Google ‘Infiltrated by Religious Cult,’ Ex-Employee Claims in Lawsuit” HERE)

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Ukraine Moves to Restrict Russian Culture as War Rages On

The Ukrainian parliament moved Sunday to further rid its country of Russian culture and influence, in a process referred to by some as “derussification,” by voting to pass a law that restricts certain Russian books and music in the country.

The law stops the printing of books by Russian citizens. There is an exception, however, if the Russian citizen is willing to give up their Russian passport and become a Ukraine citizen, then their books can still be printed. The ban also only applies to authors who held Russian citizenship after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.

The law also restricts books from being imported into Ukraine. Now, books printed in Russia and Belarus can no longer be imported, and special permission is required for the importation of books in Russian from any other countries.

The Ukrainian parliament did not stop at just books – the parliament also passed a law that stops all music by post-1991 Russian citizens from being played by media outlets and on public transportation. The law also requires TV and radio stations to play more Ukrainian-language speech and music content. (Read more from “Ukraine Moves to Restrict Russian Culture as War Rages On” HERE)

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