Lawmakers Demand U.S. Punish Country for Criminalizing Christianity as a ‘Hate Crime’ (VIDEO)

Six Republican U.S. representatives Wednesday issued a letter demanding that the United States take action against Finland for criminalizing Christianity through its hate crimes laws.

Prosecutors in Finland are pressing charges against a Protestant bishop and a member of the national Parliament for publicly stating what the Bible teaches about sex and marriage.

Bishop Juhana Pohjola and Parliament member Paivi Rasanen face fines and up to two years in prison under “hate crimes” laws that effectively criminalize speech and set the government up as the arbiter of what religious beliefs are legal in Finland. One of the charges against Rasanen is the alleged crime of posting a Bible verse on Twitter.

“Free people should not have to violate and recant their deepest convictions to remain part of a free society,” the U.S. lawmakers write in response to this situation. “True religious liberty both protects an individual’s right both to hold beliefs that are unpopular with the prevailing cultural winds of the world, but also their right to live out authentically and profess the truths they hold dear without fear of government interference. Those rights are fundamental and unalienable to the whole human race, and it is critical to the flourishing of both the human soul and civil society.”

Rasanen and Pohjola have each been interrogated for hours by Finnish officials for stating beliefs that Christians have held for thousands of years. They will stand trial in January.

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Key Rittenhouse Witness Claims He Was Asked to Change His Statement by Prosecution; Prosecution Rests in Trial After Witness Admits He Pointed Gun at Him

By Daily Caller. A key witness for the prosecution in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial testified Tuesday that he was asked to change his statement by the prosecution team.

Nathan DeBruin was taking photographs of the events the night that Rittenhouse killed two protestors and injured another, according to WISN.

Prosecutor Thomas Binger asked DeBruin to identify a person in a picture, according to DeBruin’s testimony.

When DeBruin didn’t know who the person was, Binger allegedly identified the person as Joshua Zaminsky. . .

“I just felt, I didn’t want to change my statement,” DeBruin told the defense attorney. (Read more from “Key Rittenhouse Witness Claims He Was Asked to Change His Statement by Prosecution” HERE)

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Prosecution Rests in Rittenhouse Trial After Witness Admits He Pointed Gun at Him

By Washington Examiner. Prosecutors in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial rested their case Tuesday following a week of testimony that at times appeared to hurt them more than help.

Much of the explosive testimony came on Monday when Gaige Grosskreutz , the only person to survive being shot by Rittenhouse, lent support to the defense’s central claim that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense on Aug. 25, 2020. That night, Rittenhouse shot and wounded Grosskreutz in the arm minutes after fatally shooting Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26.

Grosskreutz, a trained EMT who traveled to Kenosha on his own behalf to render medical aid to protesters, testified Monday as the state’s star witness.

However, his testimony underscored the uphill battle prosecutors have faced trying to prove Rittenhouse was a trigger-happy tourist who purposely inserted himself into the chaos unfolding in Kenosha.

Hundreds of protesters showed up to the small Wisconsin manufacturing town after footage went viral of white police officer Rusten Sheskey shooting Jacob Blake Jr ., a black man, seven times in the back. The shooting left Blake paralyzed from the waist down. (Read more from “Prosecution Rests in Rittenhouse Trial After Witness Admits He Pointed Gun at Him” HERE)

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How 31 Republicans Just Betrayed the Country to Reward Illegal Immigration, Worsen Inflation, and Pay Off Democrats’ Donors

At nearly midnight on Friday, 13 House Republicans gave Speaker Nancy Pelosi the votes she needed to pass the so-called “bipartisan infrastructure bill” — colloquially known in DC as the BIF. In doing so, these House Republicans, among them two members of the House GOP leadership team, all but guaranteed House passage of Joe Biden’s hotly partisan, $2 trillion reconciliation bill, which represents the largest cradle-to-grave expansion of federal power since the New Deal.

Over at National Review, Philip Klein called the move by these 13 Republicans “political malpractice,” and a “betrayal.” He’s right, particularly on the first point.

Republicans who supported the bill predictably justified their vote as one for “roads and bridges,” pointing to the benefits that the bill’s largest provisions — like the $47 billion in climate funding and the $66 billion for the failing Amtrak system, provided without any reform — will ostensibly bring to their districts.

As Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) told The Hill, “I thought it was good for our district, I thought it was good for our country.” Meanwhile, left-of-center commentator Andrew Sullivan huffed about the “fanatical tribalism” being applied to a bill about infrastructure.

That the BIF was a bill solely focused on infrastructure may have been true at the bill’s conception. But for months, a single and unavoidable political reality has been obvious: the substance of the bill hardly mattered. Rather, the infrastructure bill was but a chit, a chess piece, in forcing through passage of the larger, hotly partisan reconciliation legislation. Their fates were linked; one would not pass without the other. (Read more from “How 31 Republicans Just Betrayed the Country to Reward Illegal Immigration, Worsen Inflation, and Pay Off Democrats’ Donors” HERE)

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Feds Pull Trigger, Collect Records on 54 Million U.S. Gun Owners

Joe Biden’s administration in Washington is collecting records on millions of gun owners across America, raising concern the anti-gun sentiment in the ranks of his appointees will deal a blow to the Second Amendment.

That Biden is anti-gun is supported by the evidence of his actions, which haven’t always followed the truth.

The Hill reported Biden was hit with a “fact-check” from the Washington Post recently when he repeated “a false claim … that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution bars citizens from owning cannons.”

Biden claimed that the Constitution limits “the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon…”

David Kopel, of the Independence Institute, said that simply “everything in that statement is wrong.” (Read more from “Feds Pull Trigger, Collect Records on 54 Million U.S. Gun Owners” HERE)

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Audit: Wisconsin Could Have Counted Enough Illegal Votes to Tip the 2020 Election to Biden

Explosive revelations in the Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau’s report on the 2020 presidential election confirm what many in the key swing state have long suspected: Those tasked with administering the election willfully ignored and openly violated state law.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC), the governmental body tasked with administering elections in Wisconsin, is comprised of six appointed commissioners, three from each political party, and a staff that reports to them. Critically, if the commissioners deadlock on an issue before them, no official action is taken and local authorities are left to interpret the recommendations of WEC’s staff.

As a result, the overwhelming majority of WEC’s decisions during the 2020 election cycle were essentially made by unelected, unappointed, and obviously left-leaning bureaucrats. Both they and the commissioners who oversee them were downright derelict in their duty to fairly and impartially supervise an election run by city and county clerks and poll workers who were not properly trained and did not receive accurate, lawful guidance.

For instance, Wisconsin Statute 6.87(9) provides that “if a municipal clerk receives an absentee ballot with an improperly completed certificate or with no certificate, the clerk may return the ballot to the elector, inside the sealed envelope when an envelope is received, together with a new envelope if necessary, whenever time permits the elector to correct the defect and return the ballot.”

In direct violation of this law, WEC issued guidance to clerks in 2016 that allowed clerks to “cure” such incorrect information on ballot certificates themselves. The Legislative Audit Bureau (LAB) did not investigate the number of certificates that clerks cured, but still found a significant number of incomplete ballots that, according to state law, should not have been counted. (Read more from “Audit: Wisconsin Could Have Counted Enough Illegal Votes to Tip the 2020 Election to Biden” HERE)

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EXPLOSIVE REPORT ON SCIENTIFIC TREASON: U.S. Traitors, Driven by Greed, are Betting on the Success of China

Despite the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID-19 could not have evolved in nature and, therefore, must have been created in a laboratory, it came as no surprise that U.S. intelligence agencies released an inconclusive report about its origin.

The U.S. intelligence agencies are part of a permanent U.S. federal bureaucracy, which is controlled by a rich and powerful few, who are profiting enormously from their collaboration with the Chinese Communist Party.

Similar to the Chinese Communist Party’s use of China and the Chinese people, the oligarchs do not consider the United States a nation, but simply a land and people to exploit.

Those rich and powerful few hire Democrats and Republicans and other stooges willing to sell out America for cash.

Like Judas goats, who lead sheep and cattle to the slaughter, U.S. traitorous elites are helping the Chinese Communist Party plunder America and kill Americans.

The tale of Xiang Gao is illustrative of that point. He is a Chinese Communist Party scientist, who was involved in the transfer of vital American biotechnology to China and the use of that biotechnology in China’s biowarfare program.

Xiang Gao received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Nanjing University in 1985 and 1988, respectively.

As we shall see, it is perhaps no coincidence that Nanjing is also the headquarters of the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command, which was involved in some of the key research leading to COVID-19.

Xiang Gao completed a Ph.D. in 1994 at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Before returning to China in 2000, he received six years of postdoctoral training in the United States at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, The Jackson Laboratory in Maine, and the University of North Carolina. The last being the institution of Ralph Baric, known for his coronavirus gain of function research and collaboration with the “bat woman,” Zheng-Li Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The most consequential time Xiang Gao spent in the United States was his two years (1995-1997) at The Jackson Laboratory, the world’s source for more than 8,000 strains of genetically defined mice and home of the Mouse Genome Informatics database.

Xiang Gao would subsequently reproduce The Jackson Laboratory at Nanjing University as its Director of the Institute of Model Animals.

Later, Xiang Gao worked with People’s Liberation Army scientists, such as Xiliang Wang, who is a research collaborator with many of those linked to China’s biowarfare program.

Genetically-altered mouse models, a biotechnology pioneered by The Jackson Laboratory and now widespread in China’s military research centers, was a technique critical to the creation of COVID-19.

Pre-adaptation for human infection can be achieved in the laboratory by repeatedly exposing bat coronaviruses to genetically-engineered mice that express the human angiotensin converting enzyme 2 receptor (ACE2), a process known as serial passage.

According to Tao Wang, General Manager of Jiangsu Jicui Yaokang Biotechnology Co., Ltd. in Nanjing, U.S. scientists Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina and Stanley Perlman of the University of Iowa donated their ACE2 genetically-engineered mice to China.

Although the Baric and Perlman mouse models adequately express the human lung ACE2 receptors, they did not fully express human ACE2 receptors found in brain, heart, kidney, and the gastrointestinal system.

Chinese scientists built upon the Baric and Perlman mouse models creating a genetically-engineered mouse that fully expressed the human ACE2 receptors, thus simulating the human infection to a greater extent.

It is important to note that Xiang Gao is a founding member of Jiangsu Jicui Yaokang Biotechnology Co., Ltd., which has been partially funded by the Chinese Communist Party.

Jiangsu Jicui Yaokang Biotechnology Co., Ltd. has also received funding from the U.S. investment firms Morgan Stanley and Hillhouse Capital Group, the latter founded with seed money from the Yale University Foundation.

The new name for Jiangsu Jicui Yaokang Biotechnology Co., Ltd. is GemPharmatech, which recently began operations in the United States with CEO Mark W. Moore as the “American face” for a company actually controlled by his Chinese national subordinates, Gann Xu and Zhiying Li and Xiang Gao in China.

GemPharmatech U.S. will house more than 6000 mouse models in Massachusetts and California, directly competing with The Jackson Laboratory and other U.S. companies.

In April 2021, GemPharmatech signed an agreement with the University of California Davis, which also has its own controversial links to Chinese Communist Party scientists.

The principal investigator of the University of California at Davis’ PREDICT program, funded with $200 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development, was the “bat woman” Zheng-Li Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Bottom Line – U.S. traitors, driven by greed, are betting on the success of China.

(Hat tip to Anonymous)

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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. His email address is [email protected]. Anna Chen can be followed on Twitter @2020Gladiator

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‘Black Trees Matter’ — VP Kamala Harris Asks NASA if It Can Track Trees by Race for ‘Environmental Justice’ (VIDEO)

Vice President Kamala Harris asked NASA if it could use its satellites to track trees “by race” in various neighborhoods as part of “environmental justice” during a recent display on climate change, leading many to ridicule the vice president online and even giving rise to a “Black Trees Matter” hashtag.

Harris, who serves as chair of the National Space Council, visited Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Friday “to see vital climate science work.”

As she met with scientists and engineers and received a firsthand look at how the climate is studied by the space program as well as how it provides data concerning planetary changes and their impacts, the vice president declared, “I truly believe space activity is climate action.”

In a clip originally shared by Deputy Director of Rapid Response at Republican National Committee (RNC) Jake Schneider, Harris is seen interrupting a presentation in order to share her “woke” inquiry.

“Can you measure trees — part of that data that you are referring to, [and it’s an issue of] EJ, environmental justice — that you can also track by race their averages in terms of the number of trees in the neighborhoods where people live?”

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WATCH: Former West Point Cadets’ Reasons for Leaving Academy Should Horrify Every Red-Blooded American

Former West Point Cadet Says Military Academy ‘Glorifies Ignorant Submission and Unethical Behavior’

By Fox News. Former cadet at the United States Military Academy Hannah MacDonald said that West Point “glorifies ignorant submission and unethical behavior” Thursday on “Hannity,” joining two other former cadets in their criticism of the academy.

For MacDonald and her fellow former cadets Nickaylah Sampson and Willow Brown, enrolling at the nation’s oldest service academy was a dream come true. . .

Sampson remembered talk of briefs about “White rage” and “extremism.” The former cadet found such discussions “ridiculous,” saying “[i]t really had nothing to do with…bettering yourself as an Army officer.”

MacDonald recounted tutoring students writing essays about critical race theory and socialism this fall, explaining that the students “didn’t agree” with such ideas but “thought their professors would enjoy [their essays] because [they were] in line with the books they were reading.”

Her disappointment was especially profound given her Christian upbringing, in which she said she was taught that “there’s no greater love than to lay down your life for someone else.” (Read more from “Former West Point Cadet Says Military Academy ‘Glorifies Ignorant Submission and Unethical Behavior’” HERE)

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Former West Point Cadets’ Reasons for Leaving Academy Should Horrify Every Red-Blooded American

By Biz Pac Review. On Fox News’ “Hannity” Thursday, host Sean Hannity spoke with three former West Point cadets who were effectively driven from the military academy because of its philosophical shift in values as well as for refusing to submit to the COVID vaccine.

Although the stated policy of the academy was that vaccinations were optional for cadets, the trio nevertheless endured targeting and harassment which eventually took a toll on their well-being and paralyzed their military career endeavors. It all came to a head on September 27th, following the U.S. government-imposed vaccine mandate.

Cadets were then “instructed in a meeting to either get vaccinated, file for an exemption or separate from the academy,” Hannity said. According to several cadets in attendance, they were denied legal counsel after being assured they could acquire it.

Willow Brown, who left the academy in the spring, explained the reasoning behind her decision to leave West Point.

“I went to the academy hoping to serve my country and bring the fight to the enemy. I found myself instead in the classroom learning about how to be more sensitive, and this woke ideology that had taken over West Point really surprised me.” (Read more from “Former West Point Cadets’ Reasons for Leaving Academy Should Horrify Every Red-Blooded American” HERE)

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Fully Vaccinated Plane Passenger Found Dead in Seat From Coronavirus

A fully-vaccinated passenger on a flight from Turkey to Germany was found dead in his seat, reportedly infected with the coronavirus.

Crew members on Pegasus Airlines’ Flight 1043 discovered the 51-year-old traveller, when they arrived in Hamburg last week, reported German newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt.

Germany’s COVID-19 rules require passengers to reveal their COVID status before flying by providing a negative test result or proof of immunity.

The man was allowed to board the 3 1/2-hour flight from Istanbul because he proved he was fully vaccinated, according to the paper. (Read more from “Fully Vaccinated Plane Passenger Found Dead in Seat From Coronavirus” HERE)

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Children Accidentally Given Adult COVID-19 Vaccines at Halloween Event; Researchers Call For Halt on Vaccines for Pregnant Women

By Townhall. Two children, ages 6 and 7, were reportedly given adult doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech on accident during a clinic hosted by a local health department at a Halloween event, Texas-based outlet NBCDFW reported Monday.

The two children were given the shots by mistake as their adult family members were given booster shots.

“I’m very angry, I’ll be honest,” said Julian Gonzalez, the father of the 6-year-old boy, to NBCDFW. “All I can do is for the moment be level-headed and hope he’s OK.”

Gonzalez said that one of the employees working the clinic said that they had vaccines available for children and asked if he wanted to get his son vaccinated. After filling out the paperwork, Gonzalez’s son received what they thought was a children’s dose of the vaccine. Their 7-year-old neighbor also got vaccinated.

Then, on Monday, Gonzalez’ wife received a call from a city official saying that the vaccines for the children were a mistake. The dosage their son received was three times stronger than what COVID-19 experts are considering for children. (Read more from “Two Children Accidentally Given Adult COVID-19 Vaccines at Halloween Event” HERE)

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Researchers Call For Halt on COVID-19 Vaccines for Pregnant Women After Re-Analysis of CDC Study

By The Epoch Times. Two researchers say countries should halt the administration of COVID-19 vaccines to pregnant and breastfeeding women after re-analyzing a study performed by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers.

The study in question, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in April, has been used by the CDC and health agencies in other countries to justify vaccination recommendations to pregnant women and new mothers.

“A U.S. study of over 35,000 women who were pregnant and had an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine showed that the side effects following vaccination were very similar in those who were pregnant when compared to those who were not,” the Australian government says in a guide (pdf) to COVID-9 vaccination for women.

The study, though, was corrected last month after concerns were raised by a researcher in Belgium. The CDC scientists acknowledged they should have made clear that they could not accurately calculate a risk estimate for miscarriages because follow-up data was not yet available for most of the women.

The correction resolved some of the issues, but there are still more, according to Dr. Simon Thornley, a senior lecturer in the University of Auckland’s Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Dr. Aleisha Brock, another researcher in New Zealand. (Read more from “Researchers Call For Halt on COVID-19 Vaccines for Pregnant Women After Re-Analysis of CDC Study” HERE)

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